A Cluttered Workspace

This is just how magic works, honestly.

@actualshonenprotagonist this sounds like a you story. I don't know if you're Kevin or the narrator or Tony or all of them at once.

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

I was in fact thinking of Pterry when I said it! That is extremely pleasing, as is the mini-fic :)

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*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

One thing I really like about Beverly Engel's book It Wasn't Your Fault, which is about PTSD-induced toxic shame, is that quite a bit of it deals with people who haven't broken The Cycle of Abuse (TM) and have gone on to hurt others. That's a really underserved and vulnerable patient population, and statistically, it's also MASSIVE. I don't think I've read a single other self-help type book on PTSD and self-loathing that confronts the possibility that you're exactly as bad as you think you are.

I felt better that it so much as mentioned that children can react to abuse with ungovernable rage. Everybody likes the image of PTSD patients as internalizing everything and becoming doormats, which does happen, and often, but it's not the only narrative. Personally I've always hated my abusers and have always wanted everyone who so much as breathed wrong in my direction from ages 0 to 18 to burn eternally in hell. I *never* thought any of it was my fault and ever since I was a toddler I was willing to make it everybody else's problem, and it's really relieving to read a clinical perspective that acknowledges that abuse victims can act that way too.

Aragorn n Legolas r so funny to me bc people who don’t know lotr well see gruff manly ranger and elegant princely elf but they don’t know what i know. they don’t know that Aragorn is the long haired sensitive softboy writing sad poetry on his livejournal about not being able to show his girlfriend the awesome new song he wrote for her on his guitar meanwhile Legolas is doing backwards kickflips over gimli at the skate park bc gimli double dog dared him then he and gimli climb the tree at Aragorn’s house n yell at him through the window to come play halo

Currently rereading The Hobbit, and I swear it's like Tolkien took every antisemitic stereotype and caricature that was being used to dehumanize Jews during this time and put them onto the dwarves but turned them on its head to make them traits to be admired. I already knew he was a badass for telling the Nazis to go fuck themselves, but this just makes me love his work more.

Just watched “The Grand Complication Job”, and Parker and Astrid are kinda like Nate and Sterling if they actually talked about their feelings. I love it

i might be too woke or whatever but i really do think it's a symptom of amatonormativity that we can get on-screen, textual confirmation that the leverage ot3 are in fact canonically in a relationship but since it's not explicitly romantic on eliot's end it gets treated as though it's still subtext

Okay anyone else still on Parker casually dropping "Me, you, Hardison, that's fine, that's working" in the context of discussing dating with Eliot or just me

The Prequels Trio

#this is what we’re losing by not putting disabled characters in action/fantasy/sf stories#hitherto unavailable shenanigans!