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Your comics are one of my most favortie things to come back here. Because they're simple, they're not hard to digest and the intention behind them is easy to grasp.
But they're full of emotion, comfort and that silent, consoling feeling when you see something and go "ah. I understand" without having to feel bad about it. I just know how many people you're making feel seen through these.
the realisation that you werent as okay as you thought you were all your life is a very rough one, but a necessary one nonetheless
comic from a while ago that i havent been able to finish, but im posting it as it is<3
IM DOWN BAD FOR THESE COOKIES. (it said vanilla on an icecream menu.)
I think a lot of people haven't actually read Flatland so you may not realize A. What Bill's eye mutation means and B. What precisely Bill did to destroy his homeworld.
Bill's home isn't completely the same as Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (notably, women and men can be both polygons #feminism) but we can assume most of the mechanics are the same. The basic premise is that the world is 2D. Everyone perceives the world in a 1D way, along the plane. There's a part of Journal 3 that describes this pretty well.
Bill can see up to the stars because his eye is on the flat surface instead of on the side like everyone else, like this:
(He's also slightly 3D, as we can see in the show.)
But there's one more important Flatland detail. The denizens of Flatland (and therefore likely Euclydia) do still have organs "inside" their bodies. Since there is no depth, they're just on the inner radius of their bodies. The 2007 Ehlinger movie adaptation shows that:
If Bill wanted to "give his world a new perspective" and "show everyone what they were missing," he wanted to get everyone to look upward.
Meaning he probably tilted the entire world.
Meaning everyone not only slid off of the plane, but all of their organs spilled out and everyone died.
...Hence "so much blood."
(The only issue with this is that it doesn't account for the number of times Euclydia is referred to have been burned ("saw his own dimension burn / misses home and can't return", he only has ashes leftover), but I'm sure the act of turning an entire dimension upwards expends a lot of energy.)
mike making dustin feel better, saying he has superpowers,
mike defending el when they called her weird, praising her like a superhero
mike calling will a super spy and empowering him
all while he's only felt like a nobody that's not needed in anyone's life
that painting meant way more than will could ever imagine
I finally understand the whole "punch me it will feel good for both of us" appeal thing and ofc it took me watching fight club to realize that
it’s sometimes frustrating when people respond to posts lamenting like, the fact that every news article is paywalled or every social media site is overrun by reactionaries or that all recipe websites are impossible to use because they’re covered in malicious ads or etc with “here’s a site that gets rid of those paywalls!” “install this recipe-unfucker browser extension on your computer!” “just join [obscure social media site that no one uses] or [dead forum]!” like I get the intent, I don’t take it as like malicious derailing or anything, and I even understanding wanting to spread resources to people esp adblocker resources. but this pattern of response in the aggregate feels like it’s fundamentally missing the point on some level - it is infuriating that you can’t spend an hour on social media without being reminded that the world viscerally hates you and wants you dead for the crime of being a minority, it is infuriating that you’re constantly condescended to about the “dangers of disinformation” by the same professional class that paywalls every single piece of data from the public, it is infuriating that the internet is rapidly approaching a point of total unusability for the express purpose of further lining a billionaire’s pockets, and no browser extension or obscure discord clone is going to fix that. These are structural problems and I think people are using these things as examples to complain about these structures, and it sometimes feels like people are missing that point when they post a link to a mozilla-only browser extension. it feels like unwanted advice to a problem that is already unsolveable via individual solutions. often it borders on patronising, as if people aren’t aware they can log off tumblr and post on a Web 2.0 forum that 1000 people collectively use or haven’t heard of the concept of an adblocker. but again like what else are you supposed to do the next time you want to look up a chili recipe or watch cat videos online or read the news. sucks ass
⋆｡‧˚ʚ💋ɞ˚‧｡⋆ 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀
❝ i wouldn’t find the need to tell you ‘i told you so’ if you weren’t so allergic to admitting i’m right—but by all means, keep walking into walls just to prove a point. ❞
❝ there are better hills to die on, but i’ve always had a flair for the dramatic, so this one? this one suits me just fine. ❞
❝ would you come with me? i know i could go alone, but everything feels a little less terrifying when you’re beside me. ❞
❝ that’s not the worst thing i’ve ever heard, but it’s definitely in the top ten—and i’ve been to family dinners. ❞
❝ i would love to help you, truly, but i’m currently suffering from a terminal case of 'not my problem' and my doctor says there’s no cure. ❞
❝ could you, for just one second, think about someone other than yourself? i’m not asking for a miracle—just a moment of humanity. ❞
❝ i’m not going to stand here and argue with you about how badly you need rest. when you crash, don’t expect me to catch you. ❞
❝ would you be a dear and shut the hell up? there’s only so much self-centered rambling a person can survive in one sitting. ❞
❝ i know i need help. i know. but asking for it feels like walking into battle without armor—give me a second to find the words. ❞
❝ do you know where we’re going? or are we just letting the chaos guide us now? ❞
❝ i’m trusting you with this. that’s not something i give away easily, so please—don’t make me regret it. ❞
❝ do you like it here? not the place—the moment. the quiet. me. ❞
❝ are you still happy? and i don’t mean surface-level smiles and small talk. i mean really, truly happy. with me. with this. ❞
❝ i didn’t lie to you. i just told the truth in a way that made it easier to swallow. if that’s betrayal, then maybe you never wanted honesty—just comfort. ❞
❝ do you even like spending time with me anymore? because lately, it feels like all we do is circle the same argument and call it conversation. ❞
❝ one of us is going to have to be honest eventually, and i’m starting to think it’s going to have to be me—again. ❞
❝ i want to tell you something. something real. something raw. but i keep getting caught in the storm of my own hesitation. ❞
❝ if you were the religious type, i think i’d still find a way to make you worship me. or at least remember me in your prayers. ❞
❝ don’t tell me to stop being dramatic. it’s the only thing that makes this unbearable mess of a life remotely entertaining. ❞
❝ were you ever going to tell me, or were you just hoping i’d eventually give up trying to read your mind? ❞
❝ i never needed you to fix me. i just needed you to stay when i was falling apart. but even that was too much, wasn’t it? ❞
❝ sometimes i think you love the version of me that only exists in your head. the quiet one. the easy one. the one who doesn’t talk back. ❞
❝ i’m tired of being the bigger person. it’s lonely up here and the view isn’t even worth it. ❞
❝ you don’t get to disappear and then waltz back in like you didn’t shatter something on your way out. ❞
❝ if you wanted to hurt me, congratulations. you did it with terrifying precision. ❞
❝ it’s not that i don’t care anymore—it’s just that caring has become exhausting. ❞
❝ i don’t know what we are anymore. i don’t know if we ever really knew. ❞
❝ you keep saying everything’s fine like you’re trying to hypnotize me into believing it. ❞
❝ loving you felt like setting myself on fire and pretending it was candlelight. ❞
❝ i keep telling myself it’ll get better, but i’m starting to wonder if that’s just another bedtime story i made up to survive. ❞
❝ you can’t just say ‘i’m sorry’ and expect everything to go back to the way it was. apologies aren’t time machines. ❞
❝ you left. and somehow, i’m still the one who feels guilty. ❞
❝ i didn’t push you away. you just stopped reaching out. there’s a difference. ❞
Big sister who realizes she has a little brother
Big sister who messily cuts your hair
And calls you handsome
Big sister who defends you and corrects everyone else when they misgender you
Big sister who reminds you when it’s time to stop binding
And tells if you start T shots she’ll be right there with a bandaid and sticker for you
we need to start a new movement where we fight back against toxic "alpha males" by mansplanning omegaverse lore to them and kin-assigning them a role.
I am hungry
I have been hungry
I was born hungry
What do I need?
those EMO boys with their EMO hair & their EMO clothes .....
👣👺 𝕓Ｏŕℕ 𝓉Ⓞ ⒷẸ 𝐞𝕞σ 𝒇𝐎𝓻Čⓔ𝐃 Ŧ𝕆 ⓈlᵃⓎ 𝔟𝕖𝔰𝔱Įε 🍧✌
idk why i did this it just appeared in my brain and poked me until i did it
🍧☆ η𝐎т Ⓐ 𝒸άㄥ𝓵 ⓕᗝᖇ 𝓗𝔢𝓛卩 (𝐀 Ć𝒶𝐋ⓛ ᖴ𝓸Ř н𝒆𝕃𝐏) 🍮🐟 uwu anyways go off my herdlings or whatever yall want me to call u XD
A song you forgot.
small comic of the Ark siblings and a sequel to that drawing i made of them listening to music.
It says it in the first page but still: song is Sweet happy life,specifically Peggy Lee's version from 1966. It has absolutely nothing to do with SA2 but i feel like its the kind of song that Maria would have liked at the time: https://open.spotify.com/track/4QJ1F5dFjDTnoHgew9cdRr?si=fwqd_aYGQtqoVvGtECtFGw
Прощай, мой Даниил. Будь счастлив.
Всё к лучшему. А я всегда хотела умереть именно так,
Ева
hey *drops you this piece that i found while cleaning up my pc*
HUGH DANCY as LUKE BRANDON Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) dir. P.J. Hogan
My fiancé and I are both woefully behind on slang, but we made up our own term for gorilla grip, I guess. The first time we had sex he described the feeling as though “[his] cock was being most delightfully choked by [my] pussy,” so now sometimes when he tells me he’s in the mood he says he’d love to wear his favourite choker
I- 😳
Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.
‘am i Having A Brain Problem or Being a Shithead’: a short procrastination checklist
aka why tf am i procrastinating on The Thing (more like a flowchart, actually)
lots of people who have executive function difficulties worry about whether they’re procrastinating on a task out of laziness/simply wanting to be a jerk or mental struggles. this checklist might help you figure out which it is at any given time! (hint: it’s almost never laziness or being a jerk.) (obligatory disclaimer: this is just what works for me! something different might work better for you.)
1) do I honestly intend to start the task despite my lack of success?
yes: it’s a Brain Problem. next question
no: it’s shitty to say one thing & do another. better be honest with myself & anyone expecting me to do the task.
2) am I fed, watered, well-rested, medicated properly, etc?
yes: next question
no: guess what? this is the real next task
3) does the idea of starting the task make me feel scared or anxious?
yes: Anxiety Brain. identify what’s scaring me first.
no: next question
4) do I know how to start the task?
yes: next question
no: ADHD Brain. time to make an order of operations list.
5) do I have everything I need to start the task?
yes: next question
no: ADHD Brain lying to me about the steps again, dangit. first task is ‘gather the materials’.
6) why am i having a hard time switching from my current task to this new task?
i’m having fun doing what i’m doing: it’s okay to have fun doing a thing! if task is time-sensitive, go to next question.
i have to finish doing what i’m doing: might be ADHD brain. can I actually finish the current task or will I get trapped in a cycle? does this task really need to be finished?
the next task will be boring/boring-er than the current task: ADHD brain. re-think the next task. what would make it exciting? what am I looking forward to?
I might not have enough time to complete the task: ADHD brain wants to finish everything it starts. (if task is time-sensitive, go to next question)
i just want to make the person who asked me to do it angry: sounds like anxiety brain trying to punish itself, because I know I’ll be miserable if someone is angry at me. why do i think I deserve punishment?
no, I seriously want to piss them off: okay, i’m being a shithead
7) have I already procrastinated so badly that I now cannot finish the task in time?
yes: ADHD brain is probably caught in a guilt-perfection cycle. since I can’t have the task done on time, i don’t even want to start.
reality check: having part of a thing done is almost always better than none of a thing done. if I can get an extension, having part of it done will help me keep from stalling out until the extension deadline. i’ll feel better if I at least try to finish it.
no, there’s still a chance to finish on time: ADHD brain thinks that I have all the time in the world, but the truth is I don’t.
reality check: if i’m having fun doing what I’m doing, I can keep doing it, but I should probably set a timer & ask someone to check on me to make sure I start doing the task later today.
8) I’ve completed the checklist and still don’t know what’s wrong!
probably wasn’t honest enough with myself. take one more look.
if I’m still mystified, ask a friend to help me talk it out.
hope this helps some of you! YOU’RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE DON’T GIVE UP ON YOU