#and they are working on their communication and their trauma

[maryallenc]

now that c3 is ending, im looking back and figuring out laudna's arc as a whole. and if i'm remembering it correctly, marisha mentioned that she wanted to create a character that has gotten over and made peace with her trauma, and yet the narrative and the foundations say otherwise, and laudna pretty much became the complete opposite: a character whose most of her actions are so informed by it.

she kinda really regressed from that intention, hasn't she?

not saying it's not a valid type of character development. or that there was supposed to be only ever one specific trauma she can or cannot be over or not.

but it's fascinating in a way to remember that she started off serenely telling her death to orym, and stating that she could smile so happily because "the worst thing that could happen has already happened"...

...to lashing out at orym because of him picking up a sword that had killed her previously.

side tangent, but laudna and orym's dynamic are lowkey one of the more fascinating dynamics out of bell's hells. they may not be the closest, but i definitely find them more interesting than even laudna's closer relationships.

anyway, laudna's story was then concluded with essek's help. and delilah's locked inside laudna for good, and can't even communicate or talk to laudna. officially exiled to the back of laudna's mind, shackled within the valleys of her chest above her heart.

delilah is still in there.

and it feels like a mirror to how laudna started. everything's all fine and dandy, actually! she'll never have problems again.

and so there's that contradiction again. delilah has no power over laudna anymore. and yet, laudna... still kinda defines herself with delilah, from her clothes to the fact that she still can get power from delilah. just like how laudna started the campaign defining herself as the obviously dead woman.

and it makes me question if she has actually ever even changed, or was just broken down to her bare essence for everyone to figure out how she actually works, and rebuild again with some minor upgrades, with no substantial improvement. it feels like she's still stuck, even with the new experiences and connections.

the raven queen said it's possible for her to be alive again. and yet, laudna seemed like she might not even want it.

maybe because she actually has to change. move past the stage of death she has now defined herself in. to actually grow as a person. change, not only with the people she surrounds herself with, but with laudna herself.

would she, though?

[sagstelliums]

What job will you have in the future (pac) *follower request

Pile 1

I see that you may be a coach or a mentor, I see that you may coach or mentor/tutor children. I see that some of you may mentor teens who have difficult living situations or like foster children, I see that you will help people better their life and make them aware of the things that holds them back. You’ll have a job where you help people realize their potential, you help people stay consistent and motivated. Signs- Leo/cancer, Taurus in 4th house/virgo in 12th house. Initials- C, I, N, Y, L

Pile 2

I see that you may be a therapist or life coach, I see you may also help people with their anger management. You’ll have a job that helps people find healthy outlets for their excessive energy or you’ll help motivate people to better their lives, you’ll help people heal from their trauma or help them be more independent. I see that you’ll give people plans and ideas that’ll help better their life and keep them on track, some of you might be an engineer or help people with mental illness as well. Signs- Aquarius/cancer/sagittarius, Leo in 3rd house/gemini in 8th house. Initial- L, C, R

Pile 3

I see that you may be a photographer/artist/painter/sculptor, I see that you’ll be working with your hands. I see that you may have your own business in the future or you’ll be working with a small team, I see that you won’t have a set schedule like you have deadlines but not a specific time for when you should work. I see that you’ll be known in your community for your work, I see some of you will be working on multiple projects at the same time often. you’re future job has something to do with media/art/pictures/sculpting/painting/drawing. Signs- Leo/scorpio, Leo in 4th house, Taurus in 9th house or 6th house. Initials- T, I, L

Personal readings always available

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[alittlebitofloveliness]

A bit of a rant

CW: Discussion of sex work

Listen, I know Hinton was being facetious when she said Darry's second job was stripping, and I know a lot of the fandom sees it in a crackish joking kind of way- and I'm not saying I actually do think Darry worked as a stripper- but I wish the fandom treated that anecdote differently. Like, sex work is work, and people have been engaging in it since the beginning of time. Theres a reason prostitution is called the world's oldest profession, there has always been a demand for it and there always will be. Again, I'm not saying I genuinely believe Darry's second job was stripping, partially because male strip clubs didn't really emerge until the 70s (according to my very rudimentary research, so please correct me if I'm wrong), and because it's antithetical to Darry' character (he's got a lot of internalized toxic masculinity and would probably view it as demeaning) and because it's very likely he would have lost custody of Pony and Soda if the state ever found out. I also think that while the Curtis' are poor they've never been desperate enough to resort to sex work. But survival sex work is a big thing in underprivileged communities. It's something many people turn to if they get desperate enough. If you're hungry enough or need to make rent or struggle finding or keeping employment out there, sex work is something you can turn to, and many people do. The Curtis' almost definitely know people on the east side who engage in some sort of sex work, and I wish the fandom could view it for what it is- work, genuine work that people engage in, sometimes to survive and sometimes simply because they like doing it- instead of treating it like its some sort of silly joke or scandalous or using it to make trauma porn. You can't call yourself progressive while mocking sex work or perpetuating negative stereotypes, especially in lower income communities.

[statesys]

1 — membercount + does it change at all ??

currently we're at 19 / possibly 20 I believe ?? though this number does change frequently as we're still figuring stuff out etc ..

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2 — what are your collective pronouns, if you have any ??

- it / they(plural) :]

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3 — what's your sys name + how did you choose it ??

- we chose State System ( /state sys ) because, as a mediple, we feel more like states than full alters/members as it were ?? and also because state sys sounds similar to stasis, as we feel we were in "stasis" as Myles was going through Denial™ ik ik very creative ( we did go through various names though lol )

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4 — activities you all like to do together ?? collective hobbies maybe ?

- we can't really properly do things < together > but we do collectively enjoy certain shows .. and a few of us share interests ( i.e. avena and gab both like making moodboards, etc ) plus most of us are pretty passionate about crochet / general crafts ^_^

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5 — what sort of music do folk in the system like ?

- hard to say .. most of us like a lot of rock/rock subgenres, with also like .. whatever genres gigi perez, alex g, ewy, adrianne lenker etc are .. ? but also like jazz and goth and just .. honestly we like a lot lmao .. :']

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6 — average statemate age ??

- most of us are between 15 - 17 and 20ish lol, with the exception of some way younger and way older

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7 — do y'all have a singletsona ?? if so, talk about them !

- we sorta do !! online we're trying to make "Mervyn" our singletsona, they're very body-based ( as in, any physical things + general interests n personality etc are a unspecified mix of freq fronters ) while also offline we're [Bodysname] and are mostly influenced by Myles, Gabrielle and Willa lol, so we fit into that .. ?

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8 — does anyone in your sys have roles ?? if so, which roles ?

- technically we have roles listed in a member intro rentry ( though a lot are "pending" - ), but those are more to help others understand / are auxiliary roles, as we aren't really very strict ab adhering to them. there are certain states who deal w certain tasks but hmm .. generally we use stuff like Host, Protector, Holder, etc

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9 — how long have y'all been a sys and/or known of your systemhood ?

- difficult question .. we've known we were something plural for a while, but only recently ( 2023ish to 2024ish ) really came to terms w it and started really trying to communicate n such, which has been a slow process .. but actually < being > a sys could date back wayyy long lol

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10 — what does switching feel like to you all, if you switch at all ?

- switching is sorta more like this[link] but that's not as common as simply co-influencing/fronting !

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11 — are y'all switches voluntary/involuntary/a mix ?? how often are switches, if they happen at all ?

- a mix, usually they're quite voluntary ( /purposeful ) but we've had a few involuntary switches etc before, which are also increasing in frequency !

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12 — what's your favourite part of being a sys ??

- I think really just not being alone "anymore" now we've come to terms with it ? it's like, especially for us, having folk always with you that just .. get you .. and every time we learn something new it's js so. fun. /gen

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13 — least favourite part of being a system, if comfortable sharing ??

- probably the denial spirals that some of us ( mainly Myles ) have sometimes, even if we're working on those, as they damage us a sys and also as individuals .. and maybe all the things that js come w trauma, even if being a sys helps us cope with it all it's still. there. and being a sys sometimes feels like a reminder of that for some of us. /neu /nav

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14 — does each statemate generally differ from the physical body ? if so, how do they differ ??

- we're definitely all distinctly different in some ways, generally source related ones, but our appearances all have like .. similarities to the body .. even if they're not very noticeable at first glance / could appear js source accurate ? ( i.e. we almost all have freckles that vary in ways but generally look like our Bodys, even if source didn't have any )

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15 — are any of you fictives / factives / etc ?? tell us a little about them !!

- we're actually all fictives except for Gabrielle n Sapphire LOL ?? plus we maybe have a factive n some others .. some of us are editives[link] too technically !

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16 — does any sensory things differ between statemates ?

- oh definitely, although we're still figuring them all out and generally they're all similar. this goes for taste and sound mostly !!

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17 — does anybeing have different accents orr speak different languages ??

- some of us have minor source related accents, mostly notable with Angel lol .. hmm languages is hard, Adel speaks French in source but can't speak it when (co-)fronting .. same for Willa with German and Spanish :'] though we're trying to learn French n Spanish both out of mutual interest + to help those who spoke it in source but can't now !!

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18 — how would you describe your system in 3 words orr less ??

- confusing fluzzy family >:]

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19 — do you have any queer states ?? what do they identify as ?

- the real question is do we have any who AREN'T queer hehe .. ( which rn is is no 0_0 )

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20 — does anyone outside of the internet know you’re a system ??

- no .. we're just odd ..

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21 — advice you'd give to yourselves when you were first discovering your sys ??

- I suppose to js not worry about labels so much, like with everything plurality is really personal ( the brainnnn ) and stressing over trying to squeeze into boxes won't work, they're there to assist not define !! .. and also to listen to the others and let them actually speakkk 👍

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; whooosh this was funn ^_^

- Myles/Alastor/Mikey ( mostly )

Plural Ask Game

We figured we’d try making an ask game! This is for anyone who’s a system–regardless of origin–to use. Remember that you’re not obligated to answer any of these if any are too personal!

How many members are in your system, and does this number change frequently?

What are your collective pronouns, if you have any?

What’s your system name if you have one, and how did you choose it?

Are there any activities your system members like to do together? Collective hobbies? Talk about those!

What sort of music do people in your system like?

What’s the average age of your systemmates?

If you have a singletsona, what is it? Explain a bit about them!

Does anyone in your system have roles? If so, what roles?

How long have you been a system and/or known of your system?

How did you discover your system? What was the process?

What does switching feel like to you, if you switch at all? 

Are your switches voluntary, involuntary or a mix? How often do you do it, if at all?

What’s your favourite part of being a system?

What’s your least favourite part of being a system, if you’re comfortable sharing?

Are your headmates generally different from the physical body? How do they differ from it?

Do you have any fictives/factives/etc? Tell us a little about them!

Does your system have a headspace? Are there multiple of them? What are they like?

Are there differences between systemmates surrounding sensory things? (For example, one person likes the taste of one food and another doesn’t.)

Does anyone have any different accents, or speak any different languages?

How would you describe your system in 3 words or less?

Do you have any LGBT+ headmates? What do they identify as?

Does anyone outside of the internet know you’re a system?

Do you have any cool/funny stories from inside the headspace that you’d like to share?

What’s some advice you’d give to yourself when you were first discovering your system?

What is something you wish singlets knew about plurality?

[fulcrums501st]

On micro-expressions and their effectiveness. (ft. example from s1ep3)

Micro expressions communicate effective info only when deliberately and specifically calculated into the scene from the start.

the issue with peope justifying writing in s2 with micro expressions isn’t that we shouldn’t use expressions to understand a story, they’re obviously intentional and they are an aspect of storytelling. The issue is that s2’s writing is messy and inconsistent, and thus so are the conclusions we draw from the character expressions. Especially if we are supposed to infer character motivations ONLY from expressions. Character motivations/internal conflicts are left up to interpretation in s2 when they should be deliberately clear and explored within the story instead of being left to random facial expressions.

the writing surrounding the scene with the expressions must be specific, so that the audience understand the specific context and intention behind the expression. s2 is cluttered making this hard, and it makes the micro expressions present unreliable in understanding character motivations and thoughts because they are left vague and up to interpretation. when these should be fundamental aspects of characters are specifically explored and clearly showed.

Micro expressions can’t tell us these things when the writing itself doesn’t surround the expression with enough specific context in the story for us to be able to catch what it means. Thus, micro expressions can’t be used as an alternative to dialogue or direct action all the time when the writing itself is so all over the place.

Example of micro expressions in s1 that work to tell the story with specific intention cuz the writing and directing surrounding the moment is clear, deliberate, and precise.

A man asks about a little girl’s sister, holding a knife behind his back. Hiding his intention to kill the little girl. But that is clearly his intention. At least, originally.

The girl is clearly distressed.

So she flings herself into the nearest person to her. Disarming the knife the man concealed.

The moment is slow, and gives us the chance to take in what is happening. Just as the man does. And he is caught off-guard, stunned.

The girl declares that she was left and that her sister is no longer her sister. The still stunned man, listens as we deliberately zoom in on his face, to take in the expression. As we will take in his thought process.

He looks to his own brother, who betrayed him, left him, whose betrayal decided he was no longer his brother.

We zoom in on the man’s expressions, again, as he looks down on the little girl. He connects that she has been abandoned by a sibling, just like he had.

Earlier in the episode, there was another crucial deliberate, and striking expression that we saw from this man: fear and vulnerability. when faced with the same violence his brother used when betraying him years ago. It humanizes the man by showing us how on a such human level this betrayal was still hurtful and traumatic, no matter what he preaches about moving past it. It is still a memory that sparks vulnerability from this unique trauma. A sort of soft spot.

The man, clearly empathizes with the same type of betrayal the little girl is now facing. This same moment of vulnerability that he evidently has not fully moved past from. A trauma that he relived that same day. He hugs her, comforts her.

The man’s complex thought process and change in motivation is deliberately expressed with expressions only. Every line. Every shot. Everything had specific intent and vision, as the script does, and the moment is paced in a way for us to take in the character changes that are occurring.

s2 leaves micro expressions up to interpretation as it does with many of its character arcs and motivations. Leaving the conclusions the audience makes from the scenes inconsistent and sloppy, unlike s1, because we are not deliberately led to understand our characters with these expressions. in this scene the shots and expressions show us what Silco is thinking a because it is parked paired with the specific and deliberate context (his relationship to Vander) and very intentional dialogue(“she left me, she is not my sister anymore”)

This allows us to understand his thought process and motivations, mostly without words. Expressions must be deliberate and paired with specific context for us to properly understand the character’s thinking. The directing itself must emphasize the expression and context if the expression itself is the main way a character’s thought process is being conveyed. And the scene must be paced in a way, and point to specific beats in a way forces the audience to understand what is being communicated. The direction must come into play.

s2 does not do this as effectively, because the writing is inconsistent and cluttered. Making the micro expressions lazy and unreliable arguments for character intention/motivation.

[romana-after-dark]

Our Gentle Sins: Part 15: Jeannie

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Dark!Logan Howlett x fem!reader

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Chapter summary: Past. Jean's POV Present. Jean is over them all.

Warnings: This fic features non con, pregnancy, and themes of religious trauma. I will not be saying everything that happens to warm you, by clicking read more you are prepared for extremely dark themes and that you at 18+. You are responsible for your own media consumption.

EXTRA WARNING: Male manipulator incel Logan

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His mind was somewhere else.

“Scott, baby.” Jean tried to get him to come back to her. Lingerie, hair done up, waiting for Scott on her knees in the bedroom… and it worked. At least for a little bit.

But even as she ground herself over his growing bulge, she could tell he was somewhere else in his head. His cock stiffened and softened at the same time as he’d begin looking over her shoulder or his mouth stopped moving and she’d have to call him back to reality. 

It was her fault. No, Jean, not her fault. Jean had to remind herself that just because Logan and Scott were playing out their latest pissing match with you instead of her this time, it wasn’t your fault. You were just a girl that needed help. Logan and you seemed happy, whatever the state of your relationship was… but she couldn’t help missing that attention Logan gave. Logan was a single focus man, and when that focus was on you, it was all consuming.

 Before you entered the picture, even then Scott could be distant. That wasn’t his fault either, she tried to remind herself. He had OCD and worries left him spiraling. It wouldn’t be so bad if he just let her help him. She just wanted to help him. Instead, he internalized it, isolated himself and disappeared sometimes, leaving Jean worried and only knowing he hasn’t hurt himself from their telepathic connection.

She tries, she really tried to be empathetic to him and to you.

But when her husband can’t even get hard because his thoughts are with someone else, it’s kind of hard to not be angry.

Still, Jean was nothing if not able to tamper down that dark side, the anger that she felt simmering just below the surface. Usually, she could channel it into something good, something productive… but Jean didn’t want to be good.

She sighed, signalling her giving up with a drop of her head that encased Scott in red. “Get some rest, Scott. I think you need sleep.” He doesn’t sleep much these days, nor eat. His already slim figure is looking underweight with his cheekbones gaunt and the darkness peaking out under her visor. He’s not himself, and she doesn’t know what to do.

He reaches over to cup her face. “Sorry baby…” And he does look apologetic, despite the exhaustion in his voice. He carried to much on his shoulders, but it’s not like she hasn’t tried to lighten the load. “You look really fucking hot, I just…” Scott didn’t like talking about his mental issues, which was a major chunk of the problem. Until he lets her in, there’d always be a gap between them. A gap she used to fill with Logan, but now is just a hollow point inside her; an emptiness threatening to swollow her whole and break them apart. She loved Scott, but loving him meant always feeling a little alone, even on the good days. 

“Rest.” Jean smiled softly. “I’ll stay here with you.” A lie, but if Scott caught on, she didn’t say. When he was asleep, she snuck out to find Logan.

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How did she sink so low she was begging to get fucked? She just wanted someone to love her, to pay attention, she felt like she was drowning and needed to not feel so alone. Why wouldn’t Logan give it to her? Why couldn’t Scott? What had changed that she was no longer worthy of being loved?

Logan was good at that, at making her feel loved and desired when he wanted to. When he didn’t want to, he could pull it away just as quickly. It was embarrassing; humiliating even though the only person who knew was him. No one else could tell how subtly he wormed his way into her head, they all thought she had the control. She did, for a while anyway. Being chased, being hunted and stalked like prey was enticing especially on days Scott wouldn’t even look at her.

However once Logan knew the power he had, once her built her up himself he had control over her self esteem. And he knew how to wield that. She was a fool to offer it up to him again willingly, but here she was.

“He doesn’t pay attention to me.” The embarrassing admittance that she wasn’t enough for her own husband, but she laid herself bare to Logan in a way she couldn’t with Scott, not with his barriers.

“And you think I will?”

“You always did before.” She didn’t care if he was dangerous, a little unhinged. She just needed to feel.

“That was before her.”

Before her. Before his little child bride.

 Logically, she knew better than to be mad at a 24 year old for catching Logan’s eye. She couldn’t even blame Logan; she liked you. You were kind, that's what everyone said about you (either before or after calling you weird, generally), but you were also a very capable teacher, taking on several grades, sometimes at once, and giving your all. You’d made an impact on many students, and you were incredibly smart; your brain had been wasted on the abusive prick you’d killed. 

Jean knew she should be better than this, more evolved, beyond the mean girl nature of how she was acting but she was so desperate to fill that gap caving inside her she let the cruelty slide out more when he finally fucked her.

“Does your baby doll do it like this?”

A mistake, she knew. His fist tightened around her neck, and her nervous system kicked in. Logan was a dangerous man to play around with. Still, he wouldn’t hurt her. Not really, right? Just fuck with her mind again and again until she lost all sense of herself.

“No, but my baby doll can give me what you can’t.”

She had to laugh at that, the idea of Logan wanting to settle down. “What, you want to settle down, have a family, live a normal life?” 

“So what if I do, Jeannie?”

A blink. A breath. She knew what she was offering was a risk, but she wasn’t thinking clearly. Whatever it took to be loved. She disappointed her parents at an early age, never hearing from them again. She always felt she scared Charles, her darkness too great. Erik disapproved of her hiding that darkness. She wasn’t enough to fix Scott, to make him let her in, to truly be one.

She could be enough for Logan. If a family is what he wanted.

 “I can be that.”

“Oh yeah, you’re gonna abandon everything here? The students? Charles?”

She shook her head. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a family Logan.”

For a moment, his grip grew deathly tight but he threw her to the ground before she could comprehend what he had been about to do.

They went back and forth, Jean feeling vulnerable and like Logan was prying down her defenses until it slipped out. Until she admitted he had gotten her pregnant.

Her choice had been easy. With telepathy, she knew early, very early, and she knew she couldn’t have a kid with Logan. She didn’t want a baby with Logan, or a baby at all.

Logan, at that point, would have been a bad dad, and she didn’t think he would have wanted to be one anyway. 

It would have broken Scott, broken him even worse when the affair got outed. Broken him enough that he might not have survived that blow.

But here she was, telling Logan he could knock her up, just for him to feel like er loved her again.

After

“She seems happy.” Jean commented, nodding to where Wade and you were giggling at the table. She was glad you had more friends now, not just Remy. It seems Remy never told Logan he was the one who outed their affair to Scott, otherwise Jean doubted Logan would hang around him as much as they do, even if his girl is his friend.

He beamed, looking at you. “Yeah, she’s do’n real well. Much better, I think.”

Swallowing some of her pride and jealous, Jean tried to do better, to be better. “It’s nice to see you happy too, Logan” She was sincere, but Logan seemed to try and brush it off. “I mean it. I’ve never seen you so pussy whipped.” It was meant as a joke, but the way Logan whipped his head back to her made Jean startle. She’d been more nervous around him lately; after the incident in the closet anyway. 

“The fuck you mean?” He was angry, and she didn’t know why. It was always like this with Logan; the mood swings she couldn’t predict, the sudden withdrawal of affection that left her clamoring. They were having a nice chat, now he was mad. 

She tried to remain firm and calm, not wanting to rile him up more. It was a nice party, she didn’t want to ruin it. “I just mean- Logan it’s a good thing. I mean you’ll do anything for her. She’d do anything for you, by the way.”

“She better. She’s my fucking wife.”

“Logan.”

“You know why I chose her, Jeannie? Because she don’t fuck’n sass off like you. Knows her place. Knows when to keep her mouth shut.”

“Or her mouth open, I assume.”

Logan looked like he wanted to slap her, his knuckles whitening where he gripped the counter.

Still, he tried to goed her on. “Yeah, because she’s a good girl, likes to please me. You wouldn’t know anything about that.” Jean opened her mouth to protest, but he continued. “Maybe you just need God too and you wouldn’t have to cry for the attention your husband won’t give you.”

He was trying to get under her skin, so she tried to let it roll off. “Using her trauma to keep her submissive isn’t the flex you think it is, Logan. Now I know why you chose her. Lot easier to get a girl to stay with you when you knock her up if she won’t have an abortion.”

You were playing with fire here.

“Shut up.”

Jean glared at him, taken aback by his sudden change, but growing tired of his childish behavior. She leaned in, whispering to keep nice for the party and for you. “You tell me to shut up again and will tell your little dolly that you fucked me while you were ‘taking it slow’ with her.”

Logan glared right back. “Yeah, and risk Scott finding out?”

“I am done wasting my time on either of you. Get fucked, Logan.”

Resisting the urge to throw her drink in his face, Jean walked off as she heard Wade squeal and wrap you into a big hug. Logan would be too busy handling that to follow her.

She was going to fucking be free of him. One way or another. 

He could tell Wade and Kurt whatever he wanted. He could tell them she was cruel, indecisive, played with him; all of it was true to some extent.

But that was the game he laid out for her. He set up the chess board and got mad when she took his queen. He taught her the rules and when backed into check, he broke them. And when she got checkmate, he ran away and cried crazy ex to his friends.

Wade wasn’t a fan of Jean, she knew that. That’s fine, he was too crass and loud for her taste.

Kurt was too nice to treat her with anything but kindness, but he didn’t go out of his way to talk to her like before. People had chosen their sides, and that was fine. But it was sick the way that Logan created a standard in their relationship of playing mind games, only to move the goalpost when she had the upper hand.

She was done with his incel ass. She was done with trying to get Scott to care about her above anyone else. She was done trying to prove herself constantly to get nothing back. 

Jean was done.

Thank you so much for reading! i had a breakthrough on my writers block for the end FINALLY!!!! Ah, the magic of boiling pasta at the OG <3

anyway I also had an idea for a married logan x reader series dealing with cheating but lemme finish this and IIBH first XD

SO JEAN!!!!! what do we think?

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[premiumbitch]

HOW TO CREATE & THINK OF MOVIES TO SCRIPT IN YOUR DR ! ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡

hi luvs! I decided I'd make this post because I had someone (@rottent0m4t03z) request how they could create movie ideas for their dr! I hope this doesn't sound like homework because honestly I feel like I wrote it in such a boring teacher way LMAO anyways hope you guys found this helpful, enjoy :)

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Start With Something Real ♡ //

A lot of great movies come from real-life experiences. Think about moments in your life or things you’ve seen that stuck with you—maybe a complicated friendship, a crazy family story, or even something you saw on the news. It doesn’t have to be dramatic, just relatable. Like, imagine a story about a kid from a small town trying to make it in an industry where they don’t fit in—that’s universal, but it can still feel fresh.

Focus on Relationships ♡ //

Movies are all about people and the connections between them. Think about relationships you’d love to explore—best friends who’ve grown apart, siblings dealing with family drama, or two people falling in love in the messiest, most complicated way. The dynamic itself can shape the story. Like, what happens when someone has to choose between loyalty to their best friend and doing what’s right?

Ask Yourself, ‘What If?’ ♡ //

Good movie ideas often come from asking “What if?” Like, what if a journalist published a fake story and had to deal with the fallout? What if a lawyer discovered a loophole that could bring down a corrupt system but risked everything in the process? It doesn’t have to be over-the-top—just something that grabs attention and makes you curious about what happens next.

Explore Hidden Worlds ♡ //

Think about subcultures or communities most people don’t know much about. It could be underground street racing, high-stakes poker, or even the behind-the-scenes world of classical musicians. Building a story around a specific world gives it depth and makes it feel unique. For example, a movie about a fencing team could be way more intense than you’d expect if you focus on the rivalries and stakes.

Create a Flawed Lead ♡ //

Nobody likes a perfect character. Think about a role you’d want to play—someone with real flaws and layers. Maybe it’s a musician who’s wildly talented but self-destructive, or a teacher who’s great with students but failing at life outside of work. Flawed characters are just more fun to watch—and to act.

Keep It Relevant Without Being Preachy ♡ //

Movies that deal with social issues can be powerful if they don’t feel like they’re lecturing. Instead of making the issue the main focus, show how it affects your characters personally. Like, a single mom navigating a broken healthcare system isn’t just about the system—it’s about her fight to save her kid.

Think Simple, But Impactful ♡ //

Sometimes, less is more. A survival story, a revenge tale, or even a day-in-the-life kind of plot can hit harder than a big, complicated setup. Like, think about a movie where two strangers meet on a train and spend one night together. It’s simple, but the emotional weight carries it.

Visualize One Great Scene ♡ //

Picture a scene you’d love to act in. Maybe it’s a tense argument between two characters in a dimly lit diner, or a moment where someone finally confesses a dark secret. Build the movie around that one scene. What led to it? What happens next?

Write About What You’re Obsessed With ♡ //

Think about the things you geek out over—psychology, art, fashion, science, whatever—and weave that into the story. For example, if you’re into psychology, write a movie about someone confronting their past trauma. If you love history, set the story in a time period that fascinates you. Passion always comes through in the script.

Get Specific, Not Generic ♡ //

Details make everything feel real. Instead of writing a generic “bad boy,” make him someone who’s sarcastic because he’s insecure. Set your movie in places you know—like the small coffee shop you always hang out at or the chaotic bus stop in your city. Start small, make it feel real, and then let the story grow naturally.

Bonus Tips for Brainstorming:

Journal Random Ideas: Write random scenes or conversations you’d want to act out. Even if they’re not full stories, they can spark something.

Steal a Formula, Then Flip It: Take a classic storyline—like a heist or a love triangle—and twist it. What happens if the heist goes wrong in the first 10 minutes? What if the love triangle isn’t what it seems?

Look at Scripts You Love: Read movie scripts you admire (you can find a ton online). Pay attention to how they structure the story and create characters you care about.

Play the “What Happens Next” Game: Imagine an opening scene and keep asking, “What happens next?” until you’ve got a plot.

hope this helps! also, if you guys want, I can create a whole separate post giving you guys movie ideas! lmk! <3

[justtheclippy]

(regarding the momatha ask)

GIVE US THE UNFUN EMOTIONAL ONE ANSWER PLEASE 🙏🙏🙏 WE NEED IT

Wow that was fast. I mean like 20 of yall asked for it immediately. Congrats, you're the one I grabbed to answer it (but you're all winners in my eyes).

Ok you asked for it, my very long, actually serious, unfun answer.

Would ragatha be a good mom?

Unfun Answer: It's easy to confuse people pleasing/care taking trauma as 'good parent' material. But that isn't always the case and by default I don't think those qualities alone would make Ragatha or anyone a good parent. I think what actually makes someone a great parent is the ability to recognize their trauma and actively work to process and heal through it so they don't replicate their traumas with the people around them.

Everyone has emotional baggage and trauma in some form. And kids will eventually trigger you. They won't mean to, but they will. When that happens, you need the tools to give them empathy and understanding and structure, even through whatever you're dealing with at the time. Not just during the fun moments but during the times when they do unintentionally hurtful things too.

That's hard to do, and for a lot of people, they end up having kids before they even realize they have these unresolved traumas. To be clear, I don't think that makes them inherently bad parents in that case, it just makes being a parent that much more complicated when it's already one of the most difficult things a person can do.

There are a lot of parents out there who became parents because they thought it's what they were 'supposed' to do. And if they never learned how to set boundaries for themselves, or communicate their needs or wants, to hold space for themselves as a separate person not defined by what they do for others, they often unintentionally pass those habits off onto their kids. The cycle continues.

I know some truly incredible parents who come from trauma and have worked through it and the perspective it's given them is invaluable. But it's a choice. It's hard work. And it can only start when and if someone even recognizes there's something there to process to begin with.

All that is to say, I think we as humans all have the capacity to do that work. I think Ragatha as a character has the capacity to be a good parent. But I also think there is hard work involved, and it depends on if someone makes the choice to do that work. Or, to be stuck in their cycles.

[shipping-receiving]

It’s interesting how Love Scout has been fleshing out the communication styles of the two leads. In the earlier episodes, Jiyun has a tendency to be quite avoidant until her emotions reach a breaking point – ignoring a situation or setting one-sided boundaries up till she feels compelled to articulate her position very clearly. For example, her confession was refreshing in its decisiveness, but it was also on some level ‘selfish’ and unfair to Eunho, who was silent in the face of her speech. Granted, they weren’t yet together, so it didn’t have to be a mutual decision. Yet it did concern him, and she chose to defend herself in that moment by making it something she could define and control regardless of his feelings.

This also highlights how Eunho tends to take a more circuitous, ‘frictionless’ path to communication. This makes him a good observer/listener and allows him to gently steer someone in the right direction, as he might do as a father. However, by withholding information, it can remove not just his agency but also that of the other party. As Kang-seok pointed out, that person might want not his “warm consideration” but his “honest feelings”. (It’s also particularly poignant that in the flashback scene with his ex-wife, he remained silent, letting her make the decision to end their marriage.)

Now that their feelings are out in the open, they’ve shown themselves to be capable of open communication, probably because there’s a certain degree of certainty/stability (i.e. it’s safe for them to be vulnerable with each other). Since it’s likely that we will have to suffer the ‘childhood connection’ trope in such a traumatic way, the expected outcome is for them to default to their original patterns/comfort zones – and I wouldn’t fault them for doing so at the start, considering how much grief and resentment Jiyun has towards her father. But on top of Jiyun finally confronting this trauma she has otherwise buried so deeply – she has condemned her father for his abandonment, in spite of how well he raised her – I really hope we are able to see them work through this, combining Jiyun’s straightforwardness with Eunho’s care to solidify their relationship in the home stretch.

[phazepheonix]

The beginning of technostudent

As a child Techno had come across a small pod of beluga mers sunbathing on the rocks on the beach he was walking on. He approached cautiously but curiously in the hopes of saying hi, unfortunately as soon as the mer closes to him noticed the small human getting closer they hissed at him then retreated into the ocean with the rest of their pod.

In true technoblade fashion he hyperfixates on mers for the next 20 years or so, pursuing a masters in mer psychology and is currently pondering whether to pursue a doctorate in mer ethology (the study of instinct) or not.

He truly does want to help the mers at the sanctuary to either come to terms with or overcome their traumas and the best way to help, in his words, is to 'know how their brains work'.

This is also cross posted to our community, go to the pinned post in my blog and click join if you enjoy this au.

[orbitposting]

DID but not as in presence of "evil murderer alter", DID as in buying two drinks instead of one because someone came to front after seeing a blue raspberry slushie and DEMANDED to have it, but the alter who walked all the way to the gas station refused to leave without getting what they wanted to get initially.

[zombolouge]

The thing is, it's not about the Therapy Speak. It's not that everyone who disliked DAV hates healthy communication as a dynamic in fiction. It's not even about only being allowed to be a good guy, really, because most of us did do that anyways (though the option not being there is a loss I grieve even if I never chose it myself, but that's another rant for another day).

It's that DAV does all that stuff at the expense of being believable. At the expense of characters being permitted to have personalities. At the expense of emotions behaving the way emotions actually work for people. At the expense of letting the plot build tension through the stakes we're forced to grapple with.

Half the fics out there take the conflicts between the characters in the previous games and resolve them. I do it myself ALL THE TIME because I like to find a path to resolution through just about any conflict, that's what fascinates me about telling these stories. But the higher the stakes, the harder a conflict is to resolve. You CAN resolve any conflict, you CAN communicate healthily through any emotion, but you can't skip the time it takes to process it all to even be able to communicate it. As someone whose got CPTSD and recovered from many Traumas, I can tell you that the TIME it takes to work through it is not something you can fast track, and the ups and downs of your emotions on that journey can't be skipped. It doesn't matter if you know exactly how to do it, exactly how it's going to feel, or exactly what the end state will be, you CAN'T speedrun it.

DAV has stakes that are astronomical, but nobody treats them that way. Nobody experiences denial - a common psychological reaction to being presented with information that shatters your worldview. Nobody expresses any distrust in the establishments handing out this information - something common among cultures that have at times been at war, even if those wars are "resolved" in the present. Nobody really ever breaks down - something that any person is capable of under extreme circumstances, especially when facing multiple crises of faith that challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves. Nobody blows their lid because they've been repressing the hell out of everything. Nobody grieves for southern Thedas, the entire thing dying off screen and giving you, the player, NO way to engage with it in any way.

Not to mention there are barely any inter-party conflicts, when there should be a lot more. Why is everyone (except Spite) fine with it if Emmrich sacrifices Manfred to become a lich? Why is everyone fine with Illario potentially being set free if he was working with the venatori and Elgar'nan, two sources that have actively attacked everyone in the party? Why doesn't Neve resent Lucanis if Treviso is picked? Why doesn't Harding get pissed off at Nevarra for having a secret society of liches that never helped during the Inquisition's war against the breach and corypheus? Why doesn't Harding feel ANYTHING about Ferelden and the rest of the south? Shouldn't Harding resent the fact that she's stuck in the north while her home dies?

All of these conflicts ARE resolvable, but not easily. And it's not believable that they're never brought up. It's not believable that these characters skip through everything that happens with like, barely a frowny face most of the time. In DAO, Alistair leaves if you don't treat his conflicts with respect. In DA2, your party members try to kill each other if you don't pay attention to their conflicts/emotional needs. In DAI, people can leave or betray you, Cassandra throws a chair at Varric and tries to body him out a window. ALL of these can be resolved but it takes effort, and the characters get to SHOW that they're bothered by them and struggling the way a person would when faced with those emotions.

The problem isn't the therapy speak, or that everyone is loyal and won't leave, or that they aren't mean to each other enough. It's that it's toxic positivity. It's toxic as fuck to imply that anger or grief should be smiled over or else you're giving up, and it's damaging to people to avoid engaging with their own negative emotional responses to extremely negative stimuli. It's pasting optimism over very real, very weighty issues, sweeping it all under the rug, and you keep waiting for the lid to blow off the pressure cooker that creates, but it never does. It never becomes anything that emulates real emotions, which is why the whole damn thing feels hollow. Everything's dying and nobody cares, not even about themselves, and that's NOT healthy communication.

It's bullshit, half-assed storytelling that didn't tell us the actual story, just the vague idea of what it could have been.

[benevolenterrancy]

("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)

[jesuis-assez]

THE ROOKIE- 6.03 ➦ Trouble In Paradise

[thepeacefulgarden]

[trans-axolotl]

one thing that has been frustrating lately is that outside of the disability specific organizing spaces i'm in, i've noticed that so many people assume that because i'm a wheelchair user, i don't have relevant experience/skills for high risk and escalated protests. what's particularly frustrating lately is that some of these organizing spaces i'm in, i actually have more relevant experience than a lot of my comrades--i started going to antifascist protests when i was 13 and have been involved in a lot of protest movements over the past 9 years. and have learned a lot of shit from a lot of mentors. some of my comrades just got involved this year, which is great and i have a lot of respect for them. and at the same time i genuinely do have a lot of relevant knowledge about tactics, practical experience, etc etc. i'm always learning + continue to grow my skills and don't want to get complacent ever but like. some people were talking about how they wanted to learn how to do eye flushes for tear gas and i was like "okay yeah we can practice that, i can teach everyone if we stay a little later tonight" and someone said "thanks for offering but we should probably learn from someone who's had experience doing this on the ground." which was so fucking patronizing because i literally do have that skill set...i have been tear gassed many many times, have done eye flushes for people many many times, literally have a LOT OF practice doing that in a high stress and chaotic environment when the cops are brutalizing you. and no one else in this group had this experience! ignoring my experience made no sense and actively endangered the group! it made me want to scream like. how fucking ableist to assume that and also to insist that disabled people aren't involved in high risk protests even though we have already been out here involved for years and years! i'm going to scream