i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.

most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.

it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.

and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).

i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.

grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.

find comfort in envisioning the end

Social transition being seen (by some) as this super easy thing that isn't as hard as real transitioning (medical) is bullshit. Be critical of the idea that there are some trans people who just "have it easy" because they are trans or because they are trans in ways you may not be.

Social transition is just as difficult, hard, and rewarding as medical transition. Maybe it is not as hard for some, sure, but that is not the same as thinking that social transition is inherently easier or lesser. If you're socially transitioning, your voice still matters.

Jason absolutely knew about Gotham and street smarts and Gotham street smarts before he met Bruce. But he needed Batman to take something like “don’t stop at any lights on lower fifth, you’ll get robbed” to “don’t stop at any lights on lower fifth; and if someone comes up to rob you here’s what you do to get away or fight them off.”

ok Hot take. i prefer a theme and motif if its something independent of prior literature and is entirely set up within the novel. like the green light in the great gatsby as opposed to like. A pieta. a pomegranate. theyre good for web weaving posts but idk theyre very literal with one interpretation. i like when something recurs in a text and is transformed into something entirely unique within the text.

It’s really beautiful how Tolkien takes the time to honor the dead. After Gandalf’s death, they take the time in Lothlorien to deal with their grief and sing their laments, but as there is no body, that’s all they can do.

But when Boromir dies, even when Aragorn has to make the decision to either pursue Frodo or Merry and Pippin, and both are rapidly growing farther from the three left, they take the time to honor their friend. They don’t leave immediately, even though efficiency would dictate otherwise. No, instead they take the time to decide how to “bury” him (quotations only because it’s not burying in the strictest sense of the word, but rather reverently dealing with Boromir’s body). And then they gather trophies of his last stand and arrange them in the boat with him, taking time to “[comb] his long dark hair and [array] it upon his shoulders.”

How many times have other adventurers dedicated valuable time to honor the bodies of fallen companions, specifically to this extent? More often than not, they have to leave them behind, or only take the time to fold their arms or close their eyes.

Occasionally, they’ll build a pyre or bury them or whatnot, but it’s always after the battle that they set aside a significant chunk of time, or they live up to the term of fantasy (which isn’t a bad thing!) and there is no time wasted in building a cairn or burial or what-have-you.

My point is that time is spent, time that could be used for more “productive” things, such as, I don’t know, pursuing Merry and Pippin whose lives are at stake. And it isn’t framed as a bad thing, because it isn’t! Each life is precious, even when only the body is left. And they take the, well, the time to acknowledge this, in a reasonable and conservative way. (And when I say conservative, I mean that they pick the burial most fitting for their running clock, balancing both their need for a grieving period as well as the haste that the hobbits will require.)

I can’t speak to the rest of the deaths in the books as I haven’t caught up and refreshed my memory, but I will touch on another death, this time in the movie, that shares the same theme.

Theodred.

While he certainly hasn’t been totally forgotten by the fandom, I believe it is fair to say that he gets less discussion. Which is fair, considering he gets almost no active dialogue that I can remember and he is unconscious for most, if not all, of his screen time (and book time) before dying shortly after.

And one could say it’s because he’s a prince, one could say it’s because he was the heir, etc., etc. But it honestly makes no sense to dedicate all that time to preparing and putting on a large funeral when Saruman is right at Rohan’s door and there are so many bigger and more impactful decisions to be making now that Theoden has his mind back.

But, again, it isn’t criticized in the movie. It isn’t treated as the wrong decision. The people, included Theoden, needed time to mourn and Theodred deserved to be honored, even in death, even as the great forces of orcs and Uruk-hai were marching across Rohan.

Time is valuable, time is precious, and it should be wasted, especially when you’re trying your hardest to make sure you and yours survive. But time is meaningless if you don’t use it to live and subsequently honor those who have lived.

I came up with this idea for an AU and it's been occupying my mind for way too long lol My brain kind of already created a main trio for it too-

Anyway, here's all the main characters ig

The designs are definetly still a work in progress. Also I completely forgot about Lana-

people always act like there’s such a hard line between “psychotic person” and “normal person”, and I feel like that plays a lot into the dehumanization psychotic people face. cause once a nonpsychotic person internalizes this logic, suddenly we’re attractions and interesting and a fun research subject cause we’re just so fucking other that we become wholly unrelatable. for the nonpsychotic person, it’s unimaginable what psychosis must “really” feel like. so they treat us like a fictional species just trying to understand our existence. and they don’t worry about how their actions might affect us any more than they’d worry about insulting a vulcan by calling the vulcan thought process “just so interesting!”.

but in reality.... the difference between a psychotic person and a nonpsychotic person is not so stark. all human brains are prone to psychosis. all humans are capable of experiencing psychosis in one way or another. anyone could develop a full blown psychotic disorder at any time, no one is born immune to this. and while there’s some contexts in which it’s necessary to differentiate who does or doesn’t experience these symptoms of course, largely I think nonpsychotic people are doing themselves a disfavor - and being ableist in the process - by ignoring the hard truth of the matter: us psychotic people are exactly the same as them.

rip lily evans you would have loved those funky butterfly clips

this render keeps making me laugh

MY remus is super tall and super quiet and hates attention therefore he hates being tall because it means standing out so he hunches without realizing it’s because he’s always tried to make himself smaller and he’s always hated his nose so he got nostril piercings to help and he had braces but didn’t wear a retainer after so he has really straight bottom teeth but a gap between the front ones that slightly stick out now and he’s extremely smart because of how hard he studies but he’s even more intelligent outside of a school environment because he’s lived a life where empathy has been what’s saved him and the scars are self harm scars that haven’t faded but they’re white now and they cover his entire body and he’s still very self conscious about them but has worked really hard to be okay with wearing short sleeves in the summer and he loves reading classics but he also loves smutty love stories that he’s embarrassed to buy to the point of handing them over to the cashier with the summary face up not the cover and sometimes he has moments where he can be mean like sooo mean and he knows this about himself and he hates it but it’s a part of himself so he can’t help it and he’s not very good at expressing his feelings but he’s gotten better over the years he really has and he takes lithium and he changes his outfit at least 7 times before going to something he’s excited about like a concert or a night out with james and he refuses to use any type of pen except for his favorite black ballpoint pen which he always has at least one box of at home and also he loves orange juice with pulp and usually demands to have it when he takes his lithium preferably with a fun straw

time and again, when you guys ask “i don’t see it” yet think if “i give up on my desires” and if “you’re aware” you’ll “see it/ get it”? it is misidentification itself. (been there myself)

you’re aware it? you experienced it. that’s it.

example: you want a pink elephant? you do. it’s like you deciding to open tumblr, you just did. you didn’t have intrusive thoughts, doubts whether you can open it? you just did? effortlessly, before you processed “i need to open tumblr” YOU JUST became aware.

i have seen several people say that they think metatron put something in aziraphale's coffee to brainwash him into coming back to heaven, but honestly i think the coffee was actually just metatron's way of seeming more likeable/trustworthy since he knew that by ingratiating himself with aziraphale he would be much more likely to persuade him to come back to heaven and become an archangel

Alan Ruck on Conor and Logan's relationship (and a little look into why Connor wasn't a contender for heir apparent). (x)

—“with every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, i can hear it. the prophecy. it echoes through the halls of time. it is written on the surface of every star. even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming.” (brian a. mcbride, dominion, 2013).