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sesamestreep · 8 months

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Din Djarin, 30

30. was it worth it? (from this list) further adventures in that modern au with anti-social baseball cap wearing single dad din djarin because i have no idea what's happening on the show anymore, let's doooo this

Once Din pulls into the driveway, he cuts the engine and sends up a tentative prayer to the universe that the sound is not enough to wake Grogu up. The kid is zonked out in his booster seat in the back, clutching the stuffed animal Din had won him at the fair—at the booth where you shoot a target with a water pistol to make it move, of course, because his aim is still worth writing home about after all these years—and seemingly unbothered by the sudden quiet. Din breathes a sigh of relief and then shifts his focus to the daunting task of trying to get this kid out of his seat, up two flights of stairs, and into the apartment without somehow waking him. It's not going to be easy.

With another sigh, Din opens the door and keeps it there with his foot as he digs around in the center console for his phone and his wallet before pulling the keys out of the ignition. Belatedly, he sees the golden light pouring from the open garage door and realizes Cal must be working in there still. Before Din can properly catch up, Cal is already outside and on his way over.

"I'll uh," Din says, as he gets out, gesturing back at the car, "I'll get this out of your way in a few, I just gotta get the kid upstairs first."

Cal shakes his head, already smiling. "No rush," he says, easily. "We're not going anywhere. And besides, you're always up early anyway. Do it in the morning."

"I don't want to block you all in, if you need to—"

"Like I said, we're not going anywhere. It's fine."

"Well—”

"I'll ask Merrin, if it'll make you feel better! But she will definitely also say it's fine."

Merrin is Cal's—well, Din isn't sure if they're married or not. Cal doesn't wear a ring and Merrin wears dozens, so it's hard to tell. They're definitely a couple, because they do that seamless first person plural thing all the time when they talk about each other, but if they happen to refer to each other in the third person, they just use each other's names, rather than “my spouse” or “my partner”, except for the time Cal—perhaps accidentally—referred to her as "my Merrin" and she made a face and mimed punching him in the stomach for it. They live on the first floor and generally manage the property because they know the owner, which means Cal has all of his tools and his work bench in the garage for his various projects and Merrin tends to the garden out back, which grows a bunch of vegetables and strange plants that Din isn't convinced should be able to survive in this climate. He suspects she has a way with these things but has never bothered to ask about it.

"I'll take your word for it," Din says, reluctantly. "And I appreciate it."

"No problem," Cal replies. "Need any help?"

Din opens the door and starts unbuckling Grogu from his seat. "Uh, I think I'm alright, but thanks."

Cal leans slightly back, so as not to be in the way when Din gently lifts Grogu out of the car and tucks him over his shoulder. "Wow, you really tuckered him out, huh?"

"Yeah. We went to the fair, the, uh, Apple and Trout something or other...?"

Cal laughs. "Peach and Chowder Festival," he corrects. "I know it well."

"This is a strange town."

"I know that too. Looks like you did alright, though."

"Yeah," Din says, gingerly lifting the tail of the stuffed shark in acknowledgement. Another parent at the booth had claimed it was a knockoff of some famous trademarked shark but Din doesn't know about all that. He only knows it was the next best thing in Grogu's mind when there were no frog or lizard plushes to be won. "He's happy, at least."

Cal tips his head to the side, curiously. "You didn't enjoy yourself?"

"Ah, well, you know...crowds and lots of noise and kids all hopped up on sugar...that's not really my thing. But it's not about me, it's about him, so..."

"Yeah," Cal says, with a small smile. He puts a hand gently on Grogu's back. "Bet that makes it all worth it, huh?"

Din suddenly feels very stupid for never bothering to ask Cal or Merrin if they have kids. He’s never been great at that stuff, asking the right questions to really get to know people, and so he can only guess what their situation is. He thinks they're about his age, give or take a few years, and that means they're young enough that, if they had any children, he expects they'd still be living together, but he's not sure about that. They could have kids old enough to be living on their own, he supposes. And they've always been kind to Grogu, never once making a snide comment about him not talking much or needing his space sometimes, the way some other folks do. Sometimes, Cal will even let the kid hang out in the garage to watch him work, waving away Din's concerns about him being too much trouble by pointing to Beady, the cat that's almost always curled up around his neck or perched on his shoulder.

"If I can work with this one around," Cal's fond of saying, "your son's no bother."

Still, Din's not sure how exactly to ask that politely—if they have children of their own or not—especially if the answer is more complicated than a simple yes or no. And there is something complicated and sad about what Cal's expression is doing right now.

"Anyway," he says, cheerfully after a moment, and the expression is gone, tucked away somewhere. "I'll get out of your hair. Just wanted to offer some help if you needed it."

Din clears his throat, thinking about how his therapist is always talking about how he should get better at accepting the kindness other people offer him and also something about how his upbringing had convinced him there's some nobility in suffering needlessly. He probably can get Grogu inside and into bed without any assistance, but it would be easier with help. There had also been a discussion in therapy about depriving people of the satisfaction of showing their love for him by turning down their offers to be of service.

"Actually," he says, feeling foolishly nervous about something so small and seemingly easy, "if you could grab the door for me, that would be a huge help."

"Of course," Cal says, with an easy smile. "Happy to."

"And let’s just, uh, make sure we don't lose the shark,” Din says, as they make their way up the steps. “I don’t think I have it in me to win another one.”

#what is thisssss??? WHO KNOWS???#honestly I’m just trying to capture the energy of the one prompt Phil did where quigon was a Montessori teacher #I might have the details wrong but still #she said what if the Jedi all got to grow old and hang out and be crunchy middle aged weirdos together #and I thought that was great #I just started playing Fallen Order and I love Cal so much I just wanted to write him #I haven’t even met Merrin yet but I love her already I can’t wait for her to destroy me #according to my actual research cal and merrin would be pretty close in age to Din during the Mandalorian??#which is wild???#so here you go #middle aged merrical very good for the soul #cal loves everybody and he just wants to help he’d be such a good neighbor he’s shaped like a FRIEND #okay anyway I added a tag to all my other modern AU Mandalorian prompts on my blog #so you can read them all together if you want #But definitely not necessary to follow anything here #they just do all happen in the same universe #a modern universe if you will #that tag is >>>#single dad green baby #please enjoy #because the chances of me putting any of them on ao3 is slim #taylor swift song prompts #ask #firstelevens #din djarin #grogu #i am not dealing with a new naming convention for him I’m too tired #cal kestis #nightsister merrin #merrical

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allmightyscroll-swag · 2 months

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Uh haven't posted art in some time hm

throws this like I'm an old man feeding the pigeons

Kraang Leo and Mikey getting up to shenanigans expect it's a Ms paint doodle,,,,

Are they collecting dishes from around the lair? Stealing from a china shop? Somehow gotten themselves hired in some yokai restaurant? Got caught up in a cook off? I don't know!

I was drawing Leo and then I put dishes on his kraang arms and it all went down from there....

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lightblueminecraftorchid · 2 months

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having entirely normal feelings about my gender no further questions at this time Please And Thank You

#blue chatter #side Y Catholic mutuals shield your eyes #having… emotions.#got a couple nice button ups from a thrift store w a friend and wearing one today and… oh. *oh*.#I didn’t think I liked that style of shirt bc it looks p masculine #but w a couple details making it more androgynous…#hoo boy #normal gender feelings (lying)#like ‘oh shit I could live here and I would like it’#don’t get me wrong I still love being v feminine #just #I don’t think I’m just a girlie #think I might be nonbinary #uhoh

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erwinsarmrest · 8 months

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anyways the way that jjk ends in my head is geto regains control and kicks kenjaku out of his body and geto and gojo team up and kick the absolute shit out of him and then after they kill him they both succumb to their wounds and die together holding hands

#let them rest🔊🔊🔊#is it still terribly sad? yes. but i truly think that’s as good as we’re gonna get lol #still haven’t read the manga i’m waiting til season 2 is done probably #but i looooove spoilers so i have been keeping up on the low #might be getting some details wrong but 🤷🏻‍♀️#geto suguru #gojo satoru #satosugu #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #getou suguru #gojou satoru #kenjaku

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pepperpixel · 1 year

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Some art of Tori from @misfitmccoward ‘s Naruto fic Plasticity! Because!! It’s such a good fucking fic…! I had to do fanart for it!! honestly after I first read it I was so fucking hype about it that I was almost like “omg.. I have to do an animatic or something for this. it’s SO GOOD” but. My ability to do animatics has kinda flushed down the drain recently ghghg- But! Still!! I had to at least draw some fanart for it…!

#sorry if I got any details wrong! it’s been a few months since I read the fic!#I mean. I originally drew this right after first reading it. but! I only finished them now so. I might have screwed something up ggh-#but yeah! YEAH! OMG! I FUCKING LOVE THIS FIC!?!?!?!?#ITS SO GOOD!?!?#LIKE. ughghghggh. idk. I read it while still pretty deep in my head about awful life stuff #and just. reading Tori. going thru absolute HELL. was like. cathartic?? like my life. is not even a fraction of the shitshow hers is #but! JUST! STILL! like.. the way she responds to stuff… the delayed reactions. the attempts to just roll w the punches.#the fACT ALL OF HER POSSESSIONS ARE LIKE. MEANINGFUL AND IMPORTANT TO HER.#like that’s! a small detail in the grand scheme of the fic but the fact that sort of thing is commented on at all is like! FUCK.#I GET IT TORI I FUCKING GET IT #AND ITS SO FUN!!! like yeah shit is awful for tori basically ALL THE TIME. but it’s not! a downer to read! its fucking fun as hell to read!#the interactions between all the characters are SO GOOD! and entertaining!! literally EVERYTHING in this fic is a fucking delight!!!#and it’s like! ITS SO GOOD AT GETTING U TO ROOT FOR TORI! like!!!#yea I recognize Tori has slowly crossed all her moral and ethical lines and become. like. pretty fucked up.#but like! seeing that shift. coincide w the slow shift. towards everything in her life becoming NOT completely horrible #it’s just like!!! yes! girl! do what u gotta do! become a monster! get some happiness in ur life!#like it’s like… I love it so much. its such a fucking good fic. it’s sO FUN. I cannot overstate. how fun this fic is.#and Tori’s such an endearing character!! and everyone else is really likeable and well written too!#lIKE. IDK. ITS JUST A GREAT FIC DUDES. ITS GREAT #doodles #plasticity #blood #tori mendoza #also. the song that I was thinking of using for the animatic was gonna be ‘stupid intruders’#cuz I heard it and immediately was just like. OMG. THIS FITS THE VIBES SO WELL. like. it just felt very fitting ghgh #also also! Srry for misspelling ‘obviously’ in the first pic.. spelling is hard ghg-#but!! yeah!! have some art. of Tori! cuz I love her! and I love this fic!!#featuring 2 diff pics of her absolutely covered in blood from the 1st chapter! cuz. that was iconic…#and also I felt I didn’t properly convey the like. drowned rat energy the first time gGHG-#god ok I’m running out of tags now. U SHOULD READ THIS FIC IF U WANT ITS RLLY GOOD. highly recommend! it’s fucking great!

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mappinglasirena · 1 year

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La Sirena's Registry

Before season 3 aired, I promised I would make a post about La Sirena's registry if and when it was canonized during the final season of Star Trek: Picard. Now that the finale has aired and we are unlikely to ever see this little speed freighter on our tv screens again, I think it's high time I elaborate on this issue.

Mild spoilers for early season 3 of Star Trek: Picard below!

What are we talking about here?

Back in May 2022, after season 2 wrapped up, the official Star Trek twitter account made a post about some of the ships shown in the season finale.

As you can see, they added additional information about the ships, including names, classes, and registry numbers. For La Sirena, they listed her as "S.S. La Sirena NAR-93131".

The "S.S."-prefix and registry number were repeated by, among others, production designer Dave Blass, who said he was asked to come up with a registry number for season 3 and/or promo purposes, and they have since been listed on Sirena's Memory Alpha page and also showed up in the season 3 Instagram promos run by Paramount+ (which I briefly talked about here).

However, I have been holding off on changing any of my posts on this blog or the way I talk about La Sirena to reflect this new information, because I was waiting to see if it would actually get confirmed in canon. (In Star Trek, generally only things shown on screen during the aired shows and movies are considered canon. The many books and technical manuals, any deleted scenes, official promo-materials, tweets, Q&As, interviews, or other messages from the showrunners, writers, or production staff are usually relegated to beta canon).

Now that the show has officially ended, I can say with some confidence: we never got confirmation that La Sirena has a registry number, let alone what that number might be.

(Follow me below the cut for a (very long) exploration of registry numbers in Star Trek and why I think La Sirena remains without one.)

What is a registry number?

Most Trekkies are probably very familiar with the typical starship registry numbers we find throughought the shows and movies. They're blazoned across the hull and are often seen in official information or even used as identification in dialogue.

Here the classic example: the U.S.S. Enterprise which has the registry "NCC-1701", with various letters added for all later reincarnations of the famous flagship.

While it is never discussed in detail anywhere in canon (unless I have missed something crucial), these registries are unique identifiers given to the ships. They are created and kept on file by the organization that has registered the ship in question (e.g. Starfleet for the Enterprises, the Klingon Empire for Imperial ships, the UFP for civilian vessels, etc.).

The prefixes before the ship name are an indication of this affiliation. Where in the real world, a ship operated by the UK's royal navy might be called "HMS Shipname" for "His/Her Majesty's Ship", in Trek world, we have Starfleet using "USS" for "United [Federation] Star Ship"/"United Space Ship", or the Klingon "IKS" prefix for "Imperial Klingon Ship."

(Like this beauty. Though I don't think we ever see official registry markings on the hulls of Klingon ships.)

Similarly, the registry number has a specific format depending on the institution issuing it. For Starfleet, the most common in the 24th century was "NCC" followed by a number, though others were possible (e.g. "NA" for the fully-automated Starships like the U.S.S. Aledo from Lower Decks.

With the few civilian ships we have seen over the course of the 24th-century Trek series, the most common prefix/registry combination has been "S.S. Shipname" (presumably for "Star Ship"), and a registry number beginning with "NAR".

(See for example the "S.S. Mariposa, NAR-7678" from TNG's "Up the Long Ladder".)

At first glance, it would make sense for La Sirena to follow this pattern. However there is a snag.

To Register or not To Register?

We learn in season 1 that La Sirena is an unregistered vessel. Rios is an "off the books" pilot and the fact that his ship is not registered is mentioned more than once.

However, at no point in any of the series (as far as I'm aware, and please, correct me if I'm wrong) do we get a clear explanation of what this entails in the Star Trek universe.

On its face, I would think "unregistered" means that La Sirena is not listed in any of the official registries that exist throughout the spaces where Rios operates his vessel. She's not registered with the UFP, the Romulan Free State, any merchant association, or any other organziation that might keep such a database. In order to be truly independent (and capable of doing a lot of shady dealings), Rios has kept Sirena out of any and all official records.

But if that is the case, that would mean there is no institution who could have conferred an official registry onto the ship. If "NAR-93131" were the ships registry, by definition, that would have to be listed in some kind of official register. Which would defeat the purpose of being off-the-books in the first place.

"But wouldn't the ship need a registry any time it docked at a port or came into contact with other ships?"

Presumably, yes. The point of registries is to make ships trackable and accountable. So, if you rocked up to a Starfleet-run spacestation and didn't have an official-sounding registry to broadcast, you would probably be in a lot of trouble. But there are many ways around this.

A determined off-the-books pilot (especially one with an extremely capable hacker-friend like Raffi Musiker) could have any number of fake registries (think: fake licence plates), official papers that are just out of date (e.g. stolen from a recently decommissioned ship) and a good story about currently being in the process of renewing them, funds set aside to bribe port officials in places farther from the centre of the Federation, where money still runs the economy... There are many ways around the obstacles presented by not having an official registry, and it seems very likely Rios would have chosen one of those.

Now, as I see it, there are three in-universe ways to bring in the "NAR-93131" registry.

The first possibility is that it's the designation the ship used to have, before Rios (or a previous owner) took her over and let the registration lapse. We don't know anything about the age of the ship in canon (in beta canon, she is fairly old), so it's possible she was fully integrated into a registered organization before she went rogue. In that case, Rios might even keep the registry around to have handy in case of interstellar bureaucracy mishaps.

Alternatively, this might be one of the fake registries Rios uses commonly when he encounters any kind of authority who will be likely to ask for his ship's identification.

In both of those cases, however, it likely wouldn't be a permanent feature of La Sirena. If you consistently use a fake registry, even if there is no record of it in any official database, it will eventually become associated with your ship and trackable across jurisdictions and time, which is the opposite of what you want to achieve by remaining unregistered.

The third possibility is that some time after Season 1, someone registered La Sirena with the UFP and "NAR-93131" is the number that was assigned to her then. I can't speculate about whether that was the production team's intended explanation (not least because from some of the comments I've read from them, it seemed to me like the connection between "this ship is unregistered" and "this ship does not have a fixed registry" might have gotten a bit muddled on their end), but it's definitely a possibility.

However, I am also not convinced by this explanation. While Sirena does rise to more prominence in the immediate aftermath of the Coppelius incident (she is ferrying around the Newly Great Jean-Luc Picard, after all), I'm not sure Rios would have agreed to register her before he joined Starfleet. Then Seven of Nine takes over the ship for work with the Fenris Rangers, and while I disagree with season 3's characterization of the Rangers as "pirates" ("vigilantes" or "non-state actors" seems more apt imo), I still think they would either not bother too much with having their ships properly registered or might even prefer the more stealthy approach of unregistered ships.

Finally, Sirena ends up with Raffi Musiker, who is using her for undercover work in Starfleet Intelligence. Once again, it could go either way. Raffi's cover story is that she's out of Starfleet, and while it would probably not raise any eyebrows for her to have a properly registered ship, I also think leaving the ship unregistered might have been useful to add to her outlaw persona.

As it stands, I think you can make good arguments for both, La Sirena being registered at some point during the run of Star Trek: Picard and her being kept unregistered and off the books for use in various semi-legal and/or covert activities.

One thing is clear, however: We never got any on-screen confirmation of her being registered, let alone the "official" name "S.S. La Sirena NAR-93131".

(NB: There is a minute chance a reference to the registry number might be somewhere in all of this information:

but since effectively none of it is legible and the two or three docs talking about Raffi's assignment (Operation Daybreak) seem to be highly redacted, I will go with: It's never actually confirmed.)

Why does any of this matter?

Honestly? It doesn't. If it brings you joy to have a registry number to associate with this ship, I'd say go ahead and live your bliss.

This is really just a petty and very personal gripe of mine. I liked that La Sirena wasn't a Starfleet ship with the usual bells and whistles (registry number, dedication plaque, etc.). She was an oddball, run by a captain who, while emotionally still deeply connected to Starfleet, was also on the outside and preferred it that way. Season 1 offered a look at parts of the Star Trek universe we never really got to see before, and that felt fresh and exciting.

To me, personally, giving Sirena a registry number (without any character-driven explanation for how she got it or who decided to register her and why) felt like it erased a part of her identity. It changed her from a scrappy underdog operating in the grey areas and along the edges of the Federation to just another quasi-Starfleet ship of the line.

Is that a highly personal pet peeve and completely blowing things out of proportion? Yes. Yes, it very much is. Which is why I won't ever fault anyone for choosing to adopt the headcanon/fanon/beta canon of this registry and running with it.

But if anyone ever wonders why I continue to call her simply "La Sirena" and talk about her as an unregistered vessel, now you know ;)

#star trek picard #la sirena #registry #sirena's history #beta canon #long post #welcome to 'the author's personal pet peeves hour' 🙈#though i tried to keep the peevishness to a minimum and stick to more nutritious information as much as possible #also: i still worry that i might have overlooked some detail in season 3 that actually *does* canonize the registry #but i've looked through what little we see of sirena in the show (all four episodes that she appeared in) several times #and i'm fairly sure it's not in there #but please correct me if i'm wrong

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vimbry · 9 months

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man I love the video for doctor worm. how it works as a last hurrah to that "era" of their visual style, being in black & white, using the undercrank technique, the cuts to disjointed surreal imagery, the strange choreography (to the point where it actually stamps the word in big letters over the dance shots like it's very aware of their magic formula).

there's been callbacks to those elements since, especially in the alex italics-directed videos, but years afterward and as purposeful affectionate allusions to their past work. doctor worm seems more like a unique, tidy little send-off as they approached the new millennium.

#tmbg #also as a personal fav detail I like the inclusion of linnell seeming to break and smile. which feels like an outtake from the session #they're usually very openly strict and don't do anything especially ''precious'' in their output. or really make it about themselves.#not to mention this video was directed by flansburgh so that must have been his choice to include that footage in the final cut?#which. I dunno. it just seems sweet! going along with the last hurrah feel it's like a snapshot of them having a good time creating art #I feel like the ''introducing choreography'' text is a homage to something I don't know why. I might be wrong #but there's something about how specific it is that makes me think cinematic reference #but even if it is I think it still works as it does here

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whysamwhy123 · 6 months

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IT IS DONE.

I mean...not really because I need to proofread it and if I was really a good writer, I'd probably have to edit it down a ton but whatever, I finished the OrangeHook fic!!

It's just over 8k words, yikes. I should probably take out a ton of it but who knows if I actually will or not. Mostly, I'm just happy because this is the first thing I've finished writing in months? The slump I was in was so bad, I honestly thought I might stop writing completely again. Turns out, all it took to get me back into the swing of things was a brand new pairing and a bad idea!

Didn't write the smut in the end though. I did my usual 'fade to black and then we pick up right afterwards'. Whatever. It's better than embarrassing myself with some shoddy, badly written, unsexy-sex times. And this monstrosity is long enough as it is, so.

At least I had the restraint to not include the part I was thinking of where OC politely asks Hook to never call him daddy. Ever. And Hook's just like ''Uh. Sure?''

Now I just need to polish it up a touch and then I've gotta decide whether I feel up to actually posting this thing or not...

#What is wrong with you Sam you should not be allowed to write #I'm honestly a little impressed by my ability to write something so long and yet so little actually happens LOL #I bet in the hands of a skilled writer this baby would have been like...3k words at most?#But ol' Sammy Sam-Sam's over here like ''WHAT IF EVERYONE TALKED TOO MUCH AND HAD A MILLION THOUGHTS ABOUT EVERYTHING #AND WHAT IF I WENT INTO EXCRUIATING DETAIL ABOUT ALL OF THESE THOUGHTS REGARDLESS OF HOW LITTLE POINT THERE IS TO THEM?''#Still I had fun and maybe that's what matters in the end?#Still don't think I'm the right writer to handle OrangeHook but it's my brainrot now might as well own it #Oh and in case you're wondering - the final count of the amount of times OC refers to Hook as ''the kid'' is 32 🙂🙂🙂

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scarletcomet · 10 months

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does anyone else ever feel like maybe they need to be hospitalized or weren’t ready to be discharged from the hospital?

#i was discharged almost a week ago now and i felt really ready to go #i have a much better mindset now after the second hospitalization #but the suicidal thoughts and self-harm urges are a lot more difficult to deal with in the real world where i can hurt myself #i still feel very depressed pretty much always but at the same time my mood has been pretty ok #regardless of how i'm feeling and what i'm doing i get those intrusive detailed suicidal thoughts #i want to do more research and stuff just like out of curiosity or to indulge myself a little #but that's the kind of behavior that gets you sent to the emergency room and admitted to the hospital #i feel ok and not actively suicidal but at the same time i want to plan even though i don't want to go through with it at the moment #if i tell my doctor or therapist at my treatment program this i'm worried that they will send me to the emergency room (again)#it would be weird because i feel ok even though im having these thoughts #similar to how i felt last time i was sent to the ER but i wasn't sure if i could keep myself safe in the long run last time #idk. i feel like i can keep myself safe but at the same time i want to plan and get ready #what is wrong with me #i can think about the future and am starting to see a future for myself (at least for the next year) so why do i feel this way?#i need to write some of this shit down and talk to the therapist at my treatment program tomorrow #i feel like it might be too triggering for others to bring up in process group but i do kinda want feedback from my peers

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red-dyed-sarumane · 1 year

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hiii this is unprompted but how did you figure out that the aru sekai series is like. a series

hiya! i figured it out when kyuuyaku was posted. i'd already been listening to aru sekai shoushitsu a lot before that so when it got to about 4:48 in kyuuyaku & mainly 5:16 i was like WAIT A SECOND. THATS THE SAME AS MELODY AS THOSE LYRICS IN ARU SEKAI ISNT IT??? & it was. the nami no ne no lyrics/melody. which made me actually look at the lyrics and see that hey the first part of shoushitsu starts with kyuu & kyuuyaku hankagai ALSO starts with kyuu (same kanji) & it's emphasized in the video too. & then when shuuen touhikou was posted the shuu is the next kanji in that order in the shoushitsu lyrics AS WELL AS it also has the same melody mixed in in the back of the chorus (say, 1:19 for example is the first instance). & every song in the series up until kugutsu ashura has that same melody or at least part of it Somewhere. so that really cemented it for me. theres other ways to tell besides that but thats how i realized it.

#asks #rinnetenseis #aru sekai series #i think the posts are still up here from when i realized it & immediately became obsessed #i was wrong about a lot of things theory wise but u can only do so much with vague info #i dont want to say im a voca series veteran but this IS at least the 4th series ive been into #so u start picking up on little details quick #i say when kyuuyaku was posted i was 3 days late bc i didnt recognize the producer name & thought id listen later #but the first time i heard it for sure #also 'other ways to tell' they phrase things differently for songs out of series #but u might have to be familiar with them already to notice that idk #also also thank u for asking i love getting to talk about it

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sysig · 2 years

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I really had the thought today “Wow I wish I had a poseable spider doll” rather than just

y’know

a spider

#This is all your fault anons #I do still want a spider - very much - and I do not intend to use them like a doll because I want to respect their comfort and safety #But having either a live model or a fairly accurate doll I could flip over and pose without much trouble....#Does such a thing exist? I did see one of those motorized toy spiders that will ''crawl'' along the floor like a remote car #The packaging was very goofy and I laughed at it lol - the spider was probably a curly hair or a rose hair or something #But the photo to the side of the box-window was a Mexican Red Knee like - one of the most recognizable tarantulas on your brown spider toy #Lol #But as for an actually accurate spider toy? I do have a couple plastic ones but I'm pretty sure they're just shells #The kind that has the top to appear like a spider from above but a concave belly to save plastic #Still might be worth it to look - worst that happens is I go back to just looking at reference pictures lol #I'm flustered 'cause I was doodling and got a leg joint really wrong - think Vortian more than Spider - but the negative space was nice #So now I have to re-pose and renegotiate the space so it doesn't look muddled #/And/ I forgot the pedipalps fjdkslafd #It was just for a warmup so I wasn't exactly taking my time but I don't like the feeling of missing so many details #Unpracticed neophyte failure type feelings :( I'll get better with time I just gotta grab onto the passion again

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camscendants · 2 years

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I have school tomorrow

#as in the fourth #it’s past midnight #so it’s the third now #I go on Thursday #like we fixed my schedule #I’m still being forced to retake geometry even though I shouldn’t have to #but I end at the close school which is good #oh I didn’t even mention that there was an issue on my schedule #it basically gave me a schedule and when I went to look at the details for the other school it gave me a different class in the wrong order #🤷 they fixed it u.s history then business/arts #which I think might be about the music industry or something? I know the teacher he does music stuff #my brother said he thinks knows the class #idk #school #back to school #high school

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mollypaup · 1 year

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I have come to the sudden realization that just because I thought maybe I wanted something in the past, and foolishly dared to voice this desire to another person, does not make it an immutable fact about my person that I cannot change without becoming A Liar.

#listen. there is something very wrong with me due to the very awful way I was treated during my formative years.#changing my mind isn't a crime!#i don't have to be frightened of forming or voicing an opinion for fear that one day i might no longer hold it #this is probably some emotional development people undergo at 12 but whatever! i am trying My Best.#'would you still love me if I changed my mind about one extremely minor thing' <- insane anxiety that i have just now recognized i possess #it turns out my personality is not one big continuous lie i have to perfectly remember every detail of for fear of being Found Out #it is just Me and What I Think About Things and How I Act #it is subject to change #insane

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alltoowsll · 2 years

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i haven't even done my homework because i don't know how to do it in the first place

#HJGFKDSLDF #i have all the details and instructions- and still i'm afraid i might be wrong #karla speaks

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paganinpurple · 1 year

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AO3 Etiquette -UPDATED

Based on both decent and not so decent replies, I have made some changes to my original post below.

It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:

As well as likes, kudos is for when the story was interesting enough to make you finish reading. If it sucked or was badly written, you probably left. If you finished it, you liked it - so kudos.

If you really liked it, you should try to comment. It can be long and detailed or a literal keysmash. Writers don't care, we just love comments.

No critisism unless the author has specifically asked or agreed to hear it (so use your notes to say if you want some constructive feedback). Even constructive critisism is a no-no unless an author note tells you it's okay. No, posting it online is not an open invitation for that. Many people write as a fun hobby or a way to cope with, among other things, insecurity and just want to share. Don't ruin that for them. I've seen so many authors just stop writing coz they can't handle the negative emotions the critism brings, and it's only meant to be a fun thing shared for free (pointing out tagging errors is not included in this).

Do not comment to ask the author to write/update something else. It's tacky and off-putting and will probably have the opposite effect than the one you want.

There is no algorithm, it's an archive. Use the search and filter function to add/remove the pairings/characters/tropes etc. you want to read about and it will find you the fics that fit the bill.

For this to work, writers must tag and rate stories. This avoids readers finding the wrong things and missing the stuff they want. I don't care how cringy that trope is in your eyes - it gets tagged.

The tag exception is if you don't want to tag a million things or spoil your story, you can rate it as "chose not to use warnings," and maybe tag the bare minimum.

Don't censor tags. How can someone exclude a tag if the word isn't typed out correctly? There are no content bans for terms so don't censor them.

If the tags are mostly content/trigger warnings, especially if they are things considered very fucked up or graphic, you might want to use "dead dove - do not eat" to ensure people know that you're not messing around with tags and what they get is exactly what you've warned them about.

Character A/Character B means a ROMANTIC or SEXUAL relationship of some kind. Character A&Character B is PLATONIC, like friendship or family.

Nothing is banned. This is an rule because banning one thing is a slipperly slope to banning another and another, until nothing is allowed anymore. Do not expect anyone to censor for you. Because of the tags system, you are responsible for your own reading experience.

People can create new chapters and sequels/fic series any time after they "complete" a story. So it's considered perfectly normal to subscribe, even to a finished story. You can even subscribe to the author instead just to cover your bases.

Do not repost stories or change the publishing date without an extremely good reason (like a complete top to bottom rewrite or an exchange youve written for going public). It's an archive, not social media. No one cares what's the most recent, only what fits their tag needs.

Instead of deleting a story you wrote if you hate it - consider making it anonymous or orphaning it so others can still enjoy it, without it being connected to your name anymore. If you still want to delete it, fair enough.

It's come to my attention that metaworks ARE allowed on AO3, which is something I wasn't aware of. So if you do post an essay or theory, please tag it as such so others can choose to search for it or exclude it. Art is also allowed.

The only reason this archive works is because NON ONE PROFITS. Do not link to your ko-fi or patreon or mention monetary gain in any way or you violate the terms and risk having your account removed. If anyone does link, it leaves the archive open to people claiming it's for profit and having the whole thing removed.

I KNOW there's plenty more I missed but I'm trying to cover most of the basics that people seem to be struggling with.

I invite anyone to add to this, but please explain, don't berate.

#ao3 #using ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #fanworks

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