i cut my teeth on second hand sentiments

call me kit / they them he him / 20s / disabled / slavic / i follow/like from kit-the-kid-main-inactive (inactive otherwise)

[wordfather]

they're a problematic character TO YOU. they're problematic to me as well but I'm being weird and horny about it so it's different

[powham]

William Russell Flint

[steaming-compost-tea]

im only like 8mins into watching scream 1996 for the first time and i can already understand why so many tumblr girlies love that guy lmao. like its not for me specifically, but i see it. i understand it.

[watch-the-sun-rise]

PHM characters as text posts: Pt. 7/?

Part 6

[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[mel6ncholi]

"older men do if better" "i love older men" girl you're fourteen what are you doing

[evcrgardn]

You cannot give me this. It is mine to give to whom I will... like my heart.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) dir. Peter Jackson

[curiouslyhigh]

[feinseld]

i missed this post

[tigerdrop]

if you dont decouple your drive to create from your desire for attention you will go insane. simple as. you will never feel satisfied b/c you will always want more and you will feel perpetually bitter that you did not get what you are “owed”

[sinsbymanka]

It’s an unpopular opinion but it is absolutely and completely true. I’ve never seen someone who creates for engagement happy with the engagement they get. I posit they can’t ever be happy that way because it will NEVER be enough

[thevikingwoman]

I agree with OP and Manka so very much.

You have to rest in your own desire to create.

But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of “it’s bad to want validation or attention or engagement”, and to me, that’s not what this means.

It’s perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.

And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.

the words used by OP is decouple, and this is important. Nothing wrong wanting engagement. But it cannot be tightly coupled with the drive to create.

[capacity2]

There really is a game people are playing and I don’t know I just I just don’t know how to participate

[presidentdragon]

"that time of the month" "monthly visitor" "feminine hygiene products" GRRAH!!! SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! PERIOD!! MENSTRUATION!!!! TAMPONS!!! PADS!! MENOPAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

[tyke-dyke]

VAGINA!!!!

[presidentdragon]

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[undyworld]

siblings siblings siblings siblings

[bird-brainz]

in the walter manor. straight up “steam powering it”. and by “it,” haha, well. let’s justr say. My giraffe

[fairycosmos]

ages 0-10: grow low quality organs

ages 10-30: in the labyrinth

30+: eating music and drinking songs

[screenshotingmonstertv]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in hindsight, growing up as an aromantic person who didn't know aromanticism was a thing...it woulda been really easy for me to assume that something was wrong with me, that I was "broken" or "missing" some piece of humanity.

luckily I was autistic, oblivious, and had a huge ego. it literally never occurred to me to frame it as a "me" problem. i just thought every single person i knew was a dumbass

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

not trying to be mean, that was just the natural conclusion of a judgemental aspec teenager forcibly surrounded by other teenagers. classmates would go on and on about their Longings and Yearnings and id be like. girl u r fifteen