#person experiences

[allseeingmoth]

YES!! (Uh, trigger warning for mild emetophobia and just...grossness.) The corruption really gets to me. I'd say TMAGP 003 - putting down roots is the second scariest to me, or close to it. People tend to assume i'm chill with the corruption because I like bugs and mushrooms, but there is a difference between liking the aesthetics or imagery associated with a Fear and being unaffected by the Fear itself.

When I was maybe 12 i had this book of short scary stories for kids, and there was one called "Lumpy, Lumpy," which, in short, is about a girl who doesn't like oatmeal, but her mom makes her eat it. She throws it away but it comes back and wakes her up with the microwave beeping every night. She keeps doing this until it acquired bits of trash, dirt, mold, maggots, the works, before realizing the only way to break her curse is to eat it. It was illustrated, extremely descriptive, and freaked me out so hard i taped the pages of the book shut, stopped eating food anywhere but the table for months, didn't eat oatmeal for two years, and felt sick to my stomach for a week, unable to think about anything but the story. TMAGP 25 felt so eerily similar to that story that i briefly questioned if i'd somehow heard the episode before. I tend to listen to podcasts at lunch, and i can only count myself lucky i didn't listen to that while anywhere in the proximity of food. I listened to it while walking back from school, and when i tell you i had to sit down on the sidewalk and chug a water bottle to prevent myself from actually feeling i was going to throw up...yeah. I sometimes think about other fears that affect me, but at the end of the day, I don't think any of the other 14 could top that.

“TMAGP 25 - Gut Feelings” is BY FAR the scariest episode of tma and tmagp combined and no one can change my mind

[problemnyatic]

when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

[gayvampyr]

no offense but you guys need to learn the difference between someone implying their experience is universal and a post simply just not being about you

[ciderjacks]

contracts written in blood

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[hoofpeet]

14 year old artists listen to me right now (gripping you by the shoulders) STOP caring about your "internet presence" right naow. Draw slower and stop trying to boil your art down to an acceptable marketable brand

[princesskuragina]

My last post was being snarky but here's my genuine pronoun etiquette opinion in case you actually want to know: it's pretty much never a good idea to directly ask someone their pronouns in front of a group of people, especially if you're in a position of authority, i.e. a teacher. The stakes of this question are very high for some people and you are putting them on the spot to decide what they want to share and what is safe to share. If you have decided you want to ask for pronouns at all, you can introduce yourself with your own to remind people that they can share theirs if they want to. And for the love of god whatever you do please do not just single out the most gender non-conforming or "trans looking" (to you) person and ask only them and no one else

[sunbloomdew]

do you ever see a person and you are overcome with incredible fondness? and you just think "oh." but not in a romantic or sexual way you are just filled with warmth and it makes you happy, it just does. and you think "i'm so happy you exist. i'm happy you are somewhere out there in the world, doing your thing". it's love but also not entirely

like people are lovely and i feel it in my entire chest like a burning candle that smells like roses and a sunny day

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[cat-in-a-mech-suit]

Being forcefully raised as a woman is not any less traumatic and emotionally repressive as being forcefully raised as a man. Femininity is not inherently pure and safe. Coercing someone to perform femininity is not any less toxic than coerced masculinity. Being dysphoric around femininity or having trauma from women doesn’t make you a misogynist.

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[pien-art]

digital painting of my keychain-chain 😌 (close-ups under the cut!)

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[teleportzz]

"bluntly honest" autism but in the sense that i absolutely cannot refrain from complimenting strangers if i like their earrings or their shirt or i think they have a friendly-sounding laugh or i think their art is beautiful or i think the fic they wrote portrays the characters so well. "bluntly honest" doesn't have to mean "mean". i love to tell people things that are kind and also true.

[pemberlaey]

nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens

[who-is-page]

"You can't have [experience] because you don't identify as [label]!!!" how do I explain to people that experiences exist outside of and prior to the formation of specific language to talk about them

"You can't have [experience] because you don't think of it through [framework/explanation/etc]!!!" how do I explain to people that experiences exist outside of and prior to any formal cosmology, hypotheses, or explanation assigned to them

[uncanny-tranny]

Fat people deserve mobility aids, too. No matter if it's connected to their fatness or not, because having a mobility issue that is connected to one's fatness won't change that they're still fat and still have the issue at hand. Fat people don't deserve to "tough it out" because fatness should be this divine punishment doled out to those who "deserve" it. Fat disabled people deserve to have the peace of mind that they can exist in whatever way is most comfortable and accessible to them