#and very obviously don’t write!!!!!!!

[mydarlingclaudia]

[francesderwent]

thinking about snarky cultural/theological commentary and. the thing about snark is this: it’s easy, and it’s instant gratification. it’s easy because you’re playing to a likeminded audience. you get the way they think, you know the sort of things they find ridiculous, and so you know what’s going to play well with them. it’s not that hard to come up with a zinger that’s going to earn you applause from your own side. it’s also pretty easy to make another human being who’s not on your side look stupid, because we’re stupid creatures and we all have plenty of exploitable weak spots. it’s preaching to the choir, and it’s preaching meanly to the choir. and then, your snark bears all its fruit right away. you get the glowing feeling of having scored points against the enemy while being patted on the back by your friends for being so brave. if you succeeded in being snarky, you get the rewards of snark that very instant.

on the other hand, seeking to share the truth you possess in a mode in which it could actually be received—that is, says St Thomas, according to the mode of the recipient—that’s hard, and it’s so far from being instantly gratifying that you may never see the fruits of it in this life. not only are you not thinking about your likeminded audience, you’re not even going to trot out the truth simply in the way you understand it and call it your best effort. rather, you have to try to get inside your interlocutor’s frame of mind and understand how the truth you know is going to fulfill their own priorities and longings. you have to understand them so well that you see the truth of their position, even if that truth is buried very very deep, and then see how that truth connects them to the truth you see. you have to be insightful, and compassionate, and so, so patient. you don’t get to score any points, with anybody. your interlocutor might still get annoyed with you and turn around and make you look stupid. but you can’t just say “I’m going to speak the truth and I don’t care who hears and how they take it”—you have to care how they take it, because the truth is relational, it’s given and received, not just spouted into a void. and frankly you have to care how they take it because you have to care about their salvation.

don’t get me wrong, there are times in every person’s life when they will be called to stand up and be counted, to put fumbling words to what they hold most dear even if they can’t make everyone understand. but I don’t know that it’s a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth, with no consideration given to who hears you and what they’ll hear in it—and it’s certainly not a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth in a mean and funny way. “instruct the ignorant” is a spiritual work of mercy. but instruct the ignorant does not mean “instruct the ignorant while making the knowledgeable laugh and/or high five.”

[babycharmander]

Weird folks: Vent art of any form is good and all but it should ONLY be between you and your therapist. Don’t share that stuff online or publish it!!!

Me, an artist/writer: *goes to therapy, talks about my trauma and mental health and how sometimes it’s hard to talk about it with others*

Therapist: Have you thought about using your art and writing to help you work through these things and share them with others?

[ros3maryt3a]

The urge to write Silco content is growing…man’s dead and still the poster child for my Ao3 and now possibly my tumblr.

So if anyone has any ideas to sway me either way I’m all ears

[bebuckley]

people reading that goodbye scene as “bad acting” from ryan honestly just don’t really understand eddie’s character in my opinion idk i think eddie was very intentionally played as closed off and kind of outside of himself in that episode and honestly in the past few episodes because he doesn’t want to even let himself think about how much he doesn’t want to move back to texas because in his mind it’s the only thing he can do to get chris back and i think we will see eddie show those emotions in a real honest way when he realizes he does have to think about his own feelings and i think knowing he never lets himself express that is what will make the emotions shown by him even more powerful

[buddiesmutslut]

Eddie not being in last nights ep makes sense if his storyline from last week was originally supposed to go with all of this, given the whole Sick Day of it (virus & Chris getting sick during chess) & the timeline (Eddie having been there for 3 weeks at the time of the interview, Buck saying nobody else is quitting “this month”), but that would’ve been nearly impossible to shift back & forth between, tonally speaking.

Like, oh, Eddie’s parents didn’t tell him about the chess tournament cut to -> “there was an explosion in the lab & Hen’s got a collapsed lung” -> “Chris’ father, Ramon” -> oh crazy that Chim has actually been breathing in this aerosolized deadly virus that only has a 40% survival rate -> Chris throwing up on the chess board.

That wouldn’t have made any sense, so they had to split them up (which we know they did something, given that Invisible was added after they’d already done the line up & started shooting).

Eddie’s on his own journey rn, he was literally doing it at the same time the team was trapped in the lab, but he didn’t go down to Texas to be a firefighter; he went down there to be a dad, and being a dad right now is more important than him being a firefighter.

Eddie said it like, 2 episodes ago - Chris is his priority, and anybody else is going to lose to him every single time, so as much as he would’ve made sense in last night’s ep, he’s away 1) for the drama of it all, bc this is still a television procedural & his absence definitely ups the stakes for the other characters, and 2) bc he’s doing his own thing. Like, Eddie IS a main character, which means he does have his own storylines that don’t always meld with everybody else’s immediately, that’s the whole point. He’s not a plot device or a last name-less love interest or a secondary character, he’s a main with his own arcs & journeys to go through.

Plus, this is a two-episode story, there’s still a chance he’s going to play his own role in whatever the hell is going on next week. (Eddie finally gets ahold of Buck to share the news about Chris living w him again, finds out about the virus & the missing cure and ends up being the one to suggest the rat - he probably saw that in Afghanistan lmao)

Not all of the characters are immediately part of the big emergency, but they usually come together at the end of it to save the day so like. Idk man, everybody just take a breath & see what happens in part 2 before claiming that nobody actually cares about Eddie 😅

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I would never trust a non Iraqi to give me a rundown of Iraqi history and how the US affected it tbh

[everythingmp3]

As anxious I am about what'll happen to Van, she is so HOT THIS SEASON like holy shit 😩

yeah I’ll be honest I don’t have a good feeling about where things are headed for her but let’s focus on the more important thing: her in that white t-shirt…….like 😵‍💫💞she IS looking so fucking good and that scene specifically made me feel insane.. like please god let me take Tai’s place!! now! the way she propped her elbow up on the couch and looked at her? pleaseee.

[desertduality]

Made this for myself so I could make sure things matched up when writing the next chapters but I thought I’d put it here in case anyone was interested :]

[sweetpapercroissant]

i don’t get the appeal of an incest ship if you’re only ever going to focus on the good romantic feelings and not the icky negative ones. the resentment the feeling of being trapped shackled wanting out and away from the person who knows so much too much about you since before you even knew to not allow it but at the same time you can’t imagine living in a world without them being away is like tearing a limb a piece of your soul you will never again be complete without them. no one else will ever understand you the way they do no one else will ever get so deep under your skin and you may hate it but you hate the thought of them not being there even more you can’t stand to see anyone else get to a part of them you didn’t and even worse when they get it before you. you push and you push and you push but when they let go it’s like you’re free falling and it doesn’t matter how far away you run you will never be far enough away because you carry them inside you everywhere you go. you tell yourself you want nothing more than to get away but they’re the only home you will ever have and you won’t ever let anyone get that close you’re already moulded to only fit in perfectly with them and you didn’t have a choice but this is who you are. there’s nothing you could do to make them let you go but there’s nothing you could do to make them let you go. you want to be so close to them you want to merge your bodies into one you hate how crowded you feel when they’re in the same room like they’re sucking in all the air and there isn’t any left for you and you want to get away so you can just breathe but you don’t even want to breathe in the air that hasn’t passed through their lungs first you hate that you feel this way you wish you could claw it out of your veins but then who would you be without it without them you want so much and it’s so ugly and you’re ashamed of how raw that need is how you want every part the good the bad the human you wish none of this had ever happened you feel dirty you never even had a chance to find something else be something else but then you look over and you love them so much so much and when it comes down to it nothing else was ever going to be enough for you anyway.

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

oh my god oh my god oh my GODDDDDD i can’t BELIEVE i found these on my little rainy october thrift shop wander this morning. like, one would have been more MORE enough. but both?? at once??? i am quite simply floating and may never touch back down to earth

[ahalliance]

rotating the UHCs + serveur du lundi qetoiles precanon potentiality in my mind

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i still haven’t written out my 261 metapost but i can’t stop thinking about the stsg subtext in that chapter . the parallels between geto slaughtering the village and gojo slaughtering the higher ups…. the fact that gojo does it right after declaring that he has to “catch up” to geto

[loderlied]

sharing some thoughts about deactivating here because it’s been difficult pondering idk.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

like, genuinely. taking accountability for your actions in perpetuation of abuse and rape culture is the first step to changing that culture. it doesn’t make you a bad person just because you did a bad thing (unless you were intentionally trying to cause harm) but you have to admit you are not immune to accidentally supporting the bad thing and take accountability for that. if you supported george's statements on sexual harassment, or dream's sexual jokes towards minors, or sapnap getting paid money to stream on a platform which openly harbours rapists and sex abusers, you've been a part of keeping the environment that makes it hard for victims to have come out. if you started believing in anti-victim sentiments and harassed other abuse victims for talking about how it made them uncomfortable, you’ve supported this environment. if you assumed anyone uncomfortable with your streamer or trying to talk out against them was inherently lying solely because it was your streamer, you helped support an enviroment that fostered abusers.

and that sounds harsh, and I’m sorry. but it’s true. and to a degree, I think everyone in this community has done that with people at one point in their lives. it's very easy to be manipulated, but it’s also very easy to be wilfully blind, and that’s not something irredeemable or a permanent stain. you can change, but you need to identify in yourself what caused you to act like that and make a conscious change. it’s healthier for you and it’s healthier for the environment. if we want to avoid this in the future, we need to be proactive in calling out actual potentially harmful behaviour, even if it’s from someone you like. or we will continue to harbour mass amount of abusers.

most content creators are not abusers. most, to be honest, are awkward introverted nerds with social anxiety. at least, that’s what i've got from the ones my brother knows (and that includes some big ccs). but while they’re a huge part of it bc being in front of a camera instead of people is a huge draw, there’s another draw that attracts a less savoury crowd- and that’s the position of power. and unless you’re willing to listen and be kind to genuine, serious criticism of harmful actions, and ccs are willing to do the same, abuse and sexual assault WILL continue to be normalised in these spaces. it is not your sole responsibility, but it IS a responsibility to make sure to avoid that now you know the possibilities aggressively attacking any criticism can hide. caiti had to deal with people with her abusers face threaten her for speaking negatively towards him. do not let that happen again.

[lesbiansanemi]

Sometimes I just think about Soi Fon. Like that shit was so insane. Easily one of The characters of all time. You’re going to give me a woman who hates the physical manifestation of her soul because it’s loud and explosive and she doesn’t think it’s “proper” that it suits her, but it’s so obvious it does because she’s angry and stubborn and loud and explosive!!! And then the fact that she never ever calls upon that physical manifestation of her soul until things are so dire it’s practically that or death? The fact that in so many ways she lets her emotions build and build and build until they quite literally explode???? And then!!! AND THEN!!!! Add in that she hates her bankai because it’s “inappropriate” for an assassin… for her role as captain of the Stealth Force… the position she inherited from Yoruichi after she abandoned Soul Society for Urahara… She despises the physical manifestation of her explosive nature, the nature she hides until she can’t, just like she shoved down her feelings for Yoruichi, the betrayal, the hurt, the love, until she quite literally couldn’t anymore and it all came back up in a BANG!!! Like god… oh my god, no one will ever do it again and kubo did not deserve such a cool fucking character in the least