Mom Said It’s MY Turn To Lay Gently In The Cold Dark Earth

Mama🤲

The number of fans I've seen turn their back on Kataras's character due to the Southern Raiders episode is astonishing and incredibly painful. In fact, it makes me wonder how people cannot consume media critically when the objective of the show is to create nuanced and well-rounded characters that almost reflect normal human beings like you and me. However, when a character who is usually good and who is usually nice and good exudes negative emotions and quite valid ones. How would you feel if you found your mother's murder? Enraged and upset and if you have the power that Katara has I feel that many of us would use it. However, I seen many fans get on a moral high horse and absolutely turn her back on her even after this episode was done. I understand that people are upset at the "you didn't love her as much as I did." Quote said by her to her brother. However, I want you to think about one thing. Imagine being the reason why your mother was killed. You were the one who was supposed to die that night. But your mother replaced your fate. Katara will always love her mother differently because her mother gave her life twice: once when she was born and the other where she protected her daughter by lying that she was the last water bender. She feels guilty for her mother's death. I've seen so many people permanently hate her character after this episode and it feels like people cannot generally understand a well rounded character. I feel that many people tend to coddle the other characters and their trauma, but when it comes to Katara people simply just don't care. Everyone decides to play the trauma olympics , with all of the characters , without understanding that they're all incredibly traumatized and comparing trauma does not help anyone's mental health. But for her it's a complete joke. There's memes and people laugh. In fact, whenever she does bring up her mother It is meant to help others and to be able to help bring comfort to their pain. She doesn't do it out of the luxury of grieving for herself.

I once had a landlord offhandedly mention that his mother had set this house on fire before. He and his wife lived on the first floor, and i rented the third.

Apparently his mom didn’t like his wife. So she set their house on fire. The house i was living in.

He assured me that everything was fine now and that this was years ago, just kinda laughed, smiled, and said ‘You know how moms are’

Yes. I know how moms are. I know how fucked up moms are as well. I have known many fucked up moms and fellow children of fucked up moms.

Attempted murder through arson is not typical mom behavior, even for a fucked up abusive mom

Oh, and his mother lived next door 🙃

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In this moment, I am humanity, I write. The last of my kind. 

Of course, this isn’t true, but the one thing the invasion hasn’t sucked out of me is my dramatics.

Before the aliens came I was Samantha, an average girl who was averagely good at everything. Now I'm a prodigy of gunmanship. A side effect of using a Remington 700 for the past few months. Remy is my pride and joy, my last true companion, the only thing left I can trust. I trust her with my life, which is a good thing seeing as it’s the last thing I have left to defend myself with.

Now I don’t know who I am. The invasion has taken everything from me. 

Every day I run, I find shelter, I write in this stupid journal hoping that something good will happen. But it never works. Of course it never works. The aliens don’t care, why would they? 

I sit up. The woods are silent, not uncommon considering I haven’t seen another human for weeks. But even now, they are silent- no birds chirping, no trees laughing, no breeze whispering. But a strange electric current hangs in the air, humming gently and tickling the backs of my ears and neck. 

I am not alone.

Anakin and Padme Modern AU Headcanons [Does this one have a happier ending?]

The modern AU ends nicer because I want it to. Andbecause there’s no Jedi and no slavery and no Force.

they meet at college

Padme is the political science major from a rich, respected family that’s hoping for a career in politics and is involved in all sorts of activity at the college

Anakin is the engineering major from the bad part of town who only got in through a stipendia and also works a lot to support his mother

they don’t really get each other at first

then Padme organizes a rally against a law that would push down the minimum wage

Anakin, who through his mother has always been very aware of social justice problems, and has seen his mother work at minimum wage joins in

he makes multpile wry suggestions as to how to maybe make it more accesible for people who don’t study at college

Padme is very confused and also a bit pissed about this, because really, it’s supposed to be college rally

Anakin points out that the people who will suffer most if the minimum wage is pushed down are those who couldn’t go to college in the first place

Padme is suitably ashamed of herself, though she does her best not to show it

they end up organizing the rally together

it’s a huge success

Shmi comes, too, and Padme is really, really impressed by this lady who raised her son alone and also seems to have raised half the village she’s from, and also knows a ton about politics

afterwards, Anakin and Padme kinda become the go to duo for social justice rallys and things

Anakin ropes in that professor he’s known forever, Professor Kenobi, quite often

(Padme is never quite sure how Anakin met Professor Kenobi, they tell a different story every time)

Anakin developes a crush on her like, immediately

Padme doesn’t really

she’s convinced that she does not have time for dating

it’s only after like, a year that she realizes that for all intents and purposes, she and Anakin behave like a couple. He even brings her flowers sometimes!

she mentions it the next time they see each other

he just grins and asks if that means he’s allowed to kiss her

and well, that’s that

they have long, passionate discussions of social inequality and such things

Padme is an idealist, Anakin rather cynical

he never quite gets over his distrust in the governmental authorities

not in the conspiracy theorist way, but in the “they don’t care about the poorer people” way

it’s not like he’s that wrong, really

Padme’s family does not approve of Anakin. At all

Shmi likes Padme, though

Luke and Leia are still kinda an accident, born a year after Padme graduated and while Anakin is still in college

they get a shotgun wedding after that

Kaz has very well thought methods

Tips for anyone struggling with anxiety/anyone feeling anxious (from a very anxious boi)

Do a crossword or sudoku. I find that focusing on something that stretches my brain distracts me from whatever I’m worrying about.

Don’t go for a walk. Or anything relaxing really. This is going to push you further into those thoughts because you’re giving yourself the space to.

Journaling. Journaling doesn’t work for everyone, but if it does for you, definitely try it! The downside to this is that it can give you the space to go really deep into your thoughts, so I would recommend only doing this once you’re feeling calm/calmer. This can help you figure out your feelings and what made you feel like that.

take. your. meds. That is if you have a prescription and access to them. You have them for a reason, and it will help you.

Breathing exercises. I’m a big fan of breathing in for a count of four, holding for four, and breathing out for four. Then you just repeat that until you’re calmer. I also like this butterfly one, where you cross your hands at the wrist and alternate gently tapping your chest with each hand every time you breathe in or out.

your body and mind need each other. Your body can’t function well off three hours of sleep, and your mind can’t function well without enough water and it won’t do well under constant anxiety, and the two need to work together if you 

Probably the most talked about one, but also the least done one. Remove yourself from the situation. Whatever is giving you anxiety, a person or a place, remove yourself from them/it. This is also sometimes the hardest one to do, because that person may be a safety net, or a friend. But when you have anxiety, it becomes very easy to be manipulated by friends because we often worry about what people think about us, and we become pleasers and do anything to keep our friendships.

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