i will get on here but i've realised part of my hesitation is never have i ever read the books and never will i ever change that. i do not like the books i do not like scott and while i try not to bring bad vibes sadly in this regard not only am i a little hater but it's important for people to know when writing with me. fnaf is at this point the weirdest 'fandom' i've been in because there is almost no consensus on canon so it splits into a million streams of headcanon, most of which branch off from popular fanon, and i feel like an ant in a microwave sometimes trying to write michael. like every time i have to make my brain kiss someone else's brain and it's not even our fault it's because scott is allergic to writing a story full stop. so it's like how do i chop up my character to be digestible and usable while still being mine without asking other people to do too much of the same and i have never had this issue on any other blog because even when headcanons differed there was always a solid 'home base' of canon information. we can't even definitively say that mike is anyone other than the sister location guy. it's maddening. it's maddening to me to have to wait for scott to pussyfoot out new concepts in his books which i'm not reading because they're never well-written, that will maybe, abruptly, become relevant to game canon, often in a retconning way, depending on the response of teenagers on twitter. like jesus christ mate you live like this? you write your series like this? i'm going to swallow straight sedimentary strata. anyways in sam's house michael is michael forever he isn't charlie or freddy or vanessa. i'm being boiled in oil.
hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???
i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)
"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years
I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.
My father was martyred by Israel on 10 October 2023 after sacrificing his care in hospital so the injured children could take priority. Today would have been his 60th birthday. He was always selfless, kind, and giving for others. My father gave up everything for me to be able to have a better life, because that is what he always dreamed for me and my sister. The world suffered a great loss when he died, and my heart is always with him and every Palestinian who has lost someone.
In his honour and memory, I would love for anyone who is able to do so to consider donating to The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
The PCRF is an amazing organisation that does so much for those in Gaza right now, including helping provide food, water and medicine. You can donate any amount you are able to- there is no minimum! My father would have given his very last cent if he saw the way Palestine was continuing to suffer after over 100 days with this limited aid, so I know celebrating him by helping others is the least he would have wanted.
I saw @parrot-parent do a very successful donation match and I thought it was such a good idea so I will also match all donations up to $500! If you feel comfortable sending me proof of the amount of your donation, I will match it as a donation at the end of February. (My messages are set to mutuals only, but if you donate and we aren’t mutuals if you send an ask with the proof I will make sure to answer it privately.)
I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who'd like to say a few words instead.
A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with "I'm an engineer. i'm not a poet or a politician. I don't... do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i'm just going to tell you about the street I grew up on."
And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.
All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.