hey sorry if i was offputting and strange and bizarre and weird as fuck last night i was just being myself

@theartofmadeline

No title available
EXPECTATIONS
cherry valley forever

Jar Jar Binks Fan Club
Claire Keane
Keni

blake kathryn
š
Misplaced Lens Cap
occasionally subtle

shark vs the universe

#extradirty

ellievsbear
Fai_Ryy

No title available
Today's Document

romaā
$LAYYYTER
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
seen from Germany

seen from Luxembourg

seen from Malaysia

seen from United States
seen from Vietnam

seen from Finland
seen from United States
seen from India
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from Germany
seen from Japan

seen from United States
seen from Spain

seen from Bangladesh
seen from Spain
seen from Iraq
@lavendercrt
hey sorry if i was offputting and strange and bizarre and weird as fuck last night i was just being myself
still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.
we were lonely kids having fun together. do you remember?
i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.
IM SORRY????? WHAT???
some of us just donāt want to read problematic white authors so ao3 is our only option š¤·āāļø
oh there is no saving youse
the famously unproblematic white authors of ao3
iāve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.
as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. itās just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. weāre small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, āiām not here to hurt you. hereās something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know weāre on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. iām being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.ā
small talk isnāt to get to know a person. itās just a greeting to affirm youāre buddies in the universe.
i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.
hey so anyone else just, feel thin. sort of stretched. like butter scraped over too much bread. like you need a holiday. a very long holiday. and you don't expect you shall return? or is that just me and bilbo baggins
careful you stupid little thing
sometimes i feel i have to restrain myself bc i think reblogging someones art with tags along the lines of I LIKED IT SO MUCH I KILLED MYSELF is not always gonna fly. but im always thinking about it
Isn't that lovely, and isn't that cool? And isn't that cruel? And aren't I a fool to have...
I donāt care that weāre different. You know, Iā¦what I care aboutā¦is you. I care about you. Okay?
ZOOTOPIA 2 (2025)
Do you?
fixed it
The thing about radical kindness (or any kindness, for that matter) is that there are going to be times when someone or something makes you regret it. There are going to be times when you show someone empathy and grace that they don't "deserve". There are going to be times when someone takes that kindness and uses it against you. The world doesn't magically transform into a perfect place when you decide to choose kindness and people will take advantage of it. People will continue to be shitty.
But the thing is...that's not a flaw of kindness. That's not a you problem. That's a them problem. People who are happy with themselves and their lives don't go out of their way to misuse someone's kindness or grace. The "normal" response to kindness or empathy is not to find a way to exploit it. People who are happy with themselves don't look for ways to hurt people for no reason. Kindness will never be the problem. No matter what some shitty person decides to do with it. It should go without saying not to be a doormat, yes. Don't allow people to treat you badly just for the sake of being kind. But also don't let shitty people make you bitter because of how they treated you when you were kind.
ummm hello does anyone know me