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dredshirtroberts · 4 months

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the nice thing about being back home is that i can make poor food choices and handle the consequences in the safety of my own environment

the bad thing about this is that i am very good at making poor food choices when we're home and therefore safe, and thus must handle the consequences.

#the whole time we were back in virginia i had like Zero digestive issues #maybe a smidge of heartburn/acid reflux after drinking a little too much or eating too close to bed #but like other than that nothing - i was very good about avoiding my Main Trigger Food #(the 'matoes are so tasty and deserve their spot on all foods but my tumby does not enjoy them as much as the rest of me does)#soon as we got back it was like everything i was doing to be careful went out the door #and I stopped even attempting to track and avoid tomato consumption #(the main culprit was pizza and that's mainly on me - we had it 4 times in very short succession and i know better #and should have tapped out for at *minimum* the last pizza and just had something else for myself #but look - pizza is fun and delicious and easy as hell to have when spoons are low #sometimes sacrifices are made #today's been the roughest tumby day i've had in a hot minute - exacerbated i'm certain by my menstrual cycle #we're a couple days to a week out shit's going BONKERS and hopefully i'll actually have one and not have to wait a month AGAIN

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 10 days

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen ning #wei wuxian #Ignore how Wen Ning's hair looks here because I messed it up. Let's pretend he just sported a different hair style for a brief moment.#I am not exactly great at consistency but I am trying very hard to work on that (immediately messes up again).#Absolutely *love* how Wen Ning clearly remembers and admires WWX...who does *not* recognize him.#This is the best day for Wen Ning and it means *nothing* to WWX. A painful one-sided crush made worse.#It is bittersweet to realize that we care about someone more than they care about us. Sometime we pour love into a relationship-#-with someone who just can't reciprocate. It isn't always a conscious things either. Some people just aren't aware we care.#And painfully - so painfully - You can't make them aware. No act of kindness or gift or self sacrifice will make someone care about you.#You can martyr yourself for someone and they will continue on unchanged.#I think a lot about the parallels between WN and LWJ. Not foils - just reflections. A theme repeated.#People who give so much of themselves to someone who doesn't have the capacity to give any part of themself away.#I will die on the hill of 'Wen Ning would be the love triangle romance if that trope wasn't being avoided'.#And to be honest - thank the stars above that is the case. I do not know any good love triangles in media.#We are skipping some of the sad Jiang Cheng content because I really want to finish season 2 before May.#Sorry JC emo moment lovers...I'll deliver another time.

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yangjeongin · 2 years

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good morning hyunjin!

#hwang hyunjin #stray kids #hyunjin #bystay #createskz #staysource #*gif #*ccarly #*hyunjin #*carly:hyunjin #not proud of how making this made me feel #delulu hours: open #please be my b*yfriend. god #i've been giffing you for two whole years i think i deserve this hear me out #no hyunjin it's not weird listen. hear me out.#anyway #these look kinda lq and that is my fault this time we sacrifice the quality in order to be able to actually see him LMAO #i'll probably make a 9 set from this later sometime when it's not past 8 am without me sleeping amen good night #*hits

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incorrect-ikevamp-quotes · 7 months

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Leonardo: Hey, no, you stay out of this, this is between me and MC!

Literally anyone: So MC knows about this?

Leonardo, walking away: No, this is between me and me!

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp leonardo #ikevamp leo #ikevamp mc #AIGHT BUT NO CAP THAT'S LIKE HALF OF LEO'S RT #when i say this one makes me start chortling on sight IM NOT KIDDING #i will never get over how funny he is sometimes #like yes there's the tragic backstory and horrible childhood but #the inevitably hilarity of a grown man 400 yrs old yelling I WONT SUBJECT MYSELF TO THE MORTIFYING ORDEAL OF BEING K N O W N #i love you leonardo. truly i do. now just follow this trail of cigarillos into this Totally Not A Therapist's Office--#its hard for me sometimes because he absolutely means well most of the time but #he always makes me think of that post of like #'thinking you need to sacrifice every second you're with a person isn't love. and i'm sorry for whatever made you feel like it was.'#leonardo: ask for help? ill Die First.#mc with a bat aimed at his head: first time for everything--

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roseblushkestrel · 7 months

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"I enjoyed sharing a moment of magic with you."

#astarion is fully going to kill me for making him wear gale's pajamas #but sometimes sacrifices must be made for the sake of seeing a man's chest #astarion babe I only did it because the camp clothes mod I downloaded wasn't working I promise I'll give it back #anyway listen to hozier when you look at these because that's what I do #his tiny little shrug #the backwards walk #this man lives inside my head now #sir i would commit murders for you #mystra you're on notice #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 #i'm back in the making gifs -> writing fic pipeline #gifset

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saint-ambrosef · 1 year

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honestly one of the most painful things to see as a religious person is for someone who left your faith to explain why, and its because they misunderstood a major tenet of the belief (or had it misrepresented to them).

like most of the time there's not really anything you can do to help them see it differently or undo all the trauma that the misunderstanding caused, and that sucks. especially when the ex-believer then uses it as proof for why your belief is bad.

#just saw someone say that Christianity is bad because it says suffering for others is the Greatest Good and how that fucked them up as a kid #and went on to say “the goal of life is to love!! not to suffer!!”#and ngl that made my heart hurt because that is not what Christians mean when they say suffering can be a good #like love should never JUST be unconditional sacrifice and we were not put on this earth to suffer #but suffering can sometimes be a natural outcome of loving someone else and that can be a beautiful good #the Christian understanding of love is to will another's good and sometimes that means denying our selfishness #like yeah the goal of life IS to love. that IS the point of the Christian worldview.#and im sorry that it was portrayed to child-you #as you needing to sacrifice everything joyful in life for others' material comforts and temporal benefits #it fucking sucks that THAT was the version of Christianity you were taught and it's closed you off to it forever #anyways this is a rant #mea

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murasaki-cha · 24 days

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Lied to my family pretending I have work to do at school when in fact I only have one assignment I will work on later tonight.

It's 9 am now and I have a class at 1 pm *cracks neck* time to catch up on part 2 of TCF. I'm on chapter 251 and by god if I don't reach chapter 275 today

#sometimes sacrifices must be made for the greater good #in this case the sacrifice is my sleep and the greater good is catching up with tcf #a perfectly reasonable trade if you ask me #tcf #trash of the count's family #lcf #lout of the count’s family #tcf novel #tcf part 2 #laws of hunting

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healingheartdogs · 4 months

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I have made a grave error, a horrible, awful, truly terrible mistake.

(I have POTS and I stood up from my seat at a normal speed and stretched.)

#pots #potsie #the real mistake was actually choosing to take my beta blockers a few hours late #because I REALLY REALLY wanted to enjoy some grapefruit juice with my meal when i woke up #sometimes sacrifices must be made for the sake of satisfying your tastebuds #in case you didnt know grapefruit deactivates MOST meds #so you shouldnt consume it after taking your meds for the day #and if you have grapefruit before your meds you need to wait a couple hours after until you take your meds #unfortunately grapefruit is one of my favorite foods and my absolute favorite fruit juice so choices were made today lol #also if you're like me and have ADHD then similar rules apply with vitamin C in general #dont consume vitamin c within a few hours before or after taking your ADHD meds or they won't work

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originalaccountname · 6 months

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I NEED more ppl to have AUs where Murase survives… my crops are dying

I need more people to use Murase at ALL we have a another middle-aged (?? maybe he's less than 30 he could have been around 20 during the war +7 years for SB who KNOWS) who isn't proud of his violent past and strives to do better and help people COUGHSjustlikeFukuzawa now that he's in a place to do so, he is PEAK bsd character in that way USE HIM

#he didn't do much but he has a past a family a personality some motivations and an occupation what else do you need to run with it #he was a little shit!! he made jokes! he got super serious and sad! the whole shebang!#with adam he was the top contender for good parent relationship (adam's sacrifice compared to a parent protecting his child) PLEASE #bsd #detective murase #bsd murase #bsd detective murase #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #apparently i talk sometimes #ask answered

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appallinnballin · 5 months

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can we see more of your little digidevil guy... they are so small and lumpy and perfect

THIS WAS ALSO ASKED A LONG TIME AGO yes u can omg…. thank you 💚

#weird kitty!!!!!!!!!!!!!#if i decide to draw them lumpier…………#pix #digidevil #my art #ask #anon #edit: just noticed in the first drawings i ever did of themthey had four fingers buthere i only gave them three per hand…#sometimes sacrifices must be made no matter how small

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lord-squiggletits · 1 month

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Something else that makes me sympathetic to Pharma's situation is like. Idk if there's an actual term for this or if someone smarter and more academic wrote it about some real life context that actually matters.

But, so we've already established among Pharma stans that the circumstances at Delphi were blackmail/torture with no real way out that wouldn't involve Pharma being responsible for people getting killed (either killing patients for the deal or having everyone die bc he failed his end of the deal).

And I feel like while "he's still in the wrong because he killed people" is part of it, another sort of implicit part is the idea that Pharma should've been willing to take more personal risk, maybe even risk dying? I mean, Ratchet does ask "why didn't you just detonate it near the DJD" (to which Pharma responds that he did try to get Sonic and Boom to do it, but they refused) so like

Idk I feel like we do have this social notion of martyrs as a very romantic ideal, people you can praise for being so brave and strong and righteous that they ended their own lives for their cause, while you can also coo about how sad and tragic it is that dying is what it took for them to do the right thing. But at the same time I feel like in reality, having an expectation that people become martyrs is kind of a toxic social norm bc like. It's very easy to demand that others sacrifice their lives for some Ultimate Moral Good when you yourself aren't experiencing the same hardships as they are. And ultimately it is kind of fucked up to tell someone "the moral thing you should've done was risk your life/kill yourself" because asking someone to pay their life to do the right thing is no small request. And sure, the typical response would be to call them a "coward" for caring more about saving their own skin instead of doing the right thing... but again, death is a really scary thing and self-preservation is a really strong instinct, so it kind of feels like having this binary view of "you're either a Brave Hero who sacrifices your life for everyone else or a Dirty Coward who's too scared of dying to do what's right" is kind of fucked up?

I guess the best way to describe it is that if someone willingly gives up their life as a sacrifice to others, it can be a noble thing because it's a choice they made willingly, but if it becomes a Moral Standard that in order to be a Good Person you have to be unafraid of throwing your life away and if you aren't willing to die you're a Cowardly Bad Person, that's when it becomes toxic.

Idk, I guess how this ties back to Pharma is that he was never in a position where he expected to make these kinds of moral decisions/ultimatums. He's a doctor who doesn't even get into combat, his job is to heal and not to kill, he's behind the front lines in a hospital that's supposed to be a safe, neutral place for him to heal people. So in the face of suddenly having a "murder people on behalf of me, or I murder everyone you swore to protect" ultimatum thrust upon him, I understand why Pharma wasn't """"""""""brave enough"""""""""" to "do the right thing" (whatever that would've been in the case of Delphi). You could argue that maybe a frontliner soldier accepted the burden of possibly dying for their cause and they've become used to it as someone who lives that reality every single day, but I feel like for Pharma, who's a doctor and a protected non-combatant (from what we can tell), that sort of risking of his life/living with the fact his life could be snuffed out any day isn't something he would've been prepared for at all.

And for me personally, from an outsider's perspective, it strikes me as kind of unethical to go "oh well he should've just detonated the bomb himself even if it killed him" bc again, there's a difference between witnessing a moral conundrum as a bystander versus being the person living with it and being under time pressure where it's do-or-die. Just as part of my personal standards, I feel like death is such a huge consequence/burden of someone's actions (literally you are no longer alive, any potential you had left is cut short, you cease to exist on this plane) that it feels rather callous to go "Well you should've just been willing to die for your beliefs if you really cared that much!!!"