#you assume you’re normal

[godsfavouritechewtoy]

talking about NPD with narcs / other people

[neverbelessthan]

I just read someone’s hot take on ‘the mermaid scene’ being ‘peak cringe’ and I just-

Sweet, sweet human. That’s Ed’s psyche you’re taking about. My dude is having his life flash before his eyes in the most beautiful little heartbreaking s1 montage, and if that’s how he wants to picture Stede coming to redeem his lonely fucking soul - as a glittery goddamn tits-out merman, then that’s HIS GODDAMN BUSINESS.

[goldkirk]

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[danielnelsen]

i forget it’s not canon that hawke’s just roaming around skyhold with his definitely-not-shapeshifted-husband cat, it’s just how things are

[ohimsummer]

fastest assumer ever tbh. regardless of how illogical it is if I think about it for more than a second.

[quietplaceinthestars]

I wish people who write lotr fanfic didn’t inevitably end up writing low key constant emotional abuse to their blorbo.

[callsign-zero]

headcanon ghost when he has his mask off always talks just a bit too loud OR so quiet nobody can hear him

[ralofofriverwoods]

I do not like ulfric and I think virthik deserves a w :)

He did a similar thing with tullius. He does not like the civil war at all

[natugood]

It’s really weird and kind of sad realizing that you are growing differently than how someone you’ve known for a long time is growing

[novelconcepts]

Oh god oh god, that cringe response is so strong. I’m sorry I can’t help but open my mouth. Almost twenty years in fandom and I still feel like the baby that stumbled onto livejournal and tried to prove they weren’t a child by having opinions TM

my head is in my hands right now, I feel your damn pain.

I wish I knew why leaving comments was so hard. Well done you for asking the question, honestly.

maybe one day we’ll be fully grey and give zero fucks and feel like every time we leave a comment we’re Gertrude Steining a creator. In the meantime we just share a vague ‘I liked this’ shame and get to live in that awkward silence of not knowing how support is received. Here’s to being dominoes balanced on the edge 🤘

All of this, genuinely. I think about it all the time, and maybe it’s that we’ve been socialized to associate sincerity with childishness and/or (negative, harmful) obsession? Which: as a creator, as an artist, I fucking LIVE for sincerity. I love when people come back to the stuff I make with their whole chest. There’s absolutely nothing off-putting about it. I welcome that shit every time.

So then the question becomes: why is earnestness fair and even endearing from other people, but I must be above it myself? Why do I always hold myself to a standard unlike any I’d set for a stranger? It’s bonkers. And it merits not only questioning, but actively repairing in myself. I love authentic positive reactions to my art and to my queerness. Of course other people deserve the same from me. Bonk that mortification over the head until it stops squirming, and just let the joy in.

[onioneyez]

Ok how the hell do i find my sad-ass good omens aromantic kiss text post that I posted on 9/11????? (Is that the right order of operations for adjectives? Siri where does ass go) I want to reblog it with a cheery “happy Aromantic spectrum awareness week!” so people know I am cool and ironic like those movies that play pop music over in a gunfight

[certainstickeredfellow]

i’m so sorry but the giants retreat thing they did on the beach that they’ve been posting about is CRAZY

[bronzefuryfic]

Upcoming chapter ramblies-

This isn’t necessarily a spoiler because this interaction and its implications have been heavily alluded to for awhile but damn is it hard to figure out this first Daemon/Rhae interaction. I have the second one (where they actually speak to each other for the first time) much better planned and I have a strong idea of what I want from it. But I’ve also known that I wanted the first instance of Rhae *seeing* Daemon to be at the funeral and she can’t say anything to him quite yet she just has to sit with her feelings. But there’s so much THERE. Like she’s just alone in her thoughts quietly listening to a eulogy she can’t fully understand because her Valyrian isn’t that good yet and her sisters are crying nearby and she wants to reach out but also they’re total strangers and it’s their mothers funeral. It’s not like it’s Rhae’s mother in the casket but also isn’t it? She wasn’t old enough to remember when they’d done the same for Rhea. But it’s been fourteen years and there’s been a new wife and new daughters and the only thing that’s the same is Daemon. And he’s laughing!

Anyways Rhae last chapter and for the next several:

[artificialllovers]

I think some people tightly cling to the idea that it’s normal for people to not care about your interests or accomplishments and to not be happy/celebratory for you because otherwise they would have to confront some unfortunate and disappointing truths about their interpersonal relationships, especially with their own parents.

[slayedter]

What if we… ship?

[livvyofthelake]

i love the full circle perspective i’ve reached on bbc merlin. stage one of watching it was like omg i luvvvvv this…. (obviously stage zero was I Am Never Fucking Watching That It Looks Dumb As Shit. but we’re ignoring that for the sake of the post). and stage two was like ummm besties it’s getting kind of bad out here. and stage three was like The Horrors. and stage four was like uh actually this was the worst show in the whole world why did i watch that. and then now stage five is like Actually you hater bitch (speaking to stage four me) there is beauty to be found in the earnest intentions the show had so why don’t you try seeing the truth and beauty.