[striving-artist]

I'm watching a period drama in the background while I work. Not a half modernized trying to be trendy one. We've got 93 layers of undergarments and proper behavior and people thinking someone gesticulating too much is inappropriate and eating ham in the afternoon is a bit shocking and no one ever yells, and at one point they talk about how ladies don't attend funerals because its inappropriate.

And there's this moment near the end where a character is desperately sick and isn't getting better. And the audience knows we need the New Doctor, but he can't come because of a whole scandal heartbreak scenario. But her sisters hear her so sick she's probably dying, and they just break. They reach the line, and they show us how agonizing it is, and it's gut wrenching, and its because these two girls run. That sounds ridiculous, I know.

The point is that showing them running --I'm talking skirts hitched up, bonnets blown back, no delicacy, no fucks given for propriety, people staring and shocked as they go by, move like there are demons on your heels -- fully sprinting. It does something to me.

That's where the emotions are. in a modern setting 'girls runs down street' isn't likely to wrench at your heart. But in this, it breaks the rules and shows that we're beyond the bounds better than any line could do. I've talked before about the boundaries of what is allowed in the world of a story, what is allowed in a character, and when and how you break that. And idk. This was just a really good reminder that scale matters. It doesn't have to be a big thing to show how bad things are, it just needs to be exactly the right thing, and you can break the audience's hearts.

[erisenyo]

Having thoughts about how Toph found people at the Earth Rumble who treated her as an equal and respected her for her skill and listened to her. How she became the Blind Bandit there and the first people to ever take her seriously were The Gecko and Fire Nation Man and the others.

And then she joins the Gaang, people who also treat her as an equal and respect her skill and listen to her, and she starts calling them Twinkle Toes and Snoozles and Sugar Queen and Captain Boomerang.

She's giving them stage names. Because gaining her stage name was the most empowering thing that happened to her up to that point. Because stage names are earned. Because the people who were kindest to her in her life (by treating her how she wanted to be treated) were people who went by things like The Boulder.

[mollyjames]

I think it's important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it's because politicians will look at usage and say "see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half". Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you "don't really need it", at bare minimum it's another data point advocates can use to say "hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding".

[telltaletypist]

i had a brief period as a teen where i was somewhat fascinated with serial killers but i fell off it when i realized that the closer you look at them the clearer it is that they're actually very boring people who just really hated women and minorities

[speedwagons-glorious-mane]

I think the way serial killers are portrayed in the media plays a role in this, they portray these people as so mysterious and intelligent with complex motivations when in real life serial killers are literally just like "my peepee doesn't work and it makes me mad so i kill people 😠"

[lovesick-on-the-loose]

Any blood-thristy monster:

Me:

[helloitsbees]

man just when i think “maybe it’s not that funny” i remember that we’ve all silently agreed that Matteo JWHJ0715 is just. a normal name. yeah he’s the director what about it. his mother was italian and his father was a license plate

[twistcmyk]

[noctude]

sorry professor i did not do this asisgnemtn becuase i was too sad! NO consequences please. goodbye

[strawbebbycat]

How Goncharov characters respond to you asking their pronouns:

Katya Goncharova: “Oh she/her Darling”

Goncharov: “Any pronouns are fine”

Andrei: *does not hear you in the midst of his rant about how god has abandoned the modern man*

[etiennelux]

matsuda shooting light is all about the “what was it all for? what was it all for? how could you do this to the father we both loved? how could you do this to me? where’s the man i considered my brother? how could i not see you as you are? how could i be such a fool?” and that’s why it’s the best moment of the show

[mo-nfrog]

i disagree :/ which makes me sad

[pansylair]

7:21am kitchen eats

[cubur]

For @snow124-art ❄️💖

All designs belong to her〜！Here I’m sending you a lil secret message with some of your AUs that are my favorite ^^！

Thank you for letting us meet your art, your creativity and you！✨

[kylejsugarman]

nothing makes me happier than thinking about that period of time where jesse was living with his aunt ginny. she seemed to really, really care about him and he totally reciprocated that feeling and felt really fulfilled by caring for her while she was sick. he wasn’t “good” at most things but he was good at cheering ginny up and making her lunch and keeping her distracted during her chemo sessions. they smoked weed together most evenings, her to ease the cancer pain, him to quell his seizures. she didn’t ever seem disappointed in him like his parents. she loved him as he was and he loved her. when she died, he felt a sense of estrangement from himself: even though she’d left him her house, he didn’t have that distraction of taking care of her, that sense of accomplishment and routine. she wasn’t there to love him for who he really was, so he dove headfirst back into the drug scene and tried to toughen up and come across as a “gangster” and make meth. his parents thought he was a lost cause, he had no prospects because he wasn’t good at anything, so he hid behind that veneer of hyper-masculinity and submerged himself in the drug scene and built up this cap’n cook persona because being Him meant being Nothing.

[1driedpersimmon]

L doodle page again except with Light and Matsu too

[ultra-baklan-the-ovosh]

i am silly, ok

[illnessfaker]

i hope you guys know defending disabled people's right to exist in public also involves defending disabled people's right to exist in public in ways that others might perceive as annoying, unpleasant, uncomfortable, and inconvenient at times. a blatant example is the "slow walker" thing. someone with tourette's syndrome who has issues with verbally ticcing is likely going to have trouble staying quiet in a public space where they're expected to be. autistic children (and some adults) getting triggered into meltdowns due to an overstimulating environment. people with hearing problems having their phone on speaker while on a phone call. a wheelchair user taking up part of the road/sidewalk/aisle. people with autism, adhd, hearing problems, or other things that affect volume control having loud conversations. someone audibly talking to themselves, which can be attributed to many things. motor tics. dyskinesia. ataxia. pseudobalbar effect. the list goes on. some of thus may even be potentially triggering for your own issues if you're someone who's also mentally and/or physically disabled, but if you're well aware of how you can't help your response to it, you should be equally aware of how others can't help themselves either. people who aren't able to be disabled quietly and conveniently don't deserve to be punished or met with anger (or turned into a spectacle) for not deciding to shut themselves away.