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Favorite Sense8 quotes: a masterpost

I have a feeling I’m going to have a really good day today (S01E01)

We used to do these training courses and they taught us that drugs are like shoes. Everyone needs them but they don’t always fit. (S01E01)

So today, I’m marching for that part of me that was once afraid to march and for all the people who can’t march - the people who living lives like I did. Today, I march to remember I am not just a me, I am also a we. And we march with pride. (S01E02)

We all know when people are lying to us, we just don’t want to listen. (S01E02)

Anyone watching what really goes on in this world, how fucked up it all is, like, checking out temporarily, permanently…it is the only choice that makes any sense (S01E03)

Our existence depends on sheer implausibility. (S01E04)

Everyone wants to believe they’d be the hero, that they’d join the Resistance, try to kill Hitler. It’s such fucking bull shit. It’s obedience, not resistance. That’s the glue of every country, every army, every religion in the world. (S01E04)

I was suddenly struck by her beauty and the knowledge that all beauty is temporary. Death and Decay haunt every breath we take. (S01E05)

Impossibility is a kiss away from reality. (S01E05)

Art is like religion, for the believers, it’s everything. For anyone else…it’s just a pile of stinking bullshit. (S01E05)

Who can say if it is we who make the choice or the choice that makes us? (S01E05)

At some point we will own encounter our on parca negra, He is the thing we are afraid of, the thing that stops us from becoming what we know we can become. Until we defeat him, we will never know peace. (S01E06)

It’s not the drugs that make the drug addict, it’s the need to escape reality (S01E06)

Science is another language we use to talk about the same miracles that faith talks about. (S01E07)

We make choices and life has a way of making us pay for them. (S01E08)

He’s my brother. And not by something as accidental as blood… by something much stronger. By choice. (S01E08)

In the end we all be judged by the courage of our hearts. (S01E08)

Angelica didn’t believe in fault. She said it was the present understood by people looking backward. We have to look forward. (S01E09)

Life holds onto you and sometimes if you’re lucky, it finds a way to push back into your heart. (S01E09)

At a certain point, I realized there’s a huge difference between what we work for and what we live for. (S01E09)

The real violence, the violence I realized was unforgivable, is the violence we do to ourselves when we’re too afraid to be who we really are. (S01E09)

Do you think other animals waste as much time as us wishing for things they know they’ll never get? (S01E09)

Death doesn’t let you say goodbye. (S01E09)

Life and Death are always so mixed up together, in that same way some beginnings are ending and some endings become beginnings. (S01E09)

Love is not something we wind up, something we set up or control. Love is just like art, a force that comes into our lives without any rules, expectations, or limitations…and everytime I hear that line, I am reminded that love, like art, must always be free (S01E09)

What is human? An ability to reason? To imagine? To love or to grieve? If we are more human than any human ever will be. (S01E10)

The bed keeps you in a slum. The flat screen takes you out. (S01E10)

I want to believe that the past is done with us, the moment we’re done with it. (S01E10)

Sometimes… you make a mistake. You’ve got two choices: you live with it, or you fix it. (S01E11)

This is what life is. Fear, rage, desire… love. To stop wanting to feel them is to feel death. (S01E11)

I take everything I’m feeling, everything that matters to me… I push all of it into my fist, and I fight for it. (S01E11)

Just turn the wheel and the future changes (S01E11)

I love you, that’s why you can’t give up. I love you. (S01E12)

Faces change, you know? But not the heart. (S02E01)

Believing in something doesn’t make it so. (S02E01)

Art is love made public (S02E01)

We may be married, but my body is mine. It is not a field of land to be purchased and plowed. (S02E01)

We exist because of sex. It’s not something to be afraid of. It’s something to honor. To enjoy. (S02E01)

Who am I? Do you mean where I’m from? What I one day might become? What I do? What I’ve done? What I dream? Do you mean what you see? What I’ve seen? What I fear or what I dream? Do you mean who I love? What I’ve lost? Who am I? I guess who I am is - exactly the same as who you are. Not better than. Not less than. Because there is no one who has been or will ever be exactly the same as either you or me. (S02E02)

It’s why courage is so important. It takes courage to see such terrible things happen and still get up every day, and be able to see what is still beautiful. It takes courage to remember that this is a world where our dreams, like our grandmothers’, do come true. (S02E02)

We forget so much more than we remember. Maybe we need to. Maybe that’s what makes it bearable. (S02E03)

Hope is undiscovered disappointment. (S02E04)

We expect leaders to take us where we want to go. The problem, it seems to me, begins when they don’t. When things do not improve and yet these leaders keep expecting us to get on their bus. I think this is when leaders become something else. Politicians. (S02E04)

As adults, we learn to carefully open all the rest of the presents. We are taught to smile and to pretend that all are equally important to us. But our heart always knows the truth. (S02E05)

Your life is either defined by the system or by the way you defy the system. (S02E05)

Fear never fixed anything. (S02E05)

I see you, I believe in you, and as long as we’re together, I know there’s nothing we can’t do. (S02E05)

I sometimes forget that life’s not just full of surprises. It’s also full of gifts. (S02E06)

I used to wonder if there was something I could do to try to change the world before I understood such thoughts were unskilled. Trying to change the world only leads to suffering. All we can change is ourselves. (S02E07)

I don’t think anyone knows what life they will live. That’s what makes life feel alive. (S02E07)

Feelings and emotions can overwhelm our logic, and at the same time, logic can ruin the emotions that make life worth living. (S02E07)

I have no room in my heart for hate (S02E07)

If all the world’s a stage, identity is nothing but a costume (S02E10)

Love is not a wall, but a bridge if we let it be. (S02E10)

Nothing good ever happens when people care more about our differences than the things we have in common. The future that I hope for is the same as yours, a future where our children grow up never knowing love as a wall, but only as a bridge. (S02E10)

Art, like life, is full of risks. (S02E10)

Nothing’s more terrifying than a dream come true. (S02E10)

If your dream isn’t worth the risk, what is? (S02E10)

Here’s the thing. We all wake up and we have to take the same Terms and Conditions box: Everyday stuff will happen to you. Some of it will be good. Some of it will be bad. Choice is less about what happens than it is about how we deal with it. (S02E11)

Pain connects us. Pain binds us better to one another than anything else. (S02E12)

Love conquers all things (S02E12)

I know your kind – men that mistake cruelty for strength…the smallness of your kind of life is nothing to fear. Only to pity (S02E12)

Neutrality in the face of such evil is complicity. (S02E12)

The improbably unfolding of recent events have led me to consider that no one thing is one thing only. How people endow what is familiar with new, ever evolving meaning and by doing so, release us from the expected, the familiar, into something unforeseeable. It is in this unfamiliar realm we find new possibilities. It is in the unknown we find hope. A wedding is a celebration which can also be understood as a union of two families and in this case, this union takes on an even deeper significance. And for me, this wedding is proof, proof that for all the differences between us and all the forces that try to divide us, they will never exceed the power of love to unite us. (S02E12)

We live in a world that distrusts feelings. Over and over, we are reminded that feelings are not as important as reason, that feelings are childish, irresponsible, dangerous. We are taught to ignore them, control or deny them. We barely understand what they are, where they come from, or how they seem to understand us better than we understand ourselves. But I know that feelings matter. Sometimes they’re little, like when I smell cinnamon toast and I miss my grandma. And sometimes they are huge, like when I found out my girlfriend shares her thoughts with seven other people around the world. However, if you’re lucky - I mean really lucky - a feeling comes along that will change everything.(S02E12)

It's the year 2023 and people are asking other people how they found tumblr

#I dont know if i fit in anymore

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Painting of one of my minecraft builds- 10 hours ish total

Reblogs appreciated :]

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Can we see the build?

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Here u go :]

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Top 5 anime you think are criminally underrated!

This is a really good question, and it was VERY difficult to keep myself to only 5. These are all anime that I think deserve a much wider viewership! (Plus five more!)

I ended up spending waaayyyy longer on this than I thought, I can’t imagine how much I would have written if you’d said top 10. I can literally talk about anime forever. Here’s some I wholeheartedly recommend.

1. Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight (Action, drama, romance)

This is my newest love, as of yesterday, when I binged the whole thing. The best way I can describe it is by mashing up other anime. Take Revolutionary Girl Utena, iron out about three layers of metaphor, and trim off all of the dark themes related to the Rose Bride. Then throw it in a blender with Madoka Magica and Love Live!, add half a cup of Gay Concentrate, and serve up the result: A character-driven drama about girls at a performing arts school, who settle their differences in magical-girl-fantasy duels styled as impossibly gorgeous theatrical stage-combat musical numbers. Beyond the flash and high concept, there’s a well-written cast, solid emotional core, and really engaging plot.

2. The Eccentric Family (Drama, comedy)

This show is my favorite genre of fantasy; mythical creatures living in the modern world, right under humans’ noses. In this series, humans only know tanuki as the cute little raccoon-dogs, but tanuki are really sentient shapeshifters whose goals are to outsmart the humans who live in the cities, pester the tengu who rule the heavens, live a life of freedom and trickery, and not end up on the inside of a hunter’s trap. The story follows a family of a mother and four sons whose widely-respected father was killed to end up in a human’s hot pot, as they try to enjoy their lives, live up to his imposing reputation, and unravel the increasingly suspicious circumstances of his death.

I have called this one “deceptively light-hearted” when describing it. My friend got halfway through the first season and came back to me with the verdict, “consider me fucking deceived.” This show has weight and does not pull its emotional punches, but neither does it ever stumble into becoming grimdark. Its worldbuilding is solid and the characters are all fantastically developed. Plus I wrote a whole post about one of the main antagonists(?) who I hadn’t even mentioned here.

3. Dennou Coil (Mystery, sci-fi)

Dennou Coil is a masterclass in worldbuilding, in my opinion. It’s a near-future sci-fi world, basically if Google Glass had taken off and become as common as cell phones are today. Many people don’t see the real world, they see the virtual textures of the world as they’re rendered through the glasses. Kids in one city have learned to mess around with codes, collecting tradeable fragments that break off the edges where the system glitches, chasing viruses that hide in pockets of obselete code in abandoned areas of the city where the software doesn’t get updated often. They spend their time after school saving virtual pets from being accidentally deleted by the city’s antivirus, trading tall tales about kids who get caught by the antivirus and get their glasses bricked, and spinning urban legends about ghosts waiting just behind anything that’s visibly rendered, waiting to steal kids when they least expect it. Every detail they introduce is critical to laying the foundation for the mystery that forms the show’s plot.

Everything about this world feels real in a way I’ve never seen in a sci-fi anime. It’s all grounded in a clear understanding of programming, and lives by show-don’t-tell. The stakes aren’t life-and-death; the kids tagging glitches like graffiti to distract the city’s antivirus software are only at risk of ruining their glasses, at least at first. The plot and escalation is perfectly-paced, and the mystery is so satisfying to piece together as it unfolds.

4. ID:Invaded (Sci-fi, action, thriller, murder mystery)

This show is like Psycho-Pass meets Silence of the Lambs. To catch a serial killer, you need to think like a killer, and nobody does that better than killers. A contraption called an “id well” can manifest an uncaught killer’s unconscious mind as a bizarre, unique, deadly terrain driven by stream-of-consciousness, and convicted murderers turned “detectives” dive into these wells to try to solve the mystery each well presents and discern the identity of other killers before they can strike again.

This show is a tightly-written, perfectly paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller. The two layers of mysteries inside and outside of the wells balance high-octane, big-screen action with tight, tense realism. Plus the soundtrack is an absolute banger.

5. Ping Pong the Animation (drama, sports)

Imagine if I told you that there was a show that, in 11 episodes, unpacked how patterns of relationships are repeated across generations, how the tradeoff between talent, practice, and who you are outside of your achievements can scar the spirits of kids, and what it feels like to wrestle with the tension between your core understanding of yourself and how others expect you to be. Imagine if I told you that every major character goes through massive restructurings of their fundamental sense of self and how they see others, and that every single arc comes to a well-rounded and satisfying end. Imagine if the animation style pushed the limits of both realism and absurdity, landing somewhere between rotoscoping and caricature, pushing the impact of action and stretching the character’s expressiveness without betraying faces that are animated like real human people. Imagine that it had a dub so fantastic that it sits next to Baccano and Cowboy Bebop in my mind, shows where the cast threw themselves into their roles with their whole hearts.

Now imagine that I told you that this story is told in the context of high schoolers playing ping pong, and that it’s arguably the best show I’ve ever seen. Go watch this show.

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“I know better than to take life directions from someone without a moral compass.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

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I could rush out and follow a gipsy wagon, And marry a gipsy man, or maybe a king; On such a day I could do something reckless, Or something brave, or wild, or anything.

White clouds are running over a windy heaven, And I could follow their shadows on the hills; Light as a cloud myself, swift as a shadow, Free of my body and its earth-born ills.

I could Ring out into the four winds of heaven; Being all thought, electric, without breath; I could be swept into the Fourth Dimension On this high tide from oceans beyond death.

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High Tide

Marion Ethel Hamilton 1881-1960

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Graphic - Philip Guston 1913-1980

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“Ideologues witch-hunt” - oil on canvas - 200 x 170

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weavemama

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY

jackharknessday

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

gayfeatherfiend

Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army

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My turn.

I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.

I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.

I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.

They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.

Then I found out.

Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.

Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.

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The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.

fisharescary802

Unsettling update

oldearthaccretionist

Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!

moonybyte

Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?

Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.

They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.

And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:

And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that

So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad

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enchanted ;)

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campyvillain

YOURE TELLING ME ELON MUSK HOSTED SNL AND EVERYONE FUCKING HATED IT????

campyvillain

AND DOGECOIN TANKED BECAUSE THE SKITS SUCKED ASS SO BAD???

slayersparks

I know a lot of y’all just like love to cheer for his downfall or whatever but I’d like to remind everyone that he actually does have Aspergers and that’s why his jokes didn’t “land”. You can hate on his ethics all you want to but it’s bold af for someone to host SNL especially when they have a syndrome that limits their ability to do that and invites ridicule.

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I assure you his mental divergence had nothing to do with his jokes missing their mark. One skit was called Gen Z Hospital and was loaded on nothing but horribly misused AAVE. That was it. There was no punchline outside of using AAVE improperly. That has nothing to do with him being on the autism spectrum and everything to do with him being an out of touch billionaire boomer trying to belittle the generation that most often sees through his bullshit.

He’s also, despite his claim in his monologue, not the only SNL host to be neurodivergent. Dan Akroyd, former cast member and later host, is also on the autism spectrum and has spoken often about it.

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plus it doesn’t look as good as you think to say “he’s autistic so that’s why he’s not funny :///“ because actually we’re hilarious and he’s an asshole.