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useryoongis · 10 months

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tw paranoia??? i’m not sure what to call it

#it’s probably not normal to check under your bed and in your closet every single night before sleeping right #and i check every time i go to the bathroom in the middle of the night too because what if someone snuck into my room and hid there #what if someone broke into the house #and i sleep with a night light at the brightest setting so i can see in my room at night #and i make sure my window is locked every night #i know there’s nobody there but i check anyways because what if there is #and i don’t know what this is #like this isn’t normal right #is it paranoia #or is it like anxiety or something #also i do the bed and closet check thing several times in a row #like i literally search through every piece of clothing hanging in my closet even though i know it’s not possible for someone to be hiding-#-there (the shelf wouldn’t support that weight and also how would they even get up there because there’s a whole chair and a bunch of shoes #in the way #and when i check under the bed i check the underside of it and then the ground #i account for everything under my bed and i scan around in fragments #i’m like ‘ok that part is clear and that part is clear so there’s no one on that side’#even though i can clearly see there’s no one there #i don’t know how to describe it #like i can see that nobody is there but i have to keep checking for some reason #it’s not a habit sort of thing it’s just that i don’t feel right if i don’t 100% make sure that i’m safe #there’s also the being somewhat paranoid about my phone/laptop/ipad recording me but i think a lot of people have that thought every #once in a while #like i’ve seen that around and i’m not too worried when it comes to that #i mean i am scared that i might be recorded or whatever but i don’t think that’s going to happen so i don’t really care about that #snow.txt

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rking200 · 12 days

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Why don't you find something to do while I finish my breakfast?

Some of these gifs I made in different sizes. You can find them on the Markus page of my Gif Archive.

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shorthaltsjester · 10 months

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i do not want to dig a hole but i am too much of a laura bailey pc enjoyer to not make this post so:

selfishness ≠ a lack of kindness

selfishness is a theme that has come up with all of laura's main campaign pcs. that doesn't mean that her characters are always making selfish choices or that they don't care about the rest of the people they're with or that they're not good. it's just that, for the most part, the first thing they're thinking of when they take action or make choices is themselves.

in jester and vex both it is more typical and obvious selfishness. vex's developed because she needed it to keep herself and vax alive and as safe as possible and it grew into a behaviour that she had to actively work to avoid. it's evident in her greed, her theft of the broom, her reaction to her own death which relied heavily on i'm okay/i survived to which keyleth reminded her that she wasn't the only one who had to witness and reckon with her death. in jester's case, she grew up in an environment that literally trained her to make every decision based on two things - her mother's opinion and her own. so, when she's out in the world without marion for the first time, her choices are those that will benefit her and her actions are those that consider her own thoughts and not really many others' (aside from the traveler's).

it isn't a criticism of either vex or jester to say that they are characters who act selfishly. in fact, i'd argue that to claim otherwise does a great disservice to exactly how immense both of their character arcs are. because the nuance of both jester and vex is that they are selfish, and they also hold extreme room for self-sacrifice and empathy. vex is much more brash than jester is, and jester is much more trusting than vex, but both of them are characters who begin with selfish impulses who grow with them. neither ever truly shed those impulses, but they use them in new ways, typically transforming them into impulses towards things that are in the best interest of the party.

you may have noticed the lack of imogen in this post about laura bailey pcs and that's because of two reasons. one, we are an unknown amount of time into her story, i can't analyse her development the same way i can vex and jester's. two, imogen's selfishness isn't the blatant quasi-self-aware selfishness that we see in things like jester complaining about her lack of money to caleb or vex stealing a broom. instead, imogen's is very internal, like a lot of laura's character work with imogen. it is a bit similar to jester’s in the sense that it comes from a lack of awareness moreso than vex’s practiced behaviour, but imogen’s is a lot more tied to inherent beliefs she has about the world and the people in it.

as a consequence of her powers, imogen sees people's thoughts as their entirety, she holds it above their actions to be the truth of who they are - to act against what they think or to say something that doesn’t cohere with what they’ve thought is akin to lying, so for her to act empathetically is to act in tandem with what someone else’s thoughts are, not how they act, which is typically not all that wanted. the same as vex’s greed and jester’s naivety, this is a trait that makes narrative sense and it’s one i find quite compelling, especially when read in the vein of someone struggling through trauma that has made them assume that the world is against them. imogen’s cynicism is coherent cynicism, i can’t say that in a similar situation i wouldn’t have the same predisposition towards the world.

the part that is particularly self-interested comes in if you look at how imogen has actually been treated in the campaign (quite well) in comparison to the cynicism that she’s developed from her past (something that speaks to a world out to get her). certainly, a bunch of shitty things have happened to imogen in the time we’ve known her, but the same can be said for everyone in bell’s hells and pretty much everyone in exandria at this point in time. but, in a fight to save the aforementioned world, imogen’s focus was getting her mother back on her side. which, while very consistent with her character and a choice that i enjoy, is a very selfish one. the fun thing (to me, obviously) about imogen is that she has, more than most, an insight into the opinions of others and she also tends to seek others’ opinions out and genuinely engages with them and supports their choices. but she still very much acts towards what she thinks is best. it’s one reason i enjoy looking at the dynamic between her and orym as one between foils, as orym tends to be stalwart in his beliefs and doesn’t care too much for other’s opinions if he’s already sure of his own, but his actions tend to favour collaboration and protecting others.

as i mentioned earlier, imogen is a harder case to look at because she is still in the process of her story. however, the circlet is clearly influencing how she interacts with the world and in the wake of the solstice, the hostile reaction towards ruidusborn people has started to become more and more apparent and i’m interested to see what route that ends up leading imogen down and how it will influence her relationship with the rest of bell’s hells. (for better, i think, based on recent conversations, but if it's for worse i will be just as seated and excited).

all of this is just to say, please stop assuming that claiming a character has a trait you think is a bad one is criticism or a hate post. in light of the fact that i know that people who don’t believe this will continue to not believe this, i’ll encourage anyone confused about the ability of a character to be good and kind and selfish all at once to look to what the text itself says, specifically scanlan’s words to pelor when asked what vex means to him:

“Her name is Vex, and she is greedy and mean sometimes, and she can steal a lot. She’s a little bit not the greatest person, but her flaws highlight everything that is right about her, which is she does all these things to protect her friends and her family. She would give her life for any of us and for anyone who was truly in need. And she’s not perfect but she’s the most perfect of all of us.”

would you look at that... an ability to be a multitude of things, some in conflict with one another. i know that's hard for fandoms to believe, especially about female characters with agency, but i promise its true!

#deeply unfair of laura to make three characters with some type of people skills and morality shaped by their loneliness #and what. i’m just supposed act like i’m normal about that?#this is me blog and i have slightly more time than usual to write nothing essays about fictional characters that haunt me #but dear god . lookin at cr characters and denying their flaws is like looking at a house and only seeing it’s doors .#if ppl demand perfection of fictional characters im genuinely curious in what media they’ve ever found that .#a single imogen post of mine broke containment and it skyrocketed my annoying phil student levels so. alas #but . if you agree that imogen had an incredibly isolating life . i will emphasize that isolation causes traits and behaviours #that aren’t just Quirky or fun or hot anger or whatever #imogen contains so much i love her so much i am bursting at the seams about it #but for some ppl. she is ur ‘girlfailure’ until someone suggests a way she might be girl failing by being selfinterested #what is the truth. do u want her to be an actual girlfailure it do u just want her to suit a . frankly tired. trope about lesbians #anyway . both text and tag rant over . goodnight #cr meta #imogen temult #vex’ahlia #vex’ahlia de rolo #jester lavorre #critical role #my posts

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disdaidal · 4 months

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I wanna thank my irl friends who follow me here and also my beloved mutuals as well as followers who still send me kind messages and try to interact with me and my stuff even if I'm bad at doing it myself.

Honestly, things haven't been that great with me lately, so... it means a lot to me. Honestly. <3

#personal #i had to make the tough decision to drop out of school last week #i didn't exactly want it if i'm being completely honest here #but certain stuff was preventing me from getting further so i knew the teachers are gonna ask me to quit over at our teams meeting #i instantly contacted my nurse about my situation. and she got me a doctor's appointment which was yesterday #where i kind of broke down a little. not because she didn't grant me the sick leave i thought i was going to get #after feeling down and sleeping terribly for weeks #but because she actually *got me*. like. she actually listened to me and figured out some stuff and told me that #what i'm going through and what i've been going through for years would make anyone depressed #so i couldn't help but cry a little because yeah. i'm so tired of never being enough no matter how hard i try #because my brain's wired a certain way and it makes me slow and kinda clumsy and inattentive at times #which. you might guess is not ideal at today's work environment. or studying-wise even #so instead of granting me sick leave (she did say we can change that at anytime though) she told me to wait for that phone call #from the unemployment office. which i should be getting tomorrow. or well. later today #and talk to them about this. to see if they can offer some solutions. or if we can figure something out #'cause i'm getting closer to my 40s and not getting anywhere and it's wearing me out and tiring me out #because i clearly can't help myself or change my ways on my own #i managed to get some work last week though. at the local youth house. one shift though but money still #but i haven't been getting those offers a lot during the past few months so it's not enough to support me obviously #so i definitely need something else. and i hope i can get help. that someone could help me #i should finally get tested for adhd next month too. i don't know if i even have it or if it's gonna change anything but #at least i'd know #anyway i needed to get this off my chest. cause i'm kinda crying a little bit even now just thinking about this whole thing #sorry

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archduke-enver-gortash · 2 months

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mmm essay about sally and kid gort in the tags (cw for child abuse, mentions of suicide, animal cruelty and a murder attempt. i always hope i don’t have to say this but just in case: i don’t excuse or condone any of her or gort’s behaviour at all.) this is literally not even touching upon everything i have to say because i hit the fucking tag limit lmao. NOBODY READ IT’S BAD BRAINSTORMING I JUST NEEDED TO GET IT OUT SOMEHOW

#thinkin too much about gortie side characters again.#sally this time and why she specifically talks about him the way she does #like dravo is obviously still shitty but to me he was. ‘just ‘neglectful #while sally actively hated and even felt terrorised by her own child #like. it’s not like i don’t understand her at all.#imagine you and your love don’t have much besides each other and your shop and you get pregnant and ready to raise a child #only for it to not be a child he didn’t and doesn’t cry ever and he learns everything so much sooner than most but then he never calls you #his parents and it’s not just a petty thing kids do sometimes you feel that he doesn’t see you as family and the worst part is that you #agree deep down #and as he gets older he doesn’t have any friends and actively rejects the notion of the entire concept #but then as time passes you hear about how he has entire groups of children following him and then several of them commit suicide #and that thing coming to sit with you and dravo at the dinner table says that he did what you did last week when the axe to chop wood broke #and you discarded it and got a new one #and he has these habits of ripping out flowers and making sure that they don’t regrow #and then you hear rumours about a friend’s daughter’s cat disappearing and think nothing of it #until you visit his tree house a month later and find a declawed cat and birds with clipped wings and crushed bugs that he keeps fondly #and then you see him with other children and they don’t know and his face is different and body language is entirely different #and were it not for the fact that you know better you would never see anything but a normal child #and you know that you are one who painstakingly brought this thing that should not be into the world and so you decide to end it all one da #and go to him as he’s asleep with the knife shaking in your hand #but he cries when you’re above him! screams at the top of his lungs!#so you beg for forgiveness even though you don’t deserve it through tears but as soon as the knife is put away you see the act drop and fee #his clever fingers having twisted your brain inside and out and you know that you can do nothing #and so the opportunity arises to at least remove him out of your life if not everyone’s lives and you take it immediately.#but you heard him talk. how he will close his fist around the world one day. and you know that it is not a matter of if but when.#like. imagine that. jesus dude.#like i hc her as someone that is messy and does not know a lot about life and she certainly wouldn’t have been a good mother but the love #or at least desire to love is there somewhere. and believing that having a child is really the only somewhat meaningful thing she can do #with her life. she’s not some hero or rich or anything of note. so there’s a lot obligation and not genuine desire for family here.#but she never really got the chance to be an actual mother in the first place so. who knows what that might have looked like

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sugar-konpeito · 1 year

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yuusaku is so good at solving mysteries because he has the one technique shinichi does not (breaking and entering)

#yuusaku just broke into that one place.. he wasn't invited or anything #he knew he wasn't supposed to be there and wore a disguise #what is WRONG with this man😭😭#shinichi will disturb crime scenes but not break into someone's house..#why is the guy who's nearly 40 so relaxed about committing crimes #does yuusaku have a criminal record #he could easily get out of jail as many times as he needs considering his wealth #and pay for good lawyers #but he's a genius so he probably doesn't get caught in the first place(?)#yuusaku kudo #yusaku kudo #kudo yusaku #dcmk #detective conan #detco #shinichi kudo #kudo shinichi

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randum-famdoms · 8 months

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JK Rowling’s books are a building. And she stopped after creating shitty, waterlogged, deeply structurally unsound blueprints and half the scaffolding. Then left it to the elements (aka her Twitter), damaging it nearly beyond repair.

And the fandom looked at this, and put on hard hats. And they tore down that scaffolding, and took those blueprints and changed it into something that would work, and they built the most beautiful building you’ve ever seen.

The building JK Rowling designed was deeply flawed, it would never pass inspection, it would collapse under its own weight and lack of structural integrity within seconds of being built. The aesthetic design was tragic and hideous and offensive. But the fans looked at all of that, and said to themselves, “this building is fucked up, it will never be good if left like this, and everything about it is terrible and makes zero sense. But goddamnit, I have trauma and I can fix it because it must be done and no one else will.”

JK Rowling may have designed that original building. She may have had the initial idea. She may have built that unfinished scaffolding. She may have drawn those blueprints.

But this building is no longer JK Rowling’s.

#harry potter #jk rowling #this rant brought to you by someone who can and will go to jail for aggravated assault of jk rowling #people say her worldbuilding is good even if the books aren’t #newsflash: a lot of the best worldbuilding in Harry Potter is just headcannons we have forgotten are not in he books #we took her scraps and we made them great #but to her the scraps are enough. to her the scraps are what are great #when in reality the scraps are the part that stop Harry Potter from being great #in reality the characters are one dimensional #in reality hogwarts never faces consequences for the child endangerment #in reality dumbledore is a manipulative and evil fraud #in reality the house elves are abused and only dobby is saved #in reality Snape is an incel and abuses children #in reality dumbledore knowingly left Harry to be abused by his aunt and uncle and sent him back every summer #in reality remus lupin never went to see Harry as a child and never spoke to him after third year beyond the order of the Phoenix #in reality Sirius only broke out of prison to kill worm tail and even if he cared for Harry he stayed in prison for twelve years #never trying to escape #and he may have had reasons but we do not know them #we never get depth for the characters who deserve it #we get depth for an incel of a potions teacher #Draco Malfoy is one of the most fleshed out characters and he’s still a piece of cardboard it just has shitty crayon scribbles of colour #we think the character have personality but it’s just flashes of it filled in by the great acting in the movies #we think the books have worldbuilding and fleshed out character arcs when really it’s just nostalgia and headcannons we think are real #THE BUILDING IS NOT JK ROWLING’S. THE BUILDING IS OURS.#randum thots

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brittlebutch · 4 months

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a lot of people seem to use Entry #60 as 'proof' for the crux of the "Brian didn't care about Tim, he was Taking Advantage of Tim's conditions and Forcing him to work as part of totheark" thing, but honestly when you think about it there's no possible way Brian could have possibly orchestrated that series of events, like you almost have to interpret that as a baffling group of coincidences

#N posts stuff #mh lb #it's not like Brian has loads of mutual friends that he could ask to call Tim out one night; Tim's departure right as Brian showed up #just has to be a coincidence ; second yes. Brian does steal Tim's meds & that's a dick move but it's almost safe to assume #that Tim and Brian had been sharing prescriptions back in S1 - that's why the pills were at Brian's house that time Jay broke in #even if Tim no longer remembers that agreement it's not like Brian is brimming with other options so i can see the throughline of it #but there's NO way that Brian knew that 1) Tim was going to immediately turn around and come back home OR #2) be in the throes of an attack when he did so ; there's no Possible way he planned for that -- even if you Could assume that like. what #Brian 'knows' the operator is following him & Somehow orchestrated an encounter 1) no that doesn't make any sense and #2) that Still doesn't make any sense bc Tim has been Plenty Close to the Operator before w/ almost no negative effects (like in #Entry 17 when it's Right behind him) so there's no possible way Brian could have predicted that would unfold this way #sure it's weird he sets up the camera in the closet before Tim comes back but that Could Have been something unrelated #after all sometimes Brian DOES deliberately put himself on camera so someone knows he's responsible for something #or maybe he even planned to leave the camera there for later but it doesn't make Sense to interpret that as him Knowing what would happen #like don't get me wrong i'm not trying to say Brian is a pinnacle of ethics and moral behavior lmfao but also it's like #a kind of incomprehensible argument to make that he was Responsible for Triggering Tim's seizure that night when for all the #information Brian had on hand when he broke in he'd think Tim probably wouldn't be back home until much later #(''but the Creators Clearly intended'' yeah sure but since the creators also failed to establish a coherent series of events that SHOW #it then like. the intent doesn't matter anymore; sure they scripted the events in close succession but that doesn't mean they #scripted Intent & if they meant to then they did a bad job portraying it to the point the supposed intent is meaningless sorry lmao)#and EVEN IF you get this far and you're Still like 'but tim went after Jay and Brian would've Known he'd do that' like. no he wouldn't #because in Entry 18 when we see Tim have a seizure the first thing he does when jay approaches him after it is Run Away #so Again there's no consistent throughline of behaviors that Brian could have Possibly known about to orchestrate jack shit

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bohemian-nights · 1 year

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Why would Nettles love Daemon?

I don’t think it gets stated enough, or at all, why Nettles might love Daemon. I mean most people(myself included) focus on how or why Daemon loves Nettles. This emphasis is for good reason given how you have to practically pull teeth to get people to acknowledge that he even loves her, but Nettles own feelings for him are lost in the shuffle.

I will not sugarcoat things, Daemon is a pretty problematic character who titters on the very edge of being morally gray.

Basically his only redeeming moments in the books are during his marriage with Laena(where he’s behaving normal for once) :

And his time with Nettles at Maidenpool(where he is acting in a completely altruistic fashion, going so far as being willing to give his life so she can escape and live):

Any other time and he’s behaving the way you’d expect someone with the moniker the Rogue Prince to behave. He’s a murderer. He’s committed Kinslaying(several times over). He is a groomer. He’s a rapist(those young maidens he deflowered couldn’t exactly consent).

He’s pretty awful, though entertaining in my humble opinion, and one of my faves, for most of the books. So why would a character like Nettles, who despite everything she has gone through in life is described, from the little that we do get on her character, as being an empathetic person(see her crying over Jace a boy she barely knew as well as the home she lost during the Battle of the Gullet)?

Well, Nettles can see past what is there. What is beyond the surface. She’s more observant than most(She’s had to be living on the street). We see those deduction skills at work when she claims Sheepstealer:

She’s the only one to use Sheepstealer’s love for sheep to successfully tame and claim him where even those with certain Valyrian blood died in the process of trying to claim him. She can see something more. Even where others can’t or rather won’t look.

So with Daemon, who is a hot-tempered man, she as well sees past the bravado. Past the rebellious younger brother of Viserys Targaryen. Sees past the Rogue Prince label. She sees Daemon Targaryen. She can see something more in people. She sees a yearning.

Daemon Targaryen is at the end of the day just a man. He yearns for acceptance. He wants to be recognized. You have to keep in mind that Daemon is a second son. He will never inherit the throne. He will never be king, but he still has will and passion. He wants to make a name for himself. He wants his brother's love. He wants to be recognized.

He wants to be his brother's heir, but he’s never accepted as such by his brother or his brothers court:

As a result of this partial rejection by this man who he loves, he’s always yearning to prove himself. He’s yearning for love, acceptance, and recognition.

Now with Nettles, she’s someone who lives on the very margins of society. She’s a bastard girl born to a whore. She doesn’t know who her father is. She has no place to call home. She grew up on the streets of Driftmark. She’s an unlikely dragonrider.

She’s had to fend for herself because of the circumstances which she was born into. She hardly ever can get a kind word said about her. Compliments are riddled with snide comments, and yet oddly enough, Nettles sees a kindred spirit in Daemon Targaryen.

Yes, he’s a Targaryen prince and she’s a lowborn bastard girl, but they have a commonality at their cores. They are both outsiders in a way.

They’ve both never had someone accept them for what they are. Loving and truly caring for them. They’ve had anyone see the actual person within. Past the title of being the Rogue Prince. Past the “stench” of being a brown-skinned bastard girl. They’ve never had that except with each other. Out of everyone they see each other.

Nettles isn’t this dirty unworthy lowborn girl who used her wiles or a spell to claim something she shouldn’t have been able to. She’s not a whore or a common thief. She’s just Netty to Daemon.

She’s an incredibly brilliant and courageous young woman. She’s ingenious. She’s someone who despite it all manages to show compassion to others. She hasn’t let the world break her. She’s learned how to live without love, but she's a still a girl. She’s a girl who is young with so much life in her. Who is deserving of love and affection just as much as any other

Nettles loves Daemon for Daemon. Not because he is a Targaryen, a charming prince, or the Royal consort of a queen. He’s not just a murderer or a rapist who only takes pleasure in chaos. He is Daemon Targaryen and he is just a man.

A man who is capable of great cruelty, but also acts of great kindness. He can be patient and benevolent. He can be loving, generous, and he can be gentle:

He also a man of rage. Of great intensity and passion. Of fire and blood. He would kill for those he loves:

Daemon Targaryen is a man of duality and Nettles sees the good and the bad. She sees the impatient man. The rogue. The man who wants to be loved. To love in return. She recognizes that longing because she longs to.

She longs for something more and she finds that in Daemon. Their souls find a place with each other despite their stations. They see past the surface because that is what love is.

#nettles #house of the dragon #hotd #netty #bncommentary #nettles x daemon #daemon x nettles #daemon targaryen x nettles #dattles #this isn’t to say that she’s not extremely weary of daemon at first #or even throughout their relationship #but she sees him #she sees the man yearning and she yearns too #they find a home in each other #being seen seeing someone and falling in love #that’s what happens 🤷🏽‍♀️#otp 🫀#it literally broke her heart to part from daemon too #I think she honestly voluntarily chose to live in solitude for a while because of it

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accidentallyatekneecaps · 6 months

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Just got woken up by a bunch of loud noises and my room shaking

Turns out my neighbour loves punching walls at 3am

#I have severe anxiety so this actually sent me into a panic attack #I don't know what I was thinking truly when I woke up to it but I kinda thought someone broke into my house #Idk I feel kinda stupid but like waking up like that wasn't pleasant #Oh and guess what the bitch with insomnia finally sleeps at a normal time and gets punished for it WOW

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mariatesstruther · 6 months

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i was today years old when i found out some of y’all dont like ellie’s studio-shed situation. confused

#someone come into my inbox and give me your opinions pls #im shocked frankly #i think its so cool #and she obviously still has a place in joels house #so whats wrong with her having her own space?????#i love that she has a place to just be and operate her space according to her own rules #shes NEVER had that opportunity before #the only reason she even had her own room at FEDRA was because she lost riley #i think she deserves an opportunity to have her own room and space and express her personhood through the way she lives #especially because i headcanon ellie as autistic #i think it would be so hard for her to self regulate and have a safe space if she was living with joel tbh #like yes ideally we’d like her to forgive him but she shouldnt HAVE to #just as she shouldnt have to live with someone that broke her trust #its not even about the saving her life because i cant blame him for that #but i can be mad at him for lying and so can she

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djsangos · 5 hours

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//who are THESE fresh squids?? (made here)

okay these guys might not get a mention on this blog for a while- if ever- so i'm gonna talk about them now bc i've been rotating them in my mind for a while

these are captain's siblings! the ones they left behind when they were 14 to run away to inkopolis. captain certainly isn't proud of leaving them behind at ALL, in fact the one thing they wish they'd done differently is taking them with them, even if it would've been damn near impossible to take care of 2 younger siblings all on their own away from home when they were already struggling to take care of themself. they have no idea how their siblings fared with their neglectful ass father after they left, but pierce (right) was only a year or 2 younger than them, so they hoped he'd be able to leave soon too- taking harper (left) with him

so yeah harper (left) i think is probably around 16 or 17 now, having been 7 or 8 when captain left. since she was pretty young she didn't really know exactly why they left, and they didn't tell her either, so i'd say she probably resents them for it. she's a hotheaded edgy teen, classic rebel, you know the deal.

and then there's pierce (right), who's around 21 or 22 now, so he would've been 12 or 13 when they left. even if they didn't say a word to him before packing their bags and hopping a train at the asscrack of dawn, he knows exactly why they did. because being a kid and not only growing up, but having to parent your 2 younger siblings in your father's place, is hard. he basically had to take on their role as caretaker of harper when they left, being the second oldest, and that's how he realized. he doesn't resent them exactly, but he does wish they'd at least said goodbye. he's an outwardly chipper guy, and puts on a brave face even at the worst of times.

and they both did eventually get out of that house- pierce didn't leave as soon as he turned 14 like captain did (though cod, he wanted to) but when harper was old enough to be left home alone he got a job and saved up what he could to get himself and his younger sister out of there. and then when harper was 12 and he was 17, he got them both out of there. they might have gone somewhere else first, but i wanna say they probably ended up in splatsville, living in an apartment together with pierce doing what he can to support harper through school, and she does some turfing herself to help with rent and save up her own money so she can get her own place eventually.

i feel like the reason they probably haven't run into captain is that captain lives in inkopolis and only really goes to splatsville to visit rookie, and the last time they saw their siblings, neither of them were fully transformed yet, and they aren't so easy to recognize anymore themself. so if they've happened to pass each other on the street, it'd take more than just a cursory glance to realize just who they're passing. so it could definitely, and likely will, happen eventually. who's to say.

#ooc text #ooc img #headcanons #muse lore #jesus chirst this is a fucking novel and a half #but also i wanna say i think the reason captain is so fiercely loyal and 'no squid left behind' with their current found family #is because they'll die before repeating their perceived mistake with their siblings #tbcf to them they were only FOURTEEN YEARS OLD and were NOT equipped to raise 2 younger siblings #so it's fully understandable why they would dip as soon as they could from the situation.#they loved their siblings. they did everything they could. but they reached their breaking point. so they left that house before they broke #they DO feel a lot of guilt over it but they've never tried to go back and find them for multiple reasons- the guilt being one of them #but also when it comes to their father: i likely won't incorporate him into the blog in any way more than a mention or a flashback #he was a single father of 3 and he did an absolute shrimpshit job of it.#should've gotten help with parenting from someone OTHER than his oldest barely teenaged child #though he pushed the parenting role onto them long before they reached their teen years #anyway what the fuck am i talking about #wrote ANOTHER WHOLE ESSAY IN HTE TAGS I'M SORRY #I JUST HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS BACKSTORY I'VE BEEN CRAFTING FOR THIS SQUID BEHIND THE SCENES #but anyway my point with these tags is: it's a very complicated family dynamic #all these squids are fucked up but at least they're out of that house now #i DO want to incorporate them into the blog somehow i'm just not sure when/how yet

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lonely--seeker · 6 months

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My mom bought the ugliest ass little freak of a 3D printed alien, just because. It's supposed to be like, one of those phone holder thingies.

#me blabbering #there's a whole plottwist in this story because she got mad when i said it was ugly and took it away #then i was like. wait i can maybe do something with it's ugliness and I kinda need a phone holder thingy for my fucked up wrists #so I named him Ricky Montgomery because... i actually don't know.#anyway #a few days later my mum told me she had sold it to someone else and took my Ricky Montgomery awayyy #she said “Dw i'll get you the same one again” and i was like “Actually. like. please don't. i hate this bitch”#a few days later i find him still in the house because somehow one of his feet broke and she couldn't sell it like that.#My mom says Ricky Montgomery really wanted to stay with me because he loves me #i am cursed #I glued his nasty feet on again and gave him make up. He watches me work sitting on my desk and I try not to mind him #I have always hated 3D printed stuff don't ask me why.#I am still trying to think what could I do to make him less ugly. but also. if i paint him he's not going to match my little speaker #irrelevant but my bluetooth speaker is named “little loo” which sounds just like little lu and I am lu so it's like my son #she's playing a song right now. isn't she just the best little loo ever like i don't know what i'd do without her

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thesmokinpossum · 4 months

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You know, I used to be one of those person who believed that we should not shame people for their individual habits when it comes to climate changes but focus on the industries and I still believe that it's a more pressing issues in many ways but like…

Ever since I started working at the post office, I just cannot feel the same. I'm genuinely disgusted by the amount of people who will return 10, 15, shit even 20+ parcels on a weekly basis. There's people I see doing this every saturday like clockwork.It's pretty clear that they had no need for any of the bullshit they ordered, they just wanted the little rush of getting some parcel in the mail.

It's also almost always from the same 3 website (Amazon, Shein and Temu) so they're not only actively destroying the environment (and seriously, I think it's hard to realize how much plastic and fuel all those returns take if you haven't seen it first hand -just the amount of tape we use on them on a daily basis is enough to make me sick-), they also contribute to horrible working conditions for so many people so yeah, at this point I do think we need to start applying some shame to all that bs tbh

#i really overfocus on the tape thing because it's just *so much* plastic in one day in one post office and for what?#for some cheap bullshit also made of plastic that are gonne ends up as nothing but landfill fodder #consumerism makes me physically ill at this point #it gives me the same vibe than looking at rotten meat and i'm not even exagerating #and i say that as somebody who enjoys having little trinkets and knick knacks in her house #people are just pushing it so so so far it's absolutely insane to me #disclaimer before someone decide to be sensitive: I'm not talking about people who order something realize it's not working for them..#..and then return it to get their money back #that's normal behavior and the impact on the environment is very small if you do it a few times in a year #i'm also not judging you if you're broke and order things on really cheap website #tho i do encourage you to check other option (for your own well-being too because some of those will be filled with lead and shit)#but once again..some people are pushing it so far it's driving me insane

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kruxton · 4 months

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if i had a nickel for everytime i get mistaken for a housemaid i'd have two nickels. which isnt a lot but its weird that its happened twice

#is it bc of the way i dress??? what i look like???? what #the most recent occurrence was normal tho a distant relative just thought i was a nanny for my lil brother which is. okay whatever #BUT THE FIRST TIME... 😬😬#was doing a house party and i got up to go wash my plate and this lady just.. put hers in my hand while she was mid convo with someone else #i was like. okay... so i washed her plate as well #then she started talking to my mum and was asking about 'the maid' and my mum was like. “what maid?”#then she pointed to me and my mum broke down #super embarassing for both parties but she was very obnoxious so idgaf #text #personal

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nevoadecaipora · 4 months

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#it makes me sad to be so sensitive with my friends #but it's really hard to talk to someone who's only studying and being funded by their parents about not having time because if work #i feel like an asshole everytime I have to remind them that I'm actually fucking broke and now part of the family income #some other group chat was telling me that I should avoid them for a while because they're being kinda rude #but like they're my friend since high school #and I don't want to believe they're doing this like out of malice #and maybe I'm actually pretty fucking sensitive #like there's nothing more that I want than to live my life and enjoy the fun of youth #but I'm fucking broke and I have to help my parents keep the house running #like besides me my dad is the only one with income in the house #and this shit weights on him he gets worried and anxious and I don't want him to be like that #since my mom's and brother's depression it's been me and my dad keeping stuff running #and my dad's income is jot super stable #like I don't want to make myself the victim but like i want to have fun too and hang out #but I can't cause I have to help the assholes make millions while they give me scraps #this is a frustrating week and I fucking hate rich people #my friend used to hate them too and have class conscience idk what's happening #or maybe i know i just don't want to believe it #anyways #i'm ranting #diário fudido da CLT

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