#Ouselves

[alohapromisesforever]

First Principles: If Destruction Be Our Lot, We Must Ourselves Be Its Author and Finisher. As A Nation of Freemen, We Must Live Through All Time, Or Die By Suicide

“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.“ – Abraham Lincoln Lincoln spoke these words in the 1838 Springfield Lyceum address that the Democrats would rather us not be aware of or its more popular paraphrase of this speech. This speech may be found here: Speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of…

[cryingatships]

saw ur recent BMF post abt the post credit scene and that moment takes place 2 years before the future-timeline kawi arrives at or at least that's what i think is happening. this is backed up by the fact it's the 8 year anniversary (as kawi only time travels 10 years back and forward, meaning this moment is in the in between years we don't see). i could be wrong though!

Oh, yes, that may be it! I honestly forgot that he was travelling back 10 years each time. Me and my memory issues :')

I think it's probably the last (or the second last, maybe) 'anniversary' during which Pisaeng is still in contact with Kawi cause we know that he cuts Kawi and the others off one year back. (Really hope I'm not messing up the years again. The clown hat is always firmly on lmao)

Gotta give it to Pisaeng though, he is a VERY patient guy. Imagine gifting 'anniversary' gifts to your unrequited crush each year for 8 years straight. While he's still in a committed reationship.

EDIT- I was gonna end this here and post it but then, I suddenly had a thought and went back to the ep to recheck some stuff

So, in part 3/4 of today ep ie ep 7, during the confrontation (?? can we call it that??) with Pear, Kawi says that he signed with a big company 2 years ago. That should be in the same year Pisaeng gives his 8 year 'anniversary' gift to Kawi.

But, during the gift giving, Pisaeng says that Kawi has a day for everyone and everything—a 'band anniversary' with Fluke. So, apparently, back in year 8, during the time of Pisaeng's gift-giving, Kawi's band is still doing ok.

Then, where does the company come in?

We know that the members went their separate paths after the band broke up.

But acc to available info, 2 years back the band was doing ok still together, so why would Kawi sign up in the company as a soloist? But Kawi DOES sign with the company in the same year.

Timeline clash? Cos the time's not matching up.

There could still be many possibilities tho. Suppose the entire band signed with the company TOGETHER, but then they broke up. Some members broke the contract and went their ways. Or some members are still together with the same company but are working secretly. Or, the band breaking up and Kawi signing with the company was all done within the span of a few weeks to months. Possibilities are slim but endless.

I dunno what actually happened now XD I just wrote a lot of stuff and honestly reading back, the whole thing feels fuzzy to me.

My brain feels like soup and time related sums always gave me nightmares back in hs :')

But, I do love discussing my beloved shows, so lots n lots of thanks for telling me!! Have a great day/night, and may your weekend be full of lots of rest and good bls! <333

[echidnana]

we're having A Day...

[alicepallis]

I'm annoyed enough about this that I need to say something - like a lot of people have said in the tags, changing your life circumstances or whatever in your 30s is most hallmark movies - that's just a very standard story trope. There has got to be a word for that already...

And on the other hand - a coming of age story for someone in their 30s could ABSOLUTELY be the same as that of a teenager - the exact same milestones, nervousness, uncertainty,lack of self awareness - we don't all grow up in exactly the same way. We don't all hit 30 with the exact same experiences banked.

That post about 30 year old coming of age stories?

I’ve been thinking about it all morning. What would the plot points be for that? What makes a 30 year old coming of age story?

Old folks sound off in the comments

[theotherbackgrounder]

I think what I really like about EAH is that unlike most “Super Schools” we aren’t given exposition dump because “Raven was a normal girl that was invited to Ever After High, it’s revealed she is the daughter of the Evil Queen” that these typical stories do. Instead we are presented with a world with characters that knows what’s going on and as we read we get to learn for ouselves what this world is like.

[tethrarisms]

In fact, I think we as a fandom should take every beloved jjk character and claim them for ouselves.

No more Yuji being mocked and hated by Sukuna and having all his connections k1lled.

No more sexy salarymen being offed.

No more women getting sided and forgotten.

No more main characters disappearing for whatever plot reasons.

No more Gege.

They're all mine now. They're all happy.

[greens-spilled-tea]

3am ramblings incoming: people get so hung up on having a lot of fictional introjects or nonhuman alters and shit and how it's not realistic or doesn't make sense or whatever, may I also present to you: CDDs literally develop from childhood. Of course it makes sense that a child may imagine themselves as a nonhuman. Or that they related to a fictional character. Or a celebrity they imprinted on.

And also, even for adults.... singlets will often introject bits and pieces of their own identity from the media they consume. Haven't you seen people who will point at a character and go "I relate to this one" or even, in more simple terms, "oh hey it me"? Haven't people picked up little idiosyncracies from the people around them, including from celebrities or streamers or other content creators? For those of us with CDDs, we already have a fragmented sense of self, which can present itself as literal parts of our ouselves identifying with other people, and the human subconscious often does not differentiate between what is "real" and what is "fictional" or even what is "personal" and what is "parasocial".

And there are also a lot people, including singlets, who identify with being some form of nonhuman. I'm not familiar with these communities myself, but furries and therians and otherkin immediately come to mind for me. And even outside of these communities, I've often seen people relate their experiences to being a robot, or a vampire, or a demon, or anything else. Often it's because these people have been dehumanized to the point they no longer identify with "being human", but that may not always be the case. So, why is it so odd when someone with a CDD has alters who are also nonhuman?

Obviously fakeclaimers will do anything to fakeclaim others and I'm sure there's no shortage of overlap between those who fakeclaim CDD systems and those who call others cringe for relating to fictional characters or for being furries or kinning or anything else I've mentioned here, but this post isn't for them, this is specifically for the people who doubt their CDDs because they have too many fictional introjects/streamers/celebrities/nonhuman alters/etc.

[akuma74]

OK I’m super late but I just discover and love Hilda the series on netflix... but instead of doing the usual praises that everyone already said I’m just gonna said that this is surprisingly a good spot to find incorrect quote to re-used later.

Some of my favorite are:

“they’ll regret ever picking up on a fire-breathing dragon who suffer from social anxiety !”

“1: and all things considered, it didn’t work out too badly.

2: We saw ouselves die... twice !”

“1: *got a sword through the chest and get resurect just after* What happened ?

2: I just slayed you !

1: What ?!

2: Who’s next ?

Everyone with excited tone: Me ! Me  !”

[heavensbusiness]

The narrow gate

I had a dream the other week in which i was heading to a place and there was a wall with vines growing on it. The path was weird because it was uncofortably narrow. I followed the path until i reached a beautiful golden gate, but there was a catch; the gate was narrow. I have to tilt my body and enter sideways in oder to get through the gate. After entering into the yard i was in a huge and beautiful house that had a large dining hall. Before i could eat any of the food i woke up. The bible tells us that the path to everlasting life is a narrow one and few find it (Matthew 7:13-14). We all have to make the choice to believe in Jesus and repent, but to get to that point we must set aside ou pide and humble ouselves. Be blessed.

[v1rgovenusz]

A friend told me today that lately l'm having more lows than highs. That life's tides are leading me nowhere, cause l'm not strong enough to swim. They said I should focus on bringing back happiness to my life.

I spent a long time thinking about it and came to a conclusion: I don't think I want to be happy. Not right now.

We neglected our sadness for too long, focusing on being happy (or looking happy so we can try and fool ouselves and others). It comes to the point when we have to feel all our sorrows, heartaches, our grief for closed wounds.. cause we didn't get to really feel it when they were supposed to be hurting.

When things get better, we can relax enough to feel our feelings. Everything that you shoved down your throat into a box that was, up to this moment, dusty and forgotten.

We know we need to be happy again. And we want to be. It's true the world won't stop for you, and all those feelings make it harder for you to keep up with it... but for now we can just be sad. We have the right to do it.

[aludraslytherin]

Why the fuck.

Why the fuck did we complicated soo much our lives? Why have we created societies, why have we created money, work, the "living earning dying", the taxes, the "men are better then women just because they have dicks and can't bear literal life", why have we done all of that ?

We can live. We are alive! This is such a precious gift to be here, on Earth, where there is nothern lights, and stars, where there are forests, and mountains, and the sea!

We have cats, we have the flowers, and bees!

Why have we done this to ourselves? Why have we stuck ourselves with the economy, with letting white dying men controlling every thing all while destroying the beauty of what makes living a good things?

Why have we created all of this?

What's even the point? We could have been all happy, all equal, we could have done so many precious things, things could have been as easy as "you like to create wooden statues? Then do it! Oh you, you love taking care of plants and flowers, okay, go on!"

But now we have to spend 15 years minimum at school, with minimum Sun exposition, something that is a necessity for Vitamin D, having to sit down all day, in silence, while wrinting down things, that for the most of it, will be completely useless in our future, just to then either, killing ouselves with work, or doing some other years of studying, and, in some country, this simple thing can endebt families for 40+ years, and all of this, just to do a job that you will hate, that will make you depressed, and you'll have to work you arse off just to make the barely minimum to live, if you are even lucky enough just to actully do it.

People have to work three job just to able to afford rent and food, when 40 years ago, one job, a few month of money set aside and you could buy a nice house.

Why have we done this to ourselves?

What's the point? Depression, anxiety, su!c!d3, all of these are happening a lot more than before, children are killed going to school, people fights and have wars over the way of worshipping the same god, people are massacred because they are in love, and other for being who they really are.

There are more slaves in today's world then it ever had in the whole history, even back when it was legal. Children are left to die in the street, and are easily kidnapped into something that no one, let alone a child that can't even comprehend what is happing, should live.

All of this for what? For something as ridiculous and useless as money!! People are starving, people are dying, people are sick because of this world and because of money.

Corporations are getting you sick, just so you can buy medicine that will heal the thing you need healing all while it's destroying another part of your body. Because sick people spends more money.

Why have we done all of this... And after that people still wonder why am I depressed at barely 18, people still wonder why do I want to disapear. Us teenagers are aware of that. The adults are just brainwashed into thinking this is normal. And they are trying to brainwash us into thinking it's normal.

When it's really not.

Thanks to every one who read the whole thing.

[girljeremystrong]

back when we lost kyle i thought well if he can't be with us i'm glad he's with the penguins because i would love it if sid and geno and tanger got another cup actually . whole time we needed kyle to leave to win the cup ouselves

[lifewithjesus]

Escaping Reality

Whether its procrasination, social media, imagination worlds & daydreaming, vices, isolation, etc. There are many ways that people escape the stress, panic, anxieties, and/or sadness they fear from the real world. Sometimes, reality gets a little too much that we just wish to disappear into another reality where there is no stress and hardships. Over time, escaping reality becomes a lord over our lives, stealing time and preventing us from finding true happines in real life.

For me, maladaptive daydreaming has worsen to a point where a lot of time is stolen from me, a valuable and irreversible gift of God. I would retreat into my own world that exists only in my mind, equipped with matching music and all, and I would isolate myself in my own room where I am alone. In my mind, everything is under my control, my life is how I want it to be. When I feel fear and worry creeping up on me, I use my imagination to cope.

But then, here is what God told me:

You can never have true gratitude until you learn to anchor youself in the present and cherish all that the Lord has blessed you with.

God doesn't live in our imagination, He is with us in the present. The now (present) that He gifted to us is not so that we can waste it away doing whatever we want, wasting it to things that pleasure ouselves. The present is for us to walk with Him, as another moment turns into past and future becomes another present.

Don't get me wrong: imagination is a gift from God, but we must learn to use that gift the right way and not for selfish purposes. We must be in control of it and not let it steal the front seat of our lives.

Fear and worry are pride. Pride of not trusting that God is in control. On the other hand, living in your own made up reality is pride of thinking (desiring) that you are the God of your life, where you have all the control.

Reality hits hard, but there is peace when the present is spent with Him who strengthens us. With Him who provides for us. With Him who promised never to leave us or forsake us, who knows the number of our hairs and who remembers the tears we cried. He who keeps His eyes on us whether we are in our lowest moments or in our happiest times. He who has plans to prosper us and not harm us.

I am learning to leave and shed my addiction to escaping reality.

Step out in faith, and walk towards freedom holding His hand. Learn to trust Him in all ways, always. Reality with Him is a reality of peace.

[rededgerp]

Meme of the Week/Honesty Hour Updates

Hello beautiful members, it'your lovely admin team with yet another update for y'all1 This time it's an update about Meme of the Week and Honesty Hour! They're both good, we promise! First is for Meme of the Week! We have noticed that a lot of people (ouselves included) will reblog a meme and never answer the questions because we just forget and time gets away from us. We get it, we all have lives outside of the group and that's fine. That being said, the whole month of JUNE and the whole month of DECEMBER will be catch up months for memes! That means, any and all memes that you reblogge and didn't answer or didn't finish answering throughout the year, or in general, you can. Only during JUNE and DECEMBER though. If you start and June and don't finish, then you'll have to wait to December. Same with, if you start in December, you'll have to wait until June comes around to finish. We think six months in between each is a good compromise and will help people. Next, Honesty Hour! We love that y'all are getting more invested in this, and we know that not everyone is on for every Honesty Hour time slot when we allow people to answer, so, the FIRST day of each month, you will be able to answer any and all missed HH questions! Once it turns the second day of the month, you'll have to wait until the allowed time slots to finish answering your questions, or the first of the next month to answer. If you have any questions, please ask. Please like once you have read!

[mercuryrisinginvirgo]

You can't force people to love you.

You can't force people to engage with you.

You can't force people to feel anything for you.

All you can really control are your own thoughts and reactions.

Perhaps everything will start to fall into place when we stop giving a shit about what other people think and finally start taking care of ouselves first.

[ojas-awasthi]

We are all broken people, aren't we? No matter how hard we try to pull ouselves together, either a person will break us or our own expectations. But I hope when you love someone with all your heart, you can love them despite all your brokenness. I hope your cracked soul can mend itself with their presence and their brokenness can mend through your presence.

Otherwise you will both end up breaking and tearing each other apart beyond repair. There are many difficult things in life. Love should NOT be one of those.