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It’s not a headache most of the time, it’s like the roots of my hair are sore, it hurts when I rake my hand through it.

Idk wtf causes this, and sometimes it happens because I had my hair up too long, but sometimes, like today, I’ve had my hair down all day and it still randomly happened.

Does anybody else get this?

So I’ve gotten into a little bit of a Reddit argument. A post was about smutty books and how people need to stop recommending them without warning, because a lot of the time they’re basically straight up porn.

I commented that it’s also become way too normalized to read that shit in public. It’s one thing, for example, to read a romance novel that just happens to have a sex scene or two. But it’s another to be reading straight up porn with barely any plot while being out in public. I think it’s inappropriate. And if you do it, at least keep it discreet instead of posting about it online because I’ve seen that too.

Then someone responded, let’s call them A.

A: It should actually become even more normal to read that stuff in public, because saying it isn’t okay is just pointlessly restricting.

Person B then pointed out: how is it okay to read that in public if it’s not okay to watch porn in public?

A: Because then other people could be exposed to the graphic content, and there could be kids around. It isn’t okay.

So I responded by asking how is watching ethically produced porn, for example, on your phone, with headphones, so different from reading explicit stuff. Let’s say for example you’re sitting alone in the corner of a bus and nobody can see your screen or read your book. Both the watching and the reading is being done for sexual arousal, to get off. So then why is watching unacceptable while reading is treated as perfectly normal? Maybe just wait until you get home either way?

I got downvoted.

So please explain what I’m missing. Since when is it completely normal to read porn in public? What is exactly so different about watching it versus reading it, assuming that nobody around you can see or hear either thing?

I understand that words are far less likely to expose someone else to graphic content. Videos are much more obvious, and someone could accidentally see the screen. I understand that distinction.

But I still think it is socially inappropriate to be doing either in public. And yes, if nobody is exposed to what someone is privately watching or reading, I guess it does not matter in the grand scheme of things. As long as there is no actual harm being done, and I’m posting this in here because I realized I’m complaining. I just still think it’s kind of crazy.

Why are we reading or watching things specifically intended to get us off while sitting around random strangers? Is that not uncomfy to you? What you don’t know can’t hurt you sure, but how is that an okay thing to be doing?

(Also, before anyone makes baseless assumptions, I do not think there’s anything inherently wrong with adults reading those kinds of books. Written erotica and filmed pornography are not equatable. One is fictional and does not involve real people, while the porn industry can be really fucking exploitative. Whether you believe ethical porn exists is a separate discussion and not the point of this post.)

My point is that I do not think either thing is socially appropriate to be doing in public, even when it’s being done discreetly.

What am I missing? Why are people defending reading that shit in public and I’m getting downvoted?

So I’m taking physics II this summer semester, that I’m not doing too hot in. The professor hates us, too.

Apparently he complains about us to all of his other classes, and he tells us to our face that he’s so tired of us, and that none of us appreciate the effort he puts in, and that most of our grades are horrible.

Anyway, I was about to use the elevator to go up to his class, but ended up seeing him standing there. He already saw me, so now I can’t just turn around.

I panicked, and blurted out if he corrected the midterms yet. Not even a hello. He laughed, and said yeah he did. Then he called me the wrong name, I corrected him, then I asked if the grades are good, he just laughed again which meant no not at all.

I asked him if my grade was alright, and he said oh I can’t remember awkwardly. Bruh, I know I bombed that test I don’t even know why I asked. I hate my life, why am I like thisssss???

Mind you, I’m not even a social person, i don’t why I even felt the need to talk. Should’ve shut up. This shit dosent happen to me when I’m with my friends, I let them talk. I knew I should’ve waited for my friend.

Then we wait in the elevator together, he asks me my major, and if I took another class before. He seemed even more uncomfortable than me, the poor man. I really wish I just turned around now 😭😭😭

Edit: I got 15/25, so I bombed it but atleast not as bad as I thought.

Tbh this isn’t a TVD only thing, I’ve fallen for that trap too many times. I’ve noticed that I criticize some character’s dumb decisions way too harshly when the writers made them that way in the first place. For the plot or for whatever else. I’ve seen some online also take that approach, of just criticizing the character. Which makes sense, y’know, but also like…we know who made them do that. There needs to be more focus on the horrible writing.

Not everyone is this way, but I’ve seen too many this way.

So what do you think about the writers of TVD? And what do you think they got wrong the most?

So between my cousins, family, college friends, old high school friends, sister, I’ve found nobody that I felt like understood me.

No one with my same interests, same routines, same energy, same issues, same personality. The closest I’ve ever come to this someone is my high school best friend. She’s similar enough to me, and I don’t even have to tell her shit most of the time, but I still feel understood, seen. I love the shit out of her. The problem is, she lives 40 minutes away, and we just can never find the time to hang out. I wanna spend hours and hours with her because no time feels like enough, but that’s just not possible right now.

I’ve always felt so lonely, no matter how many people I have in my life there’s just never that satisfying click that makes me feel like I really bonded with someone. It always feels like there’s this permanent glass wall filled with water between me and everyone else.

I just never feel comfortable around people, never feel seen. I don’t really expect anyone to be like me either, I know I’ve got some…issues, and I think I might be autistic, and all of the shit I like is oddly specific or really intense. I’ve always had to be some sort of social chameleon, because there’s no one that I feel comfortable being me around. No one that I actually connect to except her, but y’know.

I’m sure this isn’t an isolated experience, so to the people who are like me, what do you do about it? Because right now I just have to sit and take it and find people alike online instead, which isn’t great. So what do you do?

I know a lot of people don’t like the idea of being immortal, that it seems like hell. I agree, but I mean vampires can die. Can’t you like…stab yourself once you’re done living?

I don’t know but being a vampire (atleast the tvd version) sounds really appealing. I can compel whoever I want for anything, travel the world, live exactly how I want to. The only drawbacks if you’re careful are you have to move often, can’t go out in the sun without your ring, the vervain shit, and obviously the blood.

Blood grosses me out, but if you were a vampire it wouldn’t, and your morals would change (actually I’m not sure considering Stefan). Either way, it’s just the nature of vampires. Seems like a nice life overall to have that much freedom for as long as you need. And after I’m done and satisfied, I stake myself in the heart, or go into a fire or something. Or maybe eventually find and take the cure.

How are these people I see in cafes studying so peacefully with their laptops and coffee’s. Hoe dies their brain even process this information.

I don’t know about anyone else, but for my tired fucking brain to get through studying, I need multiple different positions, a snack break, a bathroom break, a little crying, music, forgetting what I was supposed to be doing and starting again, going on my phone for an hour, then rushing, then accepting my fate that I’m not gonna get everything done.

Is it actually a thing? Do you people sit there and get your work done peacefully, or are your like me?

Edit: I just woke up and realized my title makes no sense, but then again I wrote this very sleep deprived. This is it fixed; “Does anyone even sit still and look civilized when they study?”

I know this has been probably said a trillion times before, but truly, what is the point of us being here if we’re just gonna force ourselves to go through shit other people set for us. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the fucking demons that are controlling most of everything get to keep doing it. Countries get bombed, the planet is burning, life is getting more difficult everyday, but you just have to keep on going.

Even the fortunate, how many of them do you know that have dreams in life that they can’t follow because of this and that. Live miserable ordinary lives that they don’t even like. Suppress all their hobbies and desires.

I mean, I genuinely have no want for going to college. I’ve never had interest in college, I don’t enjoy studying. Ever since high school it was hard for me to visualize a future that would actually make me happy because I just don’t like my options.

I wanted to study either something with English, or psychology. (Preferably abroad, but my dad would rather die than let me leave on my own). But because of me being depressed as hell, my grades weren’t high enough. So I either get a scholarship for engineering, become a school teacher and study in a uni I hate, or business. Business will take me nowhere career wise, I’m never stepping foot in a school ever again, I can’t even handle my little cousins let alone many kids. So engineering it is. Because money, because future. Because I wanna be comfortable. Because I have the chance.

It feels like something dies in me everyday I see the unholy fucking material that I’m supposed to study and accept that it will be my thing for the next few decades.

But that’s not what I wanna be doing at all, I’d even be happy making lattes everyday if it weren’t for the money. I wanna travel the world, as corny as that sounds. I wanna learn about specific shit that interest me, I want a simple life, I wanna do whatever I want whenever I want. But money, but family, but expectations.

So I find that I’m forcing myself to get out of bed everyday to go study something I hate, to hopefully graduate in a few years, to get married when I won’t be ready to, to have kids when I don’t have much interest in that either, to retire, to then maybe actually relax for once and peruse my hobbies. But then I’m like, what, 50? If I make it that long.

I get that life is hard, and that everyone has to do hard things that they don’t want. But it is no way to live. I can’t keep pretending anymore, it’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I’m supposed to be pleased with two days off every week when I go work for the rest of my life till I retire.

When I was in middle school, I’d see my mom work long hours in the lab, meanwhile all my did was just do a fingerprint but he’d complain about it all the time because his work is far, and he can’t handle the heat outside. I watch my mom come back from work, eat, sleep, wake up, have a fight with my dad probably, help my little sister with her homework, and go to sleep again. Rise and repeat.

How miserable of a life is that? And my mom has a successful career, she did amazing in uni. Medical school. How is that my best case scenario? It’s why I never visualized a future for myself because I know as a girl, in my culture, everyone else has it lined up for me already. Graduate from college, get married, have kids, go live with your husband’s family even if you don’t like them, and come to all our family shit and be pleasant.

No, no I can’t. Whenever I tell my friend about this she just stares at me, like you can’t not. I can’t not. I can’t reject this shit. I can’t reject this shit unless I wanna be loathed by my whole family and whatever else that will happen. I have to force myself through it or wait until I want it.

And if I never do?… I don’t know what’s gonna happen.

this was a little melodramatic, but I’m feeling melodramatic. I’ve been feeling like this for years now. I don’t wanna come off as some privileged asshole whining about having to live a normal life. I just genuinely don’t want this. I can’t do it, every year that goes by I get more and more nervous for the inevitable. But I just have to keep on going. I don’t even know the point of this post tbh, just needed to get this out somehow.

If you hadn’t watched Season 4 this I’ll spoil it for you:

>!How do you think Luke’s reaction to jj dying will be? I know there’s been rumors that he’s not in the new season, but I refuse to believe that. It’s an extremely idiotic decision, if that’s what!< >!they’re!< >!gonna be doing.!<

>!Like his “son” can’t just die and he’s never mentioned, no way.!<

>!Their relationship is so weird, luke is horrible to him and beats him up, and cares more about money than he does his own son, but then again he took him from Groff, and seemed to be alright with him when he was a kid from the one flashback we got.!<

>!There’s this moment towards the end of season 1, when Jj’s gonna steal the keys to the phantom, Luke wakes up drunk or high or both, and he has this little “soft” moment with Jj, and says he’s hard on him because sometimes he sees his mother in him, and it gets him tweaked. Larissa, he sees Larissa in jj. I wonder if they actually had a relationship beyond him being her mechanic. Because he seems really connected to her.!<

>!That, or he’s referring to an ex girlfriend. Idk.!<

>!Either way, his reaction will be one of the things I’ll be looking forward most in season 5, if we don’t get it I don’t even know. I’m probably not gonna be watching the season all the way through, anyway.!<

Mine is what if John b and Sarah never got together?, or what if they never explored the boat in the first episode?

I’ll be curious to hear what you guys think.

So I’m 19, she’s 17, we’ve been friends since childhood, she’s basically my best friend, but…not anymore, not to me at least. Let’s call her G.

There’s a lot of issues between us, but I’ll be here all day if I talk about all of them, so this is what’s been bothering me lately:

We cannot watch movies together, she just cannot watch a movie all the way through.

A few weeks ago we went to see backrooms. It was me, her, her sister, and my sister. We were staying at a hotel in a mall, first time ever. She wasn’t even supposed to go with us, because she wanted to spend the day with her friends (she didn’t tell beforehand. We agreed for weeks that we’ll spend the day together and I went there thinking I’ll see her until she called me last minute telling me actually me and my friends were planning to go to the mall weeks before. But we aren’t going to be able to sleep in this hotel maybe not ever again, the mall is too far away from my house. meanwhile her friends can go there with her any time). Like I left from college to come here, and I planned shit with her, just for her to ditch me like that.

So she was with her friends, whatever, me and my two little cousins, who are 14, booked tickets. But then when we went back to the hotel for a bit, G was there. She said one of her friends fought with them and left, and the other will also leave soon. So she was implying that she’s gonna come with us now. I almost didn’t want her to come, because I was still upset, but I got over it. I know my emotions can be intense in the moment, so I tried to just not think about it.

I told her we’re going to a movie, and she wanted to come. She asked if it’s scary, I said it’s horror, but it’s 15+, so it can’t be really that scary. She bought a ticket.

When the time came for us to go, I was excited, so was her sister and my sister. But on the way she looked more into the movie and said actually it’s too scary for her, she can’t handle jump scares. I told her I don’t know if there are any jump scares but come on it’s 15+.

She ended up coming, and from the first scene, when nothing scary was happening, she pulled out her phone and watched tik toks. With the volume loud enough that I can hear it. Because she said she can’t see it, it’s too scary. I told her to lower the volume, she ignored me for a little then did lower it.

She spent 90% of the movie with the phone stuck to her face, even when I told her nothing scary was going on. Then she wanted to tell me what she thinks is gonna happen, I told her I wanna watch, she then got upset with me and started arguing with me. When I told her to be quiet she looked as if I slapped her.

We continued the movie, but the last 10 minutes, she said come on let’s go now. I told her I’m not leaving the movie didn’t finish, she said oh my god it’s finished just get up!! Way too loud in the room. I stayed silent, I didn’t wanna fight her about this in the damn theater. Then she sat down and complained about how dramatic I am, and how pointless and stupid the movie is (she didn’t even watch it. She was on her phone the whole time).

I’m still mad about it to this day. I payed like nearly 30 bucks with the ticket and the popcorn and everything just for her to try to argue with me inside when she wasn’t even watching. And when we left, she just complained both how she wished she didn’t come, and how horrible and pointless the movie was.

This always happens. Anytime I go with her to the movies she never pays attention and tries to talk to me. When we see movies at home, she also never pays attention, tries to “predict” things, and is on her phone half the time, then leaves for the bathroom. I pause the movie, she gets upset and tells me “why did you pause it? You can watch I’m just going to the bathroom”, LIKE IM TRYING TO WATCH WITH YOU DUDE!!!

I kinda accepted this, we just can’t watch movies together whatever. Then three days ago she goes with her friends to see obsession, and texts me the next day about how I have to watch it. And how she didn’t even go on her phone the whole movie, well, she did, but not as much as she did in backrooms. And that it’s not scary.

I felt irrationally angry just reading her texts. I’m just so upset and I don’t know why. Like you can watch a scary movie with your friends and be pleasant, but when it comes to me you just don’t care? You can never watch any movie with me for that matter even when I tell you I care about it.

You can go to the mall with your friends anytime, but when I’ll be there for the first time this year, you prioritize them and not even tell me? Like do you even care??

I feel like a child being upset about this shit, I don’t know if it’s fair. But it’s just this with the mix of everything else.

I’ve started not prioritizing her either, since she pulls this shit all the time. I feel like it’s only fair I treat her with the same respect she treats me.

So my cousin shared this recipe with me back in 2019, from a YouTube video I think. I’ve changed phones like three times since, she doesn’t remember sending me anything, and I can’t seem to find the video.

But it’s genuinely the simplest, and best pancake recipe I have ever found. It never failed me.

It also can be done with no sugar, if you’re one of those people. Just use a sugar free syrup, and lessen the water to the amount of syrup you’ll use, if that makes sense. So if you’re using one tablespoon of vanilla syrup, remove one tablespoon from the water you’re using.

I do the halved version, which makes about 5-7 medium sized pancakes, but here’s the full version:

- One cup of all purpose flour
- one teaspoon of baking powder
- two tablespoons of white sugar (can be substituted to brown sugar, or like I said a syrup if you lessen the water content)
- two tablespoons of milk powder

Mix all that together, then go to the wet ingredients:

- one egg
- one teaspoon of vanilla extract (or any extract you want)
- and start with half a cup of water, and add more till you get you’re desired consistency. It can be a little runny, or thick, it depends whether you want thick or thin pancakes. I prefer them thin, so for this ratio I’ll add nearly a cup of water.

You Cook them like any other pancakes, spoon some on a pan on medium heat, wait for bubbles to appear, then flip them.

It’s not like the most mind blowing pancakes you’ll ever have, but it’s really good.

Sometimes I make it runny so I can make crepes with it. I’m sure crepes have a specific recipe, but it all tastes the same to me really.

It’s genuinely so infuriating to me when I see conversations about fictional characters getting started, and especially if they’re getting deep, just for someone to shut it down by saying “they’re not a real person”.

It really pisses me off too because I’m someone who likes to analyze things. I like anything to do with human behavior and psychology, but feel uncomfortable applying it to actual real life people. So analyzing fictional characters it is.

Obviously they’re not a real person, you’re just pointing out the obvious. And yes, fictional characters are written with flaws, motivations, pros, cons, and consequences. Like real people (unless it’s some supernatural thing). So, everyone’s allowed to talk about those things, and make criticisms without actually thinking that this is a real person. Is fiction not made to be analyzed and discussed?

Like imagine you come across some opinion piece, of someone making actual good arguments about some character’s writing, or actions, y’know, actually using some critical thinking. But then there has to be that person that says “why do you care?” Or “it’s not that deep, they’re fictional.” Okay? So? That doesn’t disprove or minimize anything. Why try to shut down the conversation? You’re not making the point you think you’re making.

Then you see those same people go ahead and cry over these “not real” characters, aggressively defending them, going on and on about how much they just love them. Or they’ll even talk about other characters like they’re demons. But oh they cannot take someone criticizing their fave, then it’s “they’re not real”, and “you’re taking it too seriously.”

Everyone’s allowed to consume media how they want, that doesn’t need to be said. You can go into it with any way you want. But don’t get suprised and feel attacked when not everyone has the same opinion as you. You can have all the opinions you want, think someone’s being a contrarian, or that the writing supports the character, or whatever the hell it is you may think.

Again, saying a character is just fictional is not an argument and it’s just you trying to avoid engaging with the point.

Edit: I’m not talking about people who are attacked for liking villains. Obviously then the argument would be “they’re not real”, because they’re not, and someone attacking people for liking villains is ridiculous. I’m specifically referring to people getting upset over characters being criticized.

If a country has a lot of immigrants, especially if they’re the same nationality, they always face racism and prejudice. People are just always so horrible to them, but mostly not to any other visitors of the country.

Why?

I’m tired of the heat, I really am. Summer is only good for swimming and nothing else. After you’ve had a nice day at the beach, then what? Enjoy the next few months of hell. Dude.

Where I live in the gulf, it’s basically summer all fucking year long, and winter technically for like three months, but it dosent even get really cold expect for two weeks. Other than those two weeks, for a month or so, it stabilizes around 15c-20c. It gets to like 13 in the midnight but that’s about it.

Winter is mostly like fall, expect for about a month. So everywhere here you have AC. Everywhere, even outdoor seatings have fans. So I just cannot handle the heat. You’d think I’d gotten used to it but no. I’d say it’s maybe a little better than some other countries because we have a very dry summer, with very little humidity except for a few times a year. But then it’s direct fucking heat stroke to your Brain. It’s like an oven.

Right now it can go to about 44c, but if you’re in the car that’s like 50c, and it’s very normal for it to reach 60c around this time of year. That’s like 140F!!!!!!!!! I’m sure it’s different because it’s dry but a 140 is still 140. I remember a few years ago Burger King had this special burger you get if it really reached 60c, that was funny.

But like yeah, I’m so sick of summer. Around “winter” time everyone’s outside all of the time, because they know the weather won’t be good for long. You can actually sit outside, have a walk without dying.

Fuck summer.

So me and my family have been going to Istanbul nearly every single year since 2018. We’ve had nothing but good experiences.

But, and I really don’t wanna sound entitled, but the workers are just so rude. I understand it’s a shitty job, and they’d had a long day, and I’m not really that affected, but it’s gotten frustrating.

The language barrier. I know a little Turkish, but it never seems like it makes much of a difference because even when I try to speak it I just get frustrated looks. I point at what I want in the Menu, try English, try the little Turkish I know, but either way it’s the same with them. Just out of curiosity, is English not taught in schools? Because I’m genuinely confused. My first language isn’t English either, but I thought it was just something everyone learned in school, no?

I remember one time, we were at this restaurant at a mall, the type where you get a tray and fill your food. The cashier gave my mom the tray of food over the counter, and I don’t really know who didn’t hold it right, but it must’ve been my mother. Because the bowl of beans went sideways and food dropped onto her shirt and shoes, the cashier just gave us the most blank stare and looked to the other customers to take their orders.

I don’t expect her to do much, but like come on. Not even sorry? Maybe give her tissue? The funny thing is my mom didn’t do anything either, she just went to the side, took wipes from me, and bought new shoes later. I kinda wished she made it more of a big deal because wtf.

A lot of the people working at restaurants seem young, so I guess I understand why they’d not look so pleasant, but it’s just the way they look at you, never seem to understand what you’re saying, and huff that makes you feel like you’re bothering them. When I’m just trying to politely order a sandwich, man.

Another time at a sit down place, me and my sister ordered food through a machine, and selected “take away”, but they prepared for dine in instead. So we tried to tell them, no, for take away, showed them the receipt. When they didn’t understand, we pulled out a translator and showed them. They kept nodding but not doing anything.

Only when my dad came over 20 minutes later, then did they bag the food. I don’t even think my dad translated anything.

So why’s that? Because I’ve never visited a country where the hospitality was this bad. And it really upsets me because I love the country, and the food, and everything. Most people there are pleasant, but just so many of the customer service people are not.

I could maybe understand it in a movie, but a show with multiple seasons, like come on! Especially if it’s a time skip. Tell me you don’t wanna spend time on grief without telling me you don’t wanna spend time on grief.

Death is a sensitive subject for me. I’ve never had anyone personally super close to me die, but I’ve seen family members loose people. I remember when my aunt lost her husband overnight, it was heartbreaking just hearing her cries.

So I genuinely don’t understand how on a show, if an important character dies, or something horrible happens to them, how could you just skip over the grief like that? It’s so lazy it turns me off from the entire show. It’s like nothing even happened, you don’t feel the weight of it.

Some shows are more realistic than others, but like, come on. I understand things can be implied, and that they have to move the plot along at some point, but it’s just really unsatisfying to watch.

Same thing applies when a character gets seriously hurt whether emotionally or otherwise, sometimes shows make it look like it’s just this causal thing to get over, that makes it seem like it’s not that bad or that their friends and family don’t really care. Just ten minutes of being sad over this horrible tragic thing, then they’re generally fine again. They focus on furthering the plot and completely neglect the characters themselves.

Jj dying is obviously gonna be hard on Kiara, they clearly are gonna focus a lot on that, with how the teaser looked. But it’s gonna be really horrible on John b too, which is also obvious but like, god.

Best friends since the third grade, brothers, and then he just lost him. How tragic is that. What do you even do after something like that happening to you? How could you ever move on?

I’m glad they look like they’re gonna be making them grieve. Because I genuinely thought with how the pates are, it’s gonna be like half an episode of being sad, then it’s “Jj wouldn’t want this”, and it’s like nothing ever happened. Honestly, it could very much still go that way, but who knows.

Personally, I know I’d probably never ever get over that kind of death. And I know most people wouldn’t either, like that’s the realistic thing, to grieve. But when has outer banks ever been realistic? They pick and choose. They seem to stop at weird lines and not others.

I’ve seen Maddison say that this season has a different tone than others, because they’re dealing with a loss. I hope that’s true. It would be one thing for them to just be sad for half an episode and move on if it’s anybody else, but it’s jj. And they’d shown us 4 full seasons of his relationships with everyone.

Of course they can’t be sad forever, but I don’t think it’s fair that after all that, they just grieve him for a little. If that’s what ends up happening best believe I’m not gonna watch the season.

I’m in my summer semester right now, starting my second year soon. I’ve grown up thinking engineering is safe, that’s it’s either that, or a doctor to be proper “successful”.

I wanted to get into English, so bad. But things didn’t work out, so it’s either this or business. I chose this, electrical and electronics engineering. To just find everyone saying avoid all engineering!!! That they are undervalued and shit.

What’s up with that? I don’t live in the US btw, so I just wanna know about things overall. Is engineering not a reliable career after all? And electrical engineering?

Like I’m sure you all know this shit is not easy, and I know it will get even harder the further I get into the courses. So I don’t really wanna bust my ass for 4 years just to be “undervalued”.

I’ve heard or read somewhere that that’s where movies and tv shows are headed, and that they are dumbing them down so you can keep up while not paying attention/doing something on your phone.

Although I understand it, and I get that a lot of people put stuff on for background noise. I understand that for most of us our attention spans are fried. I understand that they wanna create something that will get them the most money, but come on! I’m so not with this, what. The. Fuck.

It just feels like slop, what happened to actually using your brain? Paying attention? Idk, actually watching something. I don’t need my media to be dumbed down and have everyone announce what they did and explain the plot to the me. No.

That’s why I stick to watching old-er movies and tv shows, the good stuff is rare nowadays.

But I know that that’s just the truth, that’s how a lot of people are like nowadays. Whenever I go to the movies I see so many people walking in and out, or being on their phones. Whenever I watch something with my family or friends, there always has to be someone on their phone. You don’t have to pay 100% attention but can you atleast pretend?? Like no one’s forcing you to be there anyway.

Whenever I talk to someone who really likes a movie or a tv show, and can like recite it or they get excited about it i get so happy because finally someone who cares too!