#i understand this

[3liza]

a main problem of about 40-60% of the people on this site is interpreting anything other than fawning adoration as bullying. the (possibly neurotypical!) person at work or school who enjoys your company despite or even because of you being a little quirky is not ableist. you ARE a little quirky. if someone seeks out your company, is kind to you, never takes advantage of you or manipulates you, listens to what you say and remembers it and cares about it, does not make you feel bad on purpose, and otherwise conducts themselves in the way they would towards any other person they liked, then them saying "haha you're so weird" in a friendly way is not bullying. that's how normal people talk to each other. they are verbalizing that they appreciate your differences from the norm and they are initiating friendly banter with you. you are invited to respond with gentle joking comments on their differences as well!

i have exactly the same school trauma all weird kids have, but making a concentrated effort to be less prickly about stuff like this has made my life quantifiably simpler and less stressful and i highly recommend it.

[sarcasticscribbles]

*me actively using any free time I can to write and draw my lil tma ocs* no no guys- guys I swear I am so normal about the magnus archives I swear-

im gonna place Lucky Ace in Sasha the Archvist im making them canon

[sapphire-weapon]

Between PS5 and PC, I probably have close to 500 hours in RE4 Remake, and I platinumed it on PS5 because I pretend the game is good. The truth is that it's a complete and utter betrayal 6/10 at best and is emblematic of everything wrong with modern game design. Capcom wasn't even trying to make a good game. Never EVER do this to someone.

shooting gallery sucks btw

[cerusee]

You know, I am not young, and I am pretty jaded, but the sight of people celebrating the dismantling of a humanitarian agency in an active war zone is not doing great things for my faith in humanity.

[brbuttons]

I am happy for the direction in which our system is going, but that does not mean it is easy for me.

[commissionsdarian]

You're doing your best, and we all see it. We appreciate you. I love you.

Thank you, I love you too

[girlbob-boypants]

I've got to stop wanting more from the story of an mmo it truly brings out my most clownish side

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[arynneva]

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

[toomanylizzes]

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[great-and-small]

My grandfather and my godfather (a beloved neighbor and dear family friend) had a long standing bet- for one dollar- about who would die first. Both of them being slightly pessimistic (in the funny way), they both insisted that they themselves would be the first to die. Any time my grandfather had a health scare, he’d gleefully call up my godfather to boast that he’d be passing “any day now” and he was sure to win the bet. It was a big family joke and they were always amiably sparring and comparing notes about who was in worse shape, medically speaking.

When my grandfather was in hospice care dying of liver cancer, my godfather was quite ill also. It took him great effort to make the journey to see his dying friend. As he came into the room, supported by a family member, he shuffled to my grandpa’s bedside and silently handed him a dollar bill. He was ceding his loss of the bet, as they both knew who was going first. My grandpa had been in quite bad shape for a while and was no longer able to speak but let me tell you he snatched that dollar with unexpected strength and literally laughed aloud. He knew exactly what the gesture meant and he couldn’t help but find the humor within the grief. It was the last time any of us heard my grandpa laugh, as he passed shortly after.

When I talk about my appreciation for “dark humor” I’m not so much thinking about edgy jokes, but rather the human instinct to somehow, impossibly, both find and appreciate the absurdity that is so often folded into the profound grief of life and death. When I tell this story I think it kind of perturbs people sometimes, but it’s honestly one of my favorite memories about two men I really deeply admired. I could never hope for anything more than for my loved ones to remember me laughing until the very end, and taking joy in a little joke as one of my final acts.

[theboxfort]

Peace and love

[raeyapper]

I can not even begin to describe how I love this comic so I will just put it in dhe tags best I can.

a comic i made for hero's birthday 🍳 ✨

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again