Wes' Weathered Journal

I will come here to escape my world, as well as share it. My thoughts, my likes, my emotions. Welcome.

[alystairwesley]

Sometimes, being healed is bullshit

I'm being dramatic and facetious obviously, but that's kind of the point. I'm well into my healing time and I just "experienced" something that would've thrown me into a raging emotional tumultuous fit. Quotes because... I didn't experience much at all. It was a blip, a "huh, well okay then" and a quick processing of what came with it I've moved on. NO lmao, I kinda -wanted- to be a bit angry and petty (that'll come still tho, later) and dramatically wallow in what emotions would've been. Cept there wasn't any. So now I'm just gonna... go read and then sleep. Anyway, this was a silly little blurb of an internal tiny table flip over a much larger table flip that didn't happen for good reason, even if there was a small portion of me that wanted it. We both know that the truth is, the situation that this minutely desired table flip would've been over was totally not worth it.

anyway, sometimes being healed is bullshit lol

[animentality]

[pitter-patter-pottah]

This... f A x.

Luckily Sebastian Sallow would do anything for my female Slytherin character Yuèliàng Nagereboshi in Hogwarts Legacy, whether big or small (or anything in-between, hehe). <3

[alystairwesley]

how many times I've done the little things for those I had big feelings for, that had so little feelings for my big affections.

[snarkleharkle]

[aniseandspearmint]

TURN ON THE SOUND. YOU CAN'T MISS THIS. THIS IS FANTASTIC.

[lottie-emie]

Been chipping away at this for nearly a year and its F I N A L L Y finished :,)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

[thefloatingstone]

shout out to the sound designer who was like "I know exactly what kind of music to whip out for this one!"

[pomrania]

I've never actually seen this before, and WOW is that cool!

[aquilacalvitium]

Wha-

[hollypolllyy]

Master Sword x Keyblade

[wilwheaton]

OMG WILL WHEATON!!! I LEGIT THIYGHT YOU WERE JUST A TBBT CHARACTER I DONT LIKE YOU BECUASE SHELDON DOESNT LIKE YOU

Uh, this is a Wendy's.

[flndokitty-deactivated20240318]

hihihihihi i got replied by will wheaton and got people angy and im 13 so you HAVE to excuse me. the original thing was a joke i wrote it at 1 AM and i knew that will wheaton coule care less about some random child chronically online and im actually so actually sorry foe thinking you weren't a real person tho IM SO FLIPPIN PUMPED THAT SOMEONE THAT MADE A GUEST APPEWRENCE ON MY MOM AND I'S FAV SHOW REPLIED TO MEEEEEE!!!!!! i am legit 13 tho, sorey am dumb sometimes, i rhink people replying to me are way older than me which makes it fynnier but tbbt was legit keeping us alive in 2021, i am northeast indian and its one of the reasons i speak english like a pro ( i know i type horrible ) im sorry im gettingg off track anyways, to quote the show,

"WHEEAATOOONNNN!!!!"

-Sheldon Lee Cooper

[wilwheaton]

Oh, buddy! I understood your joke, and I was playing along. I think our cultural and age differences created some confusion.

So, to be clear: Hi! I am Wil, I am a person, and I played a character on Big Bang who was based on me, if I were a villain. After some time, the story changed and my character became an ally and friend to the main cast.

I thought your post was wonderful, silly, and fun. I love it whenever someone discovers that I am a person, not just a character, and I also love it when I hear someone tell me, as a joke, that because Sheldon doesn't like that Wil Wheaton (until he does and they are friends), they don't like *this* Wil Wheaton, but as a joke. That's what I thought you were saying.

I want to say thank you for sharing with me that you enjoyed my work. In the theatre, we get to hear applause and see the audience. I don't get that on TV. The only way I get it is when someone makes an effort to share it with me, like you did.

And also, I think it's the coolest thing in the world that a 13 year-old in INDIA saw a show I made right here in Los Angeles, and can tell me -- from the other side of our planet -- that they enjoyed it.

I hope that anyone who chose to be cruel to you will see this and make some amends, and also think twice before they unload on someone else from the Internet.

tl;dr: as far as I'm concerned, we're cool. Thanks for watching our show.

Oh, and if you've read this far, maybe you'll be willing to read this bit of advice I like to share with teenagers, because I would have loved to hear it then, instead of struggling until I was in my late 40s to figure it all out.

[itznarcotic]

[gengaritez]

[luckyladylily]

This is actually very normal human behavior. It's just that most people (in the USA) think "Jesus strengthens me" instead of "I am a pikmin, dandori time"

[sunspotpony]

This is literally why stories and fantasy are so useful to humans. We cannot tackle every mundane challenge with enthusiasm, and facing against profoundly daunting tasks can be deeply demoralizing, and you don’t get to feel cool or heroic for filing 400 pieces of paperwork.

We arm ourselves with stories and fantasy, so that the laundry can become a charming hurdle to overcome, and the daunting stack of bills is the leviathan we the brave knights must slay.

Humans have always been like this. So many cultures have stories or mythology or even rituals about literally embodying another being better suited to the challenge one currently faces.

Stories are armor. Stories are fuel.

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

[remanence-of-love]

[alystairwesley]

One day, I’ll feel like I’m actually important, actually special - chosen first, chosen constantly and consistently. Today isn’t that day, but one day.

[alystairwesley]

I belive that our hearts are expressed in the messages and words that we do not send.

And so are our wounds.

I am so incredibly tired.

[perfectfeelings]

“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.”

— John Green

[remanence-of-love]

[metamorphesque]

—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

˗ˏˋ☕ˎˊ˗    

[flowerytale]

Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

[yourplayersaidwhat]

[There are five chests, each with arcana lock. Our barbarian manages to break open one of them]

Barbarian: Can i just say i open the rest of the chests?

DM: I’m gonna make you work for it.

Barbarian immediately after asking to break another lock: 29.

DM: *sigh*

Barbarian proceeds to open all the chests

[neil-gaiman]

Tonight I gave Art Spiegelman the National Book Awards Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. And we're both being banned. Some of you may think this is a good thing because you don't like my books or you don't care for Maus. But I guarantee that there are books you love on the banned lists too. That's why libraries and librarians fight for their rights to have all the books on the shelves and for your rights to read them. And it's why I support them.

[neil-gaiman]

Here's a link to an article about the current bannings in Texas. You may want to read it. And then think about getting onto your local school board, wherever you are, to prevent this from happening in your part of the world.

More North Texas schools ban books

Keller ISD and Frisco ISD join other school districts that are banning certain books from their libraries and classrooms.