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Don't date thirty-year-olds until you are at least 25.

Having a glass of water for every glass of alcohol will give you a 50% reduction in hangover viciousness.

Bad people will use your willingness to be quiet as a weapon against you. If someone's being awful to you and trusting you'll be quiet to keep from making waves, surprise them.

There is no physical object in the world that is worth as much as your honor.

Honor is not the same as dignity. Retaining one sometimes means leaving the other aside.

Don't have any sex you don't want to have; have as much as you want of the sex that you do, whether that's a lot, a little, or none at all. Nothing you can do to your own body is immoral, unless you're doing it as an act of self-punishment.

Food is morally neutral. You do not have to earn the right to eat calories. Fat and sugar keep your brain from eating itself.

Learning to sit still and breathe--in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, out, out, out, out, out, out--can give you five feet of clear space around yourself in a maelstrom.

Find out how to make three good meals: A comfort meal you can make for just yourself relatively easily, a fancy meal you can use to wow a date, and a meal you can feed a bunch of people. All the other cooking can come later, but you can build a community on those three meals.

my favorite girlypop go spinny :3

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

When I was using Twitter it was so common to get messages from people saying "I see you follow this person who has said something mildly problematic" and call outs for people who were "kindly" notified that they follow a Bad™ person but didn't immediately cut contact.

Hanahaki, but it's someone whose friends have started ghosting them.

Hanahaki, someone's wife is cheating on them.

And then theres all the times that shes is shown love in the form of sharing meals or cooking. her loving toriels pancakes and ralseis dark cakes. Getting to cook with them for the physical challenge. The tea party with Gerson and Flowery giving her orange juice, Tenna giving her yogurt. Learning how to make a pie from Toriel.

And at the begining she didnt really know how to show kindness to others, and how throughout the game she develops by sharing the dark candy with Lancer, all the way to asking Ralsei to eat the yummy cake he made for them with eachother, to sharing Ice Cream with Noelle at the Festival.

This was probably one of the most gut wrenching moments in the chapter for me it doesn’t even feel like flowery said this it just felt like toby turned to me through the screen and said it

There’s a lot of discussion now surrounding the recurring themes of escapism and moving on, and in particular I think I rly agree with moving on’ being a theme that is going to be a really big part of whatever the ending is. (I don’t think that escapism itself has a large part in the themes other than playing a part within ‘moving on’. Like you can choose to turn to escapism as a means of trying not to move on.)

I don’t have the amount of nostalgia for undertale like a lot of other fans do, I watched play throughs of it when younger and did consume the entire story so id call myself a fan but I don’t think I had the nostalgia hit me playing through chapter 5 like others did (I mean this in the sense of emotionally, not literally. Yes I picked up on the very literal parallels like the humans vs the flowers and flowey vs flowery lol)

But Im coming to undertstand that the chapter was like scientifically engineered to take the ending of undertale tp and warp it right in front of our eyes (beyond the obvious parallels). Flowery being fucking named FLOWERY at first made me think he was going to literally parallel flowey more but as I played it became obvious that wasnt the case, i think flowery like. Parallels undertale as a whole to an extent? I don’t think I know how to put it into words. It felt like we fought undertale/our memories of undertale itself in that final fight, in a way.

The flowers in general are such a strange cast of characters to think about. The dead humans in undertale were a mysterious and tragic group that we were never given the chance to learn much about, and that was probably on purpose. But they were given a chance to actually appear, to actually live in and through deltarune. One last adventure where we can even have fun with characters that were never meant to have actual characters.

The sheer amount of times the general theme of ‘remembering the past’ comes up in this chapter alone let alone previous chapters. Remembering the past but not letting it cloud your vision ahead of you, the major motif of the entire game being called ‘don’t forget’ because while you need to be able to move on what you can do is not forget. The way I went back to tobys post about the original piano rendition of sunset of seven suns, and the caption is him again talking about him having played this himself 10 years ago, reminiscing about it, then telling us that the version in the present is different and we shouldn’t be surprised. Man