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Every january goth couples are fucking hard to try and have a halloween baby they're gonna name ophelia or some shit
Iām a Halloween baby but my parents are normal so Iām Garrett
Hi garrett
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iām obsessed with thisļæ¼
and then, two months later....
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I recently found out why my mom would never sleep around me when I was a kid. Like sheād never let herself take naps or sleep if I was awake, ever. Or if she did, she would lock her bedroom door. So when I was 6, I was asleep in my bed in the middle of the night when I hear a loud bang, like a pot being dropped and come out to the living room to see my mom standing by the window, with just a huge pile of spaghetti all over the sill, and a pot on the ground, and I ām like āAre you gonna eat all that?ā And yaāll she getās BIG MAD and yells at me and chases me to my room but then a little while later a bunch of cops show up and ask me a bunch of random ass questions about my art? Like this one cop lady keeps asking me to draw dragons for her?! And they seem mad as hell
I didnāt want to get arrested so I just never asked my mom for spaghettis after that. Lesson, learned. Donāt ask mom for spaghettis or sheāll call the damn police on you.Ā
So I have this memory in my head, and it goes unquestioned until I say it outload for the first time a few months back and as soon as I say the wordsĀ āWhen I was six, my mom called the cops on me for asking for spaghettisā My adult logic slams into place and is likeĀ āHang on. Your mother definatly did not call the police on a 6 year old for asking for spaghetti.āĀ
So obviously thatās not what really went down. I call up my mom to tell her how I remember it and on top of her figuring out why her kid has always been really cagey around spaghettis for the last 3 decades she tells me what really happened.Ā
So on that night, a man tried to break into our house through the front window. It was just my mom, and her kids so she did what she felt she had too and shot him in the head. Heād been wearing a helmet, which landed on the floor under the window.
Now I just want yaāll to put yourselves in my moms shoes for a minute here. This woman has just taken a human life. The trauma of that- the instant agony, the panic, the guilt, the fear- all of it hitting her at once, her only solace the knowledge that her children are safe. She protected her daughters. No matter the cost to her soul- her children are safe.
Then she looks up and sees her six year old staring at the inside of this mans head before saying āAre you gonna eat all that?āĀ
Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.
Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.
And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:
They all fall to their deaths.
Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.
It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff. (edit: yes, cliff then hyenas. But cliff first. Lol.)
Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took a step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.
Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.
It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.
If Steven Universe ever returned, what is it that you want to see? Would you like a series that explores on different characters in different episodes? Much like Adventure Time in the later seasons or maybe a prequel series that explores more of the Diamonds backstory?
I've always said this is what my idea is and this Ask was my excuse to draw it finally š
Steven falling for every single tourist trap on his road trip without losing even an ounce of enthusiasm for any of them seems like a very Steven thing to me.
Hey bro would you do me a platonic solid
Sorry, best I can do is a great icosahedron.
Bro. That's. That's a platonic solid, bro.
does this look platonic to you?
Nah, that shape fucks.
Find me any other website with interactions like these
The Crushing Weight of Not Knowing If There Is a Task
im starting to think this crushing weight is not about the tasks
Confession: I have a friend who likes to text me at like 4am when heās had nightmares or he canāt sleep or he just needs a friend. He thinks Iām always awake at 4am but really I go to bed around 12am and I change his text-tone to the loudest one I have just so it wakes me up when he needs me.
youāre the kind of friend everyone needs
I think that since its been a year since I made this post its time for an update. In the past year Iāve watched this post grow and grow, people I work with have told me about it as āthis post I saw the other dayā and they have no idea itās my post. The person I wrote this about has even reblogged it. He is no longer texting me at 4am. Not because we no longer speak but because the nightmares have stopped. He and I both are in a much better place. Most often the only times heās waking me up at 4am is when heās pulling me closer to him while we sleep. Heās more than a friend now and Iām forever thankful to have him. Everyone messaged me saying he was lucky to have me but I think I was just as lucky to have him and I would do it all over.
Confession: I have a friend who likes to text me at like 4am when heās had nightmares or he canāt sleep or he just needs a friend. He thinks Iām always awake at 4am but really I go to bed around 12am and I change his text-tone to the loudest one I have just so it wakes me up when he needs me.
youāre the kind of friend everyone needs
I think that since its been a year since I made this post its time for an update. In the past year Iāve watched this post grow and grow, people I work with have told me about it as āthis post I saw the other dayā and they have no idea itās my post. The person I wrote this about has even reblogged it. He is no longer texting me at 4am. Not because we no longer speak but because the nightmares have stopped. He and I both are in a much better place. Most often the only times heās waking me up at 4am is when heās pulling me closer to him while we sleep. Heās more than a friend now and Iām forever thankful to have him. Everyone messaged me saying he was lucky to have me but I think I was just as lucky to have him and I would do it all over.
reasons to be alive number one playing pretend with friends number two music
A windy day with a moderate temperature will make you feel like you got reborn into a world that really loves you this time
in the first game i cross-examined a parrot, your honor. it is far too late to be developing a sense of self respect. this is a court for perverts.
had a dream last night that the new tumblr discourse was whether or not people deserved their urls and people were getting callouts and anon hate like "I can't believe you have x in your url when I never see you actually post about them it's pretty messed up that you're taking that url away from other people who actually deserve it :/"
This was genuine discourse in 2012 you guys need to remember your history
Does this count as finding a walrus at your door?
Tumblr feels so different without the boops
mutuals, non-mutuals, ops of years old posts, you can all catch these paws
