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If Timmy struggled with adjusting to magic because he was raised on earth, does that mean this is the reason Peri also struggles? Since in his early years he grew up on earth with his parents?
Yup! There's a multitude of reasons why Peri struggles so much, but they all lie in his origins. Peri was born from a wish! And Wishes, well. They're not meant to last long. Most wishes become unstable as the years go by, but Peri's persisted because he's an entire living being!
CosWan initially feared Peri wouldn't grow up properly, but he turned out nearly as fine as any other Fairy would! Probably!!
Growing up on Earth, being related to the VonStrangles, born from a 10 year old's wish, living past the lifespan of wishes, beyond that of humans... Each part is rather small, but when added together, it culminates into a very... very unstable baby.
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#fairly oddparents#fop#fop a new wish#fop cosmo#cosmo#fop peri#peri#fop jorgen vonstrangle#fop jorgen#jorgen vonstrangle#fop wanda#wanda#fop timmy turner#fop timmy#timmy turner#asks#itty bitties fop au#ill have you know timmy held onto his consciousness until the moment jorgen bubbled peri and the baby boy fell asleep#timmy passed the FUCK out so fast afterwords haha. a bit too much of a blood loss that one.#ALSO YIPPIE END OF THIS SECOND BATCH#THERES 4 PARTS LEFT!!!#and then i can remove the 8 asks in my inbox about this aauhahehehe#man.#ough. slowly but surely im getting through them all guys!!!!#once all asks are cleared imma do a BIG celebration thingy when it opens up again !!!#ALSO ALSO#THE FORESHADOWS ARE SHADOWING#if you can pick up what im putting down
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In the past, when Finn has been asked about ships heâs always said something along these lines, specifically with byler. He was asked about shipping byler in a live zoom event with fans for st promo during COVID hiatus before s4 filming restarted, and he was just like yeah I think ppl should ship what they want to ship and idk idk idk weâll have to see what the Dufferâs do đ¤ˇđťââď¸
And when it comes to the Edward/Bella comment, it just makes it obvious he hates the concept of shipping, seeing as thatâs the most like well known shipping occurrence in media in recent times. Finn saying that had less to do with how he feels about Mike and Will as a pairing in the narrative genuinely, and more to do with him not wanting to get caught up in ship wars with buzzwords of one shipâs name vs. another. Idk what it is, but male lead actors playing love interests always tend to hate shipping as a concept? Like itâs a right of passage practically. It probably stems from the toxic side of the fandom experience too? Where like fans made him and Millieâs relationship really uncomfortable at times when they were so young, and how that unfortunately interferes with there personal lives at times. A lot of that behavior stems from shipping, so I can see why him and a lot of young actors in those positions feel at edge at times when ppl put them on the spot.
Im sure Finn would just rather people phrase it like, do you want Will and Mike to end up together as opposed to do you ship byler? But also the former would be a lot harder for him to answer, so at least with the ship name he can dance around his discomfort about shipping as a phenomena and then never really answer the question beyond just telling fans to wait and find outđ¤Ł
Iâm worried with what Finn just said and now the milkvans are gonna be after us. He said he doesnât ship Byler and is not a shipper. I think heâs sick of us and thinks weâre delusional but doesnât wanna come out and say it. He compared us to twilight which makes me sad đ
damm 3rd anon today
but i think just cause an actor doesnât ship smth doesnt mean anything for the ship itself,although this comment could make maloobans attack us more and use this as weak ammo. just remember the âitâll pay offâ comment about the van scene
#also I feel like they wonât recover from him coming out as a nonshipper#that was a big loss for them#bylerâs know he canât come out as a byler out in the open#he can hint and imply#but itâs not like he can say yes I ship byler#howeverâŚ#Mike and el are together#in a relationship#according to milkvans and Reddit#they are head over heels in love and now more canon than ever#but if thatâs the case#why is Finn not making a point to support them#if itâs as obvious as you say?#why did the cast joke about Lucas and Maxâs love being more real than mike and elâs?#or them preferring lumax over milkvan in another interview#with gaten using his lying voice trying to justify it when itâs obvious he just wanted to say BC I SHIP MIKE AND HIS FRIEND WILL OKAY??#and letâs not forget#when the concept of Will and El possibly having an affair came up as a s4 theory#the cast was offended and went off on a tangent about how Will and el are siblings and Will is in love with MikeâŚ#nothing about Mike and elâs love for each other playing a role in their concernâŚ?#likeâŚ
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I love how over time kid xelqua has become less just baby grian and more grian's kid who he found in the woods/somehow created and now the kid represents all of grian's childhood trauma and Catholic guilt and grian is just trying to break the cycle bc there's this magic fucking baby who is the best thing in the world
JKAGJKD yes Exactly, see evo Grian has a lot of family issues, from being an orphan, to the Watchers, he has ISSUES, so raising a version of himself is..... definitely odd, but weirdly healing.. He sees how he was as a kid, he wasn't that bad, he was just a kid ! He didn't deserve to be abandoned or anything. He sees all of his ache in Xelqua, he's very much breaking the cycle.
[mumbo: You alright mate, you have that look in your eyes. grian: no yeah--i'm good, i just.... its easy to raise him, y'know ? i mean, i know he's literally me, but.. it makes me wonder about my own parents--before the watchers, if i was anything like him, i don't know why they left] (-me)
#i was gonna go to bed but then i doodled this real quick ajgadjk#grian and family issues makes me go crazy#my art#ask#sketching#kidxelqua#grians already a big brother. pearls his younger sister ! he had to raise her since they're close in age.-#-and even tho you love someone. you can still ache for the loss of childhood. its not a kids responsibility to take care of another alone#pearl and grian were close in age so they were just kids together. they had a Us against Them dynamic#grian and xelqua have a struggle and adjustments to figure out#figure xelqua out. hes a kid. but not human(hermit-)#i like to imagine at first. grian would just stand to talk to xelqua. but later he starts crouching down to his height#<- IMPORTANT !! i did this a lot when working with kids and ur their best friend immediately WAHHH#i always draw aether crouching down to talk to xelqua#grian catching watcher baby fever hahahahaaha
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doodle in celebration of 2 years of genloss!! this project is so cool i cannot wait to see what the future holds for it !!!
#bellaved art#bellaved genloss fanart#bellaved ranboo fanart#generation loss#generation loss fanart#genloss#genloss art#genloss fanart#fanart#doodle#ranboo fanart#ranboo#gl!ranboo#i âĽď¸ generation loss#the drawing is like a little fanon vs canon thing#we really though gl!ranboo would be a badass#and then he was a big tragic loser#what did we expect from a ranboo character#love them tho đ#im sleepy#goodnight
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I think my OC and Sun Wukong's entire relationship dynamic is that both don't think much about marriage or love or relationships, but they both clearly act like they have been married for 50 years with the way the bicker and banter but also just be there for each other but they'd totally get married and claim because it just made life easier for both of them like yeah the celestial court and all the others are getting off his back now and she has an extra layer of protection and they insist this is a marriage of convenience and yeah they're best friends ofc they love each other plus this is ancient china every second person gets married for convenience not out of love how is that any different than our marriage but outsiders can just see how loyal and head over heels they are for each other and yes there was that one accidentall kiss incident but only because Wukong was hanging upside down from the tree and she turned around too fast and their lips met each other but that doesn't mean anything-
#the ham talks#i have lots of thoughts about those two idiots#and yeah I think my OCs dynamic is very different when she is with the Destined One vs Sun Wukong#definitely think there is a long period of adjustment phase for her but also this big sense of loss#everyone can see they are in love with each other except them#or more like the monkey king probably also knows my OC is the dumbass here#unless you write it on a brick âI LOVE YOUâ and throw it at her face#she won't know#and even then there's a chance she might still not realize it lmfao#cepheus baskerville#black myth wukong#sun wukong#sun wukong x reader#sun wukong x OC#monkey king
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do you consider your self made?
#my art#self portrait of sorts#been musing a lot on disability recently and how being relatively freshly unable to do Most Things has changed my perspective on things#for a long time growing up i was fixated on the idea of being An Impact On The World yknow? mainly the next Big Writer#(and that it would be sooo impressive that everyone would make my books bestsellers when i was only 12 because it was That Good)#and i mean. obviously that didnt work out as originally planned because i was 12 and learning. but I've felt a lot like#I've kind of built my sense of self on those big achievements. even if they were only big to me. and a lot of them#are now out of reach or very difficult to reach. and it's been a lot to. recontextualize#to take what ive been told my whole life and ignore it in favor of just being being enough.#things will happen as they happen. i havent earned anything by suffering but it hasnt ended the world either#im here doing what i Can do for as long as I'm able to do it. and thats all i need to be for now#just making sure that i Do do the things i can do rather than assume i can do them later#anyways. love you#cw:#top nudity#artistic nudity#the dreaded ambiguously presenting nipple#if you put any pro weight loss eating disorder shit on here ill kill you btw#my body is sexy because im in it and im still alive. not because its struggling to stay that way#lindwormposting
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Martyn after all the other reds are dead:
#fandom#life series#secret life smp#secret life#hermitcraft#i feel as though this is the start to martyns evil arc#hes gonna destroy everyone#he lost his big dog brothers and sister#mumbo also had a terrible time. ohh dear#he didnt have a chance#MY WIFE!!!!#lizzie ldshadowlady is dead#grian mourning the loss of his butler/knight in shining armor#smallishbeans mourning his wife#they should bond over this#i have fanart ideas but i never have motivation to make them#big dog#ldshadowlady#smallishbeans#inthelittlewood#grian#mumbo jumbo
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no matter whether ppl are trying to make zk's canon relationship out to be sibling coded or associative friends or whatever else ppl make up i feel it all comes from this place of people that don't ship it being unable to handle zuko and katara's canonically deep and intimate friendship at the end of show without (whether subconsciously or not) perceiving it as some kind of threat to whatever katara or zuko ship they DO ship (usually either k/a or z/s or m/z)
they don't know how to acknowledge/write zk (and i don't think them being a m/f ship is divorced from this) having their canonically close friendship alongside whatever they ship because that closeness, no matter how platonic, can't supersede the romance of their own ship. so they just lazily write it off as "siblings" or convince themselves they weren't ever that close in the first place or that katara still secretly hates zuko or something in order to get out of the bind of allowing them to be close friends even if you ship them with other people đ¤ˇââď¸
#holly talks bs#zutara#atla fandom critical#hot take maybe but i do genuinely believe zk have one of if not THE mutually closest relationship in the gaang#because it's not about screentime spent together it's about the depth of what those scenes communicate about the characters and#their relationship#katara is the only one zuko ever marginally opened up to about his scar and his banishment and what he thinks and feels about it#zuko is the only one in the gaang katara talks about her mother in depth to#yes she's acknowledged the loss before and uses it to connect with ppl like haru and jet#but zuko is the person katara tells the whole story to#in fact zuko is the person who hears all three perspectives of kya's murder#and is yknow the person that actually GOES WITH HER on her journey to the centre of her deepest and most defining trauma#and then there's just the whole finale where they's essentially attached at the hip and he jumps in front of fucking lightning for her#brb just gonna jump in front of lightning for my associative friend#no big deal or anything we can barely talk to each other without someone else in the room#even tho zk have several scenes alone together while yeah they're not making out but they ARE usually talking about something#deep meaningful and personal#they spill their guts out to each other at the first sign they've found someone who might actually understand them
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You know that old joke about "you don't have to run faster than the bear, you just have to run faster than the other guy"? Was just thinking about how that's not necessarily true.
Because it depends on why the bear is chasing you.
If the bear is chasing you because it's hunting for food (which seems unlikely, unless it's a polar bear?) then yes, it'll stop after the first target it pulls down, because there's no point in the bear continuing to expend energy once it's got what it wants.
But if the bear is chasing you for some other reason -- say, you pissed it off by threatening its babies, or its territory -- then it will not stop with the first guy. It will continue coming until all of the threats are fled or dead. In which case, you do in fact still need to be able to run faster than the bear.
Not to overthink a metaphor, but I feel like there's a lesson here in how picking the callous path isn't necessarily any more guaranteed of success than choosing to keep faith. Now you have a bear mauling you and you're a dick. Maybe you should have stuck around to help the other guy.
#I just feel like there's this persistent narrative#that you can EITHER choose to Do The Right Thing and suffer loss for it#OR choose to screw over your fellow man and reap success from it#but like just reading the newspaper or looking at historical records#there are also plenty of cases of people who tried to screw over other people#and got bitten in the ass in a big way for it#ultimately way more self-destructive than simply not doing the dickish thing in the first place#kind of seems like you simply can't predict the outcome in all cases#you can't choose to simply cheat your way to good outcomes by sacrificing your fellow man#the only part of the process you CAN control is your own actions#so why not make an effort to make them good actions?
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sega please do not save maria please do not save maria PLEASE do not save mariaaaaaaa sega PLEASE
#shadow the hedgehog#sonic x shadow generations#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sxsg spoilers#sxs generations#maria robotnik#the very end of the story trailer looks interesting but the implications are giving me BIG concerns not gonna lie#I lost a family member at a very young age and my number 1 most LOATHED trope of all time is undoing the loss of a loved one#so far all the official game content that has touched on maria and gerald completely avoids to commit with confirming her death#which if the reasoning is in order to avoid spoiling the impact in game --I get it#but i am also EXTREMELY worried that they're planning to use time-shenanigans to âtastefullyâ retcon a difficult lore topic altogether#her death is MEANINGFUL and IMPORTANT and HOLDS DEEP IMPACT TO SHADOW AS A LESSON IN GROWING AND LETTING GO!!#sega you are so so close to peak here please PLEASE do not mess this up#people think kids can't handle heavy topics like death in media#but for kids going through this kind of thing in real life it is SO important to be able to see characters learning to navigate grief#you will not look cool for bringing them back. please don't do this
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a surprise reboot of the show!
que the puppets fleeing while a heavy working crew fuckin snatches everyone up in nets to clean the place us
"should we muzzle sally?"
"she fuckin bit me!"
"doesnt answer the question"
"wally stole my wallet!"
"hes legally allowed to, travis."
yk what i'd really wanna see is how they wrangle the massive dog & the equally tall four-armed caterpillar. Wally would get netted and Barnaby would appear behind the person, about to ruin their entire career
#'hes legally allowed to travis' PLEASSSSEEEEEE#this ask is going to entertain me for a While#just picturing the puppets scurrying around and under things while all the big ol humans struggle to catch them#rambles from the bog#and then of course their intense fear when they Are caught <3#forcefully separated from each other and Home <3#who knows maybe barnaby and howdy have to be knocked out somehow#thats gotta suck!!!#for the puppets for obvious reasons but imagine having to be one of the employees Doing this and Listening to their distress & confusion#WAIT LMFAO wally would just eat the nets#blink blink blink there's a puppet-sized hole to escape through#ohhhh sad thought!#when barnaby is taken down wally breaks free and crawls into That net#but since he's too small to move barnaby himself he just stays in that net voluntarily#absolutely Devouring this concept....#the chaos and confusion the Fear the loss of control#wait. fuck was this a lights out ask? was it...? i dont know! i cant tell! either way i love it#though if it Is... and there Was a reboot... theyd probably just remake the puppets for a new studio#all the ogs are too 'outdated' and damaged to be used for a show. their colors are faded they're just... too old#inch resting concept indeed....
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Treatise on why No, the doctor just giving the narrator of Fight Club (full name) his requested sleep medication or sending him to therapy would not have Fixed Him
Firstly, saying giving him the insomnia meds wouldâve fixed him ignores the reason he has insomnia in the first place. He is so deeply upset by his place in society that he literally cannot sleep. Drugging him to sleep would not change that. That, of course, is the easy, quick response.
But with regard to therapy? The biggest flaw is that it ignores a central tenet of the book. Part of what tortures the narrator and drives him to invent Tyler is that his feelings about this collective, systemic issue are constantly reduced to a Just Him thing. His seatmates ask what his company is. Heâs the only one upset at the office. He gets weird looks if he says the truth of what he does. People will do anything in their power to pretend he is the issue, as an individual, because it is far scarier to consider the full implications of the systemic issues implied by what he is saying. Everyone treats it as if the issue is him, so he goes insane. He does anything to get someone to say, holy shit, thatâs fucked up, what youâre a part of is wrong. In an attempt to feel any sort of vague sympathy and catharsis, he goes to support groups to pretend to be dying, because then at least people donât habitually blame him for his anguish.Â
Saying therapy would fix him ignores that his problems are not individual. They are collective. Itâs the reason the entire story resonates with people! Something deeply, unignorably wrong with society, where people would rather blame you for bringing it up than try and address it, because it feels impossible. I donât blame people for this, really, because it IS scary. Itâs terrifying to sit and feel like youâve realized thereâs something deeply, deeply wrong, but if you say something, people will get mad at you since itâs so baked into everything around you. Or, even if they agree, itâs easier to deal with the dissonance by pretending itâs individual.
And itâs not like thatâs not the purpose therapy and medications largely serve, anyway. Getting into dangerous territory for this website, but ultimately, the reason the narrator was seeking medication was because itâs a bandaid. A very numbing bandaid. For these very large, dissonance causing problems, therapy does very little. Medications do what they always have, and distract you with numbness or side effects. Itâs a false solution. He is seeking an individualized false solution because he has been browbeaten with the idea that this is an issue with him alone, when it's plainly clear it's not.Â
Don't get me wrong. Obviously he has something wrong with him. But it's a product of his situation. It is a fictional exaggeration of a very real occurrence of mental illness provoked by deep unconscionable dissonance and anguish. There is a clear correlation between what happens and his mental state and his job and how isolated he is.Â
The thing is, even if he were chemically numbed, I do think he wouldâve lost it regardless. Many people on meds find they donât fix things. For reasons Iâll get into, but in this case because even if numbed or distracted, once youâve learned about deep, far reaching corruption in society, itâs very hard to forget. Especially if, in his case, you literally serve as the acting hand of this particular variety. Heâs crawling up the walls.Â
So why do people say this? Well, it's funny I guess. Maybe the first time or whatever. But also, often, they believe it, to a degree. Maybe they've just been told how effective therapy and meds are for mental illness, they believe wholeheartedly in The Disease Model of Mental Illness, maybe they themselves have engaged with either and have considered it successful. Maybe they or someone they know has been 'saved' by such treatments.Â
But in all honesty.... What therapy can help with is mentality, it's how you approach problems. For issues on a smaller scale, not meaning they are easier to deal with my any degree, but ones that are not raw and direct from deep awareness of corruption; these are things that can be worked through if you get lucky and get an actually good therapist who helps build up your resiliency. But when your issue is concrete, something large and inescapable? It's useless. At best it can help you develop coping mechanisms, but there is a limit for that. There is a point where that fails. To develop the ability to handle something like this requires intense development of a comfort with ambiguity and dissonance and being isolated and a firm positioning of your purpose and values and and belief in wonder and all the other shit I ramble about. The things that the narrator lacks, which lead him to taking an ineffectual death knell anarchist self-destruction path. Therapy, where the narrator is, full of the knowledge of braces melted to seats and all the people that have to allow this to happen? It fails.Â
And meds ââŹâ meds are a fucking scam. We know the working mechanism of basically none of them, the serotonin receptor model was made up and paid its way into prominence. We have very little evidence they're any better than placebo, and they come with genuinely horrific side effects. Maybe you got lucky. I did, on some meds. On others? I don't remember 2018. The pharmaceutical industry is also known for rampant medical ghostwriting, and for creating 'off-label' uses for drugs that have gained too many protests in their original use, then creating a cult of use to then have 'grassroots' campaigns for it to be made a label use (ie, legitimize their ghostwritten articles with guided anecdotes).Â
The DSM itself is basically a marketing segregation plot. It's an attempt to legitimize the disease model by isolating subgroups of symptoms to propose individualized treatments for subgroups that are not necessarily all that separate. But if the groups exist, you can prescribe more and different medications, no? Not to mention, if you use the disease model, you can propose that these diseases are permanent, or permanent until treated, considered more and more severe to offset and justify the horrific side effects of the medications. Do you know why male birth control doesn't really exist? Same reason. They can justify all the horrible side effects for women, because the other option is pregnancy. For men, it's nothing.Â
And they're not bothering to invent new drugs without side effects. When they invent new drugs it's just because the last one got too bad of a name, or they can enter a new market. Modern drugs don't work any better than gen1 drugs. They still have horrific side effects. At best, the industry will shit out studies saying the old one was flawed (truth) so they can say this new gen will be better (lie). They're doing it with ssris right now.Â
Fundamentally, the single proposed benefit of any of these drugs is that they numb you. To whatever is torturing you. It's harder to be depressed if you can't feel it, or if you just can't muster the same outrage. Of course, there is people who find that numbness to be helpful, or worth it. But often, it's stasis. For the people who have problems that can be worked on, it serves as a stopgap to not actually work on said problems. The natural outcome of the disease model is stagnation for those whose need is to develop skills and resiliency. It keeps them medicalized and dependent on the idea that they're diseased and incapable. Profitable. Stuck in the womb.Â
Iâve been there. Itâs easier, to wallow, and resist growth because itâs difficult and painful and unfair and cruel and you can think of five billion reasons to justify your languishing. But donât listen to anyone who tells you youâre just permanently damaged, no matter how nicely they word it, no identity or novel pathologization, no matter how many benefits they promise, especially if they swear up and down some lovely expensive medications with little solid backing and plentiful off-label usage and side effects thatâll kill you. Some days it feels like they want us all stuck in pods, agoraphobic and addicted to the ads they feed us to isolate the markets for the drugs theyâve trained us to beg them to pump us with. Polarization making it as easy as flashing blue light for go, red like for stop, or vice versa. I worry about the kids, for fucks sake. Thatâs a bit dark and intense, and I apologize. But I want you (generic) to understand, there is a profit motive. Behind everything. And they do not mean well. They do not care about your mental health or your rights or your personhood or your growth. They care about how they can profit off of you.
For those struggling with immovable, society problems, like the narrator grappling with how his job fits into and is accepted by society while his rejection and horror in the face of it does not, it can work about as well as any other drug addiction. Your mileage may vary. From what I've seen, recovering from being on prozac for a long time can be worse than alcohol. They put kids on this shit. They keep campaigning for more. Off label, again. A pharmaceutical companyâs favorite thing to do has to be to spread rumors of someone who knows someone who said an off label use of this drug helps with this little understood condition. Or, in the case of mental illness, questionably defined condition. And like, damn, I know I'm posting on the 'medicalization is my identity' website so no one will like all this and has probably stopped reading by now, but yall should be exposed to at least one person who doubts this stuff. Doesn't just trust it. Because I mean, that's the thing right?
It's so big. What would it mean, for this all to be true? Yeah, everyone says pharmaceutical companies are evil and predatory and ghostwriting, but to think about what that really entails. Coming back to the book, everyone knows the car lobby is huge and puts dangerous vehicles through that kill people. What does it mean if the car companies all hire people to calculate the cost of a recall and the cost of lawsuits? No one wants to think about the scale that means for people allowing it or the systems that have to be geared towards money, not safety like they say. Hell, even Chuck misses the beat and has the narrator threaten his boss with the Department of Transportation. And shit, man, if every company is doing this, you think Transportation doesn't know? That they give a fuck? You're better off mailing all the evidence to the news outlets and hoping they only character assassinate you a little bit as they release the news in a way that says it's all the fault of little workers like you, not the whole system. Something something, David McBride, any whistleblower you feel like, etc.Â
So I don't blame you, if your reaction is "but but but, that can't be right, people wouldn't do it, they wouldn't allow it" or just an overwhelming feeling of dread that pushes you to deny all of this and avoid thinking about it. Just know, that's in the book. That's all the seatmates on the flights. That's all his fellow officemates. It's easier to pretend, I know.
But think about, how the response fits in with the themes of the book. The story, as a movie too. What drives the narratorâs mental breakdown? How would you handle being in his position? How would you handle being his seatmate? Itâs easy to say youâd listen. But have you? Have you had any soul wrenching betrayals of how you thought society worked? How about a betrayal by the thing that promised to be the fix of the first? Can you honestly say you wouldnât follow that gut instinct, saying follow what everyone says, that person must just be crazy, evil, rude, cruel, whatever it is that means you can set what they said aside?
For a lot of people, they can do that, I guess. Set it aside. Reaching that aforementioned state of managing to cope with the dissonance and ambiguity and despair is very hard. The narrator made the Big Realization, but he couldnât cope. He self-destructed. Even when people donât make the big realization consciously, theyâre already self-destructing. Itâs hard to escape it when it feels easier than continuing anyway. When it feels like the only option,
Would therapy fix the narrator of Fight Club? Would meds fix the narrator of Fight Club? No. He knows too much. All meds will do, by the time heâs in the psych ward, is spiritually neuter him. A silly phrase, but really. Take the wind out of his sails.Â
Is he fixed if he doesnât try to blow up town? If he just shuts up and settles in and stops costing money? If he still canât cope with the things heâs unearthed? Do you see how this is a commentary in a commentary in a commentary?
Fight Club is an absolutely fascinating story because of this. The fact that it addresses the fallout of knowing. The isolation. The hopelessness. The spiral that results from a lack of hope. This is, I think, what resonates most with people, even if not consciously. Going insane because youâve discovered something you wish you could unknow. Itâs a classic horror story. Should our society be lovecraftian evil? I donât think so.Â
Do I think changing it will be easy? No. Lord knows a lot exists to push people who make these sorts of Realizations towards feelings of individuality and individualized solutions and denial and other distractions and coping methods. And to prevent people who make One realization from expanding on it and considering further ramifications. Fight Club itself gets into this; the isolation of men being a strict part of the role society shapes for their sex leaves them very vulnerable to death fetishes, in a sense, and generally towards self destructive violence. It helps funnel them away from substantial change and towards ineffectual change. Many things, misogyny, racism, serve to keep people isolated from one another, individualized, angry, and impossible to work with. Market segregation; god knows even appealing on those fronts has become such a classic ploy that companies do it now, the US military frames its plundering that way, etc.Â
Iâve wandered a bit but ultimately, my point is this: Fight Club is a love letter to the horrors of critical thinking, and the importance of not falling into the trap of self destruction and hopelessness in the face of it. The latter is why Tyler was an anarchoterrorist instead of anything useful. The latter is why it was a death cult. Itâs important to work through the horrors of critical thinking so you can do it, and stand on the other side ready to believe in each other. Itâs worth it.
#fight club#my writing#uh. sorta#If you disagree with me it's fine btw. That's a given for me but I realize that's not usual for this website#my big desire is always to provoke thought and get people to think about why they think things#not necessarily to get them to agree with me. though obviously like any person i enjoy that#it was nice to type this out#also#aside from the prozac withdrawals mention and my own experience w memory loss (hilariously not even the most major of my beefs with the#medical industry! or even just the mental health industry! but its an easy nonoffensive one so#anyway i kept it nonspecific because if you go specific it becomes easier for people to just go 'oh well its That that's the problem and i#dont need to reflect at all on my drug/condition/issue/etc'#which ppl will anyway ofc. but yk#maybe theyll find it easier to ignore without the horrific specific examples but i want to leave it broad because 1. doing research and#going past the first thing you find and confirmation bias stuff is good 4 u#second. it's better imo to leave it more open for people to try and apply it broadly#whew ANYWAY#a bonafide Rant#i shouldve put#anti psychiatry#in the first few tags. i havent really looked on tumblr to see what the community 4 that is like on here because it feels like an oxymoron#on this website#but im sure it probably exists even if its used for smth else#(please change)
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There's some underlying tone to all these Toto's interviews that are making my head hot but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Because riddle me why in the past week we've had two very different moments where his own words are contradictory to what he is saying himself (and I'm not talking years back I'm talking things he's also saying in those same interviews)
'shelf life' - is that how you publicly talk about a so called friend? and even if the friend card was pr, how does that make him, and the brand he represents, look with him summing up losing their 6x champion to worries on his 'cognitive sharpness', when the said driver has the second best reaction time on the grid and was third in the last wdc, behind only the two cars that won 22/23 races in the season.
Lewis being 'in a ok place' after 21' (when people close to him have stated otherwise, Lewis himself has stated otherwise) and how Toto has heard those things being said and still stands by his perception (he could easily just say he might've thought Lewis was ok back then but learned latter on it wasn't the case)
Leaving Lewis to shoulder criticism on his craft by himself (even when he was their testing guine pig) but still agrees that he's almost happy Lewis comes and shoulders responsibility publicly because it takes the pressure off the team. The team with the 'no blame culture'. The team that can't get this regs right 3 years into when they were introduced (mind you, the only team, openly and proudly, stating they're using the last 6 races 'to test for the next season')
#i know Toto doesn't know how to express himself but contradicting your own words like that IS a worrying sign of loss in cognitive sharpness#btw shout out to teamlh who apparently runs the tp to an f1 team via social medias#like they're sooo scary even big bad Wolff with all his time in investing feels the need to mention them#toto wolff#anti toto wolff#this is not really anti bc I'm just bringing up things he's said himself but regardless#lewis hamilton#formula one#formula 1#f1#mercedes amg f1#mercedes f1#ella rants#ella asks
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Tips for talking to someone with hearing loss
(this is what helps when people are talking to me, and when I'm talking to my relatives)
Make sure they can see your mouth. Lip-reading helps with clarity, and facing them while you talk also helps a lot with volume. People are really bad about getting your attention, starting to say something, then turning away mid sentence. Stay facing them the whole time!!! (People are the worst about this while we are shopping together!)
Be comfortable with repeating yourself. Either they will ask you to repeat yourself, or you will realize they misheard you. Both of these are fine- just repeat yourself clearly and make sure they can see your face while you do. "Never mind" makes me sad :(
If someone misheard you: try rewording your sentence! Maybe certain sounds are harder for them to hear than other sounds. Instead of "grab that shampoo!" three times at increasing volume, try "grab that blue bottle, the one next to the conditioner" or "I like that dandruff shampoo up there, can you put it in the cart?" There are a lot of ways to rephrase things that will give the person you're talking to more chances to understand, and it feels much less patronizing for everyone. And make sure you're facing them so they can see your mouth!!!
If someone misheard you: try a Yes, And approach. If your grandma didn't understand your question and starts telling you an unrelated story, enjoy it! When she is finished, thank her, and then try asking your question again with more clarity, or worded differently. "No, that's not what I said" is much less enjoyable for everyone involved.
Enjoy your conversation! Not everything needs to be understood perfectly. The important thing is that you are spending time together and talking to each other. Each conversation is a journey and you will get there in the end!!!
#there are other things that can help like subtitles and minimizing background noise#(cafes are so hard for me to hear in with the music and convo but somewhere quiet I get by much better)#but a lot of those are gonna be up to the person with hearing loss to navigate#these are the things that make SUCH a big difference but are hard for them to ask for#please face your friends who cant hear you it is a gamechanger!!!!!#this post brought to you by hanging out with my grandma who was giving me her extra hearing aid batteries cuz she got new ones lmaoooo#i use these strategies to talk with her and my nephew and it helps a lot!!!!!!#and I wish more people would use them with me!!!#(this sounds like my family has some sort of genetic hearing thing. we do not. just bad luck and all different kinds of hearing loss lmaooo)#lori chat
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I'm once again thinking about the missed opportunities to have Klaus and Kol bond more. Part of Klaus' whole motivation as a vampire is to get his werewolf part back and to finally be stronger than Mikael (sort of, I'm simplifying) both of which can be obtained by breaking his curse. But Kol? Kol is the only other original that can relate to having a fundamental part of themself ripped away from them. Klaus might not have known he was a werewolf until he killed, but he likely still had a connection he couldn't explain, as evident by him going to watch the wolves transform. And something he'd never been able to explain was now gone. He might only be able to realise the connection afterwards through its absence.
Kol though. Kol had grown up with magic, a connection to nature and the world around him in a way the rest of his siblings supposedly didn't have. And then he gets turned. And not only has his baby brother died, his father has just murdered him and the rest of his siblings after forcing them to drink human blood, which he'll later learn. Now, not only does he have to deal with the grief of Henrik's death and also his own but also the loss of his magic. A loss that's likely only worsened by Kol being a self-proclaimed child prodigy.
Kol is pretty much the only one who could understand what Klaus is going through with the binding of his wolf. We know Kol searched for ways to get his magic back/carry on practicing magic in the same way that Klaus was looking for ways to break his curse. While Klaus likely could still feel his wolf there despite being bound, Kol has no access to his magic anymore. I just think they should've been able to bond or connect over their shared loss of an intrinsic aspect of their selves at the hands of their parents
#TVD#The Mikaelsons#Kol Mikaelson#Klaus Mikaelson#briefly back on my the originals shouldve gotten to be a family goddammit and as someone from a big family im personally offended bs#i did right a lil snippet about them bonding over this that i havent posted yet for the joml verse but still think its an unexplored concep#need more witch!kol acknowledgement honestly. just need more content of my boy#anyway. klaus having a fascination with the moon and kol telling him about celestial events and how it affects his magic when theyre boys#klaus losing that connection to the moon feeling lost & extra tempermental feeling his wolf claw at its binds and vowing to break his curse#kol determined to get his magic back at any cost relating to that devasting loss and promising to help him find a loophole for his curse#kol who becomes extra reckless and determined when he learns that theres a way to break klaus' curse so maybe he can get his magic back too#that knowledge and recklessness combined with his loss of magic driving him to become the volatile vampire that we see#that leads to him being daggered repeatedly but that first time breaks something in that bond between him & klaus that never fully recovers#it makes him bitter and resentful only fueling his reckless behaviour particularly when there seems to be no leads on reclaiming his magic#that he becomes distant from his siblings in the process especially with finn still daggered but that distance only cements the idea#to his siblings that hes a danger and cant be trusted that he needs to be daggered if theyre to stay safe from mikael#the loss of his magic leading to his spiral as a vampire and him being ostracised by his family > actual tvdu kol canon#klaus being trapped in a room staring at the corpse of his little brother knowing he never repaired that relationship with him#and now he never can so he refuses to look away as penance and a reminder of his failings to his little brother#*edit: one of the reblogs on this post is the author of big bad wolf and honestly she does an amazing job at portraying the mikaelsons#as actual siblings if you havent read it its one of my favourites for characterisations but we need more đ i want it to be the norm
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Jason as a wolf in sheep's clothing because he is so kind and compassionate and loving but he's also vicious and heartless and everyone is so used to the sweet boy consoling them they forget he's a child of justice, a child of order, a child of wolves.
#jason grace#happy talks pjo#jason being a compassionate person who lacks empathy is so funny#normally its the other way around - high cognitive empathy but lack of compassionate empathy/compassionate drive#so you've got this overly kind by who just doesnt have a heart#he doesnt get why you're crying so much. esp if a law was broken and whatever punishment delivered if the source of your devastation#but he'll console you about it. he'll hold your hand as you cry over dead bodies or the loss of your own limbs or whatever#he'll be kind he'll be sweet but inside he's wondering why you're crying. why are you sad. get over it. it's not that big a deal#people who delude themselves into believing jason is too gentle too kindhearted to hurt them when he catches them breaking a rule#and when his teeth is clamped around their throat ripping muscle and skin they realize the truth: he's not kindhearted. he cant be.#he doesn't have one.
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