the annoying thing about weightlifting is that you have to lift weights that are a little too heavy for you if you want to get stronger. and you have to push yourself outside of your comfort zone in order to keep building muscle. fucked up.

thank god this same principle doesnt apply to any other skill you want to improve at! that would really suck.

the funny thing about phoenix’s character is that he may seem like a blank slate protagonist on the surface, but when you actually play ace attorney you very soon realise that’s not the case and he has his own distinct personality.

however, if you ever hear shu takumi talk about how he wrote phoenix, it’s clear that he meant to write a blank slate protagonist. which kinda means he must just assume everyone’s that much of a cunt in their own head.

in the end, you will become me!

I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit.

Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks!

Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you.

No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset.

It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast.

Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.

"you should block more people" no. More people should allow themselves to see what people they don't agree with or like say so they won't live in a bubble. Curate your space to be safe but allow the slap of others' stupidity to ground you in reality, hone your critical thinking skills and soften anxiety via exposure

We know from the same passage that details Gwindor’s escape from Angband that other prisoners in the mines did sometimes escape through the tunnels. According to The Children of Húrin, these were mostly Noldorin elves captured during battles and kept alive for their skills locating and mining ores, gems and other resources

I always wonder what happened to the unnamed others who escaped in this manner.

We know that for much of the First Age, and in some communities even before this, former prisoners were looked upon with suspicion and even hostility. This is only heightened when Morgoth begins consistently releasing prisoners who have been traumatized or cursed, (ever a blurry boundary between the two in these stories!)into remaining in his power. Interestingly enough, we are told of few wrongdoings committed by these prisoners, but the fear of their presence is pervasive by the end of the First Age*.

I’m just thinking about the others who escaped through the mines after years or decades of imprisonment. Who burst out into cold air and felt foliage upon their injured bodies, who wandered senseless for weeks like Gwindor did

Who perhaps wanted to return home even despite the stigma but in the aftermath of the Bragollach and then the Nírnaeth, might have found no home to return to. Homesteads abandoned and villages destroyed. No news would have come to them in the mines of Angband. If they hailed from Hithlum, they would find the enemy occupying much of the inhabited areas, the others simply empty.

The shock and exhilaration of freedom and the gnawing loneliness and desolation of Beleriand after the Bragollach and Nírnaeth, even for those who hadn’t escaped the Hells of Iron

I wonder where they went, who if anyone they saw or sought, if anyone heard from them again.

Anyways, stigma against former prisoners in Beleriand is one of my favorite topics to write about and I’m planning to make another post specifically about those sent from Angband who returned to their communities.

Dreamt there was a word called “isfatum” which meant “an argument or statement rendered useless by the speaker’s failure to consider the perspectives of others” and people started reblogging each other’s posts with just the word “isfatum” and then there was discourse about how you can’t ignore someone just because they’re always posting isfatum or that’s a failure to consider the perspective of people who aren’t very good at considering the perspectives of others

I had to draw this or be tormented by it forever

the author's barely disguised longing to be a real person

the author's barely disguised longing to not be a real person

The Muppet Christmas Carol is now considered a holiday classic and probably one of the best of the Muppets’ filmography, but when you look at it, it is such a departure from all the previous Muppet media. It’s much darker- both in terms of tone and color palette. There’s no celebrity cameos. A human is the central character instead of one of the Muppets. There are many new Muppets instead of relying on regular Muppets for some of the roles and some the Muppets are in roles you wouldn’t expect.

A lot of this makes much more sense with the context that this is the first Muppet project after Jim Henson’s sudden death and Muppeteer Richard Hunt was incredibly sick due to complications from AIDS that he was unable to participate (he would die during production). It’s a film created by a lot of people actively in the grieving process. You can feel that grief in scenes like the ones in the Cratchit home. It also explains why certain Muppets appear and some don’t. They really only use Jim and Richard’s characters when they have to. You can’t have a Muppet movie without Kermit, so Kermit is in. Statler and Waldorf are both perfect for Jacob Marley, so they both had to be recast because they were performed by Richard and Jim (which makes the fact they are ghosts kind of sad). Beaker is one of Richard’s characters and because you can’t have Bunsen without Beaker, Beaker was recast. Of Jim’s other major characters, Dr. Teeth and Rowlf are present but silent and the Swedish Chef has a more active cameo. Of Richard’s regular characters, only Janice is present. Scooter and Sweetums are not in the film. Frank Oz was busy with other jobs, so he really only does his main four of Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie, and Sam the Eagle. Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, and Jerry Nelson did a lot of the main characters, except the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future. Jerry Nelson did the face puppeteering and voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present. I think it speaks to Jerry Juhl’s skill as a writer that he was able to not only adapt to these casting considerations, but also write one of the most faithful adaptations of A Christmas Carol.

The movie also launched the absolutely spectacular duo act of Gonzo and Rizzo.

But it is definitely weird that they created new puppets/characters for the Ghosts, rather than casting existing Muppets in the role. But it’s also a move that garnered them a lot of praise. More understandable with the casting necessities though. I could certainly have very easily seen Sweetums as Present, for example.

y'all need to relearn the word erratic and stop using schizophrenic/bipolar/psychotic as a replacement

y'all need to relearn the word particular and stop using ocd as a replacement

People need to relearn the word "egocentric" and stop using narcissist/narc as a replacement.

People need to relearn the word "impulse" and stop using "intrusive thought" as a replacement

People need to relearn the word "callous" and stop using "sociopathic" as a replacement

Was walking around town when I saw a perfect cotton ball of a dog with a big red bow around her neck standing outside a store with her owner.

Both dog and human reacted to Pocket Kibble as though I had performed a magic trick.

when i say deltarune is alive in a creepypasta way i’m referring to how there’s a variable in the code that makes a number go up every time you back out of deleting a save file at the last second and this variable is called “threat”

So many people never learned to live with harmless discomfort at any point in their lives and holy fuck does it show

“But I wanna know!” You’re gonna have to learn to be ok with not knowing some things, especially when those things involve personal details about strangers that they’re not comfortable sharing.

“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.

“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.

“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.

“But I want it!” And I want a million dollars. You can’t always get what you want.

A lot of people were also never told “no” as children and the consequences of that manifest in similar ways. Learn to be ok with being told “no.” You’re not gonna die if you don’t get your way in every single situation ever.

‘character who’s tired of being a person’ + ‘character who’s tired of not being a person’

sad girly girl who wears white dresses and curls her hair and puts on no makeup makeup every morning who gets a butch makeover montage at the end of the movie and everyone goes wow. also they replace his contact lenses with thick stupid nerd glasses. is this anything

i know i just posted submas but also i keep hearing this video as Ingo