#my most successful post on here

[fallarbor-town]

you're just a sad, lonely boy who always loses at fifa

warmup sketch LOL. i think this is how they'll adapt impel down to the live action. tbh. original photo under the cut!

[spaciebabie]

at first getting diagnosed with cptsd was like, "yay my trauma has been validated (it always was valid)!" and i really thought that was going to be it, but then i started to do research as i do whenever i realize i have something and learned that!! the way i experience socialization is!! quite horrid actually!!

[bowser-ex]

Don't forget to kiss your butler BF every now and then

[electrosquash]

Follow the news. The Folkwang Museum's cancelling of Anaïs Duplan's exhibition (and still profiting from his work) is not the only institution overreacting preemptively in light of the current crackdown of israel-critical voices on a slippery slope to fascism.

These developments didn't just start with Hamas' attack on Israel of Octobre 7th:

But the political landscape is using its performative solidarity with Israel to restrict fundamental rights more and more especially with the rightwing parties heating up the migration debate again and the Ampel dropping all semblance of a backbone. And they aren't nearly done - keep in mind the upcoming elections where everyone wants a piece of AfD's fascism pie as they are projected to reach majority in three states.

[vintageshits]

“No, better let's part nicely, because I'm a dreamer myself, there'd be no use! As if I haven't dreamed of you myself? You're right about that, I dreamed for a long time, still in the country, where he kept me for five years, completely alone, I used to think and think, dream and dream and I kept imagining someone like you, kind, honest, good, and as silly as you are, who would suddenly come and say, 'You're not guilty, Nastasya Filippovna, and I adore you!' And I sometimes dreamed so much that I'd go out of my mind…And then this one would come: he'd stay for two months a year, dishonor me, offend me, inflame me, debauch me, leave me—a thousand times I wanted to drown myself in the pond, but I was base, I had no courage—well, but now…Rogozhin, are you ready?”

The Idiot 1.16

THESE NASTASYA'S WORDS ARE MY NEW ROMAN EMPIRE.

FIRST OF ALL, the way she talks about this in front of everyone?? How she dared to talk so openly about Totsky's abuse towards her...that mixture of euphoria, desperation, and irreverence girlies have and are judged for...

BUT ALSO to know that during the whole time she lived her "cottagecore fantasy" (sorryyyy, the only thing I found a bit hilarious about the part of her story was how much her life at Delight sounds -except for the Tosky's part- the dream of every girlie into cottagecore aesthetic lol) when she was 16, she was just pretty much like any other girl that age, and had dreams, and cried herself to sleep, like...God, teenage girls have always been the same, whether it is the 1860s, the 1960s, or the 2020s...and it has always been so easy to wreck them and to make them turn into the most evil, reckless thing in the world, but this "evilness" and recklessness is almost always fueled by pain, and...

BRB, I'LL GO SOBBING.

[torahtot]

sth that always frustrates me is when people on here say things like "jewish ppl u can let go of connection to israel bc you can be at home in the countries you live in!" and someone responds with a whole essay on how antisemitism is alive and well.. bc that still accepts the original premise. you're saying yes, i agree, we would not feel a connection to the land if antisemitism didn't exist, but it does. this ignores the root misconception that makes someone say things like that, which is that they deny (or simply don't realize/understand) our connection to the land, which transcends the existence of antisemitism in the diaspora. walk into any orthodox school that doesn't even consider itself zionist, and you'll find the kids having conversations with their teachers about how to reconcile feeling comfortable in galut with the desire to properly mourn the beit hamikdash & yearn for mashiach so that we can return. this isn't metaphorical in the slightest; many of them will make aliyah whether mashiach comes or not (and it won't have anything to do with secular zionism or antisemitism). eradicating antisemitism in the diaspora would never change the fact that we are in galut. if they were smart they would actually shift the conversation to why we don't need an explicitly/exclusively jewish state in order to live safely & thrive in eretz yisrael, but they won't bc a) that would require accepting the validity of our connection to it and b) they consider it "validating settler fears" or wtvr the fuck. so instead they will continue to be totally inept at realpolitik solutions & fail to see eye to eye in conversation with jews bc they fundamentally misunderstand.. everything about us.

[blackheart-6]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 5000 likes!

[hanzajesthanza]

you guys… we did it!!!

just wanted to thank you everyone for being a part of this blog… “big things to come soon”

[artsy-dreamer]

Shoutout to the many Neko Atsume books that never got localized 😔

Some of these are packed with lore you’d never know otherwise… and these aren’t even all the Neko Atsume books in existence!

[tomwambsgays]

come on, wambsgans!

[the-voice-of-night-vale]

u know what i've been thinking about. how the economy expects you to be, right now, at a job you've been at and consistently getting raises in for like, ten years. it's almost like the implication is "well yeah, you'll be able to live off this job in three, five, ten years if you stick with it and grow in the company" which is all fine and dandy, but i kind of need to live right now

[skitskatdacat63]

thinking so hard about . when exactly in the martian timeline they hated and loved eachother can u help me .. cause after turkey 2010 they had their love moments as well and even in 2012 they had their buddy buddy moments so idk !!! they’re confusing

OH MY GOD IM SO SORRY I MEANT TO REPLY TO THIS AND THEN I JUST COMPLETELY FORGOT, SO: hello :D

This is something I think about often as well. Teammates are a weird dynamic in F1 because you're forced to compete for the same resources and against each other in the WDC, but at the same time have to still think combined for the team, for the WCC. I think teammate relationships are like being siblings or like being in a marriage(actually I think Mark has said this before haha.) You can never fully hate or separate from each other, even if you go through rough patches, because you're stuck together and have had the same experiences, for good or for worse.

Turkey 2010 is funny because I think that was one of their first bad moments as teammates, right? And I love that RBR made them take that couples therapy, "us in our get-along shirt", picture. That's what I mean by going through the same experiences, like yeah they were probably pissed at each other but were also probably bonding over the hilarity/awkwardness of RBR making them do damage control.

I just think it's probably difficult to stay upset with someone consistently when you're constantly working with them, and you've also experienced the highest highs and lowest lows with each other. I think I referenced this in my Martian champagne pics post but it's kinda funny when you look through all of those shared podiums that Mark always seemed to be way more willing to spray Seb and smile at him when Mark was the one who won(Literally 3/4 of the pics from that post when they were both at RBR were from Mark's wins.) Like it was such a "I can't stay mad at you 🤭" relationship with them. Like with Mark in particular, it feels like whenever he got a better result, he was mostly like "I shall forgive your transgressions." But then 2013 was kind of the last straw for him, with Multi-21, and especially since he really was getting crushed by Seb and not even getting any wins like in the prev years. But then, by removing himself from it all when retiring, he was able to take a step back and see what it was like to not be in constant, direct competition anymore.

Idk if I'm the best person to ask as I don't think I'm in any measures a great Martian scholar. But these are my thoughts :D I just think being teammates in such a competitive environment can result in such love-hate relationships and that Martian is one of the greatest examples of how it fluctuates. I think it'd be really difficult to try and parse when exactly they were on good or bad terms. For me, tbh I think it kinda correlates with Mark's results because I think with just that whole situation, where they were in as teammates directly competing at the very top, it was a lot easier for Mark, rather than Seb, to start feeling resentment as he was generally drawing the shorter straw most of the time.

Basically, teammates(Martian especially) are bonded through triumph and trauma

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

Thinking a lot again about actually making a proper roleplay group within the GW2 community... I've been sitting on a lot of things regarding the Tideturners as a fully functional Mists-based group, but most of what holds me back is just a lack of confidence.

There's definitely a niche there that needs filling though, and it doesn't seem like anybody else is really doing anything with it.

[icewindandboringhorror]

a boye whom'st loves to attack paper balls

[stewyhosseini-bf]

I think I can generally understand that fandoms have different 'factions' they split themselves into that don't like or interact with each other/ think THEIR little meow meow is the ONE meow meow and all the others need to stop being mean to him but... I think Succession is one where I sometimes find certain takes to be lacking in the nuance necessary to watch and enjoy this show... like, everyone in the show is, to some degree, a bad person. they all do horrible things constantly, even just by being complicit. the whole point is that, whatever they do or don't do, you still find yourself having empathy and relating to their humanity, their trauma, their want to do good even if they're unable to, their need for acknowledgement and achievement, etc... to look at tomshiv, for example, as ONE of them being THE evil person who ruined their relationship because of their ulterior motives, or acting like Roman's trauma is more valid than Kendall's bc Kendall was part of his, or like Connor is less or more worthy of understanding for xyz reason, or that Gerri or Stewy are the only good ones (as much as I love them both - I literally have a stewy blog - this is not the case), etc etc is just ... so weird to me. They're all broken people trying to find love and/or a sense of achievement in a broken system and doing horrible things to get there. And I'm not saying you can't favor characters or even hate others, don't get me wrong, I also have my MOSTEST meows meows. like, you're not obligated to relate to or like any character, and this post doesn't really apply to 98% of the posts I see, but there are certain posts that have me wondering whether we watched the same show. like, in a show breaking down these ideas of 'evil perpetrator who does evil bc he's purely evil and for no other reason vs 'poor victim who's never done a wrong thing in their life' by showing that even someone you empathize with can do things you can't understand, and even someone you have trouble empathizing with because of the things they've done can have a story that's relatable and human - having these extreme, unnuanced takes doesn't make sense to me and just kind of. misses the point of the show, IMO.

[izzyizumi]

Digimon Ghost Game ~ Hiro & Gammamon + {Tanabata}! (Japanese cultural holiday taking place on July 7th!)