#we collectively have a problem

[stfustucky]

My dice storage solution 🥰 each little "potion" is named for the aesthetic of the dice set, the tabletop character goes with, or the game it's used to play!

#this is right inside the doot at my house #literally the first thing you see when you walk in #and on the opposite wall is art we've had done of our OCs #in this household we serve the lord of escapism lmao #tabletop #tabletop gaming #ttrpg #dice #dice hoard #dice storage #metal dice #only half of these are mine #the plastic ones are my roommate's #we collectively have a problem #dice collection

[markscherz]

I swear you would get along super with my previous evolutionary biol prof (Dr. Bulte) from Canada (CU). He loves turtles and I remember him as a kind, humble dude who resembled a french lumberjack of sorts. Does that sound Canadian enough?

Keep up the great blog! 🐸

I am sure we would get on swimmingly! Who doesn't love a good turtle—or a french lumberjack, for that matter‽ I spent some of my afternoon today reorganising a bit in our turtle shell collection at the museum, after returning a specimen that was recently used for a talk. Such fascinating and beautiful animals.

#most of the time I spend in the collections starts the same way #'oh I have an important thing to do in the collection' #*goes and does the thing* #'oh here's a problem I didn't know about or hadn't thought about recently #'I should probably do that at some point #'actually while I'm here…' #*does the other thing* #'oh cool I didn't know about this thing #'but we could really improve on it if we made this small change' #*makes the change for an hour* #Look I'm not diagnosed as having ADHD #but like #the signs are there I think #sorry tag ramble #answers by Mark #whenplantingforests #herpetology #about me #personal

[puppyeared]

Jitterbug

#whenever my meds kick in it feels like im gonna piss myself. not literally but its really really feels like it #and now whenever that happens my mind goes back to pancho (grandmas dog) at a xmas party years ago #bc he peed when we arrived bc he was so excited to see ppl and my cousin had to clean it up :o) #well for better or for worse i know that feeling now when im pumped on 20mg of adderall #im still getting used to this whole diagnosis thing cause ive gone untreated and undiagnosed for the longest time. so theres probably a lot #i still dont know and have to learn to get myself to be.. functional on my own? self managing???? #i even set up reminders on my phone for work periods meals and stuff. but the problem is actually getting myself to stick to that to a T #because the minute i slack off or something gets in the way it throws it all off until i can be bothered to get back on track. it sucks #at least ive built up other habits like writing notes and setting alarms ahead of time.. but i feel like i could do better #its always hard to change something if youve been doing it wrong for the longest time. especially behaviour and thinking patterns. sigh #in other news my glasses bailed on me so i have to get a new pair sometime. i just realized i never draw my sona with glasses but thats #mostly bc i forget. id love to get some browline glasses like my old pair but im picky and its hard to find one id like for the next 5 year #i also finally managed to collect all the fish in my animal crossing file!!! pulled out a char last week and boom now i have a poster :o) #THAT was a moment where i almost peed myself for real. id love to get all the bugs but i cant stay up late on the switch :o( #yapping #my art #myart #doodles #personal #diary

[yellow-yarrow]

I tried collecting all the direct Kras Mazov quotes I could find from fayde just for fun. so here is some mazovian theory for you:

'Man is the mirror of the world' 'To find victory in the cultural war we must first scout the battlefield' 'Those committed to the rights of property are those most apt to violate them' "laugh at the monster that hides behind false hopes and pieties." "it's the arrogance of capital that will be its ultimate undoing. It does not believe it can fail, which is why it must fail." 'The freeman of the future will be he who awakens in perfect ignorance of Capital' 'religion is pyrholidon for the masses' 'Du cristal à la fumée.'

#kras mazov #im just tired of how the de wiki has the bare minimum information and doesn't have stuff like this #its like fine then i'll collect the information #fine then i'll write a wiki for myself #last time i checked the new wiki project was stuck because of the hosting site had some problems with the domain or something (?) #if it continues i can link some posts and we don't have to go searching for them again

[uncanny-tranny]

A really sinister aspect into how people view children and parents is the idea of children being a replaceable commodity.

I've seen this in the way people talk about parents who have lost children but have surviving children... "Oh, at least you have other children," as though a child is just an interchangeable tool, a machine that dispenses what you want from it without it being sentient, whole, and feeling. The fact that people say that in order to comfort somebody shows, to me, how deep this mindset is engraved in people's brains: children are interchangeable items, and they do not fundamentally matter.

#youth rights #child death tw #child death mention tw #grief tw #death tw #death mention tw #ask to tag (genuine) #i won't get into specifics but it's been a huge problem and something you notice if you've gone through it/have a loved one going through i #and it's insulting to the child's memory but also to their siblings... #...because you are treating them like the back-up child. the spare tire. the third wheel. the one who is only cherished when they are Of Us #no longer are they a person. no longer are any of those children actual humans. they're just Things To Be Toyed With #how could that not make you sick to your stomach to even *think* about saying to the bereaved? #i don't think this is just a one-off statement but rather is indicative of a larger problem #because there is a Reason people think it comforting to say 'oh but you have OTHER children; chin up! 😊' #it honestly makes me sick to have even written this post because of how horrific the subject is #but it's still... we need to change this shit. this is plain cruelty. plain and simple. thoughtless and distant cruelty #and yes: people say this to be compassionate and are almost never cruel in their reasoning for saying this... #...that is the PROBLEM though. the problem is that it's seen as OKAY to say this to people whose lives have been destroyed in one fell swoop #the problem's that it's seen as OK to turn children into collectible objects that you can 'get over' like you get over losing a broken glass

[skellagirl]

#danny phantom #dpxdc #Yes this is a silly poll. it's fandom. it's not that deep #and I'm not hugely involved with the dp fandom like. as a group. I have my moots and that's all I want #so I don't have a huge stake in this either way #BUTTTTTT EVEN SO the lack of tagging etiquette from the dpxdc fandom is a pain in the ass #literally just don't tag ur shit with danny phantom. it's not hard. they're two different fandoms. #do that one (1) easy thing and boom. peace and love on planet earth #the dp and dpxdc fandoms can hold hands and frolic and kiss each other with tongue like God intended without stepping on each other's toes #and encroaching on each other's space #BADA BING BADA BOOM problem solved and it only took what? eleven seconds? #also I am fully aware that this isn't like some scientifically bulletproof way to collect data bc it can beel easily skewed #even just by like one person with a dozen alt side accounts or something #but I was just :) curious :))))) #fuck it we ball #if anyone from either side comes at me with drama I'm just gonna straight-up ignore it btw this isn't worth getting worked up over #and I'm Not letting anyone drag me into fandom drama

[adhdandcomics]

adding to my tags because i’ve been thinkin a lot about the post i just reblogged and have more thoughts:

i’ll be real, the more i saw ‘hey adhd influencers are so annoying’ the more i worried that i was unconsciously contributing to the spreading reputation of adhd folks as annoying and over-pathologizing every symptom they experience

and then i realized. i am not a goddam influencer or life coach or representative. obviously i have some obligation as someone who cares about myself and the people that like my comics to not spread harmful ideology or blatant misinformation but i never intended myself to be a “’increase your productivity!!’ blog OR a ‘if you have XYZ you have adhd!’ blog. and i do this for fun, and originally started this blog bc i had a lot of internalized shame and self loathing about my adhd and thought if i could make it funny i might have less of that. let’s get real! and it worked!

i’ve obviously done this kind of thing— (hey these symptoms might be adhd!) a lot before in my life & on this blog, but there’s more to it than trying to be an “influencer” or whatever. a term that didn’t even exist when i started this blog!

i felt very isolated trying to find out if i had any mental problems & what have you originally because of large advice (etc) blogs with staunchly anti self Dx views at the time

so i overcorrected when i DID get dxed and tried to validate everyone who was like me. and of course. not the best course of action always for the ol mental health. tried to be the source of positivity and jokes that i didn’t see because the online adhd presence was near non-existent.

and anyway. i make a lot of fun of myself & the way m brain works in my comics obviously but it is not my obligation to... how do you say.... not be annoying online.

because if folks interpret MY little jokes as a strict guide to diagnosis. that’s on them, really, not me. i also believe “making adhd your entire personality” is a non-issue. so what if people find out they have it and get over excited with identifying as adhd. saying this as someone who DID do it. criticism of this gives the same vibes as people being annoyed that young queers make “being queer” their whole personality. im very obviously more than a guy with adhd, and id reckon other adhd comic artists are too. (im friends with a lot of them!) it’s fine to post about it online.

anyway. i just don’t take myself too seriously and i’m a comic artist for myself first! and you know what, i’ve been considered annoying my entire life. what do i care if a few more folks think i’m annoying. neurotypical or not

#i think the article did have some good points especially on the capitalism and marketing angle but i oft think it did venture into #being mad at individual folks who post jokes about adhd. which is literally fine thats what an opinion piece is for lol #i am just very tired of people pretending that a lot of reaction to online adhders is not in itself just an extension of the ableism #we already were facing #'adhd people are so annoying everyone does this youre pathologizing everything' ok and how exactly are you helping. #i hesitate to throw my hat in with hating on adhd tiktok because i am simply not on tiktok and have no way to back up my thoughts #that they may be annoying and oversimplifying a complex disorder on the 'drains your attention span' website. #and i think perhaps the value of each adhd resource varies widely depending on who made it and what theyre even posting. #sometimes its a joke made by a person with adhd. sometimes its sourced and cited research. sometimes its someone discussing their personal #experiences in depth. sometimes its someone talking completely out of their ass. sometimes its THINLY veiled ableism. #its up to the individual to research and determine the value of the memes and resources you seek #anyway. perhaps these points are tough to clarify on sites like insta and twitter. bless. #text #adhd #im punk now #oh and yeah i also agree lots of folks do not talk about the unsavory parts of adhd but rather the funnies and the sillies. but that is #once again a larger capitalism and marketing and ableism problem #r we not talking about them because we are actively trying to infantalize this disorder or is it because we collectively experience a lot #of internalized ableism and hesitate to talk about our worst symptoms for fear of the backlash #weve always gotten about them 🤔🤔🤔 #much to consider #if youve read this far sorry for tangent number 56 about this. but also start being more unapologetic about your disorders. fuck it! #<3

[rayssion]

Sorry but whatever you say, I will never hate Luke Castellan. In fact, if you're so persistent I might even start defending him in return.

#I always fall for people in the shadows first #I really love Luke and understand where he's coming from #and as a fandom I thought we collectively agreed he's the hero #if you still have doubts then you clearly have a problem #luke castellan #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo

[m1d-45]

hi i have more idea (　･ิω･ิ)

i am writing this at 4am so apologies for the holes but anyway

so i've seen a few fics where the creator grants someone's wish or cures someone's illness or something as proof of their divinity

what if we flipped it around though? it is often expressed in fiction that divine intervention offsets the natural order of the universe. thus, i bring you this:

creator!reader arriving in teyvat first and being recognized and placed on the throne.

however, as much as it pains you to do it, you must strictly abide by one single rule: god must not meddle in the affairs of mortals.

prayers go unheard, pleas unanswered.

one day, a being who bears a striking resemblance to the creator emerges from seemingly out of nowhere, granting wishes left and right.

suddenly farmers are seeing healthier crops, clinics finding themselves empty.

you're skeptical. suspicious. not just anyone is capable of such a feat. just who is this person—no, entity?

the divine call it an abuse of power. mortals call it a miracle.

people begin to question the validity of your identity. why is it that this mysterious being who, unfortunately for you, happens to look exactly like you holds so much power that they've never seen you demonstrate?

naturally, people's faith in you begin to waver.

for all they know, you could be a fake. masquerading as their god to gain their adoration and devotion.

and eventually your very own people begin to turn on you.

- death loop anon

ohhh, that’s interesting!

gods don’t intervene with mortal affairs, after all, and the idea of reader being like “you want them? fine.” and then promptly fucking off to like sumeru to play w the aranara is hilarious.

after all, their creator is a benevolent god, right? they should heal the ill and cure disease, not just sit there, right?

(they would have died anyway, your healing would have just prolonged the inevitable. better to die naturally than be suspended by the divine, less human than you were before.)

and this new ‘god,’ they fit the bill so much better! deeply intertwined with the people of teyvat (can’t you see it’s manipulation?) and (seemingly) emotionally invested, outright hostile towards you for your callousness and aloof nature.

(they’ll find out. they’ll know eventually. those they’ve cured are alive by corruption, taking a poison as a cure.)

but what do you know, right? you’re just the god of all, just the one that created the disease your people suffer from. what do you know of medicine or society, you who have crafted those very concepts by hand? what do you know of empathy or compassion, you who gifted humans with this ability eons ago?

what do you know, you who leaves in exile, you who hardly puts up a fight—and surely never cared at all?

the archons beg you to stay, not to leave them under the jurisdiction of whatever that is that’s wearing your face, but you wave them off with a smile.

“i’ll return,” you promise, hand twitching slightly as yet another of your beloved creations falls to the fraud’s toxins. “they are unsustainable.”

“then why not stop them now? why not prove your point and make your move first, why let the world suffer?”

“isn’t this what they wanted? who am i, to say what they need, hm? i am no dictator. i am not both judge and jury, nor executioner. if the people cry for a slow death, then i will not deny them.”

“please, divine one… you know as well as us that they are misguided. give us time-“

“to do what, barbatos? we have tried to convince the people of the truth. if they turn a blind eye to the long-term in favor of short moments of bliss, then… well, then i suppose that’s a fault in my design.”

“do not blame yourself for their fallacies-“

“i’m not. i’m just a bit disappointed they haven’t put it together yet. humans are bright people, and yet so… is egotistic the word?”

“selfish?”

“no, not selfish… ah, no matter. this will be resolved within a millennium, of this you have my word.”

“…and if it isn’t?”

“then i will intervene myself. you have nothing to fear.”

“my god…”

“all will be well in the end, kusanali. i will not forget this promise. if the imposter isn’t driven out of the people’s accord, then i shall do so myself.”

#m1d : [chats] #death loop anon #hiiiiii…… i haven’t been writing at all for the past two days 😜 #no fr i keep wanting to write for red but i made a whole ass presentation on albedo in google slides so. um. #in terms of defense i have no defense. pretty boy is pretty and i fixated on that— #n e way. how do we feel about a formal post about red. aka a character we collectively came up w by crossing sagau and shining nikki. #god that post is gonna flop like hell. but that’s a problem for future meds motivation ahahah #i’m trying to get back to the ‘post every 2-3’ day schedule from the start of the blog because i genuinely like being that productive #but idea stocks hit zero :/ #brain go 📉📉📉📉

[sailing-ever-west]

wild to me that "they're just doing it for attention" is supposed to completely illegitimize a person's behavior. like yeah dude if they are doing insert crazy unhealthy thing for attention they probably have deep seated problems with it. probably had a traumatic lack of it during formative years. or maybe were never taught how else to ascribe themselves value. doesn't mean you have to like or put up with that person but it's not a silly non-issue. attention is a real need and when people are doing unhealthy things to acquire it that seems like a deeper concern not a cause for dismissal.

#dont get me wrong i completely understand that attention seeking behaviors can be exhausting for other people #and im not saying it's your individual responsibility to fix the attention problems in your obnoxious coworker #but collectively #socially #we should really acknowledge the traumas surrounding attention instead of automatically having no sympathy for it bc it's selfish #attention seeking #attention-seeking behaviors #mental illness #mental health #anxiety

[blackcatsnstrawberries]

Nephew (4) picked up my e-reader: what's this?

Me: my special book that has lots of books in it!

Him: can we read one?

Me: uhhhh...no.....

#acotar #a court of thorns and roses #crowns of nyaxia #fourth wing #iron flame #TOG #throne of glass #shades of magic #i have other books #this is just the collection page #reading problems #awkward #spicy content #spicy books #they aren't all spicy #but we don't know what Lorcan did #auntie #auntie life #proud aunt #the birds and the bees

[lovelesslittleloser]

People should be more afraid of asexuals, because they’re the only people that are immune to one of the seven deadly sins

#seven deadly sins #maybe they have metaphorical lust. lust for the aesthetic #asexual #we also should fear aromantics but they aren’t necessarily immune to lust so fear them for the usual reasons #pride? sometimes can be negated by self-hatred but usually shows up when you do something to be proud of. as it should #greed? you might donate your money to orphans but if anyone touches your collection of shiny trinkets their hand will be removed #envy? unless you have never met any other living beings I don’t think it’s possible to escape this one #wrath? work in public service for a week and we’ll get you wanting to fistfight god #gluttony? eating disorders are a thing; however you should definitely eat something unless you wanna die #sloth? insomnia is a thing. but you should probably sleep if you don’t want to be driven mad upon the rocks #honestly too little of the seven deadly sins is also bad. no sloth? you’re barely functioning. no gluttony? you die of starvation. #no wrath? you’ll become a doormat. no envy? you’ll never want to improve yourself. no greed? you give all your stuff away and are now poor #no pride? you don’t love yourself AT ALL. no lust? no new generation. #and frankly that last one isn’t bad in the slightest considering that much is also true for people with a same-gender significant other #(unless they are also trans and willing but that’s a them problem to have) #plus overpopulation is a thing anyway so frankly the less lust the better. #the avatar of lust has been too overworked the past few decades and and wants a damn break for once #tw eating issues #tw eating disorder #eating disorder mention #shitpost

[comixandco]

there’s an alternate universe out there where when you reach the sanctum in totk when “zelda” does her little cutscene she ends it by throwing a dagger at you and it whistles just past link’s head as he reacts in shock before readying himself for battle and then you regain control of him as a boss bar appears at the top of the screen that reads “Puppet Zelda, Twisted Memory”

and Link is forced to fight the one he swore he would protect and has been chasing after the entire game, and instead of a sage offering him warnings or encouragement the Zelda belittles him and accuses him of abandoning her and failing her and leaving her to die

and her attacks at the beginning of the fight are those bursts of bright light and the daggers but as you whittle down her health and begin stage two the facade begins to slip and the light bursts are replaced with darkness and she oozes gloom wherever she moves and her movements become more stiff and skeletal and broken

and then once you’ve defeated her she rises into the air all broken and limp but still looking at you and says that it doesn’t matter that she wasn’t zelda because zelda is still gone, trapped in the past with no way to come home she could be burried anywhere in hyrule, and she summons a dark bow of light and draws it back as a red-purple bulging mass begins to form at the arrow tip

and that’s when the sages turn up, sidon unleashing a wave that pushes the bow aside, tulin firing an arrow that riju uses to cast down lightning, and yunobo at link’s side, and they all have their own line of dialogue that boils down to ‘don’t worry link, there’s no way that’s zelda, she would never say those horrible things, and we know she’s still out there because you heard her true voice, so don’t lose hope!’

and then zelda dissolves into gloom with a fit of that uncanny laughter and that’s when that megamind-style ganondorf head appears and makes his whole speech about how they have no idea who he is or was and you get his memory and that he has waited all his imprisonment to battle against link and prove that he is the strongest in hyrule, ‘and then you will fall, link, as rauru and zelda did, knowing that hyrule falls with you. Come to the Depths beneath this wretched castle, and meet your fate, o destined hero.’

and then the zelda-gloom melts away into a heart, and the sages have that post-battle talk about re-grouping at lookout landing, and tell link not to do anything rash because they will find the real zelda together

#totk spoilers #totk #i just. we were robbed of a puppet zelda fight imo #don’t spend all that time building up a creepy ganon-controlled zelda and then get me right where she wants me then give me some phantoms #i can fight phantom ganons whenever i want they’re in set locations with gloom hands!!! Give me a unique boss battle that sets up ganon’s #final plans and properly wraps up the first arc of the game where ganon is leading you as zelda to collect the spiritual stones #so that he can take them from everybody’s corpses when he defeats you and gain even more power #at least. that’s what i want his plan to be bc it makes the most sense i haven’t exactly gone to fight him yet >-< #and like. this doesn’t solve the problem of act two being nothing if you’ve done actions out of order or that the tears spell out the entir #mystery of where zelda is which ruins the main quests of the game because everybody’s like ‘where’s zelda????’ and you’re just like 🙄👆🐉 #but you aren’t given that dialogue option ever BUT it would have been much more forgivable if the obvious not-zelda #had culminated in a super fun angsty puppet fight like in tp or st

[elizabeth-dicewielder]

Why are videogames hard when you put them on hard mode :(

#playing kh2 on critical mode #and like. here’s the thing. #i don’t play games on hard. i’m not here for the challenge i’m here for the story and some good times #but i really want to earn the secret ending for once so here we are on critical #i’ve gotten through every boss so far no problem (mostly) #but despite this NOT being a completionist playthrough i am still fucking incapable of finishing a kh game without collecting #every treasure chest #i just have to collect them #and i just can’t fucking get past that last nobody fight in cavern of remembrance #i leveled up specifically for this. i spent like two hours on it #still nothing #i guess i just need to level up even more :/ (i’m level 68) #i literally finished my beginner playthrough on level 67 lmao. i completed all of CoR at a lower level but oh well #kh #kingdom hearts

[lemeute]

most of the time I love living in a four-bedroom apartment with friends

however sometimes I can see the exact rearrangement of furniture that would solve 7 to 12 collective problems and if I lived by myself nothing would prohibit me from simply Fixing It the moment I was struck with my vision

#my roommates do not share my Grand Passion for rearranging furniture as a solution to Our Collective Problems Both Logistic And Emotional #I do not share their determination to be Wrong about this!!!!!!!!!!!! #by changing the structures of our lives we can change our ability to act in relationship to those structures!!!! #a couch is also a structure!!! and I have listened to everyone's needs and feelings and found areas of overlap!!! we can solve everything!! #all we have to do is relocate the structures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a genius!!!!!! #I should be able to silently move all the furniture at 3am and then have my works praised when my roommates wake up at sensible times!!!!!! #s;dhglksdjflskdjf #anyway

[sad--tree]

i should know better by now than 2 think i can just casually checkout out shoefreak's clearance section and walk away w/o spending anything sooooo yeah. spent money on unnecessary new boots (not good) BUT i saved $97 (Very Good!!) bw clearance discount and early black friday (???) discount :D the boots r demonia gravedigger-255 btw 😎

#im starting 2 develop a like. actual for real Boot Collection which is. a problem. #not least of all bc they take up a lot of room!!! #at least im diversifying lol these ones are calf boots w/ a short platform + no heel #which i DONT have yet #also i almost never see shoes in my ''mens'' size (aka the unisex boots) go on clearance ! lots of womens 7s but hardly ever any mens 5s :(( #also also SHOEFREAKS I LUV U ❤🧡💛💚💙💜💖🖤 #still in disbelief we get 2 have such a cool CANADIAN company w/ sickass boots and FREE (!!) domestic shipping!!! #ok bye back in2 the void i go