I had a lucid dream about you holding me as I slept and I sortf knew it wasn’t real. I knew you were gone and I tried to move your arms but it just stayed there, hold me. I pushed and shoved and slowly started to give up. Slowly started to feel at ease. Feel the realness of your warmth. And then it all disappears. And I’m alone. Again.
Where an already endangered species is on the brink of functional extinction…
Oh, and 500 million animals unique to this country have already lost their lives, upon homes that have been destoryed and lives lost of people as well…
I mean… we’re only living in a literal inferno…
415 fires. Fuck are we dying…
Oh yeah and people are just fleeing to the damn ocean, you know?
Do you want to know what Hell on Earth looks like..?
Because there it is in all it’s unfiltered, firey rage…
There it is… my home from space…
This is only the beginning. Our country has not only entered a new decade, it seems a new dawning era as well, because this flaming apocalypse doesn’t show any sign of stopping any time soon.
And you know what saddens me? I’ve never seen Australian tragedies trending here on this website. I mean it’s been going on for months and only now does it seem to really be getting recognized, even if it is only at #9.
And I’m going to be honest with you here - the internet, and media in general is so American centric, this website being no exception. You’d think that an entire continent being on fire for several months with devastating consequences would have more recognition, but no, it really doesn’t. The most notes I’ve ever seen on a post about the Australian fires is at least a few thousand, and that’s about it.
So just… please. If you can, with this post or any other post in regards to the fires going on down here, reblog. Because the only thing that should be spreading like wildfire, is a post about a burning country…
My friend saw the Joker and said, “…Also, the message of ‘Be nice to people and they won’t shoot you’ is not my fav.” I am sorry but I disagree with this. The message of the movie is way more, way deeper than ‘just be nice to people’. It was more along the lines of getting these ill people the help they need, really listen to them, and legitimatizing their experiences, and you could lessen these situations. People weren’t nice to Arthur sure but he is dealing with a psychiatrist who isn’t listening to him, him wanting more meds, a ‘society’ that could care less about him, just complete hopelessness. Then on top of that, the government cuts funding for mental health.
Part of the reason I love the Murray Show scene so much is that it is basically Arthur and the psychiatrist all over again with higher stakes. Arthur in his monologue spells out it, how all these factors of mental health, being a loner, the society he is living outcasting him pushed him to become who he is. Murray isn’t listening, Murray is trying to talk down to him, twisting his answers, saying it was all a bunch of self-pity as Arthur is literally trying to explain himself. Once again he is being ignored and being told that his experiences and feelings don’t matter.
So I say again, the movie is way more than ‘just be nice to people’. To me, the message is about being lost in the world and finally being recognized and validated.
“At the end of the day, bravery isn’t a battlefield. It isn’t fast cars, or stunted risk. Bravery is the quietest thing you will ever know. Bravery is getting up in the morning when your bones are heavy and your heart does not want the light to crack within it. Bravery is leaning into what aches, it is looking it in the face, giving it a name and confronting it for what it is. Bravery is being gentle with yourself, especially when it isn’t convenient or easy, especially when you are not a shining example of the person you strive to be. Bravery is forgiving yourself, it is the work you do within your soul that is dirty and difficult and demanding.”
