I love the second one… Just the sliiightest nod, and the way she holds that stare as she turns. Like “let’s do this thing, ocean.”
The animation team never ceases to amaze me. They nail everything, right down to the tiniest movements. Dialogue is just a bonus.
The little head nod always gets me. It’s like she’s just saying, “Right. This is what I gotta do. Then let’s fucking do this.”
It makes me wonder what her governing style as Queen really is. I’m sure for the most part she’s pretty reserved and kind but man if she ever comes across a headstrong ambassador or a tough political challenge… She’s not afraid to physically fight the freaking ocean I don’t think she’d be afraid to stand her ground on other things, too.
words not working but, Glimmer is deliberately soft with Adora in a way she really just isn’t with anyone else, and probably wasn’t much in general before and
i think that’s an important part of everything??
including how things when down when Shadow Weaver tried to wipe Adora’s memories, and what happened right afterwards
How to handle your panic attacks and anxiety attacks, step by step.
Retreat. If you feel phobic, exit the situation until anxiety subsides. Retreat is a temporary leave until you feel better. Escape can reinforce your phobia.
Talk to another person. This helps get your mind off of symptoms and anxious thoughts.
Move around. Dissipates extra energy/adrenaline created by fight-or-flight reaction. Instead of resisting, you move with it.
Stay in the present. Focus on concrete objects around you in your immediate environment. Try actually touching objects.
Engage in a simple repetitive activity.
unwrap and chew gum
count
snap rubber band
sing
wet towel on face
6. Do something that requires focused concentration.
read a book or magazine
puzzles
knit/sew
write
7. Express anger. If you can physically express anger rather than just talking, you may be able to stop the panic attack before it blows up.
pound on a pillow or your bed
beat a pillow or cushion with a bat
scream into pillow
8. Experience something immediately pleasurable.
be held
pleasurable snack/meal
hot shower or bath
9. Visualize a comforting person/scene.
10. Practice thought stopping.
take a deep breath then internally or externally say, “Stop”!
replace anxious thoughts with calming and supportive statements (“I am calm. I am strong”).
snap a rubber band or splash cold water to disrupt thoughts
11. Practice abdominal breathing. Breathe slowly and deeply from your abdomen.
12. Practice muscle relaxation.
clench fists. Hold for 10 seconds, release and repeat.
tighten/raise shoulders up, hold 10 seconds, release.
13. Repeat positive coping statements.
14. Use breathing or relaxation in combination with coping statements.
So lately there’s been a lot of scary things happening in media (journalism is dying and there’s huge media layoffs, Amazon, Disney and Netflix are taking over everything, etc). I want everyone to remember how truly amazing and unique AO3 is and the sheer amount of organization and work it takes for it to be independent – many of you on here are young and may not know how much it changed being a fan. Read your history.
“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.”
COLOUR ME FUCKING SURPRISED
I want people, in particular cis people, to read this and understand what it means.
It means that these groups, these organizations, are so Hellbent on getting trans people outlawed, hurt, and killed, that they will openly lie and admit to lying to stir up emotions. They have no qualms with actively lying and distorting reality.
They have no qualms about misleading people. Actively lying to people.
They don’t care how immoral their actions may be, how much their rhetoric flies in the face of reality, as long as it reaches their end goal of the destruction of “transgender ideology.”
MassResistance and all their ilk want us dead, and should never be trusted, not even for the most trivial of matters. They should be rejected, reviled, despised, because nothing they do is in service of anything but hatred and evil.
And in case anyone actually doubts this, and wants to cry “fake news,” here’s MR’s actual article. Should it get deleted, here’s an archived version. Some choice bits under the cut, if you want to see how vile these people really are.
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