Okay, apparently shutting the fuck up was never an option but the way no one likes to look at the marina situation and go "wow what the fuck is wrong with portia"? Crazy.
Like she immediately didn't like her, not because of anything she'd done, but because she took attention from her daughters no matter how bright she dressed them.
It didn’t matter that the main reason is that, honestly all 3 of her daughters are painfully awkward, and in ones case literally 17. It didn’t matter that Marina was only there at her fathers instance, or that theoretically through having someone thats clearly popular in her home she could have used it as a jump off mark to match her daughters, she was seen as her big hurdle to marrying them off. Marinas immediately othered, to the point that when shes being dressed the maids helping put on her shoes is enough to piss Portia off. She immediately puts Marina in the same ring as her daughters, fight for my attention and maybe maybe it'll be positive. But Marina doesn't do that because she doesn't want to even be there.
And then they find out she's pregnant and shes othered even more. She immediately tries to send her back, and when she's not allowed to do that shes locked away and the other girls aren't even allowed to talk to her. She literally tries to freeze her out, like Marina has any say in being there in the first place, before lying to her about her being abandoned by George.
She makes no attempt to find out if George has family, she doesn't care enough to try even though that would have been a way to get rid of her "problem". She tries to push Marina onto a man old enough to be her grandfather and slaps her across the fucking face when she tries to stand up for herself.
Theres no concern for her safety, for the babys safety, just getting her out of her house as fast as fucking possible, and I'm meant to be surprised that when Colin saves Marina from her elderly suitor she turns her attention to him?
Like the nicest guy, who everyone likes, who's attractive, who isn't multiple decades older than her and most importantly not going to literally assault her? Yeah not a big shocker. Should she have lied to him? No, but she wouldn't have had to or felt the need to if she wasn't in the most hostile fucking house. Even Penelope, who she likes, why does everyone forget that she fucking likes Penelope and viewed her as a friend, becomes aggressive towards her. Shes cornered, shes scared, and all of this could have been avoided if Portia was a slightly better person and said "hey soilder boys not written back, you're gonna have this kid, does he have any family?" instead of setting this entire mess in motion.
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Everyone thinks that spider people who joined Gwen in the end of the movie all decided then and there, I think it was that they weren't happy in Spider Society for a long time - you can clearly see that a lot of them weren't fitting in and even Jessica who's still on Miguel's side isn't happy - and then the things that happened in ATSV were the last straw and they didn't want to be a part of that team anymore so they joined another one.
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WIP wednesday
I was tagged by @lunar-gl1tch and I write so sporadically and rarely finish anything anymore but you know what? Sure why not
With the obvious disclaimer that I have no idea if this will ever get finished, here is what I've been working on:
A familiar voice whispered, not quite in his ear, but very close, “Interesting conversation?”
Heinrix didn’t flinch, even though Vesalius had actually managed, somehow, to catch him by surprise. “It’s been illuminating.”
If he hadn’t known any better, he might think the other man had used his biomancy to either mask his own presence or dull Heinrix’s senses, or both. Vesalius wasn’t usually inclined towards such mischief, but a quick glance at him and the upward twitch of his lip told Heinrix that that was exactly what he had done.
“You know, I appreciate everything you do, but it is a party. You’re allowed to relax.”
“They call it the unsleeping eye of the Inquisition for a reason.”
“Which is why I was able to sneak up on you, I’m sure,” Vesalius teased. “You seem distracted tonight.”
Fighting down something that felt suspiciously close to guilt, Heinrix finally turned towards him and got a good look at him for the first time all night.
He was wearing a finely embroidered green vest over a black shirt with billowing sleeves. It made his already unusually pale skin look nearly bone white and brought the green out in eyes Heinrix had previously thought were brown. Someone -- probably the same person who had managed to wrangle him into that outfit -- had gone after his hair with equal ruthlessness, because his red curls were arranged with a sort of deliberately mussed but stylish air that the man had never voluntarily inflicted on himself in the time Heinrix had known him. Even the metal of his jaw looked as though it’d been given a good polish.
Vesalius’s eyes widened slightly and Heinrix realized that he had been staring and glanced away.
“Alright,” Vesalius said. “You can tell me. How bad is it?”
Heinrix stared at a fixed point on the far wall behind Vesalius. “It’s-- you don’t-- you look fine.”
Vesalius was quiet for a long moment before visibly relaxing and saying, “Well, that’s a relief. To be honest, I feel like I’m at a masquerade ball.”
Heinrix looked at the people around them, most of whom were up to some scheme or another -- and those were just the ones he knew of. “I don't think you're too far off.”
“Maybe not,” Vesalius said with a laugh, “but I still feel very out of place.”
“You deserve to be here as much as anyone else does.”
“After talking to a few of these nobles, that almost sounds like an insult.”
Heinrix smiled before he could stop himself. “I didn’t mean for it to be.”
I just think......... I should have been able to romance him....... in my first playthrough. I just think Vesalius and Heinrix are perfect for each other..... OWLCAT............. *hiding a baseball bat behind my back* I JUST WANT TO TALK
And I tag whoever feels like doing this, I'm not sure who all is currently writing and don't want to put anyone on the spot
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How is it possible to be this tone deaf?
Just say “We tried our best, wasn’t good enough today we will continue to try and fix these issues. We are sorry to those it affected ”?
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Listen to me, listen to me
If someone comes up to you, bouncing with excitement about an idea, but as they're explaining it to you, you realize the idea isn't feasible to achieve, DO NOT just pop this person's excitement bubble and walk away
You gently, tactfully, kindly point out the holes in their idea. Then offer solutions and/or get them to start brainstorming on how to make the idea feasible. At the very least, be encouraging
It sucks ass to be on the receiving end of someone popping your excitement bubble and leaving you totally deflated. And nothing will stop me from coming to you with things I'm excited about faster than it
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