My Dad And I Once Had A Disagreement Over Him Using The Adage "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger."

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

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6 years ago

This is my life this is going to be bad..let's see how bad

Sirius: It’s a trap. This just too good of a setup.

Remus: Go back, then.

Sirius: No way! I want to find out how much of a trap it is.

2 years ago

I keep trying to be tumblr threatening to my discord friends but they're all twitter freaks

1 month ago

“Oops.”

Danny shrieked.

The bloodied vigilante leaning against his wall was concerning. But even worse…

“My window!! Oh my god! Why?!”

“Your- is that- that’s seriously your first concern? I’m actually offended.”

“Oh, is the dumbass bleeding out on my carpet giving me sass? Watch the attitude, you’re half a quarter pint from death right now.”

“You’re strangely calm… about this.”

Danny gestured to his window, shattered in front of him.

“Do I look calm to you? I literally just replaced that window last week!”

“My bad.” The vigilante slid down the wall, leaving a bloody smear.

“Oh my god,” Danny groaned as he got a first aid kit and began patching the guy up. “I’m never getting my deposit back.”

“You have weird priorities.”

“Listen, bird guy-”

“Red Robin.” Bird guy interjected. He winced as Danny dabbed the alcohol soaked cotton ball harder on his cut.

“But if I had a nickel for every time a vigilante crashed through my window, I’d have two. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.”

“Who was the first one?”

“Surprisingly? Signal. Dude got a migraine and crashed through like a pigeon versus a glass wall.”

“Damn, he didn’t mention that. You got pics?”

“Pay for my carpet and wall first, and then we talk blackmail negotiations after.”

“Deal- ow!”

“Stay still, dumbass!”

7 years ago

Ugh Masterlist

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Finished as of 2-02-2018

Pairing: Peter x Female!Reader

Warnings: Angst, Mentions of pain etc

Summary: Everyone has a soulmate, but they’re all tied to them differently. Some people have tattoos, others have counters or red strings. You? You can feel the pain your soulmate feels. Any bruises or cuts they receive appear on your body. Other people have this kind of tie to their soulmates too, it was just rare and it seems like you’ve got a bad one. Your soulmate is constantly getting injured and it’s driving you insane..

Part One- “Pain. That was the most common thing your soulmate had you feeling-..”

Part Two- “You didn’t know super-heroes had soulmates that were regular people.“

Part Three- “Could you really handle knowing he was out throwing himself at danger? Would you ever be strong enough to?“

Part Four- “His breath caught in his throat- from your words and the way his name sounded coming from your lips.“

Part Five- “I don’t want you.“

Part Five Point Five- “Imagine feeling this alone- imagine seeing the sad numb faces of people around you with no tie to anyone.“

Part Six- “Did heroes need saving?”

Part Seven- “This time around, he was running from you.”

Part Eight- “Was this what you deserved?”

Part Nine- “..though you couldn’t tell who’s scream was louder, Peter’s or everyone else’s..”

Part Ten- “Peter Parker was going to have to live alone- grieving for a soulmate he never got the chance to love or even know.”

Part Eleven- “He was mad at himself. If he had just stayed like his gut told him to- if he had reacted faster, had a better grip on his Spider-Sense, you wouldn’t be here. You’d be fine.”

End- ““Ugh..”, she whispered into the stars, “Finally..””

2 years ago

I both hold and love the idea that Chat can speak though Techno if he lets them, just a cacophony of voices spilling from his mouth, but to make it angsty they can also force themselves out of him if his willpower is weak. Like, if he gets extremely overwhelmed or exhausted, or if he’s in a deep enough sleep like hibernation sometimes you can hear the whispers of chat faintly surrounding him. Just imagine Techno after a battle, covered in wounds and blood that both is and isn’t his own, and someone safe finds him and he’s exhausted, on the brink of passing out even, and whoever finds him can hear voices that aren’t his own spilling from his mouth, demanding safety and for their stupid-beloved-hurt champion to be brought elsewhere, some demanding more blood while others call for rest.

YESSSS, love this one. I've seen it used very nicely in a few fics/art before, another headcanon I've always wanted to try my hand at.

2 years ago

Tell me why, when I introduced my family to discord (because time limits on zoom are dumb), they decided that's apparently the only way that I can be contacted from now on

Did text messaging and phone calls suddenly disappear from existence and I didn't notice


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6 years ago

What about McGonagall?

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