Mountain Lions DNI

never do any sort of collaborative storytelling with your friends youll get addicted for life

guy who pronounces whatsapp "what's a peepee"

It's so funny to me that by far, the TMA character with the most inconsistent character design across different artists is the admiral

completely personal preference obviously but i hate when there's a time travel fix-it and everything goes smoothly and the protagonist is just cool and confident with all their knowledge of the ruined future. nooo shut up. what is even the point if they're not an emotionally traumatized mess frantically trying to fix things and fucking up as they do so, keeping secrets and alienating their loved ones, causing new and interesting problems and barely scraping through to an eventual better ending

My preferred outcome is for them to avoid the problems in the original timeline only to face a whole host of new, unforeseen consequences because reality is fuckin complicated and you can't control all the factors in the world no matter how hard you try <3

i particularly like when they're managing the whole power fantasy handling everything more or less smoothly due to the power of hindsight and having leveled up for like a third of the story, and then get bodied by the unexpected consequences.

The best regressors are at least 50% visibly cracking at the seams because of the situation. 🥰

The reconciliation is to have the optimizer require multiple runs during which things go horribly wrong before they can figure out how to groundhog day their way to the optimal scenario. Usually with the caveat that they've optimized this scenario, but reality of course will contain many more once they're out of the loop.

@rhywhitefang his athena

you've gotta be kind to yourself no matter what

this is twice as true in the winter

the world isn't ending and you don't need to kill yourself it's literally december. it's december. and you need to be nice to yourself.

in the tags, what's your biggest red flag?

never lose hope. somewhere, a middle-aged, gender ambiguous person with an advanced degree in an esoteric field and a fiber arts hobby could be crashing out and pinning all their remaining mental health on getting obsessed with your otp. any day now, the most elegantly written 100k fanfic you have ever read is going to hit ao3. it could happen. it has happened.

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

we need more pathetic female characters written by authors who don't hate women

to be clear since this is making the rounds: she has to be an absolute loser in no way that can be pinned on her gender. no "i'm just a girl tee-hee" stuff. straight up just a loser (nondenominational)

addendum: she must be the most important person in the whole narrative