Becoming less reactive is a big part of growth & decreasing stress. Sometimes this type of avoidance can be looked at as lack of interest or uncaring, but it isn’t. If you let everything get you worked up, you’re damaging your mind, body & soul
In which Jayce hates winter and if Viktor must stay in the lab so late when its snowing outside, he sure as hell is gonna get a blanket draped over his shoulders and a mug of something hot (with a truly horrifying amount of sweetmilk sloshed in it) before Jayce will even consider leaving him there
“Bunny – green, growing, happily photosynthesising by his bed – is a much needed contrast to the void outside the window. On days that John is too distracted by the work, and the green and blue marble of the Earth is too far away for it to feel like a real place, the little life of the cactus reminds him that he’s not the only person in the universe.”
The wonderful @such-a-random-rambler wrote me a lil fic [LINK] for my birthday featuring my two favorite things: John and tiny plants. I figured that little Bunny the cacti would be NOT SO LITTLE by now, so here’s John and his big baby. Drew this at work without my photoshop brushes which was fun but TRICKY so -\o/-
“This representation was groundbreaking for the time and a lot of people liked it” and “This may have aged poorly and many modern audiences from the group don’t feel represented by it and are bothered by aspects of it” are not mutually exclusive
see also: “it’s okay to feel uncomfortable with these pieces of media due to their clumsy—if not harmful—depictions” and “some people still enjoy them, despite their flaws, especially older people who grew up without the same amount of representation we have today, and it’s not your place to tell someone they can’t like it”
