#someone explain it to me like I’m 5

[kevvinowens]

So many great tag teams between AEW and ROH so why does the tag division suck so hard?

[saltedcaramela]

I honestly can’t get a handle on the updated dash format since I got back for more than lurking still. The For You and Following are exactly the same so why have 2 of them?? My Following tab doesn’t even just have all the blogs I follow but random ones I don’t. The For You tab has blogs I don’t follow but Tumblr has decided I should but ALSO blogs I DO ALREADY FOLLOW. How does that make sense? Am I not getting it? I am not the dumb one here. Tumblr is.

[solargeist]

letting me ramble abt my favourite media is dangerous bc if u change the subject I Will use “Yeah, but uh-“ to bring it back around don’t Even girl we’re in it now hold my hand

[edge-oftheworld]

I don’t really talk about it much on here because I’m extremely lucky to be able to understand exactly what’s going on in my body, but it’s scary to live for years as someone who Gets Things Done in a way your peers don’t really understand, be putting effort into so many things you care about, and then suddenly lose the ability to do not only that but also basic tasks overnight after a deadline, and bit by bit after many. it’s scary getting really irritable sometimes to the point of violence, just when you were meant to be celebrating the rewards from your hard work, the only impact of the work you did that you can see is that you overdrafted your ability to do anything. including have a basic conversation without getting grumpy or crying. and your body is going to make you pay it back with interest, you already know that, but you don’t know how to start filling yourself back up. you’ve only ever enjoyed being on the grind, hard at work on exciting things.

I don’t know how many of you have been through the kind of burnout that’s years of needing 12hrs of sleep a night but with terrible insomnia, waking up to what feels like a hangover for weeks on end with little relief then rinse and repeat without having a single drink, feeling too sick to eat and needing to exercise to emotionally regulate but being unable to, anxiety that doesn’t come from worry but you’ll pick that up too at some point, dissociating every time you try to do mentally taxing tasks that you’re PAID for so it takes an hour of grounding yourself just to get five minutes worth of productive concentration, falling asleep the minute you feel a little safe by being in the presence of loved ones. but I suspect I’m not the only one.

I’ve had songs for the energetic and angsty times leading up to this. for the exasperated times and the brain fog and the times where all my limited energy is tied up in feeling things. that I need to, need to acknowledge, but it’s overwhelming and I live in a haze for weeks as a result of. songs telling of the kind of youth I wish I had, even when I was sold something else. songs for the months spent as a teenager trying to be there for my friends, worrying for them, distracting me from worrying for myself, trying to cling on to positivity and hope amongst it when I had to choose to make a discipline of always seeing that. I’ve had songs for healing and when healing is harder than expected and songs that have the right level of musical complexity to capture the layers of everything that’s happening in my head, making it sound good, telling me it’s gonna be okay.

I don’t know how I could ever say thank you for this. but I do know that I see parts of myself in the people behind these songs, of course I do, and I worry for them as a result and ache for them because it’s hard enough to feel this way when no one knows me or feels the need to control me or mould me into what they think I should be. I’d do anything to keep them all healthy and happy and all of their loved ones too and I don’t think it’s strange as a fan to take that seriously. I hope we can understand the need to treat them gently, and to while not questioning their privacy and the fact that they’re never going to tell us everything they go through, listen to our intuition when we catch something we relate to and treat what they’ve shared with us or hinted at with the dignity we would if someone we love told us something vulnerable. be kind in our expectations and be intentional in the fan culture we create because it does make its way back to them.

and the same goes with all of you. we’re bonding over the same things. I know a lot of this fandom is in the stage where interpersonal relationships are hard. we don’t mean to be grumpy of frustrated but we are. and I’m sending love to all of you. we can get through this together. it’s what they’ve always longed for isn’t it?

[partynthem]

genuinely i never want to hear abt taylor swift again

[mentallygill]

I don’t watch mha but the few clips I’ve seen of fuyumi actually made me hate her. Like “he’s trying to change guys 🥺” shut the fuck up. Actually shut up. Silence forever please

[emichevy]

Still wondering how people can look through a comic and pull out the most philosophical messages and build complex theories and stories off of them.

Like I can do that too but I’ve never been nearly that complexed and I just GRRRRRRRR

I want your brain

This is directed at someone you know who you are/pos

(This is not a threat this is in a loving and “I’m very in awe of you” way I swear)

[ocpdzim]

tbh my advice to other disabled people is Don’t Be Afraid To Be An Asshole Sometimes. like not unprovoked but if people are bothering you. you may think “he probably doesn’t mean anything by it” and maybe you’re even right, but if you’re enough of a pain in the ass about it then people learn not to be ableist next time and it doesn’t actually hurt them any aside from momentarily feeling horribly awkward. grill ME on why i’m sitting down at an event where most people stand up and you get my whole medical history in painstaking detail loud enough for everyone nearby to hear our conversation. and the bonus of this is it flips an interaction that would otherwise be upsetting and embarrassing to you back around onto the dick who tried to make you feel that way. it’s your turn to feel like you’ve personally fucked up the vibe at the whole party now, dipshit

[itspileofgoodthings]

Porfiry telling Raskolnikov that at least he was honest and in one bound took the furthest leap to put his theory to the test of actual action——

[chaoticlad]

Something I do not understand is whenever people still follow me after I change fandoms. I feel like my style isn’t good enough to remain in other’s followed blogs, but like- 25% of y’all are tf2 fans, 37% are smg4 fans, 17% of y’all are wan piss fans and the rest follow me for no reason at all I do not understand.

I’ll be honest my first follower was one of those people who follow me for no reason I checked they’re still following me.

[songtwo]

idk i think my bf might be developing a drinking problem and i just don’t know what to do…..

[autisticlenaluthor]

i have absolutely no clue what’s happening right now

[suispiria]

bechdel homestuck discourse ……. ?

[katierosefun]

obsessed with harvey in season 7 because you think that man can’t be any more disastrous but then he’s dating his therapist and inventing a new job for his boyfriend (cough) former employee who he hired illegally the first time around and he’s stressed and having a bad time and also his abandonment issues are still kicking and screaming in the background

[badolmen]

‘extremely Anglo-Centric western meme culture’ babe do I have some new for you about the demographics of tumblr

[steviescrystals]

being one of two liberals in a government class full of raging conservatives my senior year of high school was character development