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Claude | he / they | 25 | i just want everything to stop and let me sleep for a while | assigned shinji ikari kin by committee

[twentyfourshards]

Oops, forgot to update that pinned post from 2022.

I'm still intermittently coming on here when the worms start thrashing, or yet another media source has popped the fragile small carapace I've built over my hyperfixations. (All of those midnight Hannibal postings are just some part of my brain rolling over rocks because it can.)

Things are going. That degree has been in my possession, and life is moving over into deeper and, frankly, more expensive responsibilities.

I don't intend to stop posting here, but I've never really liked talking about myself. Life and the world are growing louder and more frenetic so now when I have a lie-in until 12, I'm still less rested than when I woke.

The creativity is slowly leaking from me, has been for years, but I guess it coincides with the decline of my mental health. Cutting out socials was the right call all things considered, it does just mean I'm usually well out of the loop by the time I log back on.

I'm not sure where I was going with this, but I guess an explanation after 3 years felt appropriate. It still is a light in the dark to see all your names on my dash. To know you're all still out there being strange little humans with a lot to think about, love about, talk about.

You'll probably see me every couple of months still, as I'm not too inclined to stay for long-- life is busy, and I'm not exactly 15 anymore.

Alive and doing alright, all things considered.

Much love,

Claude

[twentyfourshards]

They won... I present the worm blog (NSFW, Fannish, Fanfic) (90% will probably be Nu: Carnival sorry in advance)

@twentyfourshreds

[steveyockey]

affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them

[stuckinapril]

“what’s your five year plan” bro i wake up every day confused by the fact that i’m even alive

[galileosballs]

I have a deep appreciation for trans people in general, of course, but especially those who take the opportunity afforded by the chance to pick a new name in adulthood to pull an interesting but out-of-fashion name out of mothballs and give it new life. I'm not sure it would be appropriate to give a newly-cooked baby the moniker 'Millicent' - there's no way of knowing if they'd be powerful enough for that name - but if you want to make yourself Millicent? You're my hero.

[owlet]

thank you scherz et al. for bringing us the frogs Mini ature, Mini mum and of course, the Mini scule

[owlet]

[orchidvioletindigo]

It should 100% be illegal for companies to make you give them your payment information when you sign up for a free trial version of their product. It is not necessary and there is no good fucking reason for them to do it. It’s blatantly just so they can steal forgetful customers’ money.

[saint-batrick]

oh hey, thanks for reminding me to cancel a free trial i had going on.

[tattooedzombigirl]

Reblog to save an unnecessary charge cause it also reminded me to cancel a trial lol

[catasters]

[fidelcostco]

the human brain is so cool, if you're tired and stressed enough, your brain will go, "don't worry, I got you" and shadows will start moving

[fidelcostco]

and what's the genital situation on the shadows

[fidelcostco]

oh this is my post

[guerrillatech]

[aflo]

posting this on twitter will get you put into witness protection

[truestoriesaboutme]

The magic of childhood is that you were constantly encountering new things. The best way to feel that way again is to fill your life with new experiences.

[terminallyonlinecat-deactivated]

The magic of childhood is that you were constantly encountering new things. The best way to feel that way again is to fill your life with new experiences.

[spadefish]

[taps mic] i like when fish have a big eyeball

[spadefish]

this is the most beautiful shape for an animal to be

[stitchposts]

[make-him-crochet]

[bobbole]

Yevgeny Charushin, Snow Leopard

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[boobookittenartblog]

Nishiyama Hoen, Insect Procession,

detail, ink and color on silk, 1851

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[bogleech]

I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy

[bevsi]

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, “they’re literally me” etc but if that’s the only way you engage with stories you’re kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also you’re going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You

[bevsi]

doubly for shipping. at risk if biting the hand that feeds me, a well written fictional relationship should ideally be more than a didactic template for how to have a nice relationship

[victusinveritas]

[fairycosmos]

the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form