we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day
saimatsu week, day 7 - free day
hello again @saimatsu-week and saimatsu nation. this is what i was prepping. also hello gravity falls fans!! if you're reading this you have already been sufficiently spoiled! too late now!!! anyway, saimatsu week just so happened to land smack dab in the middle of the hype train for book of bill and it just so happened that this beautiful section from bill's soul contract gave me the same bittersweet vibes that saimatsu does so OBVIOUSLY i needed to do something with it. so this was born. as a newbie to the DR community ive still got love for all three games in equal parts (and slightly less but still some for despair girls), so i HAD to get some nods in, and i threw in some other stuff too considering this is already a massive crossover piece anyway. ;)
a bit of a downer to end on, i know, but there's a reason i did that other piece before this!! and who knows maybe ill do more after this! there is no deadline! i was honestly considering submitting this as DAY ONE but that was insane so. here we are lmao. i hope somebody out there appreciates the work i put into it ✌️
“Why are American kids the sickest of any developed nation?” I dunno, maybe because we have a for-profit medical system, social welfare programs are constantly being undermined, environmental protections have been rolled back, companies are allowed to market any kind of bullshit they want, the housing/cost of living crisis means a lot of children are living in cramped, mold infested shitholes ran by landleeches and- vaccines? Oh, you think vaccines are what is causing it?
Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)
For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.
So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.
We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon
I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.
I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.
Your character doesn't need to be likeable. They need to be legible. The reader needs to understand every decision they make even when it's wrong, even when it's ugly, even when they want to shake them. Likeable is easy and forgettable. Legible is what makes someone stay with you for years. Make the logic of every bad choice visible. The reader doesn't have to agree with it. They just have to follow it.
