#are ading as a Coping Mechanism

[theodoravanyar]

Of Pages and Pizza

14,223 Days Alive 3 Slices of Pizza Eaten 1 Book Started and Finished Today I am feeling… quite terrible. I don’t know why. So I turned to an old comfort mechanism: reading. Continue reading Of Pages and Pizza

[erebus0dora]

sometimes i experience panic attacks, and one of the art pieces that really knows and understands what they feel like is "Perforated Heart" by Eric Bogosian

i mean it's all good that he's mostly spoken of here in IWTV context, it's a terrific, beautiful piece of television, but-

yeah, he gets how that feels

today's panic attack made me go and finish a piece that was inspired by that very book, and, yeah

NAILED IT

(yes, i am repeating the joke about nails everywhere i can)

[5ftboy]

(sean finnerty after a man gets absolutely eviscerated)

[dreamlifebunny]

does anyone else here collect fictional men like the pretty rocks you find on the sidewalk or... is it just... me

[coeluvr]

Also, I figured out how to balance everything so now having 2 hobbies will be an option!

They will both act as a coping mechanism but don't worry your MC will have plenty of opportunities to just do things as a hobby lol.

These are the options now. I haven't updated the FAQ because I keep changing stuff lol.

1 hobby

2 hobbies

1 hobby + 1 coping mechanism

1 hobby + 2 coping mechanisms

[blessed-bruises]

I'm not allowed to make fun of Neo but it's objectively hilarious when he justifies his actions by going "fuck it this is literally just the matrix"

[meiloorunsmoothie]

how did you first get into Jeremy Jordan

good question—and one i very recently asked myself when the inevitable "how did i become this person" reflection happened 🫣.

i think there were many different factors (most of them not that good) that caused me to dive into obsessive mode so hard (and so quickly)—and it's definitely a "i see it now, but i couldn't back then" kind of situation. however, i'll spare you from those details XD.

the simple story is that, similar to you, i watched tangled the series and instantly fell in love with varian.

i love him

funnily enough, varian was the reason i started watching the show to begin with (coupled with the fact that i love tangled, and rapunzel, and eugene, and pascal, and max, and- 😆). i actually listened to the tts songs before watching the show 🫣 because my sister had gotten hooked on it years before. however, i only listened to the songs with mandy moore and zachary levi 🫣🫣 (cause i was like "who are these other random people, i want rapunzel and eugene"). then one day i listened to "through it all," in which varian has one line (plus an "eh" which i love now, but couldn't tell was him when i first listened XD)—and i was instantly just like: who's that.

have i listened to this one line on loop? you bet.

so i started watching the show—and loved varian from episode one—so naturally, i decide to look up the voice actor. it was jeremy....surprise. except...i didn't actually become obsessed right then. if anything, i was a little weirded out that this tiny boy was voiced by a 30-something year old man 😂 (but it's voice acting, so i was just like: wow, he did a great job 🤩...i'm going to go resume loving varian).

okay and then he sang. i knew he was good from his one line in "through it all", but wOW. adfasjkjaskfjd, on repeat forever and ever.

yes he was

that's not when i became (jeremy) obsessed either XD.

okay...and then a bunch of life stuff/circumstances kind of collided, and let's just say that i was feeling extremely lonely while also struggling with grief. i think there was about a two week period of this before i started actually bouncing back, and i had just reached the end of s1. now tts was doing a good job with bringing much needed happiness in my life, but...s2 had a very noticeable varian-shaped hole in it 😒.

that's when i turned to jeremy jordan youtube. it started off (the first hour) pretty mild—just some of his disney medleys, or the greatest showman video, or just the ones with millions of views—but it very quickly turned into a full out jeremy jordan youtube spiral™️ XD.

i must put this in your face again

i think in part, i latched on so quickly because jeremy and i are actually very similar people in general. i think at the point of extreme change that i was in at the time, it was just nice to "know" someone who was like me—and it definitely helped that there was easy access to extensive jj content. on a slightly different note, this is absolutely the reasoning behind the fact that if i had a chance to see jeremy live, i would choose one of his concerts over, say, gatsby—i am obsessed with jeremy jordan as jeremy jordan XD (hello akp).

literally me (i grew up in california by the way XD)

anyways, fast forward ~3 months, and i joined tumblr 😆...and we all know what happened after that. honestly, not a bad decision in my mind (at least so far), despite being very anti-social media my whole life. i've gotten to chat and obsessively geek out with so many great people, and i'm just so grateful for that 💕.

i've still only watched s1 of supergirl...and many youtube clips

[reineyday]

thinking about how steve was homophobic and misogynistic in s1 but they gave him a chance to be faced with a demogorgon when people needed help and he stepped up. everyone lauds him for that, and he's become a fan favourite. yet when billy, finally in his right mind after being possessed the whole season, gets the opportunity and chooses to do the same--stepping up to take a killing blow for el--people dont offer him the same grace? why. :(

the biggest (reasonable) argument is always 'billy dying was not a redemption' and it's not, you're right. steve stepping in to whack a demogorgon with jonathan's nail bat wasnt a redemption either; his redemption came with him apologizing to them both, and then working to show nancy that he's a better person as they deal with the fallout of s1, and being gracious about jonathan's presence in nancy's life. he got the chance to show he's changed and managed to redeem himself because he lived, and billy unfortunately didnt. but you cant deny that his final moments proved that the potential for him to change is there, and that makes a difference.

[bluespikelvr]

lowkey (highkey) stole blueys hair design from @/epiconlinebully

[gensnix]

So apparently totk isn’t getting a dlc here’s some botw->totk things that make me go mmmmh 

[wexhappyxfew]

the intricacy of paulina stagliano getting her heart broken before leaving greenland in the form of a letter to hambone hamilton having a crush on her since basic training but not saying a word about it

[first-blight]

starset's entire discography save me

starset's entire discography

save me starset's entire discography

[sordidery]

the man from uncle is challengers for people who love the sopranos

[messrsbyler]

this is my personal opinion on eddie’s character and you have been warned… it’s not a flattering one so if you love eddie don’t keep reading bc well you are probably not gonna like what i have to say under the cut

okay then…

gotta get something out of my chest: eddie is a boring, flat, and edging on obnoxious character that mostly has the pretty privilege going on for him which is just another standard white guy. yes, i teared up when his death scene came… because how it affected dustin. otherwise, couldn’t care less about him and his on the nose “i always run away/didnt run away this time” conflict

“oh, but eddie is a freak and treated as such, even hunted down and bullied. people can resonate with that” i mean… fine if you do, really, but also what about the Party? they are considered freaks, they are bullied, will even expresses even his closed ones make him feel like a freak. why about el? she was a freak too, the weirdo, the lab experiment that was hunted down and tortured. what about jonathan? he was the freak that probably killed his little brother in season one. we have seasons of these characters, characters who actually have depth to them with interesting conflicts and dynamics. and most importantly, characters who are freaks but that see each others as equals.

eddie? sure he’s a freak. a freak who likes to bee in power, sitting on his throne during DND sessions whit his group of sheep wearing all the same tees as if it was an uniform, going out of his way to jump on tables and yell in people’s faces bc he is not like other girls he is proud to be a freak and oppose to the status quo.

i mean, give me a break.

[tundrakatiebean]

I forgot to make a post about this last night but nefarious anglerfish saved me from a depression spiral lol I dunno why exactly but when I’m brushing my teeth at night that is when my brain is most evil and it started telling me nobody cared about me anyway and they probably never had (wrong) and the other side of my brain just went “that’s not true, nefarious anglerfish” and I burst out laughing and spit toothpaste on my mirror.

[butchlifeguard]

posting myself is addicting so hey yall

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