hey guys unpopular opinion but you’re not a bad person if you don’t care about every bad thing happening in the world all the time, or if you do care but you’re not constantly reblogging posts spreading awareness and information
it’s okay if you’re just on tumblr to have fun and reblog things you like or that make you happy.
humans aren’t made to process trauma and suffering on a worldwide scale without any breaks whatsoever & the internet has created an unprecedented access to bad news so please never feel guilty for scrolling past it because you can’t process it! and you’re not doing anything wrong & there’s no need to feel guilty
they get fogged up when we drink hot beverages.
they get smudged for no reason.
we will push them up using anything in our area (i.e shoulder, whatever is in my hand, scrunching my nose up so they get pushed up, etc.).
they get knocked off our faces all. the. fucking. time.
when we change clothes we either take them off or they fall off when we pull our shirts off.
we have to clean them after being in the rain.
we own multiple pairs of them, not just one lone pair for our whole lives.
most people don’t wear them in the pool, but some have extra old pairs for the pool (like me).
some people take them off during sex, that’s fine! but some people keep them on.
they don’t get squished into your face when you kiss (most of the time. at least from what i’ve experienced and i’ve got some mf big glasses).
if we look down and look back up while you talk/to peek up at something, we will just peek blindly over the top of them.
we clean them on whatever item of clothing is closest.
some of us have prescription sunglasses and some of us wear contacts when we need to wear sunglasses.
please keep some of these in mind when you write characters with glasses cause y’all who have 20/20 vision keep telling me all characters sleep in their glasses and own the same singular pair from age 6-25 and they never clean them.
( there’s this but you missed a few iconic glasses traits – “where’d I put my glasses” (is wearing them) – new glasses getting scratched on basically nothing. where’d the nick come from? we just don’t know. – forgetting you’re wearing synthetic material and just smudge the junk on your glasses around – after doing so, proceeding to hunt down any friend who is wearing a more cottony material – getting eyelashes on your glasses – stabbing yourself in the face with the arm of your glasses – “woah are you blind?” – “how many fingers am I holding up??” – walking into a warm room from the cold and suddenly being unable to see because your glasses fogged up – going outside and everything is Super Crisp 1080p – having three pairs of glasses and putting all of them at once – “aw dude you have transition lenses? lucky.” – the non-glasses scrutinising squint – taking off your glasses and suddenly you’re a different entity entirely – if you’re too good for taking off your glasses when dressing/undressing, realising you didn’t pull the collar of a shirt out enough and subjecting to your fate )
-For female characters wearing eye makeup is pretty much useless
– the reason why is because no matter what we do, the mascara will smear on our glasses
– thinking “Oh, there’s a little smudge. I’ll just clean it quickly”, then taking the glasses off and wondering how the hell you could see with what looks like three layers of dirt on them
– giving your loved one a little kiss but in the wrong angle so their nose touches your glasses
– the look™ when you’re in your bed lying on the side with your glasses on (aka the glasses are skewed)
-sleeping in glasses fucking hurts… well, not anymore, but it used too
-if you have long eyelashes, having to push your glasses down your nose so they dont constantly rub each other, then having to push them up cuz you cant see
-WHY WONT YOU STAY ON MY FACE?!?!?!
-*they tilt crooked slightly* oh wow, And… now Im falling over
-having transitions and right after walking into a building you can’t see because they’re still dark
-forgetting where you put them then having to either ask for help or judge your entire surroundings
-dont like contacts? like cosplaying? guess what! you’re blind now!
-trading glasses with other glasses wearers to see how blind your friends are
-when there’s a smudge that just. Won’t. Go. Away.
-“hey do you have lens cleaner?”
-your old glasses become your back up pair in case your current ones break
-metal and plastic frames are very different and most people have a preference
All of this omg
Oh also I forgot to mention the nOSE PAD THINGIES
I HATE THOSE WITH A BURNING PASSION
OH MY GOD SAME, I HAD A PAIR OF METAL FRAMES AND THE NOSE PAD THINGIES THAT CUSHIONED THE ACTUAL THINGS FELL OFF
THAT AMIGOS IS WHY I WEAR PLASTIC FRAMES
some long hair-specific glasses nonsense:
if you have metal frames with nose pads that’re attached with wire, you Will get your hair tangled around those wires eventually. it’s inevitable
this usually happens if i put my glasses on my head but sometimes it just… happens
you can also get hair caught in the hinges and then pull it out of your head when you try to take them off
just in general, long hair is gonna tangle around your glasses (some frames are worse than others but it’s gonna happen eventually no matter what)
if you have your hair done up super tight, it might be hard to get your glasses on, since you usually want the arms to go right next to your skin and that’s Hard bc your hair is In The Way
if you have your hair done up at all and you try to take your glasses off, you’re probably gonna pull it loose a bit around your ears. whoops
please imagine having your hair in a ponytail but having two stupid looking loops of hair sticking out the sides of your head right above your ears. that’s my life
getting your hair inside your glasses instead of outside them is the worst!! this is probably less likely to happen if you have bangs but i don’t and i keep getting hair between my glasses and my eyes and having to take off my glasses to fix em
also:
if you’re like me and you don’t care about looking dumb or buying contacts, you can just get some smaller glasses and some Big sunglasses and wear sunglasses over the glasses. fashion
if you’re like my mom you can just buy funky sunglass lenses that clip over your glasses. same concept, just slightly less ridiculous
some people (like me) who have Less Terrible eyesight don’t wear their glasses all the time – and i don’t just mean like reading glasses, i wear mine when i go out because otherwise i have to squint to make out signage, but when i’m at home i leave em off!
if you don’t wear your glasses all the time, you can and will forget to bring them with you when you might need them (or think you forgot them and panic for 5 minutes until you find them)
doing stuff with your hands as your glasses slowly slide down your nose and just… watching them go
i have on at least one occasion had someone else push my glasses back up for me bc my hands were full and i couldn’t do it myself
Getting a new pair of glasses with a stronger prescription and putting them on and WOW DID SOMEBODY TURN UP THE RESOLUTION
I CAN SEE INDIVIDUAL LEAVES ON THE TREES
THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER
Alternately, I was trying not to think about it because it’s the source of like 10% of my day-to-day stress, needing a stronger prescription than you’ve got and suffering constant headaches and eyestrain but tough, there’s no insurance to cover an update for another year, if ever.
The soul-crushing terror when your glasses try to fall off your face into for example the ocean. This is probably less true for affluent glasses-wearers and those with weak prescriptions.
— needing a strong enough RX that you literally can not afford to lose your glasses. you develop a sense for knowing where they are whenever you sleep; losing them stirs a panic and nothing else can happen until they’re found.
—not all hats (beanies and ball caps) work? they put pressure on the arms in weird ways and hurt your ears or throw the frames off-balance on your face and it’s just a hassle
—taking them off to do microscopic tasks if nearsighted
– trying to find characters to cosplay who have glasses…like…just one?
– don’t have contacts and going without your glasses for cosplay? Time to play ‘how long can I take this headache before I HAVE to put my glasses on’!
– telling yourself you’ll just take them off for pictures and forgetting EVERY TIME.
metal frames in winter… the metal get freezing cold and it hurts (I used to get a headache)
having prescription sunglasses that are weaker than your regular glasses.
also, you literally wear the sunglasses non stop you don’t take them off.
Once I was on a bus going through border control, they check your passport photo and then they look at you and the lady was just staring at me I was staring back at her for like solid 5 minutes and she did like weird motion with her hand and I was very confused wtf she wants, turns out she wanted from me to take off my sunglasses – I had to be told that by my classmates because I forgot that I am wearing them..
when you kiss in an awkward angle and part of their face end up smashed on your glasses and leaving oily stains.
OVER THE EAR HEADPHONES INSTEAD OF BUDS. Fuck you, you want to see your tv and hear the game?? You want to be on mic?? The headphones crush the glasses to your face painfully after a while. Choose.
Dancing around the room or just moving fast? Whip your head round the wrong way and watch them sail across the room. Then have a panic while you check for cracks or scratches
My boss called me “Tyrone” on accident (My name is Tyrand). She apologized and bought me lunch to make up for it. I didn’t think twice about it, since I’m used to getting called every variant of “Ty-(fill in blank here)”. Then later on I read a quote she keeps in her work area that made me feel kinda special.
“During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade. “Absolutely,” said the professor. “In your careers you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say ‘Hello’.”
I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.“
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