I've been up and working since 3am
And lemme tell you something
I want a nice peaceful lunch to myself at a nearby diner. And I'm gonna get it.
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ISH MY BIRFDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
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i'll figure it out, i think.
i graduate in about 3 and a half months, my family keeps reminding me this is my last year, the grand and glorious senior year.
my friends tell me about the colleges they're applying to. we celebrate every time someone gets accepted. i squeeze my fear back into it's cage so nobody sees it. i haven't even considered college.
it feels impossible, the fact that there's more beyond high school. how am i supposed to cope with the life ahead of me that i didn't expect to see? how am i meant to deal with life past what I've planned?
i've barely aged a day past 13. I'm scared, and I'm dependent, and i don't feel ready for what's ahead of me. i can't stop looking at what's behind me.
but, maybe it'll all work out. i'll get a job, and i'll buy a car, and i'll move out - if the cost of living gets any lower - and I'll go to a community college, probably. I'll go clubbing and I'll meet people and I'll have bad sex, swear it off completely, and then have more bad sex. and I'll go grocery shopping and I'll shovel the snow off my driveway and I'll call my mom to tell her how good I'm doing on my own. i'll have someone to kiss and spend my time with, and i'll figure it out.
i'm sure.
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Happy Sunday little loves
Grandma has to travel for work this week, and I'm a little nervous.
It's funny how easy it is to encourage other people, but then I struggle to take my own advice.
Sometimes doing things that scare you can be a good thing. It helps you grow as a person.
It sure is hard to be brave sometimes though.
I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead and that you are able to overcome any challenges that come your way
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okay I'm gathering you all in front of a warm bonfire the stars are out and there's a meteor shower. we're roasting marshmallows and making s'mores and telling spooky stories and funny stories and there's a guitar being passed around.
we're drinking warm drinks out of thermoses and every now and then we have to shuffle around because the smoke from the fire is getting in our eyes. I'm giving hugs to anyone who wants one. we're having a wonderful time and all is right with the world.
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I've been trying to live my life following this flow chart. But the problem with doing it scared is that it causes me anxiety until the "it" in question is complete.
Today the "it" was sending a fb message to someone I'd really like to be irl friends with. But now I'm just anxiously waiting to see if they message me back. And overthinking the message I sent.
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i grabbed the wrong size for my razor and now this 🥲 rip it's fine *screams*
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Ghost cuddling with Soap when his anxiety gets really bad, so bad that he's genuinely crying and dead silent. He knows Soap is horribly overstimulated, and Ghost's room has always and will always be sensory safe for both of them.
So they cuddle on those rare nights, when Soap's hit his limit and just needs to cry in someone's arms, because Ghost's the only one who understands.
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So the main reason I think that TBB will have a reasonably happy ending is multifaceted but I think the biggest one is that a lot of the series it's compared to have entirely different focuses but only one requires minimum the majority of the characters to be alive.
It comes down to the central question of the work. Let's look at TCW - this one is super broad because it's essentially an anthology rather than an overarching narrative. It's literally just "what happens between attack of the clones and revenge of the sith." The only thing needed to bring it to a satisfactory close is to go up to the end of the clone wars and segue into ROTS. Which, as a tragic film, does necessitate a bit of a downer ending. But, the ending feels fulfilling even with the tragedy because it satisfies the central question.
Rogue One is much more narrow, how did the rebellion get the death star plans? The reason you can do a total cast annihilation in this one is because the central question isn't character focused at all, it's mission focused. As long as they move the mission forward, the characters dying doesn't make the ending less satisfying. The central question is answered.
So what's been TBB's central question? It hasn't been mission focused, it's not "how do we fight the Empire" and its not as broad as TCW's filling in a multi year gap between movies. It's asking "who are these clones if they're not soldiers" it's asking "how do you heal this family that's been broken by tragedy."
And killing off most of the main cast answers these questions as "nothing" and "You don't." It's like answering "what happened between these two movies" with 'nothing' or 'how did they get the death star plans with 'they didn't.' It negates the central question that we're introduced to, it would render the entire endeavor pointless. Why would we need three seasons to get Omega from 'alone' to 'still alone' why would we build up the desire for the family to heal just to say they never will? Why would we watch them go from broken to more broken to absolutely shattered in a trauma mill? It doesn't answer anything, it just trails off.
I don't even think that the question of how to heal the family can be satisfied if Tech is actually dead. MAYBE if we had more time we could soothe away the trauma of that and still resolve everything. Maybe if his loss was the only one that needed to be wrapped up and processed we could resolve that in the time we have left.
But needing to bring Crosshair home, bring Omega home, AND heal everyone from Tech's death in fifteen episodes that also require enough action to keep ten year old boys interested? Yeah, I don't think that's happening. I think the only way that this gets wrapped up in a way that actually holds to the themes of the show is an ending that has the family together, an ending that actually answers the questions we started with, one that said *they're not soldiers, they're family* and that the family is in fact capable of being healed.
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