#i have acquaintances

[yardsards]

somewhat recently found out that my habit of clinging to a trusted extroverted/outgoing friend like an orphaned duckling in social situations is straightup a trait of autistic masking and stuff has been making A LOT of sense since then

#eliot posts #like??? #i can track all of my high school friends back to one girl that took me under her wing and i clung to and befriended her friends #all of my *close* online friends can be traced back to my one cousin who i have been good friends with since we were young #and sometimes i meet someone else to cling to from the original person #in high school the baton got passed from that girl to a guy i still consider to be one of my besties #and w my online friends i no longer cling to one person specifically but that's more just how online group chats are set up #but god like. i have NO close friends in college #i have acquaintances #and ppl have told me i seem friendly and kind and approachable and i have learned so many scripts for polite small talk #but i don't know what to do after that part! #and then like online i don't have close friends outside of one or two branching circles #i have some mutuals on here that i think we're maybe friends but i'm not sure and it doesn't feel like CLOSE close friendship? #like no one i feel comfortable approaching out of nowhere and talking about my day to #i don't understand how so many people talk about having made close friendships through fandom #it seems cool i just. ????????? #and on that note i have no clue when to consider people friends! if it's too soon i come off as clingy if it's too late i come off as mean #and what social actions are appropriate to initiate at what levels of friendship??? #why is socialization so fucking hard??? #it's SLIGHTLY easier w other autistics but even then it is fucking DIFFICULT #though that's all moot cuz i can barely convince my shitbrain to message the friends i DO have #but like ugh i wish i could make some irl friends SO BAD #to go out and do shit with #i mean i do a lot of typically 'social' activities alone and have a blast not having to deal with anyone else #but some shit you just kinda need someone else there to have fun

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

#i don’t know how to explain this to normal people 😭😭 #for the record my coworkers didn’t directly question me on this #but i think i have vastly overestimated the amount of the population who is aware of like. Films. #NOT claiming that i have seen a lot - but i’ve mentioned three *REALLY* well-known films in the past four days #and got blank stares each time #the one of them was a REALLY good reference too… someday my top-notch association skills will be recognized #my first act as Mansion Acquaintance of the [redacted] Director will be to force everyone to watch a 40s romcom i didn’t even like #i’m getting off the point #the POINT is that It’s About The Catharsis

[spielzeugkaiser]

The ages in this show!! I have made some jokes about this before, but it gets me - with aging Ciri up and bringing her closer to Jaskiers age when they meet I can not help but draw parallels. Like Geralt bonded way differently with both of them (which makes sense because Ciri has been his Child surprise since birth and Jaskier just randomly turned up one day and followed him like a puppy) but it's so funny to me. also I'm 100% sure Jaskier was horny as fuck from the beginning so there was a whole different vibe from the get go

#the witcher #the witcher netflix #jaskier #geraskier #geralt of rivia #yennefer of vengerberg #I wanted to draw Geralt being maximum tired by remembering that #and also #ALSO #one thing I still don't forgive them from S2! (or like one of many many things #it wasn't just Yennefer who changed Geralt #it was 100% Jaskier first #if Geralt had been in the 'butcher' mindset of 'I need nobody' when meeting Ciri #if he hadn't met Jaskier before and had been friends with him for TWENTY FUCKIN YEARS #if Jaskier hadn't worn him down a bit - make him less guarded and more open #Geralt meeting Ciri would not have gone as well as it did #It's my firm believe that Jaskier is Geralts first deep relationship outside of his brothers were he truly bonds and learns to trust again #you can take that from my cold dead hands #and not because Geralt is a loner who doesn't talk to people - we see he has a lot acquaintances #but nothing is ever permanent there #no one who stays #I want to draw something funny but in my mind!! #I want a fic were Ciri and Jaskier talk about this and Geralt acknowledges that too #also a fun version #ciri and jaskier shenanigans

[st-hedge]

Knees are weak hands are sweaty, 30k words and 12 chapters later, I’m at the final section of the fic for these two. I’m very excited to throw it into internet existence very soon

#loz #botw #link #ganondorf #calamity au #ganlink #today I wrote a scene for which I made art over 2 years ago and it was surreal #it’s almost time to write calamity aus name sake #at this point tho ganon and link have bonked twice and had some very tender conversations #but they’re still like nah we’re acquaintances #time to fix that

[dumbasswhatever]

trucy teaching apollo how to use his baby face to get evidence like mittens teaching bolt how to beg for food

#sorry to anyone who isn't as well acquainted with bolt (2009) like i am #but as a person with a baby face.people r always trying to help me like i'll just be standing around and someone will ask me if i need help #i think i just naturally look a little panicked in public all the time maybe #i have no idea if bolt came out in 2009 btw i just said that bc it sounded right

[ipostmysimpingstuffanonymously]

Hi! Do you still happen to be taking prompts? 🙂 I love your work so much ❤️ I'd love to see Shoko being a big sister figure to Nobara please, I would just die!

Nobara seems to gravitate towards cool older women. I can see her looking up to and getting attached to Shoko as she always gets into fights and hangs out with Shoko regularly to get patched up or even to just follow her around. She admires how level-headed and steady Shoko is (which counterbalances Nobara's temperament perfectly). She thinks Shoko is so effortlessly the coolest, and Nobara wants her attention all the time.

Meanwhile, Shoko starts affectionately considering Nobara as "hers" (like how Gojo has Megumi, and Nanami has Yuji), and Nobara brings out a maternal/nurturing side of her that she didn't know she had. She adores Nobara's spunkiness but hates (loves!) this new terrifying feeling of caring/feeling responsible for someone in her "custody", and she actively worries about Nobara (unlike how Shoko normally doesn't get into other people's business and just lets people be). 🥺

Omfg sorry for dumping all that headcanon on you, I got carried away lol. Thank you if you ever accept this! And also thank you for your art in general! You're super talented! ❤️ -kzc

Thank you for the ask, it was lovely reading through it.

I assume they're talking shit about Gojo so there's that

#I can just imagine how Shoko is everybody's first crush #boy crush girl crush #crushing all the hearts #also riley said she could imagine shoko being acquaintances of saori and my heart #that would be devastating #i can just imagine how shoko must have felt seeing nobara on her table #trying her best to fix her #shoko ieiri #nobara kugisaki #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #fanart #satoru gojo #IPMSSA_FoundFamily!Fanart #IPMSSA_Shoko!Fanart

[yonpote]

ever since i was a little boy i've always wanted to be shipped with a friend by strangers on the internet

#phan #ok tbh... i have thought abt putting myself maybe not into phans shoes #but like an average youtuber m/m ship #where we're well acquainted but ppl love our dynamic #and we end up getting closer and perhaps even... indulge a bit in the shipping #read the cringiest fic we could find #maybe even kiss once on screen #and who knows perhaps real sparks may fly....

[laundrybiscuits]

(soulmates AU: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)

“You never told me your folks were soulmates," he says out of the blue. He'd meant to wait until it came up naturally or something, but they're just standing in awkward silence outside what the kids insist on calling the M&M house, waiting for the stupid dragon game to wrap up on the Munson side. He doesn't even know he's going to say it until it's already out there, sitting between them. 

Nancy says "Fuck," very quietly. Steve can't remember if she used to swear so much. He thinks not, but also, she was sixteen the last time he really felt like he knew her.

Steve’s tenth grade geometry teacher once told them: think about railroad tracks. That’s what parallel means, that there are two lines that never get closer together or farther away. No matter how long the railroad tracks get, there’s always exactly the same amount of space between them.

Now Steve thinks maybe that’s bullshit, that you can’t keep going separate from someone else and stay the same distance apart. If you’re not together, if you don’t cling as hard as you can, then the distance between you is going to grow faster and faster until you can’t even see the other person. 

He thinks maybe he doesn’t know Nancy at all anymore. 

Nancy smooths down her skirt in a nervous gesture he doesn’t recognize. “You’ve met my parents, Steve. Did you really think that’s what I want?”

It’s the kind of question where he knows the right answer from the way she’s saying it, but he doesn’t know why. Yeah, he’s met Ted and Karen. He always thought they seemed happy enough. They’ve got three kids, so they have to be happy, right? 

But he’s starting to think that Nancy—the new Nancy, how she is now—might not want to be happy. Or at least that it might not be the most important thing to her, compared to everything else she always talked about. Now that he’s thinking about it for real, he can’t really see her stepping into her mom’s shoes, never really doing anything but chasing after kids and power-walking around the mall. 

Shit, is he the Ted Wheeler in this scenario? Not that there’s anything wrong with Ted, but—wow, okay, he’s starting to understand Nancy’s reaction. 

He hasn’t said anything for a little while, and Nancy sighs. “Steve, I’m sorry, I can’t…”

“It’s fine, Nance,” he says. He even thinks he means it, this time. 

———

“Do you think she’s going to get a cover-up, like Eddie?”

Robin squints at him. “I think she’s the only one who can answer that.”

“Sure, okay, but I can’t ask her because I’ve decided I’m not gonna bring this shit up around her anymore. It’s called tact, Robin.”

“Fuck off, I’m a million times more tactful than you could ever be.” She chucks a roll of NEW RELEASE stickers at him, which he dodges with a little spin, just to show off.

“Are you kidding me? Who was it that got out of a parking ticket last week just by talking to the cop?”

“Uh, who was it that expertly finessed us both jobs at Family Video just by talking to Keith?”

“You gotta stop bringing that up,” Steve groans. “That was like a whole year ago. Get some new material, Buckley.”

“Get us a new job, Harrington! One that pays more than this shit!”

“Nah, I’m gonna be a trophy husband to some rich old lady. That’s my new plan, now that I’m totally unattached.” It comes out pretty steady, he thinks.

She sidles up to him, awkward in the way she gets sometimes, and bumps their shoulders together. “Hey, you know you could totally find someone else, right? It doesn’t have to be…” She trails off, gesturing helplessly.

He tips his head back and stares at the ceiling. The fluorescent lights leave blurry ghosts on his eyelids when he blinks. 

Robin Buckley is the best friend he’ll ever have and does sometimes actually know what tact is, so she just tips her head against his shoulder and stares at the ceiling with him in silence until the next customer comes in. 

———

“You can never, ever tell Steve this.” Nancy’s voice is just barely audible from the front step, and Steve freezes. He snatches his hand back from where he’d been reaching for the doorbell.

“Cross my heart, et cetera, Wheeler.” Eddie sounds lazy, like he doesn’t even care.

“It’s crazy, but I used to feel really—happy. About the soulmark. I mean, it’s every girl’s dream, right? The cutest guy in school with her name on his wrist.”

“Can’t say I relate.” 

Nancy lets out a strangled laugh and Steve silently shuffles as close as he dares, shutting his eyes like that’ll help him hear better or something.

“I know, Eddie, that’s why I’m…I don’t know what changed. I don’t know why that stopped being enough for me. I second-guess myself all the freaking time now, and I hate that! I remember the way it felt when it turned out Steve was actually really sweet, and sometimes I just want to—to crawl back inside that feeling, except it’s not real. I know it’s not real.”

“You sure about that? Doth the lady not protest too much?”

“I’m sure.”

She hadn’t even hesitated. Steve’s nails are cutting into his palms. He feels dizzy with how quick she’d answered; how calm she’d sounded. 

It hits him, then, that it’s actually over, like for real. Maybe he really is an idiot, because it’s been years, and he thought he’d already known that. Turns out there’d been a stupid little corner of hope in him after all.

He tunes back in to hear Eddie say, “Okay, okay, you don’t gotta convince me, Wheeler. If you end up deciding to, y’know, take the plunge…yeah, I can hook you up. But no rush, okay?”

Steve turns around and walks down the drive, all the way around the corner to where he’s parked. Dustin’s stretched all the way across the seats, head poking out of the driver’s side window, squinting in the afternoon sun.

“Is Eddie coming to the arcade with us?” Dustin yells.

“He’s busy, leave him alone,” says Steve.

#not!soulmates AU #the unmarketable ridiculousness continues #I know the Doylist reason Eddie offers so much unsolicited advice in canon is his role as clunky plot mouthpiece #but I choose to interpret it as the extremely gay hobby of overflowing with advice on acquaintances’ personal lives #despite the highly dubious state of one's own #anyway. if/when this goes up on AO3 I'm gonna need to re-edit for Nancy's voice bc I do NOT have it rn

[seungkwanis]

happy birthday to the one and only @jcebeom ♡

#got7 #jay b #jaebeom #got7daily #eritual #rosieblr #aleksbestie #ultkpopnetwork #kpopccc #vivigifs. #happy birthday my love!! i offer you: jb #i hope you like it! #i have become very well acquainted with this mans face kaslkdjsa #tw flashing

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Liam lamented the lack of goats in Kirkwall, Merrill recalled it's halla baby season..... crossing paths with her clan is always a bit awkward these days but looks like it was worth it

#shhhh hes having a moment #laya plays dragon age #my ocs #oc: liam hawke #it's lamb time and the other day there was a huge goat baby boom while i was at an acquaintances farm #(3 births in just the couple hours i was there!) #so have a liam with a baby halla :] #(ik halla are more like deer than goats but theyre the ones available rn xd)

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

truth in advertising laws covering online store search results would do sooo much damage to enshittification

like if i search "gluten free" it should be illegal for walmart for instance to include items that are not gluten free in the results of that search

if it's super important to have "associated terms" or w/e included that could be an option for customers to opt into i guess but this thing where you HAVE TO pick through 5000 irrelevant items to find the 3 that actually meet the search criteria should be illegal

also if you sort by price and it does not actually sort by price (as none of the big shopping websites do anymore seems like) that should be illegal too.

thank you for coming to my old man yells at cloud talk but also i'm right.

#thatdiabolicalfeminist #please don't call me a liberal over this lmao i know the solution is ending capitalism but also. #what if RIGHT NOW i didn't have to deal with this shit #also my less internet savvy loved ones & acquaintances keep buying things bc they assume the search results are accurate to the search term #which can be genuinely dangerous if you need for instance a specific allergen excluded

[b4kuch1n]

thank you for coming to the show

but now it's curtain call

and senses will be out the window in a minute

#pokemon #swsh #champion leon #ft. charizard #hi. still acquainting myself to the screen tablet #it's kinda doing things to my brain #so it.s taking a hot sec okay. but its cool we are getting there #I guess. this is kinda the mid autumn stuff? for now #I wanna do a comic for the day... but we will see. we will see! #but yeah lol this is also just like. basically a tech demo for the tablet. with me drawing leon's hair again #lining this one in SAI2 was a feat! but it does work better on a screen tablet than on a graphic tablet #simply due to I see where the pen is #okay I will take a nap now. and I will draw more tonite perhaps #and!! this weekend. I go watch nope in theater again. Im ready for it (Im not) #(Im gonna be so scared holy shit I wont sleep well for another few days. its gonna slap) #have a good day guys!! blue is okay sometimes. use wisely

[salty-an-disco]

tbh, I really can’t get into the idea of Oppy and Contra getting along well together. To me, they build beef in about a week and cannot stand each other

#Oppy can’t stand Contra’s chaotic nature and Contra actually grows to dislike Oppy’s sucking up after the initial “lol get aload of this guy #they’re either bitter exes or barely acquaintances to me. I cannot see them having a friendly relationship #voice of the contrarian #voice of the opportunist #stp voices #sal rambles

[crispycreambacon]

Must you betray me with a kiss?

I love how I have a list of things I wanna draw (including one that I actually need to draw for a school assignment) and I completely dropped all of them to work on this, I’m so cool y’all 🤠👍🏽

Before you ask, yes, this was inspired by Judas’ betrayal of Jesus because Ryan and the Professor genuinely remind me of them for some reason and The Kiss by Gustav Klimt because. I don’t have an excuse I just wanted to base my drawing off it–

Lowkey proud of myself for the rendering! It was a pain to get through, and for a moment, I genuinely couldn’t tell if Ryan looked like Ryan or not, but you know what they say, trust the process!!

I hope y’all will have an awesome New Year’s and an awesome 2024 by the way :D

Click below for a filterless version, a WIP and two reactions from my friends ‘cause they’re the funniest people on the planet (shoutout to @couchpotato1206 for making the last image btw)

#DO NOT TAG THIS AS SHIP #I WILL NOT HESITATE TO BECOME A CHIHUAHUA IF I FIND OUT Y’ALL SHIP THESE TWO ISTG #<- needing to say this because I Have Seen Things #to be fair those things are primarily on AO3 but I’m not risking it so BACK OFF 👹👹👹 #to everyone else: hello :3 I hope y’all are doing good 👉🏽👈🏽 #part 57 of me adoring Ryan and the Professor’s relationship #where else can I find my strangers to acquaintances to enemies to murder victims to besties #also it’s genuinely just beautiful to see how their friendship grows throughout y’know #I can make a YouTube video about them but I don’t have The Will #anyways #puppet history #the professor #the professor puppet history #ryan bergara #ryan beef boy bergara #watcher #watcher entertainment #watcher fanart #art #digital art #illustration #digital painting #artists on tumblr #fanart #chris p fried art #tw bright colors #cw bright colors #bright colors #chromatic abberation #beefbuds

[chiropteracupola]

what if they were an ultimate frisbee team

#em draws stuff #em is posting about sharpe #sharpe #rifleman harris #daniel hagman #richard sharpe #patrick harper #francis cooper #ben perkins #south essex quirky #<- organizational tag for frisbee au things #see it is Funny because jason salkey was an ultimate frisbee player before he was an actor. also I just think the men should frisb. #<- not a real verb #'look if the terror fandom has terrebus fc then we can have this' says local man who knows very little at all about ultimate frisbee #but also I have noticed that Multiple acquaintances have acquired concussions playing this sport In The Last Week Alone #and thus I deem it Sharpe-Appropriate in its capacity for Causing Grievous Harm and Encouraging the Wearing of Cool Shades In October #so you see. this took me TEN DAYS and ouch ouch ow this is why I don't do group portraits that often #the height differences are Wrong here I am pretty sure but I have almost no conception of how tall any of them are. and I'm tired. #also the designing of their silly little outfits y'know #I do recommend opening up this image Large because tumblr crunches all my little details something awful #sailorpants saw this while I was still drawing it and said they looked like an 'assorted pack of lesbians' and really they're not wrong #other things to note about this au that we've decided: cooper still does crimes and harris has a podcast #stay tuned whilst I figure out how to make custom frisbees so that I can a) design them a cooler one and b) make them into real items #manufacturers I have looked at thus far have either been Suspicious or have required Large minimum orders #but hey if there are 47 people out there wanting a strange frisbee...

[sawvhs]

seriously doubt adam or lawrence had any close/trusted friends which just makes their relationship in the bathroom that much more weirdly emotionally charged. codependency bait to the max

#like it seems like scott was kind of the last person adam really talked to when he bounced on his parents and he sticks around him #but subtext (and by that i mean text) makes it so obvious hes just kinda his punching bag. but hey he sticks around #hes got that highschool dropout who bounces between acquaintance friend groups and never got super close to anyone #kind of vibe. #everyone knows him but nobody hangs w him or whatever #but like lawrence is so in the same boat. that is a guy that goes to colleague dinner parties to keep up appearances and thats bout it #like i bet even diana’s friends parents barely know much about him and think hes just stuffy or whatever #his lawyer calls himself his friend but i really think thats just in a ‘i know you and im looking out for your best interet’ way. #i dont think they hang #and like. he doesnt even talk to his wife anymore #i think they r both lonely and miserable in different ways and kind of have what the other thinks they need #despite being so drastically different #it drives me insane #bathroom boyfriends #chainshipping #click