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#hori won't give me their hopes and fears so i shall MAKE THEM UP MYSELF#YOICHI MY DUDE WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS WHO ARE YOU WHEN I'M NOT ORCHESTRATING YOUR INNER MONOLOGUE#horikoshi give us more yoichi content#he heeded my baby for one demands perhaps he'll see this one HORI PLZ#YOICHI DEATH SCEEENEEEE#AFO FINDING OUT SCEEENEEE#i have to do EVERYTHING myself#(im actually very pleased with the new chapters i am just impatient :'3)#all for one#shigaraki yoichi#bnha#boku no hero academia#first one for all holder#gimme afo's name before the one i made up sticks in my head 🔫#afofa#shigaraki brothers#relevant for both in this case#WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER DON'T LIE
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Ninjago Pilots: Teenage girl gets kidnapped by skeletons
Ninjago Dragons Rising Season 2: Teenage skeleton gets kidnapped by girl
#ninjago#dragons rising#ninjago pilots#we've come full circle#kai is also relevant in both cases#ninjago nya#ninjago bonzle
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im back! wanted to redraw my first finished ultrakill fanart to celebrate being in this fandom for a year. god i love robots. thanks for your time
#ultrakill#ultrakill fanart#v1 ultrakill#v2 ultrakill#robots#v4v#fuck it that too. homoeroticism of mutually threatening each other#hmmbodraws#eyestrain#guns#in case ppl have to filter of course#also hiiii sorry i changed jobs and living situations so am only now having time to do Things I Like again#planning to both do artfight and hopefully apply for that utkl map :3 expect more content relevant to both soon!
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sharing this info in case it's of use to anyone else: i had a root canal recently & due to chronic issues w nasal congestion had an absolutely Hellish experience w the dental dam due to it covering my nostrils.
anyway i'm now in the process of having a 2nd root canal treatment and figured it was worth asking if there was anything they could do to help and it turns out YES they can cut back the dental dam so your nose isn't obstructed & they treated this like a perfectly normal request.
#this information will not be relevant to many people's lives but just in case#im so relieved i was dreading having to do it again :(#both times i've had to do this its taken SO long to get the dental dam fitted and once it's in place you can't talk so uh#bad time all around
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*crawls out of 2 yrs’ silence on mdzs* in a modern au Lan Wangji’s reliance on structure and rules could closely mirror the way some students advance immediately from bachelors to masters to phd without taking breaks because it is a “safe” route that allows them to fulfill family and societal expectations of success and intellect in a relatively familiar environment without the perceived higher risk and greater volatility of success in the workforce, particularly where there is a family business in which such education is not necessary but still rewarded. His protection of Wei Wuxian could similarly play out as him dropping out of his studies before being pulled back by his family, and his growth across the 13 yrs supported by completing his degree but shifting his dissertation focus or concentration to a less theoretical and more highly applied vein of the same field. In this AU, I—
#it’s been said before and better but it’s on my mind today#one of my pet peeves with lwj characterization is this like…#hm#overemphasis on him rejecting gusu lan and its rules and values#bc like#what the outer world largely sees of LWJ is a paragon of GL#he is very traditionally successful!#he’s *odd* bc he also cares about the common people#but he has a lot of capital (multiple dimensions!)#very few people actually know about his defense of wwx or the consequences#instead (imo) the LWJ we see post-timeskip has learned how to balance both the principle and the reality#to steal from TGCF#he’s chosen a third path#which is different from either the expected route in mdzs jianghu#OR wwx’s rejection of society for the wens#this is less the case in the end of the novel but I would argue very central to cql’s ending#and relevant in both versions#anyway#I am so full of empanadas#time to go back to work#personal#the untamed#lwj
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Wait hold on I just noticed something really funny.
I'm sure we all remember the incredibly gay moment of Domi quoting her father at Jeanne to talk about "enjoying her beauty:"
But! I just realized that this line was changed a bit from the real de Sade quote. The real life version that's usually quoted is this: "Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite." To be really reductive, it's essentially saying "everything is about sex."
Which like. This line as written was already a lot. But so long as there was no translation weirdness, we can assume that Mochijun picked this line out for this scene based on the "sexual pleasure" version. Hello lesbians.
#I took a look at the japanese version of this scene#and as far as I can tell 'acts of pleasure' is the accurate translation of the vnc version#so I assume this was a deliberate censorship choice on mochijun's part. which. fair#can't just come out and say the word in your shonen series#also now that I'm really looking at it. I can feel an essay brewing about this quote in the context of vnc#there's some v v interesting thematic relevance going on there#both with the original and the altered version#vnc#vanitas no carte#the case study of vanitas#english major hours#domijeanne#domijeanne tag
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Sometimes I think of Amy Pond, who grew up being called mad by those who wielded the word as a tool of exclusion and shame —
Amy Pond, who though forced into the hands of four psychiatrists, still clung to that which they called madness until those systems which elevate psychosocial conformity above humanity stripped it from her —
Amy Pond, whose imaginary friend reappeared for a single hour after twelve years and reignited that faith before disappearing for two more years —
Amy Pond, who spent those those two years under the same implicit threat ingrained in her through psychiatric violence, and thus began to believe the man who stopped the invasion was “just a madman with a box,” only for him to agree, and to also call her “mad, impossible Amy Pond,” reframing madness as non-negative for the first time in her life —
Amy Pond, who ignored the disembodied voice of her imaginary friend even as she ran away with him for real, who still lived each day with the traumatic internalization of deviancy dictated upon her by the psychiatric-industrial complex that shaped her from childhood —
Amy Pond, who wouldn't acknowledge the Doctor's voice, such that it took an Angel in her eye that was literally killing her to ensure she couldn't reality check herself —
Amy Pond, who stood before a room which muttered about “the psychiatrists we brought her to,” and though afraid, escaped their rigid parameters of acceptable existence.
#I like seeing it as indicating she began hearing his voice when he was gone for all those years! why else wouldn't she say anything?#actually psychotic Amy agenda#Amy Pond#eleventh doctor#reclaimed language#oh look its another antipsychiatry themed doctor who post#sumn abt in Fairies At The Bottom Of The Garden audio AND Imaginary Enemies comic we see Amelia bein called slurs against psychotic people#(shes called psycho in both)#like!!! and SO MUCH OF AMYS STORY is about her claiming her agency in ways that previous companions weren't allowed to-#companions whose status as a Wife was a signifier of an to end of their value individually- 'this is no place for a married woman' etc#in some cases Wife-ness forced upon them *as* a denial of agency 'I spent all that time trying to find you I'm not going back now!' etc#whereas Amys story deconstructs that; Amys “Choice” is an illusion- Amy being a Wife doesn't demote her agency as an companion#anyways I love that aspect of reclaimed agency for Amy but ALSO#“madness” as an expression of agency against systems of oppression is SO relevant. the mind defends itself and the alternative isnt better#the oppressive system in this case being ableist structures and the psychiatric system ITSELF which is a whole other layer#the moral being that even if the Doctor WAS a delusion? he'd still be a needed coping mechanism for a child who says “ppl always leave”#and instead of examining her feelings of abandonment they insist 'aLiENs DoNt ExIsT' as seen in the 'sTaRs DoNt ExIsT' psychiatrist in TBB#they don't care that she's in PAIN- why would they?- they just care that she's 'abnormal' and therefore not deserving of humanity#(eleventh) doctor is neurodivergent tag#I mean technically this is about Amy but I once (twice) used that tag on the post about the Master. its the spirit of it!#and Amy Pond + her Raggedy Doctor as “mad” people is very *chefs kiss*#((you know what im putting the tag on my last Amy post :D ))#Mels experienced this very differently and I'll make a post about her at some point- I just wanna make sure my points are got across better#sumn abt Amelia's “crazy” was Mels' “delinquency.” Amy treated as if she doesn't know her own life while Mels treated as threatening#sumn abt adultification of Black girls while Amy is infantilized#Amy Pond who could rewrite reality in a reborn universe because she grew up with a Crack in her wall that no one believed was special —#ableism#saneism#unreality#because I mean Amy's stand against psychiatric dehumanization was to REWRITE THE UNIVERSE with her Crack powers
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if your "pro-CDD" advocacy involves fakeclaiming pwCDDs who are pro-endo, it's not pro-CDD. it's just anti-endo. please stop pretending it's for all pwCDDs when so many of you are willing to catch them in the crossfire because clearly they're having it INCORRECTLY and FAKELY (/sarcasm) due to them believing that... [squints at paper] ...plurality and CDDs are two separate concepts that have heavy overlap, rather than a singular entity with two aspects that are inextricable from one another.
it's not about caring about people with CDDs. if it ever was, it's not anymore. it's just about hating endos.
btw this goes the other way too (i.e., yes you hate anti-endos but are you normal about pro-endos with CDDs and non-CDD plurality, including outside of western cultures), it's just that the initial example is more common in my experience + it's fresh on my mind
#syscourse#a ruthless moonlight#actually fuck it i'm feeling brave because this is relevant to both tags#anti-endo#pro-endo#big case of the fuck-its tonight
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question: how do you come up with OC interactions that aren't yours? I'm curious as to how you fit them into the story
a lot of trust, back and forth, and inducing madness in my subjects (the OC handlers aka @dragonji and @yanqings) and letting their brain do most of the work for me :3
I basically treat the OCs as I would canon characters but with the special bonus that I can immediately ask the handlers like "hey is this the vibe" and they will check / revise / discuss with me. sometimes I also just ask "so in this given scenario, what would OC do" bc I'm not always 100% accurate so it's important to check in w them!! then I'll write up a scene and show it to them at every stage of revision. this means that they both have greater access to the sacred texts (my outlines) bc the story actually depends on the actions of their OCs to some extent. and in exchange I bear the holy honor of helping bring their OCs to life 🥰🥰 it takes a lot of trust and coordination so let's take this time to clap and thank our OC handlers for their infinite patience 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
#hewwo#asks#anonymous#those OCs get an extra each btw! :)#in jia yongtao's case. jae already had a full reference sheet and a clear plan for the lore so we hit the ground running on that one#in xu yinuo's case. leah built her from the ground up in my DMs and i was there to ask relevant questions#both rewarding and fun!!!!#truly truly truly a joy to see JYT's interactions with zhuang huilin and .... of course 🫣🫣 ..... we cannot forget about quanjia#and extremely hilarious to see XYN's reactions to her godawful niece WJW. also man when you hear what yinuo and wan qiuye had going on.#I've known both of them for years so we're comfortable w letting each other handle what is basically our babies
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So I'm sure there's different versions of this
But the one my cantor* told us when we were in Sunday School was this one:
Two rich men go to a cloth merchant's shop. This merchant is known for having beautiful silks, even though he has but a small humble store in the outskirts of town — so small that his infant son is sleeping on one of the chests!
These rich men want to buy these silks, so they demand to see them at once.
The merchant says, "I am sorry, they are not for sale today. Come back tomorrow and I would be happy to show them to you."
The rich men, knowing that this merchant is a Jew, think "ah-hah, he wants more money!" So they offer him a tremendous sum.
"I am sorry, they are not for sale today. Come back tomorrow, good sirs."
The rich men are puzzled, but they double their price. Quadruple it. Anything this merchant wants, they can give him.
"I am sorry, they are not for sale today. Come back tomorrow, if you please."
So, the rich men leave, annoyed, but they present themselves the very next day and sure enough, the merchant goes to a chest and pulls out the most beautiful silks that these rich men have ever seen. And when they offer to pay, he will only accept the price that he himself has deemed fair — many times less than even the first offer these rich men made.
"But why would you not give us these silks yesterday?" they ask, happy but baffled as they (or more probably their servants, but the cantor didn't get into that) pack up the silks to leave.
Just then, the merchant's wife comes in from the back, carrying their infant son. The merchant smiles and says, "Because my child was sleeping on that chest, and I did not wish to disturb his slumber. His peace is more precious to me than all the money you, good sirs, could ever provide."
#I am tagging this as#ted lasso#because I've been thinking about this parable in the context of Ted and Henry and Rebecca's offer#and I'll admit that this is an incredibly Watsonian interpretation of the text — treating Ted as a person rather than a character —#but I do think that it's relevant to how Ted thinks of Henry#as needing peace and rest and above all HIS FATHER#and how Ted coaching at Richmond would still be Ted very much absent from Henry's life#even if Henry and Michelle did move to London!#like yeah football coaches are usually dads and probably some of them are good dads!#but I don't think Ted thought he had it in him to do both#and I think the show REALLY fell down in not making that more clear#that he was choosing because there HAD TO BE a choice#I loved season 3 but I loved my interpretation of it — and the show did not do enough groundwork for pretty much anyone's interpretation#and that's a failure of the show's creators#(the people who claim that Flying dutchman was a rapist are a notable exception — in that case they are the ones at fault because WHAT THE#anyway#believe mothereffers#* to explain: my childhood temple was very#very#VERY poor#and could not afford a rabbi#and in the end we couldn't even afford a cantor#but man those songs were great
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Anne's ability to hold the king off for seven years is part of her legend. The brilliance of her strategy was to cast herself in the role of the courtly lady, requiring Henry to play to perfect knight. Henry was nothing if not dogged in the pursuit of all the roles in which he cast himself—philosopher-king, warrior, even husband—and 'this persona of courtly lover...was fully formed in Henry and had been signaling...for an answering adept to come and lift its latch. In Anne, he had her: she was the mistress of Petrarchan contraries [...] the perfect [player] for the king's tender interest.'
Renaissance Prince: Elizabeth, Lisa Hilton
#henry viii#lisa hilton#'even husband'- that's all folks closing theme.mp3#so we see the relevant argument a lot that the seymours 'successfuly' replicated this which is kind of...yes and. no?#tl; dr it is really difficult to conceive jane managing to balance this tightrope for seven years (not to mention. three years thereafter#in a series of increasingly challenging circumstances)#(before edward vi is born i don't think their rise is comparable to the boleyns in the 1530s or the howards in the 1540s insofar as#the promotion of the queen-in-waiting's/queen's family members)#(it can be argued the seymours did maintain for longer bcus there was a plateau. in favour and rise. iyw. after edward vi's birth. or more#specifically: jane's death.)#is it possible? ig we don't really 'know' definitively#but considering anne was a successful intercessory agent even in her role as mistress#and jane was not even as queen. i...highly. doubt#there is of course the mystery of behind closed doors to be considered#(DID either of these women fully 'hold him off'? did they necessarily...want to?#but no pregnancies out of wedlock- well. elizabeth. ig. depending on who you ask- broadly speaking then#would suggest both did. and it's more likely in anne's case despite rumors for both bcus#seven years is a much longer period of time)#tl; dr the original quote is 'her blowing hot and cold was the perfect environment' WHICH#perhaps fits better for that argument- (they were the perfect players for those moments in time~ in henry's psyche as it were...#that by 1536 henry's tolerance for being 'challenged' by his lover had. worn pretty thin#however since we don't have anne's letters. i don't like summaries like that lol#we have no way of judging ourselves whether she was 'blowing hot or cold' or if henry was - maybe even willfully- misinterpreting her#whether they really were 'mixed messages' or henry was mixing them himself bcus they weren't what he wanted to hear#'my great folly' and all that. sooo.......
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love watching weather science videos but like. why am i 1000x more interested in tornadoes over hurricanes. they're both spinning air
#we wanted to be a stormchaser when we were younger#nowadays we have to worry about our health too much to have such a risky high-stress high reaction time job#been watching nothing but tornado history videos for days it's one of our intermittent special interests#stemming from the weather science workbook we OBSESSED over as a kid#would read that thing cover to cover multiple times a week. i was the kind of autistic who would read the Encyclopedia for fun#i actually had a fave encyclopedia entry as a kid and now i cannot fucking remember it 😭#i also learned what sex was through the encyclopedia 😭😭😭😭 was legit my first exposure to the concept#but like even though we watch A TON of weather videos including tons of stuff about thunderstorms and blizzards#(thunderstorms my fucking beloved. favourite weather pattern ever. cumulonimbus my bestest friend <3)#most of the videos we watch are mostly tornado videos. and hurricane videos feel boring to us#even though hurricanes are wayyy more powerful#tornadoes are still fucking powerful it's just more. concentrated#tornadoes to me feel Targeted like. that's weather that says Fuck YOU in particular actually#especially multivortex tornadoes where you can literally have two houses both in the middle of the storm at once#and still only one of them gets destroyed#or like pictures you can see of demolished houses with their mailbox in the yard simply untouched#i like to watch tornado videos bc they help me. prepare. just in case#our state gets hit with tornadoes pretty frequently though not as much as tornado alley#and i like to know all the information for sheltering and what to do in the event of a collapsed building and such#i have a little survival kit in the bathroom just in case with like basic first aid and a radio and bottled water#bc thats probably the safest room for me to be in since it's not near any external walls and also hiding in the tub is usually good#also in the event you're caught on the road during a tornado#DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE shelter under a bridge or overpass#those work basically like straws where as the air gets pushed through it goes MUCH faster and gets dangerous way easier#as far as im aware the best place to be is in a ditch or hole if you absolutely cannot find a shelter in time#if you do not have a car with roll protection then being in your car will probably be worse#NOT AN EXPERT THO pls verify this information on your own if you think it is relevant or necessary i have poor memory and can be stupid#i just know that overpasses are dangerous as hell
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ouguhhh just read the summary and article from this post about alexandre baril's work on suicidism (oppression of the suicidal) and the opening paragraph of the conclusion in the full article. thoughts. rotating
i was thinking about the. thick white gloves. while reading. remembered that one post about how csa being horrifically taboo to talk about compounds survivors' trauma and shame and went Maybe something similar re: suicidality and suicide... the suffering multiplied by the silence, the risk of dismissal or instant change in perception in anyone you tell... and even in 'mental health' spaces the perception that suicide as a topic is dangerous to talk about- that it could be triggering instantly and automatically- is like. i think there's some paternalism there and there's some shamefear and there's some oversimplification and there's the fact that it plays well into the existing well-taught impulse to avoid the discomforting. but like. this post also about how getting through suicidality is maybe only possible by considering the option thoroughly. i am just thinking. idk. yall know me yall know i think about this topic a lot
#chat#as someone who HAS mostly recovered from passive suicidality- mostly recognizes its suicidal intrusive thoughts as demands for life change-#im def one of the people who can be susceptible to recovery-only mindsets when like assisting or relating to suicidal people. so i need thi#me and one of our stranger sysmates (maze-body) were reading the article together and it kept standing against my reflexive questions +#discomforts because it understands suicidality as both an experiencer (in a weird way) and an already-dead thing; it could confidently-#dismiss my concerns as both fixable and less relevant than the experience and autonomy of the suicidal party.#its whole thing is being- not anti-recovery but like. unrecovered and incurable. which is a perspective we need to remember and have spoken#no matter how much harm reduction + barrier lowering + healing we go through. it as a frank eternality will still remain+need recognition.#its a weirdass way of coping with the inevitability of pain and suffering while not giving up on our locus of control but we're doing it ig#and i think theres a lot there you can relate 2 chronic/passive suicidality- just a companion no matter how much you make life worth living#whatever. anyway#suicide /#in case anyone has. tag blocking but not content blocking fsr
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I've decided to make my own post because I am not an idiot, but full disclosure that this post is 50% based on thoughts I was having while I was driving home from the auto repair shop yesterday and 50% a response to a post I saw just now that conflated "redemption arcs" (things fictional characters go through in fictional stories) with "community support" (things real life people offer to other real life people in real life) and how this relates to "fixing people" (making someone who mistreats or abuses themself or others not mistreat or abuse themself or others anymore).
Read my words very carefully.
In fiction, it is more than okay to like whatever type of toxic or fantastical relationship you want. If you like to read stories about toxic, codependent people who are absolutely horrible to one another and will never, ever change, you read those stories. If you like to read stories about a tortured man who just needs The Right Person to teach him to be better, and then he is, sometimes exclusively only to them though, then you read those stories. Sometimes you want to read stories where the main character says "I can fix him" and fails spectacularly, and sometimes you want to read stories where the main character says "I can fix him" and succeeds spectacularly, and either way, you read whatever stories you want, whatever makes you happy, I'm sure it's somewhere in this vast Archive that we call Our Own.
However, in real life?
First of all, "arcs" aren't things real life people have. An arc is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Real life people don't have those, because our stories don't end until we die. Unlike a character, whose life presumably continues even after their story ends (except in circumstances where they die at the end but you know what I mean), we have to keep living day by day, with all the rises and falls that come with it. Now, this does not mean that a person cannot change, or that a person can't get better and learn from their mistakes; but it DOES mean that we can't have a "redemption arc" where we complete a checklist of story beats and then suddenly we're a better person who has experienced the necessary growth to be forgiven. First off, no amount of growth or change ever requires any victims to forgive. And second, that's just not how life works. That's not how change works. Change and growth are baby steps taken each day, and sometimes you go backwards, and you get angry with yourself, but then you pick yourself up and you try again the next day, and the next, and the next. It's an ongoing journey that does not end until you die. That's life.
But second and more importantly, the real idea that I think the original post was trying to get at, but missing the mark on was . . . okay.
So, the original OP of the post (and the person who replied to OP) got angry at the idea that the strawman they had invented (the person who had theoretically said "you can't fix him!") would deny support to someone who needs that help to grow and change as a person. The person who had replied in support of OP added that the strawman clearly believed in punitive justice over rehabilitative justice as well. On the surface, I can see where they are coming from. After all, on the whole humans are a social species and do need support networks in order to not only thrive, but survive. People such as drug addicts need support and assistance in order to get into better places in their lives, and the prison system has been proven to be far less effective at preventing repeated offenses than rehabilitative programs. This is all true.
However.
The reason why "you can't fix them" is still true, and needs to be said and understood particularly by those who are susceptible to falling into abusive relationships (e.g. people who have been abused before, particularly in childhood or adolescence) is because of free will. Specifically, the free will that each of us has, but specifically the other person. Person A can want so, so, so badly to "fix" Person B so that they stop being an abusive alcoholic 75% of the time. But if Person B doesn't actually want to stop being an abusive alcoholic (even if they say they do during the 25% of the time they aren't smacking Person A around), and refuses to put in the work that it takes to become sober and be a better person, then guess what? Nothing Person A does will ever make them be a sober, non-abusive partner. They will be unable to fix Person B. It doesn't matter how much time, energy, money, or commitment they pour into that person. It doesn't matter how much they genuinely, honestly, earnestly love them. Because unless Person B wants to change, and will put the work into doing so, then they will not change, and Person A, for their own health, safety, and sanity, needs to exit that relationship.
Now, does that mean that if, ten years down the line, Person B decides they are ready to put in the work to get their alcoholism under control, no one should help them? Of course not! They should absolutely be put in touch with sober counselors, support groups, medical professionals, friends and family who can help them. Person A could potentially forgive them, if Person A chooses. But that willingness to change and put in the work has to come from within Person B first.
I've been in the position where I've seen people in awful situations just tanking their lives, people I loved and cared about, people I begged to just listen to me and get help, only for them to not . . . and ultimately I had to accept that I couldn't fix them. I could be there to offer support when they were ready to fix themselves, but the core work that needed to be done had to come from within themselves. I couldn't provide that. Not because I was inadequate, not because I didn't love them, but because I couldn't force them to do anything they didn't want, or weren't ready, to do.
So at the end of the day, "you can't fix them" isn't about not giving support. It's about recognizing your limitations as a human being. It's about knowing that:
You cannot force someone to do something they do not want to do.
You cannot force someone to do something they are not ready to do.
Not being able to help or save someone is not a moral failing of yours.
Not being able to help or save someone does not mean you do not love or care about them.
Providing support should never come at risk of your own health and safety, physical or otherwise.
When you love someone, it can be really hard to accept this. You think, "I know I can make them want to try. I know I can inspire them to want to change. I know they love me, so if I just love them a little harder, they will want to change." Nine times out of ten, though, that is just not true. And if someone is abusing you, it is not worth the literal risk to your life to keep trying. You are worth more than that. You are more than just someone else's band-aid.
Keep yourselves safe in 2024.
#not an abuse scenario but: my mom died of covid-19#it's relevant to this discussion bc she was a trump-supporting republican who refused to get vaccinated#bc the far-right propaganda shows she watched told her the vaccine ''wasn't a real vaccine''#and i know this bc when i literally BEGGED MY PARENTS to get the vaccine my mother LAUGHED IN MY FACE and TOLD ME ''it's not a real vaccine#so anyway both my parents got it. my father almost died from it#my mom seemed like she was doing much better . . . except she CONTINUED to smoke heavily while both having covid#and recovering from covid#and once again i said hey don't you think you should not smoke cigarettes while recovering from a serious respiratory disease#and once again she laughed at me#anyway 2 months later her heart gave out in her sleep and she died#bc her body couldn't handle the stress of the cigarettes + alcohol (she was also an alcoholic) after covid had done its thing to her#she was only 56yo#so this was a case where i wanted to fix my mother. i tried so hard. and i've similarly tried to fix my father (who is still alive)#but i can't! my dad almost died and my mom DID die and my dad STILL won't get the vaccine#I HAVE BEGGED THIS MAN. WHO IS NOW 73. TO GET VACCINATED. AND HE STILL WILL NOT.#you can't fix people!!! you can't!!! you can offer them support if they want to fix themselves#you can help them fix themselves but you can't fix them. you just can't. no matter how much you love them#and in abuse cases it can be really fucking dangerous to keep trying.#anyway. that's my TED talk. thanks for attending or w/e it is they say
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Posting screenshots from The Raggy Dolls every day until ITV puts it on ITVX: Day 123:
#rant time#the whole “invisibility” things has got to be one of the most useless ongoing plot things the series has#nothing of relevance happens in Lady Luck or Invisible Dolls#except the fact that they magically learn how to turn invisible#but they barely use it!#they use their invisibility about 4 times in the entire series#and only in seasons 6 and 7 for some reason#its just super unnecessary#all the things they used their invisibility for they didn't actually NEED to use it#they managed to not be spotted for 5 seasons without turning invisible#and seasons 8 and 9 as well#they really could've used it in season 9#and then of course there's cases like Ragamuffin and Edward#since they were both at some point owned by children#but Edward can be excused for not turning invisible because he's old and probably forgot the rhymes#ALSO the dolls teach Rupert how to turn invisible so the whole “having a kid ” thing is pointless#especially if toys can just tell other toys the rhymes anyway#so Lady Luck is pointless#2nd also of the day:#does anything of note actually happen in the two episodes where they first get their invisibility?#its not like a whole “oh its stupid because it's unrealistic”#all im saying is that its pretty pointless that the writers gave them this ability that they dont even use#the raggy dolls#back to front#dotty#lucy
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for months I've been thinking about how whatever my next fic ends up being is going to introduce the Chubby Kantarou tag into the ao3 ecosystem but now I'm strongly considering just. not tagging it at all and just acting as if readers should expect it. do you think I could gaslight pple into thinking that that's widespread fanon and not just my own personal headcanon? do you think I could gaslight readers from outside the fandom into thinking it's canon? not tagging it could grant me unspeakable power....
#cause my plan was to only tag it when it's like. relevant.#like when it Comes Up in that fic and informs the viewer's understanding of the fic#but it's like. well even in the fics where it isn't relevant it's still how i picture him#so it kind of feels weird to only tag it in some fics#and like. i dont tag for example 'bisexual kantarou' bc that's such a given in my fics#(well except when i write kanyouko. then he is an entire homosexual unfortunately for them both lmao)#but like. some headcanons are just hardcoded and you don't have to tag for them. ya know?#also most of my readers are from outside the fandom and the thought of someone googling the blorbos#and being disappointed to learn kantarou is a twink in canon#is very funny and relatable 2 me#fic tag#well it's something to (over)think on in any case
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