tired.

💜🤍🖤 nat

[girard]

i dont mind when people are annoying online bc i remember back when i was 14 and so annoying online and its fun to be young and not know how to act we've all been there. Checks bio. oh theyre older than me

[herondaleoffspring]

to be fair the most in-character thing neil "i have to blend with the shadows" josten did was giving up the fact that he could speak french for the whole purpose of starting shit up with kevin

[herondaleoffspring]

sometimes i remember that neil tried to go for the quiet pushover look when he started with the foxes but at some point he payed a guy 100$ to knock him out cold

[lemonboyjosten]

kudos to neil josten who's probably the only one who really took the whole "new year, new me" bullshit seriously.

[arahir]

all these posts that are like *flips hair* hi newbiesss tehee welcome to Tumblr..... we're not like the Other Social Media Sites 😝😘 and then proceed to unironically describe tumblr like the shangri la of social media where we all live laugh reblog and have long ebony black hair and flip off preps as if every fucking day on here for the last ten years hasn't been a bloody trial with innumerable casualties like we don't weekly see the most hilarious drama and indescribable dysfunctionality. you're all like acclimated deep sea organisms enticing soft photic zone invertebrates to come down. they're going to fucking die.

[sapphymayeyeplease]

she let me hit because i have the exact same correct interpretation of her favorite characters as her

[rubyleaf]

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

[rubyleaf]

Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don't even realize they're not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they're in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don't want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be "don't think about it" on endless loop.

Basically, the fictional embodiment of the "this is fine" dog.

[neverlove-anchor]

You know what I hate?

When characters in stories have really good questions and critiques of romantic love and relationships or even a rather cold dating experience. Like, they tell themselves that they never felt the same pull towards dating their peers did, and dread how they feel obligated to date even if they feel like this is not what is right for them. They ask themselves why everyone is so obsessed with this thing or how could some people swear to be with each other forever so easily when the future is inherently unpredictable. And all of these are really good questions to have and observations to make

Then everything disappears as soon as they enter a relationship. Boom, all deep thoughts about amatonormativity are gone and the rose tinted glasses are firmly in place

And it pisses me off beyond belief, because critiques of amatonormativity are treated as flaws to be overcome. As the symptoms of a lonely hurt person who wishes they could have had a picture perfect romance but for some reason couldn't and are trying to rationalize it as a cope out

And this ties into aphobia, specifically arophobia. Of course people don't believe us when we are talking about our experiences, when we tell them "yes, I am perfectly happy being single and I'm sure I would hate being in a relationship", because they have always been taught that no one can sincerely critique dating culture, because everyone wants a relationship. And if they say they don't they are either lying or broken

So yes, how about we stop treating actual creatiques of a toxic societal practice as signs of a too cynical person that needs a relationship to loosen up and become the best they could ever be? Because it's wrong on so many levels and if people would not be romanticising ... well romance ... to such a ridiculous degree, then it would be more than obvious

[clementinecloudz]

100% going to be a menace and post all my aftg art because why not, also Andrew owning a coffee shop, my king fr! He's just a lil guy

[miniyrds]

hm..i miss neil

[miniyrds]

Hey!

Do you did thats alternatives books cover of All for de game By Nora Sakavic??

hey!! ive done a few alternate covers in the past if that’s what you mean?

[habitualwords-deactivated201805]

character posters ≡ neil josten, #10 striker 

oh neil, unpredictable as he is unreal.

[herondaleoffspring]

tv host: do we have any questions from the fans?

someone in the crowd: I WOULD TAKE A BULLET FOR YOU, NEIL

neil: you would have been mad useful to me a few years ago

[angelcak-3]

love when people complain that a background character isn’t fully developed. babe. babe do you know what a background character is

[agnesmontague]

i sometimes wonder if a certain chunk of Online is completely incognizant of the catharsis of friend discords, where you can be as petty and bitchy as you want among other catastrophically petty bitches of your ilk without fear of judgement, so that you never feel the need to carry any of your little ant-bitten opinions outside the server and end up harassing someone under the drunkenness of your own ire

[nativegerblaxican]

Isnt this just talking shit with friends? Why's it gotta be on discord? Am I missing something? lol

[agnesmontague]

oh it doesn't have to be on discord necessarily, as long as it's private and can't easily fall into earshot of anyone concerned. i just meant that people seem to resort so often to direct harassment of anyone who even so much as annoy them, when i think a great deal of petty, unjustifiable (but still valid) negative emotion can be relieved through heavy kvetching in private servers/accounts/etc

[pansexualshitposting]

YES

[miniyrds]

diversity win! the new recruit is secretly on the run from his serial killer dad, and he’s aspec!