Useful Hand Reference!

 I voted already, but I thought sharing might help out a bit more. I hope the Petition goes well, because Persona movies deserve to be at the theatre. The animation and storytelling is quite amazing, it really deserves to reach a greater audience.

IMPORTANT!

You’ve seen it, we have to continue showing how much we want these movies in america for all persona lovers, especially of 3!

SHARE THIS TO ANY PERSONA LOVERS AND TELL THEM TO JOIN IN AND THAT THEY CAN DO IT AGAIN THE NEXT DAY!

PLEASE REBLOG AND SIGN THE PETITION HERE: P3 MOVIE PETITION

WHEN YOU REBLOG PLEASE TAG PERSONA 3, CHARACTERS, PERSONA 4 TOO! TAG AS MANY THINGS RELATED TO PERSONA AS YOU CAN PLEASE, THIS COULD BE A HUGE THING FOR THE FRANCHISE! 

BUT WE HAVE TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT TOWARDS THIS, SO PLEASE HELP US OUT!

Ok.... Haven’t seen this before.... Hm.... Wait, why is Tristan blurred out?

This is fascinating and good to learn. Thanks for this. Reblogging so I remember.

It's just annoying that people don't realize how much of the way Caleb acts is PTSD. It's like you said, it's not just flashback and outbursts. It's everything. Sensory problems, cognition problems, communications problems. It totally wrecks your brain on every level.

PTSD can effect the brain in so many ways. At its most severe it really can have an enormous impact on nearly every aspect of your life.

It can have a huge impact on people’s cognitive abilities, particularly their memory and attention. This is especially true when it comes to situations that are more emotional, especially if those emotions attached are negative, it the situation is stressful, etc. They will have a harder time paying attention to what’s happening around them and their brain will struggle to properly process the memory, which means the memory of the event will be less than reliable. It also impacts the way the brain processes and reacts to the memory of the trauma. When they have a memory of the trauma, they’re unable to pull themselves out of it. Sometimes they can’t remember parts of the traumatic event, and it’s incredibly common for people with PTSD to, even if they remember it, be unable to talk about a part of the trauma, or even the entire trauma. Their brain is unable to process the memory in a way that allows them to put it into words. This is even true of people who have experienced trauma but don’t suffer from PTSD. 

Attention and memory also impact just day to day life, because in general a brain effected by PTSD has a harder time processing information it takes in. There are also significant sensory issues.  People with PTSD and other trauma disorders experience a great deal of difficulty when it comes to sensory filtering, basically filtering out irrelevant stimuli. (This may also be true of people who have suffered trauma but do not have PTSD as well, but a definitive link has not yet been shown.) Basically, the trauma causes a person to be in a state of hyper alertness, wanting to be aware of everything that’s happening around them so they can catch something bad before it happens, so it takes in everything, every sensory stimuli around them, and it stops filtering out the things that don’t matter. 

PTSD can also cause a difficulty in processing the stimuli that is taken in. The combination of not being able to filter stimuli and not properly processing the stimuli that comes in, or even either one on their own, causes a great deal of confusion and frustration. Issues with processing stimuli can make a person incredibly sensitive to relatively minor stimuli. Processing and filtering issues can also have a physical effect, making someone dizzy, nauseous, give them headaches, make their body ache, etc. They can cause significant anxiety and raise their heart rate. People with sensory issues often just shut down when over stimulated, an attempt to basically just shut out ALL stimuli.

I’ve already talked at length about all the ways communication is impaired by PTSD, and Caleb demonstrates a lot of those problems. 

These effects can be far more profound if they happen during or before the parts of the brain that control such things are developed. Since Caleb was still quite young when everything happened, his brain was likely still developing, so the trauma would likely have a major impact on how the neural connections that are formed in those area. Impulse control, emotional regulation, problem solving skills, understanding consequences, judgment, planning, sequencing and organization, reaction to stimuli, and even more are all things that could have been seriously effected by Caleb’s trauma during neural development. 

So much of Caleb’s disposition, his behavior, and his actions check these boxes for trauma disorders. There are things he’s done that demonstrate possible sensory issues, he’s demonstrated communication issues, his story about what happened to him could demonstrate the kind of memory problems that can come with trauma disorders. And he’s certainly demonstrated symptoms that I’ve discussed elsewhere, like his attempts to control situations and his difficulty trusting people. He’s also had at least one flashback, which is probably the best known symptom of PTSD.

This fan game looks amazing! Can’t wait to play it. :)

PERSONA 4: YOUR AFFECTION - A Persona 4 Visual Novel/Fangame

Summary: With February drawing to a close and the case long behind them, the Investigation Team finds themselves with a new mystery on their hands. Stripped of their powers, they’re confronted not only with the innermost darkness of their own hearts… but with each other.  Genre: Romance/Visual Novel Rating: T - content warnings include homophobia (both internalized and externalized), sexism, parental neglect, alcohol (including underage drinking), non-explicit sexual themes, canon-typical swearing (including gendered slurs), and canon-typical violence.

Length: ~5-6 hours (about 1-2 hours per route)

Download Link:

Windows: Link 1 Link 2

Mac: Link 1 Link 2

To install: extract files and run .exe. (There’s a known issue with some antiviruses mistakenly flagging Ren’py games, so you may have to whitelist it or wait for our false positive claims to go through.)

A note about saves from the demo: While saves from after the route split will load, using them is not advisable if you’re going for a max-points run. Use the “skip” function instead. 

There is a spoiler-free walkthrough included in the zip files: it not only indicates the right responses to make for each choice in the game, but also has a bit more information on route difficulty and suggested order of play. 

Good luck everyone, and please enjoy the final release of the game! If you have any issues or wish to give us feedback, our askbox is open, and we will also be tracking the tags #p4youraffection and #p4ya!

Which Member of The Mighty Nein are You?

My Result: Jester(91%)

You are Jester! The secret daughter of The Ruby of the Sea, you spent most of your childhood alone in your room. Sometimes your friend, The Traveler, played with you, and taught you many tricks. After a prank gone wrong, you were forced to leave home and venture into the world for the first time. By The Traveler's guidance, you spread joy and chaos, but the world is much more complicated than storybooks would say...

Additional Results:

Jester (91%)

Caleb (81%)

Fjord (81%)

Beau (69%)

Nott (60%)

Caduceus (40%)

Molly (38%)

Yasha (38%)

Visit: Which Member of The Mighty Nein are You?

Cool, this was a fun quiz!

This is awesome!

A concept: mermaids in wheelchairs

Ooh, I like this interpretation :)

We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years

I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.

The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.

Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.

So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.

“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.

Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.

Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.

Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.

So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe. 

Persona 5 Theory

The whole slave and emancipation thing makes me think of Shadows. They are kind of enslaved to whatever Big Bad that comes along maybe the main character will be a Shadow that develops an ego, like Teddie did.

So beautiful....

by  Dona Chen

Ooh fun! :)

OTP Quotes Challenge

A belated celebration for reaching 5000+ followers! Here we have a list of random quotes for you to use for your OTP! You can have followers tell you numbers to draw your OTP as, or you can write stories based on your favorites, or both! Take these quotes in any direction you like for your creative use. Have fun!

“Aah! That tickles!”

“whAT IS THAT?!”

“woah what happened while I was gone”

“wait no that’s mine what are you doing”

“No, I’m paying”

“It’s fine, stop worrying about me”

“dON’T TELL ME I CAN’T DO THAT I WILL DO THAT THING ALL I WANT”

“Come over here— oh crap no don’t fall— why does this always happen”

“just tAKE THE JACKET”

“I’m so hungry I could eat a— stop looking at me like that in public”

“Well, that was certainly awkward”

“waIT DON’T RUN AT ME I’LL FALL”

“are… are you awake? Did you fall asleep already”

“great, what did you bring home this time?”

“I don’t know why you don’t like this outfit on you. You look splendid.”

“aaah I can’t stop blushing… No you’re not helping at all”

“I can’t believe they spelled your name wrong again”

“enOUGH! ENOUGH WITH YOUR PUNS”

“I can’t… I can’t believe you actually remembered…”

“Put some clothes on already, jeez! We have company coming!”

“okay, and how much money did you spend on that thing?”

“I wish we could stay here forever”

“who was that? oh… your cousin…”

“You okay? You seem a little off today”

“I’m fine”

“I don’t know, what do you want to do?”

“c-can I hold your hand?..”

“GIVE ME YOUR HAND”

“oh, remember when you used to wear that all the time? Good times.”

“you can’t run so it’ll be faster if I just carry you”

“You don’t need to tell me— I’ve memorized your order by now”

“y-you look… you look very nice.”

“did that person just take a picture of us?”

“c’mon, let’s dance!”

“oh mY GOD ARE THESE YOUR BABY PICTURES???”

“oh, we are not letting you drive when you’re like this”

“you’re a nerd. but my favorite nerd.”

“why do you find those cute I hate those pictures of myself”

“you’re very warm… It’s nice.”

“You know what? I wasn’t even surprised by that. I’m that used to you.”

“Wait, stay right there— I’ve got a song for you”

“oh thank goodness… I didn’t think you’d still be here.”

“You don’t have to do this if you’re scared”

“EVERY TIME I SAY THAT YOU ALWAYS MAKE THE SAME PUN”

“I can’t believe you actually bought that”

“that… that was a lot different than I thought it’d be”

“no stop i’M HURTING FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH”

“let’s pretend I didn’t see you do that”

“You’re too sweet”

“ah, you’re up. how’d you sleep?”