seaglassquotes

[seaglassquotes]

I had a dream last night that I was learning about how the universe works

The think the universe was expanding into was the multiverse and you could track the choices made and things happening that chose which multiverses the universe expanded into

[seaglassquotes]

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

[seaglassquotes]

We played tag a thousand years ago

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

[seaglassquotes]

artist: k1rap1pa 🎶

[seaglassquotes]

Me realizing Jason Grace and Piper McLean are like a perfect golden retriever x black cat couple

Then realizing Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque are and even more stereotypical golden retriever x black cat

Then realizing Nico Di Angelo and Will Solace is maybe the epitome of golden retriever x black cat

Then realizing Rick has a CRAZY affinity for golden retriever x black cat relationships

[seaglassquotes]

we need to bring back this tweet now more than ever

[seaglassquotes]

[seaglassquotes]

I just finished reading House of Hades for the first time and I was honestly so shaken by it I'm struggling to move on to Blood of Olympus because I'm just REELING

What a beautiful way to format Percy coming to terms with so much of his trauma all at once.

The Arai, the curse demons, are such an incredible way to express some of the ways trauma presents itself. These demons that are immediate reminders of all the things Percy has been through and every time he defeats one he has to fully come to terms with the other entities perspective.

He's constantly re-encountering some of the most difficult times he's been through in his life this time with much less help.

Bob the Titan is such an important lesson and reminder in the way that when we are struggling we forget to recognize the people that help us most. We forget to build community around ourselves because we are so fight of flight. But the people who are with us through that are the ones who help us most later. Damasen is a beautiful representation of Percy learning that lesson the second time around. This time having come to terms with the Arai curses, and being healed by Damasen and feeling so crushingly guilty about the way he left Bob he chooses, in his time of greatest struggle, to look at things from the perspective of Damasen and give him the courage to stand up to the drakon and Tartarus.

And of course, none of it without Annabeth. Annabeth is there for all of it. And through all of it experiences all of her own trauma over again too. But the two of them are so in tune with the other by now that they flawlessly carry each other through Tartarus and openly help each other cope with the loss of Bob and Damasen.

And don't even get me started in the journey of Bob learning to choose his fate and inspiring Damasen to do so because if I talk about it I'll sob uncontrollably.

Or Piper learning that her value is so much more than what she previously perceived it to be and growing into her role as one of the Seven and not just Jason's Girlfriend The Daughter Of Aphrodite.

Such a beautiful incredible book i am so crushed by the feelings all of it made me feel. If there were one I was going to go back and read over and over this would be it because oh my god.

[seaglassquotes]

Being known in a time of distress when the people around you don't know you're in distress is so mortifying later.

I would literally hop states just to never see anyone who knew me when i lived with my dad or my abusive ex ever again.

Old coworkers, old acquaintances, anyone not close enough to know what was going on and just thought I was losing my marbles. I have to see all the time and just deal with the "uh.. hi"s

Like bb that's not me anymore. It wasn't really me then. Please don't pretend like I'm crazy or incompetent I'm good now. I did the work.

[seaglassquotes]

When I was growing up in the church at one point there was a speaker who was talking about the popularity of the walking dead. He said he felt that what was really engaging to kids watching the show is that we related to the zombies in the show because we also felt dead inside. Obviously a generally stupid sentiment. I have never heard someone say they relate to the plight of the zombie because the zombie is a machine. It would be like relating to a Venus fly trap. 

I do think that what is engaging about zombie fiction is how often it ends up being a conversation about humanity. The walking dead is one of the most gripping pieces of zombie media because of how hard the characters fight to hold on to their humanity. How many times can someone be hurt, have their trust broken, lose someone they love, before they become like the monsters that surround them. And the walking dead proudly makes the assertion of never. Not for everyone, but for enough. The strength and beauty of that sentiment is really hard to deny. It challenges us to rise above in our daily lives not because we have to, but because that's where strength truly lies. Not to live perfectly, because all of the characters in the series fail that by a large margin. To always strive for love and community, which eventually does lead them to a new civilization

[seaglassquotes]

[seaglassquotes]

[seaglassquotes]

[seaglassquotes]

[seaglassquotes]

History is a cycle that we can inturrupt

[seaglassquotes]

[seaglassquotes]