seriously tho what if steven just ADOPTS all the different gems homeworld sends to try to deal with the situation?
and eventually you get one of the diamonds being all “STOP STEALING MY SOLDIERS”
and steven’s just like “NO! THESE ARE MY THIRTY MOMS AND I LOVE THEM!”
Steven Universe Pacifist Route
remember when this was a joke?
speaking as the OP, this was only ever half a joke at most.
okay y’all i am gonna be moving blogs. not renaming, straight up moving. it’s a… thing.
my point is please hmu if you would like the link to the new blog. i’m giving it about 24hours and then this blog is defunct.
rebloggin a few days later for anyone who missed it
okay y’all i am gonna be moving blogs. not renaming, straight up moving. it’s a... thing.
my point is please hmu if you would like the link to the new blog. i’m giving it about 24hours and then this blog is defunct.
new netflix show concept:
it’s like jackass, except it’s just me following the step-by-step instructions of different wikihows with unfailing dedication.
“Hi my name’s Molly Anne, and for the next six weeks I’m going to start acting like I’m a mermaid from the movie Aquamarine.”
An episode opens to me yelling in an aircraft that’s spiraling out of control.
“Haha, hey! It’s Molly Anne. Say, have you ever wondered how to
I would watch the fuck outta this.
This is my puppy! She’s glad you’re doing a bit better.
First Preview of Turf Wars and I’m internally screaming and dying inside
These are my precious gay children and I will protect them.
Artist Hank Schmidt travels to scenic locations only to paint the pattern on his own shirt.
chaotic neutral
Narrating People’s Lives: In the Hallway! 🏫 (Nothing to be ashamed of!! XD)
Am out of the hospital, largely bc they just didn't have any beds, and the one they hoped would open this morning had to be taken by someone else. I did at least get to rest and be safe and away from shot for a good 18 hours and it's not nothing. Still not feeling my best but I also agree with the psych that just keeping me in holding wasn't going to really help me. So I've got a list of places to check out and I just want to go home and continue sleeping forever. I am also probably gonna be largely staying off Tumblr for a few days and definitely not reblogging anything remotely heavy or serious. I need the distance rn I think. But also the pics of cute baby animals.
The way TV shows trauma can lead people to expect every reference to trauma to be a plot point. This can be isolating to people coping with the aftermaths of trauma. Sometimes people treat us as stories rather than as people. Sometimes, instead of listening to us, they put a lot of pressure on us to advance the plot they’re expecting.
On TV, triggers tend to be full audiovisual flashbacks that add something to the story. You see a vivid window into the character’s past, and something changes. On TV, trauma aftermaths are usually fascinating. Real life trauma aftermaths are sometimes interesting, but also tend to be very boring to live with.
On TV, triggers tend to create insight. In real life, they’re often boring intrusions interfering with the things you’d rather be thinking about. Sometimes knowing darn well where they come from doesn’t make them go away. Sometimes it’s more like: Seriously? This again?
On TV, when trauma is mentioned, it’s usually a dramatic plot point that happens in a moment. In real life, trauma aftermaths are a mundane day-to-day reality that people live with. They’re a fact of life — and not necessarily the most important one at all times. People who have experienced trauma do other things too. They’re important, but not the one and only defining characteristic of who someone is. And things that happened stay important even when you’re ok. Recovery is not a reset. Mentioning the past doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in crisis.
On TV, when a character mentions trauma, or gets triggered in front of someone, it’s usually a dramatic moment. It changes their life, or their relationship with another character, or explains their backstory, or something. In real life, being triggered isn’t always a story, and telling isn’t always a turning point. Sometimes it’s just mentioning something that happened to be relevant. Sometimes it’s just a mundane instance of something that happens from time to time.
Most people can’t have a dramatic transformative experience every time it turns out that their trauma matters. Transformative experiences and moments of revelation exist, but they’re not the end all and be all of trauma aftermaths. Life goes on, and other things matter too. And understanding what a reaction means and where it came from doesn’t always make it go away. Sometimes, it takes longer and has more to do with skill-building than introspection. Sometimes it doesn’t go away.
On a day to day level, it’s often better to be matter-of-fact about aftermaths. It can be exhausting when people see you as a story and expect you to advance the plot whenever they notice some effect of trauma. Pressure to perform narratives about healing doesn’t often help people to make their lives better. Effect support involves respecting someone as a complex human, including the boring parts.
The aftermath of trauma is a day-to-day reality. It affects a lot of things, large and small. It can be things like being too tired to focus well in class because nightmares kept waking you up every night this week. TV wants that to be a dramatic moment where the character faces their past and gets better. In real life, it’s often a day where you just do your best to try and learn algebra anyway. Because survivors do things besides be traumatized and think about trauma. Sometimes it’s not a story. Sometimes it’s just getting through another day as well as possible.
A lot of triggers are things like being unable to concentrate on anything interesting because some kinds of background noises make you feel too unsafe to pay attention to anything else. For the zillionth time. Even though you know rationally that they’re not dangerous. Even though you know where they come from, and have processed it over and over. Even if you’ve made a lot of progress in dealing with them, even if they’re no longer bothersome all the time. For most people, recovery involves a lot more than insight. The backstory might be interesting, but being tired and unable to concentrate is boring.
Triggers can also mean having to leave an event and walk home by yourself while other people are having fun, because it turns out that it hurts too much to be around pies and cakes. Or having trouble finding anything interesting to read that isn’t intolerably triggering. Or having trouble interacting with new people because you’re too scared or there are too many minefields. Or being so hypervigilant that it’s hard to focus on anything. No matter how interesting the backstory is, feeling disconnected and missing out on things you wanted to enjoy is usually boring.
When others want to see your trauma as a story, their expectations sometimes expand to fill all available space. Sometimes they seem to want everything to be therapy, or want everything to be about trauma and recovery.
When others want every reference to trauma to be the opening to a transformative experience, it can be really hard to talk about accommodations. For instance, it gets hard to say things like:
It can also be hard to mention relevant experiences. There are a lot of reasons to mention experiences other than wanting to process, eg:
Or any number of other things.
When people are expecting a certain kind of story, they sometimes look past the actual person. And when everyone is looking past you in search of a story, it can be very hard to make connections.
It helps to realize that no matter what others think, your story belongs to you. You don’t have to play out other people’s narrative expectations. It’s ok if your story isn’t what others want it to be. It’s ok not to be interesting. It’s ok to have trauma reactions that don’t advance the plot. And there are people who understand that, and even more people who can learn to understand that.
It’s possible to live a good life in the aftermath of trauma. It’s possible to relearn how to be interested in things. It’s possible to build space you can function in, and to build up your ability to function in more spaces. It’s often possible to get over triggers. All of this can take a lot of time and work, and can be a slow process. It doesn’t always make for a good story, and it doesn’t always play out the way others would like it to. And, it’s your own personal private business. Other people’s concern or curiosity does not obligate you to share details.
Survivors and victims have the right to be boring. We have the right to deal with trauma aftermaths in a matter-of-fact way, without indulging other people’s desires for plot twists. We have the right to own our own stories, and to keep things private. We have the right to have things in our lives that are not therapy; we have the right to needed accommodations without detailing what happened and what recovery looks like. Neither traumatic experiences nor trauma aftermaths erase our humanity.
We are not stories, and we have no obligation to advance an expected plot. We are people, and we have the right to be treated as people. Our lives, and our stories, are our own.
It’s very tempting for writers to only use PTSD flashbacks to serve the narrative, while ignoring the day-to-day, less ‘dramatic’ symptoms of it that aren’t as convenient.
While every person’s experience of mental illness is different, only showing these specific symptoms just breeds more stereotypes about what mental illness looks like.
Portraying mental illness incompletely is portraying mental illness inaccurately.
from what i gathered, hayden tried. he tried to make some bad lines work. he tried to get george to change it but he didnt listen to hayden's suggestions so... i know hes humble but he must've been frustrated af
this pic says it all folks
HC’s performance gets amazingly better if you put the TV on mute. I don’t mean that as a slam against him, but a slam against how horribly crippled he was by the poorly written dialogue. I didn’t realize it myself until I got in the fandom (due to TCW) and started seeing PT gifs everywhere, and it’s just like - wait. His nonverbal nuances, body language, facial expressions, little quirky things like the way Anakin hides his hands in the sleeves of his robe - none of those are the signs of a bad actor. They’re the signs of a good actor who understands his character. HC gets an assload of shit he doesn’t remotely deserve.
8 bucks y'all I’m rich
15.50 whoop
16 bucks yo
$15.50
$68
$104 Jesus pray for my sins
Surprisingly $19.00
This is like a lowkey virginity test
22.50
$12.00
72.5 rip
this is immature and I’m over it, and the Universe owes me $70.50 USD LEGAL tender
$42.50, not bad.
$81.50 lol
$84.00
$91.50 bow before me
CHICKEN DIVERSITY MASTERPOST
something i put together that might also be useful for character designs
Our 1st place contest winner requested a Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep comic as their prize.
I took a class about Ancient Egypt last semester and we had a whole lecture dedicated to talking about how gay Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were. Their tomb walls were decorated with scenes of them ignoring their wives in favor of embracing each other. In one scene, the couple is seated at a banquet table that is usually reserved for a husband and wife. There’s an entire motif of Khnumhotep holding lotus flowers which in ancient Egyptian tradition symbolizes femininity. Khnumhotep offers the lotus flower to Niankhkhnum, something that only wives were ever depicted as doing for their husbands. In fact, Khnumhotep is repeatedly depicted as uniquely feminine, being shown smaller and shorter than his partner Niankhkhnum and being placed in the role of a woman. Size is a big deal in Egyptian art, husbands are almost always shown as being larger and taller than their wives. So for two men of equal status to be shown in once again, a marital fashion, is pretty telling. Not to mention they were literally buried together which is the strongest bond two people could share in ancient Egypt, as it would mean sharing the journey to the afterlife together. And yet 90% of the academic text about these two talks about these clues in vague terms and analyze the great “brotherhood” they shared, and the enigma of Khnumhotep being depicted as feminine. Apparently it’s too hard for archaeologists to accept homosexuality in the ancient world, as well as the possibility of trans individuals.
On the last note, I was walking around the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and there is a mummy on exhibit. It caught my attention because the panel that was describing it was talking about how it was a woman’s body in a male coffin and wow, the Egyptian working that day really screwed that up. My summary, not actual words, sorry I can’t remember verbatim but it basically said that someone screwed up.
They claimed that the Egyptians screwed up a burial.
The Egyptians. Screwed up. A burial.
Now I’m not an expert in Ancient Egypt but from what I know, and what the exhibit was telling me, burials and the afterlife and all that jazz DEFINED the Egyptian religion and culture. They don’t just ‘screw up’. So instead of thinking outside the box for two seconds and wonder why else a genetically female body was in a male coffin, the ‘researchers’ blatantly disregard the rest of their research and decided to call it a screw up. Instead of, you know, admitting that maybe this mummy presented as male during his life and was therefore honorably buried as he was identified. But it would be too much of a stretch to admit that a transgender person could have existed back then.
(Sorry I can’t find any sources online and it’s been like 2 years but it stuck in my mind)
There’s a lot of bigoted historian dragging on my dash these days and it makes me happy.
Once again, more proof that we queers have ALWAYS been here, and it’s a CHOSEN narrative to erase them.
Some where an ankh is crying
JUST PHAROAHS BEING BROS
Reblog just for that last comment
Oh my god that gif :D
I don’t understand what it means really but I’m very attracted to the idea of buying a trophy from the trophy shop and getting them to engrave my name on it then throwing it as far as I can into a lake. I’ve been thinking about it all day.
I figured out what this post from two years ago means it’s “I’m depressed”
So I really hope that Hollywood is listening and realizing that we aren’t the timid Asian-Americans anymore. That we do speak up now. That we do have a voice. | #IAm Ming-Na Wen
“sherlock 1800s au”
[narrows eyes]
There’s a fantastic fic writer who’s quite prolific in this area. Sixty stories already! I don’t know if they’re doing any more. Their username is ‘Arthur_Conan_Doyle’ but you have to google their stuff. They don’t put it on ff.net or AO3 or anything like that. Real awesome period piece type stuff too. They get all the little details right. It’s amazing.
he hasn’t updated in like 86 years i think these fics got abandoned =(
