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[personalizetags123]

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[sesamenom]

Gil-galad Variations, featuring all the gil galad theories i've encountered.

[mother-of-houseplants-2]

when will people stop talking about 'former gifted kid syndrome' like it's just "i used to be smart and now i'm not wah wah wah" and start talking about what it really is, which is "people expected perfection from me my whole life with no support and now i'm struggling as a grown up with no support"

[hauntedhopeghost]

I have an angsty hc i would like to share with the class today: (inspired by a convo i had with @aannonn)

We all know how Green is considered good at everything? And how it’s a contrast to his first appearance in AVA 4, where he was visibly being beat up. Now he’s considered the second (lol) best fighter, only behind… Second.

Honestly, I’ve interpreted that as him getting better at fighting and building and stuff not just for himself, but so his friends can be proud of him, too. He doesn’t do it for himself, he wants his friends validation, too, that he’s done something amazing. He wants them to be proud of him, since he doesn’t feel like he’s enough for them. And so he sticks by them; (lol sticks) he’s considered to be very loyal among the group. (Or, it’s so he can protect his friends, so they would never get hurt again. In that which he feels as though he failed)

But. We’ve seen in Build Battle how they kind of… don’t celebrate his achievements. They’ve become used to him being good at everything that it’s almost expected of him. He wants their approval, but just ends up with getting his builds blown up, or summoning a Wither. And the entire thing with NBC, which i’m not going to dive into but yeah. Basically, his achievements become what’s expected of him, and from his perspective, it starts to feel diminished, or that they don’t appreciate him. (But he still tries to get their praise)

Thing is, I thought that Green has been a validation seeker for a long time now, but now in this arc, he gets it. Not from his friends, but from the internet. But a part of him still hopes he could be enough for them. (But he ends up hurting them, thinking that he doesn’t need their help to feel validated anymore. We saw how well that turned out)

So basically, because all of that didn’t make any sense and was me rambling my hc is: Green has been a validation seeker for a long time now, but it’s his friends, rather than social media. Now, though, he thinks he doesn’t need it from them. (Because he’s not enough for them, and when they finally come back from where they are hiding, he’ll never be enough for them after what he did.)

His character… AUGHHHHHH- his character…

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

Confessions of a Burnt-Out Gifted Kid (part 1/?)

[VIDEO ID: A sketched figure, labelled “me now” looks to the side with a worried expression on their face. They say, “You don’t have to be perfect or exceptionally great. You don’t even have to be GOOD”. The scene changes and it shows a slightly younger-looking figure labelled “teenage me”. They look angrily off to the side and say, “But I do.” They point to themselves. “I have to be all of those things all of the time”. END ID]

(Inspired by this video)

[goldkirk]

I opened Pinterest for the first time in months.

That made me realize a lot about how bad I was actually doing and how much of a Waffle House Index use of Pinterest is for adult me, apparently.

I hadn’t realized it had grown that foundational to me in a healthy-brain-exercise-and-hobby-joy way. Nice to know moving forward! It’s another sign I can keep track of and use to spot correlation/indicator patterns earlier my behavior.

I love this kind of thing, it makes me so excited!

[jamiesfootball]

I was tagged by @abubblingcandle, @kvetchinglyneurotic, and @sighonaraa for the ten first lines from ten different stories.

I do not have 10 fics posted, so I've decided to just do all wips

1- Jamie Murders Zava

It wasn't pre-meditative or whatever.

2- [redacted]

"'Como te llama' if I'm talking to a person?"

3- OGYGGIYHNBGL (some future chapter)

London, as big as she was, never made him feel small. Not like Sunderland did.

4- I still feel like the same person I've been (some chapter)

The first goal he’d ever scored in the Premier League was a free kick against Tottenham at the 83’ minute

5- [redacted]

Roy woke with a hangover big enough to fill two lifetimes.

6- OGYGGIYHNBGL (some future chapter)

When Roy was a twenty-three year old prima donna, he got a phone call from his parents demanding he come home.

7- you're gonna go far kid

"This is so stupid."

8- the vacant house behind our home (some future chapter)

Days later, and James's son was still being a whiny bitch about texting his old man back.

9- [redacted]

Isaac was good about doing what needed to be done.

Edit: putting the one from the one that makes you sick under a read more for the content warnings, just to be careful

10- the one that makes you sick

"Don't worry. They send all the young ones to me."

Tagging @altschmerzes, @faithinchances, and @jamietarttsnorthernattitude if any of you have anything you want to share, even if it's just one line from one story, but only if you feel like it <3

[imminent-danger-came]

Guy who goes glassy eyed and starts monologuing the Jade Emperor's speech from 4x10

[cottonbopp]

OCs on the brain ... SPECIFICALLY THIS ONE i dont know why

[personalizetags123]

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[reezler]

The Basics!

My pronouns are she/her and I'm extremely sapphic.

I love reading (fanfiction, fantasy, mystery), writing (the same), and music! My favorite artists are girl in red (obv), Reneé Rapp, Conan Gray, Insane Clown Posse, McKenna Grace, Bo Burnham, and Rio Romero.

I've done stage/tech crew for two years at my school and my favorite musicals are Mean Girls, Heathers, Hadestown, and Dear Evan Hansen.

Finally, I have two best friends (M and A) that will 100% come up multiple times (I don't socialize 🥲).

Here's me!

[amourdeslangues]

i wish i'd been encouraged to develop my skills in maths more when i was at school

because i feel like i could actually have been really good at it! i remember when i was a lot younger and very interested in maths, and i even participated in a couple of maths competitions... but everyone was always focusing on how i excelled at languages and writing and creative things, and it never really occurred to me that i could be good at maths and science

and i remember being so enthusiastic about the subject when i was in seventh grade (8th, maybe? not sure), participating in class all the time, trying really hard. and at the end of term, even though i aced the exams, my grade for in-class participation was way lower than i expected it to be. my teacher told me "you speak up a lot, i can see you're trying, but you make too many mistakes. it's not good enough."

so for... idk... 12-year old me, the logical conclusion was that i just suck at this. i liked the subject, but i wasn't good enough at it, and i never would be.

not long after that, the pandemic started. during lockdown, no one gave a shit whether you were putting in effort and doing well or not. (once i didn't hand in any assignments for two months, which is a whole other story to unpack, and nobody ever reached out to me.) so there was no one to encourage me, to say - hey, you could be good at this if you put in the effort.

that didn't change until 11th grade. i had a maths and chemistry teacher who actually made class enjoyable, who made me want to try my best.

we had to do a test at the beginning of the year so he could gauge our strengths and weaknesses and plan the lesson accordingly, and i got... idk... 98% or something? far ahead of everyone else. i was top of my class in every exam that followed. i discussed concepts that interested me with this teacher. i remember two occasions where i worked on finding proofs for theorems we'd talked about in class, because i felt like the general lessons weren't in-depth enough and i wanted to gain a better understanding.

this teacher was the first one to notice my interest in that sort of thing. he tried to convince me to take part in a programme that would allow me to attend university-level maths classes while still being in high school (pretty uncommon where i live, but not unheard of). he even talked to my mum about how i was gifted and how my skills had to be nurtured and developed. i was baffled. i had been thinking of myself as being mostly mediocre at anything STEM-related up until very recently, and i still had a really hard time imagining myself in that field.

i ultimately declined the offer to take maths at uni. while i felt flattered, some part of me still couldn't comprehend that it was actually realistic, and i thought i'd be better off focusing on my high school studies and graduating with top marks. after all, maths weren't my true passion, right? i've always been into literature and languages and there's never been a doubt that my career is going to be in that field. so... best to keep everything the way that it was.

(side note: i did, however, follow this teacher's suggestion to take part in chemistry competitions, which i'm still really grateful for, and had a lot of fun doing)

the following year, i had a different maths teacher, who was nice, but i never got the impression that she really cared. i aced all my exams without really thinking much about that fact, continued working hard with graduation as the primary goal. i still looked for more in-depth material on my own when i had some spare time, read a couple of books on advanced mathematics, still tried to understand the logic behind the theorems that we were taught as unquestionable facts, still tried to formulate my own proofs occasionally.

i got a perfect score on my final maths exam (as well as on the other finals) and graduated high school.

lately i've just been thinking of what i could have had. i feel like i'm looking back and seeing so many missed opportunities, so much wasted potential. what might have been if i hadn't stopped participating in maths contests at some point, if i'd gone on to higher levels of competition? if i'd been encouraged to learn about the subject beyond the curriculum (which i now think i would have been capable of)?

maybe i wouldn't have excelled. maybe i would have ended up being... not mediocre exactly, but skilled in comparison to other students my age rather than in general. i think i would have had fun, if nothing else - but maybe i would have decided that it wasn't for me after all.

but i never got to find out. i never really tried. i was not even encouraged to entertain the possibility of trying until i felt like it was already too late. and that's what bugs me, that remaining thought of: what if?

i don't want to go around blaming my past teachers, my schools, my social environment. maybe the fact that i didn't persevere despite all of this shows that i wasn't passionate enough about the subject after all.

but still, i wonder what could have been, and i don't know what to do about it.

[ghoulphantom]

so with higher quality photos available and knowing that phantom (new) ghouls horns aren't like mountains, but I know a lot of people have grown fond of the idea:

while getting to meet everyone phantom makes a comment about liking the way mountains horns look and mountain makes little horn caps/tips for him

[savage-rhi]

💀

[giantkillerjack]

Dear horror youtubers who write video essays explaining and examining extraordinary works of horror that I deeply want to see and understand but will literally never be able to safely watch due to my own trauma - thus providing me with a way to learn from and connect to works of art that would be otherwise forever inaccessible to me,

I love you.

[whoblewboobear]

Knowing that I have to go home after an 8-hour shift at the job I hate to force myself to deep clean the depression nest my room has become while neck deep in the same depressive episode for the past 3 months on top of chronic pain makes me wanna scream like can I just smoke weed and sleep on the couch instead pls?