#those are two very separate things

[suswous]

So I have no idea what’s going on w/ this Sweden thing, but, like, it’s bizarre how none of the discourse I’m seeing seems to comment on how there is a super big difference between just not giving a guest food and making that guest wait in your room while you eat.

Like, it’s totally reasonable to me that, if you have the cultural expectation that your guest is not expecting to eat at your house and will be able to eat at home, you won’t feel the need to feed your guest. Because they’re not over to your house for a meal. But, in that reddit screenshot I see, like, yeah that is super bizarre. If you’re not gonna feed your guest, if your guest isn’t over for dinner, when you’re gonna have dinner you send them home. Especially if they’re a child, who might not be as aware that they should head home in time for dinner.

People are v. much equating the two things, and condemning both, when, IMO, only one is really, universally condemnable, while the other can be reasonable assuming different cultural expectations.

#also the people who are trying to ‘cancel’ a country are stupid #esp. when half the comments from Swedes I’ve seen are like yeah no I’ve never seen this happen #but mostly I’m kinda annoyed by how the internet seems to treat cultural norms as like moral imperatives #so other cultural norms are like condemned morally #like #I saw someone connect discrimination against immigrants in Sweden to the idea that it’s not a cultural norm to feed guests #and like #those are two very separate things #the discrimination and xenophobia against immigrants is not caused by a cultural expectation that you have meals at home #cultural norms can be harmful #but like #you can’t just assume that they are #and that all flaws of a society are connected to their cultural norms #American racism was not caused by the expectation that you take home food from a restaurant to have for lunch the next day #it reminds me of the shoes off inside discourse #including the not differentiating btwn two different things #like yeah #obvs it’s weird not to take your shoes off if their dirty or you’re in someone’s home and they ask you too #and it makes more sense to assume shoes off if there’s carpeting #and it’s weird to put your shoes on upholstery #there’s a difference between tracking mud into a carpet #and wearing the same shoes that you’ve worn p much only inside #on a hard floor #after having wiped your shoes on the welcome mat #a lot of times different cultures have different cultural norms #and you know what #a lot of times #that’s okay #what seems weird to you might actually not be harmful so long as people are on the same page

[a-caterpillars-world]

❤ 2 ships passing in the night, reunited at the docks 💚

#adventure time #fionna and cake #fern the human #fern mertens #<-is there a separate tag for f&c fern? #flame princess #dj flame #flamefern #twos art #digital art #YOU DONT UNDERSTANDDDD THEYRE EVERYTHING #this took longer than i thought it would to draw but i dont caare #flame princess and fern is one of those things where its like. they would never date in canon but the dynamic is great #fern and dj flame is not only good shit in the same way but it has Canon Potential too #which makes me Very Happy because as ive mentioned in an earlier post god fern's life was so fucking miserable on ooo #these 2 kindred spirits finally have a chance for each other. the stars have aligned and maybe just maybe itll work out #im gonna look like boo boo the fool if season 2 of f&c releases and these 2 arent in it together at all #but i hope they are. because god rhe Potential the Dynamics the Synergy

[inamindfarfaraway]

I love that we're getting focus on Chris Rodriguez early in the TV show, so that we have time to get invested in him before he a) betrays the camp and b) is driven so insane that only Dionysus can cure him. Knowing him beforehand will also make his relationship with Clarrisse, friendship and romance, feel more interesting.

What other cool, fun, not-heartbreaking characters will the show give more attention and depth? Silena Beauregarde? Charlie Beckendorf? Micheal Yew? Castor and Pollux? I can't wait!

#can you imagine the gut punch of having castor and pollux be recurring minor characters #always together #the classic either very similar or very different twins trope #with jokes about dionysus being their dad and more insight into that awkward relationship #that's their shtick like the stoll brothers except the comedy premise is 'mr d is their dad' which really does write itself #they're well-established as both part of the camp's normal and one of those 'two-in-one' side character duos #then after over three seasons of this castor dies in battle #and we don't see the death but when we next see pollux castor just. isn't there #and we Know #only one thing could have separated those two and it looks like pollux is missing at least an arm (and hurts accordingly) #and when we next see dionysus he's exactly as broken as a father who's lost a son would be #so different from how we've seen any other god emote about their children #and it sinks in that he actually was present in castor's life for years and now that's gone #it isn't 'well the view from olympus is different now and my name is stained with failure. drat' but the weight of #'he won't sit at my table tomorrow' 'he will never play pinocle with me again even though it bores him because he secretly likes me' #and so on and on and on forever #because he's never coming back. we will never see castor AND pollux again #enjoy your fantasy series kids! war is worse than hell because it hurts the undeserving! #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo disney+ #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo

[moongothic]

Actually….re: the whole we have never gotten a glimpse ever of past crocodile thing….would be SO funny if crocodile’s backstory was just every strawhat’s combined in succession but like the wario bad ending version “a man took me and my brother in when we were extremely small children and THEN sold us out to pirates when he didnt have enough protection money who forced ys to work to buy our way out of slavery THEN my sister pushed me down the stairs and THEN she died and THEN i was taken in by a fishwoman and her apprentice. And THEN she framed me for pirate conspiracy and turned me into the marines—“ etc. etc.

Y'know, I know you're joking, just doing a silly little funny and all

But unironically, on a thematic level this could very well be true

Like One Piece's long running themes include rejection, loss, loneliness, either believing yourself to be unlovable and/or hating yourself while loving others and what all these things can drive a person to do (among many other things)

And these narrative elements come up so often you could make a little bingo card of them and have a fun little game to see how many pop up for each Strawhat and their backstories (Sanji and Robin being the most extreme examples in some ways). But the thing is that with the Strawhats, most of them manage to find a way to heal through all that trauma either through their mentors, their friends/family, the Strawhats and/or Luffy specifically. They all found a place to call home through Luffy

But Crocodile never did. He doesn't have a place to call home, people to call a family. He's still alone

So like, while Croc's backstory probably isn't all the Strawhats mashed together literally, on that thematic level? Actually, yeah, probably, especially If Crocodad Real. He could just turn out to be an amalgamation of all the Strawhats' trauma combined but with the specific twist he never had anyone come save him from it, what any of the Strawhats could've turned out like had they never met Luffy and went off the deep end

#Moon posting #OP Meta #Asks #Sir Crocodile #This post ended up sounding like Daz Bones erasure I'm so sorry #I just don't exactly know what the dynamic between those two is right now #Like to me it still feels like Croc just sees Daz as a Very Useful Underling and is keeping him around because #1) The guy's useful and 2) Dude was faithful enough to go to Impel Down with Croc when he didn't have to #Like Daz has proven his worth in that sense #But Daz himself considders fellowship pointless so IDK if there is anything more to the relationship between these two #Beyond the ''boss and subortinate'' #The point is that. I really want to know what the fuck these two were doing for the past two years #Just. Hanging out together. For two years. By themselves??????? #That's a whole separate post though THE POINT IS #I unironically think it's very possible every single Strawhat could find at least one single thing in Crocodad's story they could relate to #If Crocodad Real

[itwoodbeprefect]

sometimes a piece of queer media is very obviously cheap and also bad and outdated in ways that aren't even particularly interesting, but it's just so obviously from The Before Times that it's painfully difficult not to be charmed by it anyway

#now if i admit right here in the tags that in this particular instance i'm talking about something from 2017... on a scale from 1-10 #how dramatic does Before Times sound? because personally i think that in terms of queer media #seven years is like. at least one whole age. it's an eternity. tectonic plates have shifted #but also maybe together with me (the media in question) just reminds me a ridiculous amount of a 2008-ish german soap #it definitely somehow feels. older than it is. which is not good. but i repeat: it's charming to me!! #it's many flaws in a trenchcoat and i would never recommend this to anyone but i think i love it. very irrationally so. #(though i AM largely skipping over both the age gap AND the teacher/student romance subplots. yes those are two separate relationships) #(which. frankly. is a method of watching a thing that just reminds me even MORE of the german soap. so there's that) #*

[guruguruguruguru]

the longer i sit with it the more it really gets me how nobody ever really mentions obito and rin before obito's reveal in shippuden. kakashi vaguely mentions his old friends and i think other characters allude to the tragedy of kakashi's past but rin and obito themselves are lost to time. something about that is so fucking haunting and so gutting. you would think it would be a pretty big deal that two kids from the same class died within a year of each other, but the nine tails attack probably wiped so much clean that nobody could really carry the grief... still, when we see their class in flashbacks, we recognise almost everyone else, so... there's something really sad and hopeless about their absence...

there's a lot a LOT to say about it from a lot of different angles and i don't really feel like going into meta posting territory i just have big feelings about it you know? and to me i guess obito encapsulates a lot of the anger. for the people who get left behind and forgotten. and that can mean a lot of things

#two of my classmates died on separate occassions in short span of time in high school and i wont claim that grief because #i didnt know either of them well but i did feel a lot of anger and overwhelming hopelessness. that life keeps relentlessly going on #even when people get left behind #it feels so unfair and so painful... there are so many more aspects to it though as well #like people who are left behind in other ways due to circumstance or class or race or etc etc- often a combination of those factors #and obito as a kid reminds me a lot of a good friend i had when i was little who was late to class every day #because of those outside circumstances #and again someone in high school who i was late WITH every day. because ya #and i feel very big about that. and about rins death as something so fucking preventable #the tragedy also of baby teacher minato who was so so not ready to be in charge of anyone. but. that's something else #anyway i guess i just really feel a connection with that anger and despair #sorru was watching niji and felt fucking insane about it #obito and rin are like two sides of one thing. maybe of one person. of one concept #part of why i'm so so crazy about obito being trans is because i see him as also using rin's memory as a conduit for #his anger and grief about his own lost younger self. hence: baby obito is also a little girl #i think they are best friends. its so important. idk none of this is wider narrative meta #its just my feelings about them in particular #haunting dead girl and the ghost who has to carry on and can't rest

[imaginarypasta]

i’ve been trying to get through hoh for literally like a week now but it’s so hard bc the way my fave nico is treated is absolutely ABYSMAL and i know it only gets worse

#personal #even hazel being like ‘yeah he’s hard to get along with’ or whatever she said #every single non-tartarus perspective has had at least one reference to this #and like i understand the reasons it’s not that it’s that it highlights this issue i have with a lot of the characters in that series which #is that i don’t like them. and that’s so different for me bc i actually usually find that my two favorite characters in anything are the tw #that don’t like each other? unrelated to that dynamic usually mostly but still within it #but that’s not even what the dynamic is yk. #and it’s just the whole thing overall like in the last book there was one part where these two characters who are supposed to be good #friends are separated and one makes a comment about how annoying (or something along those lines) she finds the other which. #i’m vaguely aware of what happens in toa so i think you could argue something about that but read on its own bc i don’t want to make that #argument without fully grasping where her character goes #it just kinda reinforces this… vibe to the whole series that was not nearly as present in the first series of like. really overemphasized #like gender roles/heterosexuality/etc. i can’t think of the word to use to describe it. i’ve seen other ppl talk about the parts that add u #to the whole that i’ve seen but never synthesize them. and it really varies between actually insidious and simply not my taste which is par #of the reason i hesitate to make a full critique out of it. but suffice to say i really don’t like it #with that being said the pacing of this book is really good and i am compelled to finish based on the themes i do find interesting #autonomy being a huge one #but anyway those are my thoughts on it after a few days of a break. i’ve been playing a video game instead :3 but i start work on wednesday #sooo i won’t have as much free time boo #looking back maybe ‘insidious’ is a very strong word for it. i’m talking about like when percy complains about the bag and similar moments

[aroacehanzawa]

WHAT R UR THOUGHTS ON BUDDY DADDIES EPISODE 8 🙏

I THINK IT WAS OUTSTANDING

First off, from the very first scene with Miri asking Rei where he's going and then saying but his home is here, and he says "THAT'S TRUE". AS TRUE AS HOW MUCH I CRIED UPON HEARING THAT

I think this episode was a great continuation from last episode's Kazuki-focused perspective, where Kazuki accepted to move on and essentially to live in the present from now on, the present that includes Miri and Rei. And now we got to follow Rei trying to find his place and accepting that his heart belongs with the little Kazuki & Miri family that he has little by little become more a part of than he realises.

I think the episode did a great job portraying how conflicted Rei is as he stands in-between having to continue his family business and having found a new home, which he might not necessarily feel like he belongs to (yet), but which he wants to belong to. And it's the way he did not outright say this, but what he does say is that there is something he also wants to protect, in direct parallel to his former mentor who was fighting to protect his significant other!!!

I also love how Rei's journey in this episode didn't end on some super optimistic final note (which last episode kind of did with Kazuki, the sun breaking out when he comes to his realisation and the colourful flowers and everything) but rather showing how Rei has simply taken the first small steps towards the future he wants, and sometimes that's enough.

Like, he's brooding and contemplating his identity and place in the world when Kazuki calls and he just lets it ring, but he picks it up in the end. Kazuki comes and he doesn't want to get in the car, but he does. We get to see their first meetings and how Kazuki took care of him, and even back then it was just a small step Rei took - he let Kazuki help. Rei asks if they can really change, and Kazuki doesn't know - but he took the step to ask, and Kazuki answered honestly. And that's already a change, this decision of theirs to step by step try to do the right thing so that they can live their lives the way they want, together with Miri. And in this episode it culminated in Rei smiling at sleepy Miri and the birthday table prepared by Kazuki, and that's enough for now.

Idk idk just think this series does such a wonderful job in showing the character's personal journeys and the difficulties of not just their jobs and lifestyles but also, very obviously, of two men raising a child together, and it does this in such a magnificent way with the perfect balance between optimistic and realistic. This episode was just another part of the wonderful whole, and it stands out so well on its own while still being such an important turning point in our main characters' story as a whole!

Also that ending scene?????? i won't survive the angst of the next episodes

#SORRY I STARTED RAMBLING there's not a single coherent sentence in there i'm afraid #you asked for my thoughts so those are my pure unfiltered thoughts #ANYWAY IF YOU AREN'T WATCHING BUDDY DADDIES. IT IS NOT TOO LATE #another thing - the photo of kazuki and miri in the supermarket was such a straight forward parallel to the photo of rei's former mentor #and his fiancee? wife? i forget #i've seen some criticism about how the show has very clearly put kazuki in the 'mother/housewife' role but #here i have to echo what some others had said - that there is still nothing heteronormative about the story of two single men raising a #child together. like you can say all you want about how kazuki does the cooking and the cleaning #but the very fact that they are NOT actually a man and woman living together already separates them from the context of a power imbalance #that would exist between a similar but heterosexual relation specifically because of patriarchy #like the unfair division of labour between husband and wife is one that is specifically rooted in sexism throughout history #whereas in this case it merely PARALLELS the typical parental roles without actually having this inherent power imbalance #i'm not well read enough on feminist theory to say anything more on the subject but you get what i mean? #and i think last episode already did a great job showing that kazuki DOES find it unfair that rei doesn't contribute enough at home #i think that was good commentary that applies to any household and family in general and not just the heterosexual nuclear family #i just don't think it's right to say that this series is being heteronormative #that's all folks #buddy daddies

[foxgloveinspace]

Sooooo, does Sleep represent an old coping mechanism that Vessel is ready to let go of maybe?? I feel like something is about to change. Maybe ‘the end’, maybe not. Maybe, the end of sleep token and the birth of something new.

#very much so #sleep token #I have some thoughts #(and btw I have said that Sleep isn’t bad in the past and while I still believe that I have NEVER claimed that Sleep isn’t and asshole lmao) #(those two things can be separated) #(sleep being a dick doesn’t mean he’s evil) #(but maybe Vessel is ready to let go of Sleep and we will be worshiping something else now) #(new name for the band maybe??) #(why is this all in parentheses?? cause I’m adhd as fuck and felt like it lmao)

[switchcase]

I was wondering, do you have any thoughts on functional neurological disorder?

Oh I have a LOT of thoughts about FND. It would be very very long to be detailed about it so the TL;DR is that there are already conditions that were thought to be symptoms of conversion disorder (FND's old name) that turned out to be their own separate disorders (eg, fibromyalgia). I think it is pretty lazy science (and also very very lazy practice) for a doctor to see a bunch of symptoms and declare that because You Personally couldn't figure out the cause that it must therefore be psychological.

FND is essentially a catchall diagnosis even at the best of times, for "physical symptoms that cannot be explained." At the worst of times doctors use it as an excuse to punt a patient into therapy and effectively wipe their hands clean of a "difficult" case. As a very blatant example, there is already Medical Discourse about people with Long COVID symptoms getting diagnosed with FND.

I DO think that psychosomatic symptoms and physical symptoms caused by neurological disorders are an important topic and this is NOT to say FND doesn't exist At All. But I do think FND is majorly overdiagnosed in people that have conditions that Could be explained by something else but were met with a doctor that didn't care or was too frustrated by the various symptoms to look further. I hope that more of the field accepts the neurological side of FND and that more research is done into the neurological aspects of FND because I am...not really convinced that it is One single disorder. The symptom set still looks pretty incoherent to be one single thing, and the fact that two separate disorders are listed as a Symptom of FND is kind of insane to me.

#Like it's not 'well someone with PTSD probably is depressed' #where you can very logically go 'someone who is traumatized and having flashbacks etc will probably not be the happiest fucker on Earth' #vs FND's 'they will have either motor issues or nonepileptic seizures' which is like. Hello............. #Those two things Do have an overlap but it is not that massive of one #Especially when you are talking about 'patient who reports being in pain but we can't find the pain source' #You've just hit 3 separate mostly unrelated things #Anyway drives me batshit I am personally in so many neurological research labs gnawing on researchers' heads #The puzzle solver in me is Not Pleased #ask #anonymous

[majesticmagics]

I’m so sorry you activated my peter griffin joke explainer button

Basically the whole “husband” thing is that Kuro refers to Keito as “danna”, which is a very hard to directly translate japanese word. The meaning Kuro is probably implying is that “danna” can mean “boss”, and it’s a bit of an old fashioned word to use (think of a henchman in a mafia talking to their boss, that’s the vibe they’re going for). Because of Kuro’s general ex-delinquency status, him calling his unit leader “boss” or “boss Hasumi” makes sense.

However the elephant in the room and the joke that is entirely missed if you translate the word is that “danna” is also sometimes a word that wives will use to address their husbands. Multiple characters have canonically commented on the fact Kuro calls Keito this, and the double meaning. The official English version also decided danna was too confusing and got rid of it entirely, but this leads to characters’ lines commenting on danna being replaced with “he talks to you very intimately” or “he talks to you like you’re married” which is debatably even funnier

I think I'm in love with you now. Like in an aromantic way but still. Do you have any more paragraphs?

#please please please please tell me anything that crosses your mind if you think you've got at least two paragraphs of it in you #there is nothing more attractive to me than someone passionately talking about their interests #regardless of what those interests are #you could give an 3hr speech on triangles and i would hang off of your every word if you're passionate about it #anyway! #yeah i sorta assumed that it was something along those lines but i didn't actually know anything because . #huh i don't think i've read any akatsuki stories actually #i've seen a few things with the characters separately but not Akatsuki Stories #very happy for your boys though <333 #but yeah #I LOVE THE 'he talks to you like you're married' THO THAT'S HILARIOUS #shapes.ask

[lisbonsteresa]

knees weak, arms are heavy

#listen it's too late for me to be very articulate about it (and i'm only on s3 now; the rest of the show is kind of hazily blending) but #one of the things i find most interesting about the red john plot...or jane's pursuit of red john maybe #is how ...individualized? it is #obviously the characters have different opinions on it - is his mission right; is it justified; would it help him; would it condemn him #and you as a viewer can side with one opinion more than others (and the opinions change as the show goes on -it's dynamic #which is another interesting but separate train of thought) #but imo/iirc the show itself - the narrative i guess - never makes any outright statement/judgement/comes to any definitive conclusion #on the matter #idk it's just even this - obviously everything's part of the larger narrative but at the same time #his asking does illustrate at least some level of doubt that he didn't seem to have in the last two seasons #is it because of lisbon; and the team; because of kristina; because of the strain it's putting on himself #(probably not the last one; he is demonstrably cavalier when it comes to his own wellbeing) #and he just happens to have the perfect man to express those doubts to right in front of him #(and that man just happens to be noah bennet alskdfja) #had winter said no what would his reaction have been? would his doubts have gotten worse - led to him taking a step towards giving it up? #would he have doubled down? we have no way of knowing because for this man; for this character it was worth it #and that helps shore up jane's belief that it would still be worth it to him too #idk i'm not making sense but it just feels like there's a level of grey area/audience interpretation to this story #rather than a hard line being drawn (by the story itself) on whether the actions taken in it are good or bad and i appreciate that #character-focused vs a morality tale maybe but that's more of an extreme phrasing #anyway ignore me i'm - #tm

[justashadetalkative]

Details: Phosa & Linast

Mundane video technology hits something not unlike an uncanny valley for Phosa & Linast on two fronts:

1) Their spacial awareness is intense and encompasses the electromagnetic field around them, so trying to process 2D images as representations of 3D objects & space was a learning curve for them. Even after they learned the trick of it, it’s still more like viewing an autostereogram than anything natural or automatic. (They have to trick themselves into perceiving it as looking at something that is very far away and outside of themselves, even as it's (usually) radiating from inside their range of perception.) 2) They don't have a brain that smooths a rapid sequence of images into a perception of smooth motion for them, and while their conscious processing speed isn't precise or rapid enough for them to truly discern the actual movement of light through space (unless working with large enough distances), they can still sense it to some degree. Between those two factors, it's like touching a vibrating surface; they sure as heck couldn't count the individual jerks, but they can feel that something about the motion isn’t smooth.

Some of these factors were mitigated during that human incident, and it went a long way towards helping them figure out how to interpret 2D images the way most sighted humans do.

#details #Phosa #Linast #details: Linast #details: Phosa #(brought to you by this topic managing to come up in two separate threads this past week sdlfkshgsdf) #(...some day I'm gonna try to properly explain Phosa and Linast's spacial perception / presence) #(because like. Their 'bodies' [aside from the core] are just manifestations. Those manifestations do allow touch/hearing etc.) #(and can serve as a focus and limiting agent to TRICK their perspective into more closely mimicking that of corporeal beings) #([eg if they pour most of their focus & attention into just their 'eyes' then that does vaguely mimic having one-point perspective/vision]) #(but... their primary and instinctive perception of the world is much more spread out and spacial and field-like) #(the literal electromagnetic field within their entire sphere of influence feels like proprioception to them) #(so! these kids are two marginally-corporeal entities playing puppets for the sake of socialization & to carry around/protect their anchor) #(and I probably don't emphasize that as much as I could ^_^;) #(...then again I do *try* to focus most of RP on actual like. roleplaying. rather than narrating out thoroughly alien perceptions.) #(fun as this sort of thing is for me to try to conceptualize & visualize y'all are not here to read pages of experimental prose xD) #(the kids pick up X information and behave in Y fashion in response and those are the important bits!) #(…Also.also. fucking hell let me tell you: reading about special and general relativity last month has Complicated things) #(I mean I can handwave absolute instantaneous perception across a distance as ‘eh. Magic.’) #(BUT. If I do that. Would that mean that Phosa and Linast technically experience spacetime in a very warped or extradimensional way?) #(defining time VIA light is a tantalizingly neat concept and also the Actual Science [to my knowledge] but I am still Processing it fffff) #queue

[dank-meme-legend]

This song makes me feral plz help—

It feels like being three-years-old at daycare and dressing up as Sleeping Beauty for “Halloween Week” and putting puffy stickers of pumpkins and bats everywhere (and then getting in trouble for putting stickers on the tables and not pieces of colorful construction paper). It feels like my mom putting my hair in pigtails and smiling at me when I vecro-ed my shoes all by myself and was a “big girl” who remembered to put on a coat during the chilly month of October.

It also makes me think about something my girlfriend said to me and it has stuck with me ever since she said it. She once said that I am boring and peaceful, but not in a bad-boring way. I’m boring and peaceful like little kids leaning on each other and drawing with chalk. It makes me think of warm, tight hugs.

This song is just so bittersweet and makes me think of childlike innocence, peace, and soft love in all its forms.

#Spotify #music #this makes sense to me and me only #but I head this song and got HIT with memories from Halloween time at my daycare and it was sweet and nostalgic and ahh #and the thing about my girlfriend also reigns true because I feel soft calmness when listening to this song #even though those two ideas are very separate #music makes me wild bro #not even the lyrics but just the VIBES #THE MUSIC AND THE VIBES

[sunlightontheseaa]

Getting pretty close to the end of odyssey I feel, and jfc the shit i have to go through to keep my idiot asshole brothers alive.

The whole second encounter with Stentor I was like... It's rotten work. Especially to me, especially if it's you. I'll do it but christ alive

And Alexios. Jfc where do I even begin. Im like, you're gonna be my fuckin friend whether you like it or not idc. I love you bitch, die mad about it!

I am dragging everyone kicking and screaming into being a family and it's pretty funny

#this isn't even to mention the various bugs i encountered with the stentor quest that forced me to either let him die or COMPLETELY RESTART #THE QUEST TO FIX IT AND BE ABLE TO KEEP HIM ALIVE #THIS HAPPENED TWICE #TWICE!!!!!!!! #TWO SEPARATE BUGS. TWO. DIFFERENT KNOWN THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN AT THE VERY END OF THE QUEST. #where the only solution is to DO IT ALL AGAIN!!!!! #it wasn't an easy quest either #it was a whole ass conquest battle those things suck 😭 #then i finally finally get to the end and stentor tells me to just kill him and im like NO BITCH!!!!!!!! #after everything i just went through! the hours i just spent doing this very difficult quest multiple times!!!!! #you're gonna live and you're gonna like it bitch!!!!!!!! #also #what is it with nikolaos' children and surviving getting thrown off a cliff with no lasting injuries #we're literally 3 for 3 on that #but honestly i actually was really happy to see stentor survived the first encounter #i was very sad that i had to kill him i always had wished there was a way to kill nikolaos but not stentor #and i guess there was all along 😊 #now i shall recruit him on my ship and force him to be happy and make friends and let go of the past 😊

[biteapple]

? Olive has the same meow for "please come pet me while i eat" and "please come here and play with me" now, which only developed after i bought her a new toy (quickly became her new favorite) which is interesting. maybe this is a general meow for "pay attention to me" now .. she no longer really meows for being pet while she eats anymore after buying this toy for them both, for some reason, which is good (that was a REALLY bad habit of hers ive been trying to wean her off of)

#her meow for ''please play with me'' USED to be a very high pitched cry which changed #i feel like ive been playing with her in the same amount as i used to though so i dont think its that #she has the ''pet me while i eat'' habit because as a kitten my family had many adult cats that used to bully her #so i would make sure they didnt push her away from the food dish by staying near her when she ate. which she then wanted into adulthood #i then specifically would feed my cats upstairs in my room after that went on too long #that was a combination of a lot of bad things all at once that she grew up in (family only giving cats one food dish & free feeding them) #i would later atleast convince them to add a second and third dish to different areas that i'd maintain #while having my own food and water up in my room for my cats #.. still .. there were 7 cats. #its a lot better now though. there's only 3 cats that live in that house now. and i took my two girls with me here #i get to care for them how i'd like now .. its better that way #she developed the very high pitched cry when i left for a year while i was trying to sort out my living situation. #apparently she used to meander the house carrying a toy around and looking for me the year i was away #i know thats a separation anxiety thing (she also does this when i go to work and go to sleep) but she'll do it for play as well #they both have different toy collections and styles of play they prefer that im trying to add to and expand #i wanna get one of those kick-y toys next. those fish that wiggle. i think Olive specifically will LOVE that #Hope is more of a ribbon-toy and laser light girl. Olive likes to kick and kill her toys but has overlap with toys Hope likes too