babatha yagatha

[burnerformybs]

Just saying, Hugi and Aunt Freaky hurt my heart this episode. Ngl, I love Aunt Freaky as a character.

She is a mother who lost her child. She is told that there is nothing wrong with his death and thinks if that’s true then she’s wrong for being unprepared to say goodbye. She carries her son’s skull with her so she can cradle him the way she did when he was a baby. She could not make herself attend the funeral. Why can’t she be nice anymore? She doesn’t know. She can’t acknowledge feelings, because she knows if she does she will absolutely shatter. She loves Hugi and desperately wants them to visit her. But she is mean to them when they do. She doesn’t know why. She is so sorry. This sucks. She misses her baby.

I haven’t cried like that at DND before.

Don’t get me wrong! I get why people have issues with her. Especially because she triggers a lot of people’s memories of people in their own lives who have mistreated them. And her pain does not mean what she said to Hugi was justified. But she is not a villain of this story. I hope we can see that more after this episode.

[rainycatbarbarian]

i knew i liked aunt freaky as soon as i saw her

[tubes-and-dice]

Brennan giving another banger speech about grief, as always.

"The things that are gone now that he's gone were good because he was good, and if it didn't suck that he was gone, it would be us saying in some regard that it wasn't good that he was here. So it's okay that it sucks. 'Cause something good is gone."

[leftbeeftheory]

Oh this is aimed right at me huh

[finelytaylored]

he was down SO BAD IMMEDIATELY

[heatedrivalryz]

SHANE as EMOJIS 🏒

[rainycatbarbarian]

pushing paint around as journaling

[hagiomoto]

This should be a bigger news tbh

[hagiomoto]

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

[itmightrain]

I love Lee Mandelo's thing of taking a traditional rural masculine archetype (ex "white trash") and then turning that archetype into a fully fledged queer man and making them the main character's love interest

[trash-panda-no5]

That's all folks

[weekofdelight]

Pulled the goat card as I was sitting down to watch the recording and it primed me to think about pleasure and joy!

-Emily

[luthienne]

We open each meeting by asking a simple question: What is keeping you alive today? This allows us to revel in the sometimes small motions that get us to the Next Thing. Yes, I did not want to get out of bed this morning, but there was one single long shard of sunlight that stumbled in through a tear in my curtains, and the warmth of it hitting my arm got me to that first hour of living. There was my dog, who, on the mornings I do not want to get out of bed, will rest silently at my feet and wait for me to slowly emerge from under the covers, and seeing her reminds me that I do, in fact, have only one lifetime in which I can love this animal. As far as I know, we will love each other only here, for a while, and that is worth seeing what I can make out of a few hours, even when I’m wrecked with despair.

Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair

[lunarblazes]

after a lifetime of hearing about aragorn but not reading the books or watching the movies, genuinely nothing could have prepared me for his actual introduction. the hobbits picked this man out of a dumpster. he is a textbook softspoken angst prince and he is covered in dirt and he probably smells so bad. he’s the coolest man alive and is so casual about it. his number one skill is Knowing Where They Are and his number two skill is Having A Horrible Destiny That Torments Him. tolkien got it in one i’m afraid aragorn son of arathorn you are the guy of all time

[two-thirtyy]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

[taykoutmccleod]

reblog if its friday and you made it

[trixic-frankenman-deactivated20]

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[rainycatbarbarian]

#One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

[capacity2]

If I hear “I’m a people pleaser” one more time. Whole time they’re a people agitator. A people disappointer. A people exhauster.

[voidal-respite]

…

i try to please people… but i don't think i can ever make everyone happy.

but how else can i define my self worth, if not through making others happy?

[duncebento]

see how that was exhausting

[theineated]

Thought experiment to all the "people pleasers": imagine you find out everyone who calls themselves your friend is just with you out of pity and gets no enjoyment from it. You are doing the exact same shit but call it a pretty name

[crossfader-of-gender-deactivate]

Can you explain? I do this shit and I'm trying to figure it out but I don't get this one exactly.

[theineated]

I think it's best explained with the real life exaple of why I feel strongly about people pleasers. My experience with a people pleaser was that she kept hanging out with me despite not enjoying my company to the point where she exploded, blamed me for her anxiety and broke the friendship. This all happened out of the blue despite me asking multiple times to tell me if she was ok with me talking about problems in my life with her (but not exclusively because of that). Because she was a people pleaser she did not establish any boundaries to ensure my comfort and I only found out it had been hurting her all the time when she reached her limit and exploded on me. I spent quite some time after that absolutely paranoid about all my friends actually being people pleasers who hated being with me but didn't know how to say no and to this day I sometimes have to seek reassurance that my friends actually enjoy whatever activity they're doing with me and are not just agreeing to keep me happy while slowly building up their hate towards me.

The healthiest thing you can do in a relationship is say no. If my friend at any point had said "I'd rather not talk about this topic" or "I would like to stop playing this game" there would have been no problem.

Even if it had not exploded on my face and caused me psychological issues, I want to live in a world in which my friends are happy for real, not pretending to be happy for my comfort. The idea that someone I care about could be lying and stepping over their own comfort "for my sake" feels horrible.

[kayliebeanie]

PSA

This is The Adjuster (Robin Hoodie, Guy That Shot the CEO, etc.):

And this is Luigi Mangione:

And yes, they are both super cool and hot as fuck but remember, they are two different people. The Adjuster has not been found and Luigi was never involved in the shooting.

Do not talk about them as if they are the same person and do not further spread the idea that Luigi is guilty.

[ryotouzukai]

The adjuster left behind a backpack filled with monopoly money but no evidence, and carved "deny, defend, depose" into the bullet casings. That in itself is clear enough he doesn't need a manifesto.

Luigi was found days later, doesnt match some of the CCTV footage that is claimed to be the adjuster, somehow was still carrying a gun and an incoherent manifesto that opened by praising the police. Worth noting that the NYPD is known for planting evidence and has had 378 convictions overturned due to "officers' misconduct, [and] false testimony"

[trans-ralsei]

[trans-ralsei]

[caughtthedarkness93]

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.