Lioness With Mane @lioness@plush.city

been meaning to ask if anyone who admins an instance that followed my old monsterpit account if they still have my toots in their db

I dunno what I'd have done if it had been an SOS. Probably still stuffed it into the towel drawer eventually. Maybe looked up a morse code table to see if it was saying anything else.

stand in the silence. wait for it to happen again.

It's an electric toothbrush.

A family member has set their electric toothbrush out to charge, in the kitchen, and it's been randomly pulsing itself on and off, vibrating the plastic charging station against the granite countertop.

It pulses again when you touch it. On and off buttons don't work. It keeps going, long buzzes, short bips — morse code? Is it trying to communicate?

It's not SOS, so you stuff it in a drawer.

you ever lay down to sleep

and there's a faint noise

and it happens again

and it's quiet for a while

then starts back up

it's not a house noise. it's not a person noise. there aren't — shouldn't be — any animals in the house, just fish. it's like something heavy scraping, or turning, or clicking into place.

it's too loud and too frequent to ignore

walk quietly in the dark, no need to wake anyone else up. go downstairs. stand very still, very quiet.

LOUD!

from the kitchen…

a lot of "advanced" platformy games (Hollow Knight, iirc?) have a little splash screens saying they were meant to be played with a controller

never understood that, keyboard has always* been more precise for me

I mean, I still can't do left shoryuken on a keyboard, but it's not like I can do it on a stick either

is it just me or is the Switch "pro controller" really bad for the kind of rapid, precise directional shenanigans Celeste wants you to do

a lot of launching diagonally & slamming face first into Danger Crystals because the stick hadn't finished traveling to the 3 o'clock position

I think works of fiction & fantasy provide a lot more guidance for real life than is commonly appreciated

"hopefully you never need to know this, but in case you're feeling down and your reflection breaks out of the mirror to sabotage everything you do because you 'deserve' it, here's what works and here's what *not* to say to your doppelganger…"

Celeste has some serious hero's journey / chapel perilous stuff going on

and seems to be handling mental health stuff really well? not just in a "oh, sensitive representation!" way, but like

specific useful skills and frameworks

the game has you do a grounding/centering/un-panic-attack exercise (which, idk, maybe is common in the era of QTE visual novels but not something I was expecting from a platformer)

got to the nice conversation with Theo after the temple

love the blissful confidence Madeline displays in the other conversation afterwards as she fucks everything up for herself, again.

good night soft friends

my dad has been watching One Piece

DAD: And who's that guy?
ME: that's Usopp. He's a crew member.
DAD: and what's he good for? what does he do?
ME: *sweats*

sometimes I think about how much @NicoleTheLizard loves her cat & smile about it