#am i unapproachable??

[pallor-parlor]

I went out to a cocktail event at a local game bar and I made 0 friends. 💔

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas (1995): 3 times Pocahontas is compared to her mother + 1 time she's recognized on her own merits.

rambling lil meta under the cut

see, what's crazy about this whole situation is that it makes me wonder what exactly pocahontas's mom was like to have left such a massive impression on literally everyone in their community? there's that outright statement that "yeah, your mom's spirit is in the wind, basically, and our people venerate her as a spiritual guide (at the very least)." we know that she's the main connection between pocahontas and grandmother willow, and there's an implication in there that whatever leadership role she held in the village is expected to fall on pocahontas's shoulders someday.

i am so convinced that this role is some kind of spiritual leader/shaman position. wise-woman, priestess, whatever it's called. we don't see anyone else besides kekata performing any kind of spiritual rites, and even he isn't seen acting in direct contact with spiritual entities. kekata has to perform chants, provide offerings, and use a medium. pocahontas can just fuckign. talk to the things. how is she doing that? why isn't anyone else really able to do that? john smith could talk with grandmother willow but would he be able to if pocahontas wasn't there (i actually think he could but that's a different post)? has she ever done that for literally anybody else? nakoma never mentions grandmother willow. nobody mentions grandmother willow. apparently, the only two people who knew about her before pocahontas brought her new bf over was pocahontas and her mom.

i'm losing track of myself here, but the point is pocahontas is Highly aware of the ghost she's expected to live up to. and it sucks. and there's a lot more to her character arc about this but the eventual come-around to accepting that she has a responsibility to be more than herself and more than her mother's ghost is so heartbreaking because it also meant she had to let go of her soulmate at the same time so i c ry

[rottmnt-residuum]

Do u mind people asking u stuff??? Like theories about the story

please do send me theories i love to see them! Especially when they get things right!!!

[jellynotbees]

The fact I can’t just slow blink at people to form friendships should be criminal tbh

[electric-plants]

traveler: so who’s the nice one in your relationship?

alhaitham and cyno at the exact same time: he is

[hjeojeo]

it's...missing smackjeeves hours..

telling myself if no one makes a good alternative for smackjeeves in the next like five years, im gonna start making one myself (only 10% serious)

i just miss like that atmosphere of 100% unmarketable, just comic sharing/making space.

where we all knew that 99% of the time the comics we see will never get finished bc ppl get busy, kids grow up and change interests ,etc. (i mention kids bc most of my memories of smackjeeves was when i was a teen, so it was a significant like developmental years as an artist kind experience for me)

like i remember most of the comics were like

barely legible sketch pages with like text written in mspaint.

there was absolutely no quality standard. and that's why it was so good

it made me as a kid feel like oh i can do comics! cause it can be WHATEVER YOU WANTED IT TO BE AND LOOK HOWEVER WAY.

and the collaborative ones on smackjeeves were so fun to look at

just overall.

having that. rough, crude, unmarketable space for art/comics was significant.

[ilkkawhat]

well made it through my one on one with my boss without crying and without feeling like my boss hates me so that’s an improvement (almost did though…twice)

[theokusgallery]

A bunch of sona doodles

[crinkly-spinkly]

🐥🤎💝

OUGH BE FRIENDS WITH ME YOU WEENIE

[toxifoxx]

iiiii dont get it bro . i dont get why people are always touting college as being a great place to make friends. maybe if you're an extrovert it is but im introverted and autistic no one is gonna wanna talk to me lmao

[iheartmoons]

all of my friends r falling in love and i’m falling behind :(

[undrthelights]

heyyyy anyone know if the constant feeling of being out of place ever goes away?????

[britneyshakespeare]

i have a very peculiar life where i've often, due to chronic illness and the resulting reclusive tendencies from said illness, just plain not associated with people of my own age on a regular basis for months or years at a time. but when i do go out, i'm, like, not an unattractive or socially unsuccessful person. well i'm not necessarily socially successful but i'm not unattractive. and i'll look back on like a certain period sometimes and realize that i had a lot of people trying to pursue me romantically, and i'm like "hey what happened to that? its been such a long while since anybody asked me out........."

"oh yeah i dont leave the house"

[strangebossyuri]

I am so jealous of people who like- get wooed and stuff- like I think I’m pretty cute so why doesn’t anyone ever actually try getting close to me- I thought that’s what happened when you were cute- when everyone thought I was ugly and weird it was the same- I thought it was supposed to be different-

[whumpshaped]

purple and fuchsia!!

i’d love to actually talk with you but unfortunately i suck at conversations and don’t want to be a bother so. i’ll just appreciate you from afar skfjdks

PURPLE: We near never speak, but I do enjoy your presence on my dashboard.

so much reassurance for when i decide to be Very Present again. im so present on the dashboard usually i dont shut the fuck up

FUCHSIA: I wish I could become your best friend through the internet.

guyssss. no but like seriously i hope everyone knows that the reason im not best friends w all of u is not bc im above it all, i just also such at conversations. and i have little spoons lately. but like we're parallel playing rn. me and all of u guys. we're all in a big room doing our own thing. existing

[smalltimidbean]

oh to have a fiend plush… i mean i can technically get one made by budsies (a plush making company) but you’re probably not comfortable with that. which is perfectly valid

i must confess i never thought i would admire them so much as i do lol (even if they slightly scare me /lh)

ah well i’ll continue to admire them from afar

Yeah, not only would I be very uncomfortable with that, it'd be incredibly disrespectful (and just plain weird) to take my personal character (or anyone's, really) and make a plush of them to keep for yourself - so, please do not do that

If I did theoretically have a project featuring Bean and Fiend, and it was popular enough for merch, Fiend plush would definitely be one of the first things to make, much to their chagrin hehe

Again, unlikely to happen, but thanks for liking Fiend so much!

(Also tangent, but if I had a nickel for every time someone really liked a more antagonistic spin-off of Bean, I would have at least two nickels, which is not a lot, but it is weird that it has happened at least twice… (reference))