#return to the source

[malcified]

[alunah-lalunah]

Imagine you are a wave in the ocean. As a wave, you might think of yourself as separate from the ocean, with your own shape, size, and movement. But in reality, you are just a temporary manifestation of the ocean itself. When the wave crashes and disappears, it doesn’t cease to exist—it simply returns to the ocean.

Similarly, when we die, our individual existence ends, but our essence returns to the universal "ocean" of existence.

[doitbuckley]

you would think 911 is one of the easiest shows on earth to comprehend and then you see what people are saying about the characters on the internet and you’re like damn this network procedural is beating people’s asses

[mint-fixates]

There's this weird take I've seen floating around on TikTok that Bill doesn't actually care about his family/dimension or Stanford at all; that we're supposed to take everything in TBOB as non-canon basically because he's lying to garner sympathy from reader to make a deal with them. I'm all for having your own interpretations of media, but I just don't think this idea that Bill is a completely heartless unfeeling creature is supported by canon at all. In fact, it kind of feels like the opposite of the point of the book.

Like, yeah, most things Bill says should be taken with a grain of salt because he lies a lot, but he's not actually a very good liar? It's usually pretty easy to clock when he's full of it. But okay, even if we assume every word Bill says while trying to recruit the reader is a lie, there are three major things that this doesn't account for.

Bill is not the only source in the book. The lost Journal 3 pages were written by Stanford, we only know about the interdimensional Taco Bell incident because of an included police transcript, etc.

Even once he's lost any chance of making a deal with the reader to escape, Bill is having a complete breakdown and mentions all the people he so totally doesn't miss for real you guys. Why bother with reverse psychology double-lying for sympathy once his shot at getting the reader on his side is already gone?

Trying to garner the reader's sympathy makes sense to a certain extent, but why go out of his way to make himself look pathetic? Does revealing that he got drunk and cried over his ex in a fast-food drive-through really help his cause if that cause is to convince the reader he's still a powerful being capable of starting the apocalypse again so they can rule with him?

And that's all without even mentioning that, as previously stated, I think the entire point of the book is missed if we're interpreting Bill as having no genuine feelings or attachments. The book ends with Stanford healing from his past by being open about what he went through with his family and accepting their help, while Bill insists he doesn't need anyone and refuses to heal, actively making himself worse in the process. The clear theme imo is that accepting your past and accepting help from people who love you is essential to healing, while denying those things just makes everything worse. If Bill doesn't actually care about his family, his dimension, Stanford, or anything/anyone else, he has no trauma to heal from or regrets to learn from that he's refusing to accept and deal with, and the entire meaning of the book is made moot.

[vagabond-umlaut]

gojo: we should get married you: but we've been dating for less than a month gojo: and i think i have shown incredible restraint waiting this long

[chdarling]

ok pray for me, I’ve decided I’m finally emotionally ready* to reread TLE2 for the first time in full since I finished writing it. Depending on how fun/painful of an experience this ends up being, I may or may not spam this space with commentary. You’ve been warned. 🫣

*debatable, but I’m doing it anyway.

[alchemistmelody]

[noodles-and-tea]

Purrlock Holmes……

[patroclusbro]

Rogue (Doctor Who, 2024) + Text Posts (1/?)

The Balcony Scene

Bonus:

[malcified]

#WashMyBrainPlease! Today’s #cartoon is focused on those of us who’re on the fast lane!

Having worked with an organization such as #DeloitteME and crossing the rubicon, I’d always notice several interesting coping mechanisms (obsessive-compulsive disorders #OCDs) of leaders and folks working in #consulting and other high-impact institutions in dealing with their body’s natural #stressresponses. Some may call it a #ritual, some may call it a #process. Apparently, it works splendidly!

Working at the cutting-edge of development and civilization sure has a lot of perks. However, there’s not much time to be #mindful of what and how we’re dealing with daily emotional turbulence. I’ve even noticed some folks picking up on these sometimes harmful OCDs and indulging in them, believing it to be the ideal way to stay blessed by their #Godfathers by aping them in every way. Even scientifically, mirroring #bodylanguage works wonders for your career! If you haven’t learned how to you yet, you should seriously consider it.

#ContaminationOCDs sure are powerful, imagine if we were able to develop a #CorruptionOCD. The entire #system and the #environment would be clean. Maybe, some of us are already suffering from it. Germs are everywhere, including within, and we just need to live with it.

Interestingly, performing a Root Cause Analysis #RCA on our emotional state does help to understand what’s really going on, how seriously damaging some things can be based on what we’re maybe incorrectly prioritizing, and what needs to be done asap. Or we could just wait till we get high up on that ladder or even until, we reach the point where our inner voice becomes an outer manifestation. : )

Enjoy!

A resource link from #InternationalOCDFoundation below:

https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/25-tips-for-ocd-treatment/

A link to develop a better understanding on #ContaminationOCD

https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/contamination-ocd-fear-of-germs

[incorrecthanleia]

han: you’re the only dude i know who enjoys milk as a refreshment

luke: man, so what?

han: you’re an interesting critter bro

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Eddie being shown hugging Ravi rather than buck in this scene has me up in my feels actually.

Especially in combination with the conversation about Eddie being in the army and having been to a lot of funerals like this.

Because Ravi is a physical embodiment of bucks abandonment issues and Buck is watching on when the hug happens but not when the army stuff is talked about and that’s significant. It’s Eddie embracing bucks fear of abandonment when he’s feeling abandoned by his pseudo father and trying to live up to his last words - that the others are going to need him. So Eddie embracing Ravi is Eddie embracing Buck - having bucks back as he always has done and which we get a further representation of when they are carrying the coffin.

[totallycorrectsailormoonquotes]

I don’t hold out much hope for Usagi. She has many excellent qualities, but thinking is not one of them.

Rei

[spockvarietyhour]

Where's his headbonk? "The Return Pt. 1"

[noven-warsh]

it's been obvious from the start of this new arc, but i see that it's all gonna be about a few of the important moments of denji's life and beliefs being recontextualized as how harmful it is when compared with someone else

his "ignorance is bliss" motto that has comforted (shielded) him from his grief turns to him telling asa that she should ignore the worst until the worst comes to greet her, and then puts her into the shoes of her abuser as he tells her to just continue shooting buildings like yoru was doing a second ago

his consistent favoritism over women's lives over men's lives returns here to show how he's willing to confront yoru just because she hurt something personal to him, and not when she's an active threat to other people (asa telling him that she's planning horrible shit for humanity, yoru killing multiple other people to which denji tried to placate her at first to then not caring at all and even enjoying it)

just a small thought i've been having for now

[bsptourist]

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