#For putting up with the peasants

[boombambaby]

He might be. Maybe. He would be thrilled to hear her ask who he is, heh. For as much as he balances her serious, responsible personality out, she balances him out as well. Sure Malina can be a little. . . uptight, but she's also shown him the importance of taking himself more seriously, and making a conscious effort to treat others the way he'd like to be treated. It's a big step from the way he used to live his life. He and the kingdom! has her to thank for that. 'For the time being'. Hopefully, that'll change soon to forever, but. He'll take the 'time being' for now. Kuzco is too busy watching her with a lovestruck grin, drinking in the sight of her in the Empress robes for the last time (at least tonight, ahem) to catch what she initially says before she's striding across the room to meet him. When it does finally register he snorts, playfully rolling his eyes. "Forgive me, your Highness-- I wouldn't have wanted to seem insubordin--" He doesn't get a chance to finish before she kisses him, and he chuckles against her lips as he all but melts into it. 'Yes! Good touchy.' Servants, maids or the council-- who cares. They could be standing right next to them, and he wouldn't even flinch. Kuzco lets his eyes slip closed as his hands cradle the back of her head, content with letting her control the kiss for the time being, and thoroughly enjoying his reward. If he doesn't leave soon, he might never leave; and as he tugs her closer against his chest, he struggles to remember why exactly that would be a problem in the first place.

Aww, is Kuzco still jealous? He doesn't need to anymore, she's staring to babble often at him too. Who's that Ramon again? As much as she likes to take care of others, she admits Kuzco's right. Taking care of oneself is not a crime sometimes. She's so grateful towards him for helping her see life in another perspective. Less stressy, more relaxy. Kuzco balances out Malina's responsible, kind of serious personality by making her learn there's some fun in life too. Malina blinks at the way he regarded her as she remembers that the day's not over. Maybe all that work made her lose track of time. Her lips curl into another smug grin as she removes one of her hands from his but still holds it with her other one.

This is the one time she has wanted him to be selfish and gave him the opportunity and he rejects it. Now that makes her lov-like him just a bit more.

"Ok then, sweetie. Then I shall remain your Empress for the time being". Malina grins back while he kisses the back of her hand, making her heart skip several beats as she tries not to blush. She drops her hand once he lets go and her eyes follow him until he stops at the door. Important servant things. Hah, alright alright, she ought to dismiss him so he can rest, however, she won't let him go before he gets a reward himself. which he must know what it is.

"What, you're leaving before giving your Empress a goodnight kiss? What kind of servant are you?" She states and walks again towards him. And without caring if there are other servants and maids around, she grabs his jaw with both hands and brings his lips to hers, she sighs happily before being the one this time to deepen the kiss.

[thatgaywizardoverthere]

Arthur keeping tabs on Merlin day 1 so they can “accidentally” run into each other at the market

[lafragolina]

just kill me

[transthadymacdermot]

Girls who say "prepare to meet thy god"

[hauntingofhouses]

i tried watching the netflix a:tla live action and got so frustrated that i could only make it through 1 episode before i decided "fuck this" and started rewatching the cartoon from the first episode

anyway that led to me writing this in my notes app while half-asleep in bed last night

[macroglossus]

took the entire month of august, two and a half bags of gf flour (over thirty dollars. of flour), about five accidental attempts at mass familial poisoning (kept making treats with the discard blissfully unaware that it wasn't actually colonized by yeast yet at all but by other less yummy bacteria [which is why the entire concoction smelled evil]), and several days of cosleeping with the jar (somehow miraculously didn't spill all over the couch/crush it) but my sourdough starter is FINALLY off the ground and healthy and making genuinely sour ass yummy bread. took four times the amount of time and significantly more resources than i expected but i put a little pink bow on her and she's so cute now that i forgive her

[soyboywenzie]

for all the parroting about loving evil characters and wishing they were worse and hating the morality argument, team green does not like the fact that their favs aren’t well liked, nor cared about that much 😗

[babsaros]

went to a real dispensary and got real weed like a big kid today

[cosmic-navel-gazin]

“Rumata felt a strange sense of painful ambivalence. He knew that he was right, yet in some strange way, this rightness lowered him before Arata. Arata was clearly somehow superior to him— and not only to him but to all those who had come to this planet uninvited and who, full of helpless pity, watched the tumultuous bustling of its life from the rarefied heights of dry hypotheses and alien morality. And for the first time Rumata thought, There is no gain without a loss. We’re infinitely stronger than Arata in our kingdom of good and infinitely weaker than Arata in his kingdom of evil.”

— Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Hard to be a God    

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

so now you're stuck with this lame loser of a liege lord because how the fuck do you explain that after a peach garden oath?

[kimmkitsuragi]

5mb file size limit is ridiculous

[teaboot]

Kinda gotta admire the tiktok instagram cottagecore tradwife hoes a little bit.

Like. THEY know that the perfect pretty obedient natural-makeup gently-coiffed rural June Cleaver, barefoot-and-pregnant in a sweet little peasant dress, baking fresh bread24-7 housewife doesn't exist.

They KNOW she doesn't exist. They know she CAN'T exist- that nobody can maintain that façade without burning out eventually-

but they also know that the political divide between men and women is deeper than ever in North America, that men as a demographic are getting increasingly angry and conservative and lonely (fuck off terfs and radfems i can sense your bioessentialism coming), and that women aren't legally beholden to them anymore.

This is one of the first generations in North America where women aren't entirely reliant on finding a husband and keeping him happy to survive, to hold a bank account or live apart from their parents, and so what men are dealing with is several hundred years of being told that REAL men have hot fuckable agreeable wives and...a present reality where nobody is lining up to apply for that position.

So what these shills have done- and they ARE shills- is that they've seen that divide, that niche that isn't being filled, that role that's so unpleasant but so desired- and they've constructed a caricature for profit.

Women aren't naturally more gentle, or parental, or submissive. Women aren't naturally, effortlessly smooth and soft and hairless and desiring of simple tasks to fill their time and a big, strong provider to protect them.

But generations of marketing and media have told us it's POSSIBLE, if not for those pesky man-hating feminist libs and their oversensitive woke culture lashing out at Normal Folks for no good reason.

Like- they're selling themselves, the characters they're playing, as an IMAGE, as a FANTASY, and they rely on people BELIEVING in that fantasy to keep the money rolling in.

The people who buy into it sincerely, the women who give up their degrees and careers and financial freedom for this "simple, peaceful life" we ALL desire in some form, away from stress and technology and horrible things on the news... only to get trapped with six children and a partner with all the power who could up and strand them at any moment... they're just collateral.

Like, "Shame it didn't work out for you, have you tried losing weight and trying harder? Maybe some extra Adult Time? He wouldn't have to chase someone younger and prettier if you'd just take care of yourself and put out more."

I on't hate this faux-humble faux-simple wannabe-amish bullshit just because I grew up rural and know it's fucking stupid, hard work and blood and shit and cow piss and placement in the rain kinda crap.

I ALSO hate it because these women are straight-up class traitors, selling off not just their own image as people, but everyone else's, just to make some paper on a grift.

You know Marie Antoinette used to wear sweet little milkmaid-style dresses and play with lambs in the field, just like the poors?

Never mind that she OWNED the land, and the field, and the people, the cute little frocks, and didn't help the sheep birth, or bury the dead premies, or slaughter for meat, or fight off wolves and dogs, ferrets and foxes and rats with a stick in the winter.

It was just fashionable to pretend.

Sweet and coquettish and Quaint.

THAT is why I hate that shit, and THAT is why I give a fuck.

[noodles-07]

god people have always been people. victorian noblewomen stubbed their toes and swore about it. medieval peasants ripped hangnails a little too hard and sucked on it to make it better. cavemen put kids on their shoulders so the kids could get their handprints up on the wall. someone in the 1760s played with their dog and someone in the 1340s dragged themself out of bed at some unholy hour of the morning to soothe a crying baby and someone in the 1550s stuck a flower behind their lovers ear. I'm gonna be sick people have always been people

[mantisgodsdomain]

Feudal-Industrial peasant?

Yeah we think it's pretty self-explanatory.

[redwolf17]

*whispers* except what Edmure does is literally just how feudalism is supposed to work but GRRM is weird and inconsistent with how he writes it

edmure tully visited harrenhal as a kid and found the writings of aemond karl marx targaryen and thats why he grew up to be a socialist king who deliberately ruined his cringe monarchist nephews war plans and let the smallfolk have shelter in riverrun

[doctorjennifermelfi]

today one of my coworkers was like oh you're always so jolly and merry and smiley how do you do it and even though my hands were full of halloween crap from the flying tiger €1 closing down sale i still managed to surreptitiously do the mano cornuta to ward off the evil eye