#not without its difficulties

[heroesriseandfall]

I already knew the new 52 batfam timeline sucks but having them side by side in my timeline spreadsheets really hones it in. They really tried to fit ALL of the Robins (minus Steph) into a time span that is barely longer than how long just Tim was Robin in-universe before Flashpoint.

#I do not like it <3 post crisis timeline is more satisfying and functional on so many levels even when it’s not without its difficulties #one of the few benefits of actually paying attention to the N52 timeline is so I can properly create an extension of post crisis timeline #i had a few notes from what I remembered reading in the past but I haven’t done an intentional chronological read thru of the era before now #dc continuity #batfam #heroesriseandfall #adventures in the new 52 #comics reading adventures

[brittlebutch]

finally found a place to read With the Light online and i'm thrilled; if you haven't read this manga i do Legitimately recommend it

#N posts stuff #like don't get it wrong it Is Not a series about being autistic it Is a series about raising an autistic kid #but also don't be put off by that because it's legitimately a series that I feel Loves autistic people with its whole being #it's kind of a teaching manga so it showcases a lot of different opinions/characters/conflicts/etc. but the Framing is very consistent #in that the manga is Extremely of the opinion that autistic people are People who deserve to be Valued and Accepted As They Are #the onus for change is never put on autistic individuals the framing is basically Universal in the 'the World needs to change #to be more accepting' -- it's a very Social Model depiction of autism that ALSO never veers too far into the #'autism isn't even Really a disability' fallacy; it's very much a 'A lot of autistic people will need constant support in a variety of ways #throughout their lives but that isn't the roadblock preventing them from having their own lives; ableism in society is the roadblock' #the first two chapters are the hardest to get through bc they take place before Sachiko has any real understanding of autism and #so she's isolated and stressed out and the ignorance makes it difficult for her to care for Hikaru properly (there's also a lot of #other characters Blaming her for what's going on which goes unchallenged at this point though that changes later); but after she #understands what autism is she's Firmly in Hikaru's corner for the rest of the series - you can skip right to ch 3 without a problem #if you're not interested in reading about that initial conflict #there's still a Lot of conflict ofc but by then the chapters have some of my favorite moments so i don't want to advocate skipping #them; like Hikaru's daycare teacher explaining how Hikaru's difficulty speaking is the same as other kids' troubles with #things like jump-roping/etc.; and then a mother who has An Issue with Hikaru's presence in her daughter's class realizing the #depth of the problematic opinion bc Her mother (who had a stroke) faces similar ableism from her peers #i'm cutting this post off b4 the tags get Too long but if you're curious but still hesitant man. send me an ask and i will Happily #write an insanely long essay about how much i love this series; i have all the books i'm not excited about the online availability #for Me i'm excited bc i've been wanting to rec this manga for like almost a full decade and i can finally give you a link instead of #saying 'well. you can find used copies sometimes' lol

[puppyeared]

who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

#id have to be waterboarded before i can talk abt how i see a lot of my adhd and personality in mitsumi iwakura let alone post it #idk how to talk abt this without feeling like im talking over or invalidating ppls experiences relating with a character #someone was talking abt how ppl tie laios' autism to special interest and social difficulties but not much else which kinda flattens it #and then went into a respectful in depth analysis of other autistic behaviour that laios exhibits and it wasnt phrased meanly #its fascinating and important to me to hear someone explain a little bit abt traits that they recognized and often go overlooked #because it does help me learn more about it. but i think thats also where hesitancy kicks in when it comes to depicting it accurately #like i have adhd and some of my adhd symptoms overlap with autism (time blindness and pattern seeking behaviour) but that only means #it feels familiar to me even without having autism. on top of that traits arent always cleanly determined as being /caused/ by #a disorder. to understand my environment i compare it to something unrelated but similar to make it more familiar and for the longest time #i thought that was a personality thing and not an information processing thing since i loved playing pretend in my head as a kid #so if you make a character who experiences that hoping to reach people that also experience that and tell them its not weird or #smth youre making up like. thats the goal. ppl who dont get it arent expected to it just means it doesnt cater to them but it helps them #become familiar to it yk? since i dont have autism myself i dont feel confident i can depict it properly or explain it in my own words #but that doesnt mean im trying to dismiss it or try and cut it out completely.. ill just leave the floor open to someone who /can/ #a lot of issues around fanon depictions are when smth is baselessly popularized or a characters personality and behavior is flattened #especially to fit them into a trending meme. its harmless and its supposed to be for fun but it gets tricky when you drag things that #need to be carefully explained beforehand or else it gets lost in translation. like that tweet abt 'hyperfixating' on cooking pasta #once it becomes popular language usually the original meaning is left out for the sake of simplifying it for everyone that when it #circles back theres a sort of hesitancy like. am i using it the way it was intended or am i unknowingly using the popularized version of it #actually thats probably why i felt wrongfooted during diagnosis bc it felt like i was misusing the words i heard to describe what i felt #i /know/ i see a lot of myself in mitsumi because our minds are always somewhere else and we tend to put good faith first and for me #that personal connection is enough. but idk it feels like its always gonna have to be 'palatable' first before i can talk abt it openly #mad respect to writers and creators who stick to their story even if theres the looming fear of ppl misinterpreting it and letting them #have it.. its been almost 2 weeks and i am so close to deleting that m3 dunmeshi drawing bc ppl keep saying chilchuck wouldnt have 200 HP #IT LITERALLY SAYS I MADE IT WHILE WATCHING EP 1. I USED EARTHBOUND LOGIC AND I WASNT EVEN TAKING IT SERIOUSLY CHILL #yapping

[verflares]

i wanna transplant a lot of how ive written botw/totk link into my og one i think..... mostly just because writing for him last year made me realise how much i enjoy seeing how far you can go with using minimal dialogue + actions and expressions over words to convey thoughts and feelings, both from that pov and from others

#from links pov i also think its fun to give him both this rich and simple inner world and contrast that with his 'dialogue' #eg link understands why he acts the way he does but obviously other characters esp those who dont know him well #will have difficulty parsing his actions. as someone who is also selectively mute and understands Myself but not others #i Get Him. its not perfect writing but any means but its fun to see how far u can go without sacrificing straight up dialogue. idk #also the hound/wolf metaphors. where would i be without you. that goes without saying #anyways everything i have rn is basically jsut 'this would be cool' and not much else LOL but isnt that what its all about really... #personal.txt

[normally-blue]

Character lineup for my post-apocalyptic climbing zine !!

#character design #character art #climbing #bouldering #oc art #my ocs #actually im coming back with more tags #just feeling very insane about climbing as a community building sport #solving problems together and working through difficulties you didn't think you could overcome #turning something as bleak and intimidating as a fuckin stone wall into a playground or personal challenge #idk man!!! idk!! i know its literally just hauling urself up rocks #but on the metaphorical side it's about overcoming obstacles and breaking problems down into smaller pieces #and none of this would be possible without community and shared knowledge #put all this into a post-apocalyptic setting and im frothing at the mouth #anyway

[everytingbagl]

yes im mentally ill yes i have an IS obsession. and what about it!!

#everyone say good job beiguo 🔫 #braving nature 10 baybee‼️‼️ #arknights #bagel babble #long tips/opinions in the tags: #reed alter is my number one starter pick bc she heals and does good damage!! if u need a friend support for her feel free to dm #i bring the medic/sniper squad for her bc theres a chance she’ll b auto promoted altho this run i didnt get lucky w that #but also good heals are very important in is4 #much more than in is3 i think #elemental not so important but just pure healing #i think at least one good fast redeploy is necessary esp for clearing tiles on the boss stage #texalter stun also saved my ass frequently in challenge stages #eyja is almost a must imo #aoe is superr important and it helps to have her early on but u can survive without her for a bit if u have reed e2 #lava is a good budget pick for the early game #i have beaten the normal ending w caster/specialist squad but it was only braving nature 1 so idk if it holds up for higher difficulties #but im sure its viable #i did also beat braving nature 3 with no casters so #blockers r also important btw bc they have a few stages with a shit ton of civvies that need identification #also orchids slow saved my ass. ok thats all i got i think #good luck gamers hope this helps #i think getting here took me like 3-4 days. i really do have obsession

[wonder-worker]

people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

#yes Elizabeth was without a doubt considered too low-born to be queen #no she was not a commoner and nobody actually called her that during her life (so I'm not sure why people are claiming that they did?) #Elizabeth's social status was not a problem in itself; it was a problem in the context of queenship and marrying into royalty #Context is important in this and for literally everything else when it comes to analyzing history. Any discussion is worthless without it. #obviously pop culture-esque articles claiming that she was 'a commoner who captured the king's heart' are wrong; she wasn't #But emphasizing that ACTUALLY she was part of the gentry with a well-born mother and just leaving it at that as some sort of “GOTCHA!” #is equally if not more irresponsible and entirely irrelevant to discussions of the actual time period we're studying. #Elizabeth *was* considered unworthy and unacceptable as queen precisely because of her lower social status #her father and brother had literally been derided as social-climbers by Salisbury Warwick and Edward himself just a few years earlier #the Woodvilles' marriage prospects clearly reflected their status (and 'place') in society: EW herself had first married a knight and all #siblings married within the gentry to people of a similar status. compare that to the prestigious marriages arranged after EW became queen #Elizabeth having a lower social status was not 'created' by propaganda against her; it fueled and shaped propaganda against her #that's a huge huge difference; it's irresponsible and silly to conflate the two as I've seen a recent tumblr post cavalierly do #like I said she was considered too low-born to be queen long before any of the propaganda Warwick Clarence or Richard put out against her #and the fact that Elizabeth was targeted on the basis of her social status was in itself novel and unprecedented #no queen before her was ever targeted in such a manner; Clearly Elizabeth was considered notably 'different' in that regard #(and was quite literally framed as the enemy and destroyer of 'the old royal blood of this realm' and all its actual 'inheritors' like..) #ngl this sort of discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth #because it's not like England and France (et all) are at war or consider each other mortal enemies in the 21st century #both are in fact western european imperialistic nations who've been nothing but a blight to the rest of the world including my own country #yet academic historians clearly have no problem contextualizing the xenophobia that medieval foreign queens faced as products of their time #and sympathizing with them accordingly (Eleanor of Provence; Joan of Navarre; Margaret of Anjou; etc)(at least by their own historians) #Nor were foreign queens the “worst” targets of xenophobia: that was their attendants or in times of war commoners or soldiers #who actually had to bear the brunt of English aggression #queens were ultimately protected and guaranteed at least a veneer of dignity and respect because of their royal status #yet once again historians and people have no problem contextualizing and understanding their difficulties regardless of all this #so what is the problem with contextualizing the classism *Elizabeth* faced and understanding *her* difficulties? #why is the prejudice against her constantly diminished & downplayed? (Ive never even seen any historian directly refer to it as 'classism') #after all it was *Elizabeth* who was more vulnerable than any queen before her due to her lack of powerful foreign or national support #and Elizabeth who faced a form of propaganda distinctly unprecedented for queens. it SHOULD be emphasized more.

[autoexsanguine]

ever just revisit a soundtrack from something you havent played in over a decade and go "oh right, this shit slaps SO hard."

#ITS A BATTLE FOR FREEDOM. IT IS A BATTLE AGAINST THE DARK! #sega make a game without at LEAST one song we'll belt in the shower challenge difficulty impossible

[mothmvn]

maybe i really actually "needed" testosterone, because for the first time in my exercising efforts, i'm discovering the mundane joys of joint stability

#my shoulders dont dislocate during reps anymore ! ! ! ! #it didnt register as a problem before because it was my natural range of motion it was just a very weak motion in range #my hips were ok (still dislocatable) from natural walking exercise but my shoulders were flimsy sticks rattling around their sockets #and it didnt even enter my worldview that that wasn't normal or an expected difficulty to overcome as part of exercise #NOW im finally doing some reps without shoulders popping out of sockets and its so much easier than having to re-socket the joint #while in motion in a pushup of your body weight #GHHAHHGHhh #personal #obviously someone could fix this without going on HRT but HRT was needed for me to have a will to live and motivation to exercise #the accelerated muscle gain though is HUGE for making my joints work well right now

[tasukete-eirin]

learning that a game my friend and i played during early access is getting its full release next month is a little surreal

#i still haven't touched it since he died. im no good at the combat #i guess i could play solo and just turn the combat difficulty waaaaaaaaaay down. but man #it feels weird to play it without him. we were playing it together after all :( #it just feels wrong to touch the game without him there to play with me... #i can't believe its been like... what. 5? months already... #sigh. never kill yourself guys. its not worth it. there's so many good things out there that you deserve to see and to experience #things get better even if they feel like they won't. don't just become a memory for some people okay? i promise it's not worth it.

[magnuficentwo]

going from Doctor Ned's zombie island, a dlc that was so easy and repetitive beat it in a little over a day, to General Knoxx's secret armory was one of the biggest difficulty whiplashes I've ever experienced

#You can tell they didn't really like. know how to balance out difficulty with differing gameplay styles. because this one. #this one is SO annoying to play through with a sniper build 😭 girl help me #like every enemy somehow survives several criticals despite my very careful planning with crits and specific guns #because they're either just too fast or too tanky. so It's just like dude what do I even do there right #and the cars. dude. fuck these cars 😭😭😭😭😭 You can't even drive to your objective normally without getting 3 different lancers #DIRECTLY on your ass #I can still play it fine its not like I only have One Gun Ever don't get me wrong but what the hell #not putting this in the main tag im just here to complain #magoriginals #txt #magaming #she hunt my vault til im bordering land

[masonsystem]

all these totk posts reminds me of when i said gloom hands were easy to beat and some rando on here started speaking to me so rudely like "Fuck You bla bla bla" like lmfao 😭

#if u have enough bombs + a multi-arrow bow theyre so easy! #honestly difficulty in b0tw/t0tk was smth i thought a lot abt and like its a reason im very wary w this direction of open world game #bc the difficulty in these games are so superficial! #like its tailored towards different skill levels so even my sis who sucks at combat can do a lot without being good at it #but moving from that cuz like u still want to challenge more skilled players right? #then difficulty is built around limitations #less hearts weak weapons etc #gloom was janky but was a step in that direction #and weapons tht are stronger with one hearts are good too #but when u its an open world game where you can grind and farm for better things #hence why i do hyrule castle first in both games to get the best weapons early on #then its like.... well the challenge and fun disappears relatively quickly 😕 #so if theyre thinking properly i hope the z3lda team considers that if this is the direction they choose to move the 3d game towards #apply... limitations.... and scale the enemies appropriately

[little-soldiers]

brother

#LAUGHING SO HARD #ITS NOT A QUACKITY EVENT WITHOUT TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES!

[aria0fgold]

Acting like a god figuring out how to human and slipping up from time to time by activating my god powers to make the world safe to travel with my pet parrot.

#aria rants #im playing minecraft (unofficial ver cuz im too broke to actually buy the thing. whys it so expensive) #i finally figured out how to get mods working on it without relying on modpacks cuz mygod... #those modpacks are so heavy on the pc that not even a minute later the fans gonna start wheezing #whenever i play minecraft i put cheats on but try my best to play survival normally without it #but i fail each time (the moment i pull out the gamerule keepinventory true is the moment i fail) #and at this point i just start treating my character as some god trying to act like a human and ultimately failing at it #by occasionally going creative mode and switching the difficulty to peaceful when there are too many mobs #on this new modded world. i found a parrot early on (called her serisia) and now its like #a journey of a god failing human 101 to keep a parrot safe and sound

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Just ate the most amazing tangerine I've had in A LONG TIME

#but as i was eating it...the entire experience reminded me of myself in a strange way #i chose it because it looked amazing - the skin was a vibrant orange i had never seen before #but as i tried to peel it i had massive difficulty #i wondered if maybe it wasn't actually ripe yet despite how wonderful it looked on the skin and maybe it would be bitter or dry to eat #then it sprayed me as i was trying to peel it and i tasted it #it tasted nice #finally i got enough pieces exposed to take and eat #and as i bit into it - it was everything i had hoped: #a perfect balance between sweet and sour without being at all bitter #i could not eat it politely due to its firmness and juice ran down my hands and sprayed onto my face and hair #but it was worth it #and it made me think: #hey. i look great but i have an incredibly tough exterior too #but when you take the time to get to know me — you realise i can be very sweet and very sour at times depending on my life #and maybe i am a mess too #but all put together...i am still wonderful. and that i am worth the effort too. #roacc #thoughts of a cruel mistress

[waterbearable]

a recap of dear wink's first bit of faerun adventuring:

-found and recruited shadowheart, gale, astarion, laezel, wyll, and karlach

-found withers (after. Getting silenced so many fucking times by a bunch of obnoxious skeletons)

-almost freed a goblin but realized the hassle was not worth the reward

-keeps detecting thoughts on anybody they aren't personally acquainted with

-took a tadpole out from another dead true soul

-learned: lae'zel is kind of a nerd, shadowheart is scared of wolves, wyll is in a bad contract, and that gale needs to eat magic or he'll die

-killed owlbear mom :(

-brought scratch to camp

-took 2 levels in wild magic sorc and 1 in bard

#ari plays bg3 #i will tag spoilers when i get closer to the end of act 1/into the goblin camp #bc thats past most of what ive seen content wise lmao #and DELIGHTFULLY so far its been going on medium graphics not insanely overheating (cooling pad coming to assist) #and its not been stuttery from what i can tell. combat and exploration is working fine #tbh the graphics are still good theyre not at the full super crisp of some other folks but it works!!!! #having a GOOD FUCKIN TIME! wink is a little shit! #im a lil scared bc i feel like theres gonna be a lot of time before i hit lvl 4 and like. Has to be a big difficulty spike #GOD im so delighted. obvs i know act 2 and 3 are p extensive but i thought my laptop wouldnt #wouldnt get me thru char creation without freezing. #but its running a ok so far. just. BALDURS GATE