when you're -- when you're the family fuck-up even in your wish-fulfilling fantasy where everyone is safe and your shitty father is dead, and you -- everyone assumes you're always drunk, and you're dating a woman that you're not sure she even Really likes you, and you don't talk to your brother-best-friend outside of holidays. and you just want to enjoy the fact that everything is suddenly okay but you CAN'T
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Laes really does not stop breaking our hearts, eh?
Earth's words especially struck a cord of me.
Eclipse feels like he's never been in control, because he wasn't.
He was abandoned by old Moon.
In both their heads, he was the problem.
Every single day he had to watch through Sun's eyes, as another him got to live the life he wanted.
And even that wasn't enough for old Moon, considering the star exists.
And once it all got too much, he decided to take control, and even then he felt rejected.
He made himself his own brother, but never actually got close to him, because he was afraid of being abandoned again.
And he was, but this time, the problem was himself.
The only time he really had control was, when he got that damn star, and even then, he couldn't do anything.
He didn't know what he wanted anymore, this grand dream suddenly didn't feel worth it anymore…
And even now he's not in control!
He thought, he could at least rest in death, but not even that is given to him!
My damn heart can't take this…
-Stardust
RIGHT??? RIGHTTTTTT?????? 😭😭😭
ECLIPSE HAS LITERALLY NEVER BEEN IN CONTROL AND IT KILLS MEEEEE.....
From body to body, losing person after person, and now being brought back every time he dies??? It's so insanely sad to me that, even during his most "in control" moments, he isn't really. Like you said, with the star he ended up not knowing what he wanted to do anymore and it started to gnaw at him from the inside out!! During the october takeover, even though he had Lunar under his thumb, the bodies they had weren't theirs!! It's so fucked up!!!!
I wish Eclipse wasn't so terribly emotionally constipated bc holy shit I would have adored to have that touched on more. Even through all his walls and masks and edge, he told Earth that waking up outside his own body was "horrifying" and that just gutted me. And what gutted me even more is that when Earth sympathized with him he just totally backpedaled!!!
He was almost, like, embarrassed at having said anything even remotely honest! Like he opened up the tiniest bit and it wasn't handled in a way he liked so he immediately shut it back down.
He drives me up the WALLS I love him so much. He's like the trauma and issues georg of the show 2 me </3
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I think it can be true that certain lifestyle changes can help with pain and disability, but people really overplay how those changes will affect people's lives.
I've found that exercise has helped my back pain - I have had chronic back pain that PT didn't touch, but exercise has helped. However, what hasn't changed is what exasperates that pain, and when my pain is especially exasperated, it doesn't matter how much I exercise, I'll be in my bed trying so hard to get out, and I'll be seeing white. So, yes, exercise helped me, but it did not save me. That's an example of what I mean.
It's fine to give (solicited!!) advice to people about how to manage things like this. But I'm begging people to be realistic about this. Lifestyle changes can only do so much, and disabilities are - surprise! - disabling.
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My worst anxiety regarding season three of Good Omens is that the ending will be lovely, but that it will pass too quickly.
I trust that it will be a happy ending; we know it will be. And I want to see that. But almost more than I want to see that, I want to see them breathe. I don't want "they kissed and made up and went off to their cottage and clinked glasses whilst watching the sunset and saying witty sappy things, and everyone sighed, satisfied." That's not too different from what we got at the end of season one, and it's lovely, but these two have been waiting so long.
so. long.
And I want the ending to be long enough that there's space for that "finally." I want there to be room for their emotions. I want them to giggle like teenagers, I want them to find stupid excuses to kiss each other, I want them to hold each other and cry, I want them to talk about the things they always stopped themselves from talking about, I want them to address the complexity of their feelings. I want there to be some recognition of the relief, and of the wounds that still ache. I want to see them slowly, slowly relax into security. I want them to tentatively reach for each other, each time fearing that they won't be there, and each time collapsing under the weight of their relief to find that they are.
I want to see them make plans for their future and let themselves be hopeful about it. I want to watch the reality of their happy ending sink in. I want to watch them heal.
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I need everyone to see this because the difference between Maria gently holding Luke's hand and leading him versus Sarah Jane fully Dragging this kid by the wrist is so funny, like miss girl's commitment to Not Being A Child Person, only to adopt and treasure this boy as the center of her universe twenty minutes later??? Tears, tears running down my face
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