#Did it hurt?

[kayurka]

I am a happy rat

[clockworkbee]

Did it hurt? When you realized no one loves you like they're being ripped in half?

[neeksxoxo]

if kit searches up cheesy pick-up lines and try to use them on ty, but ty just looks with a confused blank face, and kits like nevermind, but one day when he tries one, ty says the second line to him, and kit almost faints from blushing like a fool, ill riot but in a good way

[nyikondlovu]

I was on the side of Coffee Theory™, until my friend sat me down and said “I need you to be so fucking serious right now and think. use that thing upstairs!”

So as much as I would love to say the decision taken at the end by Aziraphale was not him… It definitely was. Here’s the whole thing: he’s fighting which he’s been told for millennia is what heaven stands for which is “good” and that hell is for “bad”. 

So they save the world because they love humanity, and they’ve seen it through its triumphs, and it’s defeats and love it, because of its flaws, only for him to have an identity crisis, because if Heaven was willing to let an 11-year-old destroy the world, what is good?

Our favourite Angel’s problem has always been he doesn’t know where middle ground is and it’s very nuanced, I mean he believed that starting with nothing gives you all the opportunities in the world which sounds very right-wing doesn’t it? but he says it out of this hope and belief that if you have nothing, God and heaven will give you everything! it’s not malicious, It’s what he’s held onto and this was the 1800s. 

And then this season comes around, and here is amnesiac Gabriel. Finally! Purpose and a way for him to do good and the entire season we see him give heart eyes to Crowley, but then he remembers “wait - he worked for hell, meaning he might be bad,” but then he also remembers “but he can’t be bad because I know him and I know he is not this villain heaven paints him out to be” so when he finally gets the opportunity to do what he believes Crowley always wanted and where he believes he was happiest, which was when he was an angel, obviously he’s going to take it.

Aziraphale can finally make heaven purely good, and he can have Crowley by his side as an angel. They can finally be an ‘US’ in his mind, because they will be on the on the side of ‘good.’

The Metratrain took advantage of the fact that Aziraphale always wants to do what he thinks God, in Her infinite wisdom wants, but I do think he made the choice himself without much influence to believe that from within the system, he can make it pure again, and that Crowley can finally be happy, and they can finally get to have a life together without any moral ambiguity… Forgetting that the same thing that makes him love humanity, ambiguity and the grey area, is where he and Crowley ended up falling in love and ended up deciding to carve out a life for themselves together.

And part of him realises he lost Crowley when he looks at him at the end, but Aziraphale is one thing: stubborn. He’s made his choice and he’s going to stick by it.

Even at the detriment of the one “person“ and relationship that has been good for him, and has stood the test of time for millions of years.

One thing Mr Michael Sheen is gonna do? It’s ACT baby. You just see and feel the conflict within him and then the resolve. the “fine. If you won’t do this with me then I won’t be with you. I will say the thing that will hurt you the most.”

Can’t wait for season eight where they finally get their shit together!

[gniteruirui]

I have been slapped with a fish! I used to work at a fish store and a large koi had passed away from Old age so I asked a coworker to slap me with it! Incredibly satisfying

….

Noice!

[randomhuman45]

When I see Satan when I die I'm gonna ask them, "Hey, did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"

[saulwexler]

how to explain to non-americans that the better call saul ads aren’t exaggerated for comedic effect they are super normie

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[insomniphic]

I saw a peak of @gigizetz’s Warrior Penelope au and the first thing I thought of was angst. Not a dope design 😔

[maibeloved]

Need to draw them more actually ;((

[akanemnon]

I don't like this place. It's turning everyone edgy and sad.

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[theodysseyofhomer]

spare thought for the enslaved shepherds in greek mythology/tragedy who rescue the exposed doom babies... sometimes they know why the baby was left to die, sometimes they don't. they just — it's a baby. no one else wants it. you can't leave it here. what harm could it do. it's a baby. you want it to live. it's a baby

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby and Into the pit Oswald have similar “friends”..

[ruporas]

your love returns in tragedy (ID in alt)

[lycandrophile]

pinnochio! 🫵🤣 you will never be a real boy!

i mean pinnochio did become a real boy. that was a pretty significant part of the story. i understand that you’re just being transphobic but pinnochio did very much become a real boy.

[giantkillerjack]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

[plain-text version of this post can be found under the cut]

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

Plain-text version:

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

P.S. Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.