"Have You Never Dreamed Of Me?"

mutually assured destruction

This might suck to hear, but if you're a people pleaser that is motivated by praise and avoids disagreements, you are easy to manipulate.

When I was in therapy after surviving years of domestic violence, my therapist had to tell me that my personality was primed for abuse and we needed to work on that so I would be better equipped to see the red flags and respond appropriately in the future.

I'm still working on this, and it's been 8 years. If you tell someone how you want to be treated, what behaviors you don't tolerate in your life, what you're looking for in that relationship, and they react negatively, don't compromise yourself. Just move on.

This one's for all the praise-kink girlies: differentiate, self-actualize, stay sexy

“Goodbye, Sephiroth”

cant stop thinking about 'i misjudged you, chancellor' not only bc of the theopin parasite in my head but bc he truly did not in any shape or form need to say that. like theo's character has always always been about honor and pride and loyalty and the ONLY thing he ever allowed himself to be blindsighted on has always been lapin. soo honorable sooo professional but when it came to lapin he allowed himself to be different. and i dont believe it ever came from a real place of dislike. no rather it came from a recognition that he COULD do this w lapin and not ever be actually slighted for it by lapin or anyone really (since no one liked my bbg lapin all that much lets admit). all those years of obedience and devotion and lapin was the only one he could be honest w by bitching at him. and then there comes the battle on the whatever road and he's suddenly really seeing lapin in action for the first time and he well knows what ppl do in a battle tells a lot about them and what lapin does is. basically the exact same thing theo's been doing for years. he protects. his only objective is to keep the royal family safe and suddenly theo just. respects him. fucking DEFENDS him to callroy who he has known for a long time and has decidedly been on better terms with. says with ABSOLUTE conviction that lapin didn't do this. doesn't engage in lapin riling him up simply laughs softly. asks for HELP and fucking agrees with lapin do you UNDERSTAND????? do you understand how much that one battle changed theo's demeanor and view of lapin and how significant it was for him ohhhbhhh ive gotten so off topic but my point is he has known since then that he misjudged lapin and the fact that he fucking SAID it admitting to making YEARS OF MISTAKES and damaging his pride in turn but not caring bc he NEEDED LAPIN TO KNOW THAT HE MISJUDGED HIM AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN WRONG ABOUT HIM !!!!! i need to lie down

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

i cannot believe this isn't what episode two was about

#Repost @gogreensavegreen

You might be more than one. You might be different ones at different times. 🫶🏽🫶🏽 you might not be one of these. There are more roles 💪🏽 but this is an amazing intro.

You can’t just like the idea and envision yourself in one of these roles you have to figure out how to be about it ♥️🫶🏽

Via @deiloh & @fablefulart

The Front Man has been the only thing I can think about since Squid Game 2

bonus:

I take this mass murderer sooooo seriously guys I’m not smiling like an idiot wdym