#which sounds bad

[strangesickness]

cw for discussion of OCD, specifically obsessions surrounding "curses" and possession.

i think it'd be interesting if one of the reasons stanley had such a hard time accepting pennywise existed was that when he was younger he struggled a lot with other-worldly based obsessions (being convinced that he was cursed or possessed mainly), and a few years before IT he manages to sort of get a lid on these obsessions because he's become a stringent non-believer in the supernatural. he isn't "cursed", and he doesn't need to do anything to avoid being "cursed" because curses aren't real. these obsessions used to be completely debilitating for him, he ran on about four hours of sleep every day because he was afraid of being overtaken by a malevolent force while unconscious, and if he heard any superstition mentioned even off-hand, it was added to a long list of things he couldn't do/had to do to avoid being cursed. but he's finally beaten this, he hardly even worries about these things anymore because his unbelief is so strong.

and then! pennywise! and he can't even trust his own eyes anymore. and if pennywise is real, what else could be out there? if pennywise is real who's to say he won't be possessed in his sleep? who's to say stepping on sidewalk cracks is harmless? which of course sends him into a spiralling pit of denial, because he can't go back to staring at the ceiling waiting for the night to be over, he can't go back to avoiding every number even tangentially related to 13, he can't go back to the way he used to be.

i don't have a fun ending for this, he lives in fear until he loses his memories, at which point he once again becomes a total non-believer and copes extremely well with his OCD, i think he's diagnosed around 30, but he doesn't actually need a lot of help from professionals. this is another reason mike's phone call hits him so hard, not only is he remembering pennywise, he's also suddenly having to deal with a whole new type of obsession he isn't equipped to cope with.

#on a more fun note #i'm working on a post about richie making fun of stans OCD #which SOUNDS BAD #but as someone with OCD #in my experience one of the best ways to deal with obsessions is making fun of them/taking away their credibility #having friends who will listen to my obsessions and then LAUGH with me about how ridiculous they are #takes away most of their power over me #and i think stan had a very similar experience with richie #if something was really really bothering him he'd tell richie what it was and richie would assign some ridiculous character to the thought #and stan wouldn't be able to take it seriously anymore #stanley uris #stan uris #it stephen king #it 2017 #it 2019 #posts afflicted with a strange sickness #red's ramblings

[cheerfullycatholic]

#i woke up cold #which sounds bad #but i was so comfy #so happy #so relaxed #my season has begun

[petricorah]

I love "i would kill for you" ship dynamics but what about "i would stop killing" ship dynamic??

I would lay down my sword for you. I would change my nature and go against everything i've known. I would resist the easy way out of solving my problems. I would give up the adrenaline of battle to stay by your side and make tea instead. I'm not sure I know who I am without a weapon in my hand because I've had to fight for so long but for you I'm willing to try and figure this out.

It must be hard. To put down your weapon that's protected you for so long. It's allowed you to stay alive it's kept you from getting hurt--physically and mentally. Because you've never had to worry about a real relationship if you think you'll be dead at the next battle. And you feel naked without it and it feels like you're ripping off an extension of yourself. Are you even whole without it? Are you worthy of being loved if you can't prove it by risking your life? And yet they've found someone who's asking them for something much harder than dying in battle on their behalf. They've found someone who wants them to live. And that's much more terrifying.

#i know this sounds like the 'bad guy falls for good guy' which can be fun but thats not what i mean #anyway. this wasn't quite zukka but i do think it aligns with my au of zuko not dying on the throne and sokka retiring his sword to paint #and living like piandao in the mountains. urging zuko to retire and zuko no longer needing fire bending and not knowing what to do with #himself if he doesnt have to fight #so he uses his bending to make tea instead :) #aka this is how divorced zukka can still get together #zuko being upset bc sokka chose work over them in the first place but so dodnhe #but he gets a second chance in retirement #if he can give it up

[thriftdyke]

it really does bother me how no one can seem to answer the question “what even is romantic attraction, really.” like some people are like “it’s who you wanna kiss and cuddle <3” and I’m like ok well kisses and cuddles can be either sexual or platonic depending on context. “It’s who you feel passion/desire/arousal for” well that just sounds like sexual attraction which you can have without even knowing somebody so I fail to see how that’s romantic. “It’s who you want to go on dates with” I go on dates with friends all the time plus “date” is a social construct anyway there’s really no innate difference between a date and hanging out. “it’s who you have deep feelings for” great news for you that can be literally any type of relationship. my friend told me she defined it as “who you wanna give roses to” and I’m like do u hear urself??? like the more I talk to people the more I’m convinced romance and romantic attraction is an elaborate socially fabricated illusion that has no real defining characteristics. and like there’s nothing Wrong with it being a constuct but why people are so attached to defending the supremacy of it is something I cannot for the life of me figure out

#like reading this u might be like ‘sounds like ur just aromantic sis’ but I’m like. listen. #ur missing my point. which is that I literally think romance Does Not Exist #at least not in this bioessentialist way people like to pretend it does #the desire for companionship and the desire for sex are biological drives. everything else is a social construct #which doesn’t mean its bad! or not valid! or anything like that! #but I’m just genuinely do not understand Why we are so bent on treating it like gospel

[elibean]

also i really love qiao ling and her relationship with the other two, it’s like they’re her brothers. she feels like a real person which is a weird thing to say about a fictional character lol but i love her

#text post #it's been a while since ive like #actually vibed with a female character #which sounds bad #but i feel like a lot of the girlies in anime (at least in like. positions similar to qiao ling's) are annoying at best

[aquablues-archive]

every time i make my mom even a little upset i feel the need to like . die

#sorry #FNSKENGN #not that dramatically but #i just feel bad #like she doesn’t do anything to make me feel bad which tbh makes me feel worse #but also ik she’ll get over it in like a few hours #but also also i feel like i shld punish myself or smtn like sometimes i just don’t . eat #WHICH SOUNDS BAD #IK #BUT LIKE #it’s not . directly bc i feel like shit i just don’t . want to go downstairs and make her More Upset #ykwim like

[inkskinned]

he says i hate everyone except you and that is addictive and that is kind of romantic and beautiful because you're young and you're kind of a sarcastic asshole too and you don't like bad boys, per say, but you don't really like good ones either. and you like that you were the exception, it felt like winning.

except life is not a romance book, and he was kind of being honest. he doesn't learn to be nice to your friends. he only tolerates your family. you have to beg him to come with you to birthday parties, he complains the whole time. you want to go on a date but - people are often there, wherever you're going. he's just so angry. about everything, is the thing. in the romance book, doesn't he eventually soften? can't you teach him, through your own sense of whimsy and comfort?

at first - you know introverts often need smaller friend groups, and honestly, you're fine staying at home too. you like the small, tidy life you occupy. you're not going to punish him for his personality type.

except: he really does hate everyone but you. which means he doesn't get along with his therapist. which means he has no one to talk to except for you. which means you take care of him constantly, since he otherwise has no one. which means you sometimes have to apologize for him. which means he keeps you home from seeing your friends because he hates them. you're the single exception.

about a decade from this experience, you'll type into google: how to know if a relationship is codependent.

he wraps an arm around you. i hate everyone except you. these days, you're learning what he's actually confessing is i have very little practice being kind.

#i used to think it was romantic too and then i was like. now i see it as a HUGE red flag #writeblr #it is also almost EXCLUSIVELY said by immature ppl who think this is normal #fyi even if u think it's funny and ur like 'im an introvert it's just TRUE' like. you need therapy (ily tho) #healed introversion is just ''i would prefer to be by myself'' not ''i hate every person'' ... hate is not normal. that is not healthy #im sorry. i know it feels accurate. but if you're walking around with that kind of rage.... #1. you're making a LOT of assumptions about every single person u have ever met. which is often unfair and unkind #and also usually involves judging people based on their worst moments or little mistakes #2. you are being unfair to the person who is ur ''exception'' #3. there is a VAST difference between ''ur my favorite person'' and ''the ONLY person i like.'' #idk i think this is just a personal bias thing tbh #im sure there are people who have this experience normally #but i have YET to find a man who thinks like this and ISNT absolute DOGSHIT. although tbh.... like. im sure he exists #when u hit like 30 some of the things that were once kind of hot now just sound fucking exhausting. like ''im in a band'' #edit in the tags: i used to kind of be like this too. but the thing is that like. my life became so much more peaceful #once i started believing that people are generally good. like yes i am mad at the world at large #but it's just.... a very hard way to live. you're not a bad person or wrong for the ways other people hurt you and taught you to be angry. #but that anger will continue to hurt YOU. it will punish YOU. it will prevent YOU from making new deep connections. it will protect you yes #but it will also cause MASSIVE blowback. bc if you lose the One Person... your life will fall apart. i know this personally. #i really recommend just trying to be... cautiously optimistic instead. like. yes #people can be horrible and cruel and there are some communities (incels for example) that aren't worth that optimism #but i think like... most people will hold a door for you . most people want to help you find your wallet . #i hope one day you are able to find peace. i hope that rage eventually smooths over. i know how hard it is PERSONALLY #and i know what must have happened to you. and im deeply deeply sorry we share the same wound. #but i promise - sometimes we all need someone else to help us carry the weight. eventually the rage has to die so that we can let help in #i had to spend years biting at outstretched hands. i still often do. im still very wary . and my heart breaks that you flinch too. #here's the thing: i don't blame you. but we were both acting out of fear and pain. .... not out of healthy behavior. and ... change #was needed. i needed change too. rage was useful for a while. then it just left me isolated and bitter. i had to (with effort) #choose to let that rage go. and let people in . VERY SLOWLY THO LOL

[t4tails]

is it just me or this some of the worst comedic screaming ever done

#og post #like the second one when hes on the block sounds so bad to me #especially in comparison to charlie days scream just seconds earlier which he is a clear master of

[bigfatbreak]

Since Fu and his methods have been kinda debated on in this fandom, I've just making sure. Is Marinette over-positiving her memories with Fu since she blames herself for him getting mind-wiped or would he be really scold her on recklessness and taking care of herself?

former. grieving his memory wipe is making any kindness he did seem to gleam like precious stars in her memory, which is making it hit that much harder. she's definitely spiraling around losing him right now, and not seeing the reality that he chose child soldiers to fight a supervillain. he really might've scolded her for being reckless, but nowhere near as lovingly as she's imagining he would - she's putting positive words in his phantom mouth because his loss hurts her more than she's willing to communicate, and its become the cornerstone of her isolation.

#replies #she's HELLA catastrophizing too #just because she sounds even and cool headed doesn't mean she IS #she's just used to being cool headed in hard situations which makes her confidence seem like fact #she's delirious from exhaustion and pain and rn she's being put on the emotional hotspot #which ironically. was one of the sources of her and alya's big blowup argument lmao. it was bad timing and #calculations on lila's part

[gvaine]

5.11 ⋄ The Drawing of the Dark

#he loves him so much. do you ever think about that #merlin #merlinedit #merthur #* #5.11 #yes im merlinposting at midnight what about it #maybe we should consider colin morgans face the cure for insomnia #which now that i think about it sounds bad. anyway #good night #dream about merthur <3

[sui-imi]

Roo met a kindred spirit today... T_T

post!sans belongs to @ridgewell04

undereats!sans (roo) belongs to me (@sui-imi)

#undertale au #undertale #roo #sans #undereats #post!sans #post sans #undereats!sans #imi art #they should start a tired workers association #meet every other week and just complain about all their deliveries lmao #“what'd u get this time” “had to deliver blue's 100 different letters” “damn” #“what about you” “fresh” “that doesn't sound so bad” #“yeah but he kept trying to pay in monopoly money but we don't accept that. so he threw a furby at me” “damn” “which explode” “damn.” #“at least it's not help_tale!” #utmv

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

i wanna know more about svsss menopause

They synced their periods together too well. Now they are synced through their perimenopause years.

#Poorly drawn svsss #svsss #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #shang qinghua #mobei jun #ask #I truly think that the peak of the SVSSS (peri)menopause era is just them commiserating over the experience of it. #Not pictured here is Liu Qingge barely suppressing his hormonal rage. He would have it *bad*. #I think Liu Mingyan is the only person who does not have a bad time with menopause because she takes estrogen supplements. #Which sounds like a trans headcanon but I think regardless of cis/trans status she's researched this and is prepared. #I have developed a sense for what menopause is purely by exposure to the various complaints I have overheard/been told. #These are all very specific and yet very common stories. #I do not know what the overlap is for SVSSS fans and people (not just women) going through menopause. I hope this is funny to SOMEONE. #It's an untapped market of potential! Too many young'uns in these woods. #Synced periods this. Ovulating that. Where's the menopausal homicidal rage? #Come on! Ripping off your clothing in a sudden burst of heat is *SO* SVSSS core!!! Make perimenopause sexy!!! #Anyways. Please put your menopause headcanons in the comments/tags <3 I'd love to hear them. #Thank you joblessmonday for following up with an ask and giving me an excuse to release this train of thought.

[hisirdouxcasperan]

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), dir. Joel Crawford

#puss in boots #the big bad wolf #puss in boots: the last wish #PLEASE GO SEE THIS IT'S SOOOO GOOD THE ANIMATION AND SOUND DESIGN ARE WELL WORTH THE CINEMA TICKET COST #dreamworks #dreamworks animation #my gifs #puss in boots spoilers #the last wish spoilers #puss in boots the last wish spoilers #puss in boots: the last wish spoilers #this moment was GORGEOUS and TERRIFYING. #played around with sharpening the gifs. for the first time. which (as it turns out) helps a LOT with the dithering #my gif process keeps getting slower and slower. whatever #i hope the alt text for this one is OK because i felt it was too simple just to describe the action and not the animation #(i also think a dark blue caption would've been nicer but then i have to put in the alt text again bc tumblr gets Weird about html mode)

[witherbythesword]

if the theory of sam reich being replaced by .. evil wizard dalton reich (and i cant believe i am partaking in this discurse) is true..

i've seen some people asking the question about what those childhood tapes mean. Well i am one of the ancient ones that owned vhs tapes and you know you could replace whats stored on those tapes with overwriting it with new material but it would slowly degrade the quality as the magnetic tape the information is stored on isn't necessarly made to be re-recorded on indefinetly which would also explain the degrading quality of the gamechanger episode.

So my theory is that dalton reich wants to erase sam from history and to do this he is slowly erasing any proof that could hint on sam and dalton being two different people. One thing he appearantly needed to do is overwrite these old vhs tapes of sams childhood.

#game changer #dropout tv #Sam Reich #having worked in an archive i think depending on quality of the tape and what generation it is #you can record and re-record on it 5-10 times #which would fit the loops on the episode kinda #listen i wanted to be cool but i love time loops OKAY #I am actually in disbelieve that no one tackled sam to the ground #like brennan did during the dance thing in the “second place” episode #and screamed “DANCING IS A SIN” #to keep Sam from kicking the god damn camera #i also feel like i've been hexed with the wenis curse #you see all those text about it and think.. well... how bad can it be? truely? #and the answer is simple #EVERYBODY DO THE WENIS #THE WENIS IS A DANCE #EVERBYODY IS A GENIUS #WHO KNOWS IS IN ADV (gunshoots.. sirens blaring in the background.. and a wet thud sounds right next to you) #also.. not to be like alu head levels of conspiracy but by now the nimber of accounts #saying the dropout cast should be hunting down sam as the final game changer episode of the season #is suspicious to me #like... if that turn out to be a fixitman situation of people being IN on something #am just going full balls to the wall riz gukgak tatooing night yorb on his chest levels of insane by now 👍 #also the sfx needed thing #reminds me about how jacob always does his own buzzer sound #because clearly the normal buzzer sound was always there #also.. the red shining buzzer reflecting in the prompt screen..that wasn't always that way right?

[lazylittledragon]

Feel free to ignore if this is intruding but I remember you posting about dealing with caffeine addiction and I hope you're doing ok <3 Addiction is really hard to deal with so I hope everything is going alright for you!

!! thank you for checking in <3333

i haven't cut it out completely (i really don't think i'd be able to) but i'm still doing much better, i've cut down from 6 shots per cup to only 2. i've also changed my sleep/eating habits so now i don't feel like i need the caffeine as much because i just don't feel as shit anymore.

it's been very nice :3

#ramble #also yes that wasn't 6 shots per day it was PER CUP #which sounds. Insane thinking about it now #also i was SHOCKED at how seriously everyone took it. bc i really didn't think it was that bad #spoiler alert it was very bad #it's also done my IBS a favour because. wow #i'm thinking of switching back to cold brew because it didn't upset my insides as much as espresso does #tl;dr caffeine addiction is a very very very real thing and you seriously need to treat it like any other drug

[spaciebabie]

OKAY THE ONE THING I DONT LIKE ABOUT STEVEN UNIVERSE IS HOW THEY VILIFY PINK DIAMOND/ROSE QUARTZ BRO SHE'S LITERALLY AN ABUSE SURVIVOR MAKING CHOICES AN ABUSE SURVIVOR WOULD MAKE AND THE PLOT AND EVEN STEVEN IS LIKE, "yeah she sucks," BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR TA FUCKING GOD BE SO REAL RN.

"she made mistakes/hard decisions" TURNS INTA, "she was a bad person," IN THE MOVIE AND FINAL SEASON LIKE??? SHE WAS A LEADER OF A REBELLION AND HADTA PRIORITIZE CERTAIN THINGS SHE DIDNT WANT TA MAKE THOSE DECISIONS!! SHE CARED ABOUT THE GEMS AROUND HER!! SHE LIED CUZ SHE FELT SHE HADTA. SHE WASNT SOME SPOILED BRAT SHE MADE SOUND DECISIONS FOR HER CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!!! she literally tried ta tell the gems around her she was like them and told them not ta put her on a pedestal but they did anyway??? and got upset when she turned out ta be a flawed person???

like thats not ta say characters arent justified in being upset with her actions but making her out ta be a bad person cuz she inadvertently hurt people??? painting her as a villain b/c her abusive guardians decided ta go apeship on earth and any crystal gems they came in contact with???? when she was likely in survival mode???? i hate the way the show paints her i hate hate hate it.

grrrrr GRRRRR

#i rewatched the movie and brooooooooooo 😭😭😭😭 #LEAVE HER ALONE!!! LEAVE HER ALONE!!!! #spacie spoinks #rant #(?? sorta) #i dont have a lot of complaints abt the show but i really dont like this specific treatment of her character #steven said‚ 'yeah that sounds like something my mom would do' AS IF SHE WAS A BAD PERSON WHO JUST GOT RID OF SPINEL TA GET RID OF HER?? #WHICH IS A CONTRADICTION OF HER CHARACTER AND EVERYTHING SHE STANDS FOR???? #WE DONT KNOW WHY SHE LEFT SPINEL BUT I DONT THINK SHE DID IT OUT OF MALICE. #THERE'S NO WAY #abuse mention #grrrr BROOOOOOOOOOOO #RIPS MY HAIR OUT