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.
How's your soulmate situation?
I'm thrilled about who I was able to pick! I'd love to have them around!
I'm happy, I found a good option
I can't complain too much, I guess
I'm not happy about my options, but whatever, I found someone
...Either my supposed "soulmate" or this poll OP is going to suffer
*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
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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.
no one but professional trainers has a full team of 6 in the pokemon universe because it would be a fucking gigantic hassle to deal with 6 animals, let alone different types that need different things
some people don’t evolve their pokemon because imagine having a fucking cat and then you can choose to make the cat five times as big and strong. would you do this if you weren’t battling.
Technically if your cat isn’t battling it doesn’t evolve.
That does however give cat owners a strong incentive to not let their cat outside, because realistically any cat that is allowed to roam free is gonna rack up exp until it evolves.
I let my litten out one day and a week later incineroar rips my door off and demands wet food only
Caring for this incineroar for three days before my litten shows up. Who the fuck is this then?
this is the funniest addition anyone’s ever made to this post

New intro post! I’m Cephei, it/its, and I’m currently fixated on Sonic. The Locked Tomb is also always on my brain
Three things about me: 1) Knuckles is my #1 Blorbo 2) grilled cheese good 3) I survived the torment nexus
Please ask me about my Maria Lives AU <3 Also look at my Shadow & Maria AMV
4 hits • #shoutout terra for the meme again <3
GeneCo brand top surgery where if you don’t pay on time a Repo Man comes to sew your tits back on
you know youre too far gone into a trans headcanon when you get genuinely confused seeing the canon pronouns used for the character. "why are they he/him-ing metal sonic" <- real thought that just flashed through my mind
very fond of the part of SA2 where shadow and eggman do their whole big threat display (moon beam attack) and then throw a tantrum when they realize they still haven’t actually used it as leverage and instead just caused an international panic . and rouge bullies them about their lack of a plan <3
adore rouge just watching their dumpster fire of an evil plot and not once chiming in to solve their problems beyond her very specific role of Shit She Already Does For Fun (hunt down gems < 3). like she's totally intelligent and informed enough to be making this team functional. not her problem tho
Kidd Gorgeous -Nightfish
[image description: a gif parodying edward hopper’s nighthawks. it depicts the diner filled with water and various fish swimming around inside it. the light from the diner casts reflections through the water onto the street outside. /end description]
good thing he didn’t add a door
if you asked knuckles what his gender identity or anything like that was he would just say "well, I'm Knuckles."