#we lost a real one that day

[chirpsythismorning]

Thinking about how when I joined Tumblr last summer I became mutuals with another byler from the tag and we hit it off, sharing theories and evidence w/ each other. Only for them to switch up at the end of the year, deactivating and starting a new account, making a post about how bylers are setting themselves up for disappointment, with their main evidence being that Mike’s monologue ‘clearly’ inspired El & because Finn said in a panel ‘we all know how Mike feels about El’…

#byler #stranger things #fallen hero #we lost a real one that day #hope they're doing okay #i'm pretty sure they're bitter bc they think the duffers ruined byler #maybe s5 has the capacity to open their minds to byler again? #that would be bittersweet! #but full serious... #i feel like some of you guys expect the story to just start and everything be resolved and then end... #there would be no show without conflict #it's a matter of creating conflict that is shocking but still manageable in the grand scheme of things #like with Mike's monologue #it HAD to be done that way #they managed to make most milkvans and bylers convinced of endgame #that takes skill #if they didn't go with the monologue and broke them up #EVERYONE even the redditors would know that byler is the obvious endgame #and having like 2-3 years before that revelation would make it something everyone would fully be aware of as likely #and the show would likely suffer bc so many people would feel cheated #they needed to tear down milkvan while always building them up in a disingenuous way #they needed to give the people what they wanted only for them to realize it wasn't what they wanted when they got it #because it was more about the idea of it and not the truth behind those moments and what was truly going on under the surface #and that comment finn made about how everyone knows how mike feels about el... #mike when confronted about not being able to say i love you to el in s4: #'yOu KnOw WhAt I tHiNk Of YoU' #like... that was obvious gaslighting #really everyone has been downplaying millie's interviews post-s4 #shes out here saying el needs autonomy away from the men in her life and that her arc in s4 was about her being her own superhero... #is that what the ga got from mike's monologue? I dont think so...

[another-clive-blog]

HOW HAVE I NEVER NOTICED THIS

LAYTON USES TU FOR FUTURE LUKE BUT SWITCHES TO VOUS THE SECOND CLIVE'S IDENTITY IS REVEALED.

Tu and vous both mean you but Tu implies closeness : in the entirety of Unwound Future, Layton only ever uses Tu with Flora, the Lukes and Claire

#I'm shaking crying throwing up #WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME. #He immediately uses tu for Future Luke which is A LOT #In real life we often stumble trying to know which one to use because vous is distance but also respect like for a boss or teacher #(Everyone except Claire uses vous for Layton because he's a highly educated adult and a gentleman) #Layton must really appreciate and trust Luke. He immediately went 'Oh that's a Luke of course he's a close one' #And it makes sense that he would discard the tu when he finds out that nope this is a total stranger manipulating us all #But also normal people would go from tu (affectionate) to tu (derogatory). Of course Layton doesn't as a gentleman but. Ouch #And he never goes back to tu not even after finding out Clive is the orphan he saved #I'm crying why are you doing that to me. It's so subtle I had NEVER noticed but it's there #Maybe the vous will go back to respect or pleasant distance one day but Clive isn't deserving of a tu. He's not Luke. He's a stranger #I HAVE to do a complete pronoun analysis one day. I've talked about it here and there but I need to do a big analysis #Professeur layton et le destin perdu #Professeur layton #hershel layton #clive dove #Been posting a lot of angst lately oops #Professor layton and the unwound Future #Professor layton and the lost future #Unwound Future spoilers #Lost Future spoilers

[arabriddler]

it is kinda funny that suddenly I lost intrest maybe something’s deeply wrong with me

#Crush sent me a good morning then we talked for the whole day about so many things and they let me infodump and everything and called me #Beautiful n stuff #And you know what I was like you know . Nvm. #Nahla experiences their first real crush #Reminds me of that one riddler comic where he suddenly lost intrest in his crush when she was no longer a mystery

[internetskiff]

Lukewarm take (I hope it's not a hot one because. um. christ, can we be normal?) that I've already shared with a friend before but. Um. Yeah I don't think p03 is a "twink" actually. If it weren't for it's ability to hover in the air it'd be pretty short (didn't Daniel Mullins himself say P03 is the shortest of the four if it didn't hover?)

I mean. Come onnnn look at it. It's short and wide. What about this is a twink? Is it the snarky personality? Or is this just the same case as Wheatley, where people just kept humanizing him as a twink so much that now people call the metal ball itself one?? I've personally not seen that many P03 humanizations so I'm clueless. I just know if we're going off the form god gave it? I don't think it is one personally. If this thing was granted a humanoid form it'd be a weird short angry gnome with a superiority complex methinks. Maybe a goblin. Anyways, dismissed

#inscryption #p03 #rambling #it feels like i've only seen one person who completely gets p03 100% all the time and they seem to be Gone now #RIP monarch we lost a real one that day

[introspectivememories]

My fear is that DC makes Bernard such a beautiful well written character that mixs his old asshole personality with his newer tamed personality and people start actively liking him because he is own person with his own hopes and dreams and then fans want more of this Bernard only to be met with a shitty shell of a character and starting back at square one by forcing him just to be Tim’s love interest

this too actually

#a well written bernard... but at what cost? #sometimes the more popular a character is.... the worse they get treated by both the fandom and the editors #bernard getting popular and then the fandom flattens him into one personality trait? im literally quaking #a good writer other than fitzmartin gets their hands on bernard and we finally get a well rounded character? #and then more people start coming for bernard #and then they see this and they fuckin idk reboot the universe again #and now we have to start over from scratch #if real life had fear toxin i think that's what i would see #he's already only 'tim's bf' to them #every bit of character info on him is like inferred #or from like throwaway lines #like when he's patching up tim in tdr3 and tim goes 'but you're okay now right?' and bear says 'some days' #or the holy grail of bear info tdr7 #and then a little bit of urban legends 4 #all of the rr run from way back then is like a good starting point for bear but like he was 16 and the worst thing that ever happened to hi #at that point was his parents being shitty and when we meet him again he's like 20/21 #so i don't really enjoy it when people say he's lost his flavor or whatever because he's clearly been through some shit in the last 5 years #but like tdr7 when bear tell tim to 'have a great piss!' that was fitzmartin briefly being possesed by the real bernard dowd for a sec #these tags are getting too long #dc #bernard dowd #tim drake #timbern #asks

[yousaytomato]

It's so magical when you're looking for info online and you find a defunct, but still accessible, forum thread from 10+ years ago

and you get to read through the niche industry-specific in-jokes and opinions of internet strangers

and 100 replies later you've seen your query answered, that answer rebutted, and then answered again.

And you feel a nostalgia for these long-gone strangers, the internet of old, and a life you'll never live.

#any one else? #it's becoming a rarer phenomenon every day #as websites go down and google pushes results like this further down it's page #in lieu of ai generated articles #anyway i googled the specifics of how to make a kind of outdated cocktail earlier #and found a forum. which i think is actually money related (?) #but this seemed like an off topic section and it was full of people telling stories about #british pubs in the 60s/70s #and like. it's that so real? #like the people who exist that remember that time become less and less everyday #like shouldn't these stories be archived? #they just felt so much more real than say. a documentary. on the same topic #and this is just one thing. #just one specific thread on a specific website about one meaningless topic #idk. it makes me sad that we can't. or wont. keep everything. lost information is depressing #woes of emily

[ivymarquis]

A moment of silence please for my favorite pair of leggings

#pour one out ladies we lost a real one tonight #;.; #i like how I vanished for 3 days and this is what I come back with lmfao

[ardate]

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#protests #france #just me rambling #i'm getting real tired of those posts being like ''in the US we cant protest like the french do cuz we get violently repressed'' #it is undeniable!! i am not arguing with the fact your riots got stifled very violently. it fucking sucks #but we ALSO do!! The french government literally got denounced by the UN for its use of weapons and ultra-violence against protesters #just a couple days ago there was a huge protest against an installation that would ruin us ecologically #in a continuation to the pension protests #the cops fired 4000 grenades in two hours. #several of those aimed directly at protestors. which is illegal and very dangerous and can KILL #40 heavily wounded. two people are between life and death. #someone lost an eye. a journalist got hit by a grenade in the leg and is gonna be out of work for 2 months. #one is still in a coma. it's been five days. he might die. #it took two hours for the ambulance to get there for him cuz it got blocked by the cops. which is extremely illegal. but they're cops. #and this is one protest but it's like that all the time #last week a woman got her thumb torn off by a grenade shot directly at her #there literally is a recurring joke among cops about 'losing hands' cuz of the sheer amount of ppl who got theirs torn off like this #i sympathize with americans your cops are fucking nightmares. #but so are ours. we get beaten up and mangled and killed. but we're still out there #stop pretending we only riot the way we do cuz we have it easy. i'm legit going to kick your ass #i didn't distribute eye drops to my fellow teargassed protestors last week in my tiny ass city to be told we play on easy mode #anyway. grabbing my medic kit and going out to protest again in an hour. what will You do?

[bunnyb34r]

I swear to God my house is fucking haunted (I mean I knew it was but like MORE haunted) like theres been shit falling over for no reason all fucking day

The hair spray bottle that hasnt been touched in months fell off the sink. Something in the kitchen fell, I did not investigate. The tv antenna was knocked down. And just now there was a fucking stuffed animal avalanche bc like three fucking stuffed animals that havent been touched in YEARS launched off the top shelf and knocked my hello kitty water dispenser down (thankfully I do not use it, it is decorative), both the doll rooms off (breaking one :( minor damage but still), the one apparently load bearing plushie behind the dispenser fell in the empty space, and the stupid straw hat I have kept falling when I put it back.

Like what's your fucking problem??? Am I not paying enough attention to you fucking ghosts?? Are you trying to get my attention to tell me something? Bc if so I ain't gonna listen if you keep knockin my shit down. I fucking have two drinks on the nightstand where the dispenser is and I'm so fucking lucky they didnt get hit bc god I would be LIVID. Like cant you write on the bathroom mirror or send me coins like yall usually do?? What do you want?????

#there was absolutely no reason for this shit to drop yall are just being asshole ghosts #and before anyone tries to dispute the fact my house is haunted/ghosts aren't real shut up bc i know theyre here i have proof #they can apparently affect electrical shit like in the sims bc after my dad died like a year after I had gone downstairs to get something #and i hit all 3 light switches bc its a habit. anyway the one hasnt worked in over a decade and we've tried to fix it to no avail. anyway tm #they ALL turned on and it's been working ever since like agdgdgd hello?? and i can feel their presence a lot like when the cats visit me #i remember dad saying he SAW our first cat's ghost clear as day a couple months after he passed and we've all felt his presence 🥺 #i have other incidents but anyway yknow pennies from heaven? well we lost so many people in 4 years so there was confusion on who sent #the coins yknow? well my dad sends quarters. i KNOW it's him and he knew i collect them. aunt k sends nickels @ #and idr who sends dimes but i know those two. also bluejays are dad like cardinal's are passed loved ones we know it's dad #i used to be a skeptic and be like okay yall are just bullshiting but nah i get it this shit is real #also possession/reincarnation is real sgdgdgdg but again another story another time #marquilla

[pavlovers]

actually nvm im not emo anymore 🤧

#will i ever be truly content with the ending ? no 💀 but ! everyone looks so cute nd im happy that my fav freaks are able to be silly :p #i have mixed feelings on chifuyu narrating this chapter tho lmao 😭😭 #i mean its great that he somehow remembers everything that michi went through nd their friendship wasnt lost #BUT I CANT GET OVER THAT LIKE. ONE TAKEHINA KISS PANEL AND ITS JUST HIS UGLY CRYING FACE AT THE BOTTOM 😭😭 #i kinda love that for him tho like shit make their day all about yourself king #i wouldn't have taken the whole takehina ending seriously either way #tokrev aint even about them at this point its about the collection of freaks takemichi collected along the way 😭 #what other thoughts can i put out there... #omg sanzu being an influencer is such a slay. i love how he looks exactly the same as he did in the bonten timeline #he just slays online now instead of yknow with a katana in real life ! #kazus adorable. izanas adorable #I LOVE THAT SOUTH IS JUST THERE. IDK HOW THEY MET IN THIS TIMELINE BUT FUCK IT YEAH HES INVITED WHY NOT #seeing timeskip mikey again just confirms my initial feelings towards manila mikey which is that he was ugly 😭 #IDK THE SHORT HAIR DOESNT SUIT HIM IMO 😭 I WAS HOPING THAT WAKUI WOULD GIVE HIM A NEW HAIRCUT THAT WE HAVENT SEEN BEFORE #its ok tho im happy that hes actually happy ! and that the future he wanted with emma and draken and their baby came true 🥲 #WAHH THAT TOO 😭 THE FACT THAT THEYRE MARRIED AND EMMA IS PREGNANT WITH THEIR FIRST CHILD LITERALLY SOBBING 😭 #its what theyve deserved this whole time !!!! #what wakui did to naoto was a crime tho 😭 why does he look like thatttt #bring back detective naoto 😭 current naoto looks more homeless than takemichi that doesnt sit right with me 😭 #im rocking with long hair hanma. shuji just some guy hanma 💀 #wakui making mikey looking at takemichi like that the opening panel like we know what they are 🙄 just had to remind us #thats all i think... its finally over 😭 i may have my grudges but i truly loved reading this weekly for over a year it was so much fun 💗

[yououghtaknow]

ben platt was so right when he said (to paraphrase) your heart can break so much that it breaks open and lets love in. that's 2023 to me baby.

#experienced Real grief and heartbreak for the first time in my life #lived alone for most of the year and really Grew Up because of it #lost the three people i was closest with and lost the person i became for them to love me (which is a good thing) #learned a lot about art and life and myself and what it means to Be Alive. #was this year objectively bad for me??? look at all my personal posts honey. #but i feel like i've Grown so much and i'm really proud of myself not Despite everything that happened but because of it #i'm not ashamed to have loved and made choices and to have been wrong about So Many Things!!! i am so young and always learning!!! #i feel like Myself for the first time in Years. and for the first time since i can remember i genuinely feel Fine. #a lot of things are bad and i have bad days (today was one of them) but!!! i am hopeful and i am Determined to survive and be happy. #i do not have to be great!!! i do not have to be good!!! i simply have to be and that is enough!!! #one thing i said this year that haunts me is when the person i was in love with told me i was being silly for having a panic attack #and i responded with 'why should i feel silly for experiencing true emotion?'. and that's just really guided me since i said it. #ANYWAYS. insane year for me. this time last year i was madly in love and denying So Much and this year i am Accepting and loving what i have #this has been the return of isaac's insane personal posts. which are happening So Much Less due to the healing but hey!! we ball!! #i love you friends who live in my phone <3 if you're still reading happy new year and may you find whatever you're searching for <3

[moldwood]

on the topic of that post about traditions, i was also talking with some friends about how i really like the "modern traditional" aesthetics of overwatch. you can definitely tell its the future, but there's a lot of regional building techniques in places that allow it that also abandon western aesthetics in favor of embracing the culture of the maps area. i know it's to give each map a unique aesthetic and the creators were not thinking as deeply about it as i am, but i enjoy thinking too much. big central cities obviously need metal and glass and so forth to support the infrastructure, but on maps for smaller locations, you can see that they're made with mostly local supplies. it was on the mind because i saw a video about the stigma against grass thatched houses in africa and how theyre seen as a backwards way of living, when in reality theyre actually the most environmentally friendly way to make a house in the area and theyre also energy efficient. you dont need to run heating and cooling through a house that heats and cools itself, you dont need to worry about food spoiling if its kept chilled naturally, and you dont need to worry about costly repairs to your house if the materials are readily available. its trying to build every shelter in a western style to try to show the world that a place has been "civilized" that leads to the loss of efficiency and culture and history and a million other things. anyway i think im probably the only person who cares about the sociopolitical implications of the funny monkey with a laser gun game this much

#and dont get me started on the spiritualism and scientific advancements in that world #i was never involved in the fandom for a reason. everyone was busy making hunky boys kiss. i was busy dropping out of environmental science #in my head there is a beautiful future where no history was lost and where there is a major switch that is flipped and all of a sudden #infrastructure is made listening to the people who know the land and how to build on it while sustaining it best. in my head there is a #beautiful future where real estate companies can no longer pave over wetlands so long as they 'just build another one somewhere else' #because you cannot just build another one. it is an incredibly complex filtering system that you cannot just recreate by dumping water over #some grass and adding bugs and calling it a day. in my head there are no empty houses and there are town squares and there are gardens #in my head i live in a beautiful past where my great great grandma never had to take the name america smith!! #but here we are so we must destroy pavement heatsinks and tend gardens

[brittlebutch]

going two layers deep in a fantasy to 1) a world where the bird trading cards from that make some noise prompt are real and then 2) world where they have insect trading cards of the same variety

#N posts stuff #‘i’ll trade you three acorn weevils for your sappho underwing’ type shit #my parents have been pushing me to think about going back to school for a different bachelors or perhaps a masters #i like bugs a lot but i also can never quite tell if i’m ‘smart enough’ or interested in the right things for a entomology degree #always default back to the internal acknowledgement that my interest is a lot more Visual than intellectual #so no degree. but then the thought pattern always leads back into ‘it would be So nice to have a bunch of insect cards that you could sort #and collect and rearrange and all’ such a thing isn’t real i think #but actually it could be if i wanted it to be actually; i do really enjoy drawing/painting insects #only i haven’t done any art in goddamn Months there’s been a gray void in that area of my brain instead #but hey maybe one day i guess ; but first i’d have to finish this painting one of my brothers asked for Months and Months ago oops #you might realize that we lost the thread on getting a second degree entirely. i usually do; it’s hard to feel like it’s worth the effort #and all the alterations to my schedule when my first degree turned out essentially useless lmao. #so that just makes me want to go a layer deeper in the fantasy to a world where i could learn just to learn instead of needing to be #some vague and esoteric notion of ‘employable’. alas.

[alicentes]

If FTWD had revealed Madison had died when she was shot and she actually what we see of her after is her in the afterlife or a pre-death dream sequence. And the story strand tells Tracy about Madison surviving the shot and saving padre is just to save 8 year old Tracy from the trauma of being a murderer. Making her believe that she inspired Madison to save padre from her fathers horde (which also may be causing her to feel guilt), I’m an attempt to make her believe in goodness and remembering “grandma” Madison in a more positive light.

I mean.. about it, she is reunited with Alicia, who is healthy now and for the record, she should have died on the beach - it makes sense given that Alicia wakes up looking healthy and feeling healthy and once again the colours are brightened as she goes off to help others. Then when we see them watching from above, that part is real and we are actually seeing the other characters alive and well. Madison and Alicia were just seeing that everyone is going to be okay before they move on. When strand sees them he’s seeing their spirits or imagining them. Their journey home to LA is actually their journey to a version of heaven/peace. It also fits in this story, bc they alluded to an afterlife / near death dream when nick died and when grace almost died, but her baby actually died instead. Anyways this is just my stupid thoughts on how to make the finale less of a dumpster fire. I spent too much time on thinking of ways to improve bad storylines.

#madison clark #alicia clark #ftwd #fear the walking dead #victor strand #i could come up with so many better ideas this is just me tweaking the actual finale to improve it with #i think i am actually going to pretend this is the ending they went for even if it means killing my fav alicia #them going home to LA actually means they are travelling to a version of heaven/peace and alicia is the one who came to collect madison #travis and nick are just waiting for them at home on the other side as madison leaves the earthly plane #the only plothole would be tracy. if she died off screen she would be reunited with her parents not madison. #maybe tracy is not real and she is just there as a test for madison or smth #i would also accept a ‘they were dead the whole time’ twist #everyone died from the nuclear blast and what we see after is not reaor they are in purgatory #it explains madison and troy somehow surviving and how charlie was alive years after having severe radiation poisoning and only days to live #like lost s6 flashsideways but a shitter version that makes less sensd

[saym0-0]

okokokokok mermay post attempt 3 :D

so basically its an erasermic mermaid/quirkless au where eraser (+oboro but he died rip) is human and mic is a siren/merman they 'discovered' as teenagers :D

look at my tags if u wanna know the Lore™ i ran out of tags rip

still not sure on mic's colours but whatever we vibe

#they have fins instead of hair!! #also shinsou is there #he got lost as a baby and taken in by mic #who introduced him to aizawa #so he has one gay fish dad and one gay leggy (?) dad #also aizawa is a school teacher in this lil coastal town and idk why but i decided 1a isnt real #instead of them we get big three shenanigans #mirio and nejire are students aizawa teaches that are determined to find out why their teacher sneaks down to the beach every day #and tamaki is either octopus or sunfish-based i haven't decided #get it? #suneater #sunfish #anyways #oboro and aizawa had matching swimming goggles #also oboro got caught under like #falling rocks from a nearby cliff #and died rip #also theres a Whole Thing with shinsous bio parents but theyre ocs so idk if u care #i have so many thoughts #about them #present mic #bnha #mha #aizawa #eraserhead #bnha oboro #erasermic #erasercloudmic #shinsou hitoshi #au where

[arthur-r]

tonight is my last night sleeping in my bed. possibly for the rest of my life. and my last time in my room possibly for the rest of my life. and i want to just get a good night’s sleep to be ready for a long day tomorrow but it’s really not working out like that.

#my family is still up in the air maybe selling this house within the next month #in which case i will never be in this room ever again. otherwise i will be back for the holidays so there’s still a month of this bedroom #if we sell the house in the spring instead (only rational option there’s no way we can empty it in time) #especially since i will not be in this house whatsoever until after that sell date. my mom all by herself can’t empty it all #anyway i’m struggling a bit. saying goodbye to my home of 14 years???? #i’ve been through a lot in this place and most of it is bad memories but like. every good memory i have is from here too…. #and everyone i know irl is staying local i’m the only one who’s leaving. one irl friend is going to the same school as me but we had a fight #within the past month and i don’t think we’re ever going to recover because she just kind of never treated me like a person #so i’m starting from scratch and it’s really.. like fuck i want to get out of here but i’m also not at all ready to actually leave #i’m just going to miss all the stupid little things so much. even my online memories are tied to this place #like the woods down the street where my deer friends live and the ditch i fell into back in the day and all the places i’ve gotten lost #and they’ll be right here waiting for me and i’m SO excited for college i am but why does it have to feel so sudden???? #i dont know how anyone does it.. and all my friends are going to colleges in their hometown so i don’t even have anyone to compare with #i found out today that if we keep the house through the winter my mom is planning on using my room as a guest room and office. and of course #that makes sense and everything but now i have the most crushing guilt for not cleaning it up well enough. i thought it would be okay and #i’d just have to deal with it when i come back and i didn’t know she wanted to use it and she’s going to box up all of my things without me #and i feel guilty that i didn’t do that and i feel scared and upset because it’s my things and my room i don’t want it to change #i’m just really anxious and sad and scared and i don’t know what to do. school is going to be good but none of this feels real or normal #and i just feel sick and scared and i don’t know what to do. waking up at 8am and leaving at 9am and moving in at 2pm and that will be it #my mom and sister are staying for a couple days and that will be good i hope. i dont know i feel so conflicted about everything #and i’m tired and sick and angry and overwhelmed and i just want to take a week off and come back alive again #and i guess that’s what i’m about to do.. after i move in there’s eight days before college starts and all i’ll be doing is moving in #(and welcome week activities. and a lot of sleeping. but hopefully i’m gonna get a rollator through a loan program and that will help a lot) #anyway here’s what’s going on. i’m going to maybe try to sleep i guess. but if anyone has advice or encouragement about moving to college.. #now is the time i really need it. it’s just so strange and conflicted and everyone i know has been telling me i just need to get out of here #and myself included i really want to get out of here. but how can i start anew when everyone i’ve loved is shattered. and what have you #think i have to listen to that song for long enough to remember how badly i want to leave…. #i’m just really not feeling well. i’m angry that i never got to have the childhood i deserved #because now i’m leaving and that means it’s officially over…. i’m just really not feeling well. i think i’m running out of tags…. #i hope you all are well. i’ll be around in the morning maybe.. i’m not sure. hope everyone has a good night