#august was a bad person

[your-fave-is-being-blended]

The World Trade Center from Real Life is being blended!!

You cannot save it.

[shimmerluna]

To be honest, a big part of why I dislike the fact that YR doesn’t explicitly address ableism is because I think this fandom in particular would benefit a lot from the sort of discussions a show that takes so much care with these topics could produce.

With the way people talk about Sara’s auDHD, Micke’s addiction, Kristina’s breakdown, and even August’s ED/addiction, it’s clear a lot of you view mental illnesses/disabilities as a choice someone makes or a punishment they can deserve/earn. There’s a difference between one’s disability being used as an excuse and it being a valid reason/explanation for actions the person still has to take responsibility for that few of you seem to recognize or care about, and treating these characters’ disabilities and mental illnesses like something they earned/deserved bc of something they did implies very harmful beliefs about real disabled people. 

On top of those implications, the only disabled/mentally ill character people treat with nuance and care is Wille, the main character who gets all the excuses/explanations. To a disabled person (i.e. me), it appears that some of you refuse to care about/empathize with disabled people on your own. Instead, you view us as morally bad and alien at the first sign of symptoms, and you only change your mind when an explanation you deem satisfactory makes us palatable or relatable to you. Since it's currently Disability Awareness/Pride Month, it's a good time for some of you to learn how to see both us as people and our disability without lengthy justification or respectability politics.

[kinnsporsche]

Wille, be smart here. Don't you think this has gone too far?

[zeebreezin]

While I really love morally grey characters in fiction especially as protagonists, I do think it’s important that like. Shaw is a pretty good person? His whole character arc is escaping the circle of toxic self loathing, that self fulfilling prophecy that comes from his belief that he’s a fundamentally selfish person. And like, he’s wrong about that in terms of the actions he takes out of both guilt and with other motivations. Is he like, perfect, morally? No! And I definitely think you can argue he’s in a morally grey zone with what he does and how he does it, often times using manipulation & violence to get what he’s doing done. He’s definitely done some fucked up shit and sometimes succumbs to the Game’s mindset of seeing people as tools first, people second and his self hatred still drives him to wild lengths.

But, like, he’s still trying very hard to be a good person by his own metric, and I think more often than not he succeeds. & that’s kinda important to me.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[ceruleanblueshells]

I love young royals because no matter how bad of a day I'm having, Willie is always having a worse one. :)

[realredbanana]

Entirely random but, Young Royals fans, who’re your favourite and least favourite characters?

[hanzajesthanza]

dandelion is indeed the worst but if he’s not present in the next book i would legitimately be sorrowful as the whole thing will become a slog . you basically cannot have the “short stories” era-of-the-timeline iteration of geralt without dandelion, it would be like eating unbuttered bread.

though it’s not like season of storms did them dirty, i wasn’t disappointed with it (… with regards to them), but since it’s literally been over 20 years since the saga was finished i’m trying to prepare for any potential reality

[aphelea]

first time we see alvar he chugs a glass of wine in a sip, talks about his 3 girlfriends and proceeds to call known facts a hoax. truly what a guy

[wolframpant]

16 November: Emperor Tiberius was born in 42 BC. Here are some of his portrayals on screen:

André Morell in The Caesars (1968) George Baker in I, Claudius (1976) Peter O'Toole in Caligula (1979) James Mason in AD (1985) Michele Bevilacqua in Imperium: Augustus (2003) Max von Sydow in The Final Inquiry (2006) Giovanni Carta in Barbarians (2020) Benjamin Isaac in Domina (2021)

[every-sanji]

[joleneghoul]

so fucked i have had 0 energy to do hardly anything since i got covid literally at the start of this year and now its august. lame as hell bc i had a rlly productive year last year.

[shizukais]

[soulaanadelrey]

I'm popping out and showing niggas in August. I'm a Virgo Rising, baby. That's like my second birth month.

[borom1r]

NEW PICS OF MY KNIGHT CRUSH ON IG IM UNWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLL 😭😭😭😭😭

[mochiwrites]

blegh