hazbin played straight

fuuuckkk, now i'm thinking about my ocs and omegaverse and how 1920s-1970s gender roles would work in an abo setting

A strange genie appears and has an offer for you. You’ll be cured of all, you’ll have a stable job you’re happy with, and you’ll basically just live the best life you can imagine. However, there’s a catch—you’ll have to relive one specific grade level from middle or high school (the genie is American).

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

[ID 1: drawing of four non-descript characters smiling lined up, three of them have pale skin while one has brown skin and a more mischievous expression, the characters has text pointed to them reading “that one character that gets the melanin because they’re angry/agressive” End ID]

wait i can make it better

did some wikipedia-ing, and it looks like wherever in virginia vox lived, he almost certainly commuted to dc for work since there were no tv stations in the dmv not based out of dc in the 40s-early 50s

Only just realized this now (fsr the first time I read it, my brain processed “Tennleytown” as “DuPont Circle”) but I actually went to college directly across the street from WTTG.