#Grief and Praise

[persona-brainrot-real]

Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)

Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.

And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.

Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.

[lesbianmaxevans]

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 2024 ⤷ Day 1: Brandon Lee as Eric Draven in The Crow (1994)

[firstfullmoon]

What’s left now / to praise? Everything.

Kevin Young, from “Elegy for Heaney”

[yamperzzz]

I just watched "bridge mankind collapse" and I swear to god that shit just altered my brain chemistry forever regarding MadCom animations

[chi-the-idiot]

Started reading Waverider.

Dropped it immediately because its bad.

My disappointment is unmeasurable and my day is ruined.

[not-so-daily-slug-cat]

draw ur oc maybe even his sister i just want to see the silly

Day 39

[permanentreverie]

MY PARENTS ARE GETTING DIVORCED 🎉🥳🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🥳🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🥳🎉🎊🎉🥳

[prisonpodcast]

People on twitter calling Dream’s new song and MV insensitive are so confusing to me. Like there is loads of fanart out there of Techno as a ghost or in heaven or just drawings of his grave like I don’t understand how Dream’s MV is any different than that 😭

Like I understand being uncomfortable with the way others grieve, as everyone experiences grief differently but like. That dosent mean those grieving in ways that make you uncomfortable are doing something morally wrong. It just means that you personally are uncomfortable by something which is fine, but that is a YOU problem. It’s up to YOU to avoid that content. Just mute the fucking song name and don’t watch the MV it’s that simple!!

Techno’s dad helped Dream work on the MV too. Like it’s fine feeling uncomfortable, but whining about it online, and trying to make Dream, someone who was actually FRIENDS with Techno, into some kind of villain just for making art about his grieving process is incredibly weird and entitled behaviour. ESPECIALLY when you are complaining online where Dream could potentially see it.

Like you as a Techno fan do not get a say in the way Techno’s friends are grieving!! Especially not if Technodad is helping with the project too. If you don’t like it, just ignore it it’s that simple!!! And keep it to yourself too bc no one is doing anything morally wrong here!! No one is asking for your annoying entitled asf opinions on the way Dream deals with his grief shut the fuck up!!

[townofcadence]

💐 :3c

Send 💐to receive a bouquet

His heart thumps hard as he holds out the flowers to Butch, as if he might--- know. Still, it keeps from his face, as he passes him the bouquet to him. "Um.....here. For you."

It's a bit of a mixture of flowers. Berries are mixed throughout the flowers, round and a dark purple, almost black in small bunches. A large red flower sticks out like a devil's tail right from the center, tapered to a point with small pointed petals all the way to the tip. It is surrounded by yellow and reds. The yellows are dapples of small orchid shaped flowers, and clusters of honeysuckle and fennel cut short. The red and purples are bright, both four petaled flowers in small patches that pop amongst the yellows. Coin-shaped leaves tie the flowers together.

[klugpuuo]

anyway can we please thank telltale for indirectly confirming my drunk sam hcs in poker night 2. thank you telltale

[aitogi]

[戦国無双] ~四国遠征の章~ [Sengoku Musou] ~Shikoku Ensei no Shou~

[manwalksintobar]

Prayer  // Carol Ann Duffy

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth enters our hearts, that small familiar pain; then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales console the lodger looking out across a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls a child's name as though they named their loss.

Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer - Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

[bewilclerment]

I just feel like the way season 1 was written they were planning on ted and rebecca ending up together and then it all went south after gaining audience feedback and the season 2 rollout…

[favvnsongs]

nearly twelve in the night and im having som Emotions about wash&lina ;__;