#if you read that

[guppygiggles]

Feels weird to be typing this out, but uh, I gotta get this off my chest, and I'll try not to make this too long.

A lot of people have wanted to be friends with me, recently. I do not have a lot of experience with having friends. This is very exciting for me. I have been saying nothing but 'yes' to these requests... They are all but impossible for me to resist.

If you don't wanna be friends with me, cool! I'm perfectly happy with you just being here. If you do, though... I'd appreciate if you read this.

I am autistic. I am socially awkward. I quickly get attached, I'm very affectionate, I will say I love you, I will draw for you, I will ask you about your life, your OCs, your interests. I will come on strong. I will try not to, but, I will; it's just my nature. I love life, I love people, I love with my whole chest. I don't know how to be any other way, and -- friendly reminder! -- I'm thirty years old, so the chance of that changing is pretty much zero.

I will also misread situations, misread intentions, miss social cues, give you advice that's not helpful, and otherwise completely misunderstand you sometimes if you don't communicate with me. This is not an 'if' -- it WILL happen. I WILL do something you don't like, eventually.

If you cannot handle communicating to me that I have upset you or made you uncomfortable, and are just going to disappear or block me when (not if!) this happens… please… do not befriend me. When someone does this, it's painful... and because of how rare it is for me to make friends, it's a new and unique pain, so my tolerance for it is incredibly low.

I know it's hard to be candid when someone offends you... I know that many of us have conflict-related trauma... But I am never, ever going to blow up, get angry, or be mean to you over something like that. In fact, I'll probably thank you, because I know you care enough about the friendship to be honest with me.

Rant over. Okay?

I really, really don't want any comments or asks about this. Please just silently accept this, or don't. If you don't accept this, that's fine! Like I said, I'm cool with you just being here. But, if you want more than that... I need to be able to trust that you're not gonna singe my fragile blue heart.

[vilf-lover]

if anyone wants to read the events that have happened in the last 4 hours

not positive in any way

coming home from vacation today

my mom figured she would check on her other house (the first one she bought at 19)

she let my cousins stay because she quit her job in the area a couple years ago, therefore, having no use for the house

we went to check and we found 6 people, all of which our cousin was housing without even paying rent to my mom herself

my mom went batshit insane and my aunt had grabbed a tazor. so they’re all fleeing and eventually come back to grab everything.

we had to go to the local home depot to replace the locks and get trespassing signs. we nearly got hit on our way back to the house.

my mom also decided it was an appropriate time to tell me one of my uncles has stage 4 cancer.

three hours later, everyone out, we’re going home.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[manny-jacinto]

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (2019)

[doppy-enjo]

Like to charge, reblog to cast

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[theygotlost]

EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME

[amartworks]

had a fun experience on the subway the other day

[roseworth]

i think theres this idea in the general public that the "best" fanfic gets turned into real books like 50 shades of grey. but the truth is that the best fanfic can never be published as an actual book because its intricately woven into the canon material so its inseparable even if you change the names

[ursulaklegay]

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

[beaft]

my mum forbade me to say anything to my dad about the top surgery thing, and it's just hit me how funny it would be if i got it done and didn't tell him and just waited for him to notice. i mean, what's he gonna say? "didn't you used to have tits?"

[dendrochronologies]

maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

in case you were wondering how things went down at the pokemon world championships this weekend:

-during the top 8 of the TCG masters division, chilean player fernando cifuentes was running a gimmick deck that consisted exclusively of four iron thorns ex and a whole ton of control-focused trainer cards in a strategy that either completely shuts down opponents or shits the bed entirely

-through skillful play and some good luck, fernando made it through 2 days in a tournament with over 1100 players to get to the quarterfinals

-fernando lost 2-0 to ian robb, who was running regidrago vstar (widely considered one of the best decks in the current format)

-in an overexuberant victory celebration, ian did what can only be described as a jacking-off gesture, on a stream with tens of thousands of viewers run by a company with very firm player conduct expectations

-the judges determined that this warranted a penalty of game loss, but for some reason, rather than applying it to ian’s next game in the semifinals, they applied it to the one he had just won in the top 8

-(it should be noted that the prize money for making top 8 is $15k while top 4 is $20k, so this jerking gesture cost ian robb $5,000)

-nearly an hour after fernando came to terms with his loss and the end of an impressive run, he was told that he was to get back on stream because he’s now playing in the semifinals due to winning by default

-the player he was up against in the semifinals was playing a deck (miraidon) that happens to get shut down hard by iron thorns’s gimmick, so fernando wins the semifinals

-said player, jesse parker, had notably had an undefeated run throughout the whole tournament up to this point, and likely would have continued that streak had his intended semifinal opponent not gotten a game loss penalty for miming a lewd act on stream

-meanwhile, the other semifinal winner is japan’s seinosuke shiokawa, running a deck (roaring moon) that players had largely written off as underwhelming months ago

-the grand finals are on the following day, so saturday evening was abuzz with a lot of people baffled by the absurdity of the situation

-come sunday afternoon, the grand finals are set to begin, with fernando cifuentes running iron thorns and seinosuke shiokawa running roaring moon

-it should be noted here that the roaring moon deck doesn’t rely very much on abilities, so iron thorns’s gimmick has very little effect - this is basically an even matchup

-fernando wins the first game of the set, and seinosuke wins the second

-the third and final game of the set is a bonafide cheek-clencher, with both players reaching a state where a single KO will win the game, but fernando manages to clinch it at the last minute

-and that’s the story of how a guy pretending to jork it led to the first instance of a pokemon world champion who also lost the quarterfinals

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[yourfavecharacterisqueer]

hypothetical scenario for you all: the real king arthur returns. you meet him and you welcome him into your home. what is the first thing you do with him? keep in mind, this is a man from the 500s (he died in 542), and you are from the 21st century (2024).