#imaginary conversations

[mbrainspaz]

Christians going "Yeah I'm christian, go ahead and persecute me! I'm used to it!" is so sad and funny at the same time. Especially in America. You're not gonna get that from me hun. Like I'm gonna waste my energy talking to christians after I had to spend a decade deconstructing my own faith. Either you'll figure things out eventually or you'll double down until you're fully entrenched. As long as you leave non-christians alone that's your business.

I know if some burned out queer cowboy hobo had told 20 year old christian kid me what their adult life was really gonna be like...

"kiddo, I know you're a vaguely nationalist christian fundamentalist now but just wait until every aspect of your blessed social order fails you and you spend a little time homeless. Oh—you thought you couldn't be homeless if you just worked hard enough? Honeyyy. Your first 'christian' bosses won't even give you lunch breaks even though they live in mansions with their trophy wives. You got a degree so you could sell their scammy fake diet pills and live on instant potatoes with hot dog bites and sleep on the floor by the fireplace in your first drafty apartment like it was 1813. Also you have mental illnesses. Spoilers. No, you can't just power through ADHD. Yes it is a real thing. So is the family history of chronic depression your dad hasn't told you about yet. You think that's bad? Wait until he disowns you during the pandemic. Don't worry about the pandemic yet, but yeah, that's how you ended up homeless. Why didn't you just buy a house? With your christian husband? Ohhhh. Ooooof. Well let's gloss over the next few economic disasters but basically you're gonna nearly marry a guy next year until he loses his temper and destroys your trust. It's for the best though because he kinda turns into one of those right wing gun nuts a few years down the road. Dodged a bullet there! Literally lmao. Oh you... you want to know why you didn't become a missionary? So the church actually doesn't let 'single women' do mission work. Yeah... yeah it is to stop you from leading the single male missionaries astray. You kind of already knew where that was going. Don't worry, the misogyny only gets more blatant from here. Just wait until you're 25. Hey, remember how fun it was to sit with your parents in church? You get to do that for so many more years because there are no other unmarried 20-somethings in fundamentalist churches. If you leave and go to a different church your dad will disown you. He does that like 6 times though, so it does lose its sting. What were the other times? Um... okay so it was 'going to a church he didn't like,' 'being too single,' 'not praying enough' (don't ask me to explain that one, I'm still confused), 'having too many pets that might scare away the men,' and 'not voting for trump.' Oh! By the way, if you get a chance to go to a state fair and throw tomatoes at that guy in say... mid 2015, don't pass that up. You'll regret it. Especially while you're stuck living on a ranch with looney white nationalists in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. Oh shit—right! You don't even know white nationalists really exist! Wow. You've really never had to overhear a single conversation where white boomers fantasize about going downtown to do armed 'patrols' of black neighborhoods. By that point you'd realized you were very alone in a southern town that had already tried to off you in a multitude of disturbing ways. They weren't keen on the idea of you being queer either. I know you already know but you—yeah, you just assumed it would be easier to hide and go along with the status quo. Naaah. Nope. Not worth it. You only really wanted to do that so your parents would love you and that was a loss from the moment they put conditions on it. You could never have done enough to earn their love. They don't have it to give. That's on them though. Ok big question time: Do you still believe in god? Yes and no. Give it like... 14 times of people saying 'it's god's will' whenever something goes their way and another 20 of them accusing you of consorting with demons whenever you disagree. The pattern becomes pretty clear. Maybe you do still believe in god but definitely not your parents' god. And definitely not any god that would be on the side of empires and bigots. In fact, not any god that would let those powers claim him... if he had any power to stop them."

"But I do at least get a bunch of animals?"

"Oh yeah. Smeags is still alive. Right now I've got three dogs and a freaking horse that looks exactly like our favorite childhood stuffed animal."

"A HORSE!?"

#deconstruction #ex evangelical #conversation with my past self #10 years later #ramble #personal problems #be careful where you put your faith #imaginary conversations

[valmare]

**Val Kilmer conversations and how i imagine they’d go**

Val: why are you so obsessed with me

Me: honestly? no idea. bet

#Val Kilmer #imaginary conversations #roflmao #honestly I have no idea #I’m obsessed with him #I love him #kazansky queen™️

[notalisonyet]

I imagine this conversation as Kiki returns the broom at the end of Kiki’s Delivery Service:

Kiki (bowing): Thank you so much for letting me borrow this!

Street sweeper: Oh, not at all! I’m glad it was useful!

Kiki: It’s a good broom. Please continue to take good care of it.

Street sweeper: Oh! Well, if you like it so much—you could have it!

Kiki: Oh, no! I couldn’t! It belongs with you. It wouldn’t like to be given away.

Street sweeper (looking with puzzlement at broom-head): Is that so . . . ?

#kiki’s delivery service #studio ghibli #hayao miyazaki #anime #animated films #witches #1980s #movies #films #broom #imaginary conversations #fan scene

[englishmagic]

“I want to read, but I’ve only got the emotional patience to read about characters I already know, interacting in relatively low stakes situations, with a high chance of queer activities.”

“You want to read fanfiction.”

“I want to read fanfiction.”

#fanfiction #imaginary conversations #I just don’t have the gumption to form any new relationships with characters I don’t already care about #also heterosexuals #very much don’t have the patience for heterosexuality right now

[fakecoolkid]

My imaginary conversation with someone since they are still ignoring me.

Me: hey, so it’s been a few days. Do you wanna talk yet?

Them: oh hey! Yeah! Sure. I’m feeling rested now. How are you?

M: oh I’m okay I guess. Been looking for housing. I really missed you

T: I missed you too. I have so much to tell you!

M: oh cool :3 like what?

T: well, I think you’re right. I don’t think I see [redacted] being a primary partner anymore

M: whys that?

T: I see what you mean about the minimizing and gaslighting. I’m sorry that I didn’t validate your experiences.

M: yeah I mean.. I told you about my therapist saying they were abusing me back in May

T: yeah, I guess I just figured you had somehow manipulated your therapist to sympathize with you

M: understandable

T: after my gig, I’m going to be spending time with another friend. We can stay in touch though.

M: I’d like that :3

T: me too

#imaginary conversations #imaginary scenarios #actually schizoaffective #schizoaffective

[catmint1]

What is reading but silent conversation?

Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

#quotes #walter savage landor #imaginary conversations #on reading #reading books #text

[egodb]

„How to be social“ ist meine Frage #2

(Part 1)

So, today, I became super self-conscious of my English enunciation, and had an imaginary conversation with an imaginary person (P) who showed some interest.

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P: That's an interesting accent!

Me: Thanks, I like to keep my diction accurate.

Me: Is this me dissing the American accent? It is, though.

Me: Is that rude?

Me: Welp, let's hope they don't notice.

P: Cool! I don't focus on it as much...

Me: Is this....is this it?

Me: OPEN THE GATES!

* inhales sharply *

Me: * with sparkling eyes * YeahIpayspecialattentiontoitbecauseImcurrentlystudyingSanskritgrammarandit'ssuperinteresting!Forinstance,there'sthesetwosūtras:thefirstoneisरषाभ्यांनोणःसमानपदेwhichmeansadentalnasalconsonantwhenprecededbyanalveolartaporareotroflexsibilantinthesameworditgetaconvertedtoaretroflexnasal,andthenextoneisअट्कुप्वाङ्नुम्व्यावयेऽपिwhichsaysthatifthefollowinglettersappearbetweenthetaporthesibilant,andthedentalnasal,itstillgetsconvertedtotheretroflexnasal.So,पाणिनिwasamazingatusingabbreviations,sothesūtrasaysअट्-कु-पु-आङ्-नुम्whichthemselvesareabbreviations.Like,अट्meansallvowels,semivowelsandह्.कुandपुmeanallthevelarandlabialconsonants.आङ्isaprefixasinगच्छतिistogoandआगच्छतिistocome,andनुम्isanotheraffix,notaprefixorsuffix,whichaddsadentalnasalafterthelastvowelinthebasicrootformofaverbundercertainconditions.So,ifanyofthesearebetweenthoseletters,thedentalnasalgetaconvertedtotheretroflex. And you need good diction to pronounce these sūtras perfectly otherwise it'd be impossible to parse them.

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...yeah, I don't know what happened to my imaginary interlocutor. I completely forgot they existed...which might actually happen if I do get started on stuff I'm intensely interested in... huh.

#how to be social ist meine frage #language nerd #shower thoughts #internal monologue #voices in my head #social anxiety #imaginary scenarios #imaginary conversations #mental chatter #why is no one else talking about this #specifically to me

[kitarlon]

Me: Hey, God? What's up with birds. God:... Me: More specifically penguins. God: *divine disappointment* Me: I mean they're cool and all but behaviorally... God: Let's discuss the fact that you're dead and about to be judged shall we? Me: ...Can we do the after we talk about penguins?

#god #imaginary conversations #not canon #god's disappointed in me for sure #penguins #afterlife

[aurpiment]

I had a dream that I was watching The Terror again and it was… a bit different.

There was a plot where Francis Crozier was pregnant. Not by Fitzjames, no; they weren’t close like that. I think by someone who was 1) a casual hookup and 2) dead. He was confiding in Fitzjames about it, though, and complaining of breast soreness. Fitzjames asked him if he was sure he was pregnant and he said yes, that he recognized the symptoms from when he was younger, and then told a story about how his mother had helped him get an abortion when he was a teenager so he could pursue his then-incipient naval career.

Unfortunately, in the dream, I was watching this version of The Terror with my father and brother and they were confused. “But he’s a man! How is such a thing possible?”

“Transgender,” I explained impatiently, because it was obvious this was the direction the show had gone with the character, even though the actor playing him was still cisgender actor Jared Harris.

“But still, no way this would happen,” I added. “I mean, look at him. He’s GOT to be post-menopausal.”

#mt #this was like #well after the men had started dying #there’d been some disaster and the party had split and regathered #they’d gotten back onto the boat? #the ice had melted enough to sail a little? #mr hickey was there and kept trying to joint the conversation and Crozier kept telling him exasperatedly to drive the boat #all the while Crozier had a hand up his own shirt trying to relieve his #breast pain #anyway before you ask he DID have pale pink white person nipples. I seen them. #I think in the dream it was mastitis but that’s so rare antepartum #just one of the many ways the writing was unrealistic smdh! #but shout out to the imaginary Irish Catholic woman helping her kid get an abortion in like 1812. I DO want to believe. queen shit fr! #the terror #god Fitjames was such an idiot about it #it was like month four or five and he was like ‘do you think it could be a tumor’ #TUMORS DONT KICK HE JUST TOLD YOU IT WAS KICKING #DUMB ASS #but he was genuinely concerned as a friend so some crimes can be forgiven #francis crozier’s geriatric pregnancy hour #edit: the croziers were from ulster and Presbyterian. my bad! #sorry for calling his ma a Catholic do you forgive me

[aropride]

u can literally talk abt ur own experiences with transphobia and people being violent or bigoted or cruel towards you because you're a trans man and people will compare you to deranged conspiracy theorists for daring to say you might experience discrimination. it's fucking crazy like what level of internet brainrot do you have to have to think it's helpful on any level to deny someone's experiences and call them conspiracy theorists because they're a trans man and "men aren't oppressed" or whatever

#text #and also telling transmascs to shut up abt our experiences w transphobia In Conversations Abt Transphobia is crazyyyy #we are trans too. #i see a lot of trans men/transmascs echoing this out of i guess like ??? #idk i think it comes from combination of self doubt + being Online + wanting to not be transmisogynistic but like.. #its not transmisogynistic to talk abt ur experiences with transmasc oppression #& like ur experiences are 'valid' i know thats a stupid word but yknow what i mean #inb4 'wow tmes only problems are people being mean online shut up cuntboy' -__- This post is about a specifically online problem #people generally do not act like this in real life bc theres some level of needing to be decent to other people face to face 😭 #there are also other offline problems. lots of them. & im not saying this doesnt happen offline either but . YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING #WHY AM I ENTERTAINING IMAGINARY BAD FAITH INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS POST #anyway this is about the term 'transandrophobia truther' do not derail ❤️ #transandrophobia #transphobia #discourse

[quotergirl19]

Imaginary Polin Season 3 Scene:

Penelope: Marina was wrong about you.

Colin: What did she say?

Penelope: That you weren’t like other gentlemen who played games, but you do. Why else would you pretend to care about me & my family and play the part of the dashing hero?

Colin: Of course I care about you. I told you, you are my friend…

Penelope: Not an hour after you told me that I was special to you, you were mocking me behind my back with your real friends. I was looking for Eloise when I heard you all laughing at me. Did you think I’d never find out? Perhaps it is your opinion that I am such an undesirable wallflower, I should be grateful for the pity you call friendship.

Colin: I do not pity you…

Penelope: Then you are ashamed of being acquainted with me. Either way let us be clear, I am not special to you and I know that now. My mama told me as much but I did not heed her because I trusted you. But the truth is you are no friend of mine and I was a fool for believing otherwise.

Colin: Penelope, please… you are upset. Perhaps some fresh air would… *he reaches for her and she pulls away*

Penelope: The air here is fine and I must remind you that I am not yours to touch. I was good to you. I was a true friend when you needed one & I always would have been. You will never fool me again. Do not write me letters or try to take me by the hand and if your mother tells you to dance with me, I ask that you refrain. You are nothing but a distraction when I should be focusing on finding someone who truly sees me. That is what I deserve, a good and kind man to marry and build a life with. That is my purpose after all. You may never grasp this but I am a woman now, and I want a man. I can no longer waste my time with a boy like you. Enjoy the season Mister Bridgerton.

Colin: *speechlessly looking like a sad puppy *

#imaginary Bridgerton scene of the day #bridgerton #polin #polin conversations #penelope featherington #Colin Bridgerton #she fell first he fell harder #penelope x colin #colin x penelope #Bridgerton Season 3 speculation

[mbrainspaz]

me: okay so there are deadlines coming up.

brain: hm? No.

me: wym no? I only get two days off a week and I have to use those to work on my other jobs!

brain: not today.

me: Yeah, one's due in like 10 days. And it's a big project. And there are two emails I should've sent last week.

brain:

me: This isn't gonna end well.

brain: time isn't even real okay. It was 8am like a day ago, and now it's only 10:30am.

me: I don't think that's—

brain: DO YOU WANNA DO BUSINESS EMAIL NETWORKING OR LISTEN TO THE INTRO SONG FROM TRIGUN STAMPEDE ON REPEAT WHILE ZONING OUT SO HARD THAT YOU FORGET TO EAT LUNCH??

me: And you'll hurt me if I don't.

brain: I am holding a knife.

#adhd problems #conversations with my brain #imaginary conversations #hell brain #he had a knife your honor #another victim of hustle culture #gig work #other other job #millennial problems

[babylon-crashing]

retch

The gods had ceased singing. My verse had cooled,

then dried up. Nightmares, livid with love, came

with puke and drool, as if I'd somehow fooled

Temperance. As if self-restraint and shame

only bedeviled others. And today? ¬

Six years have passed. The bloat has left my face.

¬ Scars on my liver. ¬ Scars on my wordplay. ¬

Lifetime of scars, self-loathing and disgrace;

cuz' who dies clean? Pffft. Thomas? Poe? Sexton?

Saints of excess. ¬ Today? This day. ¬ Call this

a small price to pay. ¬ Of these fifty-four

years six were spent sober. Without swollen,

flushed flesh. Without the gods, “taking the piss.”

¬ Without retch. ¬ Without fucking up hardcore.

note.

Today, 2/18/2024, marks my 6th year anniversary of entering Recovery. As they say, one day at a time.

#retch #sonnet #ars poetica #poem #poetry #spilled ink #all the dead poets #I am an alcoholic #conversations with imaginary sisters

[helloanthy]

Hello friend! I hope one day you get this 🩷 I am sending all my love to you. You are so brave and I'm proud of you! I hope the world treats you kindly. I took a hiatus from tumblr and only just now realized you left, I wouldn't have said anything different than I have now if I'd known before but I will miss you! You are amazing, can't wait to see you again. Thrive, my little bird! You've done great 🩷

i'm trying not to tear up. my heart is embarrassingly soft these days. i knew before that revolution has never come without great hardships. though of course, knowing is different from doing some days, the moments between sleep are only stitched together by lengths of crying. other days, i wander incessantly in an attempt to escape both my self and my dreams but it is by the love of my friends and the kindness of people like you that carries me through. it is so easy to drown in this world, i need to hold on to what little i can kindness doesn't have to hurt, i've only been convinced it does. i'm trying to learn that love can save me, if i let it. lately, i feel like it is all that i really have i wonder if anyone will ever know how much it means to me. i wonder if you'll think me odd if you do. but another thing i am trying to learn: there is nothing shameful in trying to live so from one friendly stranger to another, i send my love to you too. i hope it reaches you ! sincerely, thank you

#✉️ #lately iv been having imaginary conversations with anthy #i try to ask her - ''do you ever miss someone you hate?'' #''do you ever feel stupid for missing someone you're *supposed* to hate?'' #''how did you manage to smile when you left? how do you smile now when you're alone?'' #''how do you keep yourself on the ground - when theres nothing chaining you down anymore?'' #''how do you keep yourself from falling through it?'' #she doesnt answer and i dont make her #because she is not what i make of her and more than what i think of her #all i have now is others belief in me. of me #anthy is not in here in my imagination but out in the real world #one day i'll be real too #see you soon anthy!

[apoemaday]

Imaginary Conversation

by Linda Pastan

You tell me to live each day as if it were my last. This is in the kitchen where before coffee I complain of the day ahead—that obstacle race of minutes and hours, grocery stores and doctors.

But why the last? I ask. Why not live each day as if it were the first— all raw astonishment, Eve rubbing her eyes awake that first morning, the sun coming up like an ingénue in the east?

You grind the coffee with the small roar of a mind trying to clear itself. I set the table, glance out the window where dew has baptized every living surface.

#poetry #linda pastan #imaginary conversation

[lildoodlenoodle]

Something that is so funny to me is my HC of noir Daredevil’s Catholic ass meeting Spider noir, realizing ‘I don’t know what you are exactly but every bone in my body is telling me you are or are possessed by a demon’ and then like a couple months later also being like ‘but you are MY FRIEND 😢 😭’

Obviously dude’s having a lot of mixed and conflicting feelings about working with a demon due to his Catholic guilt complex(confessional must be wild for Father Lantom) Matt thinks this is a very stupid demon. Volunteering to go into churches, walking by people in prayer, using salt, etc. Which Matt always stops him/takes his place. His friend may be a demon but Matt will still ‘protect’ him.

And obviously he’s not the only one who sees the Spider’s spooky ass and goes DEMON. So one day someone tries to exorcise or just throw holy water on him and of course Matt pushes him out of the way or takes the splash of water for him and Peter’s just like ‘??? That was water and not acid??? You should know that???’

Peter, in general, thinks Matt is just a very weird person. He’s not in a position to judge by any means so he keeps his thoughts on Matt’s weird selectively protective behavior to himself. A bullet? ‘you’re on your own bud’. But a splash of water from some dude speaking in Latin? Matt will take that ‘blow’ for him any day of the week. And yeah, sure, it’s nice to avoid the mild inconvenience of being wet for a bit but Pete is really just mildly confused.

#Matt loves creating his own imaginary problems that could easily be solved with a conversation and doing everything in his power to avoid i #Matt soaking wet thinking he saved his friend:you’re welcome #Peter: ??? thanks? #like bro this is so funny to me 😭 #Peter: so what exactly is he talking about? #Luke who is also a Christian denomination but isn’t insane: I have no idea why he’s like this #spider noir conspiracies #peter benjamin parker #matt murderdock #daredevil noir #spider noir #Spider-Man noir #spiderman noir