A Blog So Happy

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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[theloversthedreamersandme82]

We wish you would too! 🥰

[clarkgriffon]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995) // Episode 6 “Oh, Lizzy. Could you believe things could end in this happy way?”

[caroldanversenthusiast]

brie larson in a hawaiian shirt…..a LOOK

[closet-keys]

why none of them got into The Good Place

[exigencelost]

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

[egyptiann]

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

[thedreadvampy]

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

[nebula-maker]

[happydayout]

[lost-fool-wandering]

historical padlocks are just great

[deliriousfaol]

the town crier finds me sleeping on my doorstep bc drunk me last night couldn’t open the lock on my door and announces my buffoonery to the whole square

[bethanyactually]

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries + text posts (8/∞) for @glitterjellyfish, for their enthusiasm!✨

[handwrittenloveletter-deactivat]

anyone else feel like they’re slowly losing it actually. live laugh love

[ablogsohappy]

ahahahahahaha alive fuck 

[biirthofvenus]

spell to

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thrive under the moons pink glow,

feeling starlight kisses brush your cheeks

and the summer air soothe your soul

venus sighs softly

be calm my darling

for under my watch, you will bloom

like to charge, reblog to cast

[wlwitchery]

to every girl reblogging those posts about living in a cottage and picking strawberries and making pottery..... are u free on friday

[wellyfullofale]

I think next thursday is gonna be the best day of my entire life tbh

[thequeenofsunflowers-deactivate]

reblog for next thursday to be the best day of your life

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

funniest thing in the US is you can say “I want people to have access to basic necessities and live a happier, fulfilling life” and millions of people will be like “that is FUCKED UP I want the freedom to eat one meal a day so I can afford rent and medication, you can’t stop me commie”

[trueloveistreacherous]

The Good Place Appreciation Week Day 6: Favorite Lesson/s

[brie-news]

Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.

[fluffygif]

Fluffy kitty

[fatmaninalittlesuit]

Fluffy Kitty is on watch and keeping us all safe.

[minuty]

“The planet does not need more ‘successful people.’ The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”

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