#is baffling to me

[raayllum]

the new q&a answers on discord came out while i was gone so i’m sifting my way through and IMMEDIATELY i am being supremely catered to, thank you kindly

Paige Van Tassell (Senior Writer): The characters are all flawed in different ways, and the lessons they need will not be learned easily. But, when we do finally see the characters display their growth, it feels so good and earned! Take Rayla, for example. By the end of the third season, she has seen the benefits of teamwork, of depending on others. She has learned that her parents did not abandon their post as Dragonguard, and that she had no need to make up for or punish herself for their supposed betrayal. However, just because Rayla had these experiences did not mean she fully absorbed the lessons. After all, she spent her entire life as the child of assassins—she lived by the code of self-sacrifice, of doing whatever it takes to finish the job. And she was so scared of failure (remember that everyone thought Rayla's parents had failed at their mission, and that Rayla had also failed at hers). So, when she feared that Viren might still be alive, her instincts and training took over. She placed that burden on her own shoulders, and set off by herself to find him. It wasn't the logical thing to do based on her very recent revelations, but it was a very Rayla thing. But who knows, maybe in future seasons she’ll truly learn to depend on others and stop punishing herself all the time. Watch to find out!

#tdp rayla #cast and crew #discord #interviews #sort of #paige van tassell #raylangst #Exactly like god thank you #reference #rayla #fave #again: what part of rayla punishing herself doesn't click for people #is baffling to me #tdp #the dragon prince #like yes repeat my meta back to me Thank You

[mingot-studios]

seeing people hating the toh finale has got my blood BOILING

#the level of sheer entitlement #when the creators were doing what they could to tell the story they wanted tell #after disney cut them short #is BAFFLING to me #yall dont get to complain after everything the crew has gone through just to get this out there for us #this wasn't a star vs situation #where the people behind it were making things up on the fly #these people had a story that shouldeve been longer #but they got screwed so they tried their damndest to get the story they wanted out #for the fans #and THIS is your response? #smh #im genuinely disappointed #owl fam i thouht u were better than this #the owl house #toh #watching and dreaming #my stuff

[greelin]

people when trauma victims act traumatized especially in a way that is unpalatable to them because it involves lashing out and unpredictable moods and having boundary issues rather than just being demure, sad, and consumable

#the surprise at unpredictability is always so fucking baffling to me. this is someone who’s been under extreme stress/duress #for ages. Do you think you can just bounce back. regulate everything immediately. when you’ve been in Survival Mode your whole #fucking life. LOL #you don’t just fucking Know how to be a human being. magically. because you’re out of the situation now. like.

[sidcrosbrainworms]

today’s ao3 experience

#homegrown meme farm to table courtesy of me seeing a 7k fic honest 2 god tagged slow burn #not even disgruntled just baffled tbh #ao3 #joy do u think im funny

[babygirlaemond]

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#look i recognize the irony of this since my blog is titled after aemond #but the idea of engaging with the asoiaf universe and saying with your whole chest that the men are the most interesting characters #is baffling to me

[chloesimaginationthings]

What’s William Afton’s problem in FNAF….

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #william afton #michael afton #afton family #funtime foxy #fnaf #fnaf 4 #sister location #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #UNSERIOUS comic time…. #what did William Afton mean by this… #is William trying to be nice or insulting #Michael is frozen stunned baffled flabbergasted even #William is gonna send Michael into an identity crisis at this rate #seeing baby and ballora are semi inspired off of Elizabeth and Ms Afton #made me wonder about Funtime foxy makes sense that be Michael #but the more I thought about it the funnier that thought got #Michael gets called fruity in the most ridiculous way possible #I’m glad I finally got to draw Funtime foxy though!! 💗

[ao3usermelancholyhues]

rb for larger sample size! feel free to elaborate in tags about your process.

#tumblr polls #polls #i'm just curious #because i've met a couple of people recently who can bang out 10k or more in a day once the idea hits them #and that just baffled me to my very core #so i want to see #and i'm saying 2-8k because i feel like that's your general oneshot lengths #people are usually gonna have it up to 3-4k or up to 8k depending on plot/if it's pwp #etc etc etc

[minnnieminmin]

Chris Pratt using his normal voice as Garfield meanwhile Robert Pattinson over here using his most fucked up gremlin voice to play a bird that you wouldn't even know it was him until you saw the credits

#garfield #chris pratt #robert pattinson #the boy and the heron #the duality of celebrity voice actors baffles me #we have ones like mark hamil. jack black. many others #and then we have people like crispy rat over here just talking in their normal voice #wild

[inspisart]

dick took the news that a strange thirteen year old broke into his apartment while he was away at the circus pretty well, I gotta say

#this is not how the interaction played out in the issue btw lol I'm just having a bit of fun #tim drake #dick grayson #batfam #dc #the new titans issue 65 #inspi art #I remember being baffled when i read ALPOD and tim broke into dick’s apartment like it was nothing to find out where he’d gone #like where did he learn that? reddit? #I chalked it up to comicbook goofiness and wolfman stretching suspension of disbelief a little to keep the plot moving #which is why it surprised me when they acknowledged it again #and by doing so cemented tim knowing how to pick locks and being used to breaking into apartments as a canon fact(TM) #and so hence forth he would continued to be a little contradictory weirdo who’s both normal and incredibly not normal at the same time

[cartyrs]

I marathoned the saw franchise and haven't been able to think about anything else in weeks. Dear god help.

#saw #saw franchise #amanda young #john kramer #jigsaw #mark hoffman #peter strahm #hoffstrahm #coffinshipping #this part goes in the tags but im baffled by the grip coffinshipping has on me. mark hoffman you need to leave my twisted mind #cartyrs #my art

[if-you-like-pina-colada-s]

I have to know what everyone else thinks of this

#polls #piña rambles #personally everyone is my friend unless stated otherwise #i like to build support for myself #so it baffles me that some people really limit their friend group #idk why

[rosekasa]

ladybug totally talks in her sleep. especially during patrol naps, when sleeping feels like a mix of dreaming and reality, and so a lot of her dreams during that time involve chat noir. out of nowhere she'll say 'chat what the fuck' and he turns around like ???? what did i do??? but she won't elaborate. or, most commonly, she'll just say 'are you okay??' out of nowhere. and he's like. 'yes??' and she wakes up a little and is so embarrassed. she was having a dream about an akuma fight and was so convinced she just saw him take a hit. when really he's just chilling on the rooftop next to her

#this is definitely not inspired by me half dreaming and telling my best friend 'are you okay? drink some water' #because in my dream i thought someone next to me was feeling sick shfkd #i was too sleepy to remember yhe whole convo but i definitely remember the baffled silence #miraculous ladybug #ladynoir #tagged:ladynoir #♡alizeh talks♡

[colorousme]

Dear (Dutch)tumblr, I have a question for you all:

Would love it if people reblogged to increase the sample size and/or to reach more Dutch blogs! 🙏✨

#nedermemes #dutch #horses #tumblr polls #polls #dutchblr #horse #dutch shit #I am asking this because it is genuinely baffling to me if a dutch person has never seen a horse up close before

[avelera]

If posting fic online has taught me anything, it’s that I have no idea how the reader will react to anything. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Not the faintest clue.

Fics that I think I scribbled off just to get them out there get the kindest, most rapturous feedback. Fics I slaved over, agonized over, bled my soul into get a couple tepid replies. Fics I thought were me revealing the darkness and weird kink that lives in my brain, scared to even post it for fear of judgement, get, “Aaaw that’s so sweet!” replies. Baffling.

My conclusion? You just never know. You really just can’t know. When I did a workshop with 20 other writers I would try to guess what their critique of my story would be and I was right maybe 1 in 20 times. Only one other writer would have the same critique for my story that I had. And it wasn’t even always the same person.

The encouraging part about this is, if self recrimination, the fear that you know what people won’t like about your story, is holding you back, just say fuck it! You’re almost certainly wrong! All you can do is make it the best story you can for the energy you have. And yeah, sometimes that means scribbling it out in an evening and kicking it out to the void of the internet before you can change your mind or worry about editing it more than once because then you’ll never post it.

It’s all chaos, man. You don’t get to decide what the audience thinks. All you can do is create it and put it out there for them to decide.

#writing #this baffles me with every story #EVERY STORY gets a different response than I expect it’s bizarre but oddly comforting too when I remember #to get out of my own head and stop thinking I know how others will respond to my work #you just can’t know you really really can’t

[dedusmuln]

yeah you support trans people but are you normal about trans men who choose to get pregnant

#i'm not a trans guy who evr wants to get pregnant but #the amount of queer ppl and other trans people i see joke around about like #how weird mpreg or men getting pregnant is #and use it as shock value shit #is really disheartening #like damn dude! it's almost like men CAN get pregnant and there IS a lot of men who choose to get pregnant ! #they don't deserve any less respect for that #and their existence shouldn't be made into a joke #ik mpreg doesn't have a great history but like #it just weirds me out to see people treat the idea of men getting pregnant as something baffling #idk normalize it. stop treating it as some weird alien thing #my textbox #a little bit upset. sorry #discourse #pregnancy #<- for filtering

[tam--lin]

The thing is, you don’t have to have a diagnoses to make simple “unmasking” changes that make your life easier. You don’t even have to self-diagnose! You are not appropriating anyone’s culture or struggles or hijacking anyone’s movement by allowing yourself to sway in line at the grocery store or buying a weighted blanket or using study or household hacks intended for people with ADHD. If you start favoring the needs that make your brain and body unique over the arbitrary norms of society, you’ll be better off, and you’ll be expanding the norms. It’s a win/win.

#sometimes I consider What I Have Going On Upstairs #and think 'should I try to get some sort of diagnosis?' #but it wouldn't help me right now! I don't need work accomodations - work IS the accomodation #but allowing myself to sit on the floor in the corner of the airport instead of on a chair #or fidget in lines #gives me one less thing to worry about AND makes my brain happy AND makes 'odd' but harmless behaviors #more normalized which ultimately helps people #who have needs that are several standard deviations away from ~~normal~~ #it's a win-win-win #tam.txt #related but on a different line of thinking: #somewhere along the line we majorly screwed up with how we talk about appropriation #I think we're getting better but whoa boy... #seen some baffling takes about pretty normal things like socializing color codes for get-togethers #or weighted blankets #being Only For Autistic People #nah bro that's the last thing on earth the vast majority of disability advocates are interested in