#survival lessons

[selfhealingmoments]

#mental health #self reflection #be yourself #self improvement #self help #new life #letting go #inspirational quotes #new beginnings #positivity #therapy #self therapy #survival #emotional support #life lessons

[treemaidengeek]

As someone who is on the fence wrt voting for Biden because of his approach to Gaza (questioning casualties, lying about seeing evidence like the picture of the beheaded babies and the HQ under Shifa, fast tracking weapons, etc), with the acknowledgement that Trump would have been worse, can I ask what your plan for Gaza is? Are we to just see hundreds of deaths daily and then...what?

This one really hit me, & I have a few different responses.

I see you acknowledging that Trump would've been worse. I believe so too. Certainly his domestic policies (past and future-proposed) are a wrecking ball for maginalized communities of every stripe in this country: people of color, women, lower income folks, Muslims, queer/LGBTQ folks, immigrants & their families. Biden is a shitshow but he passes the low bars of "hasn't tried to overthrow the government" & "acknowledges that vote counts are real."

If you live in a state that is deep blue or deep red, you can more safely make a protest vote for a third party candidate who aligns better with your values and concerns. If you live in a state that's at all contested, and you believe Trump is worse, I'd strongly encourage you to vote for Biden. Realistically in the two-party house of horrors we live in, one of them will be the next president. It's better to vote for someone shitty than to stay home, because I promise you Trump's diehards will be out there voting.

As for "my plan for Gaza"?

I know what I believe should happen there, but that's not the most important thing. I'm one person with no particular political influence in global issues. I don't have all the answers. No one does. What you and I as individuals can do is:

Contact our elected officials to press them to speak up against the Palestinian genocide.

Check out lists others have put together of action items. Pick a few to focus on.

Attend protests, if you can. Donate to humanitarian organizations and relief efforts, if you can.

Check on the Jewish, Muslim, and Arab people in our communities. Many of them are not ok. Let them know you care, offer concrete support (would someone appreciate having help with the kids, errands, etc?) and offer to be a listening ear. Don't ask for their opinions unless they volunteer that information. Find somewhere else to process your own grief and anger.

Make space in your heart for grief and anger and helplessness and whatever else is coming up for you. We live in an age of truly unprecedented access to information (the good, the bad, and the falsified). Find a healthy balance between keeping informed and becoming overwhelmed.

One of my seminary professors used to talk about the paradox of being human in the modern world. We are exposed to atrocities on a much wider scale than ever before. We are hard-wired to want to help others when we know others are hurting... and now we have the capacity to know about all the pain of the world.

Our options, he'd say, are to force ourselves wide open to the breaking point; to tune out and become numb; or to learn how to live with daily grief and continue living.

Do what you can, and trust that others are also doing what we can. Make peace with the starfish parable fact that you can't do everything, and that doesn't lessen the value of what you do.

#palestine #gaza genocide #survival lessons #life lessons #how to stay sane in an insane world

[the-data-files]

Mission: put that lizard baby to bed

#ds9 #star trek #my art #sketches #garashir #elim garak #julian bashir #Said Garak-Bashir #Julian quickly learns a very important lesson: Cardassian babies are extremely good at surviving (bedtime)

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

#lazy #unmotivated #im stuck #i’m stuck #stuck #survival mode #quotes #words #life lessons #wisdom #inspirational words #growth #healing #emotional trauma #trauma #trauma survivor #nakeia homer

[thegodshavehorns]

Very small, one-sentence change made to the end of Survival Lessons, go take a look if you like.

#story hooks are important #survival lessons #revision #mod post

[ladyelainehilfur]

Literally insane to me how small the general webtoon fandom is outside of the webtoon app itself (and maybe reddit??)

I've talked to multiple people irl who LOVE reading webtoon, but the online community is borderline threadbare ! Most people on Tumblr have no IDEA who our blorbos are! I've checked tags for some fairly popular webtoon and it was like visiting that Tatooine town in the Mandalorian where there are 5 citizens total, but only if you also count the Mayor, the sheriff, and the deputy.

Lore Olympus is the most popular webtoon and has under 2,000 fics on AO3. Lookism has roughly 1,000. Unordinary, THEE legacy webtoon, only has 600, and it's been running for almost 7 years now. It has nearly 6M subscribers and still gets 50K+ likes each week. It's not dead by any means.

I guess it doesn't help that each webtoon is its own micro ecosystem and once a webtoon ends, that ecosystem typically fades with it. But webtoons can go on runs longer than most shows on streaming services, and those fandoms burn hot and bright even if only for the first month of a new season drop.

By comparison, webtoon fans are largely casual about their enthusiasm, even if they're highly invested in the story or characters. From my experience, only the most passionate try to connect with other fans online. But when you're passionate about one webtoon, I suppose it's hard to show constant excitement about the 20+ other stories one might keep up with. Still, between the 85 million monthly readers, you'd think each major webtoon would at least have a dedicated fan base (meaning people who regularly post theories, thoughts, fics, and fanart) of mere thousands outside of the app.

One exception for this is that Batman webtoon? It actually trends on Tumblr every now and again. But it doesn't count, because Batman has a built in fandom who'll eat up and yell in the streets about any content where he's a decent dad.

People who read romance webtoon all tend to read the same comics, and actively understand the references to other popular romance comics (Trashta, Team Seojun, SLS), so you'd think there'd be a greater sense of unity. More people actively searching out others to discuss with and posting their thoughts online and not just in that webtoon's comment section.

I mean, C'MON girls!!! Millions of people log into that app like everyday!!! WHERE is the community?? WHERE is the fanart?? WHERE is the fanfic?? WHY does Odd Girl Out only have 7 fanfics?? WHY are there like 2 people on Twitter posting about Weak Hero?? Head in hands fr

#weak hero #odd girl out #true beauty #Lookism #mercenary enrollment #unordinary #surviving romance #marry my husband #cursed princess club #the remarried empress #jackson's diary #your throne #Lumine #after school lessons for unripe apples #Morgana and Oz #lore Olympus #down to earth #Eleceed #webtoon

[nefertittythegreat]

I have been screaming this into the void for years, but it's nice to basically have confirmation that

Anakin trained Ahsoka to survive.

That's it. He trained her to be what she needed to be to make it through the Clone Wars, and he was successful. This episode hammered home how young she was 14 in the middle of a war zone with only a lightsaber and her courage, and Anakin of all people knew how to get her through it.

He didn't train her to be the best jedi, but he taught her to survive, and that's what she needed most at the end of the day.

#the clone wars #ahsoka #ahsoka tano #ahsoka spoilers #Anakin Skywalker #star wars the clone wars #clone wars #star wars #seriously Anakin didnt know how to be a good jedi #or even a good person #but he knew how to survive #thats what he passed on #and he needed to remind ahsoka of that #sure their lineage is a disaster™️ #but Anakin argueably passed on the most important lesson #a lesson of will #and finding strength when there is non left to be found

[brasiliangp]

DRIVE TO SURVIVE | Season 06 | Episode 06, "Leap of Faith"

#I was like....who's raising this kid then I remembered he's having lessons with george #toto wolff #susie wolff #wolffs #jack wolff #dts #drive to survive #*gifs

[booasaur]

What using the tiniest bit of US leverage can do.

#us politics #joe biden #israel #palestine #free palestine #these people have been starving and dying for so long #many still surviving are beyond the point which they can be brought back safely from without medical help #and it took the killing of international aid workers to get here? #it's just so sad #there's no win here #no lesson learned #we can only hope this pressure mounts and stops things #especially with iran's counter hovering

[ckerouac]

My favorite thing is that absolutely no one in the show can resist helping out Din. Literally his superpower is the power of friendship. And Grogu is learning these skills from the best.

Everyone: Fuck that guy. Feared Mandalorian can handle himself, he got himself into situations.

Grogu: *shows up like Lassie, blinks his big brown eyes and trills softly*

Everyone : oh, fuck your dad is stuck in a well mine? Let me get my coat WE’RE COMING, BUDDY

#the mandalorian #Grogu ‘big brown eyes’ Djarin is learning the Mando lessons he needs to survive

[clarabow-mp3]

i am always thinking about the katniss and haymitch parallels like.......they both grew up in the seam. they were both reaped at 16, and by then both had no father, a single mother, and a younger sibling. it's not a stretch to imagine that haymitch felt the same responsibility to take care of his family that katniss did. he must've taken tesserae at least once. maybe he even picked up his knife skills from hunting or butchering animals to feed his family, just like she did. he tells katniss there used to be more whippings in district 12 - and that the person caring for the wounded was her mother - maybe he was breaking the rules just as frequently as she was. they were both rebels from the beginning. he survived his games by using the capitol's forcefield to rob them of a true final confrontation, she used the nightlock to rob them of a victor. they were both 16 years old.

#traumatized teenage girls and their awful traumatized surrogate dads <3 #thg #this didn't quite fit the post but i always thought snow learned a lesson with haymitch #he killed haymitch's family and girlfriend (his past and future in a metaphorical way) within the span of two weeks #but then finnick says he killed 1 family member for each act of dissent - never kill the family in one go or you never have leverage again. #haymitch was never a threat to the capital again (not for a few decades anyway) but he wasn't an asset to them either #basically i think he's what katniss would be if peeta hadn't survived and snow actually killed her family and gale

[fromtheseventhhell]

I think it's so funny that people treat Arya like she has no self-control because she *checks notes* stood up to Joffrey and defended her friend from being attacked

#arya stark #asoiaf #that's literally the only evidence people have to /prove/ that Arya wouldn't have been able to survive in KL 😭 #and then the same people call Sansa a queen for thinking about pushing Joffrey over the edge the obvious bias is so funny #people treating Arya like she's the dumb and reckless counterpart is soooooo forced cause there's literally no evidence #even her defending Mycah isn't impulsive...she has a whole internal monologue about thinking her father or his men would've defended him to #because it was the right thing to do but I guess no other character is allowed to be naive and learn a lesson #anyways saying this just makes you look stupid cause Arya's entire arc and survival hinges on her keeping calm in tense situations

[azathothsdreamgrrl]

weird flex but i could give you a really batshit reading of revolutionary girl utena in regards to..the bible. because look, the last book in the bible is about the apocalypse, okay? and in it this leviathan rises out of the sea and calls himself jesus (this is the antichrist) and people follow him and he makes this whole kingdom around himself, he even makes an emblem called the mark of the beast to recognize his followers by (err uhh!! ROSE SEAL). obviously the beast is akio, but jesus in this scenario is dios. utena has been waiting for the end of the world/jesus appearance? and here comes akio to mislead her, pulling her into this world of weird rules and rose seals--obviously, ohtori is his kingdom. now jesus is supposed to be doing over the pact made with adam and eve, right? original sin. the tale of the rose is this tale of original sin, in which dios becomes disconnected from humanity and a woOOoman (!!!) is the cause of it. however, i don't see anthy as eve, but as lilith, who could NOT be adam's wife (read: rose bride) and is punished for it. with this reading (which is absolutely not at all how rgu was intended to be read lmao) the show takes an anti religious turn, because god has disappeared, or was a construct all along, and in his place is merely a dude using the moral high ground to hurt a bunch of people. choosing jesus, choosing the leviathan, neither matters because they're both just guys in power trying to convince you that they're right--and both are extorting anthy. that's why the first time anthy and utena meet changes meaning in this version of the story: here is god, and this little girl is asking him why he's letting anthy suffer if he says he loves everyone (all women??), and he's silent.

#hey thanks for coming to my theology lesson! i didn't survive catholic school to not brag about it #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #utena

[b0bthebuilder35]

#life #lesson #lessons #life lessons #life lesson #lessons in life #lesson in life #trauma #survive #survival #give yourself credit #stronger #kinder #empathetic #empathy #reality #real shit #true shit #truth #true #no bullshit #no bull #real #no bs #facts #no but seriously #real life #no but for real #no but fr

[zoobus]

I apologize in advance because I'm taking a tag way too seriously and this isn't even YA novel navalgazing, this is literally about a series written for 3rd graders.

I'm realizing "fucked up that the moral of this story was" is a minor trigger for me. It drives me insane in a way obviously unequal to whatever the original context is. But this is my blog so.

The American Girl series was not a moral-driven set of stories! They weren't Animorphs or anything but they were absolutely a kid's introduction to the intrinsic unfairness of life and a solid chunk of the stories ended with the """"moral"""" of the main character left to uncomfortably ponder why something so clearly not right could be allowed to continue before they clunkily skipped to the next story like the previous didn't happen.

I used to own several sets and I skimmed through a few before selling them some years back. The sudden harsh reality of whatever historical ills going on were part of the appeal! It was fucked up and scary and that's why they were good (to an elementary schooler to be clear, these aren't good books)

Like the "moral" of Nellie's story was that it was fucked up to be a child factory worker. It was fucked up that her response to "oh your hair is so pretty, you should grow it longer" was to recount the time she witnessed one of her elementary age coworker get scalped by one of the child labor machines. It was fucked up that she's 8 with PTSD. Of course Nellie got a happy end but like... abused little puppies getting cleaned up and spoiled is a popular media trope. It's not a lesson. Even though it works out for her, you're still left with the knowledge that the girl who's hair was ripped off her skull and untold number of fingerless kids were not adopted by Samantha's rich grandpa.

I'm rarely comfortable saying there's one specific point that a story is objectively going for and you're a fool if you don't see it, but I do think the American Girl series was intentional in showcasing period-specific suffering might have looked like in a way a little kid could conceptualize. And it worked! For example:

Molly, the WW2 American Girl (AG). Her family takes in a little Bri'ish girl and Molly's soooo excited wow imagine having a fancy English girl in your own house. She is irritated when the 9yo lass is very quiet and not into being her doll. After weeks of molly snipping at her, British girl goes off like sorry I'm not fucking prancing around you dumb bitch but I'm not here as a foreign exchange student, I'm here because my house got bombed and my friends and family are probably fucking dead

Samantha, the Victorian AG. We already know Nellie who, as explained before, had a very different life than the wealthy Samantha. But Samantha also had a black nanny she adored up until she disappears without warning. After a lot of snooping, she uncovers that nanny had a baby! So of course she sneaks out at night to find the little man for herself🤫

Her mischievous giggling starts to get more nervous as she gets closer to nanny's address. It's getting dirtier and shittier and there's only black people around and they're openly gawking but not approaching. People live here? Nanny lives here? With a baby? She eventually finds her and the baby who is cute but Samantha is left at the end like. Hm. So. I guess my life is not universal? Much to think about. There's no happy resolution to this. Nanny never returns, segregation continues.

Last one, Addy, the escaped slave (apparently a controversial opinion, but I liked Addy). The other stories take a bit to get to wham aspect, but with her? Right from the start we have Overseer catch Addy slacking while picking cotton. She's just not debugging fast enough. This grown adult man, so infuriated an eight year old child isn't picking cotton tobacco fast enough, forces her to eat one of the fat, green worms she missed. They describe Addy holding back tears, the worm bursting in her mouth, the bitter taste, the humiliation. I feel like this was the first time I like...*got* slavery. You learn about it in school, sure, but owning people, beating people, it sounded bad but unconnected to anything I knew. Like maybe it's because at the time of reading, I too was a daydreamy 8yo black girl, making it hit a little too close. How could anyone do that and feel justified? Or feel nothing at all? An adult made a little kid eat a bug and it didn't hurt his conscious? This guy probably goes to church and doesn't even remember this. He doesn't think he needs forgiveness. This is nothing to him. This is normal. He died thinking he did nothing wrong, probably. Those were my thoughts then. Very good.

These aren't morals. Of course you shouldn't expect a refugee to perform for their host family. Of course you shouldn't make a child eat a worm. Child labor is bad. Didactic American Girl was not.

#niche effortposts #American girl #if i had to say they went for a particular lesson it might be #8yo girls have been surviving the most insane shit since the dawn of time. we're not saying it was good. it was horrible. #nevertheless many made it out alive. believe in yourself👍

[misc-obeyme]

Okay, Lesson 24. Honestly what do I even say about it other than the cliffhanger nearly took me out?

Fine, fine, spoilers below the cut, I'm gonna have to say something lol.

Okay this is a shortish one, but here I am!

I'm kind of glad they had Lucifer being the teacher in this lesson. Diavolo kind of made it sound like it's a temporary thing for right now before they officially start RAD, but like you can't tell me that guy is a student. I don't believe it!

The best part of that whole thing was Diavolo responding cheerfully to the brothers' complaints.

Also is this the first time that Lucifer does this with someone's name other than Mammon?!

I honestly can't remember. Lucifer you sound ridiculous lol.

Right, but anyway. I didn't write a post for the last lesson because I was out of time, sorry Mammon. But we got a pact with our boy and of course he was the first because it couldn't possibly be anybody else, right?

And now Asmo's acting up, which means we're not going in the OG order. I wonder if there's a reason for that or if it was just like... Mammon is first, Lucifer is last and we can mix everybody else up? 'Cause if Lucifer isn't last, I'll be surprised.

So uh... Solomon in this lesson, though... and then Barbatos shows up... and oh my gosh. The whole later part of this lesson was just me freaking out the whole time because I LOVE THEM so much.

Solomon being protective of MC despite being less powerful than normal? Barbatos just absolutely shutting everything down the second he gets there? Barbatos then telling Solomon how he's still upset with him? Both of them putting aside their issues for a minute to help MC find Little D No 5? MC being like nope you guys are intolerable, let's talk about this? THE CLIFFHANGER????

I was actually really surprised when Lucifer was like, go to Solomon! I was like hang on what? You want me to get Solomon? I don't understand. And then Lucifer was like y'know 'cause of his pact with Asmo! And then I was like ooooohhhh okay yeah that tracks.

And our boy Sol can sense MC's presence? Now I headcanon that he reads auras, too. Of course he can. Of course he does. I love him.

Oh nothing, just my true love serving all the sass.

This man. He has also said (in an event I believe it was or maybe a Devilgram?) that he wants MC to scold him. Like sir...

Anyway, due to the fact that there was so much of Solomon and Barbatos in this lesson, I very much enjoyed it. I also love Asmo, though I am concerned about his current state. I actually liked the WW conference call the others had, though. It's so sweet that Beel was watching over Asmo while he was sleeping. Precious babies!

BUT THAT CLIFFHANGER THO.

#how will I survive #a whole week #gotta distract myself by writing fanfics #good thing I still have prompts to work on sheesh #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me nightbringer lesson 24 #obey me spoilers #obey me nightbringer spoilers #obey me diavolo #obey me barbatos #obey me solomon #obey me asmodeus #obey me lucifer #misc lesson recap #misc rambles