#i have no ability to be me anymore and it sucks

[escapedheart]

We also have to forgive and help people. A few public fuckup shouldn’t force you into a life of deep, never ending hatred from others forever. When someone says “hey I’ve realized I fucked up, but I don’t know how or why, can I have help figuring it out?” We have to be willing to offer a listening ear and a helping hand.

Therapy speak and the default “I don’t owe you the emotional labor” response have really fucked our ability to be a properly supportive community to those around us. And I get it, we have to hold space for ourselves, and take care of our own health. There has to be a middle ground between burnout from helping everyone and never helping anyone.

We can’t expect people to just know things, everyone starts somewhere. And yes google is free, but google also sucks and if they’ve been sucked down the rightwing pipeline, their google results may be biased in ways we haven’t considered towards even more rightwing bullshit. (And that’s without even touching the AI and spam results issue! We can’t pretend like the internet is the super useful tool of our youth anymore!)

I dunno. I’m rambling. Maybe I’m wrong. But at least in my experience, being the one who answers questions and helps people learn is why they stick around. The number of people who have told me in my life “thank you for actually answering, nobody ever has before and I’ve asked a lot” is shocking. And I’m lucky to have found those people in a time when they were still early enough in their journey that they were willing to ask, because those people are now some of the best most supportive people I know.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[cloudd-nyne]

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[skhardwarevers1]

if this post gets like…5000 notes I’ll actually start writing scripts/making storyboards for videos I’ve had ideas about for months

additionally if this gets to 10000 (which I highly doubt it will) I’ll actually work on my abandoned stories, book ideas, and poetry

[fitzselfships]

Behold. a significantly less impressive version of a drawing I saw in a dream the other night

Proshippers/adjacent dni. 10000 shark attack 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈 also Zooble self ship doubles dni

[violentdevotion]

wait do you have a fav boys character yet ?

i really like butcher but i feel like that's a basic answer and also the wrong answer. in another world id like frenchie but i can't get over how much i hate the actor. I love maeve theres never a moment she's on screen where im thinking get this woman outta here she's always entertaining to me. i like starlight but (and this is probably a bit nasty to say) there's smth a little uncanny valley about her sometimes where when she's talking im not listening but staring at her face trying to see what features throwing me off. I hate ashley but the actress played an insufferable character in jessica jones too and I really appreciate her ability to play The Most annoying woman you know.

centrist answer i like them all (except stormfront. hated her before i even knew she was a nazi. she was on insta live and i was waiting for her to explode and die) but my fave would have to be butcher bc i find im rooting for him the most and constantly justifying his actions. but sometimes karl urbans accent pisses me off. also black noir but he doesn't Do anything so it's hard to have him as a fave bc he's barely there.

[swagging-back-to]

im littchhherally so over constantly putting 220% into every conversation and getting the most dry and uninterested/uninteresting replies in existence.

[shrikebrother]

i remember a long while ago someone (non-immigrant us american) accused me of faking being an immigrant bc i had mentioned offhand that we moved to the US when i was 8 years old & they thought that was too old to have been able to develop "proper english" & my american accent . they were then in complete disbelief when i told them that ppl also speak english in the philippines

[yoshistory]

Had a bad day at work today ... x__x...

[hxneyfarm]

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[liebelesbe]

hrm i need a different therapist i think

[silent-partner-412]

I’ve beaten all the dungeons in Tears of the Kingdom now and I have a few thoughts (minor spoilers for the dungeons).

First of all, the dungeons in this game as a whole are a massive step up from the ones in Breath of the Wild. They aren’t quite structured the same as old Zelda dungeons which is a little unfortunate, but they have defined themes, all look distinct, and are genuinely very fun to traverse. Considering in BOTW the Divine Beasts basically all looked the same and had the same gimmick (and also were over and done in like 15-20 minutes), it’s really nice to see that more time went into these.

Second of all, starting with Zora’s Domain was a mistake because the Water Temple was easily the weakest dungeon in the game. It literally felt like five basic shrine puzzles based around the water gimmicks introduced mashed into a dungeon that was really nothing more than a pretty outdoor fountain. The other three were all way more interesting aesthetically and were significantly more fun to traverse, it actually felt like getting around the dungeon was part of the fun in, say, the Fire Temple and the Wind Temple, even in the Lightning Temple to a degree. The Water Temple had none of that, which is especially disappointing considering the history of water dungeons in this series (the OG Water Temple, the Great Bay Temple, the Lakebed Temple, and the Ancient Cistern are all highlights of their respective games and it’s sad that the theme has become really bland since the jump to the open world style). My longest gap between dungeons was between the Water Temple and the Fire Temple, because I thought “well if all the dungeons are like this then I’m really not in a hurry to see all of them” which is funny cuz the rest of them were so so good.

I loved the Fire Temple and the minecart mechanics, it was visually stunning and easily the toughest to navigate, probably my favorite in the whole game. The Wind Temple was even more visually impressive, and the climb to get to the Wind Temple was an honest to god highlight of the whole game, it was genuinely incredible. The Lightning Temple was also great, I love that they brought back the old mirror puzzles that I don’t think have really been used since Wind Waker, and the fact that it looked and felt like traversing an ancient pyramid was a treat. I’m kinda sad now that I’m done with them, because I honestly just want more. This is a massive step in the right direction and if they’re going to keep making Zelda games like these in the future I really hope they take notes from these three dungeons.

[theamazingannie]

I’m a sucker for musical parallels and referencing an old song in a new song but I feel like this TTPD lead up is not just a “this is how I used to feel and now I’m using those themes to show how I feel now” and more of a “those feelings were never real and actually those love songs that were so beautiful before are actually about a bad relationship and full of red flags” cuz it’s honestly ruining my feelings on those old songs. Like Taylor’s whole thing is letting us interrupt the songs and apply them to our own lives and now it’s like even she is encouraging us to only see them through the lens of her most recent breakup and it really sucks tbh

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

And maybe it only gets worse

But so what?

I have this time that I am given

And the joy that will come from it

The friends I will make

The people I will meet

Maybe it only gets worse

But worse is not an end

Only a process

There is worth in a painful life

Worth in a quiet one

Worth in a limited one

Maybe it never gets better

Maybe it’s all downhill

So what?

There’s still the distance between you and the ground

And ways to slow down

And rest to be had

Even if it only gets worse

It is worth it

[theninjazebra]

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[suppuration]

that thing i said had me feeling deranged a while back has me excessively deranged tonight

[variablejabberwocky]

wake me up when everything stops going to shit