What’s with the obsession with calling food or recipes “better than sex”…I tried your pintrest risotto Sharon and frankly I’m wondering if your needs are being met
You ever look at somebody and just realize how much you love them, like you can feel it in your chest, emotions bursting out and don’t know any way to express it, you just love them so goddamn much
This is like finding a stray journal page in a ruined city that talks of some grand festival and the date of the entry is the day before the city was destroyed
hot take: moms need to learn how to listen to and comfort their daughters without making everything about their own traumas
a classic example
daughter: hey this thing you do bothers me very much and i wish you wouldn’t do it
mom: well my parents abused me and im not even as bad as they were and i had to sit through it so you gotta sit through whatever i do to you too
a common variant
mom: well i’m having a really hard time right now and you know that i’m doing my best and that i didn’t mean to hurt you ergo you are in fact the asshole for asking me to consider your feelings and change my behavior during this hard hard time i’m having
least favorite
mom: fine. you’re right and i’m wrong and i’m a horrible person. there. are you happy now?
see also
mom: you can’t be mad at me. you’re not allowed to be mad at me. i can’t stand it.
Yeah this is just straight-up emotional abuse. It’s not uncommon for moms to confuse “emotional closeness” with demanding their children caretake for them emotionally, or just having no boundaries. And “have you considered that you are in fact the abusive one” is bog-standard DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender).
Women also make the mistake that because we are frequent targets for abuse, we cannot be abusive ourselves. WOMEN CERTAINLY CAN BE ABUSIVE, especially towards children society has historically said we ought to have the power of life and death over, and who tradition says should be 100% subservient to us.
Okay but like no matter what escapism isn’t filler
Even if you personally think it was a boring episode, it’s not filler
If it didn’t match your expectations, it’s still not filler
It literally showed how Steven contacted Earth and that now the gems on earth know what to do, advancing the plot
Action wise, it’s a moment right before the final, leading to massive build up, a pause to let the characters sink in what happened, and let the audience calm down and reminiscence about how the story has progressed with callbacks.
Just because you didn’t enjoy it doesn’t mean it’s filler
just neurodivergent things: questioning whether your memory loss is due to dissociation or if most people don’t remember a lot of their past (and most of what you do remember is so out of context you can’t place it anyway).
