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I love knowing we have tomorrow.

~Alice Oseman, Heartstopper Vol. 6

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The symbols represent the primary virtues:

Sailor Uranus Space Sword - Valour

Sailor Neptune Deep Aqua Mirror - Wisdom

Sailor Pluto Deep Aqua Mirror - Benevolence

Random Sailor Moon Trivia:

Naoko Takeuchi based the three talismans of Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Pluto (the Space Sword, Deep Aqua Mirror, and Garnet Orb, respectively) on the three symbols associated with Amaterasu and the royalty of Japan: the sword, mirror, and jewel.

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“Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.” - Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three.

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"Every time someone steps up and says who they are, the world becomes a better, more interesting place."

~Capt. Ray Holt, Brooklyn 99 (S5E10)

"Every time someone steps up and says who they are the world becomes a better, more interesting place." 🫶🏳️‍🌈

My tribute to Andre Braugher, thank you for Captain Raymond Holt ❤️✨

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"My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" ~Smaug

~JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There & Back Again

Niffler vs Smaug. Who would win? 😋

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https://infographicjournal.com/play-ball-memorable-moments-in-baseball-history/

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"Sometimes, Dolores, sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."

~Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

I think about this scene way more than I wish I did.

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We are all of us trainers of wild beasts, it is said, and the beasts in question are our own inner selves.

~Atsushi Nakajima, The Moon Over the Mountain

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As you say on a brisk fall day In a warm and sunny place, Don't look up into the skies; Instead, look down And squint your eyes. Squint them both so very tight That if you look With all your might You'll find the land of Morethansmall. And in this land are buggs, that's all.

~Stephen Cosgrove, intro to Bugg Books

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Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding onto something. What are we holding onto Sam? That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.

~JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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“Love can't cure a mental illness. There are lots of ways to help him, you can just be there. To listen. To talk. To cheer him up if he's having a bad day. And on the bad days, you can ask what to could do to make things easier. Stand by his side, even when things are hard. But also knowing that sometimes people need more support than just one person can give. That's love darling” ~Alice Oseman, Heartstopper Vol. 4

I find the parallels between the two oldest Spring siblings to be absolutely fascinating and how Alice was able to show through the both of them how relationships can't "cure" mental illness.

In Solitaire Tori mentions that there are movies she watches in which the main characters problems are seemingly all solved once they get into a relationship. We see that as Tori gets closer to Michael throughout the story her depression doesn't get better (you could argue that it actually gets worse) up until the end of the story where she is on the roof of the school. Because in the end Michael's affections don't solve her problems, only she can do that by reaching out for help from other people such as Michael and Charlie. She doesn't suddenly find the will to keep living because of her love for Michael its only when she decides that she wants to keep going for herself that things change for her.

On the other hand we have Charlie who insists that he is fine and doesn't need anyone to worry about him. In the end, just like Tori, Charlie only begins to get better after he reaches out for help and confides in people how he truly feels. Like with Tori, his ED and OCD doesn't "go away" because he gets in a relationship (like Tori it only seems to get worse after he is in a relationship).

Both siblings needed to reach out for others for help, their partners don't suddenly arrive and all their issues go away. Their partners are there to help them in whatever way they can, but in the end its up to Charlie and Tori to take their own futures in their hands and ask others for help. Falling in love doesn't magically make your mental illness disappear, and I am glad that Alice addresses this in their books.

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"We understand nothing, it seems. Things are pressed upon us, and we must patiently accept them, without understanding; we must go on lining, without knowing why. It is our fate as creatures."

~Atsushi Nakajima, The Moon over the Mountain

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged - Charlie supposes - that given sufficient alcohol & hours after midnight, any group of queer friends will become handsier than is strictly necessary."

~birdie_kwiat, smooth water all our days (ao3)

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"...the TCBS had been granted some spark of fire—certainly as a body if not singly—that was destined to kindle a new light, or, what is the same thing, rekindle an old light in the world ..."

~JRR Tolkien, letter to GB Smith

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The purpose of life is to get really into stories that drive you so crazy you sometimes feel the need to throw up from how much you love them