Every day I curse not being born with skills that are in any way marketable. My whole life being told "you are so good at these things! they are worthless things, though. not deserving of money. sorry, you'll just be poor forever."
Most shows need to end at some point, and in many instances they benefit from ending sooner rather than later. This is not the case with doctor who. To me, half the entertainment value of dw comes from trying to write new content for a show that’s been around 60+ years. I need it to ferment; I need to see what doctor who will look like in another couple of decades. I need it to go on forever. I hope future generations will have to experience centuries, maybe even millennia-old doctor who. I hope they have lore so incomprehensible it takes a lifetime to even begin to understand
I wish people interpreted asking for sources as an invitation to provide knowledge and background and substantiation rather than attack to be defended from.
i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"
You can tell Percy Jackson was written for a kid with ADHD because every important item in the series gets teleported back to its owner when it gets lost.
some character design practice w/ percy :)
a character type i'm really into is the ex-something - exile, obviously, but also anyone who used to have a role that was also an identity and now does not: ex-mage, ex-assassin, ex-monarch --
it's about loss of identity and recreation of identity; it's about how being an ex-something is impossible because the ghost of what you were haunts what you are now; it's about reshaping the way you see the world and yourself in the world.
tea, coffee
you can be completely wide awake and lay down for a minute without a problem. but if you have cats WATCH OUT! they will see this as an opportunity to cuddle you and they are so soft and warm and they purr so loud. then all of a sudden it's an unexpected trip to snnoooork mimimi town
having gay sex is like the least problematic thing that has happened in that US senate hearing room
A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.
If the solution to your problems sounds like “we need a blank slate” it’s a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is “burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out”.
That’s not problem solving. It’s barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn’t just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.
Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.
Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to “us good, them evil; kill them.”
‘Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.’ 💚💚
"oh sorry, i guess i was infodumping again" - sad, shy, apologetic
"you sly dog, you got me monologuing" - cool, strong, confident
i love when the gender options are "male" "female" and "prefer not to answer"
like it just reads as "boy" "girl" and "what are you, a cop? i don't owe you anything"
My gender is "come back with a warrant"
having a character playlist is like this song is them. this song is who they think they are. this song is their brand of insanity. and this song is about a specific ass situation they were in. this song is about their relationship with another character. that song is about the relationship they would have with another character. this song is them but slightly to the left. this song is totally misinterpreted just to fit them. this song is just their vibesTM. this song is if everything had gone different. this song only has one line that applies to them. and this one has nothing to do with them but i was vibing with it real hard at the same time i fixated on them and now i'm unable to think of it without thinking of them
