Dealing with Feels

for each fandom provides a new realm of emotions.

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

[yunieloid]

About to sound really pretentious but…….. Hate hate hate it when people say fibre arts(and crafts in general), especially knitting, are not accessible and very expensive to get into when historically handmade items have been made out of necessity, especially as a girl who comes from a long line of women who crafted for exactly that reason

For certain many textile crafts can be very bougie if u have the money to buy a lot of expensive yarn, but how you create is what you make of it…. A majority of my crafting projects i make with used materials, thrifted yarns, recycled sweaters, curtains, sheets, etc. Most of my projects dont cost me over $5

I dont know :-/ i think the world would be better if people realized how easy it is to start making things

[freedominthedarkmp3]

One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.

[pastelpinkcheeks]

One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”

[ex-evil-genius-deactivated20220]

When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.

[theriversdaughter]

Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China.  One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot.  The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.

[1stsana]

I love the world

[roycohn]

the thing about being a homeschool abolition hardliner is that people always want to come to you with some bullshit sob story about how you hate disabled people because they were bullied for being autistic and homeschooling was so amazing for them. and it's just like well unfortunately homeschooling is also a widespread tool of coercive control in child abuse used by christofascists to raise kids without the tools they need to function in the world so that they will always be afraid, dependent, and unable to think critically and discern right from wrong and truth from lies. so unfortunately i do think this is a situation where in order to prevent enormous harm to untold numbers of children those bullied kids who just don't wanna go to school are going to have to suck it up. (and in reality what i always propose is a more robust system of alternative/magnet public schooling set up for kids who are basically on grade level but who DO struggle to thrive in a mainstream setting, but nobody ever wants to hear that, they just want to guilt you for not thinking anyone who ever gets picked on should just get to stay home and play vidya and do all their lessons on zoom. and it's like honestly i don't think you're having this argument in good faith bc you are very much centering hypothetical discomfort you MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY have experienced over, again, widespread child abuse and neglect. so.)

[roycohn]

so i watched the netflix documentary about piper rockelle yesterday and i would like to once again humbly suggest that homeschooling be permanently abolished and perhaps even criminalized

[desertmarble]

It’s so frustrating that when there’s an overwhelmingly common and dangerous phenomenon related to something so you say “Hm, seems like a sane and responsible society should ban or regulate this.” And you get hit by a million responses that amount to…

“Oh? [X thing] has a documented extremely negative impact on a large group of people?? And you’re critiquing it? Well I did [x thing] and that horrible thing never happened. I guess you’re just PERSONALLY ATTACKING me.”

“Have you considered the nuanced reality that if something is beneficial to me in any way then everyone who has been deeply harmed by it should simply eat shit? Also if they criticize it it’s because they hate me specifically?”

“What about those of us who actually ENJOY AND LIKE [x thing] and also feel entitled to never have access to something that I like restricted? Hmm? What about us?”

It’s not actually possible to have a functioning society where everyone does whatever they want all the time. You can’t just trust that your populace is going to do the best possible version of everything. I’m absolutely sure there’s a lot of responsible gun owners in the US — unfortunately, the negative societal impact of guns means that in a sane, effective society (which ofc the US isn’t) they’d still be banned. There are some things that are more important than you and what you like and what is beneficial to you. Some things are worse than other things, like objectively worse. Some things are more important than you.

This is the very definition of hyper-individualism. If something is working for you, it must continue. No one else matters. No one’s suffering could ever be more important than your own.

[prismatic-bell]

I was homeschooled for two years and it was one of the best things that could ever have happened to me. Read to the end before you get mad, because there's a huge "but" here.

Here's the load-bearing BUT:

I was well above my grade level in everything except gym and math. I'd tested out of keyboarding. I was in accelerated English and still bored. I struggled a bit with science, but to be clear, in this context "struggled with" means I was in gifted-level programming and it was slightly above my level. I was reading college history books.

Where I'd fallen heavily short was in social skills. There were a lot of reasons for this--autism that was misdiagnosed as everything else under the sun, TBI-induced brain damage, being in a cult, physical/emotional/sexual abuse--but the result was I was twelve years old and still didn't understand that I needed to look before crossing the street and couldn't just get up in class and sit on the floor. I was a mess.

I did not spend two years learning academics. I spent two years turning in stuff I already knew to cover our asses when the school wanted to see my curriculum, and those two years were spent learning the basics of how to human. And yes, sure, I did do some academic projects. My mom kind of Montessori'd it and let me pick stuff I found interesting to work on. But I did maybe two or three each year. It wasn't really "school."

I returned to public schooling at more or less an average level. Which is to say that compared to where I'd been, I was behind. And a math disability that was juuuust barely beginning to show when my mother pulled me out had become profound.

Homeschooling was the best option available to me. But it shouldn't have been. There should have been a support network in place to help me catch up mentally. There should have been concerns about me coming to school with bruises and saying the dinosaur unit was fun but I knew it was made up because it wasn't in the Bible.

Homeschooling should be abolished and we should get support systems in place because what we have simply isn't cutting it.

"One of the best things that ever happened to me" doesn't mean it should have happened. It means everyone failed.

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[avhira]

I could use some luck

[tinybed]

[comealongphil]

dawn dimmadome? wife of doug dimmadome, owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome?

[punkrorschach]

actually she took the dimmadome in the dimmadivorce

[russiawave]

[magistrate-of-mediocrity]

Those am him leafs

[weatherall]

#leaf him alone

[anglaised]

everytime u go outside ur spending $60 automatically its crazy $60 is the new $20

[pursebeer]

Stop buying food and coffee and make it at home. I'm begging everyone.

[anglaised]

ok well i filled up my car with gas and got cat food for my cats so idk how this applies to me also the “don’t buy coffee anymore” thing is rlly annoying from ppl acting like buying coffee is the reason ppl r struggling to keep purchases under 20 dollars instead of capitalism inflating prices for shareholders to buy another five houses like. eventually yall gotta stop doing the “no more avacado toast!” thing to ppl bc there is no budgeting that is enough to outrun inflation

[sevenjetc]

If your rent makes more than 30% of your income, it’s unlikely that you will ever be able to make any savings. If it’s more than 50%, you are in some deep trouble. But yeah, that one time you bought the sandwich is the problem. Also “stop buying food” – like altogether? Make it at home from what? Thin air?

[kate04us]

"Make your food at home" sounds beautifully quaint, doesn't it?

Anyone who actually does make their food at home lately will know that, unless you want to live on dry pasta, buying the necessary ingredients for that is already a fucking nightmare. I'm currently being very deliberate about my diet, which means that I exclusively prepare all my meals at home from fresh ingredients. Now, I'm lucky to have a decent income and no family, mortgage or car draining it, but the weekly shopping trip still hurts. And I do not buy a lot of fancy stuff. Mainly vegetables and dairy products.

If you mean "make your food at home" as in "grow it yourself", you're even more delusional than I thought. Sure, I'll grow all my food on my half a square foot balcony, because that's going to work. Besides, growing vegetables and fruit doesn't cost a thing, right?

The whole narrative of "young people these days just need to buy less iced lattes to afford their own home" completely ignores how just about everything has changed since boomers were able to buy their first house at 25. We've been told to get a university degree. We did that. All that got a lot of us was an ass full of student loans and some dead-end, low-paying job that may or may not be killed by AI soon. And in addition, we pay so much in rent that we have no way of saving for a house. And who's gonna give a mortgage to someone who's owing thousands in student loans and is living from one short-term contract to the next?

My own situation is better now, but it took me till I was 40 to get to a point where I no longer have to watch every penny, and where I don't stand in the veggie aisle at the supermarket, wondering if I can afford a zucchini or not. But I still cannot afford to buy a house, and I probably never will.

So shut the fuck up with your stupid boomer lines. The fucking world is ending because the generations before us lived like there was no tomorrow. If we want to eat a damn avocado toast or get a fancy latte to go, we will. There's not a lot else you left for us to look forward to.

[jaubaius]

The curious dance moves of the Striped Cuckoo.

[chick-it-out]

[fxhdskjz]

art is just iteration and reiteration and this one single paragraph changed my life

[fxhdskjz]

I’m so glad this post is taking off because anybody — “artist” or not — needs to read this

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

Image ID: a photo of part of a page of a book. The heading is "Fears About Yourself", and underneath is a second heading, "Perfection". The text reads, "The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the 'quantity' group: fifty pounds of pots rated an 'A', forty pounds a 'B', and so on. Those being graded on 'quality', however, needed to produce only one pot-- albeit a perfect one-- to get an 'A'. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity." The rest of the paragraph is highlighted, and reads, "It seems that while the 'quantity' group was busily churning out piles of work-- and learning from their mistakes-- the 'quality' group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay." /end ID

[thesweetiepienovels]

“No one is coming to save you.” I disagree ! I believe many people made up of many small moments come to save pieces of you , even if just briefly. The mentor who believed in you . The friend who said they’re proud of you. The family member that makes you laugh . The random person who held the door for you out of nothing but kindness. The teacher who took extra time to help you understand. The person who smiled at you when you walked into a store. The little kid who looks up to you. The person who randomly complimented you. Being “saved” isn’t about being whisked away and all your hardships gone, it’s about the people and things that remind you life is not all hardships, it is kindness, love, gentleness, softness, care, thoughtfulness. It is many moments made up of your lifetime that keeps you going and showing you the world is still beautiful, and will always be. Despite.

[reikacchan]

don't give up

[kunaigirl]

Me: "Damn people are REALLY BAD at knowing when to tag their eyestrain art/images...either that or they just don't care about photosenitive epileptic people like me. I feel really sad now." Person: "But Allison, what if they just don't know or understand what qualifies as eyestrain and what doesn't?" Me: "You know what? That could be a factor...While it is always better to be safe rather than sorry (so YES people should always tag eyestrain even if they're unsure if it "counts" or not) maybe you've got a point?"

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

Full eyestrain AF page link

"But Allison! How were you able to screenshot that example if you're so sensitive to eyestrain?"

I dimmed the HELL out of my computer screen and looked away while taking the screenshot and did the same when putting it into this post, that's how lol. BUT YEAH ANYWAYS!!! Once again:

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

[rightdownright]

by the way this is medical. this could save somebody from a migraine all the way to a seizure. this has always been serious. treat this seriously.

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[literary-illuminati]

I do appreciate an academic with a sense of humor.

[handweavers]

my mom got a cordless leaf blower and since then she has become a different person she thinks all problems around the house can be solved with the leaf blower send help

[handweavers]

shes in her bedroom with the leaf blower blasting and i don't even want to know. she was trying to put curtains up how does the leaf blower come into play here

[batbetbitbotbut]

when all you have is a leaf blower, every problem fucking leaves

[the-haiku-bot]

when all you have is

a leaf blower, every

problem fucking leaves

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.