#and we live laugh love him for that

[betelgo0ze]

Any movie recs with Al Pacino? And if a single person says “Goncharov” I fear I may not make it through the winter and any actions I partake in may or may not affect the outcome of this years fishing season

#I’ve already seen the godfather btw #And Cruising is on my list but I am physically shaking with fear #The only reason I’m watching it is bc Al Pacino is like #Gay #and we live laugh love him for that #But the movie sucked balls #Also #goncharov #slay fr #al pacino #is so hot help #But like fr and recommendations #And also I’ve never been on a boat or went fishing #I have no clue wha #fishing season #Even is #Ik it’s funny #And that’s it

[bixels]

Why the hell, shit, you damned bastard son of a bitch

#personal #delete later #before you ask “why're you posting on reddit bix of course you're gonna get comments like this” #it's cuz it's really low stakes and easy to just throw your art on subs for visibility #and i legitimately love getting batshit insane comments like this because they always read like a copypasta #this isn't hatemail to me this is a reason to live laugh love #like we ALL know independent_lime4943 is misogynistic and racist we don't need to discuss it we can just laugh at him #thank you independent_lime4943 your comments were immediately deleted by moderators but i was lucky enough to #catch them as an email notification. damned bastard son of a bitch

[bbygirl-obi]

shmi skywalker adhered to the jedi code more than anakin ever did

okay that's a very clickbaity title but i was rewatching the phantom menace and i found it so interesting that shmi actually demonstrated non-attachment and adhered to the jedi code with regards to anakin two different times during her brief screentime! i think it's important to emphasize this because shmi was anakin's only parent and primary influence during the early stages of his life. anakin's tendency towards attachment is not a result of shmi's parenting- it's despite it. so let's go through it!

the first instance of shmi's non-attachment occurs when she is presented with the notion of anakin racing on boonta eve in order to help qui-gon and padme. she explicitly says she thinks the racing is "awful" and tells anakin, "i don't want you to race." but she sets her own feelings aside- she lets go of her fear about anakin and prioritizes the greater good. the greater good, in this case, is padme and qui-gon's mission, and its implications for naboo.

shmi recognizes that her fear is not more important than an entire planet: "i may not like it, but he can help you... he was meant to help you," she says. there are also implications that she is listening to the will of the force here, and that she understands this is what anakin was meant to do.

the second instance of her non-attachment occurs when anakin is freed and she is not. she is the one who requests that qui-gon take anakin with him to coruscant to become a jedi. though she is clearly sad to part ways with him, lamenting to qui-gon that "he was in my life for such a short time," she still encourages anakin to go.

here, shmi recognizes that her desire to keep anakin near her is not more important than what is best for anakin. i've written a post here about the fact that shmi struggles to understand anakin's unique status with regards to the force, and that she turns to qui-gon and the jedi for help. shmi knows the jedi can help anakin grow this special part of him that she "can't explain" herself. she also knows that doing this will make anakin happy: she tells anakin that going with qui-gon is a chance to "make your dreams come true."

and she even drops a little nugget of wisdom, straight out of the jedi code, onto anakin. wisdom that anakin will later reject from the mouths of people like obi-wan and yoda, even though it is the exact same thing shmi believes, the exact same thing shmi is shown to have taught him. "you can't stop change, any more than you can stop the suns from setting," she tells anakin. "it is time for you to let go... to let go of me."

it's not a coincidence that shmi's screen time in the phantom menace is exclusively spent adhering to the jedi tenets of love without attachment. shmi is human, and she feels love just as anyone else. she feels scared when anakin is in danger, and she feels sad at the idea of not having him near. but she does not allow this to take precedent over the greater good, whether that is for the planet of naboo or for anakin himself.

that is non-attachment. it is letting go of someone- not because you don't love them, but because you do. and shmi skywalker is the very embodiment of it. when anakin rejects obi-wan's advice about letting go, when he refuses yoda's advice that death is inevitable, he is not just rejecting the jedi's philosophies. he is rejecting shmi's values as well. the further he sinks into attachment, the further he is forsaking his own mother's memory. that's the tragedy.

#anyways in this house we live laugh love shmi skywalker #the idea that anakin falls because shmi taught him to be attached is such a disservice and insult to shmi's entire character #she literally AGREES with jedi philosophy #and anakin was RAISED with jedi philosophy #we never once see evidence of her passing this onto him we only ever see evidence directly to the contrary #star wars #sw #anakin #anakin skywalker #shmi skywalker #shmi #non attachment #jedi culture #jedi philosophy #jedi #meta #star wars meta #the phantom menace #tpm #movies

[plaid-maniac]

Do you ever think about how there totally could have been an old classmate of Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth in the audience during like turnabout sister or turnabout samurai. Do you think they would realize? Like “hey, were those the guys in my class in like fourth grade? I kinda remember them. Wonder if they remember each other. But it was so long ago, I doubt they would even care.” Meanwhile Edgeworth and Phoenix are undergoing the most insane mental battles where both of them are going “I recognize my best friend across the courtroom and I desperately want to be close with them again.” And “god he is so god damn annoying I wish he would die already.”

#ace attorney #miles edgeworth #Phoenix Wright #not specifically ship so I won’t tag it but kinda ship if you get it #the classmate usually sits in courtroom trials because they love the drama #and honestly they like miles Edgeworth’s cases cause ‘hey I know that guy’ #but of course they don’t like go up and talk to him cause they weren’t really that close and he left kinda abruptly #cause knowing someone for like a year in elementary school and then pestering them about why they left 15 years later is a weird thing to do #course Phoenix comes in and now the classmate now has to deal with the knowledge that the defense and prosecution used to always eat lunch #together and play superhero’s during recess with that really weird kid who was always up to no good #what if one day the classmate was like ‘maybe I should introduce them to each other again. sure that we would all get a laugh or two in and- #-that would be the end of it and they would continue with their lives as normal people. they certainly wouldn’t get super gay and awkward- #-about the whole thing and just be completely chill.’ #god what would happen and Edgeworth v state? #the classmate would probably leave the third day like ‘I am a changed person. I can never go back to not knowing so much about this person.’ #and like they wouldn’t be able to say or do anything cause like??? how do you even have that conversation??? #‘hey I know you don’t remember me but I like sitting in the audience of courtroom trials and I was there for your case and I just want to- #-ask are you good? like honestly do you need someone to talk to?’

[fried-manto]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

#SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ONE AND ONLY!!!! #we thank shuichi for existing everyday (praying hands emoji) #HAPPY BDAY TO THE MAN WHO GOT ME INTO THIS HELLHOLE #THANK YOU FOR BEING SO HOT AND CUTE AND SMART AND HOT AND SO SO SOSOSOSOSO CUTE!!!!!!! #traditional art cuz i did not trust myself enough to be able to make anything good with digital #LIVE LOVE LAUGH COLOUR PENCILS #fuck my camera quality tho what the actual fuck #this is literally the best one i could use after like 10 takes WITH filters #alr wishing yalls can just come into my house to admire the real thing #ill get better at digital art and next year ILL CREATE SOMETHING TRULY OUT OF THE WORLD FOR HIM!!! #danganronpa shuichi #shuichi saihara #drv3 shuichi #kokichi oma #he's the hand in the upper left corner btw if you cant see it properly #kokichi ouma #kaede akamatsu #hand on the right but honestly you can just interpret that as anyone as well #ndrv3 killing harmony #ndrv3 kin #ndrv3 #danganronpa v3 #my art

[caitlynmeow]

Not to be a hater but people are always going 'Daniela is the most delusional one' and 'Daniela is not *stable*' while she's actually very tame?

Why are people ignoring the REAL crazy one who does nothing that makes sense and she's just so wild and batshit insane there is no LOGICAL explanation to all the crazy she throws at you at once?

People wake up! Daniela is not that crazy, Cassandra Dimitrescu is the insane sister and I'm sorry if you cannot see that.

#how is she going under people's radar???? #she treats ethan like a literal animal she's playing hide and seek and biting at him while laughing then screaming on top of her lungs the #next second cassie are you okay? #and she's TOYING with him #she's literally doing it for her enjoyment and she loves every second of it #the crazy laugh? the screaming? this is the sister we should be all afraid off #girly is UNHINGED on a whole different level #dani lives in a world of fantasies but that's about it #she's harmless #house dimitrescu #cassandra dimitrescu #resident evil 8 #daniela dimitrescu #resident evil village #bela dimitrescu #re8 #alcina dimitrescu #ethan winters

[swordheld]

hi! your blog is one of my favourites and i absolutely adore reading your thoughts. my grandfather recently passed away and it feels like i lost myself with him. how do i continue living after this? there is this constant weight on my chest and it feels like an emptiness has made a home inside of me. how do i go on when it feels like the world crashed on my shoulders?

hello, love! this is so very sweet and kind of you, and i hope you're treating yourself gently and kindly right now - there aren't words for a loss like this. that heaviness is difficult, and hard, and painful. it's okay if things don't feel okay, right now, or even soon - i think that's something that a lot of the people i know that have gone through similar grief feel: like they should be able to get back to a relative 'normal' in a [insert far too short period of time].

but it's okay if it hurts. that's where i'd like to start. you're allowed to feel that emptiness, that world-crashed feeling that goes beyond words, beyond time. don't feel like you have to rush this to feel some sort of better. things get easier with time, i promise you this, but sometimes painful feelings are important to feel, too. cry, scream, feel your emotions. they're a part of you. grieve.

it's perhaps a little silly, but when i think about death i always think about a couple of space songs: mainly drops of jupiter by train and saturn by sleeping at last. there are perhaps others that speak to the emotions better, but these two have always hit something a little deeper for me, and are popular for a wide-reaching reason.

and while personally i don't know much about grief like this, i do know a lot about love; and i think they're a lot of the same thing.

the people we love are a part of us, and this is why it takes from us so deeply when we lose them, because it does feel like we've lost a part of ourselves in the wake of it. but it's because they were so central to our experiences of living - our lives, that the separation introduces a hollowness - a place where they used to be. a home that now goes unlived in.

an emptiness, like you said.

but just because they're not here physically, doesn't mean he's not still there, in your heart, in your life, your memory. you can hold him close in smaller ways, as well: steal a sweater, or cologne/scent for something a little more physical and long lasting for remembering. hold onto the memories you cherish, the things that made you laugh, the ease of slow mornings and gentle nights. write them all down, slide a few photographs in there, go through it and add more when you miss him. keep them all close, keep them in your heart.

you're not alone, in this. he's still there, with you, it's just - in the little things.

he's with you in the way you see and go about your daily life, in doing what he liked to do, in the ways he interacted with the world that you shared with him. the memories you recall fondly when the night is late or the moment is right and something calls it into you like a melody, an old bell, laughter you'd recognize anywhere.

but i think, perhaps most importantly above all others - talk about him. with your family, your friends, his friends, strangers; stories are how we keep the people we love alive. the connections they've made, the legacies and experiences they've left behind, and so, so many stories.

how lucky, we are - to love so much it takes a piece of us when they go. grief is the other side of the coin, but it does not mean our love goes away. it lives in you. it lives in everyone who knew him, in the smallest pieces of our lives.

the people we love never really leave us, like this: they're in how we cook and the way we fold our newspapers, our laundry, in the radio stations we tune in to and the way we decorate our walls, our photo albums. they're in the way we store our mail, organize our closets, the scribbled notes in the indexes of our books. the meals we love and the drinks we mix, the way we spend time with one another. they've been passed down for generations, for longer than history - and we are all the luckier for it.

think about what you shared with him, and do it intentionally. bring him into your life, like this, again. whether it's crosswords or poetry or sports or anything else. if one doesn't help, try another. something might click.

i hope things feel a little easier for you, as they tend to do only with time. i hope you find joy in your grief, even if it is small and hard to grasp at first. know that your hurt stems from so much love that there isn't a place to put it properly, and that it is something so meaningful and hurting poets and storytellers have been struggling to put it into words and sounds that feel like the fit right for eons, and that it is also just simply yours. sometimes things don't have to make sense. sometimes they just are - unable to be put into words or neat little sentiments, as unfair and tragic as they come.

but i promise it will not feel like this forever. your love is real. and perhaps, on where to begin on from here - i think it's less on finding where to begin and just beginning. and you've already started. you've taken the most important and crucial step: the first one. wherever you go, after that, from here? you'll figure it out. you always have, and you always do. it'll come, as things always do. love leads us, as does light - and you're never alone in your hurt. in your grief, your missing something dear to you. i think if you talk about it with others, you'll find they have ways of helping you cope as well - and they have so much love of their own to spare, too.

as an aside, here is the song (northern star by dom fera) i was listening to when i wrote this, for no other reason more than it makes me think of connections, and love, and how we hold onto the people we love and how they change us, wonderfully and intrinsically. it's a little more joyous than the others i've mentioned, and plays like a story, and it made me think of what is at the core of this, love and stories and i am here with you, and maybe it'll bring you some joy, if you'd like it. wishing you all my love and ease 💛

#q&a. #birdsong. #wishing u gentle ease; the death of a loved one is near inexplicable to put into words and i hope you take care of yourself gently <3 #i hope this will make u laugh: when i was a tiny child in middle school there were times i would go outside in my tiny suburban cul de sac- #in the rain and sing along to my lil ipod nano and i only remember doing this to drops of jupiter. can you imagine going out to get the mai #after a long day of work and you just hear this kid singing train in the streets. in the RAIN.... it makes me laugh like i really. #i really thought i was so cool and deep and emotional ghjkd but i find it v funny that i only remember it w/ that one train track. #and saturn just. it's my fav s.a.l. song for a reason. that slow violin opening? the piano coming in gentle and easy? #it feels like light. like hope. like something new - a dawn after the long dark. that beautiful things can begin again even where #it hurts. and there is nothing more human than a sentiment like that. #how rare and beautiful it is to truly exist. what it is to be alive and get to be here and live with other people. with those we love. #i think your grandfather was so lucky to be able to know you. to have you in his life for the time you had together. #i'm no spiritual person; but i like to believe when you're thinking about him? he's thinking about you too. #the second law of thermodynamics (physics nerd mode) is that no energy has ever been created/destroyed since the beginning of the universe. #so it has to go somewhere - it's that carl sagan quote of 'we're all made of stardust'. because we are. we used to be stars; planets; etc. #i think it's why i think of these space songs - because they're a part of everything; once more; when they go. us and everything else.

[lovelydrusilla]

found a wild @lisbonsteresa tweet while scrolling through pinterest lmao

#this made me laugh #so true chelsea #it truly is about him finding his way back to life through lisbon (and the team). we love to see it #and revenge ofc #can't forget the revenge #but yeah #the journey (quest for revenge) was truly about the friends we made along the way (being in love with your coworker and best friend) #the mentalist #jisbon #teresa lisbon #patrick jane #jane x lisbon #tmsource #tmedit #tm posting #live blogging #simon baker #robin tunney #meme

[gasstationpopcorn]

youtube

#joker out #kris guštin #kris gustin #jo:g #mine #what cracks me up is that lil tv program really said we only care about royal couple over here #so let us take a cool shot of miha's kid doing his thing being a princess and then let us #include a weirdly angled shot of bojan on stage taking money from some guy #they truly said babes we know u r going to esc but be so fucking for real rn u only have one (1) nepobaby on your side and #some unwashed dude in a burlap (sack) shirt she picked up on the street #and three men who don't talk much one of them is new so we are not even including him in the frame #i live love laugh

[andi-o-geyser]

hey, sorry um. bad news i called the Kansas Regulatory Board on your boyfriend. yeah, the one who started dating you and is now taking you on a trip to Paris after spending over a year with you for individual treatment and then couples counselling with your ex-husband. i'm then going to personally throw a football at his head for being such a piece of shit therapist. sorry.

#can you tell i have beef with this man #everything about his choices are so wrong on so many levels and his license for practice should be fucking GONE #like if i had 15 hours i could not even BEGIN to tell you all the ways he's being unethical and failing at his job #dr jacob come fight me in a denny's parking lot i fucking DARE you #i see your “ill take my gf on a romantic trip to paris while i leave her son with his father who's trust i have completely betrayed” #and i raise you “meet me on pont neuf at sunset so we can duel to death you curdled cup of milk of a man” #you don't DESERVE to eat crepes in paris #FUCK YOU #hhhhhnnnnng this fictional character has got me in such a rage you don't even understand #it is so hard to live laugh love in these dr jacob conflict episode economies smh #i wish ted a very nice kill him pls :) #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso season 3 #andis thought geyser

[wondercircuit]

Fernando Alonso on High Performance

[What about for you personally? Because we speak to loads of former sportspeople who say, "I didn't take one moment to enjoy my career because I was too focused on winning."] "Same. [Laughs] Same, I regret that. I regret that. When I won the 2 championships back in Renault, and then during my Ferrari time, it was—it was good, but you are so focused on the next race and the next weekend. You finish one race, you may win the race and when you go to the airport you are already thinking about next weekend, so you land at home and then you text your engineer 'we need to test softer at the rear because the traction was very bad in this race,' y'know, these kinds of things and uh… Yeah, I think with age and now, at this point of my career—like the podiums of this year—it seems that when I re-watch the race on TV, I seem the happiest, on the podium. And just—I was third! Two times, second. But it's because I'm able to enjoy more of those kinds of moments. So yeah, celebrating every weekend is part of my thing now."

#fernando alonso #formula 1 #*mine #gif: interview #he looks good in this interview #there's stuff here more interesting (to me) besides him talking about being in his live laugh love era #but i'll spare mentioning it bc it's just personal specific intrigue. but #i do think it's interesting how he's re-iterated several times including here that he wants to help build AM into a strong contending team #for championships in the future ie. implied post-racing retirement #consistently re-iterated #we shall see then #belated gif posting

[agent-marusankisser]

REBLOG TO JOIN THE

JUNIOR CULT

#coroika #splatoon #e #Cult #I love him #Junior is best smol #Pls #We love Junior #No Junior hate or I will kill #Smol #the skrunkly #love #he is so silly #he is so cute #Live laugh junior #♡

[theglowingeyeballz]

I’m back with another fan art. Been trying out different brushes lately

#we love the vast #he’s so silly look at him #Live laugh love Mike Crew #any vastards out here? #the vast #michael crew #tma #the magnus archives #tma fanart #my art #digital art

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

#the visual depictions are lovely #but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music #music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener #fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds #bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes #wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol) #and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus #it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off #/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications #I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings #the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart #what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American? #yada yada #and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even #yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner #but he also came for all of us #as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours #i just think this practice is lovely #that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages #and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him #it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way #all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth #in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him #but in spirit it was all of us #because it's just like the angel said: #good news of great joy which will be to all people #to all people #starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth #unto us a child is born #intertextuality

[cawcawbeech]

If you dont agree with me when I say that this is literally a photo of Kaz Brekker in the flesh, youre wrong. Its as simple as that. YOUR BABYGIRL IS A RAT.

#grishaverse #six of crows #kaz brekker #the bastard of the barrel #but he is also our bastard #and we love him despite this #Live laugh love the rat king #🐭🐁🐀

[popularisland]

Honestly if I saw that damn thing in my living room, I’d stomp on it until it was a small grey stain.

#i want to throw him at a wall #and then curbstomp him #he’s great :) #we love stanley #live laugh stanley #Stanley stanley stanley #rip Jerma you would have loved him #HOT TAKE: ​matpat and the narrator should kiss #ahem! #anyway.. #Stanley parable #the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #stanley parable ultra deluxe #sobbing noises