Live with intent.

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

folks are always like 3839273649946262 original posts remain. okay? that a big number.. it'll last until r&d finds more..youre making such a big deal over small nuggets here..

3 original posts remain

let's all go to tumblr and order the deformed erotic visage. the look on the mod's face will be an ecstatic contortion

Anglos will say shit like "uhm you could just not learn a second language 🤷‍♀️" and think they're refuting the existence of their linguistic imperialism instead of proving how insanely sheltered they are compared to everyone else in the world.

All public universities in my country admit and reject people based on their score on a national standardized test, which features an English module that's worth 1/5 of your final score. This makes not having at least a basic level of English proficiency a major barrier for accessing higher education but yeah, I could have "just... not learned your language" I guess, yeah.

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

I want to stress that I don't want this to be played for comedy, at least not any more than Mulan is.

People keep citing things that are comedies. Ask yourself why you think that this should be a comedy when Mulan wasn't.

#comments on this post are insane#esp with mulan as reference point- a movie that’s abt someone who immediately performs the other gender well and is fulfilled doing so#idk imagine a better world or something the fiction in your brain doesn’t need to be so afraid of male cross dressing being seen a success#tumblr is fun website full of people obsessed with their own moral clarity who have never questioned anything once

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"

not really a fan of the amount of people here who now hear “war crime” and immediately think “fun meme term”

sorry it’s actually so fucking crazy thinking abt how certain places have banned burqinis like literally making a woman take her clothes off in public like that shit is so fascist

genuinely horrific like that’s law mandated sexual assault & we just let it happen. hello. can anyone hear me.

Friends who have vision sensitivities do NOT go into the Odyssey unprepared. There are a LOT of lightning sequences that could count as strobing lights. The worst offender is obviously after the Sun Gods cows, but almost any storm scene has an abundance of lightning. It was almost too much for me in some places.