Just a dude

the wrong people in this world are unlearning shame

silently letting the barista give you the type of milk that makes your stomach hurt will not help them emotionally later in the day against the person that will verbally berate them for like breathing a little too weird

I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline

Can’t wait to not sleep at all on September 11th

i know ur from the uk(?) but reading this as an american is really really funny

why 😭 it’s about twenty one pilots???? Their new album is out sep 12th????

there’s a joke to be made about pilots here but i can’t think of one rn

HOW I AM SO CONFUSED

I’m watching The Big Bang Theory in its natural setting—playing in the background of a hot spiral room—and I can say within that specific context, it is a very charming show. Like the saltine crackers of media.

Hospital room. A hospital room. Not a hot spiral room. What a nightmare idea. And you all rolled with that idea. The idea that I was sitting in a hot sweltering spiral prison watching the Big Bang theory is actually what hell is. Bazinga.

what was the problem you had in mind

well compared to those it seems silly now. not to speak for the entire human race or anything here, but the way lobsters communicate is not typically considered ideal.

Finally, piss rich communication.

All the millions of years of animal evolution and linguistic development on this planet have culminated in this post, to be quite honest.

How dare you say we piss on the lobsters

I remember a few years ago when Belos said “Goodbye Evelyn” when he killed Flapjack and there was a small but very confused community online who thought Flapjack was literally Evelyn and it wasn’t metaphorical but now I think it’s so funny. The concept that Evelyn was like. Hm I’m gonna put my soul in this bird so I can be immortal and defeat Belos. Based honestly.

Consider: Flapjack giving Hunter his soul so Hunter could live also dropped Evelyn in Hunter and it’s all three of them in there now. Evelyn’s pretty chill about it but she’s like . Uh. Ok. I’m a teen boy now?? Uhhh this is. A situation. Flapjacks like: I want to eat seeds. Hunter doesn’t realize what happened until after they defeat Belos and he’s like. How have I been possessed by everyone from this group EXCEPT. Caleb

this baby Blue Heron killed the dinosaurs.

Also my current listening practice includes transcribing quotes I like from the shows I watch to put in my journal. Probably not the most time-effective listening practice but it does force me to really listen properly and when I do I realise oh wait I do know all these words and oh yes I have heard that grammar pattern before. Makes me think I should try watching without subtitles sometime. Of course, I do learn a lot of new stuff too, and it helps me to fill in the gaps between the parts I do understand and gives me a fuller picture.

I like how the "Welcome Back" meme always lines up death days with birthdays, because it implies that souls only attach to hosts that have already exited the womb. Perhaps amniotic fluid repels souls (how could we use this?), or perhaps souls cannot differentiate between mother and child until the umbilical cord is severed. But I imagine the most common explanation would be that the soul enters the body via inhalation (at first breath), which would make the soul an airborne parasite. But to answer your question, no I cannot explain the gap in my resume.

i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"

Even when it is well intentioned I don't really like the whole anti anxiety/low self esteem thing of "oh you really think you're uniquely terrible that's so self centred" because no actually this is not about being self centred it's based on recognising genuine patterns in how people have treated me and being afraid of encountering said patterns again "you think you're special" yeah well special is an insult in certain contexts and some of us encountered that from a very young age. And it fucks up your emotional regulation, and then here people go phrasing their supposed "support" in the most flippant and uncharitable way possible and expect it to be taken well through an amazing feat of trust and emotional regulation from some very anxious stranger online who has no real reason to trust that they're not the kind of person who would've said it was your fault your classmate spat on you at the age of nine. Or something.

"People aren't judging you or thinking about what you're doing" well see I used to never think about it and then apparently I was doing something wrong constantly that everyone found extremely concerning and/or amusing and everyone else understood why but I didn't so no I'm not taking that on faith actually