IDLE RAMBLINGS OF A MIND DISEASED

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
candlecat624
leneemusing

FOR THE “YOU CAN KILL ME BUT DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH THEM” DYNAMICS 

  • ❝  i only want you.  ❞
  • ❝  i don’t need anyone else.  i just…you.  you’re all i need.  ❞
  • ❝  listen,  i’ve lost a lot of people in my life.  i learned how to deal with it but…you’re different.  i can’t take it if it’s you.  ❞
  • ❝  i think about anything happening to you and i— i just.  i fucking lose it.  ❞
  • ❝  you don’t understand.  i need you safe.  not because i don’t think you can handle yourself but because i can’t focus on anything else if there’s even the smallest possibility you’re in danger.  ❞
  • ❝  no one is ever gonna get near you again,  you hear me?  ❞
  • ❝  i won’t let you get hurt.  i promise.  and i don’t make empty promises.  ❞
  • ❝  turn around.  you don’t need to see this part.  ❞
  • ❝  just give the word and i’ll kill every one of them.  ❞
  • ❝  you can’t get all worked up every time something happens to me.  that’s just life.  you’re not always gonna be able to protect me from it.  ❞
  • ❝  no one else understands me.  but you do.  you always do.  ❞
  • ❝  i don’t think i’m the best person for you,  i don’t.  but i do know i’m the one that can keep you safe  ❞
  • ❝  hey—  look at me.  it’s over.  it’s done.  we’re okay.  ❞
  • ❝  who the fuck made you cry i’ll fucking rip their head off.  ❞ 
  • ❝  i know you’ve always got my back.  ❞
  • ❝  please,  let me take care of you this time.  you’re always protecting me but it tears me up inside every time you get hurt because of it.  ❞
  • ❝  can you make everyone else just go away?  i know they mean well but i just want to be alone—  alone with you i mean.  ❞
  • ❝  i know when you’re here,  the real monsters can’t touch me.  ❞
  • ❝   oh,  i am one of the monsters.  but that just means i can keep all the other monsters from ever hurting you again. ❞ 
  • ❝  if you’re gonna keep risking your life for me than you’re also gonna let me patch you up without a single complaint.  ❞
  • ❝  we keep each other safe.  it’s my turn to protect you.  ❞
  • ❝  i killed them for you.  i know you could’ve done it yourself,  but you shouldn’t have to.  ❞
  • ❝   i love you because i know how capable you are.  and i show that love by making sure you don’t have to be the one to always do the hard things.  ❞
  • ❝   i’m gonna make them regret ever even thinking about laying a hand on you.  ❞
  • ❝  tell me what you want me to do.  i’ll do it.  whatever you want.  ❞
  • ❝  i love you just like this.  i love you when you touch me gently like no one else ever has.  and i love you when your hands are bloody and your knuckles are bruised. ❞
  • ❝  please,  just let me protect you.  ❞
  • ❝  are you hurt?  did they hurt you?  ❞
  • ❝  wait,  stop you’re bleeding.  ❞
  • ❝  did you just wince?  where are you hurt?  ❞
  • ❝  i need you in my life.  i’m not used to that—  needing people.  but i do need you.  ❞
  • ❝  you make me feel things i’m not used to feeling.  ❞
  • ❝  why do you let me close when you’re always driving everyone else away?  ❞
  • ❝   you’re mine.  and i protect what’s mine.  ❞
  • ❝  thank you for always being here for me.  ❞
  • ❝  you see things in me that i didn’t even know where there.  ❞
  • ❝  that’s enough.  let’s go home.  ❞
  • ❝  i’m okay now.  i’m safe.  you don’t have to be angry anymore.  ❞
  • ❝  please stop—  this is scaring me. ❞
  • ❝  you don’t have to do this for me.  ❞
  • ❝   hey stop— stop!  look at me.  they’re dead now.  you can stop.  ❞
  • ❝  i have to make an example outta them so no one else tries to hurt you again.  ❞
  • ❝  killing for you is easy.  it’s right.  it feels natural.  ❞
  • ❝  let me do this for you.  ❞

SCENARIOS

  • [ ONE ]  for sender to take a bullet for receiver. 
  • [ TWO ]  for receiver to take a bullet for sender. 
  • [ THREE ]  for sender to protect receiver and then carry them to safety. 
  • [ FOUR ]  for receiver to protect sender and then carry them to safety. 
  • [ FIVE ]  for sender to witness receiver get hurt which sends them into a violent rage.
  • [ SIX ]  for receiver to witness sender get hurt which sends them into a violent rage. 
  • [ SEVEN ]  for sender to be hurt trying to protect receiver which makes them bloodthirsty for revenge.
  • [ EIGHT ]   for receiver to be hurt trying to protect sender which makes them bloodthirsty for revenge.
  • [ NINE ]  for sender to have violently protected receiver,  so receiver kisses them to calm them down. 
  • [ TEN ]  for receiver to have violently protected sender,  so sender kisses them to calm them down. 
  • [ ELEVEN ]  for sender to carefully approach receiver in the aftermath,  gently touching them to try and bring them back to themselves. 
  • [ TWELVE ]  for receiver to carefully approach sender in the aftermath,  gently touching them to try and bring them back to themselves. 
  • [ THIRTEEN ]  sender was kidnapped,  receiver shows up to save them.  
  • [ FOURTEEN ]  receiver was kidnapped,  sender shows up to save them.  
  • [ FIFTEEN ]  sender executes a third party in front of receiver because that person hurt them. 
  • [ SIXTEEN ]  receiver executes a third party in front of sender because that person hurt them. 
  • [ SEVENTEEN ]  sender thinks they’re alone but receiver comes out of nowhere to rescue them from someone who intends to do harm/making them uncomfortable. 
  • [ EIGHTEEN ]   receiver thinks they’re alone but sender comes out of nowhere to rescue them from someone who intends to do harm/making them uncomfortable. 
  • [ NINETEEN ]  sender has been devastated by something.  receiver holds them until they calm down so they don’t do anything drastic. 
  • [ TWENTY ]  receiver has been devastated by something.  sender holds them until they calm down so they don’t do anything drastic. 
  • [ TWENTY-ONE ]  sender thought receiver died so they set out to get revenge.  receiver shows up in time to stand in front of them before they go too far.  
  • [ TWENTY-TWO ]  receiver thought sender died so they set out to get revenge.  sender shows up in time to stand in front of them before they go too far. 
  • [ TWENTY-THREE ]  sender is in a vengeful rage because of something that happened to receiver.  receiver gently approaches to calm them down saying this isn’t what they want. 
  • [ TWENTY-FOUR ]  receiver is in a vengeful rage because of something that happened to sender.  sender gently approaches to calm them down saying this isn’t what they want. 
  • [ TWENTY-FIVE ]  for sender to have receiver stand by somewhere safe where they can watch sender kill on their behalf. 
  • [ TWENTY-SIX ]  for receiver to have sender stand by somewhere safe where they can watch receiver kill on their behalf. 
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NonPlatonic Forms is an 18+ Horror Romance Visual Novel about a stubborn man who finds himself locked into a desperate game with a dying god. Will the dread deity scoop out Lee's free will, and make the human into a sycophantic member of his eternal audience? Will Lee emerge victorious and slay the god? Or will they, you know...
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synapticforests
realtacuardach

One difference between the Lord of the Rings books and the Peter Jackson films that I find really interesting is what the hobbits find when they return to the Shire.

In the books, they return from the War, only to see that the war has not left their home untouched. Not only has it not left their home unscathed, battle and conflict is still actively ravaging the Shire. They return, weary and battle-scarred, to find a home actively wounded and in need of rescue and healing. All four launch themselves into defending their home and rousting those harming it, and eventually succeed. But their idyllic home has been damaged, and even once healed, is never quite again the Shire they set out to save.

In contrast, in the Jackson films, they return to a Shire shockingly untouched by the horrors of war. The hobbits of the Shire talk, in the Green Dragon in Fellowship of the Ring, about not getting involved with issues "beyond our borders," and it seems those issues have not invaded their sanctuary. After having been bowed to by kings, dwarves, elves, and men alike at the coronation in Gondor, their only acknowledgment upon returning home is a skeptical head shake from an older hobbit.

One of the most poignant scenes to me in Return of the King (and there are a considerable amount) is the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are sitting in the Green Dragon. The pub patrons bustle around them, talking loudly, clapping excitedly, drinking cheerfully, just as they had in the beginning of the story. But the four hobbits sit silently, watching almost curiously at what was once familiar but is now foreign to them. Their home has not changed. But they have.

Which is the deeper hurt? To come to your home to find it irrevocably changed, despite all you did to keep it untouched and the same? Or to return home but no longer feeling at home, because it is only you that is irrevocably changed?

jackironsides

As an Australian, I can't help but wonder if Jackson being a New Zealander affects this. Although he's obviously too young to have done so, New Zealanders and Aussies fought in the two world wars that inform the writing of the Lord of the Rings. And where Britain was bombed during WWII on night raids, Australia and New Zealand were largely untouched.

A British soldier returning home in 1949 would have had a vastly different homecoming to a New Zealander returning home from a war half a world away.

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redphienix
noctumsolis

When I think about American attitudes to parenting there's something that always comes to mind, but I don't know whether it's a real thing. All my life in American films and TV I've heard child characters addressing their dads as "sir" or being told off for not doing so.

Is that really a commonplace thing in American families, or is it just a shorthand way of showing that the character is a shitty dad?

calling dads sir, in the US

It's real and I've seen it first hand

I it's how I was raised

shitty-dad shorthand

it's real outside the US

Vanilla extract

noctumsolis

There's still time to increase the sample size!

xingqiusleftearring
versegm

If you play gacha games it is absolutely vital that you miss an event every once in a while. I'm serious gacha games are designed to continuously keep you engaged by throwing login bonuses and time-limited events and stuff like that constantly, which can quickly turn "this is a fun game i'm enjoying" into "oh god i need to log in or i might miss super important stuff." Missing events and breaking login streaks is a good way to remind youself that yeah it's just a game it's no big deal if you put it down for a few months. Sure you might miss an SSR or two but why would you want an op character in a game you don't even enjoy anymore.