hobbitsaarebas:

gothiccharmschool:

biwomensupport:

voidbat:

stimmyabby:

You don’t have to be grateful that it isn’t worse.

read that.

read it again, and again, and again.

somebody, somewhere, always has it worse than you. there is one person on this planet that has it the worst of all, and that person is NOT the only person allowed to be unhappy with their lot.

if things are bad for you, they are bad for you. period.

This goes for trauma as well. A lot of times survivors get trapped in a cycle of  minimizing/diminishing their trauma because “other people have it worse” - but there is no hierarchy of trauma. There is no ranking system for which traumas are “better” or “worse.” Your trauma is valid. Period.

IMPORTANT TRUTHS.

As a therapist, lemme just say: almost every trauma survivor I’ve ever had has at some point said “But I didn’t have it as bad as some people” and then talked about how other types of trauma are worse. Even my most-traumatized, most-abused, most psychologically-injured clients say this. 

The ones who were cheated on, abandoned, and neglected say this. The ones who were in dangerous accidents/disasters say this. The ones who were horrifyingly sexually abused say this. The ones who were brutally beaten say this. The ones who were psychologically tortured for decades say this. What does that tell you? That one of the typical side-effects of trauma is to make you believe that you are unworthy of care. 

Don’t buy into it, because it’s nonsense. It doesn’t matter if someone else had it “worse.” Every person who experiences a trauma deserves to get the attention and care they need to heal from it. 

thecw4kids:

ghost in the house: GET OUT. I WILL TAKE YOU-

real estate agent: chill, its me.

ghost: oh hey. have you sold it yet.

real estate agent: obviously NOT, idiot.

officialwhitegirls:

the bar is set so low for the presidency this year only one of the candidates actually works in the field of politics yet some of yall still think this sun dried tomato with vocal cords can lead a country

dont think im fooled u fucks

mchanzo is this generations samurai jack/johnny bravo

humanity? humanity never changes

D.Va: Headcanon I never realized wasn’t canon at all.

headcanonfiringrange:

So, it looks like I’ve done that thing again.  The thing where I have a headcanon so deeply ingrained that I’ve forgotten that it’s headcanon.

Case in point:  I watched a YouTube video critisizing D.Va, accusing her of being a Mary Sue.

The youtuber rants about D.Va’s personality being ridiculously saccharine and pandering.  Well, of course it is!  She’s streaming the entire time she’s in her mech, there’s millions of people watching her.  It’s called a stage persona.

I always assumed that the personality we see when playing D.Va is just the “D.Va Brand,” and her personality outside of the spotlight is very different.

The youtuber rants about how her backstory is too “fairytale,” and nothing bad has ever happened to her.

Wait, what?!

I always assumed that she was drafted into the MEKA program.  I assumed that Hana was terrified when she was notified that the government was going to pit her against the same robo-kaijuu that routinely wrecks her country, flattened her neighborhood and killed many of her family members the last time it surfaced.

Pretending that the life-and-death battles she’s sent out to fight are all “just a game” is how Hana copes with the stress and pressure.  If you die in a video game, you’ll just respawn… don’t worry about dying.  Just concentrate on completing the objective. 

Streaming her battles has a twofold purpose: one, it’s live footage of a kaijuu attack.  That’s valuable information for emergency crews, news stations, and evacuation efforts.

Two, it reinforces the “it’s okay, it’s just a game” coping method.  Spider-man doesn’t crack jokes to get people to laugh, and D.Va doesn’t insist on always speaking in a gamer’s lexicon for the sake of sounding clever.  They’re both stress responses that emotionally distance them from what’s really going on.

Something that stuck with me was the following dialogue between Widowmaker and D.Va:

WM: “This is no place for a child….”

D.Va: “Who are you calling a child?!”

Hana had a tone of not only offense during this exchange, but disbelief.  When you see as much death as she has - both in and out of her MEKA, the innocence of childhood has been decisively torn away.  Being a successful “pro gamer” doesn’t just mean winning in a virtual environment to Hana anymore.  Ever since she deliberately blurred the line between what’s virtual and what’s real, her battle cry of “I play to win!” has taken on a darker light.

It means that Hana intends on making it out of the fight alive.

She’s seen too many of her “co-op companions” get a permanent Game Over to consider any other outcome.

rum:

sage-for-days:

rum:

date a girl who says yes when u ask her out

How do you date a girl who says no when you ask her out?

you dont.

redneckkungfu:

you know when its late at night and youre about to walk back into your bedroom after going to pee and theres always that guy on all fours in the dark at the end of the hallway looking at you just as you walk back through the door? whats up with him? whats he about?

cal1brations:

so my friend said very loudly to me, with a group of other history majors “yeah i’m not gonna vote bc i’m sure hillary will win”

literally all six of us looked at her and said “vote” 

and she goes “ehhh, maybe i will, if i remember to”

and my friend leans in her face and was like “don’t worry. we’ll remind you. bc you need to vote.”

so yeah here’s your friendly fucking reminder that you should have ABSOLUTELY NO PEACE OF MIND and that you need to GET YOUR ASS TO THE POLLING STATION AND VOTE THIS NOVEMBER 8TH.