#the psychology of missing someone

[cultural-derealization]

Yes this is a real thing & its even more heightened during that time of the month 🤣😭🙄

[bungone]

Actually no im not done because I know it gets talked about a lot but Lolita is such an interesting piece of media; not just the book itself but people's attitudes towards it.

like, first off, there's the actual author (nabokov) who goes out of his way to talk about how childish, mokeyish, immature and whatnot Dolores is in the most unnappealing possible ways, and then specifically said that he didnt want the kind of cover that every single fucking published edition of Lolita has?? With girls who are either being sexualized or very obviously having "a good time" which is absolutely not what Dolores was doing in the book?? I really, really, don't think anyone who designs these covers has even opened the first page because what. the. fuck.

It's so obvious that my man Humbert Humbert is an unreliable narrator, but gee, I guess we learned to take everything we read at face value, and also everything that comes from a protagonist's mouth as the "correct" way of viewing things, both in the book and in real life?

And even then, maybe, just MAYBE I can excuse the people who talk about how the book is fucked up because it's "glorifying pedophillia".

Maybe they had a really shitty english teacher. At the very least, they're reading it and understanding that the actions of Humbert Humbert aren't okay? They got to the halfway point. Maybe their education sytem failed them.

Maybe they had a really shitty high school english teacher that never taught them the skills necessary to understand this kind of writing. Maybe they're just dense, that's who they are as a person, and it would take someone going out of their way to point it out for them to consider the possibility.

But then there's the fucking apologists?? Like, putting aside the whole Dolores being 12 (which, yeah, is akin to putting aside the whole book, but bear with me for a second), Humbert Humbert not only kidnaps her (illegal), lies to her for a long time about her mother (not illegal but generally shitty), but is implied to have committed murder (illegal, not sure if implied is the right word here because it absolutely happened and everyone knows it), and sexually abuses Dolores (very illegal). These are crimes. He is a criminal. Say what you want about the justice system these are crimes that absolutely should be crimes.

He's clearly not an upstanding citizen, and I fail to understand how some people look at all his behavior and go "oh yes, the the man who killed a woman and kidnapped a 12 year old girl is just misunderstood, and he did those things for true love" like fuck no.

I like Lolita. It's an objectively good book. The quality of writing (high quality, I mean, I normally hate first-person writing but I actually liked Lolita), it's a great psychological horror piece that doesn't rely on things like shock value and overused tropes. The characters are all multi-dimensional and frankly, act realistically. But that's all it is. A psychological HORROR piece. It's not romantic. If anything, it's meant to make you sympathize with Humbert, and then you're supposed to take a step back and be like, "Wait. Why am I sympathizing with him? I'm not a pedophile." Because yeah, he's a complex character but that only goes to make him realistic in terms of the kind of pedos that exist in real life.

Pedophiles are people too. Mentally ill people, really, really shitty people who need serious help, but reducing them to "not human" only makes them an "other", which makes you forget that on the outside, they look like normal people. That have friends and family and go to school or have jobs and order coffe and read in libraries and yeah, maybe you sat next to one of them an entire year in organic chemistry. They're not weird stalkers that hang out in bushes in parks. Some of them, maybe, but not all. Nowhere near all.

man that derailed fast.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Yangchen and Aang: *trying to hold onto what Air Nation qualities they have while still performing their duties* Disha, to Roku: You are a spirit of NO Nation. Me: ??????

[tired-and-unjellied]

trying out reddit more expansively than before, and... eh.

r/milgram is bad

the chat is bad

I don't know why there are three interfaces, and they are all bad in their own ways

[eebie]

When school starts back up again im gonna search for people who will want to hang and watch movies

[inquisimer]

welp. fix it fic in my notes draft on my phone 😭😭😭

[driftingballoons]

Mom: “God why do you give up so easily you can’t expect to be perfect immediately”

well you see mother when I’m not perfect immediately you burst into flames and bite my head off

[faggling]

sobbing

[loveletterworm]

at risk of sounding pretentious i genuinely tend to find the low standards of others with regards to media strangely motivating, like i will see someone posting about something i think is complete slop as if it's the most serious and well-put-together thing they've ever seen and it'll be like "This is awesome people can love anything no matter what even if it sucks so bad and is just not good" However this motivation is still not enough to get me to actually do anything so it's really useless.

[pepprs]

i will shut up abt this i promise but like. the concept of being in a stable safe mutually loving whatever relationship is INSANE . like how can you ever feel bad about yourself or wounded or whatever again. it’s like a superpower or somethi ng. <- doesn’t know what she’s taking abt bc she’s never experienced it or the absence of it after having it merely the negative space of it and is filling in the gaps w logic or something. but it’s INSANE to me. like of course i feel like shit about myself i am catcrumb unloved.jpg!

[unusualshrimp]

"get a car, it'll be fun," they said, "cats don't need as much attention as dogs and they can chill on their own," they said

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

I don't know if this is true for anyone/everyone else, but why does it seem like the moment (or soon after) you take a job in education, you can suddenly read some of the most atrocious, messy handwriting from children that you could've sworn you would never have been able to read before the job.

[messenger-of-stupidity]

Tips you probably shouldn't know about someone's brain but I'm going to say anyways because I have to do something with all the work I'm putting in for this shit Part One:

If you want someone to rethink their answer or stance on a topic, simply look into their eyes. You don't need to say anything. A lot of social species perceive prolonged eye contact as threatening, and it applies an uncomfortable pressure on someone, making them rethink what they just said.

[wawawawawawawawawawawawawa]

some of you may know that i had a popular bnha fic a few years back. however what i DIDNT tell you was that the premise itself was inspired by someone else's headcanon. for a ship that was not the focus of my fic. because they hated my ship with a vitriol and tried to moralize it. (yk in the IF YOU SHIP THIS YOU SUPPORT ABUSE IN REAL LIFE way) so i took they fucking headcanon. now everybody knows me and i dont even remember their url. *this is the koment walt becomes heisenberg voice* i won

[yusukenui]

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