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Dressing Gown

c. 1900

unknown maker

Chicago Historical Society

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Adult realization: you will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind and just to people, grow and learn.

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Mystical Rose Scapular

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cure of ra

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My "100% Australian wool" is "made in China". They shipped this stuff halfway around the world, spun it, dyed it, then shipped it back. Every time I see shit like this I'm reminded of how absurd it is that worldwide wage inequality makes this the most cost effective solution.

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If we stay very still and very quiet Ivan won't find us!

hehehehe!

Crap he heard you!

Sneaky Darklina by @ladylrbloom

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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

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hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

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Rumi x Jinu fanart by @ hele_bun

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affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

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I know I look like I'm scheming I can't help it! I'm holding hands with my sun summoner!

Gifs by @ladylrbloom

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OMG YES

Sorry to be off-topic to the main thread about the darkling (whom I love) but honestly I see people - or at least western youtubers who reacted to K-Pop Demon Hunters say the same thing about Jinu. Granted that Jinu wasn't involved in a war and his ambiguously selfish wish is what turned him into a demon - but I find it alarming that so many people expect someone who has lived longer to already have processed their trauma when the point of characters like the Darkling and Jinu is to show how trauma when not intervened lingers and affect the actions of these characters.

I've „love” reading comments from antis saying things like “The Darkling is 500 years old, he should have processed his trauma and gotten over it by now” and honestly, it’s disturbing how common this line of thinking is. Especially when it comes with the second part: “Our (enter all Grishaverse characters) have a right to be traumatized, they were just kids dragged into war.”

Yes, they were young. Yes, they suffered. No one is taking that away. But what shocks me is how quickly these same people dismiss the concept that long-term trauma doesn't fade with age. If anything, untreated trauma accumulates. It changes a person in ways that are invisible until something breaks. There is no magical threshold of years after which you're “supposed” to be healed. It doesn’t work like that. Being exposed to war, death, betrayal and existential fear for centuries without a moment of true rest or help does not heal someone. It destroys them gradually. It reshapes how they think, how they love, how they connect. Some of the most devastating cases of PTSD I’ve ever read about were people who didn’t even begin to feel the full weight of their experiences until decades later. Some were veterans of the Second World War who never spoke about what they saw until they were in their seventies or eighties, when their defenses started slipping. Some carried guilt and grief for over half a century and it still haunted them in their sleep. And those were people who had families, support, and the knowledge that the war eventually ended. Now compare that to a person who never gets peace. Never had the war end. Never had help. Someone who is constantly under threat. Who sees each generation repeat the same mistakes and bury the people they once fought beside. Who walks through the ashes of every hope and must start again, knowing how it will end. That’s not an excuse for every decision he made. But it is a necessary perspective if we’re talking about trauma. What antis are doing is trivializing the condition they claim to care about. Because if trauma only matters when it’s happening to a 20-year-old, and not to a person who’s been in survival mode for centuries, then you’ve reduced the concept of PTSD and depression to a short-term teen plot device. Some of these people don’t even realize how dehumanizing their arguments are. I’ve seen people say that age should equal healing—as if time itself is a cure. It isn’t. People live and die with trauma. They carry it into every relationship and every silence. Healing is possible, yes, but not in conditions that keep re-traumatizing you over and over again. Not in a world that refuses to change. And certainly not alone. I don’t know how anyone can genuinely think that after 500 years of war, grief, and loss, someone should have healed unless they fundamentally don’t understand what trauma is. Or unless they’ve only ever seen trauma in fiction—specifically in stories tailored to let them insert themselves into young protagonists while disregarding any character who doesn’t fit the healing narrative they prefer. This kind of thinking doesn’t come from people who understand war. It comes from people who need their heroes clean and simple, and their villains easily disposable. And that’s not analysis. That’s comfort.

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Rujinu sequel idea

Maybe I'm just influenced by a lot of Wanxia and Xianxia stories (mainly by the works of MXTX) so to those who are Korean or who know about Korean culture please let me know if this might be culturally insensitive (especially given the geopolitical dynamics of mainland China and South Korea).

So my sequel idea on how to bring Jinu back without diminishing the sacrifice he made while also giving him a way to take accountability and to make peace with his past is to make him a sentient weapon for Rumi. As Rumi becomes stronger and more powerful the more time Jinu (whose soul is in her sword) is allowed to take on a human form outside of her sword (like a stretch your legs kind of deal). But by either the midpoint or early on but close to the midpoint of the second movie (or tv season depending on which way they want to go) they realize that for Jinu's soul to come back he must make amends with his past (which includes accountability and forgiveness). This would lead us to explore his past outside of Gwi-ma's influence on Jinu. And then once he begins healing and forgiving himself he slowly becomes powerful enough to return to his human form. But in order to seal the deal it requires power from both of them because he binded himself to her as part of his sacrifice.

I don't know if any of this makes sense. I'm just rambling.

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Stop me if you've heard this one before.

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Hideout by monika_marchewka_art