23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

[KittyOfSteele]

I feel like if I keep observing this thread I'll be watching the AH slowly morphing into themselves.

 

[PennyThompson]

I feel like if I keep observing this thread I'll be watching the AH slowly morphing into themselves.

Sapir-Whorf isn't a hypothesis, it's a threat!

 

[Britva415]

23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

Did you just... explain them?

 

[RetroFan]

One that definitely influences my writing - Anemoia - nostalgia for a time period you never experienced.

I have experienced that most frequently when writing stories set in the 1950s and 1960s, contrasting with for example 1990s set stories where I feel nostalgia from past memories.

Does anyone else have anemoia?

 

[cw5523729]

Did you just... explain them?

Yes but it was supposed to be a secret. Now you just let everyone know. I hope you're happy.

 

[cw5523729]

Does anyone else have anemoia?

Yes but my primary care doc said to take some iron pills to treat it

 

[PennyThompson]

One that definitely influences my writing - Anemoia - nostalgia for a time period you never experienced.

I have experienced that most frequently when writing stories set in the 1950s and 1960s, contrasting with for example 1990s set stories where I feel nostalgia from past memories.

Does anyone else have anemoia?

I have anemoia for the 1980's and 1990's...

I fiddled with a story about finding love at the Blockbuster Video a while ago, and I got very conflicting reports of what it smelled like
*Runs away from the Gen Xers*

 

[RetroFan]

I have anemoia for the 1980's and 1990's...

I fiddled with a story about finding love at the Blockbuster Video a while ago, and I got very conflicting reports of what it smelled like
*Runs away from the Gen Xers*

I've written 1980s and 1990s stories that lean heavily into tropes that were popular around this time with Generation X, for example a Summer Loving story a few years ago 'Tonya, Tiffany & the Twins' which is a slacker surfer dude comedy set in 1989, when slacker movies were pretty common.

Unfortunately there couldn't have been too many Gen X or people with nostalgia for the late 1980s among the IT readers, as they hated the story and said how stupid it was.

 

[Actingup]

I have anemoia for the 1980's and 1990's...

I fiddled with a story about finding love at the Blockbuster Video a while ago, and I got very conflicting reports of what it smelled like
*Runs away from the Gen Xers*

Don’t be scared, little girl. You just have to know who to trust.

 

[PennyThompson]

Don’t be scared, little girl. You just have to know who to trust.

Jesus christ acting I am at work

 

[Z_TheWriter]

I have anemoia for the 1980's and 1990's...

I fiddled with a story about finding love at the Blockbuster Video a while ago, and I got very conflicting reports of what it smelled like
*Runs away from the Gen Xers*

Welp I thought I was one of the young'uns in this place, but apparently you've got me beat.

I do have anemoia for the 80s. I think growing up in the 90s and 00s, watching a lot of 80s movies, that whole synthwave thing is just ingrained in my psyche. But since it comes from movies, it's really the US in the 80s I have it for, not here.

 

[Actingup]

Jesus christ acting I am at work

Oh…ok, just watch this training video and come back to me with any questions.

 

[PennyThompson]

Oh…ok, just watch this training video and come back to me with any questions.

• I am obsessed with Blockbuster Girl's hair
• Why is this so sexually charged
• "Hi Kristin, how's it going?" "Pretty bogus actually..."
• Video man is so creepy
• I think I have my On The Job 2026 concept now, and it's possible that it belongs in Erotic Horror

 

[ElectricBlue]

Sorry, rejected for suspected use of AI

I pulled it from Tumblr, I first saw the list (or similar) years ago, long before ChatGPT etc.

 

[Off_base]

I pulled it from Tumblr, I first saw the list (or similar) years ago, long before ChatGPT etc.

Oh, sorry.
I thought the new policy was that everything gets an automatic rejection for suspicion of AI

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

I’d like to propose an addition, and in honor of the abundance of Germanic loan words in the list:

Künstlicheintelligenzsschamangst

Or the slightly anglicized version: AI-schamangst

AI-shame-angst, or the fear of rejection for using AI.

Someone who speaks proper German please let me know if I’m on to something here.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

One that definitely influences my writing - Anemoia - nostalgia for a time period you never experienced.

I have experienced that most frequently when writing stories set in the 1950s and 1960s, contrasting with for example 1990s set stories where I feel nostalgia from past memories.

Does anyone else have anemoia?

Yeah, for the 80s. The 2180s, that is, not the 1980s. Sure, nothing can go wrong in the- ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Yeah, for the 80s. The 2180s, that is, not the 1980s. Sure, nothing can go wrong in the- ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!

 

[TheLobster]

Someone who speaks proper German please let me know if I’m on to something here.

You probably need to remove the first e and instead stick it before Scham to comply with German phonotactics. But other than that, seems good to me — except I haven’t really used German in like a decade, so copious application of NaCl is recommended.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Yet again, Mass Effect is the Official Media Franchise of Literotica.

 

[ColtonWrites]

Yet again, Mass Effect is the Official Media Franchise of Literotica.

Maybe I should play it sometime. Not big on FPS usually, but if the consensus of authors here is that its worthwhile based on story, maybe I should give it a chance.

 

[PennyThompson]

Yet again, Mass Effect is the Official Media Franchise of Literotica.

The front page Literotica Lady is canonically Miranda Lawson in a cocktail dress, I will not be taking questions at this time

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Yet again, Mass Effect is the Official Media Franchise of Literotica.

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[YmaOHyd]

Maybe I should play it sometime. Not big on FPS usually, but if the consensus of authors here is that its worthwhile based on story, maybe I should give it a chance.

It's very Trek-y, and very horny. And Penny is right that the Lit mascot is Troubleshooting Space Diva Miranda.

 

[YmaOHyd]

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When Aethyta says "sorry, babe, no sex. I just cleaned the bar"?