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-@imogen-eye

The sand was spilled across the floor right where a body sho-

*Silver sits up at the sound, reaching over to click the pause button on the tape recorder, dislodging the tape before setting it off to side.*

*He pushes out his chair, grabbing his cane from the side of his desk. Standing up and walking towards the door, he pulls down the handle, pulling it open.*

Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.

There is never any justification for someone putting their hands on you in any way without your consent short of immediate risk of harm or death.

If someone tells you that "the way I'm acting is your fault because you know that doing X thing would make me do it and you chose to do it anyway" is just fancy bullshit talk for, "I know my behaviour is wrong, but I don't want to be held responsible for it so I'm pushing it on you"

Nothing good ever, ever comes from someone who tells you, "I don't want you talking about our relationship with anyone". This person cannot handle accepting responsibility and processing criticism so they need you to never, ever question them. That's easier if they control the narrative and your friends aren't there to cut in.

Nothing constructive comes from screaming.

"It's not like that all the time" is optimistic and sweet, but the truth is, it shouldn't be like that at all. Sweet words and gifts and gestures don't erase being frightened for yourself or for your loved ones. That is not normal. Don't minimize it.

It is not healthy or normal to be genuinely afraid of saying "no" to someone, for any reason at all. Violence, outbursts, retaliation, anything. You should not have to be afraid of someone's reaction to your boundaries.

You are not responsible for saving anyone. Even if you love them. Even if they have nobody else. At the end of the day, if they want to hurt themselves in any way, they will, and you can't stop them forever. People need to want to improve before they can actually improve, and if they're threatening to harm themselves to keep you around, they're using your love to hold themselves hostage. You do not decide their choices for them, and they don't get to shunt that off on you.

And despite how i talk all the time, Im not actually a stickler for canon when it’s funny enough. But Tim literally isn’t the prankster one. Jon immediately jumped to thinking Sasha would play and prank or even Martin. But never Tim.

I know i complain about Martin’s mischaracterization a lot, but really REALLY believe Tim is the most mischaracterized character in tma.

He’s such a good character and a really sad depiction of grief and what it can do to people (especially someone who lost people who were as close to him as Danny and Sasha were (this isn’t even to mention he lost friends in Jon and Martin during season 2 when Jon became paranoid and, to Tim at least, Martin had taken Jon’s side) and it’s sort of heartbreaking that a lot of people don’t view him as that but instead as a one dimensional bisexual stereotype who randomly became angry.

When, at least to me, Tim has ALWAYS been that angry hurt man. I don’t think he’s nothing like we see in s1, but i do think season 1 Tim is largely an act he’s playing up. Not entirely. I think he did legitimately care for Sasha and Martin. But i think it makes sense he would largely be hoping that by playing into that persona he could learn more about what happen to Danny.

They want buckskin and face paint, drumming, songs in languages they can’t understand recorded for them but with English subtitles, of course. They want educated, well spoken, but not too smart. Christian, well behaved, never question. They want to learn the history of the people, but not the ones that are here now, waving signs in their faces, asking them for clean drinking water, asking them why their women are going missing, asking them why their land is being ruined.

They want fantastical stories of Indians that used to roam this land. They want my culture behind glass in a museum.