Positive Vibes Only

Hello! Call me Kai | 26 | she/they | diving headfirst back into fandom | icon by @thiamsalpha

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for using my coping strategy even though it inconveniences my Roomates?

I (22 M) and my 4 roomates (21-24 F) all share an apartment with 1 kitchen, 5 rooms and 2 bathrooms. We tend to get along but we argue over the bathrooms more than we’d like

They tend to take a long time to get ready in the mornings, and I tend to take a long time at night because of my coping mechanism.

Basically once or twice a week, I take a few edibles, turn off all the lights, and shower while on the floor in complete darkness, rolling around in soap. I call this my Olm time after the blind cave salamander. I basically roll around in all the soap and just pretend I’m a little cave dwelling salamander while high as shit, and then rinse off and crawl out of the shower and head to my room.

It’s like meditation. I go to a completely different state mentally. This is the only thing that has significantly helped me with stress, while allowing me to incorporate all of my self care duties into my routine. Becoming one with the Olm is my only option.

My roomates don’t know about Olm time but they have realized I take a while in the shower some nights, and they have tried to argue by saying that everyone needs to get ready for bed too. I’ve told them that they take a really long time in the mornings, and I often have to brush my teeth in the kitchen sink because the bathrooms are basically locked from around 6:30-8:45 every day because of how long they take.

Basically they’re all pretty frustrated with me and I’m pretty frustrated with them. That self care time is pretty much what keeps me going through really hard days, and they don’t seem to get that, even when they tell me how important their getting ready time is for them in the mornings. I don’t know if I’m being an asshole or if I’m genuinely standing up for myself here. AITA?

AITA?

YTA

NTA

JAH

NAH

ESH

INFO

Voting ended onSep 17, 2023

What are these acronyms?

[tardigradebutt]

finding out this post only has just over 8k notes has been a devastating blow to my ego. i reference this constantly and nobody ever knows what im talking about. i go “oh, you know, the olm time post. where someone sits in their bathtub off a few edibles and pretends they’re an olm, the blind cave salamander.” as if every single person on the internet has also read this post. this is a classic to me. a heritage post, even. my entire worldview has been shattered.

[jeidai]

More info on olm time

"Minor update: they now know about Olm Time"

[pukicho]

If your friend starts making home made sour dough, it's too late, you will have to kill them

[escuerzoresucitado]

[elksewer]

[agnesmontague]

ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs

[axxxx13]

Can we talk about Theo being able to calm Liam down because he's the only one who treats him like a fucking human being? Like, in all the scenes where Liam's losing it, no one tries to talk to him/distract him but everyone just looks at him or says "calm down, calm down, calm down". They all treat him like he's some kind of mad dog. And then Theo shows up and is like "you shouldn't kill him" and Liam is like "why?" and Theo is like "because we're going to need a fucking chainsaw, obviously". Theo is the first one to realize that his wolf only reacts to how his human is feeling and as a result tries to distract the human instead of stopping the wolf. Theo who is "barely even human" is the only one who recognizes Liam's humanity even when he's a "monster" and I want to fucking kill myself.

[axxxx13]

I love how Liam has been told his whole life that his anger was a problem and that he needed to learn to manage it, control it, suppress it and then, randomly, Theo comes along and is like "look at me, this is what happens when you stop feeling, this is what makes you a monster" and then spends the rest of his time trying to let him vent and let out what he feels and he's like "you can hit me if that keeps you from hurting yourself, you can be mad at me if that keeps you from being mad at yourself" because he knows a lot about what it's like to be "barely even human" and he knows that Liam isn't like that.

Theo knows what it's like to be a monster and is like "I can help you when you feel too much if you promise me you'll never start feeling nothing"

[hexennyan]

one of my favorite thiam things is the moments when liam is like "i stand with my canceled wife" while someones saying something against theo and theo is just standing there with the deadpan face ever

[missing-thiam]

have you ever noticed that theo and liam‘s pupils are always dilated when they look at each other?

[axxxx13]

Theo and Liam are both so jealous but in two opposite ways.

Theo has that 'insecure jealousy' that's totally rational: he has like a pro and a cons paper where he has like 300 cons and 1 pro and he's always like 'Liam is obviously gonna find something better'.

Liam has that visceral jealousy that he doesn't even feel. He's just like "yeah, this is so funny, now if you could bring your air away from my Theo this would be perfect. I could kill you otherwise. Thank you very much"

[prongsievans]

liam is the only person who can tell when theo is about to snap

like, everyone else sees calm because theo is too good at pretending

liam sees "oh he’s two seconds away from violence"

[somnidasha]

talking about anchors, i do believe in possibility of anchors being platonic (which is also one of the reasons i hate what they did to scott and alison but that's another story), but there's no way these two bitches aren't fucking

[luvraeken]

[absurddino]

theo would make liam promise that if he ever died he'd burn theo's body so that no one could experiment on him again (or try to bring him back)

[prongsievans]

liam talks in his sleep, so theo learns WAY too much against his will

and then later he mentions it with a grin and liam goes "how do you know that??"

[ouch-my-ghost-skin]

currently watching teen wolf and thiam get so gay off that hospital air it's genuinely hilarious

[celestiamoved-deactivated201701]

i like boys who dress like icecreams and ignore me for video games and get food all over their face so i can wipe it off and spoon feed and baby them esp when they are mean to me it’s garbage i know but i can’t help it

[longscarydream]

what the fuck

[neyhaz]

Sure whatever

[algds]

this is what dressing like icecreams means btw. everyone forgot that every single dude was dressed in this colour pallete 2012-2015

[algds]

it boils my blood to see thousands of replies on this post every year asking what it means. i explained it right here