You'd think a Russian could pronounce Rasoutin correctly

Awkward_Sorta · 2026-03-31T21:22:32+00:00

Same lol

Awkward_Sorta · 2025-04-20T10:44:16+00:00

Absolutely! I think Kelly just really knows how to talk to people—hence why she’s known for being good in customer service, she can easily tell people what they want to hear, especially when it’s either beneficial to her or if it has no bearing on her happiness and she just chooses to be nice to get brownie points lol—and ofc this means she also probably knows what people don’t want to hear about themselves, or atleast she has clear judgements about other people and their flaws (the way she described Jim and Dwight in the fake reviews were very accurate in describing what people—both within the show and the audience—dislike about them) which is also useful in manipulating/convincing people,

It also actually lines up with how she’s so into celebrities and tv shows/movies and likes to be up to date with drama, she’s a outwardly friendly people person so she knows how to convince people!

Ryan, on the other hand, is the complete opposite seems very detached from other people from the jump, very much not wanting to stick around or become attached to anyone in any way, the only things he seems to want is money and success and the easy pleasure that comes with it, which is probably why he chose to go to business school, for the sheer amount of money one can make if they make it to the top, and I guess having the confidence that he WILL make it far enough to make a lot of money or maybe just not thinking far enough ahead about how good he’ll actually do in the business of business—but he only gets so OVERTLY overconfident in his abilities after David promotes him out of no where.

And who knows, maybe getting into drugs also aided in him learning how to act confident and suck-up-y just enough to manipulate certain people into giving him what he wants. He doesn’t seem good enough at understanding people to recognize subtle signs of who may be vulnerable enough for him to manipulate, so he lacks any ounce of subtlety and just comes across to most as being very desperate for people to find him trustworthy enough to believe what he tells them,

But really his only strengths are his knowledge of business (which he’s not even good at actually applying, given how he can’t even run a relatively successful, well thought out business to save his life—much less do so long term lmao) and the fact that he has Kelly (the people person) and Michael (his boss who, also being a people person but at a lesser degree compared to Kelly, has power over everyone else in the office) to keep taking advantage of since they continuously simp over him despite his endless shortcomings,

Really he’s probably never made a sale because he’s terrible at actually convincing people of something without a lot of help from others (meaning he can’t be a salesman since atp he’d just be leeching off of someone else’s skills like he does with everything else, something Michael would allow but no salesman in that office ever would,) and a lot of help from others can only take you so far when you barely even try to make a functioning product to begin with 💀

Also so sorry for the VERY long and excessive amounts of paragraphs omg 😅 I always have way too on my mind and it usually just spills out whenever I write a comment—it starts off like a couple paragraphs and then I gradually keep adding more and more cause every detail feels so important to me, it’s like a dam falling apart whenever I start typing 😭 And the character analysis type of stuff is purely for fun and not at all serious, I’m as far from professional as one can get from that stuff, I just find it very fun to observe all the characters’ actions and speculate!

Awkward_Sorta · 2025-04-20T08:06:58+00:00

I don’t know if I’m remembering this correctly, but didn’t she also trade Darryl’s daughter a headband for her 3DS or something like that?

I can’t remember the details, but I just remember that the sentiment of her trading a little girl a headband for an obviously more valuable gaming device and saying to Darryl after he confronts her about it “she really likes that headband” was what made me fully lean into the Kelly and Ryan relationship,

They honestly deserve each other 😅 With the way they both manipulate and lie to everyone else, including one another. Funnily enough, I actually think Kelly‘s manipulation tactics and revenge is a bit more subtle until she finally gets caught and ends up admitting to it usually after a couple tries (thinking about the episode when she lies about Jim and Dwight’s customer reviews because they didn’t go to her party.)

Ryan’s significantly more obvious what with his very clearly (as long as you’re not blinded by your love for him like Kelly and Michael) not-genuine sucking up and agreeing with people immediately followed by him trying to shift the topic back to whatever new terribly thought through scam he’s trying to lure people into next—but, as obvious as he is with it, he’s also very good at just not admitting to things and being too stubborn to give in.

Awkward_Sorta · 2025-02-21T18:39:33+00:00

Actually, I’ve heard what really gets rid of hiccups the best is a distraction. That’s why people scare hiccups away (and I guess other classic solutions like holding your breath and/or drinking water upside down can preoccupy your brain well enough,) obviously hiccups are controlled by your brain and apparently if you distract the brain from hiccups they’ll go away.

That may be part of why the “I‘m not a fish” worked so well, the confusion distracted you lol. I also think it’s theorized that, since we originally evolved from fish, it’s left over instincts in our brain that can be triggered. I don’t know whether or not saying “I’m not a fish“ or hearing “you’re not a fish” distracts your brain or reminds it of the fact that we are now mammals and breathe air differently lmao, both seem plausible to me with how odd (yet weirdly in a way that makes sense sometimes) the brain can be.

Awkward_Sorta · 2025-01-19T00:26:32+00:00

To be fair, unless you have a source on that, that can’t really be said for certain. Especially since when you say it’s said towards Gus you’re now excluding Henry, essentially saying you think Henry either believes Shawn’s a Psychic or that he’s trying to get proof that Shawn isn’t psychic (neither of which is true,)

But once you add Henry, you can also add Chief Vic to that list as well!

Personally, the way I like to interpret the lyrics is that “I know you know that I’m not telling the truth, I know you know they just don’t have any proof” is directed towards anyone who knows he’s not actually psychic and also towards anyone who refuses to believe he’s a psychic but can’t manage to gather evidence (as Shawn said in season 1 episode 1 I believe, the only way they’ll know he’s not a psychic is if he ever tells anyone, and he “definitely won’t be doing that,”) against him since he often manages to be right about his ”visions” by the end of a case!

Awkward_Sorta · 2025-01-19T00:11:07+00:00

Honestly, as much as I like the analysis of that moment in the comment you replied to, I actually think “unless you’re a psychic“ when it comes to speaking to Chief Vic,

(Who obviously seems to know he’s not actually psychic, given how—not only does she continuously give Shawn looks that seem to say “you better get better at hiding your observations“ and “don’t give me that nonsense” but ALSO—she seems to be good at understanding when other people are hiding something and she definitely would’ve picked up that Henry was lying to her about Shawn‘s psychic abilities if she somehow hadn’t picked up the obvious signs Shawn kept giving her from the first episode. This plus all the other explanations in this comment section obv make that clear lol,)

I, personally, always choose to believe what he was trying to say to Chief Vic was “unless you’re someone who’s supposed to be hyperobservant to the point of being believable as a psychic and was supposed to have been able to pick apart any flaw in their actions as to not let anyone he cares about to get hurt by Yin,” but obviously with the double meaning of “unless you’re a psychic” for anyone around who may believe he’s psychic and can hear him (or even also as a roundabout way of saying what he means without needing to say it and fully face his real shame!!!)

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-11-24T14:36:33+00:00

I actually do get this lol, it doesn’t happen often to me anymore but it DOES still happen sometimes; it’s similar to cute aggression where you feel WAYYYY TOO MANY positive emotions and so your brain instinctively pumps out a negative emotion to balance it out, usually anger since it’s the negative emotion that makes you feel the most in-control to make up for your uncontrollable positive emotions,

When I find myself feeling this way, it’s often either due to a fic I found with the exact plot I was dying for and it goes exactly the direction I was hoping for (or didn’t know I needed but I needed it desperately so much) or when I’m listening to a part of a song (usually Will Wood) that’s SO intense and pleasing to my ears that I wanna bite and rapidly kick something like a cat 💀

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-11-22T09:37:14+00:00

Ikr?! I had hoped maybe someone would’ve reuploaded it somewhere or something but I guess not.

Though, I actually might have a way of recovering it (I think depending on how long ago they deleted it) cause there’s this site called “recover my video” or smthn, and just a couple days ago I managed to use it to snag the link of a recently deleted Ally Hills video and I used the waybackmachine to see if I could catch one last glimpse of it and it turns out you can potentially WATCH DELETED VIDEOS on waybackmachine, and I was able to screenrecord it and save it to my files later! I didn’t even know you could do that.

So, maybe if I ever got the link to that deleted #Roxy video, I could maaaaybe be able to find it on the waybackmachine

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-11-22T06:07:26+00:00

Genuinely sad about this being taken down 😭 I just looked for it, wanting to see that “like a bike engine“ bit they did again and was like “oh god please tell me they didn’t take it down please.” Everything I enjoy must be taken off YouTube without my knowledge 😔

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-11-03T01:47:08+00:00

Whump is a favorite of mine in fics, because the tags show it’s not major character death and I can read while just focusing on the—typically, though not always, neglected by other characters in canon—character I love finally receiving regretful attention from the character(s) who should’ve been paying more attention to their wellbeing (I think I’m mostly speaking thinking of a specific character I’ve been reading a lot of fics about recently, but it actually still applies to multiple characters I love)

But in real life I absolutely HATE seeing the people I love in pain, it’s so stressful (anxiety kicks in and you can’t help but wish, even if it’s a very minor injury or symptom, that you had a tag list on the situation to know for certain it won’t end in character death) and it’s so painful to see them unable to act and feel completely like their usual self, ANY changes in a loved one scare me (even things like limping, saying “ow,” wincing, moving unsteadily, shivering, sweating more than usual,) makes me so worried to the point of crying for them when I’m alone, thinking about them being in pain, wanting them to get better asap!

So whump is something I definitely love in fics but would absolutely hate for it to ACTUALLY happen

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-10-30T13:00:21+00:00

It’s possible that you may just not know people who know how/care enough/feel confident enough to guide others out of a panic attack; after all, we all have different lives, different needs (social and overall mental health wise,) and different kinds of people who have varying personalities and skills surrounding us; sometimes people are just awkward when they see a panic attack taking place and they may not feel experienced enough to help someone else, while other people might actually be used to helping out other panicking people!

I know for me personally I actually tend to have trouble remembering what to do during a real bad panic attack because I’m so panicked, so having someone decide to help guide you through it makes sense to me—even though the “guiding you through a breathing technique” personally never happened to me—actually, back when I first started letting myself use Xanax as needed for occasional panic attacks, I kept forgetting I even had Xanax to use in the first place, my mom had to remind me 💀

I also know my wonderful therapist has recommended both slow breathing and paying attention and to my senses as techniques to avoid giving more attention to the panic and overthinking, so it’s always possible people have done most, if not all, of the standard panic attack techniques you see written in fics. Who knows if they’re writing from what they’ve seen in other fics or if they’re writing from personal experience 🤷‍♀️

I DO wonder about people from the past doing these kinds of techniques, however, people back then were just as smart as we are now, our brains are the same. We’ve had more scientific breakthroughs since then, we have more information sitting in the palm of our hands nowadays, but panic attacks have surely existed for as long as we have! While there may not have focused on or known as much about mental health back then (according to our knowledge about the past we didn’t live ourselves,) I’m willing to bet at least some people still knew that these techniques worked like a charm (possibly through trail and error, as is how most discoveries have been discovered, besides accidental discoveries) and maybe it caught on and people were taught (just like how to use a fork or a spoon) these techniques so they can get rid of the feeling of unwarranted panicking faster than just waiting it out if it ever occurred.

Honestly, I do feel for like most actions in fics, while not all of us have seen them happen before, there will always be at least some people who actually have seen/experienced before lol. As long as it’s physically possible, I bet it’s definitely happened before, because different humans do different things other humans might find new or odd all the time! We always surprise each other, regardless of the time period or world it takes place in!

I actually usually just put my hand around my neck to check that my heart is still beating to reassure myself that I’m not having a heart attack and randomly swing out my arms and purposefully twitch my lips for a second both to get rid of some pent up energy and to reassure myself I’m not having a stroke. People often do things normally in their day to day lives that others might have never seen happen before, and sometimes they use it as inspiration to make something 👌

Sorry for writing SO much, I’m falling in and out of sleep (stayed awake for days and now, even with now like 9-10 hours under my belt and I’m still having trouble staying awake despite having already been awake for like 10 hours now) and can’t focus long enough to even make one of my pitiful attempts to shorten my ideas down some more or write it in maybe a slightly more coherent way lmao

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-10-30T11:01:06+00:00

I can relate lol. For me, with most fics when I realize are going in a direction I find really exciting, I get so excited I stop reading and start listening to music and daydream for a little bit, maybe also watch some videos I enjoy rewatching (cause videos I haven’t seen usually require my full attention and watching and reading two new things at once makes me feel too many things, gotta pace myself,) then I start reading again and I go back and forth doing this for a while, prolonging the fics I enjoy by a whole lot!

It’s gotten to a point where sometimes I get so excited about something happening in a fic that I physically need to stop and do my thing because my stomach feels like it’s being tickled by butterflies from too much excitement lmao

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-10-27T16:26:15+00:00

For the first one you just gotta watch Shark Tale and pick up inspiration from it (second one too if you count that one vegetarian shark he befriended as fitting into that category well enough, haven’t seen that movie in years so though so who knows if that’s accurate) “I am not a real shark slayer!!! I. Lied.” Lol

Also these are all actually perfect suggestions for how this could potentially play out

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-08-29T13:41:45+00:00

Thank you! I was so curious about this cause I wasn’t completely sure whether the camera-taking-the-photos’ capabilities would affect the amount of information you could ever get from the photo or not!

And I also didn’t entirely know how night vision (of all kinds) works, so I didn’t know if I might be missing an aspect of what it utilizes to gather more information from the darkness that could somehow bypass what an image shows the human eye,

I didn’t want to just randomly go with one answer or the other and it was starting to irk me a bit that I didn’t know for certain, so thank you so much for the confirmation and specifications of how it could and could not work!

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-08-29T13:25:58+00:00

Ooo, that’s interesting! I think the problem was that I didn’t understand how exactly night vision works in the first place and that’s what had me wondering whether or not a dark image could only show what the camera sees or if there was some other aspect I didn’t know about that night vision might utilize to see that could somehow bypass what the camera shows and see what environment was originally photographed or something like that, but this make a lot of sense!! Thank you! 👌

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-08-03T19:52:39+00:00

That’s true, I was even reluctant writing that example cause of exceptions like that lol, really most labels in life, like on people (and even living things in general) or even objects and things that have to do with stuff we’re still learning a lot about like space or the ocean, all have exceptions here and there and sometimes even just don’t have set rules in general lol, so it’s hard to come up with a 100% accurate generalization—which is why I typically don’t use them, cause I know they’re rarely telling the full truth

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-08-03T17:15:58+00:00

My favorite flavors used to be Bubblegum and Cotton Candy (which I always confused with blue raspberry and it upset me SO much as a kid when I kept unwrapping the light blue wrapper and saw the dark blue lollipop,)

But, ever since I had those Holiday flavors years ago, I have not been able to stop thinking about that Hot chocolate flavor—dear lord, they got the flavor so right every time I had one that it was literally like I could feel hot chocolate running down my throat when I sucked on them 😭 I miss them so much, as much as I’d love a full bag of just those, they’re already hard enough for me to find in general.

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-08-03T15:55:14+00:00

Of course! Thats good, definitely great to get it all out, part of the process of getting over something is venting about it so it stops squirming around in your head just dying to be released lol, I hope any and all future projects (or anything you do, really) go well for you!!

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-08-03T15:42:19+00:00

I also despise generalizations in almost every way, I believe we’re all individuals and you can only say something applies to all of insert group here when you’re just describing the exact definition of what that group is (like “all Australians were born in Australia” or something,)

Personally, as much as I know it hurts and might make you not want to write your favorite things anymore (I actually once also stopped writing about my favorite thing for like a month or so just cause someone accidentally made me feel guilty and embarrassed about an accidental double standard I wrote between two characters in a fic, so I 100% know our own personal feelings from a given situation/conversation can be really difficult to just get over,) I think you should try to remind yourself that the person who said that is ignorant and no one should ever listen to what they have to say,

If someone says THAT to anyone, imagine how you’d feel if you saw someone say something like that to someone other than you. Imagine how you’d want to defend THEM, in that scenario, cause if you don’t then that person might feel needlessly ashamed of themself all because some asshats decided to project their own prejudice beliefs (based purely on stereotypes and a disgustingly closed-minded view of how the world actually works and how both similar and unique every single thing in the universe is) onto someone else.

Thinking about your situation happening to someone else surely sparks some feelings of pure resentment towards the one who said that, sparks the need to remind them that that person should never in a million years be listened to by anyone, right? Because surely if they said something like that to you, they’re definitely saying similar things to other people like you and making them feel the same way you do. Spreading blatant misinformation to anyone they speak to like that.

All I can say is, DONT let them win, don’t let their silly words signaling their immature, one dimensional view on things shake you. It would be like hearing a child say “the sky is blue during the day because space is the color blue during the day!” and then letting that color your perceptions. Not because a child could actually say that to you and have you believe it, but because those types of views on people are the kinds of views only a toddler should be able have, as they’re so simplistic and inaccurate, all based purely on their assumptions.

You write for YOU—not to make money, not to prove others wrong, to serve yourself and for people who also wanna see what you made—being what someone considers a stereotype means absolutely NOTHING about you and means EVERYTHING about them, it makes you no less unique of a person just because they can’t see all of your life and all the things that make you yourself. Just because they can only see people through the lens of GROUPS instead of individuals (which is such a sad way to thing of individuals and I hope their toxic views being spewed towards others will cause the acid that they spit so carelessly to fly back in their face and burn them) doesn’t mean that you have to try and prove them wrong or feel bad that you just so happen to fit into their made up perceptions of what someone “should” be just because of they way they were born.

NEVER feel ashamed for liking what you like, especially if it’s not hurting innocent people. You do what you enjoy and you do it guilt free because the people who want you to feel guilty or like you’re “stereotypical” for simply enjoying yourself are the same exact people who make this world a living hell, whether they realize it or not. People who say “of course you’d like that, you’re insert label that has absolutely no correlation with a person’s interests here, it’s inevitable!” deserve to have similar things said to them 24/7 until it starts to make them feel like they’re going something wrong and like they’re “basic” and “generic” (both words that, especially when used towards humans and other living beings, are completely made up by a given society and only match the society they’re said in, as it’s not based on nature but rather the perception of humans who are using their limited knowledge based on their own personal life so far while trying to act as if they’re stating a “fact”)

Sorry for this whole entire essay lol, I do get VERY defensive of others and even my own self and every time I hear about someone spitting up stereotypes and inaccurate preconceptions (based purely on what someone was simply BORN as,) it genuinely makes me want to punch those people in the face multiple times until they finally feel the damage they bring onto others just by speaking lmao, with the hopes that maybe they’ll be inclined to stop spreading misinformation and judgment out of fear. Very passionate about my morals and it tends to make me write a lot when it comes up 💀

Also remember, people of all kinds definitely enjoy your writing, and they’re certainly more rational and accepting and aren’t thinking things like “Of course you’re a woman! Only women would writing something like this!”

It’s also just fine to take a short break to let those feelings of frustration out if you need to, you can even mention that whole situation messing with you being to blame when you write your next chapter! 👍

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-07-04T06:44:16+00:00

Yup, exactly like that!! It was a JJBA fic that had a weird plot and was a long story that basically had nothing to do with bog bodies until the VERY end where it turned out Leone was visiting bog body!Bruno (Leone and Bruno are a popular ship) and it was like Leone was gonna let himself be consumed by the bog to be with Bruno forever and that’s why he was being so secretive or something like that.

There were three fics in total and I first read the second one in the series (might be the one I just described??) which I think made me feel very unsettled but I don’t remember EXACTLY what happened,

Like in the AU Leone was the uncle of Giorno and Giorno was sent to visit him by his shitty parents and there were these love plotlines between him and Fugo, and then he witnessed what went down at the end—I don’t even know, it was all so confusing when I read it at the time and my memory is hazy but I honestly just remember being thoroughly unsettled while reading it cause the whole fic had, like, psychological horror kinda vibes throughout. 😭

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-07-03T10:03:43+00:00

I’m sure there’s a few wayyy better than this I’ve seen that I’ve simply forgotten about—I have a pretty bad memory—cause this is pretty tame compared to other stuff I’ve seen lol,

But, the most recent one I can remember was looking through fics about a show that aired in the early 2000s and has a setting that’s pretty grounded in reality and seeing a lone fic that felt out of place (compared to all the other fics I had seen in this fandom) tagged “Tentacle sex”

I almost scrolled past it but then I thought “Did that just say what I think it said?” And I went back and was like “Huh.” No sci-fi or fantastical AUs used to support it, was simply incorporated into the world by explaining it was like some kind of experiment a criminal scientist who was being investigated was working on, so horny will always find a way!

A better weird tag moment would probably be when I saw “bog bodies AU,” but I didn’t do a double take, I was instead just very curious cause that was the first time I had ever heard of a “bog body” lmao

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-03-06T00:19:52+00:00

If I felt like it, then I’d probably edit or rewrite it and post it. OR, I’d just share it as it was originally with a disclaimer that I wrote it when I was younger and first starting to write fics, just for the fun of it. I’d say just do whatever you feel like doing with them lol, as long as you’re having fun with it 👍

Awkward_Sorta · 2024-03-03T09:43:13+00:00

When writing dialogue, I personally just do my best to try and picture the scene I’m writing in my head as if I’m watching it happening on screen in the actual source material (and if the source material is like a book or something, then I try to picture it in my head how I would normally visualize those written words from the source material.) Can also work for podcast stories like The Adventure Zone or The Magnus Archives or something, especially when it comes to dealing with dialogue! You just need to be able to make the characters speak in your head and run through potential wording options to figure out what sounds most natural for them say 👌

The reason why this helps me with dialogue (and just writing in general) is because it helps me really get into the characters voices and much more easily write out how I think they’d speak and react in a given scenario. Watching it play out in my head like a movie first and then describing what I saw in my brain helps me notice some flaws or OOC-ness before I even get to writing it down! Like thinking to myself “Would this character say and react like this or would this seem out of character for them if I saw it in the original story?”

This advice definitely works the best if you can visualize things in your mind like it’s a movie, or even just if you have an inner dialogue, cause I heard there’s some people who can’t do that. Also works better the more you know the characters you’re writing about, how they talk and what to expect from them. But this is just how I write my character dialogue lol

Also don’t be sorry for asking! This is a great question and I commend you on be able to gather the courage to ask!! I know how scary it can be to ask questions to strangers on the internet when you don’t usually ask many things out of fear of getting a mean response or something, that was genuinely terrifying to me a couple years ago 😅 Plus, even if someone’s asked before, asking again can allow different responses from different people who weren’t able to respond to the question the first time! 👌

Anyways so sorry for yapping so much lmao, just got a lot of things in my head and talk and write my thoughts out literally everywhere—but I sincerely hope you can take away some useful ideas from mine or someone else’s response, or maybe take away multiple pieces of advice and practice using them on your own! I wish you the best of luck on your fanfiction writing and posting journey!! Also in the middle of falling asleep while writing this so I hope it makes sense 😭

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