((*W*)

[gertrude robinson voice]

Los Angeles Record, California, December 28, 1931

this is the most heartbreaking scene in this chapter for me. sangwoo can’t accept the reality that bum truly loves him. Cuz He lived with a mother who acted like a loving person to him and kept repeating “I love you” to him with a kind smile when all she felt about him was an absolute hatred

Splendid story 😭😭😭 !

Soldier’s Girl (2003) dir. Frank Pierson

MD Awareness Poll, EVERYONE

We’d like to take a moment to ask ALL MDers, on every platform, to take this brief poll.  Awareness efforts have been scattered, with everyone doing their own thing. We’d like the community, as a whole, to decide when is the best time for a Maladaptive Daydreaming Awareness ‘observance’ of some kind. Every single vote matters.

If you are bi-lingual:  Below there are links to this survey in various languages.  Please, take them, carry them to any community or Maladaptive Daydreamer you know of in these languages.

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The Manitowoc Sun-Messenger, Wisconsin, December 24, 1937

right now in the lab:

[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]

begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.

but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.

diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).

she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.

and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?

diana ignored her and kept fighting.

and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason

sad mood :'(

the moment when you daydream something rly sad to the point of tears so you want to daydream something happy bc you don't like feeling sad but you cant think of a happy daydream bc your brain is in sad mode.