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*****Frozen 2 Spoilers Ahead *****

“The Next Right Thing” and how it speaks to Depression:

Okay but real talk, everyone is talking about Elsa’s transformation and her songs and how amazing it all is (which it is) but the one thing in the movie that cut me to the core and actually made me shed tears was Anna’s song “The Next Right Thing”.

Anna has thus far been a quintessentially hopeful character. She never gave up despite the odds and obstacles that were thrown at her. She represents a piece of Disney that we all tend to look to in our dark times - that hope within the darkness. The theme of taking heart to step towards the light.

So when she hits her lowest low in the movie - when everything’s she’s loved or ever cared about has essentially been taken away from her, we expected Disney to take the high road and pull their token “well everything’s dark right now but I’m not gonna give up” speech/song.

But that’s not what they did.

They let her feel her brokenness. They let her have a song that was full of pain and dark and grief and despair. They didn’t shy away from the fact that she was NOT okay, and that in that moment she would probably never be okay again. “This is cold / this is empty / this is numb / hello darkness I’m ready to succumb”

Disney didn’t dance around the bushes with this one. They acknowledged a dark deep depression here. They acknowledged the feeling of that when everything goes dark you really can’t hold onto hope. That you have to live in that moment and accept that darkness- that you have to make peace with it before you can take the next step forward.

You don’t try to snuff it out or shove it away with feelings of hope and light. You don’t destroy those dark feelings in favor of good ones. You accept them. You make them a part of yourself and then you somehow find some way to keep moving forward- not because you have hope that things will get better- but because sometimes all you can do is eat you pain and find a way to adapt from it.

“You are lost / hope is gone / but you must go on / and do the next right thing / take a step / step again / it is all that I can do “

For someone who struggles with depression every day, this was a lesson that I desperately needed to hear. In our culture ( though it is slowly changing from this) there is still that stigma that darkness and depression is a thing that we have to cure ourselves from. That we have to fight and find hope in order to overcome it .

But depression is a disease. It never truly “goes away”. You have to find a way to live with it. You find ways to keep your head above water and how to tread carefully. And sometimes you even find a way to send your depression into a deep slumber or hibernation. But it’s always there hidden under the surface. And so many struggle with feelings of shame that we just can’t seem to get rid of it.

But it’s okay, and you’re okay. You don’t have to defeat it. As Anna says “Just break it down to the next breath / the next step / the next choice is the one that you can make.”

I love Disney for doing this. For being true to those feelings of darkness that we all struggle with. It was real and in that moment I cried watching it because it was needed.

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Percabeth remains the best, most iconic YA couple to ever exist. The og rivals to friends to lovers ship with the perfect balance of slowburn & relationship development.

They walked so y'alls faves could run.

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wow drawing is harder than I remember but hey hey I got to a prompt

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Getting older and then looking at all these teenagers who have to save the world…..why did I ever think that was acceptable……..they’re so young….let Katniss sleep…….let Harry Potter have a normal school year……..Aang is literally 12, I’m twice his age and incapable of 1 percent of his plot duties, these poor children, these poor acne encrusted puberty enduring babies

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Piper McLean. How do I even begin to Describe Piper Mclean?

Piper McLean is flawless.

She has Helen of Troy’s Dagger and a ridden a Bronze Dragon.

I hear she’s one of the Seven of the Prophecy.

I hear her dad does movies…. In Japan.

One Time, She met Jason Grace at camp

And He told her she was a knock-out.

one time, She punched Hercules in the Face. It was awesome.

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Will and Tessa as the Prince and Cinderella in Cassandra Jean’s Shadowhunters and fairytales mashup book! Swipe left to find out how you can get a fairytale book for free with Queen of Air and Darkness – or check out how-to at www.shadowhunters.com #wessa #tid #theinfernaldevices #cassandrajean #tsc {USA only} https://www.instagram.com/p/BoeJHcbHu-Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ur8jflc2eibh

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it’s 3am and idk anymore here’s a painting of annabeth with all her battle scars (click for high res)

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Sometimes I just think about how famous Percy Jackson must be in the demigod world. Just think about it, Percy has done so many things that for other heroes were the peak of their careers: the Minotaur was Theseus’s most important victory, so was Medusa for Perseus (and she was asleep when he killed her, plus he had been helped by Zeus, Athena and Hermes). He went to the Underworld more times than any other hero (not to mention freaking Tartarus). He held the weight of the sky on his shoulders, fought the Nemean Lion and the Hydra, things that have been done only by Heracles. He took on Achilles curse. He retrieved the Golden Fleece when he was about 13 years old, while in the myths in was one of the most known and important quests in history. Many heroes embarked on the Argo for this, including Jason and even Heracles. These heroes were legends and were almost as honored as the gods for doing only one of these things. Imagine how Percy should be treated after doing all these and more. Remember how things were after he retrieved Zeus’s Master Bolt?

“As I walked back through the city of the gods, conversations stopped. The muses paused their concert. People and satyrs and naiads all turned toward me, their faces filled with respect and gratitude, and as I passed, they knelt, as if I were some kind of hero.”

And that was just after his first quest. I like to imagine that now Percy gets the respect and admiration he deserves after all he’s done.

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tscsapphicnet event two ⟶ haline day 2018

Helen remembered the first love note Aline had ever written her. “the curves of your lips rewrite history. The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold.” Later, she’d found out it was an Oscar Wilde quote, and had said to Aline, smiling, “you’ve got a lot of nerve.” Aline had looked back at her steadily. “I know. I do.”

#halineday2018 #haline #helen blackthorn #aline penhallow #the dark artifices #the mortal instruments #the shadowhunter chronicles #shadowhunters

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Reyna Avila Ramirez Arellano

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attempts to cover up how little i know about drawing dogs with smoke effects

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She is victorious

A Reyna that took a month to finish, but something I’m infinitely proud of (^・^) ~Added close up: 

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Kaz: I have a plan

Inej: Does it involve us not getting into trouble?

Kaz: I said I had a plan, not a miracle

#soc #six of crows

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Thalia!

Wished she appeared more in Blood of Olympus though.

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“love me anyway…”

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After reading a certain fanfic where Percy was born a Roman instead of Greek, got inspired to do some fanart for said work. Here is where you can find said referenced work :D

I’m new to tumblr so be gentle guys.

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Three cheers for messy sketches featuring Piper and Leo being best friends!