so long hot girl summer hello faggot fall
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I love you grainy film. I love you leather jacket. I love you bad lighting. I love you Sam’s bangs. I love you amulet. I love you unconnected motw. I love you Dean’s dumb smirk. I love you graphic tees. I love you religious symbolism. I love you motels. I love you random jewelry. I love you psychic powers. I love you fearing your own nature. I love you flip phones. I love you “us against the world” mentality. I love you—
NASA releases the clearest images of Neptune’s rings in over 30 years
My emotions are valid*
*valid does not mean healthy, or good, or to be privileged above common sense and kindness
undastra
A distinction for anyone who is young and hasn’t figured this out yet:
You are allowed to have whatever emotions you want. No one can control your emotions. Emotions are healthy responses to things.
You are not allowed to have behaviors that are harmful just because you have certain emotions. Your behaviors are what you can control, and they are far easier to control than your emotions.
You can be jealous about someone or their talents until you turn green, but it is harmful to yourself and to that person if you try to sabotage them because of it. You can be so angry you can literally feel your temperature rise, but this does not give you permission to rage at others.
Your emotions are valid. They are always valid. You are a person of value. However, you behaviors are not always justified just because of those emotions. You may not be able to control you emotions, but you can certainly control your behaviors.
and this one, i beg you to learn before you become right-wing fundamentalists: just because something gives you revulsion feelings does not mean it’s morally wrong.
you may be sex-repulsed; that doesn’t mean sex is dirty and bad. maybe you were bullied by teenage girls; that doesn’t mean teenage girls are a force of evil. perhaps a villain in a work of fiction reminds you of someone who abused you; that doesn’t mean people who enjoy that character or that fiction are abusive. your feelings about those things are absolutely valid, and it’s not right for people to tell you you shouldn’t feel that way. but it’s also not right for you to act out against others based on those feelings.
that instinct to generalize served our species well when we were hunter-gatherers living in small bands in a hostile wilderness. you nibble a delicious-looking berry, you throw up, you know that berry is BAD and you make the yuck face whenever you see it so the other hominids know it’s a bad one. but in the modern world, in the information age, there are so many complex things you might encounter, you’re going to have badfeels about a lot of things that aren’t actually across-the-board bad.
you need to not be ruled by your hominid yuckberry instinct. that’s where bigotry comes from.
That last line deserves to be an iconic tumblr quote.
If you can, ride out your feelings, let your mind be blank and just feel no thoughts. Your emotion will fade, leaving room for a different emotion. If you think things that feed that emotion it will grow and leave you even more tired than you were before.
gotta lie down every time I remember this recording and the post about it
No people has believed as lucidly and long as have Jews that life has a purpose; that this world is an arena of justice and human dignity; that we are, each of us, free and responsible, capable of shaping our lives in accordance with our highest ideals. We are here for a reason. We were created in love and forgiveness by the God of love and forgiveness who asks us to love and forgive. However many times we may have failed to live up to our aspirations, God always gives us the chance and the power to begin again. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the holiest days of a holy people, God summons us to greatness.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Ceremony & Celebration, p. 3
Mike Flanagan is doing what a lot of horror fans have been dying for in film and television. It’s not just the ghosts, stories, and monsters that are terrifying, it’s the characters themselves. The human element.
These intricately entwined story lines are so much more fascinating and chilling than jump scares and gore.
my spectral romance: adventures in ghost hunting episode 1: the gang meets gerard
(episode 2: yes we have a ghost on our ghost hunting crew, problem?)
Decided this one deserves its own post. Just. Yes. Simply. Yes. So cute for what?
i can’t believe i forgot to pick up a publix hurricane cake in my hurricane prep
because our local grocery chains make hurricane cakes and that’s something that not enough ppl know
“party like it’s a category 5” might be my personal fave so far
sometimes out of the blue it’s just like “wow nancy rejecting and pushing away anything she views as childish or immature because the last time she really let go in an age appropriate way her best friend died and she’s never recovered from the guilt of that one moment of innocent teenage thoughtlessness so she doesn’t go to parties and she doesn’t make friends and she focuses on work and gives away her stuffed animals and is embarrassed for anyone to know she has posters or music boxes in her room and sleeps with guns under her bed and relentlessly pursued anything she thinks could indicate a threat because she never ever feels safe or in control and Vecna took her back to that swimming pool because she never actually left it in the first place” and then I sit down and cry so hard I throw up
So you know how Jews have joked about how the early life section is to find out if a celebrity is Jewish or not? Yeah turns out white supremacists are using that as a short hand dogwhistle for Jews now. "Early lifers"=Jews. Reactionaries are particularly saying this now about Judge Bruce Reinhart bc he signed the warrant for the FBI to search Trump's house. Just thought I'd let people know, there's a new dogwhistle to look out for.
"he's so babygirl coded" (he has killed so many people. and he will kill more)
im getting sad about petpet park and how unlike club penguin there isn’t a playable fan replica again
I'm seeing a looot of people talking about Neopets but no online game will ever,
EVER
bring me as much joy as Petpet Park