My Life in a fucking nutshell

whatever I Damn Well please.

[rhumbarat]

[vancouverfoodmonster-deactivate]

Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean mental illness don’t exist.

www.thebpmag.com

[oldtoby90-blog]

So important! I work in mental health and in my experience this is the biggest issue that people with mental disorders face. Things like depression and anxiety are just as physical as any medical issue, they’re just harder to see. We have to fight the stigma and educate people about this shit.

[officegoth-deactivated20210102]

[kuulam]

[frauleinninja]

this post has fucked me up more than any other on this site

[orangevelvetspacequeen]

Okay but no, do you understand what happens to a caterpillar once it’s in its cocoon? It completely turns into goo. That’s right, GOO. The damn thing dissolves and the reforms into the butterfly. Even crazier, the wings of the butterfly are already inside the caterpillar, ready to go, just waiting to float around in some goo and then be a beautiful butterfly. The craziest part?!? A study was done where some caterpillars were exposed to a certain smell and then given an electric shock so eventually the caterpillar associated the smell with the shock. Well after those little hairy noodles came out of the their cocoons as butterflies, they exposed them to the smell again and the butterflies reacted super negatively, as if they were being shocked. A.K.A. not only is there wings floating around in that goo cocoon, there is also a brain, the same, unaltered brain as the caterpillar. The butterfly can recall its days as a caterpillar even after basically being turned into soup. And then it all somehow gets its shit together to be a stupid majestic little beast, and I can’t even remember where I put my damn phone.  

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

i maintain that the 2003 Clone Wars series is an underappreciated masterpiece

[zootycoon-archive]

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

[randomitemdrop]

Item: promotional boots from another timeline

[incorrectstarwarsquotes]

Anakin: You embarrassed me in front of Padmé!

Obi-Wan: You embarrassed YOURSELF in front of Padmé.

[allthingskenobi]

[metalandfood]

Jango Fett from Attack of the Clones

[babyanimalgifs]

“Meet Sydney, a male umbrella cockatoo socializing with Vet Hospital Staff” 

(Source)

[comradekatara]

zuko rly thought the avatar was 100 years old, and he was still fully prepared to fucking kidnap him. imagine if that had actually gone down like zuko thought it would. you’re a fully-realized avatar and you’ve been hiding out for over a century and all of a sudden you get approached by this 13 year old kid who’s like “WHATS GOOD I’VE GOT NO DEPTH PERCEPTION AND I’M READY TO FIGHT GOD” 

[oatmealaddiction]

So it’s 2020 can we talk about how Avatar portrays femininity as well as just gender in general?  You have Katara, Toph, Suki, and like 800 other amazing female characters who are out here being warriors and making a point that women can be incredible fighters too, and there’s an episode that addresses this explicitly where Katara duels Pakku and basically explodes his reductive view of women (best scene in the whole thing is when everyone carts her in to apologize to him.) And there’s a lot about women being encouraged to take part in traditionally masculine spaces, particularly again with Toph and Katara. Katara is great too because the show doesn’t draw a dichotomy between a fighter and a healer. Katara can be gentle and motherly and a good shoulder to cry on, while also being a hundred percent badass. 

But then also the show is really good (albeit a bit subtler) about the value in men embracing traditionally feminine traits and activities.  Our main character is pacifist vegetarian soft-boi who wears flower crowns and makes jewelry and spends a lot of time talking about his feelings and he is by and far the most morally sound character in the series who is completely at ease with who he is. 

Then you have Sokka who a lot of people have pointed out has an arc that’s basically “chug respect women juice,” and part of that arc includes him wearing the Kiyoshi uniform, something he feels emasculates him, (and which the show makes a joke about tbf) but then they turn it around and make the ensemble genuinely badass. 

And then sweet Zuko who is absolutely someone who is portrayed as caring and sensitive in his childhood (by no small part due to his mother’s influence) who is raised in probably the most toxically masculine environment in the show. The Fire Nation might have women in its ranks, but feminine traits like compassion, mercy, and basically any emotion that isn’t a desire for destruction are seen as disgraceful. It’s notable what gets Zuko banished is his refusal to fight his own father, and how that is labeled disrespectful. 

It’s also notable that the people and places that change Zuko are more feminine in nature. He works in a shop, cleaning and preparing tea. He meets two young women who drastically change his view on Earth Kingdom civilians. He spends time helping a family with children. And through all this he’s there with Iroh, a guy who enjoys music, culture, and natural beauty, who’s sensitive and dedicated to humble acts of kindness for others, and who Ozai dismisses as an embarassing failure. 

And the show ends with Zuko ditching all this toxicity and just being the guy he wants to be. He even hugs Aang at the end, something Season 1 Zuko would never do with anybody. Our boy hugs!

Like the show doesn’t just empower women by letting them fight, it also shows the power and value in emotional vulnerability and compassion that is usually only reserved for women. It empowers women to fight and kick ass while also deconstructing toxic masculinity. 

Tl:dr: Avatar says let women fight, and let men be emotionally open with each other and hug!

[captainrexs]

We’ve known each other a long time.

[cosmos-kitty]

･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 👁️👅👁️*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ

(based on this image)

[vilevilescorpio]

“Your feelings are not my problem anymore if they ever were. I have new problems now. Problems of void and cosmos. Problems of dark matter and lost memories. I am adrift in a universe that does not know I exist but then, you are too.”

—

Episode 174 - Radio Jupiter 

[coffebits]

[hanari502]

I’m a simple woman. I find a song I like, I listen to it for three weeks uninterrupted until I find another one.

[your-super-paper-grandma]

Ahsoka: ‘Fives, I heard you say you thought Rex’s new coat was cute, so don’t worry, I made one for you too.’ 

Rex: *smirking under his helmet*