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i am rereading tithe and ironside at the moment and just can't rid of the thought how Roiben was just a light and sweet boy, who had to face betrayal and manipulation from one queen and absolute cruelty from another. i really want to see him more pre-unseelie court. he literally thinks about binding the hob as something terrible and it makes it really more painful when you know what he'll have to do in the future. just realising how innocent and pure he was you understand how broken he must be.

he has no idea what to do with the unseelie court. he is disguested with it's people. he is still able to see there are some good ones among them. he is ready to die if it means silarial will die with him. he thinks kaye will be better without him. he didn't want to hurt her like he was hurt by silarial, he didn't want to be this cruel.

he is just my little meow meow🥺

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way down hadestown!

(character design practice + doodles i made while re-listening to hadestown)

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ok I'm standing up

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Pride and Prejudice (personal project) by Airi Pan

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New library card

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Update: In the 24 hours since posting, Lindsay Ellis's video on Palestine and the Ethics of Empathy has raised $213k for the PCRF.

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Wailing sobbing crying about how often Jinshi is mischaracterized as a possessive prince obsessed with his new toy even by the fans. That boy has had every single thing he's ever cared about ripped away from him for the sole purpose of limiting his attachments and yet he still can't help but let himself feel them. This is a guy that will probably never see the throne but still has had every single experience shaped by it. The amount of choices this actual teenager has gotten to make about his own fucking life are probably capable of being counted on half a hand.

People are so quick to notice the patterns of motherhood and how it's thrusted upon women and the children suffer due to it, but no one is talking about how Jinshi is one of the biggest examples of this. His concubine birth mother twitched him at birth. The woman who raised him seems to have never formed an entirely strong bond with him. His nursemaid would hide his toys if he grew to love them too much, as she obviously saw it as a future distraction. To this day, both Suiren and Gaoshun view his emotional attachments as a prince still screaming for his toys.

The apothecary diaries as a whole is a story about lack of agency. It's about control, and how culture and gender and social status all feed into the same beast that no one ever truly escapes. No one in the rear palace is truly free; no one outside of the rear palace is ever truly free. Those that live their dreams are lucky, and permitted to do so. Jinshi is no exception. No matter how close he gets to someone, no matter how strongly he holds them or bites them, or claims them, it will never be enough. He can claim all he wants, but they will still be treated as a distraction he must grow up from. They will still be toys locked away for his own good.

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we were so blind she is so obsessed with him she had no reason to caress his face like that after recognizing him girl please

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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got a little bit bored and did this

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Dreamlike Scenes Unfold in Masha Foya’s Ethereal Illustrations

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Night is Coming - Unita-N