Bagaggle

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
britcision
headspace-hotel

so mad that our takeaway from the mask thing hasn't been "wait, so we could have been getting like 80% fewer colds and viruses this entire time?"

headspace-hotel

We really just accepted that "yeah, every several months we just feel like shit and do nothing but lay in bed for a week while so much snot pours out of our face holes that we have to keep 27 wads of tissue within arm's reach" even though the solution was not only simple and easy but also offered infinite possibilities for fashionable accessorizing. I hate it here

headspace-hotel

i'm never going to stop wearing a mask in the winter time because 1) colds and flu, obviously 2) my lips don't get chapped and bleed in the winter anymore. This is revolutionary. 3) it's actually just common sense to wear a badass goth wolf skull mask in your day to day life??

now I can wear whatever clothes I want and people will still know I'm cool and goth

bemusedlybespectacled

"oh no everyone not getting the flu for two years is going to make people's immune systems weak and flu season will be worse!"

1) that's not how the immune system works. 2) masking killed some strains of the flu because there was no one to pass it on to. we have the ability to MAKE VIRUSES EXTINCT with masks but oh noooo we have to worry about a piece of fabric on our faces. spare me.

goodbyenorthernlights
bellesolo

say what you want about woobifying villains, but i think tragic backstories and redemption via love are staples for good reason. we want to believe that people are fundamentally good, just hardened by a harsh world. that suffering earns you a happy ending. because then it means something, then pain isn’t just senseless and futile.

people don’t ‘excuse’ the actions of villains because they just don’t take those actions seriously. i think it’s a kind of projection - we forgive them because we want to forgive ourselves, and we look for the good in them because we want to see that in the world, even in people who have wronged and hurt us. because earth is a goddamn terrifying place if other humans really are evil, if they’re really monsters.

and idk, i just think it’s kind of beautiful that we all want to believe that the scariest mass-murdering motherfucker alive can be brought down by something as pure and innocent as love. that love is the answer, not violence. i don’t think that’s cheap or ‘problematic’ or a bad influence. i think it’s human, and profoundly optimistic in a way that few people are brave enough to be.

shelikespretties

If I didn’t hold the hope that love could make a difference, my world would be cold and bleak.

vulgarweed

People who ONLY ever like “pure, cinnamon roll” characters and try to buff away every flaw and every morally grey dimension and reduce stories to pure heroes and pure villains give me the creeps, because it seems to me like those are people who refuse to acknowledge their own capability to do terrible things, the inevitable fact that they have done things that hurt others in the past and will do so again (because that IS inevitable if you interact with other humans), who never question themselves, who think incredibly harsh standards of judgment are just fine because of course THEY would never need forgiveness or mercy.

THOSE are the people who are most likely to stomp on your face with a boot while being utterly convinced they’re doing the right thing and you deserve it. And they will never admit they were wrong and they’ll never apologize, because only bad people do bad things, and of course they’re not a bad person, so if they did it, it must have been good.

Give me friends who are honest about their own capacity to harm, who know where their own darkness lies, and can see it played out in characters good, bad, and - best of all, somewhere in between. Who understand when to rage, when to forgive, and when to just walk away. Who understand that other people, just like them, are ever-changing bundles of contradictions. Those are people I feel I can trust.

emeraldembers

Reblogging for the amazing commentary above.

So many of my favourite movies feature villains or antiheroes who redeem themselves, and of those who don’t redeem themselves, they will often have been given the opportunity to do so and openly rejected it.

There’s a reason why Beast from Beauty and the Beast is so popular, why Darth Vader is so popular, why Terminator 2 made such a fun twist as a sequel to Terminator. 

The stories where Bad is defeated by Good through Good kicking Bad’s ass can be fun, but oh god, give me the stories where Good teaches Bad how to be Good. Give me the stories where Bad CHOOSES to stop being Bad. Give me the stories where people learn and heal and get better, because those are the stories that give me hope that we can all get better.