#people in their teens and early 20s

[not-poignant]

jesus Pia that sounds fucking rough.. I've been following you and reading your stories from 2015, and I never knew about this. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Sending you all the best <3

I didn't speak about it openly at the time because I had a policy of not shit-talking on my Tumblr, and I knew at the time if I mentioned what was happening specifically re: the self-harm photos, everyone would know who I was talking about, and I worried it might create backlash for this person. And while I felt manipulated and abused by her, I was genuinely worried for her mental health, and I didn't want her getting hate from people who saw what was happening to me. (Because like, I did carry some influence in that fandom, and that would have been fucking terrible).

The person who sent me most of the hate messages actually emailed me to apologise months later, which was bizarre, but... it didn't surprise me to know she was good friends with this other person. Because she always sent them under anon, I had no idea who she was until she apologised.

But yeah the reason a lot of people don't know is because I just...was only talking about it behind closed doors to cope, and trying to keep it away from anywhere other people could see it. I wasn't always successful, and I think I did mention I was having a tough time because of some of the people in the fandom, but that was the extent of what I tried to say.

Now that a lot of time has gone by, no one really knows who that person is anymore (though I think a very few people who were super active in the tags at the time might have some suspicions), and so I don't have to worry about her getting any hate, and she's a lot harder to identify. I don't even know if she's on Tumblr anymore.

I have a general policy of keeping that stuff off my blog, so I turned off anon sometimes, and I deleted (and tried to block) a lot of anon messages, I responded to very few. I have a general 'delete anything that I can't turn into something useful' policy. Sometimes messages from antis I can turn into a teaching/education moment, but if it's just repeated 'KYS' messages, there's nothing for that except the bin.

I do have a lot of screenshotted receipts though, lol. I got in the habit of screenshotting things, because I became quite paranoid at the time (esp because I didn't know how many people were sending me all the anons, so it felt for a while like it was a LOT of people vs. I think just a few very disturbed dedicated people lol), so I have a folder in my RotG writing folder literally of just...Tumblr drama, lol. It's sad to think about. I think it's one of the reasons I don't really go as deep into fandoms anymore like I used to. :( But that might change with time. :)

[disco-troy]

Donna Troy is truly the character of all time. Always struggling with how people percive her. Needing to be perfect on the outside if not on the inside. Spending her entire life hiding her faults from outside eyes.

And then the monkey paw curls.

She gets erased and brought back with Wally’s memories of her. All of a sudden the facade she’s put up all her life becomes her. She becomes what she’s always projected to the world.

But it fixes nothing. Instead of worrying about showing her flaws to the world she worries she’s successfully erased them. The jokes is on her. She finally perfected the mirage of herself, but instead of freedom she finds herself in a self built prison, trapped in a watered down Donna Troy, the hollow image of perfection she cultivated all her life.

Her response is to scream in her own voice for the first time in her life.

[geryone]

Listen I’m not going to tell other mentally ill bitches how to live their lives but I do genuinely think that some of you forget that your parents or family members are also human beings with complex emotions and flaws

[sampilled]

it's weird how in the flashback episodes we never really see sam as an angry kid when we hear so much about how he argued with john nonstop and how vocal he was about hating the life throughout the show, he's always portrayed as kinda timid and quiet.

the only time we see him act out like that (that i remember right now anyway) is in after school special and he spends the entire episode pushing it down and swallowing everything he wants to say until he is finally pushed too far

its almost like sam wasn't a horribly angry child (or adult)

[79kyu]

Oryouma Week 2024, Day 4: Family

I’ve had a ship kid cookin in my brain for…a long while now… her name is Hikari <3

[143htg]

I think that Red Thread!Sunny wouldn't even bat an eye at randomly seeing Aubrey and Basil making out behind the church when Aubrey should be delivering pastries in the city, maybe the client's order tidy and nicely put on the grass, forgotten for a minute.

Not batting an eye at least physically, but internally probably scoffing and cursing Basil for distracting Aubrey from her job, pastries will not forever be warm after all.

Again seeing the tall figure of Aubrey getting more meek and shy that usual because of Basil, who is significantly tinier that her, is amusing. So Sunny doesn't really say anything, prefering to not disclose to Aubrey that maybe their little lovebird spot is a bit too close to the path he takes everyday.

Maybe he tells Mari out of amusement.

A bit annoyed, too.

Aubrey's new and probably first boyfriend. And Mari is happy for her, her beloved friend finally finding someone that she's content with. Sunny's happy too. Already marveling over meeting the boy when Aubrey is ready enough to tell about her little love.

Sunny does not tell who the love is.

Mari pouts when he doesn't tell.

[locamotivednp]

dug too deep into my past and "accidentally" found my old bffs new tumblr

[tskva-happens]

seems like so far the #1 enemy of the bg3 modding community has been... *checks note* age. just like... any signs of age whatsoever.

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

I just read the new chapter and it was so good 😭

I love this story so much. And idk which possible scenario I love more, that pretty much everyone knows jamie is autistic but doesnt mention it explicitly, or that they're all like 'hmm I don't understand why jamie flaps his hands and occasionally needs to sit in a dark room but it's cool we love him as he is'

Thank you! This chapter was probably the hardest one to write but I'm really proud of how it turned out.

In my mind the team is split between 1) people who know/suspect Jamie is autistic (Isaac, Beard, Bumbercatch since he seems to have a lot of miscellaneous knowledge, Nate but only if he already knows that he's autistic); 2) people who didn't initially know Jamie's autistic but were like "I wonder why he's doing that" and did some research (Sam, Higgins, Keeley); and 3) people who don't know and are just going with it (most of the team, Ted since his distrust of therapy also gives me "accept people how they are but why do we need to name it?" vibes re: neurodivergence and mental illness, Roy but only if he hasn't knowingly met any other autistic people)

[thedreadvampy]

I tried listening to Olivia Rodrigo and I'm sure this is really good for its target audience of Teen Girls Going Through A Breakup but has she actually ever put out a song that isn't about a guy cheating, breaking up with her and moving on to someone else?

like babe he's not coming back it's been 2 years you gotta find something else in your life

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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[silverselfshippingchaos]

my s/i for h.aar is a fellow wyvern rider and soldier, has a pet wyvern named olive that she loves dearly. for many many years, ash has been tying red ribbons into bows on olive's horns so that, even when they're in battle, olive can look super cute!

however, as ash and h.aar grow closer, so do their wyverns! eventually h.aar's wyvern (who I call damien) starts nudging and softly growling at ash because he wants ribbons too!!! he wants to match with olive!!!

[male--byleth]

i have the interests of a 31 year old women its so over

[lostryu]

"I can't stand by any longer" the self-righteous teenager energy is off the charts LMAO

"... is getting harassed online because of your queerphobic posts"

funny that they use 'queerphobic' here instead of homophobic or lesbophobic, hrmmm? almost like 'bi lesbian's arent lesbians and we're pointing that out? I guess the harassment online of lesbians being told our identity is just an aesthetic adjective for bi people and that we're just choosing to not be attracted to men isn't a big deal compared to the feelings of this person being hurt from the backlash of their own actions. Reminds me a lot of victim blaming from bully's parents in high school honestly.

Wishing you a nice weekend devoid of this nonsense, lostryu!

yeah, like i am very sure on some level these people realize that their arguments make zero sense in the long run, and that their rallying cry of "stop policing identities" they've started to police ours. Thankfully my inbox has been filled with overwhelming support, as opposed to someone else's. It's almost like they might be wrong...

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

It’s kind of funny how defensive I am of fandom spaces, given how petty and abnormal people have been to me in them lol

[getoheaven]

don’t like the vibe of this at all. i feel like this would assign me “girl autism” because i’m like a stereotypical people-pleasing pussy at birth autist except i got diagnosed as a little kid & got mistreated by medical professionals as much as any other person seeking an autism diagnosis. in fact, my having a diagnosis fundamentally did not influence the way i grew up as an autistic person lol it literally just meant i had a word i was too ashamed to use as a kid because it was like putting a target on my back for my peers, who already treated me bad because i behaved “weird”.