#and then there are the more normal examples of like. people who are just allergic to a lot of common vegan substitutes

[hugepolecat3298]

prefacing this by saying i know there are some sane ones that do it just as a personal choice and dont put down others etc etc etc but the way online vegans talk about animal products is genuinely so concerning. ive seen them call normal ass meat ‘rotting/decomposing flesh’ and milk ‘mucusy secretions’ and the obvious intention is trying to gross normal people out of consuming them but like ??? What ??? i liked milk before, i knew what it was and where it came from before, why would you describing a secretion as a secretion (where the hell did they ever get ‘mucusy’ from anyway have they ever even drank it) somehow deter me from drinking it or consuming other products that use it

[nattikay]

this was originally a response to another post but it seems OP blocked me for it so idk if people can still see/interact with said response but heck it i spent a fair while collecting the panels/typing it up so i'm just transferring it over to a new post for anyone else who might be interested in readin'

"Neteyam has to act like a full grown adult [and we should feel bad for him because of this]"

No. Neteyam acts mature because that's his personality, not because it's been forced on him. He chooses to. The idea that he is forced against his will to "act grown-up" and is miserable about it is fanon, not canon.

James Cameron on Neteyam (from the WoW bonus features): "Jamie Flatters plays Neteyam, he's the older brother. He's kind of the guy who most wants to be Jake. He wants to be that warrior."

Jamie Flatters in that same clip:"He just pretty much wants to walk in the footsteps of his father. He's constantly seeking approval [from Jake]"

Note that neither of these, nor anything from the movie or comics, mention anything about external "expectations" or "pressure". Any "pressure" Neteyam experiences to live up to Jake's legacy comes from himself, not from external expectations that have been forced on him. Neteyam WANTS to be a warrior. He WANTS to be like his father and do brave mature grown-up things.

And for the most part, he's pretty good at it too. He's the "golden child" who "excels in all things", the youngest Omatikaya warrior to ever make a clean kill on a sturmbeest. He's strong, smart, brave, noble, and highly skilled for his age.

He knows this, and he wants to do more. Neteyam seeks out more responsibility, especially where fighting is concerned, and it's actually Jake who is hesitant to give it to him, because naturally he fears for his son's life (a very fair and well-founded fear, all things considered :P).

In fact, on the rare occasion that Neteyam does disobey orders, it's in this context of wanting to be part of these adult matters.

"he's too busy training and patrolling instead of acting his age" He is acting his age. His age is "cusp of adulthood". He's not quite there just yet, no, but he's getting close and is eager to get there. He trains and patrols with his parents because HE WANTS TO. He begs to participate in warrior's work.

And if by "act his age" you meant "do teenager things like tease his brother, snicker about immature things, hang out and goof off," etc., guess what he does that too

[originally had a list of relevant GIFs here but tumblr decided it was allergic to them apparently; anyways you can find them all here]

As for looking after his siblings, as a certified Oldest Sibling™ myself, I can assure you that parents expecting you to help look out for and set a good example for your younger siblings is very normal and nowhere near the mountain the fandom seems to make of this molehill.

There are valid reasons to feel sorry for Neteyam—he, like the rest of his family, had to leave his home and start over in a new unfamiliar place among a new clan of strangers with unfamiliar customs. He—not unlike Lo'ak!—desperately wants a chance to prove himself to Jake, and is frustrated when his dad doesn't want to let him participate in battle. And, of course, the big one—his life was tragically taken far too soon.

But "overworked little sadboi who just wants to Be A Kid™ but can't because his meanie parents force him to act like a Grownup™ because he's under Pressure™ to be the perfect future olo'eyktan" is not one of those reasons. That's pure fanfiction and a fundamental misunderstanding of his character. Neteyam is not "wannabe-carefree kid trapped under the crushing weight of expectations forced upon him against his will"—rather, he is "talented noble young warrior who wants to live up to his legendary father of his own volition and strives to do so".

[jessythebunny]

💐 Welcome to my fandoms house 💐

Finaly you made it here and i'm so happy because you decided to follow me and i hope you enjoy your stay🐰✨

Everybody is welcome here except Homophobes, racists, Pedophiles, Proshippers, Gacha heaters, and all the nasty people in general

So in this blog i make a lot of things here like memes, arts,edits, ect, sometimes they look good, sometimes they look cringe🙂🙂

Also i'm in love with James. He is the one who will be more present in this blog, sorry not sorry!!

And also these things here bellow👇🏻👇🏻:

I can do:

Tweening/animation

Drawing arts(even with bases or without them)

SFW (make characters kissing,marking echothers, moaning...)

Drawing simple backgrounds

Art requests

Art commissions

Things i can't do:

Gacha heat

Gacha cringe

Drawing diffecult backgrounds(like forests/cities/beaches, i really need Pinterest so bad😭)

Drawing animals(don't worry I am learning now)

Animate eyes

NSFW (18+)

Letting my oc's naked

🚫 But this blog is also contains swears, yeah a very ✨MOROCCAN✨ swearing, yep i like swearing a lot (But not to this degree), so if you have nothing nice to say here just leave my blog or block me IDFC 🚫

🎧°•My bio and information•°🖤:

🌺Name: Jessy the bunny or Jess in short🎧

🎧real name: Hiba🌺

🎧age: 16 yo🌺

🎧birthday: December 1st🌺

🎧nationality: Moroccan🇲🇦🌺

🎧Zodiac: Sagittarius♐🌺

🎧Pronons:She/her/they/them🌺

🎧Gender: female🌺

🎧religion: Islam (الحمد لله)🌺

🎧MBTI: INTP🌺

🎧sex: asexual💜🤍🩶🖤🌺

🎧hobbies: drawing/cooking/reading books and manhwas(especially the yaoi/yuri ones👀💦)/doing Gacha videos and art/writing stories🌺

🎧favorite shows: Thomas and friends, happy tree friends, dragon ball, smurfs, south park, lazy town,Hazbin hotel...🌺

🎧fears: dark, insects, social phobia, bullying (yeah i'm weak),being ignored🌺

🎧likes: Chocalate, cookies, sleeping, Science and Biology, English, watching videos or make them, anything sweet🌺

🎧dislikes: butter(i'm allergic),Maths, Injustice and insult, school(yeah i hate school soooooooo much because of those fucking classmates), thomas and friends AEG,making friends irl because they are treacherous🌺

🎧features: Nervous, introverted, depressed, funny, shy🌺

🎧I'm a young artist, plz don't judge me!!!🌺

🎧my DMs are always open, but mostly for commissions🌺

🎧I'm also calling someone who's older than me by mr or miss as a respect for them🌺

⚠️°•TW•°⚠️:

Swears

Gore/blood

Sexual themes

Violence

Bad grammar

Cringe behaviors

SFW (safe for work)

Vent

🤍°•FAQs•°💛:

🌟Q:what's your favorite fandom?

A: thomas and friends and this blog will be based with it thank you very much✨✨

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🌟Q: what's your favorite characters from your favorite fandom?

A: James, Duck, Thomas, Gordon, Percy, Oliver and Toad, Donald and Douglas, Marion, Skiff

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🌟Q: As for the engines, in their human form, can they fuck or reproduce?

A: Unfortunately, they can fuck whatever or whenever they want but they can't reproduce or have kids because they don't have biological hormones or DNA or whatever it's called like a normal human being

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🌟Q: what are the ages in your Au?

A: 3 years until 60 years, There are those who are older than this, but I limit myself to these ages because I want them to be limited

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🌟Q: what are your self insert's sexualities?

A: Every self insert into a random fandom has its own sexuality, for example my versions, I can't let all my versions being Asexual, bc if I let them it'll be boring so I tried to diversify their sexualities, for example Soft Jessy is lesbian, Bad Jessy is trans, Galaxy is pan, ect...

But fo the other fandoms I usuelly let them bi or pan or even straight to make sure that everyone has its lover/soulmate/partner/boyfriend/girlfriend...

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🌟Q: how did you make your Oc's and are they real or imagined?

A: I made them randomly so that I don't feel like I'm filming the videos alone and that they aren't real people, I made them according to their personality, their life, the story of their past, etc.

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🌟Q: who are your besties?

A: 🎧 @miasonyson 🎧

💞 @lovable-chica 💞

💎 @asktoyokoakemi 💎

💜 @viktuurishipper96 💜

🎀 @bertramtheoldwarrior 🎀

🌠 @blueskygirl22 🌠

🎩 @jammyjams1910 🎩

💖 @just-an-emily-existing 💖

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🌟Q: are you doing art requests?

A: yes I do them,like if someone asks me to draw anything about TTTE Au or other fandoms Aus, But for their Oc's they just have to wait until June because it's summer and i will be active anytime

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🌟Q: Are you gonna do art commissions?

A: Yes, I do them and I really want to, because I need some money to help my parents, so now I am waiting for someone to ask me

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🌟Q: How tall are the engines?

A: Well, in terms of height, the shortest is Toad and Percy is the second shortest engine and he's almost 5’8ft,and the tallest engine is Gordon, The flying scottsman, Spencer and Diesel 10.Their hight is 7’11ft because they're big and tender engines

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🌟Q: Does Lady's magical dust have any benefit or any influence on the rest of the engines?

A: Yes, it definitely has a benefit for the engines. Thanks to it, it can save them from becoming victims of scrap, or if something physically harms them in their human form, it comes and treats them because ordinary doctors cannot treat human engines

🎀°•some basics of my Au•°🎀:

🌟some of my oc's transform into their true forms for many special reasons, for example demons, wolves, rabbits, etc., but the duration of this transformation is specific

🌟These reasons in particular may be either psychological, such as sadness, shame, and the desire to feel lonely and calm, or physical reasons

🌟The characters are distinguished from each other by their superpowers and magic, which makes them 100% different from ordinary humans

🌟Each one of us has his own personality, and this is the result of their personalities and feelings being different

🌟Characters can fuse and create new characters, but only if three basic conditions are met: If the two characters have a relationship of love, brotherhood, or strong friendship, If these conditions are not met, they will not be able to fuse

🌟ech character has a rival with another character, The reasons are as follows: Either he had a bad past, or that person was famous and forgot about his friend, and so on

🌟as for the humanized engines, their blood is a bit darker than a normal human being, and also if they lost anything or got cut like if they lost their arm or their leg or anything, don't worry, Lady is here for help

🌟and also they can eat, drink, wash their teeth,taking shower, and almost anything about humans, but the only thing that they don't do in their human form is breeding and reproduction, and the engines in their human form become even more stronger so they can done their jobs very fast and easely.

💗🌟Thank you so much for your time and reading this and i hope you enjoy your stay here again ^^🌟💗

💛𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆🤍:

❇️°•Art commisions are open•°❇️

🌟°•Original oc's•°🌟

🚂°•Original engines•°🚂

🌹°•other social medias•°🎧

💞°•Official ships•°💞

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💫°•Some fandoms i drew•°💫

🖤°•Douglas and Oliver headcanons•°💚

🌈°•original face expressions+color pallet chart•°✨

💐°•Self inserts•°💐

☁°•some random ttte headconons•°🎀

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🚂°•The main 12 steam team•°🚂

📖°•ttte fanlore/AUs/fanfics/crossovers/series•°📖

💚°•the emo controller•°🖤

🖤°•Casual emo controller•°💚

🚂°•the narrow gauge engines•°☁

💙°•the Gresley family•°☁

🚂°•the diesels•°⛽

🪄°•Magical/ghost engines•°👻

🤍°•Other ttte characters•°🤍

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✏️°•Some simple tutorials•°🖌

💙°•Original stories/lore•°📖

😌°•This could be useful•°😌

🎧°•Artist profile•°💚

🌠°•Unrelated ttte stuff•°🌠

👆🏻𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏

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📜°•My His-fic AU @sodormagicalworld•°📜

[shsl-heck]

So because I've seen it compared to Worm, I started reading The Boys by Garth Ennis. It's bad! Like really bad! It feels like what would happen if you let an edgy anti-feminist atheist youtuber from 2015 write a comic book. I finished the first volume of the omnibus in large part because it was a train wreck I couldn't look away from, and am debating starting the second since I hate myself. The most interesting parts are actually the little forewords. Through them I learned both that it was supposed to be a comedy, and also a critique of the military industrial complex/police (or at least that people read it as one). This was surprising to me since it is neither funny nor incisive. Anyway, now I want to ramble incoherently about my problems with it because this goddamn comic broke my brain.

Okay, so one of the most common ways it shows you which characters you aren't supposed to like is by having them do comically "gross" sex stuff. Notable examples include cocaine fueled orgies, mentions of shitting during sex, bestiality, masturbating in public to the sight of disabled people, and a little person using sex toys. One that shows up repeatedly in this context is characters being bisexual or gay. Now, I don't wanna get controversial, but I think any claims that your work is a critique of capitalism, police, the military, or whatever are rendered moot when your villains are a group of secret hedonistic sex-freaks. Like we can't pretend that doesn't sound a lot like regressives and their obsession with "degeneracy". Sexual assaults, misogyny, and slurs also appear pretty often, mostly as the punch line for jokes. Victims are rendered down into objects and denied any sense of interiority so we can instead focus on what really matters (gore porn, and middle school 4chan posters' sense of humor). Never once does Ennis deign to explore the actual impact and trauma of these things, or ask why he views these things as material for jokes.

That incuriosity is I think the real problem with The Boys. There is no actual coherent thought about why things are bad. Superheroes hurt people and are wrong because of their personal moral failings as selfish perverts, not because their whole job is to violently enforce the will of the state. It's like if someone agreed that all cops are bastards, but only because all cops just so happened to be "bad apples". The main characters literally work for the fucking CIA, and yes, I know the titular Boys are at best meant to be anti-heroes a la the Punisher. My issue here isn't that they're hypocrites who are frequently also horrible. It's that this premise for is absolute nonsense if you think for half a second. Superheroes do not function without the legitimacy granted to them by the state and it's monopoly on violence, so why would the CIA need these 5 randos with zero oversight working to take out the supers? Is the force Homelander and the others can bring to bear so great that even the apparatus of that state can't deal with them? If so, why does this group of assholes change that? Normally I'd be willing to give the story a lot more of a pass when it comes to questions like this, except I'm being told that this story has things to say about systemic problems involving the government and corporations! So I have to ask, where? Where is the commentary? What does it actually have to say about the state of the world circa 2006-2012? The only answer I can come up with is "not a whole lot". It's a story which dares to ask the tough questions like "what if the world was made of pudding" and then ignore answering those questions so it can instead recite Ellis' favorite slurs in alphabetical order while showing you a woman's tits.

On a lighter note, it's also just not very good. The plot (as mentioned) falls apart under any amount of scrutiny, pacing is bizarre in a bad way, the characters aren't compelling, themes remains stubbornly unexplored, and Ellis is allergic to doing anything interesting or creative with the premise he's decided to base a whole comic around. I genuinely do not know what people enjoy(ed) about this comic.

[literaltrashforeverything]

I'm gonna die on my deathbed explaining why Ghost is actually a normal person outside the military and he's extremely mischaracterized.

You will never be able to convince me that Simon "Ghost" Riley doesn't do normal person things outside of his job. Sure, his information his top-secret, but that's all the more reason for him to be a normal person outside deployments.

💀

Here's examples of Ghost being domestic:

- He goes grocery shopping every Thursday at 2:30PM because it's when the store is the least busy.

- He wears a black fabric surgical mask when he's not at home. He's more comfortable covering his face but it's not an issue if he's somewhere where he can't have a mask.

Was strangely comforted when COVID happened because it normalized wearing face masks.

- He sits in the mirror of his bathroom every two weeks so he can chop his hair when he grows too long.

- He's a phenomenal sniper but when it's time to shave his face then suddenly his hands are shaking and he's cut himself at least 4 times. (Prolly that sharp jawline 🤭)

- Loves dogs. Will ask people if he can pet their dog. (They're shitting themselves bc this giant masked man just asked to pet their dog in the most monotone voice)

- Has called Price to ask for advice on dating. He's got a crush on the girl from the coffee shop down the street from his flat and he needs some help on asking her out.

- when he's not on a deployment, he's probably at home eating pocky while watching Top Gun. Ends up falling asleep on the couch and snores like a dad.

- he's probably in his late 20s-early 30s and owns a flat somewhere in Manchester. (He was never able to fully separate himself from where he grew up)

- has a pet beta fish named Toes that the old neighbor lady takes care of while he's on deployment.

- He secretly pulls pranks around base when he's stationed somewhere. Nobody knows it's Ghost secretly leaving tiny plastic babies from Amazon around the entire base. He never gets caught and it's still a mystery where these babies keep popping up at.

- drinks milk, probably

- Will get violent if he watches an American microwave tea in front of him.

- Like Price, he WILL correct the word "soccer" into "football" like he's got some type of vendetta against the audacity.

- Sneezes like a fucking dad

- He's severely allergic to cats so the second he sees one, he will instantly abort mission. It's a whole scene watching a 6'5 skull-masked man jerk back the second a cat steps in front of him while he's on a mission.

- Hates spiders. He's not the spider killer around the base. Will not go into a room if he's seen a spider in there unless someone else killed it for him.

- He listens to Queen, you can't convince me otherwise.

- (Killer Queen is his favorite)

- He actually has an entire tattoo sleeve on his left arm, not just a forearm sleeve. If you look close enough, you can tell that it's actually just the most cliché military tattoo sleeve that's ever existed. He didn't even care what the tattoo was, he just wanted one to look cool.

- Bad Santa is unironically his favorite movie.

- Plays first-person shooter games with Gaz sometimes and always loses.

- Is the guy who brings beer to literally any event ever. Without fail. And it's always a beer that only he likes so he can have it all for himself. Everyone else started drinking them despite how disgusting they are just because they figured out that he was trying to hoard it for himself.

- Sucks at playing Monopoly. Absolutely no strategy.

💀

I can keep going lmao. I have ideas for days lmaooo

[huebris808]

trying to break out of my shell and post madcom hc shit aka Look At My One Of Many Weirdass Hank Ramblings, Boy

hank you know them. they're six-foot-something and wanted to try volleyball. they dont get sarcasm and refer to stuff as "thingys". they're the autistic power fantasy of throwing bricks at those who view you as subhuman. their bedroom's apparently just a mirror to practice cool poses with and a blanket and their favorite drink is eggs now according to the streams. and they are your new nonbinary president

im constantly fluctuating between Animation & MPN Are Two Different Timelines/Universes or They're The Same, But He’s Testing Which "Hank" Is More Favorable/Useful To Others

wasian hank truther baby. (jp+filipino-american)

this guy would probably use わたし/私 (ive seen a lot of artists use オレ/俺 for him though but i feel like its a bit?? much)

definitely had to pick up sign-language after [Vague Gesturing] All That

has autism in the way that they have No Clue they got it. like "damn i got [Specific Autistic Issues]. sucks that im so so normal and yet i must endure The Problems everyday"

speaking of autism, enjoys confined spaces sensory-wise. vents and boxes and shit like Come On Man. Do You See The Vision.

gonna be honest like half of the shit (Understatement) i got for hank is projection but what's madcom without that in some aspect!! that's the POINT man!!! [ON KNEES WAILING] that's the POINT

working in real estate and as a mercenary since The Incident made their self-worth go to SHIT; in a world that dehumanizes you, you are quick to dehumanize yourself. this is where the power of lesbian friendship comes in

subconsciously puts doc on a pedestal over time, leading to (See Bullet 1); this dissipates after they somehow reach a conversation of Bitch We Are Both Equals And Fighting For Our Fucking Lives Out Here THEY SOLVE SHIT TOGETHER MAN!!! THEY SOLVE IT

sorry. sorry. im trying to delete it

out of nowhere maybe its the Autistic Projection maybe its cause im allergic to Sadstuck Shit i dont dig negative stuff with 2bhank it just feels Wrong :-( i wish i could word this better but like. i need these little chesspiece fucks to learn to communicate

what i will refer to as the Newspaper Era (aka the time before we got doc characterization from arena mode) caused people to make some weirdass depictions of their relationship and im glad its phasing out. The Horrors

main 4 are all butch lesbians btw. not sorry about that one

also POLYCOMBAT TRUTHER this dude would HATE how vulnerable these three would make them feel at first. they're the first to actually treat him like A Guy and that fuck him up a bit initially

i think eventually they all reach a point where they're able to do stupid shit together like fireworks or breaking chairs over each other heads. you've seen how doc is don't exclude him from doing dumbass shit

"erm… actually they wouldnt be friends or have fun or date theyre ruthless criminals and madcom is cruel :/" L + ratio + the rule of The Funniest Thing Is The Answer in madcom prevails + That's The Devil Talking, Boy

shit at technology. if they had a blog their lack of skills would loop back around to make them the most powerful shitposter on earth

there's definitely more that im missing here and takes that Don't Suck (for example people need to put out more hankford content. Cmon Man) but my brain has this shit Queued Up in a way so. Yeah

[olderthannetfic]

Got a bit of an odd one that's more of a vent than a question I suppose because I genuinely don't know if there's an answer lol

So I have this friend, who I care for immensely, and generally speaking they're super cool and chill about just about everything. They're not an anti, they're not weird about anything i read or talk about, there's plenty we can relate on and chat about, and we play several of the same games--it's mostly fantastic. Thing is they're weirdly possessive at times? And I'm just never sure how to approach the situation? Without getting into specifics, because this is NOT how I'd like to have this conversation with them, at first they ship characters with each other, as you do, and then gradually get attached to some of the characters and start fantasizing about being in a relationship with that character--as you do. This is all fine, it's cute to watch them fall all over themselves when the character in question gets a cutscene all of their own. I have zero problems with this. The weird bit is after they get attached to this character, no one else is allowed to get attached to them. This takes the shape of, for example, getting defensive and angry if you mention that you're romancing the same character in one of those farming sims, or implying that it'd be mean for me to pull for the character they're attracted to because it's /their/ character (yes this second point is about a gacha game, and yes they've spent hundreds on that character). Everyone's got their eccentricities, this is certainly one of the most manageable kinds, and I don't overly mind working around their fussing. It's not like it's hard to just romance a different character and not share ship art involving the one they're attracted to. But it /is/ baffling and a little uncomfortable and as i'm somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum? completely foreign to me. How can you possibly care so much about a blorbo that someone else caring about that blorbo actively makes you angry? What? Wouldn't that mean more people are caring about your blorbo and thus more content will be made?? How is it a bad thing for other people to like the blorbo? I don't get it. Is this normal, and I've just never been close enough to a fan to notice? Is it weird? Should I say something???

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It has always been commonplace, and I have a zero tolerance policy. Though not every self-shipper is like this by a long shot, it's also one of the reasons a lot of slash fandom has always been allergic to self-shippers.

Jealousy is a nasty character defect, and if someone doesn't even try to control it, I wonder what other selfish, entitled behavior they're going to visit on me. They obviously don't think I deserve to have fun in fandom too.

[grayintogreen]

I really have to say that in the wake of the quip post going around and me rewatching LOST, there is really nothing funnier than a scene that isn’t supposed to be funny, isn’t even set up to be funny, but through the absolute absurdity of the situation is hilarious. To wit, there is humor in playing an absurd scene completely straight without trying to draw attention to how absurd it is.

To use LOST as an example, there’s a scene where two characters meet on an abandoned ship in the jungle (which is funny on its own) that goes like this:

In one corner we have John Locke, currently playing with a knife while the guy he manipulated into coming into the jungle with him on a convoluted quest to get HIM to kill their mutual abuser because he couldn’t do it himself is banging on the door to the brig because Locke is allergic to explaining things as all the island mystics tend to be.

In the other corner, entering the scene, we have Danielle Rousseau, local island crazy lady that everyone has accepted as just a staple of the experience and is deemed an Ally despite the fact that she doesn’t join their group, lives on her own, and has death traps strewn throughout the jungle that are just commonly referenced as a thing that happens.

The two of them regard each other. “Rousseau.” “Locke.”

(And now it’s already funny to the Philosophy Major crowd but wait there’s more.)

Rousseau looks at the door where there’s still shouting and banging. Locke doesn’t explain anything. “What brings you to the ship?”

(Keep in mind that Rousseau is the one who showed the survivors the ship and makes frequent trips to it. LOCKE is the one acting weird. Locke has decided that the only way to make this situation Not Awkward is to just roll with it. He is legitimately Bavarian Fire Drilling his way out of what would CONCERN MOST PEOPLE.)

But here’s where it gets funny.

“I’m here for the dynamite.”

Okay. So you have one person who has locked someone in the brig for some reason and another person who is known to be EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS to the health and safety of others because of her death traps going “I need dynamite” and none of this sounds like sane reasonable behavior and the punchline is just both of them staring at each other and NOT QUESTIONING ANY OF IT. Rousseau walks out with a box of dynamite, Locke continues to wait for a murder to occur.

THAT is funny. That is humor that requires insight into the characters, the situation, and how none of the steps taken are the steps you’d expect. Humor doesn’t have to rely on zingers and meme worthy lines- it requires you to be able to take a completely absurd situation and play it absolutely straight. No irony poisoning and SEE WE KNOW THIS IS STUPID will ever compare to watching two characters just completely refuse to react to something weird or even treat it as anything other than normal behavior.

[glitterrosesnzz]

UPDATED F/URINA HC'S

put under the cut because they're 4.2 spoilers and idk how many of y'all have finished the arc/hon quest (i did it in one day lmao)

Still hc that Furina's sneezes are mostly loud, yes. However, she stifles and forces them quieter WAY MORE than previously imagined.

the tidal wave thing?? listen. it's still true- only because sometimes when Furina sneezed, Focalors would as well, thus causing the tsunami incidents. this wasn't a guarantee to happen everytime though- and Furina never even knew it was happening. Neuvillette noticed though.

due to the way citizens reacted the first time Furina sneezed in public ("I didn't know a god was capable of such a thing"), Furina decided to maintain the act of "Well of course not- I was just mimicking what I've seen humans do to appear more like you! You should be honoured I'm attempting this at all!" and somehow this WORKED on people.

Furina has NO IDEA that gods can also get sick, so she would hide it. This did lead to her, once, briefly passing out in the Opera Epiclesse, sending people into a panic. She explained it away afterwards as just being "overwhelmed with using her energy to clean the pollution in their waters", which people bought and also brought down pollution levels for a bit.

Neuvillette of course, knows that gods can get sick, as he can also get sick, so he was the only one who would take the proper measures to care for Furina when she was ill. Unfortunately, she'd continue to protest such actions, so he had to be very discreet about it to make sure she got the care she needed.

post-archon quest, Furina doesn't have to hide it when she's sick anymore, but it's so ingrained in her that she still does it. she would admit to it now when it's called out though, but she's gotten so good at hiding it over the years that most people don't notice.

Furina happens to be allergic to rainbow roses. People used to throw them onto the stage whenever she'd choose to preform with a troupe, and it took all her strength to not succumb to the itchiness it would cause.

since she frequently cries a lot, and her normal, unquietened sneezes are quite vocal, she tends to lose her voice pretty fast. (and also her immune system isn't very good, I vaguely remember hearing that it's easier to catch something when you've been crying)

post-archon quest she continues to stifle/quiet her sneezes until someone else intervenes. who it would be that would intervene, i have no idea, but someone would have to.

after acquiring her vision, sneezing starts having genuine effects on her hydro abilities that she can notice. if she's walking on water, her concentration will be broken and she'll fall into the water, for example. She frequently ends up soaked from either this, or other hydro mishaps- like a ball of water she was playing with exploding in her face.

THIS ISN'T CANON BUT IT'S FUN TO ME- I'm pretty sure she actually just changed her outfit + cut her hair post-archon quest, but since one of her abilities is to swap forms, I think it would be SO FUN if sneezing would change her outfit colour + hair. Also causes a burst of pneumia/ousia.

in other news i am OBSESSED with her-

[therealityhelix]

Just because that first one is smiling, does not mean he's friendly.

That Swag is my darling favorite should go without saying. It's kinda funny because he is nothing like my normal type of fave, but sometimes a character is just so enjoyable that it doesn't matter.

Swag is layers upon layers of masks, operating under a fake it till you make it program that is in constant flux. He endlessly rebuilds and remakes himself, and despite certain strict rules and being a legit business owner, is one of the most fluid and chaotic characters in the group. He bucks social authority hard, and while he starts out a bit selfish and self centered, he skews far more towards trying to do what's good rather than what's legal. Meaning that, while he doesn't go out of his way to be a hero, he will try to help people who are right in front of him. He is sometimes bad at it.

Considering how truly awful he used to be, and how he chose to go about not being that, he is a rare example of a wildly successful reform. Most of the biggest name villains in his world either died, or called it quits eventually, leaving only the smaller rogues to decide if they really wanted to continue or not. I imagine his world as being contemporary to ours, but with more cyberpunk candy goth overtones, rather than the classic art deco or endless grunge feels that many other Gothams portray.

Swag is one of those obnoxiously fashionable people who you want to be mad at, but you can't because he's charming instead of insufferable. He is openly afraid of commitment, but has a deep capacity for love and care, and an almost religious (but not quite) need to put more joy into the world than he did pain. He knows he can't make up for what he did, but guilt will always drive a person to try.

Swag is agile, and the fastest among his peers, but his body just never holds much weight or muscle, so he's not as strong as, say, Arkham or Narci. He can take a lot of pain and keep going though-if all the contraptions in his bedroom closet are any indication-and is difficult to drop. He does not believe in fighting 'fair', he's just seen too many fights for that.

Swag is not to be trusted in the kitchen! Get him outta there! However, he is a very good seamster, and often designs clothing. He has a lot of hobbies to keep his mind occupied, and work off his boundless energy. He has troubles with addiction, alcoholism being his greatest nemesis, after giving up nicotine since discovering Helix was allergic to it.

When Swag was ten years old, a Gray showed him the future. There, he met Narci and Helix, and a few other people. And though as the years went on, that memory faded into a dream, then a fuzzy recollection, then nothing more than a faded impression with no details, it kept him alive. At his lowest points, when he wondered if it was really worth it to go on, he always ended up clinging to the unfounded belief that someone was waiting for him, and so he stayed alive.

Swag was an unintentionally guiding force for many of the other Riddlers, and is universally beloved. In the end, like Detective, he also eventually got almost everything he wanted.

@cardwrecks @captainbaddecisions @whocares-idont

[amynchan]

When you finally let yourself relax into a new label and look back and see "oh wow all of that makes a bit more sense lol." Except, instead of a "new" label, it's one you've been tentatively using for years because it seemed right, but now it feels a bit more right. For example,

When I was younger, I asked my grandpa if I could ride on a nearby roller coaster. He told me it "would cost a pretty penny." I proceeded to look all over the parking lot for a penny, found one that was pretty banged up, and told him I'd clean it and make it really pretty. I was dead serious.

Whenever I stayed the night over at my grandparents' house, we always used the same blankets. I was told that it was polite to fold them up after we were done using them, so I'd go around the entire house and fold up every single "this is a blanket that a grandchild uses" blanket. I still do that, tbh.

As a child, I was told to make sure I rinsed all of the food off my dishes. It wasn't until last month that someone informed me that I was practically washing the dishes clean. I've always been confused as to why people don't wash dishes by hand, and now I realize that I took the instruction a bit too literally.

When I discovered meal prep, I was absolutely ecstatic. All of my food prepared at the beginning of the week, and I knew what was in store, and it was great. Still have trouble conceptualizing that people get bored with the same food every day tho.

Giving kindness is normal. Getting it is weird. What's the procedure? What do I do? Please tell me the script.

Whenever my younger siblings were in distress, that was the only time I could be affectionate to them. I had a script to follow. Figure out the root of the problem. If I can fix it, fix it. If I can't, find the person who can and get them to fix it. Everything else was straight up, terrifying, uncharted territory where everything I did was wrong somehow. Did not realize that this was confusing until much later. ^^;

I've always had a problem with people talking over each other and constantly interrupting each other. It's to the point where I literally check out of conversations for a while when I get overwhelmed. Check out, then stammer, then go utterly silent. I get the sense this is not neurotypical.

Evidently??? My therapist thinks???? That my reactions to secondhand smoke and the smell of marijuana may be an autism thing???? Hyper sensitivity to certain senses?????? Thing is, the doctors won't test me for allergic reactions, so idek. Doctors, please test me. I wish to know why I doubled over coughing my lungs out and was in immense pain when one of my students walked through the door. I literally couldn't breathe for half a day afterwards and still had to keep pushing through.

Whenever I get overwhelmed at a friend's house, I like to organize their dishes. Repetitive motion with clear progress goes brrrrrrr.

If you interrupt me while I'm doing my homework, I will go feral on you. And then I won't be able to regain my concentration. And then I'll cry.

I always have to use music to get started on projects or to time myself on them. I have timed ambiances, playlists, lofi (timed and not timed), and the Ghost Hunt OST for difficult mathematics. It helps me filter everything else out so I can focus and not get interrupted.

Yeah, no. Do not interrupt me while working. It's very frustrating. More than that, it's overwhelming, and then I gotta focus on two difficult things at once (whatever I'm working on plus figuring out how to politely interact with the Distraction while not getting mad).

Anyways, yeah. XD Autistic things. Aren't they fun.

(obviously this is just my own experience. different people look different in all of this)

[muraenide]

Jade Leech: senses and other specific headcanons.

what  does  your  muse  smell  like  ?

Whatever cologne he uses. Most of the time they're titled: Ocean, Saltwater Breeze, Sandy Beaches. Jade's real scent smells a little like grass and tree bark due to his prolonged exposure to nature or he actually smells like how salt water smells like, but sometimes he might also smell like food and alcohol and smoke whenever he works in the kitchen or at the bar. The inconsistency of smells began to bother him somewhere in his first year, and that is when he discovered the existence of cologne on the surface. He has a variety of preferences, though most of the time, their scents are mild, fresh, and crisp and related to the sea. Jade has acquired a habit of using cologne to ward off suffocating smells and has stuck to one particular brand due to his skin being sensitive to a lot of man-made chemicals.

what  do  your  muse’s  hands  feel  like ?

Jade wears gloves, and rarely ever takes them off. But his skin is soft and smooth, maybe second only to Vil. Jade is slightly allergic to a great many things: dishwashing soap, rain, water in the swimming pool, pesticides, etc. Soaking his hands and other parts of his body in slightly warm water every morning helped with the allergies, and as a side effect, it also provided his skin with enough moisture. Jade himself has no opinion of "beauty" on land, so this practice is a complete coincidence.

what  does  your  muse  usually  eat  in  a  day ?

Jade seldom snacks. He enjoys main courses and pastries the most. And he's particular about having a balanced diet on land for the most part. Outside of 5 regular meals a day, Jade hardly snacks or eats outside of them, but his regular meals are in larger portions than the average 17-year-old human. It's no secret Jade eats a lot. However, sometimes he might feel mischievous enough to eat disgusting combinations of food (like ground beef and ice cream) just to put someone off if they are clearly bothered by it.

does  your  muse  have  a  good  singing  voice ?

As a merfolk, he does have the natural ability to possess a charming voice. It's not unusual for merfolk, but it might be a bit unusual for everyone else. Merfolk are known for their beauty, their half-human, half-fish appearance, and their enchanting singing voice. The last is second only to sirens. Most merfolk also has feminine-leaning natural voices, however, but Jade's voice is surprisingly more masculine, and in this case, he is quite a rarity among merfolk as well.

does  your  muse  have  any  bad  habits  or  nervous  ticks  ?

Jade can space out a little bit when he's caught unguarded. It's very subtle, and at most times, unnoticeable. But to people who know him a decent amount, they might pick up immediately that his response was delayed, or wasn't instantaneous, which is something rather unusual from Jade.

He also shakes his dominant leg (his left leg) a little bit whenever he's sitting and he's irritated or annoyed and does so unawarely.

what  does  your  muse  usually  look  like/wear  ?

Jade has no preference for clothes and appreciates a variety of them. He does, however, enjoy wearing more "rugged" clothes - clothes that make him look heavier than he is and give volume to his overall looks. Examples are sweaters, scarves, and jeans. Realistically, he did say he prefers no clothes at all.

is  your  muse  affectionate  ?  How  so  ?

He can be, but he's a little selective when it comes to that. Outside of normal people, among close friends and lovers, he can be quite affectionate, but his version of affectionate might be different from humans, however. For example, a kiss means little to nothing to Jade. Whether it's on the forehead, lips, or cheeks, he regards it as something closer to platonic rather than romantic. Meanwhile, smelling is something more intimate to Jade, and it is also something he rarely offers. Smelling someone by the nape of their neck, their armpits, or anywhere with scent glands, is something of possibly the highest intimacy for Jade, and how he shows affection for someone. Half the time Jade will also be less reluctant to kiss, but he might get weirded out about being smelled if he's not close to you.

what  position  does  your  muse  sleep  in  ?

Jade sleeps on his back with his arms resting over his chest most of the time. It's his 'default' sleeping position, but very, very rarely he sleeps with his cheek against his pillow and his ass up in the air, arms wrapped around his pillow. This happens only when Jade is extremely tired and probably twisted and turned in his sleep to arrive at that position.

could  you  hear  your  muse  in  the  hallway  from  another  room  ? 

No. Jade only ever speaks in a very soft and controlled tone. He seldom, if ever, raises his voice, even when he's angry. You're more likely to hear him from another room. If he got into fights, flipped a table, or slapped someone, they produce louder sounds compared to his voice.

tagged by : stolen from @lunaetis

tagging : this is rather long, so no pressure! @fumiiya (feel free to do it for any of your other boys too, Malleus, Idia, HWQ, or YX), @corruptiongifted, @fireandfae, @jinanreona, @trestole, @splitcards, @mostrohost, @ignitism, @grdnglow, @ramshacklestar, @ramshacklexprefect, @crimsontroupe (Dia or anyone you're feeling atm), and anyone who sees this tag yourself and tag me so I can read yours!

[trans-axolotl]

Hi this question isn't about treatment or anything but you and your followers seem to have a lot of knowledge about mental health and also i like your approach to mental illness so i thought to ask it here.

How do you regain connection to reality when you're mentally allergic to grounding exercises? I've been struggling a lot with delusions, hallucinations, and dissociating chunks of my life away the past however long, it's not the worst periods of time that this has gone on but it's up there. I've been through a lot of therapists and viop so i know of ~Grounding kits~ and ~Meditation~ and ~Reconnecting to your body~ etc, but the first one doesn't work for personal reasons and anything related to connecting to the body just makes me disconnect from reality faster in retaliation almost. How do I get back to any semblance of reality when the basic tools for doing that make it worse? I don't want to be Normal™, i just want control of my life back.

hey anon <3 I'll offer a few thoughts and suggestions but as always, I'm just one person, so take what works and leave the rest.

I'm someone who absolutely HATES so many types of grounding exercises and stuff like meditation and body work often feels particuarly inaccessible to me. So I defintely understand feeling like all the therapy things are just not helpful or actively make things worse.

Something that helped me start to feel more able to be in touch with reality was firstly taking a look at my life and trying to notice patterns. So often shit that I was feeling would just seem completely random, or be a symptom that happens so often that it starts to just blend into how I experience my life. But taking an overall look and asking okay, are there times where I ever do feel connected to reality? what does that look like? When are the times that I feel most disconnected? Are there any triggers I can notice? And writing all that shit down because god knows I can't remember all of that. That helped me notice what activities (whether therapist approved or not lmao), what situations, and what people helped me feel a little less lost and seperated from reality. Noticing what things already were naturally helping allowed me to be really intentional about incorporating those things into my routines and everyday life, and figuring what things were already helping, however small, allowed me to be creative about amplifying those.

For example, I noticed that during one of my particularly distressing hallucinations that involved seeing many different parts of something all over the sidewalk, something that made me feel mildly less freaked out was counting the hallucinations and creating a fake mental map on my head where I was like, placing the hallucinations as points on a map and counting them. This made me wonder if things that were sort of similiar in terms of categorizing things in my head such as doing sudoku puzzles, organizing random shit into piles, and doing complex one line drawings would help the distress. And it turns out that weirdly enough it did help a little bit. It didn't stop me from having the hallucination, but it did make the hallucination feel a little bit more under my control. Random shit like that helped me think outside the box about what coping skills might actually help when I was feeling so frustrated with how the ones off of therapy worksheets just did not feel applicable.

Another thing that sort of helps me is changing my mindset and goals about how I want to feel about my delusions, how I want to experience reality, how I want my relationship with my hallucinations to be. I used to get really frustrated all the time because none of the coping skills people would suggest to me could get rid of my delusions or help me stop seeing things that aren't there. Something another patient said to me that's stuck was "even if something only works 5%, lean into that and try to fuel that flame." Sometimes it helps me to sort of clarify what actually feels most important to me. Is what's most important descreasing the intensity of emotional distress when I experience upsetting hallucinations? Is it being able to still get tasks done when I'm delusional? is it being able to feel present when I'm spending time with my loved ones? Evaluating whether I'm more concerned with the intensity of the experience, the frequency of the experience, or the impact of it on my life functioning helps me figure out what to prioritize. Sometimes being able to get more specific about what actually feels most important helps me try out coping skills and actually be able to evaluate their effect instead of feeling always overwhelmed by the fact that I was still delusional, hallucinating, and out of touch with reality.

I don't quite have the right words to describe what I'm trying to say, but something else that I've been working on lately is how to sort of stop fighting against my hallucinations and more embracing them? not quite leaning into or encouraging them, but sort of just Stopping fighting. so often i get into thought spirals where I'm simultaneously hallucinating and then getting incredibly distressed about that and trying to fight it and trying to prove that it is or isn't real. Sometimes, it can help me to just be like "okay, this might be real, it might not. I'm experiencing it right now and it's okay if my reality is not the same as other people's realities right now. I'm going to try to move through the world right now anyway, and it's okay if that's difficult or odd." I'm trying to get out of battles with my hallucinations and delusions and instead trying things with the framework of "will this help me coexist with this delusion or hallucination? even if I am currently experiencing a different reality, how can I make small connections to other people's realities?"

Honestly, I don't really have a lot of advice, because this is still something that's very difficult for me! I don't often have a lot of insight when I am delusional and it is very hard not to slip into avoidence or dissociation especially when for me, my brain has learned a lot of these things as survival skills and it is hard to convince my brain that I am in safer situaions where I no longer need to cope like this.

I also want to validate that dealing with dissociation, hallucinations, and delusions can be so completely exhausting and frustrating. Whatever way you're feeling about all of it right now, you deserve to have the space to feel those emotions and know that you are not a failure because the conventional therapy skills that people want you to use are not working. That doesn't mean that you're doing anything wrong and you don't need to feel shame. I honestly think that a lot of conventional therapy stuff really doesn't know what the fuck to do with experiences like delusions, dissociation, and hallucinations and it is absolutely not just a you problem. I hope you're able to give yourself the space and time to acknowledge that you're so allowed to be exhausted, overwhelmed, and upset, and simultaneously embrace that you are doing the best you can with the tools you have in the environment you're in.

Followers who experience these things, please add on!!! would love to get some more crowd sourced wisdom here for anon <3

[vulturesrottencorpse]

i HATE people who let their cats out

not only is it terrible to let your pet out and risk it getting hit by a fucking car or getting killed by something else, it's also just bad..in general.

Your cat is going to kill so many native species because of preydrive. I'm from Australia for example and SO MANY of our small native mammals, replies and birds are endangered because they are being hunted by feral cats. They are ruining the balance of the ecosystem

If your cat isn't desexed it could breed with other cats, making feral cat babies that will probably die or grow up just to make more babies.

They carry and spread diseases to each other, other animals and humans.

They pose a risk to people of they are aggressive or someone could be extremely allergic.

"oh but Mr tibbles wants to go outside it's abuse to keep them inside" no the fuck it's not you want it outside so bad make a cat pen "oh but he doesn't kill anything" you don't know that. Do you see people letting their dogs outside all day or night? No obviously because they can be aggressive or kill things right? So can cats.

I remember a cat that got into our yard ti attack my pt birds (they were in cages but the cat didn't care) and my mum went out to try and get it out. Unfortunately it backed itself into a corner and even my GREAT DANE X BULL ARAB (who we don't own anymore but still see) didn't want to take it on. So my mum grabbed the cat by the scruff if it's neck to throw it over the fence because that's all we could do, but it turned and latched onto her arm. I just remember seeing the amount if blood pouring out from her arm, bleeding all over the floor as she rushed to the bathroom. Looked like someone had been MURDERED. she had to go to hospital for a while night in an ambulance to make sure she didn't get any diseases. I was traumatised, I had so many panic attacks over it because even though it ended up as just a tiny scar, I saw my mum, the person I love most, bleeding EVERYWHERE. I thought she was going to die. I'm traumatised from that sight.

All of that could have been avoided if someone didn't let their fucking cat outside. You can't have any actual valid excuse to be letting your cat out. If you are neglecting your cat, posing a risk to other people and animals, and contributing to the extinction of native species by letting it out, fuck you. I cannot stress this enough. It's actually disgusting that letting your cat outside is a normalised thing. It's not normal it shouldn't be normal. Keep your cat inside or don't have one at all.

[slightlyhonest]

People for some reason started to follow this blog so allow me.

This blog is not for you if:

you get easily triggered or offended (for example mimimi behaviour)

you've spent so much time in your bubble you became allergic to other people's opinion

you expect that the world should accomodate to you, you speshl lil snowfuck

you believe everyone disagreeing with you is either a bot or a [insert silly lable here] (for example nazi, terf, clarm (not a lable yet but I wanted to make one as well to belong to the cool kids. No wonder people throw these around like confetti. It's kinda fun. Clarm btw is a person who finds clams charming in an offensive way.))

you have dni's in your blog and still interact with the groups mentioned there because this rule applies only after you have already started a fight with them. (Your bar-fight-starting ancestors would be proud of you)

you threaten people who disagree with you with rape and death (for example women who talk about their body or opinions)

you celebrate death and suicide from a person your cult -er sorry- community considered 'cancelled' (for example Robbie Coltrane)

you support lables in general (you are a biological human not a supermarket. The only lable I support is the organic one. Also you call them lables, I call them warning signs. No srsly. Who needs dni's if you can just wear you lables. Normal people who are not in that hivemind will avoid you automatically)

you hate that I basically never use tags

you dislike the fact that I might add more to this list depending on what funny people I see on here (I collect snowflakes like Pokémon cards to crunch them together and build a snowman which I then put in my freezer crush again and then put the remains in my Caipirinha so that the snowpolice won't notice that I slurp the crushed tears, dreams and mimimis of their kind)

[writemywaytoyourheart]

Ahh your new post about Tae and Jennie was comforting. I did have a gut reaction of sadness since he is my bias wrecker. I want to rant a little. I do think I am kinda actually in love with him. It feels weird to be attracted to someone who is taken. I know I’m getting too into the parasocial aspect, but my life would be pretty empty without it. It’s kinda embarrassing. I can’t help but compare myself to her and feeling sad too. Insecurities ugh

Sorry for taking so long to answer this, I was typing a response and needed to stop to go help someone, but I'm back now!

First of all, no matter what anyone says (including your brain), there is no reason to feel embarrassed or ashamed about feeling this way.

You will not be judged here, I can promise you that.

I really do think that people need to take a step back and realize that most every reaction is a normal reaction.

Some fans claim to be so "not toxic" that they themselves are in fact being toxic. It isn't fair to say that being sad or upset in any way is overreacting. Not being affected by the news does not equal being "normal" or "non-toxic", it just means that you don't have a reaction, that's it.

Your feelings are valid, nonnie.

Sometimes people fall for someone they've never met. Just bc others don't understand that doesn't mean it's not true.

Sometimes it's the comfort they bring, or the way that person makes them love themselves or want better for themselves, sometimes it's because that person brings the best out in them even if they never know it.

I am so sorry, love.

I am sorry that your heart is hurting right now. I wish I could give you the biggest hug in the world and bring you all the comfort you need to heal. You can hurt, it is okay to hurt. No one can tell you not to hurt.

It really does suck when these feelings are so very real and a very big part of one's life. Because when they are taken away, that heartbreak is also very much real.

People need to realize that.

Yes these fans probably KNOW that they would not have ended up with their idol, but that does not always stop those feelings from being present. People can be in love with someone and it not be that level of for example: saesang. It's not fair to lump them all together.

Some people have all of those strong feelings inside but do nothing about it, it's not right to call them delulu or whatever. That's just causing more unnecessary shame and labeling and embarrassment for something they can't help. You guys, people fall in love with completely fictional characters and it is real and if that character dies or when book ends that heartbreak is real.

Yes, we are fans. Yes, there are millions upon millions of us.

And yes, some fans are very much in love with the artist.

Why do we have to shame them for it? Take a look in the mirror, take a look on the inside and figure out why you're attacking those people. Maybe you should be grateful that you've never had to experience that.

Taehyung deserves love, he deserves to feel safe and unjudged in his relationships. He deserves to have what he wants whether it be a family or a relationship or whatever. He does not deserve to feel guilt and shame for wanting and or having that.

And you deserve to be allowed to grieve because it isn't you.

Jennie is beautiful and kind, yes. She is a lovely person. And so are a lot of people. People love famous people because they know of them. Just because you aren't on the screen in front of millions of people does not mean you are not lovable and deserving. It just means most of the world doesn't know about you, they might be in love with you if they knew you.

You are you, nonnie.

You are so special, because you are you. There is no one else in this world that is you. There will never ever ever be another you in existence.

I don't know your name or what you look like or what you hate or love or enjoy eating or are allergic to. But I know that you're another human being that is struggling with something. I know that I love you, because you are a unique person on this earth that clearly has a beautiful soul.

Anyone that is in love with Kim Taehyung but will silently grieve when they don't end up with him, is a beautiful soul to me.

Feeling insecure and inferior is a normal part of life in today's world. And it shouldn't be.

You are so beautiful. I promise you.

The only person that needs to know that is you.

You should never feel the need to change yourself for anyone. You should never feel lacking because someone you love does not love you the same in return.

It might feel right now like that pain won't stop. Or maybe it's not as painful as I'm making it seem. But it is for someone.

I'm sorry that your heart is sad and that you feel insecure, I want to erase all of that for you. But I suppose that's what will make you who you are meant to be.

Someday, there will be someone that loves you the most. That will drop anything and everything to be there for you. That will make you their first priority. That will believe in you when no one else does.

Someday that person will be you.

You will be that for you.

Until that day comes, I will be here to root for you, to cheer you on if ever you feel lacking. I might just seem like someone on the other side of a screen typing out a response and there's no face or name or whatever to me. But I can assure you that I am a real person that really does care so deeply for every single one of you. Not just because we're all fans of the same group, but because you are real human beings with real struggles and joys in life.

Please let yourself cry. I'll cry with you, okay?

Your pain is real and that pain you're feeling hurts me too. I'm already crying for you 😅, for everyone that has heartbreak right now.

I guess I just feel a lot. And that's okay too.

Let yourself cry when you're in pain. It's okay. You love someone that now has someone else and that fucking hurts. Don't tell yourself you're not allowed to feel that.

Someday. Someday you will put yourself where you belong in your heart, whether or not anyone else does or not. Life is full of so many things and people that you haven't met yet.

I love you, you beautiful soul.

-chip 💕