#(but it still feels bad)

[doctorjackdaw]

god your art sucks and your ocs are bland

thanks dude! much appreciated

[genuflecting]

after a week of texting back and forth with the friend I got a crush on where we'd reply within a time span of a few hours to 24 hours each time, I asked if he wanted to get coffee sometime on Friday night and he still hasn't responded ;-; I'm trying to give it the perspective that I am a hugely slow responder generally and it's never about the other person, but the fact that we were in such a groove all week and then that was what threw it off is making me feel so desparing

[lesboevils]

hm.

[taste-thewaste]

in january i got a new boss and we’ve been getting along really well, he just…does what he’s supposed to do and is actually helpful to me and it’s like revolutionary lol

And he accidentally let slip to me today that my previous bosses apparently have been telling him that they’re so shocked that he gets along with me and that he finds me such a delight?? Like at their meetings they asked him how he likes working with me and he’s like I really like her and they’re shocked?? So apparently even though all the people who work for me love me and I have great customer service and i show up to work every day ready to go…..

[st-guliks-fnord]

Had to have a dental surgery today and I am in Ouch

[carnation-0]

Man I feel so bad procrastinating another inktober day, especially cuz i was gonna do kirby and I love him but DAMN I'm gonna do it

[a-sheep-in-a-witch-hat]

Separating an album into individual tracks feels like separating kittens from the same litter.

please listen to albums someitmes youll be amazed at what an artists songs do when theyree in an order they made. for you to listen to. etc

[skrunksthatwunk]

see 0 note flop posts aren't that bad when they're personal but 0 note fandom posts feel literally so bad. like if you don't wanna play toys with me anymore just say that. i'll pack up my super cool awesome things and go and i'll sit on the other side of the playground by myself and i won't even look at you. fuck

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[yantao-enthusiast]

just saw someone younger than me doing way better at art than me. totally unrelated but what if i bit my fingers off

[vanilla-voyeur]

Imagining someone screenshotting my writing and telling others not to feel bad about how cringe they are because it'll never reach the level of true cringe that I have cursed their eyes to behold

this is the single worst way i've ever read to describe an erection, frank herbert

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

[mroddmod]

everyone be quiet i'm manifesting

[madamemachikonew]

"Go to hell" is basic. "Hope your favourite anime movie sequel gets cancelled after seven years in production AND getting an animated teaser." is smart. It's possible. It's terrifying. It's happened.

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

[batsyheere]

Bruce tries to adopt Ellie, who is immediately against it. She keeps throwing him off her trail and he keeps tracking her down. She's honestly concerned, and normally she would handle her problems by herself- but this is Batman.

So when Bruce gets a little too close and Ellie is just so tired... she calls for Danny.

"Mom!"

Cue college student, perpetually tired and overworked Danny "High King Phantom" Fenton appearing from the very shadows Batman normally does himself, seeing the situation and going off at this "clearly older man" chasing his daughter in the middle of the night.

Cue the most elaborate "stop trying to adopt my kid before I adopt yours" series of battles