anything you find love in is worth it

they them || it if it's queer i'm eating it || bigots dni slightly off putting

[memoirofananya]

May Her grace guide us through the barbed paths of life, shield us from manipulators and adversaries—both within and beyond our home—and give us the strength to rise after every fall. May we, the gullible souls, never remain fallen into trenches that harm our faith. May we grow resilient against life’s blows, never succumb to atrocities, nor let them corrode our identity. May we stay true to our roots, and in our devotion to our Mother.

[murpha]

the light

[krishnonsense]

I’m angry.

Not because a man is protesting.

I’m angry because we’ve reached a point where someone believes starving is more powerful than speaking.

That, to me, is a failure.

We celebrate Chandrayaan. We celebrate Digital India. We celebrate becoming a global power.

And we should.

But what is the point of all that progress if people feel unheard?

How do we reach a point where a man believes risking his own life has a better chance of starting a conversation than simply speaking?

That thought should terrify us.

Maybe this isn’t just about Sonam Wangchuk anymore.

Maybe it’s about what we’ve normalized.

We’ve normalized waiting.

Waiting until someone’s health becomes breaking news. Waiting until hashtags start trending. Waiting until a protest turns into a countdown.

Only then do we start paying attention.

You don’t have to agree with every protest or every demand.

But if people repeatedly feel that pain is the only way to be noticed, then we should all be asking uncomfortable questions.

Because a democracy shouldn’t wait until someone’s body starts giving up before it starts listening.

Progress isn’t just about how high our rockets fly.

It’s also about how low a citizen has to fall before someone in power looks up.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.

that's a real high number, sport. where'd you get it?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hey anon

please tell me you didn't google "US literacy rates" and then make the funniest possible mistake one could make in that situation

[bbnotumbl]

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and what if I told you guys that virtually everyone you ever meet will turn out to be really interesting if you give them a chance

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

some real miserable fucks in the notes I fear

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I'm not even saying you have to talk to every single person you meet. and you're certainly not going to LIKE all of them. but every person does have a rich interior life and complex feelings and unique worldview. sorry.

[p4nishers]

i dont see anyone talk about this and i think its a shame. the opening sequence where we learn about the flock is so nicely done and so so fucking important to me. in knives out, the cast is introduced in the interviews. a fairly simple, classic way of introducing the suspects. in glass onion, we're introduced to them through the puzzle miles sends them aka they're introduced through miles. their story begins and ends with miles. (the only exception is andi, who we get to know through helen, the only person in the world who loves her. im fine) but in wake up dead man we've come to know the flock through jud's conversations with them. jud's first thought upon arrival is to sit down with them and get to know their life story. yeah obviously he's a priest, he should know about the people he's supposed to guide spiritually but the WAY he does it is so unique. and its because he cares. he cares so fucking much he wants to build a new cross on his probably second day there. when he hears about the harlot whore his first thought is to ask martha about it. even after hearing the name "harlot whore" he doesn't go in with any judgement. martha reasons she was a whore bc she dressed in an outgoing way and knew 'her brands'. the way jud reacts to this is extremely telling. plainly, he finds it ridiculous. you can see the disbelief on his face. and even after hearing grace's story there's no actual judgement from him. he's shocked, absolutely, but he never ever participates in the name calling and shaming the other's do. and then we learn about the flock. he's so gentle throughout these conversations, you can tell he cares so fucking much, that he wants to make this work, that he wants to be good priest for them. what he doesn't realize, is that he already is, simply by hearing their story, by trying to form that prayer group. i also can't help but think of the places these conversations take in. they're in the refectory with martha, the only place martha ever called home, the place she can't escape from. he's in sam's place, drinking coke exactly like he is. that simple detail catches my eye every time i watch that scene. jud is just so inherently thoughtful. he's in vera's home, the house she's been trapped in since cy showed up, accepting tea but ultimately focusing on vera and how she feels about all of it. when she says she hopes her father is looking down at her and is pleased, he doesn't believe her, or well, i would say he's able to emphatize with people so much he knows it's not the whole truth. with cy, they're outside, showing how cy never saw vera's house the home she tried to make it for him. jud's still emphatic, still not turning away from cy even after seeing how unchristian he's being. he tries to help him and cy misunderstands him completely. he's in the bar with nat, with a water in front of him bc he doesn't drink, but he's still THERE bc he WANTS to connect with nat. he's in lee's house, his fortress, bc that's where lee feels safe. he reads his BOOK. that's so important to me, why does no one talk about it, THAT'S how dedicated he is to these people, he's willing to sit through a book he finds hard to swallow just so he could understand lee more. he's in simon's house, the house which wicks trapped her in with his manipulation, surrounded by smoke, gentle and kind, not commenting about the smoke in his face even once, there only to be a listener. they all trust him enough immediately to tell their story and they're met with absolute acceptance and kindness and they don't CARE. they never notice how much jud gives them bc they're so caught up in wicks's manipulation. and still, jud doesn't resent them for this, the only person he's angry with is wicks. that should tell you everything you need to know about him and i'm sure it told benoit absolutely everything HE needed to know.

[cherryysocks]

...forgive me, Grace.

[joshuakellin]

Oh my god

[meanest-big-lassie-out-city]

rewatched wake up dead man with a friend a few days ago and they said “do you think the reason why jud gets so upset at people calling him the “killer priest” is because he can’t say he’s not, because he DID kill a man?”. anyway i’m sending rian johnson a cheque for my therapy bills

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

small things in life that are actually worth living for

your favorite people

your loved ones

your pets

animals

nature

the smell of rain

your favorite fictional characters

your favorite movies

your favorite tv shows

your favorite games

your favorite food

your favorite books

writing fanfics about your favorite fictional characters

reading fanfics about your favorite fictional characters

gay people

old man yaoi

archive of our own

[infinityundone]

My prediction for the next Benoit Blanc film is that after Marta (accused of a murder, scared but works with Blanc), Helen (pretends to be a murdered person to work with Blanc), and Jud (accused of a murder, keeps trying to confess to it and has to be stopped by Blanc), the next in line is going to be someone who has not committed a murder, but really wants to do so and Blanc has to continuously talk them out of it while also trying to find a different murderer.

[niightegoblingtyime]

I can hear it now,

Watson #4, absolutely losing it: Everyone already decided I’m guilty, and all of my problems could be solved by just becoming the person everyone tells me I am! Don’t you see? I can fix this! I just have to kill him!

A very frazzled and exhausted Blanc: Ah don’t knohw how tuh tell you this buht… no. Do nawt do that.

[philcollinsenjoyer]

you write people having good sex you're just writing porn but you write people having bad sex. now you're writing a story

[homoquartz]

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

[piratedgender]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[mischasbongwater]

my favorite part of wake up dead man was when benoit blanc looked up at that pulpit near the end and you can SEE the theater kid emerging in his brain as the idea popped into his head to go up there and start shouting at everyone to get them to stop talking. he always has to find the most DRAMATIC ways to interrupt people

[ferrettaur]

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that