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floralcavern · 2 months ago

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A crush, or just selfishness?

I was sitting on the bleachers at a school football game. I was bored and my thoughts had wandered to "Everyone here either has a crush, is dating someone, or has dated someone...", and I began looking around at the people around me.

"She's dated someone, she has a crush on him, they're dating..." and my eyes landed on one of my classmates. Me and him have been friends since we were literal babies. In elementary school, everyone told me he had a crush on me (though, I've never actually confirmed this with him).

And I think to myself, "Is he dating anyone?" I felt a spike of something in my chest. I didn't like the thought at all. Not. At. All. What, jealousy? Do I like him? Hah. Ya, he's funny, cute, really nice, respectful, and stuff. Plus, Catholic! But I don't actually know him. His hobbies or interests.

So, why do I feel this way?

Of course, I immediately began to assume the worst of myself. It's because I'm selfish, right? He is the one guy who, in my entire life, has maybe, just maybe, liked me. So if he were to get a girlfriend, I would be completely undesirable, wouldn't I? That's probably the real reason I'm jealous. It has to be.

So why do I want to talk to him so much more than I used to?

Love doesn't come easy to me. Not because I'm aromantic or anything. I have intimacy issues. So if I did end up trying to pursue him just to try and figure out what love really feels like, that would be even more selfish. I would be using him.

So I won't do that. I'll just keep things the way they are. Friendly acquaintances. That's where I'll stay. On my isolated island.

#vent #intimacy issues #hopeless romantic #I can't fall in love #what does love even feel like?#How do you know if you like someone romantically?#why is it all so confusing?#I am so selfish #assuming the worst of myself #loneliness #what is love #self reflection #I am so scared of intimacy #intimacy is terrifying

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hansoeii · 11 months ago

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The Doctor!

#casting ncuti gatwa as the doctor gotta be one of the greatest casting decisions ever #can't wait to deeply fall in love with him #also yes I did add my cat to yet another doctor who fanart #minka deserves to be the doctor's companion #I think we can all agree on that #this is a different kind of self insert #doctor who #15th doctor #doctor who fanart #15th doctor fanart #doctor who christmas special #ncuti gatwa #my art

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serial-unaliver · 2 months ago

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I feel like "probably won't get physically injured and have to do manual labor while injured" is another benefit to office jobs no one mentions

#also love when I can't pick something up and coworkers just let it fall on me instead of helping

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arttsuka · 1 month ago

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@wolfythewitch 's gravity fowls au, again...

Mcducket with Tate (when he was an egg)

Stan would sell 'mystery eggs' and it would just be rocks or something

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what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom · 16 days ago

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MOREE because I actually can't stop, guys help

Anyways yeah the portal thing still happened in this universe 🙏 now they can live together for 30 years fixing it! Hooray!!

Previous!!

Next!!

First!!

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nottenebia · 2 months ago

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Yaaaaay happy birthday to Mabel and Dipper!!! Weird to learn that we're the same age tho ahahah

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time-to-write-and-suffer · 1 year ago

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I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

#anyway this is just more of that lefty shit where 'well i can't be racist because i'm gay!'#'well i can't be media illiterate because i love villains!'#not how that works babes #'well I KNOW bad from good so i can't be affected by media!'#'everyone else also knows bad from good and defines it the exact way i do!'#'so if i think this is bad then the author must also think this is bad!'#i have bad news ....#also how do you know bad from good? who taught you that? hmm?#did you fall out of the womb knowing? or did you pick up some things on the way here?#'i just know' no you don't! that's what i'm saying!#assuming one thing is always true is the opposite of being a conscious consumer of media soz #assuming someone thinks and knows the exact same shit you think and know is not media literacy!!

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explodingstarlight · 16 days ago

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turtle jenga

flats/alt! ⤵️

#can't believe i haven't drawn the little premutation bros before #i love them they're so squishy #turtle stack <3 #anyway get it jenga? they depend on eachother for stability and when one of them is taken out of the equation they fall apart #<- half asleep reading into my own doodle #anyway 💅#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt fanart #rise donnie #my art #explodingstar art #rise mikey #rise leo #rise raph #turtle tots #tmnt turtle tots

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scurvyboy · 16 days ago

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PLEASE MORE FIDDLESTAN BEING MESSY they do not make each other better they make each other WORSE.

fidds took the break up really bad

#he was NOT coping well #also he hated the portal and wanted to fuck it up for everyone #gravity falls #stan pines #stanley pines #fiddleford mcgucket #fiddleford hadron mcgucket #fiddlestan #myart #i love you cult leader fiddleford #you're so cool and crazy and cunty #i CAN'T draw the memory gun #don't worry about it

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bixels · 10 months ago

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Hot to the Touch

(Sunset x Thea)

#mlp #sunset shimmer #twilight sparkle #twiset #my art #fanart #the grand galloping 20s #illustration #rarijack is my funny goofy ship your american drama “the fashionista falls for the farmgirl!”#but twiset is my pull at your heartstrings drama romance shit #at least for this au #what if thea was the only one who could calm sunset's rage #what if sunset knows she should hate thea for “replacing” her for being the witch she was supposed to be but she can't bring herself to #what if thea was the guiding star who saves sunset's soul and brought laughter and peace and love back into her jaded tired life #what if they loved each other more than they ever thought they could but it wasn't meant to last. sunset must leave and thea must stay.#what if i ran off a bridge

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lilybug-02 · 3 months ago

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Final Blow.

Bug Fact: The New Zealand Glowworm is a species of fungus gnat endemic to New Zealand's cave systems. The larval stage produces a blue-green bioluminescence.

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Some pictures of this amazingly unique creature and it's habitat.