for some reason i enjoy so much the idea of kyle actually genuinely liking cartman’s appearance. like, he would never admit it – especially to cartman – but somehow eric really is a perfect match for kyle’s preferences.
therefore he can’t possibly stand the idea of cartman changing his appearance to become more “beautiful” in other people’s opinions, because kyle likes him the way he already is — and kyle already is sure cartman is beautiful.
so eeeevery time cartman has even a tiniest thought of losing weight, kyle makes sure he will change his mind.
cartman: I don’t know, man, maybe I really should lose weight… I mean, I’m hot as hell right now, but imagine all those girls who will go completely insane when they see me all skinny and sexy?
kyle: Gross. I don’t want to even think about it.
cartman: Are you jealous, Kyle? Or are you just envious ‘cuz I get more females’ attention being big-boned than you do with your thin ass?
kyle: Don’t you flatter yourself, Fatass. When was the last time a girl looked at you without a terror on her face?
cartman: Oh, shut up, Jew! You’re just afraid you’ll look even uglier next to me.
kyle: So you’re going on a diet, right?
cartman: Right!
kyle: Okay, good luck with this. …Oh, wait, isn’t this a KFC restaurant right there? And, wow, look: I have fifteen bucks right here! Damn, that’s just perfect for a double portion of chicken...
cartman: No… you sneaky little…
kyle: Huh? What’re you saying? I didn’t quite catch it. Do you wanna join me, Cartman?
cartman: …I hate you so much, Kyle. You’re going to burn in hell for forever. More than that: I will turn your life to hell myself–
kyle: So you’re going or not?
cartman: …Yes.
ALSO yes he’d support cartman’s decision to lose weight for himself but he just hates the idea of cartman changing his body just for social standards. and i just want at least one person to completely adore cartman’s looks and compliment him and i think kyle’d be the one to do so. once he get over his embarrassment, he’ll start telling nice things to cartman once in a while and cartman who is absolutely not used to genuine praise will be so. fucking. happy. every time.
I keep buying second-hand clothes and finding they have tiny holes I didn't notice as soon as I put it on. This one I got last month and am only just now fixing it so I can wear it. Thanks to whatever rich idiot decided to get rid of it instead of fixing it themself... I have a growing collection of really nice sweaters I would never be able to afford new that got thrown out because of some holes
inarticulate waffle about dan and boundaries below the cut as to not clog up the dash
dan's attempts at gently setting and reminding his audience of his boundaries is so fascinating. he really did try to have a mutual understanding/respect with people who watched his videos and also followed him on social media of like...letting dinof not be too personal and have some kind of separation betwee dan and dinof (good example: "there are several things in my life that are none of the internet's business" vyou)
this video in particular is interesting because he goes on to talk about being back on dailybooth (which was really personal and intimate) how people should check his out, but it's like he assumes there's the understanding that he's not going to talk about the things on his db on youtube?
like he was way more kind about it than the lawless internet culture warranted and i hate that sometimes there's this picture painted of him that he's always been angry and defensive at his subscribers. i also think it's easy for people who joined the fandom after 2013ish to think he's always had that bubbling resentment but he really did try to be nice about keeping his personal life private (and not just his sexuality but even things like the whole adrian ordeal or people literally commenting/harassing his ex gfs social media)
idk it's easy to assume the angry dinof persona is the genuine dan, especially when you don't see him in other mediums like liveshows or videos of him interacting with fans or even the gaming channel where he doesn't have such a guard up and unmasks a bit. but god he just really is gentle and kind and has spent his career trying to stay that way with the people who support him, despite the reception and consistent disrespect back at him.
this doesn't really have a point other than i don't think he gets enough credit for staying as kind as he is (and i mean real dan, not dystopia daily dan) and still being willing to have the kind of unique bond with his audience that he's always been infamous for (which also is astounding how they've both managed to walk that line so well considering other creators being either too close or too blocked off from their fanbase).
idk it's just interesting how he's trying to say a lot without saying a lot and how this 18 year old kid really hoped for the best in people despite everything. dan has stayed a genuinely a lovely person when most people at this point would have become far more jaded and that's beyond impressive.
when parker traps both hardison and eliot in a hug and eliot looks so annoyed and grumpy but everyone knows that if he really didn't want to be touched he'd have no problem breaking away from the hug??? but he doesn't????? because he doesn't want to break out of it???????? for all his grumbling and crankiness he really does love it when parker wrangles him into group hugs?????? I'm in tears
if i had to stop at only one headcanon about casey jr and future raph ever its that middle ground where casey did know him just when he was younger so the vibe is
someone asks about future raph at some point and with ALL the same reverence of talking about greatest ninjas greatest inventors mystic masters amazing commanders and their big heroic battles etc etc casey is just like “he called me little snapper bc when i first met him i was like 3 and i tried to bite him. when i was 7 he looped a rope around his arm and stood there with it held out for hours so i could play on a swing. he was my best friend.”
i feel like i am losing my mind a little bit bc i spent over half of my counselling appt talking about my fear of spiders and this lady kept telling me i should just kill them, and that the only way to get over my fear is to kill them, and i shouldnt catch and release them anymore ??
and now i am thinking about it and wondering do they actually remember how to get into the house,,,,,, if i put them way on the other side of the house in the garden under a plant where its safe, will they just... come back inside? because I don't remember ever seeing any duplicates of spiders that I caught and released, it seems to always be a different looking one each time so :|
but she just seemed so confused and kind of amused by me trying to explain how i think that like... every life has value and I don't think I should be killing spiders if I can avoid doing that. and she straight up laughed at me saying that they are fascinating very interesting little critters.
i don't know, i just feel kind of sick i think. that was just really not what i was expecting and I'm confused like... is this ... the only way I can get over my fear of them? to just start killing them whenever i find one in the house?? that doesn't seem right at all to me but maybe I'm being too soft or something
they talk about values in DBT and how you must make sure your actions don't go against your values, and this seems very backwards to that, especially since this woman started the DBT program at the hospital. so i feel like maybe it's wrong of her to be telling me this, but also maybe she's right about this. idk !!!
Not to simplify a complex historical issue in a tumblr post but I think the reason Conspiracy (Elisabeth Essen/Hungarian prods) and fandom discussions/headcanons/fanwork deriving from it (ie. advancing the interpretation that the cause of Rudolf's anguish & the thing Tod is trying to manipulate him to do is the pursuit of Hungarian independence/seizing the Hungarian throne) tend to set me off is that it ignores the thing that's, like, the historical and the musical Rudolf's actual main deal, which is anti-conservative thought and the emotional pain and feelings of powerlessness brought about by living in a world full of state-sanctioned prejudice, hatred and anti-intellectualism (among other things)
Which I, for, like, personal reasons, find more compelling to reflect upon and have portrayed on stage in our 21st century world (= "oppressive politics on state level bad" seems. Relevant somehow) than stuff like a privileged person's private quest for power (throne) or a vaguely positive portrayal of nationalism (especially since Hungarian nationalism in the 21st century isn't super cuddly or feel-good ajdkdldl, so I think having those foundation myths repeated actually borders on irresponsible - depending on the framing, that is)
Plus its not historically accurate, like the conspiracy plot has not been conclusively proven to have happened. Unlike todolf [redacted] which is indisputable historical fact
within the context of byler fights, i see a lot of people say that mike is short-tempered and like while that may be true i feel like will is even quicker to just... snap. like, he gets very emotional very quick. in their fights, mike's voice stays pretty constant and even, but will's quickly starts getting watery, loud, pointed, cracking, etc. he speaks from his chest. his tone goes up and down. he uses his hands a lot. his eyes are wild and wide and boring into mike, challenging him almost. he pokes at mike. still, mike doesn't escalate; he matches will's hurt with his own, but he doesn't outwardly burn quite as hot. not with him. i just.. idk. i think it's interesting. will's anger is often overlooked or outright ignored in fandom, but it's very clearly there.
No but actually coming from someone with fine wavy/curly hair who had some hair loss and lots of issue I really and truly wish I could sit down and talk with Chan because he really needs someone who understands curly hair to get him some products and show him what to do and he also needs to stop using heat. Like no straightening. No hair drying. Or at least very sparsely.
People always characterize Light as neurotic, do you think that they are ignoring L's neuroses or is he just normal?
this is such a good question and also it gives me a chance to talk about my favourite subject on earth: L being neurotic.
SO the short answer is: no, he’s not normal. (or, well, it’s hard to say how many neuroses are normal to have when your life is constantly being threatened by a faceless god, but probably fewer than these.)
my personal read on L is that he tries very, very hard to pretend he’s deeply unaffected by everything that’s going on around him, but he fairly clearly is not. case in point: we can see him calmly discussing his own death after he’s just collapsed off his chair. his eyes are hidden, which is death note’s main signal that someone is hiding their true feelings.
to me, his desperation to hide that he’s got any sort of feelings about anything speaks to an underlying terror of being perceived and/or taking up other people’s emotional space. he doesn’t want to be seen as human. he doesn’t want to be dealt with as anything but this faceless creature. he wants to be a tool and a resource before he’s a person.
he is in a unique situation, but i do feel it goes above and beyond what is necessary and also is not strategically useful, since it infuriates literally everyone in the task force apart from soichiro. even watari tells him off for it. it’s not even a trait he values — after aizawa has his outburst, L tells him he likes people like him. i think it’s something he feels he has to do for nebulous reasons. maybe he knows why! maybe he doesn’t!
i also (& possibly this is a hot take) think L is a chronic people-pleaser. he’s always extremely polite-verging-on-deferent. with a few exceptions that derive from high emotion and danger, he’s polite to people regardless of how rudely they speak to him. there are several points in death note where people are outright yelling at him, and he always responds quietly and politely.
he also folds to the task force at a few crucial points, most notably when they demands he remove the handcuffs and let light walk free.
it’s clear from both his expression and the fact that he does not in any way give up on light being kira that he thinks this is a terrible idea, but he lets him go anyway and apologizes as he signs his own death warrant.
ALSO ok sorry this is already long but i think i would be remiss to talk about L’s neuroticism without also talking about his ✨trauma.✨
it’s never really clear what happened to L prior to the events of death note, but i think we can logically surmise that it wasn’t ideal. he grew up in an orphanage, which is traumatic in and of itself, and clearly something happened to create a situation where this was possible — either his guardians died, or were in some way incapacitated, or he was removed from them.
then there’s the fact of his job. L’s age is ambiguous in the main canon & 24 if you choose to incorporate htr13 — either way, he’s quite young, and he’s already been solving cases for years. we don’t know what exactly the cases were, but i think it’s fairly safe to say that they weren’t pleasant. i feel very strongly that this would impact the way you see people and what sort of behaviour you expect from them. even people who enter similar fields as adults, with proper support systems and the inculcation of years of seeing people behave compassionately towards one another, often end up jaded and distrustful. it burns you out and wrecks havoc on your empathy.
also during the course of death note he’s been inside for nearly a year, speaking to a grand total of eleven people, one of whom wants to murder him, which is maybe not like the ideal scenario for one’s mental health. imo this & the constant stress of being murdered do contribute to his increasingly erratic behaviour as the series progresses. which is to say: PROVIDE ENRICHMENT FOR YOUR DETECTIVES if you don't want them to develop codependent relationships with their serial killer bffs.