#to multiple people in particular actually

[snoopychris]

introducing... nerd!matt and cheerleader!reader

warnings: mentions of vomit, underage drinking

matt's a little weird, quiet, and regularly ignored by other students. you're the girl who everybody in school wants to be (and matt wants to be with.)

when matt first started high school, he thought it would be a brand new start. he thought that he'd finally have more than two friends. he thought that people would finally notice him for being more than an extension of his brothers. he even thought that maybe, just maybe, girls would start to notice him. that was four years ago. even now, during the first semester of his senior year, matt does not have more than two friends, people do not see him as more than “the tight end’s brother”, “the photographers brother,” (even though some people have started seeing him as “that nerdy kid.”) and girls, in matt’s eyes, do not notice him.

when you first started high school, you felt on top of the world. you had an amazing group of friends, you felt surrounded by people you loved, and you felt seen. everybody loved you and the things you represented. always so full of pep and school spirit, there was no doubt you’d be cheer captain senior year. your 18th birthday was the biggest sign of being so loved. chris threw you a party at his house, and it seemed like there wasn’t a single person from your school who was missing. at some point through the night, your love for partying and drinking became pure hatred. you were leaned over the toilet of some random bathroom in the sturniolo house, hair being held back by chris- or at least, you swore it was chris at first. after a few minutes of vomiting, you came to the realization that there was no way it was chris. he was too nervous and sweet to be chris. that was the first time you really noticed matt. you had seen him around before, but you’d never really talked to him, nothing much more than a smile in the hallway or a thumbs up when he got a question right in class. the night of your 18th birthday party was the first time you had ever thought that “love at first sight” could be a real thing.

matt swore that you didn’t even remember that night. he was fully convinced that the next time you saw him in the hallway you would turn a blind eye, send him the usual smile, and continue walking alongside his brother and the rest of your friends. the truth of it was, the next time you saw matt in the hallway, you stopped in your tracks and grabbed onto his arm. matt’s heart did something he didnt think was actually possible and skipped multiple beats as he pulled out one of his airpods. your voice was quiet, but it was still the sweet, peppy voice that everybody in the school loved, “thank you… for the other night.” you notice the way he swallows and you can practically see the way the cogs in his head are turning “n… yeah… um… of course. its no problem at all.” you tuck a single strand of hair behind your ear, something that’s usually a tell tale sign of you being attracted to somebody, a habit you’ve always had and your friends have picked up on. as he begins to walk away, you feel your heart slightly sink before chris pulls you from your spot in the hallway. “theres no way you’ve got a crush on the sturniolo that still has a pokemon backpack”

๋࣭⭑ a/n: first post omggg ahhhh nervous. ive seen a lot of nerd and shy matt au's around and this takes inspo from a mix of a lot of those but there's nobody in particular to give credit to (but if you'd like some please feel free to message me and lmk!!!) divider credits to @bernardsbendystraws

[blitzwhore]

I had a thought, Blitz says this to Stolas:

"Uh, it's Sinsmas! You know, the day every Hellborn celebrates and acts on their birth sin? Or any sin, whichever ones they want, honestly!"

Do we know what Blitz's birth sin is?

We don't know which ring he feels he "belongs" to, but we do know he doesn't consider himself a Wrathian, because he's said it before:

"Wrath, huh? my employees are from there. I've never really been" (Harvest Moon Festival) "Ohoho, I am not from Wrath, bitch" (Western Energy)

Many fans believe that the circus travelled across multiple rings, since they were in Pride when Stolas went to the circus as a kid, but the Accident happened in Greed (hence why the flames are green). So a lot of people theorise that Blitz doesn't feel like he belongs to any particular ring. We don't really know, though.

But we do know imps are Satan's creation, and so all imps are generally considered as "originating from Wrath" regardless of where they were actually born/where they grew up in.

My personal interpretation is that "your birth sin" here refers to the latter; to which of the Seven Sins created you. Because despite not being from Wrath, Blitz seems to act on his Wrath at the beginning of the day, when he shoves Stolas off the sofa. Plus, we also see Loona eating a lot throughout the entire day even if she's never expressed that she feels like she belongs in Gluttony, and she doesn't like Bee very much.

But that's just my personal interpretation!

[aspiring-transsexual]

A cis woman is not any better or worse than a cis man,

stop pretending otherwise.

Stop trying to convince me that I'm somehow in community with you because your a vaginagirl or a fucking bleeder,

I don't care--whatever silly thing you use to define your womanhood.

I am not a part of your 'sex class',

we are not a community.

I am not your sister.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Everytime I face a new character limit on a website that didn't have them before/used to have really long ones... AUGHHhhh the modern social media world was not made for people like me (lovers of details, rambling, elaboration, thorough explanation, and nuance)

[the-far-bright-center]

That screenshot is now the second time I've seen a pro-Jedi person claim that only 'the Sith' could ever possibly represent real-life 'religious trauma' as presented a fictionalised manner. This is just plain ridiculous and actually quite offensive. Religious trauma is deeply personal and often extremely complicated. It's often something that a person experiences from a religious institution they may have belonged to their entire life, and one that they may have at some point considered safe and welcoming. It's also not something that occurs only in 'objectively bad' or 'evil' organisations. A religion or religious institution can have positive values or aims and even be doing good in the world and be treating other members well, but could fail individual members in some way. Whether that be by overlooking abuse or 'shaming' a member for not following a particular rule, or ostracising them for some infraction, or even causing families to be split apart due to one member being kicked out of a religion, and so on. 'Religious trauma' can vary greatly depending on the religion/group and also on the individual experiencing it. My own 'religious trauma' (if you can call it that) is complex and involves MULTIPLE religions, including one I did not even belong to but which still had a negative impact on my life and psyche. NONE of the religious groups that negatively affected me would I EVER class as being remotely similar to 'the Sith', at most they are well-meaning but misguided. Not equivalent. And that's the thing, many people who have religious trauma still care about the religion that harmed them and even may still belong to it. They may still acknowlege it's good aspects and be fine with other people belonging to it, they just don't necessarily think it's for them anymore. Or they may love some aspects of the religion but wish other parts could be reformed. I could go on, but I'm just rather amazed anyone could seriously make this claim. Clearly that person has no idea what 'religious trauma' actually is.

Sith at the time of High Republic/Prequels: pretty small and unknown sect clouded in myths and considered to be one. Even if there is a person considered to be sith, he will likely be a simple bandit or local madman.

Jedi at the of High Republic/Prequels: huge state-sponsored semi-religion in all but stated secular state with not really healthy recruiting practice. Closely assosiated with goverment and the view on them differs depending on time and trust to the goverment, but viewed to the degree with suspicion even in Canon.

And the post seemes so strange to me. It almost sounds like «Well, lash on Aum Shinrikyo for organising terroristic attacks and NXIVM for sexual abuse on their members, but don't dare to call Catholic Church out for helping Nazis to escape with «rat trails», refusing to apologize to Duplessis orphans and demanding to ban The Magdalene Sisters(the film telling the story of young girls and unwed mothers being abused by Ireland Catholic Church since 1920s)!»

[hecksupremechips]

Minor thing that really irks me is when people treat the femc route in p3 portable as like the lesser story or like it’s a fanfic where nothing that happens in it is the “true” canon like. Bitch. The femc and everything that happens in her version of the story is just as canon as the male protagonist and everything that happens in his story. And there’s literally been so many fucking versions of p3 at this point like the base game, fes, portable, the movies, stage plays, reload, as well as spinoffs and manga and they all do things differently. I don’t see anyone acting like the base game is more canon than, say, reload so why do they do this with portable? Why can’t the (infinitely superior) version with the female protagonist just be respected for five fucking minutes goddamn

[windmill-ghost]

Possibility controversial opinion but it’s my pet peeve when someone makes a post like “Here’s how to eat more vegetables if you’re a picky eater!” and people jump down their throat to tell them how abelist OP is to not address that they have autism/ARFID/allergies or something… like, I don’t think that person is talking down to you, I think they’re probably sharing their experiences in the hopes of helping people with similar experiences. And it’s not universal because there is no such thing as universal advice.

And like, I’m an autistic person with digestive issues and pickiness that ranges from “this isn’t pleasant so I avoid it” to “if this is in my mouth I will spit it out involuntarily and swallowing it makes me feel ill,” so I think I’m allowed to say that I don’t think someone it like, stealing valor from the Real Picky Eaters just because they can palate vegetables by doing some preparation tricks. I don’t think they think you’re stupid because they suggested it in a post, and I kinda think the “UGH THATS SO OBVIOUS DONT YOU THINK I TRIED THAT?!” attitude is pretty mean. They came up with a solution to their own problem and were probably pretty excited to share, I don’t think they need to be punished for that.

Idk, I think it might just be good to remember that not everything other people post on their blogs is directed at you specifically .

[daxite]

genuinely something that irritates me to no end is when people try to argue what something was/wasn't inspired by, did you know that media can have multiple inspirations behind it?

[trans-yllz]

I showed my housemate a picture of all of the available babies together and he was like that's a lot of babies and I was like well I'm not getting All of them that would be too many and he was like "honestly if you were getting all of them I would tell you no" and I know he was probably mostly joking but I'm still like. excuse me

[aeide-thea]

god i know that complaining abt fic which most of you haven't read, and which i won't, for politeness' sake, identify in this post, is a great way to come across as both dickish and boring—

but i've been rereading a very long, very satisfyingly plotty series that's a fandom darling and the thing is, when you read like 400k of an author's work at once it really starts to become painfully apparent what their priorities are, by which i mean two things:

holy shit they're obsessed with 'what if strong powerful men who could hurt you didn't (but did hurt Bad Guys) (and it was sexy of them),' which leads into

holy shit they do not appear to have thought through the implications of saying 'i will have my heroes take over the same power structures that have enabled abuse, make no real changes to those structures other than swapping out the leadership, and then claim that everything is wonderful now bc Good Men Are In Charge'??

like. i don't necessarily need every passing fantasy to present me with a coherent, revolutionary system of politics and ethics—sometimes things are just fun and sexy and not especially Examined and that's fine!—but by the time someone's written literally almost half a million words, and done a lot of worldbuilding while they were at it, i am going to start squinting if they seem to think a Good Man can e.g. become an emperor by killing off the leadership of multiple countries and installing puppet kings loyal to him and still remain a Good Man, even if the justification was that the original leadership was maltreating its citizens and deserved to be extrajudicially executed. like. this shit was a bad, autocratic move when the US did it in real life and it's still bad now that you're having our mutual blorbo do it in fiction! and that's not even getting into the whole thing where like. they've got servants who the Good Man and his friends ""treat well"" but who very much remain second-class citizens in terms of how the story actually frames them and their concerns. [this was also a huge issue i had with foz m*adows' most recent book—everyone wants to write about fantasy nobles but they also want to make them good people and it's like. honestly i think it might be better to get comfortable writing about flawed people, but also—if your aristos aren't treating their servants like equals and your text isn't either, you haven't actually cracked the Moral Aristo paradox, sorry!] like, there's nothing that says your story has to depict a fully Healed World, nor should there be! but it's troubling if you seem to be convinced you've written one (and have your wide-eyed love interests constantly marveling at it!) when you very patently haven't.

[rotisseries]

when your parents tell you not to give out any personal information on the internet because people can find out things you DON'T want shared they're talking about me. having to resist the urge to guess people's places of work from what I know about them

[hanzajesthanza]

i finished narrenturm, and strangely enough, it felt like i and the story were in sync. just when i was beginning to feel bored, it picked up. just when i was feeling overwhelmed with action, it slowed down. just as i felt i wished something magical would happen, it did, and just as when i felt a need to return to the mundane, it did. a “wish and you will receive” reading experience!

[the-travelling-witch]

i can tell you guys aren’t as fond of the entertainment industry which is a shame bc idol! childe, model! kaeya and club owner! diluc are very tasty :(

[aspiring-transsexual]

Everday I straddle the line of loving and hating tumblr.

Wonderful art, poetry, and quotes.

Wonderful people, especially trans people.

But then there's some of you, condescending assholes who make me want to delete this app so bad.

I truly wish someone humbles you, and humbles you bad.

[borom1r]

I have thoughts abt Beanix but they are NOT coherent ooooargh!!!! HIM!!!!!!!

[prokopetz]

The whole "the brain isn't fully mature until age 25" bit is actually a fairly impressive bit of psuedoscience for how incredibly stupid the way it misinterprets the data it's based on is.

Okay, so: there's a part of the human brain called the "prefrontal cortex" which is, among other things, responsible for executive function and impulse control. Like most parts of the brain, it undergoes active "rewiring" over time (i.e., pruning unused neural connections and establishing new ones), and in the case of the prefrontal cortex in particular, this rewiring sharply accelerates during puberty.

Because the pace of rewiring in the prefrontal cortex is linked to specific developmental milestones, it was hypothesised that it would slow down and eventually stop in adulthood. However, the process can't directly be observed; the only way to tell how much neural rewiring is taking place in a particular part of the brain is to compare multiple brain scans of the same individual performed over a period of time.

Thus, something called a "longitudinal study" was commissioned: the same individuals would undergo regular brain scans over a period of mayn years, beginning in early childhood, so that their prefrontal development could accurately be tracked.

The longitudinal study was originally planned to follow its subjects up to age 21. However, when the predicted cessation of prefrontal rewiring was not observed by age 21, additional funding was obtained, and the study period was extended to age 25. The predicted cessation of prefrontal development wasn't observed by age 25, either, at which point the study was terminated.

When the mainstream press got hold of these results, the conclusion that prefrontal rewiring continues at least until age 25 was reported as prefrontal development finishing at age 25. Critically, this is the exact opposite of what the study actually concluded. The study was unable to identify a stopping point for prefrontal development because no such stopping point was observed for any subject during the study period. The only significance of the age 25 is that no subjects were tracked beyond this age because the study ran out of funding!

It gets me when people try to argue against the neuroscience-proves-everybody-under-25-is-a-child talking point by claiming that it's merely an average, or that prefrontal development doesn't tell the whole story. Like, no, it's not an average – it's just bullshit. There's no evidence that the cited phenomenon exists at all. If there is an age where prefrontal rewiring levels off and stops (and it's not clear that there is), we don't know what age that is; we merely know that it must be older than 25.