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robin (they/them)

[sacred-portal]

[nyanbinyuri]

[anxeious]

[buffygf]

the embarrassing thing about cordelia insulting buffy’s hair and wardrobe is that she clearly admires buffy’s fashion sense and appearance like it’s partly why she immediately tried to befriend her in welcome to the hellmouth so she’s just mad and lying about it

[futuretrain]

all stories are about time loops, except for time loops, which are about grief

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[genericaces]

angel the series

[slut-jpeg]

snoopy image of the day

[grandfatherbird]

buffy summers is the ultimate "she should have been at the club". because she was at the club. often. and yet,

[justsomeguycore]

the fact that i still have to unlearn shame… like come on that’s literally the most embarrassing thing to not have unlearned yet

[annabelle--cane]

vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.

[jvckietaylor]

[oliviadumhan]

Narrator: She did, in fact, have superpowers that nobody told HER about.

[crplpunkklavier]

a gentle fact about this world is that people will want to help you. a cruel fact about it is that you do have to put on your big boy pants and open their contact on your phone and say some human words to ask them for it

[podencos]

ending —> transition —> beginning —> ending —> transition —> beginning —> ending —> transition —> beginning —> ending —> transition —> beginning —>

[weltenwellen]

A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm

[flanaganhorror]

That's enough for me, if it's enough for you. I reckon that's enough for me, yeah.

THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR 1.09 "The Beast in the Jungle"

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[ritavonbees]

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.

[clatterbane]

A very similar approach is also the main focus of Kate Bernstein’s Hello, Cruel World. Besides the free “lite” version she put out (linked there), the whole book is available to borrow on archive.org.