#it's pretty confronting...

[greppelheks]

These days I'm mostly realizing I'm getting older because I'm suddenly looking after my parents more and more often, now that they're getting more vulnerable with age.

#That and my gen z coworkers calling me boomer all the time which is just Rude. #My father is retiring in 6 months and he has to do some financial stuff and he's just not understanding it #and of course it's all digital which he's not understanding even more #and I'm just seeing he's more vulnerable and he's not sure anymore what it all entails #(the things he handled for his retirement 30 years ago) #so we were just on the phone for an hour trying to figure it out #and he's coming over tomorrow so I can fix it for him #and I'm reading the terms of condition to make sure he's not falling for anything weird #and I've been having more of these moments where I'm texting my sister like we need to keep a close eye on dad #he's getting older and I'm noticing some things #I'm worried about him sometimes; he's been working full time since he was 15 #and now he's suddenly not gonna be working anymore #and when I visit his house I'm like do I need to go over there to help out with some stuff? #it's pretty confronting... #personal #my mother takes care of herself mostly and she has her partner so she's not alone #I also lowkey gotta take care of my sister #and I'm the one approached for things like this #because my sister's a big ole mess #and I told my sister and she didn't offer to help or anything #she was just like haha really? and then started sending me 20 text about a dumb movie she was watching #I mean it's fine and it's what I've expected it's just a reality I need to get used to

[basshole-astard]

PSA: i keep seeing posts about staying cool in extreme heat that include advice like "gatorade is bad actually!" and "don't drink fruit juice it'll just dehydrate you!" and neither of these are true!

regarding fruit juice: there's apparently a misconception that Any Sugar At All will dehydrate you, and that's simply not true. yes, sugar will make you pee more when consumed in large amounts, but 1) the natural sugar in fruits won't do this to you 2) great news! a lot of fruit juices exist without any added sugar in them! 3) honestly even having a glass of the fruit juice with added sugar won't completely dehydrate you as long as you're also drinking water throughout the day. if its hot you deserve a cold treat of a drink!!! can't go wrong with fruit juice!!!

regarding gatorade: maybe this isn't an every day drink, but guess what: if it's 110F/40C or hotter outside, and you don't have AC, or you're moving around a lot outside of the AC, and you're sweating buckets: that's when you drink a gatorade.

gatorade exists to replenish all the electrolytes (salt) and glucose (sugar) that you sweat out. YES it is meant for athletes to drink during intensive work outs and not necessarily for people who aren't doing that kind of exercise. BUT GUESS WHAT! when you're sweating buckets because you had to walk to the bus in extreme heat, that's intensive exercise. please feel free to drink a gatorade after that! that's its intended use case!!!!

no: neither of these drinks should be a total replacement for water. but drinking a lot of water and then treating yourself to a fruit juice with lunch is a good idea!!! drinking a gatorade becuase you just had to walk for 20 minutes in the heat is a good idea!!!

Please Stop Spreading Misinformation About Drinks!!! It's fine if you drink things that aren't water!!!! Yes you should probably always be drinking water but drinking something else As Well isn't going to hurt you!!!! okay!!!! its fine!!!!!!

honestly so long as you are consistently getting Any (non-alcoholic) fluids in you, you're doing great!!!!!! okay!!!! i love you stay safe <3

#also: drinking A Soda or A Coffee isn't going to completely dehydrate you if you're drinking other fluids tbqh!!! #its fine!!!!! its fine!!!!! #drinks #heat #dehydration #this post exists because i'm mad at misinfo but also #this is for my homies who hate the taste of water and struggle to stay hydrated #because people have told them over and over again You Must Absolute Drink Water And Nothing Else and so they just don't drink anything #listen!! hey!!! whoever told you that was lying!!!! #drinking Any Fluids At All (yes even with caffeine!!) is better than Not Drinking Anything #please hydrate!!!! it's okay if that hydration isn't water!!!! #honestly i tried to be extremely non confrontational in this post but im pretty sure i've seen people suggest flavored water packets #but say no fruit juice ever. and that's insane. #it's all fluids baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #so long as you are drinking fluids you are combatting dehydration #YES water is the best option HOWEVER. if you drink things that aren't water that's also okay! i promise!!!!!!!!

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking. #nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose. #isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #---------------------------------------------------------------------- #anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!) #which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around) #and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt) #and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine) #the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly. #but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief) #as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

[pacebone]

"Young Girl with Squiddle," referred to in some archaic texts as "Bruja Infanta,"¹ is commonly considered a seminal work of the Early Carapacian Revival.² Like a majority of the paintings from this era, the original is assumed to have been lost during the fall of Prospit.³ Only alchemized copies remain today.⁴

#homestuck #jade harley #wrote the caption as a funny little joke and then was confronted w how much of a nightmare museum ethics would be #in a world w easy access to instant perfect copies of everything. is the original even worth anything. how do you determine authenticity!! #good thing all the museums got destroyed #i don't have an excuse for this one i just wanted to draw a girl in a pretty dress. sorry baby jade

[podcastenthusiast]

The way BG3 approaches revenge is so interesting. It never says anyone is wrong to kill someone who's done them harm, but it does say that doing so alone won't fix the trauma.

Aylin just feels empty after killing Lorroakan. Astarion admits killing Cazador didn't feel how he expected it would either; he feels numb for a while and it changes his perspective on things. Karlach kills Gortash and it isn't satisfying, because he never felt sorry for the life he took from her and now she has to grapple with how little she has left.

Again, they weren't wrong to crave that catharsis and the safety it brings them. But revenge is never the end of healing. It's only the beginning. Choosing to live again is maybe the best revenge there is.

#bg3 #baldur's gate iii #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #counselor plays video game #killing is pretty normalized in their world but like as far as i know you can't tell your companions to just forgive their abusers #you can tell them to avoid direct confrontation and run but they remind you they'll never be safe if they do that #in fact taking that choice that catharsis by for example killing cazador without astarion is framed as a bad option #a betrayal of his trust and autonomy. which it is even with good intentions

[miaoqing]

i really don't know how to feel about fics/aus where it turns out that sj's treatment of lbh is his own fault because he didn't speak up about issues with other disciples, genuinely misbehaved etc and also later (as bingge) lied about how much he actually got punished and in truth it wasn't any more than any other disciple, and that sj didn't know about the fake manual, when all of this is explicitly against canon.

yqy adresses this when sy wakes up, telling sqq to stop being so mean to lbh. in the sj extra, he himself says that lbh should have died a long time ago bleeding from the seven apertures due to the fake manual. sy says that pidw explicitly states that lbh was punished WAAAY more than any other disciple, and in those conditions obviously noone would tell their teacher about being bullied??

idk i understand altering canon for the sake of telling a story but... somehow it feels like a disservice to sj's character to ignore canon and water him down for the sake of making his redemption easier. and villifying lbh, which is what these fics inevitably end up doing, is also messed up - he was around 11 when he joined cqm. that's a CHILD. no matter how you look at it, sqq's "treatment" of lbh is neglect at best, horrible abuse at worst, and in modern times it would put him in jail faster than you could blink. giving him a realistic redemption arc is difficult, if not impossible, but if you truly love him with all his flaws and faults, isn't it worth the effort?

#and do NOT get me started on the hypothetical sy/sj confrontation #it would get physical so fast #i think it would actually be a pretty even fight? sy in sqq's body probably has approximately the same martial abilities #so it would be down to sj fighting dirty vs sy fuelled by pure rage #because sy would NOT go omg sj gege poor meowmeow 🥺 #like. my parents were assholes to me when i was little (obvs not to sj's degree) #and my friends STILL hate them #and in sy's case. THAT'S HIS HUSBAND!!!!! #svsss #sj #sqq #lbh #svsss meta #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #meow

[tizeline]

Who becomes the closest with splinter after they decide “hey maybe we shouldn’t kill humanity?”

I'm not sure, honestly. I guess Leo? He's already on the Lou Jitsu hypetrain, something he feels a lot of guilt about considering he views Splinter as evil. So when he figures out that Splinter isn't actually a terrrible person he'd be pretty excited to get to know him better. And while Leo isn't exactly neglected by Draxum, he still doesn't usually get quite all attention he needs from his dad (middle child lol) so he might be quicker to seek out an extra father figure.

Raph and Mikey would eventually get closer to Splinter as well, though!

#at the same time i'm pretty sure leo would grow closer to drax as well after he decides to give up on his world domination plan #there has been some tension slowly building between them for years at this point #and all of the events surrounding donnie and the dark armour and leo going against draxum and EVERYTHING really in the main story #would really force the two of them to confront the unrest in their relationship #which would be a bit messy sure #but they'd both benefit from it and end up with a better understanding of the other #draxum trying to improve his parenting skills vs splinter trying to his parenting skills #EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!!! #Tiz Sep AU

[the-nysh]

Oh sweet! Looks like Trimax vol4's when Vash actually starts calling Meryl by name on a regular basis

As before--for context, he'd typically used the more distant, but still respectful 'insurance-san' to refer to the girls, but Trigun vol2 (right before Fifth Moon) was the first time he ever said her name so seriously, which was a very Big Deal to her, and their last exchange for 2 years.

That upon their hospital reunion scene in Trimax vol3, genuinely happy and relieved but still awkwardly not quite knowing what to say to each other after all this time, she bonks him for trying his 'old' way of address--denied! No more of that please; say her name!

So aha, here in Trimax vol4, after Zazie captures Meryl as a 'weakness' to bait him and things get personal...there it is. Now he's quite direct and no-nonsense about it! Surprising Milly and shocking even his opponents (in a 'whoa wtf, he behaves nothing like Knives!' kind of way by jumping out of a window for her) with his immediate 'cut the bullshit; I don't care about your games, I'm only here for Meryl; give her back' >:[ attitude!

(For reference, Milly generally calls Meryl 'sempai' while Wolfwood calls everybody nicknames, referring to the girls by their big/small heights. So Vash asserting a First Name basis for her is pretty significant.)

And just to check if Vash continues using her name, on his Important Mission to find her, even all alone, no matter what (Trimax vol5 spoilers)...

Oh yes he does. (Face to face now.) She's that important to him.

#trigun #trigunbookclub #vashmeryl #commentary #first name basis is pretty Important in japanese so yup i was keeping track for the When #stampede vash basically always used her name from the beginning #but once meryl gets captured then aha trimax vash is personally confronted with how much he can't afford to lose her

[pharawee]

First & Sprite

—TWINS, Episode 1

#twins the series #twins bl #frame ritchanon #ryan panya #twinsbledit #thai bl #thai drama #bl drama #bl series #my edits. #and here their dynamic is so different #because while sprite doesn't take crap #he's also less confrontational with first than zee #i love this so much #i'm glad they actually took their time in the first ep to show how much of an outsider zee is #how everyone gets along and sam tries to get close to him #but zee chooses to isolate himself #(which is a pretty stupid thing to do on a sports team but ok) #it's like zee is bad at being a team player #but sprite is bad at being a loner

[enpr-ss]

"You guys are lucky this server is PG" - angry goat held back by a flimsy chain of "family friendly content"

#docm77 #vintagebeef #etho #hermitcraft #enpr-ss #he said this somewhere else too but I forgot #probably during the sleep-deprived confrontation with joe #and I think when he found out about the perimeter #and when skizz was like 'we should build a tnt cannon to bomb his shop' and beef immediately went NO DON'T GIVE HIM AN EXCUSE. WE WILL LOSE #doc: 'WHO DO YOU THINK I AM' #even I #who was pretty new to hermitcraft was like oh skizz you new kid in town who clearly doesn't know how things work around here

[razzzar]

Next time don't fuck with the expired cheese clone possessed with your old acquaintance :)

#pizza tower #fake peppino #pizza head #body horror #myart #first attempt at a proper comic so how did I do? #pizza head has been pretty sus about this particular clone that's been acting out since the tower crumbled #finally confronted it and got more than he bargained for #but I mean hey Brunos having fun

[clowningoose]

Balloon Sword AU

Further thoughts under the cut

So a good while ago I got a balloon sword and thought wouldn't it be funny If the duels were fought with balloon swords then I got serious about it

So besides the swords being balloons, the roses are too

The first idea in regards to this was the duelists using what is essentially a toy in battle, a childish imitation of a sword fight

The second had to do with empty desires, what motivates them to fight. They have swords, but they're filled with nothing but air, merely a shell to hold almost nothing at all

Coming to the roses I thought Anthys blowing up the balloons is in a way the inflation of the duelists desire and them then being molded into motivation to battle, folding the balloon into the form of a rose

It'd also make a very nice sound when the balloon is popped, literally exploding on their chests

I had imagined that around the black rose arc we could possibly switch over to real swords

Visually I Imagine the sword pulls of the arc as a balloon floating out of their chests on a string to then be exploded by the sword inside piercing the balloon

From then on out real swords would be used, the roses remain balloons

Not entirely sure what to do with the Sword of Dios, it could either be replaced by a real one once Utena gets hers pulled out of her chest, it stays a balloon sword forever or it only turns into a real sword in the very last episodes

#Revolutionary Girl Utena #rgu #Balloon au #anthy himemiya #nanami kiryuu #juri arisugawa #saionji kyouichi #ChuChu amongst other things is a stand-in for Anthys true Feelings #The balloon a pretty little toy with a drawn on smile a confrontation of ChuChu and Balloon ChuChu the confrontation of Anthy and the perso #Had it not exploded it would have deflated anyway its not meant to be maintained forever #But even the balloon shell is destroyed by being dressed up like Akio #And hits ChuChu in the face to top it Off #Anthys role is the one people want her to play but despite all that she ist still hated both for doing so and for not doing so #It is part of this very role to be hated and even making oneself palatable is not enough to escape said hatred #In the end no matter what you do people seek your destruction

[wizzard890]

#succession #tw: csa #like the constant CONSTANT jokes about the topic where he's the victim #the sudden bedwetting before he was just sent away to school #the feelings of responsibility for keeping his family happy and together and Good we're all Good #his self-loathing around sex and intimacy #the way his siblings refer to his physical abuse in a pretty blase way but everything around When He Went Off To School is vague #the show spends a ton of time showing that his actual memories of his childhood are on two tracks: what his siblings saw and what he felt #his father convinced that there's something wrong with him #some fatal crack that can't be fixed - and roman agrees #and PARTICULARLY in the most recent episode when he reveals he couldn't breathe normally around logan #and shiv goes to ask frank and karl 'how bad was dad' #like I don't think logan was the one who did this specifically to roman #but it was clearly someone logan knew #shiv the girl with the selective memory but the girl who knew not to be around those men #being moved enough by her brother's pain to confront the panicked sliver of a question: did dad do this? and if not - did he know? #logan didn't like women but he loved his little girl #shiv was safe #roman? not so much #'why bastard? why base?' why indeed roman

[eddiemunsongf]

my ideal steve/eddie dynamic is for there to be a while where eddie is integrated into the gang but steve’s still really standoffish about him. arms-crossed and questioning everything he says in that steve way. eddie doesn’t think he wants him around. but then one day they’re all out in the world and someone gets in eddie’s face calling him a murderer. and usually he can stand his ground just fine and owns the things people call him. but this guy is going off about how “we all saw what you did to that poor girl” and he still just can’t take that shit and he’s frozen and triggered as hell and he’s either about to cry in the street or crack this guy’s skull open on the pavement-- but then. steve’s there, standing between eddie and the guy. “do we have a problem? back the fuck off, man. seriously. get out of here.” and the guy hesitates but he doesn’t wanna get his ass kicked by steve harrington and the freak so he does fuck off. and steve stands right where he is with his hands on his hips glaring until the guys out of sight. and he turns back to eddie like “jesus man, some people.” but eddie’s just staring at him with those saucer eyes and steve’s like “...what?” and eddie’s like “why’d you do that?” and steve makes a face like that’s a stupid thing to say and he’s annoyed he has to spell it out. “you’re... you know. one of us.”

#this is platonic to me but actually writing it out.... pretty gay. this is pretty gay #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #you could get a similar thing out of a steve/jason altercation #but i think i need the eddie/jason confrontation to be between them #adding steve to the mix detracts from both of their arcs #even if it would be cash #mp

[divorcedtom]

greg’s the only person to show up to tom’s birthday party and tom (while crying) has a big realization that greg is the only person that really cares about him and he confesses his love for greg and kisses him right then and there. meanwhile it had been greg’s job to email the invites and he simply forgot

#tomgreg #greg only realizes this halfway through tom’s breakdown so he feels like it’s too late to say anything #so he just goes along with the narrative that tom’s own wife didn’t show up #saying things like ‘damn that’s um pretty heartless… you should probably just like— never speak to her again perhaps?’ #so that tom doesn’t confront her and find out the truth

[conanssummerchild]

the reason i started watching community was because i was back in spain for christmas and the show i was watching wasnt available on spanish netfilx and i was like hmm, i've been meaning to start community, i've been looking for a simple, silly sitcom so i can just relax and not think too hard (LITTLE DID I KNOW I WOULD BE THINKING MANY MANY THOUGHTS) but like IMAGINE if that other show had been available or if i'd never seen one of my tumblr moots talk about community, if i had never planned on watching it, or if i had discovered it after it got taken off of netflix i was in no way invested enough to pursue it if it wasnt right in front of me, thank god for spanish netflix's shitty selection, ive never been happier to be spanish

#in fact the other show i was watching was pretty crappy but i was enduring it bcs i dont like leaving things half done #but after watching community i physically could not continue watching #bcs confronted with the amazingness of community i was no longer going to settle for ANY LESS !!! #so i watched it another 4 times straight - #alex says shit #community #nbc community