#people are so fucking weird

[akajustmerry]

hey can we not do the, "well actually neil gaiman's stories sucked actually when you think about it" thing? because a) that does shit all to support the victims that came forward and b) it's not fucking true. similar to jkr or any other acclaimed or well admired creative who has shown their true shitty colours, the issue with them is NOT the quality of their work. the issue is the material harm they cause and have caused real people. I get it. You feel bad. you wanna kill whatever fondness you have in your head for what these people have made. You feel guilty, hurt even, that something you care about was made by someone who did awful shit and it's hard to hold that in your head. believe me, I get it. But when you project that insecurity and anger onto the "quality" of the works these people make, what you're implying is that there's a secret threshold of "quality" that would make these creatives' harmful behaviour excuseable. you're also giving moral value to the "quality" of art. there are people who have made terrible art who are practically saints and there are people who've made near perfect masterpieces who are monsters and everything in between. this is not a defence of either author. what they've done is disgusting. I'm just pointing out that if a person came up to you and said, "the person who wrote that book hurt me and all I'm asking is for you to believe it" you wouldn't respond with, "omg I KNEW the author sucked because the logic of the world building lacked consistency".

[yourtwistedprincess]

Me and my best friend the block button 🥰

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Lololol some dingus DMed me to tell me that he came to my pics and when I told him cool, consider tipping or subbing my OF if he wanted to show support- he blocked me 🤣

Thanks for saving me the trouble I guess?

[soyeonsbabygirl]

mmm boi wat the heeel was going through the persons mind of asking you were you live 💀 that sus

(I will find that person mother.)

RIGHT??? AND EVEN AFTER I STATED I WAS UNCOMFORTABLE THEY STILL KEPT GOING!!

It’s ok bby don’t waste anytime looking for them they ain’t worth it fr😭💕 but I appreciate you wanting to get them💋

[thisischaostragic]

i just have to say. i love Ethel Cain reaction videos (mainly because i want to re-experience her music for the first time constantly), but there is something SO unsettling to me about not only people reading her work as autobiographical, but people who DOUBLE DOWN on saying like, 'NOTHING about her work is autobiographical, Hayden does NOT have those same abuse experiences'

like. you really do not need to make unfounded conjectures about an artist's experiences. Hayden is a literal real person making music that explores experiences that are so hard to talk about and it'd be great if artists could do that without getting randos speculating about their personal relationship to abuse.

[yandere-kokeshi]

Never been so uncomfortable in my life

[lovedeluxe92]

i’m starting to think the friend i made at work is actually not really a friend at all.

like it's so much to explain but long story short all she does is bitch about her boyfriend, send me "funny videos" all day every day. and ignores the texts i send talking about anything personal. then like is kinda condescending about the job when i don't understand something and i'm just like?? sorry i haven't been at walmart all my life? jesus christ. it's just really telling how friends respond to your depression i fully believe that. like she hasn't acknowledged it and im definitely not hiding it. literally not even an are you okay? plus she called my fiancé a mental abuser and says he manipulates and gaslights me and i'm just like ?? where tf are you getting this stupid shit from? and the gag of it all is she's literally almost 40. like. i cant make this up!

[fearsomeandwretchedandwrong]

Me discovering people on Tumblr thirsting over Michael Myers:

[proselles]

alex hirsch was really just so pissed that no one saw his epic old man yaoi that he went and wrote a whole new book and made a whole website specifically to show meticulous evidence that this weird old man fucked a triangle.

he really said what were ford and bill really doing in that pocket dimension they shared, hm? did you ever think of that? oh - you think it was just chess? hm. interesting. i dont.

the ultimate rare pair shipper. i have never seen a creator do this before. absolutely fascinating at every angle.

[eldritchblaaaast]

don't be weird guys

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[beastlyidiocy]

my sweet old man who is genuinely too kind for the world he lives in :(

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

[evilrry]

imagine traveling to a different country to stalk your fav and then expect them to be happy to see you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[qquasars]

just snatched a little bird from my cat, what a wonderful way to start a cursed day

[introspectivememories]

was it casual when i sat in your lap in public? was it casual when i said "recently my heart is crying because you're leaving"? was it casual when we decided how your last name would fit with mine? ("yuki tsunoda-gasly" / "no tsunoda, only gasly" / "yuki gasly?") was it casual when we sang adele's "someone like you" together at your going away party? was it casual when i knew it was you just by touching your ass? was it casual when i knew it was you by smell alone? was it casual when "will you miss me?" / "for 2-3 minutes maybe" / "i'll take that. even if it's just 2-3 minutes, i'll take that"? was it casual when that bus was completely empty and we still sat right next to each other, all the way in the back? was it casual when i picked you up multiple times so you could dunk a basketball? was it casual when i begged to come over to your house multiple time and then you finally let me and we cooked fried rice together? was it casual when we played christmas twister together and i said "your big eggplant is touching my ass"? was it casual when we were pressed up against each other on a scooter going two miles per hour? was it casual when-