#my own post

[slutpoppers]

[becausewewerefemale]

I'm sorry to keep you waiting, here is the article that I wrote for my English class. Unfortunately, I don't know what my English teacher thought of it since I had the whole week off last week due to mental health.

Writing things like this in my life offline is important to me, a little "protest," if you will. I'm sorry in advance for any spelling mistakes or anything of the sort.

[ammitroesis]

Amazing.

[eshithepetty]

Was just wondering how ENA would paint her nails exactly... considering, y'know, the whole hand situation lol

[ID: colored doodles of Coral Glasses painting ENA's nails. ENA is in her usual outfit, just without the hat, but Coral is seen with a gray tank top and black pants, red bra visible underneath, her hair tied up in a bun. On the first doodle, they are lying on the ground as Coral holds ENA's clawed hand and paints it, tongue sticking out and ENA watching with slightly wide eyes and a small blush. Next, there are three shots of that hand painted with bright pink nail polish: 1) only small spots where the nails 'would' be, 2) painted tips of the claws, and 3) the whole last segment of her claws painted. Beneath them, it says, "which one is best?". Then, the last doodles are of them kneeling, Coral holding ENA's mitten hand and asking, "how do you want to paint this one?", and then a doodle of ENA holding up her hands as she blushes and looks to the side, embarrassed, her white hand being painted as was shown in the 3rd variant, and her red mitten having a pale yellow heart painted on it, along with the thumb's 'nail' being painted. End ID.]

Bonus: said hand situation also makes it kinda hard for either the slippery mechanical claws Or soft clumsy mitten to do the job.... but she's got the spirit ;^^

[ID: In the first drawing, ENA is kneeling and meticulously trying to paint Coral's nails using her clawed hand, it shaking, her hair a bit disheveled and her expression frustrated, while Coral smiles sheepishly. In the second drawing, Coral has her arm around ENA's shoulders, who is hiding her face in her hands, blushing, as Coral smiles, eye squinted closed, as she says "I like them!". Her nails, which are painted cyan, are noticeably messy and smudged, a little of the polish also having ended up on ENA's mitten hand. End ID.]

[wrongplaceworsttime]

thinking about outer wilds again, how it's a game ultimately about grief and loss and endings, and how you deal with that

how the game takes your knowledge of how video games work into account and is able to subvert expectations to make you feel that crushing weight when you realize that no, actually, this isn't a game about saving the day. there is no way to save the sun, to keep your friends alive, like you assumed, expected, there to be. i mean you're in a time loop with a horrible ending, why wouldn't the game be about preventing it?

but you talk to chert. you watch the stars explode in the sky. you reach the sun station. you realize there isn't anything to do, that there's no way to prevent this ending. and then you learn where the eye is and how to stop the loop. you have to make the decision to face it - to accept the end of the universe with no knowledge of what comes next. you can't escape this loss, not really. you have to confront it, or else you'll be stuck forever

the dlc is about that - how if you hide from it, refuse to face it, you'll be stuck. the inhabitants of the stranger are forever stuck in their simulation, not experiencing anything real, languishing in their loss, never moving on. how they tried to block the eyes signal, tried to stop the possibility of new life forming. how they're a warning. the universe would never have been reborn without finding the eye; you can't live meaningfully if you never move on

so you remove the warp core and navigate to the nomai vessel and reach the eye. it's scary, it's hard, but it's necessary. and you get the ending sequence - you talk to your friends and hear about regret and acceptance and curiosity over what happens next. you can't stay here, things can't stay the same. you have to face it. then, the post credit scene where time passes and life begins again. it's different, but it's there. loss will happen. grief will happen. but you have to keep going, and eventually it will be okay. it'll be different, but it will be okay. the universe ended, and as it was will never be again, but a new one formed and it's still beautiful and life still exists. you will change, you won't be the same you as before, but you're still beautiful and alive and worthwhile

[oh2e]

It’s fun to me that when people use ‘growled’ as a dialogue tag they don’t normally mean literally, but when it comes to Eliot Spencer, growled is pretty accurate to how he talks.

[coucouhiboucoucou]

As the old tales can tend to disappear : The story of how Pat Brisson (and others) needed to hire bodyguards and put Geno in a van in Finland so he could escape Russia and finally play in the NHL, two years after his draft. How he didn't even told his parents, after having his passport confiscated for a while and being followed home, coerced into signing a contract extension. Because playing in the NHL and in Pittsburgh was bigger than anything else he wanted. And with Sid. The Full Story