#everyone i love is a stranger to someone

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I burned so long, so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do."

Annelyse Gelman, The Pillowcase, "Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone"

#annelyse gelman #the pillowcase #everyone i love is a stranger to someone #poetry #poem #words #writing #quote #text #spilled poetry #spilled words #spilled writing #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #dark academia poem #dark academia quote #dark academia #dark academia poetry #dark academia writing

[catsdelune]

You must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.

#Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone #quote #poetry #literature quotes #literature #annelyse gelman

[lilbitofmac]

Play it cool, Tony…

#TONY MAY BE THE MASTER AT FLIRTING WITH STRANGERS AND LANDING ONE NIGHT STANDS #BUT HE MAKES A FOOL OF HIMSELF WHEN HE’S ACTUALLY INTERESTED IN SOMEONE #I love him being a total flirt to everyone and then Stephen breathes in his direction and Tony trips on air #ironstrange #doctor strange #tony stark #stephen strange #iron man #marvel #mcu #my art

[graciousdragon]

OH MY FUCKING GOD

I JUST WENT TO MY LOCAL HOT TOPIC THAT I'VE BEEN GOING TO FOR LIKE. 5 OR 6 YEARS NOW RIGHT??

I GOT SOME MCR STUFF BECAUSE. OF COURSE. IF YOU'VE SEEN MY RECENT POSTING HABITS YOU KNOW. THE BRAINROT IS REAL

I WAS TALKING WITH THE CASHIER ABOUT THEM BECAUSE HE WAS ALSO A FAN AND HE FUCKING SAYS "you wanna know a fun fact? this is the hot topic the lead singer used to work at! :D"

FUCKING WHAT

GERARD WAY USED TO WORK AT MY LOCAL FUCKING HOT TOPIC?!?

AND AFTER I LEFT I LOOKED IT UP TO MAKE SURE HE WASN'T FUCKING WITH ME AND YEAH. HE WAS RIGHT. WHAT THE FUCK

SORRY FOR THE ALL CAPS THIS IS LIKE. WORLD-SHATTERING INFORMATION TO ME AND HE JUST DROPPED THAT SHIT SO CASUALLY WHAT THE HELL BRO. I NEEDED TO SCREAM ABOUT THIS SOMEWHERE

#rys.txt #tw caps #caps #LIKE. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? #I KNEW THEY WORKED AT A HOT TOPIC WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THAT ONE #ok. its ok i'm normal now (i'm not) #on another note. why are all hot topic employees like the nicest people on this earth. at least they are at mine #they always greet you when you walk in and ask if you need help and if you don't they leave you alone which is nice #and then when you check out they're always really chill and don't rush you and if you're buying or wearing something they also like they'll #talk about it with you #like. i know you have to be nice to people for a retail/customer service job like that but it always feels really genuine from them #same thing goes for spencer's employees too they're also like that #idk its just really nice for someone like me who's scared shitless of social interaction with strangers. it makes me way less anxious 👍 #anyways. light and love everyone 💖 i'm gonna go recover from learning that information now #my chemical romance #mcr #gerard way

[starflungwaddledee]

Ok but what if she went to waddle Dee town in the forgotten land and all the waddle Dee’s just accepted her because they are really nice and not rude and they accept her and she has fun and a good time please I really need this for her

i considered drawing something out to this, and making it a happy ending sort of thing, because i think this is extremely sweet as a concept and i understand the desire for it!

that said, i decided that it would be a disservice to the lore i'm building for her, my biology/magic headcanons, and also the waddle dees as a whole. i might still draw it some day, because i could absolutely perceive a way it would work (ie: all waddle dee signatures messed up by Elfilis's portals, or their magic sensitivity nuked by it.) and i think it would be lovely

but for now, i have too many other things on the backburner to get to this promptly, and i wanted to answer this one sooner rather than leaving it for months

i will say, they're not being rude to her! there might be the odd one or two who is a bit snide, but there are some of those in every society. as a general rule the waddle dees not only understand that she is struggling, they want to accept and help her. many of them even know she's lonely, and feel pretty bad about it. but it's hard, and not just because she makes people uneasy!

i draw parallels with starstruck's gummed up magical signature to autism, as i'm autistic and so by merit (as a sona), so is she. but there are some parts that do not line up with the way autism functions in our world, and one of them is that touching or being around her can be genuinely, literally painful for some of the very sensitive waddle dees.

despite that, her waddle dee doctors actually pushed through it while she was in the castle dedede infirmary. because they were determined to treat her (mostly-surface-seeming) injuries and help her feel better. and they apologised for the reactions that they couldn't control anymore than she could control her signature; the various "sorry"s she parrots in this comic are implied to be from waddle dee doctors.

it's a fine line in alien-storytelling, especially with a real world disability parallel, and i'm trying to tread it as carefully as i can. but i don't intend to villainise the waddle dees at all for their reaction to her; they truly can't help it. many of them even do their best to push through it if she comes into their vicinity, especially because she often arrives with Beloved Celebrity, Captain Bandana Waddle Dee. but like a lot of us, she can tell when she's being tolerated, and so as a rule she just sort of tries to avoid it, one way or another

#also; i'm popping this one in the tags but like... she's frankly A Bit Annoying??? especially early on. #you give her rules but she ignores you. this was kind of evident in the oc secret santa piece i did. over enthusiastic #she can be too loud or too quiet. too much or not enough. extremely bad at reading the room. foot fully in mouth. really clingy. #these aren't necessarily “bad traits” but they're just not for everyone. and that's actually okay! #i simply gave her my personality traits and 'tisms. and *i'm* annoying 😅 so she's annoying too. *shrug* #not to mention that her voice and magic mimicry is straight up Unsettling. imagine seeing someone you don't know with your face!!! #imagine being told by your Beloved King and Number One Celebrity that that was a-okay!! weird as hell!! #it's important to me that she's annoying + weird and strangers don't always give her the time of day but her friends love her. #starstruck dee #asks #ps this is just an aside but i want to warn people off being like... idk. projecting on her too much. i'm glad she's resonating with people #but i don't guarantee that her story is totally happy or light-hearted. i don't want people to be 'personally slighted' or upset #when she inevitably gets turned into strawberry jam. i'm so happy you like her but please please keep this in mind.

[densewentz]

man i love guillermo but if this little freak isn't forced to actually Experience a Consequence for once in this entire series I'm going to scream

#he always runs away/lets someone else take the fall/finds a way to weasel out of feeling guilty/gets a spontaneous get out of jail free card #and quite frankly i am sick of it!! #everyone else has paid the piper at some point #gumball the hubris is coming for u bitch #can not BELIEVE #guillermo couldnt stomach killing a stranger to survive as a vampire #but was willing to kill a friend for want of being human #hypocritical boyyyy #youre the biggest monster on this show and i love you #but i want this fruit bruised for once #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #guillermo de la cruz

[thranduel]

mike being all cute as he excitedly talks about 20 sided dice 🥰

#mike wheeler #finn wolfhard #stranger things #byler #i just love when he can actually be himself and do what he loves #it's so cute seeing him get so passionate about it #i don't want him to be insecure about who he is and pretend to be someone he's not #that's why he deserves to be in a relationship where he can be his true self without hiding #he would be so much happier and it would be better for everyone #i'm convinced that people who want mike to stay in the current relationship he's in don't actually care about him or understand him at all #because he literally admitted to feeling inferior #and not only does it affect him but it affects others around him when he changes who he is #it's not healthy or fair to anyone #and it's also just sad because mike and el don't share any of the same interests #she doesn't even care about what he likes and she walked away in 1x02 when he was showing her his toys #what kind of relationship is that when both people don't understand each other and can't be themselves with each other?

[ickypuppi3]

don’t mind me just thinking about teenage billy meeting up with argyle after a bad night with neil and argyle is all “what’s up, little dude?” and billy just scrunches his nose up and wipes away his tears before saying he wants to go get pizza together

#billy hargrove #argyle #argyle stranger things #argilly #because you see #billy likes argyle because he doesn’t Make Billy Talk #he’s just there #listens if billy needs him to #doesn’t pry into billys life or make him uncomfortable #no #argyle is safe #and that’s exactly what billy needs #someone who lets him feel like a normal teenager #whilst also being one of the only sources of comfort in this kids life #argyle calling billy ‘little dude’ my beloved #he calls him that when they reunite too #and everyone’s like ?? billy ?? little dude ?? #and argyle is like hell yeah that’s my little dude right there #i love this guy

[prongsmydeer]

I watched Red, White and Royal Blue, and I gotta say that Gay British Macauley Culkin really carried it for me

#red white and royal blue #rwrb spoilers #red white and royal blue spoilers #this comparison only stands for teen macauley but i digress #anyway. u show me someone who can gaze at their midly-tense-strangers-to-friends-to-lovers with repressed longing #and i will show u a character i love #was it a perfect movie? no. do i stand by everyone's acting? also no. #BUT I FEEL A DEEPSEATED AFFECTION FOR IT NOW #it really did something for me!!!!!!!! #I'M CHARMED #me every time there's lighthearted queer romcom: u've done nothing wrong in ur life ever #also i won't lie 2 u. in the first 20 mins i forgot it was supposed to be a film and thought 'wow they're covering a lot in the first ep' #ayesha says things #films #perhaps i have to finally read the book

[llycaons]

going on to my birding app as an city gal and saying hello. today I have for you another house sparrow. tomorrow? probably another house sparrow. but they all think it's great anyway. everyone is so niceys :3

#everyone liking my posts and they're all strangers #but it's a really lovely thing to do to feel connected to the natural world and other people #ans I probably wouldn't have done it without the app #I need letterboxd for birds. I need to comment to someone #ah I feel all tender and sweet inside from that #I can't wait to get out and see some more! #cor.txt

[the-most-pathetic-edge-marquis]

hey all! if you're seeing this post--i've hopped off of tumblr & out of fandom for a bit. this community has meant a lot for me & been a source of a lot of joy, but recently in combination with some personal events, this is starting to feel less like a positive & more like a source of stress, and i think i need to disengage. thank you for all the memes, fic, and genuine top-tier analysis. it's been an honor

#& to the community & friends & strangers i've had fleeting kind interactions with: ily all so much. thank you #knowing so many of you has truly been wonderful #and i wish you all the best & hope you stay well #& have a wonderful new year #maybe someday i'll be in a better place and i'll be back #but regardless of that: it's been an honor serving w you #and i really really hope everyone who reads this sees a beautiful cloud some time in the next 24 hours #and gets a smile or a hug from someone you love #sorry if this post comes off a little pretentious or anything #i just know that i've worried abt tumblr mutuals who disappeared!!! #so i wanted to leave you all w some explanation #& don't worry i'm not deleting the blog or any of the fic! #also. if u sent me new years prompt requests. i MAY come back to post them #if i find the time/energy #but i cannot promise you anything. i'm so sorry & thank you so much for liking my fic enough to have made the request

[deeplyunnerving]

My contribution to the Will Gets Vecna'd angst:

Vecna's torture doesn't start with Will getting rejected, instead it starts with Mike saying, "I do love you Will, I've always loved you", before descending into hell. Vecna telling Will how he's corrupting and ruining Mike. How this love would tear everyone and everything apart, how they'll lose friends and family, and in the end, Mike blaming Will for infecting him with this 'perversion' when he knew it could never end happily. (Cuz I doubt Will has escaped the internalized homophobia of the time)

Once Will has heard those words from Vecna's illusions, he'll never be able to trust them as real. Even if Mike is screaming out his love for Will as he tries to pull him free of the trance, it'll seem like just another cruel trick. And if he realizes it is real, he's forced to think "What if it's better that I'm dead? If I'm gone, Mike can be normal again, he and El can be happy together." Even flashbacks of their happy memories together is corrupted by the idea that their love can't be wholesome, that it's Will's fault in the end, that maybe he and Mike should have never met.

Just thinking about it. A confession of love could be more torturous than a rejection.

#before i came out i used to feel this horrible dread everytime i got someone to like me #because i thought i was a bad person for wanting friendship and love when i was eventually going to come out and shock/disappoint everyone #being loved felt like a cruelty #so... projecting that a little here shsjdh #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things season 4 #angst

[floral-hex]

hi it’s my birthday tomorrow

#had to redo this since someone left a comment that bummed me out a lot #well… didn’t HAVE to but I didn’t like seeing the notification #guess I could have just deleted their comment… shit… didn’t think about that #hey uhhhh please don’t be mean to me about my birthday. I’m just a sad lil guy 🥺 #I already dislike my birthday. I hate feeling older. like I’m wasting my life. #it’s already usually an afterthought since it’s Christmas Eve #but with my mom’s surgery it’s even more of an afterthought and I’m so stressed and I have to take care of my bros and I’m just not great 😬 #like… what do I even want to do tomorrow? #I’d love to just sleep in and eat junk and maybe go see a movie #but I have to go drive 40 minutes to see my mom and if I try to cut the visit short I’ll just feel guilty #so… I guess I’m spending my birthday watching my mom shake and cry in pain 🤷🏻‍♂️ #which can be okay! I mean not okay but I can 100%… well… 85% live with that. it’s okay. it’s just a day. #but fuck does it hurt when people just ignore it or downplay it or make jokes about my birthday this year #people don’t have to care about my birthday. strangers online don’t have to care. it’s whatever. #and I’m not even mad at anyone in particular. I just… yeah.. I just can’t take negative jokes about it right now. #I’m trying not to be specific! I don’t want to be mean! nobody is being mean to me! it’s okay! #im just a sensitive baby that just wants people to be nice to him for the next 24 hours #…. I’m sad! #I think I’ll just be mean to everyone tomorrow #…. lol like I could do that. pfffttt I’ll bend over backwards for my family and I’ll be glad to do it. mostly. #it’ll be okay #days are 24 hours. I’m sure I can squeeze some good stuff in between the bad. that’s life babyyyy #and I love you and I appreciate you to no one in particular and I’m sorry I’m so sensitive #my mutuals are great #you’re all great. unless you aren’t. but we won’t talk about that. #ok you can ignore this #text

[rotisseries]

hear me out y'all, byler orpheus and eurydice au.

kind of like all those "mike following will into the upsidedown" fics, except the upsidedown is, well, the underworld.

like mike already canonically has a guitar in his room and there's more than a few byler band aus so clearly we're all up for musician mike wheeler, and then just like, the tragedy of it. the tragedy of that myth, I'm obsessed with it.

like??? following your lover beyond the end, desperate to bring them back because they are what makes life so worth living, and you do the impossible, striking a deal with death itself, where you and your lover are allowed to leave, so long as you do this one simple thing? you walk out and you can't turn to look back at them, you have to trust that you aren't being tricked. and you almost get there. you almost make it. but in a singular moment of weakness, caused by the same love and devotion that led you down under in the first place, you cannot bear the unknowing, the uncertainty of whether they are really accompanying you out of the darkness. so, despite it all, you cave, and you turn back. and as you look at your lover, fading quickly, as you realize they were with you this whole time, there's grief, but there's no blame or resentment. only a final understanding that this is how it was always going to turn out. like it makes me so insane sorry.

anyway the concept of will dying and mike following him, dedicated to getting him back, only to, in the end, fail? because in the end, he couldn't keep himself from looking back at who he loves??? tell me that doesn't fucking slap you can't

#I can't stop thinking about this but I can't make this a reality #also if you saw me make this post a few days ago no you didn't it flopped so I'm making it again but rephrased and expanded #stranger things #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #also I'm like so normal about orpheus and eurydice idk if y'all could tell #IT'S ABOUT THE SELFLESSNESS AND THE SELFISHNESS OF LOVE!!! #STRIKING A DEAL WITH DEATH ITSELF. RISKING YOUR LIFE TO GET YOUR LOVER BACK. IT'S THE GREATEST ACT OF SELFLESS DEVOTION #BUT IT'S ALSO INHERENTLY SELFISH. TO BEG FOR YOUR LOVER TO BE ON EARTH BEYOND THEIR TIME. BECAUSE LOVE IS SELFISH #LOVING SOMEONE SO MUCH TO BRING THEM BACK FROM THE DEAD IS SELFISH!! LOVE IS SELFISH #AND IT'S THAT SAME SELFISH LOVE THAT CAUSES HIM TO TURN BACK!! HE CANNOT BEAR TO NOT TURN!! TO NOT LOOK BACK AT HIS LOVER!! #AND SO SHE CANNOT COME BACK BECAUSE THAT SAME SELFISH DEVOTION THAT LED HIM TO GET HER BACK ALSO CAUSED HIM TO LOSE HER!! #BECAUSE HE CAN'T BEAR TO BE WITHOUT HER AND THAT IS WHY HE TURNS BACK!! BECAUSE HE HAS TO KNOW SHE'S THERE WITH HIM!! #HIS INABILITY TO BE WITHOUT HER IS WHY HE CANNOT HAVE HER BACK!! #BUT THERE'S NO BLAME OR RESENTMENT ON EURYDICE'S PART BECAUSE HOW CAN THERE BE?? #HOW COULD YOU EVER RESENT BEING LOVED SO MUCH?? LOVED SO MUCH THAT YOUR LOVER ULTIMATELY COULDN'T KEEP THEIR EYES OFF OF YOU?? #EVERYONE KNOWS THERE'S NO CHEATING DEATH ANYWAY. YOUR TIME IS YOUR TIME. #AND SO IF IT IS YOUR TIME HOW COULD YOU BLAME YOUR LOVER FOR BEING UNABLE TO CHEAT DEATH? NO ONE CAN. #ESPECIALLY WHEN THE FAILURE WAS SUCH A SHOWING OF LOVE #god it makes me insane I'm so glad I'm gonna see hadestown

[lostlegendaerie]

I know this doesn't do much good in a society that loves stuff like Meyers-Briggs and astrology and Hogwarts houses, and I get it because I love sorting things too (especially when I'm eating fruit snacks) but

You can't draw accurate conclusions about people just by looking at the media (games, movies, music, etc.) they consume. It's just not possible. You cannot tell what parts of a movie resonate with someone just by seeing it on their Liked list on social media, and you cannot extrapolate things like their politics, social background, childhood trauma, race, or anything else from their Most Listened To on Spotify.

It's tempting, and usually fun, to look at a small aspect of someone and make an assumption about who they are. And yeah, feel free to avoid people whose interests don't align with yours. But please, please, don't get in the habit of slapping a hateful label on someone who listens to country music or doesn't wear make up or whatever TikTok is dunking on this week.

Social media is never the complete picture of a person's life. If we're going to remind the younger generations to be careful about predators and groomers, we should also advise them to be wary of applying those labels to anyone they don't understand.

#long post #kicks the hornets nest again #like some really dear IRL friends of mine who consistently go to the Capital with me to fight for Trans Rights still love HP #not everyone is terminally online and aware of how their media consumption is unethical and That Doesn't Make Them Evil #some people are just. coming at things from a different angle. or don't know which ear is the Gay Ear to get pierced #anyway I know someone's gonna reblog this eventually with a pithy one-liner because That Is What The Internet Has Become #so I'll go ahead and say this: you're probably wrong #and your desire to shut down a reminder to not make knee-jerk assumptions about strangers makes you the problem

[cinnamon-phrog]

Can I please have some comfort right now, if that's okay? People are watching me.

#i'm being impersonated and harassed #every day people in my past still try to find me. and i'm scared #not of what they might find. i have nothing to hide. but it's the constant fear of being watched and never being free #i'll never be free from the people who hurt me because they'll always find me somehow #i shouldn't be feeling so awful but at the same time. #i pour myself out to help others yet in return i get 'oh it doesn't bother me' and 'i've had it worse'. as if i doubt that for a second. #but please. not everyone has the same amount of emotional endurance. my patience has worn completely thin. #people i've known on here to be the most disgusting scum of the earth who no matter how many times i block them still show up in my inbox. #people from my old school still think they can get to me. a person who lied to me still wastes their time watching me #someone who i cared about the most probably still watches on and it's breaking me. #it always has been but i'm the sensible one. i'm not allowed to do this. i shouldn't be writing this but i'm getting desperate #i've taken deep breaths. i've drank water. i've done everything plus things i should not have to ease it off. #maybe the reason why i love puppets and artificial characters because i'm always used like one. like i'm a toy to break or put away #stupid analogy everyone has made for themselves but i'm done trying to be a good writer. the composer. #i want to feel without being judged but of course that's impossible. it's fine when it's strangers but relentless stalkers? it's wrecking m #it has been for ages but i was scared to say because i'm used to apathy and false promises. #i keep forgetting things and hurting myself. i'm getting scared.