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the stole being an extension of the tape, which was a symbol of added comfort and protection… the stole becoming part of that extension of clancy’s own comfort and protection as he goes into battle against the bishops

the inclusion of his name (and when turned sideways, voldsøy—the place he became a weapon and a more confident version of himself) plays a part. he’s finally able to find security in his identity after the bishops used it to promote vialism. they can’t take it away from him again

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The night sky on Mars

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everyone say in the tags what their current custom discord status is

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Update on my one piece ship series!!

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prettiest boy

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🟪 minecraft-elvis follow

woah mama i tried to water bucket clutch in the nether

🟦 speedrunner-elvis follow

woah mama you suck

🟪 minecraft-elvis

bitch

🟦 speedrunner-elvis

wooaaahhh mama @/elvis-corrector he didn't say the line woah mama

🔫 elvis-corrector follow

say the fucking line or you go to the big toilet in the sky

🟪 minecraft-elvis

woah mama i'm being threatened *wiggles my legs in defence*

🔬elvis-scientist follow

this elvis is clearly in distress, they only wiggle their legs in such a funky way to ward off predators, the little guy thinks his life is in danger please be more responsible with your elvis husbandry

🔍 elvis-detector follow

BEEP

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bishop clancy could be a good thing, actually

okay, hear me out on this one!!!!

i've seen a lot of debate surrounding weather clancy will end up becoming a bishop after paladin strait (or that he already is one depending on how you view who is able to use the sizing ability). usually i see bishop!clancy portrayed as malevolent--working within the existing system and with nico because as a bishop, he has no other choice

naturally, this is a super downer ending to the storyline, and people (me included) would find this to be an upsetting way to conclude clancy's character

on the flip side, the easiest happy ending to envision is that he successfully kills all the bishops, they burn dema to the ground, and clancy never even comes close to becoming a bishop himself

now, i think this is a little reductive as an allegory for mental health. mental illness isn't something you can simply destroy- something you can burn to the ground and never have to deal with again. dema will always need to exist in some capacity, because it's part of who you are. you have to learn how to live with it, not destroy it

that being said, i think clancy becoming a bishop might be the most hopeful ending to the story in my mind. not as an evil bishop, but as a force of change within the existing system. he could overthrow or kill the current bishops with his newfound power and govern dema himself

as someone who used to be a citizen, he would show more kindness and compassion to the citizens than the bishops ever could. vialism would be disavowed, of course, but he could help people when they inevitably still feel its pull. he could take down the city walls, encourage citizens to go and live their lives in trench. but if they ever find themselves back in dema, clancy will be there to help them through it. just until they're ready to get back on their feet again

this also rings true because Clancy (the album) has a core theme of relapse and feeling like you've lost the progress on your mental health that you worked so hard for, but still pushing through it and continuing to live on at the end of the day. i don't think it's fair to assume that tyler would encourage an ending that falls on either extreme. depression is something you learn to live with, and you become better and better at living with it as time goes on

even if you sometimes find yourself returning to the city, maybe with support and experience it can be just a little less scary. maybe when clancy has made peace with the fact that dema needs to exist, he can take the first real step towards making it a better place

what better way to be able to bring about this reform--this true, genuine change--than becoming a bishop himself?

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“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

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true story

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A medicine cat!

Link :P

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A medicine cat!

Link :P

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I made a cat <3

If anyone else wants to make cat, here is cat <3 <3

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I have made yet another!

Link :3

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Made another cat <3

Here is cat

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I made a cat <3

If anyone else wants to make cat, here is cat <3 <3

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bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in ��an active rewriting of our lives.”