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bardicious · 8 months ago

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The cute Damian + familial bits of DC vs Vampires: Hunters, you're welcome.

#A Robin Triumphs on Mount Olympia #dc comics #comics #damian wayne #dick grayson #alfred pennyworth #batfamily #dc vs vampires #dc vs vampires: hunters #now you don't have to buy it or read it #I logged on to tumblr today and figured Id check whats happening with my little boy #the verdict is in - comics are SO fucking bad #homie hasn't grown an inch since he was 10 which would be more okay if his height was just like that #but its mostly cause comic artists kinda suck - especially nowadays #the writing is way worse lmao #Im just here for the little bits of damian whump #also why the fuck he look like tim drake in the new batman and robin??? They just are SO bad omg #Imma cruise some more cute bits - so know one else gotta read this garbage

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 9 months ago

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got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

#i thought it was made by the creator of 'O Human Star' for some reason but apparently not?#goddammit goddammit goddammit #'i don't have to write down the title of this piece of media i encountered in my formative years bc i'll always remember it'#*cut to ten years later frantic googling*#fun fact 'a.i.' is now a completely useless search term #google in general is useless #and stuff i read 3+ years ago regularly vanishes from the internet #bookmarks are not enough! if you like indie media--download that shit! buy digital/physical copies while you can #save it to the cloud back it up and organize that shit!!!#keep a list of the stuff you read (organized by date/media type and possibly with keywords if you want it to be useful longterm)#(or a spreadsheet even if you're like me and rabidly consume short stories/comics like a pack of amnesiac piranhas on a feeding frenzy)#(that stuff PILES UP over the years ok. if you wanna make sure you'll be able to find it again a decade later--curation is key)#because art WILL touch your soul and then vanish into the void leaving naught but a 404 Error in its wake #i am an old man shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn but the kids on my lawn are me and my longterm digital planning skills circa 2012

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cluescorner · 6 months ago

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I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

#damian wayne #damian al ghul #damian al ghul wayne #batman #batfamily #for all of the issues that come with having Steph as your fave having too much wild shit happening at once is never one of them #btw I quite like The Boy Wonder Issue 1. wow shocker an artist and writer who I have liked everything they've ever done #has once again written something that I am enjoying with art that makes me want to be part of its world.#it's almost like Juni Ba is really freaking talented or something #like I have some problems with it but it seems like many of those are part of the point. Damian is learning that his siblings are more #three-dimensional than he realized and that is part of this 'coming of age' story merged with fairytale #so I can't be mad at the oversimplistic defining of Dick and Jason and Tim until the conclusion of the series. that might be the point.#I hope that the series will address Steph as a Robin but if not then frankly it's not an issue unique to this series.#I'll be annoyed and disappointed but ultimately roll with it like I am with Babsgirl being here. There's too much good stuff here to get #hung up on shit that seems to be almost an editorial mandate at this point. at least that's where I'm at.#I am also very sorry that Chip Zdarsky is massacring your boy. he has 'X (Tim for him) is the best Robin so everyone else must suck' diseas #where a writer really likes one specific Robin and in trying to uplift them demeans all of the other Robins. instead of like...just writing #for that one character only or alternatively not demeaning the other characters in order to make his blorbo look good #it's wild because I actually think his writing for Tim is pretty solid. but he's not writing a Tim series. he's writing a Batman series.#and if you are going to write a Batman series and include other Batfamily members you need to actually write them well.#instead of assigning them like 2 personality traits while Tim gets to be a whole character #I accept that behavior in fanfic where I have lesser standards because it's fucking free. not a comic run that wants me to pay #tens of dollars in order to understand what the fuck is going on. he's been going for a while now it's gotta be a lot of money.#I can buy Steelworks with that money. I can see John Henry and Natasha Irons in a trade. Fuck you Chip.#it's why it takes such a special person to write a good ensemble story/a good Batfamily story. you have to be good at writing a LOT #of different characters. which I don't think most people are. I sure as hell am not. I can write maybe 3 at a time confidently well.#and you also have to give all of them at least SOME love or else people will be upset that you aren't focusing on their fave #and also the writing as a whole will suffer. Chip Zdarsky is a pretty good Tim writer. I'd maybe read a Tim solo written by him.#I would not read a story focusing on multiple characters that I like written by Chip Zdarsky. because every character who isn't Tim #is at least a bit weak/inconsistent/out of character INCLUDING FUCKING BATMAN. THE NO. 1 GUY MOST ARE HERE FOR

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the-sunlit-earth · 2 months ago

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#skyrim #neloth #baladas demnevanni #dunmer #my posts #part of his 'course' involves buying costume jewelry with weak enchantments #made by Neloth of course. who gets a cut of the profit #they DO slightly increase your strength stat. so not a scam technically XD #all those poor kids gonna have to go study under these wizards now #because their parents didn't read the fine print #“Sorry sweetie you know I don't fuck with TOS essays 🤷‍♀️”#all part of the plan to get House Telvanni membership back up #by fair means or foul 😎

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corvidcall · 14 hours ago

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my little sister sent me the back of a book she wanted to get me for christmas and.... girl im so sorry but im 30 years old* and i only read books a grad student might be assigned to read as homework.

what have i ever done or said that made you think "oh man this is a perfect book for corv"

i told her it didnt seem like my kind of thing and she seemed so disappointed.... and then i learned that apparently she already bought the book???? then why did you ask me if i wanted it....... if you just sent it to me, i would have pretended to be interested.... if you asked me before you bought it, you could have saved your money..... what's the point of asking me NOW

#anime life #*ok im 29 im not 30 #but im rounding up #im just so baffled by how she came to this decision #she doesnt read so it's not like its a book she loved and wanted to share #maybe her parents signed off on it being a good pick?#they have no idea what i like either #which is frustrating because i dont think im hard to figure out #its just that i tell people that right now im only interested in mtg legos and The Classics #and they go “hmmmmm but i don't like those things so can you get intetested in something else instead?”#my sister keeps asking me what makeup she can buy for me for christmas #none????? i never wear makeup!!!!!!#stop asking!!!!!

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johnslittlespoon · 6 months ago

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oh my god. i just found this in my a/n for my first ever mota fic and laughed SO loud bc THIS. vs me exactly three months later sweating it out on wiki and archive websites at 4am agonizing over the tiniest historically accurate details that no one other than me will probably ever think twice about is so fucking funny (get me OUT OF HEREEE)

#things went downhill so fast fr FUCK. so so fast #i was like oh i'll just write a bucky vent fic after p3 and that'll get it out of my system surely #NO BITCH. no it will not. you fucked yourself over. you've written 500 posts worth of brainrot and easily 200k+ words of actual writing #and you own the book (you don't even READ outside of fanfic you DYSLEXIC MFER) and made an EBAY account to buy a 49 page emmy fyc booklet #you have a dozen aus and twice as many art wips and triple as many fic wips #ykw this all circles back to barry. it's his fault. i literally have never had the slightest interest in anything war related #i only watched for the cast and now here the fuck i am.#anyway. just think it's a little bit silly. wouldn't actually change a thing <33 i rediscovered my love for writing and i'm thankful #johnslittlespoon yaps

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cursed-rat-of-homosexuality · 12 days ago

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local man reads physical comics for the first time and is irreversibly changed

no more news at 7 because he fuckin died

#YALL HAVE BEEN LIVING LIKE THIS?????#THIS IS INSANITY #IT'S SO GOOD #MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!! I CAN SEE #THE LETTERS. THE SEQUENCE ART. IT'S LIKE. THEY ARE MADE FOR MY EYES TO FOLLOW LIKE A RHYTHM #AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL #IT'S LIKE SEEING A MOVIE IN THEATERS FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER HAVING ONLY WATCHED IT IN A SHITTY TV #IT'S LIKE. IT'S. IT'S #AAAARSHJSSHAHAJSGAHAGAHDHS #i feel like this is the first time I've used my eyes #the visuals have a different TEXTURE #it's a whole different feel #everything flows so smoothly #it feels like I've been reading everything with sand in my eyes all along #why don't i have money #can someone buy all the Uncanny X Men issues for me pretty please?#i need like oxygen #im gonna die #imagine reading the Dark Phoenix saga like this??????#i feel like if read Days of Future Past or the Brood saga like I'd just fucking #explode #seriously I wouldn't survive #THAT ISSUE WHERE KITTY TELLS A BEDTIME STORY TO ILLYANA????? OHMYGOD I NEED TO READ THAT PHYSICALLY RIGHT NOW OR ILL DIE #you don't understand #the paper #the paper has seduced me with it's evil accurate-to-artistic-intent- song #and now it has me in it's cruel expensive clutches #im going to die forever what is even happening to me #x men

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vashti-lives · 8 months ago

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I have finally conceded that gremlins have eaten my kindle voyage and I do, in fact, need to replace it. It's been more than year of waiting for it to "turn up" interspersed with frantic episodes of looking. It's not happening! It's in the negaverse now.

WHY IS THE EREADER MARKET SO FUCKING TERRIBLE??? ALL I WANT IS A REASONABLY PRICED SMALL-ISH EREADER WITH DEDICATED PAGE TURN BUTTONS.

That's all! I don't need to be able to write on it! I don't need it to play videos! I don't need a big screen! I don't want to pay $200+ dollars. I just want to be able to read long fanfic on an e-ink screen again.

#ugh #the options are #buy a used kindle that is either quite old and unsupported #or way too expensive for a secondhand device #or pay like $200+#i'll probably end up with a boox page or boox palma eventually #but jfc that's so much money and i don't *love* either design #for now... might just buy a used kindle voyage #i've been peaking in the ereader market now and then for the past four or five years #and it's just gotten worse and worse and worse #is there a third party ereader app that uses existing metadata?#it baffles me to this day that i can't sort and search my kindle library by genre #amazon has the metadata!!!#boox at least isn't restricted to one ebook ecosystem #but the boox palma and boox page are both weird shaped imo #and the boox page doesn't really have any good cover options #i've heard mixed reviews about the boox brand cover #and literally the only other cover is a weird aliexpress thing #boox palma #boox page #if you have one of these two devices what is it like reading fanfic on them?#can you download it directly from the site while on the device?#do you read via a browser or a third party reader app?

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doodlebloo · 7 months ago

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Cannottttt relate to ppl who get mad when their niche interest blows up. I am having the time of my life on tiktok rn

#gushing incoming u don't have to read this #theres this tiktok acct called mummy joe i have been following from he very first video #theyre these cute silly little comics and i love love love them theyve been cheering me up for weeks!!!#but very recently this acct started a series (previous comics were one-offs) and ppl on tiktok got really into it #and started making fanart and edits and its all SO COOL!!!#yes im sure there are more weirdos getting into it now and its annoying seeing people beg in the comments for this one comic #because i love EVERYTHING this creator makes no matter what it comnects to in the ''universe''#but buy and large i am having so much fun every new piece of fanart i see has me jumping for joy!!!#ok all done gushing now :) <3 hope you all are well !#doodle.txt

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sysig · 5 months ago

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Grump and not so grump (Patreon)

#Doodles #Villainsona #Just Desserts #Lol #Happy to be the happy sona! Of course ♪#I fiiiinally got a haircut again yaaaay #Actually all the Reds did! We all went to the local barber and they do such lovely work <3 #We got our hair cut on smol's birthday and we're all adorable!#It's really nice now that it's out of my eyes and off my neck - smol's is directly in her eyes tho lol #As long as she's happy haha #Continuing the happies trend <3 This was doodled before the brain weirdness but I'm mostly back onto it :)#Got brain-work to do about it |P But better is good! I like better!!#And I like pleased <3 #There was plenty to be pleased about! :D Good dreams and good conversation and games and ah <3 Happies <3 #Poor Charm gets none of the above! Haha poor lad ♪#The TVAU grump was just a spacefiller so not much more to that #She is cute tho even when she's grumpy #And then the Kaiein thing lol - so I mentioned a bit back about going to meet with one of Kaiein's ''inspiration sources'' ahem ahem #It's the same as before - they're honestly quite ineffectual once you get right down to it #I read basically everything they do in bad faith because there's no established trust - and also I don't care if they're trying to insult me #If they're trying to connect it's sad - if they're trying to be mean it's pathetic - which I mean? Good?? Lol #Them not having power over me in themself is a good thing I'm glad that's where I am currently #Basically they got me a how-to book on digital art - with an emphasis on Photoshop #I know SAI is a lesser-known program but they were the one who helped me buy it - they've probably forgotten #Maaahh it doesn't matter - not even into Evil Time about it it's just so nothing pff #Someday they'll learn that giving gifts isn't the be-all end-all to making friends. I know I would've preferred nothing :P #I'm just happy to be confident enough where I am that while I don't like it - it doesn't actually do anything to me lol #It's a better place to be :)

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random-bean-allie · 2 years ago

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i stg i need to stop bookmarking fics on ao3

i literally have like a fucking billion of them just there chilling in my bookmarks. but do i even look at them when i want to read something??

NO I OPEN A NEW TAB TO SEARCH FOR NEW FICS AND READ THOSE INSTEAD

Like c'mon man

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yeahlikethebird · 5 months ago

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#it's 1am and i'm depressed and don't want to go to bed #there's such an unbelievable amount of century-defining tragedy and horror in the world rn #and i know that’s always true but jfc we know about so much more of it simultaneously now #like i'm supposed to be chill and functional in the face of war pandemic climate change forever chemicals micro plastics and fascism?#and and and?#i'm supposed to smile and ask follow-up questions when people tell me about vacations to Hawaii #rather than shaking them and saying holy fuck stop doing that please learn about the ramifications and historical context of your actions #i'm supposed to smile and give a measured response when a new coworker asks my other coworker and me #when they can/SHOULD use generative AI *for work purposes*#rather than screaming and throwing articles at them about the environmental impact of LLM bullshit #and that's all large scale #that's not getting into the fact that there's a growing family chilliness over refusal to communicate about I/P shit #or the fact that my mom is dying slowly and hates it and is worsening her relationship with my siblings little by little #or the fact that I'm peeling away at my sanity trying to process a divorce and get healthcare for my cat and dental care for myself #or the fact that it takes hours of research to find DISH SOAP THAT DOESN’T KILL THE MICROBIOMES OF THE LOCAL WATER SUPPLY #(10/10 recommend 'blueland' for that if you're reading btw)#like i'm painfully aware of the back-patting level of efficacy that i have for buying different soap and going to the farmer's market #but there's only so much i can do so i have to try to do what i can right? but it's so little and everything is so much #and my mental health is a mess; the fact that my particular neurotype is known to get more volatile with age scares the shit oit of me #like it's this bad at 33 and it gets WORSE?#my job is great for personal privilege but so *so* meaningless and redundant #and how tf do i look at all of this and not feel fucking hopeless?#i can distract myself with my garden but the candide approach was myopic even in the 17th century so it's hard to justify now #I'm so tired #just... fuck man #tag rant #i should delete this but I'll forget if you read this far i hope it wasnt damaging to your mental health #i just had to let off the brain scream pressure somewhere

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xcziel · 1 year ago

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oh i forgot to give the tuesday new release roundup huh

new john sandford thriller 'judgement prey'

yet another "danielle steel" book - 4th this year i think?

jordan peele's black authored horror-writing anthology is out: 'out there screaming'

sir patrick stewart memoir! 'making it so'

and awesome new music photo book! 'll cool j presents the streets win: 50 years of hiphop greatness' - this looks like an incredible gift book but i didn't get a chance to crack one open yet

book five of lore olympus graphic novel series in paperback

new kerri maniscalco adult novel set in her teen kingdom of the wicked verse - like tracy wolff she's branching out of ya: 'throne of the fallen'

hmmm what else ... new big hardcover d&d book 'lore & legends': quote "an illustrated history of the beloved fifth edition through artwork, interviews, and visual ephemera"

michael lewis has another business book out (he wrote the big short and liar's poker) 'going infinite'

oh also taylor lorenz's 'extremely online' finally hit the shelf

did i mention that 'chalice of the gods', the new rick riordan percy jackson book, came out last week?

#tuesday new releases #we don't talk about releases from the bigoted transphobe's media property sorry #excited about the hiphop book bc of the hyperfixation: imagining hiphop heads going through it makes me happy #so many things are gonna be out every week from now til xmas and idk what people prioritize #if anybody reads these updates let me know if you have an area you care more about lol #still tempted to do a 'new in horror' roundup post just for the season bc of awad's 'rouge' and canas' vampires of el norte'#also moreno-garcia's 'silver nitrate'#even if you don't buy hardcovers you can ask for them at the library!

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nonokoko13 · 1 year ago

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Rollo Flamme is autistic. I had suspicions about it but after reading his vignette I heard a voice in my head confirming it. God has told me the truth and I must spread the word

He would also be ok with Batman, if he's not his most favoured hero. Oh and he also probably has PTSD and depression. Thanks for coming to my ted talk

#twisted wonderland #rollo flamme #twst #okay hear me out #jp spoilers #spoilers of Rollo's vignette❗❗❗#This mf keeps count of each grape he eats. 16. No more. No less.#they could have just generalized and say he eats a bunch of grapes but no. he SPECIFIES how many he eats #+ 2 croissants and a coffee with milk. That's his lunch every single day #(very implied or canon) he always goes to the same store. to buy the same envelope and letter paper < that's canon #he goes through a schedule and he's comfortable having the same routine #one of his hyperfixations is hating mages and magic. another one is his liking towards croissants and grape (comfort foods)#another possible special interest is history. given how he reacts in history classes and how much historical lore he knows of the city #another special interest could be flowers because both in the event and vignette is shown he's exceptionally good at cultivating plants and #i think he mentioned in the vignette one of the things he likes of Fleur city is the landscape tho his con is that the flowers initially --#were cultivated with magic #a perfectionist who brushes it off but his grades and efforts to make everything right despite the questionable morals of his says it all #and the most important thing: it gives me autism vibes #Now about the second statement: he doesn't read comics or scifi in general #but mc explains him some hero lore and talks about a hero who beats villain asses w/o superpowers #and who keeps an eye in every superhero but specially in this guy called superman #because bat believes super is so OP he could make a disaster if he turned to be a bad guy #bat also has reserves of an element that removes superman powers and bets SUPER villains using his brains and weapons he has created himsel #his morals are somewhat different to other heroes and most of them don't understand him but he's ok doing it his own way #and Rollo is sold. No he probably won't ever touch anything related to heroes but this called Batman is right and superior #and most importantly. If MC says Batman is the best with that alone he agrees. With proof he only joins MC more #“Magicless people rule” – Rollo Flamme #the part of Rollo having depression and PTSD or some sort of illness induced by trauma is self explanatory if you have read the event #shut up noko

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meikyuunolovers · 5 months ago

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Searching for overseas musician autobiographies that are NOT Keith Richards or a KISS member in the middle nowhere of French countryside thrift shops is like searching for a needle in the middle of a haystack

#sorry i can't stop talking about my holy grail (bob henrit's book)#but it's out of print. unavailable on ebay. nowhere to be seen on amazon. zilch on vinted. and i'm not british so it's extra hard to find it #i swear if i find it i'm making it my entire personality and i'll be insufferable for months #and even then... the bands i like are either unpopular or their books weren't translated (yet)#and i'm only talking about second hand since it's where i usually get books since i'm too used to not spending much #i can easily find books by more popular musicians (nick mason. neil young. dave grohl) first-hand in shops #but it's because their books were translated in french. and language plays a large part in availability #i have yet to check if the davies brothers' books are on vinted though #and even if i try to gather my courage and try to buy things through the net (or even physically)#there's this thing where my mother drilled through my head to not impulse buy (i'm very prone to that)...#except that now i struggle to differentiate impulse buys and things i genuinely want. so i just don't buy and think for months #and by the time i made my decision they're not here anymore and i get depressed because i think i should have trusted my gut #(i spent an entire year eyeing a weki meki album once because my mother refused to get it for me since she thought it was an impulse buy #ended up getting it for myself after i got the pass culture... trusted my gut and i had an inclusion of my bias in it)#and i feel i have to tell my mother about everything i want to buy so i can get her approval #... which can be a double-edged knife as she has knowledge but also she has a very “money-saving” mindset and doesn't like spending much #on things she doesn't consider are worth for their price. whereas i have a more “as long as i get it” mindset (which isn't a good thing)#..#sorry i got carried away 😭#you don't have to read all of this

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martian-astro10 · 5 months ago

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It's so weird when your friend is all nice to you and then the next day they just suddenly start fighting with you, like brother, what the fuck 😭, i haven't done anything to deserve it, so why, atleast tell me the fucking reason, it's the worst feeling in the world and it makes your chest hurt in this weird fucking way, and this is why i love animals more than humans, I'm so done, I try so hard to be an extrovert but i literally can't, never going to bother making friends again

I HATE HUMANS

#Cats >>>>>#Humans will go around and give mixed fucking signals #Like go fuck yourself in the fucking head #I'll work as an IO psychologist then earn a lot of money and buy a cottage in the woods #So i never have to interact with any other human being again #Fucking assholes #Then they wanna be like #Why don't you talk #Why don't you smile #Like shut the fuck uo bitch #I've given up #There are no good people in this world #And everyone expects you to read their minds #Like bitch #Fucking bitch #Now i gotta make new friends #Start all over again #Like BITCHHHHH #I can't #I'm tired of putting in the effort #I need one friend who lives close to me #Likes anime #Watches kdramas #And never try to make friends ever again #I'm actually gonna start crying 😭#I'm so done #I can't talk to my mom she's already so busy and she's already done so much for me #And my sister she's incapable of understanding emotions #So now im just fucked

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