#he doesn't. he doesn't CARE enough abt anything to stick w it when it gets hard.
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YOO IM IN LOVE WITH UR HCS THEY TASTE LIKE CHOCOLATE COVERED STRAWBERRIES AND FRUIT TEA :3
Request here 🙏🙏🙏
Could you possibly.. *leans on Bugatti with graves wrap on it + an inflatable eagle and American flag flying from the bonnet* write some hcs for 141 + König with a gn s/o that has had a really bad day and just needs some comfort? So eg, just being pampered and having their hair washed, being told they’ve done well, that people are proud of them and love them, etc?
Ive been having a really shitty past few months with my depression and anxiety and it’s really overwhelmed me so I’m kinda projecting.. 🧍🏼🧍🏼
If you can’t do it, that’s ok!!! No pressure <33
But if you can, may your skin be clear and may your crops flourish 🙏🙏🙏 (with america rizz) (im british)
i hate brits but ill make an exception for u 🫶 /lh i hope ur day gets a littol bit better for u pookie :< ik how hard it gets fr <3 we r in this together :)
cw: depression (not delved into !!)
simon "ghost" riley:
☆ this guy getss it !!! he doesn't open up much about his feelings directly but let's all be fr and agree he's not the most mentally stable
☆ your self care day is hiss self care day, thrives on cuddling and using you as weighted blanket while he rubs your back
☆ has himself a tea while you both cuddle, and trust me it's good tea. the night might turn into a cuddle and see how many teas simon can make before you run out
☆ before you fall asleep fully he kisses the crown of your head and says that he's proud of how far you've come
john "soap" mactavish:
☆ tries to be more lowkey w how he comforts you because he doesn't want to come off as overbearing
☆ has mastered the perfect balance of praise and touch, he holds your hand while you tell him about your day and he makes comments trying to sympathize w you
☆ lets you scritch his mohawk while he tells you how much he loves you and how glad he is that you're around and here with him
☆ lays his head on your chest when you both go to sleep so he can listen to your heartbeat and tap your arms to the beat of it, has both of you asleep within 5 minutes
john price:
☆ kinda awkward with comforting but he tries his best, he's always a little bit confused about how somebody like you could be so upset about anything
☆ he knows that it's not his place to fully understand though, so he sticks to doing what he does best: being an old ass man
☆ showers with you and washes your hair while you vent (or not) about how you've been feeling, he stays mostly silently except for humming to let you know he's listening
☆ towel dries your hair and changes the bedsheets to clean ones so you can be fully clean because he's a firm believer in being a little more tidy can greatly improve somebody's feelings
kyle "gaz" garrick:
☆ king of pampering in general, he's waiting on you hand and foot constantly. honestly he probably knows it's going to be a bad day before you even start your day
☆ he's always making you food to eat throughout the day, little snacks that aren't too big but are just enough to keep you energized and full
☆ ditches his military soaps for your nice ones when you take a shower, secretly (not rlly) loves when you laugh at him building bubble beards on himself and doing price impressions
☆ making you laugh is his goal in life tbh he's constantly cracking jokes while you both cuddle, some of them are so bad it's funny
könig:
☆ another guy that genuinely understands everything you're talking abt, his anxiety also makes him have awfulll days and due to being the military around lots of people he's learned coping mechanisms
☆ takes hot showers with you a lot in general, but even more when you're having one of those days. he's already washing your hair and face as soon as you get in
☆ lets you braid his hair while he talks idly about how missions are and how he adores you, though he says that in german. you've picked up on him saying cheesy stuff in german though so it's fine :)
☆ lets you sprawl out on him like a starfish when you both finally go to sleep, around 2am because of how many shows he wanted to watch with you
#THE GRAVES BUGATTI MADE ME WHEEZE BTW#I NEED THAT CAR EVEN THO I CANT DRIVE FR#mw2 x reader#mwii x reader#ghost x reader#simon riley x reader#soap x reader#john mactavish x reader#john price x reader#price x reader#gaz x reader#kyle garrick x reader#könig x reader#asks#wolfe.req
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"record some guides at his apartment studio and jk only gave him some advice here and there abt how he should sing some lines" oh how you try your best to minimise jk's contribution here. Are you a jk anti anon?
"taehyung always find some way to mention jungkook and single out their relationship" I'll tell you why he does this...coz he's in love with him boo 🥰. That's what we do when are in love, we try every possible way to talk about our partner coz they are literally on our minds almost 24/7. As for jk not doing the same, I won't even ask you go through each of his lives coz that'll take time, just watch his second last live. He sang half of layover unprompted, and wooshik's mistaken part of blood sweat and tears. Jk mentioned their snowboarding trip when asked about his current fav song, jk said that tae was the first person, not just member, person, who listened to seven...
"whole “to find you” thing…there’s no way that that’s the legitimate and whole truth" so since you have no other argument against this, just say that tae lied. Simple right? How tf do you know that jk doesn't sing that song to him? Did jk personally dm you about tae's lie? I know why you don't want to accept that tae wasn't lying, bcs that would imply that they are definitely more than just friends, and will derail your Taehyung hate train.
"bc if they were actually together and jk sang that song FOR him, taehyung would not be out here divulging all that information" why won't he? What changed after he divulged that information? Did people suddenly start believing in their relationship? He knows that people like you exist, and are actually in majority so even if he declares his love for jk publically, no one's gonna bat an eye coz acc to most people, they are just bros/ or acc to rotten minds, he's just seeking attention.
"the story he posted of him and jk on instagram before enlisting. that was completely on purpose for attention bc why would u not post something for jimin" it was definitely on purpose. He wanted to publically say goodbye to his bf before he went away. Don't we do the same? Don't we differentiate b/w our partners and friends? That's all that he did. He was literally enlisting that day. He was getting enough attention already. Also, what would he have done of that attention when he was going to the military that very day? As for not posting about jimin, maybe he didn't have a shirtless FaceTime with jimin 🤷♀️
"just at least admit that taehyung mentions a lot of stuff abt jungkook on purpose bc he knows ppl like to hear it " I'll readily admit the first part of this statement but not the second. Yes he does mention jungkook a lot, but not because people like to hear it. No one except for taekookers want to hear him talk about his jungkookie. Army, jikookers, solos, i.e. the majority, either don't care about it or call him vile names(like you are) as soon as he so much as takes jk's name.
He's been doing all that and no one except for taekookers finds anything sus about it, ever. So your "if they were actually together i dont think he would want to be drawing attention to their relationship the way he does" makes no sense. Jungkook literally sat smack dab on tae's lap infront of thousands and no one thought anything about it, but tae saying that he recorded some guides at jk' house would draw attention to their relationship.
Do you think jk would allow tae to lie and use his name for attention? Do you he's a pushover? Why does jk hang out with tae and even tae's friends so much if tae is such a lying manipulative attention seeker? Watch yoongi's concert footage, would jk be sticking close to tae all evening if tae was really the evil tae of your imagination?
Stop trying to make up vile narratives about their relationship. Jungkook would judge you. Hard. So would jimin.
Ps, there are many compilations of jungkook going taehyungie hyung all year round, was he trying to make shippers happy and seek attention as well?
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hi finally compiling the thread i made the other day on twt abt the first chapter of recital so. welcome to me having far too much to say about my big bang fic skgh
chapter titling is similar to symphony (leo day fic) but instead of music terms, it's ballet terms. i'm nowhere near as used to ballet terms as i am w music terms so they won't have a deeper meaning (at least not on purpose lmao) like some of the symphony chapter titles do, but that's part of why there's nine chapters
a small aside: there is a specific structure i have in mind for the fic. there will be three arcs (if u want to call them that), the first three chapters is the first arc and then there will be an intermission chapter (up to this point is as far as i've confidently planned out so past this point, i can't guarantee anything but. nine chapters is the goal adkgsh). so then chapter 4 and 5 are arc two followed up by another intermission, then the final arc will be chapters 8 and 9. the plan is to stay mostly canon compliant until i don't agree w akira (or kinosei aslkhg), so i'll pretty much be sticking to the canon timeline
please listen to the playlist akdhg most of the songs do correspond to specific things/chapters so it's tied to the story itself plus i've listened to it too many times so. please tell me i'm so right about it 😔 the song i used in the summary of the first chapter is more of a chapter 2 song but i felt like it fit for the first chapter so adkgh (i have. So Many songs for checkmate so. can't wait for that one lmao) (chapter 1 songs are the first four in the playlist, the 5th one could go either way between ch 1 and 2) once more is posted, then i might actually sit here and go on abt why each of these songs is specifically here
writing choices 🎉 the one i want to talk about so so so so bad is the using nicknames in the narration bc if you've read literally anything else i've posted, you'd see that i don't do that, but bc recital is so close to izumi as the narrator, and this chapter is focused on his childhood, i thought it was fitting. there are a few instances of this changing throughout the chapter, such as makoto going from yuukun to makoto in the one flashback section and then staying as makoto when izumi is older, naru eventually changes to arashi.
and the one i really want to bring up,,, izumi's parents are always referred to as mama and papa but there is one singular instance where that's changed and that's during the argument at the end of the chapter.
and then she's referred to as mama again a few paragraphs later and this just goes into the point that i think izumi has a very complicated relationship with his parents. on one hand, they don't support him as an idol and have quite literally told him to his face that he's not successful enough to make it on his own as a model (next door), have treated him more like a doll than their child and they couldn't be bothered to actually ask him what he was interested in, but he still cares about them. he gets offended on their behalf more than once (in ! era at least), but it's just,, complicated. i feel like i can't really properly explain my thoughts here but i have Thoughts. but this is where the vaguely toxic parenting warning comes in from this chapter because the thing is, i don't think his parents were planning for him to feel the way he does about their parenting, they do love him and they do want to have him succeed just. maybe not for the right reasons, yk? ofc that doesn't justify their treatment of him or anything like that, there's just more to it than outright toxic parenting hence why it's subtle here.
what's a little less subtle is izumi's mom living vicariously through him, it's a bit more obvious with the modeling bit than the dance classes but idk it makes sense to me for her to have done them as a child too
baby modelgumi,,, they get their own point here bc i think those might've been my favorite bits to write and genuinely, the baby arashi bit is my favorite part of the whole chapter. they're just so alsdkgh oeugh cute i want to squeeze them in my hands 🥺🥺🥺. my note for this on my list of things to talk about is literally "baby modelgumi :pleading:" they hold a special place in my head and i hope in urs too
i was going to list stories reference but i might wait until i have more done and posted for that (plus i can't remember what story it is that arashi mentions izumi pushed her mouth into a smile as kids) but. portrait and canary hall mentions 🎉🎉
the argument. it's implied a few times in ! that izumi's parents don't really agree with him being an idol (leo says izumi was having isses at home around checkmate/war era). given that they put so much time and effort into having izumi model, i suppose that wouldn't be too surprising, but i think it's important to have some kind of breaking point like the argument scene bc in next door, izumi talks about how his parents treated him growing up and that just makes me think that he probably didn't have much say in his own life and there's just something about being an idol being his first big decision that idk hits a little different and there is more to an extent on this concept in the next chapter in comparing himself to leo and just kind of being like ,, huh...
last thing, so aside from the ending of the beginning section of the chapter, i feel so smart about the ending line of this chapter bc mama's pancakes come up in portrait and there's even a baby izumi homescreen line about it and it's meant to serve as an apology rather than her actually apologizing but i feel like u could take it a few ways but akhg felt so smart when i came up w the ending of the chapter. and i felt the same way when i thought of the first chapter ending and u guys will not like me for that one btu aksdgh <33
baby's first friendship next time 🎉🎉🎉🎉
#recitcal rambling#i have. a little too much to say about this thing i fear#it's a little scary seeing it written out like this rather than a twt thread where things are more spaced out like aklsdhg#this is actually a slightly condensed version from what i posted there 😔#anyway. see u all again when the next recital chapter drops
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#ach op connecting neds prayer in the godswood to sansas#really the people so resistant to sansa/ned talk are averse to any actual interesting discussion of ned beyond northernhonorman#(lol unless its to criticize him failing to listen to lyanna's betrothal objections just to say rhaegar understood and cared for her better#like there's a post now saying how tragic it is that arya and jon only know of lyanna's beauty#and another response viewing this as an attack on ned and dismissal of his ptsd like do you know what tragic means? that it can apply to ned#this is the only sympathetic way to read ned scaring cat#(rather than the misinterpretation that it had anything to do w her treatment of jon#which we dont even know there was any relationship there when jon was a baby and which treatment ned never commented on#only jon living at wf) when the actual scene is abt her asking a very reasonable q which goodhonesthonorablened surely would have answered#had he actually cheated on her
NO EXACTLYYYYYY!
that's why I think the memory sticks out in Catelyn's mind after so many years, because GoodHonestHonorableNorthern Ned Stark, if he had a love affair during the war because, say, he was devastated by the death of his brother and father and in his grief sought out a companion to make him feel better, or perhaps had already had a lover/near lover he was looking to marry before Brandon died, like, he would have just said that! Especially in the situation she describes, where they're just kinda lounging around in bed - she's trying to understand her withdrawn, solemn husband, and of all people, Catelyn would understand if Ned felt honor bound to bring his bastard home and raise the boy himself because he had made promises he ultimately couldn't keep to a woman when he thought he was free to do so. Even if the shame of "dishonoring" Ashara Dayne was too near for him to speak about then, why would Ned be so angry at her for bringing it up, and then refuse to speak about it later?
It seems clear they don't talk about Brandon all that much because he's a very touchy subject but Ned doesn't yell at her when she mentions Brandon, he just gets bitter and shitty about it. Obviously, we don't have to hand it to men for the bare minimum but Ned really does do the bare minimum here in allowing Catelyn the space to disagree, cry, and even snap at him when she's upset and yet he not only refuses to allow her any room to be bitter about him having a bastard, he actively harms her when the subject is brought up. It's a wild reaction that makes no sense with Ned's character - UNLESS his refusal to talk about Jon and by extension Jon's mother is because the grief and fear is too all consuming for him to want to risk it.
I think there's so many interesting parallels and commonalities between Ned/Sansa and Cat/Arya that really get lost in people's hostility towards Catelyn and misunderstanding of Ned and it's a real shame because it's so rich! It's like, the father-mother-sisters dynamic of my dreams tbh, I can never talk enough about how well Ned's grief and fear trickles down to the rest of his family.
i was thinking more about characters Performing Gender, but not necessarily Transgressing Gender. I wound up focusing on Ned and Sansa bc I feel like I understand them the most but-
Sansa as a hostage is imo the most obvious (bc it’s so well done) moment of someone clearly Performing Gender but not being transgressive in that performance. Which isn’t to say it’s not a complicated performance; it’s a fine line Sansa walks between weaponizing her gender to protect herself without seeming too fake. She’s trying to placate the Lannisters by playing the perfect, dedicated, air headed betrothed because it’s the only defense she has - if she outwardly rebels, she will be punished in a likely violent and/or sexual way (which isn’t even conjecture - when she says “or maybe he’ll give me yours” Joffrey has her struck with an armored hand). She’s not quite successful in being convincing but that’s because it’s a rather extreme situation; despite no one believing her, she does make herself seem meek and stupid enough that no one suspects she’s plotting to escape with Dontos until she’s well away from KL. The fact that she even has Dontos to confide in is because of Sansa’s relationship with gender! When she saves him, she covers her rebellious slip by playing up Joffrey’s intelligence & his role as King; she reaches for “tools” of her gender AND of ~proper manhood~ to save a life and herself from another beating. Her retreats into the godswood and silence are very much Samsa attempting to recharge from these draining interactions, the same way a knight would need to stop and eat and rest after a fight. She is fighting, constantly, by forcing herself to stay within the narrow confines of a specific type of gender performance as a way of shielding herself from harm.
Ned yelling at Cat is another big one, and I’ve seen the scene referred to as Ned using his patriarchal power to scare Cat, which is a great description. It feels like a Performance because Ned is putting on this terrifying Lord Stark mask in an attempt to get Catelyn to stop asking about Jon (and Lyanna). This is not how he usually acts with those he loves! When Ned is with His People, he is welcoming of questions, curiosity, emotion, even transgressive thought (to a point! the idea that Ned is a feminist because he lets Arya learn to fight is Not accurate but you can’t deny he allows significantly more flexibility wrt gender expression than most of the fathers we meet in this series. the bar is in hell tho). Yet when Cat asks him about Jon’s mother, Ned scares her so well she stops asking & still remembers the moment bitterly over a decade later. And if that snippet we see through Bran’s eyes of Ned praying that Cat will forgive him does come after she asks (like it’s suspected), it’s clear not only that this is a performance he’s putting on & weaponizing against Cat, it’s one he does not like using as a weapon against someone he is close to. After using the power his gender gives him to cause harm, he retreats to the godswood and silence to pray and rest, much like Sansa. A spiritual cleanse, the way a soldier may pray after battle, to reset and reconnect Being A Proper Man to Being A Kind Man.
I think there’s something interesting in that two of the characters most widely defined by how well they adhere to Westerosi gender norms both dislike feeling like they had to weaponize their gender. They are exhausted by the performance, because it’s a performance. This isn’t Sansa getting excited over tourneys, or Ned teaching his sons to fight; it’s toxic masculinity, it’s structural misogyny. It’s something they’re good at, excel at, and connected to something they enjoy but when it’s paired with violence, whether done by Ned or done to Sansa, it crosses over in their minds from an innate part of themselves (The Gender) to a performance necessary due to survival (The Gender Role). And that after these performances, both retreat to nature & god as a way of resting and cleansing from the experience.
#people get so wrapped up in ned's honor as if this man isn't actively committing treason the entire time he's on page#the fans by and large fall for the same trap the characters do which is thinking ned is a simple man#and sure ned has very simple wants - a wife he loves a son he's proud of a daughter who makes him happy -#but a man who is willing to engage in a nearly two decade long treasonous conspiracy simply because he loves his sister.#is NOT simple or typical westerosi man. this is a man who is ADEPT at lying and politics JUST LIKE SANSA IS LEARNING TO BE.#wish we could talk about that more without brain worms infecting the discourse lmao#ned stark#r+l=j#marriages in asoiaf
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couldn't stand the thought of missing out on the rest of our life together.
#why r u mad bc jarmen clowns keep winning ?#cobrakaiedit#cobra kai#carmen diaz#johnny lawrence#s.gif#changed my mind jarmen isnt underdeveloped you're all just haters#because okay listen <- things said before writing a wall of text#johnny's arc w carmen is ALL abt him taking responsibility. he's a man who has run away from literally Everything in the past 30 years.#he's run away from ck/his past w kreese he's run away from his son he's literally on the outskirts of society.#he doesn't. he doesn't CARE enough abt anything to stick w it when it gets hard.#and everyone lets him. no one makes him accountable.#but. for the first time. w miguel. he doesn't want to run away from something.#and i think its so important the carmen and johnny's first Real interaction is when johnny is carrying miguel#home after he got his ass beat.#he's taking that responsibility/that punishment for having failed.#and yeah. he spirals afterwards. self flagellates. and then drags his ass back and promises to be Better.#and he is! he does NOT give up he does not run away ever again#hs fight happens carmen says she never wants to see him again but johnny doesnt take that as a sign to Go Away#instead he helps out however he can while still respecting that boundary#and just ughhhhhhhh that fucking. ''i'll do whatever it takes / i know you would'' exchanges is like. the best way to sum it up#it takes a While for johnny to earn that trust. but he does.#anyways. normal.#long post
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pairing: soogyukai
based on: this tweet
soobin's a jerk, basically. he does what he wants whenever he wants it and has no care for what he has to sacrifice to get his way. this includes his friends.
they were an unusual friend group:
beomgyu's always been a hardworking student and he does his best to contribute to the student council as much as possible.
hueningkai's known as a saint, the sunshine of every room he steps into, with his smiles and giggles and the happiness he spreads around him.
soobin's the troublemaker, the teachers can't stop or suspend him for skipping classes to go to arcades or random places in the country that hes never been to. being his friends, of course beomgyu and hueningkai went along with him. they were friends, they're meant to hve fun together.
until they realised soobin doesn't care about them, never did.
soobin's family is rich, he can survive even if he flunked his academics, but his friends can't say the same.
when beomgyu discovered soobin's true feelings, he left- moved out of the country, actually.
and hueningkai? he never left but he didn't exactly stay either. he doesn't stick to sbn's side as often anymore. supposedly, he has more errands now and has to "go home" from their hangouts earlier than usual.
fast forward to a decade, all of them are nearing 30 now.
turns out, hueningkai had been working part-time at a bakery near his house. recently, the bakery got passed down to him as the previous owner didn't hve a succesor. the bakery was her gift for hueningkai, for his loyalty and hard work over the years.
on the other hand, 3 years after graduation, soobin finally gave in to his father's demands and took over the family business. the first few years were rough but he eventually got the hang of it. and, though no one said it to his face, he changed- in more ways than one. beomgyu still doubts his eyes that he actually witnessed it.
he's been following soobin around for days now and he's just as impudent as he was when they were still friends, though now he seems to only target his secretary and guards.
what beomgyu doesn't expect is seeing soobin get kicked out of a bakery, hueningkai's bakery to be exact. it didn't seem like it was the first time this happened either. standing outside the bakery, soobin looks sheepish and apologetic?- no, thats impossible.
beomgyu scoffs when he first sees it- who was this kid? was this really the soobin he knew?
not long after, soobin entered the alleyway next to the store, leaving his guards by the car. beomgyu, of course, follows a safe distance away.
to his surprise, soobin knows he's being followed. he asks the air, "how long are you gonna keep stalking me?", and it was easy, so so easy to rile beomgyu up.
"you think im doing this willingly?"
"how much are they paying you?"
good thing beomgyu always has a dagger on him.
unfortunately for beomgyu, he didn't do soobin's background checks well enough because why didn't he know soobin knew how to fight? the advantage that he had - the dagger, years of training, and the promise of a fat pocket - dissolved, just like the way soobin disappeared from his sight to dodge his attack.
there was a lot of suspenseful staring and they exchange a few kicks and punches, with the addition slashes from beomgyu's dagger, before their fight is cut short.
the bakery's backdoor leads directly to this alleyway and one small "guys?" from hueningkai has them freezing mid-fight to look at him.
apparently, becoming a bakery owner wasn't the only thing that changed abt hueningkai. he must've been really close with the previous owner because he turns full-on asian mom on them: pinching their eairs, yelling "what do you think youre doing?", and dragging them into the bakery- by their ears.
while he scolds them, he tends to the nicks and cuts beomgyu managed to get on soobin's face and hands. his clothes were too layered to get anything through but beomgyu cheers in his head with every flinch soobin makes when hueningkai wipes at one of his injuries.
"soobin, you're a ceo, fckin act like it and you! choi beomgyu! you disappear for how long and this is how you greet me? is this how i raised you?!"
the two can only look down at their shoes, hands on their knees, and the tiniest of pouts on soobin's lips. "im sorry, and i really do mean it, i swear."
beomgyu interally scoffs at the 🥺 look soobin gives to hueningkai.
somewhat satisfied, hueningkai turns to beomgyu. "and you, mr. choi beomgyu? anything you wish to say before i banish you from my bakery?"
"i'm... sorry?" at hueningkai's glare, beomgyu swallows and tries again. "i was paid, to... eliminate soobin."
"and you accepted it?"
beomgyu only shrugs, "i hate his guts."
what follows is a flurry of smacks from hueningkai, a snickering soobin, and an increasingly reddening beomgyu. eventually, beomgyu manages to stop the hits by pinning him to the ground.
"i'm sorry, okay? but you can't deny that he was a dick to us."
at that, hueningkai breaks down.
"but you left me too."
now, beomgyu may be a hitman, but that doesn't mean he has a very high IQ- it's high but it's not /that/ high.
presented with a crying hueningkai, both hands pinned to the side, and a useless sbn just silently watching them, he panics- and he ducks down to claim hueningkai's lips.
the only reason they break apart and come back to reality is the whistle soobin let out.
"mind if i join in?"
#txt au#soobin#beomgyu#hueningkai#txt puppy line#soogyukai#beomkai#i tried#rich soobin was a jerk#baker hueningkai#hitman beomgyu#lostforysbth
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hi!! what you said about george being polite in his ad really made me wanna elaborate bc he just is so polite, isn't he? i feel like he's an enigma of a person and it takes a while of watching him to figure him out but one of the first things i noticed about him was how polite he is and it just stuck with me. when he's on streams of people he's not extremely close with like the chess tournament or even wilbur's geoguessr stream he's always more calm and behaves as appropriately as possible, no matter how much his friends egg him on. he thanks them and says goodbye to them at the end the same way he does to his audience when he gets subs or ends stream, like five times in a row bc he might not be good with words but repeating them is enough to show how much he means them. he turns off donos when he can't thank them & always answers the ones he can see in the nicest way possible no matter how weird they are, it shows when he's playing among us with people he doesn't know super well and when he listens to chat for every tiny thing. not that any of his friends are doing anything wrong but a lot of them often get mad at chat (rightfully so) and take over places with their loud personalities and are very direct even with people they don't know well and george always comes off as extremely polite and it's sweet!
my point is just that george has very good manners and i hope you don't mind my ramble about it :))
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i’m so sorry i’m replying to this so late but i wanted to give you a proper answer because your ask is truly lovely, my comment in the tags was offhand but oh my god yes yes yes and i’ve thought abt his kindness a lot
you’re completely right that he is so polite + nice to anyone he meets, he sticks around in calls to talk to others and gets along with them no matter how long he’s known them and i’ve missed mcc lately exactly for this reason, the conversations he’s had post-tournament have been some of my favourite parts of the streams because he’s just such a friendly guy? and there’s something genuinely lovely abt seeing him linger in a call filled with other people some of which he’s met for the first time, enjoying their presence and just earnestly having a good time...even if he gets a little quieter without his friends or people he properly knows he’ll still laugh!! and contribute, he’ll still offer up his time and presence and be sociable and that’s so likeable of him
i couldn’t agree more that he’s the sweetestt to his audience i think ppl don’t pick up on, or more like it’s not a thing to mention how kind george is to his fans because as usual he isn’t particularly loud abt it but it’s in the many little accommodating things he does, exactly like you mentioned w the donos and how gentle he is when answering and caring about fan input so much and also not to mention how he writes down ppls names to check their art/dms and genuinely does check
and not to sound repetitive at this point but he really is especially kind and considerate w us, i totally get what you mean abt streamers snapping at their audience and hey i’m not gonna act like they’re not in the right sometimes but i’ve actually talked to someone about this before and as much as i understand putting viewers in their place i think when dealing with a younger audience a certain amount of care is needed there? and george, i’m sure being aware of his age demographic has never been overly harsh w us and he mostly takes things in stride, addressing stuff if he has to w the utmost patience, maturity and understanding and it’s something i really do admire
george is very good-mannered and just a lovely kind soul all round and i really loved reading what you had to say so thank you for your thoughts so much! <3
#asks#georgenotfound#fav#anon btw i could cry over this#i had to cut myself off because this was getting long#but again i couldn’t agree more#also the thing you said abt him being an enigma of a person#honestly george consistently surprises me i always have to throw my characterisation of him out the window#because he’s just that multifaceted?#i say characterisation 100% as a joke but#it reminds me of a post on here that pointed out that george saying he guesses he believes in soulmates#didn’t align w what we thought of him#i think george is ever-changing#and open to new ideas and attitudes#which means he’s constantly growing and showing us new sides to him#if that makes sense#posts#lovemail
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ok here goes. vale this goes out to you
obviously we will Not mention her by name i don't even like the name like. it's nice actually but it kinda doesn't work To Me but i think i'm just being bitchy bc i now have intense beef w this fic so i just kinda hate everything it does. anyway. it was a college au. and me being a uni student i got VERY excited abt it. i wouldn't wanna give details cause then it's easier to find BUT it's like. dazai's failing his classes on purpose so odasaku, as a teacher, sets him up to get tutored by chuuya. that's fine. i was SOOOOO EXCITEEEED abt odasaku i thought he was gonna stick around i love him so much. HE'S IN LIKE. TWO SCENES. that's kinda when it clicked to me that this was gonna be MEH for me. it was the odasaku disappointment that clued me in. and Yet. i don't know exactly when i went from curiosity reading to straight up hate reading it but it happened and i got to 15 chaps out of 18 or smth. i was rolling my eyes at every line and yet hitting next chapter at 3am AND i Will finish it bc that's how committed to hating i am
so what is it that i Hated so much besides no odasaku [throws phone breaks skateboard] honestly this is so mean but just the writing. the Style ig mixed w the plot? the vibes are giving wattpad 2014/2016 i'm sorry. it just has something that tastes like bad poetic sad romance yearning from old tumblr and i don't like it. but also the plot? and the way the characters are used? it's not fucking with me simply. and i think. That is fair of me to say. so what happens is that dazai is like down bad at first sight which like Yeah just like canon i couldn't possibly have anything to say against it. chuuya takes 19492849 years to realize he likes him too which is fine. but then they get in a fwb situation which i don't LIKE sorry bc it's always shortcut for stupid Miscommunication drama AND I HATE IT SORRY it's so like. easy and corny to get the ~drama~ out of They Don't Talk Right i'm BORED i'm OVER it it's been DONE
AND THEN IT GETS SOOOOO MUCH FUCKING WORSE AND THE VINTAGE TUMBLR WATTPAD COMBO CRINGE TAKES ME THE FUCK OUT they like have some fuckin FIGHT and chuuya doesn't wanna talk to dazai anymore bc there is a fucking AFTER KIND OF VIBE TOO where boohoo the relationship is based on a LIE (dazai failing classes on purpose he doesn't Actually need help studying he is Smart and chuuya feels cheated) so DAZAI ATTEMPTS TO KILL HIMSELF BYE. SORRY NOT THIS IN 2024 COME ON NOT THE UNREQUITED LOVE SUICIDE GOODBYE. like respectfully i wouldn't call this stupid if it was real life obviously but THIS IS AO3. THIS IS WATTPAD EVEN. IN 2024. MY GOD. AM I BEING EVIL HERE
like i cannot take a suicide attempt seriously sorry. but nonetheless. he survives. it's dramatic. they like get back to being friends whatever that's fine. and then on chapter 15 oit of fucking 18 i am introduced to ONE MORE NEW MISCOMMUNICATION PLOTLINE?!??!??!?!? ON GOD????? and it's fucking middle school level BULLSHIT of dazai thinks chuuya likes tachihara WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT TACHIHARA ‼️‼️‼️ WHERE DID THIS MAN COME FROM i find it fucking Insane that you introduce Another obstacle THIS late into the story and it's CHILDREN LEVEL DRAMA. AFTER A SUICIDE ATTEMPT. LIKE just using a suicide attempt plotline for Dramatic Shock Value is insensitive enough to me BUT IT'S NOT EVEN THE LAST BIG BAD? YOU DO THIS AFTER???? THAT'S FUCKING INSANE TO ME I'M SO SORRY FUCK OFF they're in fucking COLLEGE they are BIG BOYS they have CLASS TOMORROW MORNING WHAT IS THIS
so then i Stopped reading because i couldn't Possibly hate you more than this. i Will get back to it but i had it Up To Here. avevo le palle piene. that was fucking. oh my God.
problem number 2 i Hate how the characters are used. who are these people. i actually understand taking the step to make dazai as whiny as he is I Guess. if it's a Normal People Universe it means he's not constantly fighting for his life so maybe he doesn't need to put up the front he puts up in canon. ok i can fucking get that i Guess. but chuuya. chuuya is such a normal guy who's ok. hello. why is dazai so tragic and chuuya's chilling?? like the appeal of doubleblack doesn't lie within them being Uniquely Fucked Up In The Same Way? you took Everything away from chuuya how dare you. my babyboy was shot and electrocuted and lied to and tortured beyond human comprehension in a lab and you give him Dirt in your stupid little fanfic? while dazai gets to be the poorest wettest littlest meow meow in the world? on one hand dazai has 294929492 mentol eelness his parents Killed Themselves and he found the corpses and then Mori happens to him. on the other hand chuuya's a child of divorce and his mom is sick in france. DOES THAT SOUND RIGHT TO YOU?????? i guess france is the biggest trauma you could have but Come ON ‼️
but ALSO every other character. why is fyodor there. at all. why is yuan the jealous bitchy girl Space friend but shirase gets to be a good buddy. i have no notes on yosano and ranpo actually but the treatment of yuan alone did IT for me like. oh really. the girl has to be unsufferable? while the boy who stabbed chuuya gets to be chill? ok. what next. dazai's not like other girls bc yuan likes shopping and makeup and one direction while dazai likes to read? ok. no of course totally. but the BIGGEST offender haha joke is OBVIOUSLY MORI OK LISTEEEEN i. mori makes my skin crawl half the times i see him and the implications are what they are in canon and i, too, have wondered Has He Fucked W Dazai That Way every now and then. i Understand you i See you. again i can see why you'd take that leap. but. in the immature tone that this fic has to me. he comes off as sooo cartoonishly evil it's fucking dumb. he's been raping dazai since he was a kid yeah no of course. god forbid you skip out on one (1) wattpad tragic backstory clichè. please do check them all off your list we simply Need an adult man to be diddling this kid. good Lird. that is SO cheap and easy to me i HATE IT it. AAAAAAAAAA
and point number 3 that maybe set this up for failure the moment i opened that link is that it was actually recommended to me as a Counter Attack to i was screaming your name through the radio which is simply the greatest fic out there. (iwsynttr is like if the heart rate of a mouse didn't make your skin crawl from hindsight) and it does make sense that as i read it it Smelled of 2014 wattpad bc it Was, In Fact, recommended by a 15 year old. some might say of Course this is kinda shite a kid sent that to you. i was saying iwsynttr Fucks and the kid goes oh that's so overrated let me send you a Real good skk fic. and then i was so secondhand embarrassed i wanted to turn to dust. imagine thinking you're showing up iwsynttr and instead send the shittiest cringiest Bad Fic that pisses me off of all time. oh my God. i'm going INSANE honestly it's not like iwsynttr is GOD TIER either the writing style is sort of anonymous to me doesn't have that much personality BUT THE PLOT IS GOOD THE STRUCTURE OF THE FIC IS SOOOOOO GOOD THE CHARACTERS ARE SO PERFECTLY ADAPTED THE PLOTLINES FROM CANON ARE EVEN MORE PERFECTLY RECYCLED INTO FITTING THE UNIVERSE ARE YOU FUCKING JOKINGGG this other fucking thing is SO PAINFULLY JUVENILE AND YOU TELL ME IT KICKS IWSYNTTR'S ASS????? GET OUT. YOU'RE 15 YOU'RE GONNA GROW UP AND LOOK BACK TO THIS AND BE LIKE THAT WAS MY MOST EMBARRASSING MOVE
did i make this fucking Justice. i am like. waiting for dazai to cut a joker smile into his face and become jeff the killer at this point i hate this fic so much. how dare you say this has Anything on i was screaming your name through the FUCKING radio. <- band au type of thing that follows Every Single Plotpoint From The Anime (except stormbringer which i do grieve bc imagine the flags as chuuya's band 😔😔😔) and goes back and forth between the timeline (like throam [gunshot]) and nails their dynamic so perfectly. To Me. oh my God. i am so so. i cannot be allowed to think abt that goddamn fic lest i tear the walls down with my bare hands. GOD god god god gosgodofosdsddddddddddd
may i talk shit abt a skk fic i almost finished reading
#i finished class. got back home. cracked open a cold one (monster)#and got to talking Shit#and THEN. accidentally fuckin closed tumblr without saving the post. so let's start fuckin over ig#oh nay
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Honestly a lot of these idols could take note about not reading it if you won't answer/if it's going to cause problems. They just be reading any ole thing out loud instead of just ignoring it, but enough about real life people.
Jin and dumbass need to sit down and talk about this. He clearly still wants to pursue something real, but it can't work when they don't discuss how that works for them. Especially when dumbass is being stilted and clearly has had no one, besides Namjoon, call her out and put her career into perspective for her. But that's a two way street for him and her. He needs to realize the awkwardness and she needs to learn to he an active participant in her own fucking life. Like that one anon said, she just lets things happen and doesn't take action. And like Jimin refuses to step back and assess her feelings about her life.
Also good for Taehyung finally taking into account what JK wants. If he told him no or pushed back then he would be at Jimin's level of asshat for me. JK should have been allowed the freedom to tell his friends much sooner. And he's right, they can keep things private while being public. Plus, I feel even worse for JK because idk if he was out to his friends or the public, but I can only imagine the not great feeling of finally being ready to be with Taehyung and be out only to be kinda forced to hold back/not be as out as he may have wanted. And yes, he agreed but still.
LOL fr ., just act like you didn’t see it nd move on 😭 giving people a reason to create scenarios nd for what???
their entire relationship is a grey area bc while they did confess to liking each other they still are in an arrangement where they’re together to boost each other’s numbers or whatever - so that is also a factor ., it’s not all abt feelings . yn was definitely thinking that he didn’t care much abt that part so when he started to bring it up it definitely caught her off guard . just one conversation where they go over all that they’re expecting/feeling literally eliminate any confusion that either of them might have abt what’s going on between them . nd bc jin doesn’t think anything’s wrong it would be up to yn to bring it up - but we’ve seen how she handles things in her life so .,
honestly they could’ve come to this conclusion much sooner if jungkook wasn’t so passive all the time . they talk abt things nd tae does give him the space to say what’s on his mind ., but jk usually never fights against what tae wants so this is the first time that he’s actually going in depth abt what he wants nd sticking to it . - when jungkook nd tae officially got together in college that’s when jk officially came out nd it wasn’t long after that tae started going to film school nd jungkook started to get more into singing nd they were deciding that keeping their relationship a secret w the more recognition they were getting was the best idea - so literally right when he was ready to be open abt everything he was going right back to hiding .
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(lovely anon) i'm so happy to finally be answering this oh my goodness hi gorgeous human being i feel that it has been too long 🥲 SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST TIME I'VE WRITTEN ONE OF THESE HOW HAVE YOU BEEN
to answer the things you have said most recently- i'm so mad that spring break is over bc now i have to go back to life??? like dancing and school and shit that feels so unnessacry 😭 and like i can't just do nothing anymore? i was so used to it and now...... ugh. i STILL haven't played sims (i think it's because ✨depression✨ be hitting sometimes) lol but MWAHAH IM SO HAPPY FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR!AU AND THAT THEY HAD LITTLE BABY LEO!! i feel the name thing.. i just come up with something that sounds nice? i think leo is a nice name, it makes me think about lea michele and the fact that her son's name is Ever Leo but anyway. i don't name my sims after what i want to name my children irl either... idk why though. (i don't know why i'm telling you this but for boy names i love Liam🥰 and if i had twin boys i think i would do Liam and Peter though i am not married to the name Peter.... anywho)
LMAOOO the therpaist coming made me laugh thank you :)) i hope it's helpful? this may be tmi but i've only really had negative thoughts recently and not many healthy outlets so i'm hoping crossing one thing off this sad list will make me feel better :') i think during spring break my anxiety and my depression really spiked? idk, it comes in episodes but yeah THIS GOT REALLY SAD
i think a lot of things when i read your posts but i never say them hahaha so imma say it now: i googled what bon appetit meant ( i also just had to google how to spell it ) but ur right, i feel like bone apple tea makes more sense than bone apple teeth.. the "th" is throwing me off bc how i say it bone appa (like app-a) teet (like you're saying tit but teet lol) so bone apple tea makes more sense to me lol
i never know really know the time difference for anything lmao but est to germany (that's not gmt is it?) is like 6 hours wOAH so it's like 9pm while it’s 3pm here? wowee
i feel mega weird after watching this show called hollywood (darren criss is in it, so is laura harrier and a bunch of other people) but i don't like it💀 i feel really icky rn and idk why but reading your last response to my ask (?) always makes me feel better :')
i am doing what you said btw, i'm typing this on my computer first then gonna transfer it to my phone's tumblr lol but when you said a digital detox, it's interesting cuz i feel like i've been having one since tom's new project was announced? gOD i don't wanna get into it bc i get so triggered but i've been off of instagram since then bc instagram stans literally stand by tom through whatever even when something ain't right- i’m just gonna leave it there bc i’ll continue the rant, but yeah so i took a break lol
also heard abt your driving lesson thing (?) was it that bad? i can't find the old post but someone asked if you hooked up with your lesson person and i was sOOO CONFUSED LMAOO LIKE OK ARIA GET SOME BUT UHH HUH?
now to address the actual response HAHA the way you touch my heart :') by :') bringing :') up :') halle :') being ariel :') (i honest to God don't remember if i brought this up first, forgive me if i did, it's been a minute lmao) i'm always talking about it and i'm pretty sure my family is so tired of me talking about it lmao, but YEAH when i found out they weren't twins i was so surprised but idk why i always thought they were twins? but YOU ARE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE WITH THE DISNEY TALK- everyone is always like "tiana is my favorite princess" and yea she's strong and stuff but...... she was a frog. for almost the whole time. it's about time we got another one!! i do agree with some people on the fact that disney should just make another black princess but halle is adorable and i was ariel on stage so it's already really special to me :')
yeah lol there are good times with my brothers but they make me mad for a good portion of the time (there's the 12yo vincent and the 7yo daniel but vincent??? psshhh he is a piece of work and i'm not sure how much longer i can put up with him HAJAH AND YES VINCENT IS THE ONE WHO WAS 👁👄👁WHEN I CRIED AND THE ONE WHO DOESN'T LISTEN TO MUSIC- writing this now makes it sound like vincent is awful. which he isn't... we're working on him ig. not to add to the awfulness but no, he listens to obnoxious loud VIDEO GAME MUSIC and won't stop when we ask him to stop... he gets beat up a lot) anyway i imagine being an only child is really calming.. like you have time to yourself and its just you and your parents 😌
yeah let me know if you end up watching it (wandavision)! i think it's great but if you like it lmk!! tfatws is sooo good like PHEW i am honestly loving it. sidenote: j*hn w*lker makes me wanna jump through the screen and choke him to the ground. i was thinking right, and the falcon and the winter soldier (THATS SO MUCH EASIER FAJHKDAH) would techinally be like a 10 hour movie right? because every episode is an hour long and there'll be 10 episodes? like wow. i get what you mean though, abt the racism in the show etc, like looking forward to it but not like..... no i get what you mean i will not try and give another example lol but you make me wanna learn more languages like really badly (bc of what you said about the german to american translation) & if you end up watching hamilton PLEASE LMK ABT THAT TOO HAHAHA i love it so much, same thing with lion king lmaoo
speaking of germany, i was at lunch on saturday with my mom and her friend and we were talking about my schooling and like-- she planted this idea in my head lol like what if i just got my GED and went around the world (to england probably) to get a theatre experience??? and i think it sounds so cool but no where near practical lol, it's just..... the dream haha and i would then try and learn a language 😉
uh yes we absolutely should order basically a resturant meal at a cinema, how about burgers, chips (fries), and a large drink? any time next week works for me, should i pick you up?
also about cherry (which i still haven't watched yet lol) i got the timestamps from tumblr😌 i couldn't find them anywhere else, but i agree, i probably wouldn't even look twice at cherry if tom wasn't in it? like i liked tdatt a lot, but it's not a movie i would be itching to see ya know?
HAHAHAHA THE 24 HOUR NOTIFICATION- i think i have around 1030 hours on sims? but i've had it since 2019 lmao (reading the screenshots, yes u are 100% a genuis, i take screenshots too but on anon you can't upload them so i just read them and retype what i wrote lmao) i think the university experience in the game is fun, but time consuming and it's all work imo. idk why i do it so often tho 😭😭😭
and agreed!! when you're making good money in the game you have to find other ways to make it interesting. my cousins who play it just continously do "motherlode" and i'm like.... then what do you do in your game?? it just sounds boring to me... my current sims household, i had a famous comedian sim, her name was dylan, aND SORRY IM LAUGHING SO HARD WHILE WRITING THIS BC ITS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE UNI THING UNLESS IM JUST DUMB, she went to college for communications when i wanted her to be a comedian and when she graduated i realized that degree did nothing for the career 🥲 so yeah, i think i'm just dumb. but she had a kid in college, guy didn't stick around and she was pretty broke HA but then she got married to this (great) guy named steve, made good bank, had 5 more kids (two sets of twins and one more lol) but then she passed. uhm... yeah that's still an open wound . lol i'm kidding, but when you get rich like that, you have to find a way to make the game interesting and i chose a million kids.
(this was one giant paragraph until i broke it up uhh yeah) i seriously don't pay attention to the sims prices and just end up spending way too much money and not being able to finish the rest of the house😭 but then again, i'm so used to having sims live in apartments... if i end up building a house FIRST OF ALL it'll look like what you explained before lmao but i'll tell you if i actually end up building a house HAHA & planning out your sims game is so fun to me lol, did enisa and michael take in his daughter yet? i may be thinking too far ahead lol and i love that they fucked woohooed (i say woo woo lol) in celebration HAHA but when i was playing with this one couple i had them woo woo every night hoping the dude would have horrible pull out game and they would concieve, but one night they were too tired and i was like why? get back in there man. if i was in college and lived with my partner we would be fucking every night homie. be grateful. i have been talking a lot about sims, and like you said: enough 💀 i just love this game a lot 😭😭
SORRY LAST THING i think the sims romantic and sexual stuff is so nice bc its what i want?? LMAO IDK like the whole hot tub thing you're talking about- puh lease ITS JUST NICE TO SEE OKAY
i'm reading the german section over again and i said aloud "my german friend is so cool" lol (i was saying that to my brothers & i know they don't care LMAO) (& i'm glad the uni zoom call went well!!) so on a form, in german, it could possibily say Einführungsveranstaltungsteilnehmer because you would be a participant to an introductory event? i swear german sounds so cool 😌 but i love reading your german lessons!! it's really interesting, most of the time my brain can't comprehend it tho?? like that word makes sense to you, but i need a translation. like to be able to look at that and know what it says.... its just appealing and seems so cool lol i kinda wanna write something out in german but i feel that google translate will fail me. während googeln "google übersetzen" mein Computer war so verdammt langsam und es fühlte sich einfach wie etwas Gutes auf Deutsch zu sagen. ich bin nicht sicher, welches Wort ist "fucking", aber ich mag es lmao (did it fail me like i thought it would??)
LMAOOO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP JUSTIN BC WHILE AT THE RESTURANT THEY PLAYED A JUSTIN SONG AND I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF YOU AND THIS STORY😭 lol i was thinking it's depending on your age but not even that either... i really don't know.... but tom's fans are hollanders💀 i would consider myself one? he's the only person i'm really into like that (like a lot lol) so idk lmao (directioners 💔💔the pain is real)
LMAOOO (both of these paragraphs started off with “lmaooo” smh) "i like my men when they look like they are on the brink of death" PLEASE, i don't like pete's blonde hair... i just don't. i'm not sure if i wasn't watching the most recent snls but yea. my mom thinks he looks like trash, but i think he's okay? like he said staten island people just look like trash LMAO and I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN KING OF STATEN ISLAND GIRL I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THAT!! now i'm gonna make plans to watch it lmao, & yes agreed i find pete hot, don't ask why i really couldn't explain it to someone he's just .
my favorite songs from rex are from pony oh my goodness 🥺 anywho i'm gonna go eat cereal (i ended up eating bun and cheese instead) and listen to the Stormzy songs you recommended... aria. aria aria aria. i would like to thank you for introducing me to stormzy i- i don't have any words or any emojis to express HOW GOOD STORMZY IS. i hope he's popular in germany/the uk because i haven't heard of him but GURLLLL
one second - delicious i love it. it's really good. it’s not my favorite from the album, but its great.
superheroes - at first i played the non-explicit one (on accident) and wondered why the words weren't playing but i was reading them in the lyrics??? THIS ONE THOUGH??? IS THE BEST SONG I THINK I'VE EVER HEARD. i am so SO SO into black people empowering songs (like brown skin girl by beyonce) and this song???? PHEW I CRYYYYY ITS SO GOOD.... i was gonna quote some lyrics BUT THERS TOO MANY I LOVE, "i am young, black, beautiful, and brave" "black queen, you're immaculate, it's coming at the world, they ain't ready for your magic yet, and that was never your fault" THAT WAS NEVER YOUR FAULT- I ALMOST CRIED THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL (i played it twice lol)
lessons is another beautiful one, like its slow and it feels intimate and nurturing and just OO chefs kiss, beautiful . like you can feel the apology and the regret... it’s so good
own it - OWN IT OWN IT OWN IT IS AMAZING!! swear you would catch me dancing to this song, this song is so fucking good i cannot comprehend like this one might be my favorite for real... "it's the way you wind up your waist, i'm so in awe, you never have to worry abt nothing, you know its yours, you know you own it" 🥲 i played it two or three times honestly
rachael's little brother - YES I DID LISTEN TO IT LMAO AND YES I LIKE IT, its a very complex song and it's very layered in terms of emotions i think and i really like that about it. i probably won't listen to it that often, but its really good. i would recommend this song to my "older brother" bc he would just absolutely love this
shut up - i was taking this song seriously (also very good) until i heard him say shu-T up LMAO, this one is good, i probably wouldn't listen to it 24/7 like rachael's little brother but honestly its still fire
before listening to blinded by your grace and vossi bop, i know you brought up the religion bit, i definitely don't mind that, especially because i'm Christian lol and i actually liked that he brought up God in some of his songs like idk i just like it🥰🥰
(i then went to bed after that lol but first thing in the morning i listened to superheroes and... that song is probably my favorite tbh, i was gonna write MORE quotes that i loved from it but, yeah no there's too many. if you want i'll tell you lmao but this is already so long i would just be quoting the whole friggin song)
VOSSI BOP IS A BOP (lol) I CANT EVEN LIE, i love a song that hypes up a dude's girl so the line- i love that my phone decided to fail to load the lyrics, lemme google it, okay the lyric "looking at my girl like what a goddess" i was like AYEEE its honestly just really good. and no one in america says "sauce" like "i've got the sauce" but now i do (thanks to love island and Nas from last season) and now stormzy so (also im gonna watch the music video for superheroes bc it looks great so 😛)
(because this is already so long i feel like i shouldn't finish the rest but . no i'm gonna do it)
now for blinded by your grace pt2 idk why i’m nervous lmaoo PAUSE I'M NOT EVEN DONE WITH THE SONG GIRL THIS SONG IS *chefs kiss* no words, speechless PHEW y'all gon make me start jumping around. why did i not know about stormzy before, he is amazing i- ok yeah i finished the song, all i have to say is that Stormzy is immaclucate. period. i am literally sending his music to all my friends he is..... amazing
you want my song recommendations 🥺🥺 hmm uh okay lol i listen to a lot of old music, whitney houston, marvin gaye, queen, celine dion, i love "more than words" by extreme uhmm okay, but for actual music i listen to on the daily? (this is a lot of different music like.... they do not go together lmao so be prepared) a song about being sad by rex orange county, betty by taylor swift and lover by taylor swift and... most of that album lol, treasure by bruno mars lmao, OOOO and versace on the floor by bruno as well, lazybaby by dove cameron, creep by tlc has been on repeat lol, deja vu by olivia rodrigo (i saw what you said about drivers license and AGREED LMAO but i like deja vu a lot more haha) and two albums that i listen to in general, rare by selena gomez and ungodly hour by chloe x halle 🥰 you don't have to listen to all of them or any of them lol but that's a sense of what i'm into :) so basically everything haha, i'm into literally every single kind of music really so i wasn't too surprised that i enjoyed stormzy :’)
HAHASBSJHAHA your h20 story cracked me up,, like "wow these actors are so dedicated, learning german just for us" 😭 the beauty of overdubbing
once again, math and maths, in my mind maths makes sense because its mathmatics, but saying maths doesn't feel right to me lol, like if i said maths i feel like everyone would look at me like ??? and yea i was taught it as math so its just more natural for me. but yes math/maths is disgusting, easily one of my least favorite subjects so .
mkay. i- the first time i read this i could not contain my laughter when you said the only pollen you know is sex pollen LMAOKOOSHBABJFAJF STOPPP I'M EVEN LAUGHING WRITING THIS,, anyway. wow! that's interesting, my dad (<<< mostly anything else) gets migraines from the sun and the heat and stuff, yesterday (sunday, i was outside for like hours watching my brothers play football, the american kind lol) i was in the sun for like ever and i got a headache😔
summer clothes🥲 i need to go shopping fr fr. for my birthday my mom and dad got me a giftcard like dedicated to a shopping spree and we've yet to go so..... i should bring it up to my mom lol, but!! i went bra shopping (ended up returning literally all of them cuz they honestly didn't work for day to day work? its a long story) and if i could i would walk around in this new "summer bra" i got, i would. it's so fricking cute and its really light fabric (which isn't perfect for my nipples but still) so i don't get hot in it, but that bra and some shorts would be perfect. its the closest thing to being naked so
IS THE BIRD STILL BOTHERING U ARIA, TELL ME NOW ISTG, i laughed really hard that the bird isn't stupid and is really trying to torture you LMAOO like i was rolling, it wants you to suffer, badly
when you said "mensus" it was still close to mens!!! latin speaking queen 😌😌
okay STORYTIME i was reading back your response and started (fake) crying bc i love you lol and my youngest brother (daniel) gon say "oh man, catherine's crying about something we don't care about, again" I--- i swear when i tell you about them they sound awful, but they aren't that bad, just the stuff i say about them is sounds really mean LMAO
but the thing you said about being kind, same, what i always say is: don't be the person that makes people say "i hate people" ya know? like there's no reason to be a jerk or anything.... but its true 🥺🥺🥺🥺 you are really kind and every time i talk to you i would like to personally fly to germany and give you a hug 💖💕💞💗💓💝💖💘
& i'm gonna show my stretch marks some love bc of you 🥺😭 i really hate how men have basically everyone conditioned that you can't love your own body </3 fuck them, y'all beautiful :')
also thanks for what you said :')) you literally are the kindest, sweetest person i think i've ever spoken to and i love you 🥰🥺🥲💓💗
READING YOUR TAGS HAHAHHAHA the spelling errors makes everything so much funnier. once again, i like your german lessons & yea!! i'm gonna play sims after writing this hahah
#catherine's tags are back #i don't think i've told you my name before?? #anyway it's catherine🥰🥰🥰 #i'm typing this on my computer (without emojis) and if i didn't edit this you would be reading shit shite like #heartface and pout and cry LMAO #yeah abt the tattoos #some stuff with my parents i'm like deal with it??? lol #my mom tells me "if there's something you enjoy or you like but i don't have the same opinion on it... why would my (my mom's) opinion matter? #and i love that #like i'm not gonna go and do whatever i want #but if my mom doesn't like that i swear (which isn't true just an example) #its like okay.... #but whatever #and your tattoo ideas sound really cute!! #and yeah @ your parents, i mean you aren't getting something wild #and the tattoo album>>> #i'm gonna look up ariana's butterfly tattoos just so i know what you mean lol #but i'm guessing you don't want something so incredibily simple, but not super like over the top? #correct me if i'm wrong lol #LMAO the tags were in order don't worry ! #and yeah lol ily2 <33 #and once again, again, sorry for this post JSHJS ITS A MESS AND LONG AS HELL #and you don't need to go in order of my post its literally longer than your german compound words #u're fine #also !!! while writing this the birds were chirping outside and i was like 😳 #and one of your fics (i’ve read all of them, i don’t remember lol) that valentine’s day one where y/n had lingerie on (the pancake one lol) #inspired me to buy lingerie #like when i look back on me “growing up” #that fic & basically you lol really helped with that #that made no sense and i don’t know how to make it make sense... but... yeah. like ily
hiiiiiiiiiii <3333
Dear catherine, 😌
(you have said your name before, but it wasn‘t like an introduction or anything i think you were talking about .... was it possibly the incident at the cinema??? And you said something like ‘calm down catherine‘ like you were telling yourself to calm down idkd dkdkkdkd anyway i didn‘t mention it cause i wasn‘t sure if it was an accident or not dkdjd but now i know 😌❤️ Catherine is such a cute and lovely name btw omg and so are your brothers‘s names 🥰
Sorry that I‘m answering this so late, it‘s been an emotional rollercoaster for me since last week but i‘ll get to that in a second lol
Sksklssk girl i haven‘t played sims in like 2 weeks now ekejdkdlldld ok that‘s not that long at all actually but i keep wanting to play but then i end up not playing for whatever reason, so no news about my sims game 😔 but i love the names Liam and Peter and for twins!!! That sounds really nice actually
okay i‘m trying to answer your ask in chronological answer even though i wanted to wait for the depressing stuff and write it at the end or something OKAY so. i thought that i‘d feel so good when i start uni and that i‘ll like... have a purpose in life again and just be happy (cause in the last year i didn‘t do much and i was depressed like half of the time lol).... anyway i kind of feel even worse now? 😭 i think it‘s because in my brain it‘s like: university!!! that means your life will change and it‘ll all be so exciting. and don‘t get me wrong it is exciting butttt..... idk the online thing is so weird cause you‘re not meeting any new people (i‘m introverted anyway but still lol) and it doesn‘t feel like you‘re listening to/talking to actual people cause it feels the same as just watching a video?
also i thought i‘d be busy again but i only have one lecture (90mins) a day and theres one day where i dont have any lectures at all and just one day where i have 3 hours but.... idk i mean i shouldn‘t complain about having so much free time but i just don‘t know what to do all day and in a pandemic there really is nothing to do but i also can‘t relax bc it‘s like during the week and i know i have uni the next day and .... yeah.
There‘s also this one assignment i had to do that took me AT LEAST SIX HOURS AND IM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING????? so that was the only thing i‘ve been doing besides “going to“ lectures. for this one course we have to read two (really really long) texts (like it literally took me 3 hours to read them) and we‘re supposed to post it on this website that all the professors in our uni use. So after 5 days of anxiety (✌🏼) i posted mine this morning bc last night i realised that i didn‘t even know why i was having anxiety so i just posted mine today. The deadline is tomorrow at 12 and no one except me has posted theirs yet........ so i have anxiety again 🥰 cause idk if i‘m the only one who did it or if i even did it correctly
Edit while i‘m rereading this: my anxiety about uni is a lot better and i‘m not as d*pressed anymore maybe it was just hormones? idk but i‘m better so that‘s good
(I started writing this like 5 hours ago and then i randomly completely forgot lol)
I‘m in a better mood now though so let‘s move on from that (oh wait also, i think i‘m gonna see if i can find a psychiatrist bc with my anxiety symptoms (long story) i need to go to a psychiatrist, and so far i‘ve only gone to like psycholgists and it didn‘t help but i think that‘s just bc i was meant to go to a psychiatrist and not a psychologist so dldjdjsj
n e ways but yes you‘re not alone, ily, things will get better and yes i love you (i‘m not good at this type of thing🥲 but i‘d hug you right now if i could <3)
Yess i think the time difference between est and me is 6hours but gmt is uk time i believe? i think mine is called.... cet? For central european time? I could be completely wrong though lmao
Oof i completely forgot about hollywood, i remember when laura kept posting about it on instagram but i never actually watched it and i definitely won‘t now lmaodkdksjsn
Okay my driving lesson LEBDJDKDK I DID NOT HOOK UP WITH ANYONE AKSJSKSMMLM especially not my 40 or 50 year old driving instructor lol i like her but NOT LIKE THAT, the lesson was really really really good actually and i think i‘ll have my driving test soon, but i don‘t even remember why the anon would have thought that??? Oh wait now i remember okay KEKSKDLDL so during the lesson my instructor was like do you mind if i turn on some music? AND THIS WOMAN TURNED ON ONE DIRECTION I LOVE HER so i made a post about it and i said something about the song up all night and i guess i phrased it in a .... idk in a dumb way 💀 so the anon made a joke that i stayed up with my driving instructor all night and NO. No.
Wait did i read that right? YOU WERE ARIEL ON STAGE? SIALDBDJDKSLMSBDKDMDMDKDJSLSMDJFJJEDMBFEKLEFBJDLDVSIDLESKSKWKDKDJDOWNYUEKWNDUWLNSUFLWVSUDLEHDOENSIDBEISBEHENJELBSIEMWUDNRIW KB WOBE JO ON SBEUU HIII S HWS LV W ICH US KB okay this keyboard smash is getting out of hand but uh please do elaborate on that 💘😌???? Like you can‘t just drop that information and not say more??? I forgot if you‘re in like your school‘s drama group (is that a thing? lol idk anything about acting) or in an independent group? Either way - ARIEL that is so fucking cool
Your brothers loooooool, no i get it though obviously you love them and stuff but esp at their age children are so annoying so good luck with them 😭😭😭lmao
Yeah “anyway i imagine being an only child is really calming.. like you have time to yourself and its just you and your parents 😌“ yeah just me and my parents who constantly fight 🥰 lmao no i like being an only child, like i cannot imagine having siblings but i feel like if i had siblings i would be saying that i can‘t imagine being an only child so? but i do think it‘s quite different like i‘m trying to imagine having siblings and WHAT that‘s just so different omg i‘ve never really thought about it like properly ???
I saw a tik tok the other day that was like “sometimes i forget that my siblings have a life of their own. like i see them as side characters in my life“ and even though i can‘t relate obviously i felt that. lol, like i can really imagine how it feels idk what i‘m talking about like shut the fuck up, daria
(also my actual name is daria not aria but i dont like it, and also i wanted to be more anonymous on tumblr so now i‘m aria lmao. pls don‘t mention it though cause no one knows except for you and mel (peterbenjiparker) dkdkdkdnkdnd. but i‘m starting to identify with the name cause everyone keeps calling me that looool😭😭😭 (but i like the name, more than daria anyway? well it also depends on the accent, cause the way germans say daria is okay. the was Americans say it is also okay, but some of my family in England are from the north of england and i don‘t like how they say my name 💀 no offence to them(?) but yeah pls don‘t mention the name in your ask cause the chance of people seeing it is higher then (or if you want to say something about it just send a separate ask and i just won‘t post it (IDK what you‘d want to say about my name but yeah just in case slsldlldmsndnsns)
I‘m loving falcon and winter soldier so much but when i was watching an episode the week before last week (?) my laptop broke😭😭😭😭 during the scene where the dora milaje came at the end my laptop just shut down? And it had these lines all over the screen and i had to bring it to the shop where i bought it and they said it‘ll take 6-8 weeks to repair 💔💔💔 but at least it‘ll be for free, cause if i brought it back to apple it would cost like 400€ (i think that‘s nearly 500$) so yeah. but it sucks cause now i‘m “going to uni“ on a really old rusty laptop and on my phone which kinda sucks. oh yeah and also i can‘t watch anything on there 😭 i definitely want to watch wandavision but it‘ll have to wait🤧
Yessss you should def get your GED! I googled and I‘m still not entirely sure what it is dldks but from how you described it- YES!!!!!!
Idk if you know this? Like no idea if I‘ve told you this already (hmmm wait i feel like we talked about it actually?) anyway i was originally gonna go study in England, but for loads of reasons I ended up staying in Germany and I‘m def happy with my decision, but I definitely want to go to England sometime even if it‘s just for six months or maybe for my masters or something? And (obviously everyone is different) but i think everyone should go abroad and live in a different country once in their life, no matter if it‘s for school or what, and even if it‘s just for a few weeks. But i think that‘s something that you‘d never ever forget! And combining that with your acting/theatre??? You really would be living the dream 💘💘😌
how about burgers, chips (fries), and a large drink? any time next week works for me, should i pick you up?— sounds good see you soon 🥰🥰🥰
i used to be one of the people who‘d just do motherlode motherlode motherlode and just... what did i do? Why did i do that??? But not anymore lol. Like I said i haven‘t played sims in a few weeks but i‘ve been watching a few legacy challenge let‘s plays and usually i play with the aging off. So my sims just don‘t age 💀 but i could (should) turn aging on so that it stays exciting and i have limited time and everything. and once i get bored with my current sims i can just make them have kids and continue playing as their children when they get older- like recently i remembered that i haven‘t played the acting career in ages? and i haven‘t had a shop in ages? and i think you can even become a vet right??? like those are definitely some things i want to do in the next weeks!!! Also yes sksksjs i have a few hundred hours on sims as well (if not thousands 😭) it was just that one household that i‘d been playing with for 24hrs
AND GIRL SSKSKJD THE UNIVERSITY THING HAPPENED TO ME TOO, it was a while ago so i don‘t remember what degree and what job it was about but i made my sim study something for aaaaaages so she‘d get a better job from the beginning (you know what i mean like get in at a higher level)...... and i apparently studied the wrong thing cause i didn‘t get any benefits from studying and still had to start at level 1 and shit 🥴🥲
Oh also (this was like 2 weeks ago) Enisa and Michael did take in Michael‘s daughter and i think Enisa currently even has a higher/better relationship with the daughter than Michael but um💀💀💀 also i was hoping (since michael and enisa married (in their back yard i think lol) that the daughter (i forget what her name is😭) would have enisa as her step mom? Like you know how you can see the relationship and it says daughter or son or sister.. and i was hoping that it would say step mom but it doesn‘t say anything 🥲 but in my mind (and if the sims had proper family relations) she is her step mom😌 also Leo is a teenager now???? I mean I aged him up lol dkdk he was being too annoying as a toddler but i don‘t like children so i aged him up twice in one day and now he‘s a teen, but that means he can look after his half sister when she becomes a toddler which is good (the game recognises them as siblings tho even if they‘re just half siblings? why can‘t they have step family members in the sims🥲) okay i‘ve annoyed you enough with sims ✋🏼
I‘ve been a bit sick these past few days and now i‘m getting a headache so i have to finish this response tomorrow 😭😭😭 </3
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It‘s not tomorrow, it‘s 3 hours later but i‘m better lol
oooff when sims are ungrateful and won‘t woo woo (lol i like that) cause they‘re too tired like?? Be grateful that you‘re not living with your parents anymore 🙄 no okay dkdkdkdl idk if you play with mods (i don‘t) but i know there is a mod (or it‘s part of a mod idk maybe wicked whims?) where you can adjust the percentage of how risky a normal woo woo is, like you still click woo woo (3dksksks okay i‘ll say woohoo again— wait is that what’s it called? 😭) but there‘s like a 25% chance that your sim can still get pregnant just like in real life there‘s always a chance of getting pregnant even if you‘re using protection (just not 25% lmao) but yeah i personally don‘t play with mods sksk and you can always just click try for baby but it would be cool if you could add stuff like risky woohoo to the game without mods (i have no idea how to download mods and i play sims on a really really old laptop and sims is literally tje only thing that works on it anyway so—) i repeat my words from earlier: okay i‘ve annoyed you enough with sims ✋🏼
okay i‘m so sorry i‘m gonna watch fast & furious 1 now cause i need to watch f&f 1-5 until the 30th of april cause they‘re only on netflix til then (i mean i could watch them somewhere else but the quality is never as good) so i will finish this tomorrow after all😭
it is now 1 am, i finished the film, can feel a new obsession coming up again (i always have these f&f obsessions for six months before and after a new film comes out)
THE GOOGLE TRANSLATE wkekdjdj tbh it sounds like someone is speaking with some kind of foreign accent i guess that‘s probably because it just is a direct translation and so anyway slsjsj i don‘t know if you asked me what the word fucking is in german? like idk cause the translation is a bit weird but in case you asked lol sidjsjs theres not really a good translation like we just say fuck for fuck lmao, i don‘t know if you typed in fucking in google translate and it came out as verdammt? cause that means damn (or damned sksjjs) ummm yeah idek if/what you asked so imma move on🤧
I‘m not gonna comment on what you said about every stormzy song cause you already said all the important things but SKSKSJSJSKNSNDBDUDOENWBSLSKKHSULSLSKSBSJSKSK I WAS SMILING SO HARD WHEN I READ YOUR RESPONSE FOR THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH finally i know someone who loves him as much as i do 💘💘💘 also since you brought it up, i‘m pretty sure he‘s considered the most successful UK rapper or if not then at least top 3 so he‘s defffffffffinitely big in the uk, in germany more and more people are listening to uk rap too but not as much stormzy cause theyre dumb apparently 🙄 but anywY i‘m sooooo sooo happy that you like him. i think hith came out end of 2019 (i could be wrong but i think it came out on the 13th of december so (in a european way) you‘d write the date: 13.12 and obviously i don‘t KNOW this but i can definitely imagine that he chose that date because ACAB and yes, Michael. Yes. But he hasn‘t made too much music since then so i hope he‘s working on some new stuff 🤞🏼
Also i ordered the stormzy poster😌 also a nicki minaj one bc i decided i‘m gonna have one wall with red-ish posters (i already have two kinda red ones) and one with blue/green-ish posters (already have two) and i can add stormzy to the blue one and nicki to the red one, but i think that‘s it cause if my walls are tooo full it could look cluttered? I‘m not sure how that type of thing works lmao but my room is generally untidy so i don‘t want the walls to look unorganised too so i think that‘s it for now
I really want to finish this now but my brain is getting kinda slow and i need to sleep soon so this will have to wait till later after all 🥺🥴 (not that it makes and difference to you bc you‘ll see this whenever i post it buttttt i wanted you to know that i want to talk to you again but with my slow brain i‘m just taking too long to do it in one day😭😭😭 and i‘m so busy tomorrow hmm but i‘m sure i‘ll have 30 minutes to finish this then <3)
Okay wait I‘m so dumb I didn‘t realise I‘d nearly answered everything i could have posted this yesterday 😭😭
Oooohh that summer bra sounds so nice like if i was confident enough i literally would just wear a top that resembles a bra (or really is a bra lol) cause my tiddies always be looking amazing i‘m just insecure about my stomach sometimes 🙄🙄🙄 but recently i‘ve been loving myself more and more tbh 😌
also i hope you can go shopping for some nice clothes soon ✨😌
I‘ll be honest I haven‘t listened to your song recs YET but only because i wanna take my time with them and i‘ve been so busy and slso AJ tracey‘s album came out last week and I haven‘t listened to that one yet either so ekdkdj (he‘s also a uk rapper like quite popular and successful as well, but i feel like i‘m not gonna like his album cause whenever i‘m looking forward to an album it ends up being really bad and the albums where you weren‘t expecting it turn out to be bangers.... so yeah but i‘ll let you know when i listen to your songs!!!! :)
Omg i keep having to scroll up all the way to see the next thing you said so sorry if I completely miss some of the things you said😭😭
So when you sent this the bird was still bothering me oh my FUCK DKDLDMMDMDMD but now i‘ve been going to bed at like 1-2am so the bird is probably still asleep lool
Okay and for the rest of your ask my response is: 💘💖❣️💚❣️💛❣️💛💕💞❤️💓💟💞💕💕💖💘💝💟💟🧡❤️🧡💞💛💚💓💚💚💚❣️🧡💖💘🧡💝🧡💕💘🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥺🥺🥺🥰🥺🥺💘💘💘💘💘 (okay that looked cuter in my head i don‘t really like the green hearts dldkkdksndnd)
#lovely anon#<3333333333333#‚‘it‘s literally longer than your german compound words‘ LMAODKDMSLDKSLKS#ignore the comma at the beginning of the last tag????#aww wait i just read what you said at the end of your tags🥺🥺💘💘💘#love youuuu#ooooof i‘m reading my response and do i not know what a period is? like period as in. full stop.#my sentences are literally paragraphs and i use keyboard smashes to separate sentences from each other like what‘s wrong with me???#or ‚lol‘ snd ‚lmao‘#imma need me to do better (did you listen to heavy is the head as a whole? like the whole album? the song do better is stuck in my head toda#today so)#i‘ll try to write normal length sentenced in the future💀#sentencessss*
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so so so with your triad of thomases, I have several questions: 1. how does this correspond to the Trinity, if at all? 2. in what ways do they help you understand aspects of being a Christ that Jesus himself kinda doesn't? (more to come in another ask, because i totally cannot fit the last question into this tiny box)
3. you have a Jesuit spiritual director, right? if so: have you told them about this framework, and what was their reaction to it? maybe it’s because I’m still extremely early in the conversion/discernment processes, but I always veer toward excessive scrupulosity and often am afraid of what Real Christians™ will think of my spiritual experiences (especially with, like, Mary and a couple of other saints)
ok SO!! i am not sure if my response is going to be in order but i WILL say some things and hopefully they will answer the questions:
I got introduced to each Thomas in chronological order funnily enough, haha. some background: i just became officially catholic last easter, but I’d been involved in “the community” 2 years prior to that. before I was an atheist and even before that i was Lutheran.
so when I first started doing Catholic things I thought it would be cool to get into, and I liked it a lot, but I didn’t think belief was possible for me. During this period Thomas the Apostle was (and still continues to be) extraordinarily relatable. this is a man who has spent the past three years being one of the 12 main apostles to jesus, and when he meets up with the gang after the crucifixion, everyone but him is going on about this amazing experience they’ve had with the resurrected christ. thomas has had no access to this. it might be something he wants, even very badly, but he cannot bring himself to believe unless he actually touches, is able to literally feel jesus’s wounds under his hand. and he does! he gets it! (I’ve used his response, “My Lord and my God” in a fuckton of poetry i feel like btw). Jesus says to him, “blessed are they who have not seen but still believe” and thomas has been great to like…look up to in both 1) certain personal experiences that I see as a sign of God and make me respond w/ astonishment & incredulity, and 2) I’m never gonna get to stick my fingers into Jesus’s side, but Thomas knows exactly the frustration I feel at not getting that, especially when it seems like so many people around me already have.
there’s also this great caravaggio img, “the incredulity of thomas”
(i really appreciate the apostles in general- judas is popular on here, and holds a special place in my heart, but he gets a little bit more exposure so let’s just talk about how the twelve are, especially in mark’s gospel, shown repeatedly to have no clue wtf they’re doing or who jesus is or why anything is happening. they fuck things up repeatedly, and are comprised of random people with no real theological training, and they’re the chosen ones. simon peter is the absolute exemplar of this. he constantly misinterprets what jesus does, goes way overboard, believes in jesus enough to get off the boat but not enough to stay on top of the water, and denies jesus three separate times to save his own skin on the eve of the crucifixion. and he’s the vicar of christ!)
thomas aquinas happened a little further down the road, when i was in RCIA and reading basically everything I could get my hands on. aquinas is basically emblematic of that time- do you want book recs? i can give them to you (i also have a word doc full of notes from things that i took from certain books that i can share if you want). but also i was on bishop barron’s website, word on fire, you may or may not have heard of it. i was extremely wary of it bc i found it from a conservative friend of mine’s fb page and was basically going on it just to be disappointed at shitty conservative things… but that wasn’t it at all and i instead got introduced to thomas aquinas. i watched a video of fr barron’s that explained thomistic theology and went :OOO because it gave me a couple new ways of thinking about God and… ok, aquinas is just great as well because he introduced me to this whole tradition of intellectual & rational catholic theology that i wasn’t exactly aware of? when I was an atheist the most “intellectual” christianity I knew was fundie apologetics which is basically shit, but there’s a lot of stuff in the catholic tradition that has faith and reason as positive complements to each other. depending on your background this coould seem an extraordinarily obvious point but it’s cool to be like “oh hey 13th century scholasticism laid the groundwork for rationality and empiricism etc”, and faith isn’t by any means exclusive of reason
also I really like aquinas as a person- he was called “the dumb ox” and people in his classes thought he was really stupid because he was quiet and didn’t talk much….. and then he became one of the most influential doctors of the church
i don’t have a good picture for aquinas so i’m going to start off the merton section with a pic of him:
one thing that struck me is how peaceful/content he looks in like all of his photographs. he looks absolutely like he has been in touch with God and that’s phenomenal.
I’d heard about merton’s most popular book, The Seven Storey Mountain, a while ago, but waited to read it until this july because I was worried I wouldn’t like it. That was an extremely bad move- I loved it. it’s a chronicle of his life from birth —> being a rowdy boy and pretentious english major —> converting to catholicism —> entering the trappist monastery Gethsemani in Kentucky. He’s really funny/witty (please read this amazing acct of him driving a Jeep) and has a lot of amusing anecdotes as well as more #relatable things. I also recently read The Sign of Jonas which covers 7 years of his journals in the monastery, and that one just, fundamentally affected me in ways I’m sure I’ll still be finding way down the line.
On an immediate level, he writes a lot of things about writing that I relate to as both someone who writes and is catholic. He had plans to become an author, and basically gave that up when he became a monk, He ended up becoming a bestselling author still, though- only after he had articulated his willingness to give up that goal. That’s amazing to me. He also worried occasionally about writing being bad for him or bringing him away from God but his superiors kept telling him to continue, that it was a good thing, etc etc. So just on a level of “person who wrote and is a convert” he is relatable but he also has a lot of very good more “spiritual” insights/struggles/etc that I can identify with, esp. written in Jonas but I’d rec Mountain to read first to just get a better sense of his life, if you’re interested.
On the subject of Jesuit spiritual directors- and Jesuits in general, I know a number of them- they’re imo some of the best the church has to offer. They’re also not necessarily an accurate representation, if you want to compare the experience i’ve had with them to like, some random parish in Nowhere, The Midwest. Like I’ve shared some things I’ve written with some of them, including a more recent poem that involved the speaker making out with the devil, and no eyes were batted. Another is also the source of all my jokes that I don’t want to say around my parents :P They’re good eggs. A non-insignificant amount of the ones I know are gay, too.
RE: scrupulosity, I have two things to say, the first being that I don’t think you have to worry about that w/ spiritual experiences concerning Mary and the saints. Those are classics. People have literally seen apparitions of Mary and the Church’s response has been “yo, cool”. Sole focus on Jesus to the exclusion of anyone else is more of a Protestant thing, imo, and there are tons of people now that are perfectly orthodox gushing over how cool the saints are.
My second thing on that is, alright, I know the feel to be overly scrupulous. I was scrupulous as SHIT when I was a Lutheran, and actually one of the processes of becoming Catholic for me has been trying to let go of that, and trying to learn that, A) it’s okay to get things wrong, and being wrong is part of the process of learning to get things right, and knowing what goodness is, otherwise we don’t have any of that and don’t truly know it, and B) God cares more about loving every part of us than any type of ostracization or punishment for “being wrong”. God is always approaching us trying to forgive us, and it’s that first approach that even enables us to ask for forgiveness in the first place. It’s not like God withholds love and forgiveness until we realize we’re caught up in something that doesn’t lead to our flourishing. The love and forgiveness is always there already, even if we’re in a situation that doesn’t let us immediately recognize it.
OKAY THIS TOOK…MUCH LONGER THAN I THOUGHT OMFG I have to go to class but, I hope this was helpful in some way and feel free to ask me any question you might have abt this!!!
#oddyknocker#askle#LONG FUCKING POST#I JUST REALIZED THAT PROBABLY WONT CATCH IN TS BUT FUCKING..WHATEVER
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#completely agree w what u said abt obt btw LOL#i also think he believes these are the most normal ppl on earth ...#and thats why he takes them as 'role models' for his path towards normalcy <3#like when he tells kks & naruto to become hokage ... maybe he just says it cuz he's like well that is what these regular ppl here#seem to all want. LOL. so if i want to say smth compassionate to them#i will just tell them to become hokage bc APPARENTLY. that is what everyone who's not insane in the head wants
all very good points! on my end, i honestly don't think madara has every really,,,, thought. about that? like he never had anything to do with genin teams, as far as we know. never was a part of one, never taught one, nothing. to him it's like. idk an abstract concept basically. supposedly different from regular ninja squad stuff but he doesn't see how and frankly doesn't care all that much.
as narutoenjoyer5000 says, he doesn't view or even really acknowledge them as a team at all; he mainly only sees them as individuals. but he also. does not really care all that much.
i think pre-nukenin!madara might've taken more of an interest in them outside of how much fun they are to fight, but i doubt he'd have come into contact with naruto and sakura at all, even if they had been born early enough to meet him pre-falling down the rabbit(goddess)hole.
for madara... overall, i'd say the concept of teamwork itself isn't something he really gets at all. everything he does, he does himself - he's so unable to fathom the idea of entrusting something to someone else that his "i need someone to takeover my master plan for me while i'm busy being dead" scheme is founded around the idea of just. having another of him. he doesn't need to worry about his successor fucking things up if his successor is just madara two electric boogaloo (plus black zetsu, who is also madara, so no issue there either).
unfortunately, the narrative that claims to be opposing him actually backs his worldview. there are three people over the course of his whole existence who can really do anything to him - of every person he met pre-resurrection, hashirama was the only one who even really registered to him (and post-return, hashirama's power is capped by being a zombie, so while madara is excited to fight him again, it only really lasts until madara un-zombifies himself, at which point edoten hashirama isn't really strong enough to do anything). after coming back and ascending to sagehood, only gai is able to touch him, and he has to kill himself to do it. the third person is black zetsu, who ultimately defeats and (indirectly) kills him, and is also the only one who challenges madara's worldview at all be black zetsu isn't strong and never was (this ultimately fails to validate the series' pro-teamwork stance tho bc black zetsu also wasn't honestly working with anybody. it managed to disprove both indora and ashura's ideals in one go, and then the series just. never followed through on that. ok)
sasuke, sakura, and naruto all make enough of an impression that madara's bothers to acknowledge their individual existences, but outside of that, they don't really... register to him that much. they're there. they're in the way. it's kinda cute how hard they're trying.
out of curiosity, i went through the only volume i own where madara has any interactions at all with naruto and his classmates (volume 64), and here's what i found (below the cut bc. long):
-ch 608: madara is one of the people shown when naruto jumps in to save kakashi from obito's big-ass shuriken and gai from madara's susanoo's stabby stick (alongside gai, gyuuki-with-gai-on-his-head, obito, and kakashi), but unlike pretty much everyone else there, madara doesn't have much of a facial expression bc naruto's words don't really mean much to him. madara just kinda uses the other stabby stick and gai has to step in to bail out naruto with hirudora (madara isn't shown to react to this in anyway, so i assume he continued not really caring that much)
-ch 609: madara is revealed at the very end to have decided to take a seat and let obito play with his new friends. he's not even really all that interested in the juubi getting its tentacle game on
-ch 610: madara is up and moving but unlike obito he isn't shown with anyone else in the panel, it's just him moving towards his goal (meanwhile obito jumps away from naruto and kakashi). they both land on the juubi's head? eye? body? the big bit. most of his lines are to obito or himself; the only acknowledgements of their current opponents are to tell obito there's no need to dodge (obito disagrees, and madara doesn't seem to care enough to argue), and when he calls team naruto tenacious/stubborn (hard to tell if he's impressed, annoyed, or just. generally observing)
-ch 611: refers to kurama/naruto and gyuuki/bee as a couple of flies. acknowledges naruto making more kage bunshin. asks naruto if shadow clones are like. his thing, followed by the infamous "disorderly crowd" (motley crew) line, then calling naruto incompetent for not knowing what he means by that
-ch 612: everyone and their grandma has shown up, and madara is not impressed (makes a remark dismissing naruto's "shinobi alliance jutsu" jab at the end of the last chapter), then tells naruto and obito to stop arguing about whether there is or isn't hope bc they're in the middle of a war and this is a pointless conversation (to him). shows some impressed-ness that the shinobi alliance can work together so well when the people coordinating everything are five miles away but then immediately calls naruto's "shinobi alliance jutsu" pathetic (obito agrees)
-ch 613: notes that naruto is attacking him and obito directly instead of aiming for the juubi, then immediately decides that that's fine bc it's normal to go for your enemy's head (still looks extremely unimpressed). sakura, darui, lee, and gai all get involved plus a bunch of other people, but madara just decides to ignore all that so the juubi can shapeshift and while the alliance is coping with slenderbijuu he tells obito it's time for the hashirama cell powerup, followed by immediately encouraging obito to have some fun with their new toy, at which point the hq group gets squished, which madara notes somewhat happily is also the norm (hey, you went for the head first, naruto! it's only fair. don't get mad they did it better)
-ch 614: madara starts this one off strong by turning to obito and going "ok now seems like a good time for me to become a jinchuuriki, u ready to kill urself" and obito tells him UR NOT MY REAL DAD and slams the door so madara decides he can play around and be in charge for a bit. the rest of the chapter is devoted to the totally-still-relevant-and-going-to-have-a-satisfying-conclusion-for-realsies hyuuga clan, so we'll ignore that
-ch 615: madara compares obito's treatment of naruto's reaction to neji getting shishkabob'd and says obito is just like how he himself used to be (FORESHADOWING HEY HEY AUDIENCE THIS IS FORESHADOWING OK JUST IN CASE YOU CAN'T PICK UP ON THIS YOURSELF THERE'S FORESHADOWING HAPPENING HERE). madara watches obito react to naruto getting some hope smacked into him and tells him not to be too hasty
-ch 616: madara observes naruto sharing the kyuubi's chakra, and then notes that naruto's power made hinata significantly stronger (this makes hinata the first of the non-naruto konoha 11 to be directly referred to by madara at all so far, which. i kinda have to admit is pretty funny). he then mentions that the nara clan is now attacking him, which. tbh really just seems to serve the purpose of acknowledging that madara knows the nara clan exists bc they don't seem to really accomplish all that much (r/youtried)
-ch 617: madara decides that naruto's sharing power thing is kinda cute and figures he should give it a shot, so he shares some power with obito (who doesn't even say thank you >:0). naruto mentions neji's will (not 100% clear that madara really knows/remembers/cares who that is), and then both he and obito get cut in half, which leads us to what i can only call surprised rinne-pikachu
och mein gott ich bin cutinhalfen (sorry for butchering the german language it will happen again)
people naruto's age madara intentionally acknowledges in this volume: naruto ("naruto", "a disorderly crowd", "incompetent person", "the naruto brat", "you"), hinata ("the lass/young girl"), shikamaru by association ("the nara clan")
aaaaand that's it. so yeah i think if you asked him about team seven he'd just assume you meant obito's old team, assuming he bothered to remember that that was their number (and assuming that obito told him, which i think he might have? but idk)
wait so, as the holders if the most and 2nd most insane naruto characters, what did madara and obito have to say about team 7 dynamics ??
As a past memeber of team 7 Obito's opinion doesn't count cause he thinks kakashi's gremlins are the only normal people in the world. I don't remember Madara saying anything on the dynamics of team 7 but I'm not an authority on the matter so I turn it over to my resident Madara Scholars @evilkitten3 and @narutoenjoyer5000
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