#hypercritical

[amorisxx]

Can we talk about being neurodivergent (esp adhd) and frequently finding oneself in opposition to popular ideas/opinions?

Like I’m starting to accept that I have a slight tendency towards being a contrarian. I don’t do it intentionally, but I’ll just notice that I get so frustrated when the majority of people believe something that I don’t.

Like I don’t make it a problem for other people, but I internally hyper fixate on it sometimes which somehow strengthens the contrasting opinion.

This is especially true with media. If the overwhelming majority of the internet is shitting on some movie or tv show, I always have to find something about it that I like. And if it’s overwhelmingly loved and praised, I’m always on the lookout for at least someone who has a neutral or negative opinion.

It’s like my mind craves the stimulation of differing views.

[alixx-black]

the last poem for today is about dealing with #hypercritical people - #mentalhealthawareness is something I strive to accomplish with my annual #poetry initiative and I'm sort of pre-gaming by finish this project I start for last May, all of which are #nonfiction and #fastreads

[optimalmindsetllc]

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[authenticallyaudrey]

I made a very simple and straightforward post about Amazon alternatives that someone might recommend and got back some hypercritical, super unhelpful responses. 🤦‍♀️ I never asked about how they feel about the retail giant. I personally don't have an issue with Amazon itself I do however have a problem with its CEO who kisses the hands of Trump. If they want to continue using Amazon, that's their choice, but they need to be respectful to those who wish to boycott it for ethical reasons. These people in the comments above are VERY much part of the problem. I did get other responses that were actually super helpful, (in fact most were) but these ones here were just so unnecessary. And responses I probably wouldn't have to deal with IF ONLY THE WEBSITE HAD A BLOCK FEATURE! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I'm ignoring them directly by not responding back, but the complete lack of a block feature is just super inconvenient!

I just needed to vent.

[trixiesol-blog]

[hoshizoralone]

reflection

[barrenclan]

Was randomizing clans because I'm too lazy to try to cook up an entire clan myself and was jumpscared with alternate universe Barrenclan and Redstar.

A black and red spotted tortoiseshell-tabby sounds like a design that I would have fun making and then everyone would yell at me for it not being genetically or pattern accurate in the slightest.

[hideawayfairy]

Thinking about the "Fizz and Oz were made soft" criticisms and I wonder if the ones who say that just ignore these parts of Oops.

[voxmilia]

M*A*S*H characters as text posts and tweets - for @remyfire, happy birthday!!

[spikedfearn]

I was watching Remmick edits on tik tok last night and saw a few comments of people recommending Mercy Made Flesh 😭 I can't thank y'all enough for the overwhelming reception, I really didn't think so many people would resonate with my writing, it's definitely given me the confidence to hop back into it!!

[mint-fixates]

Going more in depth with my many, very long thoughts on the AU concept I discussed in a previous post, which I'm calling "Domesticated Bill AU" based on a suggestion from the replies (TL;DR it's just a "What if Bill wasn't evil" AU)

First major difference: No Euclydian massacre. Bill doesn't destroy his home dimension, he just gets sick of them trying to suppress his gift and leaves. Something something he still ends up getting trapped in the Nightmare Realm while looking for a more exciting and accepting world

He spends a lot of time partying and getting up to mischief while hanging out with the Henchmaniacs (who still look up to him as a leader, but have more of an equals/genuine friends relationship with him rather than a boss/minion relationship), but after a billion years or so that starts to get boring. When they realize the Nightmare Dimension is unraveling, Bill has the idea to get someone to make a portal for him, like in canon, BUT Weirdmageddon is never part of the plan. He just needs a way to safely get himself and his friends out of the Nightmare Realm before it unravels, no apocalypse required

Bill still has a series of failed partnerships because no one has the technology to build the portal or because they can't match his freak and get fed up with him and call the deal off. But there's no evil retribution on anyone who fails to make it. He's chaotic neutral at worst, so most of his impact on history is similar to canon!Bill helping the Salem witches free themselves- but because of Earth's societal standards and expectations, he still gets painted as evil for these sorts of acts.

Bill meets Stanford under the same circumstances- Ford finds out about him and summons him to help when he hits a roadblock in his research (though he finds him through different means since there's no shaman warning/prophecy). The only initial difference is that Bill is fully honest about the intention of the portal, because he has nothing to hide.

Bill is still a bit emotionally immature and jealous of Fiddleford but generally their relationship is much healthier. Ford still worships and puts Bill on a pedestal at first, but as they get closer over time he realizes that they're equals, kindred spirits. Bill delights in having someone and who finds his weirdness intriguing and endearing rather than being put off by it. They both love having someone they can relate to, someone on a similar level of intelligence, someone they never have to filter themselves around, and with all that in mind it's really inevitable that they fall for each other.

The portal is a success, and Ford makes a ton of money and earns his place in scientific history for his brilliant discovery, but credits Bill with half the workload since he can now prove Bill is, y'know, real and not a hallucination. People are still a bit weirded out by Bill and prefer the idea of a human success story, so as far as the press is concerned, it was 99% Stanford. Fiddleford is not credited at his own request, preferring to live a quiet life while knowing he helped make the world a bit better.

Fiddleford is still crushing hard on an oblivious Ford throughout the portal-building process like canon implies, but once the portal finished and Ford can introduce him to/explain his relationship with Bill, Fidds gracefully bows out and goes back to working on making personal computers and on focusing on his family. He and Ford are still good friends and regularly email and call each other which Bill hates but begrudgingly tolerates

Bill and his friends take a tour of the multiverse to decide where they want to settle, but Bill's thoughts keep drifting back to Stanford. Ford is also touring the multiverse for research purposes, which has disrupted their ability to communicate mentally, and Bill realizes how much he misses him. They both eventually go back to Dimension 46'\ and get married. Bill finds Earth a bit boring sometimes and occasionally goes on vacations to other dimensions with Ford and/or the Henchmaniacs, but "home" for him and Ford is always Gravity Falls.

Stanley calls Ford to congratulate him on his success and they reconnect, both apologizing for their fight. Ford finds out that Stanley is homeless and immediately hires him as his publicist since he's constantly being bombarded with interview requests and the like. Stanley ends up getting his own place in Gravity Falls to be closer to work and his brother.

Dipper and Mabel's parents are going through some Things™ and decide to send the twins off to live it up with their rich, successful Grunkle Ford for the summer. Gravity Falls is still weird but the twins now have a great uncle who actively encourages and assists them on all their weird supernatural and conspiratorial adventures. And, of course, their weird extradimensional triangle great-uncle-in-law is more than happy to help them cause some trouble and solve some mysteries too (Bill 10000% helped Mabel kidnap Sev'ral Timez and hide them from Ford, suggested using the Lilliputtians to cheat in her mini-golf game against Pacifica, etc.)

Stanley and his personal assistant Soos still make frequent appearances at Ford's house, and Wendy is also there (haven't quite figured out how she fits into this yet), so Dipper and Mabel are still close with all of them like in canon

Mabel still meets and becomes besties with Candy and Grenda, just under different circumstances.

Pacifica's parents initially contact Stanford to hire him to dispose of their ghost problem, but he passes it off to Dipper because he and Bill are going to visit Bill's parents in Euclydia. So NWMM/Pacifica's character development plays out mostly the same way as canon

Gideon still meets and becomes obsessed with Mabel, but without the journals as a source of power and motivation, he has no ambition to steal the Shack or means to almost kill Dipper. He's still kind of a stalker towards Mabel but a mostly harmless one- especially after Ford, Bill, and Stanley find out he's been bothering her and have a Friendly Chat with him.

The journals still exist, but they're not hidden, they're just chilling on Ford's bookshelf. He originally intended to publish them but forgot about it with all the hype around the portal. Ford gives them to Dipper to help out with the twins' adventures for when he's busy and can't go help them personally.

[draculapizza]

Reunion

[dollypopup]

I just need every single person in this fandom who has ever been mean about Luke Newton to know that Nicola Coughlan hates you. Genuinely and wholeheartedly.

She hates you. Sure, she won't say it aloud, because she's a professional who knows her career lives or dies by fans, but please know that she does. She hates you if you've said Colin gave you the ick, especially so if you said it to Luke, she hates you if you've left a rude comment on his social media, she hates you if you acted like she didn't like him or that she was shading him, she hates you if you bullied the people around him, she hates you if you said something disparaging about how he looks or how he acts, she. hates. you.

And sure, it's not all people who are in her or Pen's fanbase, in fact a lot of people have been cruel about him outside of the Polin fandom, but a LOT of people are Pen fans, and hearing her talking about how defensive she gets over him when people say something rude about him? And knowing there are SO many stupid opinion blogs and youtubers and tiktokers who say they're Pen fans and Nicola fans but are mean as fuck about Luke?

I need every single one of them, in particular those who have been out here making up stupid shit to be mad at him about 'on her behalf' to know that when you say something mean about the man she gushed to her Mum about, and who her Mum was so excited to meet because she just knew he was kind, the man she introduced to her entire family, the man she is always reaching for and hugging and snuggling up to and calling wonderful and giggling around and saying how she wouldn't want to do such vulnerable intimate scenes without and complimenting and leaning on and having fun with and calling a special person in her life, she is taking off her earrings and ready to meet you outside in his honor

because she hates you for being a dick about him. hope that clears things up

[jesuistrestriste]

when i go back and read smth ive written (after it’s been posted for a while) and realize that i made a typo/grammatical error that i never corrected, my body literally has a physical reaction

like damn someone probably noticed that. it makes the whole piece of writing seem off and all over the place. if my writing was decent up until the error, the error just took it back down to a zero. this is it for me, friends. i had a good run

[runawaymun]

anyway they are soooooooo married

[cornetespoir]

I have no idea if I'll get around to actually finishing this, so a wip of telltale riddler