I just turned 21 and I’ve realized that my mental health has caused me to stop finding joy and care in celebrating my birthday like I would when I was younger. I’m tired and upset often and it’s pushed me away from running any social media. If you could count it, the only social media I run is posting fanfiction to archive or fanfiction.net.
I started seeing a therapist a couple months ago and he’s helped me recognize and understand the depression and anxiety symptoms I’ve been experiencing. He’s also been helping me get closer to getting diagnosis for both.
I don’t know if anyone is still here anymore but if you are, I’ll try to be more active for your sake. Please take care of yourselves and check in on your friends and family. Mental illness is a real thing and should be taken just as seriously as a physical illness. If you find yourself showing signs of mental illness, don’t ignore them and don’t give up on treating them. Don’t let it devour your life like I let mine. I’m gonna go through and delete old posts because I wanna leave any negative crap I posted here behind and out of my life.
I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here's an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.
I agree with literally everything op is saying and I don't want to detract from their point but this website here, specifically for mobile games (though they intend to eventually branch out to other types) is creating a database that flags those exact types of predatory things. It also flags games as safe, so if you want to look for safe mobile games this is an invaluable resource.
https://www.darkpattern.games/
It also has definitions, explanations, and examples of all the different types of psychological manipulations games pull on the website so if anyone ever tries to give you "just don't spend money, it's easy" you can send them this
So I happened across the Word of God TVTropes page for Encanto and found this:
This was pretty obvious to a lot of the fandom but an idea I had was that Isabela or Pepa (both post movie) notice her doing this and try including her more. She at firsts resists it and either one asks why that is, which leads to a deep session of talking, crying, and comforting.
Basically an angst turned bittersweet ending where Mirabel is comforted by her now-nicer older sister or her more expressive aunt.
I would like to write this, I will see, but the idea is on the table for anyone to write. If similar stories have already been done, I would like to read them!
so what do you find intriguing about belmod? i dont know too much about him but i love character studies so feel free to info dump about him as much as you want
anon i hope u know what ur in for
Welcome To The Belmod Essay
The first thing that really Got Me about Belmod was that he’s a clown- which is cool on its own of course, but he is genetically a clown, from a race of clown aliens, which is SO fucking neat, especially in a xenobiology sense. Like, he looks humanoid, but he very much is not a human, and that’s so fun to play around with. I can’t count how many headcanons I have based on that alone- like how he can’t really eat anything that isn’t carnival fare, or how different types of clowns (pierrot, acrobat, party clowns, etc) are closer to cultures on his home planet than professions, or what his home planet is like as a whole- it’s just. It’s fun! There’s a lot of creative potential there.
After that, it was how cool universe 11 is! I adore the pride troopers. I love the whole Power of Teamwork and Friendship thing they have going on. And, like, as much as Belmod doesn’t really care about teamwork, he really, really likes the Pride Troopers too!!! He’s a big softie- which, I know, sounds like bullshit, but I promise it’s true. The actions of the Pride Troopers “send his heart aflutter” according to Toei’s official profile of him. He’s a peaceful god!! He’s cordial (I’d even say friendly) with his kai!!! This man is GENTLE. He doesn't even really seem like GoD material!
And on that note. I do not think he was Marcarita’s first choice for the position. I am of the opinion that Gicchin was in training to be the GoD until he died, and they kind of had to scramble to find a replacement. (This headcanon mostly comes from the fact that Gicchin seems to be wearing something that resembles an angel outfit in the few shots we see of him) and I think THAT is ALSO a very fun part of his character to play around with.
AND SPEAKING OF HIM AND GICCHIN. Holy Shit. A man and his closest friend have a falling out and they never get to reconcile before the closest friend dies- from the thing that you had a falling out over! Gicchin’s fatal flaw was that he was willing to endure anything for the good of the people he cared about- his team, which, in universe 11, seems to be a word interchangeable with close friends, if not family. Teamwork was important to him, and it wasn’t important to Belmod, and Belmod got the last laugh about it, even if it was in the worst way possible. Plus some of the dialogue in the ToP in the manga seems to imply that Belmod wanted to try and bring him back to life at some point, which. Kinda breaks my heart a little.
(yeah ok that’s mostly speculation. But speculating on them is SO MUCH FUN please give it a try. Also side note I do think they had A Thing but that’s for another post)
Which all bleeds into how he interacts with Jiren, who is pretty much his nephew, for lack of a better word. He is the last connection he has to the man he was never able to say sorry to. I choose to believe that’s a not insignificant part of why Jiren gets away with so much irt Belmod- Belmod cares about him, and he clearly still feels shitty about all the things with Gicchin, so Jiren can call him a motherfucker or whatever. It’s fine.
And do not get me STARTED on him and Marcarita. Everyone kind of knows about the original draft of their introduction in the manga, where they were being very sweet and domestic and such, but no one talks about how it looks like they were in a very cozy looking house?? Like they had really Settled Down and Made a Life For Themselves. Or the fact that in the final version of that page, Belmod ends up erasing a member of his harem when she threatens Marcarita.
Marcarita is a billion times stronger than him. She is an angel. He did not have to do that. Belmod is just IN LOVE WITH HER and this was a GESTURE. And that sets a tone for their entire relationship (One Hundred Million Days of Pining and all that) which is ALSO SO MUCH FUN TO THINK ABOUT. I’m a sucker for that forbidden love/ Not Talking About It Or Else/ awkward dancing around each other that they have.
(Side note. Belmod is retiring. He is Giving Up His Godhood. Him and Marcarita couldn’t be together because he’s a God of Destruction. Do u see where I am going with this)
I think I hit all the biggest things? I could go into more detail about just about any of this but I’m already at like 800 words and I’ve been typing for an hour. Thank u so much for asking anon. Blows u a kiss
Anyways, my increasingly unpopular take in this day and age is that no one is entitled to know anything about an author's personal life. They put their stories out there for you to judge, they didn't put *themselves* out there. And expecting queer people to out themselves before you decide whether or not they deserve harassment is just fucking heinous.
Openly asking for someone to recreate this meme, except Pepa’s the crying lady, Julieta’s holding Pepa, and the cat is Bruno or Mirabel or both
Alternatively:
Abuela’s the crying lady, Julieta or Agustín or both are holding her, and the cat is Mirabel or Bruno or both or any act of change in the movie (such as when Isabela found her true self)
I (5m) got mi goft yesturday an I cun talk tu animmels. This murning I askkad them tu wurm up mi abuelas (75f) seet. Shi dednt seem huppy but mi papi guve me thumbs up for it. Aita?
Now I won’t say kids can’t be buttholes because I’ve read a fair share of reddit stories, but you little guy are certainly not the butthole. You definitely deserve the thumbs up your dad gave you and you were only doing your grandma a favor.
Doesn’t really need a rating but you get a solid 0/5 buttholes.
Your father and grandmother also get 0/5 buttholes since no one really did anything wrong here.
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