I Care Too Much About My Fictional Guys And Gals

we're on a voyage home 🌈

Odysseus: *lying, traveling, stealing, etc*

smth that annoys me sooo much is when ppl assume i’m just “picky” w food. like no. i have arfid. it’s not about being difficult or spoiled, it’s literally my brain + sensory stuff making it impossible to eat certain things. textures, smells, flavors… it’s all too much sometimes. it’s not a choice.

My family about my picky eating my whole life: oh yeah, that’s just how she is. She just has like three meals she’ll actually eat and hates 90% of food. She once sat at the table for hours crying and trying to eat asparagus and every time she’d try to drink it down with water, she’d spit it up. She’s just quirky like that. We regularly try to get her to eat other foods and for her entire life her siblings have made fun of her for not liking pizza. Whenever she gets a boyfriend she’ll start eating more foods because she’ll try them for him. She’s just dramatic.

Drinking soda is better than drinking nothing all day. Eating ice cream for dinner is better than eating nothing for dinner. Eating salsa is better than having no produce in your diet at all.

This was me for the entirety of Daredevil season 2 with Matt and Elektra, yelling at the tv every single time they got closer to being together and cheering every time Matt sasses, back talks, and takes absolutely no crap from Elektra.

Having arfid is like. Imagine everyone except for you just absolutely loves eating dirt. Like dirt is served everywhere in a million different ways. And you'd forced yourself to try it once or twice but you couldn't swallow it because your body reasonably didn't want you to eat dirt. And then you get into situations sometimes where you're REALLY hungry but the only option is dirt. And people are like "why don't you like dirt? If you're that hungry just eat it." People assume you just. Don't care for dirt. But it's dirt. That is not edible. Even if you wanted to.

Part of what makes DS9 feel so real and alive is how many kinds of Guys it introduces.