#I'm usually an optimistic

[smoulderingocean]

June putting Nick on a pedestal and seeing him only through her "love glasses" was never a fair thing to do to him. Because eventually he was going to have to say 'no' to her and to do something against her wishes or morals in order to survive. He is always going to be a flawed, messy human surviving in a fucked up world. To make her love conditional upon his perceived perfection as a completely selfless ray of light that never had to abide by the realities of Gilead was just impossibly unfair. It is not possible for any human to live like that, especially so someone trying to survive in Gilead where difficult choices have to be made all the time.

In comparison, Nick loves all of June. All the ugly, horrible, messy parts. The parts that she might not like about herself or that frighten her. The parts that he doesn't like and that hurt him. That makes up who June is and Nick loves that and her completely. Nick's big issue is that June is the complete centre of his life, the only good thing, the only force that drives him anymore because he clings so tightly to her as he's so afraid of it disappearing. That's unhealthy and unfair to both of them as it pressures her a lot and results in him giving and giving and giving. It's just not sustainable at all. No one can keep giving forever without receiving in return. No one can be someone's centre of their life forever and have that be healthy for either of them.

June loves Nick, but she doesn't love him in the way he deserves- not yet. I think that this will be part of June's journey this season where she learns to love selflessly and not selfishly as she currently does and that she will love Nick as the whole person he is; good and bad, pure and messy, simple and complicated.

Nick loves June, but he doesn't love himself at all. He doesn't even like himself other than his love for June and even then he doesn't like how it makes him act sometimes, and yet he gives and gives and gives because he's so afraid of losing her like he's lost everyone else in his life. His entire purpose is all about June at this point and without her, first he's going to crash and then he's going to build back stronger, finding strength within himself and purpose outside of June.

In the end I truly believe Osblaine will become a much stronger couple and June and Nick much stronger people as a result of the growth we shall see them both go through. It's always darkest before the dawn and right now it's just before the dawn. We will get to that hopeful place and it will be real and raw and beautiful.

[mayapapaya33]

"Woke Marxist Pope" aka a never trump-republican who's not a complete monster and who actually listened to the inconvenient Jesus-y parts of the bible where he talks about compassion for the poor and kindness for your neighbors or whatever and so wants people to stop treating immigrants like shit lol. Even his apparently iffy history with lgbt stuff and being pro-life isn't good enough for the rabid maga fanatics. The republican party is just a full on clown car honestly.

Hopefully he follows in Pope Francis' footsteps of at the very least being meh/ok-ish on lgbt stuff and other progressive social issues in a tolerant and humanity loving, "hate the sin love the sinner" "I like to think of hell as empty, I hope it is" kind of way. Not great, but not the worst we could have gotten by a long shot, viewing the catholic church pragmatically. I was worried the church was going to swing hardcore conservative after Pope Francis. Apparently Pope Francis liked this guy so that's a good sign. And if they can use his dual citizenship to help bridge the gap between the Americas that would be great.

[flamingoinkart]

i don't mind the varying art styles at all, it would be fun to have like a warioware-esque game where each mini game has it's own style. my own worry is that the minigames won't have the usual zaniness of previous games

[kikker-oma]

Guess who miscounted their open tabs of fics to draw for? And then didn't realize until I got to the last 3 sketches? 😀

I'm happy (and begrudged lol) to announce there will now be 32 days to Fan Joy July🥴🥴

Pray for my sanity hahaha

[icywhip]

Also I hope I don't come across as...stand-offish often. I'm a very easily overwhelmed person so I don't tend to really mingle around in fandom spaces as much these days! I hardly go into the tags either...just post and then watch youtube videos and chat with friends until it's time to sleep!

[misc-obeyme]

Happy New Year!

To all my amazing followers, mutuals, and friends~

I wish you all a lovely time to come in this new year. Whether or not the last one was kind to you, may this new one bring you some peace. I personally am ready to move on into a new phase, hit the reset button on a few areas of my life, and get back into the things that bring me the most joy.

If you like, I would love for you to share with me some things from this past year that you're proud of or that really touched you. Leave me links to fics or fanart or just pop in to the ask box to tell me about a moment that mattered. It doesn't have to be Obey Me related, it's all whatever you want.

I truly appreciate every single person who has been on this journey with me. Whether you just followed me today or you've been following me since I posted my first fic, I am grateful for you and I love you.

No matter what, you are worthy, you are enough, and you deserve love. Please never forget that, even if this new year turns out to be less than ideal. I'm proud of you for surviving every day.

Now let's all hope that the end of Nightbringer season two doesn't start 2024 by making us all suffer! It's okay, I'm not gonna jinx it because I think it's already too late lol.

[arctic-hands]

My parents make better friends than they ever did spouses and like that was painfully obvious to me at age ten to the point I was pleading with god during my christian years by saying "I know divorce is a sin but I'll take the punishment if you let them divorce" but for whatever fucking reason they thought it was better for me to wait until I was eighteen to split and then they marvel at how all my romantic options just end up being friends and how lonely I am romantically

[buckybarnesss]

dragon age origins is one of my favorite games but it was released 15 years ago. gaming trends and development have moved on and some y'all need to too.

[beanghostprincess]

Imma be honest after VLD fiasco seeing any actor with ship content gives me aneurysm.

I want anon to know It’s to get engagement and new fans. It’s fun but don’t look too much into this/genuine

Don't mention Voltron to me I'll have war flashbacks 😭

[aphelea]

somehow i feel like reading this book as someone who is very very far from being a keefe fan made it easier

[elizabeth-mitchells]

going dress shopping tomorrow. wish me "not hating my body" luck <3

[sergeifyodorov]

what do you think of willy at center?

I don't hate it but I don't love it either... most of my thoughts are "eh, could work" but frankly one of our two notable star wingers' skillsets more classically befit a centre and it's not Willy

[behold-the-daybreak]

finishing off season five and i have many many many thoughts about the last two episodes

[navree]

They could still cast black/mixed race actors for the Conquerors. The conquerors operating under Valyrian supremacy to colonize Westeros is hardly a dealbreaker. The show cast a black man as Alyn Velaryon who was the right hand man for Daeron the Young Dragon (a half Velaryon) in their second colonization of Dorne. In the book, Corlys was echoing Rhaenyra’s racist insults towards a black girl, Nettles, but in the show Corlys is black (and Nettles is probably erased).

I doubt they will because HBO is a real company run by real people who live in the real world who have shown no interest whatsoever in actual telling Black stories, employing Black creators, or actually allowing Black actors to lead major franchises (out of Zaslav's ten thousand tax writeoff movie cancellations, it's not surprising that the first was a superhero movie where the main character was going to be portrayed by a Black actress), let alone making Black people the face of one of your most popular brands. Thus I have very little faith that they're going to take the Conquerors' Velaryon heritage into account and actually have them be biracial. It's likely not gonna happen because the entertainment business is not nearly as progressive as Fox News thinks it is, which you can tell because, with the Velaryon intermarriage with House Targaryen, Viserys and Daemon and even Rhaenyra should be somewhat mixed/clearly not white as well. But they're not. Because our leads can't be Black, just a badly written side characters who vary from inconsistently written but around to present for about one episode before dying to literally lamp posts throughout all of season 1 who could have been played by sticking a wig on a mop (Baela and Rhaena got NO season 1 characterization! it's insane!). As to your other shitmillion points that are all kinda dumb:

It is absolutely an optics failure to have power hungry Black people commit what some might view as atrocities against an all white population in order to subjugate that white population under their rule, as well as making them sexually degenerate to the point where all white religions are rising up against them and their unholy abomination of incest. It's a bad look, and even if you're David Zaslav and co and you're assholes who don't actually care about the messages your creativity sends, you're not gonna invite that firestorm of controversy anywhere near one of your few profitable franchises.

This show is ending after four seasons. It's covering the Dance. It's absolutely not going to cover anything as far away as Daeron's conquest of Dorne. That's not why they cast a Black man to play Alyn. They cast a Black man to play Alyn because he's related to Corlys and Corlys is Black, be serious.

Corlys being Black does not preclude him from being an ass about Nettles, even about her being Black, especially if she's not actually a dragonseed and just a girl who was resourceful and lucky and thus proving that Targaryen genes aren't necessarily needed for dragonriding.

Nettles was also absolutely not probably erased because Corlys is now a Black man. Nettles was probably erased because a) the showrunners likely didn't want to set up her relationship with Daemon (even tho it's actually really important to him and his overall story) either because they don't want him cheating on Rhaenyra or because the age gap is creepy b) they don't want to have our nominal protagonist spout racist abuse about a young Black girl, because the show has gone to significant lengths to greatly soften Rhaenyra from her book characterization, as well as not wanting to turn the audience against her c) they decided that as long as they had Rhaena, who wasn't doing anything in the Vale anyway and who is now Black in the show, it's still a Black girl learning how to tame a dragon, it's fine, we're not being racist, no need to understand how erasing Nettles is a problem and Black people aren't interchangeable or even how that fucks with some of the symbolism for Rhaena (Morning being born after the Dance and being named Morning is kinda, like, symbolically significant). It has fuck all to do with Corlys being Black and everything to do with the writing getting lazy.

[gghoulish]

makes me wonder if it's 2024 or 2016, if i'm considering making a whole blog for an oc

anyway i mentioned him a few times not by name but here he is, his name is sai

[slagclaren]

brawn colours???

HE IS SOOOOOOO... i'm under no illusion that this isn't ONE HUNDRED PRECENT on purpose and i know that most likely he is just playing us bc he is so goddamn annoying like that. HOWEVER... OH MY GOD?!?!?!OH MY GOD OMG OMG????