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vergina-spva · 8 months
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I just wanted to say... props to the One Piece live action for giving Usopp some clear negative feelings towards his absentee father.
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carouselunique · 5 days
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Cinch had three charges in her care once, Celestia entrusted her with the day-to-day care of Prince Blueblood, the new Princess Cadence and her student Sunset Shimmer - running a kingdom is difficult enough alone without three young ponies to look after - so when Celestia is absent (often) that means Cinch was in charge of these three ponies. And while the matron of the castle was always rigid about rules and wanted her three charges to uphold her reputation and to build their own budding reputations high, she cared about them very much. You'd have to, spending your time with the same three young ponies for so long, guiding and teaching them to be their best...
By the time Ditzy came into the picture, Cinch was down to two charges. She refused to fail them the way she failed...
Well, with one down, there were two left and she cared so much she wouldn't let anyone ruin them, especially not themselves. Surely they would come to realize Cinch was only helping.
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daily-hanamura · 7 months
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#p4#p4g#persona 4#persona 4 golden#hanamura yosuke#yosuke hanamura#im so so so so weak for this scene because it's really... yosuke stepping up to fill in for yu in yu's absence#teddie's the one that jumpstarts it when he says he wants to visit nanako but yosuke makes the connection immediately#and doesn't let it become a missed opportunity and his actions became so crucial in this scene#he understood the gravity of the situation and starts reaching out to everyone else#also when yu is down for the count kanji is yosuke's first point of contact#listen LISTEN the yosuke kanji friendship is so dear to my heart#yosuke called kanji first and then naoto second even though naoto is supposed to be the “sensible” one#but its also about the way he delegates - he trusts kanji to storm the police station with him while getting naoto to check on nanako#and having naoto disseminate information to the rest of the team#and it's actually so clever because naoto may be known by the police#kanji is more intimidating and yosuke understood that speed and force was more crucial here#but naoto's level headedness made him a better candidate for checking in on nanako#because if nanako had disappeared then naoto as a detectice would be the first on scene as well as being the best in assessing the situation#intuitively i would have thought to being naoto to the station#but this was actually way better#chewing glass like yosuke being yu's second in command really isnt just some kind of throwaway line like he really gets it#he knows how to strategise and he knows the strengths of his friends the way yu does and how to best get them going#and also how yosuke's directions go more or less unquestioned? especially in this time of crisis? when yu isn't around?#the team doesn't splinter off and quabble amongst themselves they paid attention to yosuke and listened to him!!!#because they trust him like how they trust yu!!!!#AAAAAAAAAAAH#yosuke oh yosuke yosuke truly my beloved#he's good with his queue
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txttletale · 7 months
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as an immunocompromised and disabled person it very much does matter if individual people refuse to wear masks. this isn’t like trying to row back the harm of fossil fuel companies with reusable shopping bags or whatever. yes society is broken etc but even if it weren’t, masking would still result in fewer infections and lower risk than not.
if individual people refuse to wear masks when there is a mask mandate policy, that's meaningfully bad, yeah. but when there is no policy enforcing population-level mask adoption (as is now the case) then the difference caused by one person's masking habits is neglible enough to be meaningless. masks prevent transmission when adopted at a community level. being in a crowd of 100 people is just as dangerous whether one or zero of them is wearing a mask. it is basically exactly like reusable shopping bags because whether one individual chooses to mask or not makes no difference whatsoever to the transmissibility of covid in whatever public spaces they're in
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chaosandorder46 · 8 days
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I'm using my kindle's notes thingy for the first time but im just writing 'GET THERAPY' every time Secunit; shows extreme disregard for its own life, has a trauma response so bad it redacts its own thoughts, or ties its worth to its usefulness
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andromeda3116 · 1 year
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all right fuck it let's talk redcloak
i will say it's been years since i read start of darkness, and i've since lost my copy of it, so i only sort of remember what happened in it, but i recall it establishing that redcloak is the king of the sunk-costs fallacy, and it really becomes clear with his brother.
he has to pull this off. he killed his own beloved brother for this, it has to be worth it. he has to make it be worth it.
and he has his moment of revelation at the battle for azure city, that he's been treating the hobgoblins as fodder -- the way that everyone else treats his goblins -- even though they're the same species. they're all goblins, tarred with the same brush.
and like... he's not really wrong. the goblins were fucked from the start, created to be nothing more than walking xp for adventurers, robbed of their chance to have their own lands or gods or homes. he is absolutely right to campaign for goblin equality. it's hard to blame him for taking every step necessary.
and then durkon meets with him.
and durkon negotiates, he argues pretty convincingly that following the plan, as-is, will destroy everyone, goblins included, and that -- while imperfect -- if they live and the dark one becomes a god on the same tier as thor, things can begin to improve for the goblins. it will take time, it will be a hard uphill battle, but they can make it happen. they can work this out.
and redcloak can't relent. he can't accept that. he has to make this all be worth it, and a generations-long war of attrition against speciesism to bring his people onto equal footing isn't good enough. and like. i get that. it's not the perfect solution he wants. it's not the glorious revolution where everything is magically better on the other side of it.
it's the exact same mindset of probably millions of online leftists right now: this "solution" you're offering, of clawing our way through incremental change to ultimately create a better world we will never see, as opposed to our "solution" of violent revolution now that puts our guy in charge who will somehow magically fix everything as soon as everyone realizes we were right all this time -- is unacceptable. redcloak is a bolshevik. he's a communist revolutionary, he's lenin. he's standing up for the oppressed, he's Fighting The Good Fight, he thinks the ends will justify the means, even if that means includes his own death, because it will mean that he died trying to make things better for his people.
he doesn't see that this "solution" is doomed to fail. if not because of flaws inherent to itself, because the world itself will crumble around him if he doesn't let go of this fantasy of a perfect ending.
and when he tries to kill durkon and casually asks, how many goblins have you killed? and durkon replies, carving redcloak entirely bare, straight to the core:
not as many as you.
redcloak is the arbiter of his own destruction. he's a walking sunk-costs fallacy. he had good intentions. he meant well. he isn't wrong, at the core. but he has to make this all be worth it. he has to justify the moment where he killed his own brother.
he's an incredibly compelling villain, magnificently well-written and deep, and it's like... he's beyond redemption, he proved that when he tried to kill durkon instead of taking his offer seriously. and that's a tragedy. because redcloak just wanted his people to be treated like people. but he hitched his wagon to xykon, and he kept spiraling down and further down, and now...
i honestly have no idea how redcloak's story ends. does he turn on xykon in the clutch and save his people at the bottom of things? does the dark one abandon him and force him to face the mirror, the fact that this hasn't been about his people for a long time? does he die screaming, cast into the rift or destroyed by the snarl? does --
i genuinely can't guess. and I don't know what the "correct" ending for him is. i do think the dark one is necessary to containing the snarl -- but what of what's inside the snarl? and what happened to laurin when she looked into it? and --
ugh, this story is so good, and redcloak is such a damn amazing villain. i admit that i'm a sucker for the sunk-costs fallacy villain, who started off with good intentions but kept going further and further down in the pursuit of their goals, until they no longer know just what they're fighting for anymore, except to make this all be worth it.
and redcloak is one of -- if not the -- best examples of that i've ever seen.
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librarycards · 1 year
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what sorts of things do you think can help people deal with their mental illness besides therapy/meds? i’m not saying i disagree with anti-psychiatry, and i have had bad experiences with psychiatrists/therapists for multiple reasons, but what kinds of things actually help? i’m on wait lists for free therapy and multiple of them have long way lists and hotlines don’t help me, i feel at a loss. and i kind of feel like being being this mentally ill would be a burden upon any friend/partner i could potentially have. i honestly don’t know what to do bc i haven’t improved in years
first, a clarification: i'm not anti-med, i am only anti-forced treatment. i think you'll find many, though not all, anti-psych (and adjacent) ppl with this view, which is often shoehorned in with broad anti-med shit both because of the dubious history of some antipsych figures and because of strawmanning by pro psych forces. but i digress.
there is no simple solution for crisis/ongoing suffering, especially because the actual biggest help to all of us would be the abolition of white supremacy / ableism / carceral neoliberal capitalism / settler colonialism / cisheteropatriarchy. absent this, we're left trying to fill in the gaps, collectively, as best we can, while always acknowledging that we are putting interpersonal band-aids on systemic harms.
with all that being said, i think the best place to start would be to take stock of what and who you have as resources: are there any friends you feel comfortable sitting beside or watching a movie with, even if you don't feel ready or comfortable sharing "deeper" stuff with them? do you have internet people, or a place where you can shout into the void (like tumblr)? is there a public space you can go to, like a park, where you can at least get out of the house for a little while and be alone among others?
i personally take medication, though i'm tapering one of the last ones i'm on, and chose to discontinue the myriad pills i was prescribed as an involuntary psych inpatient. this isn't because meds are inherently evil, but only because i didn't like who i was when i was on them, nor could i tolerate the conditions under which they were forced on me. absent these meds, i have found other ways to move through my own brainstuff: occasionally weed (e.g. right now), more often forcing myself to sit next to other people who i know will make sure i don't do anything shitty to myself (even if we're not in active conversation). i have a bunch of youtube videos, books, audiobooks, podcasts, etc. on deck.
i have throughout the last few years cultivated an online and in-person community in which i'm not "burdening" / "dumping" my shit onto one or even a couple individuals all the time. you're right that the full extent of what we experience is definitely too much for one other interlocutor to take - we're designed to live in community, not in isolated couples. it's also true that, while occasionally and contingently helpful, a professional counselor or therapist can be inaccessible, abusive/violent, etc. etc.
while you're waiting to experiment with the free therapy you mentioned, it might be a good idea to reach out to people you do trust to have a frank, meta-conversation about your respective relational needs. this can feel weird at first, but i autistically love it, and it's also common in a lot of kink/bdsm communities (of which there's plenty of ND overlap haha). rules can be freeing. you don't have to worry about violating unspoken boundaries when you've spoken them, and established nonjudgemental ways of enforcing them and holding each other accountable when you haven't. in the past, i've established these both verbally and in google docs, etc. i've also established it - and found it especially helpful - in situations where myself and the other person(s) experience different axes of privilege and marginalization. but regardless, it's a great way of self-designing the boundaries that in many cases we expect therapy to do for us - except, without the carceral impulse endemic to the psych practice.
i also think it's okay to acknowledge that you might be a burden sometimes, and that the people who love you will carry you. they know you'll do the same for them. part of being in relation to others is sometimes receiving more than we give - it's part of being alive, being vulnerable. let yourself be cared for, let yourself be heavy. think about how good it feels to fall into bed at the end of the day. rest is the first step to feeling a little better.
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thesilverlady · 8 months
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Do you think Alicent was whitewashed in the show?
oh absolutely. And similiarly to Rhaenyra she gets a completely new personality to the point she's no longer anything like her canon self
book Alicent was an ambitious young woman who had centered herself around the heir of the Iron Throne while taking care of a dying old king. Those are manipulative, calculating moves.
I think Viserys genuinely loved her (more than Aemma in my opinion) and she very much enjoyed the power her and her family would get from this marriage.
Book Alicent is a lot more unsympathetic, but she's strong-willed, intelligent, and is an active participant in the events around her. The people who narrow her down to "evil step mother trope" clearly do not understand grrm's writing. Her actions mimicked Tudors politics and she was a powerful figure in the story despite not being a main character.
Meanwhile, show Alicent is nothing like her book counterpart. The story we got wasn't an "origin" for her background; her age was changed, her personality was changed, her goals were changed, her dynamics with her children/stepdaughter/husband/father were changed.
The only thing book and show Alicent have in common is the name
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I know Geto is like a big sore spote in the whole fandom and i might be a bit insane, but i do love his story specifically because i dont think there is a way to fix it
We are being shown that well, he got really depressed and went into self isolation. In most cases, the best course of action would be to remove him from distress and have time to heal. The issue is that Geto couldnt just leave — he believes he needs to kill curses, and to become stronger he needs to eat them which distresses him further, and if he leaves people will die, and he cant ignore that just to keep himself sane. For a man like him if he head a specific goal to become strong for, i dont think the eating process would have been such a big issue, but we have to have a big distinction that jujutsu sorcerer is, at the end of the day, a profession. You’re not a chosen superhero to save the world. Those growing up in clans may have a worse childhood, but growing up with understanding that yes curses exist its part of nature does make it easier to bear. Which is one of reason why Gojo, even while having all the trauma, didnt have such gripes with reasons or goals — this is a life he was born into.
Thinking of sorcery as more than a job makes you perceive yourself as more of a hero, and heroes are good and just and get recognition. Non sorcerers dont know about them. Geto fell into a trap of doing something for others and despairing. Its easier not to think about that shit when you’re naturally good at it, and you have fun — which is why Amanai situation and Gojo becoming stronger was so bad. Now he went on missions alone, which meant no company to distract him, and now it was no longer all fun shits and giggles, its a job full of tragedies. Considering Gojo was targeted since birth, we can assume he killed people before Toji, death is, unfortunately, familiar to him. Not for Geto — not seeing someone you care about die right before you, and certainly not being that close to death himself. He’s not longer the best at it, and its no longer fun, and he gets no recognition. Tobe precise, those are not bad thinks to want — we all want them. But if you dont get them here he would have been better to ya know. Find another job probably
Like the worst part about this whole thing is that some shit like that would have happened eventually one way or another, they’re not invincible. Childhood would eventually end, and in a way Geto spiraling is inevitable. The system is inherently flawed, and the issue they deal with is cruel. Some jobs are much more dangerous and have a detrimental effect on your mental health — its just that no one thought to give jujustu sorcerers some help, which is another problem. Adding the fact that he’s neither a saviour being thanked by everyone, or a strongest, yeah, he can’t figure out how to do this shit.
In AUs, I do think there are ways he could have handled it. Like if Gojo wasn’tin school, maybe he took his whole education with the clan? Or my au where he’s in a prison realm for centuries? Like yeah, sure, if Geto was the strongest, the only person here, i do think he would have probably felt invaluable. Youre great for your profession, you were born for it, why would you leave?
This may be projecting, but i do think his way of thinking about it is inherently flawed, a very slippery slope. People need a goal, a meaning, but looking for it outward is a sure way to get yourself into a slump, I went through this shit in a nasty manner when everything i did revolved around other people. Basing your decisions on what others would think is an easy way to pretend like its not your responsibility. This is why Gojo tells Megumi to be selfish and this is why during the entrance exams Yaga says that others wont appreciate your actions and you cant base your motivations off others.
Thats the ultimate tragedy, the fact that thinking like Geto did is ridiculously easy. You go into uni on the same course as your friend just to be with them and when something goes wrong your first thought would be that you did that for them, even thought its your life choices and decision. Yeah.
I have no conclusions for you, just some ramblings. I like my Geto mean and fucked up and insecure, makes him so real and relatable as a person.
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I’ve been thinking about how the Boobs saved the Crick unintentionally via Cooter in Crown of Dreams because they’re the ones who made him the Berry Boy and without that MawMaw would have died when he was sent to kill her but I’d forgotten to consider the fact that in giving Cooter a better build via leveling him up by making him participate in the tarrasque fight, they guaranteed that he would be able to survive resisting Eloise’s geas and now I’m emotional about Cooter again.
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saotome-michi · 7 months
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god i need men to use their brains
just watched some youtube channel talking about OPLA and they were very positive about it, but one of the comments that irked me was when they were talking about Kuina and her speech about how she can beat Zoro now, but won't be able to after he goes through puberty, one of them was like, 'Wow the feminists must be going crazy now, their whole world view has shattered... like it doesn't diminish her as a character, it's just true that's how it is"
BUT LIKE??? Zoro argues against her??? He's like "don't say that!! You're my rival, we'll train together and compete to become the strongest swordsman in the world!!" <- THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TAKE AWAY FROM IT JFC. THAT SHE'S WRONG AND BEING A WOMAN ISN'T GOING TO LIMIT HER
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ghaik · 9 months
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i heard someone mention that if you play the dark urge and you try to resist, the game will give harder and harder checks against you that you have to pass in order to keep resisting
and like. i think that’s suuuuuch a cool idea but more than anything i hope that if you go mean from the outset there are moments where you don’t GET the chance to resist the urge as compared to a resist playthru
i think if you really indulge and give in to every urge it should lock u into some sort of route after a certain point where the option to resist is just replaced with a different, awful alternative i.e. hacking off a leg instead of an arm
it would probably make a lot of people really mad but iiiiiii would love it. theres not a lot of narrative weight to “youve been literally awful for all of act 1 and 2 buuut we’re still giving u the chance to resist ur urges. if you want” bc then its like. what youve done didnt matter.  and then it’s no longer a real narrative bc the game is giving in to the player’s desires instead of the character’s desires
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raisinushigher · 3 months
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because…………… joan being the one pining after abe in s1 but that being flipped around in s2 and that leading to parallel gandhi pining after abe in s1 and that being flipped around to abe missing gandhi…………
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itstimeforstarwars · 6 months
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I love when managers are like "what the fuck are you doing here" when I come to work sick or injured like my dude you are the one who told me I was going to get into trouble if I missed another fucking day of work.
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duskholland · 1 year
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i’m the jokey baby
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