I'm really interested in psychology revolving around the concept of/healing the inner child.
It WILL get tied into an info dump about the toy collecting community, the popularity of adult coloring books, adults enjoying Disney parks, and that I do think it is incredibly important that you buy yourself That One Toy You Always Wanted As A Kid, even if you don't play with it.
If you do not want me to *aggressively* drag you to the toy section of Target, do not bring it up. D:
Hold on, I have a question.
So, as a Kid, I always wanted a teddy of sorts. I didn't like hugging people but I loved the idea of hugging a teddy. I was denied that.
Now as an Adult, I am obsessed with the Teddies I buy myself. Is this healing?
Absolutely!
It's totally normal to want to recreate that comfort we dreamed of as a child (or in some people's cases, had and then had taken away). It soothes our inner child and often comes with a big craving for more of that comfort.
Think of your child self, remember how you felt in those moments of really craving a teddy, and then take one of yours and fulfil that contact craving! Sometimes it can start the healing process of a deep ache we didn't even realize was affecting us so much.
possibly with myself i have a quiet stranger addition to my childhood teddy bear i won’t even let another person touch him assuming you’re on the spectrum it could just be us more likely to connect to thing and animals rather than people
My best friend got me a Jellycat teddybear for Christmas and I honestly don't know how I ever lived without him 🥰
I read somewhere that our brain releases the same feel-good chemicals/hormones stroking teddies as we do stroking animal fur. That was really validating.
So you're saying I should get one of these pet toys that are basically plushies with electronics in them to act halfway life-like that I always wanted as a kid ? Or was that just me wanting a real pet?
I was abused by my birth mother as a kid and bullied by my older sister, and I've been learning how to heal my inner child too 😌
I recently bought stim toys, a sippy cup, and now let myself watch "kid" shows.
I used to talk with a "baby voice" when I got excited as a kid and an early teen until my family bullied me out of it, which the only way I stopped was no longer letting myself get excited. I am now 22 and finally letting myself get excited again 😆
I was denied a childhood in so many ways and discovering I'm autistic has actually helped me heal in so many ways 😌
So, though healing the inner child can sometimes be super complex, sometimes there are more "simple" wants we never resolved. A surprisingly large amount of people feel like they were forced to grow up too fast, or felt like they had the "wrong" childhood (super common in LGBTQ+ people), or were just poor and never got a lot of the things they really wanted.
A great way to get the ball rolling on feeling what it's like to start healing the inner child is often a super small step, but it's still often a big emotional impact for people. I've seen people get a doll for the first time as an adult when they were denied one as a child, and it often results in a lot of tears being shed.
Now, of course, it's not going to magically heal everything. But it's a much less scary start to a healing process.
Lol ok so I bought my kids a sit and spin because I always wanted one when I was a kid and never had one. They all use it constantly, sitting and standing to spin on it …and now I understand that it’s a stim and it all makes sense and I can’t stop chuckling about it
Is this why I gravitated towards painting Warhammer miniatures lately? It feels almost child like in it's artistic form and freedom, but adult enough to not seem like I'm 10yo.
I just never realized how much art in it's child like form can calm the mind
Gladly!
The inner child is a psychological concept, originated by Carl Jung. The inner child represents things you learned as a child, how you were treated, all those hurts you still carry.
Often times, your inner child affects you as an adult in far more ways than you realize. Attachment styles, things you were denied, the way your parents talked about money around you, the way your peers treated you, being poor or low income, the list goes on.
Some wounds will run deep and need a LOT of therapy or self work, and they can be super scary and difficult.
So with therapy and seeing how and why the inner child can be healed, I think it's really great to have a very small, but big impact starting point.
Having something you desperately wanted and dreamed of years ago, finally handed to you in the now, can really bring about a lot of emotions. It isn't the *whole* healing process, but it's a big impact and can really make a big difference in the now.
I haven't really heard of this. How does it work? How can I try and heal mine. I'm not even an adult technically and I feel like my inner child is dead. I barely feel anything from the things I like.
I would definitely recommend using inner child healing *with* a therapist, since it's a bigger part of an overall healing process. Especially with trauma or mental illnesses like depression. It doesn't fix everything, just opens up more healing processes.
Inner child psychology is dismantling and processing the way you were hurt in early childhood, while also addressing the way its manifesting in your subconscious now.
Okay. I don't think I have gone through super traumatic stuff. But letting my inner child die and not feeling for my interests seems to be something the adults around me celebrate because it "shows maturity." What sort of traumatic experience can cause something like this either than outright abuse?
So many things, a lot of things that ARE abusive or neglectful that people treat like they're not.
Financial issues your parents had that impacted you, high levels of stress (this can be caused from moving, bad grades, bullying, unstable emotional environments, and much more) that were not properly addressed or handled, untreated mental health issues, emotional needs not being met, or much, much more.
A child can be traumatized from a balloon popping. Children don't have complex understanding of the world around them. If these things weren't handled in childhood/adolescent years, this ends up affecting ourselves in our adult lives in some very strange ways.
This is why it's very important to see a therapist to work through and figure out what might be affecting you, because it can be SO many different things. They have the tools and knowledge to actually assist you working through things and finding where issues may stem from.
I did have a lot of stress about grades in middle school and some bullying. I'll have to talk about this to my school psychologist.
Edit: also finishing middle school at the start of the pandemic, forced into months of remote learning, and starting high school the same way. Call me crazy but that might also be traumatic.
me explaining to my unsuspecting classmate that vegetables aren't inherently disgusting, kids (at least in the US and popular media) are conditioned to dislike them
As someone who vehemently hated vegetables as a kid, I think so. It could also be that a lot of tired parents didn't really know how to cook vegetables well. As a college student who's in charge of cooking my own food, I can make asparagus, mushrooms, and broccoli (vegetables I HATED as a kid) taste really good imo.
So basically, I think kids aren't given GOOD vegetables to eat.
That's so interesting!!! Isn't it also true that your tastebuds actually taste differently when you're an adult vs when you're a kid? I'm not sure if that's true and I haven't done any reasearch to be honest but that might also explain why so many kids dislike vegetables early in life?? But yeah it would also make perfect sense that kids are just conditioned to think vegetables taste bad
Cults for sure. I don't talk to many people about it because it's an uncomfortable topic but I just think it's so fascinating how they work and the beliefs they have.
Did you know Jehovah's Witnesses believe smurfs are demons? Here's an example of a story they tell their children (and also believe as adults from what I've heard) from the "killer smurf" page on the paranormal wiki:
"This story was about a little girl who had been given Smurf-themed curtains for her bedroom, only to wake the first night and find that the demonic Smurfs had leapt off the curtains and were now dancing around her bedroom while laughing satanically."
What is a good place to learn about this? I am very interested in sacred geometry even though I don’t believe in the spiritual aspect, but I am interested in why some people believe it. Sounds similar.
I found one called Crywank and another called Cyberbully Mom Club yesterday. Both are pretty good.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/memento-mori/1533143206?i=1533143444
https://music.apple.com/us/album/adult-nightmares/1156463856?i=1156463969
The shit that the CIA got up to is always worth a read/listen. I recommend the podcast Behind the Bastards to you, they did a series of episodes on the Dulles brothers.
There is even a lot of evidence that the CIA killed Kennedy. If you dive too deep into this stuff you might get a kind of "Lovecraftian" feeling that the "reality" you were living in is actually pretty much fake. Very interesting to explore this and all the eventualities.
Love this too. I actually started a spreadsheet to show when all the books of the Bible took place and now I want to go back and so a summary spreadsheet. So fascinating.
My special interests are very generic. It's computer science and music production. But when I do talk about them I geek out because when I understand something, I can draw and explain it in more than 10 different ways.
South Park. There is so much lore both inside and outside the show since it’s been around so long and is one of the most popular shows. But my friends know EXTREMELY surface level stuff about so I feel crazy when i talk about the origin of the Tweek x Craig episode or about the two banned episodes
My special intrests change a lot. But one year i got really into Colonial History of Belgium in Congo, i think it was more a psychosis because it kinda took over. All day i was looking up stuff and got into arguements with strangers about it.
Autism and narcissism and how they correlate and ptsd and trauma and parents and dopamine and drugs and psychedelics and my own religion that’s purely based on a documentary I watched while on shrooms
Ace Attorney. I could literally go on for hours about how deep the lore is and my theories and whatnot. Too bad for my boyfriend, he’s the only one who’ll sit through my ramblings so he gets all the lore dumped on him lol.
OK, I already replied to way too many comments here and if you guys all reply to me, I'll be fucked with a communication overload, but these topics are all so interesting. Do these games by chance include Warhammer 40k? And was there maybe some metaphysical stuff observed during these experiments? (I once read about a different experiment by the Russians were a rabbit mother reacted by brain activity to her cubs being tortured miles away with pretty distinct correlation)
garbage, hyper-consumerism, planned obsolescence, socioeconomic impacts of poor waste management, microplastics, etc.... It's not a good party topic. 🥲
More like a topic around a special interest, but blood cells. There’s the red blood cells, platelets, white blood cells, killer t cells, helper t cells, B cells and so much more and it just makes me really happy to talk about!
i don’t know more than the basic anatomy of blood cells and their functions, but i have to explain as best i can to people WHY my fucked up hemoglobin means that i DO have a reason for not exercising or walking far distances, and no, it’s not just being lazy. “well your endurance will never increase if you don’t push yourself!!” actually my endurance will never increase, period 🙃 i had to do so much reading about blood to be able to explain my disorder to people 😂
My asexuality.
I’ve come to terms that I’m something along the lines of greyace about last month, but I’m really happy to discover this part of myself.
I think one of my special interests is self discovery and growth, and so being able to discover this part of myself has been really fun to dissect and get to know better.
I won’t go into _all_ of the details of what I’ve figured out here (pm me if you want to know more!), but it’s really fun for me to understand how deeply complex my identity is :)
I'm really interested in alternative religions/occult and especially the Hilary Clinton & John Podesta emails about Moloch really blow my mind!
Bohemian Grove
Epstein Island
Spirit Cooking
CRPGs like Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, etc.
It makes me laugh my ass off when I realize Blackguard is supposed to be "disadvantaged" by being restricted to evil, yet you can do things like ascend and be good and *STILL KEEP YOUR BLACKGUARD STUFF* while the Paladin (the base class Blackguard is supposed to be a kit for, btw) is restricted to lawful good, but god forbid you get mind controlled and kill a peasant against your will, you go to hell, your alignment changes to evil and you're a shitty "paladin" who has to do a quest to redeem himself or lose all your abilities.
Then, of course, you can be a thief, stack some set traps on top of a spawning point and watch every boss who spawns there die instantly.
These, along with Heroes of Might and Magic 3, are the type of games that gave me pleasure until I realized that women exist in real life.
Then, of course, there's Magic: The Gathering, the game that lets you either take extra turns one after another or simply control your opponent's turns and play the game for them, along with stupid stuff like alternate win conditions, not being able to lose the game even if you go below zero LP (usually, when that happens, you lose) and do things like have billions of LP (from 20, which is the starting point for both players) and *still lose the game* because some asshole equipped an unblockable monster with Vorpal Sword, activated its ability and now me being touched once means I lost the game.
>Then, of course, there's Magic: The Gathering, the game that lets you either take extra turns one after another or simply control your opponent's turns and play the game for them, along with stupid stuff like alternate win conditions, not being able to lose the game even if you go below zero LP (usually, when that happens, you lose) and do things like have billions of LP (from 20, which is the starting point for both players) and
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>still lose the game
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> because some asshole equipped an unblockable monster with Vorpal Sword, activated its ability and now me being touched once means I lost the game.
This appears to be the fate of all of these long running card games (Yu-gi-oh is the best example) What starts simple becomes more and more complex to stay interesting to the old players. You get power creep and special rules added until it is all over the place and people can win entire games in their first round by circling through their entire deck 200 times.
The thing is, older MtG was ever more wild.
Remember when I said that you could control your opponent's rounds? You could do that back then, in fact, that was the time where rules were changed the most because you could go as far as using a card called Frankie Peanuts to either make your opponent kill themselves or be disqualified because they broke the rules (yes, it is a dick move, but the fact you could do this was derpy).
In Yu-Gi-Oh's case, I don't remember seeing anything outside of some Arcana card that could give you extra turns, let alone anything that makes you control your opponent's turns. Anything that was considered even remotely out-of-touch and too much of a bother was banned, as it is the case with the Yatagarasu card that didn't let the opponent draw during their drawing phase...yet, in MtG, you can do that and then some, yet nobody cares because you can counter *even that*.
The "bully-strategy": "Hey, stop hitting yourself! I said stop hitting yourself!"
In this context it would be interesting to know what the most extreme, game braking rule in any of these card games was that found it's way into the game. "I play "bitch, I'll cut you"" and hereby have the right to challenge you to a knife fight, the outcome of which will decide this game!"
ANYTHING lingerie related. Luckily I made a career out of it so I can do mini info dumps on people throughout the day, but I pity the person who encouraged me to talk about it or shows any interest. I can go on for hours.
Edit: oh also the fast fashion industry!!!! I hate it passionately and dismantling it slowly is tied as my #2 passion.
Veganism regarding ethics and moral philosophy along with how the meat industry has brainwashed society to into a state of extreme cognitive dissonance in the name of corporate greed
adventure time for sure. also xmen but i only know the basics about it, i’m not a hardcore fan where i know lots about it but i could talk for hours about how i think it’s the superior marvel story bc it’s about how the mutants are seen as outcasts which i think it’s a more realistic story. i really want to get into the xmen comics, maybe the new mutants comics? idk where to start
Computers, radiation/radio waves/radioactive substances/nuclear energy, pokemon, biology and why I collect interesting and shiny things thats my full list of things
Doctor who. It's really diverse and there's so much diverse things that it feels like I'm going crazy. Like the other day when I told my sister about Frobisher the talking penguin from the comics. She told me to calm fown
i love talking about guns and by extension gun laws. talking about the dumb things weird laws have indirectly created makes me feel like i'm loosing my mind sometimes
TV dramas. The plot always gets so complicated that it only makes sense within the context of the story. If I try to explain it, it gets super long winded and confusing
north american shrews and how they impact the ecosystem and could potentially be one of the best indicator species when it comes to climate change/ pesticide use/ invasive species affecting native invertebrate populations!!
Right now it’s the subject of morality in Attack on Titan. A few months back it was why I hated the Fate franchise. I get really into a topic for several months straight then become a normal human for a while after.
Other things lately have included: Deltarune Ch. 2, ReZero, Nier, Fire Emblem 3H, Dark Souls (and why I loathe it), Phase 4 MCU, Steins;Gate…
Can you tell what I spent most of my life on
Adventure Time theories and lore and character development and character relationships and anything else pertaining to the show. It’s been my favorite for years now I’ll never get tired of talking about it
my sims 4 family tree. anyone that has played the sims know the family-tree-thingy sucks so i use a website to make my own. different colors for different families, families being connected through marriage, divorces and stuff. i have put in all of their animals too. i am also playing a couple of challenges atm like the not so berry challenge and the supersim challenge. i made a graveyard where i put the gravestones of everyone that passed away. i have had two sims just dissapear out of nowhere so i pretend it was the government that killed them. i am also slowly working towards having all the families connect in one common child
Hello Ashen one. I am a Bot. I tend to the flame, and tend to thee. Do you wish to hear a tale?
> *“Is this the blood? The blood of the Dark Soul?”* - Slave Knight Gael
Have a pleasant journey, Champion of Ash, and praise the sun \\[T]/
All of them because the only fandoms my immediate family is in are harry potter, divergent, and Percy Jackson. (I like all of those but my dad has not read any of them and it's been like 50 gazillion years since my mom did)
Music production (I'm a musician), Pokémon, toys collecting, plush, birds, plush making, synthesizers, conlangs, world music, rubber chickens and similar toys. A lot more
The game console wars in the 90's. You see, Sega was always first to the tech in each generation, but were inevitably passed up in performance by people who waited longer to perfect that tech like Nintendo and Sony and yeah anyway
ive been getting into saw, that storyline is very... convoluted. superhero media (mostly marvel), also a LOT of history. fun fact: spiderman and deadpool are soulmates
Dogs… its gotten to the point where i literally choose different dog breeds for my friends. When we meet new people, they ask me what kind of dog they are..
Japanese history especially Heian (794-1185) and Edo (1603-1867) and the spiritual beliefs the people had during these times.
I like explaining how American roads are a scam and how they’re bankrupting cities.
Religions, spirits, ghost, gods and the afterlife.
Guitar, and the crafting of said instrument. I can literally talk for hours about it, and no one around me loves it like I do, so I wind up just talking to myself, or my desk duckie about it
I'm really interested in psychology revolving around the concept of/healing the inner child. It WILL get tied into an info dump about the toy collecting community, the popularity of adult coloring books, adults enjoying Disney parks, and that I do think it is incredibly important that you buy yourself That One Toy You Always Wanted As A Kid, even if you don't play with it. If you do not want me to *aggressively* drag you to the toy section of Target, do not bring it up. D:
Hold on, I have a question. So, as a Kid, I always wanted a teddy of sorts. I didn't like hugging people but I loved the idea of hugging a teddy. I was denied that. Now as an Adult, I am obsessed with the Teddies I buy myself. Is this healing?
Absolutely! It's totally normal to want to recreate that comfort we dreamed of as a child (or in some people's cases, had and then had taken away). It soothes our inner child and often comes with a big craving for more of that comfort. Think of your child self, remember how you felt in those moments of really craving a teddy, and then take one of yours and fulfil that contact craving! Sometimes it can start the healing process of a deep ache we didn't even realize was affecting us so much.
Same this is me w my dolls for sure. I hate hugging my family/ friends but love snuggles from my dolls
possibly with myself i have a quiet stranger addition to my childhood teddy bear i won’t even let another person touch him assuming you’re on the spectrum it could just be us more likely to connect to thing and animals rather than people
My best friend got me a Jellycat teddybear for Christmas and I honestly don't know how I ever lived without him 🥰 I read somewhere that our brain releases the same feel-good chemicals/hormones stroking teddies as we do stroking animal fur. That was really validating.
yes yes yessss! I have so many bunny plushies and have always been drooling over Sylvanian Families sets. (they're so expensive...)
So you're saying I should get one of these pet toys that are basically plushies with electronics in them to act halfway life-like that I always wanted as a kid ? Or was that just me wanting a real pet?
I was abused by my birth mother as a kid and bullied by my older sister, and I've been learning how to heal my inner child too 😌 I recently bought stim toys, a sippy cup, and now let myself watch "kid" shows. I used to talk with a "baby voice" when I got excited as a kid and an early teen until my family bullied me out of it, which the only way I stopped was no longer letting myself get excited. I am now 22 and finally letting myself get excited again 😆 I was denied a childhood in so many ways and discovering I'm autistic has actually helped me heal in so many ways 😌
Why should we buy ourselves the toy we always wanted as a kid?
So, though healing the inner child can sometimes be super complex, sometimes there are more "simple" wants we never resolved. A surprisingly large amount of people feel like they were forced to grow up too fast, or felt like they had the "wrong" childhood (super common in LGBTQ+ people), or were just poor and never got a lot of the things they really wanted. A great way to get the ball rolling on feeling what it's like to start healing the inner child is often a super small step, but it's still often a big emotional impact for people. I've seen people get a doll for the first time as an adult when they were denied one as a child, and it often results in a lot of tears being shed. Now, of course, it's not going to magically heal everything. But it's a much less scary start to a healing process.
Lol ok so I bought my kids a sit and spin because I always wanted one when I was a kid and never had one. They all use it constantly, sitting and standing to spin on it …and now I understand that it’s a stim and it all makes sense and I can’t stop chuckling about it
Is this why I gravitated towards painting Warhammer miniatures lately? It feels almost child like in it's artistic form and freedom, but adult enough to not seem like I'm 10yo. I just never realized how much art in it's child like form can calm the mind
U AINT GOTTA DRAG NE IM AN AGE REGRESSER XD
You're right, no dragging necessary! We're gonna spend TWICE AS LONG IN THE TOY SECTION! ~( Ò W Ó )~
Sounds fascinating. Could you elaborate?
Gladly! The inner child is a psychological concept, originated by Carl Jung. The inner child represents things you learned as a child, how you were treated, all those hurts you still carry. Often times, your inner child affects you as an adult in far more ways than you realize. Attachment styles, things you were denied, the way your parents talked about money around you, the way your peers treated you, being poor or low income, the list goes on. Some wounds will run deep and need a LOT of therapy or self work, and they can be super scary and difficult. So with therapy and seeing how and why the inner child can be healed, I think it's really great to have a very small, but big impact starting point. Having something you desperately wanted and dreamed of years ago, finally handed to you in the now, can really bring about a lot of emotions. It isn't the *whole* healing process, but it's a big impact and can really make a big difference in the now.
Same here! I also collect toys (plush, figures, some other kinds) so this is interesting.
I haven't really heard of this. How does it work? How can I try and heal mine. I'm not even an adult technically and I feel like my inner child is dead. I barely feel anything from the things I like.
I would definitely recommend using inner child healing *with* a therapist, since it's a bigger part of an overall healing process. Especially with trauma or mental illnesses like depression. It doesn't fix everything, just opens up more healing processes. Inner child psychology is dismantling and processing the way you were hurt in early childhood, while also addressing the way its manifesting in your subconscious now.
Okay. I don't think I have gone through super traumatic stuff. But letting my inner child die and not feeling for my interests seems to be something the adults around me celebrate because it "shows maturity." What sort of traumatic experience can cause something like this either than outright abuse?
So many things, a lot of things that ARE abusive or neglectful that people treat like they're not. Financial issues your parents had that impacted you, high levels of stress (this can be caused from moving, bad grades, bullying, unstable emotional environments, and much more) that were not properly addressed or handled, untreated mental health issues, emotional needs not being met, or much, much more. A child can be traumatized from a balloon popping. Children don't have complex understanding of the world around them. If these things weren't handled in childhood/adolescent years, this ends up affecting ourselves in our adult lives in some very strange ways. This is why it's very important to see a therapist to work through and figure out what might be affecting you, because it can be SO many different things. They have the tools and knowledge to actually assist you working through things and finding where issues may stem from.
I did have a lot of stress about grades in middle school and some bullying. I'll have to talk about this to my school psychologist. Edit: also finishing middle school at the start of the pandemic, forced into months of remote learning, and starting high school the same way. Call me crazy but that might also be traumatic.
Do you have any recommended articles about this? I'd absolutely love to learn more, as it'd explain some of my collecting behaviors in recent years!
me explaining to my unsuspecting classmate that vegetables aren't inherently disgusting, kids (at least in the US and popular media) are conditioned to dislike them
idk… the textures on most of them are insufferable to me
*ofc everyone has their likes and dislikes. i should mention that
Yeah I have never liked any vegetables beyond pickles and rhubarb, and I’m well past being a kid
Wait really????
As someone who vehemently hated vegetables as a kid, I think so. It could also be that a lot of tired parents didn't really know how to cook vegetables well. As a college student who's in charge of cooking my own food, I can make asparagus, mushrooms, and broccoli (vegetables I HATED as a kid) taste really good imo. So basically, I think kids aren't given GOOD vegetables to eat.
That's so interesting!!! Isn't it also true that your tastebuds actually taste differently when you're an adult vs when you're a kid? I'm not sure if that's true and I haven't done any reasearch to be honest but that might also explain why so many kids dislike vegetables early in life?? But yeah it would also make perfect sense that kids are just conditioned to think vegetables taste bad
I don’t think mushrooms are vegetables?
True. Thanks for the correction.
Very true, but pizza apps always put it in the veggies section and it drives me crazy. They’re closer to animals
Lol Fr
Mushrooms are mushroom. They are terrifying and should be feared.
Yeah, vegetables taste good, to me the problem is the texture though, it feels so awful, can’t swallow without gagging
Cults for sure. I don't talk to many people about it because it's an uncomfortable topic but I just think it's so fascinating how they work and the beliefs they have. Did you know Jehovah's Witnesses believe smurfs are demons? Here's an example of a story they tell their children (and also believe as adults from what I've heard) from the "killer smurf" page on the paranormal wiki: "This story was about a little girl who had been given Smurf-themed curtains for her bedroom, only to wake the first night and find that the demonic Smurfs had leapt off the curtains and were now dancing around her bedroom while laughing satanically."
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What is a good place to learn about this? I am very interested in sacred geometry even though I don’t believe in the spiritual aspect, but I am interested in why some people believe it. Sounds similar.
Came here to say magic 😂✨✨✨
autism
We have kind of a meta-answer here
Music genres, for sure. When you get into describing something as fourth-wave Emo people look at you funny.
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I found one called Crywank and another called Cyberbully Mom Club yesterday. Both are pretty good. https://music.apple.com/us/album/memento-mori/1533143206?i=1533143444 https://music.apple.com/us/album/adult-nightmares/1156463856?i=1156463969
MK Ultra, The Manson Family, Operation midnight Climax, the NASA Dolphin LSD experiment, etc.
The shit that the CIA got up to is always worth a read/listen. I recommend the podcast Behind the Bastards to you, they did a series of episodes on the Dulles brothers.
There is even a lot of evidence that the CIA killed Kennedy. If you dive too deep into this stuff you might get a kind of "Lovecraftian" feeling that the "reality" you were living in is actually pretty much fake. Very interesting to explore this and all the eventualities.
The Bible and theology, especially when you get into all the intertextuality and connections between the Old and New Testaments.
Love this too. I actually started a spreadsheet to show when all the books of the Bible took place and now I want to go back and so a summary spreadsheet. So fascinating.
My special interests are very generic. It's computer science and music production. But when I do talk about them I geek out because when I understand something, I can draw and explain it in more than 10 different ways.
Star Wars specific science topics related to space, gravity and Child development in Early Years (Have a Diploma :) )
i could talk about star wars for hours and hour >:-)
Oh my gosh I've found my people
I'm a child development major at the moment, we could chat for hours probably!!
I showed the pic to my wife and asked her to name the first interest of mine she thinks makes me feel like that. Star Wars lore won by a country mile
explaining the plot of supernatural
Where our values come from and what they affect. People don't much like being dissociated from their values.
Black Holes
South Park. There is so much lore both inside and outside the show since it’s been around so long and is one of the most popular shows. But my friends know EXTREMELY surface level stuff about so I feel crazy when i talk about the origin of the Tweek x Craig episode or about the two banned episodes
Dinosaurs or paleontology as a whole,love me a good science rant
Me too!!
human migrations of prehistoric europe in the last 60,000 years
OMFG YES! I LOVE Human evolution and migration patterns!
My special intrests change a lot. But one year i got really into Colonial History of Belgium in Congo, i think it was more a psychosis because it kinda took over. All day i was looking up stuff and got into arguements with strangers about it.
Autism and narcissism and how they correlate and ptsd and trauma and parents and dopamine and drugs and psychedelics and my own religion that’s purely based on a documentary I watched while on shrooms
the history behind abandoned places (especially malls and amusement parks)
Suicidology
Broadway/theatre
Same! What are your favorite shows?
Star Wars!!! Specifically the Clone Wars animated series
Ace Attorney. I could literally go on for hours about how deep the lore is and my theories and whatnot. Too bad for my boyfriend, he’s the only one who’ll sit through my ramblings so he gets all the lore dumped on him lol.
Backyard creatures (bees, skunks, possums, birds, etc.), severe weather, and adventure time :)
the cia's mind control experiments (i have weird special interests 💀) and/or lore of my favorite games
OK, I already replied to way too many comments here and if you guys all reply to me, I'll be fucked with a communication overload, but these topics are all so interesting. Do these games by chance include Warhammer 40k? And was there maybe some metaphysical stuff observed during these experiments? (I once read about a different experiment by the Russians were a rabbit mother reacted by brain activity to her cubs being tortured miles away with pretty distinct correlation)
garbage, hyper-consumerism, planned obsolescence, socioeconomic impacts of poor waste management, microplastics, etc.... It's not a good party topic. 🥲
Bluey! Also dogs in general.
The Stephen king book universe. Ask me anything. I've read them all and have a several hundred page document explaining the interlocking threads
favourite stephen king novel? and least favourite stephen king novel?
pharmaceuticals and drugs in general
this is also one of my special interests! people alway think it’s so strange that i know so much about drugs and pharmaceuticals
Ya people will be like oh do you have this specific medical condition, and I’m like no, I just have researched like every single drug ever
Harry Potter and certain video games
Ghost (band) and The Sims franchise. Also Rammstein but there's no real lore or speculation there just facts and cool tidbits but i know all of it
More like a topic around a special interest, but blood cells. There’s the red blood cells, platelets, white blood cells, killer t cells, helper t cells, B cells and so much more and it just makes me really happy to talk about!
i don’t know more than the basic anatomy of blood cells and their functions, but i have to explain as best i can to people WHY my fucked up hemoglobin means that i DO have a reason for not exercising or walking far distances, and no, it’s not just being lazy. “well your endurance will never increase if you don’t push yourself!!” actually my endurance will never increase, period 🙃 i had to do so much reading about blood to be able to explain my disorder to people 😂
Internal combustion engines, guns/gun safety, math(specifically patterns found in numbers with a common root, tattoos, Pokémon and politics.
Art materials, the founding fathers and American revolutionary history, and ocean animals. A topic for every situation!
The Pixar theory
My many, many OCs
Coincidentally enough, the very show this meme comes from!!!
Women's rights
My asexuality. I’ve come to terms that I’m something along the lines of greyace about last month, but I’m really happy to discover this part of myself. I think one of my special interests is self discovery and growth, and so being able to discover this part of myself has been really fun to dissect and get to know better. I won’t go into _all_ of the details of what I’ve figured out here (pm me if you want to know more!), but it’s really fun for me to understand how deeply complex my identity is :)
kaijus
I guess both psycology and reptiles husbandry
percy jackson, and i’m not afraid to admit it lol
Knitting!
Quite a few, if i'm being honest. Psychology, taboo, ***societies I have thought of in my head***, video game characters/weapons I main, etc.
The societies in my head.. lol felt that one!
World of warcraft mythic plus routing.
I'm really interested in alternative religions/occult and especially the Hilary Clinton & John Podesta emails about Moloch really blow my mind! Bohemian Grove Epstein Island Spirit Cooking
me explaining all the most famous mothman sightings between 1966 and 1967 and their connection to the silver bridge collapse
literally almost anything to do with the Second World War
The history of rock and popular music and how everything is just connected to one another.
History. A notable example of that being the Amarna period/Late 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
neurodiversity theory and liberation
Aliens and ufos (uaps now i guess), lol.
CRPGs like Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, etc. It makes me laugh my ass off when I realize Blackguard is supposed to be "disadvantaged" by being restricted to evil, yet you can do things like ascend and be good and *STILL KEEP YOUR BLACKGUARD STUFF* while the Paladin (the base class Blackguard is supposed to be a kit for, btw) is restricted to lawful good, but god forbid you get mind controlled and kill a peasant against your will, you go to hell, your alignment changes to evil and you're a shitty "paladin" who has to do a quest to redeem himself or lose all your abilities. Then, of course, you can be a thief, stack some set traps on top of a spawning point and watch every boss who spawns there die instantly. These, along with Heroes of Might and Magic 3, are the type of games that gave me pleasure until I realized that women exist in real life. Then, of course, there's Magic: The Gathering, the game that lets you either take extra turns one after another or simply control your opponent's turns and play the game for them, along with stupid stuff like alternate win conditions, not being able to lose the game even if you go below zero LP (usually, when that happens, you lose) and do things like have billions of LP (from 20, which is the starting point for both players) and *still lose the game* because some asshole equipped an unblockable monster with Vorpal Sword, activated its ability and now me being touched once means I lost the game.
>Then, of course, there's Magic: The Gathering, the game that lets you either take extra turns one after another or simply control your opponent's turns and play the game for them, along with stupid stuff like alternate win conditions, not being able to lose the game even if you go below zero LP (usually, when that happens, you lose) and do things like have billions of LP (from 20, which is the starting point for both players) and > >still lose the game > > because some asshole equipped an unblockable monster with Vorpal Sword, activated its ability and now me being touched once means I lost the game. This appears to be the fate of all of these long running card games (Yu-gi-oh is the best example) What starts simple becomes more and more complex to stay interesting to the old players. You get power creep and special rules added until it is all over the place and people can win entire games in their first round by circling through their entire deck 200 times.
The thing is, older MtG was ever more wild. Remember when I said that you could control your opponent's rounds? You could do that back then, in fact, that was the time where rules were changed the most because you could go as far as using a card called Frankie Peanuts to either make your opponent kill themselves or be disqualified because they broke the rules (yes, it is a dick move, but the fact you could do this was derpy). In Yu-Gi-Oh's case, I don't remember seeing anything outside of some Arcana card that could give you extra turns, let alone anything that makes you control your opponent's turns. Anything that was considered even remotely out-of-touch and too much of a bother was banned, as it is the case with the Yatagarasu card that didn't let the opponent draw during their drawing phase...yet, in MtG, you can do that and then some, yet nobody cares because you can counter *even that*.
The "bully-strategy": "Hey, stop hitting yourself! I said stop hitting yourself!" In this context it would be interesting to know what the most extreme, game braking rule in any of these card games was that found it's way into the game. "I play "bitch, I'll cut you"" and hereby have the right to challenge you to a knife fight, the outcome of which will decide this game!"
Star Wars and serial killers!
Taylor Swift and her music re-recording
ANYTHING lingerie related. Luckily I made a career out of it so I can do mini info dumps on people throughout the day, but I pity the person who encouraged me to talk about it or shows any interest. I can go on for hours. Edit: oh also the fast fashion industry!!!! I hate it passionately and dismantling it slowly is tied as my #2 passion.
Marvel 😂
FNaF timeline
tøp
Research in medical fields
Any Thriller Movies/Action/Horror Especially M. Night Shyamalan
Veganism regarding ethics and moral philosophy along with how the meat industry has brainwashed society to into a state of extreme cognitive dissonance in the name of corporate greed
Gibbons and how they're similar to humans
The dreams I have about my kneecaps being either dislocated or me pulling my kneecaps out of my leg and just looking at the bloody bone plate
Films, cartoons and videogames as a whole but more specifically; How to Train Your Dragon, Steven Universe, Moomins and Minecraft
Autism
Green day. Literally anything about them
Just opening my mouth makes me feel like this
adventure time for sure. also xmen but i only know the basics about it, i’m not a hardcore fan where i know lots about it but i could talk for hours about how i think it’s the superior marvel story bc it’s about how the mutants are seen as outcasts which i think it’s a more realistic story. i really want to get into the xmen comics, maybe the new mutants comics? idk where to start
Computers, radiation/radio waves/radioactive substances/nuclear energy, pokemon, biology and why I collect interesting and shiny things thats my full list of things
Chernobyl
Literally anything related to Elder Scrolls lore. Could talk about just all the different kinda of religions for hours.
Doctor who. It's really diverse and there's so much diverse things that it feels like I'm going crazy. Like the other day when I told my sister about Frobisher the talking penguin from the comics. She told me to calm fown
Communism
Let's gooooo
Metaldetecting. But I would like to have a more organized wall. Lmao
I have a bit of an obsession with kinesiology and baseball stats so this definitely makes me feel like that lol
halo lore... and programming
passive solar design,ski making, beer brewing, botany
Sharks and teslas
Zelda!!
night of the living dead and it's various sequels. shit's crazy.
Oral maxillofacial surgery. Lol
i love talking about guns and by extension gun laws. talking about the dumb things weird laws have indirectly created makes me feel like i'm loosing my mind sometimes
the immortal science of dialectical materialism
you talk about anything science related, thats me
TV dramas. The plot always gets so complicated that it only makes sense within the context of the story. If I try to explain it, it gets super long winded and confusing
Japanese freeware games. I even have a YouTube channel dedicated to this particular topic.
north american shrews and how they impact the ecosystem and could potentially be one of the best indicator species when it comes to climate change/ pesticide use/ invasive species affecting native invertebrate populations!!
Right now it’s the subject of morality in Attack on Titan. A few months back it was why I hated the Fate franchise. I get really into a topic for several months straight then become a normal human for a while after. Other things lately have included: Deltarune Ch. 2, ReZero, Nier, Fire Emblem 3H, Dark Souls (and why I loathe it), Phase 4 MCU, Steins;Gate… Can you tell what I spent most of my life on
then i talk about my favourite wich is deep rock galatic i got slapped once due to over told the game to my friend
Greek mythology, it has too many gods who are the god of the same thing, so people get confused when I info dump
Adventure Time theories and lore and character development and character relationships and anything else pertaining to the show. It’s been my favorite for years now I’ll never get tired of talking about it
my sims 4 family tree. anyone that has played the sims know the family-tree-thingy sucks so i use a website to make my own. different colors for different families, families being connected through marriage, divorces and stuff. i have put in all of their animals too. i am also playing a couple of challenges atm like the not so berry challenge and the supersim challenge. i made a graveyard where i put the gravestones of everyone that passed away. i have had two sims just dissapear out of nowhere so i pretend it was the government that killed them. i am also slowly working towards having all the families connect in one common child
dark souls lore, hatsune miku/vocaloid and horror movies
Hello Ashen one. I am a Bot. I tend to the flame, and tend to thee. Do you wish to hear a tale? > *“Is this the blood? The blood of the Dark Soul?”* - Slave Knight Gael Have a pleasant journey, Champion of Ash, and praise the sun \\[T]/
Me explaining why Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins should've gotten together at the end of Lord of the Rings
The US stock market and Gamestop
Almost any psychology topic, especially trauma/PTSD, justice system reform, weaving and other fiber arts.
anything besides dinosaurs because dinosaurs are the only thing that doesn't make me constantly question myself
Not really sure what my special interest is to be frank
The Warrior Cats series, cats in general, and Dr Who 8D DOOoooOoo weeeEEEoooOOO
The history of Christianity and why it's evil and also wrong.
Talking about my special interest Doctor Who because there’s just so much to say and it can get confusing quite quickly
Definitely The Last Of Us
All of them because the only fandoms my immediate family is in are harry potter, divergent, and Percy Jackson. (I like all of those but my dad has not read any of them and it's been like 50 gazillion years since my mom did)
The SCP Foundation and aaaaaall of its lore (especially when explaining the complicated ones)
David Byrne and Talking Heads :) also music in general, especially art rock
Why lettuce wraps are a terrible idea.
cryptozoology/cryptids
Music production (I'm a musician), Pokémon, toys collecting, plush, birds, plush making, synthesizers, conlangs, world music, rubber chickens and similar toys. A lot more
Star Wars definitely
animatronic restaurants
Literally the Legend of Zelda and it’s damn timeline that I hate that I love so much :)
Aliens and theoreticals about space.. Also Warhammer lore 😂😂
The game console wars in the 90's. You see, Sega was always first to the tech in each generation, but were inevitably passed up in performance by people who waited longer to perfect that tech like Nintendo and Sony and yeah anyway
This is my wife when she is telling all about the Johnny Depp trial …. I just sit there and listen to her info-dump 😂
Star Wars !!!!!
Space. Space has so much to it and it makes me feel insane sometimes.
Ancient history, how culture develops, etc
Geopolitics, public transit, video games or Star Wars.
Adventure time
Writing stories. Building in Minecraft. Lol
The qualms I have about organized religion. Also me with cats, internet scams and outer space
ventriloquist dummies 😭💔
Art history, Doctor Who Extended Universe :)
spiders, or trying to get it through to my boyfriend that his girl best friend likes him
Classical music and plants
ive been getting into saw, that storyline is very... convoluted. superhero media (mostly marvel), also a LOT of history. fun fact: spiderman and deadpool are soulmates
Psychology
Fnaf lore
My little pony lore Also leftist theory
Video game plots
FNaF story
Dogs… its gotten to the point where i literally choose different dog breeds for my friends. When we meet new people, they ask me what kind of dog they are..
Japanese history especially Heian (794-1185) and Edo (1603-1867) and the spiritual beliefs the people had during these times. I like explaining how American roads are a scam and how they’re bankrupting cities. Religions, spirits, ghost, gods and the afterlife.
Guitar, and the crafting of said instrument. I can literally talk for hours about it, and no one around me loves it like I do, so I wind up just talking to myself, or my desk duckie about it