It's not an accident that John is an indigenous man. It's not an accident that he's implied to be a survivor of childhood sexual assault. It's not an accident that he's clearly mentally ill, with no support network outside his colleagues who are relying on him to save the world.

John, as a character, is about how much pressure and how much suffering a person can endure before they break. He's about the weight of generational trauma. He's about having a meltdown that destroys your life, that hurts people, that you can never really come back from, and having to live with the consequences. His rage and his pain are both massive and legitimate, and if you don't engage with that you are missing the fucking point. Respectfully.

This post is not rebloggable to make sure I don't go nuke melbourne myself. Love and peace. ✌️

OKAYYYYY okay okay. i will post them now instead of being a perfectionist about it. behold my genderfluid dimension-hopping gamer self-insert. ey don't have a name other than The Dispatcher but you can call em whatever you want!

image description in the alt text and more character info below the cut!!

The Dispatcher is able to access other dimensions. she really wants to change every world's fate for the better but hates the idea of being caught by whatever sort of Time Police might be out there. in order to maintain a sense of plausible deniability, he mostly avoids physically entering and messing around in other timelines but guides people in key positions to make more optimal choices over radio and other communications systems! in other words, they alter destiny via backseat gaming.

the human disguise is because it loves humans, as well as for humans' comfort in the rare case that ey actually present themself in a physical form to the folks they're trying to help. the use of the title "The Dispatcher" is for similar reasons. he's found most people take him more seriously when she calls herself that as opposed to "your conscience" or "your spirit guide."

per overall demeanor is best described as "anxiously optimistic." they can't help but have a sense of humor, even (or maybe especially) in stressful situations. he's delighted by puns and wordplay and situational comedy, often cracking jokes in others' company that are only for herself.

as stated in the image, any pronouns including neos are fine. per favorites are probably they, ey, and per; he, she, and it are all close runners-up. it's ok to switch between pronouns as often as you want, and it's also okay just to pick one and use it forever! they don't care, and they honestly like gathering info on how different people perceive them gender-wise.

of all the good reasons to have an ace headcanon for him, why would you land on this

So.. Grian is doing a bureaucracy now?

i unironically love it tbh. we have a mayoral office with ministries. we have a post office. now we have the annoying to deal with government agency for like, the hermitcraft equivalent of filing business paperwork. we have like... so much mundane and kind of inane government infrastructure this season and i adore it. i really REALLY hope they build another courthouse to go with all of this tbh please if anytime is ready for that it is CLEARLY NOW. i want this to be the season of doing so much stupid paperwork. unironically. i want that SO BADLY. i am SO READY.

breaking my silence on chess the musical to say that i would literally not give a fuck about this show if i thought it was good or fully successful at what it is saying. SORRY! i love how messy she is. i love how since 1984 and continuing to this very day people with entirely different perceptions of and opinions on the musical have attempted in their own ways to "make it good" by creating all these different versions with like notably different plots, characterization, and song order, and i love how fucking bad the vast majority of these are despite it all. i hope people keep trying to fix chess the musical forever and until the end of time. i hope no one ever figures it out. i want every currently living theatre director in existence to make their own version and for all these versions to come out on broadway at the same time, making that year's musical season entirely comprised of various different versions of the cold war chess musical by tim rice and half of abba. i want not only our greatest minds but also our middlest-of-the-road and worst minds to come up with their own conclusions as to why chess does not entirely work in its original form or any subsequent forms like to really think about it and yes i do want someone to dedicate their entire life to perfecting chess by releasing version after version after version until they die peacefully but still, as always, in the grips of obsession. i want marriages to be broken up. i want mental states to be shattered. i dream of this world

ok attempt 2 this is how i feel abt this little freak

original tiktok by keegantindall

Something that always makes me sad to see is people saying "I want to write about the student communists but I can't because I don't know enough about theory and politics" like nooooo no!! Don't fall for their bullshit! Like I'm sure Steban and Uli would want you to believe that you need to be a seasoned academic with a thorough grasp on each and every last nuance of leftist theory to understand what goes on in their huge large brains, but that's not true! They're just undergrads! They're massive tryhards! You've got all the knowledge you need to write about these little nerds, I believe in you!

Wait crying again bc I was rewatching The Intruder today (episode 4 of season 1) and I realized that like. The glyphs represent a few things in the narrative but one thing that's consistent is they're always there when Luz doesn't feel like she's good enough on her own. They appear to her as comfort in moments of self depreciation or self doubt, or she coincidentally learns them in episodes where she faces her fear of rejection or makes a mistake (at least this is true in terms of the first four base glyphs she discovers). It's the titans way of saying "you may have to do things differently, but you can do anything they can do" to Luz bc he cares about her

AND THEN. IN WATCHING AND DREAMING. WHEN THE TITAN PASSES ON AND THE GLYPHS DON'T WORK ANYMORE. IT'S BECAUSE NOW LUZ FINALLY FEELS LIKE SHE'S GOOD ENOUGH, ALL ON HER OWN. SHE'S LEARNED THAT SHE HAS INTRINSIC WORTH AS A PERSON AND SHE DOESN'T NEED TO MAKE UP FOR WHO SHE IS. SHE MIGHT DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY BUT SHE CAN DO EVERYTHING ANOTHER WITCH CAN DO- THIS TIME WITH HER OWN, MORE PERSONAL ACCESSIBILITY TOOL (HER PALISMEN) INSTEAD OF THE ONE THE TITAN GAVE HER. MAN!!!!!

Skizz lovers you're all so sexy and cool and right but his comment section is small enough reading through is feasible let's not have a conversation about r34 in there where it'd be a him problem. Please have it here and tag me instead

truly though, i am comforted by the idea of regis being autistic because… consider. he’s been alive for hundreds of years and has been through so much turmoil and has had to commit to self-improvement and self-control and all of these ideals and principles. and in the same process of that, he had to examine himself—take a good look in the mirror, as the saying goes… though it may not be quite accurate in this case—why he faced these insurmountable issues in the first place which instigated and excerbated his vices in the first place. “treat the cause, not the symptoms.”

and the cause was that he didn’t like himself. he only drank to escape… from himself. so he could be a different self, one that others accepted, but one who very quickly became a terrible person—because that version of himself had none of his ever-so-dislikable and aggravating and unrelatable traits: his know-it-all-isms, his philosophizing, his overthinking. his lack of understanding the social cues he was surrounded by. everything that would “spoil the party.” the libation was the symptom of insecurity and disbelief that anyone could truly accept him for the way he is, unaltered, sober.

and even with all of this time, possibly the span of an entire human life, spent working on himself, spent trying to understand others—he learned two things.

firstly—after all this time—he cannot change himself. he has to live with, and possibly embrace, the parts of himself that long ago made him impossible to gain social approval. even if now, he is living a solitary and even somewhat isolated life.

(note: yes, he only spends three months out of the year nearby fen carn, and the rest of the year he lives in dilingen, in a city—while i don’t doubt that he was an important pillar of the community, with his altruistic tendencies, he also never mentions having any close friends in dillingen. he decided in one night to join geralt’s quest. he didn’t worry that anyone from dillingen would miss him…)

secondly—even after all this time spent trying to have a better relationship with and to fit in with society (and even though he’s become, if i may say with modesty, very good at it, exceptionally good at it), it’s still a very intentional factor of his life, something that takes a carefully prepared set of behavior and mental work. it’s still “mimicking.” again, the span of an entire human lifetime put into understanding people and society and he still doesn’t. there’s still much he does not understand, does not agree with, and even ridicules. he has integrated into the society, but he does not innately understand it. he only understands it through his uniquely analytical perspective, the perspective of an outsider trying to understand.

do you understand what I'm sayinggggg

cannot spend more time or add more technical information in such a simple drawing but someone must see my vision

script jewelry (: the way it works out you could pretty easily do just about anything with one middle wire + the setup here, i think? (though the K set would be kind of a bitch i will admit) (not that theyd necessarily need to be made by hand anyway)

this doesnt spell anything bc i was going for love but actually did not feel like writing a V in this instance. it says lothep. or something.

edit: no it doesnt thats not an L. much love to everything except how the coppermind script table is formatted.

asugoro save me. asugoro. save me asugoro

hey guys who do we think hurt kotoko yuzuriha. ill go first.

none of this is coherent. but i hope you get it. jacques roulet and the father being the first to find the child. kotoko saturn planet symbolism and saturn eating his children. kotoko office worker outfits when her father's an office worker. kaneshiro's dogshit behaviour. her leaving lucky when many of the other prisoner's fathers left them or were otherwise not great. kotoko why do all of the other prisoners have bad families in some capacity. kotoko what does that mean about you. kotoko what did your father do. why do you parallel all the other prisoner's descriptions of their fathers. kotoko are you repeating the sins of your father. kotoko what are your opinions on shidou kirisaki. WHY DO YOU CALL HIM A "PEDDLING FLOWER THIEF".

I DONT THINK THATS TRUE. I DONT THINK HE DID THAT. ARE YOU PROJECTING ANOTHER FATHER ONTO THE ONE CONFIRMED FATHER IN MILGRAM? IS IT YOUR OW- [GUNSHOT]

Can I still get into Heaven if i kill myself?

trying to decide if it's more productive to elaborate on the D&D post and make it clear that at least a large number of people do not want to hear about your game in the tags and you should reblog the d&d post and then make a separate post that rambles on at length if you ACTUALLY want to keep this between you and your mutuals; or if I should keep doing as I have been, namely, treating it as a glue trap and blocking everyone who's like "lol too bad I'm telling you about my game and you'll deal"