#and i see it

[doublel27]

Sometimes your wildly angry and hateful response to a piece of media has nothing to do with the actual piece of media and has everything to do with your own triggers.

Let me explain: sometimes a piece of media uses a common human failing. Something that happens all the time. To explore humanity within the confines of the story, as stories often do.

Sometimes, for you, that small human failing is the crux of the pain and anger you carry inside. Sometimes even the smallest and least harmful version of it, to quote RWRB, tears all the way down through the floor and into the sub-basements. Beyond where anyone would think that small human failing might go.

Because for you, it’s not what’s happening on screen but the painful things that have happened to you and you haven’t dealt with. You’ve locked them in a box or you’ve festered in them. Made it part of your personality to be against anyone or anything that carries this common human failing. Because the person that hurt you is, in your mind, a monster. You’ve divorced this action from humanity and you’ve made it that it’s only a thing that bad people or monsters do.

And the way the characters are treating this common human failing that happens every day is not how you want to handle it. Or is perhaps how you handled it and you wished you didn’t. And it makes you so incandescently angry.

When that happens, my loves, I want you to sit with it and ask yourself why you’re so incandescently angry or sad. Feel your feelings. Examine what it means when a character you love does something you equate with being monstrous. Or even more dangerous, when a character you love forgives something that you deem monstrous. Or if the failings of the characters remind you of yourself in some way. What is hiding underneath the anger and sadness? Is it shame? Is is loneliness? Is it worthlessness? Is it invalidation?

Because this is why the character who is genocidal mass murderer/serial killer is your poor little meow meow and the character with the every day failings is the worst character ever to exist. Because we look for the humanity in monsters, especially when we feel monstrous. But when a character is framed as human and shows a failing, we demonize them, because they remind us of our monsters who were also human. And I want you to think about it. Sometimes.

You have the choice at any time to stop engaging with a piece of media because it’s too painful or too raw or you’re not ready. But that doesn’t make that piece of media bad or evil (mostly there are some exceptions for the writings by the worst of humanity).

Take care of yourself. Please. 💜💜

[brinnanza]

I've been working in childcare for two weeks now and my favorite Child Moment so far occurred yesterday, when my coworker asked one of our regular three year olds, "if you could be any animal, what would you be?" a fairly standard pretend question but this child absolutely REFUSED to engage on the grounds that it was not within the realm of possibility Natalie said, "I know, but if you could-" and the kid was like "I'M A HUMAN BEING" with like full toddler lisp this kid said you want me to PRETEND? absolutely not and I'm offended you have the gall to ask the most world weary and down to earth child on the planet he said I am a HUMAN the END and honestly respect it's good to know you're a normie from the cradle but also points that child has autism Or Something

[boycritter]

how did that post become my most popular post in 3 days im gonna blow something up

[lilyflxwers]

it’s okay to feel like a burden. it’s okay to feel like you’re not going to make it out of this alive. it’s okay to hate everything around you. you’re okay. if hate and anger is the only thing getting you through the day, it’s okay. i am still proud of you.

[orphyd]

My dad saw my bangs on Easter and said I look like Dave Chappelle playing Rick James-

[thisapplepielife]

Wildflowers...and All the Rest headcanon:

Gareth Jones grows up to look a little like Kris Kristofferson from this era.

Photograph by Scott Newton at Farm Aid 1992 (I think, the clothes, guitar, strap, glasses all match) which means he'd be about 56 years old. About the same age as Gareth in 2025. Which is when Cabin Down Below is set.

Exhibit B, your honor. Gareth Jones knows a thing or two about winding up in jail.

If you love old pictures, go look at Scott Newton's pictures from early Austin. Young Willie & Waylon, Dolly, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, etc, etc, etc. Amazing.

[vee-lociraptor]

tiktok refugees i believe you are few but it is VITAL that you know on tumblr you can speak freely. kill. die. sex. fuck. you can say things here

[amartworks]

had a fun experience on the subway the other day

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[blabberoo]

Idk what au im cooking.. but Im cooking..

[climbingthefloors]

the us banning tiktok over fears of chinese influence prompting americans to flee to xiaohongshu (which translates to little red book - the same name as the famous red book of mao zedong quotations) and form instant connections with the chinese… you can't make this kind of irony up

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[bookwyrminspiration]

god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

[cartoonsinthemorning]

Since you guys liked Marcille as Kermit that much, it seems fitting to thank you for my 12k milestone with MORE Kercille. And this time, Miss Falin is also here.

Thank you so much again everybody! MWAH 💗

[androgynealienfemme]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments.

In a letter, James, a Democrat, told health care facilities that refusing to provide the treatments would violate New York’s anti-discrimination laws.

“Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws,” her letter reads.

Everyone say thank you to NY Attorney General Letitia James!!!