I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:
Fictional characters are objects.
They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.
BALLISTER BOLDHEART DOES NOT LOOK LIKE PEDRO PASCAL
Seeeeee! They dont look alike! He literally looks like his voice actor.
LIKE THE EYES! LOOK AT THE EYES! HR IS LITERALLY BALLISTER
would you still love me
even if my heart was made of glass
it shatters everytime i feel something
and i dont know how to cope
my soul, though dark and bleary
shines at the thought of you standing beside me
looking out over the sunlit sea
eyes shining with the rays
your beauty strikes through me
and all i can do is gaze at you with love filled eyes
my favorite classmate from my hist. 262 class is a veteran who has come back to school for like computer programming and he was stationed in japan and he shops at the local asian market and sometimes he brings seaweed krisps adn he will give me the whole bag
[i.d. text at top that says "when your classmate brings the good seaweed as a snack". it is elmo with his hands up in the air and a fire burning behind him}
My cat has always had the worst timing. He'll jump up on my desk to cuddle at the very moment I'm about to get up to urgently go to the bathroom. He'll try to curl up with me in bed the very instant I need to get up and refill my glass of water and put some vaseline on my dry, sore lips. He'll ask me to play just at the second I need to end my break and get back to work.
The poor guy, right? From his perspective, he approaches me for love and I immediately get up and leave. I feel awful about it. I try to reassure him first that I love him and he just has bad timing, but I know it can't feel nice, and also he's too big of a dumbass to understand that me getting up and walking away isn't triggered by him coming to say hi.
Except today I realized something: Yes. It is.
I was sitting at my desk watching a video and up jumps the boy with a mrrp, head positioned for pets, when I realized I urgently had to get up and go to the bathroom. As I opened my mouth to say "bad timing again, buddy," it finally occurred to me that... I definitely already had to go. I for sure did not "suddenly" have an urgent need for the toilet out of fucking nowhere.
I didn't realize I needed to go because my brain is piloted by angry gremlins and they were more interested in watching the video than letting me know about an important bodily function.
My cat coming to say hi is a regular trigger that pulls me back into my body from whatever bullshit I'm hyperfocusing on. And that's when I realize all the warning lights are flashing on the dash. Need water. Need food. Need toilet. In pain: need to change position. Holy shit look at the time, need to get back to work!
I now wonder how much worse I'd function if I didn't have a furry little guy in my apartment to regularly remind me that I exist in a physical form which requires maintenance and also that time passes.
I do still feel bad for walking away from him every time, but I have started just inviting him to come with me. Hey bud, sorry, I have to stand up right now, but come follow me while I get a glass of water. You coming? Come on! And rewarding him with pats for following. It's better than just walking away, I think.
Anyway cats (or other pet of your choice that requires frequent attention)? 10/10, strongly encourage having a little guy to bother you now and then, especially if you have ADHD and live alone.
i havent watched saltburn but appreantly this is the jist of it
I am now gonna be that guy who reccomends fics. Lmk if yall want fics from these fandoms
BNHA
Harry Potter
Voltron
Naruto
ATLA
Marvel
MDZS
Stranger Things
The Old Gaurd
These are the fandoms i read from the most but i do have some smaller sample sizes from other fandons.
one time i was just randomly talking abt spiders georg to myself and my mom is like wtf is that adn i ended up having to explain to her what memes were and how this particular set of memes made a whole group of poeple understand outliers and statistics easier and then she goes ahhh i see, i coulda used a spiders goerg when i was in college.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
They should block chatgpt on uni WiFi the way they used to block coolmathgames
at what point does a man become a man a person a person. i am floating on this rock as any other alien might
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