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[beeapocalypse]

oh my god he just CANNOT catch a break

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

Today, when I went to the temple, I wore Vans and mismatched socks. And do you know what the temple workers said to me? "Welcome to the House of the Lord".

Today, when I went to the temple, my dress was covered in wrinkles. And do you know what they said to me? "Thank you for being here."

Today, when I went to the temple, my hair was a frizzy disaster, and I was more lost than a blind cow in a corn maze. And do you know what they said to me? "Where are you trying to go? Here's how to get there, let me show you."

Today, when I went to the temple, I sat in the chapel and messed with my all-white fidget cube, tense and nervous. And do you know what the person sitting next to me said? "That's so cool! I want one of those!"

Today, when I went to the temple, I turned to the veil worker and said, "I'm gonna need that paper; I don't know what I'm doing." and do you know what she said? Well, she didn't say anything. But she held up the paper so I could see, pointing out line by line so I didn't feel bad about messing it up.

Today, when I went to the temple, I sat in the celestial room and cried. Big heaving sobs, not even cute little "single tear streaming down face." And you know what the girl next to me said? "I just wanted to let you know, I think that you're beautiful."

Today, when I went to the temple, I didn't do so for fun. I did so because I desperately needed to. Living out of moving boxes, I threw on a dress and left straightaway, right from work. I'm a newbie at the temple. I don't know what I'm doing. And at every turn in the temple, there were opportunities for people to point that out -- to make me feel stupid or like I wasn't respecting the Lord or like I didn't belong there. But at every turn, there were people there supporting me. Worshipping with me. Helping me to feel His presence.

I don't know if the church is true. But I do know that the people are true. There are good people there.

[creatively-cosmic]

I pray, despite how I've wronged you, I am not beyond forgiveness.

Is it selfish to wish I could try again?

Is it true that our accursed blood is stronger than water?

Do you still hold any love for me in your heart?

I hope you hear me when I tell you I am sorry.

[freaky-flawless]

When it comes to the whole "object heels" thing, my opinion is basically that sometimes they're clever and cool, and sometimes they're a little too on the nose where they just come across as kinda corny (and downright ugly in some cases)

Overall though, I think the designers at Mattel are over-relying on them right now for Skullector dolls, to the point where they're not really exciting. You can design really cool shoes without defaulting to just slapping an overly complicated shape as a heel and calling it a day. Gen 1, and even Gen 3, have plenty of examples.

[bericas]

cross my heart and hope to die, taking this one step at a time...

[phantom-rats]

back on my claptrap bullshit

[vhvrs]

gotron yaoi.......... high odds

[crystalpallette]

arle if you want to get re-elected stuco president you can't admit you beat up on your twin sister once many times never like that

[javierduffy]

nothing, just thinking about how javier is so coyote-coded and low honor arthur is represented by a coyote …

[rad-roche]

thinking about a very sweet comment i got at the end of dead man talking from somebody, then a week later getting another comment from them at the end of dead woman walking that said YOU'VE RUINED MY DAY. that's what it's all about bebby

[dawnbrigayde]

shuffling back onto my soap box with more mefau+talulah observations. hear me out on this one:

faust is the daughter and mephisto is the pawn.

(please note this statement does not coincide with how much she values each of them but more how each of them came to be influenced and used by talulah and later kashchey. she still desperately wanted them to be her family, and she wanted them to live.)

if we examine how faust and mephisto were each influenced by talulah as essentially their primary guardian and confidant after they joined reunion, we can see clear parallels in what parts of her get through to them and what parts of her as a person they end up understanding, and each of those correspond to a part of how kashchey raised talulah in turn.

kashchey set talulah up as his heir and thus instilled in her values and beliefs with his words and lessons, in whiich even her rejection of them characterised her. but he also used her as his pawn to his own ends by having her go and do his dirty work sending her on assassination missions, and later using reunion to attempt to spark a war for the benefit of ursus.

FIRST CASE. FAUST.

faust and talulah are fundamentally similar people in terms of heart; the kind who stand up for others, the kind who want to punish people for doing wrong, the kind who value and communicate what they mean through words and try to understand others in turn, the kind that carry far too many expectations and burdens and do not confide in anyone until it is tooo late.

they both willingly infected themselves, willingly submitting themselves to what they perceive as a "rotten life" to escape what came before, to be able to be like and fight for those near them who are suffering, but who they ultimately cannot help they way they want to and know how to.

therefore, faust is someone talulah both as the fighter and the black snake could easily impress her values upon with words.

the black snake even dismisses the both of them similarly...

SECOND CASE. MEPHISTO.

...while mephisto resembles her most in her lack of a concrete sense of self, not being able to be fostered before cruelty got their hands on them. built, then, upon bluster in a role not meant for them. both feel the immediate need to nullify temporary pain and suffering despite the fact it will harm, if not ruin them and everyone around them in the long term.

he has little interest in understanding morals or ideals or other people. he only wants to appease the people he trusts, and therefore gain value in obedience, being (loved?) valued in the only way he understands how. mephisto is the exact kind of person kashchey told talulah she will never get through to with her ideals alone, and she fails to do so even after alina warns her.

he is without self-esteem, with emotions and thoughts he does not properly dissect and scrutinise from his habit of running from pain and discomfort, and craves her attention, direction. he takes words and commands and executes them as he sees fit and appropriate, which is often cruelly, because he only understands appeasement and violence. he is the exact kind of person who would desperately want to be used by someone like her.

faust is the daughter. mephisto is the pawn.

[eggedsalad-noircat]

TEN OUTTA TEN OUTTA TEN!

(original image reference under the cut)

[sage-basil]

the sage

[ejsuperstar]

Going "That's my friend :)))" whenever there's something about a friend that I don't understand entirely makes life a hell of a lot easier

Don't understand something? Doesn't matter that is my friend :)))))

[todayisafridaynight]

whatever //blasts your old man with the butch beam//

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Thinking too long about Always Sunny always has me feeling like a Lovecraftian protagonist who has seen the incommunicable horrors (or wonders) beyond human comprehension and has succumbed to the eyes of madness, so I must occasionally wall off that part of my mind to hold back the floodgates of thoughts for the show, lest the last slivers of my sanity slip away, but it's like trying to nail a single board or place a single piece of tape over the door to an entire universe that keeps trying to pull you back in with some kind of black hole gravitational force when the whole time all anyone else sees is a simple locked door marked "pirate."