Why do you like META KNIGHT so much? What is your history with the character?

it's honestly kinda hard to put into words, but i think when someone has a Big Fave it's usually a mixture of feeling like you can relate to them but also finding them inspiring in some ways. my actual first kirby game was crystal shards on the N64, but i was first introduced to meta knight in 2004 with nightmare in dreamland on the GBA. i must've been like 10, and i just thought he was really cool and strong because of how easy and fun the meta knightmare mode was. nintendo games have been a big part of my life ever since i could barely talk lol, but meta knight was just a character i particularly enjoyed whenever he showed up, like in air ride. INSTA-PICK lol. i had also watched some of the kirby anime around that time, but i think it was when smash bros brawl came out that i really acknowledged the concept of having a Favourite Character and this dude was definitely him.

i was actually part of the kirby fandom way back when deviantart was in its prime (my account is long gone now). i'm pretty sure i drew the first ever daroach fanart on the english speaking internet but that's a story for another day lol. the kirby series was not my only interest though, and i moved on to other nintendo fandoms (mostly zelda) for the majority of my late teens/early twenties. i still played every new kirby release, but i wasn't actively involved in the fandom. it's really only been in the past…6 years? that i found myself drawn back to kirby/smash. part of it might be nostalgia. but thinking about my other favourite characters from different franchises, there's definitely some characteristics i always seem to gravitate to. i don't think you're asking for a character analysis so i won't go there lol, but yeah. i guess he's just a character that has resonated with me for a long time!

mizu is not a butch ... mizu is a mean femboy twink

I felt this was an important reminder for some who need/have comfort and stress relief objects (I'm thinking of plushies in my case, but it may be anything, really).

Don't feel afraid or worried for the object. Don't feel the need to promote it above your needs. What I mean by this is that your emotions, no matter what they may be, how intense, how nasty, they're not too bad for this object to handle. It's okay.

You are allowed to inflict violence or harm upon this object if you have it for this purpose. It will not fear you, nor despise you.

For the case of objectum people: the object is happy to serve it's purpose and it cares about your wellbeing. Your emotions aren't too much for it to bear. This won't ruin your relationship with it. It's content to be your comfort and or stress relief object. This is it's purpose. This is it's way of caring for you.

For the case of people who don't experience object sentience: The object is not hurt or offended by your actions. You are free to do whatever you want with your objects, yes even destroy them, bc it's much healthier of an outlet than hurting yourself or another person. Maybe save for the case of your object being very expensive or valuable, but otherwise, please just help yourself manage your emotions.

My point is: if you have a designated plush, pillow, whatever, that you helps you handle intense emotions, via you inflicting something on it, that is okay. You are doing a good job. This is a good outlet, and you don't need to feel that it reflects on your self worth

definitely not snz, just 2nd hand experience with trauma to share

It’s so downright horrifying how much abuse and trauma can change a person and put them through a living hell… One of my co-workers had been violently beaten by their partner a couple months ago, which I didn’t know until recently — and it clicks how much damage it’s done to her demeanour. Constantly apologizing for minor mistakes, even apologizing for things I didn’t remember happened a couple days after. Needing reassurance that no one is mad at them, generally overthinking how other people feel beyond reason. Inability to reject advances from other men out of fear. Chronic insomnia and nightmares. Needing to keep busy, chatty and hyperfocused to avoid an idle mind.

Plus what she’s showing on the outside and struggles that she chooses to confide with me might only be scratching the surface of the damage. This is a strong, 30-something woman with a child who has been reduced to a shadow of her former self thanks to her partner — it’s heartbreaking what she’s going through on top of the legal procedures and finding a new affordable home. The fact that she manages to put on a smile every day is nothing short of a miracle. She’s always been a sweetheart and that much hasn’t changed at least.

She reminds me of someone else dear to me who has been a victim of childhood trauma, and what I initially thought were just personality quirks now registers as lingering scars and it’s chilling. I know I can do little but to empathize and be understanding, but it’s hard to truly communicate when I haven’t lived through it myself. And I always feel like i’m patronizing when I can only muster up “hope you’re doing okay”; because of course she’s not. I think it’s telling of society how there’s little to no social code for how we properly can express deeper empathy into words, because I just don’t want her to feel alone or that I think she’s crazy (which she sometimes tells me that’s the energy I give off). idk, i’ll just keep trying my best. Pray for her

the worst part about being a pianist is that you can't just...simply take your instrument with you

oh orphan_account, we're really in it now

Oh great! A letter from my good friend Robert Walton in which he tells his sister Margaret (and us) that the voyage so far has been pretty calm, and there is nothing to worry about. He wishes her well, and sends his love.

Robert also tells that, except for a few incidents, the traveling so far has been a little boring, and he hopes that nothing dangerous happens...

Don't worry Robert! The foreshawing is rolling, and the horrors™ are just waiting for you around the corner.

do you have any tips for writing romance and/or tension between characters? aegon and alyse have always had a super believable dynamic and pretty damn good chemistry imo and i want to be able to create ships like that eventually!

i'm so flattered that you think so! i find that setting the pace of things realistically means giving the characters crumbs along the way rather than fully denying them from moment one until the first kiss or confession. don't deny yourself shippy moments before the culmination, even though the idea of doing that seems incredibly fun & enticing. you want to build tension, right? building means blocks. building means mortar. giving them moments when they are forced to touch, when they choose to touch even though they shouldn't. have them make each other laugh at an inopportune moment. let them take care of each other, whether that's emotionally or physically. the tension needs a foundation!

with alyse and aegon, there was the moment in her room early on in the fic, when he was hiding from alicent because of the incident with sunfyre. there was the moment at the willow's rest. there was the feast and "pretty enough" and trod upon toes that gave them friction, as well as giving them a reason to push forward together.

let the characters breathe together! let them interact with each other. i know that sometimes i'm worried that i'm just shoving aegon and alyse together in scenes to have an opportunity to fawn over them, but that's simply not true. they need to actually be around each other to develop realistically! give them the time they need, whether it's five chapters or fifty. it'll happen, and it'll be lovely. 💕

reading some 1920s lit (i was assigned a 1920s/prohibition AU in an AU prompt roulette and i need inspo) and one of hemingway's short stories just took me out at the knees

the way y'all are handling ocean idiots is actually kind of inspiring me, because i have Ideas but i feel pressured to turn it into a whole blown Thing when all i want to do is just have fun with it, because every artist/writer/etc ive seen does it that way.

yall are the first people ive seen who are just trying to Vibe with your blorbos and it makes doing the same thing feel more achievable to me. god bless

PS larus is my favorite. love the little skrunkly bird man. also can i steal yalls powerpoint idea 🥺?

PSS i assume everyone else working on ocean idiots will see this bc yall are mutuals, but in the event that they dont, could you please forward this to them? because i want them to know that theyre indirectly inspiring a random person with their Just-For-Fun-Creation as well >< many thanks

Aw, anon this is incredibly sweet. I sent your message along to the others before I got around to this answer both because I wanted to make sure they saw it, and because I wanted to respond to this in a way that really reflects my gratitude.

It's honestly so tempting to start making ideas "a thing". I didn't really understand that until the last couple of years and let me tell you, there is a lot of pressure to do that. People like projects! They like updates! They love seeing the progression of a story and getting invested in that. I absolutely understand why people leave comments like "this should be a webtoon" or "you guys should make an animated series". In a perfect world, that'd be a dream! The temptation to do that and establish a base is also attractive because it can really form a base that gives numbers and comments, which artists of all stripes thrive on (myself very much included).

But what most people never really see is the downsides of that. From their perspective, a one episode animatic, a chapter or two of fic or few panels of a comic, isn't a lot. It's kinda disappointing, and I get that. For the creator though, there's any number of reasons that things fall apart. Personal differences with friends amplified by the stress of expectations. Creative burnout. Shutting down due to the sheer scope of the undertaking. These are all real, and it sucks to deal with.

For me personally, I know I do want to tackle trying to write more of ocean idiots, maybe even try to nanowrimo this shit (not in an actual month but you get the gist). But that's just me. If it bums me out or I put it to the side, then that's just my personal project to pick up later. If we tried to make it a series, then we'd deal with the stress of trying to keep up a schedule on top of lives (college, jobs, personal lives, etc). It'd take the joy out of these characters we love.

Some of the most fun I've had in the past few years I've been writing and creating has just been fucking around with my friends. Throwing silly au ideas back and forth and exchanging art and fics for no one but ourselves. There's a genuine satisfaction that comes from it.

Not everything has to be a big production. Artists don't make their magnum opus every time. They draw shitposts and write crackfic and make funny edits. It's healing to have something silly, something fun just for you, and to share it if you want. That can connect with people, great! But it can also just be for you. I could go on a whole tangent about social media and the commodification of attention/art but that's not really what we're here for.

I hope that whatever you create, anon, that it makes you happy. That it brings a little joy to your day. That you can have that thing you share with maybe just your closest friends to play with. Lord knows I need to remind myself of that too.

it feels weird having to have an internal conversation about Not Engaging In Discourse Related To The DID Community. it feels weird having to be like. yeah i know someone used DID as an excuse to hurt me and someone we used to be close with who is. a lot like the Current Community. how uncomfy. but it's just not safe for us to engage in it right now. i know you want to but please.

like every time i want to commentate on anything i always get that creeping protectiveness over my own condition. and it's fucking wild and i really don't like that. but it's because we don't wanna get hurt again. and i know that and it makes it hard to pull back but for our own health we have to. we have to curate our space.

i think starting off by blocking anti-endogenic tags will help. honestly a lot of things that remind us of Them™ come up in those tags. and i don't care about syscourse anyway. neither does he.

it's just that it's scary when the call is coming from inside the fucking house. i do have problems with the community but i might just sum them up in a new pinned post or edit the current one and let people do with that what they will. i'll still occasionally vent my frustrations, especially about past engagement with the community, but i just can't involve myself anymore.

anyway, if you know of any good pro-recovery blogs to follow that don't center on discourse, that'd be awesome. i need a healthier feed, and i'll be filtering out tags soon and figuring out our own coping skills.

Either I'm going through some phase or I'm having something hormonal happening again (combo??) but. Brain is... Having a weird one? Shall we say?

me, who has a disorder: experiences symptoms

my mom, who knows I have this disorder: >:(

[Attached is an photo of both Calli and Camille - clad in the thickest of winter coats.]

after much deliberation we are going to fucking help people evacuate. we have no rescue training and the only certification we have is me being flight-certified and camille being league-certified but FUCK IT.

where doing it girl

where MAKING THIS HAPPEN

if you see a golurk decorated with loads of stickers and a saddle on its back around the castelia-nimbasa area that's us. we'll take you to the nearest place with safe and stable temperatures.

is it just me or is the "aubrey is reduced to being omori's fangirl" take kinda,, wrong,,, there's only like 2-3 minor scenes where's she's shown to have a crush on omori and her main characteristic is that she's the strong one with the bat and a literal hard head. she's characterised as a normal child other than that. if the headspace characters seem simple then there are explanations for that that don't involve sunny being a jerk or whatever . sunny hasn't seen them in years, he presumably made them up when he was a child himself after mari's death so he made them the same way a child would, without accounting for complex personalities. hero is the caring older friend that cooks, aubrey's the strong one who looks up to mari and has a friendly rivalry with kel, kel's the hyperactive kid with a pet rock, basil's the shy friend who grows plants and takes pictures, and mari's the caring older sister that shows up with a picnic basket when needed, but is safe and unharmed otherwise. the headspace's a happy place where omori goes on adventures with his happy friends and comes back to his living, happy sister when he isn't punishing himself by staying in the white room and stabbing himself in the stomach. literal trauma response, he feels guilty over killing mari so he stays in the white room most days, all alone, rarely spending time with his headspace friends and when he does meet them they're happy to see him and there's nothing wrong and his friends include him in their group even when he stays silent most of the time. he doesn't get 100% closure or comfort from this but it's better than killing himself over and over again in his dreams. he's buried his memories so carefully and his headspace falls apart so quickly despite him trying to avoid everything, all his friends suddenly got jobs under a worker-exploiting shark to distract him from how ugly and wrong the real world was so that he'd bury himself deeper into the headspace and forget the real world exists, with him moving away from his hometown and friends and his house already sold to someone, mari dead, aubrey supposedly a bully and a thug with awful loser friends, and basil picked on and desperate to get his album back from aubrey, and it gets worse and falls apart more quickly as time goes on and the headspace turns into a terrible, unbearable nightmarish place until sunny finally comes to terms with his life.