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@15depressedducks
Get to know me!!
I go by Ducks, and I have ADHD soooo do with that as you will...
Ask me almost anything!
Fic blog - @15writingducks
I run an RP blog too! - @gala-ghost
#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden
Things like Sims eugenics and creating ghettos in Animal Crossing will always be more horrifying than 90% of the attrocities committed in games like Rimworld and Stellaris for the simple reason that they were never intended by the developers
Games like Rimworld and Stellaris have dedicated mechanics created to facilitate crimes against sapient life, but the developers of the Sims never expected that people would start selective breeding programs and lock their ugliest children in the basement art sweatshop
War Crime Simulators give you the horrors, but with these games, you had to look at the tools given to you and construct the horrors yourself
I think what makes it worse for games like Stellaris is that it's hard not to commit war crimes lol.
No matter how benevolent and kind you want to be, it's usually a necessity to bomb worlds, and yeah, you can choose the limited bombardment stance but you're still bombing the whole fucking planet.
Purging of whole populations, or at least, heavily reducing them or editing thier genetics are also both common and almost required if you actually want to win the game, some pops are used as weapons! They'll intentionally have bad traits so when conquered, they immediately cause cascading penalties to your economy.
The Sims? Nah you have to just want to do that shit.
When i used to play the Sims, I NEVER DID THAT??? NONE OF MY SIMS DIED??? (maybe the pets did, but idk)
I didn't intend that I'd need to look up if stuff was called a certain way, BUT IF YOUR WRITING ABOUT 2 DECADES AGO YOU WORRY! :D
Fanfic is soooooo fun.
A pigeon crosses your dash
I’m gonna hit him with my car
Had a very sudden flashback to when my parents were getting divorced (they never actually did, dad ripped up the paperwork)
And I remember being perfectly okay with that, they fought, constantly, about everything. Riiight up until the moment my mother said I'd be living with her instead of him.
Instantly began crying, and it wasn't because "You'll see your dad less." No, I knew where he was and the number to call him, that wasn't the problem.
He was safer. He actually hugged and cared for me, took me places and shared a lot of my interests. My mother? Even at 12 I knew that would be absolute hell on Earth. All the vitriol she'd been throwing at my dad she'd had already turned on me in the weeks he was gone, only, I didn't fight back then, I just sat and cried for hours on end, even in public (Which, made her look bad, so of course... she had to kurb her worst tendencies)
But I knew life was about to get significantly worse. At first, I just tried to go with my dad, but mom shut that down hard, "No No, I'm your mom, you stay with me."
Then I started begging Dad to come back.
Literally, in tears, I'd tell him everything that was happening and I could see the conflict on his face of "I want to get away from this woman." Meeting the realization, "If this happens, she'll just switch targets to her."
And I feel bad. Because he decided to stay. I'm grateful, of course, while it didn't make home easy, at all, it did get my mother off my back enough to get out and escape.
But. That's how bad it was wasn't it? At 12 I knew she wasn't safe, and I didn't want to be alone with her.
I feel like a normal kid would just be upset at thier parents splitting because it's a change. I remember first thinking "Thank God, you'll stop fighting." and then "Oh God. No, then I'll be stuck here..."
At 12!
Fucking Hell...
That...
That sucks.
I'm so sorry you went through that.
...I was gonna bring up my own story regarding custody the event that made me need medications again but now I feel like it'd be insensitive.
It's not insensitive, It's not something I think about often or really have any emotions at all for anymore (Like most of my childhood. Honestly)
Please do?
This got really long so I added the keep reading.
So I don't remember quite when my parents split up (I swear it was when I was 10 but I'm not sure). It ended up with split custody. My mom had me for one half of the week, my dad had me for the other.
Should also note I have a little brother, cause that's important.
My dad's partner at the time this happened was abusive. Not physically, but emotionally and verbally, meanwhile my dad allowed it, ignored it, and sometimes did it himself. It led to me only ever being in my room (and is also the reason I need my door to be visible at my desk so I can close it if I hear someone), and also me learning to completely mask any and all emotions, positive and negative.
There were also a lot of moments where my brother would have one of them shouting or berating him, and I would step in and find a way to make them target me instead.
Now flash forward to the day it all happened, Christmas of 2019.
My dad's girlfriend at the time also had her son live with us. Something with him happened, and a towel on the towel rack fell to the ground.
My dad saw this, and demanded my brother and I apologize. We had nothing to do with it. We never so much as touched the damn towel. And yet as much as we said we didn't do anything and wouldn't apologize, he and his girlfriend demanded we do.
After a bit, I decided enough was enough. My brother and I were sobbing from everything, and that when I called my mom and asked her to get us. It wasn't her day to have custody, but she said she would. My brother and I put our shoes on, during which we were still being told to apologize or that we were being dramatic. I think he believed we were just going to run away somewhere and come back later after realizing we needed a place to be.
My brother and I left the house and walked down the street, still sobbing, and waited at the neighborhood mailbox until my mom arrived.
I'm realizing as I write this that exact details are getting harder to remember. All I clearly remember was that it was because of a towel we didn't touch, there was a ton of sobbing and shouting, and we got picked up by my mom and her girlfriend. Thinking about it, that's probably for the best.
And now here's the big consequence of it all. Leading up to it, I had not been taking medications. I hadn't needed them for a long time. After Christmas in 2019, I had to go on a ton of them, prescriptions changing and all that.
I didn't need medications anymore. I used to, but I'd gotten to a point where I didn't need them anymore. And after that day, I needed them again, and still need them now.
I may not remember exact details, but Christmas 2019 may be the worst day I remember, and I don't think I'll ever fully forget it.
Just to add my penny to the fountain,
My parents aren't divorced, but two of my aunts are... So right now it kinda feels like that daganrampan clip of the person trying to pass out before they get crushed...
I just hope they can stay together long enough for my little sister to move out... so... 15 more years..?
It's not to the degree you guys have/had, but i fear divorce might be on the rise soon for my family...
KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
KICK!
Kick!
kick!
mimicry
TIL that a cat once co-authored a physics paper. In 1975, a physicist had just finished writing a paper and was ready to publish but realized that he had used ‘we’ instead of ‘I’ throughout, despite being the sole author. Not wanting to edit the paper, he listed his cat, Chester, as a co-author.
via http://ift.tt/2pvbu4c
This is the cat, by the way:
I trust him
Ok but the best part is, physicists loved the joke. When people called the author’s university and he wasn’t available, they’d ask to speak with the co-author instead. The author issued a limited number of copies of the article signed by both authors. (Chester’s was obviously a pawprint.) And to this day, physics papers will often have F.D.C Willard (Felix Domesticus, Chester Williard [Willard was the author’s father’s name]) mentioned in the footnotes thanking his “useful contributions to the discussion”.
He’s absolutely building pools and taking the ladders away-
Is this some ptsd, in this economy? Kind of the second part to [THIS].
I've seen this with Stratt and Grace but not Grace and Rocky lol
i dont think its supposed to work like that
Of course Cosmos chose the ONE ITEM THAT LOWERS YOUR SKILCHECK SIZE!
And the fun thing is, MY FRIEND HAS PLAYIED COMOS WITH MAGNIFYING GLASS BEFORE!
I'm fascinated by how the animators for TADC handle Caine's impossible anatomy so well. There's so much to balance and they've somehow engineered a solution for his expressions to hold during speech.
I also traced Caine answering the phone from episode 4 to demonstrate his phonemes and mouth shapes.
[part 1] [part 2]
rocky learns about the Denmark incident :]
me a week ago: Oh I'm probably going to have to have a lot of chapters to get to where I want... That's okay!
Me right now: Oh I can actually have it be incredibly shorter! I just need them to bond a lot during the recovery period, BUT MAKE SURE IT'S NOT STOCKHOLM SYSDOM BECAUSE DEAR GOD I DNT WANT THAT!
I'm not sure if it's quite the same but I read you mentioning recovery period and stockholm worries
May I recommend you give Extra Life a read? It's Danganronpa, so you may be lost with some parts, but it's a very good fic with a majority being a slow burn recovery of one of the MCs caring for the other.
Thank you so much, I definitely will!
I did look it up, and from what I can tell, it most likely won't come across that way so I'm happy about that!
Dunno quite what you're saying, but I'm glad it helped.
Explanation/Expanded words below the cut just incase you want clarity. Sorry, rereading that it doesn't make much sense as I provided no context for my words.
"Thank you so much, I definitely will!"- Thank you for linking the fic, I will definitely read it so I can use it as a light reference to help my writing.
"I did look it up, and from what I can tell, it most likely won't come across that way so I'm happy about that!"- I looked up Stockholm syndrome, and from the little blurb on google that I read, what I will be writing won't seem like one of the MCs develops it for the other MC, so I am happy about that.