#if its a phobia i understand

[snailstrailz]

Hating bugs isn't a personality trait btw.

[botanicalbasil]

I hate being a person who loves bugs, I can't say anything without the person I'm talking to reacting with disgust. Today I had to literally beg a coworker for the life of a spider, and then after I put it in a nook outside she thought it'd be funny to show me a video she took of her killing one. Like idk man. Birds scare the shit out of me but I still get why people love them. They come in pretty colors and they sound nice and they're interesting to observe. I don't understand why people don't feel the same about bugs. The rich amber color of a cockroach, the iridescent glow of a fly, the intricate hydraulics that power their little legs, the chirp of a beetle, the art of the spider's web... It's all so beautiful. Why is it the habit of so many to destroy?

[bottombaron]

there really does need to be a queer person in the writers' room on every show with queer characters, if only to explain how to better describe 'profound' relationships.

bc this happens all the time with showrunners fumbling for ways to describe a not-necessarily-sexually-prioritized relationship between same-sex characters

it's like somewhere in our evolution 'straight' men forgot that you can express your Profound Emotions with sex or other physical ways just to experience closeness and love.

like sexual attraction can evolve from profound emotions. they aren't inherently mutually exclusive. you can have two people who aren't initially attracted to each other and then over the course of knowing each other attraction blooms from simply caring for that person.

it's wild that ppl don't get that. is it a straight person thing? Do you have to be horny for a person from the go or it doesn't count?

like i'm absolutely serious, there needs to be studies on this phenomenon. there's something here in the miscommunication of what love can look like that is fucking fascinating.

[kawaiimunism]

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[blurryfce300]

also have this (based on my headcanon that blurry hates everyone because he sees them as a threat to his existence/is scared of them) (he definitely just saw the word homophobia and didnt even bother looking it up he saw the “phobia” ending and went “ok so its a fear got it”)

[youngpettyqueen]

Garak assuming Jake is scared of heights on the ladder and offering to climb down and help him. I have been tenderized

[haemosexuality]

aw my dad was cute rn. he dropped me off at the gym like 10 mins ago and i just texted him, "i immediately started feeling sick when i started working out" (meaning im physically weak and feeling nauseous/sweating cold) and he asked "really? but did something trigger you?" (thinking i meant an anxiety episode). idk i thought it was sweet

[remastered-feedback]

Not to be a "Social media bad it rots your brain" boomer but I find it generally distressing how it feels like every serious conversation has grown saturated with attempts at zingers, and based on when it became inescapable I can't help but feel there is a connection between that and how social media has rewired a lot of people to dig for likes and engagement.

It is so disheartening to see someone recognize that there's something they don't know enough about and ask a question to try to learn more, only to have people start dunking on them for not knowing what they consider to be common knowledge. It is legitimately infuriating to see someone try to clarify something that makes them uncomfortable, and instead of trying to understand it and determine if it's a misunderstanding or one or both parties lacking a full perspective, they just get blithely dismissed at-best, and actively attacked at-worst.

And I'm not talking about legitimate situations like some dipshit comes in asking you to take a centrist approach towards nazis or someone's deliberately giving a pitch for conversion therapy in a queer space or other things like that where yeah fuck 'em. I'm talking about the way it feels like a lot of online spaces nowadays treat moments of disconnect and disagreement amongst regulars less like chances for growth and learning, and more like chances to grow clout.

It is so heartbreaking to see someone who was coming out of their shell and becoming an active member of the community cloister back up and eventually leave because their discomfort was answered with mockery and their question was answered with scorn, and it almost always takes this lazy format that reads like someone dunking on their racist uncle on facebook and I just do not have the patience for that shit the person getting shat on wasn't being a jackass and their only mistake was not knowing all the answers at the outset.

[toastsnaffler]

I was on the wikipedia page for phobias just for fun but just discovered theres an actual word for a fear of being touched.. 🥹

[drdemonprince]

Hell yeah my dude you are rad as hell, this is how I imagine choosing to support you https://youtu.be/EjuCpgN78Jc?t=30 It's a taz animatic so no jumpscare or anything

[hometownrockstar]

When i was younger i had a brief hyperfixation on radiation and nuclear war movies made during the 80's cold war times but it was brief because after like a week of it i got so viscerally depressed that i had to make myself stop engaging with it and i also have a deep fear of radiation poisoning tho i wouldnt pinpoint the start of it to THAT moment i'd always been scared of it but yeah. But anyways my response to it now at the moment is to learn about nuclear power and learn all the ways it is done safely and the benefits it can provide :-) this doesnt stop the fear of radiation posioning and worse case scenarios obviously but i still like to learn about stuff because if you don't know about it its easy to jump to the worst conclusions to fear about it. Radiation in general is very feared by the populace so i wanna know about it so i dont be afraid of common misconceptions i might take as fact. Also energy is very cool to me i have considered working in the field before whether its wind or solar or electrical pylons hehe

[rigginsstreet]

sometimes i'll be watching a video or reading up about a certain mental illness from people living with it and im like "oh some of these things are hitting..." but not to an extent that it debilitates my life? but also it feels like its certainly happening more than it should for like normal people lmao and i can never tell if these are just symptoms of my anxiety that cause certain feelings to be heightened or if theres something else going on

[guzmapkmn-archive]

You know. It would be great if people could take my phobia seriously 👍 (no one here, my family sux)

[solidssnakeass]

kojimas istp and intp character duos are on another level from ANY other fictional characters in any other media ever i want to shove them all into my mouth

[lizard-dumbass]

Guess who finally found out they have athlemaphobia lol

[greatlightthroughapinhole]

i love to see people stop demonizing any kind of food and acknowledging that there is actually quite a bit of nutritional value in ice cream and fries and stuff, but there is also a way to do that without acting like none of us have high cholesterol