#so in a way the cycle has been completed

[vsnotresponding]

oc name meaning tag

thanks @pluttskutt for the tag!

Rules: Put down an OC or more and tell what their name means

i look at the rules and i ignore the rules. this is a fun way to give examples of how i name my ocs and so i'll explain:

this name came to me in a dream and I have no idea what it means:

Eak: from the Ancient Greek “Aiakós (Αἰακός). Aiakos was one of three judges of the dead, underworld demi-god.

doesn't fit him at all lmao

chosen for the actual meaning:

Anuna: follower

basically what he is

scrambled a word in another language to get the name:

Raichta: from meabhlaireachta "decieve"

this is sher's noble name btw

chosen for symbolic reasons:

Hannah: graciousness

i chose hannah because it reads the same backwards. and you know. circular time

Ira: watchful of a city, watchful

fitting meaning, but she got her name from the word for rage in Spanish

honoring a fictional character:

Ely: ascension

fitting, even if i got it from Elyon (God Most High) from WITCH lol

Enzo: home ruler

doesn't fit my boy. got the name from The Young Elites

i grew attached to a pokemon during a playthrough and used the nickname for an oc (only in tfb)

Arion: greek mythology horse

Chimera: greek mythology animal

open tag + @my-cursed-prince @on-noon @k--havok @aquil-writes @mjjune and @sunset-a-story

[creativity-deficient]

Soooo what are y’all’s hcs on the Tweak family 🤔🤔🤔

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

hotd never fails to disappoint

[flowachild]

working with my period instead of against it has been so healing

[kaseyskat]

being both a sparrow apologist and a normal enthusiast is so difficult sometimes I am sitting here imagining them bonding and crying over canon and so few people truly understand me

[complicit-rot]

i haven't been this social & talkative in Years someone drag me out back

[icewindandboringhorror]

I still very loathe the Media Trope of ‘’cold genius man doesn’t feel emotions and never has relationships... UNTIL.. one random relatively bland Preddy Woman comes along and warps his entire personality and ability to think, his heart has grown and his seeming asexuality has evaporated, he is now Normal :)” or whatever like... AS a walking generic hermit archetype myself.. we would NOT act like that .... just let people be detached weirdos in peace, you cowards .. OR, don’t bother to write one in the first place if you find us too boring to exist realistically in our natural state lol.. pathetic 

[brittlebutch]

the thing about Aelwyn that I think about a lot is that there's a lot to the notion that she, to a certain extent, was so abrasive with Adaine because of how obstinate Adaine is with their parents. If you have based a chunk of your personality on the precept of "The only way to protect myself is to meet my parents' expectations and obey them at all costs", then every time Adaine pushes back against them, there is almost unquestionably a fear-response -- even if you aren't the one who set your parent off, their stress/frustration can fill a room to the point of becoming smothering anyway. And if you don't feel safe getting mad at your parents for being a source of stress/fear in your life, then invariably the only thing you can do is begin to resent the third-party who you perceive as setting them off for no reason instead of playing it safe, like you do.

[ilynpilled]

i think what i ultimately came away with when it comes to jaime’s feast arc is that yeah it mainly focuses on jaime’s internal development and it was necessary in beginning to address all the huge flaws we are left with in asos (he wanted revenge, he wanted the golden hand, he is still stuck on perception and has a flawed #cope outlook on honor, he wants glory (tie to his family), he is still w cersei and the lannisters) so he is made to revisit his asos journey in a new context, with a new partner. it is not with the idealistic brienne, but ilyn, who is in some ways identical to jaime himself. his first journey is with what he used to be when he was a boy (naive idealist), and then he revisits that journey with the man he eventually became (an executioner of the lannister regime). and it is emphasized that what he is doing is not enough and that many of his pursuits are inherently flawed or a dead end. and he is aware deep down. u cant really make the vows, and whatever deeper and more abstract meaning they hold, compromise is what is in the conclusion of the subtext imo. adwd is so full of such contradictions. his choices in it keep unwittingly contradicting tywin’s dogma in every way. i think it puts him in the ideal place to be forced into confronting stoneheart and all the baggage that comes with that. that is what i really hope will happen. and then i want him to make a grueling effort in addressing things and pivoting. winds will not be easy, it will be 10x worse than feast: stoneheart and all his sins, potential brienne conflict, his children that he also doomed by choosing the oath, cersei, etc. it is all gonna be pretty brutal. i just think the set up is pretty clear atp

[spaceaudio]

boston2 anniversary is kind of crazy

[1980ssunflower]

aghhh min was so genuinely happy when ryan came back ;;w;;

[arolesbianism]

I’ve drawn a decent amount of isat au eternal gales but yknow what I haven’t drawn? Eternal gales au isat. Don’t look at me.

[cripplecryptid]

THE GENERATIONAL TRAUMA OF IT ALL BRO

[reasonsforhope]

"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024

[idsb]

not this conversation leading me to find out that maisie only has 2.1 mil monthly listeners on spotify??? conan has like 25 mil, but just had an album come out last month

are you SERIOUS?

[catmask]

tbh when i hear some people talk about 'breaking cycles of abuse', it becomes clear pretty quickly who has come to understand that phrase to mean 'since i was a victim of abuse/neglect by my parents/caretaker/s i will do everything to be nothing like them' and that is all. its not a completely flawed way of thinking either - something that hurt you would very likely hurt someone else; through empathy we learn to understand not to hurt others the way we were hurt too.

but what 'breaking cycles' looks like is more complicated than just not being your parents/caretakers - it's about recognizing how the things that happened to you changed you and how you can heal so you don't hurt someone else in turn. the survival skills you learned in an unhealthy enviroment often translate to poor if not unhealthy interpersonal skills in an enviroment where things ARE safe.

its a difficult pill to swallow for a lot of survivors of abuse (trust me, i know) because we have a tendency to simply want our pain to be recognized. by painting yourself as "absolutely nothing like my abuser" you can abstain from recognizing your own harmful tendencies and live comfortably in the role of victim hood for the rest of your life. it can be tempting to do this especially when so many people will do their best to deny what you experienced - almost like leaning into a stuck door that just won't budge.

the problem with this is if you never recognize that being mistreated made it so you LACK a lot of what other people learned from a loving enviroment, you can hurt people pretty badly even when doing your best just not to replicate what your parents/caretakers got wrong.

this also hurts for victims because, when it comes down to it - it's not FAIR. you were hurt for no reason, and most of us will never hear an apology or even admittance from the person who did it - so why do YOU have to change? why do YOU, the person hurt unjustly, have to put in the work?

and i mean. that's what breaking a cycle is. it means pushing against what's fair and comfortable deliberately so that you can stop something that's been repeating. it's work. its not just recognition of pain, it's the purposeful healing and treatment of it. but thats scary, and it's not fun, so a lot of people fall right back into it. its a lot easier said than done.