This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:
If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.
This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace
everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.
ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them 😅 so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!
[ID: a photograph of a seal with a blobby splotchy silver pattern on its back that resembles light refracting in water, next to a photo of light's flowing white stripes at the bottom of a pool. Second set of images is a fawn ccurled up in the grass, next to a forested trail aglow with dappled light spots. end id.]
i love that post thats like “never trust how you feel about your life after 9pm” that shit changed my life. every time i feel bad i look at the clock and i’m like Aha It’s 10:26 PM You Cannot Fucking Fool Me
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
This particular bit of the trailer really caught my attention. I've briefly spoken before about how noticeable the influence of daoism seems in kingdom hearts. This bit very clearly echoes the beginning of the second chapter of the dao de jing.
(Two translations)
I think this also plays into the whole light against dark narrative that we've seen play out. For example with Xehanort and Eraqus. (Their whole colour palette is a yin yang reference for crying out loud.)
The yin yang as a symbol comes from daoism. As can be seen from this bit of text, two opposites define, flow into, and cannot exist without the other. No dark without light, no silence without sound, there's only an after because there's a before. But you cannot seperate them.
And seen here when it comes to Oathkeeper and Oblivion. The teeth of the keyblades are even stylized versions of the kanji for light and dark. (And the light one also being the number 7 in scala numbers, because 7 lights.)
We've seen that pure light is unsustainable as is the case with pure dark. They exist in tandem. The fairy godmother said as much.
The push to center light and fight to eradicate darkness only serves to destabilise the balance and have the equal and opposite reaction.
While I'm using this specific scene for this point, it's been said again and again. Usually in reference to darkside. And as we can see from the trailer, it's only gotten worse over time.
When we look at dark road and at what happened between terra and eraqus it shows us that the fear of darkness, rather than accepting it as a part of life, is the very thing that usually brings harm.
Mickey changed his views because he saw that it was possible with Riku.
Sora's currently suffering from this disbalance as we've seen from anti/rage form and the massive darkside.
Now with Riku following his dreams to find Sora, I hope that he'll be able to bring that balance.
HERES MY 1000000% WRONG BRAINROT THEORY ABOUT THIS GUY BUT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT
I know we've been saying this is Sigurd but like,,, what if this isnt? I keep thinking, they showed us Luxord, Strelitzia, Vali and Xehanort, and they're all characters we know the face of. I know we've seen Sigurd before with the hood and the jacket pretty much almost lines up with his design, but that could also maybe be the uniform of his society?
This might be the KHML brainrot talking but what if this is Brain, and he's simply wearing the same uniform because he is/was in the same society as Sigurd in the end?
(Under the cut as to why I think this is a possibility)
1) the eyes
Notably, on a first glance he looked like he had brown eyes, but its actually central hecterochromia. The centre is gold/brown but the rest of his iris is grey. And guess who has grey eyes?
(His eyes might be a kinda grey-purple colour but that could be down to stylisation but also note, Eraqus does have grey eyes although more blue toned than Brain's) BUT- thinking back to the central hecterochromia, we dont know what happened to Brain during KHML, so maybe something occurred for this to happen?
2) The flow of his hairstyle
The flow of his hairstyle is very similar, if not the same to Brain’s (I did also refer to who is possibly Luxu at the end of UX to get a better look at Brain’s hair, also ignore how messily I threw the images into the canvas)
You may be thinking, hey doesn't KH4 have more wavy hair compared to Brain? Which yes, true, but this is something else that could be drawn down to either stylisation or maybe just Brain's hairstyle has slightly changed over time as its been grown + cut.
3) Facial features
They're eyebrows, noses and mouths look exactly the same plus its funny how we see this guy of all people with a breif smile when we've seen Brain on 2 occasions with the same smile.
4) IDK IM GOING INSANE IM PRETTY CONVINCED THIS IS MY BOY
i LOVE the diversity of fanart going on with the xehanort umbrella scene. is xehanort offering sora comfort? is he mocking? righteous? uneasy? well-intentioned or not?
there is SO MUCH that could be going on here and i love seeing people explore the different possibilities
I couldn’t resist starting another Luminous once I saw this line of fabric. It’s called Color Collage by Shelley Davies from Northcott and it’s been in the back of my mind for ages.
I’m using six colours in the piecing, which should make it 92”x109” (unless I mess with the pattern even more and take one of the rows out completely) which will technically be a king size LOL The seventh colour pink is gonna be used on the binding so I get to use alllll the colours we had in stock in the shop 🎉
Someone please stop me, I can’t stop making these fucking things lmao 😭😭😭😂😂😂 I had a plan to do something else but I couldn’t help it!
I did take one row out of the centre so there are only two red centre blocks instead of three. 109” is too big for my queen bed, but I can work with 101” LOL
Technically this will still fit a king at 92”x101”, but I am a blanket hog and that feels like a really skinny king to me.
ALSO??
Because I altered the amount of rows (downsizing) but did not alter the amount of blocks I made, I ended up with just enough left over to make two matching pillow cases! They are even on point like the quilt.
Not as big as the greyscale king for my brother, but still. It feels big.
As you can see a little from the roll on the back of the long arm, I found a fun rainbow universe print to put on it with all the colours on the front.
I’m quilting the pillowcases too, though in a tighter pattern so they can handle more washing.
I love it so much. My favourite Luminous, I swear.
The pillow cases look so good too. As I mentioned, I quilted them much tighter than the quilt so they can be thrown in the wash a lot more. Same pattern, just smaller design.
It’s so busy, I could stare at it for hours finding things in the prints.
Also? I love the pink binding. I really did want to use every colour, so this was a nice compromise to having to resize everything LOL
The backing is also so busy LOL You can hide a lot of pet fur on both sides of this thing.
The pillowcases turned out great. I used the leftover from the backing to back the pillow cases so that everything matches. And they’re envelope style so the pillows won’t slip out. Hate it when the pillowcase slips off my pillow.
I had to sew three 45” wide strips of fabric together for the backing to fit on the long arm. Since the quilt was only 101” at its widest, I had a whole 30” strip that was usable and perfect for this.
can I be honest? I was so pissed off by friends and family criticizing my soap choice that, for half a year, I did an experiment where I washed one hand with Palmolive and one with handsoap, to prove that it didn't make your skin any rougher. and do you know what the result is? it does make your skin rougher. and now I'm even more pissed off.