i love the world on purpose

I don't get how autumn always makes life feel so Intensely Real. All of a sudden you're so so aware of how fresh the air touching your skin is, the fragrant scents of wet earth, dying leaves and growing mushrooms, and how the sudden black shadows feel like cool velvet, smell like ink and taste like rowan berries and black tea. And everything is so fucking keenly, intensely, overwhelmingly ordinary and real.

You are allowed to completely change as a person by the way. You don’t have to stay trapped in the versions other people created of you.

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

hey. don't cry. how the gentle wind beckons through the leaves as autumn colors fall. okay?

so genuinely donna noble as a character is so important to me. she’s a woman who’s bad at holding down a job and who’s loud and brash and who thinks she’s stupid. but the narrative makes a point to say that she is worthy of love, and she gets a best friend with no romantic tension and a loving family. her voice is established as an important influence on the doctor time and time again. her actions prove that she IS smart, and she IS worthy of respect, and she learns how to ask for it. she gets to be the most important woman in the world without being a “perfect” woman and that just makes me so happy

what they dont tell you about those little hand baskets in the grocery store is if you put enough things in them they get heavy

I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.

best part of princess bride is that inigo loudly and openly states to anybody who will listen that he's going to kill a guy for revenge and has been chasing this for a while and instead of anybody saying "but revenge wont bring ur father back are u really sure that killing this guy will make anything better arent u scared of regretting the one thing uve spent ur entire life chasing" they're all just like "yea dude sounds cool hope you find him" and then he does and inigo kills him and is just "aw cool my dads avenged now i can go ride off into the sunset with my friends" and i think thats actually really great. yea maybe revenge isnt always the answer but it sure does make you feel better

Part of what I love about it too is that there are no unrealistic expectations about it. No revenge won’t bring his father back (they highlight on purpose that the 6 Fingered Man would do anything to save himself, but can’t do that) But Inigo never thinks it will! The point of the revenge is vengeance, not resurrection. He’s a determined and capable guy. If he could figure out resurrection he would, but that’s off the table so revenge is the next best option. He spends the whole time knowing vengeance won’t bring him what he truly wants, but that doesn’t make it any less necessary to his character.

Not to be cliche, but Jane Austen's novels are a lot about how great power & wealth should come with great responsibility, and how most of the wealthy and powerful fail at that. She's asking questions like, "Is that insanely wealthy person polite, charitable, and considerate in a way that befits his station in life?" and she's finding most of them wanting.

Ok, this has been my whole argument the entire time I've watched this show. I tell people all the time that if these were real people, I'd be extremely annoyed and tell Belly to date literally any other person than these two brothers. BUT they're not real. And so I'm suspending my disbelief about the ethics of the situation. The love triangle is the whole point of the show, and I am going to engage as Team Conrad or Jeremiah on the show's terms, not as of this were a real scenario

The main difference between the weather being uncomfortably cold, and the weather being uncomfortably hot, is that the things you can do in the cold to warm yourself up (hot food/beverage, blankets, cuddles, nice clothes like sweaters, thick scarves and snazzy jackets, getting exercise) are very pleasant and very effective, and the things you can do in the heat to cool yourself down don't do shit.

genuinely can’t stress enough if you’re in high school rn and anyone is telling you that’s the best time of your life they are lying. it gets better. hs is arguably the worst. if you can survive that you can survive anything. despite the horrors i know i’m always posting about i swear life is so much better as an adult

this is also true of college!! soooo many people are going to tell you that college is the best time of your life and I promise it's not. anyone telling you that is lying to you and to themselves