argh I’m so frustrated with myself
I hate being unable to tell how I’m feeling about people bc literally two weeks ago I thought I was in love with the drummer in our pit and then I came to the wack realization that maybe I liked the guy who was our stage manager and before the drummer I couldn’t tell if I liked my brother’s childhood best friend as a crush or as a sister and now now I’m sitting here confused bc maybe i like one of my friends
But I was literally obsessed with one of our mutual friends like a year ago and had a big falling out with our friend group over that bc it really fucking hurt me
and like my friend that I have a crush (?) on… like I think he’s cute but I can here my friends in the back of my head going bitch wtf he’s not cute but then every time he holds eye contact while I ramble about something my stomach does a little flip and every time he smiles I smile back bc I love seeing him full of joy and I love how he waits to walk out of environ sci with me and when we make eye contact during choir I make a funny face and smile when he silently laughs at me and I love talking about random shit and I love the way his voice sounds and I love hearing him be happy and play games with our friends
and he let me brush his hair the other day his hair is absolutely gorgeous and it makes me so happy he let me do that and
there’s this project I have to get done eventually that this other guy in my class is working on with me for some reason but he scares me so I’m dragging my friend/crush with me bc I’m like pls come with me (I don’t want to be alone with him bc I’d much rather be alone with you)
he makes me smile and he’s passionate about his hobbies and by god he’s a runner but is also really big on weight lifting and istg i think i would pass out if i ever saw him lift and i love just watching him and talking with him
and i can’t tell if i like him more than a friend
i don’t even know if he would see me as more than a friend
my cousin used to hypothesize that he was aroace like his older sibling and i don’t want to just straight out ask if he likes girls bc that’s rude, i think
and do i actually want to date him?
i want to hold his hand
i have to hold myself back from just interlocking my fingers with his
it would be so easy
but i don’t want to make him uncomfortable
i’m just happy he smiles at me and is my friend
but I would love to put my head on his shoulders and hold his hand
i want to want more but i don’t want to hurt myself any more than i already have in the past
maybe i just like the idea of it all
i’m lonely inside
i just want someone to want me
i would love it if he loved me
but i have a feeling that he would never see me like that
in the end we’re just friends
and if i acted on it i’d lose him
maybe i’ll tell him next year, if i still like him
if this crush lasts longer than a few weeks
maybe i just like him bc he gives me the attention none of our other friends give me
i care about him a lot more than i care about any of them
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One thing for those who have watched The Boy and The Heron or will watch it. The Japanese title for it is How Do You Live? And Miyazaki stated he was leaving it for his grandson, saying, "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film".
The deaths of contemporaries and friends such as Satoshi Kon and Isao Takahata and also the expected successor of Yoshifumi Kondo were things that have always weighed heavily on the back of Miyazaki's mind.
He recognizes the industry and the occupation for how soul crushing it was, grinding up either the spirit or the physical body of those who work in it. He loves and hates the industry he stands on the peak of and fully recognizes how it will probably be the death of him. And he knows it'll leave him unable to say a lot of things to his Grandson.
So How Do You Live? is a lesson. For his grandson. For himself. For his two sons. And probably for anyone else willing to pay attention.
Hayao Miyazaki is a flawed man that makes things so important to so many people. And I think more than any other film of his, in this you get to pull back the curtain a bit and see him at work. And what should be this giant unblemished titan can be seen for what he is, a sad old man who had higher hopes for himself and has even higher hopes for the people he makes his work for.
It's a beautiful thing to see another's humanity in their work. To look past the artifice and glam of commercialized art and find humans behind it. And humans willing to show their humanity and mortality is even rarer. And something to be celebrated. So when you watch it. Or if you've watched it already. Understand that this film is Miyazaki kneeling down, weary after years of weaving dreams and making mistakes, reaching out and saying to you that he hopes you can do better. It's an old man who's made all the mistakes of the world passing it on to you, hoping you do better, and making sure you know it's okay if you don't.
How do you Live? By making mistakes. By messing up. But still moving forward. And still reaching out.
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Jason agrees to go through the legal hassle of being declared alive again. Mostly so he can go to college like how he wanted.
He would have done it under a fake ID, but he kinda wanted the success of having a Masters in English attached to the name he grew up with.
It's going pretty great, actually! He's making friends, gets to punch random paparazzi's in the face, and learning has always been fun for him.
But one of his college friends, Danny Fenton, is...weirdly obsessed with Wayne Manor?
Jason gets it, he does, the Manor is huge and of course the guy would want to see it as often as he could.
Then he starts to realize that Danny is strangely attentive to Bruce.
Like, actually flirting with Bruce.
Oh no his college friend, who is his age, is flirting with Bruce so hard it's making Bruce blush.
OR; Danny thinks Bruce is hot, and that the outraged faces of the man's children as Danny flirts with him are hilarious. Also Jason started it by trying to flirt with Danny's mom when he met Danny.
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Imagine Annabeth and Percy have a kid early, unplanned and it kinda fucks with their finances so Percy drops out of school to get a job so he can care for the kid and support Annabeth in school. At first he gets a job teaching kids sword fighting but then he hears about underwater welding which pays well because it’s dangerous but Percy is a child of the sea so it’s much less so for him. His boss is even willing to give him flexible hours which means Annabeth doesn’t have to take their kid to class anymore and they can actually afford daycare (why does is it the price of a mortgage nowadays???). A huge financial burden is lifted and Percy doesn’t mind the work so it’s good all the way around.
Fast forward to when Annabeth is done her masters in architecture and lands a job at a top firm. They’ve got savings and have Annabeth’s income to rely on. Percy heads back to school and finishes a degree in marine biology, going on to research some really niche topics like how underwater welding impacts the environment and shifting from there until he’s a well known expert in the field.
Just them finding their way. Supporting each other and landing on their feet no matter what
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lakhdfilsdhfiohiof he was at youth group today which was great and just
ack i like him so much and we kept smiling at each other and we would make eye contact and then he’d look away smiling and i just wanna know what he thinks about me
like i wanna know so badly
especially bc now i know one of my friends is “talking” to someone and like good for her but i’m jealous and i want romance and just
arghhhhhhhhh stupid stupid boy he’s so smart and like i hope he thinks i’m smart too bc i’m smart af i’m not not smart and if he doesn’t think i’m smart then he’s an asshole and i should move on
anyways point being i really just wanna know what he thinks about me and i don’t know how to approach that topic ya know
like i want him to know i’m interested in him but i’m also ok with us just being friends like if he friendzones me i’ll be fine but i don’t want to friendzone him in the process of expressing how happy i am that we’re friends
i want to know if he thinks i’m pretty lmao
eaihfosihoihodighjodijoiajsodifhosihaoisjf i’m almost minorly obsessed with him unfortunately
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