Icestar's Stream of Consciousness

Hi, there! I'm Icestar. I like Teen Titans, Marvel Comics, anime, cooking, explosions, drawing, pointy things and martial arts. I also appreciate a good pun or thought provoking statement you found in a video game. Currently in Kiri nin Hell

[tadfools]

Listen to me. Hey hey! Listen to me! You paid 60 United States Dollars for Baldur’s Gate 3 regardless if that was a month or three years ago. If you want to reload a save every time you fail a perception check or roll a naty one. Do it. If you want to meta-game and save Alfira as the Dark Urge. Do it. If you want the mod that removes the inspiration cap. Get it. If you want to bump down your difficulty during a hard fight. Do it. If you want a drow with red hair. Do it.

I’m giving you permission right now to do whatever you want with the game regardless of rules others are putting in place for you to follow. They’re your Tav and it’s your story - have fun with it

You’re both the player and the game master. A GM’s job is to make sure they and the players are having fun

[tadfools]

[allsonargent]

Lucy Liu as Joan Watson in ELEMENTARY (2012—2019)

[theorangepdf]

getting that august feeling (things that have ended endlessly are ending again)

[spiribia]

I like when the bus stops directly in front of you out of the line of waiting people and opens its doors. Chosen by the dragon

[icarusdiesatdawn]

I hate this post. Ever since I read it I can't help but think "chosen by the dragon" whenever the bus stops in front of me or "denied by the dragon" when it doesn't. Every. single. time. That's a minimum of ten times a week. Do you know how annoying that is

[thetriumphofpostmodernism]

Clamshell inside-outside pool designed by Nick Powell of Craig Bragdy Designs

[marinella-ela]

[clearlightwired]

sorry for the random question but what's your opinion on transmasc people?

They should install Firefox with UBlock Origin and start using a password manager (I recommend bitwarden)

[segamascott]

so she's like fully undocumented and just trying to save her own ass right

[segamascott]

[intactics]

oh my god....

[shiplocks-of-love]

So, if anyone ever has the difficulty to understand the meaning of the word "hypocrite", well, here's a nifty visual explanation for you!

[prokopetz]

One of those goofy maid animes, except the viewpoint character isn't the hapless master or mistress of the house, but a regular-ass janitor who ended up on this crew due to a paperwork mixup at the temp agency and can't figure out what the fuck is wrong with her co-workers.

[peachdelta]

sweep sweep sweep pales in the face of the windsor versamatic 14

[the-pink-bunny]

[academicblorbo]

The photo is not very good and I still need to wash and iron it, but I couldn't wait to show my first ever big cross stitch project;

Love how it turned out, especially with the green embroidery thread (cotton thread on linen)

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[occasionalauthoring]

Two-Face takes a gala hostage, his goons have guns levelled at everyone, he yanks up Brucie, Gotham's darling as an incentive for them all to listen, brings him back against his chest and rests the muzzle against his head.

He lays out the instructions, the attendees start slipping off their statement pieces, expensive watches, grumbling borne more from annoyance that the loss, everything down to their teeth is insured anyway.

Two-Face supervises his goons walking around with sacks, collecting everything, and turns to Bruce. "Your turn, Way...." he falls quiet when he realises the man is fast asleep on his shoulder. Harvey stares at his old friend, aghast. "Bruce." Nothing.

The scene is starting to garner some attention, and Harvey jostles Bruce, embarrassed. The other man grumbles unintelligibly, refuses to open his eyes, and nestles into Harvey's neck like they didn't stop being friends years ago, like he's not part of the Rogue gallery now.

Dick Grayson sneaks out of the crowd, and eyes him suspiciously. He, at least, doesn't seem to hold any affection in his gaze for his old 'uncle Harv.'

"He hasn't been sleeping properly," the young teen offers, arms crossed.

"So...this."

"...He hasn't been sleeping at all."

The clip of Two-Face carrying a sleeping Bruce Wayne bridal style to his limo, a scowling Dick Grayson walking alongside them, goes viral for months straight.

[the-bramble--patch]

One of the foremost reasons I like solarpunk is that in the mainstream, being eco-friendly is about sacrifice. Don’t buy new things, don’t buy plastic, don’t take unnecessary trips—etc. It’s not sustainable unless you’re a saint. It’s exhausting to abstain from consumerism without having alternatives like the things Solarpunk emphasizes: community, resources held in common, sustainable hobbies like gardening and mending (and all other sorts of repair), free and accessible public transportation, etc. Solarpunk is about creating a world where being eco-friendly is about joy, not deprivation.

[liminal-disaster]

THIS

[thelatestkate]

[froflossy]

Strawberry Teto Wip!!🎉🍓

[froflossy]

Strawberry Teto was made to match Strawberry miku I made last year!! so they can be in love and cottage core together and live in a giant strawberry or whatever strawberry shortcake does 🥹🎉🎉 I want to redraw and redesign her a bit soon…perhaps…

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

[vaspider]

I played this for SO many people when it came out a couple of days ago. She's so on-point here.

[whitager]

i used to buy into that online leftist black-and-white Glorious Revolution stuff and what i remember about my mindset at that time. stresses me out tbh. i couldn't see the viability of anything short of full-scale revolution so i constantly felt helpless. i viewed the revolution as necessary to address any and all societal problems, but i was also, privately, terrified of it. i didn't want to die for the cause, but i told myself that if that was what happened when the revolution came it would be worth it, that my blood could move us that much faster toward perfect socialist utopia.

in this mindset, the only useful thing i could do was die. i didn't want to. i wasn't generally suicidal (although i do consider this mindset a form of... abstract suicidal thought). but i believed my life was the only meaningful thing i had to offer.

now i'm a member of a community who values me and values my contributions even if i can't contribute as much as i'd like -- a community that emphasizes that every single good deed matters, every compassionate act changes the world. a community where just showing up is enough.

now i know that i can change so much more while i'm alive than i'd ever be able to as a corpse on a battlefield. i know that if i keep showing up, i will find or someone will show me a way to make a difference. i know that i am valued as more than a hypothetical martyr in some grand final battle. i know that i am missed when i'm gone. i know that the actual work is done by regular people with a goal in mind, and i know that that work is unglamorous. i know the unglamorous work is often the most meaningful and the most fulfilling.

the "revolution or nothing" mindset is rendering my generation hopeless. a very loud portion of gen z now believes the only contribution they have to offer is their life. this belief effectively nullifies a person's capacity to create meaningful change; any action they could take while alive is not worthwhile because it won't fix the world's myriad problems in one fell swoop -- better to burn it all down and yourself with it.

if they weren't actively fucking over the rest of us to feed their own suicidal hopelessness, i'd feel sorry for them.

[whitager]

there's a phenomenon i've observed wherein a person stews in their own misery, hopelessness, anger, fear, to the point that they can no longer fathom that something might exist outside of that, and so they reject any effort to improve their situation because they no longer believe it can be improved.

i am not blaming the people who are in this place. it's a terrifying, dark place to be in, and when you're there it really does feel like it's the only thing that exists. this is the place where people kill themselves.

i think, though, that this phenomenon, scaled up to apply to politics and activism, undergirds so much of what we see from the left now -- the world is dark and terrifying, and in the 24-hour news cycle, social media doomscrolling era we live in it's so so easy to only see the bad, and when you surround yourself with other scared, overwhelmed people, it can form a sort of 2014-tumblr-depression-tag echo chamber where that hopelessness is glorified and lauded and propped up as Correct And Enlightened.

and then they commit hate crimes about it and my sympathy shuts all the way off.

[megpie71]

Boosting signal

[aetherograph]

I will always remember something my state-appointed psychiatrist said to me when we first met and I was giving him the run-down of my life so far, and I said "and I'm homeless right now--" and he stopped me.

'I LOVE that you just said that. That you said "right now"!' he said. 'So many of my homeless patients say they're homeless like it's their job, and that means they never see a way out of it.'

'Well,' I said, knowing the statistics. 'Most people are on the street for a year on average. It's not forever, it can't be. nothing is.'

And because I had the audacity, the boldness, to assume I was only homeless right now, I actively kept living like it was a temporary state, like I deserved housing and deserved care and deserved better than i had right now. Because it was only for right now. It wasn't forever. It couldn't be. Nothing is.

I was homeless for about a year and a half. And then I got housed. And right now I live IN a house, with good friends.

But it's only for right now. It isn't forever. It can't be. Nothing is. And whatever's coming next is going to be better! Because I have the audacity, the boldness, to assume it will be and that I deserve it.

And you do too.

But you HAVE to start thinking of misfortune as only being temporary. It's just bad right now. Practise that. "It sucks--right now" "I'm miserable--right now". Just a small thing. But it makes a big difference. It makes all the difference.

Because if you always put "right now" at the end, no matter how miserable you get, you have left a little crack.

And that's how the light gets in.