excuse me while I go cry my eyes out
☾ 31 days of halloween / day thirteen
Professor Brian Cox - Particle Physicist, Acclaimed BBC Broadcaster, Caller Out of Shitwits and Fucknozzles the World Over
Can I say how much it bothers me to see inspirational messages like these show up in my feed? Great, I’m all for trying to encourage your friends to improve their lives and be positive about the future. However, I take particular issue with the line here, and found elsewhere, that “Happiness is a choice.” No it isn’t. Happiness, like other emotions, is not a verb. It’s a noun that describes a reaction, often fleeting, derived from extraneous circumstances.
To suggest it is as simple as a choice to be happy also suggests that I and millions of people like me are choosing the depression and anxiety that we carry. At best it holds the same weight as the empty and false platitude that “Frowning takes more muscles than smiling!” At worst it can be interpreted as victim blaming those for not trying hard enough to choose their way out of their mental health struggles.
Perhaps choose your inspirational quotes more wisely.
HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING
HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’RE AWAKE
HE KNOWS IF YOU’VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD
SO BE GOOD FOR GOODNESS SAKE
-I think we’ll go with a little Bohemian Rhapsody, gentlemen. -Good call!
Wayne’s World (1992)
“My approach usually is just to look for the emotional truth in the story. You know, regardless of whether it’s a foster kid on the run from the army or about a boy who’s obsessed with Michael Jackson or some vampires living together in a flat in Wellington. I really believe that if you based your story in some sort of emotional authenticity then you’re gonna be okay.”
Happy birthday, Taika Waititi! (August 16th, 1975)
listen, I do not condone historical misinformation, but there is nothing I get delight out of more than this absolutely batshit article from a religious website that unironically lists Flint as a mythological god of pirates
meirl
First look at Josh Brolin as Nathan Summers in Deadpool 2.
and the mortifying ordeal of being known Graham | transman | 30s | three crows in a trench coat
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