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(Sh! This is a new Hug Page. You can find the old one here)
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A note from BlogTeam: From now on, we will no longer moderate comments on the Hug Page that go into specific detail about events. Instead, commenters will post in a vague manner, such as “I’m having a bad day, I could really use some hugs”, and other BlogClanners are welcome to provide comfort and support. This change is not because of any specific event or person, but because it is extremely difficult to mitigate questionable comments and determine what parts of certain comments are suitable to moderate, as well as making sure that replies with advice are in no way harmful to the original poster or others. If you ever feel like you need advice about a serious situation, you are welcome to reach out to BlogTeam, because your health and safety is our top priority. However, no one on BlogTeam is or has ever been a mental health professional in any way, and all we can do is provide advice. We implore you to always reach out to a trusted adult or hotline (listed above) about a situation that worries you. You are still welcome to come to the Hug Page if you need any hugs or comfort from your BlogClan peers, but the cause of your distress can no longer be explained——no matter the situation. Thank you so much for understanding <3
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So last night my mom got mad and my sister and I because I don’t do math when I should. Yes I procrastinate. Yes I absolutely HATE math. I don’t get help when I should. I’m too afraid to ask cause I feel like I’m stupid. Everyone is good at math (that I know). My sister used to hate math but now she loves it. It honestly depends on the environment though. Well anyway my mom got mad and my sister defended me but said I really should do math. My mom started making threats and stuff (like taking away privileges). I honestly feel like math is the only subject that literally makes people cry 😛 I just kept scowling at them and said that I will never use math except for bills and taxes (I shouldn’t have said this because I knew that math was super important). My mom then started saying a few bad words to my sister about something they argued over two nights ago. I then went up to take a shower after being glared at once more. I almost cried because I know I don’t do things when I should. I’m not responsible and it makes me mad. I will try harder next time but it’s like all my life revolves over doing well in math. Well after calming myself down taking a shower, I heard my sister and mom laughing downstairs. I was half scowling when I came down but at least my sister got to make me smile (this is why I love Hollylight). So we all went to bed and I just kinda stared up at the ceiling wondering how my math life could get worse because I’m a stupid irresponsible child.
Well guess what. Yeah this morning I still hate math. But I came down and my mom hugged me and apologized and said she was tired and stressed last night. She still said that we needed to find a good solution for me to do math (make math fun or tolerable somehow) but other than that she said she was sorry and that she loved me.
Guys everyone says mean things when they’re tired or stressed. Forgive them and move forward. Forgive yourself. 🙂 Give them a hug even. They may push you away but my sister has always found a way to make me smile even when I’m mad. I say this from experience.
“Words spoken in the heat of anger are never from the heart.”
“People make bad choices if they’re mad or scared or stressed, but throw a little love their way. True love brings out the best.” ~ Frozen (female troll), Fixer Upper (I love this quote from this song don’t judge me)
Oh and Frozen is a great movie it really does teach you some things. 🙂 Yes I love Frozen 😛 I’ve gotten bashed plenty of times by angry haters of Frozen.
Thanks for reading. Work hard and never give up. No ones just going to hand you knowledge and smarts. You have to work at it. That gold star isn’t just going to fall off of the tree into your hands. You have to go get a ladder (if you are not tall enough) and reach it. Don’t shake the tree. That’s “cheating” and it will put you into a big mess. I’ve cheated on math plenty of times when I was younger. If you want to be a vet, you need to work for it. If you want to be an actor/actress, you need to work for it. Stay strong and don’t let other people’s words get you down. What they say may not be from their heart but you don’t know their story or what’s going on in their life (or their head). Just breathe. Let your tears out if you need to. But the sun will come out tomorrow. I know that this isn’t always the case but for those who have hope and faith, it is. Have faith in what you can do. You have no idea what you are capable of. 😉
I have the exact problem 😛. I procrastinate and have a grade I’m not proud of in math. My mom told me to do my math work in study hall but I didn’t do it. I’ll see how that goes 😛
I am not the best at math either, when I got all A’s on my report card but one B my parents focused on that one B. The B was in math. I was hurt that they didn’t notice how great the rest of my report card was. Thanks for the advice Foxy! It helped with this 🙂
The sad truth unfortunately. You can accomplish so many amazing things but then you make just one flaw/mistake and all the focus goes to THAT ONE MISTAKE. We all focus on the negative these days. *sighs*
You are important. Don’t forget that. You are like a star, without you, your constellation is not complete. Please, although you may not know it, we love you. You are one, but part of an important foundation, and without you, we would collapse.
BlogClan is an amazing place. This place is bursting with love for another, like one big family of diversity, of all age, races, but we are each known equal. Without you, BlogClan would be deeply affected.
You are important.
You are important.
You are important.
You are important.
You are important.
YOU ARE IMPORTANT.
And don’t ever forget that. ❤️❤️
There are 2 people on here who keep on saying bad things about my favorite character Ivypool. It really hurts my feelings. I respect their opinions but they seem to hate everyone who likes her. 😢
I myself dislike Ivypool, but I never show outright hate towards anyone. I get hate for liking Dovewing, do you really think I’d want to do that to others? What you’re saying is hurting me, because I’ve never shown hate for anyone who likes Ivypool. I respect your feelings, but you just assumed something of me and I really don’t like it when others do that.
And there’s always going to be people who dislike your favorite characters, and that’s something that you’ll just have to accept. I’m not trying to be harsh, but your comment also hurts me because I’m also a human being.
Okay so me and my dad got into a major argument because i built a nerf tank. yes a nerf tank. it was really hard but me and my friends did it. and now dad hates me for it.
He hates guns, shooting stuff, nerf guns, tanks, and computers. any advice on how to make him not hate me for building a tank?
(the tank still is awesome)
My gravatar won’t work. I logged in and set it, but it’s not showing.
Looks like it’s working to me 😛 I’ve found that it takes a minute (it depends) for the gravatar to pop up. Sometimes I have to exit gravatar and BlogClan and wait a moment and then click back in and then the gravatar shows.
I have really bad self-esteem and anxiety/paranoia issues. I’ll mope and stress about the pettiest things for days on end and literally think of nothing else. But I was just about getting through that, mainly as I had just about ticked off my list of dumb things to worry about, until the Warriors fandom suddenly became overrun by petty and whiny jerks. If I try stating that I dislike Mapleshade/like Appledusk online anywhere (save for BlogClan), I instantly just get bombarded with passive aggressive and sometimes just downright rude responses. I try my best not to take it to heart, but I still end up dwelling on everything they say for days on end, and it’s like torture. I just want to have civil debates and share opinions, but it literally just turns into an edgy lynch cult hhhhhhhhh.
While it’s good to let your anger out, I think most of Blogclan knows that you love Appledusk. And that is totally fine! But you’ve posted a lot about this subject and while its ok to rant, sometimes too much is overwhelming. Blogclan is a safe site and people usually aren’t rude so hopefully you aren’t taking all of this out on us. We try our best to respect other people’s opinions and I am perfectly fine with yours. I never hated Appledusk. I hope you understand where I’m coming from 🙂 Blogclan should at least be a safe place where you can express your opinion. Yes there are people who hate Appledusk and that is fine. There are people who hate Mapleshade. That is fine too. And while both sides of this debate may get fired up and angry, don’t take it out on the person (I am speaking to everyone here). Hate the character, not the person who likes the character you hate! There will always be people though who don’t listen to this and take it out on the angry fans/haters. And that is normal. But for a future lesson, this would be good. For example, you disowned me as your “child” because I love the FeatherxNight ship. I don’t know if you were joking or not but I felt kind of hurt. However I try not to dwell on it. People’s opinions can hurt. I understand that. It hurts and it’s annoying when someone doesn’t agree with you. Especially when they like to shove it in your face and rant about it. That’s tough and it’s rude. I hate debating because I know I suck at it and I probably won’t be able to defend my opinion. But I lash out anyway sometimes. And it puts me in a big mess, believe me. As the saying says, “Don’t fight fire with fire.” If an argument is about to break out, stop it as soon as possible. And by that I mean don’t argue if that person doesn’t agree with you. Of course you can say a few things in defense but if the argument starts to build, then there’s no point in talking any more because no one will change the other person’s opinion. That is their opinion and they most likely will stick to it unless some miracle happens. People probably won’t do this cause they want to get THEIR opinion out. And that’s normal but I totally agree that it’s kind of rude and hurtful when angry fans or haters swarm you constantly. You are only trying to express your opinion freely (what happened to freedom of speech, am I right?). And that’s great. You go girl you tell them what you think! But there is a limit. Too much of your opinion can be annoying sometimes. This goes for others as well. So overall we all should tell ourselves to think before we speak. Now there are lots of people who don’t do this lol. But we should work on it, ya know?
T = is it Truthful?
H = is it Helpful?
I = is it Inspiring?
N = is it Necessary?
K = is it Kind?
I never knew the Warriors fandom could get so….edgy 😛 But of course I think every fandom has a lot of haters and fans of different characters (and ships) in that fandom.
Hopefully I didn’t sound mean! That was not my intention at all. I hope everyone calms down a bit though in the debate 😛 But ya know as they all say, “The haters gonna hate, hate, hate…..” (sorry I had too haha). Huggles!!
“I’m not scared to be seen, I make no apologies, this is (my opinion)!” 😛
my school’s obsessed with the ‘THINK’ theme 😛
Yes, my school has the ‘THINK’ thing too 😛
I’m so sorry! It’s definitely not ok that people are being aggressive about your opinion! If they do this again, try and say, ¨Can you please not be so aggressive, it is just my opinion.¨ After all, everyone should be able to express their opinions freely. Also, I’m sorry I’m not the best at giving advice!
It’s okay. I want to let you know that the real villains in Mapleshade’s Vengeance are Mapleshade and Frecklewish. *hugs* I love Appledusk. 🙂
One month ago we were playing a pushing game with my class (don’t ask why) and I pushed one of the girls and she tripped over her legs and fell. Everyone got over it, she didn’t really hurt herself only a little on her arm. They went to the doctor because her parents are over protective and took two X-rays which both showed it was alright and not broken or sprained. She got better, then two weeks later she broke her arm and said it was my fault because of her fall. My whole class started calling me killer. Today a psychologist came into our class and talked about self esteem. She made everyone go out to the front of the class and the others had to say a good thing about them. When it was my turn 4/10 was: You’re a great killer, you’re great at pushing others and I just wanted to get out of class and cry. I never cry in school and always show a strong front. I went to the girl’s bathroom to cool down, wash my face after class but then the girls of my class followed me and acted like I had no right to be angry at them. I’m feeling both angry and sad right now. I hate being blamed for something I didn’t do. Plus in every class the girl says she can’t write because she broke her arm because I pushed her and she waits for the teachers to start pitying her and being angry at me.
ARGH!!! Sorry, Wolfie! I know how you feel. Can you possibly talk to your teachers about the situation???
I’m so sorry Wolfpaw. I understand what its like to be blamed for something you didn’t do. But as long as you know your innocent, just try to ignore your classmates. If they start to bully you, even more, talk to an adult, no one has any right to treat you like that.
Aww man this sounds horrible. That sounds so disrespectful of those other people…Honestly I wouldn’t do no better than you in this situation. I also keep a strong front at school (or like to at least) and try my best to never cry. But if you did cry, maybe people would realize how much you felt hurt by this. I really suggest apologizing to the girl that broke her arm. Let me get something straight: I think that girl is being honestly kinda petty but if you act like it was your fault and feel bad instead of sort of denying it, I feel like it’ll make the whole thing sorta calm down. Sometimes what people really want is an apology but they haven’t got the guts to ask. I know you have the guts to do whatever you feel is right 🙂 Also tell other people if they call you killer, “Hey. I feel really bad that I broke her arm, and it makes me feel worse when you call me ‘killer’. So please stop.” I hope you get what I’m trying to say and hopefully this is okay advice. Good luck and *huggles!!* 🙂
so, uh. got the cast list for my school’s musical back today. they didn’t even cast me in the chorus. and EVERYBODY i’ve talked to says that even if you’re a bad singer they will cast you in the chorus. so i must have done REALLY BADLY. i knew i screwed up my singing audition, but i didn’t screw it up that badly. everyone i’ve ever sung for tells me i’m not a crappy singer. which means they were lying. so what else have people been lying to me about?
sorry this is dumb, i’m just pretty upset rn
Hey, you’re probably an amazing singer! ❤ I know it’s hard, but please don’t beat yourself up about it. You are great at so many things. Don’t immediately jump to the conclusion that everyone is lying to you – because I am sure they’re not. ❤ I’m sorry I can’t help more, Kinky, but I can tell you that you are awesomely kinktacular. 🙂
Don’t be so hard on yourself, Kinky ❤️ To be honest, it takes a lot of guts to actually have the courage to audition. Many of the people auditioning will have had years of vocal coaching and experience. If you want to improve your singing, try a singing teacher or online lessons. Also, many good singers don’t start at a young age. For example, I think George Salazar who plays Michael in Be More Chill started singing and all that when he was 16, and he’s a fab singer?? 😀 Also, I’m sure that people aren’t always lying to you, we always assume that people are harsher and judgier (is that even a word) than they really are most of the time 🙂
I’m not the best at advice but I hope you feel better soon :))
I’m so sorry, Kinky 🙁 But please don’t let this get you down! I know a lot of talented people who auditioned for stuff but didn’t get in. And think about it this way — why would people go to the trouble of ‘lying’ to you about your voice when they could just say nothing? (did that make sense?) Point is, please just remember that you’re an amazing person, and never give up <3
Never give up! And don’t ever take rejection personally. It only takes one yes and if you keep trying the yes comes eventually! 🙂
Aww Kinky <3 You're probably an amazing singer! Don't let them get you down, don't take the rejection to heart. I bet you'll do amazing next time! *hugs* <3
Things have been bad lately with soccer, basketball, school play, PT, strings, color guard, and friend drama. Oh, my dog just died and my grandma is very ill and will pass away very soon.
I’m so sorry Luna! I know what its like to lose a dog, but just know he/she is in a better place. 🙂 Also, don’t give up hope for your gramma, even if she does die, she will always be with you. I miss my gramma every day, but I can always feel a part of her is still with me.
I know I rant alot but I really messed up. One of my friends is dating a boy but only their parents and I know. (She is my friend from another school from where we moved out 2 years ago.) I was chatting with one of my other friends and she asked if they are dating. I totally forgot that she didn’t know if it was true and said yes. Right after I sent it I realised that she must have only heard it as gossip. I told my friend (the one who is dating) and she said fine, and that she doesn’t care but I still feel awful. She trusted me with her secret and I told someone else.
To everyone worried about being kidnapped:
I recently read Percy Jackson and I started to think of it as all the kid who go missing as demigods going to Camp Half-Blood. Think of it this way. 🙂
My dad gets the newspaper everyday but the missing kid section seems to be growing. 🙁
But they’re all demigods learning to kick butt and fight monsters! 😉
My grandma passed away this morning. My dog passed away last month. I broke my foot.
*Hugs* May your grandma and dog Rest In Peace. I hope you feel better and your foot heals!
I’m sorry Lunaheart! Sometimes things in this world seem mean and awful, and like everything is out to get us.
When you start thinking about your grandma, or your dog, think about how lucky you were to know them when you did!
I never met my grandma, she died when I was a baby. So I take every moment I can to spend time with my other grandma.
You are amazing and you will make it through! It hurts now, I know.
*huggles*
My emotions are building up. Schools hard as always. I’m stressed. It seems like no one cares. I’m kinda thinking of running away ( I’m most likely not gonna) take all the stuff I care about most and leave. I’m leaving the blog several days or more and come back or not. These emotions have been building up for days. I want to cry but I don’t want to look weak or have people asking me what’s wrong. I’ve only cried once of all my years school and several times this year at home. Idk what to do. It kinda seems like people don’t respect my feelings or my space. I just need hugs and advice.
I don’t have any advice, but…
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*infinite huggles*