Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

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a bunch of cringe ass losers . the little bit of info they have under cut

the first two are datables and the second two are nondatables from their routes, their names are kara siefert, cora lite, oakey jaff, and stephan gale respectively, im only gonna give info on the datables bc im lazy ok

kara (she/her) + unlabeled but will date you regardless of head choice

-was a pageant kid who got too old to do pageants which resulted in her parents losing interest in her as a person, nowadays shes an aspiring popstar chasing fame.

-shes very mean and standoffish and comes off as spoiled but she just was more just a victim of neglectful parents. she left her parents house and now lives with oakey in dialtown and the two have a familial bond but its unclear if theyre actually related or not.

-shes been teased with the name egghead before and Will become violent if referred to as such. the ribbon she has on the pearl necklace was the first blue ribbon she ever won. oakey has a picture of him, kara, and his late wife at one of karas very first recitals in the locket he wears.

-you find her in the casino at the bar where she assumes youre a fan of her and after you say you dont know who she is she becomes offended and determined to make you recognize her, eventually leading to her agreeing to take you to the funfair

cora (she/they) + lesbian, will only date you with a typewriter head

-is a college dropout who spends most of their time in her apartment, they work at a gas station with stephan (the two are roommates as well), you meet her in the apartments where they mistake you for a pizza delivery person and fall apart after you flirt with her

-has a younger sibling who lives in a different state and occasionally comes to visit, hes trying to become a professional gamer and sometimes she joins in on his games and has appeared on his channel a number of times

-Really wants a girlfriend as theyre incredibly lonely . her guy friends help her practice flirting and shes actually very good at it but the second shes around a gal they find attractive she becomes a complete mess

-used to nervously play with the joystick on her head like one would play with their hair. she did this so much that it eventually just fell off and they lost it somewhere in the apartment

-a bit clumsy, their screen is Incredibly scuffed up but so far shes managed not to completely break it or anything. there have been some close calls though. steph has tried to help her but he is Also clumsy and unlike them has actually broken his head in several places

you ever have a conversation with someone and it's like... the sun peeking out from behind the clouds?

idk. picky eater rights. im coming to your events and turning my picky bitch nose up at your fancy ass desserts you spent a bajillion hours working over in the kitchen and asking if i can find like a basic ass brownie with no extra flairs or ingredients or steps or whatever the fuck. cry about it. stop trying to feed me

i think its funny when people talk about mental illness and start with “as someone taking psych courses” “as someone majoring in this” “as a soon to be psychiatrist” thank you so much for telling me nothing you say or think about this matters. like an hourglass on a black widow

at least now i've gone through an important tumblr rite of passage, watching a longtime mutual become a radfem :/

horrifying self recognition through the other aside this has been an actually not terrible start to The Family Gathering tbh

it’s 3am so please enjoy my favorite painting in the world while i reflect introspectively in the tags thank u ♡

day and the dawnstar by herbert james draper

i think i've finally come to understand why i'm so bad at communicating with friends 👍 at one point or another i've thought i was in love with every single person i've ever been friends with (for the most part, at least) because i don't expect other people to like me. OBVIOUSLY this is not true but platonic feelings are not dissimilar to romantic ones (baseline they're the same: you want to love and be loved by someone) but i always end up realizing that i'm not in love with them, just that they matter to me very much and i wouldn't know what do to w/o their presence in my life. BUT this brings me to facet number 2 of my awful communication skills: i hate it when things Get Real. i find myself retreating any time it seems like Something Could Change in my day-to-day life due to them being around and "forcing" the change. i run away from talking to one of my only irl friends on almost a daily basis bc i dread the idea of having to do anything she might want me to do. i think, at the end of the day, my problem might just be that i don't want to change... ANYWAYS

why’s it so embarrassing when u start catching feelings for someone aaaaaahhhhhh

why not mewhynot me whynotme whynotMEwhy Not Mewhy not me whynot me whynotme Whynot me WHYNOTME why not me. why not me

christmas break FINALLY YEAH 🫶🏼

The recent trend where entire cults are formed around sharing just one bad opinion is so incredibly terrifying.

Echo chambers have always existed within social media but more than ever the people within them are actively recruiting others - if you go into any extremist tag you will see people openly bragging about successfully doing this.

But even outside of that we're feeling the effects of it, namely in the recent push to have to declare everything about yourself. You must state age, race, sexuality, gender, list your privileges and your alliances.

Complex, evolving, and nuanced issues are forced into binaries and you're encouraged to publicly make your stance. There's no time to learn and no room to change - you've written it in your bio. It may as well be engraved in stone.

We don't reward people for changing and learning and growing. It's even worse on platforms like tiktok where you've connected an opinion to your actual face forever.

And so you have to just keep digging in, even when information changes, even as the world changes.

And this is how it's happening, how these groups are forming - because isn't it safer and easier to just surround yourself with people who are all doing the same thing too? To find people to continually confirm your biases?

for me babylon (2022) is that post that's like everyone cheer for my cringe ass lame boyfriend or im blowing up this whole building. that movie is my cringe boyfriend