#the humans

[dailyquotes6563]

Your character is not a fixed thing. You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it.

Matt Haig, The Humans

[mediademon]

"Maybe loving someone long term is more about deciding whether to go through life unhappy alone or unhappy with someone else?"

THE HUMANS (2021) dir. Stephen Karam

[dangerousstarlightcreator]

I was something. And now I am something else. I was a monster and now I am a different type of monster. One that will die, and feel pain, but one that will also live, and maybe even find happiness one day. Because happiness is possible for me now. It exists on the other side of the hurt.

The Humans - on the nature of reality by Matt Haig

[meeks-just-wants-to-scroll]

My interpretation of how the aliens + Andrew Martin looks like from The Humans by Matt Haig.

I don’t rlly know where I got the idea from, but the aliens were always these long faced, purple tentacled things. The narrator alien (I nicknamed him “Andrew” due to a lack of other names) is kind of an introvert in their society; more inclined to follow commands than oppose authority. They got in trouble with the authority after expressing mathematical opinions that differed from the opinions of the majority. Expressing such individualism got them in enough trouble to be sent on a mission involving being amongst the vile alien species called “humans.” Little do they know, sending “Andrew” was the worst choice because they were more inclined than others to be changed by their surroundings.

[wellwellelle]

maybe the theme of the humans is uhh. sometimes your family is the problem and the solution.

[theresnosafeharbor4myships]

...humans are still at the point in their development where they see a strong difference between the mental and the physical within the same body. They have mental hospitals and body hospitals, as if one doesn't directly affect the other.

The Humans, by Matt Haig

[minch-makes-stills]

The humans (2021) dir. Stephen Karam

[daring-to-disturb-the-universe]

"You don’t have to be an academic. You don’t have to be anything. Don’t force it. Feel your way, and don’t stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it’s one with something to look at out of the window"

-Matt Haig, The Humans

[butbabeitsnotreal]

steven yeun is a dilf

[dailyquotes6563]

You are lucky to be alive. Inhale and take in life's wonders. Never take so much as a single petal of a flower for granted.

Matt Haig, The Humans

[edsonlnoe]

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[meeks-just-wants-to-scroll]

This might be really niche but I imagine Professor Andrew Martin from The Humans by Matt Haig looks like Abraham Beglin (of course, I imagine Andrew is younger. Still, whenever I reread The Humans, all I can imagine is this mile long stare Beglin does.)

[dangerousstarlightcreator]

“I love you,” she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive. The point was also to forget meaning. To stop looking and start living. The meaning was to hold the hand of someone you cared about and to live inside the present. Past and future were myths. The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it the future would have turned into the present. The present was all there was.

The Humans - The art of letting go by Matt Haig

[gisellelx]

Twilight Advent 22, Day 13

Masterpost/prompts

Dec. 13- What college major did each one of Bella's human friends choose?

Okay so. So time for some realism. One of the things I hate most about the movies, and then how fandom has taken and run with what was in the movies, is the idea that somehow Forks is like a suburb of Seattle--the school is super multi-cultural and chic; everybody has college dreams, prom is at a gorgeous golf course, everybody has a car, etc.

Forks is nothing like that. I had the privilege, if you can call it that, of traveling there before Twilight took off (who woulda thunk, given how enduring the series wound up being in my life!). There's really fantastic, worth-driving-six-hours-from-Oregon hiking and mountaineering to be done there. But as a tourist, you use Forks as a basecamp and you don't stay long.

Without Twilight, there is nothing in Forks, y'all. There is a diner, and a TruValue, and a bank, and like, a laundromat? The hotel we stayed in was an apartment complex that couldn't make it because there were too few people living there and they finally turned it into a motel because that at least kept people from squatting in the vacant units. It is an economically depressed town and the kids who grow up there don't have many prospects unless they work hard at making them.

So. There basically are no college majors. Few of the kids from Forks go to college. Of those who do, even fewer stay there. Most of them can't hack it. This is actually one thing the books ironically got right (though it was no doubt due to SM not knowing the standard US high school curriculum; she did not do this on purpose). They were teaching Bio I to 11th graders and Romeo and Juliet to seniors, where both would be part of the 9th grade curriculum at a high school with a high rate of college matriculation. So that means there were two levels of science below introductory bio, and three levels of English below what is typically taught as English 9, and so the first two years at that high school are basically a middle school curriculum. Ergo, you have a whole lot of kids who are not going to college.

I think Tyler, Lauren, Mike, Eric and Jessica did not go. Jessica probably attempted to go to Peninsula Community College in pre-nursing but the science was too hard and there was no English there. Eric also went briefly--as the class valedictorian, he got into U-dub and went down to Seattle for most of a year. But it was too far and too hard and after having felt like the king of the hill at his high school, he got depressed and zoned out on the hot new game, Call of Duty, eventually developing a pattern of absences, failing or withdrawing from most of his classes, and having his registration privileges revoked. So he moved back home. They stay in Forks or Port Angeles and have perfectly respectable, pay-the-bills jobs as adults—Mike probably joins the police force, Eric and Tyler take up the trades, Lauren eventually works her way up in one of the in-home daycares in town; Jessica trains as a CNA and works at Forks Community Hospital.

Angela and Ben go on. Angela gets in to Evergreen State (Go Geoducks!) and goes there because it's not too far and Ben goes to Peninsula and completes the Bachelor's in Business Management there. Angela gets a degree in early childhood ed, and moves to Seattle to take a job at a montessori school. She eventually gets her master's and becomes an elementary principal many years later. She and Ben don't stay together, but they remain good friends and he eventually also gets hired as an account manager at Microsoft and every now and then, they get a drink together.

[theresnosafeharbor4myships]

The point of love was to help you survive.

The Humans, by Matt Haig

[sonofshermy]