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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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cherry valley forever
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Cosmic Funnies
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@imperator-kahlo
I think sometimes about Lune. The tragedy of Lune. How she would have devoured the entire world: its art, its science, its music, its mysteries. She would never stop pushing against the boundaries of knowledge or creation. And she was born into a child’s painting, its borders strictly defined. And she was never allowed to leave.
Anyone know of a movie edit of Clair Obscur? Cut scenes and vital convos/context, but edited together and less than 4-5 hours absolute tops? Can’t find anything on YouTube and I’m trying to evangelise to non-gamers.
In your opinion, does COE33 push a certain ending as the correct pick?
Yes, the Verso ending
Yes, the Maelle ending
No, both endings are treated equally by the game
Consider reblogging too! It helps me learn the fandom's opinions. 😅
My one major criticism of Clair Obscur: it's so heteronormative it hurts.
Why is this random artist going on and on about love and insisting on painting the ex-couple we as players have only just been introduced to? What do you mean you can make the two main female characters sleep with the random suspicious male character they just met, but not each other? What do you mean you can only sleep with one and not both even though these people are literally on a death countdown, why would they care about monogamy? What do you mean the hint of M/M that is portrayed is a macho bromance that is played as a joke? What do you mean the alternate version of this side character who exists as the sheer embodiment of independence was in love with this random expeditoner we have never heard of?
maelle sketch, i just started the game
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
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I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck
Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like
Seen it, you say?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (dev. Sandfall Interactive)
↳ Family is complicated
"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there
How fucking annoying is it when you feel so restless with creative energy but you can’t decide what to do with it and when you finally try to create something it comes out shit so you just give up and sit there being all creatively annoyed and jittery.
1 - Decision Making Fatigue is a thing. --> Make a list of possibilities. --> Use a random number generator to pick something off the list. --> If you hate the idea cross it off and generate a new number. --> Continue until you either find a project or cross off the whole list. --> If you cross off the whole list pick a random short story prompt, write for five minutes, and call it a good work day.
2. Yeah, of course your rough draft sucks. It’s supposed to. --> Let it suck. --> You can fix it in edits.
3. When you’re stressed you aren’t unbiased about your work. --> Don’t judge your work while your are actively working on it. --> Remember to drink water, take your meds/vitamins, eat something, and get sleep. --> Double-check to make sure the restless creative energy is not displaced emotional worries over something else. If it is, displace with intention and let the worries go into your work. You shouldn’t keep stress in your head, put it on a page, or canvas, or in a carving, or a meal, or something. Get it out and let it go.
4. No work is ever wasted. --> All time spent planning and creating is useful in some way. --> Failure means you tried, which is good. --> Try again. Fail harder. Fail better. --> Keep going until you like what you’re making.
5. Love yourself enough to allow yourself to not be perfect. --> Seriously. --> If this is a struggle I highly recommend seeing a doctor or therapist about depression. --> Because you are dang lovable, my friend. You rock. You do great things. I’m proud of you.
tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... (may all of the dark lost inside you find light again)
it's crucial that you untie "special interest" from "expertise". "it's true just trust me bro" doesn't have any extra weight when you add "I know because it's my special interest". you are not immune from falling for misinformation, and you are not immune from sharing misinformation. not to mention the fact that "amount of knowledge" isn't even a requirement for something being classified as a special interest lol!
FAQ based on frequent responses to this post
"if you can't cite your sources is it really a special interest?"
yes. "special interest" does not mean the same thing as "expert" or even "knowledgeable". it refers to a certain type of emotional relationship an autistic person has to a subject area (e.g. can't stop thinking about the thing, is emotionally soothed by the thing, etc). many autistic people may struggle to remember facts and figures for any number of reasons, but may still experience a special interest. honestly, these kinds of misinformation about what a special interest even is feels like a reinforcement of the savant stereotype, and I really do not like that
"who is this post even aimed at?"
this post is about two related phenomena I have seen both in online and offline spaces:
someone is asked for a source for a piece of information -> "source? it's my special interest". this is unhelpful because it does not provide any additional information, and is also a really easy way for misinformation to spread
autistic people saying things like "I don't really have any special interests because I don't really know anything". this is sad to me, because it is a sign that people are denying themselves the joy of a special interest just because they'll never have encyclopaedic information about the topic. your special interest is still special even if it isn't expertise
"what if I use my special interest as motivation to become an expert (i.e. receive xyz qualification)?"
well now you are an expert! congratulations! this should also provide you with enough information to know that "it's my special interest" is not the same as a citation. however you should also be aware that not all autistic people will become experts in their special interests, and you should not hold them to that standard
okay thanks <3 have a good one
There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function
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I have no idea how grounded in real science this is, but:
In The Expanse, 2x10, “Cascade”, the botanist Prax describes human settlement on Ganymede: “The station's dead already; they just don't know it yet.”
The ecology and environment on Ganymede is a simple-complex system: created by people and therefore simple, incapable of the sort of resilience displayed by natural ecological systems. But also complex, far too complex for its human inhabitants to properly predict which parts might fail, or when, or how to prevent them. System errors can cascade, catastrophically, before anyone even knows there’s a problem.
I like this as a metaphor for my own AuDHD experience.
The human body-mind is an incredibly complex and surprisingly resilient system, but all the little hacks and routines and coping strategies we scaffold it with? Rickety, fallible things. You can mask neurodivergence; you can find high-stress environments that oblige you to perform at top capacity; you can keep on keeping the fuck on… for a while.
But in my experience, the cascade will be well underway by the time you notice. And it won’t just be the scaffolding that collapses.
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I’m just so happy I found e33 Tumblr. The joy overflows
I don’t remember where exactly (pinterest, I guess?), but I once saw a comment saying that Buffy didn’t love Spike at the end of the show and only said “I love you” to comfort him.
And that feels so strange to me, because it completely goes against her character arc.
Buffy is afraid of opening her heart to people. Back in s4, she even talks to her mom about how it would be easier not to open up at all—just to avoid the pain.
Open your heart to someone, and he bails on you. Maybe it's easier to just not let anyone in. ("Fear Itself")
Because in the end, everyone leaves Buffy. To the people around her, she’s just a phase in their lives, not someone who stays part of it—and that hurts her deeply. So deeply that she ends up building armor around her heart and stops throwing words around carelessly.
But then something terrible happens—Joyce dies. And after going through the loss of the person dearest to her, Buffy realizes she never said those three little words to her mom.
And I loved her more than anything, and... I don't know if she knew. ("Intervention")
For her, the words “I love you” are the hardest thing to say. She forgot how to express what she really feels—and now it’s too late.
Maybe being the perfect slayer means being too hard to love at all. I already feel like I can hardly say the words. [...] Giles... I love you. Love, love, love, love, love.. ("Intervention")
And then comes the ending of s7. Buffy knows Spike is about to disappear—just like her mom did. But this time, she has the chance to speak—and she takes it.
I love you. ("Chosen")
To me, this isn’t just a moment of realizing her feelings for Spike and reconnecting with her inner fire.
It’s one of the moments she was able to open her heart again and honestly say how she feels out loud. The moment her love was stronger than the fear of what might happen if she says about it directly.
The fact that Spike didn’t believe her—that’s his reaction, shaped by his own experience throughout the show. But the fact is—now he knows how she feels. Because Buffy didn’t hint at it—she said it outright.
That’s why I don’t think it was just about comforting a dying man. Because “I love you” means way too much to Buffy for her to say it lightly.
I would like to radicalise my very-non-gamer mother into the Clair Obscur fold. Hit me with your tightly edited Let’s Play YouTube links, please. Give me your COE33-as-a-movie edits, I beg you
A bit obsessed lately with the idea that Verso is both Christ and Antichrist in the world of Clair Obscur
If someone’s written about this I’m dying to read it
