#im just mad okay

[wormspoodle]

teach me your ways potion master

[basshole-astard]

PSA: i keep seeing posts about staying cool in extreme heat that include advice like "gatorade is bad actually!" and "don't drink fruit juice it'll just dehydrate you!" and neither of these are true!

regarding fruit juice: there's apparently a misconception that Any Sugar At All will dehydrate you, and that's simply not true. yes, sugar will make you pee more when consumed in large amounts, but 1) the natural sugar in fruits won't do this to you 2) great news! a lot of fruit juices exist without any added sugar in them! 3) honestly even having a glass of the fruit juice with added sugar won't completely dehydrate you as long as you're also drinking water throughout the day. if its hot you deserve a cold treat of a drink!!! can't go wrong with fruit juice!!!

regarding gatorade: maybe this isn't an every day drink, but guess what: if it's 110F/40C or hotter outside, and you don't have AC, or you're moving around a lot outside of the AC, and you're sweating buckets: that's when you drink a gatorade.

gatorade exists to replenish all the electrolytes (salt) and glucose (sugar) that you sweat out. YES it is meant for athletes to drink during intensive work outs and not necessarily for people who aren't doing that kind of exercise. BUT GUESS WHAT! when you're sweating buckets because you had to walk to the bus in extreme heat, that's intensive exercise. please feel free to drink a gatorade after that! that's its intended use case!!!!

no: neither of these drinks should be a total replacement for water. but drinking a lot of water and then treating yourself to a fruit juice with lunch is a good idea!!! drinking a gatorade becuase you just had to walk for 20 minutes in the heat is a good idea!!!

Please Stop Spreading Misinformation About Drinks!!! It's fine if you drink things that aren't water!!!! Yes you should probably always be drinking water but drinking something else As Well isn't going to hurt you!!!! okay!!!! its fine!!!!!!

honestly so long as you are consistently getting Any (non-alcoholic) fluids in you, you're doing great!!!!!! okay!!!! i love you stay safe <3

[edwardslostalchemy]

Still kind of smad about the time I needed support for my internship, my dad panicked and instead of being supportive, he told me to quit and leave my program. I needed help with transportation because the classmate that had agreed to drive me had backed out. I was already upset about her leaving me hanging like that and I needed to figure out what I was going to do. I didn't need that comment. I understand he was panicking. But I was panicking, too. My mom was panicking, too. She and I never considered quitting my program an option. It just really hurt me deeply because my dad's option was to give up instead of trying to figure something out.

And when we did figure it out, he was supportive. My mom reminds me he still supported me after that. But she doesn't understand that what he said really weighed on me and it hurt me. Telling me to quit was him telling me I couldn't do it, even before starting. He probably didn't realize that; he was panicking and didn't think it through. But still, telling me to quit was something I NEVER expected to hear from him. He's my dad, he's supposed to support me no matter what.

There's things we can't get over right away. My mom is nobody to tell me to let it go when she's held on to grudges for more than 30 years. Yes, I'm learning to be more forgiving, but also when it comes to things I value the most, you're either supporting me or you're against me. That lets me know where we stand. I didn't appreciate what he said. It didn't help me at all with the situation. And it left an awful taste in my mouth. I just need time to process it and get over it.

I'm so glad God made me so stubborn I can do things out of spite just to show people I can prove them wrong. You're telling me to quit? Oh, did you mean I should go HARDER and do the MOST? Thanks, I was planning on doing that anyway. I appreciate your approval though. 😘

[inkskinned]

the problem is that being single is seen as the consolidation prize, and not the natural neutral state of being-a-person. at the end of the movie or the book or the poetry, there is a person waiting for you at the altar, and they love you. if the play is a comedy, everyone gets married. the metaphor is about how you are not-whole. the metaphor is about how everyone is going to be happily-ever-after. the metaphor is that romantic love is the most important resource on the planet, not just all-love. all-love is not a thing, that is a disappointment. the treasure is not the friends we made along the way. the treasure is the girl you landed.

the metaphor is that you cannot be alone, that means you are broken. are you getting over someone? that is acceptable, you can be getting over someone, but not for long. you must be single because you would rather not be single. you must be single and looking to not-be-single. you must want to date, eventually.

friendship and community are never seen as being equal-to or even-better than romantic connection. that person is your one! you need to find them. you need to hunt through the sand particles until you can shift out some kind of gem. this is regardless to your own experience of the beach and the sun. you need to be somewhere with someone.

if you are taking this time alone to heal, that is so sad. everyone gives you this little pitying look. the understanding is that you are not actually happier than you were before you were single. it is seen as a sort of pity - oh, you are choosing yourself, making yourself the priority? - that isn't quite right. you must mean that you are making yourself ready for the right person. you are just laying the bed better this time. open up your heart. you'll find them, we promise!

what do you mean you're really-truly genuinely-very happy? you are probably misremembering what it was like to be in a relationship. and besides, once you meet your person, that time will look grey and bland and wasted. your person is the only way for you to see in color. so what if you have taken this time - for the first time in your entire life - to actually-for-real do the fucking work. you can be proud of yourself, sure. but the way we need to know that you got better is that you get a partner. you're healed enough for the next bad part!

people don't choose to be single, they just say they're choosing to be single - they actually mean "nobody wants to date me." it doesn't matter how many people you have gently rejected or how many times you've talked it over carefully in therapy. what matters is that you are single, and by all accounts - that means you are something worth our pity. your successes and life all seem pale in the sunlight. sure, you have done amazing things and finally found your way in life. what matters is that there wasn't a person in the room with you while you did it.

you want to tell them - that's the whole thing. i didn't know how to be alone in the room. i didn't know how to handle the silence. every moment was so sharp, and i kept choosing the wrong way to close the door. i have spent my entire life in the empty well, living in the ricochet of someone else's cruelty. for once i have built myself a ladder. for once everything i taste is all mine, every bite of sunshine and laughter. i have learned how to sleep out in the open with my memories. recently, they have started to purr.

your father rolls his eyes. listen. this isn't about you. i just want a grandchild in my future.

[casscainmainly]

Why Duke Thomas Should Be Absolute Robin

Because I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want him to be.

[sophsicle]

i do sometimes wonder, if the people who get on your case about not updating, understand the level of work that goes into creating things. like obviously, of course, i understand that i have gone a significant amount of time without updating and i GET it. i do. i just am busy, i don't know what else to say. but like, it is work right? like getting out a chapter a week is essentially like having another part-time job. which is why i've needed to take a break. cause i just don't have the time / energy for another part-time job right now. and i don't mind people asking about when fics will update, i really don't. what i do mind is people being like "REALLY you need this much time??" Like DAMN excuse me. i am doing my best. it takes energy and time to create. and i do that for free in the spaces between all the things that i have to do otherwise. idk. idk what the point of this is. other than being like, you must have never made anything, if you don't understand why sometimes it takes time.

[infernoflorys]

ok poll time i need answers

[felsicveins]

His heart belongs to another

And no other heart will do

[ghostorbz]

@energ00n ♡

And ofc a version without affects

[kublakola]

People are mad at innie Mark. How. Why. I understand being upset bc the choice he made was impossible and tragic, but what did you expect?? he didn't believe that Mark Scout planned on integrating him, so leaving through that door would have essentially been suicide. You wanted him to KILL HIMSELF just to give a man he doesn't know (who created him and left him in office hell) a chance with a woman he has little-to-no attachment to?? Of course he chose Helly. Like. Of course. He's IN LOVE WITH HER. His life might be short, but she is the absolute best part of it. Mark Scout is in love with Gemma, totally, completely, to the point that losing her drove him to split his brain in half, but to Mark S that's pretty much just Miss Casey. He'll save her life, obviously, but he doesn't owe her anything more than that. He CERTAINLY doesn't owe Mark Scout SHIT.

This absolutely is not hate to Gemma or outie Mark, nor is it distaste for markgemma (this is not a ship war. Why are we treating it like a ship war). But people are MAD at him. Some people are mad at HELLY (arguably Helena) for... idk I guess not begging her boyfriend to abandon her forever, even though she's literally the person who convinced him to complete Cold Harbour in the first place. She's Gemma's biggest innie ride or die!!! WHATEVER!! Whatever.

[itseasytoremember]

I was downtown Toronto and witnessed a group of high school boys following a clearly queer couple yelling slurs at them. I was in my car, with the music on, and I could still hear them. So I did what anyone (at least on this website would do) and proceeded to yell at them if they wanted to yell those slurs at someone, they should wait right there and I'll be back in a second. they proceeded to DO THE NAZI SALUTE AND YELL THE F SLUR AT ME.

Yet the SECOND I park my car and get out? They fucking S P R I N T away. This is the thing, people like this love yelling this stuff and feeling indestructible, and if you don't react they feel like their beliefs are implicitly supported by the status quo. They need to know that is not the case.

Scare the Nazi out of them.

[initialsaint]

Dain in Fourth Wing is infinitely more understandable when you look at things from his POV.

He watched his best friend get effectively sentenced to death by her own mother when Violet was put into the Riders' Quadrant, having trained to be a scribe her whole life. He has also watched her deal with her disability and knows how it works- he's had to reset her joints himself. She immediately has multiple people who want her dead and aren't shy about it. Her own wingleader wants her dead and has the power to do it without repercussions. Dain is her superior too, sure, but he has to answer to the main guy who wants to kill her. On top of all that he has spent a year away from her watching people who've trained for years to be riders die every weak.

And it's not like Violet wants to be a rider at first. It's easy to forget three books in, but she starts out fully convinced she's going to die. She has never given the slightest impression that she wants to be a rider. When Dain says he can sneak her out, at first she says no because her mother will force her back, not because she wants to be a rider. He saw her passion for scribehood before that life was taken away from her. He saw how much she looked up to her dad.

Dain doesn't know what she's thinking or understand why she WANTS this because it completely contradicts everything he's known about her their entire lives. The whole "we climbed trees together" doesn't do the fact that they really did grow up together justice. Before he left for Basgiath Dain would've known her better than her own mother. Of course he's confused.

And he gets more confused when she's suddenly in some sort of something with her direct superior who also wanted her dead. Yeah, they're adults, but Xaden is very much in charge of her and did not hide his intentions. We as readers see what happened, but Dain has no idea, and is rightfully concerned. It's not just out of jealousy (though it plays a part) it's because to an outsider the whole thing is insane.

We see things from Violet's perspective, so we see how insulted she is that Dain sees her as lesser or not capable of surviving as a rider. We don't see Dain's utter internal desperation to not let his best friend- and at that point, the woman he loves- die.

He definitely fucked up in FW, and deserved the treatment he got from Violet, but honestly a lot of his actions were justified.

[whydontyourealize-viennawaits4u]

If you liked the entire Five × Lila thing in season four and genuinely shipped them, then I'm so sorry. My condolences. Hope you get better.

[kingofpeacows]

My takes on Gimli and Legolas designs !

[angelpuns]

Leo going through the horrors but the horrors are just that he had a shitt day and no one bothered to save him any cookies :/

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

something about trust

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“How… does it feel?” Locus asked haltingly. Lopez shrugged. “<Weird. But I expected that.>” Locus hummed, his brow furrowed like he was lost in thought as he scanned Lopez’s face. Lopez grabbed Locus’ wrists, bringing his hands to his throat.  “What are you--?” “<One way to test it. Take my head off.>” Locus’ eyes widened, his expression turning panicked. He tried to pull his hands away, but Lopez held him steady. “<You are the only person strong enough,>” Lopez said firmly, giving the other no room to balk any further. “<If this synthskin doesn’t fix the problem, I want to know now, not later.>” Lopez could feel the way Locus’s hands shifted, his fingers flexing as he fought some internal debate. Lopez couldn’t read his mind, but the flicker of those marble grey eyes was telling as Locus looked at his hands around Lopez’s throat, then to his face and then back again and again. “<It doesn’t hurt, if that’s what all this fuss is about.>” Not strictly true, having his head removed wasn’t exactly a pleasant feeling. But better to do it now, with some degree of control, than in the middle of a fight or an accident. The sensation of feeling everywhere his skin touched was strange though, the normally very localized sensors spread out across the surface of the synthskin. Was this how humans felt things all the time? No wonder they were so easily distracted. Neither of them moved. “You’re certain?” Locus asked finally, his voice little more than a whisper. Lopez raised an eyebrow and let himself grin just a little at being able to convey the sentiment properly. Maybe there were some advantages to the synthskin after all. “<I wouldn’t have said it if I wasn’t.>” A nod, then the pressure. Lopez knew Locus was strong, for a human, but the feeling of his hands tightening around his neck and pulling at his jaw, the base of his metal skull…  His head didn’t budge, and the pressure eased. Lopez clicked his tongue, releasing Locus’ wrists. “<Good. That is one problem fixed, at least.>”