#(huh)

[h-didanart]

@atherflame-theconcubus

Some weird bird noises that I hope will brighten your day.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

obsessed with the way in JP dialogue, Trina refers to Miquella as “that child” (あの子, also an endearment term to call someone who is your junior), as opposed to Malenia who refers to him as “big brother” (兄さま, ani-sama, a very respectful way to put it).

reminds me of Marika calling Radagon “leal hound”.

even though Marika went about it in an obviously much ruder way, Trina’s “that child” carries the same overbearing connotation. The godly female half that positions themselves as knowing better (and srl, they do) & trying to save their other half from their own folly.

It makes me wonder if somewhere along the way Miquella had grown bitter towards his own other self, who got to grow up, become a Saint and actually be able to save people and taken seriously without having to rely on charming power.

They are such parallel to Marika & Radagon in that I believe he loves her, but he can’t stand not being able to be her equal, always falling short and being talked down to.

Imo that’s why Miquella is close to his dad who shared the same pain, while Trina grew the flower bearing their mother’s name in her garden of purple.

[jalluzas-ferney]

HUH????? IM VERY CONFUSED BY THE FIRST QUESTIONS ANSWER

Edit : check reblogs btw! Doc accidentally misread it as Misako jaja

[moths-are-better]

Tried drawing in my evil art style and idk if I like it or not 😭

[a-person-in-the-rain]

Aprotra

What would your url be without these letters?

I'd be rawayarl

[kkimmylipp]

⠳⣄⣀⣠⠞✿͙⢷ like petals of a flower ⠀♬ they always go … ❀᭢᜴꤬⠀

.•°->💍<-°•..•°->💍<-°•..•°->💍<-°•..•°->💍<-°•..•°->💍<-°•..•°->💍<-°•..•°->💍<-°•..•.

[sapphotash]

has anyone done this yet

(click for higher quality)

[noodles-and-tea]

“I once knew a girl… Amber…”

“…for me… her name was Maria…”

[momonica05]

[fishsinsareacknowledged]

Lil kisses with simon are always a must. The man's been alone most of his life so when he somehow hounds a sweet thing like you he's keeping his back hunched, uncomfortable, but if you can reach his cheek then its all worth it.

He's acting all sly as if he wasn't the one that wanted kisses each time. Blushing and stammering when you hold him down to drown his eyes and heart in kisses.

"Lovie, ain't fair, caught me by surprise."

And yet he's still keeping the lipstick marks on his cheeks. Like a token when he decides to sit down so you can reach into him even more.

[moredifferentthanusual]

why did the us govt do that?

what I’ve picked up from Adam Tooze’s Crashed book so far:

 - There’s a lot of capital in the world seeing safe harbour (the savings glut), whether it’s owned by rich people (high net worth individuals) or governments (sovereign wealth funds) or institutional investors (pension funds, insurance companies, universities, etc.)

 - Since 1970 most of the world (not China) has greatly liberalised capital flows, so you can easily invest your money anywhere, which leads to lots of it sloshing about all over the place seeking safe harbour.

 - US government bonds are considered a safe asset because the US isn’t likely to be going anywhere soon, this is one reason why China bought three trillion dollars worth of these things, but the hunger for safe assets exceeds even the US national debt.

 - Securitisation allows real estate mortgages to be packaged up as investment products, and while any single mortgage may default, combining thousands of mortgages will give you much less risk unless something weird happens to the entire market (foreshadowing).

 - Because the ratings agencies obliging agreed that house prices can’t all go down, many of these securitised mortgage investment products were given high ratings (AA, AAA) (yes that’s also screaming).

 - It’s a high rated safe investment, so it pays relatively low interest. But the original mortgages may include subprime/lowdoc/nodoc mortgages made to a speculator with no income who never should have been issued a loan and is getting charged 10% interest, so there’s a huge spread and hence huge profits.

 - Wait, you’re telling me the shittier the original mortgage, the more money we make when we package it up and sell it on?

 - Hell yes I’m going to buy a nationwide network of mortgage brokers and get them writing loans for poor people, broke people, dead people, people who have already bought five houses, let’s juice this sucker up!

 - House prices soar, banks pay huge bonuses, everyone is swimming in cash, theme song plays, the end.

 - Oh wait house prices can’t keep going up indefinitely, and some of our buyers with no job can’t make payments on their loans, guess some of these products might not be as safe as we thought.

 - WHAT THE HELL YOU SAID THIS WAS AAA RATED, FUCK THIS

 - Oh dear, we just destroyed the global economy.

 - *record scratch, freeze frame* now you might be wondering how I ended up here, why would a few people defaulting on their mortgage destroy the global economy? wouldn’t it just hurt bank profits for a couple of quarters and then life goes on as normal? well, no, because it wasn’t actually about the mortgages at all, it was how the banks were borrowing and lending from each other, and what happens when they stop.

 - When you take out a mortgage the bank hands you a ton of cash which you’re not going to finish paying back for maybe 20 or 30 years. Where did they get it from? In the old days they took it from what other customers had deposited with them: using savings to fund loans, borrow at 3% lend at 6%, a very simple business.

 - In the modern world the banks agreed that was hella boring and most of the investment banks didn’t have deposits to play with anyway but they still wanted to get in on this subprime get-rich-quick gig so they just borrowed the money from other banks and institutions on various short-term markets, undercover, lightly regulated, get that annoying government out of the way so that financial ingenuity can flourish.

 - Trouble is this means they’re lending out money for 30 years but they only borrowed that money for 30 days, or 24 hours, after which they need to pay it back, usually by borrowing more money on the very same market.

 - When things are going up, this is absolutely fine! Everyone is confident lending to everybody else, the billions of dollars keep sloshing around, it’s great.

 - When someone defaults and confidence slips, just for a second, the entire world goes to hell and doesn’t come back.

 - You’re a bank, you’ve lent out billions of dollars that won’t get paid back for a few decades, and you’ve borrowed billions of dollars that you have to pay back tomorrow morning, and suddenly no one will lend to you because they don’t believe your mortgages are worth what you said they were; this is a maturity mismatch, and it will force you to declare bankruptcy in a matter of hours.

 - If you declare bankruptcy, there will be a fire sale of your assets, pushing down the value of all such similar assets, destroying the confidence in other banks in a similar situation, and in hours they will all declare bankruptcy too.

 - Unable to borrow, banks become unable to lend, and businesses which depend upon bank financing, ie. most of them, start laying off employees.

 - With house prices tumbling, underwater home owners walking away or being foreclosed on, and people losing their jobs, consumer confidence evaporates, people stop buying all but the essentials, more business face strain, car companies go bankrupt, their suppliers close down, more employees laid off.

 - It’s like the Great Depression, only much much faster.

 - So anyway, the banks go to the government and say boy howdy did we fuck up big time no of course not, they say hey government we need a bail out like you’ve never seen before and we need it by tomorrow morning otherwise we’re going to destroy this gay earth.

 - The revolving door between top bank staff and top treasury staff helps smooth out this process.

 - The world is saved, the bankers do much better than they deserved, shame about all those laid off employees and foreclosed homes I guess.

 - Wait what about Europe?

 - Oh yeah the European banks were doing all that borrow-to-lend stuff as well, in fact they were making out like bandits, plus their central banks can’t bail them out as they simply don’t have that many dollars (Irish banks borrowed about seven times the GDP of Ireland!) so they’re all completely fucked.

 - The Fed just shrugs and quietly backstops Europe by using this “swap-line” mechanism to provide trillions of dollars in temporary loans to various central banks that then pass it on to their local distressed banks so they can gradually unwind the disaster they’ve got themselves into; the Fed doesn’t tell anyone about this because why rock the boat with politics.

 - What the fuck?

 - I know, right.

 - In the end America does reasonably well out of the whole affair, the dollar still reigns supreme, Europe is between a rock and a hard place, China bides its time, and that’s all I’ve got through so far.

[littleguysdaily]

[redrat-cheesy]

Well, for no actual reason, tf2 × Alice in Wonderland AU!!

also this ans this🤏

[ysaona]

See they are fine they are okay they are ALIVE! 😁