I feel like the most surreal thing that has ever happened to me is when some mormon I knew told me she supported gay people even though they would go to hell, when, according to every branch of Christianity except mormonism, mormons are going to God's personal incinerator.
Like bich, if that's the truth I'll see yah there.
Random Legolas Greenleaf moments: 13/?
His&Aragorn’ssuccessful protection of Gandalf as he makes his way to Theoden.
Have you taken your meds?
Have you had something to drink?
Have you eaten something?
Have you rested?
Have you moved your body?
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir Peter Jackson
movies i (re)watched in 2020 ► mean girls (2004)
Miss Caroline Krafft seriously needed to pluck her eyebrows. Her outfit looked like it was picked out by a blind Sunday school teacher. And she had some 99-cent lip gloss on her snaggletooth. And that’s when I realized, making fun of Caroline Krafft wouldn’t stop her from beating me in this contest. Calling somebody else fat won’t make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn’t make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George’s life definitely didn’t make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.
[ID: three photos of a brown bear in a sunny forest]
You know I love how so many people are like “respect boundaries respect consent” until it’s time to respect people w OCD who can’t shake hands or be touched or when an autistic person tells their family member they can’t give hugs or when a chronically ill person tells you “no I can’t do this thing” and you think “maybe if I just make them do it anyway it’ll make them stronger” or when a mentally ill person or someone who has been abused is like “I don’t want to be around this person/thing it’s triggering” and you get people guilting them to “just get over it”
If you’re about consent and boundaries, good, you should be, but remember to keep that energy when moms of autistic kids are like “I still hug my child even tho it makes them have panic attacks” or when someone’s like “yeah they said they don’t want to be around this person cause it’s “triggering” but I’m their friend so they should do it for me” or when a disabled person says they can’t go up the stairs and you’re begging them to “try anyway”
Don’t lose that mindset, or that energy when it’s time to respect the boundaries or consent of mentally ill and disabled people.
“For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation”
— Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. — “The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog” (via zsrmx)
