#but I don't think they're hypocrites

[nyushkawritesstuff]

People be saying "minors dni" and then interact with stuff that was so painfully obviously written by a fourteen year old that came straight from wattpad smh

[karineverse]

Damn, thinking about how things were last year when I just got here, at this hour of the day we would be talking and posting random doodles and now everyone is silent and I'm too scared to talk. And they probably don't know I noticed that and that I miss it and that I actually blame myself for this even if I did nothing at all.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Notice how the "looks don't matter" crowd never say anything about Stansas who compile every moment she's called beautiful and salivate over it, even though a lot of said moments are coming from predators? Notice how they never talk about Arya being bullied for her looks or characters making judgments based on looks as a negative? Notice how they never talk about people in fandom thinking of characters as less important for being ugly? No, they only ever come out when it's time to misinterpret Arya and claim her stans are obsessed with looks for pointing out what's in the books

[softpine]

This might be juvenile, but do you have any tips on not comparing yourself to others? (Especially when it comes to note count or popularity.) I’ve been posting a story for over a year and it hardly gets any traction. It’s tough for me to see new creators post and get hundreds or even thousands of notes. I hate that I’m doing this but don’t know how to quit it!

this is not juvenile!! i struggle with this myself, especially knowing that i hit my peak years ago and i've been on the decline ever since – but only by numbers alone! i'm more proud of my story than i've ever been, i'm more attached to my characters, i'm putting more love and thought into everything, but i had to be realistic with myself and understand that i'll never pull even half the notes i did in 2020. gone are the days when i would wake up to 3 new anons about my story and dms from people every day (i can't believe i used to get overwhelmed by it...) and i would be lying if i said it didn't make me sad sometimes, because we're humans and our brains are practically wired to crave the hit of happy chemicals you get from seeing the stupid number go up 😭 it does feel demotivating. it makes me feel less urgency to post quicker if i convince myself that no one is waiting for me anyway, which means i post less, which means even less people stick around, which makes me post less, and on and on. it's a tough thing for me to come to terms with in all honesty.

but it helps to remember that i would be writing even if no one is reading. and i know that, because i have! i've written entire novel-length fics that i've never published, i've written countless short stories in the frozen pines universe that i'll never post, i've created alternate universes that will never be shown, etc. i do it because the idea is in my head and it needs to Get Out and i'm kinda just a conduit for that. that might not apply to you, and that's okay! everyone is different. the important thing is to really sit down and think about WHY you write and what you get out of it. which part of the process makes you happiest? what makes you feel a sense of fulfillment / satisfaction? play to your strengths. try not to spend your time doing things you think other people will enjoy and instead, spend more time on the things that make you happy. for me, i haaaaate editing and i always have, so lately i've been trying to speed through it a little bit quicker even if it means the final product won't be as appealing to others. (this is still a work in progress for me...) i have more fun when i experiment with different writing styles, which might not appeal to others because it takes longer and i don't really have a recognizable style, but i don't care anymore because i'm having fun! ask yourself what YOU want from your story, and then write for yourself and only yourself.

essentially what i'm saying is: there will ALWAYS be people more popular than you, and there's no guarantee that when you find the popularity you seek, you'll be able to keep it. so you need to find some sort of intrinsic motivation to continue or you'll just keep comparing yourself to others forever and you'll deny yourself the joy of creation! "comparison is the thief of joy" could not be more true!!

[fungi-maestro]

Questionable Images 1/2 - The Question #8 (1987)

[eclaire-went-bam]

bcs i'm aware of how i automatically percieve people, i earnestly try to give the benefit of the doubt a lot. i tend to believe people are Actually Just That Dumb™ when they're joking about something, so i try to get ahead of that & tell myself people are joking when they say something stupid, so that i don't look stupid

all i've learnt in doing that, is most of the time, people aren't joking. they actually did mean what they say, & i made the situation 10× worse by laughing at what they said.

not only does it reinforce the idea in my head that people are Dumb so i need to take the reins on literally Everything, but it also leads people to believe i'm making fun of them for saying something silly & talking to me less, when, if i knew it were a genuine thing they thought, i would have gladly explained it without judgement

but i don't really know how to stop treating them as jokes, because what if they ARE joking so they laugh at me for how Stupid i am for taking the bait? i can't handle being made a fool of, i think i'd rather die

[demodraws0606]

All this moral talk is kinda annoying and unecessary like, I'm just enjoying q!BBH being a little bastard who explicitely says he enjoys murder and constantly goes out of his way to do the worst possible choices (except for when it came to the stone eggs).

I don't understand why people throw "hypocrisy" like it's somehow an uno reverse card. In the end weither a person is a hypocrite or not, it still doesn't make the other party any better for what they've done anyway so what's really the aim here ?

It's made worse when you also have to take into account that some people aren't fully roleplaying and what counts here.

[skaruresonic]

Twitter: "these people are mentally ill and dangerous. they'll excommunicate you if you don't exactly parrot their views"

my friends: actually some of the most caring and chill people I've ever met, who are extremely hard on themselves and passionate about their work and who have largely withdrawn from Sonic in order to move on from the drama

maybe I'm biased but

[dayurno]

once again thinking deeply abt kevjean biting

alwaysalwaysalways i was thinking about this scene from warmth of your doorways for the entire day yesterday

i think there is something so delicious about them wrestling and biting and being very physical and boyish even with each other!? you know! my favorite kevjean-isms has to be the constant reminder that they were once 12 year olds together chasing after each other in court... a lifetime of being in kevin's peripheral and running after him.... i mean it's really. and then, obviously, they should bite each other about it

[marasschino]

what are your thoughts on shinjimina ?

Hmm

So I wasn't sure if you meant shinjimina as in femc and Shinjiro or mc and Shinjiro so I'll do both.

I'll start out w/ Kotone and Shinjiro since I have less thoughts here tbh. Shinjiro is probably one of my fave s-links for Kotone and even then I still kinda wish it was done better but the contrast between them hoo boy. Combined w/ the fact that these two are one of my favorite ship dynamics of "menace who will make anyone a friend and guy that begins to realize that people *do* care about him and that he does have people to go home to".

While it's certainly not my favorite ship w Kotone I can certainly see why it's one of the ships I see most often for both of them.

Now if you meant shinjimina as in Shinjiro and Minato then man I have got lots of thoughts about these two. Like as a concept they are something and I wish they had more canon interactions becuase Minato and Shinjiro are such parallels to each other it's crazy.

Like they both try to distance themselves from the people that they care about AND are simultaneously some of the most caring people in SEES. The first time Minato summons a persona he loses control and Thanatos basically rips out of his soul (and while you could argue that's Death ripping out of him I feel Thanatos is represented as part of Minato in a lot of canon and not part of death), and I'm pretty sure we all know about Shinji at this point. And just one more thing to add to this pile, is that they will both die for other people even if those other people don't want them to.

I just think if Minato had like one real reason to go and talk to Shinjiro like they both would've came out better for it, but they're both passive little shits so they were never gonna approach each other unless they *needed* to. They strike me as the type of duo that could've grown together as people and idk there's something special about that.

But in conclusion I wish there was more Shinjiro/Minato content like there is not enough of them and we gotta make up for that 😭

[bodywhorror]

not to be all like "its bad to portray bad things in HORROR" becausse...no..lol... but I can't lie the sa scene in reanimator feels so pointlessly thrown in there at the end...

[monstrsball]

i am, perhaps unreasonably, bothered by people using given names for certain haikyuu characters. normal girl behavior.

[williamgayers]

The argument that Noah is an adult and should know better is ridiculous because dude is nineTEEN. Do you understand how naive nineteen year olds are? Do you understand that he’s going to keep making mistakes and learning from them? Because he definitely is. There’s full grown adults with fully developed brains that do. The second that you turn eighteen doesn’t automatically make you some flawless, all knowing adult. Everyone makes mistakes. It’s unavoidable. It doesn’t make you evil. All you can do is learn from them and do better. I hope that all the people who continue being vile towards Noah and giving him a hard time are people who have never and will never make mistakes. They better be flawless individuals. Otherwise they’re just hypocrites.

baby, you don't have to say all that to me...

i don't hate noah, i don't wish him any harm, i hope he can grow and learn. i just don't like what he did, that's it.

[cosmogyros]

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[unicornswilleatyourboobies]

i always find it funny how some meat eaters are so grossed out by everything pertaining to the fact that they're eating an animal

[captainsparklefingers]

Sometimes I feel really weird re: the purple tiefling(s), because I really like Kingsley and find him fascinating and want to see more and know more about him and what he's going to do with this life, and I like that this is the direction things went...but then sometimes I miss Molly and am sort of sad he didn't really come back? I mean he did as a part of Kingsley, and I'm not sad we got Kingsley. And it feels stupid and sort of hypocritical to be sad that Molly as we knew him is gone and then get irritated when people try to erase King or just make him Molly but slightly different.

And then I have to stop myself and remember the MST3K mantra and all of this is fake and none of it is real and none of it really matters, so why am I spending my energy worrying about missing a fictional character/worrying if missing said character while also liking what came after makes mw a hypocrite...there's like. So many other things to worry about that matters so much more and this is all very silly.

This is what happens when you're four to five years deep into a hyper fixation when most of them have lasted one to two years tops, I think. I need more hobbies or outlets or something because if this is the sort of crap I think about a lot, something is off.