My Vizible Mind

Planet earth is terrifying I hope I never see a volcano

Where do you think Hotaru, Michiru, and Haruka are in the future of Crystal Tokyo? We only see Setsuna in the flashforwards, so I wonder what happened to the rest of the Outer Senshi...

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

“I read about an [Inuit] hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘Not if you did not know.’

One half of my family is Native Christians via forced conversion.

Honestly, the belief that if you know about God and don’t accept Jesus as your savior, you’ll go to hell is why I consider all missionaries to be arms of a death cult.  You’re trying to guarantee that everyone who isn’t exactly like you burns forever in the fiery pit.  How is that an act of goodness or benevolence?  How is that kind?

Back in the day when I was still active in my church, we were supposed to do summer tutoring for a week in an immigrant-heavy area. We were given the impression that they struggled learning English and math, and therefore we were doing good. And as a treat on Friday, we were going to go on a trip to the science museum for kids.

I legit have a specific amount i want in my head rn it better come true 😭

“We were in Europe a couple years ago and we went to this museum and I went up to the ticket taker and I was like, ‘Hey, I read on your website that you let people with disabilities come to the museum for free?’ And she was like, ‘Yes, but I’m gonna need to see some ID proving that you have a disability.’ And I was like, ‘What do… I mean, I have one leg.’ And she’s like, ‘Yeah yeah, but do you have disability ID proving..?’ I was like, ‘I don’t - I mean, do you think this is an optical illusion?  Or like an elaborate costume I’ve created to get into your museum for free?’ She’s like, ‘Alright, I’ll let it slide just this once, but next time, make sure you have the ID.’

Bless the hearts of every single european in the notes going, “but if americans don’t have disabled IDs, how do people with invisible disabilities get free museum passes / free trains / other nice service?”