Saying that cannabis isn’t a drug further stigmatizes drug use. Cannabis is a drug, and that’s okay. When you say it’s just a plant or it’s just medicine, while both those statements are true, it is harmful in many ways. People who use drugs are not bad. Drugs are not bad. Stop stigmatizing drug use and start encouraging safe drug use.
🐀The season finale of Game Changer Launches on @dropoutdottv with Part One on June 3rd, and Part Two on June 17th.
Featuring host Sam Reich and contestants Rekha Shankar, Zac Oyama, Katie Marovitch, Grant O'Brien, Jess Ross, Ally Beardsley, and Brennan Lee Mulligan.
The thing about both Phineas' and Jonas' narrative arcs in Midst is that they're both men whose entire identities were crafted and controlled by the society they lived in. Jonas Spahr was the Prime Consector. Phineas Thatch was the Prime Adsecla. And they were expected to play out those roles to perfection; their every move while on the job was monitored and narrated by the media for the whole of the Trust to hear! But after establishing them in their roles throughout the first season, Third Person spend seasons 2 and 3 stripping them both of everything about themselves that the Trust imposed on them. Their certainty in the Trust and its ideals, their defined place within that structure, their titles, the distinctive armour they were both introduced in, their sense of who they were as people as defined by all of the aforementioned. Until all that was left in the end was two people staring at each from opposite sides of a room destroyed by thousands of minuscule explosions who having lost everything can finally start fresh and define for themselves who they are.
This is also why I feel it's reductive to say that their relationship was always romantic, because who they were to each other, like who they were to themselves was so tightly controlled by the Trust that it couldn't be anything other than the mentor/mentee, Consector/Adsecla relationship the Trust defined it as until they were both stripped of everything and the Trust was destroyed. Despite the depth of feeling for each other they both display prior to "Breach" and "Trustfall" their lives and relationship needed to truly be their own before they could begin to decide what either of those things mean for them and only then was a romantic relationship on the table as a possibility. I'm not even sure that's where they ultimately will land yet! But they both needed to go through the process of losing everything and having to start again at zero for such a relationship to even become one possibility among many.
do you ever think about shadowhand essek thelyss at 1am and how the cast asked matt during the campaign 2 wrap up if he was supposed to be a major antagonist and matt said no because he was "meant to be an antagonistic force in the world" like he was never even meant to be an antagonist, just a force, because his actual personhood was so deeply unimportant from the very beginning, and that he was invented with the sole purpose of making the world a worse place and was never supposed to matter beyond the ways in which his actions harmed others and then he saved the world not because he was a good person but because the mighty nein loved him so much that they bent the narrative around him and he became a character whose personhood mattered because they decided that it mattered and it was their love and nothing else that not only changed him but made him a person that could be changed at all and more than just an antagonistic force in the world, but an antagonist, who could grow and ultimately come to love them back and—
I'm so serious about being kind above all else. it has genuinely changed the way I interact with the world on a fundamental level and has made me so so much happier.