Please, please be gentle and think about what you’re saying when you’re talking to children. I met a woman in her 60s-70s the other day who was nervous about her new haircut not having bangs because someone told her she had a large forehead way back when she was 12 and she still felt self-conscious about it not being covered up. Your words really can affect a kid’s life that far into their adult future.
There’s a true crime documentary coming out called Village Of The Damned, about Dryden, New York and a series of murders that occurred there.
Please join me in boycotting this documentary. The creators were told repeatedly by residents that they did not consent to the filming or creation of this documentary. ID harassed my cousin who was there during that time and brought up a lot of past trauma that she had put behind her. They stalked her Facebook account and pestered her friends and family for interviews.
ID also promised that there would be no dramatic reenactments in this documentary, but then went ahead and did it anyway.
tl;dr: the Village of the Damned documentary coming out this month is awful and should not be supported.
I love hearing people talk about how “all we ever see kylo do is throw tantrums. it’s pathetic and lame. I can’t take him seriously.”
Like… He had 2. Most of the film he’s actually pretty calm and collected. And by that I mean he’s constantly repressing everything.
Or is it not cool enough ‘cause he took it out on a console instead of a real person…
The fact that Kylo took his anger out on consoles instead of people just shows that he has more self-control then Vader ever did. And yet he’s still considered the whiny one….
What a scrub. Can’t even Force-choke his subordinates like a real Vader……
He’s a little bitch who can’t fight a girl not trained with a lightsaber trying to use it as a fucking spear while he’s actually had formal training. Episode 7 was an abomination
…Try again.
He obviously has had a good amount of training which I’m sure would include lightsaber training as well. It’s proven at the start when he stops fucking BLASTER BOLTS in mid air. Then he proceeds to fight against someone using the weapon badly who has no formal training in the ways of lightsabers or the force. It SHOULD have went more like anakin vs the kids in the prequels. They did it only cause hurr durr look how strong Rey is. It’s bad writing just to show how “strong” she is.
Idk who is responsible for it, but how powerful he is jumps back and forth through the movie. It’s all over the place. That and being fended off by Rey as the station is exploding firmly cement him as lame. It’s 100% not the tantrums. How can you take someone seriously when they’re introduced as well as he was then you neuter him and make him incompetent and useless?
Tldr: he’s pathetic and lame cause of bad writing, not the tantrums
If that’s your reasoning your understanding of the film and character is pretty weak. Kylo didn’t lose to Rey because he’s weaker nor is it because she’s stronger.
Kylo slowly loses his shit throughout the film, starting out calm and collected. Soon, everything starts going wrong. He starts having explosive outbursts. Not because he ‘didnt get his way’ but because he knows these failures were caused by his own actions. The first thing he did was let Finn go. And it’s all been downhill from there. All because of his ‘weakness’. His compassion.
By the time the snow fight came up, he was distraught from what he’d just done to Han. Say what you want but the fact that he was severely effected by it and horrified by his own actions is canon. It’s in the script. It’s in the novelizations. That doesn’t put people in a good head space.
Not to mention, he got shot beforehand. By something that should have killed him. Why do people conveniently forget this detail. He was fighting Finn and Rey while he was bleeding out. They were fresh. They haven’t been touched! They weren’t injured or exhausted.
In that fight, Kylo was, was for a lack of a better word, a mess. Mentally, emotionally, physically…. He was not in great shape. He got cocky, and the he got reckless. He was all over the place. On top of that, he’s not out to kill Rey. That’s the defining factor for why Rey comes out on top in her first fight with him. HE’s not trying to kill her. But SHE is. That’s not to totally undermine Rey’s strength at all. She’s a scavenger. It’s canon that she’s had to fight to survive on some occasions. Doesn’t matter if she’s using the saber wrong, she still has an instinct. As a fighter, once you’ve had experience fighting with a weapon, it easier to pick up a new one you’ve never used and learn to handle it rather quickly.
Make no mistake, she is strong. But Kylo gave her that opening to fight back. He COULD have pushed her off that cliff edge, but he didn’t. He could have gone for a finishing blow, but he didn’t. The amount of times she turned her back to him in that fight is ridiculous. In the end he gave her that moment to connect with the Force. She took what Maz told and what she learned from being in Kylo’s head and used it then and there. She’s a fast learner. And she’s powerful. That doesn’t make Kylo a weak fighter though. They’re presented as equals. That’s the whole point.
In Snoke’s words: It isn’t her strength that’s making him fail. It’s his ‘weakness’. His compassion.
Kylo and Rey are powerful. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. This situation was not in Kylo’s favour at all. We were shown him possibly at his lowest. And I’m willing to bet the next time they fight, we’ll see Rey’s weaknesses in turn.
That’s not bad writing at all. It’s infinitely more interesting.
If being a male while being a complex emotional and conflicted character, who is strong with moments of weakness, is pathetic and lame you must think very little about 99.9% of people in general.
– if they do not like that you research your disorder/s and treatment/s – if they do not explain the reason/s behind certain treatment/medication that they are prescribing you – if they are reluctant/refuse to let you access your medical records – if their first response to symptoms is medication without any talk therapy – if they say they “don’t believe in therapy” – if they say they “don’t believe in medication” – if they insist on seeing your parent/legal guardian without you being present – if they tell you that there are no other treatment available if you complain about your current treatment/medication not working/having unmanageable side effects – if they diagnose you without explaining how they came to that diagnosis, what it entails, and which treatments you have at your disposal – if they fall asleep during a session (you’re laughing but it happened, several times, and i’m not boring) – if they assure you that you cannot have [insert disorder here] because you are too young/wealthy/poor/fat/skinny/smiling/old/whatever bs (the only valid reasons for not having a disorder is if you do not meet the minimum criteria for it, age/body/ethnicity/etc are not criteria) – if they tell you that you obviously do not want/are not ready to get help (that’s a super abusive technique, would only see this as a valid comment to make if you are pressured into seeing them by someone who has authority over you) – if they insist on you continuing to take a medication despite the side effects very negatively affecting you (for example: if you are recovering from an ED and you get the “gaining weight” side effect and that is very triggering to you) – if they are flippant about/disregard your feelings
i’m probably forgetting a lot. feel free to add.
EDIT: I made a blog to vent about bad mental health practitioners @shrinksfromhell. Check it out and submit your stories!
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I’ve seen some of the internet memes about Palpatine. But I try to stay away from meme culture or the cult sensation that exists there. It’s like my whole attitude towards social media – it’s best if I don’t go there, though occasionally people show me things that are actually quite funny. I’ve heard about how people love my line ‘Do It’ – which was a funny one to film on set. We did several takes with Christopher Lee and eventually, I said the line out of sheer exasperation and now it’s lived on.
Anyway, video games are meant to be FUN, so if that means playing on super easy mode to enjoy the story or playing on nightmare difficulty because you like a challenge, do you. It’s about what YOU find entertaining.
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