each doctor has a special power

31/male androgyne yet somehow also an evil and intimidating lesbian/he+they+it/content not safe for minors

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of course, as we all know, jesters are some of the most rewarding and straightforward clowns to keep and the oldest officially recognized fancy breed, having self-domesticated thousands of years ago. this is not to say that jesters are easy companions to accommodate or don’t require specialized care; much like goldfish or parrots, they are often mistakenly recommended or gifted to beginners. but jesters are perhaps the single most social variety of clown, and uniquely form close one on one bonds with their “favorite person”. they thrive on being included in your discussions and daily routine, and being dismissed repeatedly as “distracting” or “annoying” is one of the worst things you can do for their mental and physical health. similar to a siamese cat, you should only adopt a jester if you’re prepared to give them the attention they need.

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new mweor breed like

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horror game npc based on overcontrol disorders whom you can hear screaming, crying, and injuring themselves at a distance but who immediately snaps into a normal, extremely polite person when you enter their perception radius

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scientists discover that different planes of reality are real but are unsure of how to tactfully break the news that our universe is in the hell basement and there aren’t that many floors under us

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I bring a distinct “humans are small gods who ideally have ultimate control over their internal realities, but the physical universe is set up in such a way that older and more established gods are able to disempower younger, lesser gods before they’re even born to prevent them from using their self-influence abilities (structural inequality and oppression)” vibe to chaos magic that prosperity gospel people don’t like

[cartoonscientist]

so apparently if you talk to your cat and they respond with different sounds, you are actually talking to them and they understand what you mean through tone and inflection rather than the actual words you’re saying (unless they can pick out specific phonemes with associations, like “food” or “carrier”)

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where on the hierarchy of needs is having a cat long enough to spoon like a person

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a lot of posts on tumblr about how mentally ill people in the modern day aren’t allowed to reclaim or joke about archaic psychiatric abuse because “you wouldn’t have been subjected to it because you’re not severely mentally ill”, “you’ve never been put in medical restraints and don’t know what it’s like”, “they wouldn’t have lobotomized you and you shouldn’t call your meds a chemical lobotomy because that’s a real thing and you would never be given those meds because you’re not sick enough” seem to assume a LOT about the reader like who do you think you’re talking to, i have lasting cognitive damage from being on such hardcore antiquated antipsychotics for so long, I’ve been strapped down, I’ve taken a shit in a bathroom with only a curtain for a door and a roommate, what are we doing here

[herpsandbirds]

Bronzed Cowbird (Molothrus aeneus), 2 males having an intense discussion, family Icteridae, order Passeriformes, Mesa, AZ, USA

photograph by Dave Lehneman

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dagonite npcs when oona is in your party: oh. I see you have a shoggoth with you. 😒

asenath, in awe at the inter-eldritch bigotry on display: are you shitting me

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I have a thing for setting my stories in the hypothetical combination state of Southern Oregon and Northern California known as Jefferson

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my dad’s boomer trans woman friend is feeling alienated from human society and I was like “tell her that your TRANSGENDER NONBINARY CHILD says read The Invisibles by Grant Morrison. and get into chaos magic. tell her that. read The Invsibles and look up chaos magic. and Eris. and get screened for schizophrenia, it can happen later in life.” which I guess is the leftist version of gym lawyer delete facebook?

[cartoonscientist]

beginning to doubt your credentials as a gay knower

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also not to be all oh so you hate waffles but good to know that if you’re a transvestite or muscular you are an Irregular Man (take notes, fellows!)

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I agree that the fetishization of youth and sexualization of children is a huge issue in popular culture and society at large, but also I kind of grimace whenever someone accuses a public figure of “intentionally acting like a child to appeal to pedophiles” with no further evidence of wrongdoing (or along with a list of unrelated offenses, presented as if it’s just as bad or even worse) because my immediate reaction is “what, so disabled people with arrested or regressed mannerisms can never be sexual beings or flirt with anyone because some creep might get turned on by a visibly post-pubescent adult?”

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also idk it gives me weird victim blamey vibes because it seems to imply, to me at least, that the high rates of abuse against disabled people are because they’re particularly arousing to sexual predators, not because they present as easy targets due to being societally marginalized, and maybe if they could mask better those darn rapists wouldn’t rape them so much (also it directly implies that anyone who is attracted to a “childlike” disabled person is therefore also attracted to children)

[cartoonscientist]

I agree that the fetishization of youth and sexualization of children is a huge issue in popular culture and society at large, but also I kind of grimace whenever someone accuses a public figure of “intentionally acting like a child to appeal to pedophiles” with no further evidence of wrongdoing (or along with a list of unrelated offenses, presented as if it’s just as bad or even worse) because my immediate reaction is “what, so disabled people with arrested or regressed mannerisms can never be sexual beings or flirt with anyone because some creep might get turned on by a visibly post-pubescent adult?”

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sometimes I feel like the only rpg enjoyer whose first experience with the genre was that fucking in-browser neopets game and its sequel

it was so bad in retrospect twenty years later yet I was enchanted by the idea of a game where you could talk to people, stop to look at things, and bring friends with you, where it didn’t matter how quickly you could react to indistinct animations on a tiny screen (remember, I grew up in the 2000s and have a sensory processing disorder), since my only exposure to gaming previously had been watching my friends and relatives play by themselves on a tv set or in an arcade. in that way, it did kind of set me up with really low expectations so that every subsequent rpg I played was even more impressive by comparison.