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okay so i'm changing a FEW things about judas (mainly ethnicity lmao because i'm not gonna be using jerome pardone as my faceclaim anymore) but he's still balding. i'm so sorry judas </3 so i'll probably end up drawing him eventually
#ooc#that being said uhh#if anyone could point out to me like#what ethnicity judas was biblically speaking i'd appreciate it!!#i feel like that's a dumb question#but from what i've looked up judas was from the Judaean Desert-- the only apsotle who wasn't from galilee which is interesting it itself BU#BUT ANYWAY#i don't want any like#controvosry on this blog but i don't know. is that. isreael or palestine. like i'm not trying to be dumb or anything here i just#straight up am not sure#</3 my high school didn't have a world history class and you can TELL
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ugh, könig is such a geek, i bet he'd enjoy subjects like physics and chemistry, always correcting your english and grammar, and has so much knowledge on everything ... :(
smart, mean & cocky könig x dumb reader ... dumbification and the taunting !! 🫂
#nerdy könig...#long haired ginger könig with glasses :)#i saw fanart like that once... total brainrot !! :33#he'd be so smart and mean to you#telling you you're being silly#slapping you across the face for getting a question wrong...#asking questions the entire time you're fucking#making you feel so so dumb#orla speaks#könig x reader#konig x reader#konig call of duty#konig cod#könig#könig call of duty
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So question for all the non-Americans in my follower base, do you guys have a group of historical figures that your country’s culture associates with patriotism to the point they’re almost deified? Like in America, we have the Founding Fathers, and I feel like every American knows all about that whole group, along with a sort of mythos surrounding them (like Ben Franklin’s key on the kite or Washington’s Cherry Tree or even Lincoln’s Log Cabin, although thats technically real).
Do other countries have that for their historical figures?
#i feel like this might be a bit of a dumb question#because america is all about jingoistic patriotism#and i was 6 when 9/11 happened so that was ramped up even more#but im curious if other countries have this
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In which Ford struggles so badly to relate to other people that he wonders if he’s really human at all. The more isolated he becomes, the harder it is to reconcile with his own humanity.
#my art#gravity falls#Stanford pines#ford pines#bill cipher#comic#eye strain#TIME TO DUMP EVERY ONE OF THE 27483949 THOUGHTS IVE HAD INTO THE TAGS BABY#OK!! SO!!!!#I feel like Ford would wonder why he and Stan (being identical twins) aren’t. yk. identical. shouldn’t Stan have polydactyly too?#as a kid he would dream about secretly being nonhuman and being whisked away to a fantastical world full of people like him#finally free of new jersey‚ finally somewhere he belongs#a lot of this disconnect from humanity came from utterly failing at social interactions while others (including stan) navigated them easily#the feeling waned after Stan was kicked out and he didn't have that direct comparison but it never left#then out in the wilderness of gravity falls‚ his isolation and immersion in Weirdness dragged it back up to the forefront#he deserves to have a breakdown over questioning his own nature. as a treat <3#color symbolism time bc I have a problem and use it at every available moment!!! blue and yellow get more vivid#the further from humanity the subject is#bill is entirely made w pure rgb blue and yellow (+ approximately 2674835 textures/layers/blending modes. I reached 150+ layers. help)#I like the idea that he would appear to ford like pure math considering hes a geometrical motherfucker and how the rest of the mindscape wa#I tried to mostly use trigonometry and related stuff for the Math Greebling. as well as fractals i love you forever fractals#MORE SYMBOLISM:#the grid-ish diamond pattern in all of the mindscape bgs (and elsewhere) is a penrose diagram of spacetime#which shows other universes on the other sides of black holes#SOMEONE ASK ME ABOUT MY EUCLYDIA HEADCANON LATER. IVE DUMPED ENOUGH DUMB HCS IN THESE TAGS ALREADY#BUT I THINK ITS VERY FUN#anyways. fuckt up guys n their egos influencing how they view humanity. bill tells ford hes as human as they come bc he was so easily foole#ford cant reconcile with his humanity bc of a failure to perform in one area#and then the immense guilt and shame over what hes done <3#I have So many ford characterization thoughts. no man nor god can stop me
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[chat message] "Skizz, it's been a minute since I popped in! how's life, my guy? Got anything exciting happening soon?"
Skizz: "Well... Yes. Got some exciting stuff coming up. And I'll be taking a sabbatical from work... Very overdue, because I'm.... [shakes head with disgusted face] losing my mind."
[game solving discussion continues]
#and then it's just phasmo talk for the rest and i don't feel like transcribing it because it's not important lol#I couldn't add this to my reblog of the post from the person who actually asked this question sorry tumblr be dumb#skizzleman#hermit skizz manifesting intensifies
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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you
#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what#allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of#the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than#to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do#im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt#take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was#mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their#mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that#explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain#direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in#arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to#engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out#theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive#a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked#picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing#sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example#for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war#is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old#wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for#steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with#especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can#look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never#treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time#but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made#feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them#accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me#yapping#diary
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compilation of my villagers bullying me. this will be a growing collection. these are all from today alone.
#‘but Eliza didn’t you start a new Wild World town on an emulator’ Yes#i’ve had this town for 4 years which is the best i’ve ever done LOL but my cartridge is showing its age and freezing and i don’t#feel like getting yelled at Resetti. but i dislike the controls for the ROM especially since my keyboard is weird#so we’ll make do. somehow#Purrl in my GC town was dumb like Purrl in my WW town i’m pretty sure i did a reset trick and cheated her in LOL#DUMB LUCK#which is what i’m vowing to stop doing by starting all these towns#‘don’t cheat or constantly delete your town to get good villagers’ is like the most basic thing you can do but my AC#perfectionism and neuroticism runs very deeply#when i was a kid if i got a villager i hated i would delete the town without question and would refuse to look at the screen. i hated Cesar#and Boone for this reason and them moving into my town is the worst thing that ever could have happened to me and it happened many times#because i was a RESETTING FOOL!!!#i love you deeply Animal Crossing but you have made me foster some incredibly odd neuroses#ac
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Theodore and Raphael have it the worst. Both of them want just attention from their fathers 😭
Theodore has completely locked out his feelings, even his mind is telling him he is not kid anymore like that's just painful 😭 and Raphael having younger brother is so heartbreaking since his father is not paying attention to him like he does at Ul like dude it's so obvious pay attention to your children! These men are so oblivious and dumb in some ways 😭
#also there is gerhard and his child but at least that dude tried and he even took care of Raphael even though he was being tsundere about it#why are men so dumb is the question#I feel like they are completely useless when they have no wives#at least Dali Delico he is trying but dude you are still failing you have two kids not one#at least henrique is a good father#his daughters are just like his father <3#delico's nursery
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Where do you find these manuscripts? Is it like a website or do you find it randomly??
hey, thanks for the curiosity! lenghty answer below the cut :)
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medieval manuscripts are typically owned by libraries and showcased on the library's websites. so one thing i do is i randomly browse those digitized manuscript collections (like the collections of the bavarian state library or the bodleian libraries, to name just two), which everybody can do for free without any special access. some digital collections provide more useful tools than others (like search functions, filters, annotations on each manuscript). if they don't, the process of wading through numerous non-illustrated manuscripts before i find an illustrated one at all can be quite tedious.
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there are databases which help to navigate the vast sea of manuscripts. the one i couldn't live without personally use the most is called KdIH (Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters). it's a project which aims to list all illustrated medieval manuscripts written in german dialects. the KdIH provides descriptions of the contents of each manuscript (with a focus on the illustrations), and if there's a digital reproduction of a manuscript available anywhere, the KdIH usually links to it. the KdIH is an invaluable tool for me because of its focus on illustrated manuscripts, because of the informations it provides for each manuscript, and because of its useful search function (once you've gotten over the initial confusion of how to navigate the website). the downside is that it includes only german manuscripts, which is one of the main reasons for the over-representation of german manuscripts on my blog (sorry about that).
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another important database for german manuscripts in general (i.e. not just illustrated ones) is the handschriftencensus, which catalogues information regarding the entirety of german language manuscripts of the middle ages, and also links to the digital reproductions of each manuscript.
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then there are simply considerable snowball effects. if you do even just superficial research on any medieval topic at all (say, if you open the wikipedia article on alchemy), you will inevitably stumble upon mentions of specific illustrated manuscripts. the next step is to simply search for a digital copy of the manuscript in question (this part can sometimes be easier said than done, especially when you're coming from wikipedia). one thing to keep in mind is that a manuscript illustration seldom comes alone - so every hint to any illustration at all is a greatly valuable one (if you do what i do lol). there's always gonna be something interesting in any given illustrated manuscript. (sidenote: one very effective 'cheat code' would be to simply go through all manuscripts that other online hobbyist archivers of manuscript illustrations have gone through before - like @discardingimages on tumblr - but some kind of 'professional pride' detains me from doing so. that's just a kind of stubbornness though. like, i want to find my material more or less on my own, not just the images but also the manuscripts, and i apply arbitrary rules to my search as to what exactly that means.)
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whatever tool or strategy i use to find specific illustrated manuscripts-- in the end, one unavoidable step is to actually manually skim through the (digitized) manuscript. i usually have at least a quick look at every single illustrated page, and i download or screenshot everything that is interesting to me. this process can take up to an hour per manuscript.
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in conclusion, i'd say that finding cool illuminated manuscripts is much simpler than i would have thought before i started this blog. there are so many of them out there and they're basically just 'hidden in plain side', it's really astounding. finding the manuscripts doesn't require special skills, just some basic experience with/knowledge of the tools available. the reason i'm able to post interesting images almost daily is just that i spend a lot of time doing all of this, going through manuscripts, curating this blog, etc. i find a lot of comfort in it, i learn a lot along the way, and i immensely enjoy people's engagement with my posts. so that's that :)
#if you ever have any specific questions about any of these tools or my strategies feel free to ask or dm me#i'd also be interested in recommendations of databases that are specific to other languages/regions that are neither german nor english#preferably with a focus on illuminated manuscripts#or useful databases that are just not very well known#ask#medieval art#medieval studies#btw @anon sorry for only getting around to answering your ask now#and re: your following message. first of all never apologize for your english skills. like ever#it's a daily struggle for me as well tbh. i never post anything without german/english dictionary tabs open lol#and i feel like i 'owe' it to the tumblr blogger format to write in smooth english#secondly your question wasn't dumb at all! i'm glad somebody asked :)
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So what's Koda's relationship with Philip? Like is it platonic, queerplatonic, romantic, etc.?
As per usual I'm very predictable
#LISTEN I JUST REALLY LIKE TAKING A BAD GUY AND MAKING THEM EXPERIENCE A FEW GOOD THINGS THAT MAKE THEM QUESTION THEIR MORALS#IS TGAT JUST ME#maybe i like enemies to lovers too much gahh#but yea it's romantic#but only after a long ass time#They're both too dumb to realise what they're feeling is romantic#however Philip does realise first because he has friends now wow#fgarart#defanged philip au#philip wittebane#Koda Grimoire#eDIT: IF YOU SAW ME DRAW THE ROCK ON HIS CHEST THE WRONG SHAPE NO YOU DIDNT
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some Rainy's for your amusement!
(and an updated reference sheet!)
#rainy dewdrop#welcome home oc#welcome home#i think about them a lot#theres a sort of complexity in being “simple” if that makes sense#rainy knows a lot that goes on#but they simply chose to do other things#im not sure if that makes sense#they just live in they moment#theyre not dumb for it. theyre not really “simple” at all#theyre just percieved that way because no one has sat down with them yet and asked them questions about how they feel and think about#certain things#i think thats why i like mavericks and rainys relationship so much#i want to do more with rainy and them communicating their thoughts#not sure what to do with that though#oh well!#bwah!
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hey… not so quick question op……… are you not cishet? or do you love and respect any not cishet? better yet, have you ever even spoken to a not cishet person? or do you have knowledge about the cishet industry and the predatory behavior towards non cishet people? or do you just think that being not cishet is something cute and fun for stuffed or real animals that doesn’t happen to real people? i need you to explain why this is fun for you. you and all the people that do this stuff (voting or making these polls) owe real not cishet people explanations on why this is cute and not insensitive towards a marginalized group.
- hope you can hear how you sound bc ngl, it felt crazy to read your post. fucking. block people and shut up.
you really thought you did something with this but it really just puts it more into perspective on how adoptees are not taken seriously lmao. could i have blocked and moved on? yes. should i have? yeah, i even apologized to op because of it. i was unable to maintain control of my impulses, manage my own triggers, and practice solid emotion regulation at the time, and that’s on me. i take responsibility for that.
but your anon is just…yeah of course. how could i ever expect anything less? the fact is adoptees are mocked and belittled when we don’t think adoption is cute or act as if adoption is the human rights issue that it is.
adoption agencies are the backbone of the private adoption industry. they make money off of babies. they make money selling babies. this is an irrefutable fact.
they base our prices off of gender, age, disability, and race. they advertise in low income communities the most and tell first parents that their child will be better off with someone else. they tell them that it is an act of love. they take money from infertile couples, who are constantly told that they have ‘other options’ and given very little respect for the trauma and deep sadness infertility causes. they were started and popularized by a human trafficker named georgia tann. the adoption industry is now a multi billion dollar industry.
you are speaking to someone who just has to live with the knowledge that my adoption agency could’ve forged my documents because they did it to others. i am someone who has to accept that my adoption agency has been investigated for human trafficking. i am someone who exists with the knowledge that there is a price tag on my head. i was given to the people who bought me in a hotel room. compared to some of my friends, i am lucky, and my adoption was not wonderful by any means. i lost my first family, my siblings, my language, my country, and that doesn’t even count anything that happened after. i sounded like a person who’s been adopted who is angry that adoption is often not taken seriously, especially in fandom, and especially especially by (presumed) non adopted people.
you felt the need to parody my rb in an attempt to mock me and minimized the issues of two marginalized groups, and walked directly into the point.
one of the big differences in your comparison is that queer people and trans people are recognized by the majority, and legally to many countries, as a marginalized group. this is not true for adoptees. adoptees are 4x more likely to attempt suicide, more likely to be harmed and abused by their adopters, more likely to be killed, have higher rates of institutionalization and incarceration, and we even have our own remembrance day for those of us who don’t make it. it is this month. october 30th.
and as someone who is exceedingly educated on adoptee issues; the history of adoption, how it coincides with colonization and genocide when we talk about transnational adoption, transracial adoption, not to mention just the sheer amount how many of us have our records falsified by adoption agencies, how we are rehomed online, and the lack of regulation with the private adoption industry, and the way our identities are legally changed with no way of ever undoing it, this is genuinely not a 1:1 comparison.
queer issues are seen as real. adoptee issues are not.
it’s ironic to me because as a queer and trans person, i am allowed to be angry and pissed off to many people, even according to cishet people! i am allowed to make mistakes and still be seen as having a valid opinion even when i don’t express it correctly.
as an adoptee, however, i am always expected to be the bigger person, to just deal with it in silence, and if i have an issue, say it in the most polite way as to not offend anyone. as adoptees, we are just supposed to sit back and be fine with not having access to our medical records, we are supposed to be fine with how kids get posted online for people to buy adopt, ignore the amount of suicides and those of us who die by abusive adopters, and just be accepting of how the ACLU fought to give queer couples the right to adopt but won’t fight for adoptees’ rights because they financially benefit from the adoption industry. we’re supposed to just get therapy and never publicly express complex emotions or anger about the adoption industry or the way we are invalidated.
and honestly? that’s fucking bullshit. i don’t subscribe to that idea.
adoptees are allowed to be angry and make mistakes. we are human beings who have survived a trauma that isn’t even deemed as one by many. we shouldn’t have to be happy and grateful, kind and polite. this shouldn’t be the case. it’s not a commonly accepted practice to tell queer and trans people that we should be grateful for having to be closeted and shouldn’t express any negative emotions about our oppression or the violence we face. it’s not expected of us to just be quiet or respectful about our oppression.
adoptees deserve that same grace and respect. if you think otherwise, then do some internal reflection. that’s not my problem.
but… thank you for being an example of how adoptees are gaslit into staying silent about our injustices.
thank you for showing your whole ass and proving my point.
not to mention the hypocrisy of this anon in the first place; you could’ve just as easily blocked me and moved on, but you didn’t. you felt the need to mock me and say something you’re clearly uneducated about. you wanted me to know ‘how i sound’—well, you sound like maybe you should take your on advice. it’s also interesting to me how you kept it on anon so i couldn’t have a genuine conversation. hey…not so quick question anon……are you a fucking coward?
#imagine u come into my ask box trying to make me feel dumb and just make me feel vindicated#my cassandra complex is going crazy rn if anyone is wondering#tw adoption#tw this is most likely a non adopted person because they had to compare a completely different experience to adoption in an effort to#belittle an adoptee#also … this was an issue between two adoptees that got resolved through mutual understanding. it doesn’t feel like u have any desire to#understand me and this doesn’t seem like a good faith ask. like if you came in with genuine questions#my response would be different. and if you do have genuine questions then i would be more than happy to answer them#but this isn’t doing what you think it is and your intentions have failed. you’re just another person in a long list of people who have#done this to adoptees. hope u feel good about yourself because i feel fine about me#actually i feel more than fine because i understand that shame does not cultivate growth. maybe you should work on that too#because if this is how u talk to me (a complete stranger) i can only imagine how u talk to yourself#adoptee issues#adoption critical#adoptee voices#actually adopted#hw.asks#answered asks#supernatural
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how could this guy i’ve been talking to ask me something like this???
why would you pit these queens against each other like that??
#Jeffrey Combs#Bruce Campbell#Ted Raimi#Herbert West#Re-Animator#ReAnimator#Ash Williams#Evil Dead#i feel like this guy just gets me tho#he’s asking the Right questions!!#why does he have to be 8 hours away from me??#like?? i have found the ideal man but he’s 500 miles away#dumb shit#personal
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as someone who has never understood the pen pressure curve settings despite drawing digitally for over a decade neow, can someone tell me if theres a way for a brush to need less pressure to activate, but still keep a thin tip? Because obvs changing it so that it doesnt need much pressure to make a stroke makes that stroke really thick and not have much width variation
#i feel this is a stupid ass question im sorryyyyy#i found a brush i enjoy but in order for it to have a nice tapered tip i have to change the pressure to make it#need a really rough press....but that hurts my hand#but if i make it need less pressure it ends up just being a brush that has very little line width variation YKWIM#i like tapered tip...i like it going from small to big but i dont wanna kill my wrist#delete later bc I know im gonna feel dumb LMAO#talkys#if i understood the axes myself i cld try playing with it but i swear i just cant get it 😭
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dead strawhat! booo dead strawhat!! 😂
he is so damn MEAN. she already wasnt hiding that she cares about luffy A LOT you didnt have to test her 😭😭
#video#luhan#went to find it again for personal use cuz hes funny....#what an asshole...shes a stressed out woman in love#zero sympathy only ego#its a good scene cuz it does answer the question why wouldnt they just be like thanks for first aid now fuck off#idk how people feel about hancock you can stay dumb and be a hater but writing is good actuallyyyyy#better than current even tho thats a low ass bar lol#one piece#i was rereading my fav 👒🐍 doujin and i forgot that law shows up to be like i heard you fucking he is bleeding everywhere right#hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilaaaariiiioooouuuusss#i love law scoring 2 for one with hancock#yes please i would very much like for another person with huge influence to be indebted to me yoink#good job strawhat you get respect points for fucking the empress of all people#well done gj
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Ok so uh this is kind of embarrassing for me but I'm questioning being objectum... I've always been posic (Perception of Object Sentience, Individuality, and Consciousness) bc I become very attached to objects, especially plushies and toys, consider them friends and family, etc I had strong crushes and toys when I was a kid/tween, that faded as I became a teenager and I didn't experience it again until I was an adult, so I just figured it was a phase and didn't think much of it again... Until I got that Gloomy Bear plush backpack I showed on here, Salmon, I uhhhhhh think I might have a crush on him lmao, maybe even be sexually attracted to him, but I have kind of a mental blockage from trauma/low sex drive/probably grey asexual so that's more complicated for me to figure out I have a boyfriend of 5 years and Idk how I would bring this up or explain it to him, we're polyam, and Salmon is just a plushie, so I could just not disclose this to him at all, but I love him and would like to involve him in my personal life, so if Salmon ended up becoming my partner I'd ideally like to let him know about that... Honestly idk why this is so embarrassing for me to discuss with friends and loved ones, I already told them I'm into monsters, generally identify as non human, have xenogenders, and a bunch of other weird shit going on, but idk having to admit I'm questioning my sexuality over a backpack just seems so ridiculous rvuneisfjudifisjjsjfoaz Idk I guess for now I'll just enjoy Salmon's company and try not to worry about it
#idk the ask box is open if u wanna give me any advice or reassurance lol#or ask me questions#might delete later depending on how embarrassed i feel#ugh my stomach hurts writing this and its like why... hes just a plushie lol so dumb#objectum
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