#staying single forever

[sianyface]

[xxsupervampwolfxx]

Just need to do some ranting so here goes. I've always said I would never date anyone younger than me. Well anyone younger than one or 2 years. So someone 6 years younger liked me on fb dating. It took me a while to decide whether or not to like them back. And I had ended up deciding to like them back. Turns our we had so much in common and I was really starting to like them even though we hadn't met yet. Well it's been like 2 days since they've texted me and I am just so scared that they ghosted me. Like wtf. He seemed like he was really into me and we were on the same level. Matching each others energy. And then boom nothing. And it hurts cause we had so much in common, almost like we were the same person and now nothing? Like wtf!?! Why???? He said in his profile he was looking for something meaningful. And I thought maybe this would head that way. I knew I shouldn't have liked him back I knew I shouldn't have gotten attached butnI fucking did and now I've gotten ghosted AGAIN!!! LIKE WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME?!?!! AM I NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY???? WHAT THE DAMN FUCK!?!?!?!?!

[ex0toxin]

karaoke!! 🎤🎵✨

jsys week'24, day 5

[kbsd]

this is so miserable that i'm actually annoyed about it. 'some other 8th thing' how about a single positive option.....enjoyment? ambition? curiosity? creative fulfillment? family and loved ones? simple joie de vivre?

[uglyduckling339]

"Yelena should date Kate!!" "No, Yelena should date Bucky!!" WRONG! Yelena should adopt 10 more dogs and become a crazy dog owner and never see a day of suffering again in her lifetime.

[soni-dragon]

flowers, i remember fields… someone by my side…

finally saw hadestown today, absolutely incredible experience and now i will be drawing them for the next few days most likely. quick painting before i must sleep, but the west end cast was amazing just ahhhhhh

[blueskittlesart]

do you have any thoughts on zelda not staying as a dragon? me personally I like it and am very cool with it mostly because I think zelda should get to be happy forever (and because I'm smart enough to know she changed back because of recall and not some ambiguous power of love lmao) but a lot of people seem to dislike that it made the draconification inconsequential?

i think there's like. some valid concerns surrounding inconsequentiality/"curing" the physical problems characters have as a way of giving them a "happy ending" but I think those concerns don't necessarily apply to totk in the way people seem to be applying them, especially irt zelda's draconification and link's arm.

most of the time when the criticism of this "magic cure" trope is applied to media, it's because the trope is used as a cure-all to erase a character's suffering or trauma and make them "normal" again, and often ignores the character development or themes of the story in favor of giving the character a happy ending. I don't think that applies to totk, though, because the "curing" link and zelda experience is both within the realm of possibility given the worldbuilding present in the game (recall could easily have done it, as you mentioned) AND thematically consistent with the rest of the game. One of if not the most important central themes of totk is the idea of failure and second chances. we see a hyrule that has been given a second chance after link's initial failure with the calamity brought it to the brink of destruction. we see characters who were deeply unhappy and entrenched in the shame of their precalamity mistakes like purah and zelda become active, beloved members of their communities. we see the people of lurelin village take back and rebuild their destroyed home. we watch this kingdom and its people make an unprecedented comeback after a century of struggle and ruin.

Similarly, totk's gameplay is LINK's second chance, his comeback from the initial mistake of losing zelda, of specifically being unable to reach her with his injured hand when they fell. The consequences of that--the master sword's corruption, the loss of his arm, and zelda's draconification, are all supposed to SEEM irreversible, because that's how LINK initially sees them. he believes that he doomed both himself and zelda all because of that SINGLE moment in which he wasn't enough, a viewpoint which is obviously left over from the pressure he experienced to perform to an impossible standard of perfection pre-calamity. The story of totk is about deconstructing that belief and proving it wrong. the mistake he made caused harm, but it's never too late to repair things. he can fix the regional phenomena ganondorf causes and rebuild those communities. he can revitalize the master sword. he can GET ZELDA BACK, with his own arm, uninjured and able to reach her this time. no matter how impossible those things may initially seem, no matter the perceived finality of his mistakes and their consequences, there is always hope. there is always a second chance. no one person's single mistake can doom an entire kingdom for eternity. the fate of hyrule was NEVER resting on link's shoulders alone. he was never their final hope. there was always going to be an after. the whole POINT of the draconification and the loss of link's arm is that they AREN'T final. they ARE inconsequential, because they were born of one mistake and ONE MISTAKE IS NOT THE END ALL.

[wistfulwatcher]

Sorry! New spell! Don't judge me!

[strawbbz]

you have a partner????

theres still hope for all of us

We met through gustholomule never give up

[skunkes]

[martyrbat]

perpetual mourning – batman black and white (1996) #1

[ID: a black and white panel sequence of Bruce Wayne as Batman investigating a murder. He performed an examination of the victim's body and found DNA evidence to convict her killer and then performed an autopsy to examine her stomach contents — which led him to a little 24/7 diner. He walks in, disrupting the cozy scene with his presence.

Bruce internally reflects, ‘People think i'm a knight. A savior. But in truth, I'm only a vessel to hold the memories of those who've passed on. Those who've no shell left to store them. They must think I revel in my victories. It must seem like I never lose a fight. I lose plenty. The ones I couldn't get to. The ones I couldn't save in time. Those are the ones I carry around inside of me. Those are the ones I'll mourn forever.’

He shows the only waitress a photo of the victim's face and asks, “Excuse me. Do any of you know this woman?” The waitress gasps and holds her hand to her head in shocked distress. She stammers, “That's Chelsea, she comes in here all the time. Sits in the same booth, the same time, reads the same book... um, what was the title...? She, uh, left here only a couple of... Why do you... Oh, god. No. Dear girl...���

Back at the morgue, Bruce solemnly gazes down at the woman as she lays in an unzipped body bag. He thinks, ‘Luckily, you hadn't digested your last meal, Chelsea. There're only a few places in the neighborhood where you were found that serve blueberry pie at this hour of the morning.’ He carefully zips the body bag entirely. The identification label states she was a thirty year old caucasian female. The name ‘Jane Doe’ has been scribbled out to now be replaced with ‘Chelsea Rain’. Bruce continues to ruminate, ‘You only have your thoughts and dreams ahead of you. You're someone. You mean something. I'll remember. You're within me now. Forever.’ END ID]

[sophfandoms53]

Shadow continues to be the best part of this entire show. There truly is no other character in Prime doing it like him.

[wernerherzogs]

train wasn't delayed more than usual AND i got a pretty girl's luggage off the train for her... 10/10 polish railway experience

[fear-no-mort]

loving it keep it coming

[hecksupremechips]

Details that make me FERAL

[hekatekun]

What if they make an anime about rival idols who engage in increasingly more homoerotic circumstances with each season up until the point their current functioning dynamic is being a wrestling duo who raise a baby together. But this was actually just a b plot. The shows about six men who do terrible things but with the most based yuri representation in the meantime.