#I sound so normie

[2hoothoots]

you mentioned phoebe, now you have to dish on phoebe!! what's she doing?? what's she like as raz's roomie??

phoebe!! she's a cool kid!

i think out of all of the campers, Phoebe seems the most set on becoming a Psychonaut. she's just as passionate about it as Raz himself, and i think when they move in together she's been working a couple months as a new agent. she'd been sharing an apartment with Quentin, but after taking a year or so to think about his options he decides the Psychonauts aren't for him and goes to study music at college. so they're both young adults who have just started out on what they always thought would be their dream job... and figuring out what that actually looks like, in practice.

i think Raz and Phoebe make really good foils, because in so many ways they're so similar! they're both very passionate and dedicated people, they're both longtime performers (Raz with his acrobatics, Phoebe with her music), and obviously they both really care about the work they're doing with the Psychonauts. and that makes it a lot of fun to highlight their differences, too!

for Phoebe, her music is about expressing herself, about taking her feelings and letting them out through performance. she doesn't make art for anyone except herself. but Raz can't get over the fact that whenever he performs, it's for a crowd, and he needs people to enjoy it - because growing up, if people didn't come to their shows, they didn't eat*. he can never really get over the idea that his art has to be for someone, that it has to be good to be worthwhile.

i think they both have very strong opinions on their work, too! Raz's specialty is psychotherapy, projecting himself into peoples' minds. i see Phoebe as much more into the talking therapy side of things! they have long arguments about appropriate boundaries with patients, and hands-on vs hands-off techniques, and about how this study showed sixty percent improvement in the first session with this technique (but that study cites that the long-term benefits are less in comparison, so actually-)

in my head, there's a bit of a teething period for the first week or so when Raz moves in, and after that they just click. sometimes too-similar personalities can be like oil and water, but i think they're on a mutually compatible wavelength. they're diving into deep conversations at 1am, because they each see enough of themselves in the other person (and are both unrepentant armchair psychoanalysts) to get into the really revealing stuff. they write and record a concept album together about having a tense relationship with your family growing up, Phoebe on drums and Raz on acoustic guitar and both of them sharing the vocals. it sucks! but it's cathartic for them both! Phoebe's still got a copy of it on cassette somewhere in the back of her collection

(* the Aquato family are poor, but in my head they were never seriously at risk of going hungry. however Donatella definitely catastrophised enough times about a show going wrong and the whole family having to eat watered-down gruel for the next month that it stuck in little Raz's mind, hahaha)

[skunkes]

How do you feel about Dungeon Meshi (i think i spelt that right) getting more popular? I feel like i’ve only seen u post about it but now its popping up a lot more on my twt / tiktok

Mixed feelings! Glad it has an anime now and that ppl are enjoying it, because its really good!

I myself think its annoying when ppl are like "im gatekeeping x media bc its important to me 😡" so thats not how I feel on the other end. It has impacted lots of ppl so if it can get a bigger reach and impact more, thats good. ^_^

if i did not have the time or energy or resources to read it, I would've hated feeling alienated just bc it became a favorite media of mine after the anime came out

Its more like. Idk.

I know ppl who hope it gets Bigger for more official merch but I just don't want it to get Embarrassing ykwim.

I need it to not get so popular that in a few years I'm hiding the volumes from my shelf because its an embarrassing, beat to death thing thats present in every store, backpack, socks, sweater that looks like characters clothing, funko pops, etc. something i cant even enjoy anymore bc its been wrung dry and overexposed and misinterpreted, "of course u like it EVERYONE likes it!" and now I'm tired of it, and wouldn't want ppl to associate me with it LOL 🧿🧿🧿

[geo-bby]

How we feeling Beatles people?

[j-esbian]

i lost the post but i saw someone talking about how some of y’all act like being weird is a choice and like. YEAHHHHHHH.

that’s fine, it might be for you. but i just live like this and don’t know any other way. like yeah i’ve worked customer service, i can do innocuous small talk, but anything beyond that, i don’t understand what i’m missing. and it’s frustrating to see the tonal disconnect especially from people who are like “uwu embrace weirdness!!” where they’re like. dressing quirky and talking about bugs and listening to obscure music and eschewing small talk to ask Deep Questions on the first date and unlearning their tendency to not infodump. and generally have an idea of what Weirdness is supposed to look like. idk man some of us wake up and get out of bed and can’t figure out why the rest of their coworkers chitchat with each other but when they join the conversation it dies.

weirdness is value neutral. let’s stop trying to turn it into a badge because quite frankly, it’s not a choice for everyone. it’s fucking exhausting to never be on the same wavelength as other people and they’re going to react the way they do and label you the way they will without any conscious actions on your end. it’s difficult to talk about this without feeling like you’ll be dismissed as immature, a teenager whining “no one understands me” but the thing is. sometimes you don’t grow out of feeling alone and different, and there’s no good way to talk about it without feeling like people will think you’re just fishing for pity.

[moldwood]

i need to pin him down like a bug in a glass case. i need to bite him and feel it in my mouth like how alginate does taking a mold of your teeth. i need to get into a knife fight with him. i need to keep a lock of his hair in an envelope. i need to eat out his wounds. i need to be put down like a lame horse

[theplantbish]

Sooo I ended up seeing Benjamin live last night. Found out about the gig five hours before showtime lmao there was also a m&g right after the gig and I got a selfie with him 🥰

[boccher]

every day im glad that i only encounter popular video game discourse from 2000 miles away

[anotherpapercut]

sorry if this is extraordinarily pretentious but I do think it's wild that lobe piercings count as piercings in the same way a lip piercing does. it feels wrong. I have never thought of ear piercings as real piercings it seems like you should just be born with those right like they should be just in there naturally

[tariah23]

This is some hater shit

[tezzbot]

I just noticed that Manic's singing voice in Sonic Underground just straight up sounds like Silver help me help help help

[loveletterworm]

Spending your formative teenage years on tumblr dot com instead of other websites or outside will induce a really baffling worldview that I can only describe as "Cave Madness" which is really difficult to explain or do anything about

[hypertechnica]

WDYM TIKTOK FOUND IHNMAIMS

[idlebug]

finding a blog that posts cool art music and fashion: 😁

all the other posts are reminiscent of 2014 "pale blogs", full of "ballet aesthetic" adjacent images, very pale thin women's bodies / exploitative model photography, childish anime girls in sexy poses with meme text over them, and text posts from op talking about dieting and skincare: 🙁

[tarakau]

Laughed at by my mom I came out to for having a normie name

[angryisokay]

i've been digging through a bunch of music lately because i am being very normal and sane about the possibility of my second rodeo on the picket line. by making a strike playlist.

and holy fuck, i get it, okay. solidarity forever, casey jones, which side are you on. i. get. it.

it's a fuckin slog to find other pro-labor/union/worker songs that also fit the vibe i'm trying to aim at. i'm gonna pad the playlist with more normal music too, so i'm not actually mad about it, just tired of looking and getting the same dozen song recs from different sources.

i think i'll change track and look for general 'rah rah, fight on' kind of music.

[nothoughtsjusthoffstrahm]

GUYS HI HELLO SORRY FOR BEING AWAY FOR SO LONG I TOOK A BREAK FROM SOCIAL MEDIA BECAUSE MY MENTAL HEALTH WAS GETTING WORSE BUT I'M BACK NOW 'CAUSE

GUESS WHO'S BACK HOME FROM THE "SAW X" SCREENING AND SHRIEKED AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS ONCE HE GOT BACK AND ALSO SAID OUT LOUD UPON THE WHOLE ROOM "HOFFMAN F-ING HOFFMAN" AFTER THE POST CREDIT SCENE FANBOYING AND FIDGETING LIKE CRAZY

THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS AMAZING ALSO EVERYTHING JUST EVERYTHING THAT POST-CREDIT SCENE HIT ME LIKE A TRUCK THOUGH

I LOVED THIS SO MUCH I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN GUYS GUSH ABOUT THIS WITH ME GUYS