why does ANYONE think that charlotte and cooper should be together?
i don’t understand how we can just get over how emotionally abusive he was to her, and it feels like they try and make it seem like they both did it to each other but no. charlotte was not abusive toward him, she stood up to him and fought back. just because she was loud and argued back, doesn’t make her abusive.
he is the one who constantly called her heartless, a bitch, a whore. or, remember that time he said “you’re just a sex toy i got off the internet, a little girl trying to please her dead daddy” just because she never told him she was married before?
he never deserved her and i HATE that they made her get back with him. i don’t care how cute they end up being. his behavior toward her is inexcusable.
Increased irritability and/or anger when you don’t know why
Feeling numb or having muted emotions in response to upsetting or exciting situations
Lack of interest or passion, in general, for things you once loved
Inability to concentrate or stay focused
Change in sleep patterns, be it not getting enough sleep, having trouble falling asleep, or sleeping far too much and not feeling rested
Exhaustion overall, even for “no reason”
Missing deadlines for projects or assignments
Withdrawing from social activities
Feeling guilty for missing deadlines or withdrawing from social activities
Needing “the rest” because you’re so exhausted, but feeling worse because you stay in bed or on the couch most of the day
No motivation to actually get up and do basic tasks
Hating yourself for not responding to your friends or to important emails on time, but not being able to force yourself to do it
A passing desire to die or just not exist, but not being full-blown suicidal
Not an exhaustive list by any means. What other ways does depression manifest?
Dragonfly Dagger
If you’ve already seen this recipe on MPA, it’s because I posted it there a while back. Anyway, here it is:
20g all-purpose flour (72.8)
10g cocoa powder (22.8)
2 egg whites (34)
40g allulose (14)*
Total Calories: 143.6kcal
*You can, of course, use zero-calorie sweetener if you’d like. The resulting cake will be 129.6kcal.
Beat the egg whites to soft peaks and add in the allulose in 2-3 stages, mixing well between each addition. Continue to beat to form stiff peaks.
Fold in the flour and cocoa powder, being careful not to knock out too much air from the meringue.
Put the batter into a cake tin, flatten out the surface (or don’t and get an ugly cake), and bake in a preheated, 170˚C oven for 20 minutes.
Turn off the oven but leave the cake in there for 10 more minutes.
Stiletto by Pegasus Leaders.
Yes Jordan Peele made it mainstream, but it’s been there for a long time.
Alien is a great commentary on sexism in the workplace
The first 3 Saw films are all a VERY SUBTLE critique of what is considered “normal displays of masculinity” especially in Hollywood.
Frankenstein is a commentary on fear of the social other and its common drawbacks
It Follows is a commentary on how inextricable society thinks sexuality is from womanhood, and makes the protagonist a sexually active woman
Tod Browning’s Freaks is a slap in the face to American eugenicists
And those are just the examples I can think of on the fly
- Losing things all the time
- Always being late
- Finding it hard to listen to someone talk about something you’re not interested in
- You can focus better when you’re doing something else that requires no thinking (eg, tapping fingers on the desk, playing with your hair)
- Cannot follow spoken instructions because you’ve already forgotten half of the steps
- Takes way longer to clean your room than it takes anyone else because as you’re tidying something away, you realise that your floor is dirty, so you start cleaning the floor, then you realise you should get a rug, so you start thinking about what colour to get, and half an hour later you’re standing in the shops looking for a rug but your room is still horribly messy
- You think someone hates you because they were busy and couldn’t hang out, and you KNOW you’re probably being oversensitive but also you’re worried that maybe you’re not being dramatic and they actually do hate you
- Getting obsessed with (hyperfixating on) a tv show/book/hobby and doing nothing but researching that one thing for weeks on end until one day you just suddenly aren’t that interested in it anymore
- Doing things - even things that you want to do - is hard. You want to get up and put a pizza in the oven but for some reason you just can’t make yourself do it. Now it’s three hours later and you’re starving and also bored so you want pizza and you want to watch the tv but you’re still. Lying. There.
- Trying to do schoolwork is a nightmare. You’re trying to read the work, but your eyes are just glazed over and you’ve read the same page about 10 times but you still have no idea what it says
- You’re obsessively talking to someone about that thing you love and you know that they lost interest about ten minutes ago but you can’t stop yourself from continuing to talk
- You try so hard at school and you’ve been told you have “potential” and would be doing so much better if you just focussed
- You have no money right now because you keep impulse buying
- People think you act young for your age
- People say that you always seem happy (even though you know that it’s not always true)
- You wish you got extra time in exams because you can just never finish them in time
- The first half of your exams have very long and detailed answers, and the second half is just random scribbled thoughts because you absolutely cannot plan your time properly, no matter how many times your teachers tell you that you’re meant to spend X amount of minutes on each question
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since It is vulnerable to physical injury (if It wasn’t, a bullet wouldn’t have slowed It down) and moves only at walking speed, why doesn’t Its current target just live on a boat? a boat can outpace a human easily, and the ocean will slow It down even more, because It’ll have to swim or attempt to walk along the bottom and be crushed by the pressure. even better–if It can be passed on to a submariner, It’ll have to deal with both of those factors.