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I've been here before - 30s - she/they

[dullasfuckknives]

Hiya, time to try again with a new blog 🌬️

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interests

Some of my fav video games: monster hunter, bloodborne, armored core 6, Civ 6, Street Fighter 6, Signalis, Animal Well, metroidvanias, roguelikes, farming sims

Some of the podcasts I finished or am listening to: The Magnus Archives & Protocol, Old Gods of Appalachia, Midnight Burger, Sherlock & Co., Wolf 359, Autumn, The Silt Verses

Some of the musicals I frequently listen to: Falsettos, Hadestown, Something Rotten, Little Shop of Horrors, Heathers, Groundhog Day, Sweeney Todd

Linux: currently running Mint but thinking abt changing back to Tumbleweed, Debian on my other machine, lineageOS on my phone

Some of the movies I frequently watch: Willy's Wonderland, Hackers, Kung Fu Hustle, Scream, Pride, Spirited Away, Mononoke Hime, Little Women, Clue, Over the Garden Wall (it counts!)

Forests, Rivers, Swamps

[pukicho]

Am I your special little boy

Not particularly

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Was talking to a coworker today who explained that her grandfather was like Snow White “but Californian. And an old man.” in that the creatures of the forest would follow him around and presumably duet with him.

“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”

“Aww. They were checking on him!” I said, like a normal person. Internally, I thought “Maybe you could do the thing you do with dead pets, where you show them to the living pets so the living pet understands they’re gone. But I guess if you did that to a bunch of scavenging species, they’d be like “Well, that’s very sad but he IS food now.” So what you’d need, for human sensibilities, is some sort of transparent corpse barrier. Like a see-through coffin oh that’s what the dwarves were doing! You’ve stopped paying attention to this conversation about the loss of a beloved family member you gotta phase back in.”

[sun-ni-day]

oh that's what the dwarves were doing

[carbomcoco]

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

[carbomcoco]

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

[aphony-cree]

people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"

they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited

[vulpinesaint]

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

[louisegluckpdf]

me when one of my girlmutuals posts about how they got a little coffee beverage or took a nice walk or started a book they've been meaning to read for a while or otherwise found meaning and joy in simple pleasures

[alivehouse]

lets start blair witching it in the corner. together

[alivehouse]

[e-102]

need this on my blog

[gaysinmyears]

gerrys

[em-theforeverdm]

so i kinda do get why we dog on her for it, since she isnt going about it in a very productive way, but I do wanna say that "i dont wanna orchestrate mass murders for the rest of my life" is a pretty fair motivation for Gwen to have

[mothmans-queer-cousin]

thinking about gerry in tmagp is giving “the implications I didn’t think about the implications” do you understand what I’m saying

[your-living-ant-farm]

it's very important to me that she has greek tragedy levels of hubris actually

[dullasfuckknives]

I support Gwen Bouchard's wrongs. Your honor please release my Gwen Bouchard because she did all that! Never stop being a flawed messy inefficient human being of a malfunctioning cog in an evil machine bc that might save the world!

[coughloop]

Worlds oldest haunted house has passed away at the age of 207

[coughloop]

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of... maybe everything actually

[dullasfuckknives]

Oh and while I'm at it, I don't for one second believe that the institute researchers were successful in their attempt with Gerry. Because in this universe dread comes in four forms: death, pain, wrongness and helplessness and Gerry does make the people around him helpless in a sense. (Also if there could be a "good" external/catalysed individual in this universe, that would strongly imply, if not demand, that a "good" avatar could've been possible in TMA and that would be way too much of a retcon)

[dullasfuckknives]

Oh yeah true actually, there's also lots of wrongness with it all as some of you have mentioned in the tags!

[wastrelwoods]

spotted across the coffeeshop and sprinted over for a closer look

[freegiftjones]

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.

[chicknparm]