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alicornze7 · 4 months ago

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returning to my roots

a lil' cute and wholesome ribbun drawing...

...or is it?

#hgggh the ribbun brainworm is at it again #ik the inside of her mouth isn't pink it looks nicer here okay:(#i miss drawing them chat #love using these calligraphy brush pens actually #4chan icon lol #im in an angsty mood today #huehuehue #not me complaining abt not liking angst while drawing it😞#I need to learn to do better expressions #cause i've been using the same shocked one for jax since the beginning #ok rambling stops here #ribbun #tadc gangle #tadc fanart #tadc jax #the amazing digital circus #traditional art

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thefloatingstone · 4 months ago

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Trying to figure out how to make squid boy emote because every time I've drawn him so far he looks very stern and it just didn't sit right with me. Also the more I played the more I noticed how his expressions change.

Anyway this is what I got so far. I plan to do more because hoo boy is it tricky to pull certain emotions out of him.

#BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #The Emperor #Ilithid #Squidposting #Digital art #artists on tumblr #I need a better art tag #I was gonna place these on the post next to each other but I disliked how much they shrunk when I do that #so long post it is #sorry about your dash #I know some of these are borderline OOC but I am drawing them to LEARN #Don't come for me #No glaze today we die like men #You can tell I was more confident with the first ones because my lines are darker and more confident #whereas the last 2 I wasn't pressing as hard because I was uncertain how to do these expressions

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kenmaiii · 9 months ago

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after two years i finally draw the favorite

#my art #still learning honestly. idk how to explain it but some medias youre so fixated on and obsessed with u instantly want to draw everyone #for me dunmeshi has always been the opposite. series and characters i enjoy sm i cannot bring myself to pick up a pencil #for some reason. it got a lot worse once the anime started airing idk. simply forcing myself to get some of my energy out. in a way #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #thistle #dunmeshi thistle #thistle dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #>_< series i was into since late 2021. yet u wouldnt know that unless u follow my side twitter account. sowwy ig #i do this with a lot of franchises honestly. cannot bring myself to draw even if i think abt the characters constantly. ie skip to loafer #u will nvr catch me calling this guy sissel sorry. save that name for Mr. Ghost Trick. another thing i. also. dnt talk abt. which i adore #i need to get better at talking abt and expressing myself for the things that i enjoy. ive been wanting to draw laios for a good #while too but im scared. for some reason. u-u should nvr let a white man do that to me honestly.#for now i'll thistle tho. maybe we will get kabru namari or mithrun next from me >_< i have to talk myself into it #i think the closest way i can explain why i cannot bring myself to draw for some series is that i dnt want to mess up somehow #like 'ilu so much [character] what if i cnt draw u the way u deserve even tho i love u sm what if its not enough.' <- leaves it to sm1 else #tbh [scratches head] i prefer the version with less coloring ^-^ but i realize the one thats more colored would get more eyes on it... hm

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sysig · 25 days ago

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Destined to lose an eye in every timeline (Patreon)

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#Doodles #Helix #Coraline #Blood #Yippee <3 Eye horror <3 #I said I'd do it and I did it! Oops??? Lol #It was too fun and too fitting of an idea to just Not do it I had to - he always loses an eye! That's just the rules!#Coraline being PG means we never see any blood but like... Yes the Beldam is magic But Like..........#I really do love the idea of him making the impulsive decision - getting so close to a total yes - and only the pain snapping him out of it #Boy just doesn't learn without The Worst consequences! <Doesn't actually believe that but I must mean to him ♥#Him being alone and locked up inside the mirror until he ''comes to his senses'' and agrees to be a good son hough <3 #Just wants the pain to stop! But if one hurts this much what would two be like? But then he'd get everything promised him right?#Hmm ♪#But then Dex comes to the rescue! Yaay <3 Definitely not mutually traumatic or anything :)#Especially if there really was a magical element that was keeping the wound ''healthy'' (ever-bleeding without running out of blood? Hmm)#And then as soon as they step back into the real world they get to deal with the consequences #We never see what would've happened to a false start! I mean it's very gory it makes sense haha #And the fake snow melts like real snow... Could go any number of ways really #Maybe for the happiest ending once they get out together Max's eye is all better! :D Or healed Enough but still unusable :0 #Could got the xxxHolic route and Dex gives up half his eye to Max so they only have three eyes' worth of strength between them haha #Neither of them needed glasses before - although I get the feeling Dex would wear contacts even if he did :0 He'd look good in glasses...#Though I think that about everyone haha #Love the little details like Dex calling him Max rather than ''sir'' those particular moments too much ahh <3 <3 #And I do like the alt! Bleeding!! ♥ But I think the pace and flow works better with the two expressions separated out :)#Fun fun ♪ Scary fun

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angy-grrr · 3 months ago

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I try to not be hater, but then I see the stupid takes and get madddddd

This is just what I feel every single time I see those shitty opinions

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#WELL ACTUALLY YOU'RE WRONG BC IF OCHAKO SAID SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH DEKU WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT WHICH MEANS SHE'LL CONFESS TO HIM #THIS IS FORESHADOWING FOR THEIR RELATIONSHIP U R JUST GASLIGHTING YOURSELF BC HER ARC WAS PARTIALLY ABOUT LEARNING TO LET HERSELF LOVE HIM #tf you mean ppl are still making this fight about deku???#“she said she fell in love with him we win!” tf? it wasn't a reveal #much like the story with her parents we already knew that- this was about opening up to himiko so she could understand her better #and the way it was portrayed confirms this; we pointed out in the manga ochako's face being covered by her hair bc it means we shouldn't fo #focus on that rather than her next statement -she's there as herself not as a hero #this is her being selfish and open in order to reach out to himiko's sadness #and yet ppl are trying so hard to focus on the thing we weren't meant to focus on #and even taking away the deku memory they still made it about him #“ochako is jealous oh toga expressing her love which means she wants to confess to izuku too!!”#SHE LITERALLY SAID SHE ENVIES HOW HONEST SHE IS WITH HER FEELINGS AND SHOULDNT HIDE HER LOVE NOR FACE LIKE HER PARENTS TOLD HER #SHE SAYS SHE WANTED TO AT LEAST TELL HIMIKO HOW LOVELY HER SMILE IS #TO THE POINT OF WANTING TO BE LIKE HER IN THIS WAY #THIS ISNT HER BEING JEALOUS OF HER TELLING DEKU SHIT OR YEARNING TO CONFESS #THE EPILOGUE CONFIRMS THE FEELINGS SHE WAS HIDING WERE ABOUT GRIEF AND FAILURE AS A HERO #YOU DONT HAVE TO BE A TOGACHAKO IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THIS #CANT WE FUCKING ENJOY F/F CANON CONTENT FOR ONCE WITHOUT SOMEONE SAYING #GRRRRGRGRGRGRGGRGRGRGR #WE FINISHED HER ARC AND IT WAS ABOUT HER LETTING HERSELF GET HELP WITHOUT FEELING LIKE SHE MUST BE LESS OF A HERO #ABOUT HER GRIEVING AND WANTING TO DO MORE TO HELP SOMEONE ABOUT HER NOT WANTING TO HURT OTHERS WITH HER FEELINGS #DONT YOU UNDERSTAND HEROISM IS THE LEAST ROMANTIC THING FOR A FUCKING HERO NERD #DONT YOU UNDERSTAND???? SHE DOESNT ACCEPT ANY OF HER FEELINGS LIKE HIMIKO DID #AND WHILE THEY TALK ABOUT THE BOYS THEY LIKED ITS NOT ABOUT THEM ITS ABOUT THE GIRLS FINDING SUPPORT IN EACH OTHER #PICTURE ONE OF THOSE FEMALE RAGE COMPILATION VIDEOS #I think they can easily get terfy and im not even a woman but the screaming is the vibe of this post #grrr being a hater #Youtube

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kaiserkisser · 5 months ago

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today is such a stark contrast to yesterday in how much i fucking hate today (vent/rant in tags bc i forgor to do it on my vent one)

#[🔮] rambles ~#lmfao you speak up in this household? WRONG. MISTAKE. HOW DARE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH.#expressing your thoughts? fucking blasphemy #“oh you do know you can tell me anything anytime right? ” what a joke #gods #fuck this shit #you know what i need to learn properly? keeping my mouth fucking shut. keeping my thoughts to myself.#why do i even bother #I LITERALLY DIDNT EVEN SAY ANYTHING #just you know spoke the truth which is apparently forbidden or smth #its not my fault shes a hypocrite????? cant accept the truth thats her fucking problem #honestly i genuinely cant think of an adult around me who isnt a hypocrite but im sure there hopefully is #and then she comes again all sweet sickly smiles expecting me to shower her with love the next moment after being fucking scolded like hell #for saying ome single fucking line of my thoughts that she so encourages me to “express”#as if everything is my fucking fault #atp i hate myself as much too bc why do i let myself get affected i should have grown used to this shit years ago #i should know better than to let her get to me yet look at me being a sentimental lil bitch #god i just wanna get out of here please #anyways shit this didnt go to my vent blog fuck im sorry yall had to read that guys please feel free to ignore lmao #but yk i had to get my feelings out somewhere bc wwll i bottle up enough already lol #tw vent

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set-wingedwarrior · 8 months ago

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I know it happens often to see writers during a long fic to complain at some point about the first chapters because they got better in the meantime and they look bad to them now.

But this is the first time where I saw this happened when the writing actually got worse

#Like this fic is enraging me #Because it started okay #Simple writing that generally worked despite some awkward moments from time #And evolved into this word vomit where everything is just stated (litterally zero show and all tell) multiple times!#Like it builds zero emotions it just tells me #Conversations made less and les sense going on #I saw zero bonding between the main characters despite being together basically in every scene #It drives me insane #This person believes they got better just because they write longer chapter and longer paragraph #But they tell me litterally nothing #Or so little in proportion to the amount of words #This isn't to bashing on the writer of course #Which is why I am consciously saying nothing about the actual content of the story here #But Jesus christ #Not only i feel like the whole plot that I had interest in was ruined #But also all the potential of the writer themselves #I saw at first someone who just needed to learn some more but was doing generally fine #And instead of improvement i am seeing them getting worse and worse #If they truly believe this is better then they're beyond salvation #I am so sad for all that wasted potential #Rant #Sort of #Ignore me i just needed to express these thoughts and feelings somewhere #I don't want to upset anyone #Maybe I should just delete this post

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chiefguideandcentre · 11 days ago

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I’m allowed to be upset over something even if someone else has decided I shouldn’t be and it’s not a big deal and doesn’t matter thank fuck you very much

Even if whatever it is seems stupid to you, maybe it IS completely ridiculous, but I feel something about it and I’m allowed to feel those damn things. I never said it was rational, I’m not saying something is right or wrong necessarily, I’m just plain ole annoyed and I’m allowed to feel that way god damn it

#I feel something about it so it matters #thanks #not sharing anything with you anymore #don’t have to jump on me just bc I feel a certain way about something #maybe it’s not a big deal but I’m bothered by it so it is #I wish I was better at expressing myself #there doesn’t even have to be a reason for why I feel this way about it- I just fucking do and you don’t need to jump on me for it #it’s not like I’m causing drama with anybody or bringing it up to the others or something #should have kept it to myself lesson learned

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silverandebony · 15 days ago

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haaa

#not really sure how to express all the internal screaming going on rn #i am. Not having a good time :)#so mamy things that need to get done that i Haven't Fucking Done and there's deadlines that need to be met and and and #i don't know what to do #i don't know where or how to ask for help #what do i do. someone please take my hand and show me the way #i feel like i've never learned how to manage anything and i don't know how to start #so much has been removed from my reach #how do i move on from that #anyway #hey beloved mutual who sent me an ask the last time i posted like this #i haven't answered it because i'm keeping it in my inbox and i think about it regularly #thank you #unfortunately i am not doing better since then lmao #but i will forever appreciate your taking the time to send me a message.#i guess i should probably sleep #i've been so fucking tired #i just want things to not suck for once.....#and now i've having Extra anxiety on top of everything #is it from my gaming group? current life circumstances? future horrors? all of the above tbh #auuuuuuughaughaughaugh #frankly i should probably leave my main gaming group i don't think they're really good for me any more #but what then! what the fuck then!!!!#i don't know.........#silvered words

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bvnfetti · 25 days ago

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remind me not to express the slightest form of an opinion to my parents again ty

#i always end up ridiculed #that's why i never do it #today i felt like expressing myself and ended up with new doubts about my personality #ik they don't mean any harm #it still harms me #maybe I need to learn how to express myself better #im a massive conflict avoidant #and i said express three times #𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ sof thinks ࿔

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welcometogrouchland · 10 months ago

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Also in the replies of the Steph concept art on twitter announcing she was gonna be in a new project at DC (posted by Travis Mercer), there were at least 3 comments saying "will Tim be there?" I don't care how hard you ship timsteph I'm exploding you with my eyeballs if you do that on my girls post again

#ramblings of a lunatic #taking a step back to acknowledge that my stanning may be getting overzealous #but then again I'm not in ppls quotes or replies I'm vagueing on an entirely different website with no relevant tags. it could be worse #anyway I know tims had it rough these past couple of months ever since zdarsky shifted focus of the batman title to have less tim #but it still feels. idk. just a wee bit uninspired to act like steph can't go two steps without tim being behind her #im ngl i like timsteph when they're cute but timsteph twitter has been. pissing me off a tad lately #the refusal to acknowledge the sexism in dixons robin run and how it impacts stephs writing and their relationships writing #the refusal to acknowledge tims occasional condescension and hypocrisy when it comes to stephs vigilantism #seemingly only wanting her to be spoiler when he wants her around and telling her to give it up most of the time #also the constant disrespect of stephs batgirl era on there weirdly enough?#I've harped on about this on main and in drafts but despite it's flaws it's a good turn for stephs character #she's the focus she gets development (an upward trajectory! which had previously been unheard of for her! bc she did have flaws as spoiler-#-its just that both writers and characters alike seemed to arbitrarily decide she didn't have the capacity to grow past them! but she did!)#hell i saw a BIZARRE take today i just have to bitch about #which was them saying that Batgirl was a ''heteronormative mask'' steph put on #with spoiler being her more authentic self (and this being paralleled to gender expression with stephs isolation from the batfam as spoiler-#-showing how she ''wasnt like them'')#which. I'm not denying you the view that spoiler has a certain genderific swag to her but the needless dragging of her batgirl persona #steph got treated badly as spoiler bc she was A Girl. it's genuinely that simple dixon felt batman and robin would never stand for a girl-#-running around doing the things they did and would need to chivalrously stop her. he's gone on record saying this #she's constantly getting belittled by mostly men (cass also dismisses her but it feels distinctly less gendered)#and in the end it's barbara who learns to give steph a second chance despite her mistakes and they have a positive relationship #something ppl are quick to dismiss as being in and of itself sexist bc they're pairing the two girls off together #as if batgirl isn't a legacy and as if babs and steph don't have parallels in their resilience and refusal to accept when ppl tell them no #for better and for worse!!#like. idk how you took the strongest feminist element in that comic (bc there are elements of sexism here and there! 2009 n all)#and somehow turn it into ''heteronormativity'' YOU PPL ARE JUST SAYING WORDS AT THIS POINT!!!#anyway. someone take away my internet access

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mer-se · 2 months ago

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please pick friends u can argue or have misunderstandings with and actually communicate with immediately after like, it’s so fucking important

#like if anything I’ve learned the last couple years is fucking communicate #like actually #my family isn't really big on it and that's probably part of the reason I started writing so young #tried to break that with my niece and was mostly successful we fight but can actually discuss and work things out and talk #I always have encouraged her to express her damn feelings because my stereotypical scorpio sister is in there too so I had to drag it out #and I can be the same it’s hard for me but I try harder now than before #I’m always honest with myself but expression is hard I get it #like we fought the other day and when she came home l expected her to just go in her room #and she just stood there and looked at me like well??? like that one meme haha #and we talked instead #gotta break those generational curses man #but yeah holding people accountable and calling them out is needed sometimes and also apologizing and talking it the fuck out #even if it sucks….do it #set boundaries and u allow what u allow #I’m at the point of my life I just won’t tolerate certain things and that’s valid but also without communication #you’re not moving either way with clarity and clarity is everything #it’s ok to move on from any kind of relationship but were u honest first? was there clarity #and if nothing changes or you can’t find peace you can move on and compartmentalize that loss better because u tried first #I get some reasons don’t warrant any of that but overall #but yeah I do word things like a straight up bitch sometimes and yes u should tell me hahah #can piss eachother off and misunderstand eachother #but there’s paragraphs coming and that’s the important bit #I’m still learning but better than I was

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laughinglynx · 2 months ago

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#I’m just done with trying to deal with people.#like what is the actual point of trying to learn how to communicate better #when every time I try to express that something is Wrong #it gets turned around on me and I spend the next however long groveling and apologizing #life lesson learned: I am somehow uniquely selfish and anything I do to try to express myself hurts people #and no matter what anyone else has done they’re guaranteed to have something I did worse on hand #or will have some way to turn it around so I need to make them feel better #I’m just done.#like what is the actual point of socializing and communicating and any of that shit.#if I am only ever allowed to express positive emotions #and I know like three people are gonna see this and immediately accuse me of not communicating that I’m upset with them #like what do you want me to do.#what would be the point of saying anything.#does it make other people feel better to argue?#idk maybe it works if you’re always the person who is ‘right’#but it sucks ass if you’re always the person that is ‘wrong’#(argument/discussion of emotions/whatever the fuck you want to call it)#I’m done. I’m just too tired for this shit.#I grew up with this shit coming from my mother I know it’s pointless to even try #I hoped it wouldn’t happen with my friends but fuck me I guess

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recitedemise · 11 months ago

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𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱. This, beyond being a testament to his softer heart, his rather sizable well of care, is a consequence of his time shared with Mystra. Being a worshipper, a follower and lover both to the mother of magic, Gale is far more familiar with giving than receiving. A tremendous deal more. Beyond those illusions of love, Mystra granted him nothing, and whenever she was troubled, even sour or short, it was Gale, doting Gale, who would smooth it out. In truth, short of the stars, he had offered her everything. His whole life to boot. Still, living for some years prioritizing Mystra, Gale's grown notably reluctant to ask for help. It's why, when strapped with the netherese orb, newly blighted and rotting to death, he'd sooner clamored in his tower than look to friends. He's loathed to show his folly, of course, and is far from a fan of stirring worry, but with Mystra, any ask he'd made was resolutely shunned, and from his lover, his deity, that left its mark. Gale--a giver, a man that wants to hope but doesn't dare to--is not a man to ask for anything. If ever he does, the ask is comically small, and even then, he expects to be denied almost immediately. Consequently, an eager kindness leaves him floored. Gale can read displeasure. (See: Mystra.) Gale's trained to soothe it, too. Yet, when confronted with the novelty of that same generosity, your resident Gale of Waterdeep is like a fish out of water.

#HEADCANON.#This hit home because I know too intimately what Gale went through.#God. It sucks. Gale is so attuned to Mystra and her periods of distance and #her cold demeanor.#He just learned to go right into tell me what I can do to make it better mode.#I think Gale isn't really the best at reading or catching social cues #but he's very aware when someone is upset.#He had to learn because god forbid he failed to recognize something and receive less warmth from Mystra #(she isn't exactly warm to begin with.)#she was just largely neglectful of Gale and Gale was convinced it was love #he showed so much of it and so much warmth and...kinda felt being chosen by her #was enough of an expression of love on Mystra's part (it isn't!).#Gale also only asking for help from YOU because he knows you deserve to know #because hiding it would be a danger to others around him.#Like Gale truly asked for no ones hand before the nautiloid incident. he had to be quite literally #torn from his life and freefall into another disaster before even asking for help #a small ask too. This man is like hey can I have your UTTERLY useless necklace so I don't die? i'm so sorry i'm such an inconvenience #fuck. Gale. Gale...baby....#Literally you go 'children shouldn't die' (arabella) and he's all you're such a decent person...i trust you #???? honestly. need i say more.#anyway idk if ill write much today beyond this. im DROWNING in work and i have to prep for an event tomorrow #so you can just frown with me about gale #Me writing about Mystra: wow theyre a lot like my abuser. 🥲🥲🥲🥲hauew..a..

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starrytalking · 4 months ago

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Honestly realising it is completely fine to not want a romantic relationship not only because I just don’t want to but also because I don’t want the commitment and want to freely make decisions for my life just how I want to live it felt really nice :)

#cause like I feel like I’ve been blamed for wanting to make decisions without a partner in my mind #because I want to be able to do on trips or study elsewhere without having to factor in another person #*go #but honestly as long as I’m open about that and don’t get into a relationship and then ignore all the needs this person has #than it’s completely fine and valid and nothing is wrong with that #this still doesn’t feel fully right but having another friend think the same and me not believing they are in the wrong for that helps #just let me live #starrytalking #aromantic #asexual #aroace #queer #relationship #commitment #freedom #life #also not wanting to be committed to a romantic partner doesn’t mean not being able to connect with people #or not being able to be close and in a way committed in friendships #I love my friends a lot! but they also don’t demand me to be on a phone call with them every single fucking day of a vacation #or express that they wouldn’t be okay with me wanting to go on a vacation or internship far away for more than a few weeks because they #would just forget about me in a way?#like yes this is very directed at one person and I think I both misunderstood their point there and also they r valid in there needs and I #just didn’t realise I don’t actually want a relationship (with neither of us being good at communicating our needs and wants yay)#but this still sucked #and ofc my friends express that they’ll be sad about not seeing me for a while #but also I don’t feel like they want to lock me in a cage and control me every move because they express sadness without stopping me from #going. which the person I’m angry at also probably didn’t actually want but well their emotions sometimes got the better of them #and having needs in a relationship is obv valid but they have to be communicated and shouldn’t be controlling and I should’ve reflected on #what I want so just a lot went wrong but I’m learning a lot atm :)

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bookwyrminspiration · 1 year ago

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I don’t know if I just haven’t found the right poetry yet, if I’m engaging with it wrong, or if poetry just isn’t for me, but man I wish I understood and connected with poetry on the level the rest of y’all seem to it looks nice

#poetry #everyone talks about it so highly #and so many people express themselves through it #and I don’t know if it’s a me thing with a very niche type I haven’t found yet #or if I just need to learn how to read it better #but like. it’s just good at best for me #I see what they’re doing I can analyze themes and such #but it just. doesn’t hit!!#but maybe I’m reading poetry that isn’t right for me #I connected with one stanza of one poem once #and it was in the borderlands #since there was a quote I really connected with #but that’s all there’s ever been #we’re reading poetry in class and people are going on about it #rightfully so! I can tell this is a talented and celebrated and leading poet #but I just. I’m not there #I’m not being consumed #like so many others seem to be #it just doesn’t click #and I wish it did

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