#how am i supposed to solve these

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I really am a sucker for two people going from hissing like cats at each other to "due to deeply unfortunate events, I now trust this person with my life." And I'm all for shipping but I mean this platonically, as well, two friends that started out thinking the other person is the most annoying individual on the planet and ending up at soft smiles and warm hugs and "you trust me right?" "absolutely."

#many people will reblog this with their blorbos #but what they don't know is that this is about John Barnaby and Ben Jones #everyone reading that last tag: it's about whomst? #they went from mocking each other and trying to solve the case behind each other's backs #to trusting each other without question and one of them being the godparent to the other's kid #like how am I NOT supposed to have some emotions about this? #everyone in the 911 fandom worryingly peering down the rabbit hole like #'is Mads climbing back up yet? no? still stuck down there?' #yeah. still down here. sorry.

[b4kuch1n]

ough brain is doing SO bad but sometimes. there are colors

#bakuspeech #WIP #cw: gore #the stuffed animal cartoon kind. but still #ask to tag #Im so fucking sorry I keep going like I will draw! (does not draw for three weeks #I. ngl Somethin is goin on up there. I finished writing a Thing and it doesnt solve that #I just. this is my capacitance really I think. I just gotta. accept it. work with it #its always so funny tho bc like I look at whatever it is Im drawing rn and its like hey this looks like shit! this looks ass #and then I keep drawing it. #like this piece is at Least two weeks into something thats supposed to be a pretty quick revised illus for #an old wizard leon design. and like if I werent Bit Off it wouldve stayed that way #instead. this is how its goin #I have not slept for 23 hours. I should uh. fix that #but yeah its just. my brain is wrappin itself around some new ideas n concepts n shit rn #like. I was really afraid I wouldnt be able to paint digitally if Im not on the screen tablet #and its kinda fuckin with me? like obviously I can. I am literally doing the exact same things Im doing on the screen tablet #but now on a graphic tablet #thats just. not getting thru to my brain yet. for some reason. its still generating goo n such #well! what is a guy to do. if not blastin off regardless #sorry. I really should sleep now #have a good night lads! this piece will be done when its done. I am NOT saying more I am not jinxing SHIT #u should change ur pillowcases! it really does send u to another realm

[pyrepostings]

whumpee who's only given soft water to drink/bathe with.

#pyreprompts #Sourced from a very unfortunate hotel experience #I understand soft water in the shower because the glass door #But the sink too? Sir I just had several drinks at your bar I am thorsty for something that doesn't taste like soap #Too tired to go see if there's a water fountain around the corner #In too much period cramps to fall asleep #Def dehydrated #Don't know if soft water is like actually bad for you or just tastes like shit #Eyes too adjusted to darkness to want to get on my phone to find out #Bad time #Could be solved if water was palatable #Give that option to your chained in the basement whumpee #I say bathe as well because low pressure hotel shower plus soft water equals Bad Sensory Time #How are you supposed to feel clean??? #Whump prompt #whump prompts #whump scenario #whumpee #whump #whump ideas #whumper #Also also can't get over the keurig in the room #Are they expecting guests to put salty soapy water in the machine to make their tea or coffee?? Huh??? #Anyway my point is make your whumpee dring vile tasting water it's so effective

[peachcitt]

for some reason my post announcing the chapter yesterday did not post even a little bit - one would think the goodwill bathroom would be perfect for that sort of thing.

anyway, because of that here's me telling you that both chapters 2 & 3 of my @ladrienjune fic greatest hits are now available!!

you can read them here

see y'all tomorrow!!<3

#ladrien #ladrien june #ladrien june 2023 #ml #ml fic #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug fic #and then for the entire rest of the day and also as of the last time i have checked today the tumblr post button WOULDNT WORK #(on mobile. of course on goddamn mobile) #like i tap on it and it kind of bounces a bit (ya know showing it's been tapped) and then DOES NOTHING #how am i supposed to live my life and also post a daily fic in these conditions. #i hope whatever bug it is is solved by the time 5-6 pm when i have to post (currently 11:55) (sometimes im forward-looking)

[licorishh]

Most people really don't seem to understand that friendship is a two-way street.

They expect you to wait on them hand and foot as they rant about and constantly pour on you either their issues or their passions and when you finally have something you'd like to talk about you get a "Man that sucks :/" or a "Cool" in return.

Find somebody who doesn't do that. Then you'll have your best friend.

#i know i ramble sometimes and i'm extremely grateful that my best friend puts up with it :') #but see then in return i do the same for her because it would be completely unfair for me to expect her to act like a wall for me to talk a #or when i wanna show her something and i can tell she's being polite and it doesn't personally strike her fancy I MOVE ON #and she does the same for me and we have way frickin better communication and we have a frickin rad friendship #it's give and take #and also can we bring back the idea of being able to work through some things on your own? #like i am ALL FOR having a support system that can encourage you when things go wrong but some things can be solved on your own #i shouldn't be bearing the burden of figuring out your life for you you know? #i'm absolutely willing to help but if you're just going to spend all your time complaining to me and never ever take my advice #then there comes a point at which i'm literally just acting as your therapist and that's not how friendships are supposed to work #i've become kind of the designated therapist in a lot of friendships throughout my life #and it is exhausting constantly being complained at (sometimes over very minor things) #only to have that person or people COMPLETELY ignore your advice every single time you try to give it #that's not friendship my dude that's using me because you just want someone to complain to #like i said. support system good. treating your friend like an emotional punching bag to let out your problems 24/7 very very bad. #like when i was feeling completely unlike myself and irritated and frustrated for three dang years straight #i didn't really talk about it much because i knew it wasn't the kind of thing advice was going to fix #so i wasn't in the discord servers every two seconds “MAN I REALLY JUST DON'T FEEL GOOD :///” #because when other people do this to me there comes a point at which i'm like “WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT IT” #like i've given you all the advice i have and you have taken absolutely none of it nor have you taken any action on your own #so now i'm just here to make you feel better about yourself and that's really not my job #emotional support is necessary. patting you on the head when you refuse to do anything to better your situation is not. #tl;dr people who refuse to do anything to better their situation other than complain to ME about it 24/7 drive me nuts #and it drives other people nuts so please don't do it to anyone #don't bottle up your emotions but also don't let them come crashing down and drown everyone you know #just because you can't be bothered to put ANY effort forth to contain them #emotional regulation is attractive~~~ #society today has built such a culture of “it's not YOUR fault and if you cry about it hard enough someone will fix it for you” like no sir #sometimes it IS your fault and sometimes you DO need to take responsibility #and if it is your fault then absolutely no one but you is obligated to fix it

[liu-anhuaming]

So I'm taller than my boss and coworker, and we have these tables in the printshop where we stand and work, and they're all too short for me. My neck and back hurt when I work at them

So today today while working on a huge binding job I asked if we could look into getting a taller table or finding a way to lift one of our tables so it's less painful and he was like, "can't you just put the binding machine on a box of paper? or bring a chair over?"

And it's like, yeah I could, but I would also like to have a workspace where I can stand without developing back problems

#there is not a single table that stands higher than my upper thigh #he was also like 'where am i supposed to find a taller table' #like idk you're a manager. learn how to problem solve. ask facilities. google it.

[vraska-theunseen]

im genuinely so frustrated right now the way i always am about this one thing but i can't even sustain the misery right now because i've never been able to come up with any kind of answer no matter how many miserable drafts i write and hours i stay up thinking so it's just making me laugh how the posts im writing to keep in my drafts keep turning into my fucking. autobiography. "...i remember a stage kiss with a tall girl in theater camp (her name was ashley or jennifer or something she could do the splits)" that's literally so funny. jennifer or ashley do you remember playing spin the bottle at the arden theater camp in 6th grade it's apparently pretty core for me

#guys its just literally so stupid bc i have a concern but i don't know if i even want it solved or explored it just makes me feel so fucking #lonely! so im stuck in this place where i dont want to go out and figure it out i just want things to happen to me but i also am scared of #things to happen to me and i also know that its not just a happening to me thing it's a thing i have to feel and pursue but man how am i #supposed to know how to do it if i can't like. literally so dumb i don't even know #i want to have already experienced things i and i want to already know things and how i feel about them because it feels too embarrassing to #be having a go at it now like im a little kid because i'm not anymore but man what am i meant to do just shoulder the whole weight now when #im an adult why couldn't i have it before. why couldn't i know how to do it. and no matter how many tv shows and movies i watxh i'll never #get anything like that bc that's not real. that can't be my bar that's not real! this is so stupidnobody read this nobody read this #alex talks

[blackwaxidol]

"A desk would fix me" is such a simple but truthful declaration... I see it, the end is in sight...

Lumbar support...

#I'd need to physically go to IKEA for it... Mother insists we see desks and chairs in person... #So I will reaffirm that tomorrow I suppose. #It would be nice to have a desk where I can file relevant information. #And have my drawing tablet on and such. #Effectively I envision productivity from it. #Using my laptop as I currently am is going to turn me into the Joker if it hasn't already. #I don't know why I am thinking about this currently... #It just seems like an obvious solution to me. #When I categorise the source of many woes. #I want a desk so I can do remote work more efficiently. #So I can do online school maybe... #And lessen the sense that I am disappointing my mother. Giggles. #I have some kind of attachment problem regarding her I realise. #Not sure how to solve that imminently. Like most things I see it as several steps in a distant future that I will realise. #It will start with... getting a desk. #I think I need to decorate my room before getting a desk. #When we first moved here my mother for whatever reason thought putting the bed in first made the most sense. #Your honour we cannot wallpaper that wall because of it ❤️ #I am rambling... My body temperature is absurd so I am boiling alive. #delete later. #Goodnight everyone. Again. #Mwah. Or meow. Meows at you...

[bookwyrminspiration]

incredibly displeased by those tik tok/instagram promotions for books that are a person making a yearning face, sometimes with a hand over their mouth, to dramatic or romantic music as line by line an incredibly out of context scene is shared and it's climax is something like "who did this to you" or they go "and there on the doorstep was him." You have given me practically nothing! I don't know what the plot is, I don't know what the age range is, I don't even know the genre half the time! All I've been given to entice me is a single line. And why should I read the book when I already know what the line is? There's nothing else to pull me in; I can just take this and leave.

And sure, I can look up further information and find out more, but it feels like all these stories are being taken apart algorithmically to find the pieces that best check the most boxes and that's what's being shared. Like the story itself doesn't matter, it's what tropes and "moments" it can contain and puzzle together into a story. I don't know, I just think a story should be more than plugging well-liked things together. It should be more than a snapshot. And while you can't fit the whole story into a tik tok or a reel or a youtube short or anything, the format of those right now feels so bland and generic

There is a place for simple literature and simple enjoyment but I think it's become too prevalent and overstepped it's place

#literature #booktok #bookstagram #bookblr #discourse #every time I see one and the caption is something akin to 'would you read this? *eyes emoji*' #I'm like how am I supposed to know if I would? books are dozens of thousands of words long. these hundred (if that) tell me very little #in the grand scheme of things #anyway don't mind me it's just been bugging me #there is a place for literature like that #and there is nothing wrong with enjoying that #but when it becomes /everything/? #that's where the problem lies #yes I can block things and that solves things for me personally. but that doesn't get rid of the wider issue

[cappurrccino]

i hope one day i actually get a job where instead of dragging my heels when i need to go get ready, it doesn't feel like a chore to leave the house

#//juri speaks #i think the bigger issue is that leaving the house = anxiety #and also there's always so much shit to do and not enough time bc work takes all the time #which is a situation that will not be solved with a different job #but man. imagine. not feeling like a useless imposter all day every day #i want that. i don't know how to get it when my brain is broken and i don't even know who i am as a person. but i want it. #anyway. can you tell what i'm supposed to be doing right now?

[thelaughingmerman]

I swear I promise I'll take my meds this weekend

#i cant anymore dude maybe half my problems will be solved if i take my iron supplements #but im not sure of its just the anemia making things this bad for me #like im so weak its hard to stand ive slept on and off for 18 hours and im still so echausted #i missed my chance to call off for the night but i will put in another dy for wednesday #i cant do it dude i wish i knew what was wrong with me im so scared its something much more malicious #just because of how tired i am and how much weight i lost #im genuinely worried if it is something worse ill just mentally give up like i wouldnt be able to handle it #i just want to go home dude im not supposed to be here

[a-passing-storm]

I literally cannot find one single platonic Gale & Reader fic!

#if anyone has a recommendation please for the love of god send it to me #if not i suppose i must write my own. #i don't really like writing fanfiction that much though. idk i guess for me it's like the writing equivalent of junk food #in that i enjoy writing it sometimes but it never like... it's never new or interesting (for me) and i don't feel proud of my work or... #like... fulfilled? it isn't even like a I Am Enjoying It So I Feel Guilty thing so much as like... i write it because i'm avoiding thinking #about like... my actual stories that i want to write but that require some problem solving. it feels like stagnating and just. #i don't know how to explain it junk food would be the best way like. #i love junk food it's great and i'm not denying that the flavors Do go well together and imo it's good for the soul to eat junk food #but if it's all that you eat you feel like shit and you aren't getting a Balanced Meal and in fact are lacking important things in your die #idk how to explain it!!!! i do think fanfic can be art like. it's not that i don't think it's Real Writing or sm but like... i gotta vary i #ANYWAY all of this is to say that i may in fact write platonic gale fanfic because... the world (me) needs it #dante dicit #gale #gale dekarios #gale bg3 #might delete

[mqstermindswift]

oml I'm so fcking done with her

#she gets mad over almost everything #she js gets mad at me when i dont do what she wants/tell her everythjng while she never does so either so whats the problem #dont like being treated like how you treat me huh? #idec atp i have other friends who value me more anyway #we were supposed to be “bsfs” ha thats a joke #and why am i always expected to mske a move and try to get her to make up first while most of the time its not even my fault #girly if u have problems go solve them i dont have to deal with your shit <3 #p.s. this is for my rl “bsf”

[oshaviolater]

some1 said they have the brain power of a potato when it comes to grasping principles nd recognising LC patterns nd i have never related that hard 2 smth

#why is getting a fucking job so hard nowadays #its not just about even the fucking grind at this point #u have to be fucking perfect with the the solution with zero circle mistake #me messing up easy questions bc im a nervous wreck 🫡 #how am i supposed to solve mediums in 20 mins #oh my goddd me dead brooo

[spacedustmantis]

sometimes i wish that writing people kissing or making out or alluding to them having sex (or even actually writing the sex tho that's not my cup of tea) wasn't seen as so... sexy. like. sometimes sex and making out and whatever is part of a character, or a dynamic, or a conflict, and writing about it shouldn't be seen as horny. not always at least. idk just kinda upsets me

#goes hand in hand with the sanitization of media #and the vilification of sexuality #and yes this is about q!charlie and q!mariana #they have canon on-screen sex!!! #how the fuck am i supposed to write about how they 'solve' their issues by making out? without it seeming fucking horny?!? #✨ #💬

[zhoras-bitch]

Despite some flaws, Murder at Homecoming was still a very good heartfelt book that absolutely nailed the grounded personal drama parts of the story and I'm so sad that it's over 💔

#i miss mc they were so cool #and how am i supposed to sleep at night #when we never solved perdita's case #i am so sad #murder at homecoming #playchoices #bitch plays