I realized this was one of the costs of being human: the slack inadequacy, the disappointment, like the lapping sound my arches made as they met and left the poolside tile. I did not resent or feel sorry for him, but I felt sorry for us, for our feeble tribe, disclosing so many verities no one else ever actually understands.
— Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born: A Novel (Astra House, September 5, 2023)
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Romans 5:5 (NKJV) -
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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you’re telling me, you’re really actually genuinely telling me, nO ONE GOT VIDEO FOOTAGE OF MY BOYS DEBRIEFING AFTER THE RACE???! NO ONE SAW TWO PREDESTINED LITTLE GAY PEOPLE SITTING IN THEIR LITTLE GAY WAYS TALKING THEIR LITTLE GAY TALKS AND DIDNT FEEL EVEN THE SLIGHTEST??? URGE???? TO CAPTURE IT????? TO PRESS A FUCKING RED BUTTON??????? WHIP OUT THEIR CAMERA AND A SNAP A FEW COUPLE HUNDRED MILLION SHOTS?????????? NO ONE???????
edit: NOT ONLY THIS, BUT THE FACT THEY ACTUALLY CUT AWAY FROM THE SCENE SECONDS BEFORE IT HAPPENED- HOMOPHOBIA!!!
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forgot amy schumer and cara delevingne were in the new season of only murders in the building...
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Disappoint
Hawkman: Don't disappoint me at the last minute. Don't make me sorry,
Hawkgirl: I have never disappointed you. I don't plan to start now.
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How can you be disappointed
When the battles were mine to begin with?
How can you be disappointed
When it was I who struggled to get through it?
How can you be disappointed
When you don't even know how to guide me?
How can you be disappointed,
Don't you know, that it turns my head
Into a burning piece of mess too?
~SB
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first day of sixth form and wooooooooooo I'm so ready to disappoint everyone
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Come on guys, I get that some of those ask memes are fun, but can ya please throw some at me instead of just reblogging? I'd hate to make a rule about this...
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The narrative of the upwards trajectory of my life was interrupted. I thought that because I was behaving well and healthily things would be okay. What I didn’t account for was that other people can let you down.
Amy Liptrot, The Instant (Canongate Books, March 3, 2022)
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I played the Harry Potter mobile game for 30 minutes to earn gift card points
And lord, it's just not *good*
Like I was planning the rapid pump and dump but it was genuinely uncomfortable to play, you're immediately thrust into this martyr narrative against a Draco expy and it *feels*, *bad*.
The kid's name is Snyde, she's a Slytherin and a bully, and that's just it. It gives you "empathy" choices where you get empathy points for not being openly cruel to her, but in the next scene, *you have to be cruel to her to brew potions*. *It literally makes you bully her to proceed.*
You find out both her parents are locked up in Azkaban and it's like okay, this is the heel turn, this is fixable, but, no, this just makes her escalate into attacking you.
Dude, literally *why*?
I'm gonna admit that I was concerned about playing it and liking it and having to deal with that, because it's more high-end than most games I get through Mistplay, but I was actually taken aback by how awful I felt in this role. This is a game--and a series--that really does teach "Actually, bullying is great if you're the one doing it, because they probably deserve it".
And when I say series, I mean series. A lot in the books never quite sat right with me reading them as a kid, but I didn't have the media comprehension to express what I was feeling, so I let it slide because oohoohoo fiddle de dee magic candy! The video laying out the meanness of the writing really helped me go "Yeah, no, that was fucked up", and I'd recommend it highly.
Imagine if Stardew Valley just picked a villager and made you be a total asshole to them, no matter what you tried to do. This isn't what I want to be. This isn't who I want to play. In some games, sure, being the bad guy is awesome. But as an 11-year-old? This feels ugly and wrong.
Anyway, I earned $3, they earned a one-star review laying out how cruel it feels. It felt really nice to not even have to bring the elephant in the room to the table, ngl.
As for my intrepid wizard...
He'll be fine
(Also there's no negative outcome to failure, it lets you skip sections if you have trouble with them, and the advertised "DECORATE YOUR ROOM HAVE A FAMILIAR" is locked behind eye-watering price tags. Criminal customization taxes. It's just. It's not good, people.)
Yeah, OP.
Think about it.
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