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muckyschmuck · 5 months
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does Eli even know what sex is
hmmm, knowledge and lack thereof is truly dependent on the year ...
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so that "two good blood shots" comment. so that uh. so the fact they cosplayed young eye duo huh-
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pratchettquotes · 2 years
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"I read your report. Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?" [...]
"That's a very...interesting question, sir," he said. "You mean the people--"
"Not the people, the nation," said Vimes. "Borogravia looks off its head to me, from what I've read. I expect the people just do the best they can and get on with raising their kids, which, I might say, I'd rather be doing right now, too. Look, you know what I mean. You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
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yonemurishiroku · 1 year
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Percy Jackson with his normalcy strip off him vs Jason Grace who has never had normalcy to begin with. A story.
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phantasm-masquerade · 6 months
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Antis are making me so glad I’m not normal. I may never fit in, but at least I don’t tell people to kill themselves.
Normal =/= good/moral/kind and in fact I would argue the exact opposite.
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yanderefreud · 10 months
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ruth-t · 29 days
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Call me insane, but maybe I'm just allergic to mediocrity, and bravery is my chosen antihistamine.
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evapo-rated · 1 year
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Judgment things!!! I know anon asked for it, but more judgement stuff to come, I’m gonna bring in teddy :D
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feralposting · 2 days
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something something ohh nooo I’m so drunk rnnnn would be a shame if someone took advantage of thatttt :3
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I think the other thing about US media being afraid to be "boring" is that it sets unrealistic standards for the viewer, especially young viewers.
People like to deny it, but media does influence the way we live our lives and the choices we make. To what extent depends on how much we are aware of that influence. Young people (and by young, I mean children, teens and young adults under 25) tend not to question things to the extent that adults do. This does not mean young people cannot be smart and it does not mean that all adults are reasonable, but young people have more working against them than adults do.
So, when teenagers and young adults are presented with media where all the characters around their age are "quirky" and charismatic (even the ones who aren't supposed to be), and they're all going out and getting into trouble, partying, or creating "lasting memories," at some point a lot of young people this kind of thing is marketed towards are going to look at themselves and their lives and wonder what they're doing wrong. They're going to feel like everyone else is living their best lives and they're just boring...but the reality is that most young people's lives are boring.
I know I certainly went through a phase where it felt like everyone was ahead of me and that everyone else was experiencing these grand "rights of passage" while I was sitting at home doing nothing. And even when I did go out and have fun, it felt incredibly underwhelming, because I was convinced that something had to happen at these events that was going to *change my life* in the most indescribable ways.
I do really wish more media romanticized normalcy because I'm pretty sure a lot of young people would appreciate it.
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coelhomagodesangue · 1 year
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bshocommons · 3 months
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The path back to normal life is indescribably long once death has swept the feet out from under those of us who are left. Grief is a wild animal that drags us so far out into the darkness that we can’t imagine ever getting home again. Ever laughing again. It hurts in such a way that you can never really figure out if it actually passes or if you just get used to it.
Fredrik Backman, Us Against You
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robylovi · 3 months
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I’LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT WHAT I RLLY WANT
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catmint1 · 8 months
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Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed—sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.
—Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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tirrrb · 4 months
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I recently just finished watching the colour purple, a movie centred in Georgia as a social commentary of normalcy on life.
Well as normal as a day in the life of an Atlanta pedestrian can be, juxtapoxistion, maybe, take that as you will.
When I say “life” I mean, race, gender, and environment, the subjective jelly inside of our donut which dictates our flavour.
I’m kinda like popmerknickle
There’s an idea that the “jelly” of life is separate from the donut, and that’s so fatal to the causation of real trauma people experience everyday. You can’t define your life’s experience with a thesaurus no matter how hard you try to in your tinder profile. In the same way this thiny veiled film of outwards perception doesn't begin to summarise the joy of taste that is you.
The sanctity of your flavour must be kept sacred babe.
However, we still try to define life’s experiences, under hegemony right. This is where we get theory from, this is where we get nuanced subjective experience in the framework. Metaphorically speaking, the social relations you make in your day to day life, the act of caring for yourself or others, the complacency of normalcy you partake in whatever way defines your act of “life”.
It’s important to ask what our sense of “normalcy” within community contributes to. I’m under the impression that we’re all flowers, one of my friends is a tulips that sparkles blue, one of my friends is a dazzling yellow chrisanthemum, I’m a cactus.
The way we water each other and ourselves changes because we’re not all the same flower, we have different needs, different ways of watering each other situated around those needs, my photosynthesissss, needs a cuddle night sometimes and that’s okay.
And although our inter-communal interactions can be beautiful, ignoring the reality of how they came to be is a disservice to the love given to me. If I did that I’d only be watching myself grasp in failure and agony at a sliver of an aesthetic of love I’m comprehending on their surface.
I’ve been thinking a lot about trauma and what that means towards community, because we’re so much more than just the good moments of our lives right, we’re also the horrible, the beaten metaphorically or even literally generation who are coming to an age of adulthood. With that maturity comes the ability to form your own reality. As someone who’s had a shonen father and yandere mother who lusts for my downfall. The sanctity of chosen relationships has never been this cemented in my life. Afterall we don’t choose our circumstances, we’re born into them.
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void-thegod · 6 months
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I'm tired of being the bigger person.
Of being more understanding and compassionate.
I'm tired of giving but not receiving love.
If I stay to myself and forsake all of you, somehow something is wrong with me?
When I've been nothing but hurt and disappointed by people?
Yet somehow when I show the same sort of humanity it is judged differently.
So why shouldn't I judge?
To discern that no one I've met thus far is worthy of my time and patience?
You don't want me. I get that. You want parts of me.
But I want a whole person. Who is for me and who I'm for.
Not whatever this shit is people have going on. Yes. I want to give myself to another person. To love and understand them. To be there for them.
Yet somehow my being insecure or just.. all over the place is weird? Because I want a real connection and am desperately looking?
Before.. before I give up on humanity entirely. Before I commit to dying alone.
But oh well. Maybe it's just one of those things that is a waste of energy. Because everyone can't have community or love.
Even if they should have it. Would normally have it. But.. I'm just too out of left field for people. Too many conflicting characteristics. Too complex. Too weird. Too intense.
I've spent my whole life trying to be more. To be more comfortable with others. To be more understanding. To be more - of what it seems to take to be successful. To matter.
But as long as I am what I am.. I will always be an outcast. That's fine.
What I want is the one woman I'm looking for...
And Safety, health, freedom, and love.
Seems pretty normal.
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