#Meanwhile…

[und-dann-war-es-fast-gut]

die ehemaligen Einzelgänger:innen

[somebluemelodies]

currently going through the duality of fandom in which while one fandom i’m in (this one) is absolutely wonderful to me and i adore so many of the people i’ve met and want to hug them all, and with the other one (undisclosed for all intents and purposes), almost every ounce of joy and whimsy is met with 4-5 people whose walls i want to hide in and shake their shoulders begging them to be kinder (not to me, to other people)

like sure you’re allowed to dislike something, that’s your human-given right, but holy shit some people could stand to not be so mean😭

anywhomst’ve thanks for coming to my tiny tedtalk LOVE U GUYS <3

[evilhorse]

Meanwhile… column by Doug Moench (circa May 1986)

[dirtgemini]

really curious cause so many new people have come in with the recent album :)

[mycological-mariner]

Curing my depression by listening to the episode of the rival funeral parlour show about the mortician and the agnostic vicar teaming up to write an erotic novel

[victusinveritas]

Dogs have had many jobs throughout history, in this case: Revenge.

[fairysbrew]

not to be a dirty commie or anything but i don't think any one person should have enough money to solve world hunger and then get to decide not to

[gongyussy]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

[mioakem]

bro gay ppl cannot break up normally

[cleolinda]

“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”

[demaparbat-hp]

Existential Nihilism Squad™

[mumblingsage]

I'm wondering if, as a society who cares about vulnerable people, we could stop saying "traumatize" when we truly mean "upset"?

I am sick of hearing sad books or movies "traumatize" their readers. I simply do not believe that happens. A traumatic experience might be adjacent to books (I have vivid memories of books I was reading around certain experiences and even how the contents of those books affected my processing of the experiences). But it's not caused by the book. And, y'know. The weather is Christofascist Censorship Attempts outside.

Meanwhile from the other side I continue to be surprised at just how badly people fail to understand trauma and traumatic experiences in general. Watering down the term isn't helping. Find other hyperbole to express that The Bridge to Terebithia gutted you, chewed on your heartstrings, and made you cry your first pair of contact lenses right out of your preteen eyes.

(ETA here although it's impossible to edit reblogs: over the months since this post really took off, there has been valuable discussion in the comments. I stand by the passion with which I wrote this post and with the general message, but not all the exact wording. I talk more about the way I'd re-write this post in a response here, replying to an addition that added a ton of useful context [other additions touched on similar themes, but that person had it all together in one reblog]. With that said, I am muting this post.)

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[dirtgemini]

like gorillaz dropped their first ep mid-2021 kinda outta nowhere with 3 perfect bangers on it and i never hear anybody even mention em, do ppl know meanwhile… ep exists??? like?? jimmy, ever heard of him? do you have a sense of deja vu with this record? meanwhile i’m slamming the repeat button

[isjasz]

nightmare fuel fr (i. dont know what possessed me to do this HASJDHAJWHEAWHEIJFKL)

[frownyalfred]

“Bruce Wayne’s superpower is money” Bruce Wayne’s superpower is the ability to actively have a full-fledged panic attack and still look Superman himself dead in the eye without any of his vitals changing. Heart rate is a solid 60 BPM. You can’t even see him breathing. Put some respect on my man’s name.