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Curios

@curiooftheheart / curiooftheheart.tumblr.com

Please call me Curio. He/Him. 6 years and running on this site and y'all aren't getting reprieve from me any time soon. A mixture of personal shit, news, social shit, and fandom. Yes I’m a Fate fan. Yes I hate Fate. Yes we exist ❤️

If it wasn’t for that piano music Kingdom Hearts would be a comedy.

Yoko Shimomura is literally braver than any marine

When Nomura hands her the script for KH4 and she’s gotta figure out how to make Mickey dying in Noctis’ arms look anything but ridiculous with only her piano

ocd is not fucking destigmatized

"intrusive thought" gets thrown around by assholes talking about putting strainers on their heads or stepping on a leaf who in the next sentence will say "if your thoughts are about actually hurting people they should put you in a psych ward". compulsions and rituals get seen as proof you're "crazy". ocd insight CAN be delusional, even. pocd and sexual ocd is especially demonized, though even something as "harmless" (to others. not *us*) as contamination OCD is still mocked, belittled, and seen as a sign something is fundamentally wrong with you. I have seen people twice my age advocate for violence against anyone who thinks the way I've been forced by my mental illness to think since i was 6, maybe 7 years old.

OCD is not destigmatized.

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john karkat is entering kindergarten this fall

john karkat will be graduating first grade this spring

happy eighth birthday john karkat

today in homestuck

A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 19th of July, 2023, is this young man’s birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name!

What will the name of this young man be?

>JOHN KARKAT

TRY AGAIN, SMARTASS

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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

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It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.

There’s something about the game play mechanics of drugs and alcohol in Disco Elysium giving you concrete stats boosts while weakening you in other ways, also impacting other characters’ perceptions of you but that not being enough to always overcome the in game mechanical need for those stat boosts, versus the gifting mechanic of Stardew Valley where I always quickly become friends with Shane and Pam because they’re alcoholics who hang out in a bar and I can easily farm their affection by buying them beer. It encourages different approaches on the player’s part to how the story gamifies of addictive substances.

In Disco Elysium, I do my best to play sober because I find that satisfying narratively for Harry. In Stardew Valley, I like to give Pam a drink before she takes me to the desert so I know for sure she’s driving that bus drunk.

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Haha that's a funny meme caption you posted over someone's art!

...So where's the source?

No?? No??????

Putting a silly impact font caption over art doesn't change the art beyond adding an additional joke. Reposting it without credit is still a crappy thing to do and nobody should ever do it.

It takes less than a minute to include a link to the source, or if the source is a Tumblr post, you can reblog the original with your funny meme caption. But when you put a caption over the image it can fuck with reverse image searchers like Google or Saucenao and make it impossible for them to find the actual source

Respect artists, it really isn't hard in the vast majority of cases. Anyone who says it's "too difficult" to get a source for stuff they want to post is being a lazy asshole.

(Also I hate that this doesn't go without saying w some people so I have to say this, but to anyone who reads this please do not go out of your way to find the person who left these tags and harass them. Just leave them be, okay?)

I fucking hate languages.

The Greeks had this word, right, we have no idea where it came from, it just kinda popped up out of nowhere, and it could mean either apples, cheeks, or boobs. Problem is it looked and sounded *exactly* like another, unrelated word which could mean sheep, goat, or any animal in general really, which must have got confusing if you were a farmer talking about your livestock, but anyway…

Then the Romans, having stolen practically everything else from the Greeks, thought they’d nick this word too, because Latin isn’t confusing enough without throwing in a bunch of loan words. And they adopted it to mean a pumpkin.

Then the English came along and were all like “when in Rome”, and stole it, where it became our word ‘melon’. Which has now come back to mean boobs.

How do you like them apples.

I fucking love languages.

In case anyone doubts the veracity of this:

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Calling boobs ‘melons’ literally transcends culture, time, and language.

official boob post