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unironically people need to learn to say “they haven’t done anything wrong i just find them annoying”

I personally think people need to understand that if someone hasn’t wronged you or anyone else, you should NOT dislike them. You don’t have to like them; just remain neutral.

nope! this is the kind of attitude the leads to you picking apart every little thing a person does digging through their past for dirt and problematizing everything about them, exaggerating harm, assuming the worst about them, putting words in their mouth, etc, to justify the fact that you simply don’t vibe with them when the truth is that you will not get along with everybody you meet in life and it’s extremely possible to be civil to someone you don’t like. you don’t have to be friends with everybody its fine. it’s certainly nicer than falsely accusing them of some heinous shit rather than admit that you’re not some Disney princess who’s never had an unfairly mean thought in her life and loves everybody and sings with little birdies and is never bitchy or irritable. sometimes you get annoyed for stupid reasons and understanding that your personal feelings about a person aren’t necessarily related to their morals or worthiness as a human being is the first step to being a civil adult.

Me: you can’t just use boundaries to legislate away all discomfort from your life, especially in a way that conflicts with other’s autonomy

Y’all: ok, but like I shouldn’t have to feel discomfort, have you considered that discomfort feels bad?

Sometimes you have to think critically about why you’re uncomfortable before you try to control another person’s behavior

bonus content: some other screencaps that i almost used for this

One of the best things about fanfic is scrolling through your bookmarks and seeing all the different styles next to each other. That one’s self-indulgent fluff, that one’s philosophical and reads like poetry, that one’s an affirmation of human existence. The one below it is a crackfic, followed by an adventure novel and a blatant excuse for worldbuilding.

dosing myself up with a fuckton of muscle relaxants before a first date and just limply and pathetically flopping around on the floor until they feel an instinctual pity and care for me like a sickly baby bird

So many boob drawers dont get it... its abt the weight. Its abt the sag and the tension. Sphere anime boobs frighten and scare me. Show me that thang is made of flesh n it has give. What is the FUCKING point of 'instead of shirt she has bandages/vines/ribbons to cover her modesty/make sure shes not just free swanging' if they're still gonna be perfectly spherical??? Show me the gravity, let me see the places where the bandages compress which squishes it on either side... u guys get what I mean

Oooooh.

Boob drawers, as in people who draw boobs, not boob drawers, as in chest of.

I was so confused.

Well boobs are stored on chests so the confusion is understandable

Boooo

...ooobs

one of my favorite garashir seasonings is their mutual savior-complex-induced penchant for sacrificing themselves for the greater good and how that manifests in both hilariously fucked up and weirdly wholesome ways.

like julian meeting up with the former head of the obsidian order and one of the most dangerous men alive all by himself so that he can ask for some cardassian brain schematics and figure out what the fuck is wrong with garak’s brain (too many things). or garak having a round-the-clock panic attack in the walls of the prison camp to save their asses while two klingons culturally conditioned to venerate suffering and death nod on in approval and julian swoons and bites his nails and swoons some more. or julian in the holosuite like “we might die, sure, but what’s a little death among friends?” and garak being like “pretty sure suicide in a ferengi escape room with cum-stains that aren’t my own would cancel out every cool spy thing i’ve ever done with my life actually,“ and julian with his gun is like “bet” and garak just “you’re sexy and that means you’re right. let’s go die the stupidest deaths ever.” or garak trying to blow up the founder’s planet and himself and julian in the process and julian with his fucked up statistical probability brain not even batting an eye when he hears about it. “yeah that was a reasonable line of thought. anyway, this coffee is good.” insanity.

i like to imagine that after the war when the intensity has dialed down a few hundred notches, this tendency of theirs still manifests in these needlessly batshit moments where julian is like “ok but i feel like working around the clock to cure this disease all by myself makes sense even though it’s killing me” and garak’s like “maybe not, tbh. you’re not the only smarty pants, you can have help maybe? and i know this is sudden but i think i love you” and julian responds “we’ve been married twelve years. it is a little fast, but i love you, too. i guess i can live then or w/e. for love.” and at some other point garak is like “ok but i feel like flinging myself into this forty-foot pit to retrieve seven crying orphans and a regnar is a good idea because i was abused as a child” and julian with his huge brain is like “actually i think throwing a ladder down would be better, especially since i’m not a necrophiliac” and garak responds “oh you might be right. so no head at my funeral? cruel.” and on it goes until the therapy finally kicks in

I need at least six copies of myself so I can achieve every creative thought in my head while also takin a nap

this man filters tags for "dead dove do not eat" and "hand holding"

sloan doesn’t know julian’s spy kink is already being fulfilled by a middle-aged lizard

This is the best response I’ve seen to anything possibly ever

This art work by @master-of-the-game got me thinking about how Dukat runs his ship

So I've decided that as a glinn, he used to make all his men line up so that he could inspect them one-by-one, and he docked replicator credits from any trooper who showed up with unkempt nails. He praised the men who applied a bit of polish, and reminded everyone the military didn't carry its own line of pomade for nothing.

After he took command, he made Damar inspect the troops. Damar did, but he mostly just told people "Dukat would be angry."

show, don't tell:

anticipation - bouncing legs - darting eyes - breathing deeply - useless / mindless tasks - eyes on the clock - checking and re-checking

frustration - grumbling - heavy footsteps - hot flush - narrowed eyes - pointing fingers - pacing / stomping

sadness - eyes filling up with tears - blinking quickly - hiccuped breaths - face turned away - red / burning cheeks - short sentences with gulps

happiness - smiling / cheeks hurting - animated - chest hurts from laughing - rapid movements - eye contact - quick speaking

boredom - complaining - sighing - grumbling - pacing - leg bouncing - picking at nails

fear - quick heartbeat - shaking / clammy hands - pinching self - tuck away - closing eyes - clenched hands

disappointment - no eye contact - hard swallow - clenched hands - tears, occasionally - mhm-hmm

tiredness - spacing out - eyes closing - nodding head absently - long sighs - no eye contact - grim smile

confidence - prolonged eye contact - appreciates instead of apologizing - active listening - shoulders back - micro reactions