Hi, I would like to understand why do you ship Mario and Luigi? You don't have to answer if it's not comfortable for you. 🙂
This soooooo immediately reads as a bait question, but I'm trusting you here anon I'm trusting you asked this in genuine good faith which I don't know why you would but if you want to know;
The short answer is Because I Want To and I Like Them. Plain and simple, there doesn't have to be a deeper reason. Sometimes we just ship things because we want to. Understood? Okay cool.
A slightly longer answer would be because they're the kind of Ship Dynamic that brings me the most comfort. I love a ship where they are each other's other half, they understand eachother and support eachother and just get eachother in ways no other person ever could. Loving eachother, being together is all they've ever known, they can't imagine a world where they're not together, side by side.
Platonic or Romantic aside, Mario and Luigi are a perfect pair, that's their entire thing. Mario is Reckless and Headstrong, Luigi is Calculating and Sturdy. Mario charges forward, Luigi holds the line. Mario picks mushrooms out of his spaghetti, and Luigi eats them. They fill in the gaps the other leaves, they compliment and communicate and trust one another undoubtedly.
I love a love like that. Of course it's you. It was always going to be you. It could never be anyone but you. I am not me without you, and you are not you without me. They are eachother's everything
They are a bonded pair, do not separate.
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overcoming anxiety (through practicing the things that scare you) is so interesting. i used to be horrified of taking up space or alerting other people of my presence. now i'm compelled to tell strangers i like their outfits or hair or earrings- on bad days i tell maybe a quarter of them. do i still overthink it? absolutely. but i call attention to myself to tell someone else my opinion. and with the way they tend to smile and tell me "thank you!" i'm pretty sure it's taken to heart.
i used to be horrified of making phone calls as well. this is one i'm still getting over- i just Don't Like Doing It. i used to have a phone call routine that i still joke about- realize i need to call someone, cry, avoid it for a few days, suck it up, write a script, memorize the script, cry again, final script read, make the call with the script in front of me. and i would be Exhausted by the end of it. i don't cry when i need to call people anymore. i'm even needing scripts less and less- i've found out that people actually won't kill me if i talk a little too fast or stumble on my words. i doubt i'll ever like making phone calls- i especially hate robots (i'm afraid they'll mishear me and direct me wrong or a person will suddenly show up and i won't be prepared)- but i can make them now.
i get overwhelmed really easy. just a thing that happens to me. my brain is really really good at taking one task and breaking it up into thousands of little tasks and it feels like i'm drowning. if i try to make it fewer larger tasks then it starts to feel insurmountable. i was completely lost on how to deal with this (other than avoid until you get that panic attack and can do work in the post-catharsis calm until 6:00 AM) until one night when my dad (who i often meet late at night due to overlapping mental illness symptoms) asked me how to eat an elephant. i looked at him, confused, and he said "one bite at a time." that was way more effective than any other analogy i've seen has been. "light at the end of a tunnel"- i don't feel like i'm moving forward, i feel like i'm scaling a wall. "steps on a trail"- i can see my destination, but it feels impossible to move forward. but eating an elephant? that sums it up perfectly. this huge task which seems impossible at a glance. but it must be done. so you eat the elephant, a bite at a time. every time i'm overwhelmed i repeat that phrase to myself. it hasn't made any major changes yet, but it keeps me calm enough to start before i hit the panic attack, which i'll take.
i was such a perfectionist growing up- i actually thought it was a good thing (school always taught me to strive for perfection). but it made me scared to try new things- if i wasn't immediately good at them, then it clearly wasn't for me. i'm still not great at starting new hobbies, but i try a lot of new things within the hobbies i already have. i test out different ways of making art, i try new puzzle games i don't understand, etc. and the feeling of steady improvement reminds me that i don't need to be good right away. some of the most satisfying moments don't come from immediately being good- they come from achieving that skill over time. i'd like to try to learn to sew soon.
idk it's interesting. i rewire my own brain's fear response by doing the Horrifying Thing enough times for me to understand that no i will not die. and while i'm doing it it feels like nothing is changing. i get so stressed every time- it can actually take a lot out of me (turns out fight-or-flight burns a lot of energy). but i look back at then vs. now and i realize how far i've come, and i can't help but think "huh. neat"
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Are you really not enjoying Tim Drake: Robin? I was really worried after DCYJ but Meghan really surprised me. It's not perfect, far from that, and maybe it's not the kind of comic Tim needed after years stuck in DC fridge, but it's been really fun, I'm invested in Tim new life and Darcy and detective Williams have been pretty cool so far too. Plus Meghan said she has plans to give Tim a nem mantle (thank god for that). Idk, sorry about this rant, but I'm really liking this run so far, so I was a little surprised when you said you didn't like it.
It's not terrible but it's just not good, yknow? In my opinion at least.
I want to like it, I really do, but there's just a few things holding me back that I can't get over.
I do think that it's better than Young Justice: Dark Crisis and I think it's because Meghan has a decent grip on Tim but like...no one else. So her Tim-centric comic is faring better characterization-wise than YJ:DC did with all the other characters because of this.
But I think it's no mistake that Meghan is bringing in a completely new supporting cast (for the most part). She can use those characters however she likes without having to worry about previous characterizations. Even Bernard is for the most part a blank slate given that he only had like 6 previous appearances before Meghan took over. And I think it's because she just can't write characters that have a lot of history and previous characterization. I think that's also why she has isolated Tim down at the marina, to reduce the need to tie in other Gotham established characters.
I think Meghan is capable of making good stories, but she is terrible at maintaining characterizations of characters she didn't create and doing her research. There have been so many factual inaccuracies in the comics she has written for DC, it's insane and this is even showing up in TD: Robin in issue #3 where Tim says that Stephanie was never trained by Batman. She definitely was trained by Batman in the pre-New 52 and since the comic is referencing Steph's time as Robin (which was only in the pre-New 52 universe), that fact should still be canon.
While Meghan can (sometimes) tell good stories, I can't get over the fact that she seems to at best be unaware of the past or at worst blatantly disregards it. It detracts from my enjoyment of the comic.
So yeah, the whole connecting current cases to old mystery novels is cool, but I wish it didn't come at the cost of disregarding much of Tim's past.
And then I just still can't get over the art. Like I can't. I'm trying, but I can't. The characters look so bad. Bernard looks like a woman half of the time. It really really detracts from my enjoyment.
So like...I swear even though this sounds negative as fuck, I am trying to like it but there are just things here and there that I can't get over. I think the comic in general is a cool concept, but there are just execution errors I can't get past (mainly the factual inaccuracies). But like I said, I do think it is better than YJ:DC.
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