Hint, Hint.

by the way, quietly bottling your discomfort with someone and just hoping they'll "get the hint" until you can't take it anymore and then taking it to the nearest moderator isn't "setting a boundary" or "being victimized," it's actually called "being a huge piece of shit" and "expecting people to read your mind."

Sorry about your conflict aversion, but you actually need to tell people when they're making you uncomfortable. like, with explicit, clear, unmistakeable words that don't give you a safe cover of plausible deniability with which you can back out and "still be the good guy." It is kinder to let someone down face-to-face so they can hurt and move on knowing what went wrong than it is to lead someone on and then stab them in the fucking back, you know?

Also, I cannot stress this enough, it is not actually someone else's fault for making you uncomfortable when you literally make a point to lie to them about how much you like them by pretending you're enjoying their company more than you are. That's your fault. That's called making a bed to lie in. Maybe just desperately hoping someone who has already misinterpreted how close they are to you will just happen to pick up on the subtle signs of you desperately hiding your discomfort is, frankly, fucking stupid, and you need to get over yourself and say real words to them instead of getting some third party to punish them for your own inability to communicate.

Sorry this one isn't as nice as my other posts, but some of you need a wake-up slap. Stop fucking burning autistic people and trans women one-by-one because being a coward is easier than being a villain. It's not fucking nice, it's not cute, and the more I see it happen, the less forgivable it gets. Grow the fuck up and change in the scary but necessary ways.

Because it's kinder to tell someone when they're fucking up than it is to let them make the same mistakes in ignorance until you've secretly tallied enough transgressions to safely write them off as unforgivable, and thus disposable. Because I care about you, and everyone else, enough to give you a real chance to actually correct your harmful behaviors by being honest to you about the harm they cause. Because I believe people can make hurtful mistakes while still being genuine unintended mistakes, and that they can change.

Hint, hint.

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theancientdreamer

1 month ago

I’m not sure if it supposed to be funny but I laughed out loud reading texts 😂

[ID: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fanart by Blackbox of Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk smiling emotionally at each other, overlaid with the text "fandom so small i became soulmates with the main character". End ID]

thank u! @nebulations

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theancientdreamer

1 month ago

“The Longer I’d Stall

The Further I’d Crawl

The Harder I’d Fall

Into The Fire “

Gotta Knock a Little Harder - The Seatbelts

Suddenly it Occurred to Me , The Reason for The Run and Hide Had Totalled My Existence…..

this is when you know you are fucked for a long long time…

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theancientdreamer

1 month ago

Relaxing Bath Time 🛁🫧📺🐰

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theancientdreamer

3 weeks ago

Full body Illustration of my interpretation of Usopp from one piece. The foreground has post time skip Usopp laying on his back with his arms behind his head. One of his legs is bent at the knee while the other is outstretched to create a more interesting silhouette. The background has four different redraws of screen caps from the anime. From left to right there’s pre time skip Usopp drinking a blue beverage, post time skip Usopp looking back with a thumbs up, post time skip Usopp cheering with a sunset behind him, and pre time skip Usopp doing a cute pose holding his cheeks. Overall the illustration has a yellow and orange color palette

USOPPS DAY AT LAST🥹💛💛💛 happy birthday to the most amazing sniper there is

Close up of the redraws!

Close up of pre time skip Usopp drinking a turquoise beverage with a little orange on the rim.

Close up of post time skip Usopp celebrating in front of a sunset. He had a large smile and is wearing a green shirt with his classic post time slip outfit.

Close of of pre time skip Usopp where he is holding either side of his face in a cute pose, his eyes are all sparkly.

Close up of post time skip Usopp looking back with a smile as he makes a thumbs up symbol.

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theancientdreamer

2 months ago

“ So You Should Really Stop Thinking About It, Stop Stop Thinking About It… Why’re Your Mind Overclouded ?

Dreams Detached From Reality Turned Into Bubbles “

Fanka - OverThink

Silence The Demon in Your Head

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theancientdreamer

3 weeks ago

Project D by Terry Wei

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theancientdreamer

2 months ago

dear people with OCD: the next time you have spiraling & intrusive thoughts, what-ifs, or catastrophizing scenarios, I am sending a cardigan-wearing 46-year old NYU professor directly into your brain and he says "Aaaaand scene!!!" and he claps his hands slowly. and he says "Wow. Wow. Powerful stuff. Evocative imagery. A little bit post-modern, a little bit hysterical realism in the vein of Don Delilo but let's pause right here." and you will recognize your thoughts as a perplexing avant-garde film shown to an audience of 15 liberal arts students who are now trying to get a good grade and sleep with their professor.

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theancientdreamer

2 months ago

😢

Today is a battlefield, and I am the only soldier. Anxiety, self-doubt, intrusive memories- they all showed up, dragging their sharp edges through my mind.

The magical thinking whispered lies about escape, about fixing everything if I could just be someone else. I’ve been fighting them all day, and now I’m too drained to even think about self-care. Survival may be the only thing I can manage today

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theancientdreamer

1 month ago

Digital fanart for Omniscient reader's viewpoint. It's a series of black and white illustrations making out a single monologue through their accompanying text.
"I suppose, in a sense".
Kim Dokja looking at something under his feet. His face is hidden under a heavy shadow with only a single eye and a crack running across his face visible. Behind his head there's a disc of a halo crumbling away on a background of pitch black sky.

"I'm also a writer"
A shot of Kim Dokja from the back. He is standing on a path made out of screens-tiles, each depicting a scene. Closest to him are a scene of his companions calling out to him and a scene of unconcious Yoo Joonghyuk sleeping somewhere. Further aways, disappearing in the dark, are two female silhouettes, possibly Lee Sookyung and Han Sooyoung back on Earth.

"Worse than a proper one"
Two bright white parallel lines - two bridges extend into the dark, never getting close. Kim Dokja stands close to the lower edge of the art, watching someone standing on the other path far away, also wearing a white coat.

"With my hands accustomed to turning pages"
The text sits in the screen of Kim Dokja's phone held by his crumbling hands.

"Not filling them"
That text, in contrast, is printed on a stack of pages held by different hands, with painted black nails and different type of scars.

"My heart as well"
A close up of Kim Dokja's face, looking down. There is no heavy shadow over his face, yet his mouth are not drawn. Despite that, his eyes look dull, sad.

"Accustomed to seeing"
A reflection of younger Kim Dokja in an old pc screen. He looks down, just as sad and disheartened as his older self. There are pages visible on the screen.

"But not participating"
A shot from inside the train carrier. Hands claw at the closed doors, leaving bloody traces on the glass. It's Kim Dokja's crumbling hands. Behind the glass there is a night sky.

"Maybe that is why"
Kim Dokja is sitting on a train seat with his legs, looking to the right. He is wearing his stark wjite coat, and looks empty. He is surrounded by an empty void, all alone in the space he is in.

"Their expressions are hard to pin down"
A mirror image of the previous one, but this Kim Dokja is looking at his companions, who surround him. They all sit on grass, with a darkening sky above them. Still, all the faces of Kim Dokja's companions are hidden as if drawn over with a pen.

"If i never experience that strong of a feeling"
Kim Dokja at the end of the 1863 arc, from the back, hunched down with his black wings framing his back. His horns are crumbling, and so does the black star of a constellation above his head.

"How can i put it on a page?"
A mirror image of Kim Dokja from the first page - but now it's Han Sooyoung looking down on Kim Dokja with her face hidden under a heavy shadow, her expression impossible to pin down. She is wearing a bright white coat.

"A story written by someone that inadequate"
A page almost fully black. In the upper left corner, there is barely visible figure of young Han Sooyoung in front of a computer screen, typing. On her chair there's barely visible hand of the Dokkaebi king. Only whatever is bathed in the light of the screen is visible.

"Surely it's not a read you would approve of"
A similarly almost completely black page. In contrats with the text, a happy Kim Dokja, visible in the light of his phone, sits in a hospital bed. An IV drip is visible next to him, with the bags going from seemingly normal one to Story fluid the higher they sit.
Full text says:
"I suppose, in a sense... I'm also a writer, worse than a proper one, with my hands accustomed to turning pages, not filling them. My heart, as well, accustomed to seeing, but not participating. Maybe that is why their expressions are hard to pin down. If i never experience that strong of a feeling, how can i put it on a page? A story written by someone that inadequate... Surely it's not a read you would approve of."

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theancientdreamer

1 month ago

Fell in love with the storyline

Got Plopped In A Ghost Story, You Still Gotta Work: A Visual Primer For English Speakers

The premise:
Kim Soleum is a wiki contributor for a Creepypasta wiki/SCP Foundation wiki pastiche. While visiting a pop-up shop, he's sucked into the universe of this horror wiki to be recruited by the evil corporation faction. The problem? He is a born and bred coward, and the only way home is buying a wish ticket with his company credits. Which means participating in high-fatality horror stories.
The solution? Speedrunning the horror stories before anything super scary happens.

In summary: SCP Isekai. Ghost Story Work is a serial horror where creepypastas are treated as escape rooms with increasingly dangerous stakes, and the main character has to carefully design a persona his coworkers will allow to do insane suicidal gambits he learned from the wiki.

SETTING:
Daydream Co. Ltd.
A pharmaceutical company that uses Monsters Inc-esque collectors that process the horror story as a base for their potions. Exploration squads are expected to die for this material, baited by having a wish fulfilled. Uses their animal masks for codenames.

Disaster Management Bureau
The analogue to the SCP foundation. A government agency tasked with containing and eliminating the paranormal. There is no trolley problem; obviously you must kill one to save five. Uses noun codenames.

Church of the Luminous Unknown
A mysterious cult that absorbs the paranormal into themselves in order to reach true enlightenment.

CHARACTERS:
Kim Soleum: Alias Roe Deer, though he has a weird wood mask. Main character. Coward, meek salaryman, and gifted actor who's greatest skill is thinking under stress. Not really cognizant of his extremely heroic qualities because his foreknowledge makes things easier. Sleek and relatively good-looking.

Go Yeongeun: Alias Goral. A gentle, calm, and focused woman who dropped out of med school. First to meet Kim Soleum, but ended up in a different squad.

Baek Saheon: Alias Goat. Comes off as easygoing and naive, but is actually ruthless and vicious, preying on other's weaknesses. Because he's so scary, Kim Soleum has decided to act like a sociopath to scare him off. It's working a little too well.

Lee Jaheon: Alias Lizard. A lizard. Manager for D-squad. Everyone but Kim Soleum sees a sleek and handsome face; it's unclear why he is a lizard. The ideal boss. Resolves ghost stories by beating the shit out of them.

Eun Haje: Alias Falcon. Assistant Manager of D-squad. Jaded but friendly, Kim Soleum's first coworker. Tries to make things easy on the new recruit.

Park Minseong: Alias Badger. Supervisor of D-squad. Beefy, good-natured, and lackadaisical about how fast the company will kill you.

Braun: An eldritch abomination that runs a talk show where if you get it wrong, you die! Later gets summoned into a keychained-sized ghost doll and is a delighted audience to Kim Soleum's stunts.

Jin Nasol: Alias Butterfly. A member of the elite A-squad. Cutthroat and quick to kill, but prioritizes efficiency.

Jang Heo-un: Alias Boar. Squeamishness with gore led him to be treated as disposable by the company.

Ryu Jaekwan: Alias Bronze. An officer of the Disaster Management Bureau. Serious, by-the-books, and working for the good of all. Easily moved by acts of kindness.

J3: Security team of one. None of his business.

Executive Cheong Dallae
Executive Ho Yuwon

Got Plopped In a Ghost Story, You Still Gotta Work: A visual primer for English speakers

This took me a week. I did this for ORV like 4 years ago so it felt like my moral obligation to make one again.

Some notes on character designs and images without text:

Gorals and domestic goats look very different, but in Manor of the Blind attention is put into how these two are similar and contrasting, the truly noble Go Yeongeun with the white goat and the sinister Baek Saheon with the black goat. I also picked a literal goral instead of a mountain goat (which are naturally white) because gorals look more like roe deers than goats, making the 3 of them more closely linked.

Because this is a horror novel and unnatural features aren't mentioned, I tried to keep this as grounded as possible. Sorry to the three WHABs I eliminated in cold blood ⭐

Another hardliner of of grounded designs is Jin Nasol, who gets the most ostentatious anime character treatment besides Jay in fanart. She is coldly utilitarian and prizes efficiency over all else, there is no way that woman has bangs

I am not giving Park Minseong brown hair. There is nothing wrong with a good warm black

Lee Jaheon is often depicted as an adorable little newt in fanart, but a huge part of why he is so hysterical is that he is scary, so I picked more intimidating lizard traits so he functions in both dramatic heroic scenes and eating granola bars with the wrappers still on. He gets to keep the newt mask though

I gave Braun white gloves at first but I saw a Braun cosplayer and a demon possessed me. I have no idea what colour is canon. who doesnt love black leather

Making Jang Heo-un the "sharp eyes meek personality" trope made my brain light up so good. I was trying to contrast with the relaxed eyes of the easygoing Park Minseong to make them more obviously different but this feels cosmically correct