Toby, he/him/they/them/it/itself, 25, request are open. There isn't enough male reader stuff anywhere so if you see this send me a promt and I'll write some more male reader ff
paranoia triggers r so funny like “oooh a scary thing happened, time to put ur brain in the worst mode imaginable so you can respond to this threat as irrationally as possible”
in honor of 4chan exploding, I want to remind you all that they used to do “raids” on Tumblr.
they tried to flood the popular tags with gore and porn. this was when Homestuck was at its peak, so they were a target too. (side note: tags barely functioned at all at this point so trying to make them useless was like throwing a molotov into an already burning building but try telling that to 4channers)
but the Homestuck fandom was ready and countered by flooding the tag with weirder, more explicit Homestuck porn and gore.
to the point that the trolls themselves got weirded out, fucked off, and never attempted a “raid” again.
everyone moved on but I stayed there because that is one of the funniest fucking things to happen on this website.
we’re at the tail end of tumblr’s ibuprofen era and right at the peak of its toys era. every day I look in the mirror and see a different man than I saw yesterday.
op what does this mean
every few months tumblr users latch onto the idea of something, like ibuprofen or toys, and for about year give or take you’ll see like a billion posts that incorporate those words into posts, and with each new post the actual meaning of the word get eroded until people are just saying “let’s be ibuprofen and toys together” and you’re just like yup those are the words alright. sometimes I take a selfie and think “who are you who are you”
–When a smile is not heartfelt, we are actually engaged in “emotional regulation,” a mental process that requires cognitive resources. For example, service industry workers need to smile at customers consistently, and this “surface acting” can be as energy-intensive as muscle movement.
—Research shows that prolonged emotional labor can lead to emotional exhaustion, which is one of the core symptoms of burnout.
