Please do not identify Yuuri Katsuki with Yuzuru Hanyu. I hope anime fans respect real like skaters like Yuzuru Hanyu, Evgeni Plushenko as well as other skaters. Yuzuru Hanyu is NOT real life Yuri Katsuki, be it personalities or competitive results.
How do you see Yuzuru? My suggestion: Don’t be fooled by his cute and gentle looks.As an Olympic Champion, a World Champion, GPF champion, he is crazily hot-blooded, even more than most top athletes. Yuzuru himself really hates losing not just in skating but in EVERYTHING. Yuzuru is a very aggressive competitor. Below is his USUAL mad expression:
Yuzuru ALWAYS wants the gold and ALWAYS wants to be Number 1 in everything, be it study or sports, and he works very hard for it. He said in high school, once he placed 2nd in the class and he REALLY HATED it. His record at high school was All 5 which means he was a straight A student.
Yuzuru has won all junior titles when he was 15, won senior 4CC silver when he was 16, won World Championship bronze medal when he was 17, won GPF silver when he was 18, won Olympic Gold when he was 19, won World Championship when he was 19, won GPF 3 times consecutively, he has broken World Record 10 times ever since he was 17. An athlete of this caliber is NOT full of sugar and pinkness. Yuzuru is very strong willed and he is even against his coach’s wishes.He is full of fire, and if you cross his way badly he might throw you a death stare (just kidding ok).
Yuzuru himself also says when he pushes himself too much, his expression becomes too aggressive like a devil and his coach Tracy Wilson has to stop him from damaging himself. If you are not familiar with Yuzuru Hanyu’s personality, I recommend you watch this video showing most of his serious expressions: https://youtu.be/VRLSjs6r7TA
Anime directors DID NOT create Yuuri Katsuki based on Yuzuru Hanyu. If there is any familiarity, it’s because they are all Japanese and respect a Russian legend. So please stop assuming that things happened to Yuzuru Hanyu would happen to Yuuri Katsuki in anime.
Yuzuru Hanyu is no one but Yuzuru Hanyu himself. He has many depths to his personalities and he is no anime character. He has trained skating ever since 4, suffered many injuries and hardships to get to where he is now. He is NOT just a pretty face.
I hope anime fans will not get offended because of this post. Please understand that I love anime. I have watched many anime series ever since high school. I understand anime and manga culture very well. I just hope that anime fans draw a line between anime and reality.
Gif from Poohzuru
SO A GIRL SENT ME MESSAGE SAYING I DO NOT RESPECT ANIME FANDOM. THAT I DO NOT RESPECT ANIME CHARACTERS WHO MEANT A LOT TO THEM. THAT MEANS THEY CAN DO THIS?
WHO IS DISRESPECTFUL NOW? I wish the anime comes to and end soon and these people will forget about Yuzuru as soon as possible.
Ew. This is the last straw. Wikipedia is not an anime forum and putting “yuuri without viktor” is really not funny at all. YUZURU IS YUZURU. An independent and talented sportsman in figure skating. AND LET ME BE REALLY HARSH – CHANGING HIS NAME TO YUURI KATSUKI IS REALLY REALLY DISGUSTING.
Such behaviour is downright insulting and it shows that the fan is just an immature child who is unable to understand the fact that sportsmen in the REAL world are NOT the anime characters he/ she is obsessed with.
And such disrespectful actions reflect badly on the entire anime community so what Yuzuru Hanyu and figure skating fans are trying to get across is for certain anime fans to stop forcibly associating real-life figure skaters to 2D characters. And do you realise how bad this reflects on yuzuru if people assess his wikipedia page and all they see is some anime stuff?
Yuzuru is never a mere anime character. He is a person who has contributed tremendously to figure skating and possible a role model to many. He has suffered numerous injuries and hardships to achieve what he is today and to think that even after all these efforts – he is now being labelled as Yuuri Katsuki, a popular anime character that fans all over the world fangirl after – it pains me to the core.
GPF 2016 has just finished and Yuzuru achieved his 4th consecutive win. I had hoped that perhaps all his achievements and all those records he had broken can serve to remind all of you that he is a legendary sportsman – but I am deeply disappointed to see that many anime fans continue to see him as a pretty face that simply resembles the anime character they love.
And yes, I really know that there are a lot of YOI fans who genuinely like Yuzuru Hanyu and I have seen fans who are so sincere in cheering yuzuru on during competitions and I abosulutely love these fans. So I would like to ask for your help to keep your fellow more extreme fans under control and to spread word to the respective anime forums you belong in – for them to stop, really stop, interfering with yuzuru hanyu if they are only interested in yuzuru because he is a seemingly 3D shell for them to vent their obsession for Yuuri Katsuki in real life.
I would be so heartbroken if one day Yuzuru Hanyu is interviewed and all the questions is about YOI. The superficial association of YOI to Yuzuru should stop before it gets out of hand and affects yuzuru’s personal life. So please, figure skating fans and YOI fans who genuinely love yuzuru, please try to convince extreme YOI fans around you to stop doing these things. I really like YOI as well so you have no idea how conflicted I feel when I see one of the fandom I belong to hurting yuzuru hanyu who I love a lot.
I hope you guys understand where I am coming from and there’s ZERO disrespect intended for the anime community. Thank you.
I feel like there’s a lot of new mechanics in SuMo that warrant explaining, that aren’t explained… Hm.
I learned much of what I know about oddly specific things in the game that I wish it told me, through trial and error and screwing around. I have beaten the game and done some post game, so.
Some general things that most might know, but some might not:
Charjabug will not evolve until late-game at the fourth island.
Jangmo-o is so late game, it’s almost not worth it.
Pokemon Moon is 12 hours reversed, so during the day in real time, it will be night and vice versa.
Alolan Raichu does not learn anything from level up, so be careful if you want Thunderbolt or else you’re waiting until basically end-game for the move relearner.
Alolan Raichu learns Psychic when it evolves.
Decidueye is slower than most realize.
Poke Pelago is useful, it can give Poke Beans, free level ups, rare evolution stones, and you grow Berries there.
The Professor will give you a Lucky Egg if you catch 50 Alolan Pokemon and talk to him in his lab after doing so.
Eating at restaurants gives you Heart Scales; they’re essentially buyable.
Fire, Thunder, Water, and Leaf Stones are buyable.
MALE SALANDIT DO NOT EVOLVE. Females are a about a 12 percent encounter rate as well, it’s basically Combee.
Alolan Vulpix and Alolan Sandshrew only evolve through the Ice Stone. Not the Icy Rock, an actual Ice Stone item, like a Thunder Stone. There is only one in the game. Same goes for the Dusk and Shiny Stones.
The Thunderbolt TM is not avaliable until postgame.
MORE STONES CAN BE GOTTEN FROM POKE PELAGO, THOUGH!
Leafeon is not obtainable until the 2nd island, Glaceon is not obtainable until basically end-game.
Defeat the Pokemon under the berry piles to get the berries.
Mimikyu is a good Pokemon.
Affection and friendship are two different things affected by different actions.
Level up the Festival Plaza by talking to people with RED speech bubbles. They give you Festival Coins, which will advance your rank.
You now need to hit the blue Wi Fi icon in the Plaza menu to connect to the Internet.
Ditto can be caught below the observatory.
Anyone need some help?
shouldnt be surprised about jangmo-o there is always a 3 tier evo dragon late in the game
most stone evolvers dont learn new moves after evolving so im not surprised about raichu either
– Wishiwashi’s speed increases by only 10 points when not schooling
– make sure your mudbray has stamina and not own tempo because stamina is fucking broken
– you dont need to catch HM pokemon, and this might throw your team typing off balance. Make sure to check your typing coverage. I had 4 pokemon weak to fighting which is awful for the elite four
– Prankster ability will not allow u to do anything to a dark type now i.e priority will o wisp etc
– please buy balls before u defeat the pokemon league theres a legendary encounter straight after
– leech life got buffed like crazy
– pixelate refrigerate etc got nerfed
– HYPER POTIONS ONLY HEAL 120 NOT 200 HP
-If you have a friend who’s further along in the game than you are, you can trade your Charjabug to them and have them level it up in Vast Poni Canyon to get a Vikavolt much earlier (same with Magnezone)
-If you catch a Stufful, make sure it has Fluffy rather than Klutz
-Go to the cafes whenever you pass them, they often give free healing items and Poke Beans
-In Poke Pelago, max out Isle Abeens before you even think about building/upgrading any other islands
-The rainbow Poke Beans are broken as shit and will max out your Pokemon’s affection with just two of them
-Crabrawler won’t evolve until practically the end of the game, and its evolution gains the Ice-type (making it weak to several of the E4 types) – if you’re using Crabrawler, you’ll be better off just slapping an Eviolite on that bad boy
-Much like real life, the Eevee evolutions are unnaturally popular with Poke Finder commenters (making them an easy way to level up the Poke Finder)
-Don’t give up on Wimpod, the lil’ fella becomes a total beast when it evolves at level 30
-On the above “buy balls before the Elite Four” – you can KO said legendary and it will be there again when you talk to the statue. I actually recommend KO’ing and going after it later to save a lot of stress due to the 50-hour ending cutscene
-Alola Raichu learns Psychic when it evolves
-Catch the overworld Wimpod on Route 8 by surfing around to the other side, and then cornering it (it runs on a set path)
-If you’re worried about PP while SOS chaining, get some Leppa Berries (10 PP each)
-Doing missions (Type Match Up seems to be popular) is the best way to level up Festival Plaza
– You only get one of each Apricorn ball. Ever. But male and genderless parents can pass them down to offspring now if you breed them with Ditto.
– After the credits, bring your version mascot back to the altar and you can access the opposite version’s clock system – and get your own Cosmog.
– Also after the credits, a guy near your house will give you a letter. Doing what it says will start a decently long sidequest with very strong opponents, some up to level 70. Even the relatively weaker ones can very easily kick your ass if you’re unprepared.
– Level up Isle Abeens first, then focus on Isle Aplenny or Isle Aphun. The other two aren’t super useful until they’re maxed out, so save them for last.
– The Festival Plaza facility NPC!you recommends to other players is whichever one is in the first slot. Dye shops are the most valuable, so put one in your first slot if you can. You can switch the order of facilities by talking to the guy in the upper right of the castle.
– Hyper Training doesn’t affect genetics. So for example, if you have a Crobat with 0 for all of its IVs and Hyper Train it, it will have 31 in everything for battle purposes, but it will still pass on those 0s if you use a Destiny Knot.
– The Battle Tree, these games’ Battle Tower/Chateau/Subway equivalent, does not mess around. You’ll start off facing fully-evolved teams with competitive movesets, instead of how the other facilities normally had a dozen or so cheap wins before the difficulty started amping up.
and at no point has anyone thought “maybe we should not build a giant flammable goat this year”
They tried fireproofing. And armed guards. And fences, and cameras… Sadly the wikipedia page has been cut down by super srs folks to remove all the awesome Keystone cops tales of the goat’s history (emphasis added by me)
1966 Stig Gavlén came up with the idea of a giant goat made out of straw. But it turned out that Gavlén organisation did not have enough funding for the goat. Then Harry Ström, who at that time was the chairman of the Södra Kungsgatan Ideella Förening (a non-profit society), decided to pay the whole cost for the goat out of his own pocket. The goat stood until midnight of New Year’s Eve, when it went up in flames. The perpetrator, who was from Hofors,Gästrikland, was found and convicted of vandalism. The first goat was insured and Ström got all his money back.
1967 Nothing happened.
1968 The goat survived. A fence was built around the goat. Previously it was popular for children to play hide-and-seek inside and around the goat. There was also a rumor that one night a couple had sex inside the goat. In subsequent years the inside of the goat was protected by a chicken-wire net.
1969 The goat was burnt down on New Year’s Eve.
1970 The goat was burnt down only six hours after it was assembled. Two very drunk teenagers were connected with the crime. With help from several financial contributors the goat was reassembled out of lake reed.
1971 The Southern Merchants got tired of their goats being burned and stopped building the goat. The Natural Science Club (Naturvetenskapliga Föreningen:NF) from the School of Vasa (Vasaskolan) took over.
1984Burnt down on 12 December, the night before Lucia.
1985 The 12.5 metre (41 ft) tall goat of the Natural Science Club was featured in the Guinness Book of Records for the first time. Even though the goat was enclosed by a 2 metres (6.6 ft) high metal fence, guarded by Securitas and even soldiers from the Gävle I 14 InfantryRegiment, it was burnt down in January.
1986 The merchants of Gävle decided they were willing to build the goat once again. From 1986 on two goats were built, the Southern Merchants’ and the School of Vasa’s. The big goat burnt down the night before Christmas Eve.
1987A heavily fireproofed goat was built. It got burnt down a week before Christmas.[21]
1988 Nothing happened to the goat, but gamblers were for the first time able to gamble on the fate of the goat with English bookmakers.
1989 Again, the goat burnt down before it was assembled. Financial contributions from the public were raised to rebuild a goat that was burnt down in January. In March 1990 another goat was built, this time for the shooting of a Swedish motion picture called Black Jack.
1990Nothing happened. The goat was guarded by many volunteers.
1991 The goat was joined by an advertising sled, that turned out to be illegally built. On the morning of Christmas Eve the goat was burnt down. It was later rebuilt to be taken to Stockholm as a part of a protest campaign against the closing of the I 14 Infantry Regiment.
1992The goat was burnt down eight days after it was built. The Natural Science Club’s goat burnt down the same night. The Southern Merchants’ goat was rebuilt, but burned down on 20 December. The perpetrator of the three attacks was caught and sent to jail. The Goat Committee was founded in 1992.
1993 Once more the goat was featured in the Guinness Book of Records, the School of Vasa’s goat measured 14.9 metres (49 ft). The goat was guarded by taxis and the Swedish Home Guard. Nothing happened.
1994 Nothing happened. The goat followed the Swedish national hockey team to Italy for the World Championship in hockey.
1995 A Norwegian was arrested for attempting to burn down the goat. Burnt down on the morning of Christmas Day. Rebuilt to be standing before the 550th anniversary of Gävle county.
1996 The first time the goat was guarded by webcams, nothing happened.
1997Damaged by fireworks. The Natural Science Club’s goat was attacked too, but survived with minor damage.
1998Burnt down on 11 December, even though there was a major blizzard. Was rebuilt.
1999Burnt down only a couple of hours after it was erected. Rebuilt again before Lucia. The Natural Science Club’s goat was burnt down as well.
2000Burnt down a couple of days before New Year’s Eve. The Natural Science Club’s goat got tossed in the Gävle river.
2001 Goat set on fire on 23 December by Lawrence Jones, a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio, who spent 18 days in jail and was subsequently convicted and ordered to pay 100,000 Swedish kronor in damages. The court confiscated Jones’s cigarette lighter with the argument that he clearly was not able to handle it. Jones stated in court that he was no “goat burner”, and believed that he was taking part in a completely legal goat-burning tradition. After Jones was released from jail he went straight back to the US without paying his fine. As of 2006 it was still unpaid. The Natural Science Club’s goat was also burnt down.
2002 A 22 year old from Stockholm tried to set the Southern Merchants’ goat on fire, but failed, the goat receiving only minor damage. On Lucia the goat was guarded by Swedish radio and TV personality Gert Fylking.
2003Burnt down on 12 December.
2004Burnt 21 December, only three days before Christmas Eve. The fire brigade quickly arrived on the scene, but the goat could not be saved. No new goat was built.
2005Burnt by unknown vandals reportedly dressed as Santa and the gingerbread man, by shooting a flaming arrow at the goat at 21:00 on 3 December. Reconstructed on 5 December. The hunt for the arsonist responsible for the goat-burning in 2005 was featured on the weekly Swedish live broadcast TV3’s “Most Wanted“ (”Efterlyst”) on 8 December.
2006 On the night of 15 December at 03:00, someone tried to set fire to the goat by dousing the right front leg in petrol (gasoline). The red ribbon on that leg was slightly burned and fell off. The lower part of the right leg was scorched, but the rest of the goat failed to light. The leg was repaired that morning. The Natural Science Club’s goat was burned at about 00:40 on 20 December; the vandals were not seen and got away. On the night of 25 December, a drunken man managed to climb up on the goat. Before the police arrived on the scene the man climbed down and disappeared. He did not try to set fire to the goat. The Southern Merchants’ goat survived New Year’s Eve and was taken down on 2 January. It is now stored in a secret location.
2007 The Natural Science Club’s goat was toppled on 13 December and was burned on the night of 24 December. The Southern Merchants’ goat survived.
2008 10,000 people turned out for the inauguration of one of the goats. No back-up goat was built to replace the main goat should the worst happen, nor was the goat treated with flame repellent (Anna Östman, spokesperson of the Goat-committee said the repellent made it look ugly in the previous years, like a brown terrier). On 16 December the Natural Science Club’s Goat was vandalised and later removed. On 26 December there was an attempt to burn down the Southern Merchants’ Goat but patriotic passers-by managed to extinguish the fire. The following day the goat finally succumbed to the flames ignited by an unknown assailant at 03:50 CET.
2009 A person attempted to set the Southern Merchants’ goat on fire the night of 7 December. An unsuccessful attempt was made to throw the Natural Science Club’s goat into the river the weekend of 11 December. The culprit then tried, again without success, to set the goat on fire. Someone stole the Natural Science Club’s goat utilizing a truck the night of 14 December.[36] On the night of 23 December before 04:00 the South Merchant goat was set on fire and was burned to the frame, even though it had a thick layer of snow on its back.[37] The goat had two online webcams which were put out of service by aDoS attack, instigated by computer hackers just before the burning.[38]
2010 On the night of 2 December, arsonists made an unsuccessful attempt to burn the Natural Science Club’s goat.[39] On 17 December, a Swedish news site reported that one of the guards tasked with protecting the Southern Merchants’ goat had been offered payment to leave his post so that the goat could be stolen via helicopter and transported to Stockholm. Both goats survived and were dismantled and returned to storage in early January 2011.
2011 The inauguration of the goat took place on 27 November. The fire-fighters of Gävle sprayed the goat with water to create a coating of ice in the hope of protecting it from arson. The goat was burnt down in the early morning of 2 December.
2012 The inauguration of the goat took place on 2 December. It was burnt just ten days later in the hours before midnight of 12 December, one day before Lucia.
2013 As in 2006 and 2007, the straw used to build the goat has been soaked in anti-flammable liquid to prevent it from burning in the event of an arson attack. The inauguration ceremony took place on 1 December. But despite the anti-flammable liquids the goat was burnt down on the early morning of December 21.
Any history of plots involving a DDoS attack on the security cameras, a plot to steal it with a helicopter and flaming arrows shot by people dressed as Santa and the Gingerbread man is just plain hilarious in my book.
I’m laughing so much about this goat. obviously if you build something big enough people are going to have sex in it and burn it down. obviously
2016 update: it’s the 50th anniversary so, naturally, it needs a birthday party. Streamed, apparently w a fucking english commentator for all the world to enjoy. It’s gonna be cringeworthy for sure. Also, it’s wearing a bow tie.
which probably won’t dissuade aspiring goat murderers any more than its cutesy tweets have, but can’t fault them for trying.
I lost my father to Pokemon Go and I regret so many life decisions. I’m the one who told him about the game. I’m the one who initially encouraged him. What have I done?
Now he starts every phone call with a Pokemon update. He gets all the names wrong and asks me what a Dragonite is called every time he brings up the “fat fighting orange dragon”
It’s gotten so bad he’s started watching the anime on Netflix. Help.
Okay adding to this. My dad isn’t great at remembering the names of things. So during our pokemon update phone calls, he says shit like this:
“I have a cool pineapple head now!”
“I was down to my last stripey ball trying to catch the blue dragon snake. I told him if he ran away I was gonna be so mad.”
“And the gym had one of those big fat orange dragons!” (he still can’t remember what a Dragonite is called)
BUT THEN. but then. he’s also like, OUTRAGEOUSLY into it now? He’s level 27 and talks about how “the gym wars are brutal, babe,” and how long it takes to take down a level 10 gym? (LEVEL T E N)
And a couple weeks ago he called me to talk about the merits of the old-style Gyrados (which he pronounces guy-rad-os sorry I can’t stop him) that has the dragon breath move, versus the new ones that don’t because Niantic made a change. And he has like 6 Gyrados because his work is by a Magikarp nest or something? HOW MANY fucking magikarp do you catch for 6 gyrados? He’s about to evolve two more. H E L P.
and he says shit like, “Learning about individualized values really radicalized my thinking.” and he means it. Before he evolves ANY pokemon he googles CP estimates and has a pokemon calculator??
This morning he called me because he finally has enough Dratini candy to evolve a fat fighting dragon and wanted to talk about which Dragonair he should evolve. (One with high CP but bad IVs, one with medium-high CP, but okay IVs, and one with the lowest CP of the 3, but A+ IVs) And at this point he’s so far beyond my skill with the game (he’s been higher-leveled than me for months now) that I don’t even know what to tell him. I literally can’t advise him.
My father is more of a pokemon master than I ever was. The other day he texted me the team rocket theme song.
Team Instinct. I told him I was Team Valor when I first told him about the game and he was like, “Okay I’ll join your team babe!”
And then idk he forgot?? And when his account crashed after a week he did a Pikachu restart (that should have tipped me off about the impending obession tbh) and he picked Instinct again.
I ain’t even mad bruh. He so clearly belongs in Instinct. He’s happy there. It’s his natural habitat. Before work he goes and meets up with some other Instinct people to take the Georgetown Cupcake gym in DC. It’s super cute.
My dad will be your Team Instinct dad if you need one
So my dad has always been in the habit of getting to work early. I don’t know wtf he used to do, but now when he gets in early, he goes to the Georgetown Cupcake gym in DC and apparently teams up with “some friends I’ve never met” to take down the gym for Team Instinct.
Then he goes to work and keeps the game open so he can grab Magikarp every couple minutes. Apparently his work is like ON a friggin nest.
He keeps his Pokemon Go habit a secret at work. Nobody knows. On his lunch break, he says, “hey I’m gonna go for a walk” and goes on a 12-pokestop loop. He makes sure to hit up the local Dratini and Pikachu nests (the presence of which is UNFAIR AF). He also take a few minutes to reinforce ‘his’ gym, by which point has been under attack a few times.
At work, he keeps his phone on data instead of wifi (he has unlimited data. For some godforsaken reason he went through 30GB/mo BEFORE Pokemon Go.) because that means his avatar jumps around a bit more?? He says he opens and closes the app a few times to reset it and get the GPS connection to reset and nab him a few pokemon.
Apparently he gets about 140 pokeballs a day. And goes through them all.
This got a new batch of notes, so here’s a Dad Update.
He has 114 Pikachu candy. I hate him. Apparently he’s watching the anime almost every night. He’s on season 2. I think he’s just gonna go through and watch it A L L which is a prospect so terrifying it needs no explanation.
Out of the 6 Gyrados he’s evolved, he’s kept the top 3. He sent me some screencaps the other day of his current top-contender Magikarp and the pokedex entry, where you can see he’s caught 585 of them.
Five hundred eighty five. Who tf has TIME for that??
Apparently he still hasn’t decided which Magikarp to evolve.
He should make level 28 in a day or so.
My stepdad is heading down this path too and it scares me. I’ve created a monster.
And so a month after they built the fifth Wal-Mart in our county, a little coffee shop opened just a few yards away.
My coworker Rick said it looked like a giant amoeba just waiting to absorb any surrounding properties.
“The coffee shop?” I asked.
“No, Wal-Mart is the amoeba.”
“Oh.”
When I got back to my desk, I typed ‘amoeba’ into Google and realized that I had incorrectly pictured a centipede.
“Fuck Rick,” I thought. “I don’t need any more friends, anyway. I’m on friend overload.”
At dinner that night, the Wal-Mart came up again when my wife Diane mentioned how ugly it was to see another gigantic shopping center taking up space in our town.
“It looks like a giant amoeba just waiting to absorb that little coffee shop,” I said. “And then the coffee shop is like a centipede.”
“I don’t think amoebas eat centipedes. And besides, that’s the point.”
Diane went on to explain that the coffee shop, though legitimate and functioning by all measures, was really an art piece constructed by a group of private donors in response to the new Wal-Mart.
“The idea is that we’re intentionally not supposed to go to the coffee shop. That way, Wal-Mart customers will be forced to observe the gradual decay of a local business every time they enter the store.”
“Well, I’ve been going there all week,” I said. “I think the coffee is top-notch stuff. Plus, it’s on my way to work.”
“The coffee is supposed to be mediocre,” said Diane. “Keeping within the budget of most struggling businesses. It’s supposed to be virtually undrinkable.”
“Hmm…well I really like it.”
“Well, you can’t keep going or else you’ll ruin the project.”
“This is America,” I said. “And if I want a cup of mediocre, overpriced coffee, by god I will have it!”
Over the next several months, I kept drinking the coffee. Some days I even went twice. The quality of the coffee, I was told, gradually worsened as a result of my unwavering interest, but I never noticed and so I had no choice but to doubt the rumors.
My doubt remained intact even after overhearing a private conversation between the coffee shop’s manager and the cashier. I was standing by a tree and watching a teenager back his car into another car and I guess they didn’t see me.
“I know,” said the cashier. “I’ve tried that, but it’s like he doesn’t have taste buds.”
“Well, he’s single-handedly fucking up this entire thing.”
“So what then, poison? Would he even drink poison?”
“Now, that’s an interesting idea.”
“Stupid teenage drivers,” I thought.
In the end, they poisoned the coffee. I made it a month after that, but my failing eyesight and ravaged kidneys eventually left me bed-ridden.
“Well, they just opened another location,” said Diane. “Business is booming. I hope you’re happy.”
And I wasn’t happy, but I was somehow content and I thought about everything: Wal-Mart, art projects, even little amoebas crawling through the forest, one-hundred legs working beautifully in tandem.
“Nobody ever wins in these kinds of things,” said Diane.
“But if you had to pick a winner, you’d probably pick me because the coffee shop was on my way to work.”
Diane sighed and left the room. I dozed off and in my dream, they did pick a winner. They picked me and I was led over to a small stage to choose my prize: A brand new recliner or two new kidneys!
“The recliner,” I inquired. “How far back are we talking?”
So many people on tumblr complain about having no friends but then they reblog shit like
“If your friend doesn’t respond to your every text immediately they are not your friend”
and “A true friend would never value themselves over your sanity. Friends who ‘need space’ away from your mental health issue are TO X I C”
and “if someone doesn’t drop everything to help you when you’re in need, congrats, you just found out who your fake friend is”
and it’s like…this is why.
You had friends and then shat on them with your fucked up abusive standards.
congratulations on shutting down every mentally ill person who NEEDS this kind of attention to survive and telling us we dont deserve friends for the way our brains fuck us up and tell us that if they dont do just the smallest things they hate us and wantus to die and dont want to be our friends
i hate nts
You’re friends world doesn’t revolve around you. Honestly your response is one of the most selfish things I’ve read.
You need to realize that your mental illness can be toxic and harmful to your friends, that it can be controlling and poisonous. That your friends world doesn’t just revolve around you.
I had a friend like that once. She had her mental instabilities and she suffered from depression and things like that and so she came to me because I was her friend. I tried to be THAT friend. Whenever she would text or call me, I would be there to to talk to her, to give her advice no matter how busy i was, and i was BUSY. I genuinely wanted to help her through her problems and i felt guilty for wanting to put my academics over her. But in school she would often complain that she had absolutely no friends, as if I didn’t exist. I tried to understand though, that sometimes it may FEEL like you don’t have anyone I suppose, so I stuck with her so she wouldn’t feel alone. I wish I saw it then, but it was just tip of the iceberg. She was manipulating me. She would tell me secrets, and make me promise to never tell another soul. And I didn’t, cause I cared. Come to find out she went and told the whole school herself, saying the same thing to each person “promise not to tell anyone, you’re the only one I can trust”. I would tell her to go seek professional help because she was hurting herself and getting into all sorts of trouble. But she would say the same thing “I can’t, you’re the only one I can trust.” Almost every night we would talk over Facebook and she would constantly reaffirm our friendship, saying “you’re my friend, right?” almost the same way, every day, and I would always say the same thing “yes”. This went on for about 2 years. It got to the point that I would hide my online status on facebook when I saw that she was online. I was going through hardships of my own and when I would go to her about it, she would quickly dismiss it and go on about HER problems. She would come to me with her problems, I would tell her how to solve them, she would totally disregard everything I told her and get herself into trouble again, and come crying to me for the same answers to the same problems and repeat the cycle over and over again. I would be up at midnight writing college essays, filling out college applications, looking for scholarships, and she would call me complaining about the same problems that I had given her the solutions to countless times. But I would drop everything and go through the whole spiel again, because I tried to be THAT friend. The friend that those people want. The one that would put their whole life on halt for their friends. And it did a toll on me, both physically and mentally. I got no sleep or mental rest because I was basically juggling her problems, on top of my own, as well as school preparing for college. Every time she sensed I was sort of backing out she would bring up the fact that she would kill herself or that I was the one and only friend she had (which wasn’t true). It was my mom who finally told me to distance myself from her, because she could see how badly this kind of relationship was affecting me, and she had been in a similar one herself, so she recognized the signs. My dad, a Star Trek fan, called people like that Klingons because they literally cling on to you and feed off of the attention you give them. I’m not knocking people with mental disabilities or depression or anything like that, because they are serious. But don’t treat your friends like your 24/7 therapists or psychiatrists. We cannot put our whole lives on hold, jeopardize our future for you. Even therapists tell their patients “no I can’t speak with you today” or “you have to schedule an appointment, you can’t just call whenever you want”. And it’s not to be selfish. I thought it was selfish of me to prioritize my health or education over my friend who needed my help. But I realized, I’m not a therapist, and I have to look out for myself too.
I hit a point for a lot of folks where I have to go “I can’t help you with that. You need to speak with a professional.” Sometimes it takes time to convince them to go but it usually helps them. Yes, there are mental illnesses that can manifest symptoms that are these things but that doesn’t mean you embrace them and accept them as okay behaviors. They’re abusive behaviors. And you have to learn how to manage them and not let those feelings jerk you around. And before one of you comes back with a catty “lol neurotypicals” I’ve got an anxiety disorder and it took me literally up until last year to get help for it and there were times I was abusive and my fiance is fantastic because he shut that shit down fast and helped me to rationalize what I was feeling and learn better ways to cope. It was work. It wasn’t a cake walk. But I’m a better person for it and I feel better for it and it helped me stay stable until I could get therapy and medication to get more stable. Your friends have lives and are people. You are not the centerpoint for them. There’s a really good quote that goes “mental illness has a really sinister way of making it all about YOU” like say, with anxiety, you go to a store and feel like everyone is staring at you or judging you when in reality it’s just people shopping. They probably don’t even notice you. You hear friends talking about someone but not specifically so you think it must be you and it must be bad. It blows. For me, I would stop myself when I had those thoughts, pause and remind myself “There’s a good chance this isn’t about you. There’s a good chance friend is just busy. Does that suck? Yeah, but it’s not their fault. They have shit to do. Let’s find something to occupy our time until they get back to us.” then I’d go play a game or something. Learning skills like that will improve your relationships with others because you’re not only focused on you.
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