alphabet soup

call me soup | she/her, bi, 19 | multifandom | wearing cardigans in 40 degree weather

[so-many-ocs]

*voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[wizardarchetypes]

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

and i'm like unfortunately i have bad news.

[wizardarchetypes]

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

the point is that OCD compulsions are never solutions, they're actually the problems. the intrusive thoughts SEEM like the problem and the compulsions FEEL like the solution. and that's how it getsya.

[hewoweens]

u can be boiling alive in your mind for months and then on a random tuesday ur head gets so clear and life is worth living again and you're like damn what was all that about then

[mouseleygraham]

I KNOW when characters are bisexual. even when it’s not explicitly said

[cdzen]

burnout from not doing anything

[willgrahamscock]

any time I tell my mutual about the fic i'm 'writing' and they ask me where they can read it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Young Hero Sent On A Quest meets other young heroes also sent on various quests—only to discover they're all being used as free child labor by the same flaky wizard as a scam to collect magical artifacts.

the Young Heroes' collective new "Quest" is now to Unionize.....

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

actually this is funnier if there are multiple wizards involved. the 12-year-olds combine their knowledge and realize the wizards are operating as a unified corporate entity...so then of course they have to go on a Quest To Meet The Monarch to ask the Crown to rule on this previously undeclared power bloc. which in a feudal fantasy world causes all sorts of political intrigue! none of it good

so then we've got corporate executive wizards facing off against royal anti-monopoly legal teams. meanwhile the aforementioned 12-year-olds are standing by pissed off and chewing popcorn (and hoarding undeclared magical artifacts they may or may not collectively vote to use as ammunition to fuel a revolutionary uprising). the!! possibilities!!!!!!

[unification]

i know we're not supposed to say this but i literally love being alone and going on the computer

[i-said-im-a-fucking-star]

headphones too loud is actually really good for you. they proved this.

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

genuinely I cannot fathom trying to use Tumblr like any other social media. I just thought to myself “why does Tumblr even have a ‘Best Posts First’ feature? why would I want to see good posts?” and then I had to stop and consider that for a second

[vulpinesaint]

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

[smokingrozanov]

Every time I have a day where I post a lot on this app I do have a moment where I’m like omgggg everyone is mad at me for being on the posting app for postssssss

[smokingrozanov]

Me seeing my mutuals posting a lot: YAYYY new POSTS

Me seeing myself posting a lot: Beheading.

[sandersstudies]

Anybody else have no idea how their personality is perceived by others? Like am I nice? Am I mean? I have no idea.

[sandersstudies]

When people tell me stuff about me I literally think about it nonstop for 3-5 business days.

[sandersstudies]

A coworker casually said “everyone else likes you” (because one coworker was mad at me) and I was for real like ????everyone likes me??????

[sasha-on-the-side]

Been talking about this with friends so I present to you, the cursed spectrum of media literacy

[whereispearlescentmoon]

Okay I didn't notice the other one was a loop it was the first thing I grabbed so I fixed it

Pearlescentmoon is in the Trolley Problem as the Trolley!

Who should the trolley hit?

1 Cleo

5 Grians

Voting ended on8h

[thriplerex-trx]

made this last year but it got lost with the old account

[thriplerex-trx]

You would think that...

But Gem is a menace.