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pyreflydust · 1 year ago
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#i think Sherlock was included because of the writer overlap with doctor who ironically#which made the ending so much worse like imagine you ONLY started watching because it was the guy who made the weeping angels#'surely this will be gay' unfortunately the gay shit was the OTHER guy this is convoluted nonsense guy
Okay so like I think that was part of it but the actual logic here -- and the reason Homestuck couldn't really be involved -- is these series all had mediocre looking actors that a certain section of Tumblr live action show fandom thought were the hottest men ever.
If you ever dared say anything about how you didn't understand why anyone thought one of them was attractive they would be like HOW DO YOU NOT SEE IT while spamming you with pictures. It was most notorious with Cumberbatch because he was the one with the most people who Didn't Get It but as someone who Didn't Get It with literally any of them that's always been the common thread.
People always joke now about people on Tumblr lusting after dudes who are Just Some Guy but superwholock was the very core of the Just Some Guy fandom.
(And before anyone jumps on me for insulting their Just Some Guy I was having my Tom Hiddleston phase around this period I'm hardly immune.)
unrelatedly people are always like “lmao what was supernatural doing in superwholock” and i’ve said that myself in the past but actually no. what was SHERLOCK doing in superwholock. like i know the answer is queerbait but also like. supernatural and doctor who as sprawling sci fi behemoths lasting longer than is plausible deliberately veering into ridiculousness featuring a Heroes Breeze Into Town monster of the week format and universe-level stakes and a WHOLE lot of speculative “what if what if what if” . sandbox shows cultural curiosities. sherlock is NOTHING she’s DUST. britishness does not a similarity make
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dashielldeveron · 3 months ago
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Oh it’s, so logical and empathetic and nonsensical to immediately check, run away, and then throw yourself into fixing the solution, so you simultaneously run away and solve the issue. This. I love where this is going. And he’s so. He’s so. I’m wrecked by the tenderness of the moment my heart is in my throat
I wish this was more cohesive but my thoughts are so scattered by how incredibly insane you are for writing this well. Oh my god.
-✨
(going to combine some of your asks into this one to help me keep track of the order that they were sent in)
(2) You don’t understand the switch between explaining that the soulmate bond was theirs in this life for a reason and that he cared to explore it to ‘I’ve been really into soft cheeses’ and going into himself is killing me. I’m dead. I’m. I’m not here.
(3) I will say, that I’m Pakistani, and since I’ve made chai since I was. I wanna say 8 or 9? We’ve always put brown sugar into the chai, sort of a requirement really. And you can add more or less depending on your preference. I usually add more. Though we do add milk to chai? That’s also sort of a requirement. But I do add sugar to regular tea if I’m not feeling the bitterness at the moment This wasn’t necessary but I wanted to share
(4) That lotus flower thing is terrifying me by the way, what a bit of, foreshadowing? Is the grief for the other lives? Have we already passed it? Or am I being hopeful.
(5) The tiny detail of Monoma knitting after the mention of learning it way earlier because of the socks issue? I think I love you
(6) I’m like genuinely dizzy. Here are some notes I took as I read It’s unfair that he feels the soulmate bond so immensely just for an argument, I like being mad when I’m mad. Maybe I’m just petty. Also, the cat. Can’t like him more. Absolutely not. Dear god His analysis of the frappe thing is also destructive to my heart he can’t keep doing this. It’s devastatingly inevitable he finds this lurker account. (I’m glad he didn’t couldn’t handle it) He’s so unfairly perfect, the sun analysis was gorgeous, because people really don’t like categorical good, it’s boring. I’ve always really appreciated the standard MC, with the regular morality of good, because there has to be so much strength to be able to be good, yknow? Because also that moment when she accepted the sun analogy is. I’m gonna sob. I am also extremely hung up on how all of them are in love with her. I can’t handle that. I feel like crying Ok the way they all knew is killing me but also I appreciate their reassurance and yeah familial and platonic love is enough I’m going to. Cause it won’t destroy their happiness but it is. Certainly. See, and. I can’t quite. It would be fine if in another life they were soulmates but it’s quite another thing entirely that they in this life adore her and potentially could have been fits. But I’m so over it. Truly. Devastating. I’m dizzy. The moment when he hung up the dress and then. I���m so unwell. You’re too incredible.
(7) I’m literally not gonna recover. Ever? Oh my god I wanna drown myself with your imagination and swim in a lake of just your works. I can’t do this
>:)
izuku is so. he's so. unfortunately he's the extreme of many things, and that makes him so tempting to throttle >:)
his brain is always going a million miles an hour in a hundred different directions!!!! he's thinking too much!!! it probably makes perfect logical sense for him to jump from "this soulmate bond is between us in this timeline for a reason" to "soft cheeses good," because he's got so much going on in his brain!!! weirdo <3
ooh!!! legit i haven't ever considered putting brown sugar in tea, so i know what i'm trying tomorrow morning!!! i had the classic superwholock british-culture phase at a formulative time for me, so i admit my tea knowledge/preparation is mostly british stuff, even though i'm an american. so it's really cool to hear about chai prep from you!!! i love learning about tiny, daily routine stuff!!! the little joys are also divine <3
ah, the flower symbolism. yeah. foreshadowing. i was thinking just for this particular route, but if you like it better if it applies to every route, then of course it can be!!! and terrible news for shinsou in this route :( i love the man; he's so sexy to me when he's in Agony
monoma knitting 👉👈 i love stupid little details like this, because it makes everyone feel realer. i can picture monoma being like "i want my socks done right, so i'll just do it myself" and then when he's angry at someone in the party, he gives them shittily made stuff. a petty boy. a perfect boy
lololol i don't even wanna THINK about izuku finding reader's lurker account. 1) he'd prob deduce it's her bc she's posting edits with personal picture in them and 2) the soft cheeses. and i bet he wouldn't be upset or weirded out but be like "oh, you like my nipples that much?? why don't you come show me how much instead of telling people online" asjk;ldfa;ldfj but real talk he'd prob also examine how reader and other people are talking about him and use it to improve how physically attractive he can seem to you. menace. menace!
yeah some people think good is boring??? evil is boring!!! evil is ultimately the same!!! good is ingenuitive and constantly problem-solving!!! good is clever and always changing!!! and izuku is always adapting to whatever fucken thing he's on next. love it.
they 😈 all 😈 love her 😈 how horrible 😎 it's great that you can't handle it!!! no one in fic could!!!! i wouldn't be able to!!! i hope you can swim in this fic for a while and that it brings you joy/dizziness in the days to come!!! you're very sweet, and i adore your enthusiasm; you've really made my week. you're so kind, especially to come back after my embarrassingly long gaps between posting chapters!!! i love this!!! i love you!!!! thank you soooooo much for being so wonderful, and i hope your day is peaceful!!!! xx.
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royal-fizzbin · 4 years ago
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I just mentioned to this cishet guy who's my coworker that I've been watching star trek and then he assumed that meant I'm a marvel stan and like 🤢🤢🤢
#we have our first gay kiss in tros#first gay character in endgame#like i know i had a marvel phase but im so over it and i dont really judge but like i dont want people thinking im a marvel stan#i hate how like star trek star wars and marvel has become pop cultures superwholock#and like i like star wars but im not hugely into it and i hate disney with a vengeance#like i just hate the white cishet guys interpretation of star trek because the premise is entirely different#its peaceful! its inclusive! its progressive! unfortunately none of that can be said of star wars or marvel#star wars' and it being a literal blink and you miss it between 2 unnamed characters#marvel's being an unnamed dude who referred to his partner dying once#compared to star trek's first gay kiss in the fucking 90s and so so many gay AND trans characters in recent trek#not to mention we had stamets and culber (2 named regular characters) in a relationship in 2017 and it took another 2 years for marvel....#and star wars shitty representation to come out#also also we had a black lead in star trek in the 90s and it took marvel until 2021 to do it and even hes sharing the title with bucky!!!#star wars still hasnt had a black main character even if weve had a black lead who then became a not lead in tlj and tros#i mean he was a lead but his character did nothing and he was wasted#so like dont fucking assume that a. i like star trek the same way cishet dudes do and b. that i love marvel and star wars equally#clover talks nonsense
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childeapologist · 4 years ago
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tagged by @naruzumake and @fyodcrs thank youu!!!
why did you choose your url? because I like stars and galaxy aesthetic and Steven Starphase was my Kekkai Sensen crush
any side-blogs? The only active sideblog of mine currently is my Dr. Stone blog @senkus-lab-partner  I have an art blog that’s dead bc I procrastinate forever on starting fanarts and make edits instead @sstarphase--art  I also have a gaming blog that I still intend to set up and start reblogging/posting original content to @sketchydainsleif
how long have you been on tumblr? I made my blog in 2010 I been here since the era of like socially awkward penguin memes and philosoraptor. I was an emo/bandom blog that spammed Green Day posts. I went through a SuperWhoLock phase. I’ve seen too much. 
do you have a queue tag? i’m one of those annoying people with the long ass queue tags.  My current one is: queue: off doing science experiments with Senku \(★ω★)/ Before that I had a Great Pretender one: queue: living an honest life with edamame  Before that I had: queue: having tea with Levi (but I changed this one bc It was similar to another users with a lot of the same mutuals and I didn’t want it to be confusing) 
why did you start your blog in the first place? I was in high school and I’ve always been a bit of an internet gremlin and my friend told me she discovered this great new social media and that i had to make an account and try it because it’s really great. I am still thankful for that. Tumblr is great for the fandom subcultures I love to immerse myself in (i’ve gotten better at avoiding the bad parts of fandom as Ive gotten older though)
why did you choose your icon/pfp? AS SOON AS I SAW DAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME I WAS IN LOVE. DAIN IS EVERYTHING WHEN WILL HE BECOME PLAYABLE AAHHHH
why did you choose your header? Senku is the best and the art in the second OP goes so hard. 
what’s your post with the most notes? an old ass gif i made of kaneki cracking his finger. think its like 11-12k notes?
how many people do you follow? 1,131, lot of inactive blogs there though. the inactive checker from xkit hasn’t been working for me shfd;ghsgs
have you ever made a shitpost? I’m still proud of my Evangelion shitpost that got over 1k notes 
how often do you use tumblr? I get on every day nowadays. And when I’m active i am usually very active. But I’ve taken several long hiatuses in all the years I’ve been on here, otherwise I feel my blog would have grown so much more by now. 
did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? I used to engage in discourse way more often so shgdghlslhs yeah
how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’? it’s fine I guess especially on pressing issues. but idk sometimes it makes me feel stubborn like now I dont want to reblog it just because of that LOL i am mature
do you like tag games? yess but I get bad executive dysfunction and then I feel bad when I don’t do a bunch in a row then it feels like it’s been long enough for it to be weird and i’m like ;ogj;ghslfgsdhdfghd
do you like ask games? yes!! 
which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? I follow a many people that have been amazing creators since I could barely color a gif and I feel so honored to have become mutuals with some of them recently and s;hgghslighesfdg
do you have a crush on a mutual? Unfortunately I only have crushes on 2D characters
i will tag: @rorronoa @tokoyammi @prince-rivailles @ackernen @eremikas
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stup1dcup1d14 · 4 years ago
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unfortunately, i have remembered that my mom had a superwholock phase and i dont think i will ever recover.
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plaguedparadox · 6 years ago
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Continuing off the Doctor Who one, what if Anti got captured by Sam and Dean? (Sorry just REALLY love the idea of SuperWhoLock being crossed over with the egos 💙)
Oh boy, it’s been a long time since I’ve even seen Supernatural so forgive me if the boys are OOC or act like the young versions of themselves. Also, I know this probably is for what would happen after they captured him but I just had to write how they met. I’m pretty sure if I wrote what happens afterwards it would be over the 2000 word limit I’ve set myself for these oneshots. Either way, enjoy.
The air crackled with static as the sound of heavy boots made its way across a dingy alleyway, the walls were wet with rain and whatever residue the residents in the area left it with. The traveller didn’t want to know, his arms being practically glued to the side as he had to remind himself that he was only walking to conserve energy. That there was a reason he was in America, so far away from home. He hated it when the people he messed around with began to travel as it usually meant he’d have to wait at home for them to get back or he’d have to hunt them down all over again and he simply didn’t have the patience to keep waiting around. A problem arose from that situation, however, as he knew little to nothing about America or rather how to navigate the area efficiently. He knew the UK and Ireland like the back of his hand, thanks to his prey having lived in both places. A glitched sigh left him as he walked, his feet dragging slightly behind him. Voices caught his attention, two guys arguing over something and, usually, that wouldn’t make him pause to listen in but as soon as the word ‘demon’ was mentioned, he knew he had to listen in. A cracked chuckle left his now grinning lips as he allowed his invisible code to pour into one of the duo’s phones, granting himself access, like a rogue app, to the microphone so he could listen in.
“Listen, Sammy. A demon is a demon, we’ve faced plenty of them before. I doubt this one is gonna shock us.” The shorter of the duo spoke up, his gruff voice dismissive as he checked over his car. “So what if it’s got a few little ticks and tricks we haven’t seen before. All we have to do is find its weakness and go from there.” He didn’t want to sound too smug but everything his little brother had told him about the wandering demon that they were hunting just left him a bit underwhelmed. Sure, they had never faced a glitch demon before but what was a bunch of rogue coding in a human form really going to do to them that a regular demon couldn’t. Dean appreciated Sam’s concern but the younger brother often aired on the side of too much caution, a good contrast to his throw caution to the wind attitude that did get the man into quite a bit of trouble. Dean threw his brother a quick glance, noticing the pained expression on his face as his eyes scanned the phone he was reading from. “What is it?”
Sam glanced up at his brother before dragging his eyes down to his phone, his breath a tad unsteady as he read through the post that seemed to detail facts of the demon. “It says that it has a tendency to mess around with it’s prey, making them face their worst fears before possessing them and making them it’s puppets.” Facing their worst fears. They knew what that meant all too well but it still unnerved the younger Winchester to read it. “Shouldn’t we, at least, get Cas to help?” Dean didn’t respond, too busy looking at his own phone, confused as to why the screen was beginning to play up. He was sure that he didn’t download anything that could break the silly thing. “What’s up?” The younger brother asked, trying to grab his brother’s attention, his own eyes just noticing the weird green glitching. Green. Glitching. Sam quickly looked down at his own phone, brushing his hair out of his eyes as he hurriedly scanned across the post. Unfortunately, it was a lost cause as the glitching soon took over his own phone causing him to drop it in shock. “Dean, it might have found us before we had a chance to find it!” He exclaimed, backing away from his phone, unaware that his brother was doing the exact same. Both brothers were more than shocked as the glitches seemed to seep out of their phones like viscous fluid, combining together and slowly taking a grotesque skeletal shape before eventually bulking out and looking as if it could be a human trapped inside the gunk but the glowing green eyes that never seemed to blink stopped them from being fooled. This was the demon.
Scratchy laughter that seemed to jump and crack like it was a corrupted audio file left the creature as the dark liquid faded to reveal something that looked very human if it weren’t for his eyes, one almost entirely black and one that looked as if it could be normal if it wasn’t for the green sclera, and the huge torn up slit in the creature’s throat which bled but it didn’t seem to bother the creature in the slightest. “Ah, so looking for me, are you?”  It spoke through gritted teeth but the Irish accent couldn’t be hidden. “What makes you think you can stop me?!” It hissed, parts of it glitching away before reappearing. “I AM ETERNAL!” It stood its ground, knife suddenly in hand as it bared its teeth at the brothers. Dean, being the ever so cocky one, demanded to know its name after making a quiet comment about how the way it spoke made the phrase ‘I am eternal’ sound an awful lot like ‘I’m a turtle’, which made Dean’s voice bounce around as he struggled not to laugh. “My name? Antisepticeye. But most just call me Anti, or Master if they’re my puppet!” Anti grinned, showing off his teeth more, his face twisting far more than a human could. He could care less if he was giving himself away, the idiots in front of him weren’t his priority, they weren’t his prey. He just needed to find that stupid Ego that ran off, he wasn’t going to let someone else pull what the doctor had done.
The knife flicked around in Anti’s hand, more than ready to plunge it into the humans that were foolish enough to think they could take him on but he was going to wait, his grand entrance drained a decent amount of the energy he had left after he teleported across the ocean. Anti wasn’t afraid to leap before looking but it did leave him with disadvantages that he found annoying. “So, you’re the big bad glitch that makes puppets out of people?” Dean scoffed, rather amused by the shorter Irish demon. Out of all the horrors he had faced and people were scared of Anti? It was ridiculous. Thing was, Anti loved when people underestimated him, it motivated him to show them what he could really do. Red strings, invisible to the humans, began wrapping around his fingers as he got ready to turn one brother on the other. All humans are the same. Anti thought to himself before lunging for the shorter brother, not anticipating him to leap out of the way and point a gun at him. “Not so fast!” Dean announced, reaching behind him for something as a Latin word left his lips but he quickly froze as he noticed Anti staring at him with a questioning look.”Why didn’t that work?” He mouthed towards his brother who exclaimed the same thing after trying the word himself.
“You done?” Anti asked, his knife now just loosely being held by his side as he watched the brothers try to take him down with tactics that they assumed would work. “I’m not a regular demon, y’know!” He feigned insult before starting to fiddle with his knife, his more sadistic side yearning to come out and finish this pathetic game. He was becoming very impatient and his glitches spoke for him as they became more aggressive
Sam’s eyes lit up as he connected the dots. A glitch was coding or something that needed electricity but if you pumped too much electricity into something that relied on it, it would fry. He quickly gestured towards his brother to distract the glitch while he rushed off, seeking out and finding a power box. The younger Winchester called to his brother, letting him know where he was. Moments later, Dean sprinted out of the alley way and made his way over to the power box, a fully enraged Anti in pursuit behind him. The demon became frenzied after the older hunter made one too many turtle jokes. Just as Dean was about to hit the powerbox, he jumped over it and watched as Anti collided with it, the glitch being electrocuted and blacking out after a few seconds of being pumped full of electricity. It didn’t kill him but the brothers used the quiet time to take him somewhere secure and lock him up. Jokes just falling out of Dean’s mouth as they went on their way making Sam roll his eyes.
Anti woke up after an hour, groggy and confused but energised. Oh, so energised. It felt as if he had been chugging energy drinks and strong coffee for the past ten minutes. His glitches sparked around, no rhyme or reason to them as they used up small chunks of Anti’s over energised state. His now heterochromic eyes, white scleras but one iris blue and the other green, danced around the room as he tried to work out where he was even with his blurred vision. Rage slowly filled him as his memories from today played in his head causing his glitches becoming more erratic, allowing him to phase through and stagger out of his bindings. His nails scrapped against his palms, his claws becoming more evident. Plans crossed his mind, his sharp toothed grin growing wide as the sadistic images became darker and visceral.  
Oh, he was going to cause them a world of pain.
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coffeestainedcamera · 3 years ago
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Started watching Dr. Who again. Used to be a big fan in the early 2012s, and actually had a superwholock phase in middle school. It's been so long that I forgot all of it and had to start over. Watching on HBO max bc I'm in US.
I'm currently jumping all over the broadcast order, to be honest. Also dealing with sketchy uni dining hall-induced food poisoning. I'll get back to reasonable watch orders once I'm back to normal.
Anyways, Rose and Martha are prob my favorite companions thus far. They're sort of messy but very relatable.
It's also neat how the show acts like a fashion time capsule, given its length and the relatively normal clothes companions wear. Some jean cuts that Rose wore look pretty 2000's, for example.
Favorite episode thus far: the empty children two-parter, as it's decent historical horror. Although I might have jumped ahead to see the 13th Doctor's introduction and Demons of Punjab. Latter is my favorite grounded historical episode, as it's really about getting to see a relative lost to colonialism and its violence (with some aliens tossed in bc Dr Who).
Least favorite: the episode after Demons, which started off promising enough. Unfortunate that a commentary on Amazon that actually raised some valid points mutated into a screed on... people who hate automation?
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mudkipper · 3 years ago
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what fandoms were apart of that you aren’t any longer?
SO many. A whole lotta years ago i had an emo phase and was in the "emo trinity" fandom unfortunately, at the same time i was also in the superwholock fandom (both for around 2yrs); i grew out of those at about the same time which then led to me joining the cassandra clare/leigh bardugo/similar authors fanbase (probably a year or two); after that i was in the detroit become human fandom for a year or so; then the rdr2 fandom for like 2yrs but for the second year it was pretty much dead, then the hannibal fandom but only for like 6 months because the fanbase is a Whole Mess, and now here we are
Basically i have been on the internet way too damn long
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thecaffeinebookwarrior · 8 years ago
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The Problem With Cringe Culture
From what I’ve seen, the phenomenon dubbed Cringe Culture is a paragon of insecurity, internalized misogyny, and self-loathing.
Let me elaborate a little here:  here on Tumblr (and in life in general, honestly), a lot of folks are very pre-occupied with what is or isn’t Cringey.  It’s a dynamic somewhat reminiscent of an eighth grade schoolyard, but that’s really not the issue here.  
What Tumblr folks dub Cringey are typically things that are enjoyed by young teens (in particular, young girls) exploring fandom and fan creativity for the first time.
Yes, these teens are frequently obnoxious, overzealous, and loud, but it’s an exciting time for kids:  we as adults may have comfortably settled into our interests, but for them it’s an avenue of unsupervised self-expression they may not have experienced before.  Moreover, they have little to no experience in moderating themselves, which is one of the reasons why I believe the act of mocking them to be a somewhat callous one.  
Are they occasionally annoying?  Subjectively, yes.  I frequently find young teens and tweens annoying, particularly when they’re being loud and obnoxious during my allotted writing time.  But I don’t shame them for it, on here or in real life, because I’m an adult and they are literally children .  
And most importantly, so are the people mocking them.
I’ll elaborate once again:  I’m nineteen.  Most of my friends, both on here and on my other blog, are fellow chill late teens and twenty-somethings.  And I’ve never seen any adult who’s secure in their own self-image do anything other than Do Their Own Thing and allow everyone else do the same.
In other words, I’ve been involved in fandom for a few years now, and almost everyone I’ve seen actively participating in cringe culture has turned out to be no older than seventeen or so themselves, and probably (consciously or otherwise) attempting to distance themselves from their “embarrassing” younger alter egos and feel more confident in their purported maturity. 
Because they probably did some Cringey things when they were fourteen, too:  maybe they drew manga OCs on DeviantArt with needlessly elaborate hair, ran a passionate SuperWhoLock blog, read Homestuck, wrote angsty poetry about turning into wolves, et cetera.  
Of course, the whole point here is that there is literally nothing wrong with any of these things:  they’re harmless examples of children exploring revenues of creativity for the first time, that we’ve been conditioned to find embarrassing.  
Now, I’m not going to pretend I didn’t have this phase myself:  I once got into an impassioned argument on Facebook with a bunch of One Direction fans when I was sixteen or so, in which I dismissed their obsession as being Stupid and Juvenile and proclaimed my favored Heavy Metal as being far superior.  
Now, I’m still not into One Direction in the slightest, but if I could go back in time I would probably smack my sixteen-year-old self upside the head and tell her to leave people alone and let them do their own thing.
Of course, a large part of my reasoning was also driven at the time by my unfortunate Not Like Other Girls phase, in which I wanted to distance myself from the silliness of my fellow teen girls as much as possible.  I may or may not have still been in my “I hate pink” phase, which I still shudder to think about to this day.
Which brings me to another one of Cringe Culture’s more problematic aspects:  it’s inherently a little misogynist, in that almost everyone who partakes in it is attempting to distance themselves from the interests of teenage girls.
Shows like Doctor Who, Steven Universe, Voltron, Supernatural, Yuri on Ice, and many others all have passionate and predominantly young female fanbases, and as such, people seem unwittingly inclined to see them as inherently vapid, annoying, or Cringey in a way that equally vocal male-dominated fandoms simply aren’t.  
Even being a Trekkie (Star Trek fan) was considered embarrassing when the fandom was predominantly female populated, although the means by which fanfiction and discourse was exchanged was via fan-run zines rather than Tumblr blogs.  Now that men are in on it, it’s considered one of the best fandoms there is.
More male populated fandoms such as Game of Thrones, the Walking Dead, the DC and Marvel cinematic universes, and Star Wars are just as impassioned, and have had just as many ideological issues in the past.  Yet are these things ever denigrated as being Cringy or annoying?  Not that I can recall.
Another one of my greatest issues with Cringe Culture is that it discourages passion:  I have never encountered a fandom, Cringey or otherwise, that hasn’t produced genuinely stunning works of art and fiction.  Moreover, I’ve never encountered a fandom that doesn’t have fans who have cited it as what saved them from depression or even suicide.  
So if someone’s passionate about something, even if it’s something of no value to you, it costs absolutely zero dollars to mind your own goddamn business and not taint their joy with your own insecurity, cynicism, and internalized self-loathing.  
Similarly, I can speak from experience when I say my interests and fandoms got me through the very worst period of my adolescence, and I’d be a significantly less happy person if I didn’t have still have them to fall back on.  Not everyone’s sole source of enjoyment and comfort in life comes from nihilistic memes.
So if you want to take a step towards fostering a more creative generation, take a step away from Cringe Culture.  Respect other people’s interests, and openly and unabashedly enjoy your own.  Question why you think certain interests are Cringey, and try to distance yourself from the mentality that you’re a better or cooler person for being less similar to young women.
And finally, try and forgive your fourteen-year-old self for whatever cringiness they may have been culpable of, and tell them that you love them anyway.
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pinkrabbitsbythenational · 4 years ago
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i always brag on here about how i never had a superwholock or dan and phil phase when i was 13 but i DID have a himym phase and unfortunately i have seen all 9 seasons so ✌🏻 press F ✌🏻
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pixieluver · 8 years ago
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1, 7, and 57 >:D
1: Who hurt you the most?
hoo boy. My worst time was third grade, and two people really did it for me: my teacher and my “best friend.“ My friend switched unpredictably between a genuinely sweet and kind person to a bossy bitch. She controlled how I talked, stood, walked, criticized my appearance, basically took over who I was to fit her “ideal.” I didn’t realize it when it happened, but years and years later I found out that she really fucked me up. I’m incredibly submissive and become supersensitive to all my movements and thoughts around my friends. Yeah, she undermined my trust, then my teacher moved in and put the final nail in the coffin. Far too strict with expectations unreasonable for a room full of fucking 7 year olds, she also tried to shape and mold me into her “perfect student.” She made me suicidal at the age of 8, to the point where I would cry myself to sleep knowing I’d have to stay in her class. The only reason I never cut my throat was because I was so afraid of going to Hell, going to a place that was conceivably worse than where I already was. A couple years later, I thought I had overcome the pain she caused me, but then I fell into a deep, deep depression in 2015 and needed a therapist. I would make plans to do the deed during PE, evaluate just how strong my friendships really were, and imagine a world where I never existed. Now I can happily say that I know I have a place in this world, and that I have a destiny far better than I can imagine. I know I have made a positive difference. However...if I ever see that fucker in real life again, I will make absolutely certain that she knows how close I came to suicide and how much I abhore her black heart.
7: Who do you wish you could be honest with?
My dad. He pisses me off so much, and has slowly chipped away at what little’s left of my self-esteem. He criticizes my appearance every chance he gets in a “loving” manner and honestly I think he’s manipulating me and my mom. I love him to bits, don’t get me wrong, he’s an incredibly sweet person and has helped me tremendously at times, but seriously, he needs to know how much he’s actually hurt me. Someone needs to let him know how hypocritical he is. He’s terrifying if he wants to be. He’s who I’m really scared of coming out to.
57: Have you ever betrayed someone who trusted you?
Unfortunately, yes...multiple times. I outed my best friend to my parents without her permission, before I knew how bad that was. I assumed that since she was out to me, she must be comfortable with everyone knowing! She wasn’t. And now my parents are pretty uncomfortable around her and lightheartedly trash-talk her behind her back to me. There was another time when we were hanging out at this beautiful shopping center, kind of like an outdoor mall. My dad and I love the place. But I ended up seriously insulting my friend, calling her a freak and a crazy person, things I thought were compliments (I was in the phase where I was really into like the whole superwholock/weeaboo subculture like where “don’t mess with me, last person to do that ended up in five different dumpsters” was trendy to say and calling yourself crazy was edgy and cool, but that’s no excuse in public), and said, “Why am I even friends with you?” I meant that to mean, “You’re so much better than me, I revere you with all my heart and I can’t understand why you would want to associate yourself with me,” but it came of as a horrible insult. She was choking back tears the rest of the day. I feel like shit about it, and if she ever agrees, I’ll take her back to that place so we can redo the whole day and she can associate it with better memories.
Hey, they were “oversharing” asks, right? ;-;
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