You've got to think about all the things you like and decide whether they're worth sticking around for.
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I’m V aimmyarrowshigh, she/her/hers, 36. The fandoms I currently post the most about are the MCU (especially Captain America and Wanda) and Star Wars, but I post extremely varied content – I do tag everything, so your blacklist should work with the basic name(s) of whatever you don’t want to see. You’re probably here for…

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woman-respecter:

gentiles stop tokenizing NK challenge. they are fundamentalist nutjobs they are not your allies.

ginnymoonbeam:

Instead of apologizing for liking “trashy” media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it’s making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?

However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it’s because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.

There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it’s nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.

But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there’s something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there’s something right, about you and about that thing. I’m not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I’m saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.

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mierac:

thevioletcaptain:

mierac:

sffan:

morganhazelwood:

sitta-pusilla:

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So true. It doesn’t have to be life or death. It has to be the stakes and how much you care. How much you’re emotionally invested. It could be the tiniest thing – she finally takes his hand – and your heart could break for them.

I feel like there’s a whole generation of creators that never watched the movie Apollo 13. It’s based on history, we know they survive.

It was the most stressful, suspenseful movie I’d seen in YEARS. I spent the whole movie going “OMG, are they going to make it?!!”

You don’t have to kill anyone to keep your show/movie “interesting”. You just need to be a good writer.

“Apollo 13″ is a great example because everyone who walked into the theater the day it opened already knew the ending. And you still get this enormous sense of relief when that first crackle comes over the radio. When Ed Harris sits down, you sink into your chair in relief.

Because the characters don’t know the ending. And we care about the characters. We’re experiencing what they’re experiencing vicariously, through them. That’s the catharsis of good storytelling. 

And the people who made the movie understood that and they were all good at their jobs.

You create tension by getting your audience to care about the characters (which, honestly, doesn’t take all that much, as humans can form an emotional attachment to a Roomba [literally] and will). Once your audience is invested, you can create tension a million ways. 

It’s entirely possible to tell a story with life and death stakes that’s full of tension, of course, but if you have to have life or death stakes or there won’t be any dramatic tension, you’re not doing your job as a storyteller. 

“Because the characters don’t know the ending. And we care about the characters. We’re experiencing what they’re experiencing vicariously, through them. That’s the catharsis of good storytelling.”

Quoting @mierac for emphasis because this is it.

*blushes*

bakwaaas:

people are so used to online content being curated for their consumption that they forget tumblr isn’t like that… this is my diary. I don’t post for other people. if you find the stuff I post depressing or annoying or too much or u don’t agree or whatever whatever…. that’s fine it’s not For You? it’s for me. there is no audience I’m performing for. feel free to unfollow me if u don’t like, I’m not a carefully crafted online persona I’m a real person

stars-bean:

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Clue (1985) dir. Jonathan Lynn

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artofshinga:

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i hate when my black doesn’t match my black

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pedro-pascal:

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OSCAR ISAAC
FEAR OF GOD | 2024

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empress-hancock:

maaarine:

when a "physical touch" husband marries an "acts of service" wifeALT
As a therapist I can tell you it isn't a coincidence that women identify more with acts of service and men with physical touch. Also the love languages seem harmless on the surface but can be problematic (especially the history of where they came from) and don't allow for the complexity of relationships.ALT
And just to clarify, it has a lot to do with gender roles, the division of household labor and the mental load which are the result of our patriarchal society. And also issues around sexual arousal and emotional connection.ALT
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Gladly! The Love Languages were created by Gary Chapman, an evangelical baptist pastor (who happens to be from my state of North Carolina in the US ©) who provided pastoral marriage counseling to many couples through his church. He is not and has never been a licensed therapist. Everything he talksALT
about in his books is anecdotal based on his own beliefs/experiences and is not based in any kind of research. The original book was VERY misogynistic, heteronormative and guilted Christian women into staying married to abusive husbands. Also blamed wives for any problems in the marriage and encouraged them to have more sex with their husbands (physicalALT
touch) and don't ask him to do too much (acts of service) and all women just want gifts and if you just spent more time with him maybe he wouldn't get so angry.ALT

instagram.com/reel/C1vSyu_ATsv/

Someone posted something about this to Pinterest and all the comments are women going “no that’s not what love languages were made for it’s supposed to tell you how your partner shows love even if it isn’t the same as you!” And only one person on there was saying “this was the original purpose and they reprinted the book with different text because the first one was so blatantly misogynistic propaganda”

wait-this-isnt-itunes:

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michael moscovitz - a playlist

Features: When Did Your Heart Go Missing - Rooney // Read My Mind - The Killers // Dreams - The Cranberries // Lucky Man - The Verve // Fade Into You - Mazzy Star // Just Like Heaven - The Cure // Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer // Here With Me - Dido // Cheer Up Baby - Inhaler // 7 - Catfish and the Bottlemen // + more

avengerscompound:

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Chris Evans as Steve Rogers
Captain America: Civil Wa
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ajmichalka:

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Regina George and Janis ‘Imi'ike in Mean Girls (2024)

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silverloke:

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edit: *sobs* can’t believe i forgot to add “little elf”!

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gloryhalleloujah:

lizzibennet:

i am once again asking you to watch the 2019 shakespeare in the park production of much ado about nothing

Link to watch for free on the Internet Archive!!

sweetwithheatwriting:

one-real-imonkey:

Athena: Behold my creation. His name is duolingo. He is a vengeful owl of language

The other gods: wtf Athena

@aimmyarrowshigh

sweetwithheatwriting:

copperbadge:

punkrocklorax:

orbleglorb:

bakedbakermom:

FEDERAL INQUIRY INTO ADHD MEDICATION SHORTAGE ANNNOUNCED

IF YOU HAVE STRUGGLED TO GET YOUR ADHD MEDICATION, YOU HAVE 60 DAYS TO TELL THE FTC YOUR STORY FOR CONSIDERATION IN THIS INQUIRY AT THE LINK BELOW! The FTC must read all responses. So tell them about having to call multiple pharmacies, being unable to get generics, your struggles with insurance coverage, everything!

Plain Text: Federal inquiry into ADHD medication shortage announced

If you have struggled to get your ADHD medication, you have 60 days to tell the FTC your story for consideration in the inquiry at the link below! The FTC must read all responses. So tell them about having to call multiple pharmacies, being unable to get generics, your struggles with insurance coverage, everything! /end plain text.

an article from ADDitude magazine about the matter:

for some reason, a lot of the articles on the matter (okay, 2 out of the 3 i found) are aimed at entrepreneurs?

@copperbadge I think you mentioned this affecting you?

It didn’t have a ton of impact on me until very recently but I’ll definitely go leave a comment, and I know my readership will be interested to comment as well.

The Additude article has the best info on how to submit it but if you have ADHD it’s still a wall of fuckin’ text to read and implies strongly you should be sending emails, which is not actually what they’re currently soliciting.

So to make it easy:

  • You can view the request for comment here (it’s the same link as the second link in the original post)
  • click “browse documents” and then “comment” below the document to leave your own comment
  • Examples of comments are in the “browse all comments” tag.

(@orbleglorb I suspect the weird slant to the articles is because Inc published one, and a lot of sites that serve startup culture crib from Inc and other financially-oriented papers.)

@aimmyarrowshigh