no

nico. 28. white/latino. agender. icon by inspirobot. [icon id: an image of a person standing with their back to the setting sun. because they're backlit their face and body features aren't visible. image text reads: "the difference between a dream and randomness is that randomness is always conspiring against you.] [header id: a picture of the shore on the great salt lake, white sand is visible and there are mountains in the distance. along the very edge of the water, the color is a pale pink, before fading out to the blue of the rest of the lake]

[ruidusgays]

i believe her

[ashlgcostumes]

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

[spring-ephemeral]

it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.

[paparoach]

i will be your 30 year old mutual

[bookhobbit]

The first rule of sewing is you can fix anything if you have patience, creativity, and a little bit of extra fabric! The second rule of sewing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[fool-counter]

The first rule of sewing is you can fix anything if you have patience, creativity, and a little bit of extra fabric! The second rule of sewing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

fool count: 1

[bookhobbit]

yeah that checks out thank you

[chajunhwanie]

satoko’s beautiful layback spin

[aidaughter]

t shirt that says I PUT A NORMAL AMOUNT OF THOUGHT INTO STUFF

[holly-hill]

Thinking about Naim Reid. Thinking about Naim going to the pastor and his wife. Thinking about Naim going to a police station and coming out to a cop.

Thinking about how the beginning of the movie introduces the idea that he is so fearful — afraid of the snake, afraid of heights, and the threat of the spider. Afraid of his and Ryan’s reflection as they’re making out. He’s so scared, and he’s just a kid, and we see over and over again this childlike trust he has in the people who are supposed to help him.

Why does he go to Hunter’s parents? Obviously there was some aspect of jealously, but Hunter and Ryan were also actively hurting each other. He doesn’t just watch them make out. He watches them pelt each other with fucking rocks and I think it was scary enough for him to regress into the idea that they genuinely needed help.

So, he does what he was raised to do. He asks for help. He watches Hunter get dragged in to the dark and he goes to the cops and he asks for help. He has that nightmare and he asks his mom for help. He’s attacked by an evil entity and he runs into the gas station asking for help and NO ONE IS HELPING HIM. Not the church, not the cops, or Izzy, or his mom.

In the end at the mill, entity Ryan tells him again that they want him to be afraid. Then in the daylight IN THAT SAME PLACE his mom confirms it. She tells him he needs fear. HE ALREADY HAS IT. He was already afraid at the beginning of the movie!!!! He’s been afraid the whole fucking time !!!!

And as my good personal friend Henry Chang once said “If you cannot be unafraid, be afraid and happy.”

So, he stops asking for help. He runs, and Ryan is there, and they cannot be unafraid but they will be happy — and I guess I’ll just be thinking about it for the rest of my life

[myjollyfroggyfriend]

Aof literally said: Trans people will guide you and save you. Trans people are the bravest, they're a pillar of queer communities all around

[holly-hill]

The thing is, Ryan wants Naim to stay so fucking badly. He asks like 4 times in 60 seconds —

Do you like it here? What do you like about this place? So nothing then? There’s nothing you like about this place?

DO YOU LIKE IT HERE. And while it is his way of asking “do you like ME” I also think he’s being so completely literal.

Ryan does not think he’s ever going to leave. It’s where he grew up, it’s where his family is, he probably already knows what job he will have when he graduates, and which bar will sell him his first legal drink, and every issue in the house he’s going to inherit. He knows what the rest of his life is going to look like and I don’t even necessarily think he hates it but GOD wouldn’t it be better if Naim stayed.

He KNOWs you think this place is a shit hole but please for the love of god find something you like so you have a reason to stay — because he doesn’t think he’s going to be enough.

He’s terrified because this is his home, and he wants you, and you hate it here. He has found things he likes about this place, and he needs you to find them too, so he has something he can point to when you try to cut and run. IM SICK

[withdevovotion]

and then HE has to cut and run because as much as he loves this place — it doesn’t love him anymore. sickening sickening sickening,

[lokaror]

i dont know how you people can listen to eminem after he fucked up being a second century warlord so badly

[explodingsilver]

I've seen some posts trying to make fun of former gifted kids by comparing them to former student athletes who insist that they could have gone pro if not for a specific injury, and those posts always backfire, because my reaction to them is "You're right, we should treat former student athletes with more compassion than we currently do"

[self-loving-vampire]

I went from being very physically active to getting the "your body doesn't make energy properly anymore" disability so I can completely understand the grief that comes with circumstances outside your control destroying parts of you you were once proud of and locking you out of the life you could have had. It's not a good feeling.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

... was that not the whole point of that comparison? Are we supposed to dislike the kids who were pushed into overworking and permanently damaging their bodies at a young age by people who should know better but value second hand glory over the health of kids?

[catilinas]

more benches in museums

the benches need to have backs!

[starvariety]

if i think too hard about nikki’s experience in Obsession i feel physically ill. imagine one second you’re just walking up to your house after a night out, and then the next, you’re looking out of your own body, but you’re not longer in control. you’re a prisoner to a terrible, unnatural version of yourself that only exists because of a choice someone else made. when you scream, nobody listens. when you claw your way out for long enough to explain that this isn’t you, nobody listens. when you beg the man who trapped you in this situation to put and end to it, to set your free, he just. doesn’t. listen. and then when you do finally regain control, all your friends are dead, and you are covered in their blood. because of a choice someone else made

[ispyspookymansion]

being a horror fan will have you saying sentences such as “i liked it a lot, super gross and sad”

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Also true crime

[ispyspookymansion]

no thats a different and worse thing i am not associated with you

[batsdotjpg]

tbh potato is easily in the top 10 reasons to live

[glowpart2]

Did you guys know that this isn’t your grave and you can get out of this hole? I just found out