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Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; "Platonov,"

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Tips for Bonding with Your Imaginary Friend Part 2

Part 1

Give them their own name and call for them when you need them

Make a scrapbook together to remember them by.

Talk often and interact frequently

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Unusual letter from mom

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Murmur, Cameron Barnett

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I DID make one btw, it's @kibbycore. Come say hi <3

Torn about making an agere blog. Like the joys of having a blog dedicated to agere vs basic internet safety of not being perceived online when im baby

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"Why are you sitting off to the side of your bed like that?" I have to leave room for my imaginary friend?? 😤

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Seriously this close to making a thoughtform of one of my followers from cult of the lamb. I miss my wife guys

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Mutuals every time we’re all online this is what we’re doing

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Can you believe some people don't have daemons. They're just out there rawdogging consciousness.

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Lo came with us to a restaurant dinner with some family friends. It was nice having someone to talk to.

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Would it be evil of me to put my ghostkin stuff on this blog?

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GOKU COMIC #360 - your frembly neighborhood goku

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I love it when stuffed animals on plushblr have collars in their candid photos. Like yes, that's a claimed friend. That belongs to someone. If you find him alone, please return him, as he is lost : (

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So usually when an imaginary friend is a real thing in a story, it’s either a demon or a ghost or some supernatural boogeyman that probably wants to eat the kid they’ve befriended (Mama, a couple of the Paranormal Activity movies), or “imaginary friends” are just treated as a real thing in the setting, and if a child just thinks hard enough they can manifest a friend into existence (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Happy).

And somewhere in the middle is an area where the imaginary friend in question is real and they are supernatural, but they aren’t malevolent, and they aren’t entirely honest about what they are. Like maybe they’re a fairy or a god or some kind of boggle from mythology, but they just got caught by a six year old and they don’t have time to get into it, so they just go “…Yes. I’m your imaginary friend. We haven’t met. How do you do.” And then they stick around because they do love this kid, and if you’re a boggle from mythology in the modern day good food is really hard to come by.

And at some level. That’s what I think Hobbes is.

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Me at age 8: I might not have any friends, but I can make imaginary friends with rich social lives to fill that hole. I bet when I’m older I’ll grow out of this. 

Me at age 20: I need to make another OC to try and simulate human connection or else I’m gonna lose my mind.

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Torn about making an agere blog. Like the joys of having a blog dedicated to agere vs basic internet safety of not being perceived online when im baby