#conversation is hard ok

[discombobulatedrebel]

The indescribable pain overcoming your self-imposed barriers to say hello to someone and immediately realise you don't have enough common conversational material to sustain an interaction.

[cowboy-caboodles]

Off-Screen Apologies

Because i saw someone’s reblog saying we missed the opportunity to have a javey apology scene, because Davey deserved to be angry at Jack, and we deserved to see that happen between them, and also because i am possibly working on a little fic about the off-screen interaction.

(I drew just the end snippet of what would be an entire apology with much more lecturing from Davey, just as an excuse to draw boys smooching)

[starryluminary]

No pressure. (there's lots of pressure) No planning. (that much is true) No. Pookums. (only call him shnookums)

Masterlist | Bonus

DeaKids watermark and original screenshot!

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[cashweasel]

I love when he entertains her bullshit lmao

[dreamsy990]

an idea for a scene from my au thats been sitting in my head for a while. im not gonna elaborate [please do not tag as ship!!]

bonus

progress

[yashley]

favorite yasha/jester moments: C2E105

[sereniv]

anyway 4 alive people doesnt justify over 200 dead

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

btw! You were talking about your multi shipping and some secret rare pair. I've been in suspense ever since. What's the pair anyway? Or are you in the middle of making a chart? I'm just real curious

oh lmao did i not say what it was? it's not some 'oooh ahhh' thing i just had a Cute Thought and went "yeah i can dig that!". its simply Niche!

first i was thinkin "aw, yk Barnaby/Eddie is kinda cute" and then immediately went "wait ohhhh established Laughingstock but they fold Eddie into the relationship" and yeah <3

[dayurno]

my advice for anyone whos growing more and more frustrated with the state of aftg and fandom at large is that arguing is fun but you need to be happy. ok. you need to. its hard when bad faith takes are dropped to your doorstep but you need to be happy and enjoy yourself and have fun or there's no point in anything at all ever. ok. fandom is not real and nothing is worth more than your enjoyment. i love you please make sure to have fun and reach out to a friend today. for me

[jam-packed]

thank god im not a journalist cus the amount of eye contact would kill me

[magentagalaxies]

ended up having a nice conversation with a woman in her 60s at the hotel bar tonight about my comedy career aspirations (honestly don't even remember why we started talking but it went from "i'm just visiting toronto but planning to move here when i graduate" to "here's my backstory") and she was really nice but also did that thing people always do when they hear i want to do comedy as a career where they go do you have a backup plan?

and honestly? i get where that comes from like it's super difficult to actually become a full time artist in any profession but especially something like comedy. but also my thoughts on it are that "backup plan" implies some kind of reality check where you stop wanting to achieve your dreams, vs. i do have dream jobs within comedy that i would love to do, but i honestly would be happy to do any job related to creating comedy, and even then i would be totally happy having a day job that isn't my dream but allows me enough time to make creative projects on the side. and i have specific other skills i could utilize or interests i could pursue, etc. but comedy is never not going to be a part of my adult life even if it's not my "official" job

but also. i don't wanna have to get into that conversation with every stranger who asks what my backup plan is. so now i just want to start telling people fake backup plans that are even more statistically unlikely or impossible than being a professional comedian. like i want to be a comedian but my backup is CEO of blockbuster video. my backup is telephone call switch operator. my backup plan is to reveal that i'm actually princess anastasia.

please tell me your suggestions for "jessamine's backup plan if comedy doesn't work out" bc i want this to become a thing

[nomairuins]

i like overthink everything now it makes me feel so dumb. i used 2 be able to just talk 2 ppl but nowadays every single thing im like Is that actually going to make them hate me. Yes probably. and then i just dont respond which makes ppl hate me. this is how it is

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

there's this Pretentious Music Post I think often about that's like "mcr fans are so BASIC their HEADS would EXPLODE if they heard SKINNY PUPPY" . like oh ok one of the most popular well known industrial bands of all time ???? THAT skinny puppy???????? to be clear I think "my music is more obscure than yours so therefore I'm more cultured" is stupid n disingenuous anyway but was skinny. puppy. really truly the best Obscure Music example you could think of there. really ??

[faaun]

ok let's catch up quickly

[wife]

i actually do feel like ive been doing slightly better at this lately though.. like replying to peoples posts and trying to initiate conversations and dms and stuff... so i am winning a bit