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mental health on the decline?

Draw psychopomp memes

it won't help, but now you have memes!

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#OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THIS #FAVE #what the fuck was that. What the fuck is scrundle.

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In honor of my original meme hitting over 99k notes on tumblr dot com, I’ve made a sequel nearly 4 years later!

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had a dream that I met a wizard and we fell in love and became unhealthily attached to each other so we decided to meld into one single creature together but the process was horrifically slow and painful and most of the dream was us lying in bed holding hands while lesions opened up in our skin and seeped out blue and green fluid and the wizard said "this is going to take a very very long time" and I said "that's ok"

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soooo glad we're doing "content warnings bad" in a blue hair and pronouns way now /sarcastic. content warnings aren't "sanitizing" things, they literally exist so the content can exist without triggering people or dropping something on them unprepared. "your safe little room" do you not see how this is the exact same rhetoric conservatives use mocking "safe spaces" and how the dumb liberals don't know anything about the Real World. some people like being warned before they hear about heavy topics. some people want to avoid some topics altogether. that is fine. and it is morally neutral to not want to consume triggering content. hope this helps.

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"Fullmetal Alchemist"'s use of fantasy elements is interesting to me because of the way it... reduces... certain horrors to these unflinchingly direct basics. (Warning for spoilers and unorganized overview discussion of canon-typical violence.)

Like, the violence and pain is depicted in hideous, nightmarish detail, and/but the pursuit of power at the expense of other people's lives is simplified at the climax into an equation so straightforward that it hurts. All previous prizes of land and resources, which are forms of power, have been stolen by the Amestris military by way of terrible, pointless, hateful bloodshed. Father's Promised Day array then throws all that aside, throws it onto the fire, and take a step further to directly exchange human lives for godlike power.

Another example is that Roy Mustang is not permitted the false distance of a bomb, but has the effect of one using his own two hands. The result is the same, but State Alchemists are not permitted separation from their tools: they ARE the weapons of war. A gun is nothing without someone to hold it. It really underlined to me that if Roy HAD used bombs instead of alchemy, it still would have been his hands that killed an unimaginable number of people.

I don't think FMA is above criticism, but this specific aspect felt to me an incredibly effective narrative tool, especially because things like "our military was created from the beginning to do evil" are accompanied by / backed up by normal humans knowingly going along with Father's plans out of greed and fear, as well as normal humans supporting the country's crimes out of idealism and fear and hatred and selfishness and confusion. It's not just "oh, it was inhuman monsters secretly manipulating everything from the shadows all along"; it's "oh, it was inhuman monsters secretly manipulating everything, appealing to our most selfish desires and basic fears, and we all WENT ALONG with it".

In the final battle, inside the command building, the Armstrong siblings and their allies are straight-up fighting against mindless, starving, created soldiers that kill everything they come up against and stop for nothing. The Amestrian military, after years of violent, fabricated conquest and violent, inhumane research, is EATING ITSELF FROM THE INSIDE. And from the very first chapters, all of the friendly adult characters are directly saying things like, "Edward, you shouldn't be a part of the military. I have killed innocent people for nothing and it haunts me."

And, of course, the characters cannot use their magic system to escape reality: the Elric siblings cannot undo their mother's death. Grief and arrogance allowed to run rampant takes heavy tolls on Edward, Alphonse, and Izumi's bodies.

The only way to miss the messaging in FMA, to have the point go over your head, is to intentionally duck it, because the author is throwing it at your face like a brick. Repeatedly. There are so many bricks. It's not subtle. And I enjoyed it.

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This includes protests you have attended or helped organize. A protest here is defined as an event where people physically gather in a location to demonstrate disagreement with a cause, decision, or political situation.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#Seeing what had the highest vote here was actually devastating #like i know people do have their own reasons for not attending protests (underaged; disabled; in an extremely unsafe state/country) #For me personally ive never attended a protest bc i JUST turned 18 and i live in an extremely conservative state with conservative parents #Nd risking safety for change is the whole point of protests but in my current situation doing so would put me at risk back at home too #but even then like. Given the track record of users on this site... #...I don't think most of those votes aren't going out for the reasons listed above #Idk. I'm just keeping this shit in mind next time i read something stupid on here #Put your money where your mouth is

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thinking about that sheet of elf drawings by ryoko kui and it's a Bunch of women looking amazing as hell and then there's like astarion really small in one corner and he looks like he was traced from the box art

#FAVE

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OVERHATED CHARACTERS POLL: Rochelle (Left 4 Dead)

Feel free to explain your position in the comments or tags, but any harassment, over-the-top fighting, or personal attacks will result in you being blocked. Do not attack real people, be they fans or creators, over fictional characters.

#Rochelle solos it really is sad how overhated she is esp in like ye olden days (2012-2015) #and i think we all know the reason why every l4d fan hates her but slobbers over Zoey (a college aged white girl) #My girl did NOTHING she is literally just a news reporter. She listens to depeche mode. Have you no shame? #Left 4 dead

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For legal reasons, pretend this is not a confession. [x]

#Fave #fuck. Man.

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Ramblings about schizophrenia

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#5'2 and i prefer them taller. Both my partners are taller than me. Tee hee

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Hey y'all, here is a large list of Palestinian families and their gofu*dmes that you can d*nate to, as well as links to other resources to help those in Gaza. Please spread this and d*nate as much as you can, as there is fear that soon the Rafah border into Egypt will close.

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reblog and put in the tags any noticeable but inconsequential differences between the left and right halves of your body (ex: if your one eye tends to tear up quicker than the other, if your one boob is bigger than the other, etc.)

#One hip has more fat than the other; specifically my right is fatter #unfortunately this makes it so one side of my pants naturally sits higher and the other slides down :(