#negativity a little so be aware

[biblically-accurate-dca]

moon n ballora

[hallowclave]

What a whimsical looking young man I wonder if he has received any job offers recently

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[froganni]

Maybe a little overly serious approach to the situation, but y'all have GOT to be more respectful towards the creators you watch and consume content for. fWhip's message about getting a lot of hate is honestly abysmal.

Like, don't get me wrong, I love lore-related series! I think they're a lot of fun and I love watching them.But give non-lore series a chance! They're also a lot of fun!

These creators are all responsible adults who are very capable of creating boundaries for themselves and deciding amongst themselves what rules they want to follow when joining a project.

Obviously, there are many viewers and community members who this isn't directed at. :D

Please don't send hate to anyone, it's not helpful. If you don't like something, don't engage with it. Just leave it at that. Show respect to the community you're apart of, and to the creators that head it.

(It's fine to be annoyed with something and talk about it, but don't force a creator to see that negativity. It's not benefiting anyone.) The more hate a creator gets, the less they engage with and organize fun things for the community. Please remember to be kind.

[jrueships]

zesty lowkey just another way for str8 ppl to say faggot / faggy and get away with it

[lesbianfakir]

Ok genuine question is it normal to be expected to hide/lie about your mental illness symptoms to friends? So obviously there’s trauma dumping but this isn’t about that—is it normal to just be expected to pretend you’re happier than you are because if you express that you’re doing bad one too many times people get frustrated that you’re not doing better?

I keep having friendships where I support them through difficult events so I think it’s a safe place but when I start to be honest about my depression they either get frustrated with me (more specifically frustrated that they can’t take my problems away) or distant. I know it’s hard to see a friend in pain but it also sucks to be in a position where you need to be constantly pretending to be silly and happy because that’s what they signed up for. I’m tired of being ‘too much’ for people, you know? I work hard to support my friends through their problems and I’m good at it, but lately I’ve found I just have to deal with everything on my own.

I’m tired of the stigma around mental illness because so much of my life I can’t even talk about for fear of being too depressing. I understand why it is the way that it is but that doesn’t make it any less isolating. It hurts that if I’m having a day where I’m really scared I can’t tell anyone about it because it’ll freak them out and I just have to wait for it to pass when I know just being around another person would help ground me.

Anyways ramble over I genuinely hope this is a problem specific to my situation and you all have people to help you through dark times. I truly hope we’re not all secretly left alone with our demons

[countingprimes]

sometimes i see queer people make low hanging anti straight jokes, and they'll often pre-defend themselves by saying straight people don't need defending as if the queer community isn't populated by tons of straight people, straight trans people, straight ace people, straight poly people. queerness doesnt exclude exclusively opposite sex attracted people and it bothers me to see these jokes and their subsequent defenses because normative society certainly rejects these folks because of their queerness and now you are inside the queer community rejecting them for who they desire. i think about straight trans folks the most who are out here under fire from normative society who turn to the queer community for support only to be inundated with sentiments like straight people are actually the real lesser than folks, and it's easy enough to say straightness is valorized in normative society so shitting on straight people is punching up, but i can't help but be keenly aware that the queer straight people tend to be queer in the ways which are often excluded from queer community. so actually yeah i do think straight people need our protection, not heteronormative culture, but individual people? yeah. the "coming out as straight" jokes are all haha good times fuck the straights until you think about the fact that straight trans people when they come out are functionally doing that. after all how many straight trans people used to think they were cis gay people. and we, inside the queer community, turn their experiences into a mean spirited punch line designed to reject them from queer community.

like sorry i just don't think we are gonna find queer liberation by trying to figure out which group we are allowed to make fun of for having the wrong sexuality.

[pa-pa-plasma]

kind of frustrating that people took "fat does not equal unhealthy" to mean "fat is not unhealthy." sometimes being obese IS unhealthy & excess fat can cause a lot of problems. ignoring health issues isn't progressive. real "oranges kill people with depression" moment

[impostorsshow]

I would never have thought that playing Disney: Dreamlight Valley would make me ship Merlin and Ursula but here we are they're definitely a divorced couple you cannot change my mind

[clownandout]

I am still rotating TMWSL in my head. I'm going to be fully honest there's been so many ass pulls and retcons with DC that I believe even if the guy who lived is the fake Joker, it's not going to change anything and it will probably be swept under the rug as something that never even happened and it will revert back to it being the original guy, actually. I really don't care that they're probably going to do that either, as long as we get this characterization kept. I like this new Joker, a lot. I would prefer fake Joker being the real one because they gave him an actual personality besides "killing people pointlessly because everything is mostly pointless."

I do think this fake Joker has way more connection to being the real Joker than the actual "real" one does. He loves Gotham and hates LA, he dreams about Batman and how much he needs him and is aware that he's Bruce Wayne, he refers to Jason as if he's who created him, he works with rogues that the Joker as worked with before (Killer Moth? Really, LA Joker?), him being in a depressive slump is something known to happen with the Joker, and it's been shown multiple times. If you ask why he's calling himself not the Joker, the Joker has always hinged on the fact that he's the Joker. His one fear is being normal, average, and not himself. His self even then is sometimes just an act to put on. His response to suddenly being faced with the fact he's potentially nothing special at all would absolutely fuck him up. It's a very interesting character trait that people look over a lot. I know this is probably a slightly incoherent ramble, I guess my point is that none of this really matters and taking what happens in a single Batman series that most people who aren't fans of the Joker will barely talk about as something that will have major, drastic effects when even the comic itself basically states that nothing is going to change is not the way I'm going into this. It was great to be along for the ride and it will be great to see what they do with it. Fuck it up more, most likely. But at least there's some fun ideas to be had with it. If that is the fake Joker, what is his connection to Batman. Why did he dream about him. What past do they have. What past do him and Jason have. What would Batman's response to the actual Joker dying be, especially when the last thing he did to him was walk away in a bid to show him that he didn't care. I'm treating this whole thing as more of an experimental "what if" and I'm having a lot of fun with it, until there's some retcon or other explanation.

[matt-w-blogging]

You Can Do Nice Things For "Selfish" Reasons.

Doing something nice for a "selfish" or self-serving reason doesn't cancel out the fact that you did a nice thing. Unless you tell them, nobody knows your motivation behind doing the nice thing.

It makes no difference to them.

Bring home-baked goods to a gathering so people compliment your food and tell you how incredible at baking you are. Donate to charity to impress people. Smile and be kind and polite so people like you. Compliment people in the hopes they'll compliment you back. Help someone pick up their things because it makes you feel like the main character. Let a stressed parent with crying children cut ahead of you in line because you just want the loud kids to be gone as soon as possible.

People don't know why you did it.

People do know what you did.

People know you brought home-baked goods to a gathering. Charity got a donation. People know you were smiling and kind and polite to them. People know they got a compliment. People know someone helped them pick up their things. The parent knows you did a kind thing for them.

Whether you do it selflessly or self-servingly, your action doesn't change, nor does its impact.

Not doing nice things because you "just want something in return so it's selfish" is worse than doing nice things for self-serving reasons.

Putting good vibes out into the world because you want to pretend you're a dashing and chivalrous young lad whose wealthy family tragically passed leaving you to inherit the mysterious family mansion and all the men admire you and all the ladies talk about what an honest, good young man you are and all the nonbinaries get gender envy from you and the unlabeled and agender folks just think you're really cool and everyone attracted to men fancies you is good and harmless and fun.

You can other peoples' days and your own day better simultaneously. So do it.

[bookwyrminspiration]

Edward, approaching Bella of his own volition: if you were smart, you'd stay away from me

Literally! Bella's just trying to live her life, adjust to a new school after moving to be with her dad, and this fucking guy! Is just all over the place!

Bella has far more patience than I could muster. And then putting up with him for the rest of her life ?? Well. If I got vampirism out of it, maybe. But I feel like there's easier, less infuriating ways. Hitting up Alice or something--maybe Emmett.

[toothfund]

Honestly a little overwhelmed by how kind everyone has been. Thank you for sharing and for all the encouraging messages in the tags or otherwise. It feels nice to remember there is love and care in the world and others are ready to help me. Hoping I can pay it forward soon. Please know I'm grateful and your kindness has had an impact on me.

[qsmprambling]

I am only seeing it in clips, but the trip to old spawn is just reaffirming my feeling that the cost of moving to the new spawn far outweighs the benefit...

[adelle-ein]

i was never a person to the FE fandom i was a content machine and when i failed to appropriately Generate Desired Content they would turn on me and i think that might've fucked me up a tad

[lith-myathar]

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[autisticarachnid]

love casually drawing and watching youtube at midnight and being interrupted by my mom angrily chastising me for something i didn’t even realize i did/was an issue

that’s a lie im crying under my covers