#he’s so aloof and mean like

[mizz-sea-nymph]

Tell your hoe to stay out of my feed 💔

Oh shit he sent those to you? those where meant for me boo he Dosent understand technology sorry 💀💔

He likes taking selfies with his selfie stick like:

If you see his unmentionables somewhere then ignore those- they’re for me✨

#he’s so aloof and mean like #I love him?? #I hope he chokes up and dies #I’d eat him #ahhajsjsjsns #Tea💕💕💕 #watch me suck out his soul

[avatar-mikazuki]

Sonic is beginning to realize how much he values others' company, and I need to talk about it.

Can you believe we actually got this inner monolog!!?!? We really SAW Sonic open up as the comics progress. This is an incredible moment of awareness. The moment it really clicks that friendship, companionship, and adventure don't have to be exclusive. He can enjoy others company and still be free, still have fun, and still get things done. He can still be himself, while others join in on the ride. It makes me so happy. I'm so happy to watch him grow.

Look at him!!! He's not just lying down hands behind his back, eyes closed all the time anymore. He's engaging!! He's so much more alive.

#i grew up with him #and now im growing up and HE seems to be growing up too #it means so much to me #seeing sonic open up to experiences like companionship really does it for me #i always related to him and his aloof nature #never fully present #always on the run thoughts and spirit farther than my body #but as the years went on i started to learn how to apreciate other company #and now he is too #it's just wonderful idk how else to explain it #sonic the headgehog #idw comics #idw sonic #sonic idw #sth #sth comic #sonic

[doubledyke]

it doesn't really make sense in the logic (lol) of the show but part of me loves the idea that edd is being raised by his grandparents.... kids who are raised by grandparents tend to be overly mature and a little uhhhhh off-beat. i feel like it could explain a lot.

#before you ask yes this is me projecting #i know some folks hc his parents as being a bit long in the tooth which i like too #but idk i just think it would explain so many things about edd to learn that he was in fact raised by senior citizens #and shit i still call my grandma 'mom' so to me its not weird at all that he'd call his grandparents 'mother and father' #everything else about them stays the same though #theyre still aloof and neglectful #and i still think the worst of them #anyway i love projecting my trauma onto edd specifically for some reason #he's such an easy target for angst i can't help it #oh and speaking of angst #for anyone who saw that post a while back and is interested in an update on my whole bastard landlord/roommate kicking me out situation: #i found a room and will be moving in 2 weeks 🥴 kill all landlords etc etc but hey at least i'll have my own bathroom #and won't be living with the final boss of millennials/reddit incarnate #unfortunately for you guys though that means i should be able to indulge in my tomfoolery again soon (shit posting and shit drawing) #even though it seems like our tiny fandom has gotten even smaller recently #alright i'll shut up now biiiiii

[queenofbaws]

chin in hands

idk folks. tonight i'm just thinking about the one (1) scene we get with matt and ashley. and mourning that we didn't get to see them interact more in-game. or like. at all.

i just think

i just. think.

theirs would be such an interesting friendship to dissect and study under a microscope skdlfjlskdfjsldfj

#queenie rambles about supermassive #if ashley lets matt look thru the viewfinder his reaction isnt anger towards her but exasperation and disappointment at emily #'maybe it's nothing' 'is it EVER just NOTHING with em?!' 'i mean...i guess not...' hmm methinks you two have talked about this #matt is clearly so comfy joking around w ash and her with him but hes kind of aloof and distant w josh and chris??? #which makes sense when you take into account they were prob in diff grades but we're led to believe those are ashley's BOYS so like....... #what's going on between you two huh. what's. what's all this then. #in t(a) i def had jess be the one who sort of convinces ashley to join in on the prank but the older and wiser i get the more i wonder..... #was it perchance matt #i have too many things to write rn and i am promising myself not to start new shit until i finish old shit but man. im just. thinkin. #did ashley go to matt's football games despite absolutely not understanding the rules??????? #did matt ALWAYS volunteer to be ashley's partner when there were group projects because he knew she'd take it seriously and not nag him???? #after josh and chris graduated did they hang out together at school dances?????????????????? #WHAT DID THEY WRITE IN EACH OTHER'S YEARBOOKS #oh im deep in it now i guess #WHAT KIND OF HUG IS H APPENING WHEN THEY SEE EACH OTHER AT THE END OF THE NIGHT IN THE HELICOPTER

[hazeism]

hi!! wanted to ask if you have any favorite books, either that you've read recently or of all time. Your prose is insane and I need to broaden my own vocabulary so if you have any book recs, fiction or nonfiction, I'd love to know :')

Hii :D ! ahaha, what a well-timed question; lately I've become the kind of guy who just really wants to talk about what people are reading, or are planning to read, and responding in kind, so thanks for giving me an opportunity to indulge that, haha. What a wicked invention the printing press was!!! (Also--thank you!! I'm glad my prose is to your taste. I'm happy !💕)

If you don't mind, I'll put a cut on this right away, because I know I'm very talkative, but let me put a TLDR above for all the novels/authors I mention here. Disclaimer also that I am kind of a dunce (I think you know this) so I like silly shit a lot of times . please be nice to me adfhbjkdg. :D

(No nonfiction also because I'm a frivolous and unworldly little sprite or something but if you want straight philosophy [which counts] come back and I'll do my Top Ten Epic Platonic Dialogues Compilation for you .)

TLDR: Read any UKLG you get your hands on, Cain by Jose Saramago, or any Saramago (though maybe not Skylight, which is not a good introduction to Saramago), very much enjoyed Sartre's The Age of Reason recently, Shadow & Claw or The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe. If you feel like it, come off anon and tell me what you like, so I can give more tailored recommendations!!

Now if you're asking for favorites, like just the particular and arbitrary objects of my partiality, that stir my stupid little heart, the true answer is probably UKLG's The Farthest Shore, just because it is very special to me. I can't, of course, in good conscience, recommend the third novel of a six-novel fantasy series to someone (but of course read Le Guin, everyone should be reading Le Guin, it's dire for universal soteriology that we all read Le Guin; You'll probably get told to start with Left Hand of Darkness, and that's pretty solid. I liked The Lathe of Heaven as well. And if you read any Le Guin it doesn't hurt to pick up a copy of the Tao. I love the Tao man.)

Some friendlier recommendations, though:

José Saramago is someone I really consider peerless; There's no way to pick up a Saramago and not know who's written it. Cain is a bit drier, a bit more abrasive (almost accusatory, in that particular way you'll find in a Buddhist parable) and bleak than some other Saramagos, but it's one I like (perhaps for the trite reason that I like bucolic atmospheres and Classical antiquity as a setting) so it's the one I'll put forward.

Uhh, I've also been enjoying Sartre's Roads to Freedom lately, starting with The Age Of Reason. I'm partway through the second novel and umm... despite all the other things you could say about Sartre, lmfao, let it not be said that he is not a serious literary force. Serious is maybe the only word for it. Dire, too. I keep a commonplace book, so usually I take excerpts, but this was the first time in memory that I felt compelled to commit entire pages, ahah (I just took pictures though, fuck copying all that).

If you're itching for esoteric language, Shadow of the Torturer (as usually collected with Claw of the Conciliator in a single omnibus edition titled Shadow & Claw; the first of the give-or-take five volume Urth series) by Gene Wolfe will scratch you BLOODY. If you're particularly fussy, you might be irritated by your compulsion to Google, but I find it really makes the experience when you type in a word and the only results are "what the fuck did Gene Wolfe mean by this?" hahaha; Honestly, though, those kinds of complaints are borne from a lack of immersion, but you'll notice pretty quickly that the verbiage is a pretty crucial vehicle OF the immersion.

It may or may not become a commitment, though, if you like Urth enough to want to read through, so if you want Wolfe without the strings--though less of the exciting vocabulary, which is pretty necessarily constrained to Urth--I'd really highly recommend The Fifth Head of Cerberus (the novella OR the novel, I mean the former is volumized in the latter so just start it and if you feel like stopping then stop, haha). Mr. Terminal E is incredible but I scrape enough time out of my daily life to gush about his crazy literary density so I won't do it again here (you should ask my coworker, lmfao, who one time went "stop, hold on, hold on." because my face started getting really red while I was explaining to him some Wolfean gesture). If you read any Wolfe, and I mean ANY Wolfe, because his permatypes and his manipulations of them are endlessly interesting, feel free to come back and chat with me over it!!!

I guess I have to disclaim that my habit is mostly to pick through an author's corpus over a course of, usually, a couple years, and then sometimes I'll read things that will inform my understanding of the genre conventions or currents that the author is writing in (been enjoying Golden Age sci-fi recently)--it's not really as deliberate of a process as it sounds, but I think if you were to map my habits, that's the landscape of it. This means, though, that my reading is actually pretty narrow in scope, and I am not very well read or very knowledgeable in general (who is, in this economy) but it does mean that of the authors I do like, I can probably find the novel that'll work best for your taste.

If you want to come off anon, or I guess just leave another message, haha, (or if someone else wants to, idgaf, we're all friends here at tumblr user hazeism) describing the things you like or look for in a novel I can probably give you a more relevant recommendation. I've been dosing people up a lot lately tbh, it's like a parlor trick I've been doing; I have a conversation with someone and afterwards they'll have a PDF with a relevant Asimov story in their messages, hahaha. I can't help myself sometimes.

Come back anyway, though, if you read anything I talked about, okay? I want to hear about it 🥺

And alsooo (turning to face the audience) if anyone ever wants to put recs in my inbox (or my dms : ) slow replies though sorry I'm a hermit) I'd be happy to take 'em down. Can't guarantee I'll read them in a timely manner, or that you'll ever find out if/when I do, but it's good for me to leave my comfort zone.

#also not what you asked but a thing that i find always pertinent is the fact that synonyms are a scam #no two words ''mean'' and by mean I mean Convey Meaning Serve Function Perform Their Obligations In Continuity Or Discontinuity etc the sam #thing. if two words meant the same thing they would be the same word and even that's a bit of a trap (though i guess there is allure in the #potential scenario in which you are able to so precisely construct the surrounding matter of a sentence that you can get a word to repeat #its exact sensibility when being reused--usually when you are reusing a word you are manipulating it to throw light into an alternate facet #i think maybe it seems like i have an extensive vocabulary (i can't say if I do or not) because I trot out all manner of words in all manne #of contexts. under that pretense. or maybe I am a douchebag who wants to live in the world of forms who knows #sorry for all my me btw your first mistake though was looking at me and going Yeah I bet he has both a meaningful answer AND the ability to #convey it. like no sorry. you'll have to pick through the charnel field again. one million words curse #anonymous #ask #mine #bet you were waiting for me to tell you to read asimov well no. don't feel compelled to do that. i mean don't let me stop you (at the momen #I need them to live so I won't judge you but dhfkudh) i mean if you're currently in a place where reading is difficult (we'veall been there #then his mission of clarity makes his books sublimely digestible impossibly easy to read they're comfortable novels without being totally #unstimulating andthey can in fact be very stimulating if you give them the room to proliferate in your brain . but the thing about asimov i #the best things I find are Daneel (who is a scam and will ruin your life) and HIS PERMATYPEESS guys I love permatypes lately but it's hard #to get the texture of the Asimovian permatypes (muttering about the continuum from fisher through terens) and really luxuriate in them unle #ss you read one fucking million novels . so if you feel like doing that do it but if you don't. don't. #i've been getting so many asks lately (i mean. three. but before that another three!) and it's ruining my icy and aloof image . because i a #a motormouth. and now I'm going to stop typing!!!!!!!!!

[shadowiie]

"It doesn’t matter what’s morally “good” or “evil” to him, he does what he wants! " SO you're saying Sonic is a selfish 'hog who doesn't care about anything but himself and his whims!? Sounds like a sociopath.

what the absolute most brain dead take you could take away from that post. like

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someone needs to go back to critical thinking class

It doesnt matter whats good or evil to him because yes, he does do whatever he wants!

'Whatever he wants' just so happens to be helping people and saving the day!!

In Sonic's theme song, It Doesn't Matter (which was what i was referencing btw), the lyrics state his entire mindset about all this

This fight is not for anybody - this is purely for myself

There is no way I'm gonna give up till the very end

I can't tell what is wrong and what is right - I've got to find the answer

But until I do there's no way I will ever give up

Place all your bets on the one you think is right

(just listen to the whole thing lol)

Sonic is an independent, aloof character, as free and carefree as the wind. He's more of a neutral good/chaotic neutral character, simply because his morals aren't based around what everyone around him thinks of as good or evil, right or wrong.

It's not about being selfish, its about answering to nobody. Being your own person, stepping on the face of authority figures, deciding things for yourself, not because others tell you to, etc.

That's what Sonic is all about. He follows his heart!

now Shadow, on the other hand,

#ask #Anonymous #askdjksjfksjfslksfds #im laughing so hard like. what a take #perhaps.... morality is a teensy bit more complex than 'this person does what they want. that must mean theyre a sociopath!' #shadow is a great contrast to sonic bc like sonic he also shares that same sense of aloofness and independence #but its a much more selfish 'i do what i want' #in ShtH. Shadow declares 'i'm not doing this for anyone else and i'm bound by nothing.' #which is basically a darker version of sonics mindset #wow. its like those two are similar. yet different to one another! incredible

[isabelguerra]

paranatural would be so good if the characters had intended symbolism and core beliefs and things behind them that drove a specific meaning. rather than being tools for shonen anime pseudomocking

#like all joming aside the comic is funny but thats it. its funny. its made to be funny. it has some wacky lines gets some good reactions #its funny. but i dont think its a good story anymore. #like let’s really think about this for a moment. what is paranatural about. #4 years ago i wouldnt said ‘kids fighting ghosts in their wacky hometown’ but theh havent done that in ages. theres no trace of that story #and there hasnt been since chapter 5 ended #digging further- thats just plot. what is it ABOUT? the power of friendship? the perseverance to protect the ones you love? #i used to love max for his down-to-earth straight man grounded perspective. max wasnt funny. max was reasonable and the contrast of that #reason against the nonsense of the town is what MADE him funny. #like the other day when i posted the comparison between ch4’s hallway specshot scene and the one from fridays page #max isnt being funny in the hallway. ‘why am i here’ is put against Haha Woww So Deel Max Lol to which he can reply no i mean study hall. #his reaction is rational. the sarcasm adds humor but its rather the world around him which is so newly strange that his normalcy is funny #and then versus the new page. max makes a Why Am I Here joke again. but this time the question is not asked by max the character who wants #to know why his father has dragged him to a kids entertainment zone. but rather is asked as the setup for an #Unexpected Quirky Classic Max One-Liner ‘no i meant on this earth why do i exist’ #it just feels so much flatter. max isnt aloof and uncaring and sarcastic because he doesnt care about anything or anyone and is untouchable. #max is standoffish but genuinely nice and caring for the people he meets. his first instinct after landing on johnnys face #is to ask if hes alright. when PJ feels distraught at not being important in his own death maxes first instinct is to find a way to make him #feel better. to challenge that perspective and doubt the viewpoint his own poor self esteem gives him #when isabel comes out of her spirit trance and is too shocked to move max immediately rushes to her side to protect her against a spirit hes #terrified of. and then the next day brings what happened up to her and says hes sorry she went through that and hes got her back #he BREAKS HIS ARM TO PROTECT JOHNNY AGAINST HIJACK #hes a good protagonist because even though he has trouble connecting to others and being super friendly hes still NICE!!!! he still CARES!!! #i might take these tags and just make them a new post this turned into loving max hours #paranatural

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I just think that as a PR person your job is to deal with a crisis by not creating a worse one for your client.

#like pr is difficult but I think common sense would’ve driven this one #also interesting that there’s way more being said about this fling than her six year relationship but what do I know 🤷‍♀️ #I know you’re supposed to anticipate things but completely painting someone who’s known as like warm and caring as cold and aloof is strange #like it could’ve been left at ‘it was never serious’ it feels very aggressive for some reason #like why the need to drag Tom Hiddleston into this? what did he do to deserve that? #I feel like it seems different from what her team has said before but it most likely came from someone in her sphere #which means it had to have been seen by tree or her #but I feel like Taylor wouldn’t address a relationship that way she does that through her music but these statements seem so different #it most likely came from her camp but it just seems so different from what they’ve previously put out about her #and it’s not like she’s ever going to address it because that’s not how she’s done things

[spatio-rift]

like hes just so endearing to me in 2 hes just a little scrungle to me

#hes too aloof and cool in 3 like wheres the angry little chipmunk energy that made him so cute in 2 #<- but i genuinely feel like theres a bit of a concept change like how in 2 hes mostly just a very rough very mean player #and in 3 hes more like. unfriendly strategy genius #HE WASNT EVEN THE PLAYMAKER FOR SHIN TEIKOKU THATS WHY I FIND IT FUNNY...... LOL #but maybe thats just the way it comes off in english thats why i wanted to play in jp too but who knows

[sailforvalinor]

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#so my characters are becoming EXTREMELY independent and i haven't even finished the first chapter yet #*sharpay voice* 'this is not what i planned' lol #kay specifically is just doing whatever the heck he wants #my original conception of his character was that he was very socially aloof and kind of deliberately cultivated the 'tragic artist' vibe #but currently he's turning out a bit like tom from the glass menagerie and he's trying to be an EXTROVERT. darling you're not an extrovert? #stop being so charming??? where did you get those social skills?? I DIDN'T GIVE YOU THOSE GET BACK HERE #meanwhile gerda is being quieter than i had anticipated BUT not uncomfortable around people #which i think i like for her #she's not necessarily a 'social butterfly' but she gets along with everyone and everyone knows her #she overall is very comfortable with her environment and with who she is #she's not quite a woman but has already begun to hollow out her #own little place in her community to make it a home #(the problem is she doesn't know who she is to everyone else and #what she means to them. and by 'everyone else' i mainly mean kay but he's not the only one #she wants to know how to be of value within her community and what exactly that means) #she knows who she is in her community but doesn't have a sense of who she is on her own #meanwhile kay is so uncomfortable with where he is and who he is. you look at him and you feel he might jump out of his own skin any #minute and shed it like a snake #he feels that the safe haven he's grown up in is confining him like a childhood bed you outgrow #and he's seen so many people leave for good and so many people close to him in abandoning him have apparently found something out there #that fulfills them and is more important than he was to them that he feels there MUST be something out there to fill the void inside him #that's eating him alive #he can see the beauty of his little world around him but he only as representative of the greater beauty that must lie beyond #am i saying abandonment breeds abandonment? i don't know? #and it's this point of tension that lies between them unspoken because how do you address something that integral to your being at that #age? how do you even articulate it? can you even make sense of it in your own head? #but the tension is there and they both feel it and it grows more tangible the older they get and IF ONLY I COULD TRANSLATE IT TO PAPER #anyway sorry feel free to ignore this just working out writing problems in the tags #val's ocs

[hotgirlstiles]

in a very specific mood to read sterek but idk what to read .. 💔 like why doesn’t the perfect sterek fic exist already.. sigh

#txt #i just want stiles adored and loved by everyone ☹️ but also he’s dtill oblivious to it #which gives everyone the perfect chance to love him ☹️ #and i want goofy scenes of derek being jealous of PARRISH of all people simply because hes so sillycute with stiles #(dereks hazy wolfmind interprets it all as romance when literally everyone in bh knows parrish stiles are literally like brothers at this #point) #i want derek sillywolf whose wolfbrain is literally just so stiles-centered ☹️ #i want derek who is so aloof and broody but then you see his pov with his wolfbrain and his wolf is like #‘we must see stiles NOW. i will fix this issue.’ -> wolf just wants to court and love stiles #MANNNN #also w that i mean like. derek so gery conflicted w his feelings for stiles and angsting over it everyday #and his wolf is like ‘this is easy problem with simple solution. let us court and mate.’

[wwxwasright]

for me being a jin ling fan is all about looking at him and going man this preteen has some shit to work through. fantastic!

#the delightful image of a high school freshman being really grumpy and aloof #but also like ‘ughhh i GUESS i’ll do the right thing i GUESS. if i HAVE to.’ #he’s so mean. and rude. and annoying. he has his sense of duty but he’s not gonna be nice about it. #also he’s a rich snob and has so much to learn/unlearn about the world #delightful! not old enough to be a bitch yet but getting there #m posts #mdzs #jin ling #text

[mindholes]

things that made me irrationally happy and emotional yesterday: my boy is super fascinated with and interested in airplanes so he has been playing a VR game where he takes on the role of an air traffic controller recently he was complaining about how a lot of the people who play the game don’t take it seriously enough but he finally managed to find a group of friends on there who think he’s really good at it (he watches real videos of air traffic controllers and knows an insane amount of technical details) so they asked him to make a discord server where they could all discuss the game and plan sessions together and like. that’s already so endearing to me and I love that this is what he enjoys doing in his spare time. but then he wordlessly added me to the server and I said “oh?? you added me?” and he said “yeah I made you an admin, in case you wanna see what we talk about when we’re in game and maybe you’ll get interested and wanna play with us” i love a considerate, kind, airplane-obsessed boy....

#he is so much like a little aloof cat #he does a lot of things by himself but he always likes having me there even if we're not directly interacting with one another #and i would have never asked him to add me to the server but he did it anyway because he likes having me around #i know the bar is low but it means so much to me that he doesn't need to separate parts of himself from me #and that his friend group is my friend group and vice versa #love that guy

[hirudou]

ive been looking thru all my old lan chen art

man,,, why did i let one bad thing ruin my love of this oc. he's so fun and so well developed, and unique. and im p proud of myself tbh, like i dont mean to toot my own horn here( or maybe i do ). but i fit him into the world so well. and rounded him out so much. i gave him believable relationships, and connections. and a fairly open ended and flexible plot and story.

#tbd. / 🍁 #drags my hands down my face #i mean ig #like im over it now #i love him so damn much #his design too #just APPEALS to my eyes #its so simple #but not boring #his personality is in line with what i love in a character #aloof but charming #and adaptable to situations #like like #he goes from babie lan #to jin babie #to rogue cultivator #ITS SO GOOD

[jrueships]

jaren just gave me secondhand embarrassment so i need people to start working on that bottom jaren fic asap please

#he is actually so annoying i thought he just acted that way with ja and d*llon because hes insane but thats like #his base personality #i was watching his livestream with his parents bcs i was abt to call his dad ugly but felt bad n had to doublecheck #if he was worthy to be called ugly or not and btw hes not #even though he is bald he makes it work hes one of those babies designed to have a smooth head from birth #but yea his parents are great jaren is also great but i would not hesitate to push him into a pool if the opportunity presented itself 2 me #like his dad is so kind !!! always telling jaren how much he loves him how hes so proud of him! pattin him on the back!! #he'll tell jaren he loves him and jaren will just be staring at the screen or do a kpop pose #AND THEN JAREN RANDOMLY STARTED MAKING FUN OF HIS BALD HEAD ???? #his dad was asked abt some of his fav players of his time or smthin n he was listin them off reminiscing #n jarens lookin bored just doing stuff to entertain the camera ignoring his dads spiel which he prolly had to hear alot from a past player #BUT THEN HE LIKE CUTS HIM OFF NEAR THE END??? n is like 'well lets talk about MY favorite etc' #but anyways they are a cute fam tho!! they compliment each other all the time n boost each other up <3 #i love supportive families <3 i love supportive dads n moms n things of that nature #jaren was filming his dad playing pool at the beginning while his mom cheered him on it was so cute #just when ppl started getting on the live n jaren was on camera u could rlly see the 'im cool cus im aloof' shift #or the 'i have to be funny always as entertainment' personality u see from like. the mean popular girls of ur school's lives #anyways tho i said what i said im gettin impatient 😾