#i dont know how to phrase this in a way that's not mean but i don't really want my friends to just be friends bc they admire/look up to me?
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The Black Parade is no longer dead and Danger Days are still ongoing?Let's talk
This may come across as something stupid but I think I came up with something
So We all know how Danger Day is set up in distant dystopian world where people are drugged by the government to forget about everything and to obey their oppressive laws in order to live normal lives right? And now with the trailer to the Long Live tour we discovered that the Black Parade is also set up in a dictatorship world and the reoccurring theme of resistance and rebellion got me thinking that The Black Parade and Danger Days are connected in more ways than we thought and maybe the two are in fact parallel stories to each other
As for the Long Live trailer, Now The Black Parade may have been some kind of a "mocking-jay" for the oppressed and that's why it had to be banished by the grand immortal dictator, that's why The Black Parade was dead or had to "fake their death" and now they're back as an act of rebellion against an oppressive system or maybe they're only brought back again by the grand immortal dictator himself as a part of his grand master plan to gain control over the people again
As for "Draag" the name of the country it can be an acronym for the real name of the country
And also The Concrete age phrase can have different political meanings such as the government's use of urban planning to assert control over the people like industrial zones and housing blocks and it can also be used as a symbol of the authorisation and inequality the government have over people for that concrete is solid and durable and so is the oppressive laws of the government
And now it's up to the Black Parade to decide wether to be a puppet or rebel against the master
So this whole thing maybe an addition to the lore aka a sequel of the Black parade as a form of mcr5 or new album (which is something i dont think will happen) but in both cases I'm super excited for anything they'll offer
#yapping#idk what im talking abt tbh#My Chemical Romance#mcr5#mcr5 is real#gerard way#mikey way#ray toro#frank iero
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So I have suffered with suicidal ideation for the majority of my life. As long as I can remember-- even when I was a child to some extent.
Despite current awareness of mental health issues, honestly, I don't think we have as a society really resolved yet how to earnestly address the issue. I don't blame people for not knowing what to say to suicidal people or just defaulting to the whole "oh I'm sorry, you're not alone, blah blah blah" song and dance. I get they don't know what to say, but.
The issue with being always suicidal is that it's kinda a bitch to figure out how to just live with? You don't want to worry people, or emotionally burden them, you dont want them walking on eggshells around you forever because they think at any moment they could accidentally push you over the edge. Because the conversation around suicidal ideation is so focused on NOT being suicidal anymore, it functionally silences people in a well-meaning, but still harmful way.
Like, let ol' uncle Eldritch affirm for anyone reading this right now: it's OKAY to be suicidal. Not okay as in, indulge the urge. But suicidal ideation is a mental health concern like any other. It's not your fault, and stressing yourself out that you feel this way will do you no good. Accepting a feeling is not the same as acting on it.
For most people the feeling is temporary, but the reality is for some of us it's not. The feeling might be more intense sometimes than others, but it's okay if they're always there. Strange thing to say, I know, but you don't owe anyone happiness. You don't owe anyone self-contentment. Yes, we all want those things, but getting upset with yourself that you haven't achieved that beyond healthy degrees is a vicious cycle that will only make you more miserable.
There's a difference between treating negative emotions as an undesirable outcome, and treating them as if they're a mistake. As if they're not often enough a logical outcome to many of life's challenges, especially these days.
Counterintuitive, I know, but accepting that someday I might lose the battle with my own suicidal ideation probably saved my life at several low points. Something I've had to reaffirm within myself several times over my life. And something it's been very hard to get other people to understand.
The problem may be bad, but it's almost always the stigma that makes it dire.
I'm not going to pretend there isn't some degree of a grain of truth to the idea that some people use suicidal intent to get attention, but that's a gross and misleading oversimplification of the issue. Some people have no suicidal intent, but use it as a means of manipulating others. I'd say those types of people are rarer than you might imagine, but yes, they exist. I'd say the majority of people, especially the ones who express the thought over and over again, just don't know what to do with their feelings. They're looking for an outlet, an explanation, validation, solidarity-- something. They're looking to not feel so isolated anymore, having feelings they know they "shouldn't be having." As stated above, our society still doesn't accept the feelings as acceptable even if we've moved the dial on the topic, and they're feeling shame and frustration that they just can't quite move past that.
I don't want to speak for everyone but I do believe I'm very much not alone on this when I say the phrase "I want to die"/"I'm suicidal" with the same type of intent I say, "I want to sleep," or "I'm hungry." I'd rather be awake and full, but, I'm currently feeling compelled to satisfy the urge to go to bed or eat. I'd rather be alive, however, dying feels like a very tempting offer. Inconveniently, of course, that craving happens to have permanent results. Can't go back to living if/when I have enough spoons to keep going, boo.
That's a very confusing sensation to grapple with-- understanding your life is a finite resource you aren't going to be able to get back, but also, being fucking sick of it. It's hard to know what to do about that-- especially because, again, you aren't ALLOWED to feel that way apparently.
If that feeling can be fixed it should, but some of us don't have that luxury. Some of us are broken in a way you can patch up, but we can never be fully restored to a mint-like condition. We still have value, we still are useful and can be fully realized people, if there was only room for us to be taken as we are and not how people want us.
Outrageously irresponsible and fucked Lily had the balls to give advice on this, if that even has to be said. Rest assured, she's on my "To Haunt" list if I do end up offing myself (in Minecraft.)
#lily orchard#lily orchard critical#anti lily orchard#lily peet#lily orchard stuff#lorch posting#youtube#liquid orcard#eldritch lily
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「30歳の童貞に片想いすると魔法使いになれるらしい」 (from cherry magic volume 11 special edition) — english translation
#cherry magic#my translation#finally. after months i got to read this at last !!!!!!! i can be at peace now#also gonna do a little t/n in the tags bc i wanna clarify one little bit#the term '苦手' comes up a bunch here and it can mean either 'not being good at smth' or 'disliking/hating smth'#and from my understanding when used for people it can mean either 'not knowing how to get along with someone' or 'disliking/hating someone'#so on page 1 kurosawa uses 苦手 to say that the other guy doesnt like him#and on page 4 adachi uses 苦手 too which kurosawa misinterprets bc he doesnt have all the context#bc adachi means that he doesnt really know how to interact with guys like kurosawa but kurosawa hears it as 'i dont like his type of ppl'#(which gets cleared up later anyway thank god . tho it did give us a funnie panel)#i couldnt find any word in english that worked with the same sort of double meaning as 苦手 so i tried phrasing it in a way-#-that would have that same sort of 'this can be easily misinterpreted' vibe . dunno if it worked but i tried kjfkds
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boy in silly sitting positions compilation
#cats#I especially like the last one where he just has one single paw poking out of that box for some reason lol#I still have costumes to post and like a billion other things.... grr... constantly failing at staying active on social media aughh#I think because currently my Main Focus is on trying to get my game done and stuff.. which basically just means sitting and writing all day#so there's not much to post about. Though I know the Good At Social Media thing to do would be to post about the#writing and share progress and talk about the game and characters or whatever to try to build interest or something but that is SOOO weird#to me.. I could maybe get it if it was like a tiny tiny discord groupchat of playtesters with like 5 people in#it.. But something about talking openly about things before they happen is weird to me?? Like presumptuous feeling or something#''oooo guess whats gonna happen LATER!!!'' like.. how do you know.. what if it doesnt. what if you dont finish it. what if its not the way#you think it's going to be. what if something changes. etc. Like I literally avoid movie trailers and game trailers for the same reason ghj#Even if it's not ME doing it it just feels... weird.. Maybe it has to do with my OCD and how I just don't like talking about ''future''#things in Certain Terms. Like if I was going to say ''Oh yeah sure. come over to my house in a few months''. I would have to follow it up#with like ''HOPEFULLY you can come over to my house in a few months'' or 'They'll come over in a few months MOST LIKELY''. Because just#stating that something will happen matter of factly takes for granted like.. what if somehting horrible happens and I DONT have a house#in a few months? or what if something bad happens to me. or to the person coming over? I can't ever DEFINITELY say with 100% certainty#that one could ACTUALLY come to my house in a few months. anything could change. So I have to allot for that in my phrasing. hbjjkn#There are a lot of situations where you're expected to just Assume Things but for some reason that bothers me. My brain literally does not#even Assume the most basic things.. like how do *I* know that just because it's someones birthday that they want to be wished a happy#birthday? what if they dont? everyone is different and has different preferences. I should check with them first. or wait until they public#ly announce that theyre accepting birthday wishes. I have to allot for all 5034859069 rare possibilities at any given time and never take#anything for certain. etc. ghjbjhbh.... ANYWAY.. I have been feeling a bit sick lately as usual.. but still slowly making progress on some#things. Moslty I need to edit costume photos. make sculptures. and work on the game. Going back reading some of the old writing from like#2018 and suprisingly I don't have to change that much of it? In fact I like it mostly. so that's good. I would be very interested if I were#playing the game myself. Though that doesnt mean much since my tastes are so niche lol..#Still really want to clear some of my million tumblr drafts as well... alas and aughh and ooughh and so on and so forth. Between all of my#evil appointments other such things...why cant I have one billion dollar to retire into relaxed hermit artist life of no stressors.. bleas
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who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it
#id have to be waterboarded before i can talk abt how i see a lot of my adhd and personality in mitsumi iwakura let alone post it#idk how to talk abt this without feeling like im talking over or invalidating ppls experiences relating with a character#someone was talking abt how ppl tie laios' autism to special interest and social difficulties but not much else which kinda flattens it#and then went into a respectful in depth analysis of other autistic behaviour that laios exhibits and it wasnt phrased meanly#its fascinating and important to me to hear someone explain a little bit abt traits that they recognized and often go overlooked#because it does help me learn more about it. but i think thats also where hesitancy kicks in when it comes to depicting it accurately#like i have adhd and some of my adhd symptoms overlap with autism (time blindness and pattern seeking behaviour) but that only means#it feels familiar to me even without having autism. on top of that traits arent always cleanly determined as being /caused/ by#a disorder. to understand my environment i compare it to something unrelated but similar to make it more familiar and for the longest time#i thought that was a personality thing and not an information processing thing since i loved playing pretend in my head as a kid#so if you make a character who experiences that hoping to reach people that also experience that and tell them its not weird or#smth youre making up like. thats the goal. ppl who dont get it arent expected to it just means it doesnt cater to them but it helps them#become familiar to it yk? since i dont have autism myself i dont feel confident i can depict it properly or explain it in my own words#but that doesnt mean im trying to dismiss it or try and cut it out completely.. ill just leave the floor open to someone who /can/#a lot of issues around fanon depictions are when smth is baselessly popularized or a characters personality and behavior is flattened#especially to fit them into a trending meme. its harmless and its supposed to be for fun but it gets tricky when you drag things that#need to be carefully explained beforehand or else it gets lost in translation. like that tweet abt 'hyperfixating' on cooking pasta#once it becomes popular language usually the original meaning is left out for the sake of simplifying it for everyone that when it#circles back theres a sort of hesitancy like. am i using it the way it was intended or am i unknowingly using the popularized version of it#actually thats probably why i felt wrongfooted during diagnosis bc it felt like i was misusing the words i heard to describe what i felt#i /know/ i see a lot of myself in mitsumi because our minds are always somewhere else and we tend to put good faith first and for me#that personal connection is enough. but idk it feels like its always gonna have to be 'palatable' first before i can talk abt it openly#mad respect to writers and creators who stick to their story even if theres the looming fear of ppl misinterpreting it and letting them#have it.. its been almost 2 weeks and i am so close to deleting that m3 dunmeshi drawing bc ppl keep saying chilchuck wouldnt have 200 HP#IT LITERALLY SAYS I MADE IT WHILE WATCHING EP 1. I USED EARTHBOUND LOGIC AND I WASNT EVEN TAKING IT SERIOUSLY CHILL#yapping
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honestly looking back at all the irem futures. the funniest takeaway from all of them is that fires is 2000% doomed by the narrative. no matter what, This Specific Evil Capitalist Bat, out of All The Other Evil Capitalist Bats, is apparently The Most Dead Guy Coded member of the bazaar's fucked up goofy horrible workplace sitcom. how does (will?) this even happen
#even VEILS shows up. veils who perishes no matter what in 1/4 ambitions. fires is never mentioned aside from the implication it's dead#incredible. what happens to it. does it trip and fall into its own factory plant like the joker#yin-thoughts#fallen london#fallen london spoilers#i know it's involved in light fingers but i don't know how. all i know of LF is pregnancy horror is apparently involved and fires is there#..which. with the knowledge of spices' current Situation in railway. is perhaps the funniest possible way i couldve phrased that#i know the scoundrel obviously encountered veils bc they're not a BaL character#but afaik if you are stones subs in for it by default#fires isnt mentioned regardless. anywhere. except for the nearby future where it's apparently dead dead as hell#which means no matter what it's a 'default' that it's either missing dead or perhaps simultaneously both#incredible#personally im still holding out on my joke crack theory that railway will end with the scoundrel accidentally hitting it with the train#i think accidentally murdering their coworker would do fascinating things to that freak's psyche.#i dont think they've even processed that curators can die.
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We ought to write more Pokemon fic some time. We want to recreate the Pokemon Manners/Human Manners cheat sheet that we made a few years ago we think that this site would like the Sliding Scale Of Politeness When Greeting A New Pokemon You've Never Met Before.
#we speak#writing#we grew up with pmd games and we feel like the way that pmd pokemon's dialogue tends to be excessively... direct?#should be a feature and not a bug when any pokemon that you meet might be totally unfamiliar with your species and biology#it's probably very polite to start up front with some basic facts about yourself so they know how to act going forward#the very upfront feel to dialogue also very much helps with keeping the dialogue feel more... pokemon#people mock the series for weird npc dialogue a lot but we think that taking these things literally makes for more fun society building#it doesn't all have to fit with socially acceptable for our world we think. polite in our world isn't even consistent by household.#sometimes a polite interaction sounds like “hello! i'm poochyena! i like to chase people and bite!”#name and immediately socially useful information. now you know about the chasing people and biting so you don't assume it's rude#of course poochyena bites and chases people. it likes to do that. you can say you don't like that and it might stop doing that to You#but it will not stop biting and chasing people because that's what it likes to do and it will probably only befriend people okay with that#it makes a very specific dialogue feel that's very fun to do. we like how the pokemon world tends to treat any sort of like#disability or “weird” things as something that you just say out the gate and everyones like “oh okay”#and then treat that as Part Of Interactions going forwards. there are a surprising amount of parts of the pokemon manga#that are dedicated to working around a character's disability after one or all of their means of dealing with it get taken out#admittedly we aren't that caught up on newer content but we find the way that it tends to be just Accepted as very refreshing#making the dialogue this direct does also tend to make it read as more “childish” in english and particular because a lot of Maturity's jus#learning how to dance around what you're saying or phrase it in different ways to get your idea across differently#whereas here everything is just as direct as possible. “i don't like charmander”. “i like roasting berries”. “i want to dig things up”.#all pokemon dialogue tends to go towards being exceedingly simple and it makes for some very distinct writing#especially when you have to tackle complex situations with characters who probably dont employ that sort of vocabulary#though we personally enjoy doing this sort of stuff your mileage may vary ofc#we are biased towards this sort of thins because we find it MUCH more fun to build up what we're talking about from blocks#than to like. try and use more indirect wording that may lose things in translation#unfortunately this is not fun in irl conversation. everyone has to be on the same page and you need to use the same playbook to communicate#we REALLY wish people said what they meant though. we're really tired of being asked shit like “is this accessible”#when what they mean is “can you climb these stairs” a question which depends on the day our energy level and how things have been going#there are a lot of things we could say that would make us feel like some sort of anti sjw type guy and a lot of em boil down to just#"for the love of god dont dance around a Sensitive Topic just get to the point and ask us about it this just makes things harder for everyo
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I could elaborate on said negative feelings but that would require not having a runny nose
#but tldr hinduism isn't even a religion in the classical sense like islam or judaism#it's just a category the british pulled out of their asses to group disperate traditions from all over the subcontinent cause they thought#the gods looked similar enough luhmao it's a recently named misnomer and the only thing keeping said misnomer 2gether is caste#abolishing hinduism means doing away with this category and eradicating caste not wiping every “dharmic practice” that originated#in the subcontinent off the planet cuz like it's also just randomly appropriated indigenous traditions too which hmm#<- im eepy and i didnt know how to phrase that...hopefully you get what i mean. historical brahmanism is aaj ka hinduism only just be honest#and say brahmanism wont u. that way you're signalling who it's really for#there are so many practices from all over the subcontinent that are Not casteist please i am on my knees you dont have 2 do that janeu shit#i could go on 4ever but i'll stop i'm actually sad now#but ye it's colonial to label disperate practices for the sake of clerical ease abolishing hinduism doesn't involve the destruction of gods#okay i will explain that part one day. that day is not today i'm going 2 sleep fr#ਰੇਵਾ
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tgcf writing request(s)
eyo i am in a bit of a slump writing-wise so. if you see this and are interested, i would be very down for you to send me in any tgcf/hualian writing prompts!
i cannot promise anything concrete will come of it, but i am desperate <3 also uninspired
#wow it is hard to phrase this in a way that sounds like i am a chill and normal person#i know i never fucking finish these things but i'm getting desperate man#i NEED to get out of this writing slump and that means i need to WRITE something#i don't have any specific 'dos' or 'donts' for this#just maybe not hardcore smut? only bc i'm still dipping my toes into being comfortable writing/posting smut#but basically anything else i'd be down! (like i said i am desperate)#and like i HAVE ideas for fics i just. don't know how to start them/get at what i want for them yet#so this is like me dipping my toes into the pool to figure/become more comfortable writing in this type of fandom/setting#tgcf#tian guan ci fu#tgcf writing requests#hob#heaven official's blessing#hualian#hualian writing requests#new to writing for a fandom like this if you couldn't tell i am Very nervous
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i need i need someone to write a fic or SOMETHING about the ten minutes between in season 3 when thirteen held the medicine out to seven and said "take them off," and then in the next scene he's in his casual clothes. and i don't mean anything smutty or anything. i don't think that'd fit there. i just mean if i don't even get to mildly grasp the raw romantic tension fuck it the raw tension PERIOD during that i am going to fucking DIE. i'm going to explode okay? you can't tell me that these two gaylords, already sufficently down the fuck bad enough for eachother, okay, didn't either have the most tender and/or raw tension filled moment while thirteen bandaged
THIS PART OF HIS FUCKING BODY
THIS SCENE STARTS ONLY WHEN HE'S PUTTING HIS CLOTHES BACK ON BECAUSE THE DIRECTORS HATE ME PERSONALLY.
#scissor seven#killer seven#wu liuqi#seven#plum blossom thirteen#meihua shisan#thirteen#guys i dont know how to put this into words#i can't phrase this any more eloquently than i have already#i just#i need it ok . in eed it#if sharefun won't give it to me one of you have to step up to bat#someone out there has got to understand me#i don't mean it sexually. i don't mean theyre about to drool all over eachother. i don't mean it like that#i need you to understand#not sexually. not like in a smutty way#just. raw romantical tension#i need the tension in the air THICK i need this form of intamacy#AGAIN NOT SEXUALLY#to just be absolutely fucking unbareable MY GOD THEY NEED TO FUCKING KISS TODAY!!!!!!!
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this has nothing to do with anything ive ever posted but i need an answer.
#missing halloween#mike inel#missing halloween animation#animation#poll#how often do you think about the roman empire#except that instead of the roman empire it's this video#what does that phrase even mean by the way??#sorry im getting off track !!#answer them polls#reblogs encouraged and appreciated big sample sizes or whatever#this is a silly poll btw !!! dont ... dont worry i wont actually use this information i just wanna know#i cried to this by the way#its just that good..#why are the only lenght options for polls 1 day and 1 week btw.#what happened to everything between those
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top 10 workouts for every murder time trio fan out there: dancing while singing each of xxtha's mtt songs (AUDGAHHHHHH IVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY FOR MY WHOLE LIFE)
#nobody but me understands#these 3 songs are now my favorite songs srsly#theyre all so amazing#and the lyrics are VANSON!!!! CANON(ISH) YES!!!!!#canon mtt songs......#nfhsnaaaaaaaa dies#triglycercule is gonna have a field day with this#that i am. that i am#the way that dust's song is called eye to eye#and his song constantly repeats that phrase because he became something similar to the human#but horror's is also more like how DARE YOU vibes. and also line about his own eye getting taken#and killer's is more like he literally cant see at all eye to eye with anybody and they cant see eye to eye with him#none of them will ever relate to eachother. because killer doesn't have the capacity with all his own issues#and horror doesnt think anyone would fully understand him or be worthy of. and dust just knows his situation is too crazy to relate to#aOg!nbn hugs them close to my chest. you three dont know just how similar you all are to eachother#if you just stopped being so paranoid and defensive and more forgiving you could all bond so well.........#but THEY DONT and thats what makes them so good. they cant because that would first mean forgiving themselves#and all of them hate themselves too much to ever think of doing that to another version of themself#the best thing ever made by the gods was making the murder time trio all originate from classic#it gives them SO many parallels its unbelievably amazing i love#continuation group my beloved. this is why they are the continuation group#in sorry these songs are making me bust a move and crash out from excitement I LOVE THIS#FINALLY FINALLY I HAVE SONGS FOR ALL THE TRIO!!!! YES!!!!!! DXUAGAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA#tricule rant
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its been fun watching the hbomb subreddit try very very hard to stick to the "if anyone harasses james on my behalf they wont see the light of heaven" by imo overcorrecting to "any time anyone mentions somerton ever it's because you're obsessed with him and want to pick on him because he's the villain of the week" bc its like. yknow actually i dont think people keeping an eye on his various attempts to weasel back into the spotlight and keep doing his same old shit over the last /two months/ is the same as harassing him because it's hip and fun. i think maybe those are not the same thing
#and like obv yes its possible to do both but idk#im just kinda like. 'dont harass him' and 'ignore him completely even if hes continuing to do shitty things' are um#different. those are different#origibberish#i will say though that subreddit is very good for gauging if im getting weirdly parasocial at him#like i still have yet to do that at a celebrity i like afaik because i just. Dont Like Celebrities usually#so now that i have one (1) that autism brain has finally decided to look up to im like Uh Oh Is It Finally Time#and then i see posts on there sometimes and im like. ohhh ok no i get it now#and i mean i can see why they feel that way‚ its the hbomb subreddit and Thats The Most Recent Hbomb Video#and it had yknow. immediate and impressive results#so of course people are going to a) talk about it a lot and b) talk about the aftermath as it happens#and if youre in the 'only talking about this one guy' group and that one guy has only talked about one other guy in the last Year#like. yeah . youre mostly gonna be hearing about that guy#oh parasocial abt hbomb not abt somerton i just realized how the phrasing there was weird jwhfksbfk#that being said i literally made a post like two weeks ago abt how i didnt actually know his first name so like i think im probably good#my scope of knowledge about him extends Exclusively to whats In His Videos#or well and i guess to like. patreon posts too but i tend to just dismiss patreon notifs without reading them a lot KENFKSNFMDB#like yeah yeah this show i follow posted their podcast i dont follow early for patreon subs i dont care get out of my way
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hello, you are cool person and I wanna talk to you more, but I am NERVOUS to DM you
i also get nervous about responding 👍so
#augh. having some sort of following and feeling like im Expected to act or talk a certain way bc of that and every conversation is daunting#bc what if i don't fit that expectation. idk#if we've like talked through tags or something before it'd be easier to do this but im not very good at holding conversations with new ppl#i dont know how to phrase this in a way that's not mean but i don't really want my friends to just be friends bc they admire/look up to me?#cause it feels pressuring like i need to keep something up. and we might not be that similar to each other enough to click yknow#u dont know unless you try ig. my dms are open if u ever want to shoot me a question or discuss something but i suck at small talk#asks#mimispeaking
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i think. that ppl in north gaza are some of the most incredible humans that have ever existed. for staying. for experiencing the worst of the worst. for being the bravest possible. and it is because the unarmed palestinians are still there that hamas and any other resistance fighters are able to continue to fight and hold onto the landscape. that is how each palestinian is an automatic resistance fighter. that i show existance is resistance in this moment for palestinians in gaza. there is so much bravery i think people will spent centuries just trying to articulate it. i think the journalists and story tellers in north gaza, they are so brave. i think the beings are so brave. i think the beings there are so revolutionary. every being. the earth being in existance, the plants that continue to grow in the face of bombs and weapons i cannot imagine. the other animals like cats and birds and every being i cannot name still surviving, still finding refuge, still breathing and not just giving up si so incredible. i am in beyond awe. i am so irrevocably changed by genocide. i am so fundementally different.
#i am so moved. i am so#it just struck me. like it always keeps coming back to strike me and i keep getting stunned and i feel like i will continue to be stunned f#for forever#i also dony mean for this post to hav a tone#im so stoned and so overwhelmed with emotions. and i feel like i phrased this as incorrectly#also i imagine palestinains arent feeling this bc im seeing in real time videos of ppl saying they feel shit#for asking for help and for neding support and how raw and grief filled they feel and i dont know im not trying to make this sound any kind#of way. i dont know#im really so sorry to every palestinian#i follow this kid yusuf and the other day he revealed his birthday and he is 2 days younger than my youngest brother#imagine. my little brother in genocide. my little brother. my littlel brother. my . little brother.
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I don't understand why it's generally not socially acceptable to recognize your good qualities. Like I don't understand why it's bad to be a show-off or a know-it-all or to brag. Like I think most people know "those things = bad" but not why.
It also seems like people are always either waaaaay into one end of the scale where they are just so unbearably full of themselves and have preposterously high self esteem (and most people act like this is fine too? Like a lot of celebrities and white men specifically seem to be like this) and I don't understand why so many people respect them then. Or they're the complete opposite with self esteem way too low despite the fact that they have redeeming qualities.
I feel like maybe the reason it's considered bad to brag is because you might 'make' other people feel inadequate but see that seems like a stupid reason to me because the problem then is not that you stated an opinion of your own self worth but is actually that everyone else is conditioned to compare themselves to each other in a very unhealthy way. And I think instead of discouraging people from opening up about what they take pride in, what they like about themselves, what makes them feel happy or content or confident, maybe we could just be discouraging people from viewing those things as personal threats? Idk just trying to formulate some thoughts on this
#idk why but this feels like a very convoluted topic#like so many people are probably coming from different starting positions on this than i am and im afraid that might#make it be misinterpreted or something#like i feel like there definitely is a balance where some self esteem is too little and some is too much#it just feels like it is exceedingly rare to find anyone with ideal realistic self esteem and idk why#i also dont mean this in a way to say that every action is the responsibility of the people taking offense either#because obviously thats not how that works. its understandable to demand a certain amount of respect#and to accept that your words (even the ones you say about yourself) could negatively impact other people#and thats not necessarily on them for being defensive#idk social concepts are strange and foreign to me so im still figuring this stuff out and through an autistic lense to boot#so sometimes i feel a bit like im conducting a study or an experiment more than writing a blog post#im just trying to understand people because i need to#it seems like the overwhelming majority of allistics have absolutely no interest in why they do the things that they do#so i have to go around experimenting instead of asking direct questions about this stuff#because when i do ask direct questions they look at me like i just asked them if the sky is actually blue or if its just gasses up there#in case you are not the most common dimwit. the sky is both of those things. however when you ask someone a question#phrased like that about a topic they dont want to admit they dont know about. they will usually avoid the question or answer absurdly#its actually kinda funny you should try it sometime#now im distracted because i dont know enough about how the sky works and i need to know#anyways gonna go down a research rabbit hole methinks
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