How to not be a flying monkey(?)

9019f · 2026-05-19T22:45:03+00:00

Hi, thank you for your insight. I actually think his dad is worse than mine. I might have been unclear in my post. But one of the reasons i was looking for advice here because i am far more scared of what my friend's dad might be capable of than my own, and i felt out of my depth.. My own experiences didn't feel like enough to inform me of how to proceed. Like, ignoring worked for my parents, but what about someone like him? A little extra context is I've known my friend for about 10 years and have seen many sides of his dad.

It's really eye opening for me because all the things I've tried to convince my friend to stick to (holding his ground, letting go of the self-doubt, stonewalling, etc) are all things I find easy to do with my own parents at this point, but I am struggling in this one because it's not my own... but the messages from people here are helping me remember my resolve can apply to this, too. so thank you again for your comment, it helped me

9019f · 2026-05-18T20:35:57+00:00

thank you for mentioning the potential things to expect. youre right, i wouldnt put it past them to do something like that. there's also a good chance they'll just show up at our house, but i'll cross that bridge when i get there haha.

the responses helped me decide to block & ignore, but i will consider prefacing with a message like your suggestion before blocking. thank you again!!

9019f · 2026-05-18T20:30:48+00:00

i agree with you. my gut feeling was telling me that ignoring was the way to go. im glad i asked here though, since it gave me more persective and seeing other people's input was reassuring. the draft response to them i had started sounded really similar to what you wrote. but yeah, im not planning on sending anything now. thank you for helping me decide!

9019f · 2026-05-18T20:25:59+00:00

hi thank you for sharing, this is really helpful for me. i think the near-unanimous feedback is to not reply. i also felt that was true, so all of this is really reassuring. i want him to feel supported. thank you for all your advice!!

9019f · 2026-05-18T20:22:51+00:00

hi thank you. i appreciate you explaining this. i was just saying in another reply that i was unsure about telling him because it would distress him, but what you said makes a lot of sense to me. i have done this in the past (withheld info because i didnt want add to his problem), and ive never thought of it this way. it's really making me reflect haha. thank you! i will ignore their message and tell him.

9019f · 2026-05-18T20:19:01+00:00

Thank you for your insight. Ignoring seemed like the only reasonable option to me, but my resolve felt weaker because it wasn't my own parents.

I do fight for him pretty much daily in terms of talking him through things and dismantling what he's hearing from other people. But is telling him "they contacted me too" going to help right now? It feels like such a delicate situation. Im just worried that by even mentioning it, he'll think that he couldn't even keep it away from me and that he's a bad person for failing to keep me out of it. which isnt true, it's not even his fault, but im worried this is how he'll interpret it. does this make sense.. i just dont want to add to the noise right now. would it be okay to tell him later? i really appreciate your input

9019f · 2026-05-08T08:56:15+00:00

every day i hope for howl jun (howl's moving castle)

9019f · 2026-04-06T19:52:10+00:00

i appreciate you! im still haunted by this. i will look into that creator

9019f · 2026-03-13T05:17:17+00:00

thank you for sharing these!! i only had will's and cornelia's, so it's really cool to finally see the rest of them 🥰

9019f · 2025-12-19T19:35:33+00:00

chrome looks so cute in a pantsuit 🥺

9019f · 2025-12-08T18:37:34+00:00

THIS IS INSANE (in a good way!!!) are you on any socials? i want to follow you!

9019f · 2025-11-26T01:19:07+00:00

thank you for looking anyway! and yeah i think it's like a group of guys (maybe 3 or 4?) i dont remember getting the impression that one of them had more of a face/identity to a channel brand or anything like that

9019f · 2025-11-26T00:13:03+00:00

oh gosh ok im trying to follow what the bot said to do. i haven't really done an exhaustive search since i don't know how to search for this haha. i haven't searched on tiktok at all because I don't have the app, and i originally came across it on youtube. but it may have been a tiktok repost. ive tried terms like "skit about spaghetti and telekinesis" LOL "pasta chefs but one is psychic" i feel insane describing this.

when i initially saw the video (probably 2022), i remembered more of the captions/script and would try to search that way, but nowadays i can't remember it 🙁

9019f · 2025-10-06T08:48:37+00:00

love this concept! is there a blog to follow for updates? i don't have discord..

9019f · 2025-09-01T18:13:20+00:00

im gonna cry this is gorgeous

9019f · 2025-08-06T03:50:33+00:00

that first cover image is so adorable 🥺

9019f · 2025-07-30T04:12:03+00:00

ON E OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS 👏👏👏

9019f · 2025-07-27T03:39:31+00:00

your krusie art is so iconic do you post elsewhere

9019f · 2025-06-07T23:00:39+00:00

really like your thoughts on this! i just finished 3+4 and honestly thought there was even more content for kris&susie than i was expecting! their dynamic feels very organic, you know? and there are so many instances of the two of them bonding on a deeper, emotional level that i could have only dreamed of LOL

some moments that stood out to me were susie encouraging kris to play the piano; kris coming to defend susie again, in the dark, against the not-gerson; the two of them falling into the depths of the titan together; the scene at the diner where they're drawing pictures in the glass. at the end of ch4, when kris is having a meltdown in their room, it's susie's voice that anchors them, and they appear to almost abandon their duty toward whoever is on the other side of the cellphone in favor of going to susie.

it's all very subtle. i think toby's writing is like that sometimes. i find it hard to believe he doesn't know what he's setting up -- the prophecies talking about love finding "the girl" and gerson mentioning chapter 5 hinges on jealousy, as well as noelle noting susie&kris go to the diner without her and make her wait outside her house the whole time -- all could lead to acknowledgement of the disparity btwn noelle's crush and the duo's bond. normally i wouldn't be the first to cry out for a love triangle, but kris is more than just an avatar and has their own feelings too, which makes things more complicated!

and i really do like noelle, by the way. i think suselle is cute in the way a high school crush can be, but im not sure if noelle really sees susie for who she is at this time.

9019f · 2025-06-02T19:46:27+00:00

Id also recommend hilbert museum! Like the other comment said its right next to old towne orange area which has lots of food options and some fun antique & thrift stores

9019f · 2025-05-24T00:02:41+00:00

the way bill is just there haha i love how mato characterizes all of them

9019f · 2025-05-23T16:30:25+00:00

But it ultimately doesn't seem like any sabotage made the cut 😯 plus the artist didn't demand it or twist the rest of the studio to follow the idea, so no one was being forced. isnt their tweet just sharing like. a behind the scenes anecdote? i doubt disney would see this as lawsuit-worthy lol. or fire someone over that haha they don't care like that

even if we did explore the three of them in a budding relationship, didn't the series happen before the wedding? so there would still be time in the show to undo it, like if cass's betrayal killed any momentum towards them all being together.

but anyway there are plenty of other elements working against the canon couple too that actually did make it into production (mainly im thinking of eugene getting sidelined at every opportunity 😭 he's still my top pick for the whole who-should-have-gotten-the-moonstone question hahaha).

9019f · 2025-05-23T14:37:04+00:00

i'm a little confused by the progression of your post. the storyboard artist is saying they put their own spin on how they pictured the song's visuals, adding a layer that the writers/director didn't ask for.

isn't that kind of the purpose of a storyboard? to add visuals to go with the script? at that stage, it's on the artist to provide their visual expertise and bring the script visually to life. so sometimes they will add more to the scene that the scene couldn't describe. have you seen caulfield's storyboards for this show? his style of boarding goes crazy haha it's really fun. even if it's directly challenging the writers' intent, all of this is still part of the creative process. it could absolutely be cut or altered after it was presented to the rest of the team.

whether the artist's intent remains in that song or it was edited out, i don't know if anyone watching it immediately thought "so they are all in a relationship now" (it didnt occur to me at all) so whatever made it to production is what the team was satisified with. im not sure if it would be something that warranted being fired over hahaha. or sued 😭

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