#and like....

[cosmermaid]

I really hate the criticism of the "hurt people hurt people" trope.

I feel like it's denying that cycles of abuse exist. It's denying that prolonged abuse can warp your perception of reality and morality. It denies that after enduring the idea that your pain doesn't matter for so long, it's so easy to internalize that pain itself doesn't matter, whether or not it is yours or someone else's. It denies entire generations of people claiming "My parents hit me as a kid and I turned out just fine!" when in fact they are not just fine. It denies that mental health services are insufficient throughout most of the world still, and a lot of people carrying trauma or mental illnesses caused by trauma are still undiagnosed.

If you went through abuse for literal decades and didn't come out the other end with an enraged monster in your heart that genuinely believed that if your pain didn't matter, then nobody's pain mattered, then count yourself fucking lucky.

Because a lot of people who hurt others are hurt themselves. It doesn't excuse their actions, but it's foolish to try to erase it.

And you know, maybe let's not try to erase the voices of people who worked very hard to overcome their own internal monsters grown from abuse, who decided they wanted to be better than how they were taught to exist.

#personal #hurt people hurt people #obviously I am NOT suggesting that being the victim of abuse absolves somebody of being an abuser #but I've seen this criticism come up for depictions of cycles of abuse in general #and like.... #shut up #that is reality for SO MANY people #and everyone who has ever tried to IMPROVE THEMSELVES has had a lower point that they started from #which INCLUDES having treated people poorly

[the-ghost-king]

can companies produce high quality furniture pieces in designs that don't all look the same or am i supposed to spend my life surrounded by pieces of the plywood veneered sterile ikea aesthetic variety

#also if companies could stop all buying the same piece and selling them at different prices so i dont have to #stumble around the internet trying to find the piece i want for the lowest possible value that would be great #the bed frame i want in the finish i want is a grand and it is solid wood so thats not horrible #but i can find it for 250 elsewhere its just in the worse finish possible #and like.... #i know sanding and restaining is an option but you have to weight the cost of material purchase and labor against the cost of just #buying the more expensive piece #and.... yeah #im really tired of everything and phsyically but im finally not congested and my fever is gone #so like win some lose some #👍 #shut the fuck up ghost

[myname-isnia]

They cast a blonde girl as Maude Ivory in the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie...

#look no hate to the girl but... the covey could not have been more poc coded if they tried #*okay slight exaggeration there but you get it #and her age was a bit hard to find but apparently she’s 15? #and like.... #21 yo Rachel Ziegler could reasonably pass for 16 #but a 15 yo playing an 8 yo? #you’re pushing it #I never had much faith in the movie anyways but come on #is it really that hard to find an 8yo who can sing relatively well #it doesn’t even have to be good she’s a kid so she gets a pass #I just need to rant about this to someone lol #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

[lunawings]

WOW! The foreigner hotel plan is back for Love Live concerts! 

When people ask me when/if I’m going to visit Japan again I have been saying not yet. 

Basically because I have been waiting for this hahaha. 

They are doing the lottery now for Liella in AUGUST tho? That’s so soon. And I have other stuff planned for August so it’s just not gonna work. 

But thinking I could, theoretically, see Liella in August is WOW! 

#....if i'm not blacklisted for applying to it when i lived in japan that is..... #it's tough because i could probably only justify doing this once a year if at all #and like.... #my heart wants to see aqours again #but i have already seen them #so my head tells me i should try for liella or nijigaku #but..... i don't know........

[danielsullivan]

would literally pay Malin thousands to allow us to read what Ortega's thinking

#I'm playing again bc of course i am #and like.... #i want to know SO BAD what Ortega could possibly be thinking if you romance them #and Danny #and then before going on the Danny date tell Ortega that you've been hanging out w Danny #like fjdnsbsjdjsidbdbdheh I WANT TO KNOO9OOOOIWOWIJEJEWWW

[thequeencity]

do you have any gifs of chris kreider during the anthem from game 5?

no, sorry!! i was only able to get espn’s broadcast during the game and they focused on mika during anthems!! (i checked my clips and kreids’ shoulder is there but like,,, not worth gifing lol).

#answered #the camera loved mika in game 5 #and like.... #can you blame them

[pterygoidwalk]

sometimes i wonder what my cat named me

#oc #or like #self portrait

[mikey-ways-dogshit-bread]

If King Charles dies on or before March 25th, 2024, he will technically be the shortest-reigning king in English history.

Anyway, like to charge, reblog to cast.

#king charles #king charles iii #king edward #king edward viii #march 25 #the royal leech #royal family #britain #lmao #like to charge #reblog to cast

[stuckinapril]

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

#like for real #text

[camping-with-monsters]

For those of you who weren’t able to get 100% of the total solar eclipse today… I gotchu <3

#THE MOON WAS OVER THE SUN THE MOON WAS OVER THE SU #we were in the 100% area like I just casually live here lmao #april 8th eclipse #total solar eclipse #solar eclipse #2024 eclipse #April #photos #eclipse photos #eclipse #2024 solar eclipse

[tothechaos]

this is what every tiktok screenshot looks like to me

#its always a persons face and its always cropped to be like. just their eyes. its so fuckin weird #1k #5k #10k #25k #50k #100k

[mandycantdecide]

#seems like a good deal to me #boop #boopometer #april fools day

[liquidstar]

i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue

#she needs to visit so i can take her to a mall #the food court alone will blow her mind #shes like 14 so claire's and/or justice would probably also blow her mind

[katabasiss]

do you guys think jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross & temporarily thought of home

#omg found this in my drafts from nov but like. for real

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

#was rereading the hunger games series when this thought hit me like a truck #it beautiful #its haunting #its heartbreaking #its melancholic #quotes #dark academia #books and reading #books & libraries #books #young adult #ya books #young adult books #movies #coming of age #the hunger games #the divergent series #the maze runner #the fault in our stars #musings #midnight musings #thoughts #mine

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

#the ethics are whack but more importantly you didn't even want to write it?? who is it even for?? not you? not me? #you didn't even have enough interest in the premise to take a crack at it?? then who cares? #please don't populate in my search results I'm looking for things that people wrote because they liked something #ao3