LOST in the TUNNELS

friendly reminder that skin picking, overwashing, finger biting, and hair pulling are not “bad habits” or personal failings; they are all forms of evolutionarily ingrained self harm disorder called Repetitive Body-Focused Behavior that is a natural response to high stress levels and poor quality of life caused by the same neurological processes that cause animals to overgroom when they’re kept in inhumane conditions

Everything Carol "Pluribus" Sturka does is reasonable if you remember for even one second that her wife died in the joining. More than reasonable, even! If my wife died and a member of the hivemind showed up at my gate while I was digging her grave I would've caved her head in with the shovel before she got a word out. Anything more than that is icing.

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

friend who went to bed is a type of dead wife

Hey sorry if I’m kinda weird I was supposed to be dead by now

there's nothing necessarily wrong with making a happy au but if thats the only thing you think about/engage with when it comes to mouthwashing i think thats a problem. and i think that the shipping is absolutely not needed and feels extremely weird like the game isnt about like. oh curly wouldve treated anya right oh curly x jimmy toxic yaoi like. can we take this game seriously? its one of the most incredibly written games ive ever seen with insanely well-written and thought out characters. stop stripping that away so you can draw some characters making out. not every piece of media needs to be about shipping

also, the blind hatred of jimmy is kinda weird to me? when watching a playthrough of mwing for the first time i was so fascinated by his character and thought he was so interesting and well-written. i fucking hate him as a person yeah he's an absolute asshole and a rapist but as a character hes incredible! his biased view of everything makes for such an intriguing game. but the sheer amount of people who refuse to talk about him, to even acknowledge his existence is crazy to me

i mentioned this in my tags but its still important. the ableism in this fandom is INSANE. people do not view post-crash curly as human and it shows. ive seen so many animations where hes played around with like a doll. ive seen people genuinely say that curly losing his limbs and skin was a "punishment" by the universe for not helping anya. disability is not a punishment. what happened to him is hell but it is not a punishment for what he's done. it is something that happened to him. and in a similar vein, ive seen people absolve him of any and all guilt now that he's helpless. since he cannot speak or move hes treated like an innocent angel. he is not a human person in so many fans' eyes and its horrible

We’ve gotten to the point of fandom where people wanna crossover without thinking of the implications. Babe if I’m seeing your ocs for the first time in a Obsession scene redraw I’m assuming the one as Bear is a rapist since um well that’s what the whole movie is about, and you know ur characters better than me. Same with fandom ones, headcanoning the character taking Bear’s spot as a rapist

the thing is that pomegranates and blood and cannibalism and Fucked Up Deer are literally cool. like they're genuinely just sick as fuck and you simply cannot deny it without looking like a try-hard contrarian. they rule. sorry for thinking deep scarlet is an awesome color for things to be... as if it's my fault...