Sending love today, in particular, to my bipolar friends. I know it’s hard. I know you struggle, and I know how often people don’t understand you. I can’t promise everyone will, but I can promise that you can be loved. You are loved.
honestly I think it’s kinda interesting how phil’s relationships with wilbur, tallulah, chayanne & tubbo are all reflecting back into his view of sunny tbh. like he has such complex delicate interwoven dynamics with all of them and it all gets thrown onto sunny, this poor kid who he loves in theory, but in practice is a stranger to him.
like wilbur left tallulah in phil’s care and didn’t come back. even now way after he was initially supposed to, wilbur hasn’t returned (that one day aside). and phil, who had already taken on a big commitment watching tallulah, has been left permanently with two eggs in his sole care. and even though he loves tallulah and wil, and won’t want them out of his life, this is a stress for him. it’s a big undertaking for anyone, to care for two kids alone, but especially since tallulah required a lot of changes in his life.
for better or worse, in many ways phil sees chayanne as an extension of himself. they’re similar in a lot of ways, and often on the same page, and it means phil often struggles to catch up when chayanne’s emotions aren’t on the same page as him. we’ve seen this week, phil having such a hard time understanding the depth and breadth of chayanne’s grief. when he catches on, he usually does a good job empathising and talking it through, but when he doesn’t, he really doesn’t and it can be hard to watch.
the same is NOT true for tallulah. he has, through hard work and practice, learnt how to identify her emotions. he had to. she needed it. she would have been miserable otherwise. she desperately needed asked for the emotional care and birthdays and consideration that chayanne would never ask for. and he’s good at it—tracking her moods, knowing what upsets her & what she cares about in a way that doesn’t come as naturally with chayanne (or sunny or tubbo or anyone else really expect maybe wilbur). but that took A LOT of time and effort, months of work, and I do think he’s a bit wary of the idea of having to do that again, even when it comes to people he loves like chayanne (or god forbid tubbo).
now tubbo is not wil. tubbo is not phil's son. but he’s still not dissimilar to wil in phil’s mind. whatever the backstory is, phil introduces tubbo to tallulah as an old friend of him and wil’s. he makes tubbo his kids’ godfather. he calls tubbo his boy. he looks out for him. but past those first few weeks, their relationship doesn’t progress. they mean a lot to each other bc of their pasts, but they don’t put any work into upkeeping their relationship and phil in particular doesn’t reflect at all on what how that changes their dynamic. and it does change it—this is clear in purgatory, with phil having zero trust in tubbo to protect chayanne and tallulah, and after, with tubbo endlessly poking at phil’s sore spots trying to illicit a reaction he’ll never receive.
it's also clear in the way phil has no understanding of what’s going on with tubbo. if he’s struggling to grasp chay’s emotions, he’s not even touching what’s going on in tubbo’s head. tubbo’s death makes no sense to him. it’s sudden. it’s random. it’s illogical. it’s stupid. he wasn’t joking about having two lives? he still took a death bet with richas? he’s not come back? he can’t come back? he’s left phil with distraught kids for no reason with no warning. he doesn’t see the erratic suicidal behaviour, the unending depression, the desperation to be loved. he doesn’t want to see it. he doesn’t want something to be wrong with tubbo, but he also doesn’t even know how to see what’s wrong. he’s annoyed he’s having to deal with it and he desperately desperately wants to believe this is all happening for no reason.
bc at the forefront of phil’s mind is still his love for tubbo. of course, phil would drop everything to help tubbo (if he could recognize something was wrong). of course, he would care for sunny as his own. of course, he would make the same sacrifices he’s made for wil. and he assumes he’ll have to. he thought that sunny would now be under his care. that he’d have to figure out the logistics of a third egg to care for. with wilbur, phil was the only person who could ever have taken care of tallulah. the only person he trusted, the only person who knew tallulah enough. now this isn’t true for tubbo. it’s a genuinely illogical assumption for phil to make: three eggs would be a genuine burden on him; they've never spoken about it; there’s a long list of people who would tubbo expects for sunny before; and he doesn’t even know sunny well enough to name these people for her as comfort.
but still in the moment, alone with tubbo’s eggs and dealing with everything he left behind, phil can only think that the exact same thing that happened before will happen: he alone will be left to care for another scared hurt kid of someone he loves.
and here we come to sunny. a kid whose dad he loves. a kid whose dad he doesn’t understand. a kid whose dad is suddenly gone like his son is gone. a kid who would need him like his daughter needs him. a kid who his son needs to protect. a kid he cares for. a kid he can’t afford to care for, a kid he wasn’t expecting to care for, a kid he doesn’t know how to care for, a kid he would care for if he needed to, a kid he doesn’t know why he’s been left to care for. a kid who is somehow a reflection of all these people he loves but not someone he knows at all.
idk i think this tension comes out in the a lot of the comments phil makes of and to sunny. he doesn't know them well enough to distinguish them from his relationships with other people. and as long as no one challenges him on that, we'll continue to hear these misplaced comments from him, that come across so insensitively, even as he tries his best to genuinely help them and their dad.
the mini-culture shock i got from going from Reddit to Tumblr was so much
When i first made my acc i was really hesitant to post anything Byler related because i was afraid the Byler Community was like 30 people and everyone else were Mexicanfoodtruck shippers
I fully expected to be like, cursed out and sent hate for posting Byler stuff :( Reddit sucks man :( why are they so mean
question, and how do you finish a fic. like, ok, here I start...I am all so excited and full of ideas, grand plans and vigor. three chaoters later...I am not so vigorous anymore....and the original plan i had for the fic doesn't seem as good anymore...it's been few months...does that mean it's that kind of "later" that equals "never"...
do u ever go crazy thinking about how the team never intended to ostracise lupe and it was literally greta that planted the idea of her being up doves ass in their heads..................
going into instagram comments is crazy it’s like seeing into a (much MUCH) worse alternate reality like You ppl live such unfathomably terrible lives to me….
when the internet zeros in on a single tiktok video of a lady (possibly) going through a psychotic episode and making it into either a conspiracy theory or her being drunk
some of you mighta scrolled through the comments of the soriku comp before and thought, ‘oh wow, pretty cool all the comments on here are positive!’
the thing about that is. i delete the negative comments. bc Its My Video and i dont think its the place for that bullshit! its a video celebrating a ship!
HOWEVER, i still have a record of all the negative comments in my gmail cuz i get emails about each one
so here they are together so we can laugh at them
THANKS FOR 30K+ VIEWS AND HAPPY 21ST ANNIVERSARY KH/HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY SORIKU COMP!! ✨👑💗🗝️✨
so in the ongoing saga of the worst people on AO3 being the only ones to read my MCU rewrite
woke up this morning to a comment accusing me of plagurising MCU canon by writing fic about it
the fic is locked to registered users only, because the comments have been so overwhealmingly horribly I needed to be able to potentially block every single commenter
which means that this person is a registered AO3 user. they have an account. and somehow they think writing a canon divergent au is fucking plagurism
Fully believe they are just some people who just go through the Wilbur situation tag all day every fucking day, liking ever single post they agree with.
Theses are the same mother fuckers who will tell other people to go touch grass when their more chronically online than the people they target.
Getting off to the thought of being better than everyone one else because 'I believe the victim", while spreading a shit tone of misinformation.
I'm not gonna have to misinformation talk with y'all again, we've been over this, fact check everything.
How are y'all gonna be like "we don't have to investigate, we may not know the full story."
Then talk with the confidence of a thousand suns. And of course since they're right that means everyone else is a disgusting Domestic abuse supporter.
Let me remind y'all that supporting the victim doesn't mean attacking anyone who doubts it, IT MEANS SUPPORTING THE FUCKING VICTIMS
it means kind words to shubble it means sharing any post she makes on the matter, this however y'all are pathetic..
The fact that I've literally seen copy past comments like, y'all ain't even original?!
I'm so sick of you people I'm so done being nice to y'all.
Hey, while we're appreciating our fanfic writers, let's also respect them, yeah? I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but I once received a very long comment detailing a very long, somewhat disturbing fanfic the commenter wanted me to write for them. Don't do this. Especially not if it contains uncomfortable topics. If you're going to comment on a work, say things about the work and leave it there. Write it yourself! What you do with your ao3 account is YOUR business. You're free to write whatever you want there! It's everyone else's responsibility to tailor their own online experiences to what they want to see, meaning it's on them whether or not they see your posted work. Leaving things like this in the comments of someone else's fic means that 1) less people will see it and 2) you're subjecting people to topics they didn't want to read about.
I won't say what the disturbing topics were here, but this is just a PSA. Be respectful, be mindful, and remember, this is a shared space and a shared community.
So I've never really used reddit before until this week when I started using it specifically just to ask questions about a game but I figured while I was there I'd check out some other subreddits and holy walnuts is the r/socialism subreddit a nightmare literally the definition of dysfunctional
can't stress enough that you guys don't have to answer every single ask you get. in fact you can just delete them. especially if they are causing you psychic damage.