#im trying to learn to accept that love

[dollarstorecrush]

I make amiibo chips for fun. I like to put them in coin containers with glitter, and I have offered to make my friends any amiibos they want.

I have everything I need to make the chips. I even had these grand plans for them, designed icons to put in them even, but when I went to print them... find out we are out of ink.

So I set them aside, sad and unfinished in my opinion.

Today I was making some for a coworker, for Splatoon 3 amiibos. I wanted to get them to her tomorrow, since she plays a lot and I know she really wants the gear for an upcoming event i believe (and I'm also trying to make a good impression because we're in those awkward beginning stages of friendship, and I really like her and really want to be her friend), and so I simply made them as usual with the coin cases and glitter, but opting to just put a piece of paper to label them.

I then realized something.

My own pressure and expectations of perfection have not only deprived my friends of the amiibos they want, but my own enjoyment of making them. Because to me, if they couldnt be perfect, if they weren't like the ones you could buy on Etsy, what was the point?

But I don't make these for Etsy. If i were to sell them, it'd be to people in my area, in the circles I run in. And even then, i doubt theyd expect high quality perfection from someone who just does this for fun (especially because it'd be $5. No one expects a hobbyist to be Etsy store perfect for $5)(again, assuming i'd want to charge money. I make them for fun and because i like to make people happy).

So i am simply labelling them with paper from here on out. Because why should my friends be deprived of the joy from their amiibos because I'm stressing over perfection? They dont care. They dont even know im doing the coin container-glitter thing.

All they know is their friend is making them amiibos.

And now I get to have fun doing it again.

[amaconcha]

One of my favorite things about the ASL Brothers is the fact that Ace was the one brought out the sake and proposed becoming brothers.

Not Luffy or Sabo but Ace.

Ace, who believes he is unlovable, Ace who believes that his blood is dirty, Ace who believes that he didn’t deserve to be born, Ace who thinks that his life is worthless, Ace who believes that his mere existence is a crime.

And yet Ace saw these two boys and approached them without apprehension or fear of rejection even though he was proposing something as irrevocable, something as bonding as brotherhood

[snakes-of-the-undercity]

Vi is gifted kid burnout but in the english major way

[mainmoenmomentmaybe]

happy anniversary to all the friendships where we truly thought we could make it through together

[evilmagician430]

mabeline/jonah wolf in my 2020s timeskip au! read my tags for more information about her

[the-outlande-r]

thinking abt how im a dyke and have adhd like damn baby pick a struggle

[vanyafresita]

do you care about him

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Hello can anyone tell me what college is like

[bruiisedfawn]

i love so much that im willing to endure whatever sex that comes with it, and i just fantasize about someone loving me so much that they wanna be with me even if i dont wanna have that much sex

[scarycranegame]

okay but why do people get so goddamn upset when you say that you dislike kids/being around kids???? i'm pretty sure no one is saying that kids should just straight up stop existing, or that kids shouldn't be allowed in any public place ever. when most people say they don't like kids it means that they're sick of hearing screaming for an hour and a half in the local walmart because some kid's parent won't buy them a ps5. they mean they're sick of hearing cocomelon on full blast while waiting in the purgatory that the checkout line. they're sick of nearly running a kid over with a shopping cart because said kid's idea of fun is laying on the floor in the middle of the aisle and their parent can't be bothered to tell them to get up. that's what people mean when they say they dislike kids.

no one (at least, no one i've ever heard of) is trying to physically accost children simply for existing in a public place. no one is trying to argue that children shouldn't exist, or be allowed in public places. i feel like some of you are forgetting that "man im 5 seconds away from killing this [x]" is a figure of speech and not actual homicidal ideation. god motherfuckin damn. get a grip

[brainworm-blitz]

happy ace week to all the aces that were actually horrified/devastated to realize they were ace. btw.

I love u.

[the0ther-side0f-dawn]

I just really didn't think that America as a whole would be dumb enough to go back for round 2. like did the trump voters actually have a good time during his last term?? i thought everyone was just humouring him by letting him get this far

[puppetlooselystrung]

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[pctaldrunk]

it's a headcanons night baby (they're only sort of related, so, different posts, shh). After months (maybe literal years), we have returned to Ro's series on J.in G.uangyao.

I was thinking about how in a great deal of circumstances when J.in G.uangyao likes someone - the less likely he is, almost, to accept any promises from them. Which - sounds counterintuitive, and it is, but - he knows he can't handle the emotional ramifications of someone he genuinely cares for and believes in go back on or retract their word, as they inevitably sometimes have to (and I do think he knows better than most that there is a circumstance for everything). Like everything with him - it's kind of a trust thing, though I feel even the people he trusts...will have to deal with this some, until something can resolve. Because he carries these walls with him from the beginning of his narrative - maybe from the beginning of his life.

The tragedy of his mother and the rather violent rejection from his father begins this thought process - and arguably I think, the events during, following, and after s.unshot, cements for him - that it only hurts worse and puts you in a worse position when you allow yourself to have any expectations or to believe in things that are subject to change. It's pessimistic but I think he genuinely prepares for and accepts it when people do turn on him...relatively quickly. He may or may not take measures, dependent on his level of panic and ability and energy availability to care about the outcome - but he accepts it very quickly. You can see that in G.uanyin T.emple - never let it be said that he wasn't shocked, because truly he was played, but he rolled with it, you know? Whether or not that screams repression - is a different headcanon, truly.

Likewise, I think it's hard for him to accept or consider someone's regard for him as the Solution to His Problems (tm), the sum of his worth or even a viable backup plan - feelings are fickle, feelings change, feelings can be acted - when you're stuck in a brothel, it's better to earn money yourself than to hope for someone to buy your contract. A relationship, whether that's platonic or romantic, is not a safety net he's willing to fall on. Barring his mother, he has accepted that it's easier if love is conditional, even if he is exhausted by it, because fulfilling his end of the bargain when he knows what it is is easier, safer and eons more reliable than counting on the ever elusive and easily changed thing known as human hearts. He's known to be eager to please - or rather, he's eager to bring something more substantial and demanding, shall we say, of attention and admiration, to the table other than being the blurry and mystifying concept of "a person another person likes."

[puppy-dough]

why me...