#(Better than dying I suppose.)

[inkskinned]

you were raised in comparison.

it wasn't always obvious (well. except for the times that it was), but you internalized it young. you had to eat what you didn't like, other people are going hungry, and you should be grateful. you had to suck it up and walk on the twisted ankle, it wasn't broken, you were just being a baby. you were never actually suffering, people obviously had it worse than you did.

you had a roof over your head - imagine! with the way you behaved, with how you talked back to your parents? you're lucky they didn't kick you out on your ass. they had friends who had to deal with that. hell, you have friends who had to deal with that. and how dare you imply your father isn't there for you - just because he doesn't ever actually talk to you and just because he's completely emotionally checked out of your life doesn't mean you're not fucking lucky. think about your cousins, who don't even get to speak to their dad. so what if yours has a mean streak; is aggressive and rude. at least you have a father to be rude to you.

you really think you're hurting? you were raised in a home! you had access to clean water! you never so much as came close to experiencing a real problem. sure, okay. you have this "mental illness" thing, but teenagers are always depressed, right. it's a phase, you'll move on with your life.

what do you mean you feel burnt out at work. what do you mean you mean you never "formed healthy coping mechanisms?" we raised you better than that. you were supposed to just shoulder through things. to hold yourself to high expectations. "burning out" is for people with real jobs and real stress. burnout is for people who have sick kids and people who have high-paying jobs and people who are actually experiencing something difficult. recently you almost cried because you couldn't find your fucking car keys. you just have lost your sense of gratitude, and honestly, we're kind of hurt. we tell you we love you, isn't that enough? if you want us to stick around, you need to be better about proving it. you need to shut up about how your mental health is ruined.

it could be worse! what if you were actually experiencing executive dysfunction. if you were really actually sick, would you even be able to look at things on the internet about it? you just spend too much time on webMD. you just like to freak yourself out and feel like you belong to something. you just like playing the victim. this is always how you have been - you've always been so fucking dramatic. you have no idea how good you have it - you're too fucking sensitive.

you were like, maybe too good of a kid. unwilling to make a real fuss. and the whole time - the little points, the little validations - they went unnoticed. it isn't that you were looking for love, specifically - more like you'd just wanted any one person to actually listen. that was all you'd really need. you just needed to be witnessed. it wasn't that you couldn't withstand the burden, but you did want to know that anyone was watching. these days, you are so accustomed to the idea of comparison - you don't even think you belong in your own communities. someone always fits better than you do. you're always the outlier. they made these places safe, and then you go in, and you are just not... quite the same way that would actually-fit.

you watch the little white ocean of your numbness lap at your ankles. the tide has been coming in for a while, you need to do something about it. what you want to do is take a nap. what you want to do is develop some kind of time machine - it's not like you want your life to stop, not completely, but it would really nice if you could just get everything to freeze, just for a little while, just until you're finished resting. but at least you're not the worst you've been. at least you have anything. you're so fucking lucky. do you have any concept of the amount of global suffering?

a little ant dies at the side of your kitchen sink. you look at its strange chitinous body and think - if you could just somehow convince yourself it is enough, it will finally be enough and you can be happy. no changes will have to be made. you just need to remember what you could lose. what is still precious to you.

you can't stop staring at the ant. you could be an ant instead of a person, that is how lucky you are. it's just - you didn't know the name of the ant, did you. it's just - ants spend their whole life working, and never complain. never pull the car over to weep.

it's just - when it died, it curled up into a tight little ball.

something kind of uncomfortable: you do that when you sleep.

[moldy-flowers]

The interesting experience of being pro Sasuke, anti konoha, pro tobirama, anti Naruto ending, pro Sasusaku, anti Itachi, pro Sakura, anti SasuNaru, pro Tobirama×Izuna, anti Madara, pro karin, anti Orochimaru, pro Uchiha and anti Hashirama. And also as much as I hate the guy danzo was kind of hot when he was younger...

[assmaster-8000]

who took a picture of my ts ocs

[idknothingfancyihope]

okay i have thoughts about this

gojo is copying toji - the manga itself even draws attention to it and while its trying to play it iff as a joke i dont think it is

i think gojo deliberately chose to dress like toji

the only person who was able to defeat him, who was able to make him feel weak - and thus the one gojo subjectivelly sees as stronger than himelf

he is emulating toji to feel stronger

do you have any idea how crazy this makes me feel - toji made him feel powerless and now that hes in a similiar situation - the cube, sukuna, kenjaku, all the rest of the shit - he's returning back to this first experience and taking back that power

people more eloquent with words probably already talked about this but i just had to - it makes me a little crazy to think about just how deeply the fight with toji affected him

[arolegos]

actually comparing jinx to caitlyn is crazy i hate tiktok. they are not remotely the same. one is a grieving woman who turned to fascism, the other is a mentally unwell person who was raised in an insanely toxic environment that encouraged destruction and fed into her mind what she believes to be truth now. sorry i fucking love caitlyn but there is nooo wayyyy people on tt are justifying her fascism and turn to MARTIAL LAW. not that im saying jinx is all crimefree and has done no wrong but u see the difference. u KNOW the difference. u cannot say cait is unaware about the undercity bc she witnessed it all in s1. she literally wanted to defend them at first. but at the end of the day cait is in a position of power and privilege and is a COP!!!! and just because of grief and hatred shes LEADING MARTIAL LAWWWW YOURE KIDDING MEEEEE!!!!! yes yes yes i GET why she went there and i sympathize THAT DOESNT MAKE IT AGREEABLE WHY R U FREAKS ACTUALLY SAYING U AGREE W THE CHANGE!!!! "i wouldve done the same if jinx blablabla" DIE!!!! LASER BEAM!!! "jinx did bad things too" WE KNOWW!!!! SHE WAS RAISED TO DO IT!!!! CAIT WAS NOT!!!! CAIT KNEW BETTER SHE LITERALLY DID. I SAW SOMEONE SAY SHE SHOULDVE JUST SHOT EVEN IF IT HIT THE KID!!!! URE INSANE!!! ITS OK TO LIKE CAIT U DO NOT HAVE TO JUSTIFY HER FASCISM NOR TURN TO MARTIAL LAW?!??!?! JUST SAY U LIKE HER??!?! I DO THAT??! WTF?!??!?

[rad-hound]

Just received the most expensive injection of my life. God help us all.

[camscendants]

Oh he looks pretty good in thi-

[cuteniaarts]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall...

Who's the fairest of them all?

[nocterre]

kaneki didnt know what he had if naruto offered a bite or two sasuke never would have left the village

[lesbiansforboromir]

oh OH hO spicey ohhh having a spicey little tantrum about the boromir tag don't listen to me at all do NOT listen I mean it I mean it this is so petty

[danielnelsen]

there’s so much i wanna do this week/month/etc but i’m just too sick, i have no energy, i can’t sleep, i’m constantly nauseous and headachey and on the verge of a migraine, i’m stressed and irritable and impatient and panicky…….how tf did i survive nearly 5 years of high school untreated if i can’t even manage this when i don’t have any major obligations rn

[gch1995]

Why do you care about Vader's feelings so much? He doesn't deserve dignity. I hope Lucasfilm makes a story where he's captured by the Rebellion and brutally tortured until he's crying for Shmi. They'll use force suppressing devices and make him feel like the worthless slave he is

I care because Star Wars is primarily Anakin’s story, whether you like it or not. I care because Luke’s entire character arc in the OT films is pointless if Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda were always meant to be the perfect mentors, who did nothing wrong. I care, not just about Anakin’s feelings, but the feelings of every other Jedi recruit who had serious issues with the way the old Jedi Order and Republic operated.

I care, because if the Jedi are supposed to be the good guys, in spite of their flaws, then we should ultimately be rooting for them to rise again with Luke Skywalker. Because Anakin’s arc and feelings in the prequels are no longer treated as valid in the Disney era of Star Wars, that means Obi-Wan and Yoda are treated as being completely right all along, and the new Jedi Order cannot grow with Luke Skywalker in the current canon. The same bad choices and mistakes keep being made in the current canon because he follows his blatantly misguided predecessors, which was not implied at the end of the OT movies at all. While I would never agree that mass murder/genocide is the answer to deal with stopping them, because the current canon narrative ignores all the serious issues Anakin and his predecessors had, at least in part, because of the blatant corruption within the Order and Republic they grew up amongst, I’m also not too thrilled that Luke rebuilt the Order because he’s repeating all of their misguided choices and practices in current canon as a result.

[petra-creat0r]

I am thiiiiiiiiiiis close to throwing my laptop into the canal.

[mad-hunts]

[ HELD ]  for one muse to offer their hand out to the other to hold to comfort them.

as much as barton hated talking about it, there were times where getting hurt sometime during your life seemed to be unavoidable. and being sent to a place as foul as arkham asylum tended to more often than not force people into a period of suffering; one reason being because of the cruel, as well as unusual treatments that they made their patients endure. and another? well, because of the corrupt nature of a lot of the staff members. so when sibyl showed up to his doorstep that night soaked in rain and visibly very distraught from their latest 'stint' in arkham? barton knew what he had to do.

he had to do his best to make sibyl feel better, so after inviting them in and giving them a towel to dry off with, as well as some of his own spare clothes to change into — barton pretty much made sibyl look like a burrito with how tightly he wrapped them up in a blanket. gnawing at his bottom lip out of nervousness, the doctor then wondered what else he could do to help. they still hadn't said all but a few words to him after all. that's when barton got the idea to offer a hand to them to hold, just in case they needed that human connection right now. a faint and uncertain hum left his lips then.

❝ ahh... okay, i may not be the best at comforting people. but i want you to know that i'm here for you regardless of that. because i don't know what happened to you in there, but i can't imagine that it was anything good. so whether you need to talk, or if you'd rather just sit here with me, i promise you i'm not going anywhere. ❞ barton turned to give sibyl most reassuring smile he could manage, ❝ i love you after all. i mean, you're the closest thing i've ever had to a sibling, you know that? ❞

[infizero]

hold the phone guys i've just been informed that in the manga light's death is even MORE pathetic. this is fucking awesome oh i cant wait

[jackass-jones]

Girl like. The reason he said "this is how it should be" and faced death with a smile....is cuz he wanted to die. For 2 years he sat there thinking he was worthless and deserved to die. If he hadn’t be shot, his death would’ve been suicide, he was fully planning to die in a gutter somewhere undetected. When saying "this is how it should be" hes literally saying "don’t cry because I’m dying, my death is a good thing actually because I fucking suck and you are better off without me". I don’t think that’s badass even slightly, it’s actually really sad and really shitty. Shinjiro is so convinced that he deserves to die and hates the idea of anyone giving a shit about him because he literally can’t wrap his mind around the idea that he will be missed when he’s gone, that his death is a bad thing actually. And his last words were meant to be comforting because he fully did not intend for anyone to be there when he died, he intended to die alone, so he says them as a reminder that he’s not worth crying over

Personally, if it were me, if I was holding my dying best friend in my arms who was deeply depressed and suicidal and he said "this is how it should be" uh. I wouldn’t admire him for it??? Like am I losing my mind when I say the way this game handles Shinji is bad or is anyone else seeing this too 😰