Sorry For Showing Symptoms Of The Disorder I Told You Multiple Times I Have. Do You Want Me To Kill Myself?

a kafka quote that kept me awake at night

#culture

my desire to be hidden from the world just keeps intensifying

lily evans, who everyone piles the highest expectations upon, and barty crouch jr, who everyone expects the absolute least from. lily, who is made out to be the model of this perfect daughter, perfect student, perfect friend, and barty, who is seen as this sort of caricature of a failure by everyone, even his own father. lily, who does not know how to deal with these pressures, and barty, who has his own twisted set of them that work in the other direction. they're two people who no one else actually sees as people, except the other. with the other, they can ditch all these stereotypes and pressures and expectations, and just be real-life humans.

Why can't they just like forgive the English? /sarcastic

the Guardian

Ireland grapples with singing of pro-IRA chant

Country debates whether chant is legitimate expression of national pride or an affront to victims of the Troubles

The footage went viral and triggered a row about glorifying the IRA’s campaign during the Troubles that has left Ireland grappling with fraught questions about national identity, pride and history.

The controversy swelled when Celtic Symphony topped Ireland’s iTunes charts and people were filmed chanting the chorus at a Dublin airport pub.

Northern Ireland’s unionist leaders asked the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, to use his influence to curb the practice, calling it an affront to those injured and bereaved by the IRA. John Baron, a Conservative MP, told the House of Commons it marked a “low point” [sic] in relations between the UK and Ireland.[...]

The phenomenon coincides with the ascendance of Sinn Féin. Once an IRA mouthpiece with fringe support, it is now Ireland’s most popular party and appears poised to lead the next government.

A recent poll put combined support for Sinn Féin and smaller leftwing parties among people aged 18-34 at 73%. The party’s promise to fix a housing crisis and redistribute wealth has driven the surge, but many supporters also adopt the party’s defence of the IRA campaign. “As Sinn Féin grows, past violence is retrospectively endorsed,” one commentator, Newton Emerson, wrote in the Irish Times.

Opinion in Northern Ireland, where Sinn Féin has become the largest party, has shifted: in a recent poll, 69% of nationalist voters agreed with the party that there was “no alternative” to violent resistance during the Troubles – a reversal from 1998 when 70% of Catholics rejected republican justifications for violence.

21 Oct 22

Life is right now. While you’re waiting for your dream job, your future spouse, your goal weight, a new home, a change in appearance. Life is happening while you are working on mastering a skill, being in the unknown, not knowing which way to go, feeling stuck. Most of life happens in the waiting. Not in the achievements or successes which are nothing but milestones. Don’t wish the time you have away waiting for something that lives in the future. Look around. What does today offer that you might not want to miss?

blegh I hate that fanbases have simplified relationships in ‘shipping’ because I can’t find a lot of good analysis of aglaya and artemy’s relationship that isn’t “do you ship it?”

I have so many complicated feelings about aglaya and artemy and I think they care about each other in their own way, no I don’t think they are good for eachother, yes she loves him even if she’s manipulating him, no she does not love him she’s being manipulated by children, artemy might have a thing for milfs, I can’t call Aglaya’s sudden feelings for Artemy unrealistic because same, Artemy is driven by love for his family while Aglaya hates hers, do they have anything in common other that not liking the polyhedron? it makes no sense and all the sense. They live in an existential nightmare. Are feelings even real?

Powers that Be what are you doing making your dolls kiss

AND IT SHOWS

there are people out there who have never had to suffer seeing that image of ewan mcgregor with his hair in pigtails and the word fragile stamped on his tit

Berlín

Я не тот, кто в войну будет верить в покладистость пленных:

Если не подавлять их волю, нам всё выйдет боком,

Так что все пленные будут стоять на коленях,

Ведь над моей головой отрадясь нет бога.

Не обязательно пачкать манжеты рубашки,

Не обязательно лично страдать и мараться.

Принцип ломается, если становится страшно,

Принцип ломается, если ломаются пальцы,

Если спина затекает,

Ладони в мозолях,

Если неясно, закончится это когда-то.

Люди ломаются часто от страха,

От боли...

Все мы ломаемся, даже когда мы солдаты,

Все мы ломаемся настом сырым по весне,

Терпим удары,

Но всё-таки будет лишний;

Все они будут бояться тебя вдвойне,

Если не будут знать, что ты тоже боишься,

Так что я буду смотреть, как они ненавидят,

Чувствовать шкурой, как шерсть их встаёт на холке.

Sólo que sé en toda mi pita vida,

Что люди -- животные хуже, чем злые волки.

Я не поверю в утопию переговоров,

Можешь играться один своей верой в rehenes.

Мы как монахи живём здесь -- ora et labora, --

Роем тоннели, пока между нами -- стены;

Пулю, застрявшую в теле, достанем ножом --

Люди меняются, равно как мира картина;

Ты приезжай, удивишься, как всё хорошо,

Поскольку здесь будет

Покладистость

И дисциплина.

themes commonly found in international friendships

- ‘u dont have (insert food/music/restaurant here) over there??’ - ‘wait what time is it. shouldnt u be asleep’ - alternatively: timezoned/clockblocked again - ‘do u need a hug. have a virtual hug’ - weird slang terms - ‘i will fight everyone thats mean to u. i will fight them rn’ - vague embarrassment regarding ur accent - ‘dont maKE ME COME OVER THERE’ - ‘oh yeah i have a friend who lives in (insert country here) and apparently’ - no real hugs :(( - suffering - fahrenheit vs celsius - the measuring of things in feet fucks one of u up, probably