spitblossoms:

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world-class-fuckup1:

surqrised:

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

luthienne:

Marilynne Robinson, from Gilead

[Text ID: …because I want your dear perishable self to live long and to love this poor perishable world,]

electricraccoonincident:

In these bruising days, any delicately made thing quickens the heart.

— Teju Cole, from “We Can’t Comprehend This Much Sorrow”

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koriand:

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orpheuslament:

Cain, José Saramago (trans. Margaret Jull Costa)

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sketchyfletch:

quasi-normalcy:

I mean, it probably goes without saying, but the Found Family trope is so popular because so very many people are so terribly, terribly lonely

I adore the friends I do have immensely but god it would be nice to have like five people living nearby who I could call on for help or to hang out at any given moment

it’s also a very hopeful narrative. Found Family imparts this idea that you don’t have to start out life with a family, or with roots that go all the way down a family tree. That you’re not destined to be alone and without love simply because who you were born to didn’t make the cut. Found family resolutely insists that there is always a future, always a possibility for more, and that no matter how much time it takes to find them, they could always still be out there.

It’s about resolving loneliness, but it’s also about promising that you can find that relief later. It doesn’t have to be now, it doesn’t have to be when you’re little, it can be whenever it’s time.

For those of us without families in the traditional sense, or with families that had to be abandoned for any number of reasons, or even families that had to separate for long amounts of time, found family is proof that we didn’t miss out on love.

And I think when the world seems the darkest, it makes sense that a narrative about hope for the future and always having love on the horizon is popular. <3

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spanishskulduggery:

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twelvemonkeyswere:

spanishskulduggery:

One of my favorite etymology stories is that la lavanda “lavender” is related to lavar “to wash” and la lavandería “laundromat”

Because people were like “ah yes the smell of lavender I’ll put that in my water when I wash clothes because it’ll smell nice oooh maybe I’ll put it in my bath” and eventually lavender just became “the washing flower” 

“Indeed it seems that the word comes from the Italian lavanda, from which it passed to French as lavande and to Spanish it must have come from one of these two languages.

The Italian form lavanda is a cultismo [comes from Latin or Greek], coming from the Latin lavanda the feminine form of the Latin gerundive lavandus-a-um (that which must be washed or that which is designated for washing), and for the occurrence of the habitual use of the plant as an aromatic for bathing waters.”

It’s also been a while since I brought this up, but SOMEHOW I forgot to mention that “lavender” is directly related to the word “laundry” for that reason. I mentioned “laundromat” but the actual word “laundry” is related to lavare in Latin “to wash”; and that there were women who would wash clothes that were called “laundresses” (”laundress” in singular, or sometimes they were given the name “washing women”)

The idea that lavender was used for such a long time for washing clothes and for bathwater linked it directly to the action of washing. 

Hence, “the washing flower”

hotvampireadjacent:

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phantomrose96:

Anime is great. Anime will be like “this is my character of ambiguous western descent. Their name is the most incomprehensible combination of made up sounds. And if not that, it is a name that has not appeared on a single birth certificate since 1773.

Code Geass went and said “most of these character hail from Future Sort-of-Britain, including our main character, who will be named Lelouch just like every single British person isn’t.” Then they decided to distract you from this by naming his love interest Shirley, cornering the market of 80+ year old grandmothers clutching their 3 bowls of strawberry sucker candy in delight. Code Geass didn’t even call it a day here they had one more trick up their sleeve and it was to name the third character in the group Rivalz, a name and a character which appeal to exactly no one.

Tiger and Bunny said “What should our western young-20′s heartthrob successful pretty-boy deuteragonist be named? What screams ‘young’ and ‘trendy’ and ‘brilliant’ and ‘sexy’? Barnaby. Barnaby Brooks. This is our Sex Symbol Barnaby.” I bet a bunch of ghosts from the 17th century were stoked about that one. I bet Barnaby walks into gift shops asking if they have any of the travel keychains in his name and he gets laughed out of the store. I bet Barnaby’s parents didn’t die, they just faked their deaths to get away from him seeing as they hated him enough to name him Barnaby.

I haven’t followed Attack on Titan in 7 years but yall have a character named Pieck Finger. That’s it that’s my roast.

I JUST REMEMBERED

BACCANO HAS A CHARACTER NAMED JACUZZI SPLOT

JACUZZI SPLOT

There are 3 kinds of tags on this post

1. Code Geass fans saying “that’s fair”
2. HxH/Death Note/Fate/JoJo fans informing me of terrible horrible names that perfectly prove my point and also deal psychic damage with every new addition
3. Baccano fans who are absolutely ready to throw hands with me

WH–

CHROLLOS ALT NAME IS THAT????

QUATTRO

W H A T

i’ll ignore mentioning Nrvnqsr Chaos (pronouced nero) from tsukihime and talk more about goofy gundam names. this is the funniest gundam name hands down

i could go on all day about goofy gundam names but while not as funny as full frontal its an honorable mention is mafty navue erin.

i honsetly forgot what this was supposed to mean so i googled it

 I lost the source to this but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. I read somewhere the reason the gundam characters have a lot of unusual names is because the creator, Yoshiyuki Tomino, became disillusioned when producing gundam and noticing that the people he had to report to only cared about the marketable toys he could make and started naming some really bashit things to see if they’d be approved. 

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weltenwellen:

The responses of traumatized children are often misinterpreted. (…) Because new situations are inherently stressful, and because youth who have been through trauma often come from homes in which chaos and unpredictability appear “normal” to them, they may respond with fear to what is actually a calm and safe situation. Attempting to take control of what they believe is the inevitable return of chaos, they appear to “provoke” it in order to make things feel more comfortable and predictable. (…) Like everyone else, they feel more comfortable with what is “familiar.” As one family therapist famously put it, we tend to prefer the “certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.”

Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog