The Final Frontier

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Slavery is literally happening now. Police never stopped being slave catchers. People are supporting it now just like they supported it then.

The only other thing is that not all USB-C cables are created equally. The form factor is standardized, the insides are not, some shitty, cheap, cables are only rated for data not power, or for low power needs. You can search for charging cable to make sure you get one intended for power transfer.

the symptom "needs control in uncomfortable situations to feel safe" is in a *lot* of mental illness, but when it appears in npd? it's described as a desire to dominate others for the sake of their evil superiority complex.

needing constant reassurance from others is a symptom of a lot of mental illness too, anxiety disorders as a big one, but in npd it's described as manipulating people into being nice to them to feed their ego.

even just *masking* their mental illness is seen as a plot in the narcissist's evil plan.

all of these symptoms are seen as neutral as a baseline, until you decide a person experiencing these has a "bad" mental illness instead of something that's been watered down and quirkified. like autism, which npd shares a lot of similar traits with

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

I've received a handful of commissions to draw people's pets and monks but this is definitely my favorite one so far

If you’re still desperately thirsty after having some water, you probably need electrolytes. There are many options - eat a pickle, have a gatorade (or whatever brand you prefer), add an electrolyte packet to your water, sprinkle salt on some watermelon, make a fun drink with coconut water.