Hazelnut Mead

Hey, I am wannabe Goth living in Britain. In the process of becoming a magical girl. I am also unfortunately considered an "Adult".

[bayonetpriest]

"I cut my finger. I don't want it to get infected.

Please, lick it for me."

[zapfish-juice]

Okey so my dumb ahh might have deleted the ask from my inbox but this goes to that person who said that Alucard would suck at being a wingman for sertegra, you are right, Alucard is 100% the evil pansexual in Integra's shoulder whispering bad dating advice

[nudityenthusiast]

girls growling like a feral dog, pinning you down beneath her, while she bites at your neck over and over and over and says she could rip your pretty throat out before biting even harder

r- reblgolg.. if yuo agreeh

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

[arttla]

beachy testament sketch

[amiya-shirou]

Arknights' deep and expansive worldbuilding often tricks people into expecting complete realism from it in every part of its setting which often leads to them feeling like the game isn't answering these expectations - as seen for example with the criticism to Masses' Travels and how it didn't really develop Laterano's body of faith and spiritual practices or how Terran countries and politics can feel exxaggerated in how they're playing up their specific traits too much - but in my opinion that's not really the intended way to approach Arknights. I see the game as far more interested in metaphors than it is in the verisimilitudeness of its own world & politics and its regions as set pieces that mostly exist as stages for specific themes more than an exercise in complex worldbuilding for its own sake.

Things like how Siracusa is played up so much as a country governed by the mafia to the point it didn't even have a police force before I Portatori dei Velluti, or how Ursus subsituted faith in God with faith in the State, or how Victoria as whole is an atheist country are all examples of this. These things are not strictly realistic, but they do their job perfectly because they're intended to work on the metaphorical level - again, they're better seen as stages than as perfect equivalents to real countries.

Nuance is added later by the interactions between the different regions and the individual characters' relation to them and the way they try to change their country into something better, thus making them more complex, and Arknights does spend quite a lot of words in narrating their history so I don't think it's strictly wrong to get interested in how everything works and be absorbed by the worldbuilding (we do have a very good big ass lorebook I'm quite insane about), and everytime the game does develop them more it's always a nice added bonus, but I don't think of that as the primary function and find it a bit unfair to what the story is going for most of the time to focus too much on its lack of realism. Masses' Travels didn't really need a deep and complex dive on the workings on Lateran faith for its themes to work because it's not intended to act like a real life religion does. Laterano is a metaphor (for many things, not just catholicism) and as such its faith only needs to be explored as much as it's needed to build that metaphor (compared to how Kjerag is more directly exploring a specific in-universe religion and how it affects every level of a country and as such it gains more from going in-depth).

You can even see how that metaphor is changed whenever Lateran faith is exported to other countries - other stages - as it's warped around their specific themes; it assumes a very different form in Iberia, Siracusa and Bolívar. Only thing the faith itself needed to do as far as each of these stories was concerned was to exist, because the conversation was about the impact of faith and the variety in how it's utilized and you don't really need to know its inner workings for that. The most extreme version of that is how Abnormal Spectrum was able to discuss faith in Ursus and make a perfectly good multi-layered metaphor without even needing religion or the idea of God to exist in it; that was such an insane thing to do and yet they nailed it so well that I've been thinking about that ever since. I guess I just love my metaphors #mymetaphors

[unliikelylovers]

it’s been said before and it’s not even close to the worst thing but it sucks how our current robber barons are such philistines. like these guys aren’t even building libraries or concert halls. they can’t even pretend to enjoy art, and they don’t see any value in signaling that they appreciate art

[higglety]

this current batch of the fithy-rich is BORING. They're BORING. Oh you have a yacht that's bigger than anybody else's yacht but functionally no different from one of your fancy houses? BORING. You have yet another fast car? YAWN. You ate a burger but like, a special burger? whatever. FUND AN OPERA ABOUT ANOTHER RICH GUY YOU HATE, DIPSHITS. How about you put a concert hall with your name on it in every city in the US and fund their operations for the next decade, if you're so rich????? unless you're too poor to afford that????? How many people do you, personally, directly employ, and what are their salaries? Do you pay well enough to command the loyalty and willing service of any masters of their craft? It would be so easy to win the absolute love and adoration of the masses in this climate but no, they wanna build bunkers and play politics in order to save a few more miserable nickles.

[mikkeneko]

@capriceandwhimsy reminds me of your rabbit hole about yachts

[bodyintheriver]

“She died. She can’t come back, even if you keep her stuffed away in a drawer you can’t look at. You’re not waiting for her resurrection; you’ve made yourself her mausoleum.”

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

[creatingblackcharacters]

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-

[fairycosmos]

i love when parents used to say you’ll understand when you’re an adult and then you become an adult and you’re like ohhh i do understand. i understand that you were a weird fucking cunt. i know this because now i am a weird fucking cunt too. and i still don’t treat kids that way

[scoliosiswizard]

(Eric Satie, as quoted in John Cage's "Silence")

[hazel2468]

My father, more times than I can count: "You don't understand, you'll see when you get out into the REAL world."

Me, over 30, in the "real" world for over a decade: ...OH I get it. You and mom! Are FUCKING ASSHOLES!

[hylianengineer]

There is one very important thing I need people without major dietary restrictions to understand: the distress caused by allergies, celiac disease, and other food restrictions is largely not about the food.

Do I miss some foods I can't eat anymore without getting sick? Sure, but that's not what really bothers me. What bothers me is being excluded from a huge portion of human social life of which food is a crucial component. What bothers me is the stress and social stigma of trying to figure out what I can safely eat. What bothers me is the amount of extra work and cost that is required of me to identify, obtain, and prepare safe foods. What bothers me is people treating my needs like a nuisance, as though I chose to be like this - as though their brief inconvenience to check an ingredients list is unreasonable, when I deal with this every day of my life forever.

I don't miss the food that much. I miss not having to worry about what I eat. I miss freedom. I miss when trying new foods and new restaurants was fun instead of a minefield. I miss not having to plan my entire life around the need for safe foods.

Food is such a basic human need, and a lot of people don't really need to think about it. When your danger foods can be anywhere and everywhere, suddenly your entire life revolves around avoiding them, and it massively sucks. You get used to it and it's not a big deal most of the time, but then you go to a new restaurant, or your office has a potluck, or you've been invited to a party and suddenly it feels just as miserable and exhausting as it ever has.

[daikaiju-arts]

“I really wanted to hope”

[sevenmere]

I don't really have an opinion on Amiya/Zuo Le shipping, but I am getting profoundly exhausted by the recent tide of "Doctor (father (male)) threatening Zuo Le with violence for courting his daughter" memes

[petterwass]

Tbh all Arknights het ships are kinda boring and uninteresting and almost never based in any actual chemistry the characters have.

[petterwass]

This is also because Arknights girlies have way more stuff Wrong With Them than the boys (who are on the whole rather stoic and well-adjusted. Now if Mephisto was playable...) and thus are more fun to ship.

No Arknights boys will be as fun and insane as :

whatever the fuck Texas and Lappy has going on,

as Ho'olheyak casually threatening to make you deepthroat her tail (which is a for reals voice line she has!),

as Gracebearer gripping your skull tightly, her fingers like the a birds of prey's talons as she confesses how much she likes killing people but don't want the children to know of that side of her,

As the complicated bundle of hurt, toxic power structures, suicide, workplace hierarchy, and patient/carer relations that is the Greater Rhine Labs Polycule

as the Ursus student girls bonding over mutual trauma and also cannibalism.

Also *gestures vaguely at the whole Abyssal Hunters polycule and their shared bonds of mass slaughter, exile, transhumanism, of sacrificing your very humanity for a nation that spits in your face, of torture, of being stranded in a strange land.

Not to say that there aren't good ships with the guys in them. They're just soo much rarer.

Croos/Mr Nothing is a good one. They have good chemistry in their event, Croos has PTSD and Survivor's Guilt and Mr Nothing has So Much Wrong With Him.

Shalem/Phantom is also great because they both have So Much Wrong With Them, but in completely opposite directions.

[blacksalander]

demon mira

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[eldritchbauble]

People who have a pervasive shit attitude toward everything are extremely exhausting to be around. No, this doesn't make you a bad person for having trauma or depression. You're allowed to go through hard times and lean on others for support. But there is a point where being negative and spiteful about things all the time is not only self-defeating but harmful to your relationships. There is a meaningful difference between talking about your struggles vs. almost pointedly refusing to engage with opportunities for positive experiences/emotions. The latter becomes contagious and fatiguing for people around you, because you're essentially expecting them to dig themselves into a hole, too. It can even start to feel like you're punishing others for enjoying things if you're not happy. And it's wrong.

[eldritchbauble]

Like my mother will often respond to a comment that's positive or happy by talking about how she's unhappy, upset, or angry about things, and she does it with a spiteful "good for you" tone. Absolutely nothing I say will get her to acknowledge that she's still being shown support and caring even if people aren't willing to be miserable with her all the time. It's a very unhealthy and emotionally immature trait. If this is you, I strongly suggest that you look at ways to improve your distress tolerance and consider the emotional impact you have on others. It is NOT others' job to regulate your emotions or fix all of the wrongs in your life for you. Other people's happiness or attempts at happiness aren't a betrayal.

[eldritchbauble]

The bottom line is that it does actually matter how you frame things, sometimes. A lot of the time. Are you committed to being miserable because you take some form of satisfaction in it, and is that maybe preventing you from being healthier and happier?