help, the nowhere king has stolen my heart

•buy toys/dolls/crayons •play with Legos •play old videogames/dress up games •weave friendship bracelets •watch cartoons •use stickers •draw pics of your favorite characters

If it makes you feel nice, do it. Don’t even worry about what other people think, because it doesn’t matter–if it brings you happiness, it’s not “ridiculous”, or “immature”.

“Growing up doesn’t mean you can’t have Zebra Cakes. Growing up simply means that, if you want to have Zebra Cakes, you buy them for yourself.”

“What the hell are you talking about, Bear?” Well, let me explain. For those of you who live outside of the US, this is a Zebra Cake:

It’s a little pre-packaged snack cake that is horribly cheap and junky and really not that great, but it is like manna from heaven to me. I fucking love these things. When I was a little kid growing up, my mom bought Zebra Cakes but once in a blue moon. They were intended to be put in mine and my siblings’ school lunches, but my brother and I would eat them whenever we wanted, so Mom just didn’t see the point. (They also used to be kind of expensive, at least for our family’s budget.) Needless to say, the coveted Zebra Cakes were a luxury for me, and were one of the tastes of my childhood.

Fast forward to my college years. I was living in an apartment with three other people, doing my own shopping and cooking. I was in the grocery store, picking up some stuff, and I happened to walk past a display of snack cakes. Among them were several boxes of Zebra Cakes.

I paused at this, chuckling to myself. Oh man. Zebra Cakes. I haven’t had those in years. I loved those when I was a kid. I reminisced happily and thought about how much I missed the taste of Zebra Cakes, then started to walk away.

And then I stopped dead.

Because I had realized that there was literally nothing stopping me from buying a box of Zebra Cakes. There was nothing stopping me from buying ten boxes of Zebra Cakes. If I wanted Zebra Cakes, I could have goddamn Zebra Cakes, because it was my money and my decision to make.

I put two boxes in my cart (they were 2 for $5) and never looked back.

Here’s the secret I learned that day: The idea of something being “just for kids” is, by and large, bullshit. What you do on your own adult free time with your own adult money is, by its very nature, adult stuff. It’s like comedian Eddie Izzard (who frequently performed his routines in drag) once said when someone asked about him wearing ‘women’s clothes’: “They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.”

I am 25 years old, and yesterday I bought myself a shark lunchbox. Look at it. Look at how awesome my lunchbox is.

Was this lunchbox intended to by bought for and used by a child? Yes. The tag said it was for ages 3 and up. But it was bought by and will be used by an adult, and anyone who thinks that’s wrong is probably just jealous that they don’t have the self-confidence to rock a shark lunchbox at 25.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition (24/?)

Mass Effect Legendary Edition (23/?)

STOP. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT £200.

THIS IS FUNDAMENTALLY INCORRECT.

Eramis released the Vex via the Glassway solely as a last ditch effort to protect herself. she had just seen Phylaks and Praksis murdered by the young wolf, and was in full blown panic mode to gather all of her last ditch efforts - this is why she fled to Earth and rallied Bakris and her troops for help. we were causing a problem, and opening the Glassway portal was her panicked, desperate solution.

you CANNOT frame Eramis as a selfish person at heart who wanted to be the last one left, because she ISN'T. Riis-Reborn and House Salvation suited her because it meant giving her people a fresh start, while also unknowingly acting as a pawn of the darkness. Phylaks and Praksis being killed - two of her council, her closest allies - made her freak out and act recklessly.

her remark on many Salvation Eliksni dying and that being okay is just matching to what was said in the Unveiling lorebook - paraphrased 'whatever cannot hold on to existence does not deserve it'. survival of the fittest. that comes from the Winnower, from the darkness itself, direct.

Eramis is not a selfish Eliksni. Eramis made a series of terrible choices, but also did not know she was being influenced so subtly by the Darkness. we've known since BL came out that she was not acting in her right mind by chapter 3 of that expansion. all of her dialogue and the contrasts shown in her lorebook scream it from the rooftops. she thought she was doing the right thing, and also did not know she was being manipulated.

you CANNOT frame everyone who's been in contact with the darkness directly under this disciple requirement. it is more coincidence that Rhulk and Savathun and arguably Calus happened to be linked and happened to be going towards the same thing. Rhulk especially.

No we shouldn’t apologize for our episodes.

If you care enough about us you should have patience for us.

When my friends mom refused to seek treatment for her bipolar disorder and kicked her daughter out of the house, went through her room constantly throwing things away when said daughter wasn’t home, and then refused to admit any wrong? No, as a disability advocate my friend absolutely did not have to put up with that and she was in full rights to move away and stop putting up with the toxic environment her mother created. And her mother, refusing any therapy and stopping cold turkey on her medication despite all advice, was fully responsible to the depression and anxiety my friend developed from this.

There are different types of episodes when it comes to mental health. If you’re just having a breakdown episode and are crying and want to be left alone, I should hope the people who love you will respect that and give you space.

If you act out and be angry and violent I hope you apologize after the episode when everyone’s calmed down.

Maybe you were withdrawn and acting coldly toward someone during an episode, and you hurt their feelings. Yes, they should be able to try to understand you were going through a rough patch—as long as you’ve actually explained to them it was a symptom of what you were going through. Nobody, no matter how much they love you, owes you some kind of in-depth review of your every action to attempt to figure out why you were being an asshole.

Hurting someone’s feelings does not require intent on your part. Plenty of people accidentally hurt someone’s feelings every day.

Your mental illnesses do not exempt you from being held accountable for what you’ve done. Nobody owes you their love and loyalty if you repeatedly treat them like shit.

“Listen, you ragequitting that game last week really hurt my feelings.”

“I’m sorry. I was having a really rough bipolar episode and I took it out on you, and you didn’t deserve that. I’ll try to communicate better next time.”

1) magic words

2) explanation, because if it’s mental health-related then to your friend it may seem to have come out of nowhere

3) acknowledge that this was not your friend’s fault and make a plan to fix it

1) if you’re posting a fake (fake is literally anything that doesn’t say the offical state information) - it’s a crime = you can go to jail

2) if you’re vocally against the war - it’s a crime = you can go to jail

3) if you’re saying the sanctions are good/are justified - it’s a crime = you can go to jail.

today, some of our opposition media sources were blocked for spreading information that was different from the official media.

today facebook and twitter were blocked in russia, god knows what will happen in the morning. maybe they’ll cut the internet for all I know.

please, spread the word. if some of your russian friends are suddenly disappear from the social media - our government is doing everything for us to rely only on the lies they’re spreading.

I’ve been telling everyone I know for YEARS not to buy Blue Buffalo.

This is the short story:

A few years ago I took my sick cat, Ankh, to the vet. The vet and vet tech asked what I fed her. I told them Blue Buffalo. They looked like I had just told them I fed her razor blades and cyanide. They diagnosed her with pancreatitis and said that nearly all of the cats they’d been seeing lately with pancreatitis were being fed Blue Buffalo.  They gave her medicine and sent her home.  Two days later she had a seizure and died right in my arms. 

The day after she died Hannibal started displaying the same symptoms she had so I panicked hard and took him to the vet.  Got the same meds and the same diagnosis.  Luckily Hannibal survived.

I wish Ankh had survived. She was only ten and the best cat I’ve ever had. Literally the best and five years later I still cry when I think about her.

- salmonella

- mold

- aluminum

- melamine

- toxic levels of vitamin d

- propylene glycol