#she reminds me a lot of my own mom

[rainoverthewindow]

O1: Ruins

O0: Fallen Down

[skynapple]

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[acaciapines]

guys what if i told you ive been thinking about dess and actually i think dess/chara might be able to work out in the drkau...like ive been doing some thinking into dess and her reasons and why she does what she does and how she cares about people and im starting to nail down the role i want asriel to play, and. and.

guys i think dess is actually going to be able to change. i think dess figures out how to change but asriel never does....

[mars-ipan]

this is gonna sound incredibly virtue signal-y i fear but i have been feeling. so fiercely protective of all the transfems i've ever met lately

[lizardlizz]

only need to survive 3 more months and im finally out of this house

[faethfigueroth]

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[a-little-bit-poss]

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[theghostofashton]

this recurring theme of food being so central to the reyes family is really important to me. it’s kind of a subtle detail but i love how many ways it’s touched on, from andrea offering tk the vegan chili and cauliflower tacos, to all the spreads carlos makes whenever their friends come over, to in this ep, andrea’s last straw before getting involved in wedding planning was her disdain for a gluten-free cake, etc. her wanting to cook and feed people and being so invested in them enjoying the experience, it’s just. it’s so real.

food is such a good way to connect and care for people but it’s also a beautiful expression of culture and love. to cook for people is to intend to nourish them, to care for their bodies, and to share cultural recipes that have been passed down for generations feels like another layer of that, a way to nourish a relationship by connecting on a more intimate level through sharing those family histories.

and idk, something about andrea teaching carlos to cook, her passing down the recipes she probably made with her mom growing up, him continuing to reinforce that connection with her and his culture and making food such a big part of the way he cares for people...it really gets to me. it’s such a pure expression of love. a nonverbal form of love, one that endures and also  constantly evolves in the form of learning new recipes and wanting to try them out on someone, adding a unique touch to a dish you grew up eating, cooking for your parents and feeling this overwhelming sense of pride when they compliment you, and so much more. it’s just....it’s so beautiful and i love it so much

[yoohyeon]

Thank you guys for helping make one bad decision ! But I made 2 NFKDBJDBDND

[chisatowo]

Thinking abt band swap Kasumi again. Girlie with Issues <3

[alagaisia]

And another thing. I know it’s unpopular right now to criticize individual choices as contributing to waste and pollution and overuse of resources and climate change, etc. But I am going to.

I was brushing up some environmental stats/discussion questions in a kids’ activity packet for work the other day and when I was looking for some up-to-date and sourced things to sub in for what was in there, I found a National Geographic study from I think 2008? (Ironically I don’t have the source available to me right now because I was at work) that found that the average American- based on surveys of regular people on individual consumption, right, not stuff done by American corporations or celebrities- uses between two and twenty times as many material resources in a year than somebody in the rest of the world. Twice as much as someone from France. Twenty times more than somebody from India. There were other countries surveyed and mentioned with numbers between that that were all inarguably developed/industrialized/“first-world” countries.

I saw a post on here this evening that asked “what’s a little luxury you buy when you can? Something a little bit fun or expensive that you just can’t have enough of?” And I was all set to talk about the chai latte concentrate I like to splurge on from Costco which is much more expensive and I go through it more quickly than tea bags but it’s just really delicious. And then OP finished the post with “mine is phone cases.” What????

You’re buying and collecting phone cases? Something you can only use one of at a time? Made of plastic and cheap enough that they’re definitely primarily made by people being paid next to nothing for their labor? Something that is not going to be usable long term because phones do not last more than I suppose several years at best? And that having lots of them doesn’t like convey any sort of utility or advantage because I can think of barely a handful of vague situations where one phone case might have different features from another that makes one more or less convenient in different situations and you might want to switch them out. But only if you couldn’t find or afford a phone case that included all of your desired features at once, which if you’re wasting who knows how much money on “never having enough” phone cases, you could have done.

And like, I don’t know if OP was American. And I know tons of things use plastic and are useless in one way or another but it just struck me as such a specific example of such specifically wasteful behavior like. You don’t need that. Nobody needs that. And there are worse things and more wasteful things and yes corporations are bad and everything else. And I am more environmentally conscious of small things like that than most people I know (and yet I still drive to work every day because the bus would take two hours. Curious I am very intelligent meme etc.) and it’s unrealistic to expect everybody to do everything all the time all of that I know all of that.

But this study had also talked about how Americans, the most wasteful demographic on the literal planet, are also the people a.) most likely to believe that individual choices and consumption do not make an environmental difference, and b.) least likely to feel any guilt over their use of resources.

People who use and waste less than half of the amount of useless junk each of us uses in the US feel more compelled to pay attention to and limit their use of energy and material resources than we do. And not hypothetical billionaires or corporations or whoever. Regular people.

We live on a planet with a lot of finite resources! And we are wasting so many of them on dumb useless bullshit like single-serve individually packaged fucking idk pudding containers or getting a new cell phone every six months or buying your kid a rubber duck or three every time you go to target and a hundred other small things that people in specifically the US just don’t think about and they SHOULD. And I know we can talk about how some people need those single-use plastic squeeze tubes of apple sauce, and I’m sure it’s true. I’m not saying anyone should go around to individuals and question and harass them about their choices. But we should all be thinking way, way more about our own personal choices and the choices made by our families and social circles because the fact remains that 90% of kids would be just fine with a bowl of apple sauce poured from a big glass jar.

[mars-ipan]

i do love my family very dearly but the internalized ableism the men in here struggle with is. so much

[sunshinesalmon]

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[autism-corner]

its easy to blame mental problems on yourself but the good thing is! it only takes one sentence for my mom to blow up and show me where i got it all =w=b

[something-of-a-hermit]

Why is O Superman (Laurie Anderson) so incredibly comforting but also I’m sobbing my eyes out at 12am over the line “and when force is gone, there’s always Mom (hi, mom!)”?

[walking-circles]

good night