#{Musings}

[sitronsangbody]

A core feature of anti-fatness is the "you did this to yourself"-view. People are very invested in the idea that size is within everyone's control. It's soothing to believe that all fat people are a small series of good choices away from becoming thin and staying that way, and that thin people are success stories by virtue of existing.

Any time we speak up about discrimination and fatphobia, someone inevitably plays that card. Trolls will say "eat a salad, pig" and well-meaning health nuts will gently explain what calories are. In either case, we're met with a "you know, you can stop this at any time." Why, if nobody was fat, thin people wouldn't need to examine their biases! It sure would be an easier time for everyone if we weren't so Around and Bulliable!

[marandsviet]

The quietest acts of bravery often go unnoticed, but they are the foundations upon which empires of the heart are built.

[johannestevans]

Horny gore enthusiast long-since magically shackled to prevent him from doing harm to others or touching corpses, now the fervent and eager assistant to a magical fleshturner who reaches through layers of skin, muscle, and bone to heal and alter and manipulate the body

Sometimes as a reward for his assistant he'll reach into His body and pull out his pancreas or liver for him to have a look at

[kindalikerackham]

ummmmm fuck you *forensics your drowned discourse post like im on a mid-00s copaganda show*

it takes 10 layers of the water filter to completely drown a tumblr screenshot if anyone was wondering

[jennycalendar]

this COULD just be me & i accept that but i feel like jaheira is probably really good with little kids, except in that super hyperspecific way where she treats them exactly the same way that she treats adults and they pick up on that and are delighted by it. she’s like is it sensible to start eating bugs off the ground? :/ what kind of nutritional value will an all bug diet have? eat an apple or you will die on the road. local six year olds love her so so much.

[house-of-mirrors]

Fr all they have to do for me to eat up an entire story is involve the preexisting characters that make the setting unique

The Masters, Judgements, Liberation, Dawn Machine, Bazaar, palace monsters, neathbow, parabola, and I think the Creditor and Moon are well established enough at this point to include them too. All things that belong to the central story and what make this historical fantasy horror different than others in the genre. People love a story for a reason and that reason usually is the characters...

Introducing new characters with clear motive and connection to preexisting lore is an easy way to get the reader invested. "Here's a person you know nothing about with no obvious connection to any story you know, now make choices for them" not so much

It's not "fan service" to focus on the central elements of your story that made it interesting and popular in the first place lol. And you can add new stuff while also not shoving aside the heart of it

[nessieac]

female sexuality, unfortunately

[kilono]

—- I see you most down where the grotto splits, where time becomes adjacent, a waterfall of recognition, or a spine bending to the softness of your fingertips.

golden glimpses & refracted fingerprints.

it’s harder to see when life keeps pulling the tide back in. we all get caught adrift. these forward movements, this impermanent permanence.

‘let go of it’,

your voice is the thunderstorm that I fall asleep to. today is an aging dream that comes back into focus.

did you really think that I wouldn’t show up?

[gentlebliss]

Emojis that are just objects are so cute.

🧵

[ggardengirl]

‪i don’t think we talk enough about how this was genuinely so evil and fucked up of jeff to say. especially since he read shauna’s journals years ago, which was a huge violation of privacy, and then literally never talked about it with shauna.

like, put yourself in jeff’s shoes:

can you imagine reading about your wife’s teen pregnancy while stranded in the wilderness that ended with a traumatic and painful birth that nearly killed her, and the dream she had between workds where he had survived, and she was so overcome with love for this child, then dream that her teammates murdered and ate her baby, only to wake up and find that he had never been alive in the first place—and not ONCE thinking that was something you might want to talk about with her???

can you imagine knowing all that, and then making her carry that grief and trauma alone for years, when you know you could shoulder it with her? when you know that he was your baby too, and that your wife deserves more than to carry the burden of that loss by herself?

and can you imagine then weilding that trauma against her with a sentence that can only be described as emotional and psychological warfare, and watching her deflate but saying nothing about it, even though SHE KNOWS YOU KNOW because, oh yeah—you had to confess to reading her journals when you confessed to using the information you learned about her deepest darkest shameful secret to blackmail her friends, just to keep your stupid, shitty furniture store in business??

and then can you imagine taking away your wife’s agency and the opportunity for her to be honest with her daughter by telling said daughter (whom she still gave birth to, btw, even after all That, because she felt so much guilt about losing her first baby and she wanted to make your annoying ass happy) about the son she lost in childbirth and how your daughter’s mom just “sooooo fucked up” because of it, while STILL NEVER EVER HAVING TALKED ABOUT IT WITH YOUR WIFE???

like that is serious villian shit!!! if you would do that to someone you claim to love, you are a bad partner and a bad person!!! zero exceptions—not even for “himbos” and who say one funny thing about there being no book club because they were too dumb to pick up on such an obvious fucking lie, and then are revered by fans everywhere for that!! not even for losers who’s sexual fantasy is their fuckass failing furniture having customers for once!!

jeff sadecki you will never be famous!!!

in conclusion, shauna AND callie both deserve to kill him in season 3, taking turns with the knife, making it nice and fucking slow.

[aparticularbandit]

If all else fails, live just to spite him.

okay. holding ur hands as i say this. look me in the eyes. i know this is overwhelming so here's where we start. if he wants you dead then your first act of resistance is survival.

[marandsviet]

Bravery isn't about towering strength but the soft resilience that refuses to crumble under life's weight.

[iammistressofmyfate]

Writing omegaverse Hollanov because why not 🤷‍♀️

I just love the idea of them scenting and purring and nesting together

They're not really all that different than how they are in canon, except like, fangs

[johannestevans]

Very stoic and intense, laconic, tank of the party who gets dosed with some kind of sex pollen and is just... The same. Still quiet, still slow and steady, barely speaking.

Pretty elf rogue and mage baffled, as is the delicate and gentle-mannered sorcerer in the party

The tank ALWAYS wants to pin down these pretty boys and fuck them til they're twice bred and gaping. The sex pollen is nothing compared to his masterful self-control

[lafamilledelioncourt]

Claudia: DANIEL, I AM BLEEDING OUT HERE, STOP HITTING ON MY DAD.

Daniel @ Lestat:

Feel free to catch up on ADOC in the meantime