#because it truly could be so much worse

[sanjarka]

maybe my parents did a few things wrong, maybe i'll always be angry about said things and maybe i'll never move on but at least i'm allowed to show that anger to them. i get to be honest and tell how much it hurts sometimes.

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

thinking about "it's unreasonable to assume that a character knows what genre they're in" and how in series 1-3, Merlin (and the audience) thinks that he's in a fantasy adventure comedy. no one realises that he's in a tragedy until it's too late.

[batcavescolony]

Me: I hate all superhero movies/shows that boil down to 'it's Superman but an Asshole' they al-

Megamind 2010: all?

Me: oh no not you, you're perfect.

[longagoitwastuesday]

I have learnt things about Geto that I wish I could unlearn

[notetaeker]

[outeremissary]

The framing of "what if our guys met and interacted" as "OC playdates" is very cute and sweet and makes me smile, but it also just instills such a sense of "sorry my kid can't come over today she's in trouble for biting again" in me when I think about Carmen. You couldn't have her around for cute, casual interactions because she uh. Changes the tone of things around her quite a bit and is often very unpleasant to be around.

[frogoru]

whenever i wear cross necklaces there's always a sense of worry in the back of my mind that someone's going to scold or judge me for wearing them while indulging in stuff that's seen as sinful. there was one event that's kind of significant in my mind where supporting homosexuality was mentioned as an automatic ticket to hell kinda thing (along with other stuff but that's the main topic i latched onto) and it wasn't even that bad of a lecture but i felt so called out and i was wearing a cross at the time so while i walked out it felt really wrong to me and that feeling kinda lingers whenever i put one on now but in a more subtle way

[oathtorn]

// sometimes I think about how many times in bg3 you get conflicts that don't have an objectively "best" outcome. I think about freeing the 7000 vampires, for example. Freeing them is the ethical thing to do, because they are all innocent victims, but it remains true that leaving thousands of vampires loose, even in the underdark, is a bad bad idea. Not only are they traumatized people, but they're predators who have only their instincts to help them survive in an unfamiliar land that isn't exactly bountiful in terms of wildlife. If they don't do well, they'll die or be slaughtered, and if they do they'll ruin entire communities or ecosystems, depending on whether they feed on people or animals.

[kavehater]

Chappel Roan saying she’s sad she’s demisexual and then there’s me being aroace as a whole like don’t you think I’m even more sad 😭

[jacksprostate]

sorry this is once again my monthly 'i'm in love with people and our capacity for compassion even in the face of deep deep cruelty, even though i've seen worse and worse things, come to terms with so much, it's my love of humanity that has let me avoid rotting, encouraged me to grow and chase my own place in helping everyone around me" post

[rhymaes]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook // Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

(continuation of x)

[theforestknowsmydreams]

Tumblr is amazing in many ways. We've all felt how communities work on here, and how people connect with each other.

Many make lifelong friends, find partner(s), or simply strangers that support them and their work.

But for that exact reason, feeling lonely and isolated even on here hits different.

I often feel sad because I missed out on Tumblr when it was most popular, but let's be real. It would have fucked up teenage me in entirely new ways as well.

[cryolyst]

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[always-andromeda]

🥲

[get-more-bald]

when you're an inherently bad person🤪

[thedreadvampy]

when Theresa May won the election in 2017 I was on the dole and I full on broke down in the jobcentre. I had one of the longest meltdowns I've ever had, I was sat on a bench on the shore sobbing for about 5 hours.

it literally broke me on some level. like after how bad things had been how angry people were how hated her government was. they still got enough votes to stay in. I think it's hard like the other side of COVID to remember just how turbofucked things already were here before 2020. how long so many people have been fucking dying in poverty and hunger because of the Tory government. it already felt apocalyptic 5 years ago.

and even then I truly believe the big problem was the Labour Party's refusal to accept its place as a leftwing opposition. Corbyn was a solid candidate but the party wasn't a solid option because the leadership were under constant attack from inside their own party.

but idk it did for me. I can't cope with UK elections. I cannot deal with being confronted with the fact that no amount of suffering among the people I know and care about means fucking anything to a big enough segment of the population that the Tories win again and again. at this point I just don't believe an election will change anything until something big has changed elsewhere.

(by which I mean riots and non-electoral accountability. bc selfevidently electoral accountability at the moment means less than nothing.)