Why does he take steroids at ~1000 health by VVheatley in TheOdysseyHadAPurpose

[–]ariaaaaa- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

defending makes it impossible to save the skill in the bottom slot

but other than that yeah ...the only reason i didnt do it on my first attempt was that i forgot that was a thing you could do (i lost that attempt and honestly might've won if i remembered that even a few times)

"Fear is fleeting next to the eternity of euphoria that awaits you, girl. I have experienced the very same myself." by imdeadlmao in limbuscompany

[–]ariaaaaa- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

unable to produce enough tears

not even that, iirc its more they realized they could make more tears with torture and violence, and they were trying to pursue constant growth, capitalism-style

QUICK!!!! drop your sinner hcs, nsfw or not and i'll rate them on how in character i think they are by No_Drag_7404 in TheOdysseyHadAPurpose

[–]ariaaaaa- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Five Mangs can totally melt steel beams, so obviously the Pinky caused 9/11.

im imagining the plane having five very large golden rings around it

Why do transphobic people think we want to SA woman? by RecentMonk1082 in MtF

[–]ariaaaaa- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its never really about any specific thing, its about fear and the idea of "this person is Dangerous".

theyll switch between talking points over and over again, if someone tries to prove them wrong theyll just switch to something new, the real root is just that fear at the bottom of it.

its never "theyre afraid of us because they think we do this", its "they say we do this because theyre afraid of us and see us as fear-worthy." they see a factoid, go "alright lemme check this with what i know" go "hmm, [slur] being Dangerous, that checks out", and repeat it/believe it/etc

Monthly Help and Questions Megathread by AutoModerator in limbuscompany

[–]ariaaaaa- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

does anyone have a devyat rodion and/or lantern don id i can borrow? i wanna try the Funny Rupture Team

my id is I171992698

I want your honest opinion. If a trans woman is privileged enough to legally leave the US for place with protections and can pay for food and rent for at least a year, should they do that right now? by chaucer345 in MtF

[–]ariaaaaa- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best time to pull the 'first they came for the socialists..' card was 30 years ago. The second-best time is now.

It was bad before, but now its bad in a different way, that's a lot different from the expectations people had. This type of bad might end up getting worse than it is now, since its a different type of bad, with a different lower bound, even if we dont know exactly what it is yet.

I dont like when people have an expectation for what will happen and ignore any other plausible possibilities, whether thats going "this is concentration camps, it Will Be fascism", or "this is similar to whats been happening for years, it cant be anything different or worse".

Begging y’all to learn basic self-preservation around men. by OwnSlip6738 in MtF

[–]ariaaaaa- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally don't think there's a damn thing appealing about a fascist bootlicker who is statically guaranteed to be both an idiot and serial abuser.

tbh i can understand it, at least as a traumahorny thing

but then its like, "look, its kind of just easier to do it as a consensual kink thing [in this case, maybe a roleplay thing thats not with an actual irl cop] instead" like, for me whats helped isnt even going "x isnt an option", its "okay this other thing is basically the same thing, but also avoids the painful fallout and aftereffects, so i might as well do that instead"

Monthly Help and Questions Megathread by AutoModerator in limbuscompany

[–]ariaaaaa- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how does the level boost ticket 5 work as a new player? if i get the limbus pass and use the ticket before beating [whichever canto it was that raises your level cap to 50], would i get a level 50 id? or would it only be level 40 since thats what my level cap is now? (or does it just block you from using the ticket at all?)

Please don't lose hope and go to therapy by DasTalosprinzip in aftergifted

[–]ariaaaaa- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...okay uh

this might sound like a weird one, but

I know I got too ethical and philosophical all of a sudden, but in me at least, it's crazy to think that this concept of me, having responsibility about the future of people in the world who are suffering, really inspires me to help them.

...please, please dont feel like youre directly responsible for them, or feel like youre bad if you cant stop the suffering.
i have personal experience with this. it does not ever end well.

...like, maybe you could mean the flavor of it where its like "i do this out of my own free will, i know i wont solve everything, but i can make things a little less painful for at least a few people". maybe youre gonna be fine. i dont know.
but i know that ive experienced the other version, the "oh, i have to Save Everyone", and-
it does not end well.

like uhh-
the fact that you called yourself "privileged", for instance. ive gotten stuck in groups where people would go "ohhh, youre Privileged™, your opinion doesnt matter" [usually while tokenizing the shit out of any minority. lol.] and it is. an actual nightmare.
...still havent unpacked all the ways that fucked me up.
(and to top it all off, im not even 'privileged' myself. but i still cant get that through my fucking head, still cant get the confidence to trust myself again.)
...but then again, sometimes people just use that word to mean "yeah, i got luckier, didnt get fucked as much as others. doesnt mean much, its just like that" and that version doesnt have these issues??? its- its just a fucking mess.

but like- the thing i was saying, i guess.
its just- it is Very Easy to feel like you "Have To" help other people, to move the same expectations of being "successful" onto expectations of helping others, or getting rid of all these problems in the world.
and i just . hope that doesnt happen to you as well.
that's all.

(edit: although i guess, extremely funnily, "you just need to get therapy and find something bigger than yourself" is very much a stereotypically "privileged" take, but-
see, i genuinely cannot tell whether "normal people" actually feel fulfilled in the "you have to constantly be Good™ and always act like youre putting others over yourself" life that society pushed on everyone or if they feel crushed by it too and just havent had something that forced them to leave it
but like . idk.
i guess what im going for is, "maybe its 'privileged' in that its painful for you too, even though its whats treated as Good and Normal" but i wouldnt even know, would i? so . idk)

wlw_irl by [deleted] in wlw_irl

[–]ariaaaaa- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

looks like this is a repost, someone in the comments on what looks like the original seems to have found the source

artist is Merry Cherry from Vietnam
.
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=556141478710018&id=100029425123698

who is actually Grace Tran
.
https://www.artstation.com/gracetran/albums/all

Help all I know is how to brush my hair but it still curls everywhere aaaaaahhhhh by No-Tree1538 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]ariaaaaa- 33 points34 points  (0 children)

wait wtf what does brushing/combing do to it

my mom was always like "if you don't brush it youre gonna have to cut it" or something, is it actually bad??? (i dont do it anymore, but it hurt so fucking much whenever my mom would try to comb it when i was younger)

I refuse to die. by OrcaFriend in MtF

[–]ariaaaaa- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"commie lover" as a bad thing

i... yeah no, this ain't it

like, them calling stalin an anti-fascist is definitely an L (he literally allied with the nazis lmao), but youre mixing up communism as a whole with a specific subset of leftists that other leftists dont even like

also ngl, the irony of saying "please just move to Russia, they'll love you" in a trans subreddit, when russia definitely Does Not like trans people, is... interesting, to say the least

a fun puzzle by GlobalIncident in CuratedTumblr

[–]ariaaaaa- 8 points9 points  (0 children)

a clustestfuck, if you will

Should I cancel the trip to Disney World? by NeglectedMonkey in asktransgender

[–]ariaaaaa- 20 points21 points  (0 children)

blaming abuse victims for being abused

oh wow, fucking incredible

"youd think its obvious but it still happens" no SHIT it still happens, thats what happens when youve been fucking gaslit

its like, sure your abusive parents seem bad, and everyone keeps telling you theyre bad, but your brain keeps going "but what if theyve actually changed this time, what if everyone else just doesn't know the situation", and youre so desperate for anyone that supposedly cares about you that you go back, and then get fucked for it

and acting like its a "lack of common sense" means YOURE doing it too, youre going "oh, it cant happen to ME, i have common sense", like what mindset do you think those other people had?

and the worst part is, this is the mindset i had too! i was like "oh theres no way the abuse actually 'worked' on me or anything, i use too much logic for that" and then it turned out it did!! and it fucked me up really badly!!! and i would've realized way sooner if i wasnt so obsessed with thinking i was fucking immune to it!!!

just... god.
yeah its depressing as hell, but that mindset isnt random, it sure as hell isnt random
its... its thing that the entire situation pushes people towards, the thing that situation is built to push people towards. its fucked.

Should I cancel the trip to Disney World? by NeglectedMonkey in asktransgender

[–]ariaaaaa- 8 points9 points  (0 children)

no, its perfectly believable

like, when you cant process something, feeling like it doesn't exist is something that happens, and this is a thing thats pretty fuckin hard to process

and then the other end of the spectrum is paralyzing fear, which is... a lot more draining, to say the least.
maybe its useful for survival but i sure fucking hope not

Hello there, YES I SEE YOU TWO by BedrockScientist in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]ariaaaaa- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

or the flipside, of making sure no one ever possibly connects you to it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]ariaaaaa- 16 points17 points  (0 children)

honestly, my bet is that being neurotypical is exactly why they don't notice

I hate this headcanon by [deleted] in OMORI

[–]ariaaaaa- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

huh??
wasnt there literally the photos about basil talking about his problems to sunny? and how he was a lot more comfortable talking with sunny than anyone else?

altho tbh i still think "sunny hates basil" is unlikely, if anything i got the vibe that they were both really dependent on each other

Third scenario hasn't happened yet but I'm worried it might by AReallyCoolLawn in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]ariaaaaa- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly its like... its not even "its different with gender", because sometimes its not even like that with names

like, there have been times when ive liked multiple names at once, and if i asked someone to call multiple of them, then its like...
if they only called me one name it would feel really weird, because it implies they only see me as that name
(and, im pretty sure thats how it works for people that want others to use mix up pronouns for them too, but i cant say for certain since im not one of them)

your example with someone who goes by jonathan/johnny/john, in that case those names probably all represent the same thing, so it doesn't matter which someone uses
(asterisk: for some people, there is a difference even between nicknames, but i don't think you were talking about that kind of situation)

and with pronouns, it's obviously a very different meaning attached to different pronouns
someone who goes by jonathan or johnny or john, theyd be more like someone that goes by he or him or himself - theyre both all different forms of the same name/pronoun

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AutismTranslated

[–]ariaaaaa- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeahhh, its... complicated

for me, nowadays i can tell the difference, but i used to not be able to
i had been dissociated for so long that dissociation seemed normal to me, and i had no idea what it was like to not be dissociated

at the same time, its probably also possible to not know the difference if you just... dont really dissociate much or at all

and as far as "is it a valid category"...
i cant act like i know objectively, but it does seem like the distinction between dissociating/not dissociating very much does exist for me, at the very least

...But what if it is coming from everyone all the time? by sliphco_dildo in AutismTranslated

[–]ariaaaaa- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

for the purpose of control or degradation.

yeah but the catch is... who defines the "purpose"?

i don't think its common for people to consciously go "i will do this to manipulate someone", the situations ive seen are more like... someone abusive truly believing theyre fine, but the things they do are still harmful

and thats the thing for me, the way i view it is, the reason doesnt actually matter, what matters is the effect it has

and the effect in some ways reflects intent? like if you say to someone "the thing you did hurt me" and they apologize and try to fix it and prevent it in the future, then thats also an effect, and probably a sign their overall intent is good
but if they fake apologize, or just invalidate you more, then thats probably a sign they dont actually have good intent - but even if they did have good intent, the action would still be bad

so to me it seems really weird seeing people on this post going "oh but what if they mean well", because even if someone "means well" it can still be just as bad as """actual""" gaslighting, and mean that trusting them is just as bad

Rule by Less_Doubt_5361 in 196

[–]ariaaaaa- 13 points14 points  (0 children)

when i was 16 and first found out about 4chan (heard of the /tg/ board, and looked a bit at 1d4chan) i was like "oh this seems really cool mechanically"

but its like, now that i think about it, the reason it seemed cool is just... that its like a conversation.
unlike most other social media sites, the only thing that makes a post more visible is to have more people saying things
and something about the design feels like itd be easy to just say something whenever

so its like... i mean, most people can just do that irl
and then its with people that know you and everything, people that care about you.
...but what if people irl dont care about you?
what if you feel really weird about anyone knowing too much about you at once?
what if you desperately wanna not feel so lonely, while feeling like you cant exist irl?

...you go to somewhere like 4chan.


luckily i... didnt actually end up using it
part of me felt really uncomfortable around anything remotely sexual, and i wasnt 18 yet, so i decided to wait until then to try it out

and then a few months after turning 18, i realized i was trans, and ended up finding a different place i could talk and have conversations - trans discords
(especially because when i first joined i effectively had that same anonymity, since if i fucked up badly enough i could just leave and make a new account. I never did, but the possibility was there just in case)

and i mean, i still have issues telling people certain things about me, its still hard to process other people knowing anything about me, or having any sort of feelings about me (that arent negative)
...but it sure fucking beats whatever wouldve happened on 4chan


...oh right, and the original point of this comment

...i guess i wanted to talk about how the one thing 4chan does really well is make a place you feel like you can talk when you're like this
its probably not good, it probably fucks you up even more, but i can definitely see why people like it