23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

[EmmAgain]

I spent time in Brazil. They have a term there - saudade - which means, like, a deep, sad yearning for something that may not even exist.

I think most of us experience that at some stage or another.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

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Well, I said this in this thread...

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

...and I'm the one showing my true colors being a single Asari matron looking for a Quarian girlfriend by N7 shitposting. I am truly the greatest at self-fulfilling prophecies! I will get the Oracle award, which is of course shaped like a pair of titties! A goddess' pair of titties!

 

[YmaOHyd]

...and I'm the one showing my true colors being a single Asari matron looking for a Quarian girlfriend by N7 shitposting. I am truly the greatest at self-fulfilling prophecies! I will get the Oracle award, which is of course shaped like a pair of titties! A goddess' pair of titties!

Are you sure it's not the Consort Award for Best Fortune-Telling Geisha? Which is of course shaped like a pair of titties?

 

[PennyThompson]

Compersion -- The feeling of joy that one experiences for another person's happiness, even when one is not directly involved.

Kind of like the opposing corner of a triangle with jealousy and schadenfreude in the other corners.

I learned about this one while researching my most recent story, the word was invented by a sex cult in the 1990s and was embraced as a term by polyamory communities!

 

[Z_TheWriter]

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

I kinda see it... If I squint, and maybe take off my glasses

Also I'm joining the hunt for Quarian girlfriends, Tali can get it.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Hanargraphilia - The intense desire to write erotic Blasto fan fiction
EnKindle - The device on which to read erotic Blasto fan fiction.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Hanargraphilia - The intense desire to write erotic Blasto fan fiction
EnKindle - The device on which to read erotic Blasto fan fiction.

This one thought it was about all Hanar erotica, not exclusively Blasto.

They have tentacles...

 

[PennyThompson]

Hanargraphilia - The intense desire to write erotic Blasto fan fiction
EnKindle - The device on which to read erotic Blasto fan fiction.

okay you're cool, we can be friends

 

[Z_TheWriter]

okay you're cool, we can be friends

Omg omg omg the cool girl says we can be friends!
*faints*

 

[PennyThompson]

the cool girl

*stops chewing on the bite of donut in my mouth and turns around, trying to see the cool girl*

 

[Z_TheWriter]

*stops chewing on the bite of donut in my mouth and turns around, trying to see the cool girl*

Ok seriously Penny, I love us trying to out-uncool each other
But it's past midnight, so you win this round.

 

[StrangerDuJour]

I spent time in Brazil. They have a term there - saudade - which means, like, a deep, sad yearning for something that may not even exist.

I think most of us experience that at some stage or another.

I've heard it described as the longing to experience [again] that which has never actually been experienced.

 

[YmaOHyd]

"Mottainai," regret of waste or inefficiency, or the feeling of loss when something's value is not used fully. If you buy a lemon and use half the lemon in cooking, and a week later you feel sad when you toss the other half of the lemon, that's mottainai. If you ever watched subtitled Japanese movies or TV, you'll hear 'mottainai' said if you listen for it, and the subtitled translation will be something like "what a waste." It's often said when a character dies trying to do something foolhardy but brave.

"Wabi-sabi" is among the most untranslatable concepts in Japanese art. It's like... your kid brought home a coffee mug they made in their pottery unit in second grade art, and you love it even though it looks like an ashtray? Wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi is about appreciating the authenticity of things that are imperfect, incomplete and impermanent. Mono no aware is the beauty of transience, the moment just before a thing is no longer. Wabi-sabi is about the thing across its whole cycle, finding moments of beauty at every point, even and especially in the flaws, which remind us of the nature of the world and how nothing in it is ever truly perfect.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Compersion -- The feeling of joy that one experiences for another person's happiness, even when one is not directly involved.

Kind of like the opposing corner of a triangle with jealousy and schadenfreude in the other corners.

I learned about this one while researching my most recent story, the word was invented by a sex cult in the 1990s and was embraced as a term by polyamory communities!

Me too, for this story:

You're My Last Flight

 

[ElectricBlue]

"Wabi-sabi" is among the most untranslatable concepts in Japanese art. It's like... your kid brought home a coffee mug they made in their pottery unit in second grade art, and you love it even though it looks like an ashtray? Wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi is about appreciating the authenticity of things that are imperfect, incomplete and impermanent. Mono no aware is the beauty of transience, the moment just before a thing is no longer. Wabi-sabi is about the thing across its whole cycle, finding moments of beauty at every point, even and especially in the flaws, which remind us of the nature of the world and how nothing in it is ever truly perfect.

Wabi-sabi is pretty much my favourite Japanese concept - the gold used to repair the broken pot accentuates the beauty of both elements.