#they're fine i'm sure

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts... #disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!! #people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :(((' #well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic... #'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve' #okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing? #a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine... #you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick. #how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

[knifearo]

ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story

#you know. the one with the pendulum #'hey. why are you as an allo person shipping this aspec character like this' #'oh aspec people can still date/have sex!' #'yeah. now can you answer the question that i actually asked you' #like goddamn just say you don't care they're aspec and you want to fulfill a sexual/romantic fantasy with them. that's Fine #it like. sucks. for sure. lotta aspec people will be unhappy with you. but everyone is entitled to their own wants and experiences. #but i'd prefer you just be honest with it rather than using our community's conversation points as retroactive justification #and ONCE AGAIN. you guys are real fucking cavalier with this shit and it shows a real fundamental lack of respect for aspecs #when most of you would NEVER ship a canonically gay character with the 'other' gender. cause again. it would suck. #you can do it. nobody's Stopping you. but it would suck. #and we understand that putting a queer character in situations that erase that queerness is shitty! until it comes to aspec characters! #and whoa... there it is again... people don't consider aspec identities to be queer... crazy how it always comes back to that #anyway. you all know what i'm talking about. have seen many posts about this lately #it is [ long sigh ] unfortunately a very hot button issue with the advent lately of alastor hazbinhotel #which. again. god i wish there were other canon aspec characters to be having this conversation about. #but we'll have to do our best with what we have #aromantic #aromanticism #arospec #aroace #talking #aspec #asexual #asexuality

[booasaur]

Vigil - 2x06

#vigiledit #bbc vigil #amy silva #kirsten longacre #suranne jones #rose leslie #vigil spoilers #vigil 2x06 #amy x kirsten #femslash related stuff #okay so I hadn't been feeling well saturday night so when the eps dropped I literally just watched the last scene on iplayer #just to make sure nobody freaking died #and it was amy saying I'm coming home on the phone #and given the ''come home''/''I can't'' moment in the trailer I thought amy was legit gonna stay in wudyan these whole last 3 eps #which I didn't love the idea of I truly wanted an amy/kirsten reunion but I was like oh maybe rose leslie's pregnancy interfered #as long as they're both alive and we got that lovely scene in ep 2 it's fine #so this was all a COMPLETE surprise even more than usual #I made it a twist to my own self #and then it was like the perfect hurt/comfort scene you'd want for an action detective couple like this! #amy so focused on the job and then dropping everything to rush to kirsten's side #sitting there all night and that classic waking up in the chair next to the hospital bed scene #and they even had their cake and ate it too by having amy *choose* kirsten over the job #only for kirsten to then push her back to it #and going from this soppy soft teary version of amy to a pissed off black suit badass #because they'd hurt her girl #such a good couple to build a series like this around #lol amy really didn't want to leave! #she's just sitting and gazing at kirsten #man those years ago kirsten would never have imagined getting to see amy like this and meaning so much to her

[ashwii]

ALRIGHT I FINALIZED THEIR DESIGNS (until I change them again lmao) AMD NOW I HAVE A LEO!!

#'they're too rise-y' I can already head #im tryin yall I'm REALLY tryin to make em more original 😩😭 #april and casey feel all my own but OOF these boys are SO so hard to make just ;;; mine djsjsjq #it's fine im sure no one will care KRDBSBSHEJ IT'S FINE #tmnt #tmnt au #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt leo #tmnt donnie #tmnt raph #tmnt mikey #ashart #tmnt:sn

[canisalbus]

Does machete have to hide his relationship with Vasco? Since he's a cardinal and all. That's gotta be tough considering how hard of a life he's had.

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#I don't think he has a choice #luckily they're both quite good at keeping secrets #I'm not entirely sure how many other people know for certain #as you may remember Vasco was forced into a lavender marriage in his early 20's to cover up his homosexuality #his wife knows he's gay and is fine with him having extramarital partner(s) #their relationship is close but purely platonic #she probably doesn't know the identities of Vasco's dates or meet them but she knows they're there #I think Machete's longtime personal assistant his closest right hand man might find out sooner or later #maybe he helps to facilitate things #but that might be it #if a word of their relationship got out it would be devastating for both #of course there's always rumors and gossip but it's the same for literally every public figure so people rarely take that seriously #answered #anonymous #Vasco #Machete #Vaschete lore

[sysig]

It’ll all go fine if you’d just don’t worry about it, probably (Patreon)

#Doodles #Handplates #UT #Fellplates #Gaster #Toriel #And technically Sans and Papyrus are offscreen in that last one but they're there! #Starting with a dress because Gaster always needs some pretty clothes! #His cute little angel wings expanded into a shawl :D With a feather-themed dress as well #I was thinking he'd look good in a bleeding-heart pigeon getup - just a little on the nose symbolism hehe - but it'd be very stark as well #But I mean Monsters don't bleed it's fine probably it's just a pop of bright red! Doesn't mean anything! #Thinking about the symbolism of his decorative wings normal-like as well...and of Gerson talking about the Angel of Death.....hmmmm #I'm sure it's nothing haha :) #Thinking again about Toriel taking issue with Gaster's new hole punches but not necessarily of her knowing what they mean #He has to be careful how much he shares of his progress! If she knew what might she make of him? Of them? #Two new little things to be subjugated? Or worse? All the more reason to keep them secret #I like both so much but hmmm he also wouldn't be held as accountable if he kept them secret #It's interesting as well - Gaster had a lot of growing pains with his experiments initially - I wonder how much Fell!Gaster struggled? #He always seems so placid and put together but surely Something breaks him - hard to avoid where and how he is now #Maybe not forever but just for a moment! A moment of weakness is all it takes after all ♪ #All the more reason to have safeguards in place! #Like teaching the boys how to heal! :0 Fellplates!Gaster would be able to heal wouldn't he? But nobody else could haha #Would the boys be able to from the beginning? Or do Fell Monsters have to develop it? :0 Through inaction or through intention? Hm ♪ #It'd be nice proof of concept if they could heal :) No time like the present!

[aquacomet]

Attended another whiteboard hosted by @pillowspace and did some Celestial Sundown AU doodles and a lil Halloween-dressed sea slug! (I wonder if Sunna would wear a scarf if Meno made one as a gift.)

So about that Meno time loop AU idea-

#aquadoodles #whiteboard doodles #fnaf #fnaf au #celestial sundown au #fnaf sea slug au #I have no idea if Sunna or Meno would take on little hobbies like knitting or the sort like Moon does #I had to draw the sketchy Sunna after sketching out that first one #so what if Meno retains the rings from the first loop #I'm sure they're fine maybe #(hope it's ok I doodled something up for this little au idea Pillow)

[lucalicatteart]

A new sculpture! Finally... I feel like I never sculpt anymore since I'm always sick or have some 500 other things going on or projects to finish, but I'm trying to schedule time to do it more often this year hopefully..! Just a generic fantasy creature as usual, but did try making the eyes a little more sparkly this time.. hrmm..

#sculpture #fantasy art #fantasy creature #art #elf #lol what are the tags I should use... I still never know.. EVIL social media.. hate the idea of tagging anything ever anyway. but alas.. #I also would ideally like to start selling them again and open up custom commmissions and stuff again once I can hopefully get paypal #stuff sorted out. and find like.. a good way to do things.. etc.. I did still want to sell them through auction instead of agonizing #over setting prices being afraid they're either too high or too low. So being able to just be like. Here. this is $50. or more. or less. #negotiate. the worth is whatever you feel like it is so i personally dont have to make that decision. etc. lol... But etsy doesn't let you #do auctions or like pay what you want type stuff so.. then I was thinking ebay? but idk.. ANYWAY.. I want to set things #up so I can sell stuff again hopefully. I still haven't fully recovered from the costs of when I had to take my cat to the vet and put #them down last year and etc. So it'd be good to sell a few things. perhaps.. maychance... perhamble... so on and so forthe... ANYWAY #I was going for whiter more milky sort of hair that blends in closely with the skintone but after the paint dried it seems more yellowy kin #of. which is fine. But just not exacltly like my mind vision lol.. #Also it's like... wow... someone with face spots and elf ears and a half open mouth with a gap tooth and wavy hair and kind of downturned #eyes... revolutionary... never been seen before... every sculpture I have ever made surely doesnt look licherally exactly like this... LOL #but maybe it's just a style. so what. People have their motifs lol.. Im just getting back into sculpting. I shall sameface in peace. huzzah #Just like the only thing I ever carve out of avocado pits anymore is eyes. Because that's just whats fun to do. I'm going to accumulate lik #25 similar avocado eyes and have nothing to do with them. I was thinking of stringing some together into a necklace of eyes or something li #like that but.. hrmm... ANYWAY.. Love to do the same things repetitively. :3c

[dandylorian]

i do not know where i saw the take that acofaf character choices were 2/3 poignant parallels for queer experience and 1/3 hot mess bird drama as a treat -- but i didn’t need confirmation from chirp that she was in love with a woman (not forgetting squak and theodore in EP TWO) to know that the lords of the wing have had equally queer stories from the start. they are trying to please a disapproving patriarch. they are searching for marital matches that will not benefit them individually. they are notorious for being messy, promiscuous and shit-stirring. they are to jumping through hoops to stay true to themselves behind closed doors. they are hiding big secrets. up to now they were even keeping things from each other. and they are balancing all that with tireless maneuvering that results in a mature, hospitable reputation. idk that sounds outrageously -- and loudly -- queer to me.

anyway there are layers and layers upon closets in the vastness of the queer experience. not all those stories are about coming out.

sometimes they’re about arriving fashionably late on an ostrich-chariot pulled by doves.

#and you thought a show about fairies was only fractionally gay #these stories aren't even parallels they're actual gay fey #a court of fey and flowers #acofaf spoilers #acofaf #dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #idk i'm just shouting into the void #we can't expect everyone to be out of the closet in the same way that we can't expect everyone to be in the closet #for a bunch of queers we sure do love to pigeonhole ourselves #omg a bird reference #there's no correct way to be queer #that's the whole point #maybe this won't make sense later but that's fine and also gay of me

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

For everyone who wishes they spent more time doing Events and Activities with their friends - planning is a Skill!

Knowing where to learn about potential activities and events, being the person to reach out to invite others, being the one to ask the "when" and "where" questions, reminding people about it: they are all skills!

If you, reading this, are the person who often does this legwork: your actions are appreciated. These skills are less commonly practiced than you think and it can be a fantastic skill to have in your pocket. It can be frustrating trying to step back from planning, or tiring to be the only person in your circle practiced at it. I know. Take my hand. We'll get through this together, maybe Saturday afternoon, for coffee?

If you, reading this, are never the person to suggest or arrange plans: it's a skill, which means that it's something you can get better at. Anxiety can be a bitch, but your friends aren't gonna be as mean as your brain already is.

Give it a shot. Look up a cafe you haven't tried, or search your local paper for events. You can't go wrong with "I was thinking of going, would you want to come with?". Ask when. Ask where. I believe in you.

#I'm watching a group chat full of my coworkers who never plan try to arrange something without my help #they're all responding passively nobody's offering a day or time or place to meet #just a lot of 'sure sounds fun any day is fine alright' #babes somebody offer something for people to respond to it doesnt have to be perfect it just has to be an offer #i will not save them they have to learn somehoe #my posts

[elitadream]

You know that feeling when you're distinctly unwell but not quite sick? 🥲 Sore limbs, tired body, mild nausea, aching head, preoccupied mind, loud thoughts...

And here I hoped this week's sunny weather would help me feel better. 😞 If you guys have some fun or light observations and ideas that you want to share with me, please do feel free to send them my way, as I'm sure it would greatly help lift my spirits. 🙏🍀

#I'm not sure what happened #I was doing fine and then... suddenly wasn't. #I've been kinda stuck in limbo over the past two days #Wanting to sleep and yet hardly feeling tired at all #Some irl stuff has really been worrying/stressing me as well lately - which is making it exponentially worse #I need to sit for a minute and gather my thoughts; but they're so cluttered it's dizzying 😣 #Sorry for the brief lapse in activity 🤒 #Hope this will go away soon ✌️ #In the meantime tho I'd be more than happy to discuss lightearded concepts! #If any of you want to of course <:)

[shivasdarknight]

as funny as the tree law stuff is, the punishment for that is a fine

and a reminder: If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class

it's funny, but i doubt it'll amount to much beyond the strikers being subjected to heat stroke because do you really think that LA would side with the strikers?

if you can, donate to the Entertainment Community Fund.

#original #tree law #sag aftra #wga #listen i get it but it's a fine #that's nothing #if you're in the area I'm sure strikers would greatly appreciate stuff like water or potentially tents/canopies #anything to help out now that the trees are gone and they're at risk of heat stroke #or just donate #memeing it does little to change the conditions of who's on the ground

[pianokantzart]

Waiting for news on The Super Mario Bros Movie 2 moodboard

#Jack Black says it's been radio silence #which FINE okay it's not been THAT long. It's been 8 months #it's good they're taking their time I don't want it rushed #I SWEAR I DON'T WANT IT RUSHED #They teased Yoshi! We'll get a sequel! Surely we'll get the sequel!?!? #please please please I'm gnawing on the original film like a dog on a bone and I crave more #The idea that it'll be 5+ years before I see more of the story makes me feral #mario movie

[cakesmelons]

Am I naughty? HELL YA! Though this is the limit...

(Hey, psst, Nightmare acts disgusted but he's secretly into it *evil giggles as I fade away*)

#I accidentally like actually killed someone #I'm sure they're fine! ^^.....don't worry.. :) #peace sign as I disappear #submitted #sunnymainecoon #NOT melons art #OMG. HE MONSTER MOUTH. #monst mouth. #omg. #long ass tongue too 👀👀👀 #also where Killer's hand is 😭😭😭 #the people love Nightmare's chest #we should leave. not disturb them #well. not disturb Killer and his quest #frozen!nightmare #frozen!au #dreamtale frozen au #frozen au #sanscest #killermare #killer x nightmare

[moghedien]

A League of Their Own as Reductress Headlines, Part Two

ALOTO: Part One

Gretson as Headlines: Part One, Part Two

The Rockford Peaches: X

#sorry to slander Maybelle's kids I'm sure they're chaotic but fine #Max Chapman #Carson Shaw #Vivienne Hughes #Clance Morgan #Maybelle Fox #Shirley Cohen #a league of their own #aloto #league of their own #listen I have so many of headlines saved at this point that I'm trying to organize them #its a process lmao

[gallusrostromegalus]

Sometimes you have a dream that, while not strictly speaking "Prophetic", you feel like it should be, and you have to send a moderately unhinged email to an important cultural institution of learning to make sure you're not going to get in trouble for making it a reality.

Relatedly, anyone in the Denver/Colorado Front Range area play a transportable instrument (Something you could walk around a moderately crowded outdoors area with for several hours without harming yourself or the general public) want to come have an adventure, pending approval?

#I'm like 90% sure they're going to say it's fine #but I don't want to just go in there and get banned in case it's a No.