#at least she didn't struggle

[thecommanderzoe-a]

"Get in the tub or fall in." That's a threat. "Your choice."

@spatzenn || unexpected threat

He had successfully carried her from her office, his shoulders were broader than they looked as he held her in a fireman's lift. Arms dangled down in defeat as he held her in place. "What if I was on the brink of a break through" she groaned, letting him take her to the baths.

Her feet felt the floor again, the smell of his bath scents filling her senses and the heat steamed her glasses. Hanji took of the glasses, tucking them into her breast pocket.

Maybe a different day she might have just stripped and climbed in. No shame on her features as she undressed in front of Levi. Years of military had forced that out of her. But today was not one of those days. "If I fall, you fall with me" She smirked, standing her ground, it wasn't that she was against a bath, it was just more fun to make it a whole episode.

That and he had interrupted her work. This wouldn't be so easy for him.

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

WHAT IN THE MAG160 WAS THAT

[knockknockitsnickels]

Thinking about how the Tower & the Adversary routes are connected through the Fury, and how you kind of get there by turning one into the other, and how horrified they are by what they become. Tower is about subjugation - she outright says she does not believe the two of you are on equal footing. You get the Fury from her when you assert your independence and fight back, forcing her to take you seriously as a threat and defend herself. Adversary is all about an equal fight - she prides herself on her strength, but also admires yours. You access the Fury through her by refusing to fight, watching her beat you to a pulp and become disgusted by what she does to you. IDK it is interesting how the Tower & Adversary parallel one another, and how you end up with the Fury in each route by doing what their sister route would have wanted you to do.

[joshuaalbert]

kai winn’s relationship to religion really is just so interesting to me in a way I come back to sometimes like. she’s the leader of a faith and her gods will not speak to her. they will speak to other people in front of her and they will make a human from a society that did not interfere with her planet’s suffering their emissary but they will not speak to her. and I’m sure she can do a lot to justify it in her mind because she would have to be able to in order to keep any faith, and she has to keep her faith because she says herself that’s all she had in the camps, but that’s still a terrible thing to experience. and I’m sure a lot of people would argue that it’s not real faith, it’s ambition, but I think it’s some of both, and most importantly I think on the most immediate levels she believes it’s faith.

and like I think she and a lot of other bajorans have a reason to have a really complicated relationship with the prophets because the more demonstrably real and powerful they are, the more they’re willing to interfere in things like the dominion war, the harder it would be for a lot of people to justify to themselves why the prophets didn’t do anything to stop the genocide of their chosen people. I think the pah wraiths plotline ultimately fell kind of flat when it kind of boiled down to “dukat’s weird cult” and it was also a victim of the season’s pacing issues, but it has some interesting implications regarding this divide in the bajoran people, particularly when their religious leader’s faith is being so seriously called into question.

[blaithnne]

my timephoon hot take is that the episode was literally fine, it's the episodes that came AFTER it that fucked things up

[yesokayiknow]

Did you ever write any of that adult life skills dw crossover you were talking about ages ago

yes!!! it's got abt 1k written but i never finished it. whoops. have a snippet!

[sysig]

You’re gonna die if you keep that up (Patreon)

[aestheticitii]

In my head, Ogerpon is an RPG protagonist with:

a "fantasy-forbidding" single mother who was the hero of her own story, during which Ogerpon was adopted, and refuses to let Ogerpon on the battlefield,

older siblings who nudge her towards her dreams, even if it means disobeying their mother, and younger siblings who offer battle experience via actual battles,

an absent father she's only ever met like three times, but whose presence is felt in how her mother's treatment of her is informed by his absence, who left mostly because he got mind-controlled by the big bad, and

a nemesis who was responsible for the death of her first family and the separation of her second family, whom she ends up fighting with the power of love and family and The Cudgel

And this is what keeps Toxic Chain Kieran on the table for me

[coquelicoq]

did i tell u guys about how my family, who have been lukewarm at best and vaguely antagonistic at worst about using they/them pronouns for my nonbinary sibling, did a complete 180 upon learning that my sibling is also good with she/her...like i can't even tell you how hard it's been to get them to even just try to use they/them and then they hear she/her and a switch is flipped in their brains that goes "you are an asshole actually" and all of a sudden my mom is buying PROTECT TRANS KIDS t-shirts and my grandmother's apologizing to me when she messes up. okay i'm glad you got there eventually but if this capability was inside you all along i don't understand why you couldn't have been doing this with the they/them set. like my grandmother told me a couple years ago that she wasn't even going to make an effort because she was probably going to die soon (<-completely made up excuse; obviously any of us could die at any time, and she is old, but she's in good health and her mother lived to be 100) and therefore wouldn't be seeing my sibling often enough for it to matter??? but she/her is worth the effort where they/them was not, apparently. like again i can't complain about the outcome but i am very much complaining about how we got here. what even is this.

[daily-whistlepaw]

daily whistlepaw until ah becomes PoV day 1167

I think I finally understand how people feel when around a crush, can't say I enjoy it

[lovecolibri]

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[adore-gregor]

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[pseudospectre]

Sorry to personal post of the spooky blog, but I'm so fucking worried about my cat. My beautiful Siren, she who twimsts, is deteriorating and I don't think there's anything left I can do. The vet says there's nothing more she can check, she can tell something is wrong but we have not been able to determine what. The next step is thousands of dollars at a more advanced teaching clinic almost four hours away, and I cannot afford to do that. Her only diagnoses so far are asthma (under control) and a chronic respiratory infection that is also under control. Her blood work shows absolutely nothing out of the ordinary except for a slightly elevated value (globulin? I don't remember exactly) that the vet says indicates inflammation somewhere but she can't find where. And Siren has lost so much weight. She's skin and bones even though she's still eating more or less normally. She's never liked wet food.or treats of any kind, I've offered her everything under the sun from the first day she came to me so that doesn't help the situation.

It feels like I'm just letting her slowly starve to death, and I don't know what to do. I don't want to force feed her and it probably wouldn't help anyway. She's only 8, I only adopted her a year ago, it's not fucking fair. Based on what I've looked into, my fear is lymphoma. Even if I took her to that clinic, my vet guessed I'd be looking at somewhere in the 2.5-3k range not counting having to take off work for it, and either they don't find anything either and I've spent all than and more for no gain, or they confirm the problem is my fear in which case I can't afford the treatment and it would probably only buy her 6 months to a year anyway.

I'm at the end of my rope and I feel like I failed her

[suledein]

can we be honest? i'm really iconic. kalais 'rook' mercar. 💣

[phantajam]

my hot take about descendants is that NONE of the core four were ready for a relationship until maybe like, the third movie (rant in tags)

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

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