#and maybe they’re more than friends

[otaku553]

Thoughts on being aroace

#I like doing these little introspective thought comics they’re pretty fun #I didn’t get to include this in the comic but I do feel like loneliness is maybe not quite the right word #it’s not quite jealousy or envy either #more like #the sad knowledge that you are lower on someone else’s list of priorities than they are on your priorities #something like that I guess #if this seems like a sad comic don’t worry! I am ok :) I have my best friend and we’re both very clear on how much we care for each other #so I’m never really left needing or wanting more love or anything #love is so weirdly defined anyways

[redhoodie1723]

the imaginary carlos and charles beef that some fans are convinced is going on is giving Netflix DTS trying to convince us that charles and sebastian were mortal enemies that prayed on each other’s downfall nightly

#can’t people be happy or sad for one driver without tearing the other down #ik teammates are often pitted against each other and stuff but like #they’re both having good seasons #they’re both showing off their strengths #charles is still doing well in the WDC and even tho max is likely to win this year charles is still gonna get more chances with ferrari #and carlos is doing a great job in showing other teams why they should give him a seat next season #regardless of whether u think they’re good friends or just coworkers it’s clear they respect each other a lot #and i get being upset that charles didn’t podium in suzuka #but that’s not carlos’ fault and he did everything that he should’ve #charles still has a phenomenal race and his fans shouldn’t insult carlos simply for racing #and similarly carlos’ fans shouldn’t insult charles for not placing higher than carlos #when charles has shown how good and consistent of a driver he is in the past few races #just because the two latest ferrari wins have been carlos’ doesn’t mean charles is suddenly “overhyped” or “washed up” #like chill y’all #focus on the bigger issues #like whatever the fuck is going on williams #charles leclerc #carlos sainz #cl16 #cs55 #ferrari #formula 1 #f1 #1655 #c squared #2024 japanese gp #as a maybe month old fan i probably shouldn’t be having many opinions about this #but whatever lmfao #they’re both hot why are we pitting them against each other #they hate when two sexy bitches are winning

[synonymroll648]

headcanon that as sophie ages, she gets more and more off-put by how she still looks twenty at some age past 40. the only wrinkles she has are smile lines and a barely-there crease between her eyebrows that never leaves. no gray hairs. it doesn’t feel like there’s any physical evidence of how much stress aged her too fast.

(maybe she dyes more grays into her hair to feel better about her reflection, the more time passes by. maybe, on bad days, she contours wrinkles into her skin with makeup. maybe the bad days get more frequent as she ages outside the human lifespan. maybe.)

#i feel like fitz and dex are the only friends of hers that really get it #since fitz understands more surrounding human cultures than most elves thanks to his firsthand experience in the search #and dex grew up with his mom’s romcoms #which would probably show some human perspectives on aging #and his mom explaining some things that didn’t quite make sense to Smol Dex #but i’ve always imagined sophie turning up on fitz’s doorstep in the middle of the night #with tears running down her face and saying she didn’t know who else to talk to about almost-immortality feeling so so so wrong as she #gets older. not necessarily just because he knows more about humanity than most of her group #but also because like. there’s some part of her that says ‘if he can help you through learning to be an elf at 12 maybe he can help you at #42 too’. and they’re cognates. and they’ve gotten old enough to set aside teenage grievances with one another #and i like the idea of them sitting on a couch together by lamplight and trying to navigate the cultural and personal differences #in how the two of them and humanity and the lost cities view mortality #and not really reaching a concrete conclusion. but rather. a conclusion that keeps the two of them sane until they reach triple digits. #and then they have the conversation again. and come up with a plan to stay sane in their triple digits. and the same thing pops up in their #thousands. idk man the whole thing screams trust down to the bone and that’s what they should have when the war is over #is there anything more Cognate than talking through wildly different fears surrounding the same thing that make both parties #super vulnerable??? down to how your minds work in the face - or lack of - death? #maybe so but i can’t think of them off top of my head #kotlc #sophie foster #kotlc headcanons #keeper of the lost cities

[hearts4johncasey]

“Do you think we’re soulmates in every universe?”

“Cut the cheesey bullshit, Bartowski.”

#john casey #chuck bartowski #adam baldwin #zachary levi #chuck2007 #they’re best friends your honor #platonic soulmates #maybe a little more than platonic #depending on what audience this reaches #chasey shippers wya

[marimbles]

the agony of enjoying MULTIPLE THINGS AT ONCE. How do people do it….

#part of me is like. ok is it actually the best move to just have separate sideblogs for every interest #cause I always feel weird and insecure abt being a multifandom blog. For some reason #I’m like aaa I’ll annoy people if I post things they’re not interested in! :( they’ll be disappointed in or frustrated in me! #and then the evil (read:normal) Kermit side of me is like girl it’s not that serious #you are not important enough for ppl to be worked up about your blogging habits lmao #if they’re annoyed they unfollow. swell. neato. #u can trust people to curate their own online experience. It’s not your job to post what they want you just do what you want. on ur own blog #do u follow #Sméagol me: yes ma’am #(I mentally switched to gollum instead of Kermit btw) #gollum me: it’s normal to like more than one thing. good even. and you will go through phases anyway #that’s life silly. You’ll have different moods at different times. and maybe completely different interests in the future #are you gonna make a new blog every time you enjoy something. #your interest are fluid but your identity is rooted in something beyond them. Right #you can just be a person who’s always changing but is also essentially the same. that’s humanity hun. do you understand #Sméagol me: yes #gollum: good #Sméagol: but also what if it’s hard to be friends with someone who has 3–4 interests #gollum: good grief

[simcardiac-arrested]

i don’t think we’re ever getting out of the “we’re just friends” “oh yeah those characters are such good friends (sarcasm)” “they’re not friends they’re gay” etc etc hole. we’re never getting out of that hole

#yes it’s bad when people try to erase gay relationships to portray them as friends and nothing more #that is NOT what i mean. i’m talking about when people do the Opposite Thing and decide that when characters are romantic togethr #then suddenly they’re not friends anymore! or if they say they’re friends they’re lying! #like … i was watching nimona with my friend yesterday and like. if you’ve seen the movie you know how obviously gay and in love bal and #ambrosius are. and then there’s this one moment where ambrosius says ‘i have lost everything the man i love my best friend’ and at that #moment my friend was like It’s sad that they decided to censor their relationship even though this movie is still rly gay :( and i was like #WHAT are you saying ? these two men are clearly in love with one another BUT they’re also best friends. Like those are things that can #coexist!! and DO coexist!!! there are many cases where people consider their romantic partners their best friends . or even refer to them as #their best friends more than just partner!!!!!! LIKE WHAT ARE YOU SAYINGGGG . does anybody get it #does anybody understand #i’m so sick of amatonormativity i’ll start eating drywall #yes i love making ‘oh they seem like really good friends’ jokes because i know how most people interpret those jokes. but to me it’s like #well. they ARE really good friends. they’re just also romantic/gay about it. ghhehghh #maybe one day friendship will stop being seen as something lesser maybe one day people will realize that most romance is also friendship #and your partner can be and in most cases is your friend or your best friend even #and maybe one day we’ll stop acting like friendship & romance are two mutually exclusive things #and maybe sure that gay character is calling their love interest their Best Friend because of denial and repressed emotions and whatever #but have u considered that it’s just true and they really are best friends ?? like when crowley calls az his best friend sure that might be #gay denial but they also literally Are best friends i don’t know what to tell you. and they will always be best friends #DOES ANYBODY GET IT !!!!!!!! js any of this making sense i dont know. I love complaining #crammerposting

[that-was-anticlimactic]

one of the worst feelings ever is wanting to write but your hands hurt too much or the words just don’t want to work so you just sit there staring at a half finished doc with tears in your eyes bc you want to write and you need to write but everything is telling you that you can’t

#and that you’re a terrible writer and that no one cares aaaaaaand imposter syndrome kicks in and you just feel like crap #bc all your friends have been wriying recejtky so why can’t you??? cause they’re bETTER THAN YOU #lol idk why my head is so bad today #the feelings of inferiority and emptiness and idk worthlessness are strong and i hate it but i can’t stop it #i just wanna write!!! and like what i write!!! #but i Can’t and i haven’t liked anything i’ve written in Months and ugh i hate not being able to d something i wanna do #oh and now i’m crying??? why the frick am i cRYING litetally why is typing this making me Worse #sorry guys needed to rant #the inadequacy was strong today #something something students keep telling me how much they dislike me or how i’m whiny for asking them to be respectful and like #i Know i shouldn’t compare myself to my friends but gosh it’s hard when they’re all like. so much better than me. #and i don’t have a lot of time to be on tumblr bc of work so i just feel like i’m watching everything from afar and it’s no one’s fault but #my brain’s like no one is Doing anything it’s just my brain being dumb and i can’t stand it and I want to stop feeling empty and like i’m #missing a part of myself and like the words i write don’t matter gOD why can’t i just feel happy with where i am and not care what the kids #who hate me say or realize that no one cares that i’m not on much like i’m still Here and trying to interact it’s not like everyone hates me #for being busy or for liking side characters more than the main characters and just— #sorry #that felt good actually #idk what came over me #imma just. imma shower. then maybe delete my tags #sorry if anyone got this far aT ALL grace is either asleep or trying to sleep so i don’t wanna bother them since they slept poorly last nigh #okay done now for real sorry delete tags later sorry if you saw this and how freaking messed up ky freaking brain is

[filthforfriends]

I know that we mustn't judge people by the meme pages they follow but couldn't help feel a little weird about damiano following a meme page making misogynistic and fatphobic jokes some of them even homophobic... I usually dont go through anyone's following list but i was trying to find the page of a Japanese artist that Damiano used to share posts onto his story from, a few years ago. I stumbled upon this meme page instead.

No, no. In this house we absolutely judge people by the meme pages they follow. Especially on their public, professionally curated, extremely popular insta.

Anon, I was fully ready to go spelunking for you. I scrolled to the very bottom to see what garbage he liked at age 16 which was totally unnecessary. Because he just recently followed ravidememe! Who posts some stuff like this:

But a whole lot of mainstream misogynistic, toxic, and woefully unoriginal shit like this:

And occasionally something truly abhorrent like a Napalm joke.

Apologies for the google translate. The page is Italian so I’m sure I’m missing a lot of problematic cultural references too. But this one I got:

“Milanese women” = women from Milan. Damiano’s ex of 6 years is from Milan and moved to Rome to be with him.

P.S. I will only respond to claims that this is solely the translations fault if you can give me a thorough explanation for each instance.

#📩 Maybe he didn’t see the “Milanese” post. #🙎🏻‍♀️ Maybe. But he saw the other ones which is why he followed. #📩 Maybe he only saw the political posts. #🙎🏻‍♀️ lol #📩 Relax! He’s just following an Italian meme page it’s not that deep. #🙎🏻‍♀️ He followed ravidememe bcus he enjoyed/identified w the humor enough to compromise his meticulously curated public image. #📩 They’re probably irl friends and that’s why he’s following. #🙎🏻‍♀️ That’s worse. #📩 Let it go this isn’t hurting anyone. #🙎🏻‍♀️ Him following this page gives these attitudes credibility & all kinds of visibility. #(cont.) Impressionable fans are gonna see these posts & internalize + accept this treatment. #📩 Literally why are you so mad? #🙎🏻‍♀️ Finding this stuff funny indicates that beneath his seemingly evolved values Damiano is just as bigoted as your average dude. #(cont.) = aspects of his allyship performative for marketability = profit. Made $ caring more than he actually does. #📩Woah! Just because someone finds something funny doesn’t mean they AGREE with it! #🙎🏻‍♀️ Possibly. But it means he isn’t meaningfully offended when he damn well should be. #📩 Gen Z are just offended by everything! Get a life! #🙎🏻‍♀️ This post is literally about a Gen Z-er making offensive jokes. Try again next time. #📩 It’s cultural! These comments aren’t offensive in Italy! #🙎🏻‍♀️ I am going to enjoy watching your compatriots come for your throat #that should just about cover it

[blade-that-was-broken]

People be like: oohhhhh what if John Dory and Delta Dawn are bitter exes/divorced/angry history

Me: but what if… what if they weren’t? What if they were chill besties that weren’t on bad terms??

#I only ship delta Dory in select aus #very select #how interesting or even funny it would be if they were on good terms and friends? #like everyone sees jd go up to delta and they’re like OH NO this will end poorly #but jd just like heyyyyy sup girl and delta be like hey you weird little pop troll been a while #and they just chill #like idk it would be funnyyyyyy #and frankly super interesting #it partially has #to do with how I think trolls are more platonic than humans #I want jd to have friends okay??? #I also support poppy jd friendship rights #and I read a fic where after tbt viva bonds with jd and realizes he’s kind of like a practical father to her and I’m like ???? oooooohhhh?? #I kinda like that? #cause they’d kinda get along with the whole surviving thing??? maybe??

[tankshaw]

a look into tank’s recklessness

tank made a decision when they lied to david about quinn. mutually assured destruction, that’s what they promised themself. the pack could call them reckless and idiotic all they wanted, but it was a conscious choice. quinn and tank were nuclear bombs, destined to go off together. binary stars gone supernova. they had never planned to make it out of the final showdown, why would they? what did they have to go back to? a pack that they always ended up disappointing? a friend who couldn’t remember their existence? an alpha who always got stuck cleaning their messes?

the fact of the matter is that tank never accounted for their survival, they didn’t want to. maybe that’s why they took hits they could’ve easily dodged, went into places despite any danger. so they took every lecture and scolding, knowing full well their mind has been made up.

tank didn’t account for sam. sweet, loving sam who looked at them like they lit the stars every night. he saw past the scars and bruises and history and found something worth loving, worth cherishing, worth every gentle touch. they weren’t supposed to have anything to come back to. they had been so careful that their death would be a clean break, an overgrown gravestone in a forgotten corner of a cemetery. but now the thought of leaving sends aches to their chest. they couldn’t bare the thought of being another name on the long list of things that sam had lost. they couldn’t do that to him, they wouldn’t.

maybe, just maybe, they could be more careful, plan for a “life after quinn.” and when they see sam’s smile when he looks at them, tank thinks, “maybe i could stick around for as long as he’ll have me”

#i have so many thoughts on darlin’s recklessness and lack of self preservation #and how its a signal of something deeper going on #esp paired with the fact that they’re relationship with their pack and then everything that happened with their friend and quinn #and so im convinced that darlin’s was planning to take quinn down with them the whole time they were gone #and then sam comes along and they’re cared about and they’re seeing parts of themselves that are gentle and kind #and more than the ‘tank’ of the shaw pack #and they think that maybe they don’t want their inevitable fight with quinn to be the end #redacted darlin #redacted tank #redactedverse #redacted asmr #redacted audio #redacted sam #sam collins #tank #darlin

[babyfairy]

i hate that i can’t even ride the high from my concert because my life is so consistently depressing and hellish lmao 🙃 it’s depressing to come back down to reality after such a good day. like it really makes me realize how joyless my life has become. everything just blurs together

#and i’m just tired of like everything around me feeling like it’s drifting away and becoming more unreachable #like i never even get to finish a conversation with half of my friends because they just forget to respond to me #thank god for sushi and asant consistently replying even when they’re busy lmao #no one else even bothers to really check in now unless i’m in like ACTIVE crisis it really sucks #not even in like a ‘i need people to hear me vent’ way #i just don’t feel important to the majority of the people in my life. at all #or maybe it’s just i feel like i care about and prioritize them a lot more than they do me #like? i had more coworkers text me on my birthday than actual friends #and i fucking hate my birthday so i get it to some degree #but it just hurts my feelings? idk? i feel like such an afterthought all the time to people. like a ghost #and i feel like i’m not interesting or good enough to keep anyone around or hold their attention #my own brother didn’t even wish me a happy birthday. at all lol #are my expectations just too high? #it’s just lonely. i wish i didn’t feel so alone

[fruixtii]

no one except me should be allowed to touch childhood friends to lovers tropes ever

#this is really only about twst #theres not really a problem with riddle and trey but it’s just so off putting to me for some reason it doesn’t feel right #they’re relationship seems so strictly platonic to me. like as a kid trey had this friend who didn’t get to have actual fun #their* #and he allowed him to actually have those experiences #but then everything went wrong because he did and you see him suffering and you just want to help!!! #you want the best for him you want to see him happy. i cannot see anything romantic in their relationship #for kalim and jamil it isn’t even about them being childhood friends it’s about how jamil feels towards kalim #maybe in the future after they graduate they’ll be friends but i don’t think jamil will ever actually feel comfortable around kalim #they don’t even have any chemistry like riddle and trey sort of do #and i don’t know how silver and sebek isn’t obvious #they read as brothers through and through. silver literally said sebek is a brother to him. #i cant even comprehend seeing their relationship as romantic ever in any universe #they seem more like brothers than jade and floyd do #idk. my brain is just so wired to seeing them as brothers that whenever i see people ship them i feel sick #oh and theres also the fact that i feel like silver is so much more mature than sebek. i think thats also a really big factor. #it really affects their dynamic #silver has such older sibling who takes care of their younger sibling alone #like if both of them didn’t have parents silver would totally take up the parental mentality and he would always make sure sebek had someone #to rely on #ok that’s enough hate posting for now

[wantbytaemin]

who remembers when i used to take fit pics in this shitty elevator 🥹 ft the bow my mom got me and the moon from the lidl parking lot 🤍

#you can’t really see it but i’m wearing a bow in the pic hehe so when i got to my mom’s and she gave me the bow i was like ….❣️❣️❣️ #it’s so funny though she knows i have a very specific taste in things and kept the receipt she was like i just thought it was perfect for #you but you never know! which was so funny and also i finally kinda feel like she likes me & cares.. maybe she always does i just struggle #to see it sometimes. sigh such is life i think. today was good though i don’t have pics of my scarf or the little jewelry dish i got my #friend but trust me they’re both very nice. oh also i charmed the girl selling the dishes into getting more of a discount than everybody #else even though that was definitely not my intention jdhsdkdk but i didn’t say no ! so nice. definitely lesbian maybe she sensed we were #Connected in that way. hehe 💞

[sanchoyo]

I’ve been wanting to reopen commissions soon but I rly need to make new examples, maybe try to figure out what ppl are most interested in (I think my most commissioned items are always icons, so? Those will be included) and what I can do…I also want to refigure my prices. Like I do want them to be affordable, and I do love drawing for ppl, but I also want to make sure I have the bandwidth + time for them and also feel like I’m being compensated properly since I do have a job now so they would be the Side Thing aaa TwT

but I’m finally at a place where I feel like. Not burnt out after every week and I’m in a nice routine now and pretty used to my job, so I feel like I can handle more on the side. Very excited abt that. Not excited abt making new examples or figuring out what I wanna offer etc tho I hate the logistics of commissions. Part of me wants to do a pay what u want thing with a set minimum and maybe start exclusively offering them thru kofi since it’s so easy, but we’ll see!!

I look to maybe open them around June so like. If anyone is interested, I’d love to hear what kind of stuff u guys would want? 🤨

#I realize posting this at 2 am might not yield feedback LOL I’ll maybe do a more formal poll on my art blog later #I’m up waaay past my bedtime bc I’ve been nocturnal this week #the landlord sent ppl to reno our kitchen so I have been sleeping during the day #and working at night so that I can avoid the ppl. anxiety. whatever I feel bad for being in their way and I’m shy ok 😭 #it’s been loud and a mess all across the house bc of it and I am a tiny bit stressed #plus family stuff but the reg yk. it’s fine #but thinking abt how excited I am abt art and possibly drawing for ppl and making them happy makes me happy aaaa #I rly do love making art for ppl #and I’ve missed it #sanchoyorambles #in other news I got a bird bath for outside my window so in addition to the feeder I can see them splash #haven’t seen any of them use it for that yet :( but several wasps have drank! #wasps r smarter than birds confirmed I guess. they’re growing on me a lil bit I’m ngl. there’s a nest on the porch #and last week when I decided I’d work outside for an hour or two one came and sat with me #perched on the arm rest and hung out. and I was brave and didn’t run away! we r friends now me n the wasps #someone appreciates my gift of water #birds take notes……….