"It wasn't your fault, and even if it was, you're not getting left behind. Period."

I love Percy being Grover's biggest champion. He consistently fights against Grover's internalised guilt, and constantly shows him that just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you don't have worth. Imperfection when you're trying your best doesn't make you any less worthy of love or friendship or loyalty. Percy shows Grover that at every opportunity. He won't hear or discuss leaving Grover behind because of something that wasn't his fault, but Percy also reassures him that even if he was at fault, that wouldn't change a thing. He's allowed to mess up and still be loved.

Paris, yesterday (03/23/23). This is an excerpt from a video by journalist Amar Taoualit posted on twitter

This is what they’re doing to a peaceful, registered-with-the-proper-authorities march.

You can hear protesters shouting “children! there are children!” and “that’s my grandfather! my grandfather is on the ground!”

I think some families felt safe going because traditionally, union-backed, “registered” marches are peaceful and the riot police waits until they officially end, when only the more radical protesters are left, to attack. Not saying that is fine, but there was a tacit agreement for peace during the first hours of a protest. (That’s exactly what happened in Lyon yesterday, and there were also a few kids among protesters. It ended up being fine but it made me very anxious to see them, and it looks like I was right to worry.)

Things turned extremely violent in the night. I don’t feel like chronicling it, but suffice to say there were more that 900 fires in Paris. I don’t know what to think of the overwhelming silence from international media on the subject.

Anyway, I know that in principle we should all be able to protest and the police shouldn’t attack, and we’re supposed to be a democracy and we shouldn’t bow down to wanna-be autocrats that want to suppress our voices, etc.

La réalité c’est que pour quelques temps en tout cas, il faut laisser nos enfants à la maison, et que si vous êtes âgé, malade (asthmatique !), déjà blessé, personne handicapée, etc. il vaut peut-être mieux passer votre tour pour ces manifs-là. Il y a d’autres façons d’agir.

Notamment, je suis sûre que les syndicats ont besoin d’aide logistique et d’argent, et LFI, dont les députés sont sur le terrain, sur les piquets de grève, a certainement toujours besoin de plus de militants (j’ai pas ma carte chez eux pour être claire, mais je pense que c’est le parti qui soutient le plus sincèrement le mouvement).

Les députés LFI Louis Boyard (au centre) et Carlos Martens Bilongo (à droite), dans une manifestation le 20 mars. Photo de @teamroscoes (merci !!)

La député LFI Mathilde Panot au piquet de grève des éboueurs de Vitry-sur-Seine le 16 mars (photo de son twitter)

^ these are pictures of lawmakers from the leftist France Unbowed party participating in protests.

yes, seriously

Reading the secret history makes me truly wonder if humans are capable of the love described in books or if we solely love people for the aesthetic and need for love.

Do aesthetics play an essential role in love?

Appearance, yes.

Personality?

Is a person's personality part of their aesthetic?

Do we change our personalities to conform to an aesthetic?

If so, isn't love entirely dependent on aesthetic?

Can anyone resists Elvis' grimaces?

Genuinely don’t know if anyone else has realized this either, but ever since Thanks To Them aired I’ve been wondering what hidden message would be in the episode titles. I figured that the titles would create some sort of message when put together. After learning that the the third episode is called Watching And Dreaming I immediately tried to see if there was a secret message. And I found one.

Thanks To Them

For The Future

Watching And Dreaming

Look at the first three words.

Thanks For Watching.

That’s the message.

I was already sad about the show ending. It hurts more now.

please Lord, give me a muscular masc girlfriend.

i'm cooking and watching the eras tour in my clean apartment, that smells of bookish candles and the roses i bought for myself today and i feel more at peace than i've felt in a long time

The underworld saga got me screaming into my pillow 😭😭

**my mother described me as withering away 😋🥰🤭🤩best. compliment. ever. But I am trying this to eat more so she can not be up my ass.

Sun 15:(Day1)⛅️ 454 cal. Did make a smoothie with flax & chia seeds it was so good.

Mon 16:(Day2)🌧️ 498 cal. Probs had more than this as I licked a bit of icing and jam off of a cake like an actual pig but I don’t know the cal intake of that so I’m just pretending it never happened.

Update:

Tues 17:(Day3) 426 cal.

Weds 18:(Day4) 386 cal.

Thurs 19:(Day5) 182 cal.

Fri 20:(Day6) 379 cal.

Update:

Sat 21:(Day7)⛅️ 272 cal.

Sun 22:(Day8)🌤️ 294 ~ I only ate soup today but I was with my mum for like the entire day so you can imagine the problems that caused. she’s taking me to the doctors I am not about to put on all the weight I just lost.

Mon 23:(Day9)🌤️ 442 cal. Wow. Even though I walked around 13,000 steps today I feel really disgusting. i HAD to eat more but no one forced me too and I had a bit of chocolate because my blood sugar is really low but I feel so fat😭. We also baked blueberry muffins I made separate ones for me but it was too salty and such a waste of calories. God I want to throw up but I can’t.

Update:

Tues 24:(Day10)☀️668 cal. Technically - exercise I’m at around 468 but I binged this evening on chocolate as one does because I’m so fucking depressed the doctors was shit I want to kms. This is me being so real I thought lemme lie on here rq cause it’s so embarrassing but I’m just gonna starve next week fr fr. Xoxo

ima kms, i was working on a dyhard animation on flipnote and accidently deleted, like, half of it

Something I found funny is how many people didn't understand Ben and Devi, and that's like one of my favorite things about this ship. And I'm not talking just about fans, I'm talking in canon. The girls don't understand them, they were like, why would you want to be with him?! but as the story progress, they get it, Devi is Devi when she's with Ben, and it's the same for Ben. Fabiola sees Ben under a different light when Ben talks about Devi breaking his heart, not because it's about Devi but because Ben is vulnerable. Fabiola is like damn you have a heart? And the little smile she gives them with Aneesa at the end of s4, perfect circle. The fact that Paxton gets it like even in s3 Paxton, told Ben, "She had something with you that we don't share" Yes he was talking about them being smart but in S4 when he smiled at them making snarky comments about eachother, he get it now.

I just love that, that EVERY person in Ben and Devi's life ended the show, understanding what they have (obviously, I'm talking about people who know they have a vibe). They did it too, and that's why I'm not worried about their future. They're going to be brilliant together

when the disability is disabling and the chronic pain is chronic and painful

They are burning books

People in Sweden are gonna do another book burning. This time a Tanach in front of the Israeli embassy. Two weeks ago they allowed a burning of the Quran in front of a Mosque.

I feel sick.

THEY ARE BURNING BOOKS

THEY ARE BURNING THE TANACH

and all I can think of it how we bury our Tora and Tanach in a Genizah. I think of the sacred place the written word has, and I mourn, almost like mourning a relative.

They are burning books