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What ever man. Mekh blast 💥
I think they would look so good in a suit
#finally i can post this#Hi i’m still here#also still gay. and cringe#it’s been harder to do digital art bc of computer problems but i am trying#havent been able to finish v much tho :/#sky cotl fanart#sky children of the light#sky cotl#skyblr#thatskygame#valley elders#well just the one#but thats okay#my art#mine
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Heartbreaking: “problematic” danmei everyone told you to avoid is actually pretty decent and has mildly interesting things to say about poverty and class
#nothing here is groundbreaking or even particularly deep but I do love seeing politics in my silly little gay books#idk. I genuinely think injecting your stories with politics makes them better#even if it’s relatively surface-level stuff like ‘poverty is violence’ it still hits different than#fiction that goes out of its way to try to be ‘apolitical’#(it never actually is apolitical. it just exposes what the author considers to be ‘too controversial’ for general audiences)#erha#2ha#the husky and his white cat shizun#anyway erha hasn’t been anywhere near as traumatizing as people on tumblr make it out to be#like it’s not light reading and you should probably read the trigger tags before diving in#but it’s also not The Most Evil and Problematic Book ever y’know?#cleaning out my drafts#I’m trying to kill cringe and fandom purity culture on this blog so I’m trying to be brave and talk about more controversial things#this has been sitting in my drafts for a very long time
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You ever just see people talk about the Percy Jackson books and know somewhere, deep in your heart, that none of these people have understood that this is a series made for middle schoolers. And that fandom will very frequently lie to them like, all the time. No, that character probably isn’t ooc, you’re just thinking of what the fandom turned them into. No, this book isn’t a horrible stain next to the others before it, literally all of them were like this. It’s Percy Jackson. It’s cheesy and occasionally makes a very questionable writing decision.
You gotta be in this for the long haul or jump ship my guys. Be cringe and free or be gone
#percy jackson#tsats#solangelo book#rick riordan#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo#the sun and the star#text post#yall are astounding me in ways i didnt know was possible god bless#also this was mostly written by mark not rick. like yes he signed off on it but still this is mostly mark#but its still Fine??? its fine?????? besties a book abt our favorite gays not being perfect is not the end of the world#did i cringe? hell yes. but was i free? tremendously. and i had a lot of fun i think#'bianca is in elysium but she was reincarnated??' yeah thats odd. anyway that scene was cute wasnt it#'everything is so on the nose' yeah its for middle schoolers and percy jackson isnt known for subtlety. its very rare#'will was ooc' weve literally barely gotten anything on him and no povs until now this IS establishing his character#'the puffs remove nicos whole trauma' no it doesnt. its a fantasy way to sort of explain that nicos trauma is now open instead of repressed#do i wish it wasnt sometimes explained as 'now the trauma is gone'? yes. but i think its moreso meant to be a way of nico dealing with them#he still HAS that trauma fellas. hes still going to be living with it. its just gonna be easier now. thats part of healing besties#also we dont know how these puffs are gonna act in the future so like. hush. shhhhhhhhhh. shut. it was literally never going to be perfect#its pjo. i love this series to death but. its pjo. it is. in fact. sometimes badly written. as it has been many times before in books before#and what else??????? it may not be written the greatest but its MY series that isnt written the greatest square up
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Danbert HCs!!!
Dan is the only person who can actually convince Herbert to take a break. Even then, it's almost impossible, but hey.
Herbert isn't the best with PDA, but he's a big fan of holding hands or snuggling at home.
Dan, on the other hand, loves PDA, but he's super understanding of Herbert not being a fan!!!!
Quality time, acts of service, and gifts are Herbert's love languages.
Quality time, words, physical affection, and acts of service are Dan's!
Being very tactile, Herbert enjoys just touching Dan, though he'd never admit to this. He gets very embarrassed when it's brought up.
Both Herb and Dan kind of see the Bride as their kid, but don't treat her like one. They try to treat her like a normal person, albeit with some obvious differences.
Herbert gets jealous rather easily. He'll see Dan being so caring with a patient and get upset, but Dan's always there to remind him that he's the one he loves.
On top of being the only one to convince Herbert to take a break, Dan's also the only one that Herbert lets his guard down for. Herbert has a bit more emotion than he shows, and Dan's honored to be able to see the more vulnerable part of him.
Herbert is also easily flustered. He will never admit it. Dan knows, though. He loves to tease Herb about it.
HI PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REQ HEADCANONS IN MY INBOX!!!! IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!!
#slinky.txt#slinkys headcanons#reanimator#re animator#dan cain#dan cain headcanons#herbert west#herbert west headcanons#reanimator headcanons#daniel cain#bride of reanimator#the bride is still around because i love her#she's perfect#:3#reanimator? i hardly know her!#oh also#danbert#danbert headcanons#dan x herbert#gay people#they're so cringe#doomed yaoi but they somehow got it together#undoomed yaoi...?#sorry i'm a sucker for fluff#even if it's a little fucked up because they're reanimating the dead
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I know everyone wants a Solitaire movie (and so do I) but I honestly think they'd fuck it up beyond anyone's imagination.
#heartstopper already make me... cringe#obviously i think it's still good queer (specifically gay) representation and that people are allowed to like it#i know many people defend both the show and the comics saying that it's realistic and not cringe#but i think they are cringe#and i also think that's 200% okay and even necessary#i mean#straight people have their over the top sickeningly sweet romances#and i think heartstopper fits that category but for queer kids#it's nice to have a broad variety of queer (in this case only gay but let's not get into how media hates sapphics/lesbians) representation#i am also not the target audience for the comics or the show#i read the comics a while ago and liked it then#probably because i was like 15#but i've grown out of it#to be fair#solitaire is also a little cringe#but it's my cringe#anyway#enough rambling about my opinions on the comic and show#i think they would fuck up this hypothetical movie because they already fucked up her character in the show#the actor is great and all but why the fuck would cast someone so old#and 'take care of him or you die'#what??#the script is beyond evil#but man do i want more solitaire content#tori spring#solitaire alice oseman#solitaire#cynic.txt
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fav soap character: jodie dallas ft. lemonade, one of “your basic heterosexual drinks”
#i'm *checks watch* 4 days late to the first week challenge...so cringe lol#but like fav soap character? i'm nothing if not predictable. so.#woe. jodie dallas be upon ye!#soap#soap 1977#soapmonth2024#jodie dallas#my art#billy crystal also has such a weird face to draw. it's all in the eyebrows and i still feel iffy about it#what i (surprisingly!) don't feel iffy about is the hand! for once the fingers weren't a nightmare!#(sidenote: i rewatched the episode and he doesn't even get his lemonade. i blame carol for this)#used 'homo' bc of the joke in the show itself. but can tag if necessary#billy crystal#yeah i should tag the actor too. this was fighting for gay rights
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i forgot to draw something for pride month so heres creek. you know. as a treat
the true pride festival experience (i had my first one this year! it was so fun!! i also lowkey fell in love with some cute alt kid but i was also a state away from home and they did not talk to me)
#south park#tweek tweak#craig tucker#sp creek#creek#pride month#trans craig tucker#honestly the problem with creek is the fear of mischaracterizing them#like back when i was a major creek fan there was so much back and forth on what canon creek is#like NOO!!! TWEEK CANT HAVE EYELASHES!!! STOP MAKING HIM UWU!!!!#or NOO!! CRAIG ISNT JUST GAY!! HES MORE COMPLEX!!!#its all just out of some weird sp fan fear of being an actual fandom#which… it is. its always been.#shipping and cosplay and fanfic and fanart are just sp fans being a fandom#it mightve just been because i was on sp PINTEREST (never again)#but the pressure creek (and mostly craig) stans put on fanartists and fanfic authors to make them fit their perfect image of both of them#is just so overwhelming#its like 25% of the reason i dont like creek anymore#ill still draw and write them though because i dont let fandoms ruin stuff for me#because thats cringe asf#also sp tumblr solos i love you guys ur all so nice
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Keep seeing clips of that dude reacting to Good Omens and he is now loosing it over how “ruthlessly sexy” David Tennant is saying “I know the answer is going to be a resounding no, but am I the only one who finds him sexy?” You got that right brother
#let’s introduce this guy to the concept of ‘gay for David Tennant’#love watching bits of Danny Motta developing good omens brainrot and going down the rabbit hole of David Tennant is sexy in real time#also love his description of Crowley as a ‘bingo playing grandma who never let the 80s go”’ but is somehow still hot#wait until you witness Bildad the Shuite#also him saying he finally gets what makes rockstars hot after seeing Crowley swagger#hope I don’t get hate for this I love David Tennant but he specifically plays Crowley in a way to make him extra levels of sexy#like regardless of how Crowley looks he’s always oozing “sexy’#in a way David Tennant is not#That’s what you call acting sexy#which is even more impressive given that Crowley is quite cringe fail too#good omens#Crowley
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*sees popular tumblr user realizing they have DID and talking about how lame and bullshit community terminology sounds and how the whole community is full of dogma and mysticism* wow, did i used to sound like this? holy shit i kind of sucked! anyway bye *makes out with block button*
#idk. i mean obviously i understand it#'i'm not like those WEIRD CRINGE PEOPLE who are CRAZY! i don't even think this is a REAL DISORDER!' is like#THE symptom#but god i really don't want to be like anywhere near that kind of energy lol. still trying to excise it from my own self#i also did not like this person for other reasons but felt kind of like blocking would be pointless#(also funny to be like 'all the terminology is so gay' like i used to and then use plural. literally my most hated woo term)#(truly all internalized ableism is built kinda different)#i'll delete this later lol i dont want to be a mean meanie it's just like. hm! wow!
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Me, listening to cringey music without a private session: haha I don't care
Me when my Spotify wrapped is cringey: oh no the quencies
#mostly im just embarassed to admit that despite wanting to abolish canada as a political entity & canadian as an identity etc#i still played that metal version of 'northwest passage' on repeat so many times it got into my top 100#also i didnt listen to anywhere near enough dorian electra this year i only have one of their songs on wrapped i should have like 10#i supposed to be cringe for being gay and stuck in the 2005 aesthetics not for jams that are antithetical to my beliefs lmao
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I saw Wicked today with my roommates. I have Thoughts
#stupid flighty bullshit#first.#wicked spoilers#beyond this point so if you dont want to be spoiled stop reading#first of all i loved it#great movie. cynthia and ariana knocked it out of the park#i liked ethan slater's boq and michelle yeoh's madame morrible#im sorry ariana for doubting you#she did a very good job acting#jonathan bailey was fine. i still dont like him but he did fine#tbh i think i just dont like fiyero. like hes fine but the romance plot is so boring aside from the conflict that it creates between#glinda and elphaba#also make them gay. cowards#i saw that fucking. flower#im picking up the crumbs and i want more#most of the additions were kind of unnecessary tbh like. they had an extended scene with the wizard#but it made me cringe and jeff goldblum cant sing#i dont think he was a good choice for this part#also there was an additional number in one short day#kind of explaining the grimmier thing?#i dont remember how they do it in the show but I feel like that was fine?#i think they just added that part to have kristen chenoweth and idina menzel cameo#but i feel like the extra time could have been used in other places#to fill out the relationshio development more#i still dont find fiyero and elphaba convincing as a couple#i still think that elphaba and glinda jump from being enemies to besties way too quickly#like it works but wouldnt it be nice to give it more focus?#i did love the choreography during the songs#especially no one mourns the wicked and dancing through life
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That last post brought up another memory abt the same band lol I was in their music video and I brought my very new gf at the time to the shoot and like introduced her to everyone as such. And then the makeup artist told me quote “I know you’re queer as hell” and then put me in fem makeup that I didn’t know abt until it was done + no one else had anything beyond a “natural” look regardless of gender. Again I very much had a gf with me + I was dressed 100% stereotypically masculine, don’t think I even painted my nails at the time or anything. I hadn’t told her I was bi or trans and I passed as male already. This was solely based off of me having faded purplish hair and being small. I’m used to strangers calling me slurs for my actual sexuality or for the more feminine clothes I wear and demeanor I give off these days but what the hell was that. Queer icon: this cishet-presenting man is short and doesn’t have a buzz cut
#once again I could fuck a girl sloppy style in a wendys (or a music video shoot) and still be assumed exclusively gay#the band themselves were so normal abt me it’s part of what I loved so much abt hanging out w them#they knew I was trans n just treated me like one of the guys#also the music video is so funny to me. cringe (honorific)#mine#txt#q slur
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no thoughts only this
#i am still compromised over the underwater sequence#it was the most unexpected and cringe but also adorable and so them moment??#[gay screaming]#ofmd#ofmd s2 spoilers
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"Oh dear! I'm terribly sorry for jumping, though you frightened me!"
"It is quite alright, small fairy. I mean you no harm, I can assure it. You may call me Fry."
"I see, well my name is Elwynn. I am terribly sorry to bring our conversation askew so early, but as a costumer myself, I have to ask about yours! You look simply incredible, I must say!"
"Ah, Elwynn, my friend, you have mistaken me. I bare no costume, you see. My gills and my frills are simply how I was born."
"Oh dear, I'm so sorry for assuming! I don't see other species often, coming out to the water like this is quite the rare occurrence for one as reclusive as me."
"Wynn, do not let it guilt you. I rather approaches such as your own than those of fear I tend to garner. Do come closer, will you? My vision is faulty out of water."
"Poor thing, why is it you require to see me better? Do I have something on my mask?"
"Do not fret, you do not, I simply wish to admire your charm through less of a hazy blur."
#oc#oc writing#original character#original character writig#i spelled the previous tag wrong and im TOO LAZY to rewrite it#fairy#fairy writing#fairy tales#fairytale writing#fairytale gay romance#no he is not sebastian solace yes he is inspired by him sniffles#i love fairytale dialogue i do not care if its cringe#i am cringe but i am free#im also free from my drivers ed course#but not free from covid :(#what if i was a feminine male fairy and my job was to make costume and i walked along the riverside wearing a buncha costume pieces and you#and you were a big ah fish man twice my size who hurled himself out of the water to greet me and scared the hell out of me#and then we kissed#i foind fishy#is this too many tags#also theyre relationship is asexual :)#toxic yoai is out healthy yoai is in#i used the wrong their in the tag before the previous tag but im STILL too lazy to rewrite them rest in piss
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Idk if my previous posts were unclear but I don't remotely hate any Optimus version that isn't IDW or think they suck. Every Optimus is good and there's a fan (or multiple fans!) of every version of OP no matter how obscure or underrated (as well as all the other characters).
What's more questionable (or at least annoying) is when fandom ignores canon character personalities in favor of writing specific archetypes that are either out of character or repetitive/stereotyped to the point of annoyance. As an example of this, it would be a female character being called the Team Mom just because she's a woman existing in a group of (primarily male) characters even if she's not remotely motherly or nurturing. Or, as a more topical example, how often I've seen Transformers ships where even though both characters are canonically masculine (or gender neutral), fanartists love to turn one of the characters small and weak (or even outright feminine) to turn the ship into Strong Dominant Seme and Sweet Cute Uke to fit a specific kink or romantic fantasy, even if it's a disservice/OOC to portray those characters like that.
In other words, a fandom's popularity of certain characters, ships, headcanons, etc is often more informed by tropes and forcing canon to adhere to one's personal tastes, as opposed to approaching canon and trying to understand it on its own terms. I'm not talking about the quality of the source material, but rather the way that the fandom interprets the source materials in ways that don't make any sense, approach it in bad faith, or just generally don't care about canon at all. So I'm not saying one OP is better than another, my problem is when fandom consistently focuses on certain stereotypes or flanderizations of a character, and then any character that doesn't fit the popular (often stereotyped) mold is ignored or virulently rejected. In other words, I think popular fandom often does a DISSERVICE to characters whether they love them or hate them, it just takes different forms.
So, just as an example, I think one fandom caricature of Optimus that I see a lot (and heavily dislike) is making Optimus some sort of shrinking wallflower type who's innocent, sweet, and virginal, in contrast to an opposite caricature of Megatron that's big, strong, dominant, and rugged, and making ship art that forces the characters into some kind of seme/uke or borderline heteronormative romance. Despite the fact that canon Optimus (in, say, TFP for example) is tall, broadly built, deep voiced, dignified, assertive, and strong (physically and morally), completely incorrect interpretations of him as a shy feminized uke type are still pretty common to find. And it makes you ask yourself why it is so many people make MOP ship art of them of The Small One and The Large One or The Small, Cute One and The Big, Violent One when it's completely different from canon. It feels as if such fanart is made by people who just want to see seme/uke style slash ships, and if canon doesn't give them what they want, they'll simply trash it and replace it with their own version, even if it's completely OOC.
So when I said in my other post that people don't like IDW Optimus because he can't be fit into caricatures like happy dad or shy twink, I'm not saying it to say "other OPs who resemble that suck," I'm saying it to express "Fandom tends to simplify characters into easily palatable and comfortable tropes, and when they encounter a character they can't do that with, they respond by ignoring or even hating on that character."
Other versions of Optimus have the problem where fandom turns them into a stereotype instead of the actual character they are, e.g. portraying TFA OP as some poor abused damsel with no self confidence and crippling anxiety being abused by his superiors, and then they talk more about this fake uwu smoll bean cinnamon roll version of TFA OP than they do about actual canon TFA OP. And honestly I can't think of any prominent content/meta about G1 OP that isn't just "he plays basketball and does funny one liners and is Team Dad/Grandpa." (Hell, you even get that with non-Optimus characters that get simplified to just sexy twink, old grandpa, comedy relief, evil ex, Diversity Win-- She's A Lesbian, third wheel to the favored ship, etc even though there's way more depth to them than just their surface level stereotype.)
IDW OP's problem is that he can't be stereotyped like that so instead the fandom ignores him. He's not small, so they can't stereotype him as a skinny twink getting topped by a burly uke. He's not jovial or happy go lucky or extroverted, so they can't stereotype him as Team Dad or Comedy Relief. He's assertive, blunt, and has a temper, so they can't stereotype him as a shy wallflower in need of protecting. He makes catastrophic mistakes and is responsible for bad things happening, so they can't stereotype him into a sweet cinnamon roll who has never done anything wrong in his whole life or The Infinitely Wise and Kind Paragon. There's no Big Bad Authority Figure who was mean to IDW OP and traumatized him, so they can't excuse the bad things he did as "he's traumatized so he couldn't help it" and wave away his flaws as "it's his abuser's fault, they made him this way." IDW OP has the kind of depression where he's grumpy, shut off, and angry-- as opposed to the shy, sad kind of depression that just stares forlornly out of the window in a beautifully tragic way-- so they can't make him into a sad woobie kicked around unfairly by life.
Or I guess they just stereotype IDW OP as "evil bastard with no redeeming qualities that's mean to everyone for no reason, plus the writers forced everyone to like him just because he's Optimus Prime" even though that isn't accurate either.
Put bluntly, IDW OP forces fandom to contend with the idea that someone can be a good person with good intentions but still fuck up on a massive scale and maybe end up hurting more than they helped. IDW OP is messy, ugly, flawed, mean, stoic, closed off. When IDW OP has mental breakdowns or has his feelings hurt, he's loud and angry and harsh, and the consequences of what he did while he was unwell continue to haunt him long after. In other words, he actually experiences negative emotions the way a real person would, and sometimes when he's under the influence of negative emotions, he lashes out or does stupid things (like a real person might) instead of inoffensively crying in a corner somewhere. He isn't sanitized enough for a fandom that only wants Perfect Pure Good Optimus Who Never Hurts Anyone Even By Accident, so instead of IDW OP's mistakes and dark moments being treated as the logical end point of a person put in constant no-win situations until he breaks, he gets treated as if his mistakes and flaws make him an irredeemable bastard with no good qualities who should've fucked up less often to make fans actually like him.
And this is all in a fandom where 90% of the characters are war criminals and a good half of them have massacred organic planets. But god forbid IDW Optimus ever make a bad decision in a stressful situation. Or be mean to someone. Or have a character arc about how blindly idolizing people as paragons ends badly for everyone involved because no one can be that perfect. He is simply The Worst Optimus Ever and there's absolutely nothing about him worth discussing.
And just to be clear, the problem isn't the fact that some people don't like IDW OP, or he's just not their thing and they don't care.
The problem is the fact that he's consistently and actively hated by the fanbase who makes a concentrated effort to say he sucks and make sure none of their fan works ever include him. It's literally at a level where I stopped looking in the Optimus tag on this website because I was tired of people randomly going "and btw IDW OP sucks and I want to drown him in a ditch" in posts that weren't even about IDW, and I stopped looking for MegOP fic on AO3 because most of it is IDW Megatron/clearly TFP or G1 inspired continuity soup Optimus. Places that are Optimus friendly for Optimus fans, where I could reasonably expect to find positive conversations, but instead get sucker punched by hate about the character The Space Is About. And I can't even have conversations asking about why they do, bc the way 90% of them talk, I can tell they literally just didn't read the comics or deliberately misinterpreted the story.
I find it bizarre and frankly, tragic, that the hate train for IDW OP is so pervasive that people actively erase and replace him from fan works IN THE IDW UNIVERSE in a way that no other character is targeted in. I have tried so hard to understand why IDW OP gets this sort of hate and erasure when other characters who were as bad or worse than him have perfectly normal takes about them that go "yeah he kinda sucks but he's cool and I like him" or "who cares if he's problematic IRL, it's a story." The only conclusion I can come to is that because Optimus Prime (TM) has a specific brand image and is locked into being a cultural icon, he's held to a standard of The Ideal Perfect Hero instead of the way better standard of "Is he an interesting, well written character?"
#squiggposting#discourse#i tried my best to phrase this in a way that didnt invalidate different tastes#but like honestly. some ppls tastes suck. or are actually problematic and not in a fake way#like as an example from the main text avoe#i hate it so much when gay ships are made seme/uke - dominant/submissive - fem/masc#when that not only isnt in character or accurate to canon. but is also really boring at best or homophobic at worst#i cant control ppl's opinions but i can still think theyre boring stupid or even downright offensive#i have SEEN pretty much every popular TF character or pairing get flanderized somehow#so it's not just my attachment to OP in larticular#and i find it very frustrating when it seems as if ppl arent fans of the very media they consume#and they turn an interesting story into cookie cutter stereotypes#and then when the story isnt a cookie cutter stereotype easily divisible into black and white#they hate the characters and story and call it trash#might delete later bc i feel cring#but this is oretty much the culmination of all the thoughts and discussions ive had#with multiple people#anyways ive seen enough fandom discourse posts about The State of Fandom#and The Same 5 Tropes Recycled just copy pasted into different fandoms#what i speak of isnt just about my fave. rather my fave is a victim of this fandom tencency#and it is a FACT that fandom will force characters into offensive stereotypes that dont even make sense#tldr sometimes fanon.....is way worse than canon#also i revised and edited this like a billion times to make sure i wasnt hasty or vague or mean#so if i still made a mistake. whatever i guess this post took hours#it's not about wanting absolutely everyone to love my favorite#it's about the fact that ppl actively hate him even in spaces that are about him/ships he's in#to the point i have to not interact with strangers bc i never know if my fsve will randomly get shit on#and on top that the hate is mostly based on surface level assumptions and misinformation#so not only is my fav hated in a way no other character is. they dont even hate him for canon facts#sucks to see the fandom so thoroughly full of hate by ppl who arent informed bc they never gave canon a chance
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GOT A SUDDEN MASSIVE ICK FOR MY USERNAME HELP I NEED SUGGESTIONS
#i made this account and I didn’t think I would take to anyone and now I talk to people and oh my god#like okay#I don’t completely hate it#emma watson give me one chance#one chance#so yeah I like it kinda okay#but I also wanna change it#but I also want you guys to know who I am#stress#like it still has to be gay you know#ugh maybe I won’t change it#guys is my username cringe be honest#(not like too honest I’ll cry)#but seriously!!!#be for real#going insane#emma watson help me#feeling crazy
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