Gaming, Art, and Love

Love a good change in sound design in visual or audio media when Whumpee is dazed and disoriented 👏 Everything echoing or being muffled or tinny or ringing, that's good stuff

[Image ID: Tweet from Drew (@/ drewrhyde) reading: "Stop bouncing your leg" girl, it's either this or I start screaming /End ID]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

the number one lesson that toddler parenting is teaching me is the power of adjusting your attitude so you can get silly. if I am in a bad mood or at the end of my rope patience-wise my toddler senses this IMMEDIATELY and actively turns every single interaction into a protracted power struggle. but if i can take a second to gather myself and marshal juuust enough strength to do a goofy little bit or even just make a silly face he is sooo so delighted and can usually be easily persuaded to do whatever he was resisting two seconds earlier. tonight he was testing meeeeeeeeee oh my god WHY must everything be a battle and then I invented a game called BOOM where I swing him around and drop him on the nearest cushioned surface and this game was such a wild hit that we did our entire bedtime routine in five min just by trading bedtime tasks for one (1) boom. and then he was in such a silly happy mood it put me in a better mood and now I don’t feel as exhausted. idk it does take some effort to rally when you’re not feeling inclined to be silly but then it consistently saves soooo much time/energy in the rest of your interactions I think it’s worth it. plus it’s crazy how much goofing off with somebody for a few minutes resets your nervous system.

i’m fully convinced some people live not really getting how little children know like a child doesn’t know what a fucking egg is until you tell them what an egg is and they don’t know what a month is or what letters are or which ones make which words or what words are like children know nothing when they come into the world and have to be taught everything and we, the adults in the world around them, are responsible—it is our duty as experienced humans to pass down our knowledge and to make sure we do it right, do it well, and do it as often as we can. even if they are not your kids, it is the duty we owe to one another if we want to live in better societies. i don’t ever want to have kids but i’m always overjoyed for the chance to teach a child something.

Brain fog is not an adequate descriptor, actually. Fog can be kinda nice and beautiful and ethereal and refreshing. The thing we’re describing is more like a brain BOG; everything moves slow like you’re wading through water, it’s clunky and heavy and you keep getting stuck in the mud. It’s uncomfortable and inconvenient and everything takes so much effort. You lost a shoe, probably.

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[ID copied from ALT] fanart of Kaito, he's sitting on a ledge and his muffler is flying towards the camera. he looks back at the viewer fondly. his usual coat is a vest, and it is very long, flowing over the ledge of whatever he is sitting on. the drawing has a limited color palette of an orangey yellow, three blues, Kaito’s skin tone and blush. the shading is very sharp and angular. [/ID]

I'm sorry for (remembers I'm not sorry) You're welcome for all the character posting last night

I think the only person I've met in real life with 100% career satisfaction was this gal I knew who was a presenter at a children's science museum and delivered every line like she was running a WWE match. Every time you passed the room where she was giving a presentation, you'd hear something like "WHO'S READY FOR CEPHALOPODS?!?" and the kids would go absolutely nuts cheering.

i do find the rules around clothes fascinating because of how made up it all is. we invented the idea of covering our bodies from the elements because we lack fur like other mammals and then made up all these rules around it and now people will unironically tell you "men cant wear skirts its unnatural" girl none of this is natural. we are born naked and made up the rest as we went along. hope this helps.

gift shopping for younger cousins is so scary like I want to be cool. but not seem clingy. or seem distant. but I want them to know that I care about them so so much and I am always here if they need someone to talk to. and also we only see each other like once a year. but I held them when they were babies and saw them grow up and I Want Them To Know I Care So So Much,

how do I let this middle schooler know id die for them on a $20 budget

man you know female characters can have important platonic relationships and care about people without being a mom or sister or wine aunt right

there's this weird thing people fall into online a lot, where people assume that if the [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged then people will, naturally, do [perceived-to-be-superior] version of [activity] instead. When really it's just as (or more) likely that if [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged people just won't do it at all.

audiobook listeners are not necessarily people who would otherwise do a lot of traditional reading if audiobooks did not exist, many are people who simply would experience zero books. Booktok romance readers would not necessarily be reading the classics if booktok did not exist, many of them would simply not read. Fanfiction writers would not necessarily be novelists if fanfic wasn't an option, many would just be people who didn't write. You know?