got dang vampire

A character trait/dynamic that I'm endlessly compelled by is someone dealing with (or, like, failing to) being the child of people who were too busy being good people to have the time and attention to be good parents. This can be anywhere from 'was a public defender who gave a shit working 60 hour weeks with basically no vacations' to 'left their family behind to join the revolution/war effort and is now a universally beloved martyr-hero who saved/remade the world with their final breath' on the groundedness spectrum. The important thing is a viscerally felt but confused and ugly mess of longing, resentment, and guilt about feeling the resentment.

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

do you ever feel yourself fail a charisma check in real time

im rediscovering apples and honestly i feel like the babadook from death note, theyre so good

The last character you drew/wrote about is now stuck in the last game you played. How screwed are they?

i love creating oc x canon ships i think more people should do them and i think more people should be really, really, really weird about them

nearly every group combat MMO i've played has had an 'everybody stack together on the marked player' mechanic so it's really charming to me that despite this, in every group instance this mechanic appears, and no matter how clearly you try to delineate the marker with an icon of inwards pointing arrows and a pile of people or so on, when players get any sort of marker over their head, their first reflex is always I need to run away from the pack and die alone in a cave now for the safety of everyone

you ever just click on a fanfic and read the first word and go “shut up” and exit

#yes#furthermore this is a skill#you need to cultivate this skill to survive fandom (dsudis)

The whole controversy of AO3 “needing” a dislike button can be summarised with this post btw

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

Movement nudge! If you've been slouched over for some time, get up and stretch!

It really helps to not be picky about what art you engage with actually. Gotta mix up your diet a bit from time to time

If you find you're bored of the folk punk you always listen to, try out a rap album. If you only ever watch classic cinema or more grounded art films, check out a fast and furious movie or something. Or try reading a book if you only ever consume film or tv. Or comics. Or go to an art museum. You may not like whatever it is you try out, and I promise you don't have to like it, but I can guarantee that you can't subsist on a monoculture. Be open to experiencing new art. Even if it's bad. Especially if it's bad, actually.