#BACK IN MY DAY THEY LOOKED REALLY BORING

[fractallogic]

There’s a BookTuber I’m subscribed to now and she’s so sweet. Like we have fundamentally different priorities (she didn’t immediately get a library card upon moving to a new city??? She hasn’t visited all of the indie bookstores near her, just B&N???), but she’s so cute and so happy and has such an interesting way of doing the parasocial relationships on her videos. CHARMING.

#my taste overlaps with hers on maybe (MAYBE) 1/3-1/2 of the books she’s excited about #but still. #it’s so interesting to also see the influence of pop culture and BookTok and goodreads reviews on what she reads #like it’s so fascinating to me that a book can’t just sound interesting to be bought on one of her bookstore blogs #it has to be interesting AND a recommendation #or interesting AND have good goodreads reviews #the first one: fair #the second one idk! maybe it’s just the books I read or my own taste #but a lot of the time I just don’t like the books that a lot of people adore on goodreads #also I can very much relate to her thought process that she talks about while discussing her haul #of when she buys multiple books by a new author (or is tempted to) #‘nope let’s read ONE and see if we like it first’ #or wanting to be a well-rounded reader so reading books that are popular but out of your comfort zone #or like a good library has the classics #side note: why are the B&N signature classics so BEAUTIFUL now #BACK IN MY DAY THEY LOOKED REALLY BORING #the sameness was definitely good for branding but GAH #anyway. it’s a shame I’m trying to set my sleep schedule to rights #because it means I can’t scare myself by reading horror and then soothe myself with tv #unfortunate.

[moeblob]

I kinda maybe put a lot of my OC plot tag lines on a Wheel and gave it a spin so outta 79 options, it landed on "Cellphone Justice" which is... these two.

Matthew "Skittles" Mouse and Daisy Eddington

Partners in justice (of sorts). They're basically vigilantes and their orders are simply text messages. They don't really know who their bosses are but they do as they are told.

Skittles is a very mediocre guy. Doesn't stand out. The most color he has in his wardrobe is blue jeans. He's amazingly asexual and has zero interest in romance regardless of intimacy and yet he gets partnered with Daisy. The gayest lady he has ever met. Great start. She enjoys calling him fun little nicknames but seeing as they're monitored closely (via cell phones/technology) she is scolded and told to pick a single one. So she does. She dubs him Skittles. The candy as gay as her.

The one thing they have in common is their number one weakness: cute girls.

Daisy turns into a stuttering MESS of a human being. A disaster. At the mere sight of a cute girl. Skittles on the other hand is TERRIFIED of them. When asked, he simply blames his life growing up. Daisy doesn't really push the matter just thinks it's a little weird to be scared of every single cute girl (no offense to the not being afraid of her taken).

#my characters #like the entire thing with skittles is just he is SO boring looking and hes so scared of cute girls #and daisy thinks its REALLY FUNNY dude why are you scared of them haha girls are GREAT #and then she meets his younger sister and is like oh dang dude she is ADORABLE and she sees him practically shaking and sweating #surely its not THAT bad but ah no wait #two days pass and daisy is like oh my god shes horrifying ????? what the hell? #and growing up with her and trying to be a good big brother is all fine and dandy until the cute lil sister gets him hurt a lot #like hospital injuries from either protecting her or just .... somehow wrong place with her at the wrong times all the time #so he gets a fear of cute girls bc his lil sister is a cute monster who is the reason most of his limbs have been broken in the past #like broken leg ? that was from amelia and a stair case #the broken arm ? trying to help amelia get something out of a tree #the broken wrist ? catching amelia falling out of a tree #the other broken leg ? amelia - #the list goes on and on and he also got into multiple fights trying to keep her safe from guys #bc she really is just a cute lil innocent looking girl but shes a schemer and it does come back to bite her #except for she has a good big bro who took the repercussions when he could #daisy just watching her partner pale and shake and sweat when hes in the same room as his sister and daisy feels so bad for him #like hes really going through it even after all these years #but meeting amelia puts a lot into perspective for when daisy and skittles are out and about #cause hes very efficient and chill talking to dudes and to mature looking women #then he turns into a bundle of nerves at wide eyed innocence and daisy is like yeah ok i gotta #i gotta be a lil less gay for his sake only if hes around cause i cant make him talk to his biggest fear thats mean #shes still really gay but yeah it works out and she looks out for him and in turn he looks out for her and its great! #they become friends! yeehaw! #lil trivia is she was a drama kid in hs and he was on the baseball team but never really played or put effort into it #she was a straight a student and he very consciously maintained a c average through calculating grades and missing stuff on tests on purpos #anyway thank u if you read all the tags or even ty if you read just hte post itself #im sorry for ocing on main when its my own ocs #ill be back tomorrow with .... idk what

[shima-draws]

I just finished Skypeia AGHHHFJHHHH it was so GOOD

#One Piece #My favorite arc BY FAR #It was really long! But it wasn’t Alabasta long!! #Also Noland’s backstory deadass made me tear up that shit was so sad #Idk this arc just really kept me hooked. Like there wasn’t really a point I got super bored #Even with all the fights going on #Also just realizing they mentioned Noland in OPLA too. Nami read Zoro the book while he was totally conked out #Anyway ANYWAY I really enjoyed it. Lots of fun character interactions #And Usopp actually getting to do stuff too?? MY MANS #Oh and Zoro’s look this arc. God he was STYLIN. I’m so weak for a man in goggles shut up. #Logically that should apply to Usopp too and you know what. Yeah. #G8 is next and I know it’s filler but I’ve heard nothing but praise for it #So I’ll probably watch it instead of skipping :’D #Shima speaks #Also I find it stupidly ridiculous and funny that YET AGAIN Oda said ‘Lol you thought x character was dead?? SIKE’ #Wiper got electrocuted and died like eight times but he’s fine actually. Also Sanji and Usopp got electrocuted too and were out #for like a full day. And then Enel zapped them AGAIN and Usopp was back on his feet like two minutes later. #Silly anime logic. It doesn’t make sense and I love it

[maxaroniiiii]

just a boy and his giant bug

#pokemon legends arceus #warden lian #lord kleavor #my art #i hate drawing pokemon #they never look right no matter how hard i try #one day im gonna have skill and come back to draw this #but sadly ive gotten bored of trying to make this look better #btw my mom ate the last of the pizza i made for myself without telling me #i was really looking forward to it and she should've asked. #this happens all the time and i hate it #that was supposed to be my one good thing from today

[zkretchy]

If anyone wanted to know my feelings regarding everyone wanting Leon-it’s basically this meme

#look i like ada #but i also really like just leon/luis #but also...ada #so...its this meme now lol #re4make #re4 #resident evil #ada wong #leon kennedy #art #zkretchy #thats two arts in a day....geez #everyone out here playing mercenaries-meanwhile i am here having shipping 'debacles' #anyhow i have written a wholeass script in my head regarding a future re title that includes ashley as well and brings luis back so #how are y'all doing? because my brain apparently got really bored but god is it fun #resident evil 4 remake #luis sera #luis serra #re4remake

[bumblingbabooshka]

Started watching SNW season 2 episode 3 and my eyes literally glazed over the moment they both came out in matching all black hoodie-leather jacket-jeans outfits and I couldn’t keep watching after that

#it was TOOO BOOOOORING for me............I want to see HIJINKS I don't care about augments or war or whatever #the augment thing was fine in the last episode bc it also had a courtoom drama and I /do/ like courtroom dramas and mystery plots #but this one was just La'an and [redacted] having a very boring date on modern day Earth which ties into something something augments Khan #the only fun part was Pelia v_v #my opinion is very biased I really can't stand more grimdark metallic war depression type plots #I skip a lot of the borg stuff on Voyager for that reason ... I'm an early seasons silliness type of guy #I hope the next episode of SNW gets back to aliens and hijinks and people in bright clothing trying to worm their way outta THIS mess #idk if this episode is fun for people who actually do care about/understand the khan stuff and the augments stuff #but please don't explain it to me v_v it will never penetrate my heart #idk how to describe 'grimdark metallic' but it's like Picard...it doesn't feel warm. It's glossy and cold. #I don't like that vibe for star trek v_v #also THIS is what it looks like when I'm not having fun so you see I was telling the truth when I said I had fun the last episode #even though I was making fun of it relentlessly...episodes can be fun-bad and I'll still thoroughly enjoy them I just couldn't get into this #please!!!! -dying- please...the goofs and gags..... #livetweeting #please star trek...the STRANGE (NEW) worlds.....not shitty earth...I'm ON shitty earth!!!

[khaothanawat]

i’ve been sort of unintentionally sitting on most of my only friends opinions but really they largely just amount to ‘thank you, she was perfect, if you get it you get it, if you don’t you don’t.’

#one day i’ll get bored and just write an entire thesis called ‘in ardent defence of only friends’ and it will be my magnum opus #and/or just me rambling about the immense attention to detail and deliberateness in all the decisions and the way the show set everything #up piece by piece like an interesting and fun little puzzle #that it’s not supposed to be a manifesto it’s just supposed to be a 12 episode snapshot into four insane months in this group of young #people’s lives. and that viewing the characters and relationships as early 20-somethings through the eyes of a slightly older and more #experienced lens (like once you’re out of your 20s and removed enough away from that time) feels like a big part of #why i found the experience as a whole so gratifying #it’s like looking back at your youth and saying wow we really lived like this #idk it’s not gonna hit the same for everyone and that’s ok but #to me it was by far the most interesting use of a university setting in a bl imo imo imo #show: only friends #only friends the series

[eggmeralda]

I wish there was a way you could put like. every song in the world on shuffle

#spotify playlists made for you are not enough #bc they're based on music i already like and i don't Wanna Hear Music I Already Like #god i need a hyperfixation that is Stable and also New (not a revival of one I've had since I was 16) #bc they introduce me to music i wouldn't have even thought of ever going near #not to compare everything to the highs of my tflu obsession but like? #that introduced me to So Much Music (some related. some not) #i probably listened to more genres in 2022 than i have ever listened to in my life #but idk. i could just listen to some random genre i have no interest in but what would be the point? #there needs to be a sort of 'hilda would've liked this in the 40s' 'this reminds me of swagtre' 'this is literally the plot of nddp' etc #sort of connection #but all i have right now is the endless cycling continuation of the south park obsession i had in 2016. which makes it very easy to just #listened to the music i listened to back then #also it's like. I've seen everything in that fandom there's nothing new i can really get out of it? #it's more just a mix of nostalgia and it's like. easy to get into bc idk. a lot of characters and storylines so you don't get bored in one #place for so long. almost the perfect obsession if it wasn't literally South Park #but surely i can just type in a character's name on spotify and find new music that way? #hahaha No #bc every single sp playlist I've looked through only seems to use like the same 10 songs. and i don't really like any of them #also 'he would not fucking say that' except it's 'he would not fucking listen to that' #most of the time. idk #i need new Vibes that's the problem #there's always a new vibe going on at all times but it seems to have stopped around the start of this year #maybe i just need a job. once i have a job there'll be a location i go to regularly. and I'll have to travel there in some way. and that #will be a new experience. and there'll be new vibes #I'll probably stumble across a new hyperfixation in the process. and then find new music from it #but for now everything is so stagnant and all i really listen to is 80s/90s indie pop and then just music i've listened to since I was 14 #i can't even ask for recommendations bc even if i like a song it has nothing to stick to in my brain #i'll be like ''this is a cool song i like it'' and listen to it on repeat and then go off it like a day later #oh fuck tag limit #ramble

[cinnamon-notes]

i have been ghosting my friends for idk a month??? and they have been doing the same??? except for when we meet in a workplace cuz somehow our jobs decided to cross over :)

#feeling so bad about it but like i cant bring myself to interact with people right now but i am also constantly sad because i dont interact #with anyone out of work :/ but working makes me socially exhausted & tbh all i wanna do is be depressed with my books & my movies &my tunes #but i also crave affection like i realize i have zero social life and i sometimes schedule some hangout with my friends but it's almost #become like idk a task? something i look at through work eyes. like- i arrange our hangouts the way i arrange work meetings. it's so sad. #i know it is. but still- i cant help it. through all my life ive been missing having a lifelong friend who knows me like the back of their #hands and i know like the back of mine. never had it. cant cry over that. it's passed. i cant invent lifelong friendships that never existed #and i gotta make peace with that. plus- what am i complaining about if im just incapable of keeping any friend for longer than a month??? #after the first month- maybe the first couple of months- it all gets boring and dont get me wrong i really love my friends but somehow they #lose interest in me and i lose interest in them and we become just people who know each other and occasionally hang out but like- i've never #had a friend who's there for me when things happen in my life. i've always had friends to tell things to afterwards. like- i know i cant #really pick up the phone and say “hey. im having a bad time. can we take a walk? talk on the phone? can you tell me about your day? can you #just be here for me?“ and i cant even idk just randomly pop up with a ”oh my god i hate him i hate him i hate him it's a whole montague vs #capulet but if romeo and juliet never existed kind of hatred!!“ i just cant vent right away. ive always thought that that's my problem. #and maybe it is. but still- how's come they can vent to me? im always there right away. i do love my people and i show up for them. #sometimes my depression makes it soooo difficult to hang out constantly but if there's one thing that cannot be said about mw is that i dont #care. cuz i do. and maybe that's the problem #and maybe it's just easier for me to care than let others care? idk? but then again- i did try to open up. i did try to let them care. i did #try everything by the book & off the book but still- idk it's always just an “im sorry” never an “i care so much to say more than im sorry” #and yeah it's my problem cuz i am not a constant person im not that steady in what i do. i still dont know if it's because i havent found #yet the people worth doing it or if i am just traumatized (my ex is knocking on this door lol) but- idk it makes me extremely sad!!! #and ive rambled on way too much but i jusg needed to let some things out of my mind cuz i cant understand whats wrong with me and why i #crave true friendships although im hella scared of and bored of and unwilling to nurturing one :) #cinnamon diary

[elisedonut]

Me posting every silly little Percy thought that pops in my head because I know in three years I'll come back and look at them like this:

I've been into fandom stuff for a long time but a few years ago decided to be more active in fandoms I like and even now looking at those old posts and accounts makes my very happy like I still have posts on fb from when I was like 14 talking about vocaloid and its just what i imagine reading a diary is like when you were actually happy with your life it's a nice feeling and I recommend everyone to do it

#percy weasley #like looking at posts about my actual life at the time? ew gross hate that no #but fandom posts??? awww how sweet #like i have nothing from my knd days(my very first fandom at like 11) because i was in my “lets delete things when i get bored” era #granted the only thing i ever did in that fandom was make bad “amvs” (read slideshows) and post them on youtube #now i do still have some from the fandom right after that one when i got really really into shipping sp characters for like a year because #at some point i uploaded them to facebook for some reason #so i have three(3) shitty south part slideshow amvs just hiding in my videos from 2011 because i don't really want to delete them #because like that's my history and it's all i got left #anyway don't delete things kids #no matter how cringe you think it is one day you will look back like kfjshdkofljads about it

[deus-ex-mona]

little brothers and their will to #slay, man </3

#while yes yes this post technically does apply to the simp bros i wanna cry about my own bro in the tags so you have been warned~? #so to start off my monthly existential crisis rant i just wanna say that… i’m so so soo envious of my bro. like to a really unhealthy extent #he’s tall enough to reach the top shelves. i can barely touch them if i jump. he has so many friends and even a gf. i have 0 irl friends. #he is able to sit in one spot and focus on his studies. i can’t even sit down for a full half hour to *eat* without getting up to take a nap #he’s learning how to drive. i can’t. he was admitted into university. i wasn’t. he’s able to find what he likes and stick to it. i can’t. #like mannn. he thrived in the course he chose in tertiary education while i lost my passion for it in the middle of my first year. #he’s good at picking up everything he tries (puzzle cubes; bball; you name it he’s good at it) while i’m just. bad at everything i try lol #he’s very good at his studies (aside from languages) and sports. i’m not good at anything at all. #he gets told that he has a great sense of humour. i’m just. boring and annoying. lolllll #he’s super sociable and he has good relations with pretty much every single family member (sans me). i’m not in contsct with most of the fam #heck he was pretty much the favourite from the moment he was born. his baby pics still get brought up from time to time bc of how cute he is #(granted it’s bc he looks like a bby m*ch*l*n man (like the tire company mascot) and he’s super cute in them but still) #and he’s also a guy and content with being a guy which is just… not fair y’knowwww~~~ asian family boy biases and all (cries) #our father pretty much cast me aside once my bro was old enough to hang with him. and even before then the bias was as clear as day. >:((((( #i make the dude mad? i get screamed at and whaccced. bro gets the dude mad? he gets a lesson on how to throw punches instead!!! like wow!!!! #he’s the only one who got to escape any direct physical harm from the guy and yet!!!! he was the 1st one to be singled out for trauma focus #idk if it’s bc of his age back then or whattttt but i can’t believe i had to friggin’ ask my therapist back then for a trauma assessment :( #2015 was a different time… my bro managed to succeed in school while i was rejected from the drama club for being too depressed :(((( #but i’m sure my bro has his own share of struggles… and i’m glad that he has a few groups of friends to chill with. really. #but i just can’t help feeling extremely envious of him. i could never tell him any of this though we hardly talk at home lol #and he pretends not to know me when i approach him in public lmfaoooo. i don’t blame him though; i’d do the same if i were to approach me #so yeah. if you read this i’m sorry for being cringefail and bad at everything~~ am i still allowed to pollute your dash~? <3 #and also. idk if i’ll be able to continue sischange over this week bc i’ll be handling 2 workstations by meself :( and idk how tired i’ll be #but we’ll see ok~? sorry for having zero time management skills am i still qualified to be a legit adult~? #sunday’s 🧂saltfest🧂

[purble-gaymer]

pokemon xy is ten years old now. what the hell

#rhyn rambles #back in my day games were only $30-40 #you guys cannot imagine how i felt looking to buy kirby tdx and seeing it was $40 on the eshop. blast from the past #anyway. i love xy i have a lot of good memories of it #i recently restarted my file and got really bored with the pacing of it #but also i hadn’t gotten to the good part yet sooo… #x was the first time i beat the champion in a pkmn game (i was like nine) #and i think it’s the only time i’ve ever done it without soft resetting after a loss OOPS.. #i probably did omega ruby legit but i’m not sure about any others off the top of my head #i don’t have that kinda patience anymore or something dkfhj

[waugh-bao]

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#I’m a stupid stupid stupid person #last week when I went to Southampton (all curses be upon that place and its horrid uni) I saw in the papers of the amateur historian I was #looking at that he had the exact dates for the opening and closing of one my merchant figure’s account at the Bank of England #the BofE Archives have a really primitive search mechanism #so you have to contact one of the archivists to actually see if they have the material #and because I’m an antisocial nocturnal cave creature (ie a historian) I’d rather die than have to interact with another human #thus I put off emailing them until today when I was in the BL waiting for a request to be fulfilled #and they got back to me a few hours later to say that they do have what I want #and that there are open spots to work there from the 18th of July #which would be great #if I weren’t in Taiwan from the 13th #so I wrote back and explained that I’m traveling/researching/working for the rest of the summer and going back to my PhD program in Sept #the absolute angel of an archivist who I will love for all time told me that there was a cancellation for the 3rd-4th he would give me #and that he would ‘flex’ the 15 documents per day rule so I could look at everything #the 3rd is going to be a mess because I’m coming back from Bulgaria late that morning #but I will somehow get myself from Gatwick to Central London and make it work #(just praying they allow photography) #I guess the life lesson of this extremely long and boring story is that procrastination pays ??? #me stuff #not the stones

[basslinegrave]

can we go back?

#:((( #miss old mmos #and online games in general #as a kid i would be on superhry or agame or ggg etc every day checking out a new game and then replaying my faves #many of those are completely gone now #replaced by more but mainly worse games #like the elsagate bs and cheap looking 3d bootlegs of other games like wheres the creativity #not saying older kids games were more creative (at least 50% were dressup games and you had stuff like angry bird clones etc) #but they looked better and there were a ton of timeless staples that every kid knew and kept coming back to #but when it comes to these 3d worlds 9yo me was fucking amazed #even if it was really low poly and simple i was mesmerized #but it also came with a sense of dread (many times empty worlds or muted colors that just looked sad like that one 3d pigeon game) #but i also miss websites that barbie poly pocket and disney had #and pixel chix etc i could play some minigames infinitely and never get bored #hmm #thoughts are being thunk

[confinesofmy]

fun fact: i sat backwards on the school bus with my feet braced on my seat, knees against my chin, and my back wedged up against the back of the seat in front of mine every school day for over a year

#i would get really badly overstimmed so i just listened to my headphones scrunched up in a fucked up fetal position for 2 hours every day #genuinely i have never wanted to die as much as i did on the bus #i'm not saying i would've stayed in public school longer if i hadn't had to ride the bus bc i really physically needed to gtf outta there #but god it was so bad #do you ever look back at bad things in your childhood and think 'oh i wasn't being dramatic that shouldn't have been happening to me' #like i told people 'i hate the bus' but i didn't have the words to communicate what the deal was at all #so they probably thought i found it boring or whatever #no i was having panic attacks & doing really weird shit to stay grounded & getting bullied all in a big metal box i wasn't allowed to leave #every day #jesus #adam talks too much

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#if u happen to b invested in my emailing profs. the lady from yesterday emailed me back almost immediately #to day that my interests and background sound ideal! which is v true! its such a good match! and i should email back in autumn to see abt #a project in 2023! which is v exciting and i hope things come together. apparently its harder to get funding for international students #so i was like cool cool. u will def hear back from me and also can u send me this paper that i cant get online #and she sent it so now i have a wicked cool paper to read. hhhhh i hope this works out #in other news i talked to my parents todsy and they wanna pay for me to fly home for a bit and i was like YES! which is exciting #not sure when itll happen. hopefully before fall. but yeah thats cool. i felt like such a loser bc my life is so boring rn i was like: wait #keep talking to me! i have nothing better to be doing! except thats not true im just avoiding doing things #SPEAKING OF WHICH we have this supid mini conference thing going on rn and i was super looking forward to not attending this yr #bc im not funded by them anymore. but i have to give a presentation thrus so i am invited and i guess my boss expected me to b there? #like if i went it would just be a massive waste of time that i would hate and im not like the most stable rn #like im srry i really don't give a fuck abt shrub encroachment. so i might as well do something useful with my time? #like im sure the main reason they hold it is for networking but i really really dont want to talk to anyone so im just gonna awkwardly sit #around and hate everything. but like maybe i should go as rep for my lab? #but like 3 other lab members r there so like u dont need me there. i really just wanna show up for my talk and fuck off #i really dont want to go tomorrow. i dont have anything that i could bring for lunch and again. dont wanna b there #and i havent done a rapid test which they wanted everyone to do before showing up #so idk what im gonna do. im gonna have tk txt my boss like: do u really want me to b there tomorrow? #but i dont kno how to say that without it sounding like i have a bad attitude bc i absolutely do lol #i just dont wannnna goooooo #unrelated