It'll Be Alright

ree. storyteller, poet, philosopher.

[number-one-castiel-apologist]

“Why are you watching it again? You already know what happens.” Because The Character is in there, bro. THE CHARACTER

[ficauthor]

Psych is such a weird show bc in a lot of ways it's constantly asking, "can you forgive your father? even tho he could never forgive you, can you forgive him?" and the thing he could never forgive you for was not meeting his exact very specific expectations. And the answer keeps being yes you can, because not doing so is worse. You tried and it hurt more. You tried and it made you more miserable. You forgive him because he's all you have most of the time, and its somehow less complicated than whatever you have going on with your mom. You can forgive him but you can't forget, and then one day he realizes that he was wrong and there was nothing he should have taken as a slight about you, but you both just never acknowledge this paradigm shift in your relationship bc it'd be more awkward then fighting again for the millionth time. So things get better but you never say why, you never acknowledge it unless forced and somehow you forgive him more than your mom who you were never even half as mad at.

But also it's about breaking and entering into sea world and making a janitor think you killed your best friend so you can escape, it's about gaslighting your coworkers into thinking you are the dumbest man alive, it's about only closing a mystery when it's as funnt as possible and making sure everyone else around you is as baffled as possible. It's about childhood and nostalgia and growing up in the most chaotic way you can. It's about people being killed with a t-rex skull, it's about slapstick and committing to the bit and being the silliest messiest bisexual on tv in 2006-2014.

It's about a son and his father and forgiveness and somehow also they are in a circus tent trying to find out why a corpse was launched from a cannon. And also there's an extended musical episode that makes it onto my personal Spotify year after year

[mintgrace]

did yuo know its very normal for girls to fall over when they stand up? this is not iron deficincy,, it is girl supries naptime

[sirtobybelch]

‘Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred.’ I.III.III

[nat-20s]

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Voting ended onJun 5

[soysaucefox]

average trc plotline

[leebrontide]

I keep seeing posts claiming that x y or z action you can do to build a better world won’t matter. That capitalism doesn’t care, and your own actions dont amount to much.

It’s so painfully individualistic. Of course me doing that thing isn’t going to save anybody or anything.

Im not trying to be a superhero who personally saves the say.

I am one leaf making oxygen in a massive forest of other trees making oxygen. I am doing my best and having faith that millions of others will do their best as well.

Because that can and has made big changes over time. Like. That is just how change happens. Thats cultural shifts. Thats political shifts. Thats how lasting changes happen.

I don’t plant milkweed because I’m personally gonna save monarch butterflies. I plant milkweed because I know thousands of us are gonna plant milkweed and send money to the people fighting horrible pesticides in court.

The standard for change isn’t “is my doing this going to change the world?” The standard is “is my doing this part of the shift I want to see my community make?” And if the answer is yes, I do my best.

[startledoctopus]

also one thing you are doing is training yourself for a moment when your action could make all the difference. you are training yourself to look for gaps where you can do something that makes a difference. you are developing community by helping each other and by failing to change things together, so that when you find something that does work you can push to the max, and it's not all on you alone.

the George Floyd uprising did not succeed in defunding the police, but it built a lot of networks. it set a lot of people on edge in a way that allowed them to tip into action in 2025. thousands of people in my city learned that tear gas and cop rushes are survivable and not as scary as they look from pictures on the news

[queenlucythevaliant]

Long-term anxiety is an apprenticeship to courage. Long-term depression is an apprenticeship to joy.

[skyline-sunset-in-my-veins]

I need to talk about The Tarot Sequence more because that series truly took over my brain for the past few years and it's only getting better with age. You meet your protagonist as he's trying not to act too out of place at a fancy part he's minutes away from crashing - *literally*- as part of a job for his mentor. Debating on if its bad manners to toss shrimp tails into potted plants as if he's not minutes away from burning the place to the ground with his magical fire saber, gutting a few creeps and ruining his best friend's borrowed tux in the process - while said best friend lovingly threatens him with bodily harm. All this of course is only set up for Bad Decision Of The Night that begins a whole clusterfuck of Reluctant 35 Year Old Chosen one . . . now with Bonus Kid and a New Job. But hey he and his bestie get paid enough to keep the cable on, so not too shabby for one night's job.

[mevil]

[ceruleanheaven]

honestly given my parents whole [gestures vaguely] i am actually incredibly well adjusted

[my-dailydreams]

[shawnaise]

“I asked ChatGPT”

well, I asked Ovaltine Jenkins and he said “that’s not my name, Shawn.”

[jerkeline]

One way to get tasks done in the day is to make yourself a Chekhov's List. Put all of the things you have to do on a list, and now that they've been revealed they'll need to be completed by the afternoon (third act) and when you've completed something you can Chekov that task from the list

[mangoeater1000-deactivated20201]

please support this interracial french gay couple and their 20 kids

[captain-acab]

“le couple homosexuel interracial français milieu a vingt enfants” en fait c’est une erreur statistique. georgs d'enfants, qui habite dans une cave et adopte dix mille enfants chaque jour, est une donnée aberrante et il faudrait pas l’avoir compté

[spillsnchills]

When a character doesn’t realize they’ve been, like, shot or whatever and they hand brushes against their side and comes away wet with blood, and they’re just staring at it like wtf is this and then their knees just totally give out on them and they sink down, maybe gasping a little as the reality finally hits them. That’s good stuff.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I see that, and raise you a character who knows they’ve been shot, but waits until the rest of their crew is out of sight to put their hand against the slowly spreading stain of blood on their shirt, then trying to steady their breathing so they can follow without letting on how injured they are.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Okay but like the character who doesn’t realize they’ve been hurt trying to see if everyone else is okay only to slowly realize that everyone is looking at them with mounting horror. Then they touch their side to find it’s wet and oh no

[lavenderpanic]

all of my writing is actually just thinly-veiled fantasy about being seen at your worst and still being loved