#it’s a choice

[mando-din-lorian]

I was so worried that they were going to full on write Din’s covert off as an actual cult this is season, and I’m so so happy that’s not that case so far.

I think there’s so much more nuance to Din’s covert that a lot of fandom don’t give it credit for. I swear, some of ya’ll act like Din is being held captive by his covert (and Bo too after the recent episode) and it’s like…they’re not.

The Armorer literally told Bo that she’s been redeemed by the way of their Creed and if she WANTS to she can join them (for however long she wants to be there), but she is free to leave any time she desires. No one is going to hold her captive there.

Same with Din. Yes, he broke his creed and became an apostate, but they didn’t hunt him down and strip him of his armor. This is the Way they follow and they’ve survived so long—have been together so long—because they stuck to is to rigidly. I love how faithful Din is to his Way. I love how much it means to him. The covert is his family. Of course he’s going to fight for it.

I don’t know, some peoples relationship with Din’s covert in this fandom is weird. Like yeah, it’s not perfect, but it’s not a full-blown cult keeping all its members locked away from the rest of the galaxy. They’re a people on the brink of extinction and doing what they can to survive.

I just think we’ve gone so long with just fanon content that it’s skewing perception on canon content.

[sirenadeloceano]

The way toxic work places can drain tf out of you. It truly blows my mind how some people can be so

[soulinkpoetry]

Sometimes you have to give them choices, sit back and observe . See where they choose to go. What they choose to do. You’ll know if they really want to stay once you give them the freedom to go.

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[gotankgo]

“Good manners don't cost nothing.”

- Lemmy

[olixm]

Why they singing flo Rida at Eurovision

[absentauthor]

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: Netflix needs to pay Micheal C. Hall whatever he asks for to play the investigator who takes down Joe Goldberg on the final season of You. If it can’t be Jenna Ortega’s character, make a new one and make it him. We’d finally see Joe face Dexter’s justice 😂

[missmitakarcloud]

closing time?

I feel like something is closing in me while I seem to be healing.

and somehow it scares me. but why? because it’s change? maybe.

where is that feeling of closing coming from and what is closing?

It could be while I am healing that my inner child is healing. ergo my inner child gets more quite.

that’s why it might feel like something is missing

and we are more used to listing to our inner child all day long.

but the more we heal our inner child,

the more it gets quiet I guess.

and the more this silence deepens and occurred the more it could feel unbearable to stand because what is missing felt like it was needed there,

maybe for protection,

maybe simply because we couldn’t imagine a life without it.

that’s the most common reason why we hold on to things

and not always is holding on good for us.

but letting to go fast can lead in some incidences to withdrawalsyndroms that feel unbearable to handle .

so maybe that just means we should slow down our healing.

not that we shouldn’t try to heal at all

but just to give it more time

. sometimes it’s better to rip the band-Aid off slowly.

sometimes fast is good, but only if you can handle it and want it. but if you feel like you can’t handle it: slow down again.

stop for a moment and take a breath.

and think about again.

what do I need right now? like really?

what would help me right now?

if that’s not healthy too, what else could help me? not just in the moment but on the long run.

so you still allow yourself to heal, while not forcing it.

you seeing your inner child and treading it with respect. you respect your inner child’s boundaries

and hence your boundaries.

how you should have been treaded all your life and especially in childhood.

tread yourself the way you need to be treaded and you gonna accept no less then what you need into your life.

Because even if you fear losing your inner child, if you still need it; you can keep it in other ways.

playing. there are different always to play, that don’t need to hurt you in the long run,

if what you’re avoiding is pain.

sometimes we might need to welcome it in in order to be able to let it go again.

who’s gonna go before they even were there?

happens very seldom , I’d say.

so in order to let things go, you have to invite them in at least once.

and sometimes you have to invite them in more then once.

sometimes you might want to invite it in.

that would mean though inviting the pain:

you want the pain.

once you realize that after letting it in again and again.

you can make the decision not to let it enter again.

and that feels like closing.

you are closing doors.

for others maybe,

but also within you.

walking around in your brain, that is your house, that you live in. and you decide which way you go an which doors to leave open and which to close and which to never open again.

sometimes we might like to take a peak and maybe then realize how ugly it is in there and if you like the ugly go ahead. it’s your life and your choices.

if you want to avoid the ugly. put a note in that door:

you don’t want to open this.

and stop yourself. and with time the note will fade. with time the door will not be noticed as a door anymore. with time this door will be hung with pictures or a shelf will be standing in front of it.

no more way in, except with pure force.

but if all goes well you forget about this door completely and it will eventually fade.

that does feel like closing, like disappearing and that is scary, but it doesn’t have to be.

it’s up to you and every decision you make again and again and again.

everything we know and do is trained. we trained ourselves since we were babies and not able to talk. we trained ourself in the womb how to survive. and we were born and we learned how to survive. every day of our lives.

trial and error,

and we came this far.

aren’t you proud?

[theuniversalscat]

According to the world, we must think ourselves into and out of things. Need to get out of a uncomfortable situation? Think! There’s gotta be something I can think of… something I can do…

But if you can find it within any moment to feel good, or, at least better than what you’re experiencing by observing your current 3D environment, then you automatically reap the benefits. Feeling good is a choice you can make to create your life how you’d like it to be, but it must start from within. Just by choosing to want to feel better already separated you from what isn’t bringing you joy in your thoughts in the current moment. It’s a detachment, and another chance to choose another path of feeling. It can be a breath, a pause, however small, but it will lead to a better outlook, then subsequently a better outcome for any situation.

It’s your choice to connect to your internal support system, and that’s how you do it. The desire, in the moment, to choose to feel differently, to feel into a more positive way of feeling from your current perspective is how you are currently choosing to feel. Your desire for the better feeling, and your decision to break away from your current downward spiral of momentum of belief that you have now chosen will systematically change your perception, thereby improving your mood, and your ability to maneuver more positively and effectively within your undesirable surroundings will make them seem easier, more manageable. It’s all in your ability to focus on what you would prefer rather than what you usually think which creates dissatisfaction, and a dissonance to what you really want.

I’m with Homer. The choice of feeling, is where it’s at. 🤔🧠🤘💓

[rodeoromeo]

why are Ringo and John dating in Help!

[oscar-isaac]

RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)

[daakureisaiko]

[stump-not-found]

what's your point, man

[animentality]

[titleknown]

So, a comparatively high amount of states are voting on the fate of ranked choice voting this year. Missouri is voting on whether or not to kill it, Alaska is voting on whether or not to keep it, and most importantly, Nevada, Oregon and Idaho are voting on whether or not to adopt ranked choice voting, with maybe Colorado to follow.

And if you live in these states, even if you don't want to vote at the top of the ticket, I urge you to get out there and vote in favor of ranked choice voting on all of them.

Like, the two-party monopoly is a big part of the reason why politics in this country is so shit, and a big part of that is our "first past the post" system making it basically mathematically impossible for candidates outside of them to win anything beyond a local or state level.

So, if you want to try and break the cycle of voting for the lesser evil, of bipartisan cruelty towards the Global South and the country's own citizens alike, we need to change this and we need to vote on it where we can.