#(it doesn't even snow here)

[clonerightsagenda]

Woman just called me (not the management company. who we pay to take calls now) to complain that the guy shoveling the snow right now (during the blizzard) isn't doing it the way she thinks he should and that he's an idiot. I told her I wasn't going to tell our contractor that a resident thinks he's an idiot and whether there was any specific action she wished me to take with this information and she, affronted, said she was just letting me know what's going on. I am going to go lie down in the snow until he shovels me away too

[things-stronger-than-fear]

can we talk about the katniss/lucy gray parallels (or lack thereof) for a sec?

they're superficially the same, because of the things we talk about all the time: they're both female victors from 12. there are things that come with that culture and background -- the mockingjay, the plants, the songs. those similarities aren't so much between them as people, as individuals -- they're born of coming from the same culture. the most significant thing they share is their resilience; their spirit of resistance and rebellion. their defiance.

but really, all those things they share, only serve to demonstrate just how different they are as individuals (because personality is different from upbringing or values).

we parallel their sarcastic bows, but they're so so different. lucy gray is a performer mockingly curtseying and saying "kiss my ass", where katniss is a hunter who doesn't have time for this society bullcrap.

they both sing the hanging tree, but as i've ranted about, their renditions show how different they are: lucy gray, again, a performer with a spirit unbroken, loud and charming and sassing right to the capitol's face, daring them to defy her, daring them to look away. katniss, again, a hunter, quiet but unyielding, sparking rebellion under the capitol's nose.

they both won their games, but in such different ways. lucy gray charmed the snakes (both literal and in the form of one coriolanus snow), while katniss threw down with weaponry.

lucy gray said look at me, care about me. katniss said fight for me, fight with me.

and so what we see is that they are not at all the same person, but that's what's so important. because it's not just one person or one type of person that puts their foot down and rebels. we don't need a specific kind of Chosen One to light the spark -- anyone can.

[coldgoldlazarus]

Now we're getting to the part of the year where the weather makes me fucking miserable. :I

[nostalgia-tblr]

reading fic, it mentioned (as i myself have done in fic!) seasons on asgard. i remembered that asgard is flat. spent ten minutes wondering how flat seasons work. i suspect they don't. feeling a bit bad about whenever i mentioned those flat seasons in fic.

[californiaquail]

gross tumour images under the cut for those of you who like that sort of thing

very vascular growth we removed from the hock of some kind of samoyed husky (? idk it was 100 pounds and fluffy and white with blue eyes) thing. owners opted not to send off for histopath because it would have cost them like $400 which was a little disappointing because i would like to Know but i get it

[babygctback]

baby + event moodboard.

[wistrea-gone]

“I ought to just burn this whole thing down.”

❛    now, that would be a sight.    ❜    in her role as an advising voice, perhaps the witch should admonish the thought quicker, lest this encounter end in ash quicker than either of them should have wanted; instead, kira seemed more amused at the prospect more than anything, in their hushed conversation away from prying ears. it was a rare occurrence, she thinks to herself, to see esra voice such ire when hardly anything could get under the well - made armor of his composed demeanor. he has always been akin to a work of art, that way : beautiful visage meant to portray a myriad of emotions, yet only the hand that knows the canvas can tell you which exact ones. acrylics were too defined upon a canvas ... esra reminded her of watercolors. a single drop in the clear could become all consuming, versatile and able to be far more malleable to their wishes. art, he was, and art that was meant to be behold.

still, whilst she should admonish such thoughts, motivated only by empty hands about to be filled if all went well, the possibility of seeing esra work was tempting. ❛    maybe later, dearest. as tiresome as these things can be, we wouldn't be bothering if we didn't need something, yes?    ❜ she hummed, as lilac hues flicker up to meet the sorcerer's own. ❛    you can burn it all to your heart's content once we're done.    ❜

@cyneris

[thegreatyin]

wait wait, caeru's gf was a lethean'd nemesis protag right.

did he meet her victim in the black honey visions

,,,,he. he would've, wouldn't he. my god

[timeisacephalopod]

Part of being Canadian is how similar we are to the US, and honestly not a single person on earth I think could genuinely pin point the difference between Canadian and American culture but the average Canadian. Americans assume we're the same as them (we aren't), even a bunch of Canadians think we're Americans, especially around voting seasons, and about half our cultural identity is "we're Not American!" but there are some cultural differences and if we all spoke French equally we could have had a language distinction but nooooo. Despite not being America unfortunately such a fuck off massive country right below your teeny tiny ass country (population wise) does result in a cultural avalanche from said fuck off massive country. Especially when you share a language.

The war of 1812 will forever be funny to me though because Americans were like "hmm maybe Canadians would also like to tell the British to fuck off, we will invade to show them!" And Canada was like *burns down the white house* and we've been tentatively chill with each other ever since lmao (even when we probably like. Shouldn't be cool with America but like. We could not risk that implosion politically or otherwise it'd be suicide).

[andaniellight]

Episode 2 my beloved

[blujayonthewing]

there are A Lot of factors around me feeling increasingly Nothing around/ about christmastime over the last several years but one of them is undeniably the fact that it's, like, 45 outside and is forecasted to remain so for the majority of the month

[tovaicas]

friend and I were discussing it and it's so fucked how the ishgardians literally have nowhere to go even if they wanted to run

[woolmasterleel]

hAPPY HALLOWEEN I have no spooky art to offer _(:з)∠)_

[sabraeal]

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

💥find your least kudos'd fic - say something wonderful about it.

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

If You Dare! My hakizana fics are not usually SUPER popular, but they tend to garner at least a little interest, but that one didn't even get a blip 🤣Too bad, that one was going to get smutty in the next chapter or two. ONE DAY.

💥find your least kudos'd fic - say something wonderful about it.

That would be To My Esteemed Enemy with three whole kudos, which is both surprising and not, because it's a fic with a pairing that is more popular than my main ship in that fandom, but it 1) doesn't have any ship content in it yet, 2) is using canon characterization of Kazama, which displeases the people who want him to be a sexy villain and also the people who want him to be a uwu good boy trying his best. It's easy to say something nice about this, because I spent HOURS poring over Hakuouki lore to get this into shape and was SO PLEASED with the results. It just needs a few more chapters to really find an audience, I think, but I don't have the time right now to put my effort into it.

[snowddeong]

Trying so hard not to be an absolute degenerate in someone's tags but man... Yeji's dick in that newest tourbook 😔😔😔😔 so so massive I hate it here

[messeduploser]

I have zero idea to what's happening in you guys country but holy shit it's so cold in my country