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Comfort Characters

I was tagged by @nitewrighter to share some of my comfort characters. Prepare for some weird shit.

Not tagging anyone but if you want to try it, go ahead.

1. Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars The Clone Wars) Listen. I know he does horrible shit as Vader but god damn The Clone Wars made him a himbo and he is trying his best in a shitty situation and his relationship with other characters got to me.

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Originally posted by mlmanakin

2. Stephanie Brown (DC, Batman)

If taking none of Batman’s shit was an olympic sport Steph would win gold every single fucking time. After everything she has been through she still smiles and still cares for everyone and tries to help, even with everyone telling her to stop. Gotta respect her. Also she is on site when dealing with her dad and that is beautiful.

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3. Laura Kinney/Wolverine (Marvel, X-Men)

Laura is proof that if given the chance and a bit of help, anyone can escape a horrible situation and go on to do great things. She went from being created as a weapon to a hero with a loving family and a little who looks up to her.

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4. Ultra Magnus (Transformers)

This guy. This guy has so much shit to deal with. He has rules and a code that he follows to the letter yet everyone just wants to break them. But when push comes to shove he will always do the right thing and woe be onto you if you are standing in his way.

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Originally posted by sleekjoker

5. Vegeta (Dragon Ball)

Look you just gotta feel sorry for the guy. Planet destroyed. Controlled by a monster. Raised to be his peoples ultimate prince and warrior. But he became a hero and a family man. And you have to respect him. I just wish he would get a win.

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Originally posted by breakwhatsweak-deactivated20220

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reasonsforhope

Anonymous asked:

hey, how do you cope with people saying we only have a small amount of time left to stop the worst effects of climate change? no matter how hopeful and ok i am, that always sends me back into a spiral :(

reasonsforhope answered:

A few different ways

1. The biggest one is that I do math. Because renewable energy is growing exponentially

Up until basically 2021 to now, all of the climate change models were based on the idea that our ability to handle climate change will grow linearly. But that’s wrong: it’s growing exponentially, most of all in the green energy sector. And we’re finally starting to see proof of this - and that it’s going to keep going.

And many types of climate change mitigation serve as multipliers for other types. Like building a big combo in a video game.

Change has been rapidly accelerating and I genuinely believe that it’s going to happen much faster than anyone is currently predicting

2. A lot of the most exciting and groundbreaking things happening around climate change are happening in developing nations, so they’re not on most people’s radars.

But they will expand, as developing nations are widely undergoing a massive boom in infrastructure, development, and quality of life - and as they collaborate and communicate with each other in doing so

3. Every country, state, city, province, town, nonprofit, community, and movement is basically its own test case

We’re going to figure out the best ways to handle things in a remarkably quick amount of time, because everyone is trying out solutions at once. Instead of doing 100 different studies on solutions in order, we get try out 100 (more like 10,000) different versions of different solutions simultaneously, and then figure out which ones worked best and why. The spread of solutions becomes infinitely faster, especially as more and more of the world gets access to the internet and other key infrastructure

4. There’s a very real chance that many of the impacts of climate change will be reversible

Yeah, you read that right.

Will it take a while? Yes. But we’re mostly talking a few decades to a few centuries, which is NOTHING in geological history terms.

We have more proof than ever of just how resilient nature is. Major rivers are being restored from dried up or dead to thriving ecosystems in under a decade. Life bounces back so fast when we let it.

I know there’s a lot of skepticism about carbon capture and carbon removal. That’s reasonable, some of those projects are definitely bs (mostly the ones run by gas companies, involving carbon credits, and/or trying to pump CO2 thousands of feet underground)

But there’s very real potential for carbon removal through restoring ecosystems and regenerative agriculture

The research into carbon removal has also just exploded in the past three years, so there are almost certainly more and better technologies to come

There’s also some promising developments in industrial carbon removal, especially this process of harvesting atmospheric CO2 and other air pollution to make baking soda and other industrially useful chemicals

sentimental-apathy
campyvillain

patrick bateman: *licks a strawberry icecream he got from an icecream truck* hm yummy ice cream

his internal monologue: look at me . eating processed flavoring. There is no strawberry in here. It’s but a pastiche of the real deal. An ice cream with artificial flavoring, a momentary joy. Tested countless times in a lab, masquerading as if it’s authentic, genuine. Me and a strawberry icecream are alike in that sense: gentle on the outside, palatable and unassuming. The only difference is that I don’t come with nutrition facts advising of any warning signs concerned parents will scan over, and by the time I strike, itll be too late

campyvillain

disclaimer i have never seen this movie I just think the soul of this guy possessed me

campyvillain

disclaimer revoked i just watched this movie and this was dead on

i heard his voice reading this
killerofthestars
walkingbomb

reminder to:

  • straighten your back
  • go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT
  • go take your meds if you need to
  • drink some water
  • go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while
  • maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)
  • reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about
  • maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?
trxye-and-txlly

I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)

marlynnofmany

Of all posts to see with a million notes, I’m glad it’s this one.

killerofthestars
bipolarmango

Wild things I have learnt in therapy:

  • When a child cries, parents are supposed to comfort them, not punish them
  • Parents are, in fact, supposed to want to spend time with their children
  • Children too have a right to privacy, meaning parents are not allowed to read their diaries etc and then punish them for the thoughts they found about
  • Children are allowed to be upset and cry
  • Children don't have to earn the love and attention from their parents by performing various things
  • Children are not supposed to be scared of going home and/or their parents
  • Children are not supposed to be physically abused and even a little bit of hitting is actually physical abuse
  • Parents are not supposed to expect that children are mentally as mature as other adults
  • Children are not supposed to be told that they're an accident, a burden, or something the parents regret
  • Children are not supposed to be scared and ashamed of themselves or feel like failures because of their parents
killerofthestars
slartibartfastibast

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ironbite4

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

thedarkbutbeige

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spaceshipoftheseus

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

randomslasher

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mayfriend

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

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i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

mayfriend

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