#long distance friendships are so hard

[cryley]

I fly back home tomorrow afternoon and I’m pretty sad that I’m leaving my mini holiday to visit friends.

[ebonytails]

Bittersweet fish 🌏💫

[potatobugz]

i feel as if im going mad so im going to just put this out here. real quick. movieunleashers starters ramble.

i cant stop thinking about how mudkip broke down in that one scene in "Typomaniac," when Chespin called him mean. for a second he lets his mask slip a little bit and to me he just... acts his age. he starts crying and calls chespin mean back. maybe im just hyperfocusing on this one detail but mudkip is about 12 years old.

and that just makes me wonder what happened in this guys life that brought him to where he is now. and it makes it all the more tragic how his whole world revolves around chespin, but he is the one bringing him the most pain. and how young he was when he died.

there is a large theme of growing up in "Rare Candy." the characters ages are emphasized in that particular episode, and one of the main conflicts is fennekin wanting to evolve faster.

the thing about characters in these stories is that they're not allowed to just be kids, to have a childhood. so many bad things happen to them. like. mudkips whole, Everything. fennekin when she was famous in typomaniac, or dealing with her own insecurities/pressure from society about her relationship w chespin. and chespin always having to shoulder his friends problems & always somehow managing to stay positive despite everything.

why cant they just. play video games. eat ice cream or something. go to the movies

at the end of the day, i think both mudkip and fennekin are characters who grew up too fast. by distancing himself from them, chespin refused to follow in their footsteps and just wanted to stay a kid.

good for him.

[mutopians]

do you ever think about how NONE of the gangsey really had friends before they met each other besides henry? the only people we know gansey interacted with before meeting adam and ronan are people like mallory, who i wouldn't really count as super close friends. we know blue was the odd girl at school. that the only people adam seems to really interact with are gansey, ronan, and noah at the start of the raven boys. we know ronan was close with his brothers, but never mentions any close friends growing up. even noah is only really described as having one close friend (whelk) in high school, and we all know how that one ended up.

i think a lot about how messy the friendships are in that group, but it wasn't until today that i realized that part of the reason might be because none of them have really had friends before. it makes sense that henry, the ONE person who actually seems to have friends besides the gangsey, is also the one who is the most upfront with getting friends, and the one who seems to be really good at picking up his new friends' strengths. he's already been there before, so he knows how to interact within groups like that. everyone else is still figuring out that dynamic all throughout the series.

[benevolenterrancy]

hi! I recently came across your tgcf fics, and I wanted to say you’re a phenomenal creator. the recovery series fic and the gloves fic and just all of them. thank you for your content and great attention to detail.

do you have any thoughts/hcs on FXMQ and Xie Lian you’d be willing to share? within the original story or the universes of your fics!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you're enjoying them! (ﾉ*^▽^*)ﾉ.｡:*☆

hmm, random thoughts about the FXMQ... a silly headcanon: Feng Xin has very much been hoisted by his own petard by heckling Mu Qing! That is to say, he'll harass Mu Qing relentlessly about something stupid only to be confronted with a similar situation and realise that there's absolutely NO way he can act in anyway similar to Mu Qing or he'll never hear the end of it.

(For example, he has tolerated some truly atrocious divine statues in the past because he's heckled Mu Qing so much about how picky he is with his divine statues that there's no WAY he can say ANYTHING without seeing that smug bastard's face in his head so he just has to bite his tongue and tolerate some unspeakably ugly statues.)

Mu Qing doesn't generally suffer from similar overthinking (he'll just prepare to kick FX's ass if he dares to say anything about it) except for things more directly related to himself. I think he genuinely finds sewing/embroidery/etc rather relaxing work but he'd rather die than have anyone ever see him do it because he's made such a big deal about not doing that sort of "servant" work anymore.

(He actually really enjoyed stitching Ruoye back together because it gave him the perfect excuse -- he's returning a favour!! and Xie Lian is hopeless!! of course he had to!! -- and he secretly considered using white thread to embroider some invisible little designs just because he doesn't quite want to stop... only he knew he'd get caught if he messed with Xie Lian's spiritual device like that and gave up the idea)

[rushinq]

JUST AN APPRECIATION POST FOR @introspectionera BC SHE HAS BEEN WITH ME FOR 10+ YEARS AND EVEN IN OUR DARKEST OF DAYS WE HAVE HAD EACH OTHERS BACK. HERES TO LIKE FOREVER MORE???

[druidonity2]

2021 just some guys celebrating pride

[turtleofdamascus]

Me to Croz after part 7

[soop-jpg]

heres the thing ok. i really like cissiecassie but to me theres just no way they actually work until theyve cycled through bffs -> dating -> exes who cant bear to speak to each other at LEAST 3-4 times. they cant keep away from each other but while theyre really young they cant compromise the way they want to live their lives for each other, so they're stuck repeating the same things over and over and over until eventually theyre like 30-35 and havent seen each other in like 6 years (after yet another breakup) and happen to meet again under entirely mundane circumstances. and THEN. finally. they can be normal about each other and have a good healthy relationship. thank you and goodnight

[nearisqueer]

hello im going to do u a favour and also hurt ur feelings. if you have long-distance people in your life, be that a romantic partner or a friend or family member or what have you, take like a day and just listen to the song 1,000 Light Years Away from the first Slime Rancher game on repeat. ur welcome and im sorry

[screwzara]

How do you think Ali would react to Adudu and Prob?

Probably less murderous than BBB's reaction to Zain and Cinco almost torturing Ali to remove I.R.I.S and almost killing a bunch of kids and innocent people.

Ali actually finds them rather nice to be around(when they're not the culprit for some problem that occurred) but he will not actively seek them out and form a friendship, he does want probe and Adudu to stop bothering Boboiboy and his friends, especially when they're on dangerous missions(but he knows they won't stop)

And you are so right about bbb's reaction to finding that out, if he was there with Ali when that happened he would most definitely not spare them

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

I keep listening to different pieces of music that I love and then my brain comes in all helpful with 'this sounds like great music to die with doesn't it'

[starlooove]

Fumbled the social interaction 💔

[miwakags]

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[fairy-ganj-mother]

the way fall nostalgia seems to have set in for everyone I know in a week is so funny

[oceanmonsters]

it really is so important to remember that your friends are, in fact, in your life because they like and care about you as a person and that if they do anything to make you doubt that you should, in fact, give them the benefit of the doubt and remember that they have things going on in their lives independent of you and don’t just randomly hate you now