#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.

[robylovi]

Severance spoilers !

I know everyone’s freaking out about the finale but I’m highkey still confused about the whole files thing.

For whatever reason, Gemma getting severed 25 times is important. Therefore, Mark is important. Which is why Milchick is fine replacing Helly, Irv, and Dylan but brings out a full fruits basket to get Mark back. Which brings the question, why have the rest of the team there at all?

They get the same feelings for the numbers so I would assume they’re also severing someone. Are they just severing random people while Mark is special for severing someone his outie knows? But also why does that matter?? That seems like a pretty specific scenario

[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?

[bpdamn]

it’s so hard to ask for help and when i finally do open up cause i feel it getting worse my cries for help are being ignored by quite literally everyone

[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

[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

[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

[starkidlabs]

I really can’t take being asked out after like less than a day on dating apps. I feel like my anxiety just doesn’t like it at all. It’s like I need to have more than 3 message back and forths. I don’t know, I feel like it’s this fast pace aspect which is really causing me so much distress and making me so overwhelmed. I know the whole point is to meet in person but I feel like conversation time is getting shorter and shorter every week I’m on the apps. And like In a perfect scenario I’d want at least 5 days of talking with someone to a good level, so I can know if there are any instant red flags or if there is even some minor chance of genuine connection. (3 days is usually enough for me to say yes tho) Also there’s the genuine safety concerns too, like I don’t think anyone I’ve spoken to yet has been a genuine weirdo but I can at least sus them out a little if I talk to them a bit more. Idk I almost always dread the do you want to grab a drink message. It feels like I’m just being moved along so quickly. And as someone who is not used to dating at all it’s super scary too. I have got a date this Sunday with someone that actually asked me to go somewhere interesting, so if it doesn’t end up going anywhere at least I’d have done something different and maybe at least I’ll grow some confidence. But idk I don’t know why guys have to press you to go out with them after one day, and from the Reddit posts I’ve seen about this topic it’s because they’re all jaded, which is exactly what I want to avoid. It’s always ‘err why would I text for more than a day - they’ll just ghost me or I’ll have no chemistry with them irl so it’ll all be a big waste of time’ idk maybe you should text for human connection. I genuinely feel like it’s this sort of mindset that makes it so they never form a real connection.

Idk it’s just the impromptu let’s grab a drink either in the very first message or seemingly out of the blue when we’ve discussed nothing interesting ( I’m more likely to say yes if we’ve shared/talked about our interests rather than what we do for a living) Its a real mood killer tbh. Like as a person with high anxiety these apps which encourage fast pace dating are not for me. But alas I can do nought but soldier on because I have no friends to have benefits with or even spoon.

[steviescrystals]

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

[introvertedkeni]

I don’t understand the debuff thing tbh