Post #117481 · Elektrine

People have inferiority complex when they're young so they feel they need to brag with how "badass" they are. When you're older you understand that true wisdom is in the little things, in the things that don't look like much but make up a healthy society.

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@Katana314@lemmy.world 2026-01-09 13:50

I have a particular term for certain kinds of edginess I just call “Shadow the Hedgehog writing”, where it’s more likely to come from a teenager trying to seem grown up/cool than an actual adult. Plenty of anime/VNs have fallen in this category, giving early content warnings that the content will be dark; and then just having non sequitor turnouts like “And then the heroine stepped in a trap that severed her spine. She screamed for hours, praying for help, but none came.” There’s a particular game whose name rhymes with “Tomato” that did this for me once. You bring some children to safety, and then go fight the attackers sending *tanks* after them. I came back to the kids, joking to myself “Sorry, hero, it’s too late; we already drowned in our own fear and sadness…!” And then I laughed out loud when my joke turned out right. Worst part is, there *is* some grim and depressing stuff in the world, and yet so many grimdark writers don’t see any nuance in it.

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@zxqwas@lemmy.world 2026-01-08 00:24

I've used the same pfp which is a photo of myself with a funny mask since 2007.

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@diemartin@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-08 06:41

The first pfp I used was a cropped FF Advent Children walkpaper of Cloud with sunglasses. I still use Panty from *Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt* in some places. In other places I have an anime style OC character from a game I was developing (for which I lost the code to a hard drive crash). Some places have my photo (which I regret). Now I use a photo of my cats. I don't think I have a pfp on Lemmy

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@KernelTale@programming.dev 2026-01-07 22:08

I wanted a pfp of what I wanted to be and now it is what I am. I wanted to be read as cool but now I have Many from Honzuki no Gekokuji, because I love literature and I see myself as a small girlie.

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