#they symbolize an open heart

[cornpickerart]

Our Grand Mistress of the Grey Hunt❤️🐺

[yennyinc]

Acceptance!

[the---hermit]

how I take notes on non fiction books

I recently made a post on my study method, and decided to make a whole separate post on my note taking method. The structure of the notes I write doesn't vary too much from my lecture notes to things I might have to read. A couple of useful informations you might want to know before I start actually talking about note writing is that I am mainly focused on studying history (tho I have had other humanities exams in my degrees), and that I study for oral exams in which the material is mainly composed of non fiction books, but sometimes include articles as well as lecture notes. Somehow I have also failed to mention that I am speaking about HANDWRITTEN NOTES. I only do handwritten notes, I don't work well digitally, so keep that in mind. And with this being said brace yourselves for a very long post. The bullet points I will be making are not really in a specific order and I will be including a few pictures too.

The first step when I am working on the materials for an exam is to figure out in which order I will be reading (and writing notes) the books. This hasn't really much to do with the notes themselves, but it's important to know which of your materials is more general and what other things go more in depth, so that you don't struggle too much while studying. Another plan related thing I always do is to write down each chapter of the book I have to study on my bullet journal and how many pages it is so I can plan my studying more comfortably. If the chapters are very long, and divided in subchapters I sometimes also write those down.

The goal of the notes I write is to fully take the place of the book, so they tend to be very detailed and long. I do this because the very act of writing is part of my study method, and working on things I have written down in my own words is just much better for the type of learner I am. So basically I read the book only once, then it goes back on the shelf and I work exclusively on the notes. This means my notes need to be detailed and well organized.

My method is to read a chapter, underlining important stuff as I am reading, and then right after I am done reading I work on the notes for that chapter before moving onto the next. I do this because it makes the note writing more effortless, I am fresh with informations I just read and I basically just need to skim over what I have underlined.

On underlining, since it is so important. I underline everything I will be including in my notes, it might seem much as sometimes it consists of full paragraphs, instead of key words. But this is okay because my notes I don't just copy and paste.

To create useful notes you need to be re-elaborating the informations. You need to read, understand what you read, and be able to write it down using your own words. That way the notes will be easier to review, they will often be composed of shorter sentences, and by doing so you are also actively making writing part of your studying and not just a mindless activity.

Personally I don't work well with full pages summaries, I need the text to be visually broken into sentences/small paragraphs, and I use a lot of symbols as well as abbreviations.

Symbols and abbreviations are in a way part of your very own language when you are writing notes, you tend to develop these with time, but they are so useful. I personally use different types of arrows, all caps words, position of the text in the page, different methods of highlighting and abbreviations (usually for words that come up often like country names, for example Italy becomes ita, France becomes fr, etc.).

Your notes need to be useful for you, they don't have to necessarily be comprehensible for another person (which means you can and will fuck up sentence structure because sometimes skipping a couple of words makes the notes shorter and still understandable), and they do not have to be pretty. They should be as tidy as possible, but again that might change from person to person, I have some very messy looking notes that make total sense to me. With time you'll learn what works best for you.

I have a visual memory so as I mentioned titles, highlighters, all caps, the placement on the page and other similar things are very important in my notes. I cannot fully exapain some of these things because some definitely only make sense to me in the moment (like the words I choose to write in all caps, or the way I highlight things).

I like to have a clear chapter and subchapter break (so that in case I need to refer back to the book it's super effortless). I like to write those with a red pen, usually the chapter title is in all caps and the subchapter in coursive, but it really depends.

I use only two highlighters in each set of notes yellow for dates, and the colour I associate with the book/the subject of the book (I have synesthesia I don't make the rules when it comes to colours). This of course might change depending your preferences and on the element of your notes you want to focus on. I like to have spacific colour for dates and time periods, because of course while studying history that is a fundamental element. If you are focusing on other subjects you might want to have a specific colour for names, or other elements.

I like to leave a big side margin to add either key words (especially in lecture notes since they might be messier and jump around informations more often), or additional information in a second time (sometimes it happens, after you read another book, or attended a particular lecture you have to add a couple of sentences and I rather have a blank space that never gets used rather than no space at all for emergencies).

I honestly mentioned everything that came to mind right away, but since note writing is now basically a mindless skill I have been practicing for years I surely forgot about something. I might end up adding to this post in the future or write another one. My note-writing method has also changed a lot thought the years from high school to university, it's a skill I have been perfecting for the past decade. This to say that depending on what you are working on things might change, and by experimenting with different things you might find out things that work very well for you. If you have any questions on specific things I didn't mention or that wen't clear my inbox is always open and I am more than happy to help.

Since this post is already very very long I am adding the pictures below the cut

Example of a page of notes before and after highlighting

Example of symbols and structure of the notes and the way I highlight things (in which you'll hopefully be able to understand my handwriting, and in which there might be some spelling errors but alas that often happens in my real notes as well so if there are any it's for the sake of accuracy lmao). If I end up adding informations on the margins I always use a pen of a different color so I can tell which informations I got from what source (ex. main notes from lecture, colorful notes from additional article).

Example of messier notes in which the main text in black are the notes I took during lectures and the additional colorful text was added while writing the materials (I rarely do this, it usually happens when the lectures follow a book precisely, which happens when we have to study books or summaries written by the professor). As you can see I often use post it notes to add more writing space, and sometime I even use them to create visually separated sections. If I end up adding some drawings I also usually like to have them on post it notes so they stand out more (and if you are wondering why the hell would an history student need drawings it's usually either because I need a map or a region/state to mark things out, or when studying for archaeology exams I often needed visual references, for example to identify different types of vases or decorations).

[littlefankingdom]

The Fandom: Try to force traditional family roles and the nuclear family's format on the found family that is the Batfam. Cannot accept Barbara and Steph as Batfam's members because "they're not Bruce's daughters!". Cannot accept that characters that aren't Bruce's children wear bat symbols (pls have you ever consume any Batman media??? The bat is a symbol, it's not about Bruce!!!) See Damian and Dick having a deep relationship and it must be a father/son relationship!

The source material: Bruce LITERALLY telling Damian that the bats living in the Batcave (and Gotham as a whole?!) aren't his pets, they are his family. His nuclear family got killed in an alley, wild animals are family too now.

[cherryyluv]

hello cher !! ur bios r very pretty ,, and ive been searching for a little inspo lately ,, so may i request bios for sailor song by gigi perez ?

thank you in advance ,, pretty !! ♡♡

𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬

ㅤ 𝖧𝗂𝗂 𝗆𝗒 𝖽𝖾𝖺𝗋, tysmm♡♡

ㅤ 𝖨'𝗆 𝗌𝗈𝗋𝗋𝗒𝗒, 𝗂𝗍 𝗍𝗈𝗈𝗄 𝗆𝖾 𝖺 𝗐𝗁𝗂𝗅𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗉𝗈𝗇𝖽,

ㅤ 𝖨'𝗏𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝖾𝗇 𝖻𝗎𝗌𝗒 ( ◞‸)...

𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤּㅤㅤ𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒾ㅤㅤ‎ ‎˳ㅤ ‎ ‎⣴⣄⣀⣠⣦ㅤㅤㅤ۫ ⠀ㅤㅤㅤㅤ૮꒰◌ .. ꒱ა‎⠀⠀ִ⠀⠀︶ ͝⠀⠀ ִ ⠀ㅤ𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐬ᅟᅟּㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓮 𝓾 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓲𝓽

𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ💌 ᩙㅤִ ⎯⎯ 𝅭 ℐ　𝗌⍺𝗐𝅙𝗁ᧉ𝗋

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ♡゙ ׄㅤ◞ 𝅙ıᥒ𝅙𝗍𝗁ᧉㅤ𓂂 𓈒 𝅙𝗋ı𝗀𝗁𝗍ᧉ𝗌𝗍𝅙𝗐⍺𝗒

𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ ִㅤ𓏴ㅤᲞㅤᖯᧉ𝗀𝗀ıⴖ𝗀,ㅤᲞㅤ𝖻⍺ᖯ𝗒ㅤ۫

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ ִㅤ𓏴ㅤ𝗐𝗈υƖძ𝅙ᥙㅤ ゙ೀ 𝅙𝗉Ɩᧉ⍺𝗌ᧉ ׅ

𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ⎯ း 𝖽𝗈𝅙𝗍𝗁ᧉ𝅙𝗍𝗁ıꪒ𝗀𝗌𝅙 ᳦ ᥙ𝅙𝗌⍺ı𝖽

ㅤㅤㅤㅤᨳ ུ 𝅙𝗒𝗈υ'𝖽𝅙ㅤꛒㅤִ 𝖽ᦢㅤㅤ۫ㅤ𝅙𝗍𝗈𝅙𝗆ᧉ

𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ‧˚꒰❕꒱ ˚ㅤ𝗐𝗈ᥒե𝅙υ 𔘓 𝅙𝗄ı𝗌𝗌𝅙𝗆ᧉ𝅙ᥒ𝖽

ㅤㅤㅤㅤƖ𑄙𝗏ᧉ ٫٫ 𝗆𝖾𝅙Ɩı𝗄ᧉㅤ৶ㅤ 𝓪 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓸𝓻︖?

𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬 𝆬

ㅤㅤㅤㅤᥒ𝖽 ⏑ ׅ 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 ᥙ ♡︭ 𝗀𝖾𝗍 ⍺ 𝗍⍺𝗌𝗍ᧉ, 𝖼⍺ᥒ𝅙ᥙ𝅙

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ𝗍ᧉƖƖ𝅙𝗆𝖾 𓈒 𝇋 𝅙𝗐𝗁⍺𝗍𝓼 . ⪩𝅙 𝗆𝗒 𝖿Ɩ⍺𝗏𝗈𝗋

[camgoloud]

award for most devil’s sacrament moment of the year goes without a doubt to this morning when my coworker (delivering presentation) (screen projected onto wall in front of me and god and everyone) opened a new tab in google chrome and in the number one spot among the collection of icons for frequently visited websites was. the ao3 logo

[estcaligo]

And my birthday gift to Sebek is this key. With it, he can enter anywhere ( -> 24/7 access to my heart and thoughts)

[mossy-green-aka-ferrythem]

Holy shit I just realized something about Philip's design...

In his Unstable EGO, he has a glowing eye over his heart...

While as his Distortion, The Crying Children, it's now a hole... a hollow eye socket... over his heart... he can see no more... he just... man he's such a tragic character I can't 😭😭😭

[blizzardstarx]

Labour - A Cat!Vanessa AU PMV FINISHED!!

tw blood, animal death

might post the timelapse video too if yall wanna see it

edit: here it is

birthday gift for you gwen!!! 💙 @castiels-destiny

@jasminetea1234

@send-me-a-puffalope

[fictionadventurer]

After very little research into the other writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, my hypothesis about the Little House authorship question is that the writing is mostly Rose's, but the heart is Laura's.

In Laura's newspaper columns, the parts that sound most like Little House mostly come from the extracts she shares from Rose's letters (incidentally, it's kind of adorable how proud she is of Rose: "My daughter's in France!", "My daughter's in Albania!", etc.) The prose of Old Home Town, Rose's inspired-by-my-childhood-home novel, has some of the same concise descriptive prose that I've come to associate with the Little House style (I could hear passages in the voice of the Little House audiobook narrator).

Yet the Little House soul is all over Laura's columns. She's fascinated by the simple tasks of life, believes in home and family and hard work, believes in holding onto the goodness of childhood and looking forward with hope toward the future. There's an optimism, almost a romanticism, about life. The children's series that bears her name clearly comes from the same woman.

Rose, by contrast, is much more pessimistic. When writing about childhood, she's almost cynical about the life of a small town. She highlights the dark stories underlying the wholesome exterior, is extremely sensitive to the pitfalls of the social scene around her. Part of the difference is that Rose is writing for adults, but there does seem to be an essential difference in the personality behind the pen, despite the stylistic similarities to Little House.

(At the risk of pop psychoanalyzing people long dead, Rose seems much more neurotic and introverted and sensitive than her mother. In her writings and in the books about her childhood in Missouri, she comes across as child of a fairly comfortable modern life, with all the modern anxieties, in contrast to a woman who grew up starving on the prairie and knows that there are much worse things to endure than small-town gossip).

It's not much of a thesis, but I'm just fascinated by the fact that the Little House series can share so many stylistic similarities with Rose's writings, yet feel so much more like Laura.

[nomsfaultau]

So as a writing exercise, I went through the first sentences of all the chapters in Fault, so here they are:

The white cell walls got really boring after a while.

Time didn’t matter, or maybe Tommy just needed it to not matter.

Apparently it was cleaning day.

When the dark period began for real, Tommy was ready.

Tubbo was five and darting through the branches of the apple orchard.

The door opened.

“You said it wouldn’t hurt!”

Another night passed, or at least for Tubbo and Rosalind, and Tommy failed to show.

The first time they’d used the sleeping gas, Tubbo had been afraid upon waking up.

“Come on, you have to see for yourself,” Tubbo explained, leading Tommy over to the potato rows.

Bees began to drop to the ground, but a faint hissing noise remained.

The hall was empty.

The Foundation exit fell with a heavy thud, cutting off the blaring interior alarms and his friends.

Tommy startled awake to the familiar sound of the mechanisms in the door whirring.

I’ll never ask anything of you ever again. Please. Just one last time.

Tommy wasn’t exactly sure what it was that draped over his shoulders and coiled around his vision.

“No. I can’t do that,” Philza refused wearily.

“Turn signal!” Tubbo (that was their name, right??) shouted, slamming into the car door from Wilbur’s sharp turn.

Breakfast was nice, though overwhelming.

The glasses clinked together, producing a clear ringing note.

Footsteps. Heavy, quick, and plenty.

Philza smiled bitterly at their retreating backs.

This wasn’t the freedom Tubbo had promised. 

Ok, first off, The Blade could definitely recognize the Tubbo smashing was a bad thing. (….I’d like to clarify smashing as in hurt in a fight-)

It borrowed into the ancient brain, racing, dancing through synapses and searing the connections.

His hooves slipped beneath the edge of the garage door.

Tommy had been antsy all morning.

“Hello!” The familiar human smiled, though it felt faintly edged.

Carnage trailed to a door framed in Red within the Foundation.

Tommy stumbled to the ground, slipping out of the giant hand.

Woken by the smell of beans burning at dawn, Philza stretched to get out the discomfort of a poor night’s rest.

“…we’re just saying, if he isn’t going to bother giving us a real name, we don’t feel the obligation to use it. Why would this lizard guy need an alias huh? That’s sus.”

It appeared pain was scheduled for that morning.

He jolted up in the middle of the night.

“…which doesn’t tend to be a problem, but you can usually merge into a crowd and it’s fine…

WHY THE HELL ARE NEARLY 20% OF THEM TALKING ABOUT DOORS?!?! BRUH????? Like ‘oh cool half a million word fic, what’s it about?’ DOORS APPARENTLY! And then even more 1st sentences are about someone coming or going, like a ‘hello’ or ‘watched their retreating backs’ or talking about footsteps or freedom or something. Maybe the real Fault was the people who crossed an threshold along the way. Smh.

[eggwishing]

they couldn’t get it to fit

[dappercapper]

Dapper Ramblings #1: The Meaning of a Heart

It hasn't occurred to me 'til just now how ubiquitous and context-sensitive the symbolism of the Heart Shape (❤️) is. You see it damn near everywhere, seeing it in some places FAR more than others. The most immediately recognized use for it is as a symbol of love, owing to how hearts beat faster when experiencing intense affection. But even then, calling it "affection" feels wrong, doesn't it? Because they are also seen in erotic contexts. Love and lust can sometimes be concurrent, but they are decidedly separate things. This is why (and how) Asexual Panromantics or Homosexual Aromantics exist, among other identities and preferences.

Scientifically speaking, adrenaline and exertion - or any other form of physical/mental excitement - is what causes the heart to race. Yet the sensation is homogenized with emotions like intense affection and sexual arousal because that, too, is a form of excitement. Because, either socially or psychologically, our brain comes to see those things as the same thing, they are often mistaken. This is literally how the Suspension Bridge Effect works. But we don't ONLY see it in the context of some manner of attraction.

Take video games for instance! Hearts usually symbolize health points and extra lives, because obviously, we'd die without a heart. In Legend of Zelda, you increase your life total and max by literally just… collecting hearts you find. Which is morbid when I actually type it. And thinking about it in a literal sense, yeah, running around collecting stray hearts sounds nightmarish and disgusting. But it always made perfect sense to us as kids. Thats because the heart was meant less literally. More conceptual, representative of the idea of "staying alive," alluding to the hearts function, while keeping a comfortable distance from what a heart actually is. An abstraction of the heart's function into something symbolic. But what, then, when the heart itself is PURELY symbolic?

Undertale and Kingdom Hearts, most notably in the scope of pop-culture, took the heart as a symbol specifically for the Soul. The essence of a person's being. Which does make sense, as if we didn't have hearts to pump blood, we'd be dead. But thinking about it, wouldn't the brain be better suited for that kind of thing? After all, we don't exist without our brains. We don't think, don't feel, don't sense, don't live without them. We need our brains to tell the heart to pump. Our brains hold and store everything, our heart is merely a muscle. So why use that instead?

The easy answers are that 1. the heart is an easier shape to draw and simplify, and 2. Brains are kinda yucky looking. all grey and jiggly. Why would ANYONE want that as representation of our being? My personal theory is it makes the reality of what we are uncomfortably concrete. We are our brains. Our thoughts, feelings, and identities all born from the electrical signals put out by a jiggly, grey hunk of goo whose ENTIRE job is intaking information and stimulus, and creating neural pathways intent on prolonging our life, happiness or safety - drawing from PREVIOUS information and stimulus to inform those new pathways, and the emotions they trigger and instincts they feed. Our bodies are machines running on thick fluids, wiggly meat, and spooky bones that our brains pilot.

Ew. Yuck. No.

So where does the heart come in? Once again, it's an abstraction - a separation of its function from its form, while both are still brushing elbows with each other. Because of our social perception of hearts being tied to love, joy, lust, and cute things, this makes it a much more appealing symbol of the soul, because people generally enjoy the idea that our soul is a good thing. Our purest, best, most wonderful pieces of ourselves. Thus, we are naturally inclined to tie it to the heart, a symbol that already has positive connotations.

Consider, then, what happens when the symbolism and realism is cranked up to eleven, to the point where you can ONLY see it as what it is.

In Metaphor: ReFantazio, your Gauntlet Runner's primary engine component is a biological-heart-shaped thing that pulsates like a heart, pushing fuel through it like a heart, and because of that, you can imagine what would happen if the runner's "heart" stopped doing the thing. Any game with "Metaphor" in the name is clearly not going to hold its punches. But it's obviously not a heart, right? Yes, it does all the things a heart is supposed to do, and is shaped like one, but it's made of metal and rubber rather than flesh, and its pumping fuel instead of blood. But if the only thing that's different about the runner's heart is what it's made out of, then it seems like a meaningless distinction, right? For the Gauntlet Runner, it pumps faster when running faster. It keeps it running. It keeps it "alive." It simultaneously is and isn't a heart. It feels almost recursive: it symbolizes the function and form of a heart by doing all of the things a heart does while looking like a heart.

Take, now, the OTHER example from the same game: when party members awaken to the powers of the Archetype, they reach into their chests and rip out a symbolically (not biologically) heart-shaped microphone, and speak their truth. This is one use of a heart where it feels almost difficult to simplify what it's trying to represent because it is being so many things at once. They rip it from their chests and blood gushes out, so it's a heart that keeps us alive. This happens at the moments of self-actualization where the party members are decisive in their path forward and conscientious of their goals, thus making it a symbol of their power, their agency within the story, and their own lives. It takes the form of a microphone, into which they swear a vow or proudly declare who they are, making it a symbol of the soul.

In this case, the heart symbol is all-encompassing of a larger idea of Humanity - helped largely by the game's strict focus on the human experience and what it means to be human. But even when it's trying to be all of these things at once, it isn't outlandish. It isn't surprising. We don't spend much time thinking on why its a heart because it seems to immediately make some modicum of sense. And the reason for that, I believe, is because the symbolism, the function, the form, and the need for a heart, in whatever form it chooses to take, is integral to the overarching idea of what is the core of "Humanity."

Humans need love, humans need lust, humans need a soul, humans need a sense of self, humans need excitement.

Humans need a heart to live. Both literally and figuratively.

So whatever you do… hold onto yours. Your love, your lust, your soul, your sense of self, you excitement, your purpose. Your life.

Hold onto your heart. Because you still need it.

❤️

[alexiethymia]

Lockwood just saw Lucy and Kipps have one conversation and immediately went to confront his trauma just so, just so he could give Lucy a pretty necklace. In the book, the scene comes across as flippant, nonchalant. Here, he doesn’t even allude to his sister but he gives away her precious memento anyway, to Lucy, akin to a cat giving its master treats as if it could be a sufficient counter-offer to what he suspects Kipps is offering Lucy - a chance to work at Fittes and - because I’m pretty sure Lockwood could read that too and is immensely bothered by it - his affections. 

[aceofspades-universe]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

Kinda rambly but im getting tired of tragic fathers who lost a young daughter. It’s almost always a young daughter; someone who represents innocence and the father’s capacity to love, and is at an age were the kid sees the dad as everything.

Nothing against the trope itself, but how about a story in which the kid HAS a character beyond being the dad’s tragic figure. Gimme a story about a teen who reached an age that made them realize that the way they see the world and the way their dad sees the world is different. Gimme a story in which the dad and kid get into arguments about their views and ideas. Gimme a story in which, even after all of that, the dad still mourns the kid the same way he does in the clichè because when all is said and done that is still HIS kid and maybe he shouldnt have wasted so much time arguing, and maybe they should’ve learned to communicate despite having different worldviews, and maybe he shouldve been more aware of how much he loves them while they were alive, and maybe it shouldn’t have taken literal death for him to realize that he shouldnt have been so stubborn, that he should’ve accepted that his kid is a person individually from him

I dunno, just not make the dead kid an idea rather than a layered character

[daylighteclipsed]

Started replaying BBS and. Wow there’s a lot I don’t remember