I made a shitpost AU featuring the main villains from a D&D campaign I'm in! They're so silly and I love them sm--

(DM) @ashes-to-asher Suffer >:)

(Other Players) @traumallamarama @blazingjuniper You're welcome <3

hands you a collection of miserable wet droopy ears batman

justice league of america vol. 1, 17, "the triumph of the tornado tyrant!" 1963, script gardner fox, pencils mike sekowsky, inks bernie sachs

I had a great idea for story hear me out!! 😉😉 Peter caring for Tony after he has some type of surgery🙂❤️ what do you 🤔 think??☺️

I do love stories where Peter helps to care for Tony. Or is worried about him and wants to help. But, for me, there is a very fine line between caring about an adult in his life and parentification.

If I were to write this prompt, I think it would be Pepper (or Steve, or Rhodey or whomever other adult) as the caretaker and Pete begging to help. Knowing how much Peter loves Tony, the caretaker gives him small things to do so that he feels useful. Things like, "Can you freshen up his water?" "Why don't you ask him if he wants to watch a movie? Company would be good for him," or "Would you like to carry his lunch in for him?"

I will add this one to my list. Haha

But if anyone else wants to write something along these lines, please do!! And be sure to tag me so I can enjoy it!!

you know I think they did the 'Phoenix and Edgeworth class trial backstory' reveal well because if you started off the bat saying "this man, our protagonist, became an attorney purely to meet his friend from 4th grade again" it would be absolutely ridiculous but by the time you get to turnabout goodbyes it's like yeah he would and we might as well interrogate a parrot while we're at it

Seeing this kind of juxtaposition on my timeline...

with

makes me cold with anger and quite hopeless, tbh. That tone is not far off from what I see often, including on here. How are we supposed to trust that people like this are going to push Biden on Palestine?

If I were in part responsible for creating some of the most hellish circumstances for humans today I would not gloat about it? I would not scold those concerned about it? Like, yeah, sucks for you, Biden'll win and continue this genocide because he's ideologically committed to it and Dems sure don't care enough to stop it, especially post-election. Or, Biden'll lose and it'll be your fault for caring about a genocide and it'll still continue and everything else will get worse in a different number of ways.

Yeah, yeah. Great to be reminded of that.

Ivanhoe 1982

its like. yes channing tatum is on my screen wearing eyeliner ear prosthetics and blonde hairspray, doing what he clearly thinks is a convincing Space Accent as he explains the nuances of a galactic politics based on bloodlines that bees can recognize... but more importantly can you believe they put little freckles on his shoulder

Whenever I do headcannons for Scaramouche and have to divide them as Kabukimono, Kunikuzushi, The Balladeer and Wanderer ; there's the urge to add in Kuronushi as well. Like this guy didn't even have an official 'reveal' unlike the others and still managed to be the Mastermind behind everything. There's just— I can't explain this certain charm to this version of Scara despite not exactly being him at all.

LOOK AT THAT TINY SMIRK. He's a jealous petty schemer poet that no one knew well enough and I'm salty hoyoverse didn't give us more of him

Meanwhile, over in G-Witch, Prospera continues to be fucking terrifying.

Wholeheartedness, Part 2: Flinch-Elimination

Long ago, being in the presence of wasps made me very nervous. What if they stung me? The swelling would be uncomfortable, and the pain would be inconveniently distracting! This would be a bad outcome; I wanted to avoid it. Thus I would, whenever I noticed a wasp near me, stand still until it went away.

This habit caused me more inconvenience than the two wasp stings I'd received in my life up to that point ever did.

Once I noticed this, I decided: fine. Let's just go get stung by more wasps, then, until I'm inured to it and no longer freeze up when wasps are near.

And thus, having resolved this, I no longer had any need to fear the attacks of wasps. If I were to walk at full speed near one, and it were to respond by stinging me, this would be a step forward along the path to inurement, which would be an acceptable thing to gain in return for the cost in discomfort and inconvenience.

It's an old story. (One I've told before, even.) But the relevant principles don't end with wasp stings.

Currently, I do my web searches via a paid subscription service, rather than free via Google; the results are better, and with how much web-searching I do and how much money I have to spare it's a pretty solidly worthwhile deal. But they offer only a limited number of searches per month complementary with the subscription; if one exceeds that number of searches in a month—200, at my current subscription tier—one will need to either stop searching for the rest of the month or start paying 1.5 cents per search. And when I first subscribed I got very flinchy about trying not to search too much, out of fear of that extra charge. Because 1.5 cents is a cost, and surely I'd rather avoid paying that cost on any given search if I don't have to, right?

But, of course, making substantially less use of web search would be a much larger cost than an extra few dollars a month. (I am, after all, paying them money specifically for the sake of getting more out of my web-searching; searching less would run actively counter to the reasons I subscribe at all.) So I did the natural thing: I decided to deliberately search profligately until I broke the 200-search ceiling and started paying additional marginal money per search, for a couple months, until inured to that experience. It's been going great so far: I haven't yet hit the ceiling, but I sure am no longer flinching away from the searches I want to make.

Or, for a third example, this time one where I actually succeeded in exposing myself to more of the flinch-inducing thing: water bills. I used to flinch away from drinking water, because I knew it'd add on the margins to my house's water bills. This was doing me more harm than good. So I took a few extra baths, compared with what I'd otherwise have taken—together summing up to an amount of water-use that my drinking rates would have taken weeks or months to sum up to, since a bathtub's worth of water is in fact A Lot—and I observed that no great financial disaster ensued as a result, and that was the end of my flinching-from-drinking-water.

Backing off and generalizing, now: sometimes, there are inconveniences whose possibility I flinch from, where the flinches cost far more than the cost of just enduring the inconveniences occasionally. And, under those circumstances, it can often be useful to deliberately overcompensate against the flinch response. To try, not just to suppress the flinch response in each individual instance (which tends to be an attention-demanding and difficult process), but to actively toss myself at the flinch-inducing thing until I'm so thoroughly inured to it that it ceases to produce flinch-responses-in-need-of-suppression in the first place. As long as I'm tossing myself in that direction, the tossing overrides the flinch response. Once I've succeeded sufficiently in the tossing, inurement will override the flinch response. And thus the mental overhead of needing to suppress the response will be eliminated, to my benefit as long as I was correct in my choice of what flinch response to get rid of in the first place.

Because intuitively-appealing steps to avoiding inconveniences can be more inconvenient than the inconveniences being avoided, sometimes. And it's valuable, when that happens, to be able to just stop avoiding them.

also it will never not baffle and annoy me that. there is a battle in BNHA where If You Touch The Ground You Die. there is a hero in BNHA whos power is Make Things And People Not Touch The Ground. guess who they DONT BRING to the Battle Where If You Touch The Ground You Die despite her being RIGHT THERE

realizing I’ve willfully been in a perfect bubble of queer thought and academic feminism for so long and that’s the reason I’m gobsmacked every time I’m out in public and hear young women talking about bioessentialism and divine femininity and the power of makeup in really really empty ways.

Cairros: Aha, the gods are fickle things, y'know? You gotta respect the sort of chaos that flourishes in their domain, even when you can't agree with their decisions.

Rizal: I would gladly behead Mystra and Tiamat, put their heads on rot-infested pikes, and parade them around stark-bollock naked through every district of Baldur's Gate. Damn the gods, eat my arse, get fucked.

i wonder how much time jack and austin spent working on the music/intro reads so that the bit where the music cuts out would line up w the Dramatic Line that austin says