The Horror Won’t End

"if I keep getting my god drunk, maybe he'll actually help."

fix-it fic, also known as Canon Complaint,

howl’s moving castle is fucking hilarious like this complete stranger shows up at his house and goes “bitch you really live like this? this is the nastiest house i’ve ever seen, i’m gonna be your cleaning lady from now on because you clearly need one” and howl’s just like “sounds fair, do you want some breakfast?” no questions asked

how much of ur online presence is performative and how much is it u being u

baby every me is me, we are the mask and the wearer

I want art of a shellshocked Caleb eating a baby carrot.

Same.

thanks for letting me talk about a piece of media i love with you and responding in earnest interest with the intent of checking it out for yourself because of my recommendation. also how do you feel about being kissed directly on the mouth

“Hey, this facial reconstruction of a Roman emperor just looks like some random Italian guy” buddy, I have fantastic news for you about where Rome is.

queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey

Sounds fake but ok

good news: it’s not fake. everything i said is true. being dismissive towards good things is a damaging mindset to have. you’ll feel a lot better if you have some trust and if you’re willing to consider optimistic viewpoints.

Is this what non depressed people feel like ? Damn. You’re so lucky

i’m extremely mentally ill and extremely depressed at that. deflecting good advice that encourages you to think positively about life by claiming that the person who said it is not depressed (when i very much am) is also a very damaging mindset to have.

OP is the opposite of the “Then Perish” meme. All of OP’s replies read as “Then Prosper”.

Hey all y'all, it turns out that saying positive things and encouraging others with them even when you don’t quite believe them yourself is an excellent coping strategy for clinical depression. I know it’s hard to understand when you’re in the pit, and if I’m honest it’s still hard for me to grok, but the more you say positive things, the more they start being true. If that means lying to yourself, lie! Your brain chemistry is already lying to you about bad things, you may as well lie right back about good ones.

THEN PROSPER

THEN PROSPER!!

haters will see you

dr. haters will see you now

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

at least two of these people are well-known for taking part in recent YA twitter and goodreads pile-ons over the past couple years that resulted in authors pulling their books from publication over accusations of racism and other problematic content, so if you’ve ever wondered whether YA twitter is sending its best minds to the culture wars, the answer is lol no