#too-attached-to-fiction

[not-mary-sue]

Sometimes I think about how many deaths could have been avoided if someone had forcefully dragged Actor out of that bloody house and got him some therapy and make myself sad.

#getting too attached to fiction again #markiplier #who killed markiplier #actor mark

[jade-of-mourning]

been writing again. i miss writing for fun aha. pain why is this guy so repressed and fucked up.

this one's about lightning n plants n blah blah symbolism stuff and i stopped writing it over two years ago but now i'm back ig. mako is having a terrible time post-canon and it's great! (for me) i dumped out some stuff that i find unusable and am hoping the rest holds up to a reasonable extent

#lychee's word trash #rose beds and gasoline veins #it's genuinely been SUCH a long minute lolololol #yes i've got myself a crippling attachment to mako from lok idk what to tell you #i just threw out 1k from 6k but i'm writing rn and avoiding studying so it kinda skyrocketed to 7.3k! #if i think about him too hard my heart hurts for this fictional guy so like #y'know you gotta cope by watching that “just too hot” video on crack #i don't really know exactly Where this is going bc i forgot my initial plans #i should really start outlining otherwise i forget all my ideas instantaneously lol #guys i really wish that i wrote an outline for the time travel au bc i knew i had good ideas #i just can't remember what those good ideas were </3

[soldier-poet-king]

Mmmmm reading systems collapse and the deep persistent ache abt murderbot and ART's friendship. Btw. If u even care.

#fran reads #head full of many thots but i need to finish the book first #but fundamentally. their friendship is absolutely my fave thing about the series #i am. very attached to them. #but like. emotions. non human personhood. extreme anxiety risk assessment constantly running #too many big bad emotions idk how to process so i am going to watch media about it #and then explain my life experiences via narrative features from said media bc idk how else to be a person or relate to the world #like!!! i get it!!!! my awkward not a real person ass is out here like!!!! i do that!!!! #its not bc i dont want to live and have real experiences its bc idk how and i was a weird isolated kid and a neurodivergent adult #and thats how i understand the world!!! #it is v big and scary and terrible and beautiful and having a frame of reference via fictional narrative to process ur owj experiences #its crucial???? #and i don't mean in a terminally online cannot separate ficiton from reality way #i mean in a storytelling is what ppl do way. not just to be entertained. but to reflect ourselves and understand ourselves. and each other!! #im!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ART's you know i am not kind. to mb when it insists it wouldve been kinder to kill it #I WEPT

[kasumingo]

"Science showed that there is not much difference with how we react to fictional stories and characters compared to real life and real people" is a take I've seen more than once now and it's something that sounds so objectively untrue

So does anyone has any sources on that?

#txt #because so far it sounds like either manipulated data or experiment taken out of context #i'm willing to believe it with reliable sources but i never felt nor considered characters on the same plane #as i consider people #so what is the truth #and if someone says 'because both can make you feel emotions' i'm yeeting you out of there #until then i'm considering it pseudoscience that's being regurgitated to strengthen arguments #if anything it's that our favorite characters often reflect ourselves #so we get attached because we see them as extensions of ourselves #and some might go too far with that notion #and get too personal #but that's not feeling like fiction is on the same plane of reality

[putting-vincent-in-places]

I don’t know what square put into their games when they make them. But I swear, if 15 year old me didn’t get the see Vincent. I wouldn’t know what would’ve happened to me

#the two paths meme but with teenagers picking what type of fictional man to get attached too #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #vincent valentine

[theworstcreature]

HOLY SHIT HOLY FUCKING SHIT MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANDWERED AND I AM FREAKING THE HELL OUT RIGJT NOW YOU GUYS DONT UNDERTAND MAJOR FUCJING AHSOKA SPOIKERS AHEAD

GUYS WE GOT THE FUCKING CLONE WARS FLASHBACKS IM PHYSICALLY ILL WE GOT TJE SIEGE OF MANDALORE IVE BEEN NEEDING TO SEE IT IN LIVE ACTUON EVER SINCE I FIRST SAW IT OMG THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME ALSO REXARONI MY BELOVED CLONE CAPTIAN I LOVE YOU AND YOUR LIKE 20 SECS OF SCREENTIME SO MUCH I DESPRATELY NEEDED TO SEE YOU ALSO ANAKIN WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

ALSO WE GOT MORE FUCKING PURGILS!!!!!!!!

I will legally adopt jacen like this kid is growing on me

This episode hurt me in like 20 different ways btw <3

Also: CLONES CLONES CLONES CLONES CLONES CLONES CLO-

Also they said it was one of her first missions during like the first flashback but that outfit was from like s3????? Honestly I hope the reason is bc putting a child in a tube top and well just that entire s1 outfit is weird and not bc it was just a costuming error

On a similar note, ANAKINS CLONE WARS ARMOR LOOKED SO GOOD?!?!?!?! LIKE-

Also I LOVE Hera so much like she’s so mother

Anyways in other news: NEW AHSOKA OUTFIT NEW AHSOKA OUTFIT IT LOOKS SO GOOD YOU GUYS I ADORE IT IT LOOKS SO COMFY I WANNA COSPLAY SO BADDDDDDDDDDDD

so anyways how’s your Tuesday evening going?

#i totally didn’t cry #I so wasn’t absolutely freaking the hell out during those flashbacks no sir #this episode inflicted PAIN #SLFKGGJSKAKQLSLDKAKA #star wars #ahsoka spoilers #anakin skywalker #anakin #ahsoka #textpost #ahsoka tano #ahsoka series #ahsoka Disney plus #ahsoka ep 5 #once again making my father think there’s something wrong with me via ‘overreacting’ when MY BABYGIRL AND HIS LITTLE SISTER ARE LITERALLT #FIGHTING EACHOTHER AND GOING THROUGH SCENES ABD BATTLES THAT I LOVE LIKE IVE CRAVED THIS SHIT FOREVER #this episode is going to be rewatched so many times by me I can feel it in my bones #this episode called me too attached to fictional characters in 20 different languages #I wanna bite somebody #captain Rex #Rex #clones #clone captian rex #commander rex #I was kinda hoping to see my beloved obiwan too but ig we can’t always get what we want #clone #clone wars #Star Wars the clone wars #the clone wars #siege of mandalore

[thewintersoldierdisaster]

beyond the michael weatherly of it all and the apparent future surprises, brian dietzen wrote a really good tribute episode for david mccallum 😭 the flashback clips were perfectly chosen even if they did make me sad about the passage of time

#ncis lb #i’ve watched ncis for ~17 year at this point and ducky basically felt like another grandfather #yes i’m too attached to fictional characters but whatever

[my-shields-are-down]

I keep reminding myself that Eric said BOTH Tim & Lucy are happy in a Cameo clip he filmed well after the filming of Season 5 was complete.

(In a clip where he also admitted he had no idea where they’d take Chenford in Season 6. )

I’m choosing to believe that all the tension and worry and ICK I’ve been experiencing these past few episodes, as well as Lucy’s future career direction, will be resolved in such a way that leaves us with HAPPY TIM & HAPPY LUCY & HAPPY CHENFORD.

#chenford #tim bradford #lucy chen #the rookie #tim x lucy #things that are awesome #I believe in happy endings #you do you #lucy x tim #I am way too attached to these fictional characters #I just need to calm the fuck down and trust what I know to be true #seasonal story arcs are law on network tv

[yellowocaballero]

as someone who played bl first... you should've played black eagles first bc when characters who are awesome get killed, it hurts less bc u don't know them enough to get attached to them.

I mean that sounds like an excellent point and an interesting turnaround tbh but, like, counterpoint - what if I don't play the BE at ALL because it would make me TOO SAD?

#checkmate r/athiesm (edelgard)? #my asks #i dont get too attached to fictional characters also i do think dimas cringe but i can't kill annette how do you want me to do that #im just not strong enough

[catastrxblues]

so.. i was watching this really really sad and heartbreaking edit of katniss with the song “what was i made for?” by billie eilish and i just started CRYING. AND SOBBING. there were waterfalls at some point. it was really short but it was about her and prim and rue, and it had that scene of her after prim died. when she finally cried about it for the first time. because prim died, when the very reason katniss did all of those things in the first place was because of her, only so she could save her little sister, her little duck :(( </3 katniss, i’m sorry, you deserve so much better, i love you so so much

#am i too easily attached to fictional characters?? #yes #but that’s not the point #she means so much to me #and i started thinking about how all she wanted to do in that room after she killed coin was die because she just can’t take it anymore #and how she DID try to attempt it so many times #katniss you deserve so much more i’m so sorry <//3 #katniss everdeen #primrose everdeen #the hunger games #thg #mockingjay #suzanne collins you are SO sick and cruel for this #nadirants

[kurakurakura99]

Just read your post on AC6 about how connected you were to your AC. And I just gotta ask how you got that feeling? I've a good amount of posts about this same thing, such a deep connection to your mech, but I never got it. I want that feeling, to truly be one with a 40 ton war machine, yet to me my AC is still just that, a machine.

Even my PvP AC which is getting close to Mark 15 now is still just a tool for me. Like I love that AC and my lastest version is fucking genius imo the love is more like the love I have for my emotional support hammer (yes I have one sue me).

Sorry for venting randomly to you about this but like reading that part on your post about how changing parts on your AC felt wrong during a boss fight made me think about my toughest boss in the game. Not saying the name cause spoilers but it was beating my ass hard. After I realized my build wouldn't work the first thing I did was start changing parts, and even when I used the meta ones nothing worked. In the end like 2 days later I beat the boss, not by swapping back to my original design, but by using a pair or weapons that are entirely overlooked. But even after all that I didn't feel that connection to my AC, a newfound respect for the twin active homing missiles but once again only in the way I would respect a wrench that finally fits onto an annoying bolt.

So like how do you get so close to your AC, how did you get that connection with it? How can I get it?

Find common ground with your mech. its deeply personal, like I said, but I empathize with Capable so much because we are both Objects, means to an end. There is a certain kinship to be found, conceptually, between a person who has been dehumanized as much as I have and a machine. Theres also a measure of...sentimentality? that you have to approach building them with. My girlfriend is baffled by how Capable is put together. I use the DESSERT legs because they got big fucking paws and fat thighs, like I do. I picked her arms soley because they would hit harder with my Pile Bunker (Itself a dubious weapon choice for late game, some may claim) and it had a nice, flat surface to write "Forgiveness" on. Getting a little whimsical with it led to Capable being, frankly, a freaky little mech with weird issues when it came to boosts and mobility. Having something that didn't move like a more optimized design helped really cement her in my mind as a partner and not a tool. AC6 feeling by and large, much easier and accomodating to player expression compared to the rest of the games I've played in the series, makes this much more feasible. Beyond that, even a simple change of language towards your mech helps:I avoid using "It" for Capable, ever, and she is only "my mech" when I'm talking to someone who doesn't know her by name yet and needs the context of what the fuck I'm talking about. Otherwise, She is Capable.

These are tips I guess but. its just something that happens naturally for me so its hard to give anyone tips on how to force it

#Armored core 6 #Asks #Local woman perhaps too attached to a fictional machine (Its real to her) #On the real you don't want whatever I've got. The fact that you don't have that connection to your AC #Probably means your a little healthier than me

[sunshineneedsaplacetokeephernsfw]

Why must characters be so hot?

Why must some characters be so kissable and cuddleable and fuckable?

Why must some characters give you a sense of longing?

Wanting to pull them close to you and hug them and let all negative emotions wash away to be replaced by a comfort you never thought possible? And wanting to stay in each other's embrace for what you both wish could be forever? But knowing that they aren't real and you can never have that and only imagine and pretend you're cuddling up to them when going to sleep at night. Reaching to the side of your bed for comfort after a nightmare, but finding no one there.

Why must this specific character most likely have no good x reader fics about them if any were to exist at all!?!

#this post ended up a lot more thoughtful than I meant it to #or at least sounding more thoughtful #fictional characters #violently sobbing #fictophilia #I actually just woke up from a nightmare before writing this #not much of a nightmare but it was a rollercoaster that did the backwards thing #except it was too fast and just kept falling #and the sensation of fear and panic and when you feel yourself falling #the sensation even lingered when the fall woke me up and my first thought was that I wanted to hug onto that character #... believe it or not that character is Terra from Kingdom Hearts #I literally *just* watched a stream of someone playing his story in birth by sleep #I have known him for less then 24 hours!! why am I so attached?? #I literally thought of him first thing after waking up from a nightmare #I feel like both the post and the tags are gonna give people whiplash

[afterartist]

Back again to feed you with my Daily (for legal reasons: not actually daily) angst :D

I shall never let Barrier happy just as Tiktok shall never let me have any quality (,:

So here’s the version with the full pics

(CW: blood, like, a lot of it)

And the actual frames for ur viewing entertainment

Also, just of note, Barrier technically counts as a Bad Sans,

He’s not part of Nightmare’s Gang but he is hunting Ink down across the Multiverse trying to get revenge for his AU (oh my gosh I just realised he’s basically just Cross- I hate this- nothing in original anymore lmao)

But yeah, he’s willing to get rid of anyone that stands in his way of his goal (though he won’t attack anyone unless necessary, his only true target is Ink)

Love that for him tho <3<3

#art #my art #sans #sans au #undertale #undertale au #sans aus #angst #barrierfall #barrierfall sans #bad sans #bad sanses #but not nightmares gang so hush #i mean #maybe #idk their goals don’t align too much besides the hatred of stInk #still a murder hobo tho #frisk #papyrus #not me projecting attachment issues onto a fictional skeleton #it’s like a reward #blood #gore #Ink called his eyes pineapple colour once’s and that’s the real reason he wants revenge #/j btw #ink killed his family #skill issue tbh #still refusing to learn how to tag

[eruukat]

wanting to get into selfship/yumedanshi shenanigans but idk where to start or how to like.. represent myself..? im in a weird stage where i dont have much of a concept of Belonging to a specific appearance. i have a sense of style i guess but not much else? and if i were to make an oc theyd be moreso My Taste more than whats actually me. and id feel weird lusting over my own self insert yknow

#el speaks #also. if i WERE to make myself in final fantasy id want to look like squall? #i resonate w his appearance a lot #like. even when i dye my hair and shit or had a buzzcut i still identified a lot w how he looks. seeing him has some sort of sense of myself #- attached #anyway if i do get into selfship stuff idk if id link my blog here or not #idk if id feel too embarrassed or i guess vulnerable? idk if thats apt #ive never made internet shrines or anything but i think itd be fun.. i also want to do art or maybe even. gasp. fanned fiction #idk like. me and cloud getting fruity little drinks at tifas bar and stuff

[ariesbilly]

i will never stan a man who tops. and that is a promise

#if you ever see me getting attached to a fictional little guy guess what? #hes getting taken to pound town #if youre bi guess what youre getting pegged thems the rules #the rare straight man? youre getting pegged too live laugh love

[mymp3]

i think ryoji has rewired my brain in such a terrible way. like for the past seven months ive been waking up and kicking my legs whenever i think about him. like. the most perfect boy ever. oh this is awful.

#compendiumnotebook #being too attached to fictional characters . #minato and ryoji are in that sort of 'untouchable' tier for me #like do not say anything mean abt them or i will cry type of way #im very selective on whos ryojis and minatos i like. they are lovely they are wonderful. they make me so happy.