#baby don’t hurt me

[bluesngolds]

baby don’t hurt me

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

baby don’t hurt me?

[what-is-merlin-so-gay-for]

something something about ashaf wanting to teach guideau about love and guideau wanting ashaf to teach her about love ahhhhh

[zzyzxtourguide]

Fem edition

[maitaiwiththecorpses]

To everyone who has ever responded “baby don’t hurt me” when my dumb adhd ass glitched tf out and said “what is love” I want you to know two things

1. Thank you

2. I meant. Literally. Like. What is love?

3. Don’t hurt me, no more

[green-tea217]

Leo had a rock collection as a kid send post

[philippeauguste]

I wonder if Aziraphale knew that Crowley is in love with him. Sometimes it looks like he does (I didn’t think you were his style *eyebrow/smitten).

But is it an unconscious inkling, buried under denial?

Or does he know and can’t bring himself to do anything about it because he still believes it’s forbidden by Heaven and that he must follow those rules because loving a demon would be wrong?

Or does he believe that a demon couldn’t love or that Crowley couldn’t possibly romantically love HIM?

The better question is, which of those options provide the most angst? 😭💔

[antvnger]

🎶WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DONT HURT ME, DONT HURT ME, NO MORE…🎶

OOH! What a good song!

🎵No, I don’t know why you’re not fair. I give you my love, but you don’t care. So what is right and what is wrong? Gimme a sign…🎵

[jerushat75]

[coilerayfandom]

🚨As of November 7, 2023 | Coi Leray’s "Baby Don’t Hurt Me" w/ David Guetta Anne Marie has now surpassed 300 Million streams on Spotify since it's release !!!

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[superbeans89]

[spacefinch]

PJO episode 5 spoilers:

[itgetsbetterproject]

📚 QUEERBOOK 2024 is hereee! We made a book by and for LGBTQ+ youth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Last year, we asked LGBTQ+ youth: what's your idea of a "queer utopia?"

Not gonna lie - with more than 150 bills introduced in 35 states in 2023 that aimed to restrict student access to inclusive and diverse books and other library materials, the theme felt pretty radical.

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It's also no accident that it's the perfect small-ish size to stash in your locker or backpack so you can crack it open any time you're looking for some queer connection. :3

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[infinity-squared-comics]

Dating Sims, ASMR, and parasociality.

An essay by me

Being loved is really nice. It’s a great feeling. It’s also a feeling that may be less accessible to some. So, there exists media meant to bring that feeling to those who can’t find it on there own. There are things such as dating sims, in which you can experience dating from a place of relative safety. There also exists ASMR content in which a voice actor will act out a script from the perspective of a fictional friend, lover or even family member. These types of media exist, typically, to fill a void in an individual’s life (as all fiction tends to do in some way), in this case specifically allowing a vicarious experience of relationships and affection that may be denied to some people.

But. Are they healthy?

I honestly don’t know.

Is it safe to get this type of fulfillment from fictional characters? That’s a question I can’t answer.

A smaller question is whether this type of story can replace real relationships. While I don’t have many real relationships to speak of, and absolutely none of the romantic variety, I can say with confidence that they can not. A real person is simply too complex and multifaceted for any character to perfectly replicate, and most damningly, most of these stories disallow or limit the ability to speak back. You can only talk to your video game lover in a set of predetermined dialogue prompts, and there’s absolutely no way to communicate with the character on the other side of that audio. In short, there is no way to have a true relationship with a fictional character.

But there is also a darker, perhaps more dangerous form of parasociality that ASMR role plays especially can sadly encourage. It has been observed that, in many cases, someone can develop feelings for the voice actor behind the character in their ASMR. This is always a risk for actors, that certain fans will confuse them in some level for the character they play and as such develop a one sided connection to them. This is especially dangerous when you play a character that speaks directly to the audience, and gives love and affirmation they’re desperate for. Listeners are liable to develop feelings for this character and may, unfortunately, project these feelings onto the voice actor. This is bad.

However, many such voice actors, along with content creators as a whole, on some level encourage parasociality, by hearting or replying to comments or by giving there fans cute nicknames. Because, in truth, there is a relationship between creator and audience. It is simply one that is unbalanced. You will pretty much always know your favorite content creator better than they know you, and even if they interact with you they aren’t ever likely to really know you. It’s simply an imbalance, a lot of these people have lots of viewers, lots of commenters, more people interacting with them than they have the time and energy to form any meaningful connection to. Even a creator as small time as myself can have upwards of a few thousand people who know of them, people who I, as a single individual, could never really come to know. (I still count as a small creator because despite the one post that got tens of thousands of notes I still average around 1 or 2 notes per post).

But I’m getting far off topic. Getting ways from my rambles and back to the question at hand, is it healthy to love fictional characters? Even if they return a simulated form of that love, in truth they can never love you as you love them, because they simply don’t exist. No matter how well put together Monika’s After Story is, I do not actually have a girlfriend living in my computer. These characters aren’t alive, they aren’t real. And I think it’s ok to love them anyways. To love and be loved is a truly wonderful experience, in whatever form it comes in, and even if the love you receive isn’t genuine, the love you feel still is. And to love, even a love that is unrequited, is still, when approached and indulged in safely, a wonderful thing.

So. Um. In conclusion: there’s nothing wrong with having real feelings for fictional characters as long as you engage in and express those feelings in a healthy way.

[usless-bmo]

I love the little gay people in my phone

[maitaiwiththecorpses]

To the person on here (you know who you are) who made the what is love (baby don’t hurt me) reference irl and then proceeded to act like 1) I’m crazy when I looked at you suspiciously 2) like it never happened I just hope you know that you’re v baby girl but also that was infuriating in a way that probably should have been in a sitcom