i bet scratching your neck with your little foot feels good as fuck if you're a cat

Peachtober day 3: Slug

[image description: a black and white pen drawing of a slug with a city on its back. several birds fly over the city skyline. /end i.d.]

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Every time I talk about myself, no one donates to me. Why am I dying slowly? I suffer from depression, and the eye doctor told me I need surgery, but I don't have the money. I'll lose my sight. I care for my elderly parents, and we lack even the most basic necessities. Our only source of income after the war is donations because we lost everything. I'm dying slowly, and there's no one to care for my elderly parents. Your donation is life for me. If you can't donate, please share this so it reaches everyone. I'm dying inside; I've lost myself.

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sorry for shooting your dog with a crossbow you have to understand Im american our education system is in the gutter most of us were never taught that killing peoples beloved pets with medieval projectile weaponry is wrong and we're all too burnt out to research it on our own time

the rapture has already happened and only a singular starfish (most innocent) was sent to heaven in 632 AD

Wyll, Davrin, & Regret

When it comes to discussions of Wyll in relation to his pact and regret, there are sometimes these takes that emerge where people bring up how he should not feel bad for regretting his pact. I've interacted with such posts in the past, reblogged them, found them interesting. I will not deny that they make good points! However, I was reflecting on some of my own approaches to the concept of regret recently, and I made a connection of why these posts also never felt entirely right to me personally. In part, I think it is because people assume that, if a decision and/or action brings you harm or distress in some way, shape, or form, then it is only expected of you to regret the decision and/or action that led to that outcome of suffering. When, in reality, I truly believe that Wyll does not regret his pact, whereas Davrin's approach to leaving his clan explores a similar mindset where the interpretation is more open to that of regret.

one of my favourite things about the complete plot contrivance of the inquisitor's amnesia is that corypheus had no way to know that was happening and he surely had to act under the assumption that the herald had already told everyone the bad guy was a big blighted freak surrounded by grey wardens, and then was presumably baffled when the inquisition was like “our main goal is to figure out who did this”. the corypheus pov is always funnier the more you think about it

Not only is having worldbuilding threads that are mentioned once and never picked up again not a flaw in fantasy media, I'd go so far as to say that a lack of such threads is a flaw. If everything ties up in one neat little package, you're missing the point of fantasy worldbuilding. Like, don't do it on every page, or your setting is going to be an overstuffed mess, but every so often you are not only allowed but obligated to casually drop some utterly batshit worldbuilding detail and then just never follow up on it. Maybe some rocks are sentient. You don't owe your reader an explanation. Just fucking go for it.

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from I’m Somewhere Else, “Max is a Miracle”

The best advice I’ve heard on how to get through college with a developmental disability when there are zero accommodations for executive dysfunction. You can’t let anyone else try to live your life for you, and you cannot worry about “doing things right”. Also: none of the things described here as “cheating” are ACTUALLY cheating.

We need to stop making fiction/art about alienation & loneliness where the main character has like 2-3 close personal friends and also more often than not a romantic partner. I can't take it anymore.

the spirit is willing but the flesh is so fucking out of it rn. actually the flesh would like to pack it up and leave. it's done with the horrors.

Round #3 — Match 26 of 26

Justice

vs. Sandal

sunday 3pm activities:

So Cassandra has this line after Here Lies the Abyss when she's trying to document what happened in the Fade and getting frustrated with not knowing whether the Justinia she saw there was a spirit or a memory or the real deal or what. Where if you tell her 'I don't know either' then she goes "Sadly, unanswered questions make for poor reading," which is sort of crazy interesting for reasons I'm having difficulty articulating. I know, as both a reader and a writer, I go to stories, and even nonfiction, to explore questions, not to be given definite answers (which I ultimately won't believe anyhow). I want to walk away still thinking about what the truth is and how we can make sense of things that may be on some level subjective or unknowable. But Cassandra is also someone who struggles a lot with faith and doubt and subjectivity and being unable to determine the best course of action. But she goes to stories for answers, huh? She wants read The Chant of Light or The Tale of the Champion and be told what to think, huh?

I think my most toxic Tumblr trait is that sometimes I'll scroll past something five times before I reblog it. Not bc I don't want to, but sometimes I'm too lazy to hit the buttons