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guy who's tired of being lonely but is also SICK of dating apps
#add in having no social life whatsoever#its super cool guys.#the last time i met up with friends (not counting seeing my brother and his gf at thanksgiving was) drumroll#OCTOBER FIRST#no wonder im fuckin nuts.#i have work friends but thats it#anyways. this is fun
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✨️MESMER PROPAGANDA!!✨️
Daily enrichment for Fedsy (On his way to flirt with and manipulate the workers of New Kaineng so they will let him try a sip of the tasty green liquid in the power plant core 😫)
#shitposting in my descriptions? ME?#i er. actually have no context for this whatsoever it is a redraw of an old scribble which took on a life of its own#he does this when he wants to change things up. in regards to how he feels#OR if someone like kynwyl is attending a fancy party and he feels like playing socially.#its the only way he copes with social situations or people he REALLY doesnt like or cant be bothered with. tiny social experiment lol#little shit IS a manipulator even if its 'justified' (directed at someone whos an ass) most of the time. it probably has consequences.#he does not care.#it was worth it 2 him#silvsart#oc:fedsy#gw2#sylvari#gw2 art#i feel so cringe if i add more tags. i forgot what i used to do?? lol??
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teeth: yang jungwon
| brought the heat back series: one / two
| pairing: yang jungwon x reader
| warnings: blood, swearing, alcohol, manipulation, murder, toxic behaviour, smut, angst, minors dni
| spotify playlist 🎧 (recommend listening to it while reading)
| word count: 3.0k
Bored. Boredom. The most annoying feeling in the human world. That's what Jungwon was and staring at the ceiling to find any ideas of what to do didn't help at all.
His brothers left him all alone, and there was nothing better he could do. Looking at the clock, Jungwon realized it was two o'clock in the afternoon. Barely even afternoon, he thought for himself. Playing games? Already did that for 2 hours. Reading? Not gonna happen. Blood?
He was hungry. Fucking hungry, but not in the mood for an easy prey. Something that implied winning and losing. He wanted to play a game. That's when Jungwon smirked and analysed of the idea. Not an easy game, but one when he always wins.
He had time on his side and that's a given. So why not embrace the mundane world for once. Just as Heeseung said. "Have some fun for once, brother."
Jungwon has been always so uptight when it came to having fun. Being a leader made him that way. He never understood it, nor he liked it that much. But if he was gonna live like this, such a boring life, he might as well drive a stake through his heart and end his life.
He thought of doing the most human thing possible, which never came easily to him. Throw a party, duh. See a pretty girl and approach her. Let the rest be for the time to tell.
That's it. That was the plan. The only thing he had to do was not to screw it up. Or else he would be hungry for tonight, which did not seem good whatsoever. Calling people who knew and telling them to bring more than the traditional plus one. It was gonna be a big party to fill this empty house. But he doesn't do parties like his brothers. Glamour. Luxury. Expensive shit. That's what he has always aimed for.
And invite all his friends or even the friends friends. He didn't gave a shit anymore who came or who didn't, but knew that he had to start soon. Calling the people who either he talked to or his brothers did. He wanted everyone to be there. Every fucking one.
In no time, the mansion was dimly lit by flickering candelabras lining the marble corridors. The walls were adorned with dark, richly colored tapestries and velvet drapes, deep burgundies and midnight blacks setting a moody tone. Intricate chandeliers of wrought iron hang above, casting eerie, shadowy patterns across the room. The guests draped in sleek, formal attire, whisper as they move through the expansive space, sipping on blood-red wine from crystal goblets.
In the grand ballroom, the polished black marble floor gleams faintly under the soft light. A haunting, classical melody fills the air, played by a string quartet seated in a corner, their faces obscured by shadow. The soft clink of silver trays held by ghostly pale attendants adds to the ambient sound, and a scent of rich incense lingers in the atmosphere. The ceiling above is high and vaulted, painted with dark, celestial imagery that seems almost alive in the low light.
The air inside feels cool, almost too cool, as if touched by something otherworldly. It’s a night of luxury, power, and intrigue — an elegant celebration with a shadow of something darker lurking just beneath the surface.
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Sooner than expected, people he barely talked to or knew about him were entering the house. He wasn't a stranger of the social relationships but definetly not a professionist. But none seemed right. To bite. To taste.
Something was missing. Or someone was missing.
Enter: you.
Dressed in a short black sleek dress that hugged your curves just right. The dress also having a lace detailing along the neckline, adding a delicate, sensual tach to the outfit with a pair of black stilletos that had a black leather finish. Along with some long black gloves that reach above your elbows that give you an elegant yet mysterious vibe. Holding onto a small black satin clutch on one hand and the glass filled with red wine in another, you make eye contact with Jungwon.
He had on a black button-up cardigan that fits close to the body, giving the look a sleek, tailored feel. Underneath, Jungwon wears a light blue shirt with an exaggerated, wide collar that contrasts sharply with the darker cardigan, adding a retro yet refined touch to the ensemble. The shirt collar peeking out, along with a pair of dark brown pants. No wonder why he stood out from the rest of the crowd.
"Who's that?" You turn to your best friend to ask her, confused, about Jungwon, that has been eyeing you out ever since you entered the mansion.
"Jungwon. He has history with us." Taking a look at Jungwon, obviously checking him out before answering the question, your best friend clears the air for you. "And he has been eyeing you out in the lectures." She points out to you knowing how much you hated when she points that out.
"He doesn't. You're overreacting." You say pushing your best friends shoulder playfully not believing her for a moment as you made eye contact with Jungwon that has been staring at you ever since you entered the mansion.
"And he's now coming into our direction." Your best friend comments as soon as she sees him approaching the two of you holding two glasses of champagne.
Turning around to answer her, you're met with sole silence. Of course she left you. Alone. Knowing that you needed some confidence so you drank the wine from the glass you were given at the reception. That's when you're met with a pair of dark brown eyes.
"Thought you'd be thristy, princess." Jungwon smiles as he hands you the glass of champagne designated for you. He looks down at the floor grinning as he then looks back at you, taking a sip from the glass he was holding.
Princess?
Princess.
Did he just call you a princess?
"I....." You reply not expecting him to call you that. Without having any idea what to answer you say awkwardly, taking another sip of the drink he had given you. "Thanks."
"I didn't think I'd see you here." Junwgon continues in a teasing voice, checking you out from head to toe. Taking in every detail he probably never saw before. He takes one final sip from the champgane before settling it on a waiters tray.
"Neither did i, yet i'm here." You give him a shy smile before looking around not sure exactly what to say. You didn't expect him to go directly to talk to you as soon as he saw you. But you couldn't say that you were complaining.
"Well i hope you enjoy your time here." Jungwon says in a whisper before turning around not wanting to pry and overwelm you anyhow.
And so you did.
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You found yoursef outside the expansive terrace, perched high overlooking a vast landscape with sleek glass railings offering an uninterrupted view. The night is crisp, with a light breeze carrying the scent of distant rain and the coolness of the evening air. The sky is a deep navy, speckled with stars, and the moon casts a soft, silvery glow over the scene, illuminating the terrace in a subtle, ethereal light.
The terrace itself is paved with smooth stone, perhaps marble or polished granite, with a few strategically placed outdoor heaters radiating warmth into the cool air. The clink of glass against glass adds a subtle rhythm to the night, while the low murmur of the city below, or the distant sound of waves, adds to the peaceful ambiance.
Low, modern fire pits flicker gently at various seating areas, their amber flames casting dancing shadows over the luxurious furniture. Plush sofas and armchairs, draped with soft cashmere blankets in neutral tones, invite guests to sit and savor the night.
Deciding to take a break from the chaos inside the mansion you're met with the presence of Jungwon, who was already sitting down onto the sofa. His legs were partened and from what you could see he was rubbing his temples.
"Running from the party, princess?" Jungwon raises his eyebrow, grinning as he mare eye contact with you. His eyes were red like a ripe apple. He seemed paler than ever, you've never seem him like him. Something was happening to him and you couldn't put your finger on it.
You didn't want to bother him by asking so you let it go. Sitting beside him on the sofa, you laugh a bit and answer him. "Just needed a break from it."
“You know…” Jungwon felt his words trailing off as he wanted to sound as cohesive as possible. "I realized i never told this whole evening that you look beautiful." He smiles not feeling embarassed at all by what he has just said moments ago.
"Thanks." You blush looking at him still surprised that he said that out loud. Princess and now this. He can't be serious. Leaning against the sofa you turn your head around to see what he is doing.
Jungwon suddenly unbuttons his cardigan and hands it to you feeling that you might have gotten cold. Taking the cardigan from him you're met with his cold fingers. Colder than ever. Colder than you have imagined.
Putting it on you decide to look at the view as you then see Jungwon taking out a pack of cigarettes. He didn't strike you as a person that would smoke, but you couldn't deny that he looked breathtaking in the moonlight.
The way his messy hair was falling into his eyes. His eyes lazily open as he looks takes the cigarette from the pack and puts it in his mouth. Lighting it up, you find yourself coming closer to him naturally. Almost. Jungwon takes a drag from the cigarette to be met by your warm body closer to his.
Extending his arm to wrap it around yourself, you lean your head on his shoulder. He wasn't warm, but yet familiar. "Do you believe in fairytales, princess?" Jungwon suddenly asks you breaking the silence that you two had been in for the last minutes.
"No..." You answer him thinking for a moment about the vaguity of the question. "Why would i? After all not all of us can have a life like this." You continue on a mocking tone, not wanting to sound mean to him anyhow. He was born in rich. That was his routine, besides staring you down at the history lectures.
"No need to be mean, princess." Jungwon whispers moving his hand closer to your neck, as he takes another drag of the cigarette. To distract himself. "I just asked you a question." He adds to give you some explanation to his question in the first place.
"But what about the supernatural?" Jungwon continues on the same whispery voice from moments before. He was curious, you could tell. He wanted to know your opinion. Your opinion. You barely talked at university, but you didn't mind talking to him now.
You look at him once more before answering his question, to be met by him blowing the smoke out. Throwing his head back, you find yourself nuzzling your head in his neck seeking his warmth that you were looking for in the night. "Vampires and shit." You say in a whispering, processing what he asked you.
"Who knows. After all everything is possible." You continue, closing your eyes for a moment to process if he was just playing with you or being serious. Maybe vampires existed, but you haven't met any of them. Yet.
If anyone would have asked the same question to your best friend, she would have answered with no hesitation, yes. But who could blame her? After all, everything supernatural might be true, but you couldn't even explain to yourself why. It didn't matter. Even if vampires existed, you for sure weren't a target.
Jungwon makes a bold move and takes your chin making you look up to him. Haven't been drunk before you never took the time to be this close to him. It was new. You liked it. Taking your head off his shoulder you lean in to be met by his soft lips against yours. He tasted bittersweet. Familar. He tasted addicting and you wanted more.
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It didn't take long for you to fall for Jungwons charms. He had his hand around your neck, keeping you in place. Against the wall of his room. Breathing heavily as you were.
His dark brown hair was now messy. The brown cardigan you were wearing before was for long discarted on the floor. His light blue shirt had two buttons undone, making it possible to see his toned chest. The grip he had on your neck was getting tighter as he starts kissing your neck.
You moaned softly closing your eyes enjoying the pleasure his kisses were giving you. It didn't take you long to feel his fangs digging into your skin slowly.
Rough.
Passionate.
Yet desperate.
Blood was dripping from the corner of his lips as he continued to drink your blood. The sweet nectar he longed for.
Sweet.
Delicious.
Leaning your head against the wall as you arched your back, it was giving him more access to your neck. To say the least you couldn't understand what was just happening. But you knew that you didn't want to push him away. He wanted you as much as you wanted him.
Jungwon pulled away from your neck as he then leaned his head on your shoulder breathing heavily. Blood dripping down on the floor. His mouth covered now in the red liquir he wanted for long.
Your blood.
"Fuck..." Jungwon whispers against your neck as you leaned your head against the wall giving him a better look of the bite on your neck. It was tempting to bite you again. To taste you again. He knew he shouldn't. Yet you were tempting him so much.
You were here right now. In his room. At his mercy. He wanted you.
And that's exactly what he did.
Jungwon slid your panties down to your legs, leaving you only with the short dress you had on. He slipped two fingers in his mouth, wetting them before pressing them against your clit. They slid over your bundle of nerves easily with the extra wetness and soon tingles spread through you. He sucked your lower lip into his mouth when his fingers gently slid up and down your slit, scissoring you until each nerve ending in your pussy awakened.
Your breathing became faster, your body becoming tenser. A knot was being tightened dangerously with every stoke from Jungwon's fingers and he was the only one who could release it. He controlled your body, every delicious sensation you experienced. Jungwon gathered the wetness between your folds and spread it all over your clit, circling it. His breathing was becoming faster now too. He never took his eyes off you as he drove you higher. The sensation became overwelming? the knotready to burst. "Yes." Jungwon rumbled, his eyes appearing red in the darkness, like they belonged to the devil you just made a pact with.
He pushed two fingers into you and twisted them. You sucked in a sharp breath, on the edge of falling. Your body screamed for control, your body for release.
With every thrust he twisted his fingers, hitting a delicious point deep within you. Your eyelashes fluttered, wanting to lower and sink even deeper into the sensation but you stayed rooted in the moment. His gaze held yours as he fucked you with deep precise strokes. A moan slipped out, not planned, not forced. It fell from your lips like a sigh of relief.
Your inner walls began tingling like they’d never done before, began spasming and clenching around Jungwon’s fingers. You couldn’t hold back. You cried out, clawing at Jungwon almost frantically. Jungwon pumped his fingers faster, forcing out more moans and cries. You couldn’t stop shaking until finally Jungwon's fingers stopped. They remained inside of you, like Jungwon had wedged himself into your mind, your body, every part of you.
A bulge tented his pants. He brought his fingers, coated in your juices to his mouth and licked them clean with a wicked smile. Your core clenched, wanting more, completely mesmerized by the sensations slowly dimming in your body.
God, he was a sight to see.
The way his hair fell onto his eyes as he looked down on the floor with a grin. His other hand still trapping you between him and the wall. The fingers coated in your juices still in his mouth, licking them clean. The image so perfect, yet so vulgar.
Breathing heavily you leaned your head onto the wall trying to process what has just happened between the two of you. Maybe it was the drunk thoughts. Maybe it was the tension. Maybe it was the feeling inside of you.
It didn't take you long to hear your best friends voice calling for you from downstairs echoed through the room, jotting you awake from the euphoria you have felt moments ago. Not a long after you're met with a ding from your phone with a message from her. She was worried, you could tell.
"I-..." You sighted thining of an excuse to leave the room all together. Using his thumb to clean the blood from the corner of his lips as he finishes your sentence. "Have to go." Jungwon whispered as he looked up to you as he still had you trapped against the wall and hia body.
"Yeah." You whispered in response as you slipped right through the empty space left by his loosen arm. Turning around you take a final glance at Jungwon, whose eyes that seemed to have turned from the fiery red he had before to the light brown eyes you remembered.
That's the last thing you remember before leaving the party.
© V3LV3TSIN ⎯ do not translate, plagiarise or claim any of my works as your own.
#kpop smut#enhypen#enha#enhypen hard hours#enhypen hard thoughts#enhypen drabbles#enhypen x reader#enhypen scenarios#enhypen smut#spotify#yang jungwon x y/n#yang jungwon x you#yang jungwon x reader#yang jungwon#enhypen jungwon#jungwon x y/n#jungwon x you#jungwon x reader#jungwon#enhypen imagines#Spotify
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Culture of the Ghost Zone
SO! This is less of a full on prompt, and more of an opportunity.
I've been in this Fandom for over a year now and over that time I've seen so many little bits or lore and headcanons about the Ghost Zones Culture, but I've never seen a single post put them all together.
So, here I'll try to write down as many as I can think of, and anyone else can add their own Headcanons, or add to whatever I or someone else writes!
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So! My personal Headcanon is that when a Ghost Passes on, it's a thing to be celebrated.
Ghosts are Immortal Beings, holding onto a desire or unfinished business that tethers them to the Mortal Plane. They live, because they are Unfulfilled, unable to accomplish the task that would allow them to Pass on, and be at peace with themselves.
So when a Ghost manages to fulfill their Obsession, manages to Pass On to the After? It's something to CELEBRATE!
Like when a Viking would die, you don't just mourn their death, you celebrate their Life! A Ghosts Passing On is much the same. When one of them manages it, there are parties across the Zone of people who knew them, or people who didn't but still want to celebrate! It's a Joyous thing when someone you know was able to find peace!
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Ghosts socialize through Battle.
Ghosts are Immortal, Superpowered, and Stuck together for Centuries. They are going to fight, and they are going to love the thrill of it!
From the freshest of Newborns to the Oldest of Ancients, All Ghosts love the thrill of Battle. It's one of their defining traits! They have Centuries of nothing to do and energy to burn, and they devote it to the art of Combat!
And it's not just Brawls! Some Ghosts prefer to battle with Swords alone, others with their Fists and no Powers, others with their Powers and no Fists, there are entire communities of Ghosts who have specific Rules, or Customs for Combat!
In one part of the Zone, it may be common to Tackle any Ghost you see and instantly start to fight them, but in another? That would be seen as Rude, you need to throw down your glove in front of them to request a Battle!
Or in another section of the Zone you may be forced to battle without Weapons whatsoever, in another it may be Without Powers whatsoever, or with ONLY Powers!
The Fight Culture stretches far and wide, no two parts of the Zone are exactly the Same
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Art is highly Valued.
Of course not all Ghosts are entirely focused on Battle, and even the ones that are like to focus on something else from time to time. Some of those Ghosts were Artists when they were Alive.
And they continued to make Art in Death. But this Art is Special, with all the Time in the World, a Ghost can spend Decades or even Centuries on their Magnum Opus! It would be their Life's Work, something they dedicated their entire Afterlives to!
So of course, it is respected. Ghosts know better than to ruin or destroy another Ghosts work or Art. Be it a Statue, a Painting, a Song, or a Theater Production.
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I think that's Good for now, what do you think? Anything to add to the points I written down? Any entirely new points to add?
Go ahead!
#Dpxdc#Dp x dc#Dcxdp#Dc x dp#Danny Phantom#Dc#Dcu#I tagged Dpxdc because it is usually where I find the most interesting Cultural Headcanons#Also cause it's where I'm active the most#Ghost Zone#Ghost Zone Culture#Infinite Realms#Infinite Realms Culture#Ghosts celebrate when a Ghost passes on#Ghosts love to fight#Ghosts fight in different ways with different rules#Ghosts love Art#Ghosts respect eachother#Even if they hate eachother
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ok so idk if u do like x reader stuff but if you do, can u do like a Sally face fic or headcannons with Sal and Larry. I wanted to request what it would be like for them to have like a very busy s/o. Like I do marching band and outside of school I do volleyball and lessons for trombone and piano. Along with that I take AP classes and student council which give me more work to do so I feel pretty drained by the end of the day
♡~ Sal and Larry w/ busy S/O HCs ~♡
A/N: Yes, I take requests and do (Character) x reader headcannons! AND I'M SO SORRY IF THIS WASN'T GOOD AND I KNOW LARRY'S PART ISN'T LONG I HOPE YOU CAN FORGIVE ME ANON. ALSO IM SORRY THAT IT TOOK SO LONG, I'VE BEEN REALLY BUSY WITH SCHOOL AND I HAD WRITERS BLOCK FOR LIKE 3 WEEKS 😭🙏
Warnings: None, just pure fluffiness and love. GN!reader.
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♪ Sal Fisher ♪
· HE'S JUST A FKN SWEETHEART 😭😭 · I will say that he is going to make sure to make your life easier no matter what · like doing chores, helping you with projects and assignments, and planning out your week · I don't think many realize this, but he is not the "badass player" people portray him as. 😔 · So, he will make you sit down with him on the weekend and ask how things are going. · And this is with everything. Work, school, family life, your relationship with him, your mental health, etc. · He is serious about it too. 😅 He cares a lot and he doesn't like to see you stressed. · So when you come home tired and worn out, he will not be happy. · he knows it's not your fault and you can't help it "Love, please stop doing this to yourself. You know this isn't good." · Like I said, he loves you 🥰 · istg this man HAS and WILL beg you to take a break · so when you come home, he'll already have a bath ready for you · once you're done taking a bath, he'll make you sit down on the floor in front of the couch so he can brush / comb your hair · and I honestly think he's not the best cook, but he will cook your favorite food no he won't, it's going to be takeout because he failed · your room is already cleaned and he bought you squishmellows to add to your collection · he'll cuddle you to sleep while playing with your hair · definitely the big spoon on nights like this "Relax baby, you need to get sleep. I'll be right here when you wake up, okay?"
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☆ Larry Johnson ☆
· I'ma be fr with you, he would NOT notice at first · Not until Ashley said something but after she brings it to his attention that you need a little bit more attention, he will do exactly that · and istg, he WILL pick you up bridal style and carry you away from whatever you were doing 👀 · If you protest, he will glare at you and ignore it. · Any kind of work you do is "overworking yourself" to him · so beware · Imma be completely honest, this man CANNOT keep up with you · Your ship dynamic is literally "busy mastermind and their assistant who worships them but can't keep up." 😭💞 · larry is the one worshiping you "Look, I know you have a lot going on, so don't try to convince me that you aren't. I might be stupid in school but I'm not stupid with you." · he will say shit that doesn't make sense WHATSOEVER. 😔 · Ofc, he won't admit that he's trying to take care of you · or keep up with you · obvi 🙄 · I have my own hc that he actually does know how to cook nicely, so I think he'd make you food you'd watch a movie together and talk · once your social battery is completely out, he'll offer you to sleep on his chest. 🥰 · and when you wake up, he's gunna make you breakfast. "Don't try to keep yourself up babe. You've had a long day, so just rest."
DISCLAIMER: THE HEADER IS MINE, THOUGH THE FANART IS NOT. THE DIVIDERS ARE NOT MINE, ONCE AGAIN, THEY ARE NOT MINE. ALL CREDITS GO TO ORIGINAL POSTERS / CREATORS!!! ALL WRITING BELONGS TO ME!!!
#AHHH I LOVE SAL#ONCE AGAIN#I AM SO SORRY IF THIS IS TOO SHORT AND NOT THAT GOOD#T-T#👁👁👁👁👁👁's bestie#sally face#sally face x reader#sal fisher#sal fisher x reader#larry johnson#larry johnson x reader#x you#WHERE IS THE SALLY FACE FANDOM GUYS#COME BACK#larry#sal#sally#writing#hcs#sally face hcs
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The word "Nazi" has a specific meaning to normal people, but to vatniks and tankies it has five basic meanings…. "anybody I don't like" "anybody who disagrees with me" "anybody who's a citizen of a country that Russia wants to invade" "anybody who opposed or simply didn't want to live in one of the tyrannical regimes I simp for" "anybody who was oppressed or killed by one of my favourite mass murderers" EDITED TO ADD: a tankie clown reblogged this post and made some typically asinine comments, so I thought I'd elaborate a little bit…. Tankie clown: @well1x is either referring to the fact that a lot of the "deaths under communism" listed in "the black book of communism" (which gives us the 10 million number or whatever) are quite literally Nazis in WWII, or they're referring to the fact that the only people who have been made to deliberately suffer under communism have been literal Nazis and fascists (generally speaking)
Joining the tankie cult requires you to live in a delusional clown world and believe in a shit ton of made up (and often contradictory) nonsense that requires a considerable repertoire of mental gymnastics (and lies) to maintain….
@well1x is literally trying to claim that all victims of communism are "nazis and facists" (sic), which - back in the real world - is a very obvious lie. It's also a blatant example of victim blaming. For example, most of the millions of men, women and children who were robbed, raped, imprisoned, sent to the gulags, tortured, starved to death, executed or ethnically cleansed by Stalin's henchmen were not Nazis or fascists, and many were innocent of any crime. The vast majority of the population in Stalin's Soviet Union also had to put up with crippling poverty and backwardness, the brutal suppression of their religious and community life and the total lack of freedom.
Based on his comment, I doubt if the tankie clown has ever read "the black book of communism" and I'm also not sure why he mentions this book in particular, when there are thousands of others that thoroughly document the numerous crimes of the regimes tankies insist on being the useful idiots for, and I think it's safe to assume that he hasn't read any of those books either (in fact, I doubt if he's ever read any book whatsoever)…. Tankie clown: Karina then shows an image of (presumably) some kids in the Ukraine famine. This is completely unrelated though because this famine was not manufactured by the USSR as say the Irish famine was by the English. Can't really attribute natural disaster to "muh communism"
Again - a typical genocide-denying tankie lie.
Tankies generally start by saying that the holodomor was Nazi propaganda, and when you debunk that they claim it was just a natural disaster, and when that doesn't work they make up some bullshit about how millions of farmers who barely had enough to live on were wealthy kulaks who burned crops and slaughtered cattle (and therefore deserved to die). And when you point out that the red army actually broke into their homes and confiscated all their grain, every cow or chicken or any other food they had, and that the Soviet authorities blacklisted villages, sometimes purely for containing relatives of Ukrainian independence fighters, and prevented the villagers from leaving, shot them for even collecting ears of grain from the fields, and watched them starve to death - tankies will just deny it, or laugh, or pretend that millions of holodomor victims were all rich landlords (and therefore deserved to die) etc etc….
I've also never seen English people pretending that the Irish famine never happened, or claiming that the victims deserved it, or that it was a good thing, or that Britain should re-conquer Ireland. On the other hand, it's difficult not to notice Stalin's smooth-brained groupies swarming all over social media every day denying or justifying the holodomor and other crimes of Russia and the USSR, and hoping that Russia not only re-conquers Ukraine but also Finland, the Baltics, Poland and other countries it has invaded and occupied in the past.
There's no point trying to reason with tankies using facts, logic or common sense - and appealing to their sense of decency while they're simping for their favourite mass murderers is a complete waste of time. Tankie clown: Karina then says @well1x is defending imperialism(???), defending ethnic cleansing (which …what??), dreaming about labour camps and mass shootings (for Nazis yes plz), and does not do any praxis (based on?).
Yep - most tankie clowns claim to be communists while simultaneously embracing Russian fascism, supporting the imperialism of Russia’s mega-rich ruling class, mindlessly repeating the Kremlin's propaganda and cheerleading their war crimes. These morons seem to have no idea that the Russian Federation is an empire made up of many conquered states that Russia invaded, occupied and colonised in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, or that Russia's war against Ukraine is a brutal attempt to reassert control over one of its former colonies. Russia's history of imperialism is at least as bad as that of any western country - and they're still doing it in the 21st century.
And I have seen countless examples of tankies speaking openly of wanting to mass murder their ideological enemies (or people they don't like) - because they also delude themselves into believing that if their revolutionary dreams ever came true, they'd be the ones doing the arresting and killing, despite the fact that in a real revolution they'd be about as much use as a fart in a spacesuit. They also have no idea how their small dick energy is somehow going to bring capitalism to its knees, which they'd inevitably end up crying about if it ever actually happened in reality.
Most of them are complete losers who spend the majority of their time sitting in their bedrooms huffing their own farts while reading tankie fan fiction online. Tankie clowns also claim to be against western imperialism and capitalism, despite living comfortable lives in western capitalist countries and owing everything they have to capitalism, including the freedom to use their capitalist smartphones or laptops to post anti-capitalist tantrums on social media platforms owned by western capitalists (thus helping these western capitalists to maximise their profits).
This is generally the sum total of a typical tankie's - ahem - "revolutionary" activity.
The vast majority of tankie clowns wouldn't dream of ever giving up the comforts of capitalism to move to one of the authoritarian shitholes they stupidly simp for, because then they might not be able to play their favourite capitalist video games anymore….
It's also a fact that Russia and the USSR have ethnically cleansed millions of people. Tankie clown: OP takes this insane train all the way to the station, and says @well1x is talking about anyone they don't like which… no. They're talking about the traditional Nazis.
No - they're falsely claiming that all victims of communism are Nazis and fascists. Learn to read…. Tankie clown: But also let's break this down. Who does OP think is being called a Nazi? "anyone I don't like" I mean I don't like Nazis, but I don't think everyone I don't like is one lmao. Funny tho, dude throws around the word tankie until it has no meaning.
In my experience, if you disagree with tankies about anything, they will pretty soon call you a fascist or a Nazi. It's they who throw around words like "fascist" and "Nazi" until they have no meaning (and most of them hilariously claim to be opposed to fascism while simultaneously supporting it - if it happens to be Russian). Tankie clown: - "anyone who disagrees with me" if you disagree that all human beings deserve to live a dignified life regardless of race/sex/gender identity/sexual orientation/age/disability/whatever then yeah you probably are a Nazi
Straw man. See above….
It's also amusing to observe the doublethink of somebody who apparently believes that "all human beings deserve to live a dignified life" while simultaneously thinking that when his favourite mass murderers oppressed and/or killed huge numbers of people it was perfectly OK…. Tankie clown: - "anyone who's a citizen of a country that Russia wants to invade" why the fuck are we talking about Russia? Believe it or not OP, USSR does not stand for "United Soviet States of Russia" lmaoooo
We're talking about Russia because most tankie clowns support Russian imperialism and mindlessly parrot the Kremlin's propaganda about how Russia's latest invasion of Ukraine is some sort of special de-nazification operation (see above). Tankies are generally so ignorant, gullible and stupid that they will literally believe anything the Kremlin tells them…. Tankie clown: - "anyone opposed or simply didn't want to live in one of the tyrannical regimes I simp for" tyrannical regimes lmao. These were only "tyrannical regimes" for people who actually were in fact Nazis.
Again - this is the kind of reality-denying nonsense I'd expect to hear from a tankie clown. One thing that really appalls people in the central and eastern European countries that experienced the reality of being occupied by the USSR and/or Russia, is the staggering ignorance and stupidity of western useful idiots who have no idea what it was actually like, and are not only dumb enough to join the tankie cult, but insist on westsplaining to the victims and their descendants about how the horrors they and their families suffered (usually for doing literally nothing) either didn't happen ("cuz the CIA made it all up") or claiming that they somehow deserved it ("cuz they were all Nazis/fascists/kulaks/slave owners").
Back in the real world, these were tyrannical regimes for tens of millions of ordinary people who had done nothing to deserve being subjected to tyranny…. Tankie clown: - "anyone who was oppressed or killed by one of my favourite mass murderers" yeah basically that's what I've been saying.
Thanks for proving my point….
And please note that smoking weed on your mum's sofa isn't actually going to bring the world revolution closer.
That was just a joke…. 🤣😂
#vatnik#tankie#tankie clownland#useful idiot#keyboard warrior#ignorance is strength#history#communism#ukraine#holodomor#soviet union#ussr
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Recently read a post on social media from someone who shared that they don't understand why people complain about the lack of mourning for Tech in season 3, because in their opinion the depiction of grief was adequate, season 3 mentioned Tech several times, the squad are all soldiers and it had been 6 months so of course they've moved on, and what did we expect the squad to do, keep crying?
While I completely respect the person's opinion, I do feel the need to put out there that no, based on what I've seen, I highly doubt those of us who are dissatisfied with how Tech's apparent death was handled feel this way because the squad didn't completely fall apart and melt down in tears all the time.
Speaking for myself, at least, I wasn't expecting any of the brothers to have full-on conversations to work through their grief, and I certainly didn't expect waterworks from any of them (except maybe Wrecker, and he did shed some tears in the s2 finale).
I WAS hoping for something like "We're doing this for Tech" or "It's what Tech would have wanted" or even just a short scene of the entire family having a memorial for him. After all, real life soldiers DO honor their fallen brothers even if it's months after the battle, and even if they don't talk about their feelings or cry.
And given that the show has an EXCELLENT scene of one of those stoic soldiers actually honoring a fallen comrade (without talking or crying, I might add) and gaining some closure - Crosshair with Mayday's helmet - there is absolutely NO reason whatsoever why they couldn't have done something similar for Tech.
I didn't want season 3 to show the brothers perpetually stuck in mourning/grieving for Tech (which, ironically, is what the season pretty much ended up doing, and is precisely the reason why I find this aspect of the story to be so unsatisfying). I DID want season 3 to show the brothers healing from the loss of their brother, finding closure, and moving on to a point where they can openly honor and acknowledge him in meaningful ways, because Tech deserved at least that much from the family he had always loved and sacrificed for.
(For the record, while Tech has always been one of my favorites since day 1, if the show had killed off any of the other Bad Batch members and then handled their death the same way Tech's was handled, I'd be equally disappointed and dissatisfied. I don't think any of the Bad Batch needed to be killed off at all and I would have been devastated with any of their deaths; but if it "had" to be done, at the very least give them a Mayday moment!)
And in the end, this is just one of the major reasons why I'll be in the Tech Lives camp forever.
#the bad batch#star wars the bad batch#tbb tech#just sharing my thoughts#tech lives#bring tech home#if the show couldn't be bothered to let the family heal and move on from tech's death then i'm gonna be over here keeping tech alive
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Favorite Ares story? Also, I fucking love your blog. Keep up the work to keep the hate off Ares
Interesting question!
Well, I have 2:
1. When Ares killed Halirrhothious so that he could prevent Alcippe's rape.
This story shows a violent but also a very soft side of Ares. In ancient times raping a woman wasn't considered to be a crime if we actually thought that women had no rights whatsoever. Ares is a loyal dad, who intervenes to save his daughter's dignity without thinking about any beliefs or the social status of women. He knows it's a Disgraceful thing to do and so he behaves in his personal life. He values sexual freedom as long as there is always consent. A man having a feminist nature is what makes women attracted to him, save his good looks. He knows how to respect and treat a woman the right way!
2. When Zeus called him a double-faced liar:
I know it may sound strange, but I have a point. This myth shows how misinterpreted and misunderstood Ares is. His own dad told him that he hated him, his own son. Zeus' marriage with Hera was a forced one, because Hera was raped and didn't want to be wed to Zeus. Their marriage was full of anger, jealousy and dishonesty. Ares is believed to be a child that represented this marriage. He is Zeus' mirror, that constantly reminds Zeus of his mistakes and his violent nature, because even though he was considered to be a god of justice, he acted violently in many occasions.
Ares is a mirror of Zeus, which proves that no one is flawless or picture perfect. There, I wanna add a saying we have here in Greece, "When the parents make sins, then those sins continue to torture their children". I think that Ares is the perfect example to this saying!
There you have it! I hope I didn't confuse you with the second approach, I tried to put it as better as I could! I really liked your question though! Thanks for tge kind words! 💜
#greek mythology#incorrect greek mythology#greek gods#incorrect quotes#incorrect greek gods#ares#ares greek god#ares greek mythology#on this blog we love ares#i swear if i see one more person treating ares this way i will infact break their kneecaps#outside of war ares is just a chill dude#justice for ares
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I think there's an argument to be made in favor of showing the reality of what Angel deals with on the day to day, both on the gear he wears and the SA he faces from Val.
but these kinds of scenes can very easily be exploitative; used for cheap shock value & end up fetishizing that abuse by presenting it as titillating. it's long happened to female characters where the violence becomes an excuse to show them brutalized or with their clothes ripped off and given how often Angel is sexualized it can just as easily happen to him.
Addict managed to communicate a whole history of sexual abuse committed by Valentino with just a forced kiss and a hard cut to Angel having a breakdown in his room. The scene focused on Angel's emotional distress rather than the act itself, so it avoided objectifying him further and was still effective
this is part of a wider pattern already established by Helluva Boss, where abuse is treated in the least sensitive, most sledgehammer blunt and cartoony way possible.
going by HB, abusers are:
always obvious and easy to spot,
they're complete monsters devoid of any life or interests of their own,
they have no inner lives whatsoever because they only exist to hurt the victim (Stella stays around the house despite not liking Stolas, Crimson wants to force Moxxie into a gay marriage despite being homophobic - to the guy who put his son in prison in the first place!!) - they're inconsistent and unknowable,
they abuse their victim openly in front of others everyone goes along with and tacitly approves of it (Stella's friends happily laugh at her jokes disparaging a demon prince who could kill them all despite knowing he's in earshot)
they cannot be easily stopped even when they have far less power, either in magic or social standing, than the person they're abusing (Stolas and Stella, again)
they hang around long past when they should despite the cast having ample reason to proactively do something to stop them (everyone leaves Crimson alive despite killing all his minions, Stolas knows Stella has ordered a hit on him but probably still lets Octavia spend weekends with her??)
they are fundamentally Bad People. None of the 'good' characters can every be called out for being abusive, what they do is funny - because they are fundamentally Good People. It doesn't matter how many traits Stolas and Stella have in common, he is Good and she is Bad. It also doesn't matter that Stolas sexually coerced someone for a season and a half, neglected his daughter and abused his servants, and barely feels bad about his own infidelity. He is Good so anything he does can be excused. Same with Loona - beating people is bad, but it's OK for her to give her dad a black eye and beat his head in with a picture frame, because she's one of the Good Guys. Same with Blitzo demeaning Moxxie constantly in the workplace - it's funny when he calls Moxxie fat, it's abuse when Mammon does it to Fizz
Abusers are fundamentally Other from Us, and we never need to examine our own behaviors as long as we know we are fundamentally Good.
like how is any of this making the world a better place? or advancing the understanding of abuse? it's an embarassingly dated and in places actively harmful depiction of what abuse is or isn't (I don't even want to get into the bad takes I've seen surrounding Stol/tz and what coercion is or isn't, but you can probably add that to the list too)
if the Angel scenes are as brutal as they sound then the rating should be an 18. I don't entirely blame Viv for that, I know sometimes ratings boards have a weird habit of treating works that have LGBT content as somehow 'more adult' than movies with straight up rape and SA scenes in them (though HH is both, so idk how literal bondage gear didn't up the rating), but I hope against hope there's some kind of trigger warning for this somewhere, and it isn't just dropped on the viewer's lap in order to shock them further with the world's bluntest and most graphic animated scene of SA it can
This. All of this, every word.
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I think this kind of perfectly encapsulates the futility of trying to reason with irrational fans on social media.
I post about how people grossly overestimate Jenna’s influence and power over fans, and further how she’s a coworker and there are other considerations she must balance.
What do these two do in reply? They grossly overestimate Jenna’s influence and power over fans, and they completely disregard the nuance of being a friend and coworker.
Neither poster rebutted any argument, they certainly didn’t add anything substantive to the conversation. They clearly and perfectly showcase why engaging in drama would be a total waste of Jenna’s time.
I completely reject the notion that Jenna has a responsibility over randos on the internet and what they do in her name. She has never engaged with fans, and she has never asked them to do anything, besides donate to charities. People are responsible for their own actions.
As these two posters have shown, people will read and see what they want to see. They will regurgitate their beliefs regardless of any facts or arguments you put before them.
Jenna has better things to do, I do not blame her whatsoever for ignoring this noise.
Also, Percy is a grown ass man. He has taken care of his own business, and also ignores the noise. He does not need a woman in his life to go to battle for him.
The only people who think Jenna is a bad friend are people who have never met her. It’s certainly not Percy.
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Dude you know what makes less and less sense to me the older i get? The basis of being charged for rent and utilities in this day and age when we spend less and less time actually at home doing anything fr. Like when you take into consideration how fucking burnt out we are on a regular basis (esp and particularly among adolescents and young adults), how do I even have a bill for utilities I’m never home to really use for any significant amount of time?
I’m being charged increasingly for streaming services i don’t have the energy outside of work to watch with any actual consistency or attention. Most of the time I turn the mf tv on for white noise — to scroll through social media on my damn phone 😂 bc the sound of the tv in the background gives me this illusion of control over how I’m spending my time “leisuring”, only bc it’s something i can use to convince myself that the shackles have been at least temporarily removed. They’re never removed though. Literally ever.
You spend $200 on 10 damn items at the grocery store now; groceries that don’t even last, at that. The essential-est essentials have prices straight out of apocalyptic hell. At the same time, this is the same damn country that decided no one has a technical right to food or sustenance — with the phenomena of food insecurity all over the damn nation. People can’t even truly afford to take care of their health being tethered to working “tirelessly”, and with health insurance having no seriousness here whatsoever.
I’m paying 1,000+ damn dollars a month for rent alone, working for shit wages that never really budge in any way that matters and that I can’t actually save shit with, bc I never really have any disposable income. It’s just a fucking nightmare. How are y’all doing this with children??? How are y’all doing this with dependents and pets and car payments and student loans and credit card debt on top of a never ending series of American obligations?? How are y’all not losing your very minds living like this every day??? The math doesn’t even add up. Logic doesn’t even apply.
There’s nothing logical or fair about any of this. It doesn’t even make systemic sense the way we’re charged damn near everything year-round to exist here. How are they incentivizing y’all to breed playing w our rights like this in our faces?? It’s worth it to y’all? I could grind my teeth to nothing trying to make the vaguest sense of it. I feel so utterly squeezed by and ensnared in bills 24/7/365. And like………… in a way…… it kinda doesn’t make declining birth rates seem so bad? This really might be for the best.
Tf we supposed to do, just work for other human beings all our lives? 8 billion of us?? What right do human beings have to demand such consistent energy from other human beings? 😂 Just to be a vessel by which others procure and sustain wealth via our underpaid and exhausted labor while we struggle to survive on meager resources? Doesn’t seem sustainable. Or realistic. Or humane. I’ve never wanted to be here less. I’ve never wanted to not be needed so badly in my entire life. I’m so fucking tired of being here.
#black tumblr#black twitter#mine.txt#blm#burnout#overworked#underpaid#american economy#minimum wage#livable wages#quiet quitting#quality of life#us discourse
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Hiya there! 🤙🏽 I have been debating on posting this but fuck it. Here it goes.
Is there anyone who would be interested in being a lover or love interest in my fic for Benn Beckman?
Or any Benn Beckman lovers want to be apart of it? I’m sure it’s still the same question. Not sure. Excuse my confusion, I’m very thoroughly baked.
The reason I’m asking is because, I cannot for the life of me come up with another OC. I have been fighting with my brain for a couple of weeks, on trying to build an OC of my own and I’m not liking anything my brain is coming up with.
I’d rather have someone who loves the character and knows a bunch about him. Plus I feel like it would make my fic more interesting? Unique? I don’t know. I know next to nothing about Benn Beckman and I want someone who’s passionate about his character. Basically connect with him?
I would give you 100% of the credit for the whole chapter not just your part and of course make sure you are recognized. Pretty much I will scream from the top of the world of your involvement down to the punctuation marks. I will take absolutely 0 credit. None whatsoever.
The part is for a conversation between my OC and Benn Beckman getting to know each other. My OC is romantically involved with Shanks. So she’s just building a friendship with Beckmann.
Beckmann will be sharing with my OC on how he’s got a special someone (that’s you!💜). How you make him feel, how y’all met. Etc. You can choose how you both met. Where your relationship stands now in my fic (I will post both chapters so you can get a feel for it, so that way y’all can decide if you want to be apart of it.) if you would like I will even let you write the entire dialogue for Beckmann, if there’s a certain way you want me to express his motions about how he feels about you.
Basically, it’s whatever you want in exchange for allowing me to add you to my story. Like I said, whether you choose to write it yourself or tell me what you want me to wrote. I’m still making sure you receive 100% of the credit. 💜 I’m not the bum in the group project who still expects credit.
If you haven’t noticed already, I’m clearly new to this whole Tumblr thing. I’ve been writing fanfic since 10-11? Idk man. I wasn’t allowed internet access and the only social media I was allowed to have growing up was Facebook. 🙄 so if I’m going about this the wrong way, please, please kindly let me know and I will fix it or take down the post entirely ! 💜
#fanfic#opla#one piece#writing community#writing inspiration#writing#writers#benn beckman#benn beckman x reader#x oc#writing fanfic#one piece anime
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Okay I think rather than replying individually to every single person it would be better if I complied everything into one take
if you guys can't handle me at my coderra takes, you don't deserve me at my reboot takes /j, but in all seriousness while no I don't "love the male stalker trope"/think coderra is the healthiest ship (or healthy in canon whatsoever aside from the last 3 or so episodes of WT)/whatever other bs people tried to impersonate me with back in december, I've always been a coderra shipper & will bring up my defenses of the pairing if prompted, idk why this is news to some people
first off, worm anon & watermelon anon, yes I would ship them if the genders were reversed. Genders aren't really a factor when it comes to my opinions of ships, like as a trans person I don't really like hearing "oh I'm ok with x if one gender does it but not another" because like I'm the same person I was prior to me transitioning, I don't want to be treated any differently because I present masculine instead of feminine now. I absolutley would ship coderra if everything was exactly the same but Sierra was male and Cody was female. The closest thing we have to a genderswapped coderra in canon is gwody and while I don't care about gen 1 enough anymore to activley ship any gen 1 pairings aside from coderra and maybe gwourtney, I do find gwody kinda cute actually and like it as a secondary ship/brotp
https://www.tumblr.com/real-total-drama-takes/757942733215301632/not-to-add-to-proshipcourse-bc-its-driving-me-nuts?source=share this anon is particularly based and kinda already said a good chunk of what I want to say, but TLDR, so long as a pairing isn't activley harming anyone you shouldn't really be shitting on people for liking what they like. Literally the most I've done for coderra is write a couple fanfics about them, comission coderra fanart and create a list of hcs and I really fail to see how that's somehow problematic. Again, if this was like an incest/pedo pairing or some shit like that I'd get it but coderra hurts no one
gonna be real with you guys I started shipping coderra back in 2016 when I was a literal middle schooler who just didn't really understand the negative connotations with it because I didn't know anything about stalking; Sierra was my favorite character because I thought she was funny and occasionally relatable and thus chose to ship her with her canon love interest because I wanted to see her happy. Yeah I lost interest in TD in mid 2018 and didn't get back into it until late 2021 but I've still been shipping coderra for a long ass time and it's kinda hard to let pairings go when you've spent years creating a version of them in your head that's special to you, even if you've grown to realize they have problematic elements to them with time. I'm sorry if my coderra defenses have offended anyone and I've met some really cool people through this app and blog (tbh I wish I could actually like start friendships with my moots I just don't have the balls to ask), the last thing I want to do is like activley hurt anyone and I can stop sending in coderra takes if it's really bugging people that much. Regardless tho, I'm not gonna stop shipping the pairing itself over pointless discourse lastly "catnon has been really quiet huh" I'm not trying to be rude but have you considered I'm 21 years old with a life outside of social media. Like I get some of you are young and have a surplus of free time currently with it being summer break and all but please like in general can we normalize giving people at least a day to reply to stuff? thanks
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hello !! i'm completely in love with your blog and your writing. i was reading some posts and I found one in which you said that you have your own headcanon for henry's family relationship!! would you care to expand more on that ? i'll love to know
thank you for the interest! i would love to elaborate more on that. as a preface, however, i need to emphasize that my headcanon is very much non-canon-compliant and beyond acknowledging this fully, i'm completely okay with that. i happen to possess that transcendental degree of dogmatic arrogance that makes me think my opinions are superior to anyone else's, even if they defy canon. i'm establishing this to prevent anyone telling me that this is in any way wrong, because to me, it isn't. this is what makes most sense to me, personally. it is based on canon, but does reject it very early on. here goes.
first of all, i believe henry's father to be dead. in fact, i would even go as far as saying that his father passed very early on in his life — in henry's infancy, even. early enough for henry to barely remember him. this would be due to a large age gap between his parents. i definitely see his mother as more of a scandalously young and mysterious widow, desolate with a child on her hands drowning in all that wealth she isn't particularly used to.
in this context, i want to add that i think his mother stems from a penniless background. because henry himself is notoriously described to be carrying himself like an old ballerina, i believe his mother to have been one. before ever getting married and having henry, i see her as an aspiring ballerina trying to establish herself in the dancing world at a young age, but simply not having the sufficient means for that. her future husband on the other hand — henry's father — would have that new money quality of not caring much who he marries, specifically in regard to social status — he would see a pretty face, and knowing that that face is after money and status, would propose marriage to her simply based on the fact that he can offer her that. henry's mother couldn't refuse, even if the man was many, many years her senior, not her type whatsoever, and not someone she ever envisioned herself with — she would be too goal-driven and ambitious for that (which she would pass on to her son). therefore, she would marry him, and thereby enter a marriage of convenience, of exchange: the wealthy new money tycoon gets to have eye/arm candy, and the aspiring young ballerina from a penniless background gets the money and connections she so desperately needs.
however, i see henry's father as being very restrictive and controlling, even erratic. maddened by the accumulation of his wealth — a rags-to-riches story that ends with an egomaniac man who feels entitled to everything and everyone. therefore, even after promising not to, he would prohibit his wife from partaking in her greatest passion and confine her to their house and 'womanly duties' instead. he would cruelly get off on keeping her cooped up, like a bird in a cage — something he can fully possess just because he can afford to. even if the marriage wouldn't be long, it would certainly be long enough for the spark henry's mother would harbor in regard to dancing to be completely snuffed out.
even with the canonical idea of henry being his mother's favorite and sort of a mama's boy, i just cannot see that. maybe it's my own trauma. i fully envision his mother to never have wanted him in the first place. i can imagine her rich tyrant of a husband wanting an heir, and her trying her absolute best not to get pregnant by him — partly as revenge, partly out of the want to never give him children, and partly out of the hope to continue dancing one day (and we know what ballet culture is like when it comes to body image, unfortunately). nevertheless, she would get pregnant. she wouldn't want it, though, but would be forced to keep it. that would inevitably result in henry, the sullen only child. as a token of her affiliation with a man most conniving and restrictive, she would therefore never find it in herself to love her son. he would pose a constant reminder of her restrictive marriage and her consecutive inability to ever dance again, driven by her own insecurities and doubt.
henry's father would pass away early on, only a few years into his son's life. the death would certainly pose an alleviation to henry's mother, but she would never be able to go back to her old life, nor establish the life she so badly wanted with the money and the connection her marriage provided her with. she would raise her son, support him after the accident, never spare any costs to offer him the most privileged and beneficial of lives, but would never give him an abundancy of affection and attention. she wouldn't neglect him per se, but wouldn't be overly present and loving to him, either. this is what makes the most sense to me in regard to how he grew up, who he grew up to be. based on his behavioral pattern — and i don't want to diagnose him with anything as i lack any authority to do so — you just know some childhood trauma must have played a role in his development, even beyond being in an accident and therefore bedridden for years. there's got to be more. negligence, coldness, abandonment, loss, lack of affection. i don't think he had anyone ever truly caring for him growing up, which is why he never learned to do so. the tutors and the doctors and the nurses were only paid to be kind to him and spend time with him, which led him to believe that bribes could solve anything.
i don't see him as an outwardly loved child, as saddening as it sounds. as a result, he wouldn't try to get attention — he would just emotionally shut down, morph into his stoic self, give up on affection as a whole, build a steel wall around himself, develop a hyperfixation on classic studies to redirect his attention elsewhere. he would find solace in his studies above all. his mother, of course, would sort of love him in her own way — he will have grown on her profusely due to his dismissive and cold nature, as she would otherwise selfishly hate it most if he grew up to be an affection-seeking, overly clingy child and would therefore make her feel bad for not being able to cater to him in that way. due to the opposite outcome, however, she would be more fond of him, but only in his later teen and adult years. hell, i would even go as far as saying she will have loved him most on the days leading up to his death, and she will absolutely love him more than she ever did only after his passing. and yet, she would never be free. even with her husband and her son gone, she would never feel liberated, and remain constantly confined in her previously established role instead.
but this is just a rough overview. i could write novels upon novels about this, though. i bear the most vivid of images in my head in regard to this. oh, and i believe his mother's name to be marlene marchbanks. marlene winter after marriage. she will have given her maiden name to henry as a middle. and that is mostly it. once again, thank you for inquiring. there is nothing i treasure more than a platform to announce and develop my thoughts, and have at least one person interested in them.
#henry winter#the secret history#dark academia#astrum asks#henry winter character study#i like to completely disregard canon because it makes me feel powerful#and this is not to say that i don't like the canonical idea#but it's just boring as hell and i like trauma/angst#i need you to look at me and tell me that henry isn't traumatized#that mf has been through the trenches in his childhood and you can just tell#his daddy issues wouldn't even be as profound as his mommy issues because he simply wouldn't give a fuck about his asshole dead dad#that's what's up#my tsh headcanons
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Higher education and anti-social mobility; a 2024 rant
As an update to a post I made a while ago, I'm bloody annoyed with people shilling for current systems who either don't realize (because they haven't done an iota of researcch) or because they actually dont believe, that better systems could exist or have ever existed.
The context for this one; current university students in the UK insisting point blank that there are NO issues whatsoever with the current funding system whereby:
Any student (unless they are from a wealthy family) has to, in order to study any degree course, take out a loan of a minimum of £30,000, (for a three year degree) which, I may add, is over the national annual salary for the UK, and this loan has compound interest which starts accumulating from day 1 of the course date, not even after graduation, and that the value of this loan plus interest must then be paid back by the student, at a value of 10% after a certain boundary of their annual salary for the next 40 years of their life and can't be wiped by any means including bankruptcy.
"Oh, but the loan allows the people to go to university at all! Really, it's just a graduate tax!"
NO!
It's not 'just' anything!
In practice, what this says out of a group of 10 medical students, 2 of whom are from a wealthy family that can easily afford to give the student 10k a year to pay the annual fee upfront, is -
"You can all become doctors, the system will let you do that. But 8 out of the 10 of you will, once you graduate, only earn 90ish% of a doctor's salary for the next 40 years of your working life. The 2 of you who are already from wealthy families though, you can earn a full 100% of a doctor's salary. Yes, despite the fact that you will all be doing the exact same job."
How did the system work before, then?
Well, whoever wanted to go to university firstly didn't have to take out a loan at all. The government paid students to go to university, because it wanted to incentivise people to get qualifications in order to upskill the country and create better systems to keep the population more advanced; as well as benefit from the higher taxes that the higher earners would then pay back into the system.
Nowadays, it's just greed all the way down.
The government still benefits from the higher salary each doctor gets coming back as tax. Then they get their compound interest from each doctor not from a wealthy family, coming back in as extra income. The doctors already from wealthy families, well, they just get to keep the rest of their full salary and put it towards whatever they like, thus guaranteeing that generational wealth continues and there's very little capacity for the children of this generation of doctors to be able to break the cycle.
And yet instead of being up in arms about this and DEMANDING better, because they are already preparing to serve their country by becoming higher earners and paying more in taxes, for some reason, a significant chunk of students seem to just accept this system.
I'm mindblown.
#society#text post#higher education#further education#anti social mobility#university#university fees#education#uk#politics
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You’re so weird for dictating what people need to post on their own blogs “hi reblog this and then I’ll unblock you💕💞💖” and being so fake positive and nice about it. You literally roasted that girls other posts on your side blog after being phony here. Why did you have to make fun of her? Who cares what she posts? Please go post on AO3 or something if you’re going to be so bossy. Your whole attitude stinks of never being liked in school and now you think you’re not shit in a community of 30+ adults who reblog smut about a teenage drawing. So embarrassing for your life and soul. Being ugly for life really does a number on your self esteem I guess
Tumblr was made to be a social app, for people to interact with each other and reblog posts in order to do so. That’s why there’s so many options to add responses to posts, to add tags and even send asks.
I have an ao3 and anyone is more than welcome to read my fics over there without leaving a comment, kudos or bookmark— like the huge majority do.
But on here it makes me uncomfortable to have so many blank/empty/plain blogs following me with absolutely no fandom content reblogged whatsoever or only generic posts/responses. Especially since two of the times I’ve been plagiarised it was by either a blank blog following me on here, it a k-pop blog who didn’t reblog anime content stealing my shit. So I’m sorry I don’t want them following me.
And the post you’re talking about in question, I was nice because I know that a lot of people still don’t understand the importance of reblogging your faves. Even though artists and writers go on and on and on about it, what’s the point of being mean? I only posted that response AFTER she replied to me saying that she didn’t understand the point of reblogging fanart or fanfic… even though she reblogs literal nonsense posts. That’s the part that really got me.
If you don’t like how I run my blog, or what I block people for why are you here? There’s literally thousands of people on tumblr you could follow, or like you said use ao3?
It’s the fact that I know you have never left an artist or a writer a comment this long on any of their content before, but you chose to be brave and click that anon button to send me a long essay about me being a horrible person.
The response is always “you’re so weird” and never, “let me go and tell my favourite author thank you for making my day better”.
I’m sorry that I blocked you for not supporting artists/writers, but I don’t regret it. It’s a pretty pathetic mindset to have that an artists work isn’t worth a free reblog that could actually make their day.
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