#still profound to me!

[thisisalovestry]

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

[elizabro]

please consider how you engage with aaron bushnell's death. you may react to it as you will, but it's crucial to remember that his death was specifically a call to action. it was not meant solely to shock but to draw attention to a vast moral hypocrisy: that to many, a soldier dying in a campaign backed by the U.S. government is noble, even if the soldier kills innocents to do so, even if the cause is morally bankrupt--but this? this is insanity. a man taking his own life, on his own terms, in an attempt to help others while hurting nobody else, is somehow less rational and more horrifying than the mass killing of civilians.

of course aaron's death was horrific. but as he said beforehand, it is realistically no more horrific than what's happening in gaza. if we can't stomach this, then why can we stomach children being bombed? thousands being starved? for all that self immolation is, it brings death in a matter of minutes. it is a fraction of the amount of pain, fear, and grief that people in gaza are experiencing. it's just that we are able to quantify it. and this tiny, quantifiable sliver of horror is still so unbelievably awful. how can anyone bear to think about anything else when this horror is happening a millionfold in palestine? this is the question aaron bushnell was asking. and he wanted you to face it, head-on, watching him burn to death.

I've been seeing people make fanart. minimalist graphics to sell on t-shirts. to commodify his death, to mythologize it not a day afterwards, is not only in poor taste but a hindrance to his message. the answer is not commodification, nor is it defeatism, nor is it rejoicing in his death. if you want to honor aaron's legacy, take action. channel your horror and your outrage into making a material change. this wasn't about him. this was about palestine. remember that it was always about palestine.

[amarguerite]

honestly I think there's a huge generation of readers who read 'the song of the lioness' at an impressionable age and it rewired their brains

[wigglebox]

Destiel Pride - Day 6; Profound bond

[fisheito]

before mirage of scales: I NEED YAKUYA EVENT

after mirage of scales: ah. um. i . i don't need yakuya event so much, anymo.re... hah..a...

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

heeyyy gaaanggg

the pose and the background of the album version (left) are based on oingo boingos only a lad album art. not cause i think he has anything to do with it but just cause ive been wantin to draw that pose for like. weeks and i didnt know who to put there. so why not my latest bug man.

[cacaocheri]

we both deserve to be happy

in case anyone is wondering, it gets easier. it gets so so much easier and i hope you find the love you're looking for

[kaychirei]

Shinichi's Desperation and the moment of truth

This guy had begged the universe for a minute with Ran as his true self, just to be able to tell her how he truly felt the moment she had smiled so beautifully at him when they were kids

And then, finally, the universe heard his silent prayer and it happened when shinichi least expected it

Bonus:

Shinichi would turn the world upside down just to be with ran. Since the beginning, he had known the risk, and he was willing to bet on anything, even if at the expense of his own life, just to come back to her.

[themintman]

was it casual when you stayed up all night researching and brewing potions, trying to find some way to bring my undead body back to life?

[itspileofgoodthings]

one big thing I’ve learned by 29 is that the Plan, the God’s Plan of it all I mean, is bigger than me and not just bigger than me but also bigger than my understanding of narrative threads and their limitations. And it’s bigger even than just a simple paradox, turning-on-their-head thing way of being bigger. It’s just so vast. And there is so much room for surprise and possibility and hope in that reality.

[jerreeeeeee]

actually its kind of crazy how little we actually see the starblaster crew interact with each other. like other than tres horny boys and each of the pairs in that trio, and like, arguably lucretia and thb, barry and lup, and lup and taako, most of the relationships between the crew are only a few lines, if anything? like obviously in-universe they're all really close and griffin says that (time enough to grow indescribably close), but there's a lot we don't see. like, taako & barry, for example, have a handful of moments, lines we can point to that show they are really close (you're my family, taako, can i speak frankly?), but as far as actual screentime, there's really very little.

and even those i mentioned before, like, lup has more screentime with barry and taako than with anyone else, there's the whole little legato monologue about her and barry's relationship and she has (comparatively) a lot of scenes with taako, but also, as a character, she's only around for maybe a sixth of the show, so there's just not a lot of time to work with?

and that's not to mention the relationships we can figure were probably present in-universe, but literally never see, like lup & davenport. and on that note, i actually can't think of any other pairs who don't interact at least once, but still, very rarely. like now i'm considering davenport & barry. who we hardly see but there is the fact that barry cast command on him to drink the ichor. it's one line in the show and the implications are never really mentioned but there's a lot of significance to be wrung out of this one tiny interaction. barry condemns lucretia's methods of stealing agency from their family in the service of the greater good, but when he thinks it's best for davenport, does the same on a smaller scale? barry doesn't have the time to try to convince him to drink, he needs davenport back to himself now, because davenport is someone dependable, a leader, someone who barry knows will be capable and decisive and relieve him of the responsibility he's been shouldering by himself? that barry knows davenport won't begrudge his use of the spell, because he'll see it as pragmatic, necessary, assistance, and forgive him for it? none of that is necessarily supported in canon but it can be extrapolated from, again, kind of a throwaway line.

the non-thb crew have presence and are important to the narrative, but most of that comes from thematic significance rather than them as individuals, you know? we hardly see lup and barry and davenport (maybe arguably lucretia too, though we see more of her than them), but we see the echoes of their decisions and their goals and their love for the rest of their family and the way they shape the story.

but actually, even that's not entirely accurate, because as significant as they are in that way, their presence isn't only due to that, they're full characters too. they have personalities and depth and connection, they're not only plot devices. like, maybe griffin needed to explain why lup was missing, and that's why she became a lich, and her needing to be a lich is why she and barry had their romance, but also, if that were all there was to it, the legato monologue wouldn't exist, the best day ever wouldn't exist. those are scenes designed to build lup as a character through her connections to other characters and to the central themes of balance, not to fix plot holes. it's just that all of that character building takes place in a pretty small fraction of the show compared to tres horny boys, who have the entire thing. idk its interesting and impressive how some of the deepest characters and most profound relationships were developed in a very short amount of time

[darlinguistics]

a mindset that helped me a quite a bit in the past and still presently whenever studying a language gets really difficult or overwhelming or you feel like you are making no progress/not retaining anything or that its all pointless is that 1, there is literally nothing wrong with slowly learning a language. and more importantly, 2, sometimes shit needs time to sink in! i remember finishing korean 101 feeling genuinely like i had learned basically nothing and still struggled with the most easy concepts but! when 102 came along suddenly focusing on new material made me realize that the old stuff became intuitive! and that same pattern happens over and over, where a concept seems so awkward and complicated and impossible to grasp and then a few months later while focusing on an entirely different concept i realize the old confusing things are somehow now the 'easy' part that comes naturally! so i guess basically what im saying is i learned to MOVE ON! let yourself zoom out from this one little piece of the language and see the pieces surrounding it and overlapping with it! if a lesson was hard, good! it should have been! you probably wont feel confident in it during or even right after! but the work and energy you put into it isnt a waste just cuz it doesnt immediately pay off, sometimes you have to look away and just move on and trust that the knowledge will settle itself comfortably into your brain while you work on other things, especially if you keep reinforcing it here and there. consistent work will never be a waste even if you dont get immediate payoff. and one day youll wonder when the hell you got so quick at reading or when you memorized a rule or when you learned something you literally were never taught but just observed with your own intuition. so much of language learning is trusting yourself, and trusting this invisible force and process of learning thats bigger than you. it isnt all up to conscious studying and conscious effort and learning, you also need to give yourself time to unconsciously internalize things. and that takes much much longer than a week-long grammar lesson!!

[anathemafiction]

hi ana, hope you've been well. i was wondering, since you like dragon age, do you like mass effect as well? it's one of my favorite series, and it has similar vibes to DA, since they're both from bioware. there's a character called 'garrus' who reminds me so much of hadrian XD

there's a lot of side characters who are very endearing, and it reminds me of your writing. much like ME, i find myself very invested in all kinds of relationships and bonds you can form through the gameplay. if you have time and haven't played yet, you totally should, if you have time for it :)

I adore Mass Effect!!!! I cried so much in ME3, it's not even funny, anon 😭😭 Mordin, you'll always be remembered.

And Garrus is my Shepard's ride-or-die, both on the battlefield and in the bedroom. The best space husband I could have asked for. ❤️

Also, "Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer" is probably the hardest-hitting line of dialogue in any video game I've ever played.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I know we all will have our own opinions about Chabad, but I just hung up the hebrew calendar they sent to my shul that we received on Rosh Hashanah, and there are gorgeous artworks for each month and it tells you what time to light your candles and it's just really nice to know that even in a place with as small a community as mine, we still are sent these things and we're looked after. I get to look at this calendar and know the world is bigger than I think, that I'm not an island.

[good-to-drive]

This may sound dumb but I feel like people are willing to acknowledge that a writer or musician or director or pretty much any other kind of artist can touch you and change your life, but they still struggle to see how that can happen with a comedian. But I can honestly say that the alchemy of turning pain or anxiety or just the sheer everydayness of life into a spark of joy has impacted me just as much as any other art form, and in some ways I think shared laughter can actually create more insight and compassion than shared despair.

[uncanny-tranny]

One thing that's bothered me for years is being told, "how can you describe that as a relapse or addiction? Save that for the real addicts like alcoholics!"

And I think I want this to be a reminder that... You will have no idea about the true depth a person is going through if they're describing certain acts as a relapse or addiction. What I learned when I was told that was that I could continue the behaviour because my issues weren't "real" enough to warrant any real concerns - besides the fact that that behaviour was something I did for a majority of my life. Addictions run deeper than alcohol or hard drugs - though they obviously are included. It's not just the behaviour, either! It's the environmental factors, the trauma, the mental health, the triggers, and the way you feel when engaging with the behaviour or how you interact with it. If your only concern is how palletable an addiction is to your ideas about what it is, you are much more likely to do more harm than good. Addictions can be anything, but they're also much larger than you think.