#*this build not just build omfg

[isurrendertoclones]

Ok so obviously I have my pie-in-the-sky wishes for TBB season 3 (Fox, Dogma)

But I have one wish that I, personally, think is reasonable. Let’s call it the Mention Fives Literally Once Challenge.

[baffledapple]

once again i am being subjected to "educational courses on generative AI" (lengthy advertisements that the higher ups want us to watch so they can say that we are trained in AI)

[elektroyu]

I have this massive MASSIVE urge to build a tiny house. BUILD. Not just have or design one (I actually designed one too tho), but actually BUILD it. Oh my god the need to construct is so bad lol. Wood working and everything.

Never mind that I'm not even close to being able to do anything like that due to my health (and finances) but oh.my.gawd. the NEED is still there. Can I just. Make a small house please. Right now. Please let me build something. Let me create something cool from wood. Bbblease ughhhh

[swampndn]

Y'all, people need to hear compliments sometimes. Like don't get me wrong. I am a confident mother fucker, but affirmation is very nice.

Tonight, I had an affinity meeting dinner, and someone said that they told their girlfriend about the affinity, and she said, "Oh yeah, the hot people affinity group". And I was like, oh yeah. That's me too. Wow. Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks so.

[threnodians]

hey y’all, is my keqing any good? 🤔

[truthundressing]

Along the River Nene, England // September 2023

[fluffypotatey]

Connected to my last ask but I wanted to separate bc it's a whole new issue

But, like you mentioned Arthur being a captain by 15, and the Druid raid we all know went so wrong, that he still blames himself for (yet the writers didn't follow through, AGAIN) and that had me wonder if he actually was to blame.

Like, he said he lost control of his men, but....I don't think that would happen. These would have been trained knights, probably all older than him, more experienced....and more loyal to Uther. They would know better than to disobey their Prince, bc that risks being punished by the King.

Unless they knew they wouldn't be in trouble.

I think that raid was a test, Uther seeing just how obedient his son was, if he was too "soft" on what he decided was the enemy. And if he was, he told the knights they were to finish the job themselves against Arthur's command, bc the only order that trumps Arthur's, is Uther's.

MHM MHM MHM BECAUSE YEAH

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arthur was still a teenageer, he was at the age where most are still considered squires (at least...i think so?) but obviously he went up the ranks faster because he's the prince. he was still finding his footing with his role as prince and heir to the throne. he was probably still holding on to this naivete about kingship that uther wanted to squash out of him.

arthur probably hasn't seen much of the purge other than trials and executions of alleged guilty sorcerers (which he probably believed to be fair trials). he has not yet seen the true disregard of empathy his father and the kingdom has towards magic users.

i am a firm believer that that raid arthur led was a test. and a test he almost passed because he told his men to "spare the women and children" but it is highly likely that uther had a contingency plan if arthur's raid didn't eradicate all of the druids from that settlement.

now, look at the episode's transcript (s4 ep10), arthur is immediately disturbed when he realizes where they are and when merlin explains the shrine to the knights as something built "to appease restless spirits" in an area.

[Arthur seems slightly disturbed as he looks at a red flag picking up in the breeze.]

and even later he seems so out of it

[Arthur stares into space has he absentmindedly unbuckles his bracers.]

it's like he, himself, is haunted by the memory. a memory he probably made himself forget because of how horrible it was. he's had this old memory locked away so tight but now that its back, now that arthur remembers, he can't help but go through the what ifs, and berate himself for not being experienced enough to stop his men.

gaius calls uther's raids "relentless", not even considering arthur himself in that description. this could be either because gaius is too used to uther's persecution that he assumes any magical persecution is uther or gaius knew (or had some semblance to know) that uther was the true one at fault for arthur's raid.

but back to arthur

KING ARTHUR (begins to cry) I am responsible for what happened to you. And for all the violence that happened here. When I led the attack on your camp, I was young and inexperienced. I was desperate to prove myself to my men, to my...father. KING ARTHUR (still crying) I told the men to spare the women and children, but I know that some of them ignored the order. And there was so much happening. I wanted to stop it...I froze. I didn't know what to do. KING ARTHUR (completely breaking down) I can still hear the screams. I cannot right this wrong. Nothing I can ever do will change the horrors that happened that day. But I can promise that, now that I am king, I will do everything that I can to prevent anything like this ever happening again. From this day forth, the Druid people will be treated with the respect they deserve. I give you my word.

uther how fucking dare you traumatize my boy like this

arthur can still hear the fucking screams....like shit.....that sound is burned into his memory, the blood, the smell of rot and possibly fire, everything about that day how he thought himself ready but froze when things began to go wrong.

did he think himself a coward when the day came to night after the raid? did he struggle to even put on the pendragon cape? did older knights creep behind him and try to remind him that this was his father's mission? did they speak to him with false sympathy as they told him that this was all for the good and safety of camelot?

so yeah that raid was something uther placed into the hands of an inexperienced child (reminder that he only turned 20/21 in s1 so he definitely led the raid in his teens) as a way to see if arthur would do what it took to prove himself worthy for his father.

[odinsblog]

!!!

[rainyraisin]

The most I've wrote of Reticent in the past couple of days is some Mikey and Raph banter I wrote whilst at the cinema which I only stopped writing cause some kids around my age sat behind me and I got scared

Being a writer is so great!!!!

[lwieserce]

Excited to have the most peasantcore neuvilette on eu server........

[sugardaddyjohnwinchester]

Sooooo anybody got any fic recs for preseries Sam seducing John?

[primojade]

HDJSHWKWHW IM CRYING SHAKING FEARING FOR MY LIFE RN OMFG I HOPE WHAT HAPPENED IS JUST A NIGHTMARE IN REALITY JSJAHW IM GOING INSANE—

Soooo my professor in taxation caught me playing genshin impact in the library when i was on duty as a library assistant today 😂🗿 i was in the middle of obliterating the dendro chicken for tighnari and collei mats when i didnt noticed her peering over my shoulder to see what im grinning like an idiot for ig.

Then she said "nice damage" TO ME I FELT MY SOUL LITERALLY JUMP FROM MY BODY WHEN SHE SHOWED ME HER GENSHIN ACCOUNT LMAOOO Maam was literally whaling with c6 archons and even 5 star weapons im crying internally when she was asking me if we could become friends in game... like ofc i cant refuse what if she called me during recitation in taxation idk what im doing there frfr 🤡🤡

Now in fearing a time she would catch me playing genshin at 2 am—

[surprisebitch]

we did it joe

[evilkitten3]

i don't usually care about other people's relationships, but i hope the people who live underneath me break up and never see anyone else ever again

[glompcat]

One of the amusing things that has resulted from the whole Max bs is they have every single episode of HGTV featuring queer couples in their Pride section, and wow but it really highlights how an entire network devoted to nothing but home repair shows very very very very very very very very very rarely shows (cis only so far in my viewing) queer people doing things like shopping for a home or improving the one they already have.

[muirneach]

so we’re getting budget cuts to the ttc and the fares are going up and we still don’t have the new ltr that they’ve been promising for like a decade. or literally anything else. also they reduced a bunch of bus lines earlier in the year and haven’t fixed them. alright!