Today I had the impulsive thought to cut my hair. So I did.
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Being in pain and anguish can make you a deeply unpleasant person when it starts to grate on you to the core of your soul how unwell you are, and it really can make interacting with others so much harder.
It is hard to be around other people when you're in pain, and the sounds around you quite literally hurt, and you feel the crushing weight of reality settling deep on your chest and throat, and it feels like the world is against you. It's hard to be "pleasant" when everything feels stacked against you.
I hope to be with all of you in a metaphorical way. It's hard to be disabled and to act "normal." It's important to recognize that we can become so entrenched in the horrors of disability and pain that we lash out because when we recognize the cause, we can start finding ways to notice what might help.
Disability can feel like you're turned into a shell of who you thought you "should" be. Give yourself the space to grieve if you need to. I know it's hard. Take it a day at a time.
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Okay I adore the entire frequency fic and I've definitely rambled in the comments, but when you talked Thad's new costume I got so excited because I thought up of one a while ago and it also had a hood and cowl!! I just think it'd be great on him.
Do you have thoughts about how they start on while he's running? For mine I went with magnets on the hood, cowl, and goggles, so they can all be up together or separately.
Anyway, I'm just really happy whenever people make new costumes for Thad, because I think there's no way he'd want to keep wearing a suit that's made to be an inversion of Bart's.
tbh i truly went: the hood just doesnt stay on while he's running. the choice is deeply impractical and entirely for fashion. when thad isn't running and just hanging out or sneaking around or whatever is when the hood comes up purely because he thinks it looks cool.
although... maybe there could be some kind of thing where it attaches to his earpieces? but then it would just kinda half slide off his head...
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idk idk. maybe the material at the back of the hood could be changed to a kind of mesh so that air passes through it and wind resistance doesn't rip it off his head.
maybe he just holds it up at all times like a loser lmao
or maybe it just stays on with the magic of the speed force :O
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You know, eventually, one of either Scott/Pearl or Cleo/Martyn is going to have to die first. And at that point whatever duo is left is going to be pretty much forced to team up, and that, dear friends, is going to be the single funniest angry crawling-back-to-your-ex conversation that we’re ever going to get to witness
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There is something so comforting about characters who choose not to be evil.
Like, Luke Skywalker stands on the precipice of not coming back, almost let’s his rage and fear overtake him, and you can see him realize that. You can see the moment where he makes the conscious decision to take the hard way out of this. You can see him choose to stop, choose to control his own impulses, and choose to show mercy on a being that has not showed or been shown mercy in a very long time.
Or Cissie King-Jones in the Young Justice run. Her school was attacked, the woman who got Cissie out of her horrible living situation was murdered, and Cissie was inadvertently shown the tape that the murderer made of killing her, where he made her beg to live but shot her anyway. Cissie is rightfully pissed. Cissie hunts down the shooter. Cissie makes him beg for his life, makes him fear that she’s going to kill him. And, Superboy comes in to remind her that she doesn’t want to be a killer, but it’s Cissie herself who stops. It’s Cissie herself who realizes that she doesn’t want to be in this position, that she’s scared and feels alone and vulnerable and she doesn’t know what to do. Cissie pulls herself out of the situation, she decides that she can’t kill someone who isn’t worth going to prison for. She makes that choice, even though it’s the most difficult choice she’s made.
Peter Parker’s violent thoughts are often portrayed as a joke, especially early on, but Peter is always holding himself back. He is constantly making the choice not to hurt people. He is always conscious of his super strength and how easily he could hurt someone or kill someone with it. He is always aware of his own potential to cause pain. But he chooses not to. He chooses to keep his touch light, even when he could make the excuse he was distracted. He is always making that choice, he always makes the choice to be a better person, he always tries so damn hard to be a halfway decent person, even on days he wishes he could be awful and selfish and cruel.
There’s just something about characters who have walked that line. Characters who stopped themselves and thought “I don’t want to do this.” Characters who are scared and who worry that their capacity for evil alone makes them less good. Characters who decide that it doesn’t matter, because they’re going to try to be a better person whether the universe allows it or not.
I don’t know. I just love those characters who had to go through Hell to be what they eventually become. Characters who are broken down and build themselves back up even stronger. Characters who put the reins on their impulses and decide that they’re in control, not their instincts and not anybody who might desire to control them.
There’s something immensely comforting that some of the most powerful characters in media are not made any less powerful or any less heroic because of things they cannot control, like their thoughts. They can only control how they respond to those thoughts. That’s what separates them from villains, that’s what makes them so powerful, they don’t choose the easy way out of things. Their willpower is stronger than steel. And it’s nice.
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every time i see archivist sasha im just ???
i love her but she died first. that's kinda her defining character trait. partially due to bad luck, yes, but also because she is bad at being in a horror movie. this is a constant thread throughout her very short time.
she saw michael and went "ooh im gonna go talk to THAT guy alone in a cemetary without even leaving a note!" she heard about prentiss and went "i mean, i could probably handle it." and then she sees a strange figure in artifact storage, somewhere she knows FIRSTHAND is full of things that want to eat her, and her instinct is to go towards it. to find out more about it.
she would have died the first time elias tried to mark her. she's just too damn curious.
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