And the sound as it fell

Cat. 27. I was one of those quiet kids who was secretly awesome when no one was looking.

[countess-of-edessa]

i think we should stop calling them baby names so people remember they’re not just naming a baby but also a future twenty seven year old with a resume

[starry-night-on-the-impala]

that's why bella called her kid resume right away

[waitingforthesunrise]

Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.

[creative-anchorage]

[sycamorality]

would anyone's imaginary cheetah be friends with mine...

[arsonstick]

my imaginary cheetah would be friends with yours

[sycamorality]

okay!

[existennialmemes]

Not to sound like a decrepit, rambling corpse about it, but back in my day Word used to be a pre installed program that came with your computer, if you were running Windows.

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.

Old man shaking fist at cloud, wherein the cloud is the background of the Windows 98 logo.

[stydixa]

THE LITTLE RASCALS (1994) Dir. Penelope Spheeris

[separatethingy]

The only Sora that matters

[therainonthepavement]

I don't think I've ever loved a story in all adaptations the way I've loved The Outsiders-- novel, movie, and now musical.

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[callmezeemonic]

You did the best you could with all you had and knew. That was then. Here is now

[castaras]

prev tags correct

[rylandsgrace]

I feel seen

[ikebanaka]

[nessa007]

JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER "If you can't handle me at my Vecna, you don't deserve me at my One, basically."

[whatcanisayxxxx]

Henry was manipulating El all along?

Okay I know it might sound stupid, but I just finished reading the complete scripts of S4 and I still feel like… he didn't actually expect her to remove Soteria?

Like, throughout the whole time, he never even mentioned it and said nothing about escaping the lab with her…

It was El who was "confused" and assumed he would with her, and when she actually asked him about it, the script reads: "He hesitates. He has to break it to her"

It feels more like… he was just explaining to her the reason he couldn't go with her - they'd find him and so they'd find her. (It feels like his words are still centered on El's safety?)

And up until that point, he still hadn't suggested removing the chip… even though he had every reason to, and El wouldn't have been suspicious?

And more importantly, when El offered to help him, the script says: "He looks at Eleven, surprised"

Then when she said, "you help me, and I help you", we can even see he was actually "moved by this"…

…I'm confused, because on the wiki and in a lot of Reddit posts, the general consensus seems to be that Henry was manipulating El the entire time - some ppl even suggest he manipulated the other kids into bullying her, etc.

I think the part where he said Papa is going to let the others kill El was indeed, a lie? As, I don't think Brenner would just waste an experiment like that… But maybe he only made that up to urge her to escape this place?

And that leads to another question: what's Brenner's role in all of this? As, how did the other numbers have the chance to leave their rooms and bully El? I've seen some ppl speculate that it was Henry behind everything - opening doors, turning off cameras, and so on - but… well, did he really have that level of control? When El was being bullied in the Rainbow Room, Henry was literally being electrocuted by Brenner, which would mean he had no opportunity to carry out that kind of scheme?

And about him being a manipulative sociopath or not, here's another detail: when Two got punished, Henry was "disturbed":

Why would he be disturbed when no one was watching him and there was NO need to act at that moment? (Brenner was punishing Two at that moment and the other kids were watching the horrible scene)

Which makes me wonder even more about his overall attitude towards these kids… As in the VR game, Brenner said the other children "have gone quite fond of" him, and Henry replied, "well, I'm one of them after all". He also said things like, "I could teach them so much, if you let me", and "I get what it's like to be them, you don't."

Of course, aside from reading this as sympathy, his reaction to Two's punishment could also be understood as some sort of trauma response - seeing a child go through something similar to what he himself just experienced.

Btw one last interesting detail, when El decides to go out instead of waiting, she was actually trying to help Henry.

…ohh my siblings

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

[switchnx]

Wait that’s actually really good, gonna pop this out of the tags

[itsreallystupid]

[teaboot]

[strawberrycatcrowbar]

[feministism]

[edjicatrydau-deactivated2026012]

“don’t be a faggot” starts so fucking early

4 is not even close

[gracechoreography]

And then parents wonder why their teenage sons are so destructive and angry and why so many men abuse other people (employees, spouses, children)… like what other coping mechanisms did you give them? How do you expect them to notice the harm they’re doing if YOU have programmed them not to see the good that they’re destroying?

[elvisomar]

[despazito]

Big day for deranged evangelical freaks

[xeansicemane]

I know, intellectually, that modern american christianity has absolutely nothing to do with the ideal concept of the church - but there is quite literally something in the bible about not doing this. Like this exact precise thing. This is an idol that is detracting worship from the lord.

[elevenor]

Girl Meets World + getting away with cursing

[infectedechoes]

Smackle’s the best. We now know fuck is her favorite curse.

[holdoncallfailed]

i think we should be meaner about people who are super reliant on chatgpt or whatever other AI. i think we should call them intellectually weak and emotionally stunted and mindless corporate shills who have no personalities and who are actively diminishing their capacity for human empathy and creative thought. and i think we should point and laugh at them and call them dweebs

[dasenergi]

Mister Rogers

[therobotmonster]

Dang, I gotta start feelin’ better about myself.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

self compassion as resistance is such a powerful message