But seriously, one of Harry Wilson's best attributes is his ability to just fucking go with it. He just "yes ands" his way through his whole kidnapping. If he were abducted out of the museum by a posse of clowns instead, our boy would be in the circus today. He has no clue what is happening at any point ever, but that's not stopping him.
Noticed concerns from people on Tumblr about how the Leverage Redemption team uses AI, Breanna in particular, and thought this thread with John Rogers would be relevant! (x)
may 2026 bring us closer to a Palestine liberated from zionist occupation, and a Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan free from proxy exploitation. May 2026 see more people gain the courage to make the world a little better than before. May we all remember to tend seeds whose trees we may never sit beneath. Consider donating to/sharing The Sameer Project, or Khartoum Aid Kitchen or Focus Congo. All power to all the people. Happy new year.
very long stranger things rant incoming…I’m sorry but I needed to get my thoughts out because volume 2 had so much potential to be good but it ultimately fell flat for me
my biggest problem with stranger things and one of the biggest reasons I think their storytelling often falls flat is because they are TERRIFIED of killing off main characters. not one of the main cast has died since literally season 1. they keep doing fakeout deaths or making us think someone is gonna die only to make them miraculously alive (hopper and max for example)
hopper’s “death” would’ve have so much more impact if he was actually dead. it would’ve given el and joyce something to really fight for. if max died, it would’ve been devastating of course but it would’ve worked so well because it’s so tragic, because she had only just realised that she didn’t want to die, she wanted to live and be with lucas again. it would’ve made for some great character work for lucas in s5 and would’ve given the party motivation to kill vecna for max. she is one my favourite characters so of course I’m happy she’s alive, but I’m just saying that the story could’ve been so much more compelling and interesting if she did die. and they can’t even kill off the wheeler parents apparently!!
instead of killing the main characters (which would be devastating but would, again, add so much weight and emotion and drive to the story and characters) they keep introducing a new character every season just to kill them off in the end. I loved eddie but I didn’t feel very connected to him because he was only there for one season. so of course I didn’t care as much when he died, at least not as much as I would if it was steve or jonathan instead, who’ve been there from the start. the main reason I did care about eddie’s death was because of dustin’s reaction.
and their refusal to kill off main characters makes the cast of characters so convoluted, there’s WAY too many main characters now and it means that the important characters don’t get time to be fleshed out properly or have a proper arc or even have substantial screen time (this has been a problem since season 3, but it’s especially apparent in season 4 and 5)
mike (who is arguably the main character in s1 apart from el) has been absolutely shunned to the side in vol 2 — he had like three scenes and none of them where important. el (literally the main character apart from will?) is just there for decoration apparently. joyce is boring and nowhere near the compelling character she used to be. jonathan is absolutely ruined because they hate him apparently? we didn’t even get his reaction to will having powers?? hopper is also boring and they can’t seem to decide what to do with him. they don’t have time to work on good character arcs or relationships anymore because there are too many characters.
essentially what I’m saying is that the duffers are fucking scared of killing off their characters even though it would improve their story and give them more leeway to work with the other characters. I thought for sure they would kill of some characters in s5 and I thought they would do it before the finale, because it would’ve added more weight, higher stakes, emotion, and drive for the characters, and made season 5 “dark” like they said it would be
jonathan and nancy should’ve died! it would’ve been sad but it also would’ve made for some great character work with joyce realising she’s been neglecting jonathan, some fantastic mike angst (finn wolfhard…carrying emotional weight…) if his big sister died before they were able to save holly, and it would’ve been cool if jonathan’s death motivated will to go up against vecna. also mike and will could’ve had some great scenes together if both their older siblings died. even just killing off karen could give us some good content to work with for mike and nancy!
but for some reason no one’s died yet and everyone has crazy plot armour. it’s lowkey too late now to make killing anyone off very impactful seeing as it’s the last episode ever, but if no one dies in the finale I’ll be pissed. but they keep hinting at it with dustin & steve and el & hopper especially, so I fear it might not actually happen, they’re just trying to scare us </3
Black Friday is such a joke nowadays. “Don’t miss out on 30% off” don’t piss me the fuck off. People used to hit each other over the head for a microwave that’s how low the prices were. People literally died. We used to be a country
I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.
dude.
$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.
Hospitals like to hide these policies under a lot of successive links in obscure places, so if you don't see anything right away, keep looking! Get friends to help! Make it a scavenger hunt. A game where you're assassins sent to slit capitalism's throat
the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.
the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional
How to explain AuDHD things to NTs, by my therapist
"Imagine you're playing chess all day, every day, on a timer, where any wrong move could result in confusion or awkwardness. You are constantly anticipating, strategizing, and analyzing every move."
"Imagine you’re an actor performing a role for 8-12 hours a day, acting as ‘normal.’ You’re following rules you’ve studied your whole life, but one small slip, like showing your interests or being yourself, might make people question you or treat you differently. It’s exhausting because the role never ends and it feels like I’m always one wrong word away from the audience turning on me.”
“Imagine that your phone battery dies by lunchtime every day and the only way to recharge it is by sitting in complete silence for 12 hours. Even then, it only gets to 50%.”
"Imagine trying to use an old laptop with too many tabs open. It lags, freezes and crashes. That’s my brain on a regular workday. No matter how much I try to "push through", the system just shuts down.”
"It’s like sprinting with a permanently broken ankle: it’s possible but it hurts, and it’s not sustainable forever.”
Some people say that there are no stupid questions, which is blatantly false. Of course there are stupid questions, and if you have one, you had better ask it, before you go and do make a stupider mistake. Stupid questions are more important than intelligent ones. I’m willing to bet more people die because of stupid mistakes than because of intelligent ones.
as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.
Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free
I really wish more ADHD mental health care told you WHY things like this matter to our quality of life.
The Hyperactivity in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is NOT about being physically hyperactive, it's about having a "hyperactive central nervous system" because it's a form of inheritable dysautonomia. The problem with disautonomia, especially the ADHD kind, is that it makes boredom flag to your nervous system as a THREAT, triggering hyperactive and maladaptive central nervous system processes like fight or flight.
But dysautonomia kills you that way. Literally, part of the reason our average life spand increase on stimulents is that it helps manage risk-taking impulsivity that can get us killed by accident, but the other part is that stimulents can regulate a hyperactive CNS such that it is functionally (while impacted by the stimulent) NOT dysregulated anymore. And PHYSIOLOGICALLY that is essential because the physical outcomes of dysautonomia can reduce your life span by YEARS if not decades through self-perpetuating hypervigelence, endocrine disruption, and adrenal fatigue.
So when the ADHD brain goes stimulation-seeking and a doctor tells you to practice mindfulness, it feels like being told "hey go stand in a functioning boiler until you can stop thinking" rather than WHAT IT IS which is the process of re-teaching your body what is and isn't safe.
Standing outside making mindful, non-interpretive/moralized observation of the world helps your brain and body re-acclimate to the idea that absence of that frantic "busy" feeling isn't a threat or a risk to your safety, and gradually reduces the level of distress that just hanging out somewhere triggers for you.
Learning WHY this stuff was being suggested and understanding what it was actually supposed to do went a long way towards changing my relationship with my ADHD. I am FAR more functional now, far less prone to shame spirals and rejection sensitivity, hell, I can **sit physically still for near on an hour at a time** now without feeling like I'm going to crawl out of my skin.
So yeah. Go outside. Let the world narrow around you and take deep breaths until it stops feeling claustrophobic or like you need to climb walls. Learn how to let little sensations become big ones like the way the heat of the sun on your skin starts as a gentle warming and be omes a unique collection of sensory moments depending on how it lands on you. Listen for sounds under sounds and let them fade in and out as you move your focus from one sound to the next. Enjoy. Move on. Rinse and repeat.
When you no longer feel like the world is actively killing you, it's a lot easier to navigate it.
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