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You understand a lot about Guts and Griffith dynamic when you realise that Griffith’s true self is Gut’s persona, and Gut’s true self is Griffith’s persona
Griffith claiming about individuality when he is deeply rooted in societal archetypes, whereas Guts while working as a soldier is deeply individualistic
Thats why we see Griffith always being with other people and Guts alone. Griffith’s deepest desire is to integrate with the society and Gut’s is to be a vagabond
depression tips™
shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.
moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over.
put on clean, comfortable clothes.
put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.
drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.
clean something. doesn’t have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink.
blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.
make food. don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if it’s ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something.
make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you don’t think you’re good at it.
go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.
call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. if you can’t, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them.
cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.
Circulating. Seasonal depression is creeping around now.
Lets keep this moving
the thing I really like about The Good Place is that it thematically revolves around ethics and what makes a person good or bad (both in the sense of– how do we define good and bad, and in the sense of–what aspects of someone’s formative environment and social group influence how they will treat other people).
and the conclusion that the show comes to over and over is both that it is possible to become a better person, and because it’s possible we owe it to each other to keep trying to be better– for all eternity if we must.
there’s no end to it, and (should I make a prediction) no real “good place” where you’ve gotten to the finish line and “won” at being a good person. it’s an eternal commitment to other people.
you create your own good place, because whether you’re in a good place or a bad place is defined by how people treat each other. when your community has collectively learned to respect, value, and help each other, you experience the peace and support that you might have once imagined in the abstract being awarded to the truly “good”
The Roof Dance: Maomao vs. Shisui
(Spoilers) While I don’t feel like the light novel presented Shisui’s exit as a prolonged “dance” like the anime did, I thought it was interesting how parallels could be drawn between her final dance and Maomao’s of the season one finale. Whether this is intentional or not, who knows, but I couldn’t help but think about it watching Shisui’s exit.
Both danced on a roof of sorts, under the stars, it was a send off (Maomao for her mother, Shisui for herself) and Jinshi was present for both. To me it’s the details in how they differ that are fascinating.
Maomao’s dance marks the beginning of her mother’s life as a wife and no longer a courtesan. Shisui’s marks the end of her life as the doll of the Shi Clan. Jinshi arrives at the end of Maomao’s dance and is able to catch her when she falls. He is present for all of Shisui’s dance but does not attempt to catch her, as he realizes her dance is the finale to her family’s performative end.
Their roles are also reversed. Where Maomao looks like a normal woman on a daily basis, she takes this opportunity to wear makeup and doll herself up. Shisui on the other hand is used to being presented as a consort so is covered in makeup, unmarred and beautiful but as she’s dancing she’s got blood on her and is dirty from the explosions.
To me all of this can point to the differences in the two women, where Maomao’s life is marked by beginnings and Shisui’s is marked by endings. Shisui is freed by her “death” and Maomao is freed by embracing the changes life brings moving forward. Just my thoughts, could be totally off but I kept thinking about it when seeing the final dance.
This is a beautiful comparison♥️
niche trope I enjoy: person recounting a story of something terrible they did and the way they describe it makes it sound like an active decision where they were completely in control and knew what they were doing and enjoyed it, but if you look at the bare bones facts, it's like. are you sure about that? are you sure you didn't just panic and lash out and do something irreparable? are you sure that's what you wanted and you aren't just retroactively assigning yourself agency to cope? but you as the audience can't really know the answer to that, because the storyteller is the only one who was there and this is how they're choosing to preserve it, and that matters for how they want to be perceived going forward... but you do still wonder.
I don’t understand how they did it, but I could really feel the warmth in Gwan-sik’s presence from a television screen
What really broke me while watching when Life gives you Tangerines, was how just after three days of Dong-Myeong’s death, the sea turned so quiet and gentle, as if it just forgot what cruelty it had mustered a blink ago. It gave a lifetime of grief to a family and just moved on from it, as if nothing had happened.
Yet it was the sea or nature only who remembered her mother and son after all those years, while everybody else moved on. The contrast kills me to think that nature at one moment can be so uncaring, while in the long run cares enough to store our pain for us so that we can carry on with our life
The aesthetics mentioned in Picture of Dorian Grey really just originate from humanity’s want to control and possess others.
the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal
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NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP
While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive
alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife
im going INSANE thats MY POST.
It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.
my dad, trying to explain the concept of money to me: say you have a sandwich, and i need your sandwich. but i don't have anything to give you. you're not just gonna give it to me.
me: i would just give it to you.
my dad:
in elementary school we had. basically an immersive economics lesson that was "playing City," with different jobs and businesses; it was mostly semi-free time for socializing and selling/buying toys and snacks from each other. one of the lessons we were supposed to learn was the importance of paying a small amount of money into health and/or business insurance, because you had a chance of being hit with the Daily Disaster and a huge bill.
anyway, some kid who didn't buy insurance got hit with a "medical bill" early on, so he was supposed to be bankrupt and have to sit the rest of the game out. the 8 year olds were not having it and spontaneously invented crowdfunding so he could keep playing with everyone else.
kids who don't 'get it' are right, actually
endlessly, morbidly fascinated by how when you're a kid you're constantly having parents, school, religion, media, all drumming it into your head that Sharing Is Good And You Need To Do It, and then you grow up and suddenly they're all like right never mind all that, this is The Real World and it's every bastard for himself
The best thing of Wake Up Dead Man is how it shows the way in which Jud sees people, i.e. we see the characters via Jud’s eyes
The story starts with Jud introducing the characters, and while the rest of the characters see each other and themselves as fixed archetypes, Jud sees them as human beings, full of flaws and goodness, and most importantly capable of change, fluid.
Thats where his past plays such an important role I guess. Because he himself defies the archetype of the noble priest, he personifies the highest highs and the lowest lows of humanity, and this self connection helps him see the same capacity in other characters as well. Capable of extreme goodness when shown the correct path, or rather this belief in their inherent goodness.
Jud neither reveres someone nor viscerally hates them, he meets everyone in between, sees them in all their truth and accepts them. He understands that accepting their truth no matter how ugly is imperative to heal them. Rather he understands that his role is just to serve them so that they can do the healing themselves.
“by using me in your game, you're setting me against my real and only purpose in life, which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, but to serve them and bring them to Christ.”
“People improve when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them, when they don’t? No one is beyond rehabilitation” ~ Michael, The Good Place
L was slightly evil, SLIGHTLY! Why are people comparing him with Light Yagami???!!!
I think its such a nice touch that Martha in her last moments finally got to see Grace in her most human, authentic form. Earlier whenever we see Grace’s flashback via Martha’s eyes, she always looked demonic full of hatred and anger. However when father Jud asks her to let go of that hatred, she is finally able to see Grace in all her truth, just a poor girl who has been shamed and judged all her life, finally that demonic filter drops and she sees Grace Wicks in all her humanity.
PS : kudos to this movie for showing women as humans, not as harlot whores, not as patron saints, but as Humans. Their pain is neither romanticised nor worshipped, but is shown in its true form
One thing I haven’t seen talked about a lot is one of the most symbolic twists of the new knives out movie being that Monsignor Wicks was the “harlot whore” everyone had been fearing all along.
This is according to Wick’s own standards for why his mother was a “harlot whore”: he A) had a child out of wedlock who grows up with at least one absent parent and B) had a love of power and material possessions that lead him to scheming to get his grandfather’s jewel back so he could be rich. He also removes all symbols of Christ from the church because he claims it's more important to remember the "harlot whore" he had for a mother, and Father Jud even tells Blanc in frustration that none of Wicks' homilies are about Christ at all, but about Wicks himself.
And the key telling point is that it was never the removal or death of Wicks' mother that brought Christ back to the church: it was Wicks’ own removal. He was the "harlot whore" that was keeping everyone from Christ. Not just in the literal sense, but spiritual as well. Though the literal is beautiful too: Father Jud brought back the symbols of Christ and renamed the church “Our Lady of Perpetual Grace” (meaning mercy and love), and literally named it after her. There is only one member of the Wicks family whose name is on the church it’s not Prentice, or Monsignor Wicks, or Cy. Because the church was never about what any of them wanted. It's about the grace that Christ offers.
One thing I've always deeply admired about Wei Wuxian is his unshakable hopefulness. He moves through life with such playful lightless, yet every step he takes leaves an indelible mark on the world and the people around him.
For all that he embodies the heaviest virtues- honor, integrity, an unwavering commitment to doing what is right, he never lets the weight of those ideals extinguish his spark. Even after losing everything- his golden core, his family ties, his reputation, he comes back in his second life still teasing, still laughing, still choosing kindness first.
No matter how dark the circumstances, he retains his faith in life and in humanity. People are inherently good and are worth saving is literally his core belief. This belief is not naive, yet a deliberate choice he makes again and again which saves from the quicksands of fear and despair all around him.
Thats why I think MXTX in her parting words said-" hope you all be like Wei Wuxain in character and Lan Wangji in virtue' because Wei Wuxian's character is the embodiment of how to retain this hope, this love, this faith in humanity, in life. His resilience is not in fighting against whats wrong but in choosing to see the light time and again
One thing I recently realised is how much role good stories play in revitalising one’s energy. I just feel so drained all the time, and the only thing that actually picks me up is engaging with a good story.
I loved the role that misogyny plays in wake up dead man. How it is actually deep rooted misogyny which is the root of all evil in the movie.
The way all the characters viewed the Eve’s apple is symbolic of their view of women. They lust after it, want to control it, possess it, destroy it and when they realise they can’t, they term it is as sin, temptation, evil incarnate. Yet Jud who is symbolic of Christ, views it as Christ’s heart. He understands that it is not the diamond which is evil, but the people who lust after it are
It is interesting to see that the diamond destroys the life of every major character who sees it through this misogynistic framework (Prentice, Wicks, Martha, Dr. Nat) and wants to use it to satisfy their own ego. Their obsession with it destroys them—spiritually and physically. Sadly the only character, Grace who was in actual need of it and could have made good use of it was denied it again and again
The only one who is spared from this curse is Jud as he gave the diamond and women their due respect, their due grace, by symbolising them as the heart of the holiest man.
