#Acknowledge Their Feelings^TM
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Day 11: Eyes
Bowser wouldn’t say he had a thing for humans, but…
Surely, no one will blame him for liking human eyes?
Sure, he thought for sure that Princess Peach had the prettiest eyes he would ever see -kind eyes that acted like polished mood stones as they darkened to a navy with anger or lightened into aqua with interest and joy (never because of him though…).
The less said of Mario and his eyes, the better.
But Luigi’s?
They were a lot like Peach’s. Not in eye color, with his being a deeper ocean blue, but with his kindness shining through his eyes like a beacon. Hell, they absolutely sparkled with curiosity, but that wasn’t what made them better!
Unlike the other two humans, Luigi’s eyes acted like a kaleidoscope, shifting between shades of blue every second he looked at them.
They always darkened with fear (especially when they locked eyes after…), but they still shimmered with concern, interest, and even some sort of awe that had Bowser dumbstruck with how much the human seemed to be feeling every second.
And whenever he’s happy? When he’s honest-to-Grambi content and smiling -even around Bowser? Especially around Bowser?
Those eyes become absolutely beaming- brighter than the Mushroom Kingdom’s sky -brighter than Peach’s, even- and he liked the way they were shined with his delight, his joy in even simple things like the colored glass of the Dining Hall, or the way he ‘discreetly’ poked around his upper plastron and shoulder scales…
He liked those eyes even when they became a single gradient of concentration -maybe even determination- as he plodded through countless books that even the Royal Librarian seemed surprised to see.
He liked seeing the way the human’s eyes flickered between humor and shock when scandalized.
He liked when his eyes gleamed with playfulness before darkening with something calculating when he actually joins in Bowser’s mischief (he will always treasure the memory of the Ink Incident).
He likes the way his mustache frames those expressive eyes and makes his smiles seem all the sweeter to see.
He likes watching his eyes turn wide and shyly avert from eye contact when embarrassed, the human’s blush spreading around them in contrast.
He-
Oh.
Oh fuck, no.
He’s so fucking Doomed.
Luigi couldn’t concentrate.
It’s not that the book wasn’t interesting (who would find the world of prophetic magic boring?), but Luigi could feel the burning stare of someone radiating from the back of his neck.
At first, he thought it was the Librarian again, or even a visiting politician who is curious (i.e. nosy) enough to see what exactly he was doing, but all he could see was Bowser seemed to be looking at anything but Luigi.
He pretends to not be sad about that.
Still, the prickling sensation wouldn’t go away until he tries to look around. Was it not for the fact that Boos were barred from the library, Luigi would have been driven to paranoia.
It doesn’t answer the question of who the heck is staring at him, or how to make them go away.
With a frustrated exhale, Luigi -gently- set down the book before shoving his seat back to stand.
If he’s not going to have peace, then by the stars he will find it!
The noise from the chair seemed to have snapped Bowser out of his stupor, as the giant Koopa watches him cross the room with interest.
Luigi... didn't actually know what he'd do when he finds whoever-it-is, but he honestly didn't ask for much to want some semi-privacy!
Which is why, after climbing multiple bookcases in search of someone, he was understandably startled when he felt a large hand -no, paw- wrap around his waist and lift him high in the air.
"Waa- B-Bowser!?" Glancing down, which is a first with the Koopa, Luigi ends up doing the one thing he hoped and dreaded in equal measure.
He locked eyes with Bowser.
Just like last time, Luigi felt like he was sinking into the Koopa's gaze, almost helpless as those ruby-red eyes seemed to bore into him.
It's a harrowing experience that has his insides feel like they turned into hot, wriggling worms and that his knees had been replaced by what feels to be off-set gelatin.
It's a feeling that makes him feel more vulnerable than usual -as if his everything is splayed open for the Koopa.
It's... oddly more intense? More than usual, now that he thinks about it.
........
Is he... going to say something?
With an awkward cough, Luigi seems to bring the Koopa back to the present as he -flinches?
What-?
"What are you doing?"
And now Luigi flinches, realizing that his train of thought has run off its rails from what is currently very important.
"Can anyone come into the library?"
"No." Bowser seems to be... concerned? "Visitors are usually limited to political officials, scholars, and -of course- the Royal Family. Why?"
"I-" Put like that, it seems silly to doubt, but... "It feels like someone is watching me."
Several emotions pass over the Koopa's face, one of which seemed recognizable before he schools his face into something neutral.
"How long?"
"Wha-"
"How long has it been that you've felt it?"
"Um," Luigi looks at the clock mounted to the right of them, seeing that it's nearing dinner time. "An hour? Maybe two? Up until-" he was going to say 'now', but (with alarm) he realizes he doesn't feel the prickling feeling anymore. "A few minutes ago."
Bowser suddenly brings him closer to his chest, and it took everything in Luigi to not shiver in something-not-caused-by-being-cold before realizing that the Koopa's chest is vibrating.
"Come with me."
He's doomed.
#bowuigi#KAIJUNE Prompt#HAPPY PRIDE MONTH#literally just me wanting these two knuckleheads to#Acknowledge Their Feelings^TM#also warning for Bowser's cursing#and more buildup that I hope is going well
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all those analyses people make about Harry’s Electrochemistry being more than just wanting drugs and in fact being one of Harry’s most important skills for staying alive are coming to mind as I’m reading this old treatise on anarchist morality by Kropotkin
“One man gets drunk, and every day lowers himself to the condition of a brute because he seeks in liquor the nervous excitement that he cannot obtain from his own nervous system.”
“When a woman […] takes off her own scanty rags to cover another woman who is cold, while she herself shivers on the deck of a vessel, she does so because she would suffer infinitely more in seeing […] a woman starved with cold, than in shivering […] She escapes a pain of which only those who have felt it know the intensity.”
the pursuit of pleasure takes more forms than just wanting food, it is in fact the impetus for being alive
even the insects, he says! eat a leaf yum yum etc. and remember Electrochemistry is the check to pass to be able to interact with the phasmid…
#i’m anarchoposting again#I just think this is an interesting angle to take with electrochemistry!#the treatise is dated and has some Flaws tm but#some things I like about it are acknowledging addiction as a response to a physiological deprivation#and also not treating animals as mechanistic! but acknowledging they also are driven by feelings#this has borne out as true in biological studies
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I like that Maxwell includes his adhd in the character of MJF, for his background but also for his reasoning, cause for so long has the ugly side of my neurodivergence make me relate to the insecure selfish choices of heels. I always felt stupid though for reading characters through such a lense, “its not that deep” etc etc, and now we have someone who openly talks about how fucked up RSD can make you feel.
“but isn’t that bad rep? / Are you using your disability to excuse shitty behaviour??” – Knowing that you aren’t alone with these negative symptoms can be so relieving. I’m all for more people knowing about the kinda shit we go through in our heads, also understanding bad behaviour doesn’t mean condoning.
#when i first started watching max i didnt think hed be one of the wrestlers thatd make feel so seen#even if that sounds silly to some#idk im simply glad when neurodivergence gets acknowledged but not infantilised#or vilified#wrestling thoughts tm#mjf
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perhaps controversial take but you dont have to be upset by/grossed out by/afraid of your intrusive thoughts. you can be neutral towards them. you can indulge in fantasies of doing things you know you'd never actually do in real life. you can find them annoying or aggravating or inconvenient. you can find them funny or absurd. you can have different feelings about different kinds of thoughts you have. you can find them to be good inspiration for creative projects. you can find them interesting. you can find them to be barely a blip on your radar as you go about your day.
thoughtcrime isn't a thing. youre not a bad person for having thoughts about 'bad' things, and you're also not a bad person if you're not constantly self flagellating/having a breakdown/throwing up/apologising/etc for having them. obviously if your intrusive thoughts do upset you or scare you, or gross you out then thats a valid experience and im sympathetic to you, but can we please stop acting like the only healthy response to intrusive thoughts is disgust? that's simply not true and we shouldnt ostracise people for not hating themselves for something they can't control
#intrusive thoughts#npd#aspd#bpd#ocd#cluster b#adhd#hpd#ocpd#anger issues#og post //#like not to be a ~Scary Serial Killer Psycho~ but i have regular thoughts about seriously and/or fatally harming other ppl#im not scared of those thougts or afraid of them or disgusted by them#i acknowledge that theyre intrusive. and that despite the strength of the urge i dont actually want to hurt other people to that degree#(or at all) nor do i think that i or anyone else has the right to physically assualt another person#and then i move on with my day lmao#and this isnt me flexing like Ooh look at me im just sooooo good at coping tm#this is me saying hey im not a bad person for my intrusive thoughts OR for my reactions/feelings towards them#npd hours
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like I do feel bad to not be happy about something that a lot of people are happy about but almost every summer servant being lb6 AND the anniversary servant being a summer servant connected to lb6 is just. A lot. Like I’m glad that you like aesc and she works with her already existing narrative but putting a summer servant (bc she is, Morgan shows up in a swimsuit and her alignment changes to lawful summer in third ascension) uo as the anniversary servant is just. It feels really weird to me and i don’t like it. Even pan human history Morgan would’ve felt more suited to the slot than a summer unit.
#and there’s also the fact that like 4 of the other summer servanrs are probably lb6 + obe + the kotr it’s just#idk like yeah. if you love lb6 this is great but a summer servant? for anniversary?#all the other anniversary servants were either incredibly important to tm overall (arc) or story relevant#and idk maybe aesc will be again but it feels way more like they just wanted a Morgan alt and decided to have her there for a headliner#it’s just. idk most of the other years the summer servants weren’t all from one story#like they created new interactions and relationships#and this doesn’t seem like it will be doing that?#sigh. idk I feel like a lot of the people who are excited aren’t acknowledging that putting a summer unit on for the anniversary headliner#is just weird#this isn’t even getting into how they let her swimsuit be the anniversary servsnt but#the guy from the chapter who was just as popular as her still only has a costume#like make it more obvious that y’all won’t even make a male alt for easy $ will you#it’s obvious that is isn’t about the money anymore it has to be that they either don’t want to bc of personal stuff#or bc they don’t want to upset a specific genre of male otaku#and it’s annoying bc other games in the same category as fg0 will make make summer units like. come one#my post
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hhelp wait this is so funny. didnt you follow me forever ago after a scott themed october song analysis . sorry if you dont remember that and this ask doesnt make sense but this is still funny to me
hi!!!! yeah. it was the cherri crane lives art i think and also where you made your flower husbands tag! I have never really interacted with fh outside of you (and like, seeing pretty fanart) but i am nonetheless deeply invested in your interpretation specifically!!! I honestly haven't watched jimmy outside of rats and the beginning of empires2 either i genuinely have no clue what they get up to you just seem to have a lot of fun with it
#asks#<-omg i can make that a tag now#i also am a year behind on the life series. i think the most recent one i've seen is double#like from any pov. i am a year behind. however that goes for everything on youtube#my poor watch later playlist hit the 5000 video limit forever ago and so did the second one i made to replace it. i am on my third#but seriously i don't know what goes on in fh canon but i like their blue/yellow thing they have going on. idk if that's like? intentional?#but like scott blue and canary yellow are really pretty colors together#and they are also SO close to being complimentary colors and yet. they aren't. just a little bit off#they don't quite fit quite how they should. i made that up on the spot i mostly think yellow and blue are nice colors#i think my biggest exposure to scott before you was literally the deal with destiny song in empires1#and i don't even think i acknowledged him as like a real guy ykwim.#like oh yeah. scott smajor. he's like. in that song lizzie made or something. he can sing alright i guess (plays it on loop)(plays it on lo#whisp whispers#seeing u post about Discourse(tm) is always really funny to me because i didn't realize for a while that u did not have like#the 'normal' interpretation? like i didn't realize you had a different view than other people#i was like oh yeah the relationship held in the death games is toxic. that makes sense yeah and is not surprising#and then suddenly there would be a post where you mention discourse and i went. Ohhhhh wait they're supposed to be HAPPY!!!#but i feel like this is infinitely more enjoyable i love Flawed Characters#and especially now after watching his rats. i get it. i get it i get it i see what you are saying#he doesn't interact much with jimmy hes mostly with owen and. i mean#'i've never heard someone apologize so much while putting the blame on the other person'???? i see exactly what you mean#r!scott accidentally hurting r!owen and then apologizing profusely while insisting it's because owen stood in his way. and then immediately#isolating himself in a room for like 20 minutes and refusing to interact with anyone feels like. idk#it reminds me of ur rambles and i understand them more now i think. kind of#to be clear by 'with' i mean like. in proximity of. those rats are AROMANTIC!!!!! (to me)#i'm so sorry these tags are a mess. but alas#i also think it's really funny to follow Flower Husbands guy and know nothing abt them. invested by proxy. whenever i hear abt scott giving#jimmy a flower i get excited not because like i know what's going on but because omg! that's like that thing bree talks about sometimes!!#i hope that like. any of this makes sense shdbfjk
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bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark :]
#feeling well enough to start gently skittering about. yipy !#since fucking Apparently i blacked out for Three Straight Days(tm) SJNFKD#piktalk#imay be tempting fate but i must acknowledge my wins when i get them. they r important too. waha.
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19Sep22
LT Edition
Lou can’t keep his gay anthems straight,
But who thought we’d e’er see this day?
Feels “amazing,” he said
(Though he meant Home instead)
That his queer fans claimed Only the Brave.
HS Edition
The rain showed but not Flo or Chris,
Though H was there taking the piss —
Decked out like a copper,
Not one answer proper,
Just giggles and sly mood board quips.
#larry#louis#louis tomlinson#faith in the future#louis is making the promo rounds for fitf#radio station interviews and listening parties and fan photo ops#the interviewer for 98.5 krz out of PA asked a question#about only the brave becoming an anthem for lgbtq+ fans#and louis answered that it's an 'amazing feeling'#then recounted meeting a fan at a charity breakfast a few years ago#who shared with him how much the song meant#the fan convo was actually about home#and the fact that louis conflated the two just supports how gay they both are#and this acknowledgement is a big fucking deal#given the once-homophobic image of Louis Tomlinson TM#dwd premiered in new york city tonight#h showed up in all blue again#looking very policemanesque#he kept at least five bodies between himself and olivia at most times#his q&a answers were commensurate with his investment in this film#he was silly and inarticulate#and if i were uninitiated in the ways of harry's media-trained megastar mystique#i'd probably write him off as a space cadet#and people are out there thinking this is how he'd really treat his partner's craft?#the host asked what his first impression of the screenplay was#and harry literally said there was a very tasteful mood board#limerick-lt#limerick-hs#september 19#2022
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reacclimating to life in civilization remains arduous & it's weird what parts of Being Hunted For Sport mode have fallen off already & how much i'm already taking it for granted & how HORRIFICALLY BAD the parts that should be easy are going
#it's like. i'm not scared to leave the house but also i start going places & get SO SO SO SO scared#had a low grade freakout the whole way to the mall yesterday cuz conceptually. Going Places is scary. and then i got to Target and it upgra#ded to a Level 78 I Am Being Hunted For Sport Freakout cuz all the Targets here are the normal size Targets i went to exclusively like.#2009 - Nov 2019. but then 3.5 years of only having access to a microscopic one where i would routinely be attacked by people has given me#The Fear TM#so it's like. i'm in this area that's 3x too big; there's more than 12 people; THEY'RE ACTUALLY MAKING EYE CONTACT WITH ME & ACKNOWLEDGING#WHEN I SAY SOMETHING (i.e. try to get past them) and i don't know what to do cuz i've been conditioned that if somebody looks at me at all#in Target they are about to do some absolute fuckshit that will likely result in me being injured or stalked or both#and like. i don't go most places with fear in my heart anymore!!! like it's really wacky how quick that fell off!!!!!! it feels like it sho#uldn'tve like. it feels like almost too much of a cop-out that it fell off that quick & i can mostly conduct my business feeling safe/fine.#but then oop!!!! i'm in target & boy on all levels except reality am i being hunted for sport#shit just aint right man this is so super embarrassing lmfao
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@timewounded said: "Why are you looking at me like that?" [ cypher to sova ]
- amnesia || accepting -
. He'd been staring. Most of them had since Cypher had awoken with no memory. There was an unspoken tension about the man's identity- so far, no one had seen what was under the mask. Sova knew he wasn't the only one thinking about it.
But despite his qualms with Cypher and his... ways, Sova respected him; at least, enough to keep both himself and others from prying under the mask.
But the thought still remained.
"It is nothing," he finally said, tearing his eyes away. What did he remember of anyone? of Sova? "Sage said to try to do something familiar. Do you remember chess?" He couldn't think of anything else, didn't really want to admit that he was worried.
#i'm thinking like a little before they acknowledge Feelings(tm)#when the guy hanging around is a big mildly unfriendly russian#.all we can know is that we know nothing ; so.va | inbox.#timewounded#timewounded | cy.pher
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guy who thinks he's the normal one: if you get rejected by someone and don't immediately ghost them and forget they exist you're a fundamentally toxic and broken person who doesn't deserve love
#been watching a lot of nice guy (tm) content recently and i kinda think the pendulum has swung too far the other way#like we all acknowledge its a bad mindset to have and if youre in that situation its on you to get out#but we're at the point where people are genuinely suggesting if you have any unrequited romantic feelings for someone#doing anything short of taking out a self imposed restraining order on yourself is this grand crime against humanity
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petition to stop making fun of people who like those pinterest-esque posts with sad quotes and whatever bcs to you they may be edgy and cringy but to someone out there it might be the first time that they are seeing someone put into words the confusing experience of being Human. same goes with those bad ya books like. yes they are objectively, technically bad and most times just badly mimic something someone else did but someone will see deep ideas explored in them for the first time and marvel. and maybe instead of going lmao dumb kids we should go 'hey if you liked that book you might like [a book that was much better at exploring trope from that angle'. peace on planet earth or whatever
#dan talks#or like idk. just have a bit of respect and sympathy for ppl who have never seen something#for the human experience of being in that place#thinking abt this book i read at 13 or whatever that touched me sso much i nearly cried in class once quoting it#the quote was something like 'if u are never sad u cant know what happy means'#like lit some pinterest/ig deep quote TM shit#is the book good in retrospect? no. is it unique and interesting? not really no#but it mattered to me then and it made me think and feel and maybe we should respect that a bit#we all must go thru the first time of seeing Deep thoughts and thing x and thing y and yes they become routine after a while#and it becomes much much harder to be satisfied bcs ur standards are higher#but they matter in some way#like make fun of deep quotes and stuff im not saying thats Bad or something#but ive seen relentless ragging on these ppl. usually younger teens. and no one ever acknowledges how important that experience is#and how valuable when being lived#i just get tired sometimes of this apparent need to burn bridges w ur past self and never sympathize#like yes he had no taste but in order to get taste you might see something good#and then learn what better means#idk im still sickblogging
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#honestly the whole story here reminds me of the deal with Impostor Syndrome TM#where weirdo white-collar society took a perfectly fine observation (here is a feeling you might have)#and turned it into a weird syndrome-slash-faux-therapeutic-balm#that wannabe girlbosses can anxiously quote at each other#instead of like. you know. acknowledging those feelings could be part of learning something new#and could mean incompetence but#could also just mean you're ramping up#and maybe you will have to just sit with reality for a bit and figure it out on your own
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I was thinking “haha it’s so weird and silly i got soOOO into this one very specific part/arc/related minor-ish character group of a franchise, i haven’t done that before have i? this is a new weirdness for me isn’t it?”
and then suddenly vividly remembered my inconvenient and untenable and frankly quite extreme obsession with the romulan star empire all throughout middle school, with such force and clarity that i had to put a hand to my face
#i would absolutely have made a Discord For Romulan Likers#that was still a bit different though since a portion of that came from an instinct to subvert#bc i felt like what some of TNG era canon did with Romulans basically being pre programmed to Do Betrayal was silly needed deconstructing#(and at the same time was intrigued by how a society of people like that COULD function if taken at face value)#whereas my hangup on the village arc and Ganja is bc i rly rly rly like the story + characters (also feel Longing (tm) instilled by tragedy#and wanted to talk about them a lot and nearly all english language spaces for MiAbyss were just crammed with the s1/movie parts/characters#and not my Special Sillies#like obviously theres no ‘hey ONLY talk about season two of the show’ rule on the server. that would be unhinged#but i made it because the rest is always getting discussed everywhere else so i hope that focus is ok with everyone and hopefully that’s no#uncouth of me to acknowledge that i personally made it for that specific reason. wait this got off topic. THE ROMULANS…. RIGHT#anyway i remember i was kinda grumpy at how much stuff Klingon Likers had in comparison#you can learn Klingon#you can’t learn Romulan!! (real ones know its called Rihan and not Romulan though)#(the Romulans call themselves the Rihannsu. i believe thi is 100% extracanonical material though)#(ebil did you really get tipsy on a tuesday night and start rambling about Romulans???? yes. yes i did. )#(look i had a difficult appointment today i deserve it)#anyway it’s actually insane that i never read Diane Duane’s series abt them#i didn’t really have internet purchasing power and was restricted to what was at the library and easily available online#i should read those books eventually#i still have a soft spot for them pointy eared maniacs
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oughoughoughhh maybe i'm just not in the right headspace to be reading it right now but the "the beginnings of self-definition" chapter of susan forward's toxic parents book is fuuuuucking me up
#it's largely what i've been working on right now- identifying my wants#but trying to read this chapter is throwing my brain for a loop#the anecdote she starts the chapter with is about a lady who doesn't know how to say no to her parents' outrageous demands#at great cost to herself and her marriage#and it talks about how to be healthy you have to respond not react- acknowledge emotions AND thoughts. not judt blindly react to feelings#and i'm hurting reading this because this book presumes the reader has attained something very difficult already:#confidence in self determination#i'm just sitting here trying to read this thinking 'and what right do *i* have to stand up for myself like this???'#you have to be a person to have the worth required to have your own needs and have them respected#and i'm not a whole person?????#i never have been???? never will be????#so what right do *i* have to impose things on the Real People(TM) around me when i am just a thing? a decoration?#i am a tool to be used. a service. a pretty object. an emotional garbage disposal. i'm *not* a person like everyone else#so where the fuck do i get off on acting like one?? i DO NOT have that right?#i am something lesser to be used. and objects don't get to tell people not to use them#so who the fuck am i trying to say that i want things#it isn't right#it's not#personal#she says it's okay to be selfish sometimes but you have to be a person first to get to be selfish
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google how the fuck do I start actually having emotional reactions to things again when I can see Bad World Events that kill literally thousands of people and feel literally nothing about it. not numb but just Straight Up Nothing. like you could tell me half of the population of a country died due to [insert reasons here] and I'm pretty sure I would not even have a reaction. how the fuck do I change this when I've been like this as long as I can remember lol.
#not a vent(tm) really but definitsly me complaining so#nobody cares aj#also if anyone has an actual solution feel free to say it but like#im not expecting one bc 99% of the time no one even acknowledges that i make these posts lol
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