Going to paraphrase something from the end of the latest Behind the Bastards…
If you feel hopeless and enraged looking at the news, remember that there has been a concerted effort and tons of money poured into making you feel that way all the time. We are not as helpless as news and social media companies want us to believe.
I feel like getting knocked unconscious has got to be the MOST pervasive concept in all of media that’s rarer and more dangerous in real life. It’s like an everyday thing in every single genre. Not even just getting knocked unconscious but generally getting hit so hard you just lie there doing nothing. Nobody is really gonna just go “ohhhh” and hang out a while if batman throws them through a wall.
Blows to the head in fiction: leaves you unconscious for a few hours, wake up perfectly fine
Blows to the head in real life: if you’re lucky you’ll just have a concussion. You probably won’t be lucky
To be fair if Batman was tossing me through walls I absolutely would play dead until he goes away.
To my fellow white people: this is not about it being an annoying way to “censor” the word and that isn’t how it caught on or what it was for. Writing “ahh” instead of “ass” became a meme because it’s supposed to sound like a “black guy accent.”
the thing that really cheeses my cake about flies getting in my house is they clearly don’t want to be there anyway. like at least the ants trying to steal cereal from my pantry had a goal and a plan. you are just here because you’re too stupid to use a window twice
unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going
