@straczynski This hurts to read. Star Trek had such an impact on me and he did such a good job as Bester, one of the many memorable characters from Babylon 5 for me. He will be missed.
when I was going through maybe the most traumatic and stressful experience of my life, I had someone tell me that when it was over I’d be grateful & better for it.
This is not true. It ruined my life and the lessons I learned were not worth the price I paid, at all.
just went to the aquarium and saw an epaulette shark and my mom said “oh my god are those its eyes?!” duped, i fear, by quite literally one of the oldest tricks in the book
@KenoeoMaybe Dedicating your life to the unpredictable will of the god of change so you can finally fulfill your biggest wish, of turning into a velociraptor.
I also think we're uncomfortable w/ the possibility that suffering can fundamentally change someone w/o making them wiser, kinder, or stronger. We want trauma to produce some compensating benefit so the suffering was “worth it,” but unfortunately that’s not always the case