i find the quote from princess mononoke "life is suffering. it is hard. the world is cursed. but still you find reasons to keep living." a lot more... not uplifting, exactly, but empowering - motivating - than anything about how the world is beautiful and life is a precious gift not to be wasted, etc. because the fact is that it is hard, and that's not something that should be dismissed in the name of paving positivity over the cracks without addressing the stresses that caused them in the first place. suffering is not something you have any kind of obligation to bear silently and lie to everyone, including yourself, about, nor should you be expected to. and it's hard not to wonder, especially in times like these, if maybe the world is just cursed, and feel hopeless in the face of so much suffering. but still you find reasons to keep living. the man who speaks those words in princess mononoke is a leper, ignored and outcast and abused for suffering that is neither his fault nor within his control to change, and before he says that famous line he mentions how lady eboshi, who rules the town where he lives, was the first and only person to see him as human, and show him kindness. and so he found reasons to keep living. the world may be cursed, and life may be hard, but individual acts of kindness have the power to make a difference. showing others kindness, and being shown kindness by others - those are the reasons to keep living.

I think we should bring back that thing everyone did in 2014 where you badly photoshop two characters from entirely different media together to look like they’re in love. This is my proposal for doc ock x glados please consider

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

hyperfixations are so scary like yeah this could be a month long thing or i might be thinking of it everyday seven months from now. no way to tell

(proceeds to fix him)

ACES!!! Look at this Scientific American article!!! It makes me genuinely so happy to read. We’re making it!!!!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexuality-is-finally-breaking-free-from-medical-stigma/

DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO WHATEVER UOU WANT WHEN YOURW MAKING ART ISNT THAT WILD

every so often i just think about how good it was that the most foolproof one-size-fits-all solution for dealing with basically any horrifyingly evil supernatural monster of the week in the magnus archives was just. burying them in concrete. like yeah i can believe that a few tons of grey brutalist slop would stop the wolfman or pretty much anything in its tracks to be honest. they use that shit on nuclear waste. do you honestly think you're stronger than a nuke? a fucking nuke?

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

I don't think I'm meant to be employed. It really cuts into my goofy silly haha time. and it makes it nearly impossible to have any wow life is beautiful let me take it in time.

talking to preschoolers is awesome bc they have not fully differentiated stories into 'true stories' and 'imaginary stories' yet so you will tell them about something that happened you once (coyote came out of a bush right in front of you and got startled) and they will tell you about how one time their house was full of coyotes in every room 'including five in the garage' and they're not even like, aware i think of the idea that they are technically 'lying'. they are simply telling stories about coyotes bc its time to tell stories about coyotes.

🗣️ huh?? what do you mean I haven’t posted any Link signing propaganda yet??

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.