#except it isn't

[sailing-on-a-puddle]

I've never seen the 2004 film, but Tb4 looks like when my kids are building something out of Lego that's not a set. On this occasion they've gone for yellow so they get all the random yellow bits they can find and then stick them all together 😂

Thunderbirds evolution:

The three generations of each Thunderbird craft: 1965, 2004 and 2015.

[in-restless-walks]

[impulsivelycontentious]

It's very important, very, very, very important to know this.

People can love you and hurt you.

Love is not all you need. It isn't enough. Relationships between people require work. Romantic ones yes. But also friendships. Also *familial*. Treating someone well requires THOUGHT, not just instinct, not just feeling. You have to decide to do it and decide ro do it over and over and over again - *and so do they*.

And sometimes, for whatever reason, they don't. They can love you and that love isn't enough. It never will be. Because something in them just doesn't get to the part where they have to think and work. This can be true of parents, siblings, friends, and lovers.

Love isn't the force you were taught it was by commonly held mythology. The power of friendship, the impossible to break bonds of blood. They're not *just* love. They are choice.

People can hurt people they love. We're complex like that. Love isn't enough. It isn't. I'm sure my mother loved me or at least the idea of me. It didn't stop most of the things she did, because she prioritized her own feelings and wants to the degree that it was unhealthy for me to have a relationship with her.

That can happen.

It's important to know someone can love you and it is STILL unhealthy for you. Still better for you to back out. You can still go even when they love you.

And this, this is also very important, you can still go when you still love them, too. And sometimes you have to.

things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷

[january-summers]

"AO3 doesn't need a "dislike" button"

Um, actually, it already has one. Depending on your specs, it might look a little different but over all it looks kinda like this:

You can find it at the corner of your screen, which corner is dependent on your layout.

Anyway, if you dislike a fic, you can hit this Dislike Button until the fic goes away. It really is pretty amazing actually.

[captainjonnitkessler]

The "radical leftists" on this site who talk constantly about the importance of solidarity and kindness and compassion and then immediately tell anyone who disagrees with them to kill themselves are going to be devastated when they learn how much of actual union organizing involves talking to people whose politics you find incredibly repugnant and meeting them where they're at in order to find common ground

[internutter]

If you write one thing, you have written.

If you have written multiple things, you may be a writer.

If you can't stop writing, you're definitely a writer.

I can't not write. I just wish it paid the bills.

Hello Mnr. Neilman

When can someone call themselves a writer?

I had this conversation with a friend a while ago and he believes you can only call yourself a writer if you've published multiple books, are famous/known for writing and have won an award. I have no published works, but define myself as a writer. So what makes someone a writer? Do they have to write something everyday, have written and/or published a book? Received a "bestseller" sticker?

When did you start calling yourself a writer? Sorry for all the questions, I am typing this in a state of fearful respect.

I started calling myself a writer the day I woke up and decided that, yes, I was a writer. I was 22.

[bow-down-to-my-butt-its-glorious]

Nicole I am pretty sure it's not a sword 😭🤣

[im-tempted]

One of my favorite parts of yugioh is that it is a horror manga

And a coming of age anime wrapped in so many metaphors it kinda isn't anymore???

[charaznablespeteevee]

Really glad to report that there is yuri in Gundam After War X

[shivunin]

Because I have just seen this specific thing for the second time, I would like to say:

If I reblog your art, I do not expect you to reblog (or share!) my fic in return

If I comment on your fic, I do not expect you to comment on (or read!) mine in return

My enjoyment of anyone's work does not come with strings or expectations

My friendship is not a bill that you will have to pay later

That's it!

[vaguely-concerned]

are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

[ameliadoesstuff]

something about s1-3 zane is just. oh this guy is so silly and friend-shaped. look at his friendly boy swag. like????? how could you ever hate him. the ultimate silly

not to hate on his titanium era because frankly it is very cool. but the essence of s1-3 zane is unique and uncapturable. he is just a little guy you can put in your pocket. his default facial expression is so inherently funny. there are no thoughts behind these eyes. i would trust him with my life.

[everchased]

at least it'll be wonderful while it lasts.

(a little post-game downtime discussion, when they have the time and space to talk about these things. also in my canon, scratch gets to stay. :/)

[figofswords]

sometimes a guy is also a creature. im gonna make a sticker out of him

[lizbethborden]

There really is no female Jeremy Allen White. He is an objectively weird looking man who is now considered a heartthrob and is playing Springsteen in a new biopic--that's a romantic hero role if ever there was one. I'm not saying that's bad or wrong but I am saying no woman who naturally looks as wonky as he does would have success like him. Like he is actually UGLIER than young Bruce was.

They UGLIFIED Bruce Springsteen by casting him.

Meanwhile, women in human reality like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gilda Radner, who HAD strong, distinct features like his, are being played by these people in fictionalized versions of their lives:

The fact that this is how history is choosing to remember these women is insane and bizarre. Truly, you cannot exist as a woman in public eye or public memory unless you are ornamental. Worse than ornamental, you must be generically ornamental, made on an assembly line, as female beauty often is now via plastic surgery.

I feel that this kind of commentary is not being made because it's politically suspect to talk about women's looks--and don't get me wrong, I understand what's at stake in terms of not just human emotion, but falling into misogynist traps. But we MUST recognize that this is a problem. It's one thing for fictional women with no basis in reality to be cookie cutter--not a good thing, but certainly a different thing. But for real women who actually existed to have their simple, natural, human characteristics erased and replaced with flavor of the month plastic surgeried generic Hollywood Female nonsense is disrespectful in the extreme. (Especially because Gilda Radner and RBG were Jewish and their Jewish features would have deeply impacted their lives.)

[blorbologist]

hey im not over this. I just went to dig it up and. it's literally the exact same shot. (except Orthax is giving Ripley a smidge more personal space, and she doesn't have the glowy-glowy ember eyes)