#i say always. we saw them like once

[autisticlancemcclain]

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

#also this is less relevant and i was going to put it in the main post but i cant find the words for it #but i found your last sentence kind of condescending. “the shallura thing worries me” as if i am your little project and things arent going #to plan. as if you are the Knower Of All Things and i am straying from my path lol. twas odd #and this is a controversial thing to say i know it but like #we take fandom way too seriously. if someone decides in fic to make two characters the same age to ship them or whatever. do we really need #to get the torches and pitchforks. like i can understand discomfort when people ship like shiro and pidge or something but. also. i feel #like you can just block and move on?? like i dont ship sheith bc they are brothers. to me. but also i dont think sheithers should be #harassed or any dumb shit like that. i think its so so whatever like theyre Lines man theyre moving lines #at the same time i understand that peoples headcanons can be reflective of their worldviews (like when racism/transphobia/sexism shine #through someone's headcanons/characterization) but how much scrutiny is too much? when do we get to remember that fandom is a place to #work with the FICTIONAL? where you can change details without consequence? i saw a fic where keith was the older sibling and shiro was the #younger once. it was a good fic. how come we can play with ages but only when the Fandom Council approves? #i guess this is a really long and clumsy way to say like. you do not own the fandom nor do you get to dictate my work. and while there #is always room for necessary criticism please also think critically before you post your criticism #anyways #rant #ask

[bookshelfdreams]

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#just saw that tweet abt pink days on the set of the barbie movie & i think it made me realize why it - the marketing etc - annoys me so #'margot robbie went around collecting fines and donated them to charity haha' okay. look. #that's just the perfect metaphor for how it worked for us - me - anyone who wants to align themselves with me - when we were girls #isn't it #because you grow up and you desperately want to fit in with the other girls but you don't & you don't know why #but you're surrounded by things and people telling you what a normal girl is like & little-to-none of it is things you find appealing or #interesting. makeup and fashion and skin care. gymnastics and romance. you're told that you are obligated to be pretty #but prettiness has never been part of your perception of yourself. femininity is an arcane concept #an exclusive club that will never grant you entrance #& the only comfort you can give yourself is deciding that it's dumb anyway. shallow. vain. who cares about looks and boys and all of that #idiots that's who #but this is Doing It Wrong too isn't it? because now everyone who has taught you that you will forever fail at femininity turns around #& tells you that's patriarchal oppression and YOU'RE the bad one by distancing yourself from something that always made you feel defective #'YOU may have never lived up to this impossible standard of perfection but some ppl do and actually it's fine to be like that! #hyperfeminine traditionally beautiful women are the most oppressed group of all & finally we will stand up for our rights!' #'girls can be pretty AND conpetent' but that's not what they're actually saying. isn't it. #because performing femininity correctly is the prerequisite. a threshold you can never cross and you know that. & that's fine #but somehow that's wrong too because you're not supposed to make peace w that are you. you're SUPPOSED to want to do it right #even if you don't and never have and never will #and once again everyone is yelling at you that this club isn't meant for you. if you criticize the barbie movie you're antifeminist #if you refuse to wear pink I'll make you pay a fine #hashtag girlpower #(well im not a girl. not a guy either. and not a secret third thing. just bad at femininity. #bad at being a person. and y'all don't need to tell me you don't want me in your club #I've always known that. i just wish you'd stop expecting me to beg for entrance.)

[astranauticus]

todays orv mood: standing at the water dispenser under my dorm building waiting for my instant noodles to cook just pacing in circles and swearing

#orv liveblog #should i tag spoilers for like. ramble in tags?? #ok i'll do it just to be safe #orv spoilers #idk in case my webtoon only irl friend suddenly decides to log back into her tumblr after 3 years #context chapter 311/46th scenario #ok theres a lot going on here #first off 1863th round yjh is a character made to haunt me specifically so when the name hell of eternity came up wow i was feeling like #500 emotions at once and none of them were good #second i saw someone on lofter say today that most of the talking kdj and yjh do in this book is through fights and just #LIKE I JUST. cannot get over how our perspective of their relationship is just always being filtered through these two people #who are just fuckin INCAPABLE of TALKING ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS like NORMAL PEOPLE #like it drives me so insane that this book is so show dont tell by necessity bc kdj is a fucking moron so we just get these #insanity inducing details like yjh paying to extend his midday rendezvous with kdj for 3 years and just using it as a personal journal #and then you get past all the fuckin. the two of them beating the shit out of each other by way of communicating and its like #'i want to lock you up so you'll stop dying because im scared im not strong enough to be able to stop you and we cant lose you again' LIKE? #SIR WHAT??????? HELLO?????????????? #also the line that made me start pacing in circles around the water cooler while swearing in mandarin was specifically #'i couldn't be the protagonist. i couldn't save someone else' #says the DEMON KING OF SALVATION. like damn its 'sacrifice's will is a stigma that didn't really suit me' all over again #like i love that kdj has the nerve to be like 'of course i dont want to die' and yjh just absolutely does not buy it for a second #god. i want to hit him on the head with a brick.

[alien-ally]

OnlyOneOf

the thing about onlyoneof. is that onlyoneof brings to the table a special something that has never been brought before. and it is alluring, mesmerizing, something that you cannot turn your head away from once you’ve witnessed it in it’s entire glory. due to obvious reasons, we know why that can also be highly dangerous. and hence, their charms remain exclusive to people they’ve already reeled in; their fans. this keeps new people from discovering them. but also no one, at large, is ready to take on the greatness of what they are trying to portray. so they might also never reach the success they’re supposed to reach (i heavily refuse to accept). and despite of it, they would have done what they ought to. Been there, among the pages of untold taboo history pages of kpop for future others to build upon, until finally it isn’t that much taboo anymore.

#every once in a while i just gotta post about something i have never posted about before #this is why i’ll never have followers #i am aware eha #onlyoneof #kpop #when i say i audibly gasped and physically shook when i saw a clip of them taking an ace flag from the crowd and holding it up #we never know one day it could be an aromantic flag #because it’s always the thing that lags behind queer rep #there’s never any ‘a’s to be found no mention about that ‘+’ at the end #also what about their impeccable discography? #see a week into rediscovering them i have half their songs on my playlist #(the other half are ones i am yet to listen to) #and a couple made into my exclusive ‘the esoteric’ playlist #which is like the only exclusive playlist i have other than the massive singular playlist i add all the songs i find into #anyways this is huge everyone #aa mine #bobblehead

[mako-island-moon-pool]

I really do deserve a fucking apology for all the times my friends and family valued strangers on the internet and their opinions more than me

How am I supposed to be just fine with being ignored for years and years or bullied for openly liking what I like, only for those same fucking people to then turn around YEARS LATER, AFTER THE DAMAGE WAS ALREADY DONE, and be like "actually this is cool, so glad I found it" while still ignoring me. Why am I not allowed to be fucking pissed about it? Why is it considered ""gatekeepy"" when I get upset someone who deliberately ignored me for years and insulted the shit I enjoy when I asked them to get into it cuz I thought they'd like it suddenly finds interest in it because it got popular online, not because I'd been begging them to give it a chance and to listen to me for years???? Why is that not allowed????? THAT'S SUCH AN ASSHOLE MOVE, WHY IS IT 'NOT OKAY' TO BE MAD? WHY DON'T THEY GROW A SPINE AND APOLOGIZE FOR DISMISSING ME FIRST? HOW ABOUT THAT?????

#I fucking hate this it keeps fucking happening #I have a fucking LIST of all the times it's happened this is not a one time thing it's fucking reoccurring #Nothing I say will ever fucking matter to anyone not even the people who are 'supposed' to care about me #Grumble grumble #Literally showed my dad a song and he was like 'well I preferred the one that came on autoplay after' #And I was like 'oh that song? Oh you mean THAT song? OH YOU MEAN THE SONG I SHOWED YOU MONTHS AGO THAT YOU DISMISSED AND CRITICIZED?' #THAT ONE? YEAH? YEAH??? #Gee I wonder why you like it NOW and not when *I* showed it to you! #UGHHHHH #Begged my friend to get into OP and he would go 'no it's too long and the art style is kinda ugly' #GUESS WHO'S NOW ASKING ME TO GUIDE HIM THRU THE ANIME CUZ OP WAS TRENDING ON TWITTER OVER THE SUMMER #UGHHHHHHHHH #Begged friends to watch Trig/un for years it was always the first anime I'd recommend anyone when they asked and was always ignored #Guess what everyone did once stampede started *trending on Tumblr*? #They certainly didn't care when I asked or when I was hyping up the trailer for stampede or literally any point before then #Nobody would ever reply to me when I talked about it #But now that it's trending on Tumblr NOW they're interested. GJSGDHDJDJDK #Happened with Pe/rso/na and Ro/tm/nt too. #Begged my middle and high school friends to get into the per/sona series. Nooo never it's sooo lame #Get made fun of for being hyped for 5's release in Calc class #Man you'd never believe who I see on Twitter as the biggest fans nowadays!! #Same with ro/tm/nt begged my friends to watch it but was dismissed and the episode I showed them heavily criticized bc it wasn't 2012 #Then learn the same friend who criticized it so heavily bc he *hated it* WAS WATCHING VIDEO ESSAYS EXPLAINING WHY THE FINALE WAS SO GOOD #And there's NEVER any acknowledgement like 'hey sorry I made fun of/hated on this thing I see why you like it now' #Am I actually mental?! Would that not be the polite thing to do??? #I would do that if a friend begged me to watch something and I openly dismissed them or criticized it as my reason why #And then later on I saw something online and was like 'actually...' #I would GO TO THAT FRIEND AND BE LIKE 'hey sorry I dismissed you earlier man I get why you like it now' AND THEN WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT #This isn't even about like distant acquaintences some of these people are my best friends and my roommates and my own fucking parents #People I talk to daily or near-daily. You're just not going to acknowledge what happened before??? Just expecting me to be fine with it????

[tbh-entp]

The ENTP urge to somehow never attend meetings for clubs but still be a *key member* in the group

#look what we did for our underprivileged kids #entp #mbti #personality type #personality #meyers briggs #i was the artist for joirnalism #essentially mailed them my art #they only saw me on day one #diversity club #i never went to a single meeting #but i somehow ended up being the one giving the speeches #funny enough i was a part of the society of women engineers #not once at the meetings but a main fundraiser from pizza sales #what can i say #i like selling pizza #and now im a key alumni being the dr engineer who jumped country #i refuse to donate money to my high school because theyre rich and they abuse it #but they always contact me **also possibly because im black and theyre like the types #i was in a lot of brochures as a kid #like Garrett from superstore #im thankful for the good education but also realize that that its gatekept so more thankful to my parents for getting me there #spread the love #getting political but access to good education should be a right #wow this got off topic

[stairset]

I think it's funny how all these recent interviews about Bo-Katan are making her age an even bigger point of contention than it already was and so far Wookieepedia refuses to update her page, even they're like we ain't touching this shit with a 10 foot pole and I respect that.

#but no matter what they say i'll never buy the idea that she could've been a teenager or fresh out of her teens in tcw #we literally saw multiple teen characters in the same room as bo-katan in tcw #compare her to ahsoka or korkie or trace and TRY to convince me she's in the same range as them. you won't. #she's clearly a fully grown adult woman in that show #also we don't know satine's exact age but i think it's safe to assume she's the same age as obi-wan making her roughly 38 when she died #and like come on there's no way bo-katan is nearly 2 decades younger than her sister #if she was THAT young she would've been born AFTER their parents died #at MOST i see her being a decade younger than satine just to rationalize how well she's aged but no younger than that #i know filoni once mentioned a story he had in mind when they were both 6 implying they're the same age #but clearly they're throwing that out anyway and if they were the same age bo would be in her 60s in mando #so basically the three options are a) she's in her 40s like the actress is but this doesn't make sense with the timeline #b) she's in her 50s but looks like she's in her 40s #and c) she's in her 60s but looks like she's in her 40s #and of the three of those option b is the easiet for me to believe #i would only buy option c if she was played by christie brinkley #and it's not like character ages always line up with actor ages in sw i mean look at boba #shut up tristan

[chloeseyeliner]

yes, i ship fictional characters, both in books and film, moon over their relationships, read fanfictions on them while giggling and kicking my feet.

but deep down, i am aware i will never surpass my eight-ten-year-old self scribbling down her notebook every time ally dawson and austin moon did ANYTHING romantic.

#for real #i don't remember much #but what i do remember is that (bc i couldn't watch it on the tv sometimes and when i could it was most likely an episode i had already- #-watched or i searched edits on yt bc i am not american no usa disney channel for us haha) i had never shipped a couple so badly until then #let alone a what appeared to be a straight couple #(jokes aside i love you straight people please don't shout at me haha-) #like i love firstprince and junorapez and wilmon and stedrika and lumity and other couples i cannot remember right now #(i am more of the swooning over platonic relationships person lol) #but my no 1 first ship will always be austin and ally #i have no idea whatsoever on what exactly drew me in #but i loved them #also ally kind of shaped me as a person #bc i saw an anxious girl who couldn't function before crowds and had a few close friends and wrote in a diary and i was like #'yep that's so me dude' #what can i say #anyway #too much talking as usual #but you know what we only live once and all that #austin and ally #early 2010s #also ross lynch was my 'childhood crush' sort of #so yeah #ross lynch #laura marano #(something last i loved trish she was a goddess)

[healingheartdogs]

What is it about Banana that makes random people ask us if he's a basenji and then look like they don't believe us when we say he's not? Yes, ma'am, we've heard of basenjis before. No, ma'am, he is not one. He's mostly pit and chow, I promise you he is not a basenji and he does not look like a basenji.

#selene apparently got stopped while walking him earlier for some lady to ask her that #which is far from the first time that has happened #the amount of people ive had to tell that no he is not a basenji and in fact we've breed tested him so i am 100% certain about that #one lady told NOT ASKED but TOLD us at a outdoor market that he was clearly a 'malamar like those police dogs' #and then argued with me when i said he was definitely not a malinois but a mutt #people who know a few less common breeds seem to believe us the least when we say our dog is NOT an uncommon breed but just a shelter mutt #like i guarantee you that there are not purebred basenjis showing up in a NC county kill shelter for $10 adoption fees #funnily enough the shelter had him listed as a GSD puppy which... he also looks nothing like #but he DOES have a small amount of GSD in his mix #and of course our dog who is actually a recognizable kind of uncommon pure breed always gets called a doodle lol #and when i say 'no hes a german wirehaired pointer' i get that same 'i don't believe you' look #one guy at the dog park once was like 'oh is that the designer breed name or did you make that up?' #the conclusion is that average people have no ducking clue what dog breeds actually look like or what makes them recognizable #which is fine and im not gonna judge for it but like... please stop trying to correct me about my own pets #i promise i know more about them than some random stranger who just saw them for the first time

[lecliss]

Why tye fuck am I crying over ninja clash in the land of snow???? I fucking love this movie so much. It's sooooo fucking good. It's definitely my favorite and it was only the first ever Naruto movie. Can you believe they peaked at the first fucking one??? Why is it so good??? Fuck man aaaaaa

#i admit ive only seen three shippuden movies. but not counting the last or road to ninja (cuz they seem so good but i still havent seen them #sadge i know) but for real i wanna say they peaked at the first one. and i say that as a BIG fan of the lost tower #which is admittedly kinda rushed so like yeah of course ninja clash in the land of snow is better. im just very biased about the lost tower #granted i am certainly biased about all the part 1 movies. i guess im biased about the movies in general tho #since they count as filler and im always defensive of filler #also its SO funny to me that the land of snow has steam trains and blimps and the movie says movies exist #when all that stuff doesnt get invented in canon until post shippuden #theres a full on novel where kakashi and guy go on a mission in a. blimp?? hot air plane or something #and like half the point of the plot is that ITS A NEW INVENTION. #and i think the nerd kid's dad from boruto (IM SORRY I CANT REMEMBER HIS NAME RN) like. invented trains i think??? or he invested in their #invention. and that like #mega related to his character as a rich tech guy's kid. #and i KNOW the land of snow is technologically advanced and also not canon. BUT LISTEN. #its just so funny to think that kakashi literally saw a fucking blimp like 8 years prior and then proceeded to be impressed when #going on a mission to protect like some rich lady on her trip to the take off of the world first blimp or hot air plane #whatever the plot of that novel was. #like. its just fucking funny. #i dont even remember if regular television is confirmed to exist pre-boruto. outside like #cctv for the kages that we saw like. once? in fucking. season 1 or something. #personal

[red-dyed-sarumane]

i have a new theory for aru sekai fans & by new i mean someone else might have caught on already but i havent seen it said SO. the rute furutewoa melody is in kyuuyaku, touhikou, & now kannagi (maybe elsewhere bc i havent been looking for this motif before i only realized it today really & i havent had time to go thru all the songs again yet) & we have kyuu (past), something in touhikou im too tired to remember currently but i remember calling something similar a while ago when someone asked if there was a timeline to this, and now kannagi that uses the older language so im willing to bet this motif is a way of saying the events in the song happened in the "past". whether thats actually Long Ago or just to say its not the current situation or just happened before the songs without it i cant say for sure but i think it makes sense given what we have now.

just like we have the nami no ne no motif that signals which characters still have their "self" if its in the song or lost it if its not.

i have to do some more digging of course but with what i know right now this makes the most sense to me

#aru sekai series #u know those old people who say they do crosswords to keep their brain sharp. thats what this series feels like to me. #incredibly complex puzzle to put together in which i need to be constantly learning new things & concepts #anyway for some reason i feel like theres a link to ashura that im not touching on too but idk for sure yet #there is. something about ashura that drives me insane bc it FEELS familiar there IS. SOME sort of motif or theme or SOMETHING there #i KNOW it but i can never place WHAT it makes me rabid. #tell me your secrets puppet girl #also btw kannagi i think also ties into touhikou. given the art & that line thats like prayer will come to sustain us or whatever it is #its 2am ive had a long day i dont remember the exact thing rn. usually i check before posting but please excuse me just this once #i wish i could make friends with the jpn magu fans who also go wild over the lore but idk how to find them. its always like one off comments #sorry i didnt really go wild over yamete kudasai. it just felt rather straight forward & didnt give any big reveals that i know of #so i just kind of went ah neat & looped it for a while #but kannagi. kannagi's got the puzzle aspect back & a WHOLE BUNCH of links to other songs. & thats without knowing the lyrics #but also u know kyuuyaku's my fave so having this be closely related is a big 👀👀👀 for me #i saw someone try to say kannagis the ka in the amakakeru arc of songs (if that is a real arc. it Is a fan theory idk how accurate tho) #but that wouldnt be right bc we already have kanon for the ka. #if there are arcs like that i think itd be in with whatever ashura's in. even tho ashura is a 5 kanji song and kannagis only 1

[perenlop]

so dont get me wrong, “iris and the rogue dragonite” is a really, REALLY good episode. it does wonders for iris’s development and shows that she’s more in tune with her dragon powers, and she gets a new member on her team that’s finally a new dragon type. but i’m sorry, the episode and iris’s overall team would have worked so so much better if it was a hydreigon instead of a dragonite. im willing to die on this hill

#in fact id go as far as saying that they originally planned this arc to have a hydreigon #because dragonite's behavior is more akin to a hydreigon's and fits the ''there are no bad dragon types'' message a lot better #and they only mention ''oh its a scary dragonite'' like once to set it apart. like ik pokemon are individuals #but dragonite up to this point have been shown to be pacifists unless something theycare about is threatened #so the public generally reveres them. and yeah this is just one dragonite and its different #but the novelty wears off in the first episode for me and i cant really take it that seriously bc dragonite is so doofy looking #clairs dragonite in johto was terrifying bc we saw it as a sweet pacifist and THEN it went on a rampage to show its sheer power #when something it loved was threatened #this one just doesnt have that same effect on me. ik it did on other ppl but as a kid i was just like ''this doesnt feel like it should be a #a dragonite'' #''rogue dragon thats territorial and fights everything in sight for power and everyone fears it and refuses to believe it could be good'' #is something that fits hydreigon WAYYYYYYY way better. and the follow disobedience arc as well #like game iris had a hydreigon at this point and hydreigon is actually native to unova and fitting for her and its own arc #and ghetsis doesnt even have hydreigon in the anime so like what was the hold up??? was it bc cameron had one?? #bc he literally just sucks and if thats why then that absolutely blows #like it feels like its only a dragonite bc ''oh thats kanto and genwunners are mad that theres less kanto so throw it in'' #and to have advertsing like ''WAAAAAAA we are getting DRAGONITE vs CHARIZARD???? #bc i remember that being literally everywhere lol #im sorry i like dragonite as a pokemon its really cute and ive used one before. its a good pokemon #but its so unfitting for this arc and its always bothered me so much #and rewatching it only reinforced those feelings. also i just like hydreigon better lol sorry #echoed voice #pokeani lb

[jihyolesbian]

ok why is she texting paragraphs in the groupchat that "we need to start cleaning the kitchen more" like girl be real. you know i deep clean it myself every 2-3weeks but it's a big kitchen and multiple people use it i can only do so much

#swear on my dogs life she has cleaned the kitchen ONCE since we moved in 2 years ago #and my other roommate has cleaned it MAXIMUM OF TWICE as well #im also the only one who cleans my bathroom #funny story about that too #the other 2 girls used to share the bigger bathroom and it was always filthy like everything has a thick coat of grime and dirt UFG like i #had to use their toilet once and once my butt hit the seat i was disgusted i could FEEL the dirt on top of the toilet seat #so anyways while i was away for a little one of them moved into my tiny ass bathroom to share with me because it's always clean bc im a #neat freak but now i have share the bathroom with her and clean up after her and pick up her hair in the shower/on the floor and maybe im #just like MAJOR clean freak but....grosses me out #so anyways the audacity to say that we never clean when i do clean often and you're aware of that which is why you wanted to share a br #with me instead. smh #RANT SORRY #that time i came back from being away and saw that she moved into my bathroom i went to take a shower and tehre was mold ALL OVER THE SHOWE #R and so i texted her like did you know the bathroom is all moldy?? like it's disgusting have you been standing on it in the shower n stuff #and she was like 'oh really! no i thought it was just the design of the tile' -_- #ok....... #for this reason. im glad to graduate and move back home bc at least my brother is low maintenance in our bathroom

[theworldinclines]

and then, what if they pull us a hi5 2gether style but we'll have to wait for our skyy 2 for tinngun kiss ? will we be fine 🤔 personally i'm not god's strongest soldier... (ps: i just love kisses 🥺 not that i'm sad when there's none but i'm extremely happy when there's at least one)

i literally hope they fist bump again just bc the comedy of it would teleport me to a different space time continuum 🤜🤛 and we're getting a forehead kiss i think this upcoming ep ?? which most everyone should know by now is my Ultimate Kryptonite 🤌 so for me im more than fine with that alone but as for anything else i guess we just need to see. they still have moonlight chicken and 23.5 too different characters oc but there's always a chance of a kiss there if there isn't one in msp and i already know im gonna love them in those shows so im not even worried🙌

#and i will be honest and say i dont like kisses that much🫣🫣for me they need to be integral to plot and be really well done #to make me interested and on top of that theyre 18 and this is their first series so i wouldnt want them being made to do anything #they arent comfortable with #AND good chemistry doesnt always translate to good kiss chemistry as we saw in atots cough djfndksmdn so as u said it wont devastate me if #it doesnt happen; its just a matter of waiting atp bc i literally dont know what will happen #like w bad buddy i went in like theres NO way theyll kiss not even once #and THEN😳😳so bets are off fjdndndnsn #answered #msp #my school president #tinngun

[stuckinakillingjar]

just realized that i fucking hate headcanoning characters as siblings

#i literally wrote like 10 tags ranting about why i hate people hc sns as brothers but like that wasn't my point #actually a bucci gang post inspired me to post this because i saw someone call fugo and narancia or giorno and mista or narancia and trish #siblings and it does not feel right to me like #i love love love the gang as found family but to me that term never really entailed the whole siblinghood thing #for me found family always meant people OUTSIDE of the character's actual family being there for them and caring for them #like they're not real siblings they shouldn't call each other that #omg this is incredibly weird and a totally subjective opinion just fyi like feel free to disagree with me #but like i personally have a younger brother and i always feel incredibly uncomfortable calling people outside of him brother or sister #like my best friend once said to me that she thinks of me as a sister and internally i was like nooooo don't say that #or my literal cousin said that she wished we were sisters and i was like uhhhh #I DON'T KNOW THIS IS WEIRD TO EXPLAIN #to me (in fiction) it's just a way more beautiful concept that you're both bounded by fate and meant to be with each other #or have incredibly obvious parallels #idk why i keep thinking about narancia and trish but like #that one scene where narancia goes 'trish is me. i am trish. her wounds are my wounds' or something like that #ig it's just me finding the concept of soulmates and fate more interesting than just headcanoning characters as siblings #omg don't assume that i hate my little brother after this post btw i would die for him just fyi but this is gonna sound mean 💀 #with siblings you're kind of already stuck with each other right from the start like there's no escape unless you're like completely #abandoning you're family #you're kind of forced to love them #but with sasuke and naruto or narancia and trish for example it's like #naruto and narancia saw the parallels in sasuke and trish they saw the hurt and they chose to follow them #they weren't born in a family they aren't bound by blood they just kind of chose to love them #this post is a whole lot of nothing no one will get what i mean anyways 😭 #i'll just stop now #nica.talks #jjba #golden wind #just to clear that up this is a different scenario when we're talking about characters or people that are adopted like omg #my hcs

[beemovieerotica]

I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍