average day on the mithraeum

ianthe: haha harrow wants me so bad it makes her look stupid 😈

mercy: why didn’t i kill myself ten thousand years ago

john gaius: [playing 2048 on his ipad] my life is completely normal and great and my friends all love each other :)

gideon the first: i think i have encephalitis

augustine: when i’m in the club yeah im bumpin that 365 party girl bumpin that should we do a lil key should we have a lil line wanna go real wild when im bumpin that meet me in the bathroom if you’re bumpin that 365 party girl bumpin that french manicure wipe away the residue

pyrrha: i’m pretty sure gideon has encephalitis

harrow:

...I would love some context for this, and maybe a source.

Did a bit of Googling. It's a yuri manga called Hero-san and Former General-san.

The usual translation seems to be "trance" rather than "trans", but I assume it's short for "transform" because they're tokusatsu characters.

right, they switched to "trans up" in chapter 9

For further context in case any one is interested in trying this manga out, this is basically the conceit of The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies but a yuri romance. It’s the love story between a kamen rider-like heroine and a kaijin former villainess.

Unlike another series, Love After World Domination, this manga goes all in by basically having the hero Rapid Rabbit and Kaijin Honey Trap look like they could be actual suits in a tokusatsu production

Also, the kaijin girl is absolutely adorable and easy to fluster, this legit makes me want this manga to have a live action adaptation that’s like a proper toku show or even a half in half. Like it’s enjoyable

This is a response to this awesome post, "Let's write about Jewish characters in dynamic ways," but I didn't want to reply to it directly as someone who's not Jewish (it'd be changing the topic, basically).

How Judaism and Jewishness have entered my life as a non-Jewish person—in other words, ways to acknowledge secondary characters who are Jewish beyond mentioning that they observe Hanukkah or that their grandparents survived the Holocaust:

• getting invited to a Shabbat dinner and eating the best baked gefilte of your life (very common for non-Jewish folks in New York to be invited to Shabbat dinners, and since it seems like 99% of trad pubbed novels are set in NYC, where the heck is this in fiction??)
• attending conversion classes to support a family member
• going to a Jewish friend's wedding and all that that entails (the music! the dancing! the shattered glass!)
• knowing piecemeal trivia about what your Jewish friends can eat when you invite them to a non-kosher dinner—like that you should provide vegan options and eggs are pareve; you might search for the circle-K or circle-U label on snacks to make sure they're kosher-certified; and you might find yourself asking the person working at the liquor store if they have mevushal wine
• it's also likely you'll mess up trying to provide kosher options, and your friend will never tell you, but you'll know anyway by the way they're trying to be inconspicuous about not eating anything
• having an observant roommate who keeps their kosher food on a particular shelf in the fridge
• stressing because your Jewish friend has two utensil drawers in their kitchen and you can't remember whether the blue-handled forks in the left drawer are for dairy or for meat
• going to a Jewish friend's house (or especially their parents' house) and seeing the beautiful leather-bound books lines up on their shelves, prominently displayed
• feeling super proud of a friend's son for memorizing the Torah, even if you can't understand what he's saying at his Bar Mitzvah
• having Jewish friends who are shomer negiah, always observe the Sabbath, speak Yiddish as their first language, etc., and also having Jewish friends who eat ham and have tattoos
• navigating a new country with a Jewish friend, and neither of you speak the local language, but your Jewish friend gets you both out of a pickle by finding the city's Jewish quarter and asking for help in Hebrew
• friends who can't hang out with you today because they're behind on their Pesach/Passover cleaning and are concerned they're gonna have chametz left over in their house (my friend was once so stressed about this she was like "why don't i just move apartments every spring")
• being invited to a Rosh HaShanah/Jewish New Year dinner and eating fruit and feeling all renewed and warm inside even if you're fuzzy on the religious details

This is what I can think of off the top of my head! Again: Meant for non-Jews writing non-Jewish protaginists who have Jewish friends. Tired of reading about Hanukkah and literally nothing else!!

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anon im still thinking about this. happy tdov everyone

tumblr and discord changing their ui just enough to be noticeable within a week of each other, 1 million billion neurodivergent people found dead

i go on discord. the icons are tiny now. i go on tumblr. the icons are massive. i kill myself

highblood: and why the fuck should i let you tell me not to kill people

lowblood whos about to invent moirallegiance: oh, havent you heard?

I have no idea what this is referencing but this is definitely the plot to Nietzche’s Genealogy of Morals

Cleo isn't messing around....

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Shadow's Dark Beginnings episodes were really good

i do think that a lot of people mistaking moral ocd for having a moral compass is understandable but also a bit funny. why does your moral compass involve fearing the invisible watchful specter who may be judging your every move lest you make your intentions clear at every turn and over explain your actions. you dont have to answer this question

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if you asked knuckles what his gender identity or anything like that was he would just say "well, I'm Knuckles."

The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define "soulmate" however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)

The bad news: you don't get to pick where they come from.

Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.

*broadly defined

i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:

• don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you
• assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times
• encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others
• start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms
• do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode
  

what it does not mean:

• insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real
  

I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.

i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.

knuckle!