#Truly the cycle of my life

[justasnailman]

gays

is it gay to always rp as couples together with your bestie??

[tiny-planet-13]

oh to read the raven cycle for the very first time again and experience the odd heartbreak that comes with watching a life you will never lead yourself

[fg083nrt]

akatsuki tarot official merch has been dwelling in (the hermit tower of) my mind.

[batsplat]

random throwback to fabio's response to casey saying he should've been black flagged for the whole open leathers situation

[goldkirk]

Sharing one of the more powerful quotes from this current chapter of The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945.

The situation, where even heroism was denied the men of the democratic Left, came about in no small part because of the failure of the Social Democrats to understand the nature of Nazism. Just as their basic premise in the years before Hitler came to power was the erroneous assumption that the Nazis were essentially Putsch-ists who could not possibly attract a mass following, so their basic premise after Hitler came to power was the equally erroneous assumption that his would be a government similar to the others of the Weimar period.

The most eloquent document on this was the set of instructions sent out to SPD Locals in District Hanover on March 23, 1933. It was filled with instructions about sending for handbooks on Socialist policy in communal affairs and filling out questionnaires; in short, carrying on business as usual. The only reference to the phenomenon of Nazism was contained in paragraph seven;

Will the election of our village and town representatives be approved? That is a question which is repeatedly being asked. The question is unanswerable because we do not know what this government will do. However, in any case, we must, now as always, select trustworthy comrades as village representatives wherever we have a majority. Should they later not be sworn in, then we will take a position on this. Under no circumstances should we value any of our rights cheaply.

This at a time when SPD leaders were having their houses searched in the middle of the night for weapons! This when the officers of the Reichsbanner were being herded into jail by Storm troopers, beaten in the prisons across Germany, cast into Nazi concentration camps! The SPD, the only defenders of democracy in Germany, the men who should have been gathering guns and calling the general strike, or at least developing an underground with passwords, false names, and other paraphernalia of effective covert resistance, were instead being urged to keep the party files in order, to avoid bookkeeping errors, and above all to purchase the latest pamphlet on parliamentary tactics in village councils.

If the central offices of the SPD did not know “what this government will do,” the local socialist leaders in Northeim soon found out.

(the book goes on to describe the experiences of five Northeim Social Democrats over multiple pages of raids, imprisonment, misery, and persecution)

[easeupkid]

people with onsite laundry will never understand the epic highs and lows of laundromat life

[golmorehotgirl]

sitcom promo looking shot

[alansmuse]

do you guys love me ( guy who is revamping their blog just a month or so after the last revamp )

[thedcvilherself]

i miss this place and writing and my threads 😔

[draconicslime]

saint… isn’t an ending to rain world to me? i see people argue their story is bad because the game is designed not to end but i feel like they’re also missing the point because it DOESN’T end. i feel like it’s actually very clear on that.

you can try to end it all and instead, saint wakes right back up again. to me it’s more of an end to the iterator’s stories. They are constantly talking about how they cannot last forever, how they are going to fall apart long before a new civilization emerges. Saint’s ending shows all the cans in the distance just as destroyed as ones you ascend in their story. Moon mentions the scavengers: even now, they continue to evolve, consist, grow. The wildlife continues to adapt. The iterator’s warmth dissipating has turned the world into an icy tundra but it is anything but a waste.

Several echoes talk about the world coming to an end, a new era coming about. Who are we to assume they really know what that means? It is possible what they view as an end, the vanishing of the last of the ancient’s philosophies and constructions is already a new beginning. A Cycle of death to create new life. Rebirth. Reincarnation of the very world, if only spiritually.

To me, Saint is a lesson in futility. All the downpour slugcats have endings that are somewhat designed to be continued from. None of them are concrete ending like Hunter’s, where you must leave the world behind. Key words here: You are leaving the world behind. It is not ending without you. In Saint, you can give the iterators, who have stagnated and suffered, closure. But without them, the world continues to change and to bloom. They never found their great answer.

If you try to leave this world behind, the very void tries to reject you. Rubicon is literally described as the developers as hell. All the areas in the game past and future are mashed together. The name itself means a point of no return… and yet, you return. The only thing that does.

Are you really ascending Saint? Or are you bringing an end to the old, one last closure and goodbye, so that the new has room to grow?

Two echoes stand out in my mind here. Beauty continuing to bloom in a place long forgotten. Forgotten by the passing of ancients and their random gods, but never the world. And… Were the ancients the tenth civilization, or the thousandth? That’s a question designed not be answered, because you cannot know. It outlasts all of them.

Saint isn’t an ending to the game. It’s the ending of your story as the player, in the world you have come to know, as it leaves you behind.

[phantasma-mirror]

It's the STUPIDEST reason in the world too like ???? Can we stop. Can we PLEASE stop.

like the amount of energy I put towards fucking. Mourning relationships is so bad. It's so fucking bad!! It's taking a physical toll on me to the point where I'll puke if I think about it too long and that's so bad!! And yet I do not think I'm capable of not submerging myself in what-ifs and impossible scenarios. bitches are so desperate for attention that they'll cling to the most bare bones interactions and hope to pray to God that miraculously things will be okay again and I'm bitches!! what is my DEAL! I hate me fr!!

[peachznscream]

genunely sometimes do not know how to cope with the world being so cold and bureacratic and people who withold care and essential rights to people over arbitrary rules and money and

[moe-broey]

Idk if I'm gonna be able to articulate this on the fly like first thing in the morning, but. I think my ENTIRE body of work is This: Examining how family ties, bonds or lack thereof, the good and bad AND ugly, seep into every facet of who we are and how we come to interact with others. How sometimes, a family tie (or again, a Lack of one), will sometimes bleed into how you act and treat specific people. Will bleed into how you CONNECT with those people (or, will be the very reason you fail to do so).

HOWEVER. HOWEVER. THERE IS A DELICATE LINE. A BALANCING ACT. You CANNOT just simply attribute fanon flavored ideas of found family to such characters. That's too simple, and sometimes, is a complete disservice to the specific character you're working with. I am once again bringing up Chilchuck. YES, him being a dad Absolutely seeps into how he treats his party. But if you call him the party's dad, you're Insane. Do you know ANYTHING ABOUT THAT MAN???? He would prefer you didn't. But I digress. He strikes a fascinating balance, between having The Qualities and ESPECIALLY expressing his care for his party in a Really Specific divorced (separated.) father of three fashion, but that does Not make him a "dad friend". He's a professional. He's on business. He's going home at the end of the day, and at the end of this adventure he's thinking of setting up a shop. I wanted to keep this more vague and broad but like. The Chilchuck example REALLY DOES perfectly articulate What I'm trying to get at, here. He's the perfect encapsulation of How his family shapes him, how that bleeds into his relationships with others, vs Who he is as a person.

How we were raised, our family ties, whether you adhere to it or you've fallen FAR from the tree -- you still fell from that stupid fucking tree. It's in your blood. Literally. It gave you shape, whether you liked it or not. And sometimes some things just set off weird domino effects, that also affect us irrevocably forever.

WHICH IS. TO SAY. I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about. I'm always trying to figure that out. Found family is/can be real, you're not strictly bound by blood if you don't wanna be. BUT. The bullshit I'm constantly on, is trying to figure out how to balance all that without slotting everyone into reductive roles. I'm gay and I seek to destroy the nuclear family. Not attempt to recreate nuclear family 2.0. You CAN reconstruct What Family Is/Means from the ground up, but you have to accept that things are going to get Weird. Because you're Queer. You are fundamentally incompatible with the status quo and normalcy, the solution is NOT assimilation and palatability, the solution is to just. Get weirder. And be fluent in canon. Okay. I love you

[cherrysnax]

why do people slam doors when they’re angry. it only hurts the door

[wheelchairtetris]

"oh despite my increase in other issues, my chronic pain has gotten better!" i said, immediately jinxing myself.

[girlthingdecay]

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