#And please you seem so stressed-

[factual-fantasy]

Not really a question, but I just wanted you to know that your artwork, no matter the fandom, has quite literally carried me through some of the WORST times of my life. Two years ago, I was unemployed, living out of a garage with my best friend and so stressed out I was literally having heart palpitations. Your Gravity Falls comics were lovely and cathartic and just the right vibe to help my brain calm down. Last month, my dad passed away after 18 months of struggling. Your current FNAF comics have been a touchstone I keep coming back to, letting the hugs and tears of the animatronics take the edge off the world. You are an absolute treasure of a human being and I will never not admire you and your big heart for sharing as much as you do. Thank you.

This.. this comment threw me off so hard I had to take a few days to find the words to respond to it. Now I uhm, I’m not always the best with my words but..

I’m sorry life has been so hard for you. Being unemployed, living out of a garage, the whole thing with your Dad.. I’m truly sorry.

But through all this, I’m glad I was able to help you, albeit unintentionally..

Man, this just hits me in my heart. I started posting art here as some rando just wanting to share my work and look cool. And now here I sit, reading you pour this out to me. I really helped you through some dark times, and I didn’t even know it. I was just having fun..

It truly warms my heart to know that my work was more than just some drawings to you, that it made you feel better when things were rough. It just makes me want to draw more and more, faster and faster, so that I can make more people feel better.

I’m going to keep drawing. As much as I can, and I’m going to keep sharing it. For people like you who see a lot more value in it than just some simple drawings.

Thank you for sharing this with me. And if anything, I hope my art keeps making you feel better. ♥

[bogkeep]

the way the most recent pokemon games don't let you turn off the exp share or the affection mechanic bonuses is nothing short of maddening. i think they make great accessibility features If Only They Were Optional and the flavour text is cute, but i want to have a fun casual playthrough that's at least mildly challenging without having to make it a nuzlocke or something. i don't want to feed my starter bitter medicines to make her hate me :(

[hella1975]

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[taeyungie]

hi ♡ i guess i'm back? 🥹

here's a little life update! i think you guys deserve it after my absence that lasted longer than even i expected it to last ;( i am very sorry about that. i miss everyone here and bangtan so much, you have no idea. the reason for all that is that for the past months i have been going through a lot of things and changes in my life. there were good and bad things happening, time flies extra fast, days melt into one and i didn't even notice the past half a year pass. although i think my absence was unavoidable in these circumstances i just thought that you guys deserve to know what's been up with me for the past months haha i have received a lot messages and reminders that people remember about me and that they miss me and i just want to send all of you my biggest apologies for leaving you for so long with no response, as well as all my love and gratitude! 🥺 i think i've been always fairly transparent on here so if anyone wanted to know more I'll leave some more details in the tags but basically I just hope that soon i will be able to become more active again and respond to messages ❤️❤️❤️ i hope everyone is doing great 🥰

[brown-little-robin]

get loved, nerd

hello.

commentary in the tags. it is slightly negative, so please feel free to simply scroll on if that's not for you!

[astriiformes]

Me, gritting my teeth as I do my best to ignore the fact that I have been battling my own brain particularly intensely (a mental health crisis that is ongoing, due to life circumstances that cannot be changed) and the many other responsibilities that have been stressing me out as of late so I can instead throw myself into the middle of a complex, inflammatory conflict between two groups I care about that is threatening to have a horrific amount of emotional collateral in part due to the fact that no one else has been willing to step up as a mediator: Wow, just like in Pentiment

[bunyies]

As someone who’s interacted with ghost, I find all the things they’ve done just.. shocking. /neg

I am so sorry for lolita and what che went through, I wish cher all the best. /gen

thank you!! lolita has been quite stressed lately because of ghost. . we (accidentally) stumbled upon a few of their accounts & eugh. . they were yucky (◞‸◟；) che is very grateful that you actually respected cher prns & names (people keep ignoring lolita asking people to not call cher angel & not using she/he/they on cher) !!! you seem very very sweet <3

[prettypangolins]

just got a scam dm that said:

Yo hi there! I’m very sorry to bother you at this time but I’m hoping if you’d be so kind to check the post that I pinned on my blog and maybe give it a little help by boosting/sharing it? it’s for my cat who struggles to breathe :((( and we need help to get him the tests that he needs. Thank you if you do as it would really mean the world to me and I understand if you don’t, still appreciate you and stay safe! Btw, please do send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately instead as I dont want other blogs to think im a spambot or what, sorry for asking this, praying you’d consider! 🥲🙏

however the blog has only been reblogging and posting for 14 hours i'm just like... go away????

i saw a post about scams like this a little while ago, so i'm wise to it but it feels HORRIBLE bc kitty. but it's usually a scam. if you get one of these, report and block. you're not a bad person for not engaging - even if it's legit, you don't have to reblog/boost/donate just because you feel bad or guilty. but also, if you're getting a dm request like the above it's very very very likely someone trying to make money by pretending to be a legit person asking for help in a way that seems genuine but isn't. i've never seen this person in my notes. idk who they are. the wording of the pinned post is designed to evoke that 'omfg i want to help!' sad response by telling you how bad things are, etc. and get you to act without thinking

but details with this one are off. i mean, the pinned post says 'next payday is on june 10th' but today is the 12th of june now and 14 hours ago in was the 11th. prior to the 'please help!' post, 9 posts were reblogged in the space of 2 minutes (not too unrealistic for tumblr), then there's the help request, followed immediately by 14 posts all with exactly the same timestamp, which... you're either reblogging desperately without looking at what you're posting from the 'for you' or 'explore' page, or that's a queue, set to dump those 15 posts at that specific time to make the blog look legit at a glance (most likely what happened). the posts after that are at more random (last post was 5 hours ago, the dm was 4 hours ago)

so yeah i feel kinda guilty, but there are people out there who rely on this to manipulate others and take advantage of our desire to help so that they can line their pockets

(also if you feel guilted into reblogging to 'signal boost' a post asking for money, it's going to be seen by followers who reblog for the same reason and maybe even give money to a total stranger who told us something bad happened and has then let our desire to help and guilt over not acting do the rest. it's okay to break the chain. we can't care about absolutely everything or help absolutely everyone, and we just burn ourselves out if we try to)

[echoesofadream]

Stress

[justthatspiffy]

there's such a jarring difference in watching dating reality tv when you're single vs in a healthy relationship

when i was single i watched it almost as an exposure therapy to people being vulnerable and performing romantic gestures, and while i had many moments of "no! that is not how we communicate with our partners!" and awareness of the hilariously compressed timelines of these shows, i was not overwhelmed in cringe

now, while i don't have any more romantic experience than the people in these shows (tho i may have plenty more communicating-in-healthy-ways experience), the romantic performance is thrillingly novel, the vulnerability is alarmingly rushed, and it's overall not as interesting to watch

[mansplainmanipulatemalewife]

Me and my mutuals are the only people who understand him

[nerdie-faerie]

I'm such a middle aged mum for someone childless in their twenties. I said 'lovely manners' to two kids on reflex while working till today, why am I someone's grandmother?

[pepprs]

not to keep workposting but. every single day I come to work and i get rained on and i don’t have an umbrella. every single day i come to work and return home with arrows sticking out of me like in minecraft.

[snarltoothed]

if i was rich there IS a “cosmetic” procedure i’d get done for my own comfort. i’d botox my fucking sweat glands. granted because my sweat response is broken and im always uncomfortable and would easily succumb to hypothetmia because i dont stop sweating in the cold

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Figuring out who my second favourite V3 character should be is just like. I can fix Kaito but I can make Rantaro SO much worse

[hailsatanacab]

AH!!!!

cute smallholder woman that called me a good girl and awoke something inside of me has given me her number so she can teach me how to drive and how to bind books ahhhh!!!!