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#legacies is a comedy

i had to be offline this morning because i’m too Sensitive today but i’m gonna try to be sincere for a second and say that i think caring about dean winchester to the point where we all Need to celebrate his birthday is actually something really beautiful, for him and for ourselves. he’s been with us for fifteen years, and he’s going to stay with us, and even if he couldn’t be taken care of within his own narrative, we can do that for him!! all of us who carry him in our hearts and maybe feel embarassed over how deeply we feel for a Fictional Character™ are just sending so much love out into the universe, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. i can’t make this a Dean Winchester Appreciation Post because there’s too much to say, but when we celebrate dean, we’re also celebrating the shining, golden part of ourselves, that saw something in him when he couldn’t see it himself….. it’s a mirror! we’re all just here bursting with the desire to love and protect and cherish and i think that’s so so so special. dean’s real because we care, and our love is an act of creation. anyways. happy birthday dean.

i had to be offline this morning because i’m too Sensitive today but i’m gonna try to be sincere for a second and say that i think caring about dean winchester to the point where we all Need to celebrate his birthday is actually something really beautiful, for him and for ourselves. he’s been with us for fifteen years, and he’s going to stay with us, and even if he couldn’t be taken care of within his own narrative, we can do that for him!! all of us who carry him in our hearts and maybe feel embarassed over how deeply we feel for a Fictional Character™ are just sending so much love out into the universe, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. i can’t make this a Dean Winchester Appreciation Post because there’s too much to say, but when we celebrate dean, we’re also celebrating the shining, golden part of ourselves, that saw something in him when he couldn’t see it himself….. it’s a mirror! we’re all just here bursting with the desire to love and protect and cherish and i think that’s so so so special. dean’s real because we care, and our love is an act of creation. anyways. happy birthday dean.

why are schoolchildren so much better at detecting autism in girls than legit doctors

after seeing a knowledgeable pediatrician ur whole life you’ll finally get evaluated as a teenager and they’ll be like “I am forced to concede…that you may have a slight case of the Ass Burgers”

when Melissa, Kelsey and Sophie from the third grade will look at you for .5 seconds, simultaneously be like “this other small girl has something wrong with her” and give you lifelong trauma without even referring you to a psychologist

You do owe the world things, actually. It’s just those things tend to be perfectly balanced. 

You owe people respect and dignity; they owe the same to you. 

You owe children kindness; as a child, you are owed a kind world. 

You are owed nourishment by any world that brings you into existence, you are owed a chance to thrive. In return, you owe the same to any people or creatures you agree to take guardianship over.

The issue is not that we, and others, and the world in general, owe each other.  We are all born being owed certain things, and by living we acquire debts; life requires this interdependence to thrive. The issue is that we are often misled as to what this actually means, by those who would take advantage of us. We are lied to by authority figures who do not want to respect us, or acknowledge their responsibility to us. Worse: we mistakenly come to believe that taking advantage of others is the key to restoring balance. We were cheated, so others must be cheated in turn. 

We trap ourselves in these deadly cycles. Society betrays us so we are taught to disengage, to break it further. We are taught to forget the value of repair. We are taught to forget what is owed. Fundamentally, we are taught to forget that people are owed basic decency. When we say we owe the world nothing, we forget we are affirming the opposite: the world owes us nothing in return.

But this is so incredibly untrue. We owe the world things, and are owed in return, and that’s good, that is so so good. I would hate to live in a world where I didn’t believe people were fundamentally owed dignity and decency and kindness. The real issue is that these things often go unpaid, and unreciprocated. We think: “The world gave me nothing, though it should have. Why should I owe anything?” 

And that is such a dangerous way to think. That type of thought just turns you into another gear in a destructive machine. That type of thought just allows despair to self-replicate. That type of thought validates the abusers and ensures there is never a shortage of victims. Feed those kinds of thoughts, and a plug gets pulled somewhere inside you, and lets the humanity drain away. You lose everything, trying to steal from others what was stolen from you. You cheat yourself and the world, with that kind of thinking. 

I promise you this: When we try to balance the scales by refusing to pay forward what wasn’t paid to us, we just double the debt and burden the world in the process. A better world requires that we first do better.

female awesome meme: [4/10] female characters who deserve better ♕ Charlie Bradbury “Saving people, hunting things, the family business? I am down. But I was raised on Tolkien, man. I mean, where is all of this? Where are my White Walkers, and my volcano and magic ring to throw in the damn thing? Where’s my quest?”

There are characters you like but then there are characters you end up thinking about in the middle of the night with a cosmic ache in your chest because they resonate with you so much

delena/handon parallels (1/∞)

♡ for @gwenparkrs

hey if you’re a man i’m gonna need you to never approach a woman who’s alone at night time. don’t care what your intention is– unless it’s an emergency, don’t. you probably have no idea what the jolt of cold terror and/or the gnawing dread feels like in these situations. thanks

Unless he’s good looking, well dressed, well spoken, and driving something expensive, right?

no, that’s worse and infinitely more terrifying

sometimes a song overall is mediocre but theres like one brief portion of it that u wish you could steal with the photoshop eyedropper tool and expand into a full song of its own

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