#you made a positive impact

[dinosaurwithablog]

It was the best of times... it was the worst of times. Today is Lou Gehrig Day. On June 2, 1925, a 21 year old, Lou Gehrig, #4, took the field for the NY Yankees for the very first time. 16 years later, on the very same day, June 2nd, in 1941, Lou Gehrig died from ALS. Affectionately known as the Iron Horse, Lou played for 2,130 days, consecutively. He never missed a day in his career. He was an exceptional player who is still considered to be one of the best baseball players ever to have played the game. RIP, Lou. We love you. We miss you. You set the bar very high. You, to this day, are an inspiration for many people, young and old. Baseball is a much better sport because of you. Thank you for everything that you did. You made a positive impact on the world, and for that, I'll always be thankful. 😍😊🫡💜⚾️⚾️⚾️

[lesbianfakir]

HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HER AFTER LEARNING SHE WAS JUST A BIRD

The whole show. The whole show. We have this long running character beat of Duck beloved she, as she truly is, is unloveable and once people see her to her very core they will abandon her. But simultaneously!!!!! We have this subtle plot building of fakir, fully aware the girl has feathers, falling in love with her! And it’s so slow it doesn’t come to the forefront until the very end and AAAAAAAAA the amount of times Duck laments how no one would care about her as a bird meanwhile fakir looks at her with the most adoring eyes shut up!! Shut up literally shut up!!!! People will love you for the things you hate about yourself and you’ll have no goddamn idea because you’re so wrapped up in how YOU see yourself!!!!! HE LOVED THAT LITTLE BIRD MORE THAN SHE HATED HERSELF

[yardsards]

do people who have listened to taz balance but not graduation Know that it was HEAVILY IMPLIED that lup and barry eventually adopted a lil sorcerer child who got disowned by his family for his natural necromancy magic, and they taught him how to use his powers for good and were overall great parents that he looks back on fondly

(and said child grew up to be a dimension-hopping lich, caretaker of the dead, and very sweet adoptive father of a major npc)

[valtsv]

admittedly very drunk housemate told me he's grateful to have met me ;_;

[vagun1ka]

My piece for BOAR ZINE🥹

Ganyu and Paimon are about to make something delicious!

[kingofthewilderwest]

You know, I tend not to think of myself as a widely likable person. Not in some self-hating way - I think I'm fantastic and I enjoy my own company ;) - but from socialization expectations. Many people I meet seem to not match flavors with me, choosing to cooperate but maintain superficiality, and go to others to develop better social matches. I don't tend to have many friends, few who've known me a long time actively reach out, and when I do lose friends, get distanced, or have a suboptimal interaction, it's variations on a theme with the same few traits (I am actively working on improving those). When social events happen, I see others able to draw many more people and I'm amazed at their retention of social connections. I'm lucky to draw any. I deeply care about my friends and I know there are friends who deeply care about me, but I've, for a very long long time, perceived that even as I am doing favorable behavior, my personality is one flavor many won't prefer. That's fine. That's just the way it is. But it still would be nice to be more adept at accessing a wider array of friends and close-ish-knit communities irl on a daily basis, and not feel like I'm sifting through so many people just to find one that might sorta jive with my pungency. Just reflecting today. It's interesting.

[mmmairon]

every year Diluc get’s volunteered for the role of the Nutcracker, but is it really against his will when he’s so good at it? 🤭

[uncanny-tranny]

One of the reasons I think it's so important to foster intellectual curiosity and, ultimately, learning and a love for learning is how it subtly changes the very way you interact with and understand the world around you.

It's funny, because I spent time just to hunt and find a skull in Skyrim just so I could rotate it in my inventory and admire how detailed it was for five minutes, pleased about how I could point out and name individual bones (they even included the individual cranial sutures! Including my favourite suture (lambdoid suture)). I'm now trying to hunt for a skeleton so I can spend even more time admiring it. There's something funny and empowering about how the way I interact with things has changed with my learning.

If there is nothing else you do, learn. It doesn't matter what you learn, just seek out information. I know for some, a love of learning was almost punished in environments like school, so start out with things you are inspired by, things that deeply pique your interest. Learning isn't a punishment, it doesn't have to be scary. Whatever you want to learn about is worth the time and effort it takes to understand it.

[griffincastle]

i read soul grown deep back when it was being updated and loved it. but now that i’m older my appreciation for it has grown tenfold. it was so good and had such an impact on me. dare i say it, i will be in the old folks home talking about that fanfiction. enjoying ur new fics too as your writing just takes me back to a good time in my life. thank u griff.

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[peacesmith]

no cause i really thought when people say that a piece of media could change your life, i thought they were joking

and then i watched mob psycho and it literally had such a positive impact on my life like what the hell

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I feel like the post I just reblogged pointing out the all-or-nothing in how many people interact with their deconstruction of systems of oppression is resonating for me right now with so many different moments in my life where someone decides that because some part of myself has access to some of the levers of control/influence/etc that come with the relationship to power, and decides what that must mean about all the other parts of me that might be explicitly refused access to those same levers.

It has happened in so many spaces/aspects of my life, and it can be so hard to feel safe and seen and trusting of others when that's my chronic relationship to being perceived - half truths and obfuscation.

It doesn't really change regardless of who's doing the assuming either. Like, where they land in relation to systems of power may influence which direction they lean in their assumptions about me, but even that is often inconsistent. Both sides of the equation (those who share my marginalizations and those who exist in spaces of closer proximity to power) will still do it nonetheless.

When I was doing my liminal social identities work in undergrad, this was actually a big part of the conceptualization we explored of traumtic alienation of self as individual from self as collective, and what it can do to people to exist in this liminal relationship with your environment and the people in it. As I'm starting to gather my thoughts about my stress modeling, this conceptualization is bubbling back to the surface. I'm finding myself meandering through it on both a path specifically my own, and in an effort to better understand what other paths may be available to people during their version of the process/experience.

Selfhood is so fragile, and so in need of balance between self-construction and co-construction for us humans, and that gives us so many beautiful, even spiritual, experiences of meaning making and generativity of self. It also createa many pivot points where we may find room in our path for vulnerability or blurring of self. As much as these pivot points can be distressing, I think they also sometimes become our foundations of change/personal evolution, when we find that through the distress of existing in shift, something meaningful is occurring or observable in our experience of self-in-transition.

I think something I've valued especially about my own relationship with self is its transience. It doesn't always end up somewhere I would be happy to sustain, but it always allows me a degree of comfort in complexity that I think has made my body-mind a safer place for me overall.

[aq2003]

there comes a beautiful time in life where i have to ask myselg th question, "did i accidentally project too hard onto the character that i only relate to a little bit and in doing so hugely missed this one entire aspect/interpretation of the characters . am i stupid"

[mkniesy]

my life didn't end when i was twenty.

[smile-files]

HI SO UH I WANTED TO SAY (something that I mightve said b4, my ipad glitched out and I dunno what happens to the og ask :/) THAT YOU LIKED ONE OF MY POSTS AWHILE AGO AND UR ONE OF IDOLS AND IT LOWKEY PUSHED ME TO FINALLY START SO THANK YOU?? UR EPIC /POS

ohhhh oh my goodness, i feel so honored, haha!! i'm so happy to have brought you joy and gave you a little helpful nudge on your artistic journey :) the fact that i'm anyone's idol is such a lovely thing to hear!!! thank you so much for the kind words, and i hope you keep making amazing art!!!! <3

[moodyvoid]

Things that keep me going:

Every time my nephew sees a cartoon character with long hair and eyelashes he says “Look! That’s you!”

[unloneliest]

the problem of the matter is i did internalize so much of what ex friend believed about me. even though i knew he was wrong and knew what was happening and tried to stop it and if i took more action to stop it would have been abusing power i held in a way i couldn't live with myself for.