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full on bsky!! 🏃

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its not even 2024 anymore its some other bullshit now

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damen is sooo jealous and territorial like he needs to make it everyone's business that laurent is his and his only 🥵

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the sheer disingenuousness of modern-day body hair removal brands catered towards women amuses me so much. they’re always like ‘we believe…. Women can do anything. enjoy YOUR body hair on YOUR terms #agency #independence #diverse’ and then the ads are women of varying skin tones and body types shaving off their armpit hair. you don’t want me to enjoy my body hair, you want me to remove it. you are a razor brand! upholding the status quo of shame re: women’s body hair is how you make money. like what is this weird larp omg it’s so laughably hollow

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Prince's viewing from book 1 and Spar/knife scene from book 3

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Snake Laurent and Dog Damen let's goooo

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Damen: oh no oh god oh fuck Laurent has bitten off more than he can chew and he's not gonna be able to do the thing he said he's gonna do and he's gonna humiliate himself in front of all these people oh god we are so fucked

Laurent: *does the thing with flying colors, better than anyone could have reasonably expected from him, inspiring loyalty in all those around him*

Damen:

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Thinking about how Damen does not even begin to comprehend the absolute life-altering trauma he caused Laurent by killing Auguste until like halfway through Prince's Gambit. Thinking about how their mutual dehumanization of each other led Damen to see Laurent as incapable of love or affection for anyone, he never even considers that Laurent loved his brother and was shattered by his death, never shows a shred of sympathy, his first assumption was that Laurent resented Auguste for being the golden child/crowned prince, and it's only when Paschal looks at him like he's crazy and says "no, he loved him." that he begins to realize the Laurent he's been experiencing is one that in many ways *he helped create* and that the purest form of Laurent was a sweet, shy little boy who loved his brother without a cruel bone in his body, he never wanted power or glory or anything, all he wanted was his big brother, and Damen killed that version of Laurent when he killed Auguste.

I think that is in part how Damen begins to come to forgive Laurent, or at the very least to begin to sympathize with him, realizing that in a fucked up kind of way, everything Laurent does to him, while still totally being first and foremost Laurent's responsibility and moral failures to atone for, is partially a consequence of his own actions, that he helped turn Laurent into the tangled ball of pulsating yearning in the shape of a man that he is.

I think realizing how wrong he'd been about the kind of man Laurent was, was what began his journey to coming to terms with the kind of man he, Damen, was at the beginning of the story. When he first meets Laurent he thinks he has him pinned and describes him as arrogant, self-absorbed, self-serving, spoilt, and "raised to overestimate his own worth", which in hindsight is definitely meant to be projection because those are all ways that Damen himself could be described at the beginning of the story, something he basically admits to at the end of Kings Rising when he reflects on the version of himself that existed before he was imprisoned.

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the best thing about prince's gambit is getting to follow along on damen's journey as he discovers that he is indeed not submissive-sexual but convoluted-sexual instead

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Do you block people in the same fandom as you just because you don't like their takes?

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MA MEILLEURE ENNEMIE x

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and so the au's have begun in earnest

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Stromae, Pomme - “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” (from Arcane Season 2) [Official Music Video]

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has anyone noticed that working for a living sucks ass

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You mean you still haven’t tried the Hailey Bieber TikTok famous glazed strawberry boybrow grapefruit girls girl poundcake tinted eyebrow cat eye Baldwin krispy creampied summer lover falsies girlboy vanilla itsy bitsy tiny weenie yellow polka dot bikini boygirl makeup?