I think that the admins heard people complaining about having to watch Cucurucho's pov and, instead of listening to the actual criticism of people saying that they're tired of the npcs doing all the lore things and not the players anymore, they swapped Cucurucho's pov out for a friendly, relatable slay girlboss of a npc with a tragic backstory and a LOT of voicelines. Elena is basically a player- she's even in survival mode- and that's fine and all, but this pov switch is missing the entire point of everybody's criticism because we were STILL left with huge lore stuff with no explanation and without literally any player agency involved because like? Of course the friendly perfect lovable npc finds the very important lore information! Not any of the player characters, and this is the problem that everybody has been talking about. What's the point of the characters at this point if all the important stuff happens to the npcs?

MR. THE STAMPEDE, WHAT DID THIS EBAY SELLER DO TO YOU???

Also shout-out to this GRATUITOUS BUTT SHOT

It's wild how many people took Kristen's line of questioning as her saying Tracker isn't taking her religion seriously instead of what I heard her asking which was:

How many of these people would be here if it wasn't religious Coachella?

I feel like a lot of folks who insist that the rampant purity culture in fandom spaces is "not a real problem", and something "an adult with a job" shouldn't deal with, fail to realize that if you simply engage with a certain ship or a certain trope you are exposed to cyberbullying in the form of insults, death threats, rape threats, suibating, self-harm baiting, attempts at doxxing, loss of your livelihood.

Your traumas will be stepped on if you have any, and/or treated as a joke. Your coping mechanisms will be deemed wrong, bad, harmful to yourself and other people, and you will be shamed for having them. The work you have been doing for your mental health, regardless if you dabble in the hobbies you like because of past traumas or because it's just a past-time you have, will be kicked into the dirt because someone is grossed out by them and they arbitrarily decided you cannot express your interest in them.

It is a real problem. Being an adult with a job doesn't give you an "exempt from this" badge that will protect you from harassment if you engage with anything that antis deem immoral.

And there are no "two sides of the same coin" and "two versions to hear" when it comes to this. I don't care if you think someone liking something is "unhealthy", that's none of your business what another person likes. Antis do not "have a point", they never do, their reaction to seeing a dark trope or an "unhealthy ship" are never justified. Hurting real living and breathing people over fictional content is never justified!

911 3x06 Monsters and the award for funniest B-plot goes to: adult man terrorized by small bird

Alright, the jack in the box is wound, and the coherence is coming to me. Halsin and the dryad, I was talking about his response if the PC indicates that he is most comfortable after a supper large enough to induce hibernation:

"Mindless gorging...? No, that is not right. I did not realize you thought that of me."

And why this keeps catching in my mind is not necessarily what he says, but how he says it (so I am commending Dave Jones' voice acting here). The rest of Halsin's responses to incorrect answers are generally even toned and corrective; firm, usually, but not inherently overly emotional. Much like a teacher correcting a student. But this one...he sounds genuinely surprised and taken aback that the PC would even suggest that. The "no, that is not right" is even firmer on its heels. And the last part...the last part, his voice is smaller. Less forward. I would not go so far as to suggest hurt, but it is approaching that territory. It comes so fast after his firm no, that it almost sounds like something that slipped by accident. Like something that was meant to be muttered under the breath, but it slipped from him because the surprise was so organic.

Alone, it doesn't mean too much. It's a slight offense to an obviously nonfactual statement. And that's likely all it is. I'm about to read too deep into this, I am aware.

But combined with the other things spread throughout Halsin's dialogue, particularly the implication that he is otherwise used to people making commentary on his physical appearance or the physicality of his being, it suggests an extra layer of hurt. An extra layer of: "I did not expect this from you, of all people." Not quite a betrayal, but approaching one.

What makes it particularly catching, is that one of the things you are able to wrench (and I say wrench because getting Halsin to share mundane personal details about himself is a production - and it makes *sense* it's a production if a. We keep in mind that Halsin himself doesn't seem all too sure who he is beyond his preoccupation - which elves are prone to but Halsin also just has...a lot on his plate that have evidently stunted his identity formation - to the point where he even claims he was forgetting who he was, and b. If he is used to questions concerning himself and his experience leading into questions regarding his sex life or his physical activities, see: the companion banter with Wyll and Karlach, he likely...doesn't really keep ready details about himself personally on tap anymore. He's so unused to people being interested in Halsin, that he's taken aback when they are. It becomes the "In the moment, I forget everything and anything I like to do for fun" mentality - no one really cares about what I like to do anyway - if you will. He even goes so far as to joking that the PC may be a doppelganger because *why else would they want to know these things*) out of Halsin when you ask him about himself is that he has a sweet tooth. That he likes honey, and people find that amusing. He chuckles, but his face falls, evidently prepping for the PC to make a similar comment (and he attempts to beat you to the joke about that, though a PC can still call that "on the nose" to which he responds that there is little point in denying oneself if it doesn't hurt anybody - indulging isn't a bad thing). If the PC instead chooses that he should pay little attention to what others think, he gives that infamous: "sometimes I think people look at me and imagine my feelings can't be hurt" line. Which implies - regardless of whether he verbalizes it or not - things in this thread hurt his feelings. Comments or assumptions about his body and his person hurt his feelings. He won't say it, but they do. The PC is likely aware of this by this point in the relationship.

Halsin does not otherwise bring up eating or food to any level of significance or directness - the sweet tooth comment was the only time (you could assume outside of canon interactions that they've had other conversations between them and that perhaps this was brought up, but we are going to base this solely in what Halsin reveals in canon). He brings up hibernation, but specifically the sleeping part of it. Nothing else.

So, the PC then potentially goes ahead and makes an assumption of him during the dryad. How'd they arrive at this conclusion, as it obviously surprises Halsin that they did? It reads, very much, that the PC is making this assumption based on the comment about his sweet tooth, his comment on indulgence, and his physicality (note: the ha ha bear and hibernation thing almost seems like an afterthought - Halsin latches *very* quickly onto the "mindless gorging" part). All things that he has shown very evident discomfort (which is ironic because the question is when he feels most comfortable) or hesitance towards (he claims there is nothing wrong with indulgence, but never seems to indulge himself beyond sex, if that. Gee, what does that remind you of?)

Halsin entrusted this individual with this information, as frivolous as it was, potentially revealed that it hurts his feelings when people make assumptions of him, and this individual then went used that information and made the assuming connection: "So, this is a big man. He said he liked sugar, so he must like to eat and indulge. It must be his favourite thing to do because look at him." I am going to essentially ignore everything else I could have possibly heard, and make a bear hibernation joke that has nothing to do with sleeping being a comfort, but emphasize the eating part.

So, yeah, he's a little taken aback - incredulous, you might say. A little hurt. Resigned, almost. Because at that point, you can make a very logical assumption that Halsin came to a very quick snap realization that perhaps this person was not so different from the others as he thought. That it always eventually comes back to that. What else was he expecting? When has it ever been any different for him?

not to be the one but if you understand the risks of people accusing your children of being bastards (rightfully so), you should also understand the risks of having bastards in the first place.........

Headcanon that when he was a small child, Mike was scared of the dark. William ‘helped’ him get over this fear by shutting him in a closet without any lights and leaving him there until he stopped crying and begging to be let out. It’s by this logic that Michael later decides that the best way to get Evan over his fear of animatronics is by terrifying him with them. Never mind the fact that Michael never stopped being scared of the dark, he just became more afraid of William.

So, Fantasy High update... I'm a few episodes past this by now, but I fucking scream-laughed when Coach Daybreak responded to Kristen's desperate plea for guidance about someone who had doubts about their faith with "you should cut her off, because she's going straight to hell." Literally what my wife's parents said about me.(I was still going to church at the time, just not THEIR church, I was questioning my faith but had literally never talked about it to Mags or ANYONE. I was only not still in AWANAS at the time because I think there wasn't one within a reasonable driving distance of where I lived.) Just... setting the magical shit aside, an incredible portrayal of actual religious cults that are too accepted within society to be recognized as cults.

I don't/shouldn't have any comic panels queued for today, so have a small collection of Kims I believe I missed before! Snagged em when I was going back to grab better panels of this outfit

I might (read as: probably will) go back and round up the rest some time

finally found a place to read With the Light online and i'm thrilled; if you haven't read this manga i do Legitimately recommend it

itinerary for this evening, because I very giddily and gladly flashed my Not Going card for a 200-300 person social event tonight, and finished my homework extra early:

☐ go down to the sea again before it gets dark and listen to the waves (and bring Every Moment Holy and Mary Oliver's Devotions with me!!)

☐ a special good-job-well-done drink >:))) most likely a brown sugar bubble tea, which I have been wanting to try for some time!!

☐ nighttime walk listening to Laufey's new album :)

☐ early sleep!!!

Shout out to my mom, thanks for triggering my medical anxiety around my test results while waiting for my doctor's input. I love wanting to cry with a paranoid fear that I'm gonna die cause it's all my fault I'm fat and being terrified my ED is gonna be triggered cause I may be blamed for being fat. 😎 You the best mom!

(Pure sarcasm. Fuck that. I was fine until she said something. I don't know what my test results mean. But thanks to her I'm having fatphobic intrusive thoughts and fear of doctors triggering my ED when this is a nice doctor that actually LISTENS TO ME and doesn't just chop it up to my weight. I hate my mom butting in.)

Just saw some people saying that the Loki s2 finale was crap because it wasn't approached with a Christian perspective.

Loki is based off of the Norse deity, you absolute chucklefucks.

i am begging you to use your brain instead of sharing racist ass rants comparing alex and yuki and insinuating that asian ppl are trying to brainwash europeans or whatever. alex is no longer affiliated with Red Bull, but this is the same nasty xenophobic shit he got in 2019-2020. if you have to be a bigot, at least keep it out of his fucking tag

Anon I have no idea what you're talking about I haven't posted anything like that?

If you're talking about the anon ask someone sent me about Williams framing this as a financial decision that was someone's anon ask, not my own opinion. And please read my bio. I'm Chinese.

Please have some reading comprehension before you go around attacking someone on anon.

I also said it before but I cannot find the post, but there's probably a very specific reason people are quicker to sympathize with Pacifica over Gideon and/or focus more on giving her redemption than him and it starts with an f and ends with a phobia 🫤