allie

25 • currently re-obsessed with things I liked in middle school

[papayajuan2019]

has anyone also noticed that they feel awful

[risk-repeater]

this job market is a fucking nightmare

[desultory-suggestions]

It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[owlsofavalon]

thinking about how the avengers and the thunderbolts are heroes for very different times. maybe it's just me as someone who was young enough to still be considered a kid when the first mcu films were coming out, but it really feels like the avengers represent something we can't get back to. everything felt fresh and optimistic back then; we knew they would defeat the bad guys, because the bad guys always lose! that simple. heroes like thor and captain america were inherently good people: sure they'd made a few mistakes, but those were mostly personality flaws. they were pretty much just caring, brave, honest-to-God good human beings, and that's what heroes were to us back then. they made being a hero look easy. we basked in the glorious light of their innocence and goodness and believed that a golden future awaited us.

fast forward to 2025. we're adults now, and so tired of asking where that golden future we were promised is. we've seen too much of humanity's wars, oppression, death, our own greed and selfishness, a frikkin pandemic for heaven's sake. our youthful optimism has been replaced by a hope fragile and barely alive; we don't feel the same reassurance that the bad guys will lose because there have been so many times in real life that they've won. we know now that heroes are not just 'good people.' so what is a hero?

enter the thunderbolts, a bunch of self-proclaimed losers with terrible pasts. they've all messed it up: killed people, abandoned loved ones, been abandoned by loved ones, seen too much to ever completely stop suffering and done too much to ever be looked at in the same light as the inherently good heroes of the past. they can't stop themselves from being sarcastic dumbasses. they seem irredeemable. they feel irredeemable. and yet that is exactly what we need.

because when it comes down to it they choose to be heroes. they see people in danger and they step up, even though it's hard, even though it's not natural to them. they throw themselves into the battle because that is what they have always known and they'll be damned if they sit this one out when they finally have a chance to do something good. they look at one another in their pain and hopelessness and say i know, me too, so let's figure it out together, even though they follow that up with i still hate you btw, you're still a dumbass because that's how we say i love you these days. they show us, jaded and struggling, that you don't have to feel good to do good--that you are good anyway, that you are more than what you have done or felt or been, that there is always a hope for tomorrow. there's a reason the plot is a great big metaphor for mental illness and self-worth, a reason redemption flows through the veins of that film.

in the end i think the avengers affirmed our belief in the goodness of people and the world, but the thunderbolts? they reawaken that hope. maybe their story touched us so deeply because they are responding to the hope that there's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for.

[hjartasalt]

Mods are asleep post forbidden tits

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[anothermarkiplierfan]

Perfectly balanced as all things should be…

[0v9]

[lexeirikrleif]

[fruitloopghosty]

[offbrandbeethoven-blog]

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[immortalcheesewedge]

balance

[fairyinthetrees]

the feminine urge to just fucking do it yourself

[jerreeeeeee]

giving your pets treats is so awesome. hey little animal. i love you. have something yummy, on me

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[pinnipetal]

It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again

[dualcasterjay]

and to the children in the notes saying we need this fucking baby talk to get around censorship online; there's been no credible evidence that any site other that YouTube (which will only demonetize your video, ftr) will actually censor or hide content that include words like rape, pedophile, gun, terrorist, etc. etc. and even if we take as a given they were (which, again, they are not), do not fucking comply in advance, you absolute fucking coward. and ESPECIALLY do not comply by altering your real life fucking vocabulary. don't let the technocrats dictate what words you say holy fucking shit dude!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jessmalia]

MAL-CODED CHARACTERS HALL OF FAME: #2. Caroline Forbes (The Vampire Diaries)

Your hybrid bite just killed someone and no one even batted an eye. I sleep with the wrong guy weeks ago and I never hear the end of it. How is that fair? I don’t know, Care! Maybe people just expect more from you. Why?! Because being good comes SO easy to me? Well, guess what, Tyler? It doesn’t! I am a vampire. I have the same impulses as you. So I’m allowed to make some mistakes along the way. Yes! I slept with Klaus! But AFTER you walked away from me. That was my choice. And I’m living with it! And I don’t need to be hearing about it every five seconds. So just get over it. Or get out of my life, but… I’m done feeling guilty.

[elainiisms]

that's MY emotional support female character from a shitty early 2000's drama!!!

[disteal]

shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

[disteal]

Thank you everyone for another great turnout to the january-february mass depressive episode

[sophiaurora]

“oh yeah my weekend was crazy”

my weekend:

[etiennelux]

seized by the simple human desire to watch the host based on the novel by stephanie meyer starring jake abel as ian o’shea

[alexandriaocasiocortez]

Being a flop changed my life. The world is not my oyster, I am glowing. I walked into a pole this morning. There's very little I wouldn't do for $1,000

[vidibit]

Mutuals who I have hardly spoken with but we instead communicate through silently liking and reblogging each other's posts... I hope you're all having a lovely day ✨