just trust me, you’ll be fine

riley • 29 • she/they • 🥀

[smashingorpassing]

some organizations working on the ground in gaza right now

gaza soup kitchen

the sameer project

salam charity

watermelon relief

[knightriley]

yeah they kinda ruined mirrors for me forever with mahariel and tamlen and merrill

[officialdogmeat-deactivated2015]

[europhiliafortis]

dragon age 4

[frankiecorleone]

My understanding is that she’ll be coming around the mountain when she comes

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[divorcedwife]

i am the one who cant recount what we've lost

[theowlseye-deactivated20240403]

Obsessed with how some people get so attached to their own headcanons that they get mad when they see a character presented as they are in canon

[poetikat]

via @ourlordapollo

[flowerbleedme]

My incredibly bleak philosophy of compassion is that we should all pity each other horribly and practice an according amount of kindness.

[flowerbleedme]

I asked for a pastry at the coffee shop. When I raised my card up to pay, he simply said "you're good." and waved it away. I wondered why. I wondered what made him think I deserved to have my order be free. Sparing me those two dollars.

Sitting down at the table, I remembered the scars on my arm. The universal signifier of "This Kid Needs Help." Maybe his kindness was only out of pity. He saw those and assumed there was some great misery and wanted to offer me some relief. It's generally good to be kind to people who are hurting. But I wasn't hurting that bad.

The thing is, there is some great misery. People generally aren't doing that great. There is a great misery within me and within him and within everyone, and some people notice the pain, some people express it, others don't. But we all suffer from something.

It doesn't matter if someone seems to deserve some relief. Everyone needs it. Everyone is suffering constantly. Some more than others, but still. This Kid Needs Help applies to everyone.

Thirty minutes later, I went to get a second pastry, intending to pay and leave a tip this time. It was the same cashier. As he reached to grab it for me, I saw scars on his arm.

But it doesn't really matter. He'd deserve a tip anyway. Because it's never just us hurting.

[pokemonarchive]

タルップルちゃん — Tarupple-chan (2023) Illustrator: Jiro Sasumo

[theoptia]

Hélène Cixous, from Stigmata: Escaping Texts

[lilyflxwers]

ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know

[postcardsfromheapside]

That DA2 post cracked something in my brain.

It was all about how DA2 - and Anders and Fenris in particular - was about relatable trauma. I think that's true to an extent, but it made me think that possibly some (not all, but some) of the upset towards Veilguard is that VG isn't mainly about trauma in a "relatable" way that DA2, and even BG3 was. Which isn't to say that it's not relatable. I think DA2, and BG3 get a lot of love because they show traumatized people acting out because of their trauma, and people find that intensely familiar and love acting it out and feeling justified and revenged.

But Veilguard is about grief (and regret). The environments, the codex, the dialogue. Everything is LITTERED with artifacts of grief. I could write a post alone on Bellara asking Cyrian "why couldn't you stay a memory?" and that anguish of grieving a living person who isn't who you thought they were. Who you think won't love you enough to be a better person.

Grief isn't comfortable. It's terrible, and intense, and consuming, and lonely, and it never really ends. We don't deal well with grief in western culture. We're more comfortable with rage. You can see it in how we post on social media, even.

So now we've got this game that has several different ways of exploring grief, in the admittedly limited and imperfect mechanics of video games, but still - different from what we've seen before. And I think the fact that the characters aren't afraid of doing it, with compassion and love, makes people feel weird.

[mousegirlheart]

um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.

[kosmogrl]

the lioness still concerns herself with things she should have gotten over a long time ago

[knightriley]

i want to make a crow rook so bad

[rat-detector-24-official]

Today I share with you bronze rats from the Meiji period.

[fluentisonus]

people are like you just need to apply to 10 jobs a day meanwhile each of the jobs want you to write them 1500 words of uniquely tailored sycophancy & then manually input your cv into their custom application form 3 different times