I need sleep to do battle again tomorrow

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

there is a very real tendency of teenagers with anxiety disorders self diagnosing with considerably more stigmatized and impairing mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, DID, personality disorders), but the best response to that isn't to get angry with them for "appropriating" lol. instead you show them coping resources for the problems they're actually having and deemphasize diagnostic categories in general. if an 18 year old is claiming to have alzheimer's, they're probably making an innocent mistake and are in genuine distress. be kind.

Also I think this trend comes, at least in part, from how brushed aside anxiety disorders can be. If your parents and teachers dismiss you with 'oh everyone feels anxious', then inevitably you're going to start thinking that there must be something else going on with you

”You must feel very scared right now; let’s talk about how to help you personally, tailored to your symptoms” will always be more helpful than “stop faking (X) for attention”. If theyre that desperate for attention or an explanation, something is wrong.

you people aren't CASTING

One change from the book to the movie that makes me sad is that we don’t get the Grace that’s risks his life to get Rocky back into his airlock. It really means so much to me how they both nearly die for each other’s wellbeing. The half delirious Grace that works for days to build a contraption to blow the soot out of Rocky’s vents (misguidedly but hey it’s the thought that counts). It gives him so much more agency and is the first instance that cements that he would always choose Rocky.

shout out to book!grace, who blasted himself with 29 atmospheres worth of 210c (410f) degrees hot straight ammonia, in the hopes that rocky would survive. who carried rockys whole 168kg (370lbg) down ladders in a make-shift carrier. who turned around for rocky, fully expecting to die of starvation. sigh. who was just a little bit more of a bitch than movie!grace (whats that one quote where hes like "if i had a nickel for every parent i wanted to slap during my career, id have enough to fill a sock and hit them with that instead"). who was purposefully given memory loss, so he wouldnt sabotage the mission (something he threatned many times). who wasnt "friendless", like he was depicted in the movie. i miss you so bad. you were everything.

one day I'll let it go but if I wrote Netflix's "Sea Beast" I wouldn't have the twist be that monster hunting is bad because they've never actually done anything wrong uwu, I'd have it be that the monsters are actually cursed people, Captain Crow is turning into one, and the reason the Red Bluster showed up so quickly after eluding the crew for 30 years is that she's actually the mother of the stowe-away girl Netflix give me money.

I am Davy Jones and this movie is my Calypso.

I waited for two acts for you to deliver on your themes. and they. weren't. there. ...why weren't they there?

let's reintroduce "rude" to the lexicon no that person is not evil or morally bankrupt or even your enemy they're just being rude

It looks like it would be so excited to run over when you needed a bowl