#so like. lower your expectations of me?
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Scott pilgrim is annoying don’t be butch him
i’m also annoying??
#what do i even say to this#read the comics and grow up#people are like ‘noooo he sucks’#like i literallt ageee that he does#i also suck#so like. lower your expectations of me?
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“What’s this one supposed to mean?”
“Hmm..beauty or strength, sometimes.”
“Perfect.”
@sketchbookweek Day 2 - Wilderness / Witchcraft
going back to my roots of drawing sketchbook being gay in a field
#update I’m doing the silly coloured speech bc I realised i didn’t make it super clear who’s saying what jjghgd#Hilda sketchbook#sketchbookweek#hilda the series#sketchbook ship#art tag#sooo this was the first drawing I did for skbk week and let me tell you guys#it fought me. every. step of the way#i spent like 3 evenings working on the sketch just to scrap it and redo it on the next one#I’m so rusty with art I haven’t been able to do anything remotely ambitious in so long sooo yeah :’)everyone lower your expectations please#however I do think this came out kinda nice#spiritually I guess it’s a redraw of that drawing from 2020 so seeing a bit of improvement is nice anyway#i love these prompts btw I wish I could’ve done both#the flower is a jasmine btw. every website on the internet had a different idea of its meaning so I picked the ones I liked 😌#is it worth mentioning that I had some doodles I wanted to post for day 1 but I literally could not get them done on time :’)#an attempt was made but ah well. onto the next
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didn't exactly make a post about veilguard proper but i am reposting my tags from my reaction immediately following the first 90% or so of d'meta's crossing:
[incorrect buzzer sound]
i feel like i need to scream into the void about this game in some ways because i have a lot of just. churning thoughts about it. but what i will say is that i feel like i should've kind of known what the tone of my feelings about this game would be the instant we didn't get the choice to cap the mayor
#da4 spoilers#NOT REALLY it's like for the first post prologue mission and it makes zero sense if you're not there#it's just that same frustration forever. you can't kill the mayor even knowing what the fuck the blight does. and OH NO it's now YOUR FAULT#illario. the mayor. the everyone. i'm a crow i have a knife and i think we kill maybe...... do we kill anyone?#the worst part is it still did kind of beat out SotE in the sense that my expectations were so much lower so meeting certain bars was easie#and it lacked the same scathing sense of betrayal slash crime against me personally. more sad than infuriating. anyway i have work to do#da4#dragon age
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I had an important presentation today and it went well fortunately 💖💕🥹 I’m so tired today though, I’ll probably not finish editing the accident tonight, my apologies 🥺
#love you#tired tired#but I‘m just glad that I can finally move on from the presentation#do you know that feeling when you know you have something like that due next week? and you cannot relax at all#it‘s always subconsciously in your mind#that’s how this presentation felt for me 🥹#I feel so much better now#i will sleep well tonight 💖#Love y‘all#and sorry if someone was waiting for the next part#it’s basically done#I just need to proofread it#but my brain is tired#Tomorrow for sure#and pls lower your expectations on the next part#I made it rather calm#but the part after that will have soooo much drama#I’m eager to write it hehe~ 💖🫶🏻
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I'm not fancy or cool I'm just a loser who writes about fictional men being unconditionally in love with each other to cope my loneliness
#people's comments make so happy but sometimes I'm just like. stop thinking too highly of me please#I'm not all that#lower your expectations
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trying to give up my Zhongli hyper fixation for a relationship was really hard, and it's not just because I'm obsessed with him but also because literally, all my emotional regulation had something to do with him, so when I was feeling things I didn't know what to do with myself and it makes me upset because 1 why am I like this and 2 how am I supposed to have any kind of healthy relationship when the thing that would help me be reasonable in a relationship is also a thing that feels like emotional cheating
#its hard becasue this year is coming up to 3 years of this zhongli obsession and its not going away and I have come to terms with that#and as much as i love the fact that I can find solace and respite and calm in this fictional character I know it will affect my capacity to#love and be in a relationship because#as embarrassing as it sounds#i dont think i can reasonably expect anyone human to take up the role this silly fictional character takes up in my life#i cant project all my problems onto a real person the way I do with zhongli and a real person cant know everything I want like the zhongli#in my head does#so err wtf am i supposed to do because lord knows it didn't work last time#also like#trying not to think abt zhingli also made me lower my standards in my last relationship and i put up with a lot of things that i really#should not have and would not have put up eith#its really hard bc i recognise that its unhealthy but when a 2d character is what kept you alive during#2 of the worse time periods of your life its not the kind of thing u can turn around#and just let go of
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I think part of the reason I don’t want to do the online dating, young adult groups, go-out-and-meet-people, always-say-yes thing is I’m afraid if I do too much of it, it will erode my standards. I’ll get used to going on dates, get used to having someone filling that space in my life, but most of the fillers will be terrible and so when someone comes along who’s merely not-terrible I’ll be so relieved that I’ll think that’s good. but it won’t be good.
#in which cate tells stories#single-posting in February? groundbreaking#like everybody says ‘oh catholic match works great! you DO have to go on a lot of terrible awful dates before you find The One though’#like YEAH but have you considered anybody would look like The One if you subject yourself to dozens of miserable dates first?!!?#aren’t you just violently lowering your expectations?#‘but cate you have to lower your expectations’ no I do not. my expectation is you have to make me happier than I can make myself.#and it is a hideously low bar so if you can’t clear it I do not have to give you the time of day
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heyy just wondering if you're gonna make any more random Carmen stuff? i love your crack vids, and if you aren't gonna make anymore Youtube stuff thats totally fine! just love your content. thanks Jackie!
thanks for loving my stuff! but im normal about carmen sandiego now so no more videos (frantically shoving 6 videos worth of notes behind my back so you cant see them)
#in case it wasnt obvious this was sarcasm#yes i will be doing more carmen!!#though the gap between now and my last video is only 2 months#like. come on ive gone way longer without posting#this isnt a dig at this specific anon as they were very sweet about it#but as a person who creates videos for youtube its so frustrating that i cant go more than 2 weeks without posting#otherwise i will get a million comments asking 'whens the next video? why havent you posted? do you not like carmen anymore?'#and then when i finally DO post its like 'oh wow i thought you died lol. i cant believe youre alive. you still like carmen??'#i have a fucking life outside of carmen and youtube! you arent happy about it and im certainly not happy about it either!#youtube audiences specifically are so awful about this because of youtubes awful design of rewarding a constant stream of low quality vids#and ppl cant tell the difference between lower and higher quality so ppl are expecting weekly 10min+ videos from me! i am 1 fucking person!#i never get this kind of shit from ao3 man#woah. got a little too real there. sorry guys#quick look at the funny man falling from a rooftop onto his car
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dw dw bud!! im takin care of myself as best as a lil rat can :] pretty excited for the 18th!!
and OUGH i hope you’re able to relax soon D: that’s so much stuff, good gracious
im rootin for ya tho, and sending you all the good vibes :]
as for paper’d! i’m keepin an eye on them! makin sure she takes care of herself n all, seein if she’s ight, and as far as i know, they’re doin ok!! im hopin everythin is okay still, tho, im worried too ngl
but WAGAAGH SQUEEZES YOU it’s so good to hear from you again!
THANK YOUU SM BROO both for checking on me and for making sure paper'd's doing great!! You're such a cool goose man muah muah 😔<3333
#ask#i feel like my coffee isn't strong anymore i need someone to hit me with a pan to stay awake atp 😭#hhh nah im complaining and complaining but taking a break off the internet is doing wonders for my mental health ngl xD#ive been taking care of myself more and im a lot less worried about expectations and pressure from my studies or other irl things#and it also thanks to you guys btw!! i kept thinking that even if i did return i have nothing to show you guys cause i didn't draw nothing#and engagement is gonna be even lower than usual so whats the point if no one's gonna see this anyway-#but you guys keep surprising me with how genuine and welcoming you are like!!! i forget i have such sweet sweet mutuals and followers waaa#i wish you all the besg and im sorry i keep dissapearing off the grid like that with no warning but omgg#id gather you all in my arms if i could and kiss your foreheads you're all so precious chu chu<33#thanks again alex hope you know i also am happy to see you too GJGJGH WEHEE RUNNING JUMPING AROUND 🥺🤭♥️♥️♥️
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i have this syndrome where drawing fanart for something thats really hot in the moment makes me SO anxious
#every time i post fanart i have to make 10 posts following that say 'HEY I MOSTLY DRAW OCS LESBIANS SPECIFICALLY BUTCH DYKES ESPECIALLY'#'PLEASE LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS'#how i feel rn about drawing bg3 fanart i have ideas but like.#let me be honest here. the best ideas i have involve my tav thoughts rn.#i know that this is the 'insert your oc here' saga so its normal. HOWEVER#Im still nervous
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maybe controversial but i feel like the way that welcome to new york is considered a staple surprise song for taylor playing at metlife so too should tim mcgraw be a staple for atlanta shows
#now i know taylor cannot let this devolve into every little reference to a location in a song#meaning that people will expect her to play that song in that place#but the mention of georgia in tim mcgraw is just as iconic as wtny or paris or london boy imo#it’s not in the title but it’s PROMINENT#and i’m not complaining about my surprise songs btw like i literally think about them multiple times a week i was SO LUCKY#but oh for it to be summer in georgia and im at a taylor swift concert hearing some good old debut acoustic#oh how i loathe the winter#mine#taylor swift#and as i new yorker i feel lucky that wtny acoustic has never been thrust upon me 😭😭😭#i’m not a hater or whatever i love the song and respect it as a bop but it’s lower tier in terms of surprise songs#so sorry if wtny has ever been your surprise song. no hate and i hope you enjoyed it !!!! <3
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my least favorite thing about star trek is that there's a lot of it and I have a really bad memory and also some weird shit happens in it so I can never tell when people are joking about it or hyperbolizing. you could tell me anything happened in star trek and I'd just believe you. I would literally never know the difference
#am i the only life long star trek fan that doesnt know shit about it#yes ive been watching star trek for 20 years. no i dont know the names of any of the alien races 😩#i have a friend whose one of the people who knows every episode by name and hes constantly expecting me to know what hes talking abt#and im just like aaron please. i can barely remember my own name sometimes. i have no idea what youre talking about#this is also why i cant get into lower decks. so many of the jokes are references to things i cant remember
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SAY IT WITH ME: EXTREMELY BAD TECH CULT 💛🥺⌚️🩸🖤
#Solid State#Solid State Webtoon#Webtoon#Just a little note I learned it’s pronounced WONDER and not like… WINDER… (idk why I thought it was that)#No matter how it’s pronounced DIAN’S CONSCIOUSNESS SHOULD GET OUT OF IT#HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO GO UP AGAINST THE SYSTEM WHEN YOU’VE REDUCED ME TO ONE PERSON AGAINST LIKE 500 MILLION#Jamilah going from 🥺 to 😡😡😡 in like two seconds 😂#WEIRD PREIST MAN EVEN YOUR MOST TRUSTED LACKEY IS HAVING DOUBTS YOU NEED TO STOP#YOU KNOW HOW BAD THE CONSEQUENCES ARE DOING THAT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL JUST TURN THEM AGAINST YOU#UGH FIRST WE HAVE A PHYSICAL REVOLUTION WITH ASHA AND NOW WE HAVE A DIGITAL REVOLUTION WITH WEIRD PREIST MAN#Oh hi… Dave#Thanks for the VR pods I guess#I loved the suddenness of *DONK* “WHAT.. REGISTER NEW ACCOUNT?!”#Girl how’d you get down to the lower city in like 2 seconds#“Bye!” *hops fence*#Them hopelessly trying to convince people 😂#WEIRD PREIST MAN PEOPLE ARE DYING ALL AROUND THE WORLD RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU LIKE WHYYYYY AREN’T YOU CONCERNED#DO OTHER PEOPLE NOT SEE THIS?! YOU’LL GET WNDR SHUT DOWN AT THIS POINT#“IF TEN MILLION NEED TO DIE SO A HUNDRED CAN UPLOAD.. IT WILL BE A WORTHY EXCHANGE.” NO!?!??!?! NO IT WON’T BE?!?!?!?#“MAKE CLEAR A PATH FOR OTHERS TO FOLLOW ACROSS THE GLOBE.” TO DIE?!?!?!?!!?!! NO?!?!!??!?!#Oh god Jamilah you got to get back to the café NOW GIRL#Jeez might’ve been the end of the chapter on FP too; we’ll see!
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ok since tears of the kingdom is coming out like. insanely soon i figured i’ll just dump how i’ve been feeling abt it here. i wont tag for them and i dont intend to share any but because i have been actively seeking out spoilers i will vaguely reference them here so… idk really long musings on this game and my feelings abt it
(im just writing this out mostly for myself since i really kind of just. want to really figure out how i feel about this)
i… am not excited for totk?
i’ve figured out a bit ago that my severely waning interest in botw and general anxiety and discontent surrounding totk is just that… these games arent for me. i dont enjoy open world games with half a million things for you to do like it’s basically a sandbox. i struggle to really enjoy singleplayer minecraft. the space stage in spore gives me genuine anxiety, both when i played it as a kid and again when i reached it as an adult.
botw and totk are not games for me, and that’s cool. i’ve figured that out.
so why am i getting so damn anxious about this new game?
i am getting totk- not entirely of my own volition, i live with someone who is very genuinely excited for it, so it’s pre-ordered digitally on our switch. i am going to play it and complete it at least once.
the gameplay and world of botw never really got to me, and even what snippets of gameplay i see for totk dont really entice me. it just makes me anxious to think about the sheer amount of new stuff i’ll be dropped in the middle of and how i really dont care about this version of link or zelda or anyone else in botw’s hyrule
and some of the story spoiler stuff and general direction this game is going in has me just worried that the zelda series is moving away from what it used to be into an entirely new direction, that being a direction that it seems like i wont enjoy as much as everyone else seems to
so then i guess my main worry outside of totk is that i just end up struggling to really feel connected to the rest of the community about this? being a contrarian is fun until everyone is enjoying something you for some reason can’t get yourself to
i dont have a lot of hope in the story of totk to harken back to… ANYTHING of worth that past games have built up and made to be so important and interesting. hype is a dangerous thing for a not-yet-released game, and while i think the insane amount of speculation and theories and hype around totk will cause a lot of people to be disappointed with the final story, i dunno if i really wouldve liked it even if the story actually piqued my interest
maybe totk’s gameplay will really hook me. maybe i’ll enjoy the massive open world and gmod-ass gimmicks. but what ive seen of the story makes me less interested and the snippets of gameplay i see just make me remember how bored i now am with botw
at the end of the day this is just a video game with tags on this site i can blacklist and videos i can ignore and lore i can brush aside because at this point loz canon is a suggestion more than anything
i just cant shake the discomfort of once again being an outlier as everyone i see loses their mind about this new game while i just feel overwhelmed by it. i have played botw for a long time and have long since worn it out. i played age of calamity to completion and have not touched it or cared for it beyond the music since. i am not excited about totk and i feel like i am in the wrong due to my opinion
#salty talks#kinda personal? just angsting abt totk and being a lil negative abt it#at this point im not expecting it to blow me away. i no longer have fun playing botw. i do not care for the story or characters#this if anything is to soothe my nerves and is for the sake of my own wellbeing to articulate how i feel about this#it is cool to like. put your feelings into words. this is a lot more eloquent than ‘i miss linebeck’#it feels kinda selfish to bitch abt a game thats not out yet and complain abt it not seeming enjoyable to me#but it looks like a genuinely good game. but its not for me. and thats what im ruminating on here#like i love linear stories games that limit you and fun little gimmicks and characters with complex arcs and all that#i played a little bit of skyward sword earlier and was finishing up the cistern dungeon and was so delighted to see the main statue lowered#i love the dungeons with gimmicks that flip everything around and force you to really think abour your next move#im excited to reach the water temple in oot again to swim around and tinker with the water level#i cant wait to finish oot and move onto mm and its wonderful gameplay and areas#id love to revisit albw and get back to playing ph (and maybe finishing triforce heroes idk abt that one i just want the linebeck outfit)#i played botw for like ten minutes a few weeks ago and then put it away without a second thought#so. if anyone wanted to know how i feel abt totk. its a bit alienating#i might blacklist every variation of ze/ink tbh. sayonara you weeaboo shits and your bland fucking milquetoast ship thats kinda irritating#i may delete this bc it errs on the side of being too personal but i really just need to write this stuff downh#anyways. going back to writing my thing abt my oc n linebeck hanging out and being gay
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ngl every time I become normal again I do feel like by/ler endgame is just the johnlock conspiracy 2.0. like ppl looking for things that aren’t really truly entirely there. idk. makes me nervous LOL
#i say things#stranger things //#JUST LIKE idk there’s def more here than there was in sherlock#and sherlock did have moftass constantly being like no that’s not the direction it’s going#but I’m still like. sometimes I feel like y’all are reaching a Little too hard#I don’t disagree with the interpretation. like I see it#but being so adamantly certain that by/ler will be endgame…….. makes me a lil nervous is all lol#lower your expectations please
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fuck dude i have got to find a job where i can be self-employed and creative. i cannot be in fucking retail hell anymore
#she bork#tbd#like now i don't deal w customers which is cool but now that i work at like a big retail store and not a little mall outlet the pressure is#insane. and i have bosses who never say good job or thank you and who have set me up to fail by throwing a department on me that i was not#hired to run or trained for and frankly don't have time to run properly either. so every week just starts w me in our weekly meeting being a#fucking piñata like 'why didn't you get this done 🤨 you need to manage your time better 🤨 you're losing sales 🤨' and i'm like i'm trying!!!!#what more can i do!!!!!! and then the side of it i actually kind of enjoy (which is what i was originally hired to do) is very very hard on#my body bc it's a very physical job (i run the team that unloads the trucks every day and like i'm usually helping unload bc i'm not just#gonna stand there and watch while my team busts their asses lol) and now i'm finding out that it's actually not normal to wake up every day#w your joints screaming and stiff and that i might have a chronic condition (doctor is thinking some sort of chronic inflammatory arthritis#but i won't know if my imaging and blood tests showed anything until like mid-june) and i'm like. so even the part of my job that i don't#mind as much is not good bc it's like actively destroying my body. okay sick 🤠 and i don't wanna quit bc i've only been there for like#eight months and this job would be really valuable on a resume but i don't want it to look like i'm a job hopper or like i'm fickle or#unreliable. so i'm stuck here for a while i think. but the pressure is destroying me mentally and i know i need to find a position somewhere#else that is 1. not fucking goddamn retail bc retail will always be hell and 2. not management bc i don't see myself ever really getting#into upper management but lower/middle management gets shit on the most so if i go somewhere else and end up in middle management i'll be#right back to wanting to kill myself in a matter of months. basically i'm tired of expectations and pressure and stress and i'm tired of#waking up at fucking 2:30 every morning just to go in and get shit on and destroy my body all over something that in the end i do not fuckin#care about. i need to make art and be held accountable by only myself. idk i've been toying w the idea of learning how to tattoo and trying#to start establishing some artistic skill so maybe eventually i can do that? not now bc the economy sucks and that's scary lol and anyway i#have to give myself some time to actually learn the skill and perfect a style. but it makes decent money (at least before the expense of#supplies and taxes) and allows you to travel and still work and also it would be fun. and i could tattoo myself so it would cut some#expenses for me since i cannot stay away from the damn needle. idk lol i need to save some money before i buy a tattoo gun or anything but#i'm considering it bc i am going fucking crazy rn and ik this feeling will leave me eventually but i also know it will come back bc it#always does. and i'm tired of just surviving and just making it through every day and every week like i want to be happy and this is just#not doing it for me anymore#ugh fuck why couldn't i have been born w a brain that likes numbers and code and technology. i love being an artist but it makes finding a#sustainable career really difficult bc i feel so restless and miserable when i'm stuck in a passionless job but my passions are not#particularly profitable. hate it here why wasn't i born a capybara no job no responsibility just squint and squeak and sun
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