Everything I Love Laid Out Before Me

I have chronic pain.

[itshardtoactnormal-blog]

This conversation needs having and action taken to change it.

[squeackygee]

The Working Homeless

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

The vast majority of homeless people work, and that’s been true for a long time.

[anxietyproblem]

[lightheartedsuggestion]

What’s going to make you happy right now? Is it some cake? Is it a nap? Is it calling your mom? Is it going on a drive and blasting music? Is it taking a bath? Is it reading a book?

Check in with yourself because you deserve that happiness, whatever it is.

[thecatwhowalksbyherself-deactiv]

I use this with my hospice patients a lot. Because “is there anything I can do to help?” rarely gets a response. But, “I’ll be here till 6:30 and would like to do one thing to make your room more comfortable before I head out” frequently does get an answer. Often something they deem “too small to bug anyone with” like closing the blinds so there’s no reflection on the tv, or repositioning their socks because the heels have wandered into the front and are uncomfortable, or they want ice cream before dinner today, or getting an extra blanket.

I also use this on myself. What’s one thing I could do to make my environment more comfortable right now? Does it cure my mental illness? Hell no! Does it make me feel more in control of my feelings and the world around me? You betcha!

[ladynorbert]

I’m going to try to apply this to my current situation, since right now things feel very out of control. Thanks!

[roycohn]

i was in the grocery store and saw an onion on the ground and picked it up, absently saying “poor little guy.” behind me a teenage girl started laughing and then stopped and went “aww. i’m sorry for laughing. that’s nice actually.” and the cycle of cruelty is broken for another generation as a young person realizes that it is not embarrassing to have empathy for another thing that was once living, because certainly to be a lone white onion rolling on the ground in a supermarket would be terrifying to anyone

[tiredqueertranarchist]

More gentle youths from @spacefuneral's tags

[adurot]

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

[adurot]

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

[adurot]

But wait, there’s more!

[elvensilk]

but you know what IS a goat? a musk ox

[whalesharkpasta]

WHAT

[rosegardeninwinter]

Peeta: alright the romance strategy won’t help us in the Quell and besides Katniss and I are just friends so we need to focus and train and prepare our minds to be as sharp and our bodies to be as strong as possible and —

Katniss: 😡 where are my kisses? 😡

[dontwakeme-causeimdreaming]

Just thinking about The Hunger Games again

The real or not real scenes in The Hunger Games are so important! President Snow manipulated Katniss into revealing her true affections towards Peeta by asking her to convince him that they were in love, which she ultimately did, which lead to Peeta’s capture as a punishment for Katniss. The thing is, though, Katniss didn’t fall in love with Peeta in the spotlight in their rehearsed moments while she was trying to convince Snow, she fell in love with him in the tiny moments, sleeping with him on the roof before the Quell, sharing their favorite colors on the train, eating the cheese buns he’d bake for her and her family. These were tiny moments that weren’t recorded, and therefore weren’t able to be manipulated when Peeta was high jacked. These are the moments that bring Peeta back to Katniss with real or not real. Snow wanted to use Peeta as a prop to destroy Katniss once Katniss convinced Snow of her love, but in the end the moments that made her fall in love are the moments that saved him from that destruction.

[investigativeweirdo]

Katniss when she thinks she’ll never see gale again: omg I guess me and peeta can just make out now 😳

Katniss when she thinks she’ll never see peeta again: I wish I was dead I have no reason to go on living

[bodega-catto]

You watch the hunger games trilogy and can actually feel a division between “team Peeta” and “team Gale” but when you read the books it doesn’t exist. It was always Peeta. Only him.

[azaleasdaylight]

Suzanne collins is a certified GENIUS because by making most of the book about the PUBLICITY of the rebellion and not the fight itself, she was telling us that wars are won by who persuades more- who controls the narrative .

[danyllura]

Katniss “pretending” to love Peeta back in the first games will NEVER be a selfish action to me. She did it entirely with the goal to save him. At that point she had enough sponsors, no life threatening injuries, she could hunt/gather, and had her bow and arrows. Their romance was for sponsors and Katniss was not the one in need of help when she chose to reciprocate. Peeta was on the brink of death through out almost the entirety of their alliance, for most of it he was a bigger hinderance than help in winning. But Katniss never even considers any option other than staying with him. Maybe she wasn’t “in love” with him yet, but everything she did was still done as an act of deep care for Peeta. Every romantic moment, every kiss they had, Katniss didn’t do it to get herself home. She did it to get Peeta home.

[danyllura]

I love that in Catching fire Katniss comes to the conclusion the other tributes are trying to keep Peeta alive because they must see how amazingly perfectly wonderful he is. When in actuality that’s just her having a crush and everyone else recognizing that if Peeta gets hurt Katniss will go fully feral and unhinged and probably try to kill everyone and then herself.

[foulserpent]

i want to be a conventionally attractive wealthy skinny ciswoman so i can go on the bachelor and make it all the way thru the competition, and when the guy proposes to me i just like leap towards him and close my teeth around his neck and bite as hard as i can. just absolute animal brutality like shaking his neck like a ragdoll, growling ripping tearing etc, and then before anyone can stop me immediately run into traffic and die so no one ever gets the chance to understand why that happened

[sharkpunks]

[pusheen]

[jennamoran]

cat: I will just hang out on your lap now me: yay cat: I have brought ten knives

[pusheen]

[aqueus]

I have this weird theory that some people are drawn to each other because their atoms were near each other when the universe was created and over time the same atoms keep coming back together