The Last of a Dying Breed

I'm Jessie. Social Worker. I fell in love with D&D. Mostly book trash but also social justice. And honestly, just trying my best.

[sm0kebreaks]

Martin PLEASE reassure him!!

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[luulapants]

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

[minky-for-short]

Celebrating the start of pride month with my favorite bisexual half elf twins <3

[elitefourkylewantstobattle]

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[mega-bitchass]

Anyone else hear that beat drop in their head or just me

[bedknees]

[itzbatz-deactivated20240722]

[cooperhoward]

i just found out merriam webster has a time traveler feature that tells you some of the words that were “born” the same year as you. it’s pretty neat yall should do this

[xpyu]

new tag yourself game: pick 3 words “born” in ur year that describe u. im geocaching, dark web and abandonware

[prole-log]

[thelittlescrimshaw]

Me: wow I’m way too attached to fictional characters

Me: *sees y’all send death threats to writers because you didn’t agree with their decisions*

Me: never mind I’m attached the healthy amount

[aroacemonster]

Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.

[lesser-flamingo]

Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations

[butch-with-a-tortoise-deactivat]

yeah that’s super important. 

[faranae]

This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.

Be kind. 💜

[dankmemeuniversity]

[teashoesandhair]

I think that whenever an actor is fired for making racist/sexist/homophobic tweets, it should be written into the series. None of this recasting nonsense or pretending that the character suddenly died or moved away. In the very first scene of the series, one of the characters is like “wait, where’s Dave?” and someone else is like “oh, he’s racist. We don’t talk to Dave any more,” and then literally never mention Dave again.

[peculiar-persephone]

Also, more actors should be fired for racist/sexist/homophobic statements.

[courtofmaasdestruction]

thinking about the beginning of heir of fire when aelin is in an alley in Wendlyn and she’s like “well at least things can’t get any worse” and then rowan fucking whitethorn walks in like:

[butterflypeaflowertea]

being mean to men is rewarding and fun and always morally correct

[ghore]

I’m on a new diet called don’t fucking look at me

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey

[beanmed]

queer is literally a slur that means weird and strange

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and I most certainly am weird and strange, what else you got?

[ladyhavilliard]

Sometimes I’m completely fine, minding my own business, and then remember that scene when Rowan saw Aelin’s scars for the first time and realized she had been a slave and he had threatened to whip her- 

[fatedophelias]

Stop that.

I’m crying now