#technically vent

[lastcall111]

NO 🙅‍♂️ I am NOT 🚫 alive 👎⛔

[purpleeggyboi]

I have sooo much Gaza Palestine stuff in my inbox

But I Reallllly don’t want to deal with it uuuuuugggggghhhhh

[all-seeingelias]

maybe if i cry it'll feel better who knows

[caccry]

transitional period

[shadowamongfireworks]

Have y’all ever looked at the general trends in which characters you strongly like/are emotionally attached to and why?

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and here’s what I’ve come up with. I currently have 4 categories/conditions:

A) The character is someone who’d provide affection that aligns with the love languages you want to receive.

B) You identify with the character in some way (possibly through an archetype in media).

C) You desire a skill/ability that the character has.

D) You relate to the character through a similar struggle that they’ve been through. (You don’t have to match their experience perfectly, you just have to relate to them in some way.)

Multiple if not all of these categories can potentially be applied to a character, and there can also be crossover between the different categories.

Based on my experience analyzing this, I believe that (generally) the more (metaphorical) boxes that are ticked for a character by you/your brain, the higher the level of attachment you will experience towards the character will be. But there can definitely be exceptions to this, like if a checked category happens to be strong enough to compensate for an unchecked category.

Also it is good to note that what you are perceiving about the character and how exactly they tick the boxes doesn’t necessarily have to be canonical, what matters is that you are perceiving what you are about the character and that it is (at least mostly) making sense in your mind.

A good example of all the categories being applied, for me, is Patton from Sanders Sides:

A) Patton is openly/has been openly affectionate towards the others. He mainly uses words of affirmation and he would probably use physical contact more often if it was consistently possible. This aligns perfectly with my love languages, and that openess he displays is important because I tend to not pick up on more subtle displays of affection.

B) I identify with Patton in being the soft/innocent/traditionally cute person in the group (Hufflepuffs Unite!) .

C) He, being the heart, has emotional intelligence, which is something I feel I lack.

D) I relate to him and his methods of hiding his feelings from the group. I also sense that he is or has been repressing his anger. I relate to this because I similarly feel like I can’t express my own anger when it is present outside of highly specific contexts.

If you are interested in doing this, start by looking at which characters you are highly emotionally invested in/drawn to, and compare and contrast that character with other characters in the cast and other characters from other media that you’re drawn to.

If anyone has thoughts about this based on their own experiences, please feel free to talk about it in the comments! I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[very-virgil]

QUICK I'm in need of some emergency cheering up SOMEONE HELP

[secret-faunus]

I joined an lfg team to do the raid to try out challenge mode, which the challenge was fun, but man this was one bad team. The entire team acted like hot shit like they knew everything when in reality they really didn’t know that much but the most annoying one was the girl, she said so much racist shit and used her womanhood as a reason why people were mean to her and denied it was because she kept fucking dying