born to be an idgafer forced to have anxiety

she/her

[m00nwell]

Real and true

[pharmabastard]

do not keep putting those two unfunny autistic faggots on my dash

[to2llynottoby]

[pipermintz-deactivated20260402]

I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we'd have so much fun with it.

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

and then all the comments would be like " girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀"

[eternalfarnham]

I like this site. Y’all just shotgunning counterfactual timelines

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[lesbeauien]

Mayali seeing Azune get left behind by the mercenaries for being less athletic, less able to run and lift and fight, and wondering what happened to him, if he’s even alive. Looking back and wondering if she killed him by being the one they wanted. Going through unimaginable horrors and thinking that Azune must have had it even worse. Overlaying the memory of him on that roadside with the memory of her parents who let themselves fade away to get Mayali this chance.

And then she sees Azune on the other side of a battle, and he’s well-fed, well-groomed, well-armed and armored, bigger, stronger, safer than her. To the point where she doesn’t even recognize him until someone calls his name. He doesn’t look like their parents anymore. But her? She does. The sad thin pale specters of her parents are her now. SHE is the ghost that haunts HIS memories.

And when she realizes that, she smiles. Maybe the first smile she’s smiled since she left him behind.

[raisondetriment]

"I don't think an 18 gets past Azune's guard - "

Damn, dude has an emotional AC of 20+ too??

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: Two digital drawings of Azune Nayar from Critical Role. In the first drawing he's looking to the left, smiling. In the second drawing he's still smiling and looking to the left but now saying "I'm vindictive". End description.]

He's vindictive :3

[inthemoodforblastt]

The Boroughs is wonderful, I’m watching it and I’m obsessed. Who says you can only live the great adventure of your life when you’re 15 like in every fucking teen show? Maybe you get dumped into a damn retirement home at 70 and suddenly you’re in a Spielberg sci-fi movie. I love it.

[writerxwren]

There's something about The Boroughs and the way it tackles the idea that you cannot cheat death without exploiting vulnerable people - in this case, the elderly. Obviously irl there isn't any way to actually cheat death, but there are plenty who attempt to immortalize themselves by amassing wealth, fame, etc. But it almost always comes at the cost of people they deem as having lesser or no value. With the folks in TB, they're so easily taken advantage of because society at large has deemed them expendable. They're old so they're either too senile to be taken seriously or they're going to die anyway so who cares if we hurt them? TB's system works because it relies on everybody on the outside being somewhat complicit in the dehumanization and infantilization of elderly people. Nobody questions what's going on because the community is a pretty-looking dumping ground for those who have become "irrelevant" solely due to their age. Nobody bothers to interfere or investigate because nobody cares enough to even challenge that mindset.

I think this also emphasizes why Renee and Paz's relationship is so important because he's the one younger person there who not only does care but also actually listens to the main gang and treats them like people instead of being all like "okay sure, Grandma, let's get you to bed." He doesn't patronize any of them and genuinely wants to help because they're his friends. Plus he truly seems to love Renee as a person, so by extension he cares about her neighbors too. The generational gap is just incidental

[inthemoodforblastt]

The Boroughs is also, intentionally or unintentionally, a commentary on the way elderly people are treated and respected. The fact that many older people in care homes are abused, constantly gaslit, or treated as little more than commodities to make money from is not fiction, it’s a very real social issue tied to the private elderly care industry in general. And so is the paternalism and condescension with which they’re treated, as if they were children instead of fully functional adults.

The Boroughs really emphasizes this point: they’re treated like oversized children when in reality they’re simply retired professionals who are still fully capable, and it’s precisely those skills and experiences that allow them to move the story forward. Judy is an experienced reporter, a Black woman who fought her way into a professional career in the 1970s and obviously isn’t going to sit quietly in the face of a mystery or an injustice. Sam is an aerospace engineer. Wally is a doctor with decades of experience. Renee spent her whole life as a manager and knows exactly how to deal with assholes.

These are skilled, intelligent professionals in their respective fields, and they don’t stop being those things just because they get older. If anything, they’ve spent an entire lifetime specialising and building that expertise. I think the series reflects this beautifully, and honestly I find it really important because, yes, your grandparents were people who raised entire families before you put them in a nursing home, and that’s something people should remember. They’re not idiots. They’re just old.

[quillfulwriter]

I love them so much, a zany queer-coded old man grappling with mortality, a brilliant black woman and former journalist trying to find her emotional footing, and a grumpy old man trapped between wanting connection and grieving his wife

There's also a supernatural mystery, which I also love, but we know why I'm here

[clearpurpleskies]

I LOVEE to see "old people" being chosen ones. YASSS that bitter old grandpa sick with grief is definitely going to save the world through the power of friendship and healing. I believe it.

[arn-and-friends]

Conversation with any Einfasen:

serious serious serious klippenblick serious serious

[burr-ell]

ok look. look. i know people (myself included) are frustrated with bolaire. i know using detect thoughts as a crutch is, by and large, not great for roleplay. but "i assume it's just a steven universe episode" in wick's surface thoughts is fucking hilarious

[luckthebard]

No one at the table laughed at the “hell of a Night at the Museum” joke but I did Liam. I did.

[revvethasmythh]

tyranny: everyone, wick has something to share . and be nice! he just learned this and he wasn't hiding it from you, but it seems revelant. so be nice.

wick: thank you tyranny. my grandmother has been distilling celestial blood from the trapped tortured angel in her basement for decades and it has been tattooed into my face and inserted into my body

tyranny: BE NICE!

murray: 😐😐😐

murray: thank you wick. that was very helpful.

hero: now THAT is something that *I* didn't know

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Filoneus Halovar 🤝 Harondus Einfasen: Love having my man Azune Nayar available to follow my personal orders