as a jane austen stan, i've spent years convincing myself i'm a headstrong lizzie bennett or even a clever emma woodhouse, only to discover this summer after what SHOULD have been a minor heartbreak (but was instead a romeo and juliet level sobbing on a hotel floor at 2am heartbreak) i am, in fact, marianne dashwood - melodramatic, obsessive, brooding, horrifying taste in men, "here take a lock of my hair despite your lack of a marriage proposal," stalks my ex's house whilst reciting shakespeare in the rain marianne dashwood. it's like thinking you're a jo march and realizing you were amy all along. I HAVE NICE ANKLES AT LEAST

Do we think Seven can feel all of her face and body?

The Borg know when things happen in the collective and can arguably feel them, but when an individual is severed from the Borg, that expansive collective consciousness is violently narrowed down to a pinpoint. We know Seven has pretty good proprioception because she agrees that her shoulder hurts when the EMH finds that her biradial clamp is off by 0.3 microns. Because of this, she arguably has a very good understanding of how things in her body feel. That said, she doesn't really complain about physical pains, and we really only see her struggle when things are emotionally difficult.

Since she had been in the collective since she was 6, she wouldn't necessarily know that certain sensations are not normal. If there were any issues that happened as a result of her assimilation, she wouldn't necessarily know they are unusual after she was severed because that's what she has always known.

So back to my original question: can she feel all of her face? Looking at the placement of her facial implants, they are both on the trigeminal nerve. The cheekbone implant is right around the root of the nerve, and the eyebrow piece sits right over another branch. Trigeminal neuralgia is crazy painful, but she could have trigeminal neuropathy and think it's completely normal because she doesn't have a typical baseline to compare it to. I imagine the Borg implants must interrupt some nerve functioning to ensure that the drones move as they are supposed to, and the nano probes would repair any damage that would affect their functioning. But the Borg would consider physical discomfort irrelevant, so relatively minor issues like neuralgia, pins and needles, or any other unusual sensations would not be considered an issue.

incoming rant about accents in writing

i am begging mario fanfic writers to stop adding -a to every other word that Mario and Luigi say. we know they have an accent. you don't have to spell it out. it legitimately pulls me out of the story every single time and i have to stop and breathe for a sec before i can keep going while trying to ignore it.

maybe describe their accents instead?? I would much rather read "a lilting and musical cadence" once than "don't-a you think-a so" every time they have dialogue.

believe me when i say this is a criticism coming from a place of love. i know we all grew up reading jk terf's awful transcriptions of french and cockney accents, but I know we can move past that behavior. it takes so much less effort to just write the words normally.

and this goes for any character with an accent in any work, tbh. I'm pretty sure anyone with an obviously-foreign accent is already self-conscious about it enough; there's no need to laser-focus on an accent like that in writing. you may not be doing it to intentionally mock anybody but to me it very much comes off that these characters are not taken seriously, because it so blatantly points out their difference in speech, and that's usually the first thing an immigrant is mocked for.

serious question, are there ANY (wired) headsets made today anymore that have seperated plugs for audio and microphone??

usb ones always cause trouble and the only other ones i can find are those with combined audio+mic into one plug, which i dont have the ports on my PC for.............

i tried looking through adapters but the only ones i can find are those that combine seperate ones, id need the reverse (if thats even possible)

(visualization bc i feel like i am losing my sanity trying to explain what i mean, am i stupid? did i halluzinate the two jack/plug thing???? do only cheap garbage ones have this??? is that one of the gaming chair things??? like oh you want a GAMING headset- that means either combined or usb haHA???)

Trashing that in your askbox or something *disappears in the wild*

(I know you've already seen it but idk funny)

Fun fact if you call Arsenic (normal version) babygirl he will fucking kill you

now wht if we have wolf wrio x bunny reader

A-and how does one protect their k-knob?

My dear Anon,

to safeguard your knob, treat it like royalty! Crown it with a trusty helmet, armour it with layers, and no, not layers of love. Remember, a protected knob is a happy knob, and a happy knob makes for a delightful day!

Wrap it up: No, not with a bow, silly! Use a trusty rubber knob (or knob-dom, if you will) to shield it from unwanted, pathetic grabdaddlers (don't confuse it with grabdaddies, honey). Safety first, right?

Dress to Impress: Give your knob a snazzy makeover! Make your knob feel cosy. Think of it as haute couture for your knob – chic AND practical!

And voilà! Your knob is now cosy and secure, ready for any adventure. 😌

do you ever start blocking dialogue that makes you really upset <3

The people youre talking about were friends way before you showed up why are you making this such a big thing

i didn't even name anyone y'all don't even know what users i was referring to 💀 "before i showed up" some of the users didn't even join the fandom until long after i did so what are you talking about.... not that you would know that since i was purposefully vague and never named them ☠️☠️☠️

I dunno if it’s just because I’m feeling particularly sensitive today and I just had to say goodbye to my siblings and step mum for who knows how long, but I just had a panic attack after having to use the public toilet lol.

Maybe I’m being dramatic, but is it not at least a little fucked up that because of prior experience with going in the ladies I make sure I have my ID on me, because if I get accused of being a boy perving on girls in the toilets, I can show my ID with my hyper feminine first name AND middle name right next to my face.

I leave a public ladies toilets WAITING for someone who works there to approach me to tell me off because someone reported that a boy was in the girls toilets. I wait to go in the toilets until no one else is walking in or out, and then I go in and my heart is in my throat the whole time. Then I go into a cubicle and I have a moment of peace, but it’s not really peace because the whole time I’m sitting there knowing that I’m gonna have to come out of the toilet eventually and wash my hands and leave, and in that time chances are someone’s gonna be there at the same time and see me and think I’m a boy. So then I sit in the cubicle and I listen and decide when would be safest for me to leave and not be interrogated. And then I have to wash my hands and I don’t dare look up at meet anyone’s eyes and maybe that makes me more suspicious but it’s terrifying.

And I get that for women it’s probably scary seeing me in there, but I don’t have a choice. If I thought I would get away with using the boys toilets I would, but not only would I not pass as a man to a man but I’m also possibly in more danger in there.

And I don’t even know what the people in the toilets are thinking. Half the time, it’s not women being scared of me that they interrogate me, but it’s transphobia driven interrogation??? Accusing me of pretending to be transgender to perv on women. I remember this one time I was in the toilet at Tesco and I was washing my hands (and the tesco had changed their sinks so they were automatic and they took for ages to finish their cycle) and the whole time this woman was, I shit you not, SCREAMING at me. Calling me a pervert and calling me every homophobic and transphobic slur under the sun and getting in my face and jabbing her finger into my shoulder. And I just stood their staring at my hands and wishing tesco hadn’t changed their stupid fucking sinks so I could just leave and go and cry. I wasn’t scared because I know I can hold my own well enough. But it was fucking humiliating. There was at least 5 people waiting to go into a cubicle that watched and however many people listening to it happen within the cubicles themselves. And they all watched and they probably all thought that I was a creep and was being weird and pervy but I was just trying to use the toilet as quick as possible so I could go home. It was the first time in like… a year I’d even dared use a public toilet and that happened. And i remember afterwards when the stupid sink finally got done I walked out and I walked all the way back to my high school and sat outside the gates for an hour and sobbed because I was terrified that one of the women in the toilets would be at the bus station and would accuse me of being a pervert there too. And it would be even worse because the station was always super busy after school.

I do everything I can to avoid using a public toilet because I know that even if no one says anything, people will stare and in their heads they’ll label me a weirdo. And I’m not a creep. I just needed the toilet. It’s humiliating.

Anyway, I’m sad and over sensitive. I miss my siblings and I’m dreading Sunday when I have to go home. I want to not have a panic attack when I leave a public toilet and I wish I looked different and could be feminine and I wish it didn’t make me feel uncomfortable. I hate it. Sorry for ranting.

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I asked for a razor for my birthday on account of my lustrous manly facial hair (ratstache wispy neckbeard and the horrifying beginnings of a goatee) and my dad bought me the same model as him and then told me that he was glad he did because when he was buying it he saw a bunch of videos on their website and realized he'd be using the wrong attachment for the past decade. In hindsight a lot of my dad's reluctance to include me in manly rights of passage is probably because his own dad left at 13 and he never had them himself, though gender roles do certainly play a part.

Help I’m dwelling on Heian-kyo’s mountain of missed potential again, agghhh it frustrates me cause the good parts are REALLY good but they just didn’t follow through…

Danzou is the one who has been most personally hurt by Limbo and it’s the chapter where she finally gets closure with him by being the one to kill him (which I’m so happy it was her who does!) but then it feels like she’s forgotten for most of it even though it should have been a Danzou-centric chapter… when they remember her it’s good stuff (her aggression towards Limbo, the whole opening segment, getting to deal the final blow etc.) it’s just she doesn’t do much during the whole middle/end part.

And the opening even looked like it was going to be focused on her… it connects well with her interlude, in which Limbo in his obsession with her was restoring her memories so he could devastate her more thoroughly and take pleasure in her agony… he told it to her face that he’d return to do that and would kill Kotarou in front of her (so like what he was doing in Shimousa though he can’t make Danzou herself do it without control over her body like he had then). And then we see only she and Kotarou are being allowed in!! And they both even heard the squirming of bugs when the singularity appeared! Sure Kotarou ends up being blocked but based on Danzou’s speculation about him acting as a decoy so they could safely arrive, I wonder if that’s simply cause Limbo intended to mess with the rayshift more (separate them or something?) but he stopped that and otherwise would have been allowed.

And then they even go on to emphasize that this singularity is literally just for Limbo to mess with them, HE EVEN SUMMONED HIS FAVORITE TOY and yet they hardly follow through with this… all the pieces were In place, yet where was the mocking of Danzou? The making her suffer? Between the interlude and the opening of the chapter, how do you have this much setup then fumble it so badly?? I swear he got to more directly mess with people in 5.2 than here (Prometheus-Hephaestus, Europa, KADOC) despite not having the sort of fixation on them he does with Danzou. Shimousa was so good with following through with its setup, I wish Heian-kyo did too… like we have Danzou shown to be working for Limbo but we see her grow attached to our party to the point she decides to betray him, so you’re wondering oh no what’s going to happen to her when he finds out..? And sure enough, he’s there waiting for her, mocks her, tells her how he broke her, forces her to fight her new companions (including her son who she remembers at the end) then blows her up, killing her, it’s so satisfying! And yet he doesn’t even do a fraction of that in Heian-kyo despite the situation set up by him… (also I’m still salty about the lack of his shikigami bugs being used on her come onnn I really thought that was the direction they were going by introducing those)

It’s just… overall they had so much suggesting this was going to have a lot of focus on her relationship with Limbo and finally getting to take him down and make him pay for all he put her through, and then they barely have her in the story… her getting to kill him was perfect but it should have been preceded by her getting to play an active role in the main story, and at least having the two of them talk more?? He’s obsessed with her to the point of going through all this effort with her servant self after Shimousa and she has a clear grudge against him for it that stands out yet they just… barely talk. Or do much of anything with each other…