I feel like I should probably have a pinned post by now, so here I go.
Hi there, hello, I'm Gnomey22! Also known as GnomeYT,
Gnome_AO3, or just 'Gnome'. I am autistic, non-binary, demisexual, and I use she/they(/it, though rarely) pronouns.
My major hyperfixations/special interests are Failboat Miitopia (A.K.A. Failtopia) and Ace Attorney, with some others that may crop up and/or vanish over time. I mainly post about Failtopia myself.
I don't expect to grow that much of a following on here, this is mainly just a place for me to drop various musings that don't fit anywhere else, but if you do stick around, I appreciate you!
Also, basic DNI criteria, including proship/ship discourse posters
"Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I've landed on your page you're most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I'm about to share could help save a black woman's life.
Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.
If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.
And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.
So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:
I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."
This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.
If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.
But particularly women, and especially black women.
Allow me to go through a few Failboat Miitopia ships and dissect how they could turn toxic or otherwise fall apart, twice over to cover both characters. I'll put everything under the cut this time, trigger warning for various sensitive topics
Marion - Mar's Fault
Pure emotional repression. Mar is fairly open about his attraction, sure, he dwarfs Orion in that respect, but in almost every other category, almost every other way of showing his love outside of surface-level affection, he's barely providing anything. He's fully committed to his work as the team leader, often de-prioritising his own mental health in favour of attempting to caretake the rest of them, and when he isn't, he has long bouts of holing himself up in his room and refusing entry. None of these are dealbreakers in the slightest, Mar has been through hell and needs a lot of support to heal, but he doesn't truly allow Orion in to help. He wants Orion as a strong shoulder to occasionally lean on, but otherwise will only ever go to Friend for more professional and delicate consolation, or even Failboat or Bo for dumb fun. He doesn't trust Orion, at the end of the day, he doesn't want to be on the receiving end of anyone's judgement at this point and he understands Orion to be a blunt harsh critic at times. So, he never truly opens up to him. He'll make constant jokes about sacrificing himself to save Orion, or anyone else on the team, and that's the closest he gets to telling his partner about any of his deeper problems. Orion feels like he doesn't know him, outside of how he presents himself as a fragile blank slate who only wants him as a second blank slate to touch.
Marion - Orion's Fault
Projection. Orion spent almost fifty years with the love of his life by his side, was just getting started on building the family they'd always wanted but couldn't make the time for, only for an incomprehensible force of nature to cruelly take her away from him. Cruelly, especially because she wasn't necessarily dead. She had never left his mind for a second, not when she was alive and not now that she's comatose, and the presence of a new partner in his life doesn't negate that. In fact, Mar is the closest thing he can get to reliving his life with her in her absence. Admiring her "understated passion" was one of the first compliments towards her, one of her favourites, and it applied to this man just as well, if in a different way - someone with just enough of a funny bone to ease tension, but not enough of a spine to make himself known. He is a reliable levity for Orion, an enjoyable night out at the bar with his friends mixed with the increasingly scarce intimate moments with his wife, personified. Mar wants to try out something new, another date location or going home earlier or ordering less alcohol, but Orion can't let him ruin the illusion. If he doesn't make these decisions, keep Mar exactly where he wants him, he can't picture his wife in his place.
Lanchi - Chi's Fault
Yandere. I hate to say it, but it's the obvious option. She doesn't let go of that after Lanc calls her out on taking the strategy too personally, she's found the first real personal connection her entire life and cannot tell fake from real when Lanc dances with the monsters. She knows everything that they talked about, that they're just mindless beasts holding real faces who need to be distracted and then killed, but all she sees is another face enjoying themselves around Lanc. Taking away the minute amount of attention she's ever received. She opens fire mercilessly, and if she could strike down the faces flying off the monsters, she would. She starts to, when they get a little too close to her science boy when "thanking the team for their efforts." Just light singes no-one can prove she caused, with sun flares all around. It's harder to deny when she strikes at Failboat for checking up on them in her room, or at Deko for trying to team-attack with him, or with those freak strangers in the basement for trying to draw him in. They have each other down here, they only need each other, she's got fire to keep them warm! And to boil anyone else who tries to cross their path and take her project away from her. Lanc is everything she's ever had, and their relationship is everything they will ever have.
Lanchi - Lanc's Fault
"Friend-zoning", and losing touch. Quite arguably the tamest option in this collection, but still incredibly emotionally damaging for one Chin "Chi" Kid, for similar reasons as outlined above. She found a few other worthwhile friendships on the team, but Lanc inexorably occupied an entire section of her brain, the boy who saw her off-the-walls energy and tried his very best to bounce off of them with her. He treasured his time with her, someone who tried their absolute hardest to make light of their situation the entire way through, an unrelenting kindness in her heart even as she tore through monsters like a hardened warrior. No matter what, he could call on her to revitalise his childlike spirit, convince him to throw out all preconceptions of scientific method and splatter the town with mysterious chemicals to his heart's content. His heart was content with her, exactly that way, someone he could call up to goof off with, and jump in to protect in a time of need. He just... didn't want to spend his entire life with her. His feelings didn't extend in that direction, and besides, she'd probably get on his nerves if he spent every waking moment with her. No offence. Chi tried her absolute hardest to smile with gritted teeth through that conversation, but of course their calls became more and more infrequent until they collapsed into nothing. He didn't match her energy at all.
Eribo - Erica's Fault
Possessiveness, and borderline dehumanisation. What Erica wanted out of Bo from the beginning wasn't really her, it was just someone she could lean on without years of existing baggage. They could barely hold a conversation between themselves due to Bo's social anxiety and Erica's stubborn repression, but she didn't need that, she just needed someone who would never leave her. Someone who could never leave her, the one person who couldn't die on her. Not only that, she eventually realised, but someone so weak-willed and desperate to keep people on her good side that she would never want to upset her girlfriend, and thus, would never challenge her, always rely on her to be the pillar of strength between them, the force of will. If she did eventually turn on her, Erica was strong enough to keep her in line. Her arm now had an essentially immovable object it could cling to. A ghost is normally a fading presence, and a Vampire an unmistakable one, but the natural purpose of a Princess is to be guarded by her knights. The warriors who need someone to provide them relief after all they've been through, a pretty little thing they can call theirs.
Eribo - Bo's Fault
Neglect and dishonesty. Erica was one of the greatest aids in Bo finding herself as a Vampire, and now that she's finally able to express herself so throughly, she's not going to let anyone bend her to their will anymore. Anyone. She can go out at night and indulge in the vampiric rituals she promised she wouldn't, because that's who she is now, who she always was, and Erica needs to accept that. She can fill the cupboard with blood-packs and drink them all within a week, including the medically necessary ones, that's just how she sustains herself, the injured teammates can handle themselves fine without them. There's blood splattered across every floor and wall of the room, but it's completely necessary and if Erica's uncomfortable with that decor, she needs to get over it! In that respect, why not tear open and gorge on the blood-bags in full view? What's the problem with biting her victims out in the open, either? It's true that she's not giving Erica the time of day, constantly hiding away in daylight and stalking off to hurt people in the night, but it's horribly unsupportive for her to restrict Bo like that, no? Besides, if she wants to be close to her so badly, if she's apparently so jealous of all the other women she's feasted on lately, then she can provide the sustenance herself. One final connection between their lifebloods.
1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer
2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung
3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)
4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK
5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money
something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.
So I've got this friend whose nervous because she's trans and dating this guy who she hasn't told yet because they've only been on a two dates. For this story let's call the friend Jane and the guy she was dating Jason. Happy ending don't worry.
So I tell Jane to bring her boy over to a bbq I'm having and she can tell him she's trans at my place surrounded by queer and trans people who love her and will support her if he ends up being awful.
She waits till the end of the bbq to tell him the news, by which point the rest of us have learned that Jason is a kind, friendly, empathetic, hard working, dummy. So we sit down, all of us a little worried about this gym bro's reaction when she tells him she's trans, and that she understands if he doesn't want to keep dating her it's no big deal.
He's baffled, so we explain what trans is, and after the disclosure that she hasn't had bottom surgery yet...
"Oh you have a dick?"
"... yeah."
He look's around at the room full of people with baited breath, his clearly a little afraid girl friend says
"Oooohhhh! I get it! You think- don't worry Babe! Watch this!"
And ya'll this man jumps up, runs into the kitchen and returns with one of the bratwurst we had for grilling and proceeds to tilt his head back, put it down his throat, hold it in his mouth for a moment, and spit it up without even a whisper of a gag and then looks around at the group absolutely beaming with pride.
My mans saw his worried girlfriend and her support network and thought to him self "Oh they don't think I can't please my girl, but I'll show them!"
I do feel the need to add that later he excitedly tell the group that as a straight guy, he never thought that skill would be useful outside hotdog eating contests.
sorry to everyone out there who thinks they have the funniest tshirt but i think i can confidently say i just saw the actual funniest tshirt just now. i passed by a beautiful black woman with long multicolor braids blowing majestically in the beach breeze & she was wearing an oversized tshirt that said in gigantic letters "WHITE BOY OF THE YEAR"
Since the r-slur is making a comeback (you know, the word that starts with R, has six letters, and ends in D), I'm gonna make a little PSA:
Yes, it's an ableist slur.
Terms like "asshat," "head-up-ass," "up their own ass," and "high on their own farts" exist. There's also words like crap, dogshit, half-assed, assclown, and chucklefuck. And on the less vulgar side, there are terms like ridiculous, nonsense, train wreck, pointless, insipid, self-absorbed, pretentious, annoying, boring, contemptible, vile, and disgusting.
Substituting words like restarted, poptarted, brain damaged, smoothbrain, etc. is still ableist, because either 1. you obviously still mean the r-word, or 2. you're still using disability as an insult.
I recently watched through the (sort of) prequel series to Failtopia, known as “Demon Hunters”, to research for this fic, and I’ve decided to compile a series of text posts based on the series in the hopes that certain enthusiast of the series will appreciate it, particularly on this date. Happy International Non-Binary People's Day, @citradreampainter!
