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NOVÁ MEME ŠABLÓNA

These two pictures are making out in my mind, sloppy style.

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You're so close and yet so far

Actually, you need to be much TOUGHER on yourself than you are on everyone else! You need to extend much more grace to other people than you would to yourself! You should be merciful to others, because you don't know what they are thinking and going trough; on the other hand, you know full well whether or not you have a good excuse to do or not do something.

Also unpopular opinion I know but while being too hard on yourself isn't a very healthy place to be in mentally, being too hard on others makes you an outright asshole, and so it's just worse morally.

tbh the first step in unlearning shame for yourself is learning how to extend dignity to other people at all times. you need to hold the same standards for everyone. you're not going to be able to convince yourself that you deserve that accommodation if you don't believe everybody is deserving of it

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And if I say

then what

my biggest issue when it comes to engaging with any fandom, really, is that everyone tends to picture the fictional men it revolves around as dominant. and I tend to see them all as submissive, and hopelessly so. can you see the tragedy and pain I live through each day

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I actually thought about this myself!

So, first off, Osman is almost a no-brainer for me: Batuhan Karacaya. A bit too hot to be Ibrahim's son, admittedly, but we do need to keep in mind Hatice is his mom. Also if he was in Magnificent Century, you KNOW they would cast someone hot anyway for the eye candy, just like they did with literally every single prince (even if very few were this aggressively chadly).

(Also - why yes this pic is from Diriliş Ertugrul, whyever would you ask?)

Esmanur is a bit more difficult. Basically, we know she didn't inherit her mother's "miniature" eyes, that her complexion is somewhat dark (which doesn't make sense, because both of her parents are relatively pale), and dark eyes like her father. So basically, like half of the Turkish actresses under 40 qualify here, but I've always been partial to Hazal Filiz Küçükköse, just because she has a lot of good pics in Magnificent Century-style clothing from Mehmet Bir Cihan Fatihi

If she's a bit too hot and we really want to pick someone closer in appearance to her show parents, I'd suggest Büşra Develi (who was in the same show, so also has a lot of good pics for this purpose)

Have a current AU of sorts that's infected my brain, which means I now need to poll those wiser than myself to see who folks think could play older versions of Ibrahim's other two children, Osman and Esmanur.

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(Franzjoseph on the left. Ignore Alexander for a minute here, this isn't about him.)

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...I immediately thought of them.

the sea is the earth’s most haunted environment. the density of ghosts per square metre is unparalleled. every tide is a time machine. every whale song is a spirit box

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OH MY GOD THAT'S BEBE???

If I had a nickel for every time @archduchessofnowhere unknowingly shared content one degree of separation from ITV Victoria, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

For reference - Bebe Cave is a British B-lister, whom I know primarily from the weird and wonderful? Tale of Tales, but she also played a lady-in-waiting named Wilhelmina Cook (Cooke? Don't remember exactly.) in ITV Victoria.

Average Sisi portrayal in media:

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The great thing about being a bug is that because they are so small, ecosystem can sustain many of them, and so under normal circumstances their populations can be surprisingly big. Plenty of hot singles in your area, is what I'm saying.

Crazy to think about how big the world and how small the bugs are yet they still manage to find one another to have bug sex

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objectively russian literature is neither extraordinary nor bad. it's just fine european literature. certain people are only obsessed with it because it's familiar enough to not experience any cultural shock and other enough to orientalise it

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To everyone who has lush fields ripe with story ideas but is struggling to go out and actually harvest them with your writer’s scythe: that’s alright. There’s a reason.

I see writers despairing or making self-deprecating jokes about how many wips they have, as if the ability to come up with the idea is equal to the ability to finish it out into an end product.

It isn’t.

A lot of our ideas come about, not because we were determined to be productive writers, but because daydreaming is an internal escape from life’s demands.

Writing is a demand, too.

Resting and relaxing are basic needs, unlike the high level, abstract satisfaction of being creatively productive. That’s why you might daydream (which is a mild and normal form of dissociation) ideas that you feel good about, and then struggle to research, write the words, fill plotholes, check grammar, revise— all the critical thinking and executive function things involved in creation. Your basic needs must be satisfied before your higher needs can be met effectively.

So, if you’re daydreaming about your stories extensively to mitigate stress, it’s expecting a lot of your stressed self to return from fantasy land, sit down in the cold hard real world and do the hard work to write masterpieces of literature. Those operations are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Writing is hard. Making yourself feel guilty is only going to make it harder. You don’t have to atone for entertaining or distracting your mind by making that available to other people. Daydreaming is a valid end in itself.

Don’t feel bad about having ideas but not being able to write them. Scribble some notes if you can, if you want, but above all enjoy the escapism and take care of yourself first. The words will come after.

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Ja a celá EÚ:

("Ale on to tak nemyslí" - samozrejme, že to tak nemyslí, len kurizuje dementom, čo pred desiatimi rokmi podpisovali Kotlebovu petíciu za "SKEXIT". A vy by ste akože chceli premiéra kurizujúceho dementom, čo pred desiatimi rokmi podpisovali Kotlebovu petíciu za "SKEXIT"???)

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Wildest thing imaginable about being a Caleb Landry Jones stan, or at least a disinterested admirer, is that most people on here are simping for his Redhead Princess phase, which I guess is valid? But still funny, like he hasn't looked like that for over 10 years... Imagine being a 35-year old man and have girlies on here dream about your 22-year old self. And I don't even mean in the "he's old now" kind of way, I mean he intentionally cut his hair and grew a moustache (although he admittedly has flipflopped in the facial hair department a lot over the years) and all of his fans were lowkey like "everyone hated that". I for one am a firm moustache appreciator, I love that I found another man besides Tom Hughes who doesn't look with it like a creep, Balkan mobster or gay man in the 70s.

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Dear sir, I would like to order from you a silver wax seal, which I will pick up from you when I am next in York, on the 20th. I would like an ornamental banner design for the seal itself, and the motto should read “foi est tout”.

GENTLEMAN JACK 2.01 “Faith Is All”

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*casts a martyred glance towards the heavens* Lord give me strength.

behind every art of modern rhaenyra where the artist draws her as masc or butch, theres always daemyras trying to prove that rhaenyra is this ultra feminine damsel because she wears pretty dresses and married a man whilst simultaneously ignoring all of rhaenyras established gender struggle at the same time, making their point so futile that they come across as repulsive people when it comes to the subject of lgbtq+ people specifically when it comes to women who don’t conform

rhaenyras story is based upon gender struggles already well set out in westeros i truly don’t understand unless you watched the show with your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears, every time this happens it instills in me that most people who say they like rhaenyra do not actually like rhaenyra because of their unwillingness to accept that rhaenyra is within herself wishes to be different

how do you watch her scene with mysaria in its entirety and including when she says daemon is everything she wishes to be INCLUDING a man and come to any other conclusion

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So, as a Gentleman Jack fan that just the other day saw s2 ep4, I should probably say something about the whole Anne L cheating on Ann W thing with, as I like to call her, Torpedo Mariana (named after the trope Relationship Torpedo, a.k.a. in-universe anti). Because I've seen people claim that it was out-of-character, and I don't really agree, but I also can see where people are coming from.

Okay, so the thing about Gentleman Jack that I actually really love is that it requires very little mind-reading. Anne Lister's fourth wall breaking asides, while infrequent and a bit distracting, are actually pretty good in filling in the gaps when it comes to her thoughts and feelings, while other characters are surprisingly easy to read - either because they are relatively simple, or because they express their feelings openly at some point (well, as openly as the customs of biedermeier Britain allow them). And just to be clear, I DON'T LIKE MIND-READING. Ambiguity can be a useful tool for writers, but to be honest it's not very enjoyable for me as an audience member. One of the biggest flaws of House of the Dragon in my eyes is just how unclear it is with the characters' thoughts and motivations. I don't like that I have to outright speculate what Alicent is thinking at any given moment, only to learn all too frequently that actually, she was thinking something completely different, you silly goose. Spare me that nonsense.

My point is, unpacking Anne L's feelings towards both Ann W and Torpedo Mariana does actually require a fair bit of mind-reading. My interpretation is that her relationship with Torpedo Mariana after the latter's marriage is extremely volatile, even toxic, and by the time the show starts, she's quite sick of her. Her reasons for courting Ann W are quite complex - financial, certainly, but also genuine attraction that over time develops into infatuation, even love. But that of course doesn't mean her feelings towards Torpedo Mariana disappear completely, oh no! This trainwreck has not yet shown us its final explosion. So Torpedo Mariana is totally wrong when she claims Anne L doesn't love Ann W, but does kinda have point in thinking she might still have a chance with Anne L. It also has to be said that Anne L can be a bit of dick sometimes, mostly to people who deserve it, but not always. Like, for one example, Torpedo Mariana's actions in marrying Charles Lawton and not running away with Anne L were completely understandable, yet Anne L sees them as this utter betrayal and is mad at Torpedo Mariana for the rest of her life, even as she continues to meet up and sleep with her. The toxicity in their relationship really isn't a one-way street. So what happened here is that Torpedo Mariana continued to insist that Anne L doesn't love Ann W, because the other option, that the only light at the end of a tunnel that is her life has just been snuffed out by a cute rando, is simply too unbearable. Well, that, and she also can see Anne L still has feelings for her, not understanding that this doesn't invalidate Anne L's feelings towards Ann W. She seems to lowkey convince Anne L of this, and after Torpedo Mariana reminds her of the good old days and activates her protective instincts, Anne L succumbs to temptation. Not very romantic, but sadly realistic when you really think about it. It's basically the good old "slipup with an ex" plotline, a scenario so common it borders on cliche. So no, I don't see it as out-of-character, not by a long shot, but I can see how some people who didn't pick up on Anne L's flaws and her feelings towards Torpedo Mariana (as well as Torpedo Mariana's unreliable narrator status; guys, OF COURSE she claims Anne L doesn't love Ann W, and even the fact that Anne L doesn't deny it is explainable by things other than "Torpedo Mariana is right") might see it that way.

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Goodness gracious! Me? Falling for a rich douchebag from the 19th century?

With terrible political opinions?

And also a womanizing asshole who treated their lovers terribly?

WELL. I'D NEVER.

(And I'd certainly not dedicate by bachelor's thesis AND upcoming master's thesis to them.)

speaking of historical figures who were important from a Marginalized Groups perspective but also grade-A douchecanoes

Anne Lister

holy crap. what an asshole. just. the rich fuckgirl at the gay bar who’s always sleeping around on her latest partner and ends up marrying an even richer woman with severe depression (partially for her money) and treating her like shit

it was hilarious to me that people were getting mad at s2 of Gentleman Jack for “bad gay representation” when it’s like. my sibling in sin, that’s what actually happened in real life

the clock struck 12 and the handsome early Victorian butch of your dreams has turned back into a rampaging jerk