Just keep swimming

Not because you're wrong but because your truth makes them uncomfortable.

The moment you stop shrinking to keep the peace, set boundaries, or say "This isn't okay with me anymore," you'll be called dramatic. Selfish. Too sensitive.

But listen: You're not the problem for wanting peace.

You're not too much for choosing healing over silence. You're not breaking the family-you're breaking the cycle.

They'll shame you because your growth reveals their wounds. Keep going.

Your voice might rattle the room, but it's also the reason future generations will finally breathe easier.

Willy Wonka's Mother: 

Tomorrow I have a busy day. Gotta be up at 6:30. Just took my anxiety meds in hope that I’ll get tired a little early since my best friend is picking me up at 7am so that I can do the walk in clinic to be seeing at the counseling office. I’m changing counselors so I have to do the assessment again.

Watching Hook sure does bring back childhood memories

Season 10: Pale

Its Summer and spooky time is just right around the corner. I love finding a good spooky series, So far I've been enjoying binge watching spooky shows.

Right now I'm working on American Horror Story. I'm determined to get all caught up to Season 13 and my goal isn't too far away. I'm on Season 10.

I have a processing disorder so I find it easier for myself to put down the summary in words to help me keep track of whats going on since shows tend to jump a lot. It's hard to sometimes see who is who.

Right now I'm on Season 10, Episode 2.

Here's a spoiler-filled summary:

After taking the mysterious black pill, Harry Gardner experiences a surge of creative brilliance, quickly overcoming his writer's block. However, the pill comes with a horrifying side effect: an overwhelming craving for human blood.

Harry learns more about the pill from fellow writers in Provincetown. They explain that it enhances the talent of people who already possess exceptional creative ability. Those without genuine talent transform into pale, bald, zombie-like creatures that endlessly crave blood—the "Pale People."

Harry reluctantly embraces the pill's effects and even visits a dentist to sharpen his teeth so he can feed more easily. His wife, Doris, becomes increasingly suspicious of his strange behavior.

Meanwhile, Harry and Doris's daughter, Alma, is frustrated by her violin performance. Curious about her father's newfound success, she secretly takes one of the pills herself. Because she is genuinely gifted, the pill dramatically enhances her musical ability—but she also develops the same bloodlust. By the end of the episode, Alma kills a local animal to satisfy her hunger, revealing that the Gardner family's descent into horror has only begun.

The episode deepens the season's central theme: the price of artistic greatness, asking whether extraordinary talent is worth sacrificing one's humanity.

I have seen what the darkness does. Said goodbye to who I was. I ain't never been away so long. Don't look back them days are gone. Follow me into the endless night. I can bring your fears to life. Show me yours and I'll show you mine. Meet me in the woods tonight.

-Lord Huron

Arwen was 2,778.

And yet, despite being separated by nearly three millennia of life experience, theirs remains one of the most beautiful love stories ever written.

Arwen was born immortal. She could have sailed west to the Undying Lands and lived forever among her people. Instead, she chose a mortal life so she could spend it with Aragorn.

That choice came with a terrible price.

When Aragorn finally passed away at the age of 210 after ruling as King of Gondor for over a century, Arwen was left to face a fate no Elf was meant to endure. Having given up her immortality for love, she could not follow her people across the sea or escape the grief of losing the man she had waited lifetimes to be with.

Heartbroken, she left Minas Tirith and traveled alone to Lothlórien, where she spent her final days beneath the fading mallorn trees. There, the Evenstar of her people died at the age of 2,901, only a year after Aragorn’s passing.

Tolkien gave Middle-earth many great romances, but Aragorn and Arwen’s story was different.

It wasn’t built on passion, destiny, or grand speeches.

It was built on sacrifice.

One gave up immortality for love.

The other spent his entire life proving that sacrifice was worth it.

Few stories in fantasy, literature, or film have ever matched the beauty and tragedy of what they shared.