#/ SHE MAKES CONCERNING DECISIONS

[thatcatangelwriter]

annabeth doesn't talk about what luke said when he came to her house asking her to run away with him and no matter how hard the others try she won't say anything.

[heireign]

WHAT ROLE ARE YOU IN THE TRAGIC PLAY ?

tortured love interest.

you're so hot. sorry about the horrors. you're the kind of person people immediately notice. whether you have a distinct style, are more outgoing, or are just plain beautiful, you make an impression. people usually feel the need to protect you, which probably frustrates you to no end. you're not weak! you're not fragile! you're not helpless! but the people in your life tend to disagree. maybe it's your lover, the protagonist, trying to keep you out of their own turmoil. maybe it's someone responsible for you in some way, keeping you away from your lover, while they head down an increasingly dark path. regardless, all you really want is a sense of autonomy! unfortunately, you're very likely to die before that happens. the audience will be so caught up in the grief your death causes the protagonist that they forget to grieve you as a person — you deserved better, but unfortunately this is not your story. maybe it should have been.

tagging: @lcerys , @sanctamater , @faychanan , @mournlamb , @ofcarmelide , @azemn , @loreforged and @wornkindness

[natandacat]

The notes are so funny bc here are the 'downsides of being an only child' that are literally not unique to being an only child and more of a parenting/situational thing really:

- "It's lonely!/Siblings are built-in friends!" One of my brothers played with me out of a sense of necessity because we were not allowed to be with other kids and he deeply resented me for that, which made for a bad relationship and me being extremely alone all the time anyway. I'd rather have skipped the hatred (on his part) and heart break (on mine) and gone directly to playing alone. I have literally never had an intimate conversation with any of my 3 brothers (except literally One time with one of them) but I've had countless of horrid fights (with me or witnessed). Hell is other people, etc.

- "All the attention is suffocating!" I was monitored 24/7 and pretty much never left alone, up to a point where my bathroom time was also monitored. My brother actively and voluntarily participated in the monitoring at some points.

- "You get unconditional support as an adult!" I've been in a lot of trouble since I was 17 and they've never helped, not materially or emotionally.

-"You have more people to build happy memories with!" My brother got married 3 days before I was back in the country (he set the date way after I had bought my plane tickets and also he actively chose to hide it from me) and still blames me for being upset because "it was a ceremony for closed loved ones only anyway" (I guess I wasn't counted!). That's just the most egregious examples in a long, long list.

I get grass is greener ect but what bothers me is that it reinforces the idea that sibling relationships are *always* a net positive, in a very "nuclear family is sacred" way

Like I'm not venting for the sake of it, I've been no contact for 4 years and it's great, I'm just frustrated that it's so goddamn hard to get people to acknowledge sibling abuse, or even get them to *not* perform shocked incredulity at the idea. Especially on tumblr, THE website where people talk about parental abuse all the time and understand that sometimes you really cannot salvage the relationship and it truly is detrimental

All I'm saying is stop assuming that things would be better with a sibling around. You don't know that! Believe me, things could be so much worse with a sibling around.

The good news is you get to choose your friends and siblings as an adult! :) Life can be sweet not matter who your nuclear family is! You're not a failure for not experiencing the hegemonic ideal of siblinghood! It's okay!

[morningmask27]

Honestly I'm also not fully happy with what they did with Whis this book

[invinciblerodent]

sleeping with haarlep to get access to raphael's safe ❌

sleeping with haarlep to get pics of your character's tits ✔️

[skitskatdacat63]

Sometimes reading reviews of shows/movies with complicated/controversial characters makes me concerned at other people's lack of empathy. Or maybe I'm too empathetic 🤔

[aaandbackstabbed]

Beakley: you’d be stupid to lay a hand on me

Goldie: oh you’d be surprised by all the stupid shit I do

[asleepinawell]

it is objectively hilarious that you can have four members of the calendar council on your railway board at the same time (five with fate) and no one notices? let's say the jovial contrarian's cover is solid, and september is overlooked because of the castellan thing, and they all use fake names. you've still got april who can't get through a meeting without suggesting we blow something up (valid) and january who doesn't have any real reason to have been considered? does the efficient commisioner really have no questions about any of this? does mr fires? can we get june in here too? she certainly knows a lot about building 'things' with questionable science. what could go wrong

[byberbunk2069]

Save me, OCs

Sitting: Ronnie, V. Yukimura, Veil, and Anna Standing: Miroslava Malakhova and Mallory Vincent

Yukimura and Anna are @gibson-girlboss's OCs (Miroslava was a result of brainstorming between the two of us)

[baltears]

its truly not that i have a problem with ppl continuing to engage with a persons work after theyve been called out for being problematic or whatever but the way m//lanie m//rtinez stans literally just convinced themselves all the allegations were false, called the alleged victim a liar and then proceeded to pretend it all never even happened is frankly chilling to me

[electricea]

also, just here's an idea - instead of speaking for neurodivergent people, why don't we let them make their own informed decisions or listen to them on why they want to make those decisions.

[diivineray]

My eyes aren’t getting better. The steroids are useless and now their main concern is just getting me off them.

They had to give me an injection in my right eye since that’s currently the worst.

Rheumatologist is thinking vasculitis. The nucala is fine but she thinks i need something stronger to help with everything as a whole since it’s already got my lungs, my eyes, and now she’s worried about my kidneys.

So I’m not doing well right now. She thinks infusion treatments might be the best way.

I’m just tired and to come home and listen to my mom disregard everything I said again just pissed me off

[amorremanet]

Man, I realize demanding that someone execute their own brother is pretty fucked up, but He Xuan asking that of Shi Qingxuan still gave them more respect than Shi Qingxuan ever got from Shi Wudu [gave them the ability to make their own choice after finally being given the full story and enough context to actually have the capacity for informed consent, something that Shi Wudu spent centuries denying to Shi Qingxuan] and also, He Xuan did nothing wrong and should be allowed to do all the atrocities he wants, thank you for your time

[waugh-bao]

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[lingeringscars]

layla is someone who does need to weigh everything before making decisions, but, like any human, this doesn't always happen. she can be very guided by her heart and her emotions in a way that she usually tries not to be. she makes lists. she's organized. she needs everything to be Perfect. but she also wants to please people. wants to be worth not leaving. and that means that sometimes all the perfect lists in the world won't matter; all the warning signs will fly right by. she wants to do right by her friends and her family, and she'll fight for it, sometimes to the point where her logic fails her.

after everything with carrie, it is very hard for layla to not be instantly distrustful. she doesn't want to let people in for fear of being hurt again. this causes her to be so forceful that it seems like she's being ruled by logic and practicality, but she isn't. it's all emotion and fear.

[tvrningout-a]

after sending a few more asks, i'm doing a lil reading, and i'm gonna check his comic background, but according to his movie fandom page!! miguel speaks japanese on top of english and spanish and i know the dude's busy as it is, but i just like the idea of him being able to speak to chiyo and yuzu in their language and maybe helping them with english a bit. chiyo's good at it, but she's learned from school and tv, so practice would be nice, and yuzu probably doesn't know much english other than the bits she retained from high school and college. i imagine there would be tech to help get around language barriers, but i know both of them would rather be able to communicate on their own.

i don't usually focus on lil details like that for the sake of not complicating threads, but!! that won't stop me from thinking about it and rambling a lil bit :' )