#have seen humanity

[the-sweetest-little-angel]

Really hate idea that people doomed. "Oh people getting so much worse" "Oh we are so doomed cause people don't wanna read"

Even if genuine problem, it needs more nuance. Also would we have even heard about such things if you not bring attention to them?

A majority of people you don't see will be fine. Humanity isn't doomed. The kids are alright. If you look around, look at people in real life, seeing these things, they're alright.

Having a nuanced discussion or bringing up why something is a problem doesn't need to be made with the "ugh humanity is so doomed, people are just getting worse" bs. It's unhelpful and stressful. You should be able talk about important subjects and problems without defaulting to humanity being doomed.

Hate doom ideas. Hate focus on humanity and society being doomed. Such big trigger for our ocd and schizospec stuff. No. Humanity will be okay. Things will get better. Even in the hellish world we live in. You can see it. You can see the humanity, the growth, the kindness.

Also the people you see online especially on tiktok are not representative of people. People say kids are doomed? Talking to my girlfriend's sibling in a shitty situation with shitty parents. That kid is turning out fine. Kids will be fine. World will be fine. Humanity will be fine.

Looking at history even, many times where humanity was at bad point. Where hope seemed pointless. They got through it. They came this far. To our point here and now. Internet will highlight lots of bad things. But humanity and world not doomed. People DO deserve animals. The kids ARE alright.

Even living in this shit country of America, living in abuse, facing some of worst trauma can imagine, horrifically treated, things will get better. Humanity is kind and it prevails. The and does not control everything. There is always hope.

Just thinking about a youtube video literally titled "we're doomed" or something. So clickbaity. Over what? Some tiktok thing? Some people being lazy and refusing to be good? Seen same thing over every bad thing people don't like. Look at amount of people not support stuff. Look at amount of people in every day life. More people are against these shitty things. People WANT to be good and to see good. That...That shows it.

Have seen a lot of stuff good and bad. And doom scaring to have some discussion about some shitty thing or something not help conversation. And at worst very triggering and bad for mental health.

Personally make us shut down and avoid lots of things. Because fragile. Extremely traumatized and barely living, do not need external stress from doomerism bullshit.

So hate the idea all of us are doomed.

Because humanity WILL be okay. People DO deserve animals. The kids ARE alright. Things WILL get better. There are protests and boycotts and strikes every day. And those get a LOT of support. Even with a lot of the worst scenarios in the world, there is good happening with them. Things are not hopeless or doomed. We all will be okay. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday. And what we do today WILL affect the future. After all, that's what it was like in the past. All they did brought us to here, to where we are today. And we will continue on. Have already seen a lot of it.

[noirandchocolate]

Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."

So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.

And also...

My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares. Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue. And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.

It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.

So now! I am working on completing! My coworker's mother's last knitting project!

And I really am feeling very good about doing it.

[akanemnon]

We didn't even get an answer, and we never will (at least it's not determination)

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[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike and Michael compare nightmares,,

[frenchublog]

[rxttenfish]

people have got to stop overusing existential/cosmic horror when it comes to animals just Experiencing Things

like flies know what a human is. they know they are very small and other animals are very large. they've lived around megafauna as long as there have been flies. having animals the size of mountains to them is just normal.

[noisyghost]

sketches of ark's werewolf form except based on the designs of some other funny dogs i like

[idolomantises]

i wanna do my own human Scarab design some time in the future, I discussed this on my personal but I felt pretty disappointed that fans weren't relying on Scarab's real face for inspiration and instead just using the Farmworld design he used once.

Especially since his real face makes him look like he has big nerdy glasses

[amira-house]

In a different universe, Cosmo and Wanda had Timmy as their biological son, deciding to hide in the human world and live as humans...

[edwinisms]

I feel like in the chaos of things they kinda glossed over possibly the most viscerally horrifying scene and concept in the show, ie; “…where did all the blood go?” “that was the last me,” and charles slowly lifting his lantern up to see the doll spider literally tearing edwin– not just a replica of edwin but literally the body of edwin from just a minute or two earlier– apart limb from limb, torn in half at the waist. then as he moves the lantern a bit to the side he’s met with an entire bloody pile of dismembered, decapitated, eviscerated edwin parts, from god knows how many killings.

like. charles must have persistent fucking nightmares about that right? in the moment he was focused on getting out of there and had to stomach it to move on, but afterwards? i think that must legitimately be the most gruesome, graphic thing he’s ever seen in his entire life/afterlife. i can’t think of anything that could be worse than that. it’s bad enough on it’s own, the live, constant mutilation happening to anyone, but then on top of it all it’s not just anyone– it’s his best friend, the most important person in the world to him.

ghosts can’t exactly sleep, but he must at least get flashbacks, or be triggered on occasion to an extent that makes him feel sick. i dont even know what that'd do to a person honestly, but it'd be hard (if not impossible) even for a pro-internalizer like charles to suppress that memory completely and not be tortured by it for an indefinite amount of time.

[ilynpilled]

it frankly pisses me off that what is essentially “rapists and abusers should be depicted as monstrous caricatures because humanizing them is inappropriate” is considered a very moral and enlightened position to have on art by so many people. a rapist can feel pain, have moments of vulnerability, be amiable and charming, express remorse and compassion at times, be a victim themselves, and so on in real life. they are even capable of doing good things. they can have different sides to them and have individuals in their lives that they are kind to or have a decent relationship with. they will be a human being, and that fact encompasses a lot. conflating that with the claim that they are entitled to and deserve forgiveness or absolution is an issue. nurturing a mindset that believes they need to be one note and uncomplicated to be a correct and tasteful depiction of a rapist inadvertently falls in line with the logic of “how could they have possibly raped you? they are so normal and kind to me. they did all these good things here and there.” ok that doesn’t change that they are a rapist.

[mae-i-scribble]

I'm sure this has been talked about plenty but I'm still awestruck at how well Frieren handles Himmel and Frieren's relationship. I have never seen the 'character haunts the narrative' story beat done to such effectiveness.

Frieren's regret is that she didn't know Himmel before he was gone- but he exists in everything Frieren does without her fully realizing it. Frieren is a fundamentally different person and we *know* it is mostly thanks to Himmel's influence. The constant flashbacks, the way in which Frieren's logic and everyday routines have been altered by his memory. She collect spells because he and the others complimented the mundane, random spells she had found. The way that instead of her master, Himmel is the person who the monsters choose to immitate.

The flashbacks too, are so so potent in characterizing who Himmel was- not only in regards to Frieren, but in regards to Himmel as the hero. The person who lead his group to kill the demon king. The person who did everything in his power to help those around him. The person who was so clearly in love with Frieren but understood intimately that Frieren would not love him in the same regard and even worse, would be walking a very long and lonely path.

Hell, it's at the start of every chapter, in which time is only kept by the years before and after Himmel's death.

It all comes back to him, in the end

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of the things that continues to strike me on reread is how much the character of Darcy, and Austen through him, finds Mr. Bennet dead. And how much Elizabeth, in growing and changing and discarding her past blindness, has to move past her way of seeing her father and thus of seeing reality, because the two are connected! Darcy’s letter exposes her father’s flaws to Elizabeth in a way she’d never been able to see before. Most especially the way his laziness and neglect of his own gifts have hurt his family and that ultimately he doesn’t. care. Not enough to change. It literally says that she comes home from Hunsford and tries to laugh at her sisters’ and mother’s folly (the way she used to; the way her father has taught her to by example for her whole life) and she can’t anymore! It sticks in her throat. She is grieved by the failures that she sees in him, all the more so because she IS his favorite and she loves him! And the thing about Mr. Bennet is he never changes. The Lydia/wickham situation exposes to him sharply his own conduct and the consequences and he feels it! Because he is neither stupid nor unfeeling. But he, like everyone, has free will. And he chooses not to change when the opportunity presents itself. He even jokes about how quickly his feeling bad will pass and how soon everything will go back to normal, to his laziness and his selfishness. He is set in his ways and he serves as a contrast to Elizabeth’s personal journey because he embodies a version of a person she could have become and was in danger of becoming if her only goal at all times was to laugh at and judge people from the sidelines.

[cloudabserk]

look i understand if you like marius because this is the evil morally bankrupt vampire story. however when people argue that marius was actually really cool and chill and normal about armand i want to fight them

[markscherz]

‘But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everyone & everything’

- Charles Darwin. Letter to Charles Lyell, 1 October 1861

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.