There’s no such thing as work-life balance for neurodivergent & chronically ill people.

This is because everything in my life requires work:

All requires some aspect of work for me.

And when everything in your life requires work, your balance goes out the window.

If you're neurodivergent and overwhelmed — I see you.

If you're chronically ill and overwhelmed — I see you.

You're not dysfunctional.

You're not incapable.

You're doing your best.

CHIMNEY HAN & EDDIE DIAZ ‘Seize the Day’

buck + kids

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"I'm fine," he had the audacity to say immediately after most of these incidents

Howie 'Mr. April' Han

funniest character dynamic in the world to me is when you have one guy knows hes gay but doesnt realise hes in love with his best friend and another guy who knows hes in love with his best friend but does not know hes gay

eddie: a sworn peace officer also eddie: chooses violence at every turn

LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER chimney & jee-yun [insp] -> for @honestlydarkprincess <3

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#Buck is really fighting for every kid he will ever see because it's everything he wanted as a kid but didn't get from his parents

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

I think I've said this before, so, sorry about that. But I was taken aback when I read LOTR because I'd heard that it's a foundational work to the fantasy genre, and I was expecting it to be somewhat basic and cliché. I got the opposite experience. It read to me like a thoughtful and detailed deconstruction of the modern fantasy genre instead of the thing that spawned it. Mostly it's because Tolkien took things through to their logical conclusion where many of his imitators did not (the scouring of the shire, the lasting irreparable psychological damage to frodo, the fact that frodo actually can't bring himself to throw away the ring, etc)

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) Characters: Evan “Buck” Buckley, Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Bobby Nash, Howie “Chimney” Han, Henrietta “Hen” Wilson, Christopher Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Maddie Buckley Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Ghost Hunters, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Implied/Referenced Abuse Summary:

Here’s what Evan believes: if someone can do something that other people can’t, if they offer some unique and special service to the world, they should do that. They have an obligation to use whatever skills they have, ideally to help people. It’s just the right thing to do.

And the one thing that Evan can do that almost no one else can is see ghosts.

(The 118 are on a ghost-hunting TV show. Buck’s the only one who knows ghosts are real.)

No we’re not mutuals I’m in an unrequited following with them