#truly excellent shit

[friend-crow]

For small, frequent doses of serotonin, consider falling in love with specific flora and/or fauna local to you.

Source: I get a brief jolt of happiness every time I see a crow. Every. Time.

[the-most-beautiful-lie]

it’s like. it’s about lineage it’s about blood it’s about bigotry it’s about fear and hatred of the other it’s about friendship it’s about choice it’s about love it’s about being half one thing and half another and being ostracized by both your communities it’s about bisexuality it’s about being multiethnic it’s about being unable to find a community and so you build your own. feeling insane

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: the going is slow but the going is going

[lyfthemuffinmoth]

the way my brain jumped to this immediately after the last episode

[pulledpurplecurtains]

i watched guardians of the galaxy vol 3 and the trauma and tears i’ve accumulated in less than three hours are astounding even for me

[thebrightgreenscream]

being a hunter jeremiah hartley fan is being afraid of him and also afraid for him

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[talentforlying]

ROMANTIC GESTURES

bold for always applies, italics for potential / it depends.

holding hands (in public) · buying flowers · cooking · cuddles · writing a poem / song · holding door open · tying shoe laces · sharing a milkshake with two straws · offering their jacket when it's cold · kissing in the rain · publicly confessing love · long walks at the beach · doing the titanic pose on a boat · taking cute pictures in a photobooth · sharing a taxi / uber · kissing the back of their hand · slow dancing · getting tickets of their favourite artist / sports team / other · introducing them to their parents · lighting candles · flower petals on bed · love letters · star gazing · brushing / doing their hair · picnics · teaching them to play an instrument / sport while gently guiding their hands · compliments · late night drives · taking selfies together · drawing them · self-made gifts · massages · proposing with a family heirloom ring · lending them their favourite book to read · paying for dinner / coffee · mixtapes / playlists · surprise birthday parties · feeding them · handing them keys to their apartment · making space in drawer for their clothes when they stay over · sharing a blanket · couple costumes (VERY rare) · tucking a hair strand behind their ear · running after them at the airport / keeping them from leaving · moving cities to be together · blowing a kiss · breakfast in bed · defending them in a fight (verbally / physically) · joint bubble baths · dropping the L-bomb ("i love you") · dedicating a song at the karaoke bar to them · wearing their clothes · yawning before putting an arm around them while watching a movie · grant them the last bite (from meal)

tagged by: @shilohgreen tagging: you!

[lovevalley45]

i could complain abt taz not using classes to their full potential for hours but it’s still wild to me that they haven’t taken advantage of the fact that monks get wild speed

[theghostofashton]

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[vegaseatsass]

Never Let Me Go episode 12 spoilers

V happy with the Never Let Me Go finale. Love that they at least tried to give Palm a vehicle to learn to accept reciprocal love and how to be taken care of, and he was like nooooooope! Then started pushing his cowherd/weaver fantasies on Nueng again as soon as they got back together lmfao. Nueng like "actually my dream is to see you more than once a year??? Pls"

Kit and Chopper's writing got to me so much. I would watch a 12-episode prologue series about how tf Kit ended up being who he is.

One thing I really loved that this episode did was deal with the fallout of the impossible expectations everyone put on Chopper the past few weeks, and the impossible expectations everyone put on Palm before that. They both internalized such an extremely disproportionate sense of responsibility for things so extremely out of their control, and other characters were forced to face and react to that this episode.

To me there were heavy parallels between the scene where Ben tries to tell Chopper he wants to be boyfriends, and the scene where Tanya tries to tell Palm how much she appreciates his role in her son's life.

Chopper starts apologizing for his feelings to Ben again in the middle of Ben's love confession; that's how out of the realm of possibility it is for him to think that Ben, who distanced himself the first time Chopper confessed, who scolded Chopper and treated him as a coward for not singlehandedly stopping his murderous mobster dad, could actually be proud of him and grateful for him and attracted to him and want him by his side. I loved it so much. The first moment where we - and surely Ben - expect Chopper's face to break into the giddy realization that he is loved, he totally throws us, and I wasn't sure what was going on at first. But what was going on is the impact of the messaging Chopper's been getting from literally everyone!

And with what we see of Tanya and how much she supports Nueng's sexuality and Nuengpalm as a relationship, I would like to believe she fired Palm very deliberately, because she realized Nueng and Palm's relationship was not tenable with the boss/employee dynamic between them. I would like to believe she was trying to set him free, not make him feel like he was no longer good enough to stay in Nueng's life without a working leg. But she did not take into account how deeply Palm had internalized the bodyguard role as his entire purpose in Nueng's life. She did not take into account how deeply he'd internalized what she herself had unknowingly taught him! Just like Ben telling Chopper that their friend drift was about his own struggle with sexuality and not Chopper's feelings wasn't enough to dispel Chopper's deep emotional certainty that his feelings for Ben were a burden, Tanya explicitly appreciating Palm as boyfriend material now is not enough to dispel what he internalized from her earlier messaging, that he was brought into Nueng's life to protect him, and without being able to do that, he didn't belong in their house or their lives.

Idk, I just really love that Palm and Chopper were affected by impossible expectations we watched other characters place on them, and affected in a way that at least two of those well-intentioned characters (Ben and Tanya) had to look at straight in the face. Good shit good shit

[cj-kenobi]

I miss my wife (the ocean)

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Sometimes I say things that I think are funny, and then in hindsight I realize that no actually, my brain was just crunchy. It was dumb as fuck and I should have my internet privileges revoked. 

[foxtriestobiteandmaimandkilland]

Disappointment to my parents disappointment to my school disappointment to the government disappointment to the universe. But good thing i also cannot do art. But luckily when it comes to video games, i am a pretty shit gamer tbh as well. But asides from all that, atleast my personality is mild at best.

[ruthless-to-a-fault]

Suzanne Collins has me deranged.

We know from the Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes that many of the features of the modern Hunger Games are Snow's invention, including those that motivate the districts, like prizes. It's fair to assume he likely came up with the idea for tesserae, it's an easy way to keep the districts well fed while encouraging/forcing participation and general involvement in the games. It's a great reminder, even the food you eat is linked to the games themselves. Tesserae is a type of tile work commonly associated with Romans which Collins draws a lot of inspiration from in her depiction of the Capital. It has also in the past been used as a token. In this case, you take the token of food in exchange for extra names in the bowl. Now that's fucking excellent on it's own, real neat bit of linguistic worldbuilding.

BUT what really gets me, what truly fucks me up is that Snow didn't name it that because he's like a language nerd. Tigris had to use tile buttons, tesserae buttons on his shirt during songbirds because they couldn't afford anything else. Snow inherently associates that material with poverty, specifically with the lack of food he had during that time. As a result tesserae represents poverty starvation and desperation to everyone in the districts. Snow is so god dam self obsessed he imbedded ,intentionally or not , personal fucking references to himself within the districts.

AND THAT is why Collins is so crazy to me that detail is tiny, you truly would not notice and in the grand scheme it's not that important but that's woman is on her shit and she's fucking thinking her thoughts and its genius. HER MIND UGH. truly has me messed.

[tigergendermoved]

American politics are a joke I despise the principle of "vote blue no matter who" but like what options do you even have. You could vote Republicans, whose views are "kill everyone I don't like and let the country burn into a trash pit for 99% of the population," the Democrats, whose views are "Let's call the GOP meanies on Twitter and then do literally nothing (or help them achieve their goals and lie about it) for the next 4 years," or independents, who will literally never win jack fuck because if you don't appeal to one of the two big parties then nobody cares except for a few fringe leftists (and libertarians, I guess). American politics in the public sphere is less "let's vote for a candidate we actually like and think will make the country a better place" and more "let's vote for the Red or the Blue guy who has the more Loud Words that I can slap on the back of my truck"