#im going to make it out

[ghxstgvrlx]

It’s so easy to criticize someone who takes risks if you never do. The safe route keeps you … safe. Lol

Someone who never is vulnerable or has less survival situations they’ve been through or big mistakes that they’ve made, the easier they feel that they can criticize you for what you’ve done or how you handle the problems in your life. Sympathy and empathy are not the same things. Sympathy is when you can recognize someone else’s pain and feel pity for them but don’t necessarily understand from your own lived experiences, empathy is the desire to 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 their pain, whether it’s a shared experience or not.

When you’ve been through some shit, you can usually recognize when someone else hasn’t or hasn’t in the way you have. I’m not trying to compare traumas or do the Trauma Olympics lol but I think it’s fair to say that you at the very least can tell through questions or even just noticing their reactions to gather that they haven’t been though what you have. Like, I’ve never fought in a war. Do I understand what that does to a human being? No, not really. I can try to sympathize and empathize with them, I can try to learn more but I can’t feel what they’ve felt. I can’t be where they’ve been, and I wouldn’t want to.

All this to say basically, don’t expect someone who’s never walked in your shoes to understand what that feels like. That’s okay, they don’t have to. Just get a really good filter for people who want to shame you and who want to understand you.

[churroach]

Full of Desires

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x03 - “Finally Got The Name Right”

[spidertroupeart]

the jokes write themselves

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[stars-and-branches]

Chronic pain pisses me off cause I'm not even incapacitated for like a cool or badass reason instead my body is throwing the world's biggest temper tantrum because it's raining outside

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[pigswithwings]

above all else a trans woman is a person. above all else a trans women is a woman who goes to the same grocery store as you and buys fruits in the same grocery cart as you and goes home and eats her dinner the same as you. above all else a trans woman is a woman who dresses like you do and talks the same way you do. above all else a trans woman is a woman who wants to be cared about the same way you want to be cared about and a trans woman is a woman who makes friends the same way you make friends. above all else you should care about trans women because they are people. treat her as such.

[spyres-moved]

[upstairscryptid]

Sometimes I get into this horrible cycle of escalation. Where I'm mad and everything just seems to make me madder.

[sketchy-tour]

Request for a special person from my tumblr dms!!!

I won't get into it cause it's honestly not worth any more time than I already spent messing with this obvious troll, but have this! It's also my first time drawing Pomni!!!

[valtsv]

i've figured out the hack to writing is to write badly so that you can eventually write good when you go back to edit. unfortunately that means that i'm going to have to go back and edit. sisyphus rolling that damn boulder up the hill emoji.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Do you guys fuck with the FNAF books?…

[stil-lindigo]

bite of winter.

a comic about a princess who died in the snow.

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[unlimitedbutchworks]

a lot of older norms for internet and site etiquette are shit but you know what was good that we need to bring back? lurking. you need to lurk moar