#i like that it's bringing up these important topics

[ziyechs]

“ja’marr, outside of the obvious—winning the national championship—do you have a best memory with joe? whether it’s on the field or off the field… do you have a best memory that you look back on with joe burrow?”

— “i’d probably say ole miss game when i put on some icy hot. it was pretty cold that game, i actually put some stuff on my arms and joe didn’t like it. he told me: ‘take it off’, cause i was getting the ball too slippery. so i’d probably say that was actually a funny moment for me cause i wasn’t expecting him to go off on me about that.”

anyway, here is him mentioning it again, four years later :)

[sillylady99]

Exploration of Shame in Thunderbolts*

Something I really appreciate about this film is the exploration of not just depression, but shame. This idea that our pasts haunts us, and rumination leads to the isolation and deterioration of our relationships with ourselves and others is so fresh and important today. The other characters referring to the void as "shame rooms" and each room being a snapshot of their most regretful moments gives insight not only to the characters, but to ourselves. Here is my analysis.

What keeps you up at night? What moment do you so wish you could go back and change? For Yelena, attempting to save Anya from the fate that already took her just leads to more pain as Anya tells her its too late. John already lost his wife and son due to his inability to move on from his mistakes. Valentina cannot bring back her father, or untell her family secrets. Shame and regret is isolating, humiliating, and, most importantly, not a productive vehicle of change.

Our characters are stuck in a cycle of self-hatred and isolation as they try to reconcile with their pasts without "doing the work", as Sam Wilson described to Bucky on the same topic in TFATWS. Revenge and isolation will not distract or heal you like friendship, acceptance, or true reconciliation. This is part of the reason I believe they choose to not focus on Bucky, because he has already fought this battle.

Things comes to a head at two key points during the third act: Yelena and Alexei's conversation, and the climax of the film where Bob is forced to accept the mistakes he made post-procedure as Sentry. When Yelena confronts her shame, expressing feelings of purposelessness, loss, and regret, Alexei says something so important.

"You're stuck, you're alone, you look only at the bad. When I look at you, I don't see your mistakes. That's why we need each other."

Similarly, the shame room wants Bob to feel like he is alone and "always making things worse", helpless. It forces him to fight alone and silences his friends. He is only able to defeat the void when Yelena and the team tell him "I'm Here" and share his pain with him. And this is the answer to the question the beginning of the film poses, "how do I escape these feelings within myself?" You must seek community.

What I appreciate so much about this film is that look into the extremely normal experience of becoming lost in your own regrets. Being unable to see yourself positively is a horrible (but common) experience, and so fresh to see in an action franchise. We cannot change our pasts or fix our mistakes, but we can talk to one another. Make community. Share experiences and lean on each other to do better in the future. We can see the light in each other that we may not be able to see ourselves.

I love it.

[miranalvjy]

Introduction/What to expect from this blog!

First of all HEYYYYY!!! <3

I'm Mira/Mirana, depends on what you want to call me but I listen to anything fr-

I'll try and make this intro post a WAY better one then what I had before, cause uhh yeah no- if you saw that one... no you didn't :3

So, if you wanna know everything about me read down below:

First and foremost what's important:

I'm Hungarian, I speak english fluently but it's NOT my native language, blame me all you want I will have mistakes here and there (but if I do notice one I'll definitely correct it instantly cause it bugs me)

My pronouns are she/her, but I don't really care, you can prefer to be as a sewer rat and I'll be happy about it :3

I have ADHD, OCD and some 'tism so my dearest dear mind works differently, yes, bear with me

I'm bisexual and polyamor, single and ready to mingle with a pringle (that was shitty but funny, pls laugh)

I live in Mexico, so I do understand Spanish but I don't really prefer it, I'd much rather speak in english (I actually prefer english over hungarian-)

The shortest shortie mother fucker you'll ever find, me and my 152cms against the whole world (4'11 to everyone else who uses this)

I block freely, and if you piss me off or if you're being the wrong type of freak I'll block without a damn thought :3

My asks are always open, if you have anything you wanted to ask me, annoy me with HEL YEAH hit me up :3

I'm an atheist, but I respect everyone who is something else

I'm very openminded

Okay That's the most important part there, now let me just yapp about myself a bit and what I like to do and what I like in general:

Music:

I'm going to list some bands/singers in no particular order that I love and could yapp about for hours, what I will most likely reblog/yapp about :3

Black Veil Brides, Ashnikko, Baby Bugs, Bring Me The Horizon, Måneskin, DeathbyRomy, Death Spells, Delilah Bon, Mad About Marilyn (IM BEGGING YOU GO LISTEN TO THEM), Depeche Mode, Falling In Reverse (sue me- the music is good), Fall Out Boy, Frank Iero (solo projects), Gerard Way (solo projects), Get Scared, Green Day, TX2, Palaye Royale, Jann, Leathermouth, Letter For The Oddities, Lovejoy (again, just sue me), L.S. Dunes, Luke Black, MANDRAGORA UK, Mileo, Mindless Self Indulgence (just give in the papers), Mother Mother, Motionless In White, My Chemical Romance, Negative 25, Nirvana, Panic! At The Disco, Pencey Prep, Pierce The Veil, The Relentless, Sable, Sleeping With Sirens, Sleep Token, The Smashing Pumpkins, Twenty One Pilots, Vana, The Warning, Yungblud, Ayesha Erotica, Jiinzo,

Hobbies:

I have so many of these bitches I might as well make a list :3

Reading (HEAVY on it), Writing, Gaming, Diamond Painting, Crocheting, Journaling, Other small handy crafts, Yapping

Other Topics:

Anything else I might yapp on here about, or something I'd love to yapp about with you :3

Philosophy, Religion, Horror movies, Paranormal, Clothes and Styles, Theories, Random stuff

Games:

The video games I play, hyperfixated on :3

Stardew Valley, Five Nights At Freddie's, Dave The Diver, Slime Rancher, Don't Starve, Cult of the lamb, Minecraft, Potion Craft, R.E.P.O., Pony Island, Undertale, Subnautica, Little Inferno, Dorfromantic, Oxygen Not Included, Bear And Breakfast, Forager, Life Is Strange, Detroit: Become Human, The Forest, The Long Dark

My other blogs:

@miranareads My blog to yapp about books and reading, everything associated with books and reading goes there :3 @ghost-of-the-once-loved-child My sideblog for poems... I haven't had a lot of time to really write a lot, but when I do I post it here (from my older poems, please spare me, those typos kill me but I don't have the fucking urge to correct them anymore) And a secret third one for fanfiction :3 @miranascreams I literally just did this blog, uhh- freak blog, sexual content and very much explicit, mostly about celebrities or just horny thoughts in general :3

Me:

Since I am indeed pretty comfy with showing my face, here I am, in all my glory :3

I also have more pics but I'm lazy, and you'll probably get bored of my ass real fast anyways :3

My Friends, Moots whom I adore:

@im-literally-so-dun - My wife and my one and only BBQ grilled chicken <3 @hexxyyxoxo - IRL pookie who got on tumblr because of me but she does not know how to use it so we only have an interaction on here every once in a year or so @daffodilrambles - My unhinged diva twin sister <3 @m1lkywaymikey - Writer pookie who I love to annoy <3 @lobot0mmy - Tag game bruv, we only interact in tag games most of the times but shhhh :3 @sebbywebster - Gaming pookie, go to yapper, literal sweetheart <3 @yourinnerhealthplus - Should interact more, but this bitch lives far away so we don't :( GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE POOKIE

THAT'S ALL- OR AT LEAST I THINK SO... IF NOT I'LL UPDATE IT <3 BYEEE LOVE YOU MWUAH

[starvinginbelair]

as a criminology student, i would honestly love to read an comics arc about the role of the police in vigilantism because i just think it's under-discussed for such a nuanced and complex topic.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I've been doing a lot of reflection as of late, especially after this past class.

This past class was about the Torah and Tanakh in general, and the way the rabbi talked about the commandments (specifically the ten commandments) has made me really reflect on how I interpret them, specifically the fifth commandment, or honoring your mother and father.

This is a commandment I have wrestled with for a long time - in fact, it brought me away from g-d at multiple times. I was severely abused when I was incredibly young by my mother, and I used to feel insulted at the implication that I were to honor her while she got to live a better life. It was hypocritical, in my eyes.

But this rabbi surmised that this particular commandment was because parenthood is an act of creation, something that is like the g-d from which we come from. My realization is this: I don't think we're necessarily meant to take even these commandments literally.

I this particular commandment is more of a call to honor creation - creation is a gift, and like any gift, many people simply will not like it and will discard it. The person who abused me created me, but she did not honor creation. She didn't honor me, but I can still honor it.

I have started to honor creation much more. I'm too young, too unstable, not mature enough to be a father (though I fantasize about it), but I create all the time. I create relationships, I create with my hands through crochet. I create memories, I create my world. And I can honor who I am and where I came from that made me who I am. I've been learning one of the mother tongues of my family (Italian, since part of my family originates there) and it was judaism that inspired me to do this.

I don't think g-d wants me to honor my abuser. I think He wants me to remember the Holy action of creation. When I am a father, that act of creation will be Holy, and indeed, I am already joyful about the thought.

I have seen many people struggle with this particular commandment, but I think this perspective helps me personally. I don't think I ever have to forgive my abusers (plural), and I don't think I am commanded to simply because they happened to be family. I am commanded to recognize the holy, to elevate the mundane. In doing so, I will remember g-d. Through creation, I honor g-d and everything he has done for us, for me, and for our collective people.

[aparticularbandit]

Responding to this post as a separate post because I want to respond to something that I think is beyond the scope/intention of the original post (and honestly the scope/intention of the response in the linked post) but that, like.

I want to respond to it because it's been churning in my head.

Specifically the idea of the Protestant Work Ethic and trying to earn your way into heaven.

Because that's the very antithesis of what the Gospel is.

Over and over, it is made very clear that you cannot earn your way into heaven. (Titus 3:5 and Ephesians 2:8-9 are the ones that come immediately to mind, but there are more than that. (I also like - Romans 4 and the entire discussion about it being faith and not works and especially Romans 4:4-8.)) Literally one of the entire points is that you are stuck in your sin and you cannot get out and no matter what you do, you cannot earn your way in, but God loves you and chose you and wants you, so He paid your debt Himself (Jesus) and is giving you His righteousness - His perfection - because He was the only one who could earn His way in.

God is for you, not against you.

Are there things you should be doing? Yes. (Ephesians 2:10 talks about that, too.) But, like. It's not to earn your way in. It's out of love and gratefulness to the One who got you out of your horrible predicament? And then on top of that, made you a co-heir with Him?

Because it's...He paid for you to get in and then also you got adopted as a child of God? And someone described it once as good works after that being like when a child makes a drawing for their dad and their dad hangs it on the fridge? It's not to earn anything; it's because you love Him, too?

So, like - I want to know where the Protestant Work Ethic went wrong. Why so many people think it's about earning their way when it isn't that at all.

It's a gift. It was always a gift.

[tollsoftheclockwerkbelle]

sega please do not save maria please do not save maria PLEASE do not save mariaaaaaaa sega PLEASE

[wildstar25]

What physical part(s) of Arsay does her partners find the most attractive! Is it the same for all partners or does it differ between them?

(also optional bonus ask of what part(s) of/about Arsay generally do they love the most, physical or not!)

Meanwhile, if you were to ask the same of Arsay:

[worthyheir]

I'm just gonna repost instead of editing the old post and reblogging it but The sword Jace carries around is actually one of Laenor's that he took after Laenor died. Thank you.

[lakegriffy]

i find myself guilty of this, i admit, but i think its pretty strange how people always feel the need to demean or put down other forms of media just to raise their own favourite up. like two things can be great for two different reasons. your band or show is not "cooler" than the other one just because they cover darker material. two things can exist at once. you dont have to dick measure your favourite things with other peoples favourite things

[bennitastisch]

being trans and knowing when someone *knows* and someone doesnt know is a crazy experience.

[rouge-the-bat]

sometimes i see posts thatre like, talking about something important and should be talked about, but then it has an addition thats like "oh this has SO FEW notes, NOBODY cares about this topic, everyone wants to IGNORE this IMPORTANT thing" and then i check the difference between the original post time of that addition and its like. 2 hours. and it currently has tens of thousands of notes. like bro you barely even gave it any time to cook before complainin no ones eatin...

[zombiesama]

went to a very informal meeting for the allied picnic (queer people + allies) we've had in town the past few years! I might be volunteering some art, time, and button-making supplies :)

[todayisafridaynight]

so magical that yakuza 1 and shadow the hedgehog came out the same year........ 2005 the best year for sega honestly.....

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

thinking about the time when in high school (around the time the paris terrorist attacks happened) our english teacher said "raise your hand if you wouldn't be comfortable sitting down next to someone visibly muslim on the bus" and the majority raised their hands and he like. didn't feel the need to discuss that further

[nox-in-a-box]

Eid Mubarak! Have a wonderful day.