Solid Mantis's definitions

Cymbals

A weapon in the hands of the wrong musician.

She had to disarm the guy/girl, so that he/she wouldn't try to crush her head with the cymbals, making it about an inch thick, with eyeballs popping out.

by Solid Mantis February 7, 2021

Map

The point of a map is not to tell somebody how to navigate, it's to be a reference they don't need to rely on always, even if it's a reliable reference.

The map was good for what it was, but it wasn't something anybody must have.

by Solid Mantis November 18, 2020

Poser

Someone who is not who they say they are.

She would pose as a gangster, a badass tough little son of a bitch from the streets of Chicago, or a tough/scary little 4'11 broad from New York, but in reality the girl was nothing like the characters she was posing as (though she saw them in herself), she was a poser from outside Harrisburg who wanted to be these other folks, since her life was more painful than anybody else's to her.

by Solid Mantis February 10, 2021

Natural

Real.

The bubbly girl wasn't natural. She tried too hard to be something she wasn't, an extrovert (from england or some other country/town she wasn't really from).

by Solid Mantis December 17, 2020

Underconfidence

Thinking that you're not likely to take the lead if you get behind, or that you're not likely to stay in the lead if an opposing team gets close enough to take one is underconfidence, not overconfidence. The work is never done, it's always work in progress. There's always going to be something that needs repair at some point.

Underconfidence is when no matter if you had a lead or not, you always really thought the other team was more likely to win, and you kept yourself from winning based on that mentality.

by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020

Newcomer image

Yet another image for somebody trying desperately to win at everything in life to try.

The same poser would try both the established image and the newcomer image, in case one of them failed.

by Solid Mantis March 4, 2021

Guidelines

Invisible strings and chains.

A group of people was trying to find out how much further they could go, how much more people would allow, how much longer it would take them to realize the crisis wasn't going to end without them fighting the folks behind the guidelines and restrictions.

by Solid Mantis December 1, 2020