ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴜᴇ. @xsynergia - Tumblr Blog

despite all of the trauma and grief I've experienced, I still manage to be so deeply in love with people and life. nothing on this planet could make me a bitter and cold person

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This is what I want, but it already feels too late

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I really mean this from the bottom of my heart: it’s NEVER too late. just remember healing isn’t linear and self love comes first, always.

#relevant musings;

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idk what young person on the internet needs to hear this but you are not obligated to share any personal details about yourself online. in fact im gonna straight-up circle back to 00s era advice and say being anonymous is good actually

#Out of Character.#important.

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#y'all... the new (?) tumblr layout is so buggy #how does anyone use this website anymore #Out of Character.

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#ember playing ffxiv #Lightbringers;

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Can Americans please not bring Irish Gaelic names into white names discourse?

Irish is the native language of Irish people. It’s an ancient language that is on the brink of extinction as a direct result of colonialism and cultural and physical genocide.

Names like Saoirse (freedom), Áine (radiant), Aoife (beautiful) etc are traditional Irish names. They’re spelt “funny” because Irish is a different language from English, and has some sounds that aren’t found in the English language.

It’s not the same thing as edgy white Americans naming their kid Kathylyn instead of Kathleen to try to be different

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Also it's not even called Irish Gaelic it's called Gaeilge (gayl-ga) and is its own language, a beautiful one at that, fully encourage everyone interested in language revival to try learning it because we're losing it rapidly and there's not many Gaeilgeoirí ("gayl-gor-ee" ie: fluent speakers) left

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Yes—this happens with Hebrew names all the time, too, and it’s really frustrating. No, the name Ariel isn’t just a stupid Disney reference, it’s Hebrew. Toby isn’t “weird for a girl,” it’s common for Jewish girls because it’s Toiba in Yiddish. Asher isn’t a “trendy white name”—the influencer yummy mummy fucking stole it from us (which I hate). Believe me, I absolutely loathe those trendy made-up white people names like Bryzzley and Paedon, but keep in mind that there’s a difference between names you haven’t heard of because they belong to a different culture, and names some Mormon housewife made up by adding a bunch of Ys to a random noun.

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This is also relevant with Welsh names. Cymraeg (Welsh) is a language found in Wales that has been severely damaged by English colonialism. Currently the Welsh government have been combating the dying of this language by making Welsh language a compulsory subject in schools up until sixth form, when you can drop it. All the signs have Welsh translations and almost all radio broadcasts, announcements, and phone lines have a Welsh option.

There are villages in Wales that speak only Welsh as well, I grew up in one that was mixed language but pretty much everyone bar a few immigrant parents spoke Welsh.

Here a some example names

Efnision, Branwen, Iown, Rhys, Nerys, Ceridwen, Sian, Taliesin

A few example names are from the Mabinogion which is the Welsh book of fables and includes some of the first stories about King Arthur.

This language is dying, but it's fighting to stay alive, and a lot of White Americans don't understand the history and significance of Welsh names.

Tumblr in particular is a very America centric site due to the majority of users being American so it's understandable that this isn't common knowledge, but it is still knowledge that exists and is valuable to learn.

#important.

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Pierce the sky

#ember playing ffxiv #Lightbringers;

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Story of Ysayle and Shiva by Nagamine

#Ysayle;

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RP Hooks for Anti-Social Characters

AKA How To Reel In Dem RPers with Tasty RP Bait. If you also play a quiet, shy, or anti-social character, feel free to add your own hooks.

1) Have an injury. One that’s not so serious where your character looks foolish for not getting immediate medical attention, but also noticeable enough where someone with a healer-type or mother-hen character might want to strut on over and patch you up.

2) Turn on RP Flag and have notable things people can use for interaction in your Search Info - Put in your character’s noticeable scar. Put in the unusual artifact they’re carrying that would make all the mages in a half-mile radius go ‘wtf is WITH THAT AETHER HOLY SHITE’. Put the strange marking they have on their throat. Put in that half their horn is missing. I personally haven’t done this yet, but I’ve had friends with anti-social characters report success stuffing notable details about their character or even the URL to their RPC wiki directly into their search info. People walked up and commented on something they’d read like a necklace or physical attribute. If you dump in an RPC wiki, just make sure all of your RP hooks are easy for people to find. (Mine is actually a bad example because it’s one log slog :V)

3) Be chased or followed. If your character’s backstory lends to them being chased or followed, and they’re the kind of person who would react very noticeably - it could be a neat way to entice other people to get involved. Bonus points if you’re willing to RP NPC henchfolks actually coming after you.

4) Mistaken identity. Confuse a random player for someone else, friend, foe, or even just a secret contact for a job. Maybe you’re supposed to meet someone at x-location, wearing y-item, to get something important.

5) Have a wing man. My alt, Leilani Leilai - is a bright, outgoing, cheerful character who wants nothing more than to hunt down potentially legendary adventurers and hear all of their amazing stories so she can turn them into epic ballads. Placing her right next to a quieter, more anti-social character gives us a ton of interaction material that makes it way, WAY easier for the anti-social character to get involved in RP. So grab your friend who plays their wacky social-butterfly character and ask them to be your wingman into RP. (OR you can send me a message and I’ll jump onto Leilani Leilai if I’m free I SHALL BE YOUR WINGPOPOTO.) A wing man is especially useful during RP events instead of trying to solicit walk-ups or going to a place like the Quicksand.

6) Look for help with [insert task here] - as quiet/shy/anti-social as your character might be, there are things they can’t do by themselves and need other people for. Maybe have them look for a healer or alchemist to assist them in mending some sort of injury or illness that they can’t handle themselves. Have them look for a smith that can fix their broken armor or blade. Have them look for a temporary partner to go with them on a mercenary contract they realised will definitely need at least two people to accomplish and they’re willing to split half the profits.

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Right from the horses mouth. NOW GO GET SOME RP, YOU DELICIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN.

#reference;

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To the ends of the earth, would you follow me? There’s a world that was meant for our eyes to see.

#Lightbringers;

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Well, in the end I realized– some things are thicker than others, after all. It just depends on your perspective.

#Lightbringers;#took some screenshots for the blog's about page which is also not finished

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Reblog if you RP on Discord and it's okay for people to PM you for a plot.

#Yes this is me!#Tumblr roleplay is usually tedious for me.#And even Discord roleplay can be dicey but I'm far easier to work with when I can take it mobile properly #Out of Character.#always 100% open

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how does being punched in the face feel like

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literally i just wanna know

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It depends on where you get hit

Cheek: a round dull pain that clocks your entire head in a different direction. It’s painful and throbs but the main effect of a punch to the cheek is how jarring it is. You feel it in your mouth, your teeth. And no matter how you position that punch the knuckles will always hit the jaw and cheek bones adding a frame of sharp pain in which the redness will be painted.

Temple: getting hit on the temple pushes your head to the side rather than turning it. It’s disorienting because it leaves you very off balance. It essentially feels like a bad pressure headache, like when you have a sinus infection on a plane, but in one spot and on the outside. It’s sharp in the middle and radiates outward and even after the initial impact it pulses like an earthquake epicenter. It easily causes long lasting headaches and is the most likely of these examples to cause a concussion.

Eye: this is a weird one. The fist doesn’t fit within the eye socket so either the knuckles on the brow and cheeks bones protect the actual eye or they don’t. The former option gives a full spreading pain below the eye which results in the classic black eye look and a sharp pain on your brow similar to hitting your shin on the couch. The latter option, well bad things can happen when a hard fast object makes direct contact with your eye but for the sake of this it feels like a vacuum bc the concave shape is being covered and pressurized. The eye feels pushed back and pulled forward all at once. It doesn’t necessarily hurt that bad for that long unless the punch was meant to do damage. I’m fortunate to say I don’t know what it would feel like then.

Nose: remember that prank kids used to pull where they’d line up their hands with their nose, push them in one direction and crack a knuckle at the same time to pretend to break their nose? Yeah that’s what it looks like when someone punches you from the side in the nose, except it’s someone else’s hand and your nose makes the sound instead of their knuckle. It’s just like breaking any bone where you hear it and feel the action if it being done but that moment of shock blankets you for a split second until all the pain comes rushing back. It’s sharp and needlelike and can give you black eyes just to add insult to injury. If you get hit in the nose from the front it’s like the uncomfortableness of when you have to sneeze but can’t. Except that feeling took all the steroids and is now using your face as a punching bag to express its roid rage. It crackles outward like static electricity under your skin, your eyesight gets fuzzy and you can’t tell if it’s because you’re tearing up, it’s hard to open your eyes, or you’re momentarily stunned and blinded. Just know it’s all three. I find that this one knocks the wind out of you the most. Gotta remind yourself to breathe just don’t try to do it through your nose.

If you really want to know what this feels like I’d suggest joining a mixed martial arts because they’ll teach you correct form and power distribution and you can spar with pads and actually hit each other.

I’d also recommend learning what it feels like to punch someone in the face. It’s much more fun and pretty damn cathartic when they deserve it.

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i was just being stupid but these descriptions are actually so well written i could feel them lmao bless

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Me at the end of this:

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Can confirm the nose one. Getting hit from the side is the worst and I still have a dent in my nose from it. It's not large enough for anyone else to notice, but it makes getting glasses fitted properly a pain.

I remember getting hit like that, kicked in the face, to be the most disorienting hit I've had in my life.

I came out of it with the biggest black eye I've ever seen. It hurt more with a thriving than a bang and I often find myself kneeling. This was at a tournament and the medic felt the need to come check me for a concussion.

I still had decently clear mental facilities, but my body reacted a lot slower after that. It felt like my nose was swelling and my vision was fucked every time I got hit there. Which was a lot that day.

At the end of the experience, it was livable but highly irritating.