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]

Hot Single Asari Matriarchs In Your Area!

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.

 

[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.

 

[redsnowbunny]

the gold used to repair the broken pot accentuates the beauty of both elements.

I think you're thinking of Kintsugi..

Here's the difference

Wabi-sabi (侘寂)
is a Japanese aesthetic and worldview centered on finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness, embracing natural cycles of growth, decay, and the raw, simple, and rustic.
It's about appreciating the authentic beauty of weathered objects, natural flaws like cracks in pottery, aged wood, or moss on a rock, and the quiet, humble aspects of life, contrasting with Western ideals of manufactured perfection.


kintsugi
/ˈkɪntsəɡi,kɪntˈsuːɡi/

the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining pieces back together and filling cracks with lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, thereby highlighting the flaws in the mended object.
An aesthetic or world view characterized by embracing imperfection and treating healing as an essential part of human experience.
"with a kintsugi mindset, we can reframe mistakes as opportunities"

 

[ElectricBlue]

I think you're thinking of Kintsugi..

Here's the difference

Wabi-sabi (侘寂)
is a Japanese aesthetic and worldview centered on finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness, embracing natural cycles of growth, decay, and the raw, simple, and rustic.
It's about appreciating the authentic beauty of weathered objects, natural flaws like cracks in pottery, aged wood, or moss on a rock, and the quiet, humble aspects of life, contrasting with Western ideals of manufactured perfection.


kintsugi
/ˈkɪntsəɡi,kɪntˈsuːɡi/

the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining pieces back together and filling cracks with lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, thereby highlighting the flaws in the mended object.
An aesthetic or world view characterized by embracing imperfection and treating healing as an essential part of human experience.
"with a kintsugi mindset, we can reframe mistakes as opportunities"

Like most things Japanese, there's subtlety and subtlety. All of my reading of wabi-sabi has included golden repair as an example of the philosophy.

Thanks for drawing my attention to kintsugi, I've not seen the repair itself defined separately, a meaning inside another meaning.

 

[redsnowbunny]

Like most things Japanese, there's subtlety and subtlety. All of my reading of wabi-sabi has included golden repair as an example of the philosophy.

Thanks for drawing my attention to kintsugi, I've not seen the repair itself defined separately, a meaning inside another meaning.

Japanese culture and philosophy are extremely fascinating and the concepts are very nuanced.
I discovered kintsugi first and only after that I was introduced to the concept of Wabi-Sabi.
I hope , one day, to visit Japan.
in the meantime, sometimes I read this. It's fascinating.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Ahsophism



When you post something on the AH, then get reminded, 'ah, so everyone else has already been talking about this'.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

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These are good. I can relate to a lot of them. Especially Onism, which is a large part of why I write (not to be confused with 'Onanism', which is another large part of why I write... ). I often wish I could shape-shift at will to experience sex from the perspective of a different body with different parts, to explore every kind of sex. I've purposely kept my gender ambiguous on here, largely for that reason as well.

 

[ElectricBlue]

These are good. I can relate to a lot of them. Especially Onism, which is a large part of why I write (not to be confused with 'Onanism', which is another large part of why I write... ). I often wish I could shape-shift at will to experience sex from the perspective of a different body with different parts, to explore every kind of sex. I've purposely kept my gender ambiguous on here, largely for that reason as well.

Very very true! I've found, over the years I've developed as a writer, that the more I go into myself to explore, and the more I write about what I find, that includes cross gender fantasies. Being able to write about them freely, with curiosity but no shame, it's kind of liberating, nicely kinky, and very erotic.

My breakthrough story in that regard is this one - Songs of Seduction - Water - only 7300 words, which explore ideas that came from nowhere.

My latest story has a transgender theme, which appears to have hit a sweet chord with a small group of readers. It's got my long-standing character Adam, meets a femme, but I'm not 100% who I'm living vicariously through.

Meet Me on the Five-Thirty Train (two parts so far, I'm writing Ch.03 now).