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An Antwan and Nigel Adventure by whatthefoucault
Sometimes, when all seems lost, and mistakes were made, and it feels as though life has descended into a pit of endless frowny face blue screens of death, what is needed is a hard restart.
That was how Antwan Hovachelik found himself in a distressingly rustic little chalet on a picturesque lake in northern Québec, plotting his redemption arc.
Here’s the first of 22 chapters of these two, featuring feelings, nature, shenanigans, some spicy times, you know the usual. Except, of course, there’s nothing usual about it at all. You don’t even have to be super familiar with the source media to read it because I planned for this and there’s enough exposition to get you up to speed.
#writing#antwan hovachelik#nigel billingsley#free guy#jumanji: welcome to the jungle#ofmd adjacent inasmuch as these two are played by the same guys as ed and stede#anyway this is 22 chapters and i've been working on it for many many months#read and enjoy and tell your friends!
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being an adult means we can buy or make as much self-indulgent shit (as we can afford) and unironically have trinkets of our fave things cause our teen years was bullied for liking things and hiding/denying we were ever neurodivergent to the point of suicide. sucks for anyone that thinks its weird cringe but I'm going to try and allow myself to love myself in little ways now
#wish i could tell younger me that i wasnt fucked up i was just autistic#even if youre not nd i still think having things you enjoy around you is important especially for your space#so i make a notable effort to get fandom stuff for my younger siblings now#like my lil sister thinks getting demon slayer stuff is cringe cause anime and what not (havent read it sorry)#but her face still lights up when i get her a pin for her#or a blind bag with a character keychain#and very slowly the self hatred and whatever it feels like that youre not allowed to like anything and that anything you like is bad#starts to diminish#my qpp is obsessed with birds and chickens and has so many trinkets around the house for it#or my friend who loves how pretty stained glass looks that his walls are covered in thrifted stain glass pieces#i know an elderly couple who are obsessed with star trek and they have a room in the house purely for shelves stacked with collectables#my friend's dad is so obsessed with spiderman that he has 3 walls full of figurines and posters and collectables that prob amoutn to tons#like i dont get it but i get it#maybe its because im sick rn but im in my head tonight about human loving things and stories and cocepts to the point of comfort#sara shush#ramble
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I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...
#personal#delete later#idk i just saw a post of the “alternate ending” comic on my dash and everyone praising it as an improvement and “fixing” the original#which i kinda resent#while tulli and i was taking my nephew to a book store we walked around the kids section and found the giving tree and we read through it#and i was so stricken by how profoundly sad it is. it's not a happy story#in the end both versions tell the exact same lesson. but one flat out tells you and the other makes you sit with a pit in your stomach#and work to find the answer#i dunno it's kids literature but kids literature is important. i don't wanna discredit anyone's bad memories with the book but also i think#sometimes it's ok to make kids a bit sad and upset with fiction.#tweet that goes “what if romeo and juliet didn't kill themselves and explained to the audience that family feuds are bad”#idk you can't seriously read the original book as an adult and say it's glorifying self-martyrdom#when the final drawing of the book is of an old tired man sitting on arotting stump with his hat fallen to the ground#again i don't wanna invalidate people's feelings if they enjoy the alt version i think it's really nice too. but the original has its#purpose too. imagine if at the end of the lorax they show that the boy did it and replanted the world happy ending#wait they did that in the movie shit#i dunno i just love somber children's literature. tulli and i are talking about moomin right now and how the series ends with the moomin#family just leaving. and nobody gets to say goodbye to them. their friends have to find ways to live with the emptiness they've left behin
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Rip to them am I right?
#spn#dean winchester#supernatural#sam and dean#sam winchester#supernatural rewrite#TAT: Characters#the artemis tapes#image was edited by my beautiful friend punko-pop ty iky#anyways in case you can't tell ive been reading a song of ice and fire#and its rotting my brain#injecting it in there immediately#this is not an invitiation wincesters#dont think that just because i enjoy what George did with Cersei and Jaime means im on ur side#ITS ABOUT VIBES#anyways when ur brother is also ur mom and ur wife because your also your dad and his son#and also god
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2024 reads / storygraph
In The Care of Magic
cozy erotica novella
the only witch in a small town of humans who regularly use her services but are ungrateful goes to her cottage in the woods to get away for a bit
she comes across an interesting book in her library and decides to summon a sex demon to relax, and after a few days they also start to become friends
bi MC, aro agender LI
Blessed By The Cupid Distribution System
romance/erotica novella
follows a woman feeling lonely and left out on valentine’s day who wishes to experience a relationship
and a cupid on her first free assignment - who hears her wish and offers to find her a potential date, or they could spend the day together
and then they spend the day together. etc.
trans demisexual MC
#In The Care of Magic#Blessed By The Cupid Distribution System#two different stories just putting them together bc yknow#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#both about what they say on the tin. pretty simple and not amazingly written and i only read them for aspec charatcers lol#I found some of the prose a bit awkward#in magic: there’s a nice bit of companionship and developing friendship and discussion of boundaries and identity#but also it’s so short that there’s not a ton of development of that; it just sort of happens.#cupid: similar feelings#I am a little confused about why you would be mad about your friends with partners being busy on v day….just hang out the next day??#i guess i do sympathise with having a strong yearning for romance when you’re disabled/trans & there are a lot of barriers to that tho#I am all for clear and open communication but at some points it just starts to feel unnatural#like they stop feeling like characters and more just the book telling you what really healthy perfect therapyspeak open communication shoul#be like. there’s a way to write it in a way that feels natural know? maybe that's just a result of all the writing not being amazing#I have questions about the broader worldbuilding also. but I know that is not the point.#but anyway if you enjoy these sorts of things more than me you might like them!
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On today's episode of Holy Shit My Childhood Was Not Normal:
Kurtis Conner being thrown off by the girls'/boys' bibles with the random "Dream Girl" and "Grossology" passages and shit like that in them
#I didn't have that exact one but I had a girls' bible with the lil dream girl passages in them#mine was purple and green#There was a specific one I read over and over because it was about thinking about your best friend#and I thought about my best friend that way#except it wasn't actually in a friend way I flat out just had a crush on them lol#I later went on to id as a lesbian and that specific story made helped me realize it#so maybe that bible was good for something#I'm now a lil bi boy who might be ace but still#Im 21 now actually Im a Man in the U.S. /j#it's just#always so funny watching people remind me that I grew up Not Normally#like I genuinely got so into reading those lil bible dream girl passages#but I also preferred the gross out shit of the boys' one#cause I was one of those cartoon network poop fart joke funny tweenagers#I loved gaming stunts and all things gross or whatever#I wasn't allowed to actually do that because I was a lil lady so I enjoy it now#I tell people I'm going to shit their pants if they don't leave me alone and think I'm the funniest human alive#anyways go watch kurtis's new video about gendered products it's good#ex christian#religious trauma
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Me through most of Boom: Wow, this is a really solid dramatic episode.
Me when Moffat needlessly sprinkles in anti-faith sentiments without specifying that it’s blind faith in bad things that the Doctor doesn’t like, which makes it come off like the Doctor is just against religion generally:
#doctor who#dw critical#spoilers#dw spoilers#i get it edgelord you don’t care for religion. you don’t have to alienate religious members of the audience.#i at least appreciated that the doctor agreed with splice that gone and dead are different things and told her to keep the faith#but like. he immediately thereafter still tells mundy that he doesn’t like faith and spent the whole episode disparaging it.#which just feels so wrong for a show that’s supposed to be open minded about the beliefs and cultures all across the universe#i hate when writers gratuitously make the doctor take a hard and broad stance on something that he would NOT#reminds me of s8 when twelve suddenly hated all soldiers#as if some of his closest friends haven’t been soldiers? brigadier? benton and yates? sara?#big difference between corrupt military and literally every soldier#the same way there is a big difference between a corrupt religious organization or individuals who use religion as an excuse for cruelty#and like. ALL faith and the idea of having a faith that you live by whatsoever.#just because his comments were aimed at something corrupt doesn’t mean they weren’t WAY too sweeping as if he meant it on the whole#i definitely enjoyed the bulk of the episode but that just felt like it was done in bad faith and made me uncomfortable#and i just read moffat’s comment on the thoughts and prayers thing and UGH#i get why there are circumstances in which that can feel hollow — usually if it’s coming from a corporation that could actually do somethin#but can we not villainize all the normal people who genuinely mean that with love?#people who often CAN’T do anything but say prayers for you?#that IS a legitimate response and a legitimate action#someone can’t physically aid you but cares to take the time to talk to the God of the universe about you and your need and plead for you#don’t tell me that isn’t love or that it’s not really doing anything#sometimes that’s all you CAN do and it’s more than people give it credit for#blatant disregard and willful misunderstanding of faith like this just rub me wrong#it’s painting with a broad brush and it’s close minded#and yes i’m gonna post this. i’m feeling controversial.#my love/aggravation relationship with moffat continues#in the wise words of kira nerys. if you don’t have faith you can’t understand it and if you do then no explanation is necessary.
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I’m here to bother you again!!!
You don’t have to if you don’t want to but maybe dark ship bingo with timjay or brudick????
hELLO i love being bothered by you this is delightful omg thank you, i would love to
Here is JayTim, I can't believe I only got one bingo for them. Ironically I genuinely don't view Jason and Tim as family, even when I'm not shipping them, I think they're tentative allies at best and you can only brother-ify them if you're doing very generously OOC fluff, a la WFA-style. They're absolutely toxic and codependent on each other's existence, Tim wouldn't exist without Jason and Jason is Undeniably Weird about Tim, but not brothers so I can't check off the familial squares. Also, I have no idea if I've been blocked by 10+ people, but it'd be funny if I am. And funnily enough, I don't think Tim or Jason are vanilla in any capacity even when they're not fucking. Especially not Tim, that boy is Certified Weird.
and ofc BruDick I nearly blacked out the whole board because they absolutely are weird and unwell. Some of these only apply to certain AUs of BruDick (like an idea I have rattling in my skull rn with Talon!Dick) but most of it applies to them all the time. I really need to write some fucked up BruDick, it's tragic I haven't yet. Right now the two fics I'm working on are a weird JayDick and a more fluffy DamiDick, but I have Plans™ for BruDick too. They are the OG and deserve their flowers for being the most toxic mess you've ever seen.
#necrotic answerings#batcest#jaytim#brudick#i loved this so dearly ty your asks mean everything to me <3#so do your tags on my posts you reblog i love your thoughts you Get It™#when i say timjay isn't brotherly i am mostly referencing pre-flashpoint but i don't think they're familial in the new-52 or rebirth either#i haven't read a *ton* of rebirth but knight terrors: robin was *not* brotherly and idk why ppl try to read it like that#shipping brain aside i think they can like each other in canon. get along be friends. if dc actually tried to put work into developing that#but it's not brotherly. they may both view dick as a brother. but that axis point doesn't make *them* siblings and I'll die on that hill#brudick is far more complciated because they're father/son/brothers/mentor/mentee/rivals/friends all at once#it entirely depends the comic#but i don't enjoy them as a nuclear father/son either and i think making their relationship that destroys nuance#*especially* if we're talking early pre-flashpoint or pre-crisis#it's not devoid of fatherly love but it's not defined by fatherly love either#they're complicated little guys who are barely on speaking terms half the time <3#you can tell when i get passionate about something bc my typing style changes entirely.#talking about myself? no capitals bc i'm boring as the hate anon put#talking about the ships? all uppercase and proper grammar. we must be Professionals™#anyway i loved doing this it made me rlly Think about what dynamics i like about both ships this was delightful#of all the batcest ships i think jaytim and brudick get the trophies for Most Unwell#and damitim can clock in at third#i don't yuck anyone's yum who wants to domesticate jaytim or brudick the fluffy fics can be cute and power to you#but it's not how i fundamentally ship them and i don't have interest in writing them clean or healthy
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Yasuhiro going through it timeloop addition
If you want to experience this first hand check out my fic every day is exactly the same
it’s got something for everyone - Hiro suffering, time loop shenanigans, unresolved trauma, Byakuya’s corpse, convoluted mysteries, incomprehensible horrors, Hiroko
Thanks in advance mwah
#hi my name is andromebaa and I like making this man suffer#next chapter soon hopefully maybe#please read it and tell your friends#need to promo this because I am putting my whole pussy into this project please god enjoy it#yasuhiro hagakure#every day is exactly the same#fic memes
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NEW FIC TOMORROW MAYHAPS? BLINK BLINKITY BLINK?
#for real though just finished up the doc and my super awesome amazing boy best friend will give it a read and once I get his feedback-#and thoughts I’ll make adjustments + edits and get it up asap!#IM SO EXCITED GUYS YOURE SO GONNA ENJOY THIS ITS GONNA BE A RAW SETUP METHINKS#I think the fic that will follow right after this shall be the Andy and Peepers special.. just to give me plenty of time to cook for what’s#-on the way#IM SO SO EXCITED SORRY GUYS CAN YOU TELL IM NORMAL ABOUT THIS AWUSGSHDH
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grown man coworker keeps talking about how homework shouldnt exist and "they have me for 8 hours, and they didnt manage to teach me? they failed" which like. first off you told me you failed math three times cause you couldnt understand negatives. second off, in highschool you have 7 classes. and a lunch. and passing periods. teachers have less than an hour with you. if youre resistant to learning from them in the first place, an hour isnt going to do shit for you. i dont like homework as a concept either but you are not in school anymore and your arguement for it is flawed anyway
#he also said that he thought school was a waste of time. that he could have spent the 13 years in base school learning something useful#sir you learned how to read and do math and history in school. you were not born with these skills.#this has turned into ranting about what this guy says he said that he didnt know what a younger customer got out of being a fan of the show#friends. cause it was made in a time before smartphones and some of the jokes had to go over her head and it was a different world#buddy. buddy. grabbing your shoulders. you can enjoy something without gettting all the jokes you can enjoy something that doesnt personall#relate to you you can enjoy something and Learn About The Things As You Watch#also seperately he dissed on the movie frozen cause he said that let it go had a horrible message telling kids to abandon their family or#whatever it was. he did Not watch the movie (clear from Just His Arguement).#hes generally nice but i never know how to talk to him#i dont talk to people to argue or talk about how stupid or dumb something is as the main topic.#i wasnt in speech and debate i dont have a deep knowlegde of these. dumb topics. i dont have an opinion and i cant contribute and dont want#to debate anyway! when i dont know what to say i dont say anything and that just makes it awkward#ugh. anyway. rant over i have to work with him again today i cant get mad at this before im even interacting with him
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even tho im technically a 5e perma-dm i havent been doing it for long enough to get truly fed up, especially since i still want to run the one big 5e fantasy game i never had the chance to do. Plus I have some engaged 5e players who help me keep the ones who dont even understand game rules on track. Having a second play group where i dont gm (hi owen!) also helps. My 5e players were down to try new systems and although they don't seem to share my excitment for finding new games, they're clearly down to follow me when I do - which raises the issue that I'd like some of them to gm stuff sometimes, mostly bc ive never been on the other side of the table with this specific group and I'd like to try.
#sometimes i wanna grab some of my players and be like DO U UNDERSTAND UR CLASS FEATURES#but on the other hand i have a few phenomenal players making highly optimized mechanical builds for fucking epic combat so#balances out#theres also the fact that i really enjoy the storyteller role i mean i genuinely like to tell story so!#i definitely see how i might in a few years get fed up. if i kept this pace#but it looks like i wont!#i already have one friend itching to gm stuff theyve been writing to pass time in top surgery recovery#i think i can persuade another one to gm curse of strahd (they wanted to try their hand at homebrewing a horror campaign last year)#some of them r even meeting my enthusiasm for trying new games#so like. the posts about how to escape perma dming 5e under pressure from your players dont quite hit for me#theyre like. warning signs lol. scary vision of a possible future i will avoid by making [names redacted] read the phb#and then just letting andie go to town with the campaign(s?) theyre writing now#my shit#d&d#ttrpgs#yeah#hi owen!!
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Maybe its just that I don't actually read tarot
But how the fuck are people getting such specific and direct answers from reading tarot lol
"They said he was using lucifer to force me to be friends with him" bestie how the fuck did you get that. Where are you getting that information from? I DO know what the individual cards mean and none of them say anything like THAT. What the fuck were you asking????? How are you inferring these things???? It feels like you're extrapolating quite a bit here.
#like dont get me wrong. i enjoy tarot. i have my own cards. im currently trying to develop my own deck (mostly just for fun)#so i have spent a lot of time trying to learn the meanings of all the cards#like i dont know much about how to read combinations of different ones or full on spreads or anything#so that may be where im having trouble understanding how people get such specific readings#but idk man#i feel like if your tarot cards are telling you someones cursing you to be friends with them you may be projecting a bit#like just cuz youre getting bad vibes from a guy doesnt mean hes cursed you or some shit#god i hope that aita anon was a teenager#like hey i befriended a guy in highschool that put off some weird vibes right at first and disregarded it cuz hey man i can be weird and#off putting too so whatever. and then it turned out he was into some really fucked up shit and lowkey stalked me for most of highschool#shit happens. it doesnt mean hes using the powers of lucifer to compel you to be friends with him#he may just be a creep
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2024 reads / storygraph
Stuck In Her Head
short contemporary YA coming-of-age set in Hong Kong, following two teen girls who are friends
one is a musical prodigy but has lost her passion and wants to explore different possibilities for her future
the other is passionate about music but dealing with mental health & family issues
the latter develops a crush on the former, who is aroace, and they have to re-navigate their friendship, while working on a music/coding competition project together and dealing with their own issues
#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#stuck in her head#Hm this had a lot of aspects I found interesting but didn’t quite live up to what I wanted it to be#I definitely love reading YA set not in the west - this is set in Hong Kong - and I liked that a lot!#And of course we always need more YA about friendships rather than being romance focused (though this has an unrequited aspect of that)#This is written by 17yos which is cool! though it does show in the prose a bit. There’s a lot of ‘the girl’ ‘the teen’ instead of their nam#Or like informing the reader of info in slightly awkward ways - one visits the other’s house and says “is this the first time I’ve been to#- I feel like there are better ways to tell the reader this. Like that’s not something you wouldn’t be sure about right?#This made it feel like their friendship was quite tentative - school friends who’ve known each other for years but only really#started hanging out properly recently - but the text says they’ve been inseparable for years.#It definitely tackles a lot of things from burnout and perfectionism; losing passion for your talents; parents divorcing; depression#I just think some could have been handled with a bit more depth/nuance; with more space and introspection given to them#especially their main conflict about one having a crush on the aroace and then she pretends to reciprocate bc the other is suicidal and the#the other finds out and gets mad and it's......weirdly drawn out but also barely explored in depth also? idk#definitely anticipated it to be a bit like this because it's written by such young authors it's expected that they're still perfecting thei#I think teens who prefer shorter books & are looking for this sort of thing would still enjoy it for sure. I'll def look out for future boo#bisexual books#aroace books
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The Magnus Protocol ep 1-4 thoughts
So many spoilers for TMA and TMAGP under the cut lmfao god it's good to be back on my bullshit
FIRST SHIFT- First file? case? whatever, that's deffo this universe's anglerfish. The speaker says that something took Jacob into the shadows, and the returned Jacob's comment on being "some of him" mirrors what Sarah Baldwin said to Jon in TMA ep 96: "Some of her. Skin, a few memories. Not on the inside." Fun callback to the first episode of TMA. Second file elicits a reaction from Sam because of the mention of the Magnus Institute, so the horrible thing he's seen that was mentioned in the TMAGP interview-with-Lena trailer is likely linked to it. Also, the Magnus Institute burning down… I really hope that means this universe has a Gertrude, and she's still around. I'd also like to point out the mention of strange symbols found in the Institute. I'll talk more about this soon. Also: what or who killed redcanary? There's a part of me that wonders if there's an Archivist wandering in the tunnels beneath the institute similar to the one under Alexandria in TMA ep 53 (rc mentions spelunking specifically, not just urban exploration, which is why I think he went into the tunnels for sure.) Other notes: Teddy quit. You can quit here. That's good to know. Less comforting is that the recording of Sam and Alice in the bar sounds like it came through one of their phones- muffled and not in the office where the computer microphones can get at them. Also: Gwen Bouchard is interesting. I want to know why she's too stubborn to look for work elsewhere, as clearly she isn't wanting for money. She could have some affinity for government secrets due to some connection with the Eye, but even in TMA's universe Elias was just an upperclass meatsuit for Jonah Magnus. I'll be curious to see what unfolds.
MAKING ADJUSTMENTS- I have a hunch that Ink5oul is going to pop up again. It seems like a rich vein to plumb given how the tattoo they(she?) gave their victim and what unfolded seemed tailored to her. Plus, they were the instigator of the horror without being its focus, and they've got a big cool tattoo that will make them easy to recognize. More importantly, the victim apparently found Ink5oul when looking up symbols for a commission involving alchemy. I think alchemical symbols (or other weird occult symbolism) might crop up as a recurring motif in TMAGP, as they mentioned symbols in the Institute as well (placed there by the inhabitants or whoever started the fire?) Other notes: Alice has a brother named Luke who is part of a moderately successful band but doesn't play an instrument. I'll circle back to that.
PUTTING DOWN ROOTS- Nice gristly little (probably) Corruption linked story. Outside of the case, I like that Alice's devil-may-care attitude makes it hit harder when she tells Sam she's being serious about something. It's also kind of interesting to see that Sam gets along much better with Gwen than Alice does. I wonder if that comes from a dislike of confrontation. I'm also curious to see where this mention of redundancies goes-- it's a contrast to TMA, in which getting let go was not something they had to worry about.
TAKING NOTES- The story about the murder violin is quite clearly Slaughter, and yet the fact that it thirsts for his physical suffering as well gives a tint of Desolation over the thing, despite the lack of firey motifs. Maybe we'll get more of the gray areas between powers in TMAGP. Something I really want to speculate about though is whether someone's little brother in a band might get hold of the evil violin sometime. That would be sick. More in line with the story: Merchant immediately reminds me of both Breekon and Hope and Mikaele Salesa. We will see if he and/or his oddly shaped sack come back into things. I wonder if the sack is an artifact itself, as he sounded a little surprised by the appearance of the violin in its depths. Other notes: Interesting that the computer system (I forget how they said Freddy was 1337ed out) is dropping info for both Alice and Gwen here. I could have sworn Alice just exploited a loophole or something to find out about Sam's snooping-- except that's the exact opposite of what she's been telling him to do. And Gwen seemed like she was just doing her job when the video or audio file dropped into her workstation.
Anyways. Excited to hear the next ep tomorrow.
#tmagp spoilers#the magnus protocol spoilers#tma spoilers#if you haven't listened to that yet idk why you're reading this lmao#but fair enough you listen to all of the things in the order you like friend#don't let anyone tell you how to enjoy your media
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there is nothing more inhumanly frustrating to me than when someone tries to correct you on something and by all accounts theyre right except that in doing so they have wrongly assumed what you are trying to do
#like dick????????? do you know my intent??????????#does it matter to you so much that you are willing to come out here and tell me im wrong about something that you dont know?#ive been on the verge of verbally fucking this guy up for actual months and like. i cant#because i dont hate him and i enjoy when we actually talk as friends but he has this inhuman need to sound smart and right abt everything#and to make quips abt everything that he ever sees#and its incredibly insulting because it feels like he does this a higher amount to me. which isnt a problem in and of itself#but he is incapable of reading the fucking room ever or even vaguely comprehending why something hes saying can be taken badly#and i dont know if this is just by nature or intentional but the longer i talk to him the more intentional it feels#it feels like he intentionally says things to get rises out of people because hes fucking afraid of being genuine and normal#youre not funny man. youre not extra cool because you dont care about people#youre just a dick and a loser and you need to learn to shut your goddamn mouth#and the worst part is that hes so intertwined with all the other people im friends with that cutting him specifically off#would make things infinitely harder just to Exist in the same space as everyone else who i do love the company of#UAAAAAAGHGGHGHGGGHGHHHHHHHGHH#lycan howls
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