#it wasn’t just me it was like everyone

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

I knew this girl who was born on Valentine’s Day and that was literally her introduction. I sat next to her on day one in my new school when I started grade ten because it was the only seat free. She was wearing cat ears and a tail. It’s important for you to understand that I was so deep into my punk phase at the time. I had bright orange hair at the time cut into the messiest shag on the planet. I was wearing my dad’s old army jacket that had patches for a bunch of punk bands most people have never heard of, painted on misfits skinny jeans and an SNFU tshirt. One of my patches said fuck you on it and I had drum sticks sticking out of my boot that clashed when I walked. I had spikes on anything that could be spiked including the other definition of spiked; coffee was more rum than coffee. My face was frozen in a permanent sneer as though I was about to accuse you in the nastiest way of being a poser. I’m not even making this up. I literally looked like a skinny fat version of Y/N from a Green Day fanfic.

This girl, with all the confidence in the fucking world looks at me and introduces herself: “hi! I’m [name]! I was born on Valentine’s Day!” And that level of confidence combined with unawareness compelled me so much that she became my best friend for a year. This was the 6th school I’d been to in my academic career at that point and I had never been so captivated yet perplexed by an introduction.

#captain’s log #it wasn’t just me it was like everyone #she literally said it constantly #I at the time felt my birthday was my own business and refused to share it #I was born on the 2-4 weekend #in many ways we were mirror images of one another

[ddejavvu]

Just saw a TikTok complaining about ‘kitten’ as a pet name in fanfiction and while I do agree with/understand their discomfort on that one the comments were FULL of people mentioning all the other common pet names ?? Like honey babe baby sweetheart etc ?? Is your partner just supposed to call you by your name the whole time ????????

#you’re so welcome to your opinions but like #if you just vehemently loathe all pet names then what are we supposed to do #and it wasn’t like one person said honey one person said baby etc #it was like EVERYONE said EVERY pet name all at once #whatever it makes me nauseous to think that everyone has this secret vendetta against pet names so I’m just #going to pretend I never saw it and hope no one feels compelled to unfollow at the sight of ‘sweetheart’

[mitskiluvr]

sorry i’m a megumi apologist because i, too, would lay on the floor crying and throwing up if i was just forced to watch my own hands tear apart my sister and the man who raised me

#me when jjk wasn’t just a silly shonen and it was actually psychological torture #i said megumi apologist as if he’s a war criminal #he’s not he’s just a boy i fear #the jokes about him throwing after everyone just died to save him are funny though IM SORRY TJEYRE FUNNY #sorry this whole arc has been insane everytime they showed megumi laying on the floor crying i had to close my phone #IM NOT WATCHING THIS LOOK #like oh you’ve become what you’ve hated but like…very literally and also against your will #megumi fushiguro #itafushi #everything about jjk is infused with itafushi essential oils #that is. insane. Excuse me #megumi #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk 251

[seagull-scribbles]

“Ain’t turtles supposed to be endangered?”

“Only the ones who can’t do this!”

#TMNT 2012 #raphael hamato #casey jones 2012 #is your bestie really your bestie if the first time you laid eyes on them it wasn’t immediately on sight #rasey #it’s not ship art but also I want it in my rasey tag so #I am having so much fun drawing in the canon style I am but god did I need to do something in my own style again #it’s like when you get made to wear a fitted dress and everyone tells you you look nice and it’s perfect #but you feel self conscious and constricted and it’s not something you’d ever wear #I love learning from studying the different styles but I also miss just editing the designs and going off model #altering the brushes and colours to suit a vibe #this is messy gritty wrong and imperfect but that’s what made it fun and easy and I’m so happy with this you can all bite me #also this is the return of flat ass Casey #Lou jitsu’s moral enemy and opposite lmao #I am so normal about Raph and Casey honest #I don’t constantly think about the way he slams Jones on the car bonnet #just a normal short chunky dude with his lanky toll bestie that happens to have the worlds flattest ass

[ech-e-sketch]

NIMONA ‼️‼️

#I cannot BELEIVE I haven’t posted this it’s like one of my favourite things I’ve made recently and it wasn’t even recently this is #like from months ago #nimona #!!! #I love her so much she means the entire world to me #nd stevenson #you are and have been for a long time one of my favourite artists you’re a huge inspiration to me and Nimona really means the world to me #LOVED this movie it’s so important #not just to me as a young trans person but to absolutely everyone #everyone should watch Nimona

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

It’s just that Fingon’s like that stereotypical son who calls his mum and walks old ladies across the street, mows the lawn for his neighbours, brings home nice, pretty girls who want to be kindergarten teachers or something and is really passionate about some niche compassionate topic like children in poverty’s access to multiple sclerosis treatment and who everyone says is ‘such a nice boy’ but then he goes and dates the eldest kid of Mr. Stay Away From My Boys, Son, a flaming ginger who most people haven’t heard speak. And this is hilarious.

#Aredhel was too wayward and Turgon was too autistic and argon was too impetuous but fingon was all golden boy so this blew everyone’s minds #Imagine feanor being so opposed until he realises everyone else thinks Maedhros isn’t good enough for finno and then pushing it so hard #Ugh anywa I’m just ranting #But the way they fit into the Torino social structure is important to me #Because Fingolfin’s family was #like #for the people #And feanor was this aloof untouchable presence who wasn’t there half the time #Also his sons are intimidating and scarily pale #Except for the one who always blushes? Anyway #The fanfiction thoughts are circling again time for a fic about russingon set from literally everyone’s perspective but theirs #God Alexis stop tagging #silm #silmarillion #the silmarillion #the silm fandom #silm fandom #the silm #tolkien #silm shitpost #maedhros #fingon #Russingon #silm veryshitpost #maitimo #maitimo nelyafinwe #findekano #Russandol #Tw rant

[kaijukebox]

Happy Christmas Eve, here’s yet another couple of messy HarryKims 🫶

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#disco elysium #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #ooooohhhh im not gonna make the deadline but yet im so close to 100!! #had a mental breakdown on Twitter but everyone was really kind and I think I’ve come to terms with it just not getting done by the 31st #errybody helped me see that work was a bitch to me and it wasn’t my fault…so I can cut myself a break #but I’m still gonna do it! #plus I’d like to get to all the inbox hugs :) #100hugs2023 #hug 85/100 #hug 86/100

[learnelle]

Do you ever just get so tired and end up writing secononondly, unsure why it looks a lil off 👁👁

#3 french exams on Friday weeeelp #But I’m feeling so down because I wasn’t confident enough to pay €100+ to do the DELF b2 exam last week #Yesterday I was told that everyone passed the B2 DELF - even those who are doing the B1 uni course instead #And so it got me thinking why do I just * not * believe in my exam taking ability when people in the B1 course can pass the B2 🫠 #(( I am super happy for them though !!! Especially for two ppl who can now apply to uni courses in January like they wanted ! )) #Hopefully I can pass in March 🤞 #I just want that diploma so I can stop paying €900-2700 every year in Irish uni tuition fees 😭 #Also it would be nice to have a lil paper saying I can do ze French a bit #Because some days I feel like my french skills are non existent ( like yesterday when it took wayyy too long to compute the number 95 )

[twolovelyberries]

3—no—4? 5? tickets to challengers please

#death note part 2 if the writers let me take the wheel #yes we all know death note tennis = challengers but consider #in which everyone is art except L #death note #challengers #i want you all to know that takada misa churro scene was conceived in my mind. i didn’t draw it but let’s all imagine it together #teru and kiyomi are so interesting to me. i wish kiyomi wasn’t written Like That #guy who has only seen death note watching a movie: this is just like death note #light yagami #teru mikami #kiyomi takada #misa amane #l lawliet #lawlight #mikalight #my art #my art 2024

[millenianthemums]

parents of disabled kids will be like “we know our kid is disabled but we just won’t tell them about it. we don’t want them to think they’re less valuable than other kids. we don’t want them to feel limited by their disability, we want them to know they’re capable of anything.”

meanwhile those kids are growing up thinking “why is everything so much harder for me than it is for everyone else? there’s no reason i shouldn’t be able to just do this. i guess i’m just a failed, broken person.”

#text post #ableism #like if you don’t want to get your kid diagnosed with something then that’s one thing #but not KNOWING what’s wrong with them isn’t gonna make the problem just magically disappear #and just personally speaking. SO MANY things i do that i used to feel such deep shame about? #i now realize they were because i’m autistic #the meltdowns the social awkwardness etc #and i feel so much better to know i wasn’t just being whiny or difficult or weird for no reason #i feel like my whole life i’ve been gaslighted into not knowing what i really feel #because everyone always told me i was being ‘dramatic’ or ‘too sensitive’ and eventually i decided they must be right #so now i literally can’t tell what i’m feeling sometimes #because i dismiss my own feelings as stupid and wrong

[larapaulussen]

#gif #why do I have to spend every christmas and every birthday alone #for what am I being punished #I am a good person #and I don’t think this suffering has any sense #it’s just that in life the happy people have good things coming their way #and the sad people always just get more trauma #I know I could have a relationship if I didn’t have such a traumatic childhood #my trauma lets me reject the good guys and waste my time with the aholes #but i don’t know what to do about it #every nice guy I met absolutely wasn’t attractive to me #and we also didn’t have anything in common #so I’m not even regretting rejecting them cause it wouldn’t have worked out #and they deserve someone who actually fancies them #i just wonder why I never met a nice guy that I have common interests with #or who matched my preferences lookwise #it really feels like I’m simply not allowed to ever meet the right person #and gotten to the point where I swipe for hours have a lot of matches and then ghost everyone #as I just know it either will be someone nice but not attractive to me or an ahole #I just don’t have any energy left anymore #I just want to experience love so bad but can’t do these dates anymore #I’m so so tired

[fumifooms]

"Toshiro’s love for Falin is fake and impure! He only started liking her after something about her intrigued him and hooked him in, and only then started wanting to know her better and finding out he loved everything else about her too!" Buddy I have something to tell you that you won’t like about how falling in love typically goes…

#Is that not how crushes work. Is that not the point of dating. Were we all demiromantic and I had no clue #People are acting like he got love at first sight lmao #Toshiro Nakamoto #not tagging anything else i value my life #Like you can frame it with as many “only this” and “only then” as you want but that is just so. Normal #would you not fall in love with Falin after seeing how much she loves bugs too #He literally wanted to take her on dates and spend time with her and get to know her better……. They have been coworkers for years #This is just so funny to me can we be so serious for a second #You have many valid reasons to dislike Toshiro no need to invent new ones #There are interesting angles of analysis but come on Toshiro wasn’t objectifying her any more than everyone else

[stuckinapril]

Can’t wait to visit Iraq and just live blog from there. That will be so fun

#My Iraqi girl era will be THE era of all eras #Like ill probably post the same shit but I feel like it’ll be different when im actually in Baghdad and #Living in the culture vs talking about it #It’ll probably get lost in translation bc I have maybe 7-10 Arab mutuals total but idc this is for me #Plus I feel like I center my American identity a lot so it’ll be nice to be in my Iraqi bag idk #I lowkey feel like im too American for some of my relatives and also some of the locals bc I get told I give #“Foreigner vibes” (what) #But I also genuinely think I blend into it seamlessly too like on my last trip it wasn’t a struggle at all #Like I speak Arabic fine and Baghdad feels like home to me even if I wasn’t raised there #Maybe I dress more western idk I was just in jeans and casual tops most of that trip #I did have issues w what clothes to wear but that’s bc I couldn’t wear my regular shit back there which is fine #It was a grwat time overall I miss everyone I miss the capital

[manitapaleta]

listen,….. we don’t know y hermie didn’t grow up with his dads but i already know its going to DEVASTATE ME when anthony tells us bc i know they would have loved the little joker, our sweet little thespian (also big brother nick hellooooooo)

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #dndaddies #jodie foster #scam likely #hermie the unworthy #scam actually #nick close #nick foster #nicholas foster #nicholas close #scodie #idk wtf is their ship name someone help #my art #wasn’t originally gonna make a lil comic but then i was like what if they didn’t tell nick and he comes home one day to hell and hermie is j #just there and everyone’s like o FUCK WE DIDNT TELL U LOL #also the idea that hermie is just now learning of his true family and he has a uncle and brother and two dads he’s never met but (i hope i b #believe i want it to be true) they love him v v much and the thought of nick meeting hermie and immediately taking on a big brother role mal #makes me wanna CRY bc he’s already taylor’s friend and yeah he said trust no one but he’s good to his son and he’s his baby brother who he’s #never met but what if he just feels v protective over him bc he’s been thru so much already and is now having an identity crisis bc WHO IS H #HERMIE??? like idk it’s a bit melancholic to think abt what if they were in each other’s lives??? how would have nick been as a big bro??? #sigh it’s 2am and i have work in 5 ish hours but i just had to get this outttt

[oddly-casual]

Fiona and Cake spoilers seriously

(Something I noticed abt Betty and Simons relationship)

I love Betty and Simon’s relationship, I think their back story is so cute and romantic and all that lovely stuff don’t get me wrong.

But there’s this under tone of Betty constantly giving things up for Simon and we don’t really talk about it a lot???

Like, Betty let Simon have his moment with the artifact and the pubic, she also doesn’t go to her trip in favor of going on an expedition with Simon. Then when she goes to leave again she stays for Simon.

Even Fiona is like “you went with her on the bus?” And Simon just looks all confused like “what? No, why would I do that?” Like- hello???

Then after that she gave up her entire life and mind to get Simon back to the point where she literally says “I don’t know who I am without him anymore.” And that just sucks! Since the beginning Betty has been the one giving up the most, her mind, her own possible career, and it’s a story of love of course and it’s very sweet but it’s also a story of sacrifice.

Their love wasn’t a perfect solution, it was already sort of imbalanced when it started and I lowkey love how we see those cracks even before they’re together.

Again, I love their relationship and I think it’s sweet. I just think we should talk about Betty’s side more, especially when she tells a story of what most women do in relationships, sacrifice.

#fiona and cake spoilers #fiona and cake #simon petrikov #betty grof #It made itself really apparent in these newest episodes and I couldn’t stop thinking abt it #like Betty idolized Simon before they formally met so of course she was gonna drop everything to go on that expedition with him #but it was more after that too like she was going to leave to study in Australia but Simon stopped her #and Betty’s a grown woman she can make her own decisions #but even Betty’s friend was like ‘don’t make her miss the bus!’ because Betty had a real opportunity to do something else #and maybe It’s that true love trumps all or what ever but the way they frame it in the show feels weird to me #like Why have Fiona ask if Simon got on the bus with Betty if it wasn’t important??? #the way Simon responds feels weird too he responds like Fiona doesn’t make sense when asking that question #BUT ITS VALID Like why wouldn’t you encourage Betty to go off and maybe start her own career?? #or just go with her?? like she gave up stuff to go on your exhibition why wouldn’t you return the favor??? #and obviously Simon doesn’t do this on purpose I’m not saying he did #he didn’t guilt trip or force Betty or even ask her to give up these things to be with him Betty did all that on her own #i think it’s just interesting the way the show frames their relationship #like Betty gives up a lot to be with Simon in Fiona and Cake and in adventure time too #but she idolizes Simon and after Simon becomes IK she’s chasing after the man he used to be #meanwhile everyone learns to live with who IK is now it was just Betty who was clinging to Simon the whole way through #obviously they love each other and respect each other but I think Betty idolizing Simon didn’t just stay when they were kids #or college students or what ever it keto’s going even when the world ended and Simon became Ice King #this is was so much more than I planned on writing-

[greenvillainredemption]

One thing I love about mutant mayhem is that Leo has a crush on an April who’s not conventionally attractive. It almost feels like, because of the turtles’ isolated upbringing* he hasn’t been influenced by the popular western beauty ideals and just thinks this ordinary human is beautiful! And I think that’s really cool! Because she is!

*though they’ve clearly been exposed to celebrities and other pop culture so ?? idk lol

#tmnt #mutant mayhem #I’m usually a very ‘I’m ugly and that’s okay’ type of person #but that’s really only about the definition of ugly that = not fitting into the popular western beauty ideals #but everyone has something about them that’s beautiful to someone yknow #idk I don’t want to be out here calling this April ugly because I don’t think she is #but I know a lot of male fans of older turtles have been saying she’s ugly #and yeah it’s very cool that this teenage boy character has a crush on an ‘ugly’ girl #and I know I have no stake in straight representation lol but it’s just good to see the girl crush have unconventional features #though I will say personally I don’t want them to be together just because any turtle x human relationship gives me the ick which is fully #just a me thing I think like I don’t think it’s morally reprehensible to ship any turtle with an april or karai (03 leo and karai had me #shipping them as a kid before I even knew what shipping was lol) #my words #ALSO whoever voiced dr stockman sounded SO similar to the 03 him. I was cryin #i feel like this movie wasn’t the best I mean I heavily enjoyed it but I hope it builds up to more. the mid credits scene had me screaming #so here’s hoping we get sequels aaaaa #give me karai or give me death #SMOOTH LIKE BUTTER LIKE A CRIMINAL UNDERCOVER