Flaminity @focuslosing - Tumblr Blog

...Just read this thread. JUST READ IT.

This is 100% worth reading--important information presented in an entertaining way.

(If you want to know more, many major news agencies have published & annotated the actual indictment documents; here's CNN's version.)

aithris

Payback for not listening to her reasonable speech about Earth’s resources.

iamliteraltrash1

Beautiful

stevenuniverseheritageposts

Steven Universe heritage post

good-4-her

simply dont monday

roseoilz

chinese bronze sword w turquoise studded, gold inlaid rock crystal hilt. warring states period, 4th-2nd century BC

podencos

On Finding the Freedom to Rage Against Our Fathers, Minda Honey

writing-prompt-s

Your power is to summon anybody’s superior by demanding to speak to their supervisor. Out of curiosity you decided to just keep demanding the next guy up to see what happens. Increasingly more powerful and confounding beings keep arriving.

budzaya

How many times can the same thing break your heart?

zw-me-anasfaleies

As long as you love it.

xyouaremyhomex

“as long as you love it” this really hit me

feministism

wool-feathers

@nunyo-bizznez with the truest tags I've ever seen

thegingerpowers

transenbyhollis

you told your toddler not to be rude and so now he is developing an incredible skill with sick fucking burns

alethiaii

omg…but the last one with pinching fingers together and ‘this much delicious’ is fucking excellent

i am using this from now on

kedreeva

We've been losing power due to winter storms lately so my partner 3D printed me a tealight "to fill in for tumblr when you're offline"

anyway this should be official merch imo

kedreeva

If you're wondering why I will not leave this site and why I love it so much: after this went around, I got a message from Tumblr asking if they could make it official merch and then they did. It went live yesterday I think, and it's even prettier and better than this original design (they definitely put work into it which was very exciting).

But I want to say something else. They asked for suggestions on where to get these made, and I gave them the names of a few mass production companies, but I also gave them the name of my small local guys. I didn't expect them to go there, it's probably more expensive to use a smaller local shop, but I know it would mean more to them. And I was immediately told they'd check in with them, and then that's just what happened.

They went with my little guys.

So if you're wondering about the price, it's because Tumblr staff just... Listened and cared. They listened to the people who said they wanted one of these, and then they not only asked me but listened to the answer when I suggested supporting a business local to me. That's invaluable to me.

Also it's important to me that you know this comes apart so you can use just the dumpster to put things in. My prototypes are full of jellybeans.

maculategiraffe

lots of times if I tell my boyfriend that I am proud of him for dealing with a situation, or that I'm sorry he's having to deal with a situation, he will say "no it's my own fault." meaning that he feels like he doesn't deserve praise or comfort for dealing with a situation that is his fault. (for example a financial problem caused or exacerbated by him having been too anxious or absentminded to deal with the situation sooner.) and I tell him this and I will tell y'all this, that I don't believe that. I think you are even braver and stronger for taking steps to deal with a mess that is of or partly of your own creation, because you have to cope with guilt and shame on top of the thing itself, and because you're fighting against the same ingrained dysfunction in yourself that caused the mess. that's like the bravest and most constructive thing you can do and you should be proud and I am proud of you.

kelpforestdwellers

also, mistakes don't mean you deserve to suffer

rubyleaf

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

rubyleaf

Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don't even realize they're not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they're in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don't want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be "don't think about it" on endless loop.

Basically, the fictional embodiment of the "this is fine" dog.