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[fairycosmos]

sooo annoying that my parents didn't provide emotional support growing up now it's a whole fucking thing

[morphmaker]

the silmarillion bride

[eizneckam]

He delivered the One Ring to Mordor is what he did. Endured torments that no one else could have, made the journey only he could have made. He destroyed Sauron! In this house, Frodo Baggins is a hero, end of story

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[mezzodical]

[animentality]

[naamahdarling]

It's called bodily autonomy, you douchebags, fucking let old people do what they want. I hope she died with her back blown out and absolutely blasted on her substance of choice.

[kyraneko]

Yeah, bodily autonomy and the dignity of risk and the fucking fact that if you're dying anyway, there's no benefit whatsoever to wasting your last hours of earthly existence in the bland beige walls of a nursing home or hospital and it should not only be allowed but offered as a service to bring the dead or dying (or not dying yet) person out into the world to enjoy those parts of it that aren't allowed inside the bland beige walls of a nursing home or hospital.

Let them be taken outside. Let them be taken home. Let them be taken to their favorite places. Let them use their substances of choice. Let them see their pets. Let them do really inadvisable bucket list items. Let them risk precipitating their deaths. Let them go out on their own terms, and also let them hang out on their own terms in the meantime.

Also, deschedule ALL drugs for people on hospice. "You can't do that, you might die" "I have some news for you about the existing situation." I mean come on.

(Minnesota recently passed a "happy hour" law allowing nursing home patients to drink alcohol. It's a good first step.)

[frabjousdaily]

nuclear family radiation poisoning

[toskarin]

have you seen the lord of the rings movies? the practical effects look great, but there's also an amazing digital serkis

[leebrontide]

Good morning!

Please remember that glorifying the grind is an attempt to wrap the abuses of a corrupt system in honor. Do what you have to do to keep bread on the table but you don't have to valorize being ground down to dust in exchange for crumbs just so that corporations can continue to run the money extraction machine.

[mapleejay]

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

[mapleejay]

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[beardedfilmmaker]

[anxeious]

[macklesufficient]

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Mother's Day can be a painful reminder, so here's a salute to all the kids and adult children who grew up with absent mothers, angry mothers, negligent mothers, abusive mothers, overly-critical mothers, codependent mothers, overwhelmed and struggling mothers, mothers who ignored your cries for help, mothers who sacrificed your happiness to placate others, mothers who tried to do better but failed, and mothers who didn't try quite hard enough.

And to every child and adult who has a complicated relationship with their mother or caretaker--it's okay to feel conflicted. It's okay to feel hurt and love and resentment and pain and sympathy and longing and guilt bundled up into one big tangled ball. It's okay to struggle to reconcile the bad memories with the good ones that simultaneously exist. It's okay to be angry about the ways your parent failed you, and also aware of their personal struggles, and the way their parents in turn failed them. It's okay to recognize that you were loved but also that you were treated unfairly, unkindly. Contradictions are the natural state of the world. Multiple truths coexist. It's okay to be conflicted.

Parents are humans. Human relationships are complicated, and cannot be summarized by a greeting card. Wherever you are coming from, I hope your future holds healing and love, love, love.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Oh, and Happy Mother's Day to everyone who had to raise or reparent themself. You should never have been put in that position, but I'm proud as hell of you for surviving. You deserve a bouquet of flowers and a box of sweets and to be celebrated and have your struggles acknowledged.

[rylandsgrace]

Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

[sexuallyfrustratedavocado]

everyone talks about how strong and great Aragorn was for refusing the ring when Frodo offered it to him as if this man has not spent his entire life dodging leadership and responsibilities like bullets in the matrix 🙄

[lesspopped]

[kiskeronation]

having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.

[oaluz]