#can you imagine the horrors. well i CAN

[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

#and also. not the direct focus. but love doesn't make things good. you can be in love and do terrible terrible things. #people do bad things in the name of love and in despite of love all the time. #but!! imagine a world where people could exist as people and not be demonized. #sex positivity means being cool about All sex. reexamine your internal systems of moral judgement. #this goes for sex workers. for aroallo people. especially aroallo men. for aro people in general who might enjoy sex. #and frankly i think it can easily bleed into discussions about mental health disorders around 'not feeling' certain things #especially demonizing ppl who don't feel as much empathy. i think there's definitely a correlation between that and the emphasis on love. #our support needs to go out to Everybody and i think these things are all structured together in one way or another!! #it might not be immediately obvious but when i tell you it all leads back to amatonormativity..... little bit wild.... large bit wild.... #anyway. horror movie psychopath 'oh he can't feel emotions or love' damn alright. well. let's take a closer look at that. #silly that there's an association between lack of love and Murdering. feel like that might affect some stuff. #love is just an emotion/a feeling it doesn't mean anything about you one way or another #same with empathy. you can feel it all you want but it doesn't inherently change the actions you choose to take #anyway. thesis statement. there is a socially constructed link between love and morality. unlearn that. #kiss kiss (<— lovelessly) #aromantic #aromanticism #arospec #talking #aroace #aspec #sex positivity

[lunaticus]

yeah zoro and luffy knew usopp would come around and apologize post-w7, but the agony leading usopp to apologize bc his friends - the friends he had just fought with against the world government, and for some minutes he had taken off his mask and been part of the crew again as himself - those friends now really set sail with their new ship and their new shipwright, two better replacements for merry and him, and they ignored him, they didn't listen to him, they didn't want him back, they didn't need a liar, a burden, a weakling, a coward, and there's shame and other emotions with anger being the easiest one to handle, they leave him they leave him they leave him, and no matter what he can't let it end like this, not after everything they went through, he had to be honest at least in the end, but honesty was hard and they were leaving without him, they didn't need him, they had a new ship, they had an excellent shipwright that would take care of their new ship, so much better than he ever could, and franky was such a great guy, they wouldn't even notice him gone, and even though there were things he could do that he others couldn't, it didn't matter in that moment bc they were leaving, without him, sick of his lies and cowardice and him, they were being attacked and finally nobody had to watch out for him, protect him, save him, he would have been no help there on the ship at all, so there was really only one thing left to do before he was all alone, alone like he had never been since his mother died and that nearly broke him but he didn't have time for that right now bc *his crew* was leaving and he had to say sorry, he had to-

and suddenly he is on the ship, with the crew, with everyone and he's crying and luffy's crying and there are a lot more other tears than anyone would have expected while fleeing from the marines attack together together together, they didn't leave him, they didn't not want him back, they wanted him-

...

you ever think normally about w7? :)))

#yeah this started with zoro and luffy were so insanely confident that usopp would apologize #there was just no other way #there was no way they would go on without usopp #and maybe they were liars as well #clinging to that sheer hope and denying any other outcome #because it's usopp #usopp with a heart of gold despite being scared all the time #usopp with a contagious laugh making sure everyone's having a good time #usopp with his outrageous stories that have each and everyone of them listen to him regardless #there's no doubt that usopp doesn't know what's right doesn't know what he needs to do #it's not only for them and the crew but also for usopp himself #and he got that #he got that!!! #there's so time and room for doubt #usopp's always taking his time with the punchline until it was unbearable #why hasn't he apologized ye- #f i n a l l y #he's back he's back he's back were he belongs #hello people this is my weekly w7 breakdown #can you imagine the horror everyone went throught between usopp appearing on the shores and him finally apologizing? #the horror that they would leave without him no matter how impossible that was #the raw feeling of having lost everything #maybe leaving him without wanting to leave him behind #yeah im okay :))))))) #w7 feels

[kyeterna]

I am starting to think that being a tourist visiting Greek islands is completely unethical.

In a similar way as buying fast fashion is unethical.

This problem is very prevalent in the islands which is why I am specifically talking about them and not tourism throughout the country (though in specific areas that are tourism heavy the problem still stands).

Very coincidentally, along with Greece's economic protections of the working class collapsing, the new lucrative industry of tourism arose, after the economic crisis. With labour laws becoming more lax to "help the economy" we've seen the rise of seasonal work. What's that you might ask. Young adults with no working experience working in tourist heavy areas in service at restaurants and cafés and what not. Sometimes for 12 hours a day if not more, no benefits, sometimes they don't even provide you with housing, barely any days off. I've had cousins and friends who worked the summer season, it is hell and dehumanising. Especially with how many tourists there just are. Just earlier this month there was a story about how a sea side cafe bar owner had his waiters serve their patrons *in the sea*. THE WAITERS HAD TO WALK INTO THE SEA WITH THE DRINKS TO SERVE THE CUSTOMERS WHO WERE SWIMMING. "But tourists give good tips" AND THAT FIXES THINGS???? YOU THINK THIS MAKES THINGS BETTER??

But it's not just worker exploitation. It's how tourism becomes hostile to the locals themselves. How tourism is actively destroying the local environment. A friend of mine who comes from an island talks about how because of AirBnB locals are outpriced out of their rented homes. How students are kicked out of their apartments as soon as May enters because that's when thr tourism season starts. We gotta rent those apartments to our lovely tourists! How in islands even as big as Crete, every summer the locals have no access to water because it is all used up by hotels and tourists. All greek islands have limited access to drinking water and this is made worse through tourism. But you see you can't have the tourists not use water in abundance! How over the years I have seen my local beach become commercialised. How the public umbrellas crumbled and were replaced by privately owned by a sea side cafe bar umbrellas and sunbeds, making it so you have to pay to have access to that beach. How tourists have no beach etiquette, which ends up littering the area. How businesses' desire to get more tourist customers leaves to natural landmarks just altered beyond recognition, local fauna driven out.

Our government has over relied on tourism to rebuild its economy. When covid happened this showed how vulnerable an economy is if it relies on tourism alone. It feels like even our government treats us more like a tourist attraction than an actual nation. Obviously the issue is capitalism. Some might say it's unregulated capitalism. Whatever. The whole tourism industry was set up so that its vulnerable workers cannot even organise nor fight back. They are only contracted to work 3-4 months a year after all.

If you ever decide to visit Greece for vacation, I don't know, maybe think about all this.

#texterna #rant #I am just so angry man- and how my (economy major) cousin justifies that ''well you return with 5k home'' #To hell with that #Workplace horror stories and customer horror stories #NOT ONLY THAT BUT we have reached a point where it is impossible for a greek person to be a tourist domestically #Not that I have been personally able to go on vacation in years #Imagine having money to leave your house lol #I can only visit relatives and friends out of town and that with strict budgeting

[biblicalhorror]

The most frustrating part of engaging in any of this discourse with pro-Israel people is that they claim there's just something ineffable about "seeing and understanding" how supporting Palestinian liberation is directly calling for the eradication of Jewish people (as if that type of rhetoric isn't exactly how actual antisemitism often manifests in online spaces but that's a topic for another day)

They get through people debunking the "the land belongs to the people of Israel anyway" argument and the "LGBTQ Palestinians are safe in Israel" argument and the "Genocide isn't what's happening here so you should educate yourself" argument and when all of those points are meticulously disproven over and over they still stand with "Well, myself and your Jewish friends see the hate you have in your heart for us" and it truly doesn't matter what you say at that point because even if you yourself are Jewish they will claim that refusing to support the state, government and military of Israel is inherently hateful and bigoted, as if a religious ethnostate is some inherent human right that is being taken away from them. I know many of them are blinded by the relentless propaganda that's been around their whole lives and how hard it is to break free from a belief system that is so tied to your core identity as a human being but it is so frustrating watching people being led straight to the point over and over again and just turning around and refusing to see it.

It's also so frustrating to see people using the momentum of this movement to casually tack on actual antisemitism to these discussions, as if having Jewish people in positions of power is why the US bends over backwards to excuse the actions of Israel and not, yknow, the fact that our government directly benefits from having a military stronghold in the middle east. I've talked to some well-meaning pro-Palestine friends irl who casually use antisemetic talking points because they've ALSO bought into the narrative that Israeli = Jewish and so they blame the actions of Israel and the IDF on Jewish people's "religious values" and ignore the fact that this conflict really has almost nothing to do with religion itself and everything to do with capitalism, imperialism and maintaining the US's status as a so-called "global power".

#dont get me wrong there are lots of people on the pro palestine side who are very much aware of and vigilant against antisemitic rhetoric #but i genuinely worry about some of my non-jewish leftist friends and allies falling down some super shady pipelines because of all of this #i spend a lot of my time on my public facing social media sharing articles and graphics and whatnot about antisemitism #and how careful we need to be when calling out these atrocities and our government's complicity in them #but when one side is genuinely claiming with no evidence or argument that being against colonial occupation is just antisemitism #it makes it so hard to call out actual antisemitism within these spaces bc it delegitimizes antisemitism as a concern #i just want to scream #like. im not even jewish and i vividly remember when we had a special lesson in girl scouts about how wonderful Israel is #and they had us make little mini versions of the israel flag and they told us that israel stood for the safety of the jewish people #and i came home and i told my mom about how cool israel was #and she promptly pulled me out of girl scouts #which at the time felt unfair because she didnt explain why #but also how do you explain the horrors of colonialism and imperialism to your newly zionist 10 year old #anyway the point is that if i as a non-jewish girl scout was exposed to that kind of propaganda #i can only imagine how inescapable it must be for many american jews in the US #and i truly empathize with the amount of unlearning that needs to be done #and how hard it must be to let go of some of these ideas #but that doesnt make it any less frustrating to watch these dynamics play out on such a massive scale #and i hold so much respect for people in white jewish communities re-educating themselves and standing on the right side of history #as well as for all of the people of color and especially American Palestinians standing up and using their voices as much as they do #personal

[dnangelic]

the series is pg 13 so aside from the magical girl gun bit with sato dark never gets Actually Shot or anything but sometimes i Do wonder about the range of reactions that would happen to anybody watching dark get badly hurt or caught live. there's always the law-related group that'd either cheer or have complicated, mixed feelings to see dark get wrecked, then there's the group that knows dark == daisuke and the sort of intense worry that comes with that. nobody who knows daisuke's character intimately is probably going to want to see him get hurt? but he's still a criminal, still a phantom thief, and a terribly infamous one at that. beneath the theatrics, the drama, the crowds, the secret identity that everyone believes is its own sort of truth, is nothing more than the cute lil guy that you want to believe is innocent and has a good heart. grievously injuring him would be just taking things too far. and yet if something ever did happen and dark crashed, he'd still be swarmed with cops and hunters trying to catch and cart him off. it doesn't matter, and nobody knows him. to people like that he's just dark.

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT. #am i making sense. anyways #i jus think i respect anybody who generates this very specific dissonance- this sense of horror #between daisuke being overall what anybody'd consider a very good and sweet person #vs dark's crimes in a mundane society's eyes #he is a criminal he is a rulebreaker but to so many muses that's also their Friend #and to see him get hurt while it's thrilling and a success for some it's awful for others #id respect the stoic types too who didnt/wouldnt want to see dark get hurt at ALL #but just kind of chomp down at the bit and do it out of necessity and reluctant acceptance #plenty of detectives that'd just go 'well that's how it is in the business'(tm) #BUT CAN YOU REALLY IMAGINE just sitting there #watching TV watching this famous guy that you KNOW is another guy- a friend #someone who always stood up for you and tried to cheer you up and be nice #and he's bleeding and getting hurt??? LIVE??? #your parents tell you to turn the TV off but that's your friend!!! on there!!!! he's hurt!!!!

[lunarharp]

wip thing...

of my bg3 avatar hellebore. i also did some casual nude studies of my 3 characters which i'll put under a cut... rather unlike me after all. (so WARNING for abrupt non-sexual full Artistic nudity lol...,,,,) (< won't be making a habit of this)

they mean the world to me

#bg3 spoilers #?? idk. gith look so..Emaciated. And long. i guess we don't eat on the astral plane :) anyway..well..too much to say..... #it is very very very depressing having to live in the Real World after that final playthrough meant so very much to me. #i normally feel Hope & suchlike after finishing a highly immersive emotional game..but it's too hard this time and it hurtsssss lol yippee #i appreciate bg3 very much for being a place where i could access the concept of nudity & such like in a way that finally felt comfortable. #bodies are inherently non-sexual. they just Are a Fact of Life. this game being NORMAL about nudity from the character creation screen #makes it possible for someone like me to actually have a chance at accessing sensuality in a way that feels comfortable from there. #dont feel like putting it into words further. im ace. just very grateful to this game. even despite the horrors i will never ever forget it #augoh..gugf.. want to go back. my friends & love are in there.....i'm supposed to just move on? in the real world??? THIS place???? UHH???? #my characters canonically look like that too!! i see them as intersex and not so much trans. They just look that way. #Diversity win!!! the people who enacted horrors upon you and are trying to kill you again respect your pronouns!!!! <3 #I FAILED HONOUR MODE IN THE STUPIDEST WAY POSSIBLE..ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHED AN ITEM. MY LOVER TOUCHED SOME BLOOD-TOUCHED RAG ITEM @ THE CRECHE #AND MY PEOPLE MASSACRED US... YOU BELOVED PRAT. OF COURSE IT WOULD BE YOU AND IN THIS WAY #grateful for love triangle chaos...INTENSE EX DRAMA... IT HAD MAJOR REPURCUSSIONS THIS TIME...ohh so very much happened ohh my dear #truly don't know how to face the Real World now for real. I Don't Know. something has snapped. ive realised twt just makes me feel sad lol #if something in my spare time isn't at least half as fun as bg3....like.. it's not good enough. god we only have one wild and precious life #being Online makes me feel a loneliness so wretched and painful and horrible i really don't think this is the answer. #Why did you even start drawing in the first place? Why did you start this? #For real..the need to work this out and decide what on earth i'm going to do now has presented itself. Why try to get better..why be online #someone who has an imagination that can keep them so happy and fulfilled...has no business also feeling a loneliness as profound as this. #why was someone THIS introverted and withdrawn and anxious also cursed with such a restlessness? #What are you going to DO now? because hellebore and their lover are fine....... So what about you...? #hellebore..😭😭 AUUGHH!! I JUST WANT TO GO TO MY BED IN THE INN...PLAY ON MY VIOLIN THAT'S WHAT I'D DO!!!! i'd drink some ALE DAMNIT!!!!! #i was rereading My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness- the only time i've seen this level of emotional isolation depicted-and was grateful. #but then i read her latest book and now she has a debilitating substance abuse situation and it's upsetting. #I hope she finds what she was looking for. I hope we all make it. kind of wild that i dont do such major self-sabotage at this point myself #I truly think anyone who manages to find dear friends and achieve fulfillment and happiness with others outside themselves are amazing. #I see it happen from my tower. i hope we all make it. I hope we can make it through everything to come. #Why did i say all this on drawings of my characters naked. ah who even cares any more......

[rindomness]

BTW I genuinely love that night in the woods does not, in the end, tell you if it was all real or not. It does not even explain whether the goat was real. It gives you mundane explanations - mae's mental health history, gas leaks, the strikes and structural instability in the mines - but also it's juuust legitimately supernatural enough that you end the game going... well. was that all imagined? how much of that was legitimate? the cultists all talk about getting abilities from the pit, and mae's friends are there and are confirming this is actually happening, and I think that was the first time in the game I actually approached the idea that there really was something else going on and it wasn't all just things we the player are experiencing because we're getting it from mae's perspective and mae is a truly intense unreliable narrator.

But: how much does it matter if there's actually an eldritch goat god underneath possum springs, or if it was all just a delusion on mae's behalf, or if it's a gas leak? that isn't the point. that was never the point.

also that maintenance guy is a ghost im 90% sure

#nitw #revisiting this game for. reasons (dndads au) #i have to be sooo careful with nitw bc while i LOVE this particular brand of spooky shit #it also definitely fucked with my brain in less pleasant ways. so. oops #OKAY STORYTIME IF YOU'RE DOWN HERE IN THE TAGS: #the first time i played night in the woods it was entirely on a recommendation from a friend #i went in completely blind. i did not look at the genre tags. i went oh! that's right! my friend likes this game! #i've heard very good things about this game! so i bought it and i started it and i realized VERY quickly it was a Certain #Type Of Game. yknow. so i went ok its gonna be a cutesy game that talks about Real Shit but otherwise is silly and fun. alright. #and then i hit the halfway point and i realized oh. oh this is sort of a horror game. isn't it. it scared the hell outta me #i LOVED it. getting hit with that midpoint scene with the red and the silhouettes and the well and that was when i decided i loved this gam #but anyway yeah can you imagine being slightly obsessed with ghosts and going into night in the woods without a single expectation #and then getting hit with ALL OF THAT? delightful. wonderful. most unnerving game experience ive ever had in my life.

[eorzeashan]

Empress Acina's "Intelligence should have retired you when they had the chance!" is still sticking with me after Iokath, and I think it does for many agents who would be grossly offended by such a cruel statement given what they went through which was equivalent to being retired, but Eight...Eight would let the mask slip for a second.

Oh Acina, he'd say, soft and deep with a smile bared like fangs, they already tried. Didn't you do your research?

#swtor #oc: orradiz #is in love with death but cannot let himself die #to die is to lose to live is to win #to live is to fight forever and haunt every battlefield #still having thoughts over the original Eight as well. #he experienced a fear so great at having someone he loved be marked for a fate worse than any death #that he became desensitized to all fears after #reasons why he is so enamored by jadus #can you imagine knowing you cannot let yourself die or the worst of your fears will come true #can you imagine forcing yourself to live because dying would be a fate worse than your own death #I don't often talk about Nosta bc she haunts him as much as he does Intelligence #but her fatal flaw was having a life to return to despite being a cipher #and eight saw this and realized he couldn't let her be retired #because someone who is loved who is not an unfeeling weapon like him deserves to live. #oh to start your career as a Cipher by killing everyone who was supposed to be on your side... #admin you are sooo edgy. well you see i am a horror buff and being an agent seems like a horror in itself

[mako-designated-driver]

I hate the end of Inquisition (the final battle, not the plot twist) for a lot of reasons, but what the Inquisitor does with Corypheus really takes the cake for me...

We spend the game learning about that fucker: We learn he walked physically in the fade once and wanna do it again, as some sort of final step in his little godhood trip. According the codex, in the alternative future where he already rules this world, he spends his time ragdolling Alexius to change what happened on the conclave so he can have the anchor back and go to the fade. In WHWE, Florianne also says that she will rule this world while that spoiled meatball rules the next. There are other ocasions where this is mentioned, but you got the idea.

We also learn that the bastard just refuses to die, because blight powers. Simple enough.

Now, Inquisitor, tell me how it was a GREAT idea to take the guy who was on his knees and USE YOUR MAGICAL FADE MARK THAT LETS PEOPLE WALK INTO THE FADE TO THROW THE FADE OBSESSED GUY INTO THE FADE.

I get it, rocks falling all around, not a lot of time, the archdemon is dead anyway, gotta deal with the bad guy before escaping. And yeah, I know he kinda gets pulled apart/disintegrate when Inky does their thing. I just think that when the last person who killed the guy says he was "dead on the ground", had "no breath, no heartbeat" and you know the guy got better and almost destroyed the world, you might want to... I don't know, make sure?

Plus, this is the "let nothing die and bonus points if Hawke was around at some point" franchise. I mean:

(btw: Hey Mery, welcome back)

So yeah, the end of Inquisition makes me mildly annoyed

#Corypheus is my responsability #i hoped that would be the architect #but the architect doesn't have a green orb unfortunately #technically neither does Corypheus #so i'm hoping this is just a nod to Cory not a real plot point #can you just imagine Hawke strolling around the fade and Corypheus crazy ass falls through the sky tho #the screams #the horror #sure is buddy #might as well add him as a romance option/s #seriously give me the Architect #my boy has a good reasons to still be alive #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age dreadwolf #da4 #hawke #the inquisitor #inquisitor #dragon age 2 legacy #corypheus #the fade #also we potentially let a warden in the fade #just possess the warden already #half of us didn't even get xp for the bastard #i got bugged in the first phase and he still had 1hp no matter what i did

[yeonban]

Thinking about how scared Nikolai must've been as a child after he first decided to go against God considering the Viy was a part of his childhood and the only way people ever escaped from it was through God's help... which he was guaranteed he'd never receive after committing to that path

#muse: nikolai gogol. #salt don't look #religion / #^ Kind of? since Gogol was Christian and clearly so is BSD Nikolai #BUT YEA if you google illustrations for the Viy and/or read Gogol's story about it it's so yiiikes! #No wonder Nikolai has no fears anymore at this point in time. How could he when he got over the worst of them ages ago #I was originally thinking it might've been an Ability of sb from his village but then I remembered Lovecraft exists... #and then I immediately discarded that idea. ADHSAJJSAKD I'll probably be keeping these creatures from Gogol's works #as actual; genuine creatures unrelated to any sort of Ability; just like Lovecraft is a bona fide eldritch horror #(This must sound so funny to anyone who doesn't know BSD) #so yeah! do NOT visit his hometown. or even his home region. That place's about as scary and eerie as he himself is #...which I might meta about actually. what sort of influence his hometown folklore and creatures (and irl works) had on his identity #bc his jester persona IS very similar to some of the charas from Gogol's horror works; such as Basavriuk and the witches #On this note I think he kiIIed his parents before leaving Ukraine bc that'd be the first relationship he'd have to sever for his goals #and you can already imagine his neighbours must've thought he got possessed by one of the 'evil spirits' he kept talking about #The people from his hometown might as well hear his name and immediately shudder </3

[trash-gremlin]

could you imagine how good spirit animals would be if it wasn't written as a children's series

#thats the country that is bad and full of bad people that deserve to be mistreated and suffer a horrible disease that is easily curable - #- that the rest of the world has access to because a long time ago they started a war #i feel like bc they were kids books they couldnt really touch on the horrors of war #or how vile The Many were #it could also explore the greencloaks more in the way that they werent good guys. in the slightest #it would have so much more nuance #GOD IMAGINE IMAGINE IMAGINE #IT COULD BE SO SO SO GOOD #i need someone to write the books in a grittier way. #i mean obviously they touched on the fact that these kids were fighting in wars at 11 years old #and that stetriol was justified in rising up #and shane is already a really complex character but we never really got to see the like super gritty side only glimpses in the book of shan #spirit animals books #spirit animals series #and the fucking bile???? thats a terrifying concept that didnt get treated as seriously as it shouldve i think #especially how the fact it can turn regular animals into brutish killing machines was mentioned only once or twice #the amount of proper angst you can explore in the main four as well holy shit

[vagueconfusion]

You're getting a bass this weekend? Sick. What kind if you don't mind me asking?

It's pretty dependent on what ones are available at the store, I'd like to try to get one secondhand (some people say you feel closer to instruments you buy new? But for years I learned and played on a secondhand saxophone and loved the instrument dearly) so it depends on what's there and the price. Hopefully there's something in my price range because I'll need an amp too. I also, uh, have no clue how to play a bass, so I figure I'll start on an inexpensive-but-decent one and see how it goes from there?

I read up a bit and saw good things about some Squier Classic Vibe and Ibanez SR300 for beginners, Yamaha in general too. I'm not picky about the brand right now, I figure I'll get a more nuanced opinion as I learn and figure out what sound I want? One reason I want to go to the store is so I can try to get my hands on some to hear the sound of them, and choose from there.

#sorry it's not a more nuanced answer but alas i am a total beginner #i've been wanting to play music again for years rbh but for reasons beyond my control my saxophones are. out of reach #it's. complicated? or. well. not really. but it is frustrating #but they've been out of reach for years and i dont know when i'll get them back #but i dont want to buy A Third Saxophone so im switching instruments! it was between a bass and a theremin tbh #i also don't know if i want to lean into a more metal sound or jazz sound and that'll determine future bass purchases i imagine #if you know more about basses and have advice would be happy to hear/read it #(also. am hoping that an amp for a bass will work for a theremin in case i decide to learn that in the future) #((it COULD be worse i COULD be building an Apprehension Engine. which was made specifically to score horror movies.)) #i am excited to learn to play bass though. i've missed music a lot and i think if i can get into the habit of playing regularly it'd be good #sorry for all the tags too. lmao. i don't have many people to talk to about this

[badolmen]

I really feel like some of you genuinely think that if all billionaires died tomorrow the world would magically be a better place. Their wealth doesn’t come with a will ensuring it’s redistributed fairly across the planet - it goes to their kin or organizations of their choice. The systems that allowed such vile people to maintain their status will still exist. 4 dead billionaires isn’t this victory you think it is - there’s 4 new billionaires inheriting their wealth and status. Killing every billionaire would just shuffle the pieces and players, it wouldn’t change the game.

#ra speaks #personal #sorry last I’ll post abt this until there’s some closure on the OceanGate issue #but like. ‘why should I care??’ well a dead billionaire is a dead body but a living one can still make choices #and a traumatized living billionaire may be reminded of their mortal humanity enough to see how they live the way we see it #and maybe. just maybe. channel all of that wealth into actual functional good in the world. #i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again #if your solution begins and ends with ‘bad people should die’ you are at best ignorant to how poor of an ethical code that is or at worst #knowingly encouraging the perpetuation of the current system where ‘bad’ is anyone inconvenient to the current authorities #violence does solve some problems! but not one of this scale and systemic magnitude! there is no glorious revolution! #there are only small victories won for by small acts by small people! #is it so wrong to imagine that someone of greater status in the hellmachine of capitalism may be able to win greater victories #should some event reopen their hearts and eyes to the horrors they have created and perpetuated?

[hazbinhappy]

I PROMISE IM WRITING I have free time tomorrow 🥲

#hh thoughts #I saw someone do disabled hcs and now it’s on my mind for the characters too #so to whoever sees this feel free to request that too #every time I draw my oc I just want to make her more moth like #like just add fluff everywhere #god more moth characters needs to exist #just insect characters #like I get the mammals they’re cool #but insects are cool and you can do sooooo much horror with insects as well #she doesn’t have a big demon form :( #not only because I can’t draw like that but because she doesn’t have enough souls to have that power though she can look a bit creepy #I remember how she was supposed to be a self insert originally and it makes me laugh cause imagine if I made her epileptic 😭 #an epileptic moth is double hell 😭

[eggmeralda]

asking my friend (the best friend from uni. the one who had the awful girlfriend that basically ruined 3rd year for both of us. the one I haven't really been able to directly talk to for over a year now. the reason I have to resort to communicating through my letterboxd diary to get a message across to him bc I'm incapable of talking about feelings etc over text) if he wants to watch a film on a call sometime in the next few days. hell on earth

#imagine ASKING someone if they wanna hang out. imagine MENTIONING your general feelings to someone #in a platonic way #which somehow makes it more awkward #btw yes this is also the friend i used to have a crush on 2 years ago but i realised it was actually just some aromantic thought of #''if i can date him then he'll want to spend time with me unconditionally'' #ohhhh the pain the horrors the mortifying ordeal etc etc #might as well have asked him do you want to conceive 50 babies #that would feel less awkward #ramble

[madigoround]

How many times do you think those dead people cryochambers have malfunctioned or the power has gone out and the generators never kicked on or something where the company just doesn’t acknowledge it because their clientele are all dead anyways

Alternatively; give me a horror story inside a cryogenics facility why are there so many horror stories about cemeteries and not about cryogenic centers that also hold dead bodies that very much feel they have unfinished business because they wanted to be brought back to life before they even died, give me cryogenic ghosts that appear to the employees as desperate tortured versions of themselves because there is no moving on for them as their bodies are suspended forever and the pain of complete isolation in death and a torture they chose and paid a hefty sum for is a fate worse than the irrelevance they originally feared from death

#can you tell I’ve been thinking about this #there was a magnus archives episode that got this stuck in my head lol #I’ve also really been thinking about how cemeteries as a concept are incredibly creepy yes but in practice they see a lot of love #the grounds are usually well cared for and there’s visitors all the time if you were a ghost and tied to a graveyard for some reason I think #that I would derive comfort from seeing people’s loved ones visit them even in death that they are so devoted to their love to that person #that they take time out of what life they have left and even bring them flowers or trinkets things they’ll never actually get to use just as #a gesture whereas imagine paying thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to be preserved in a tank for the possibility of having your #consciousness live on only to then come back as a ghost and be completely isolated in conplete darkness in what amounts to a soup can #which would drive you mad first the isolation or the darkness? #cryogenics #horror #ghost stories