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What I’d give for one of the Cinderella remakes to go into how when you’re in an isolated and abusive situation, sometimes you need to be saved and you’re not weak if you can’t escape by yourself

I’ve never been a fan of bad faith reinterpretations of fairy tales, especially ones which flatten the originals into “princesses is saved by a prince and nothing else”, to then go #girlboss. The princess can save herself because she’s a strong female character! (Implying if you’re in a bad situation, it’s because you’re not strong enough to get out)

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Sorry to bother you with this, but I just don't really know what to do and would like some advice.

I'm a teenager in high school and I've been reading more and more about politics and the world and it just leaves me feeling tired and hopeless.

I see violence against women every day and both political parties of my country encourage it. I feel scared and hopeless and I don't know what to do about it. I'm scared that I'll be attacked in one way or another.

Do you have any advice for this kind of thing?

Society is cyclical. One generation learns a lesson and teaches it to the children who take it to an extreme, then their children learn a lesson and teach it to their children who take it to an extreme. Like the width of your high-heeled shoes, or the height of your waistband or the size of your hair.

One thing we have seen over and over and over again is that things will swing to the furthest possible edge of a dichotomy, and when it it can go no further it swings back the other way.

It’s a scary time to be living, yes. The collapse of Rome was probably pretty scary too. The idea of big things changing like that is scary.

But also, we’re not nobility, we’re peasants, and those of us in North America are still very very blessed right now. As bad as things are, through all of (vague gesture upwards), we’re still going to have to work. We’re still going to go to school. We’re still going to wash the dishes and scoop cat litter. And through all that, we’re going to see our neighbours, and our teachers, and random kids on the street, and cashiers and homeless folks and middle-aged women named Nancy, every damn day of the week.

And while we can’t control our governments (apparently) or our economy or the fucking price of beef, we’re going to see each other far more than we’re going to see politicians and oil tycoons.

Civilizations collapse all the time. Governments fall apart all the time. The people don’t have to collapse with it.

So what you do is the best you can. You wash the dishes. You scoop the cat litter. You go to work and you go to school and keep doing all the boring and mundane and unglamorous things they don’t tell you about the end of the Roman Empire and you CARE ABOUT PEOPLE and be KIND to them, and then when you come across a clear and baldfaced injustice in front of you that you can DO something about you think to yourself, “I could help, but I don’t want to, because it’ll be hard and uncomfortable and awkward and I don’t know what I’m doing and I’ll hate it so much the entire time,” and then you do something anyway.

Because if you’re going to be scared no matter what, you might as well be scared making things better. You might as well be scared with a friend. You might as well be scared while you keep the world moving than scared in a hole in your yard, ‘cause without the bomb, the only real difference between a lone man in a bomb shelter and a dead body in a casket is a can of meat and an air filter.

Things could be worse. Things could GET worse. We’re not all going to be okay. That sucks. Now grab whoever’s on your left and hold on.

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et tu?

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I've been meaning to talk to my doctor to get meds for my ADHD but I keep forgetting or putting it off because of my ADHD do you see my problem

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in hysterics

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i got a teensy bit carried away

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remember when y’all were being dramatic saying langas going to die because sk8 and banana fish had the same director or smth only for him to defy literal laws of physics through the power of homosexual love

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WHY AM I JUST REALIZING THE HAND THING THEY ADDED TO THEIR GAY HANDSHAKE THINGY IS MEANT TO BE THE INFINITY SYMBOL. WHY AM I JUST REALIZING THJS

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SCREAMING

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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN TO ME

LANGA SEEING REKI'S MOM DO THE "kiss it better" WHEN THE TWINS GET HURT AND SO NOW ANY TIME REKI GETS HURT HE KISSES IT BETTER AND IT MAKES REKI GET FLUSTERED AND FREAK OUT AND MAKE MORE MISTAKES WHICH MEANS MORE GETTING HURT AND THE CYCLE NEVER ENDS THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK

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Mat even under the influence of the dagger when he's at his lowest, he still want to help his friends.

Look how he reacts to Rand saying that he's gonna rescue Egwene from being damane:

And when Rand counterpoints that Mat needs to go to Tar Valon to be healed asap and that he has no time to waste, Mat snaps that saving Egwene isn't a waste of time.

This goes to all those who criticize Mat that he only cares about himself on the first two books. Even under an evil influence, he can't just stop caring because that's who he is.

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happy pride to binder moiraine my most beloved <3 lan and moiraine exploring gender together <3 rj i am ignoring your extreme binaries xoxo

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i need people in this fandom to stop gaslighting bipoc, jewish, and muslim swifties into thinking that their disappointment in taylor associating herself with someone like matty is somehow wrong or that they have an “unhealthy parasocial relationship” with her or that it’s “not your business who she dates”. stop minimizing the feelings of people who have been hurt by his actions, and if you’re white, it’s not your place to tell them how they should or shouldn’t react. people are allowed to acknowledge disappointment in someone that they support.

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“If this hurts my shows I’m gonna riot” “they better not cancel my favorite show” “this is so selfish I NEED this show” “what about my mental health now that they—“

So you agree. Show-writers are important to you and to the industry and should be compensated accordingly for their important work.

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Shakespeare was literally the dick pussy fart joke man.