pluckyredhead:

cheskamouse:

higgsboshark:

The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

This is a powerful positive message..

I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.

There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.

No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.

Knit a sock.

If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.

changethecircumstances:

so replaying Uncharted 4, Rafe gives Nate the chance to give up and go home. we obviously can’t know if he’d honor that and we know Nate can get obsessive so we know it’s doubtful he’d accept to begin with.

however, this is an older Nate who has a wife and a life and this game also doesn’t have some curse that could destroy the world that Nate has to worry about.

the reason Nate chooses to keep going is because above all else, he thinks this will save his brother but of course knowing that it’s all a lie by Sam, it makes this scene and what transpires all the more tragic. if Sam had been honest, there’s a chance Rafe could have made it and i can’t help but think of what would have happened if Nate had known earlier.

again, going by Nate’s general character, even if he had known the truth there’s a chance he would have continued anyways but there’s that small chance that things could have turned out differently which can be seen peppered throughout the game in the interactions between Nate, Sam, and Rafe and i feel like that’s what makes the story so good and complex because the way the story goes relies so heavily on the involvement of those three and their choices.

spacesocialist:

assassins creed odyssey making what is undoubtedly a ton of money off gay people buying the game to play as gay characters and then adding a dlc where your character ends up in a straight relationship and has a baby, unlocking the achievement “growing up” (lmao) no matter what choices you made is just *chefs kiss* video games

ulibeanz:

ulibeanz:

guys you weren’t ugly 10 years ago you were just literal children

everyone in the notes asserting that children can be ugly, i know u think you’re being cute but you’re really not. like what the fuck is wrong with you? it’s nothing short of heinous to assign (often sexualized, always bigoted) standards of beauty to fucking kids, especially young girls, who should be focused on literally growing up. i’m not laughing

Pictures from my days abroad! I’ve been back in the States for a few hours now and I already wanna leave again lmao