forget wanderlust, sonder, all those words for vague dreamy feelings… what I’m asking for is a concise word for the feeling you get when someone makes an assumption about you that’s 100% correct but you really don’t like that anyone was able to make that assumption. for now I’m calling it a fuckor
“he asked me ‘you main junkrat right’ and a wave of fuckor wracked my feeble body”
send me asks. make me tremble with fuckor
Someone walked up to me in Barnes and Noble like 4 years ago and asked me where the Manga section was. I told them where, but I also let them know that i didn’t work there. They kind of shrugged then looked me dead in the eyes and said.
“Idk, you just looked like you might know.”
I changed my complete aesthetic after hearing that come to jesus, god fearing, exposé of a line.
last year i was shopping for groceries and this woman came up to me and asked me “excuse me, you’re a gamer aren’t you?”
and i wasn’t really offended by the question. i’m a tubby white guy with a beard and generally unkempt hair. i don’t know what shirt i was wearing but it was most assuredly a black tee shirt with a Pop Culture Reference on it. it’s a reasonable assumption to make.
i answer “yes” and get ready to answer a question about a video game or something, like maybe this is a mom asking me about what nintendo to get her kid or something
“i thought so,” she said. “you have that walk. that’s how i could tell.” and then she turned and walked away.
if there was ever a situation that filled me with fucktor, it was that one. i still think about it to this day. the gamer walk.
