#we need to have compassion.

[galacticneighbor]

Also it's soo funny to me when ppl rally against plastic surgery and then at the very end of their lil rant go "obviously I'm not talking about MEDICALLY NECESSARY surgery" like a) ur the one lumping together a wide and varied type of surgery here and b) super fun to be an afterthought in this conversation :)

[mashbrainrot]

'Stańczyk' by Jan Matejko, 1862 // Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce, Mash episode 'As You Were', 1974

[capydoodle]

have compassion for yourself and for others. it seems hopeless but any small amount of good you can do is just that much more love in the world

[pokimoko]

The fact that Main-verse Ooo is as good and as kind as it is (relative to the other universes shown so far, at least, it's obviously not perfect) all because of the same character that starts off as the OG series' antagonist, the person we were made to see as the bad guy (albeit an often ineffectual one) for several seasons, is making me lose my mind.

Imagine finding out the guy you spent your childhood beating up and saving princesses from is in fact a driving catalyst behind you being able to exist, and not only exist but also live in a world that knows what kindness is. All because that man, the same man who you've witnessed do terrible things, once met a little girl and taught her how to be good.

Simon's story really shows us that even if you lose your way and forget how it is to be good yourself, the world keeps the memory for you. That act of love Simon showed Marcy by protecting her and seeing her as more than the monster she thought herself to be created ripples upon ripples, small at first but eventually enough to help give their wreckage of a world—a world that easily could have been forsaken, its goodness overlooked because of its inhospitable remains—a chance to grow into something beautiful. Because of those very same ripples Simon created, the people of Ooo grew up in a world where they know enough about kindness that they were able and willing to spare the 'bad guy' some, to see beyond the wreckage and allow him to grow too.

In saving Marceline, Simon helped to not only to save the world, but also himself.

[musical-chick-13]

This is the only thing I'm going to say about the election until it's over:

Anyone who did not vote for Harris or who attempted to dissuade people from voting for Harris, you are indirectly responsible for whatever shit Donald Trump does if he gets elected. That blood is primarily on his hands, yes. But it is also on yours. I hope you can live with that because I sure as hell wouldn't be able to.

[monsterfuckermilligan]

i’m sure this has been said before but when adam and michael are talking in the bunker about the possibility of michael’s dad being a grade a asshole, there’s something so so so important to me about how adam points out michael’s hypocrisy.

ADAM: Point is…. Parents keep secrets. Does it hurt to ask the question?

MICHAEL: Yes! It would mean I doubt him. The good son; the favorite doubts his father.

ADAM: You still care about that? After he left you in the cage?

this matters because michael was JUST criticizing sam and dean for leaving adam and how he is in unable to trust them. he doubts them because of their actions.

MICHAEL: You’re asking me to trust you. You who doomed me, you who let Lucifer walk free while your own brother sat in Hell.

in turn, adam is pointing out that clearly michael has a line for his family members and it’s been crossed by michael’s own, so why is his dad any different than sam or dean? what makes michael different than adam? why does his dad get to betray and abandon him and still get michael’s trust and loyalty? why is michael expendable?

he’s really tapping into michael’s beliefs that were just established to us as the audience at the diner. (ie: family sometimes hurts you and just because they’re blood relatives or ‘family’ doesn’t mean they have your best interests at heart. sometimes there are things more important than family, sometimes walking away from your family is freedom) and he’s holding michael to the same standard he’s set for the winchesters.

side note: another thing i enjoy about this interaction is that adam is being gentle, although it 100% appears as if they’ve had this conversation before since he literally rolls his eyes, and not to mention that michael is an archangel. he could easily be mean or not even care about his feelings or michael could not even take his opinion into account and do what he wants. but despite everything, adam asks for michael to listen to him, and he does. and in turn adam appeals to him with logic and reasoning, because he’s overall a very rational and strategic being that’s simply been groomed from the get go in his dad’s weird cult. adam appeals to his emotions in a way that’s familiar. they share this experience. adam knows michael is protective of him and that it’s easy for michael to hate sam and dean for the same things his dad has done. but michael’s own lack of self worth that was drilled into him by his dad for aeons is being challenged, and it’s uncomfortable for him, but adam doesn’t back down and he helps get through to him. it’s really a great scene. this post wasn’t meant to be so long but yeah i have lots of thoughts about this short interaction!

[kaurwreck]

Ranpo appreciates Dazai for his insights, not his pain; which yet further evidences that Ranpo is brilliant and the rest of us are idiot babies.

[tiredyke]

i cant stand feminist discourse on this site because its like 90% "feminism means equality which means you can't say anything bad about men and you have to criticize women just as much as men because misandry is just as bad as misogyny" and these posts always get thousands of notes from other people who call themselves feminists likeee

[silentreigns]

Read so much F1 discourse my head hurts. Everybody should be nicer since we truly don't nor will we ever know what goes on behind closed doors.

[zigcarnivorous]

FIDAA'S VIDEO OF BOMBS FALLING A SHORT DISTANCE FROM HER TENT WHERE HER CHILDREN CAN'T SLEEP FROM FEAR OF DEATH

HELP HER MEET HER GOAL, SHE IS ONLY HALFWAY AT $36,000! STAND WITH HER!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-fidaa-and-her-children

[cogcltrcorn]

thinking about "what if kendall went to stewy after the carcrash" but specifically because I KNOW that stewy would immediately get into his gone girl era, not because he wants to keep kendall out of prison (he does) but because his first and most pressing thought would be "IF THIS COMES OUT THE BEAR HUG IS FUCKED"

[uncanny-tranny]

It's actually kind of heartbreaking how many people feel their life has ended right after high school or college, and honestly, the heavy romanticization of that period of time is so overwhelmingly predominant that it can be hard to avoid. It's insidious to constantly be told that ages 10-24 are the only worthwhile parts of life, that everything after is essentially meaningless and dull.

It's hard not to look around you and think that your life still is open and full of potential when you're told over and over again that the rose-tinted childhood is the last time you were alive. It's hard to realize that your life isn't over when you walk off the stage of your graduation.

We must realize that we will always be full of potentials. Your life won't be over until you take your final breath, and then? That's simply another chapter in your story, one of many. Let yourself realize that you're alive in the here and now. There will be good and bad, but never a complete loss of potential or hope.

[valkyurii]

it’s funny how things have gone full circle with malenia. she was so hated when the game first came out, but then people grew to like her. then the dlc came out and now people hate her again lmao

[autumnrory]

i rmr when all the initial meta around endgame was coming out people were talking about steve being depressed and whatnot and it's like well yeah but he's BEEN depressed, like he woke up alone in this century and he kept going, now i can understand it being worse this time after finding a family and getting bucky back and losing them all except of course that's not why endgame steve was on about so like......the people writing meta were trying to connect these things that of course weren't really there on screen because that simply wasn't our steve

but i think it really could've been SO interesting to see this is the thing that finally makes steve stay down like he's lost so much and he just CAN'T keep fighting like i get some people think that's what they were going for but considering the ending......it's really not. and so i'm just thinking about a version after iw, maybe he gets some of the thor treatment except not turning his depression into a dumb fatphobic joke lol and maybe nat and others are trying to get through to him and it just doesn't work and then we get some flashbacks (which you could have done for all the original avengers actually which would be particularly important for bruce and nat and clint who did not have their own trilogies) including his mom telling him "you always stand up" and THAT being the thing to finally get him moving like it would've been such a perfect way to finally show sarah rogers some respect and ACTUALLY show steve really struggling instead of whatever they tried to do with him in that movie

[jzargo]

Like, okay, sure. Let's think about this for a moment. Is it possible that Wyll potentially has (or had) complicated feelings regarding Mizora?

He was only seventeen when she swooped in and made him an offer he couldn't refuse; his soul for Baldur's Gate. She effectively isolated him from all of his friends and family by rendering him incapable of speaking about the pact, and she was constantly surveilling him. It is safe to assume that Wyll made no meaningful connections during those seven years he spent as the Blade; he saved people, he was probably friendly with them, but his pact with Mizora meant he could not be truly honest and open with them. Mizora was the only person during that time who knew him. And yes, she is very attractive.

But any exploration of this attraction would have absolutely just been another point of manipulation for Mizora. We know she's not above using seduction as an angle (her proposition Tav/the PC is definitely a manipulation tactic, either to hurt Wyll or to otherwise get close to someone she sees as being an important player) and she would have certainly exploited any lonely, desperate attraction a young Wyll might have developed for her.

This wouldn't have been something to joke about. This is a woman who holds Wyll's soul in her hands manipulating and exploiting him further, specifically to hurt and use him. There are ways to explore something like this with care and compassion; reducing their relationship down to "Wyll wants to fuck her because she's a hot demon lady and we ALL want to be bossed around by a hot demon lady" does an immense disservice to Wyll, to Mizora, and to the abuse she inflicted upon him.

[aeolianblues]

do people like. Not realise that it is possible to be critical of two things at once or