It’s been very overshadowed by the other events, but both seats in Georgia went blue. This is a huge shift and it was one hard won and we all owe that to the black community, the Hispanic community, and the indigenous community and all the other incredibly suppressed communities for getting to the polls and fighting through the enormous roadblocks set up to stop them and the very real danger they faced to make this happen.
One thing nobody tells you about adulthood is how lonely it can be. Everyone is always working full time, your schedules never work around each other, and it becomes harder to make solid friendships. It’s no wonder so many people stay in boring or shitty relationships because at least you have someone to do things with. I’ve lately discovered the joys of doing things myself because I couldn’t just wait around for my friends to clear their schedules and I’ll be damned if I get into a bad relationship out of loneliness
This post is hitting different what with the isolation from lockdowns/quarantine
Would also like to just get out ahead on this one and firmly state that Haunting of Bly Manor is not a Bury Your Gays tragedy. That trope refers specifically to when a queer character’s death is either explicitly or implicitly coded as a punishment for their sexuality, and posits that queer folk cannot have a happy world. The trope also precludes that the character’s death serves as little more than a plot device to motivate or redirect the lover they’re leaving behind (for whom their death is also a punishment), or worse. At its most cynical, it’s a cheap, sweeps-week b-plot that can be introduced and discarded quickly, without derailing the story much.
This is not any of that. Dani begins the series already drowning in what she perceives as punishment for her sexuality (Edmund’s ghost). She is freed from that punishment by Jamie. Their love story goes on to take center stage of the entire narrative, and Dani’s death is not a device to move plot along, it’s the culminating means by which the thesis of the show is delivered: that the price of love is loss, and that all ghost stories are love stories.
Bury Your Gays twists diminish and degrade the love stories that came before them. Bly Manor, and the love story at its center, is a contemporary gothic romance. Death, and everlasting devotion to one’s true love long after they’ve died, is the foundation of such a love story, not a betrayal of it.
A part of being an adult is living with regret and not allowing it to consume you. The older you get, the more mistakes you’ve made, opportunities you’ve missed, people you’ve disappointed. And every day you have to remind yourself to be kind and forgiving of yourself. You accept and love the you from the past and understand that it’s all a part of the process. Then you move on and live your best life, knowing now as old as you feel today, you’ll never be this young again.
The fact that both of zukos abusers used lightning against zuko and instead of learning to use lightning himself like he could have he learned how to redirect the lightning and let it pass through him and then straight clean out of him… Do you ever think about how that is literally physically representing how instead of absorbing his father and sisters abuse he lets it pass through him and instead of soaking it in and letting it destroy him he redirects it away from himself… I just want some peace in my life
when iroh said that you have to let the energy flow through you. that you can’t let it hit your heart
Numbers don’t lie but people can sure as fuck pick and choose the numbers they give you and phrase things to make them sound like they mean things they don’t
learn fucking stats or at least how they can hurt
As a wise man once said: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
