#this has happened to me before

[thesweetpianowritingdownmylife]

My friend's husband: I have been listening to Epic the musical on repeat, it's really good!

Me, internally: Can it be? Will this guy and I finally have a common opinion??

My friend's husband: Polites is so annoying though.

Me:

[baronessblixen]

I watched "Reverse the Curse" - a huge thank you to @randomfoggytiger who made it possible. I will forever think of the movie as Bucky Fucking Dent. I feel like most of us do.

Let me start by saying that I loved the book when it came out. It's such a heartfelt story. I'm not always the biggest fan of DD's writing; it can feel like he's just rambling. Still, I love Bucky Fucking Dent for the story that lay underneath it.

It's the same with the movie. I've wanted to see it since it was announced. Will I ever learn not to go in with too many expectations? Time will tell, but the signs aren't good. Anyway. I went in with too many of them and of course, they couldn't uphold.

Do you ever consume a piece of media at the wrong time? I feel like that might be me and this movie. I liked it. I really liked it. It's wonderful, and heartfelt and the father-son story is so well done. DD's acting really is incredible. I just couldn't connect to it emotionally. There were moments when I would have liked more depth. I didn't laugh once. Well, humor is subjective anyway.

I think it's a movie that I will have to watch again. Without expectations, without any baggage of any kid. It's the kind of movie I feel you should watch on a crisp day in Autumn when the sun is out and you're caught between two seasons.

[doomdaysdecays]

frankly i’d be delighted

[juiceboxerr]

i have no fears

the theater accidentally plays the dubbed version of the my hero movie when you can prove you 100% went to the showing of the subbed version

... one fear

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

i wasted my annual nye psychedelic adventure and i'm still mad about it. 3 tabs of acid, 8g of shroom tea, but my back pain was so intense that it sliced through the usual euphoria, and i had coherent thoughts the entire night. total bullshit.

what's the point of drugs if you're not in the No Thoughts Zone!! i'm not getting high to THINK or TALK. i am getting high so that the only thing in my head for 12 hours will be a steady whompwhompwhomp. now i have to wait til my birthday to try again. can i get a lamentations 1:12 in the chat

[silverslipstream]

'life's too short to be embarrassed about what you love'

*camera pans to me, hastily trying to stuff my phone into my jeans because I accidentally opened gay cowboy literature in the middle of a social occasion*

[thequeervampiric]

greeting. I am lightheaded

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[thedeafprophet]

I will testify that even if I strongly dislike, utterly hate, and cannot stand a character, I will never go on someones post talking about liking that character and say so. Basic decency and all that

[beautifult999]

This has happened to me before

[frownyalfred]

Batfamily/Superfamily angst fic where one of the Supes (Jon? Kon?) takes off too quickly/recklessly next to one of the Batkids and accidentally ruptures their eardrum and Bruce goes on the warpath for Clark about it.

[teaboot]

Sometimes at work it's not my place to tell people the things I want to say, and I find I often go home at the end of the rougher days to stand blankly in my shower and tell myself over and over what I wish I could pass on.

This accomplishes very little, and mostly just gives me a tension headache, but through it all I think I've narrowed myself down to a few solid things I'd like to tell people the most.

You can't change people. Not permanently, not for anythig. You can support them, encourage them, love them, give them tools and opportunities and resources, but you can't make them change. They can change themselves if they want to, but they have to want to, and they have to want it for themselves, because they're the only one that's certain to be with them forever.

For better or worse, you make your own choices, and blaming bad choices on others doesn't only work to absolve you of responsibility- it also robs you of control. Because if you say you only did something because I did something, then you arent only shifting blame- you're admitting that you cannot control yourself, that you cannot truly make choices for yourself, that other people can control you- and as long as you truly beleive that, you'll keep facing the same problems over and over. You'll keep letting others dictate your choices, because you'll beleive that they can, and you'll never be free.

White knights on horseback are from fairytales. Nobody can help you if ou're not willing to help yourself. To try, to put the dirty work in, to belive you're worth that effort- Act as though nobody is coming to save you. From a struggle, from pain, from bad relationships, from yourself. And when you do save yourself, because you will, because failure here isn't an option if you want to survive, you'll never find another dragon that can keep you prisoner.

Don't say anything to anyone that you wouldn't want them remembering forever.

Doing the right thing in bad circumstances is hard. It's the hardest thing. But if you make the choice to do that hard thing anyways, despite your fear, you'll go on the rest of your like knowing that you're the sort of person who did something.

The present only seems the hardest because the past I over and the future hasn't happened.

There's so much joy ahead of you, the kind you can't possibly understand until you see it yourself.

The responsibility of consequences is often disguised as the power of permission. "I won't do this if you help me", "I'll work on my anger if you do this for me", "I promised you I'd quit, but can I have just one?". The unspoken question is, "Can it be your fault if this goes badly?"

You cant make someone love you the way you need to be loved. Someone can love you very much and still be bad for you, even if you love them very much in return. Two people can love each other very, very much, and try their very best, and still be wrong for each other.

Sometimes being near to someone changes you, even in good ways, and the people you become don't fit together as well as the people you were.

Caring takes work. Even if it's real. Especially if it's real. And the most important gestures aren't the grand, poetic, songs-and-flowers-and-tears moments; they're getting out of bed even though you don't want to. Paying attention to things you don't enjoy. Scrubbing pans, or opening a window, saying "thank-you", or helping carry groceries into the house. The small things fill the big things- without the small, boring, mediocre things, big things feel hollow.

Thrre is honour and dignity in humble work.

If you are a cruel and spiteful person, then you will find every place you visit to be full of the same cruel, spiteful people. This is not because the world is as cruel as you, but because everywhere you are, you will be disliked. This is the curse that comes with being persistently cruel and spiteful.

If you are a kind and ppsitive person, you will repeatedly encounter kind and positive people, because as they grow familiar with you, they will be happier to have you near. This is the reward of being a kind and positive person.

When splitting paths with loved ones, briefly or forever, aim for your last words to always be "I love you".

[shadowvalkyrie]

Does anyone else do a google search anytime they come up with a semi-decent line? Just to make sure you didn't read it somewhere, remembered it subconsciously, and accidentally plagiarised it in your own fic?

[molinaesque]

"You know what inspires me? When there's no one in the house… and I'm all alone to do whatever I want." - Walton Goggins, Mulholland Distilling (2023) (x)

[sugusoko]

ff7 women in S.T.E.M.

[naomistares]

mini comic about a kinda freaky terrible queen and the nonsensical takes she has about the times people have tried to kill her

(more thoughts in notes)

UP NEXT! ANOTHER short comic, (and then one more) this time taking place one month before the kings death, in which we will have: one annoying prince! one lousy fight scene! rejoice's dismissive nature! and row reveals a secret.... tune in next time for all that