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The problem with suicidal thoughts is that they’re not just there when your sad. You’ll be there, chillin, reading a book or talking to a friend and you’ll think ‘This is nice. But do you know what would be better? Death.’
@lumos-vs-nox This is referred to as “mild suicidal ideation“ or the desire for suicide without substantial action behind it. It often happens when someone deals with prolonged mental health issues and suicidality at a young age. When you’re young, we go through a period where our neural pathways completely rearrange- the things that happen to us at that time will influence these changes. In a way, suicidal ideation becomes an ingrained coping mechanism. A sort of “well at least suicide is always there for me”. Your brain is part-muscle, it remembers things, it learns, it’s super great at adapting, this is just a reflex. It doesn’t mean you are weak, it doesn’t mean you aren’t in recovery.
thank you for posting this, you turned a feeling many people have into words!
shakes head and purses lips in disappointment as i type ‘/page/2’ after your url because i couldn’t find the “next” button
Trying to get all the Star Wars out of my system~ I was so happy to see all my old faves again!!!
what the fuck is the moral of the three little pigs, anyhow. people without access to the best materials are going to die? familial bonds mean nothing in the face of an impending crisis? wolves are dicks and pigs are stupid? i have no fucking clue
“The Mad Max films are a kind of modern myth-making, a notion that is present even in the way they treat continuity. If you sat down and tried to piece together a timeline for Max or his world over the course of the four movies, it wouldn’t add up. Instead, each movie functions like a different story someone is telling about Mad Max, the Road Warrior. He is an archetypal figure within a new mythos. It doesn’t matter if it’s the same sawed off shotgun that sparks and fails the first time Max tries to use it—what matters is that there is a gun like that, because Max has a gun like that. Just like Max has a leather jacket carried down from his days in the Main Force Patrol, and at some point he or someone near him will wind a tiny music box. In each Max story, there are certain symbols that are constant, like Orpheus’ lyre.”
—Tarra Martin, “Ride Eternal” (Bright Wall/Dark Room, Dec. 2015)
I cannot put into words how much I love that the “continuity” of these films is a broad swirl of repeating motifs and patterns rather than any kind of hard and fast timeline.
It makes me sad that this isn’t a more readily intuited concept, and that actually a lot of people react with hostility to it. Talking about Fury Road and the previous Mad Max movies this summer, I found myself insisting that it doesn’t actually matter whether the gyro captain from Road Warrior and the pilot in Thunderdome are the same character or not. They just fulfill a similar role in the myth.
As a teenager I read way to many superhero comics, and something that ultimately drove me away from them, and comics in general for a time, was the continuity bubble. A new mega-event each year, an ever-increasing volume of interlocking pieces to be put into play, meant to appeal to only the most “hardcore” reader, and if you aren’t spending money on just about every single title a publisher puts out, the story is incomplete.
It’s the most short-sighted kind of storytelling. And eventually people will get tired and peace the fuck out. I sure did.
And as I watch the film industry be swallowed alive by one superhero movie after another, each one a semi-independent appendage in a larger “universe,” employing these same continuity-heavy storytelling practices, I find myself so relieved that Mad Max exists.
Where it does not matter where each little piece of story fits inside a cumbersome mechanism meant only to milk you of your dollars. No retelling the origin story every five years.
Where it’s just:
“My name is Max.”
“My world is fire. And blood.”
*stomps a lizard and away we fucking go.
Whenever we talk about US-centrism on tumblr, everyone gets defensive and is like “well no one is stopping you talking about your issues”. That’s not what we mean when we use that term. Well, it’s not what I mean. There’s nothing wrong with americans talking about issues that directly affects them, that’s great. And of course american issues will get more attention bcs this is a website filled with mostly americans. Grand. The issue is when people start applying American socio-politics in places they don’t fit or make sense.
This *is* a problem and this is something that shouldn’t be swept under the rug. I see it often. It happens consistently. It happens when you talk about ethnic tensions in Europe. It happens when you talk about ethnicity in Africa… It happens a lot. A lot of non US-concepts will sound strange at first, but try not to dismiss them as wrong, don’t be condescending and also don’t talk over people talking about their own personal experiences.
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