Life is about more than just surviving.

your scent processing being so close to memory in your brain is insane sometimes you step outside and take a whiff and go "ah, it smells like playing pokemon emerald in my third grade afterschool program in the crisp september of 2006"

the only explanation i can come up with for how obi wan missed anakin’s extremely obvious and up front mental illnesses is that he himself is also wildly depressed and just thinks everyone has to deal with this shit

this is almost certainly a post ive made before but when a character’s grief is so strong it fully alters the form of the narrative itself… moby dick being so much longer than strictly necessary because ishmael’s grief made him stall for time in the telling of the tragedy… harrow the ninth being in second person because harrow was so grief-stricken that she herself was not capable of making narrative sense of the events of the novel and so someone else had to do it…. do u know what i mean

If you read The Hunger Games and came away with the idea that Collins is advocating for meek peacemaking in the face of oppression, I invite you to consider the thesis that the question of how does one navigate their humanity in broken world that makes revolution and war necessary? is the real crux of the series. You can simultaneously hold the beliefs that passionate revolution is sometimes necessary and that war is traumatic and destructive. That fighting for what is right can be as important as healing and finding peace and love. They do not negate each other. There’s entire philosophical disciplines devoted to just war theory, the ethics of rebellion, and pacifism — Collins invites us into that discussion through her characters, and gives some of her own views through them. Meet the nuance of the series in good faith. The question isn’t “should we continue to allow the child murder games to maintain economic stability? choose the teenage love interest that best represents your stance!” The question is “how do you maintain your humanity and recognize the humanity of those around you as the world tries to strip you of both?”

These are some of my favorite readers. I save their usernames so I can put them in my will when I'm old and wealthy and eccentric

men in the ancient mediterranean were like "im gonna show some thigh rn" and no one stopped them

frankly clarice, i don’t give a lamb

today was so procedurally generated

come on

eileen

they all hate me for my pathetically small bong

thats not a bong thats a bing

enough of the “psychiatric medication suppresses your magical abilities” plot, how’s about “depression was preventing me from blowing shit up with my mind until I got on Zoloft”

If your psychiatric medication is preventing you from levitating, talk to your doctor. You may need to try a different prescription.

“Adderall has allowed me to focus…my eldritch powers on destroying you!”

I am at the point where I’ll stop watching something if a character has to stop their meds to gain literally anything. (I thought the Umbrella Academy did a good job of inverting this trope, so at least there’s that.)

Okay, but I would pay extra for this driveway.

Um, can I please get every neighborhood kid and animal to come walk across my driveway? Can I get a cat to just run around on there? This flock of ducks did such an amazing job!

I hope some future archeologist finds your parent’s basement floor because they’re going to lie down on the ground and cry about it.