#we all collectively lost our minds

[peeeb]

Do we, as fanfic writers and readers have the mental fortitude of a snail? yes. But do we try our best to support each other and the hard working people who are trying to bring back our beloved website, with millions of work carefully written by it's dedicated users? Also yes

#the last 48 were really something #ao3 workers god bless your soul #ao3 #fanfic #we all collectively lost our minds #ao3 outage

[shadowclownfreak]

hmm

#jerma #jerma985 #sus guy #me and my partners took turns cutting into him lol #we all collectively lost our minds #im the one who bought and surprised them with it #it was at a teaparty i planned sooo #i dont even like cake #also edit: im normal abt jerma i promise. #edit 2: i kept having to hold my self together (not laughing) at this when i got it but also it kept jump scaring me :| #dunno how i frel abt that

[basavapatr]

thiu in that outfit

MARK PAKIN as THIUSON SOPHONPATIMA

MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT (2022) | episode 6

#my school president #mark pakin #i HAD to #i love how we all collectively lost our minds over this <3 #hes become my favorite character im not even sorry about it #mine

[ellsieee]

This is so relatable.

I'm always coming up with (useless) good comebacks long after the argument is over.

I love seeing the boys from TMS as brothers this time around. Did they even have any scenes together in TMS? Glad Ko Jaehyun doesn't have to play the bad guy this time around.

There's nothing special about the tortured, fighting your feelings, while falling hard trope that JFT is employing, but I am enjoying it because Ji Hogeun is really selling Taeyi. I feel like he is really bringing his character to life with his acting.

#jazz for two #i am enjoying this series but not captivated #i think it's just unlucky that it's another hs kbl that aired right after that other hs kbl we all collectively lost our minds over #so there's bound to be some comparisons of plot and acting

[queer-reader-07]

just out here reminding myself that the core of my belief system is faith in the human story

#because goddamn if i lose that i've lost it all #actually though #it's been hard #the government continues to disappoint me #but people like the student protesters in uni encampments give me so much faith #and the artisits of the world #and the people who are just fucking kind because if they can be one thing they choose to be kind #those people give me hope #they remind me why i love humanity #they remind me why even when the shittiest scum bags alive do the most abhorrent things #there is still hope #there is still love and softness and fierce defense of our fellow people #there is still reason to believe #we are alive #i am alive #and i refuse to live a live without faith in our collective story #personal #sorry just being sappy on main don't mind me

[turning-the-kaleidoscope]

RITSU FINALLY GOT TO BE HONEST WITH SHIGEO ABOUT HIS FEELINGS OH MY GO D HE’S COME SO FAR I-

HE’S COME SO F A R 

#mob psycho 100 spoilers #season 3 spoilers #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #RITSU #my whole family and I were FREAKING OUT when his meter hit 100 #i knew it was coming but STILL #my family did NOT know it was coming we all collectively lost our minds

[manitapaleta]

page of cowboy larks + nark ofc

[uncensored below vvv]

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #dndaddies #dndads s2 #dndads fanart #dndaddies s2 #dndaddies fanart #nark #lark oak garcia #lark oak #my art #my spicy art #mature #once again god bless the nark nation discord for helping me out on this one #we have all collectively lost our minds with lark as a cowboy and i am livingggggg bc of it #going to make art of this au i have created ON GAWWWWDDDDDDDD #it’s giving early yeehan fic concept that i probably stole but cowboy x city boy is a beautiful concept and i think if it fits it should be #in every fandom #made this a couple days a go and now that the new episode is out its really funny for some reason bc i keep seeing nick and thinking of nar #nark and then im like awww hes dead now :~] /j #he is bisected lmaoooooo and probably will die lmaooooooooooooo but hes ok bc hell prob respawn in hell [GOD I HOPE]

[nicoscheer]

17 Oct '23

3Arena

Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Miles during the monkeys gig this pic is from 505 where Alex kept on looking over

He was literally pointing up at the mirrorball at looking up at it for like a solid 10 seconds after come closer

Don’t forget who you are it was so magical (also that turtle plushie behind him 🫠🫠)

Alright crazy things that happened (the ones I can currently recall and in now specific order):

-Nathan dropping his pick and Miles laughing at him

- Liam’s drum kit wasn’t fixed up correctly so his hi hat (I think) like turner 90 degrees and a stage hand had to rush and try and fix it during a song and before the next one miles just jammed out a bit and improvised to give the guy more time to properly fix it

-Miles pointing and looking up at the mirrorball for like solid 10 seconds after come closer

- seeing those chairs and music stands in the back knowing we’re gonna get strings

-after singing the last line of fluorescent adolescent “remember when you used to be a rascal” and then fucking pointing and staring at Miles who was standing to the left side of the stage (which also explains why Alex was suddenly so fond of the left side (also during I wanna be yours I sometimes had to play find Alex cause he was just casually chilling at the very edge of the left stage side like mate at this point just walk down to him )instead of right as usual to jam with Jamie right where the stairs led up to the stage so he was the first one to greet the guys once they went off before the encore and after the show(to smother Alex in a big hug))and watched their set and asking “do you remember?” Before himself answering like 2 seconds latter with “I remember” but like in such a small sad voice that it nearly broke me

Like here’s the entire performance you can hear and see it at 3:13 (I’ve only got the little I remember snippet cause I was screaming my head off)

- when Alex said “let’s hear it for Miles Kane” (some say he said wonderful after we screamed our throat raw) somewhere three quarters through the set we all exploded before realizing he was just thanking him for opening and then played fluorescent adolescent where at the end (check point above) he asked miles if he remembered when he used to be a rascal (and like the fact that Miles was in the band the rascal and Alex wrote Fluorescent with his ex Johanna Bennett around the time when him and Miles started becoming close friends)

- during body paint not Alex singing “and if you’re thinking of me I’m probably thinking of you” while adamantly pointing towards Miles

- I didn’t think it possible to get I wanna be yours x star treatment cause they did it the night before In Belfast but when that little shit said “I don’t wanna be hers I wanna be yours” I certainly lost my shit

-experiencing 505 with the mirrorball and strings

I wanna be yours x star treatment

Body paint

There’d better be a mirrorball

Why’d you only call me when you’re high

Teddy picker ; Alex said teddy is back before the song 🫶🏽🫶🏽🥹

Coup de grace

Never taking me alive

Body paint

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyjKMnhtgj_/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Blurry Miles in Dublin

#17/10/2023 #my show 🫠🫠🥹 #Dublin #night two #the crowd was so unbelievably loud but literally nobody but me was jumping around #but the mood was amazing #but I loved that; maybe it’s just cause the tours been going on for so long or it’s Ireland but there was a minimal noise difference betwee #the AM and the car/TBHC songs and that made me so happy #when Alex said let’s hear it for miles Kane in the middle of the set we all collective lost our minds cause we’re delusional but he was jus #thanking him for opening for them #also like whatever had been the problem with his in ears during the EU tour leg they seemingly fixed it cause he wore them for like 80% #Youtube #before the Ireland gigs I thought I was gonna combust if we get a pic of Alex listening from side stage #instead we got pics of miles sitting in the audience of night one and standing to the left of the stage on night two #I’ve never seen a crowd this hyped up; excited about an opener #so happy for miles he deserves to play venues this size on his own #he just seemed so grateful and happy/relieved that we all knew his songs and were vibing and that even the seats were completely ful for hi #Instagram #love that in the pic of Miles from the seats we can see that literally no one is paying him attention but everyone’s focused on the monkey

[cometthespacechinchilla]

Sometimes I miss Lovestruck and then I remind myself of the Runa debacle and those rose tinted glasses sure set themselves on fire

#with hindsight i think we all collectively lost our minds #also i remember being accused of being a ringleader of the anti runa camp and i still laugh that they think i had that much influence #i got fucking death threats

[vinylvacancy]

vinyls from my collection ( in no particular order ) 18 / dead horses

petals for armor ( 2020 ) by hayley williams

#myvinyledits #hayley williams #hw #hwedit #hayleywilliamsedit #GOD THE ALBUM EVER #WRAP YOURSELF IN PETALS FOR ARMOR BABY!!!!!!!!!! #the visuals of this album.... the SOUND of this album..... #its so varied aesthetically but it suits the story being told so so so so well #we love growth and self-love and experimentation #i listened to part one's ep in my friends basement and all three of us lost our collective minds #we were screaming and hollering and crying #AND THAT EUPHORIA HAS NEVER STOPPED #EVERY TIME I LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM I'M TAKEN BACK TO THAT MOMENT #it's literally everything to me #miss williams is everything to me

[hanzajesthanza]

i like to think that the witcher is (generally) not that deep, but i’m just very easily impressed.

sapkowski will be like “and the hellish underworld of epic which our great heroes find themselves in… is just the real world, in which the horrors of war occur!” and i’ll be like “whoa!” and not think about anything else for the next five years.

#the witcher books #book: baptism of fire #txt #sapko hit us with the ‘grail is a girl’ concept and we all collectively lost our minds and danced in a circle

[vvitchering]

In 37 short days we will once again have Din Djarin on our screens. He’s finally returning from war. I will not apologize for the feral being I will become beginning on March 1.

#din!!!! #he’s coming back!!!!! #with his son!!!!! #new Mando content!!!!! #I just feel like it’s been 87 years since I’ve seen him #like do you guys remember how feral we all went when he showed up in tbobf #he came out from behind that curtain and we all lost our collective minds #the mandalorian

[timothylawrence]

never played fire emblem in my life but khalid is like a brother to me

#ewbie.txt #literally every arab artist online has drawn this man #we got one good (??) rep and we all collectively lost our minds

[watanabes-cum-dump]

Man… I remember the olden days of Genshin. When Zhongli’s kit and the entire Golden House fight were leaked. And Xiao and Ayaka were still in the beta. And when Albedo was originally supposed to be a bow user. And when Shenhe’s old model got leaked. When YaoYao got leaked. And when Hu Tao was rumoured to be a four star. Old Genshin leaks rlly hit different bc

#genshin impact #kouryuu’s shit #and when we all collectively lost our minds over Zhongli’s demo #still the best demo imo #followed by Hu Tao and Yelan #damn they putting their whole hoyussy into the Liyue charas huh #genshin

[rebekahgaveup]

Maybe now that Taylor is single again she'll be bored enough to come back on Tumblr

#it's been 3 years... #3 years since we all collectively lost our minds in quarantine and drove her off this site #has it been long enough for our sins to be forgotten? #probably not

[headspace-hotel]

Problems like climate change, where solving them requires millions of people to collectively work at hundreds of different solutions at once, are black holes for internal peacefulness because they give you a type of frustration where you alternately become bitter towards yourself or everyone around you. "If only I could work harder to fix the problem!" makes you exhausted, so you must become angry at others: "If only they cared about the problem!"

People who are already working on fixing climate change need to convince more people to work on it. And a popular thing is to share writings that describe how doomed we all are if climate change is not fixed, how terrible everything will be because of climate change, and how quickly all the treasures of our world are being lost.

There is a particular understanding of human behavior that is being accepted here without thinking about it hard enough. Popular news media shows headlines with terrible prophecies, written that way in hopes of getting the attention of otherwise disinterested people, who will then be "motivated" to fix climate change.

The trouble is that fear is no good for motivating thoughtful, patient, steady commitment to solving a problem. Fear is made to cause an organism to avoid things that might harm it. It creates a brief and explosive pulse of action where the organism's energy pours out as it instinctively, thoughtlessly reacts to escape the danger as fast as possible.

It's silly to blame people for avoiding thinking about climate change. The point of an organism responding to stressors is to avoid them. Oftentimes, the only tool people are presented with is personal choices about what products to buy, which inevitably is horribly frustrating and stressful, since a person will frequently be coerced by their situation into buying a certain product, and even if they don't they see others doing it all the time.

Relentless exposure to imminent threats that cannot be escaped causes Trauma, which severely impacts a person's ability to be resilient to stressors.

I think there is definitely a type of trauma associated with being constantly aware of the destruction of the environment and feeling helpless to do anything about it, especially since we as humans have a deep need for contact with other living things and aspects of the natural world, such as trees, water, flowers, and animals—a need that is often totally denied and treated as merely a Want or a hobby meant only for certain people who enjoy particular activities, like Hiking or Gardening.

We need to expand our minds on how this disconnection can hurt a human being. Imagine if a child's need to be loved by their caregivers, a person's need to be loved by their friends and family, was treated as a desire for indulgence or luxury, or a certain use of free time!

Yes, yes, one person has a condition that makes it hard to walk up hills, another doesn't like the bright sunshine, another is allergic to the grass or fungal components of the outdoor world, but WE ARE PART OF THE FAMILY OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH and WE EXIST IN SYMBIOSIS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT WHICH TAKES CARE OF US. Who showed you what beauty was, who taught you to feel peace and relief inside you in the form of a caressing breeze and rustle of leaves, who gave you awe and wonder at seeing the stars or the mountains? Where does every delicious food come from but the soil teeming with creatures? Isn't the most perfectly sweet berry grown from a plant, nurtured by the soil and pollinated by the bugs? Don't you feel delight at seeing a springy carpet of moss, a little mushroom, or a tiny bird? Think of all that the trees give us. Whose breath do you breathe? Whose body frames your home?

The writings of Indigenous writers such as the book by Mary Siisip Genuisz I am reading right now show me that the other life forms are our family. They take care of us and provide for us, and they would miss us if our species disappeared. Isn't that a powerful, healing fact? I think everybody is so enthusiastic about the book Braiding Sweetgrass because it is a worldview that those of us coming from the dominant colonizer culture are straight up ravenous, starving to death for.

Maybe, I think to myself, humans can experience a kind of trauma from being deprived a relationship with their Earth, just as they would experience trauma from being deprived relationships with other humans.

I really believe that it hurts us to be surrounded by concrete instead of soil, to see a majestic tree cut down on a whim without any justice possible, to see wild animals mostly in the form of mangled corpses on the roadside, to have poison sprayed everywhere to kill the insects that life depends on, to hear traffic and lawn mowers and weed whackers instead of birds and flowing water.

We KNOW that this is physically bad for our health, the stifling, polluted, and stressful environments of a civilization that doesn't know the ways of the plants, but I think it's a kind of moral injury too, right? To see a beautiful field turned into a housing development of ugly, big, expensive houses—no thought given to the butterflies and sparrows and quail of the field? To see a big old tree cut down, a pond full of frogs obliterated and turned into a drainage ditch beside a gas station? They aren't just things, they are lives, and while expansion and profit and progress are "necessary," a nice old field of wildflowers or a pond full of frogs are a different kind of necessary. I remember feeling this as a child without words for it—the sheer cruelty of a world that is totally without reverence for the other creatures.

"They own the property, they can cut down the tree" "They bought the land, they can do what they want with it" <but it can also be wrong, and many people know this on some level, even though our culture doesn't provide us with the framework.

Fear could never give people the motivation to fix climate change. Constant fear of what will happen in the future forces a person to protect themselves from the relentless stress by shutting it out entirely or developing apathy.

A fear based argument for fixing climate change either causes a worldview of nature with no bond of kinship at all, based on the physical and practical dependence on Nature as a "resource," or forces people to experience their kinship with Nature only through grief.

Fear tells us that we want to live—it does not tell us WHY to live. If a person tries to live on fear alone, they will eventually find the desire to live burdensome and painful in itself. I see this emerging on a society wide scale in the USA, feeding on influences from the Christian evangelicalism that sees the Earth as something already sullied and worthless, to be thrown away like a dirty tissue, and on the looming monolith of nuclear winter that gave our parents recurring nightmares as children.

If you go to r/collapse on Reddit (don't do that) you will see a whole community of people who cope with the threat of climate change by fantasizing about it, imagining it as a collective punishment for all humanity and a cathartic release from the present painful situation.

We cannot learn to live without seeing the reason for living. We cannot save the Earth without loving it. We cannot heal nature without caring for it. In order to collectively take action against climate change, we must be moved by something other than fear—and that something is love. Not just love of the outdoors as an activity, but love of the Earth as something that loves us.

The dominant Western culture cannot borrow Indigenous land stewardship techniques as though they are just one climate resilience strategy, without being also willing to change its dreadfully impoverished way of viewing human relationships with Nature.

What right have we to think, "Huh, maybe those guys were on to something with the multi-level polyculture systems and controlled burns" while still thinking humans are nothing but a disease on the Earth, and that Earth would be happy to be rid of us? The sustainable ways of using the land practiced traditionally by cultures who have lived in relationship with their ecosystems for many generations work because humans can exist in mutualistic symbiosis with the life forms around them. We care for them. They care for us.

I know for a fact that plants seek relationships with us, and I was taught by them to see how interconnected everything really is, and how I was made to be a caretaker of my ecosystem. I was, a few years ago, just as I describe above. Too scared and pessimistic about the future of nature to bother loving it, and because of this, I could not realize my niche in the ecosystem. It felt for many years like I could do nothing—i believed in climate change, but I felt hopeless, so I put it out of my mind. But when I began to cultivate a love and reverence for the sad, scraggly, beaten-down fragments of Nature around me, everything changed. So much became possible.

I am still learning and exploring, trying to open my mind to ideas totally different than the ones I knew growing up, paying close attention to every plant and learning its ways. And it stuns me to think—some people write about climate change without this process.

The author of the book "The Uninhabitable Earth" (a scary book about how doomed the Earth is because of climate change) says in the beginning of the book that he is not very much of a nature lover. You fool, love is our most powerful evolutionary adaptation!

#climate change #the ways of the plants #plants #nature #environment #symbiosis