This May Just Be A Meme But This Is Healing. Depression Never Goes Away, You Just Grow Around It And

this may just be a meme but this is healing. depression never goes away, you just grow around it and learn how to cooe with it. and it does get easier.

I love my baby boy sweet darling angel child sweetie lovely light of my life little guy angel can-do-no-wrong beautiful offspring

Random fantasy/worldbuilding thing:

Everyone from a different culture seems strangely poetic and profoundly deep in their observations, but only because they speak whatever the common tongue is as a second language, and whatever they are saying is actually mostly just clumsily translated common sayings/figures of speech that flow much better in their own tongue, and make perfect sense to the people who understand the cultural context.

Someone who comes from a place where geodes are common will describe another person: "He is like a stone that seems to hold a treasure inside of it - you learn to know such stones by their shape and their weight - but once you split it open, there is no quartz, no amethyst, no sparkling and brilliant crystal you expected. Just solid rock, through and through. He is like one of those rocks." Which vaguely makes sense, but they're clearly frustrated about not being quite able to express what they're trying to say.

The thing is, in their own first language, there's a specific word for this kind of rock - one that outwardly seems to be a geode but it isn't one after all. This word is also commonly used as an insult, to describe a person who is charismatic, convincing and outwardly seems brilliantly smart, but is actually dumb as shit.

‘Capricorn’ rogue taxidermy by Sabrina Brewer, 2004

Jamie reconnecting with his dad doesn't irk me too much because 1) his dad is actually trying to change by being in rehab and sorting himself out and 2) no one pushes Jamie to forgive him, it's all his own choice, and yeah there's no guarantee his dad won't hurt him again we can't judge people for not wanting to give up on people anymore than those who decide to cut ties, life isn't that simple. The show doesn't seem to say "EVERYONE can change and you should stick by them to help" because look at Rupert, look at...*sigh* Jack, I guess. The only real uncomfortable one is Beard and Jane because red flags are okay so long as you...find them attractive, I guess? Idk.

What makes me more angry about say Eleanor forgiving her mom in TGP is that, while Donna is trying to be better, she's not making any effort towards Eleanor, she's not apologising or being a better mom to her, just with another kid and for that Eleanor was in the right to be resentful and it was frustrating to have others (her forking best friend at that!) to tell her to just get over it. Not counting the line in the finale about Donna wiping her face, just what's in that episode. Now we don't see Jamie's dad apologise but the fondness and rather sad affection seems to imply it's there.

But by far the WORST offender of this trope is the episode The Idiot's Lantern in S2 of Doctor Who, where we see a man be an abusive a-hole to his wife and son, then when he's finally kicked out at the end, Rose tells the son to go after him simply because "he's your dad." Oh my god, I cannot watch that episode simply for that line, that is an example of this trope being borderline dangerous because its saying "Just forgive them because they're family, even if they've shown no remorse or change whatsoever." Both TGP and Ted Lasso's are wholesome compared to that!