Something I have noticed is that so often in media and in real life, is that we push around this narrative that having a “dark side” or being someone who “you don’t wanna see mad” is a good thing.
If you have a “dark side” you’re dangerous, someone who could hurt others and be cruel, and that makes you strong. That being good in a fight, having the ability to be scary when your angry, those are things that push authority.
I don’t get it.
Why must being benign be seen as a weakness?
Being harmless does not make you fragile.
Violence and strength have been so interwoven to the point people mistake one for the other.
Being violent does not make you strong, and being strong does not mean you have to be violent.
One of the greatest ways to show strength not in a character but in life in general is to choose forgiveness (seriously, like watch ATLA and see how Aang shows great strength by forgiving others instead of lashing out).
Anger is a valid and real emotion that you are allowed to express, but it is not one that should be wielded as a weapon. Anger is a secondary emotion, morphed from pain and sorrow.
Anger is like fire. It’s okay to light a fire, as long as it is safe and contained. You can keep a fire in a fire pit going for as long as you want, just don’t burn a forest.
Do not fear your anger and do not use it to strike fear in others. Being kind does not make you weak, being forgiving does not make you soft.
Generosity, honesty, fragility with your emotions—these can bring you strength. To be open with who you are and how you feel is a tremendous feat.
It takes courage to cry, to ask for help, to forgive.
Know that being loving is not a weakness, understand that forgiveness takes strength.
It’s easy to kill a fly, but it takes effort to capture it and bring it home.
Why is it that ppl just post abt dieting with pcos…
Like I don’t need diet information I need memes abt the existential dread of knowing that my body cannot function properly
Heavy In Your Arms
I can't stop with the zolu sacrilegious imagery.
I listened to Florence + The Machine the entire time making this, hence the title.
Long hair zoro to insta request
Naruto and Sasukes relationship has truly fucked with my mind
Like those two had a love that was palpable, raw and just honest. Naruto loved Sasuke for being Sasuke and Sasuke loved Naruto for just being Naruto. They loved each other clumsily, with white knuckles and sour words, they loved one another with curiosity and vigor. Watching their story unfold on the screen shatters my brain because they are without a doubt Soulmates. They would choose one another again and again in every lifetime, they would die at the hand of the other with pleasure and comfort. If destiny had one plan in mind they would turn the universe in their hands just to meet one another again, they would steal the sun and moon to get the other back.
If that isn’t love then I don’t know what is.
Sometimes I lose my mind over the plot of Naruto bc 3/4 of it is just Naruto being like
“I NEED SASUKE HES MY HOME, THE OTHER HALF OF MY BEING. ”
Naruto went on record with full sincerity “give me your pain, I can bare it” to Sasuke like that isn’t the most loving, romantic gestures ANYONE could EVER do
And I’m supposed to just sit there and be like “oh cool, yeah, best pals”
THOSE BITCHES YEARNED, FAWNED, TORE THEIR SOULS APART FOR ONE ANOTHER AND IM SUPPOSED TO THINK THEYRE “best friends, like brothers”?????
….no.
No. They’re gay.
*a poem of love from someone who has never been close to it*
You love with the same fervernece Of a starved man who has been Gifted with the promise of food Sitting mere feet away.
You are all bite an snarl, You push and shove To the finish line; Your eyes trained on the flesh In front of you.
I too was hungry. You were not the only one Who was withheld lifes simple Pleasures.
I too was left to chew At the inside of my cheek To slow the decay of my skin.
I know what it feels like To cut away pieces of your body Just to feel whole.
Yet you keep taking from me; Living under the assumption That leaving my skin bitten, broken And bruised, used up from your ventures, Is an act of love, and not one Shaped from your depravity.
When I laid my body bare for you That night while the world screamed Beyond the four walls of your quiet, Cluttered room, I thought you saw how our Eyes where blurred red from the same travasties.
Naivety has always been my downfall.
It was my undoing believing you knew that We were scarred from the same knife--rather, It was careless of me to assume you would hold it in consideration before serrading me once more.
But,
With my body cut open, My blood seeping into your sheets, claiming ownership in the one place you called home, I think the hunger that had been gnawing At my insides, long before you knew me, began to subside.
There is a power in knowing You come to me to feel worthy Of being human again. That it is my body, my being That is the foundation of your Sense of self.
So I will stay quiet while your feast, I will not cry while you dismember me. I will wait, watching red stain creme cotton In a halo around us and build myself From the remnants you left, and hold you While you struggle to understand the fullness.
For this is how I love.
Why is it always “enemies to lovers” this and “enemies to lovers” that, why can’t they be both?
I need more enemies AND lovers.
Enough of the whole “I realized I don’t hate u but love you” I want “I despise you, you are everything I hate in this world and I want to kill u but I also have a deep love for u despite it all, I yearn to be close to you and I will kill anyone that tries to hurt u bc I’m the one who’s supposed to kill u”
It’s messy, it’s gay, it’s so emotional it’s palpable.
I cannot relate to people who dislike female characters for “being manipulative.” She’s literally creative problem solving before your eyes. She’s literally just using her words. Maybe the other blorbos should be less pawn-like for her beautiful hands hmm
We don’t talk about the reason Zoro was so close to dying during thriller bark.
Like yes, it was for Luffy, he took his place with ease, not even thinking about it because it was luffy. He offered his life differently than Sanji did. Sanji saw Zoro sacrificing himself and Sanji couldn’t allow that because in that moment we saw that in Sanjis mind, he thought replaceable to the crew. (Which obv. Isn’t true).
But Zoro didn’t do it out of a lack of self worth, he saw luffy and couldn’t bear the sight of him gone. Zoro, whether he admits it or not, sees Luffy as something to behold, something that lives above others and shines a light that must be seen by all eyes.
On top of all that, he took all of Luffys pain. Not only did he take it all, he jumped head first into it, despite knowing how it would most likely be the end of him. He quite literally lept into all the pain and suffering Luffy had received without a second thought.
And on top of THAT… Zoro said it was “nothing at all”, not only because to him, it was nothing, what he did in his mind wasn’t something worth mulling over— sacrificing himself for Luffy is “nothing at all”. Also, Zoro knew that if Luffy knew the truth behind his pain, he would never forgive himself for being the reason behind his first mates suffering.
Whether you ship Zoro and Luffy or not, you cannot deny the love, adoration and pure devotion Zoro holds for Luffy.
the worms in my brain won today, here's a sukume sketch based on this reference photo