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my husband made the accusation that my favorite genre is Band of Gremliny Little Boys Are Friends…and well…Newsies Holes Sandlot Peter Pan not to mention literal Boys Town

#arguably The Thief? ?

hmm on reflection I think my whole thing about the Hamilton quote, besides my conviction that we need to maintain martyrdom/self-sacrifice as a separate category from suicide, is that “dying is easy, living is harder” seems to me to be what depression tells us. depression says “death is an easy escape”, depression says “if you go on living it’s going to be impossibly hard forever”. and depression lies!!! accepting its premises and then saying “but I’ll heroically do the hard thing anyway” is a necessary step if you’re in the thick of it, but it’s not the ultimate step! recovery allows you to actually, finally reject depression’s false premises, and recovery is possible. you won’t necessarily live in depression’s world forever.

#I think if you accept depression’s premises it becomes increasingly difficult to have principled opposition to things like MAID #you can see how it’s exploitative and money-driven #but you can’t quite explain why it’s inherently wrong every single time even with ‘perfect’ consent #because like…life sucks right? we all agree life sucks?#and I think on tumblr (especially the tumblr of yesteryear) people are afraid to reject depression’s false premises #because if they admit that it’s a lie then they’re afraid no one will be able to see how hard they’re fighting #but that’s the paradox I think.#we have to be able to BOTH acknowledge how hard people with depression are fighting #AND affirm that their experience is not definitive of the ultimate truth of reality #we are doing them no favors by acting like what they see and believe is correct.#(and why would george washington agree with it?? anyway)

lemon-lyman

You see!? You spend most of our time being, you know, you. Then you write something like this to me.

#tww

The Secret Country also has tumblr’s-posts-about-the-Pevensie’s vibes

reading The Secret Country and something something the difference between playing pretend and an adventure…the difference between being able to say “let’s say Benjamin had too much wine and fell asleep” and having to hope and wonder that such a thing happened and tremble in fear that it might not have…it’s about the giving up of control! you cannot write the whole story you can only write your parts! but that can change things! “an adventure is, by its nature, a thing that comes to us. It is a thing that chooses us, not a thing that we choose”!!

#cate reads #I think grown ups are apt to forget that playing pretend was such a very collaborative process #everyone decided together #and you could go back and do it right if it didn’t land properly #and becoming an adult is realizing how all that playing pretend didn’t quite prepare you for freedom and risk #and for genuine adventure!

hayleywiiliams

# some things never change

#taylor swift

usamirenko

strongarm is such a funny verb like i am going to make you do this. And btw I am using my awesome and powerful arms

#text

sophsun1

The Bear – 2.01: Beef

#the bear

cherylblossom

He was glad about the erasure. It was just one more way to eliminate Lucy Gray from the world. The Capitol would forget her, the districts barely knew her, and District 12 had never accepted her as one of their own. In a few years, there would be a vague memory that a girl had once sung in the arena. And then that would be forgotten too. Goodbye, Lucy Gray, we hardly knew you.

#tbosas

still thinking about the distinction @lovesodeepandwideandwell made between situation and feeling in “Bejeweled”. it really is like how Taylor dresses herself up in costumes to play different characters in folklore, except in Midnights she’s dressing Joe up in costumes to play her exes.

#this is me admitting I need a music tag

do I buy cuter sneakers or less cute, more lightweight sneakers

#new balance why must you torture me

I’m gonna spend this whole reread drawing lines between Queen of Attolia and Gaudy Night ✌️

#the last time I read tqt I’d never read the Wimsey & Vane books!!!!!

I’ve been trying reaaaally hard to exercise self-control and only read The Thief during night feedings so I don’t run out of ebooks too quickly and have nothing to do, but now that I’m on Queen of Attolia I’m afraid all bets might be off

#my favorite book for so many years!!!!!

interesting that Ambiades meets the fate of one who tried to steal Hamiathes’ Gift and failed

#also! what would Attolia done with the gift if he’d gotten it to her???#tqt 30th anniversary reread

Ambiades: good riddance

Phantogram, singing in the soundtrack: it’s a cruel, cruel world

*beat drop*

Pol: *shoves him off the mountain*

#uhh this is a niche post but it had to be made because I couldn’t find the gif I wanted

prokopetz

Yes, you've successfully dodged allegations of monarchism by having the heroic princess decide to abolish the monarchy and institute representative democracy in the last five minutes of the game. Bravo.

Now give us the sequel where every prospective heir in a thousand-mile radius comes out of the woodwork claiming she's not allowed to do that and her actions should simply be construed as abdication, five different people declare themselves King, the nation plunges into civil war, and the ex-princess has to ninja around murdering all of her would-be successors in order to make the transition stick.

#text

francesderwent

*me going through my likes* was 2024 a golden year of fandom-posting or was it just the last year before I got married and didn’t have time to watch new shows

francesderwent

it is wild how Gilmore Girls just used to be everywhere. like, we all just accepted it as if it was an inevitable force of autumn. we thought about it even though it made us miserable.

#those days do seem to be by and large gone???#like. it’s just exhausting

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