#baby larn

[skycowboys]

I found this old craft I did as a kid while at my parents house for the holidays. Proof that I've always been drawing pegasi - I was 9 when I drew that lol

Honestly a black swan pegasus leaping over a waterfall under a moonlit night sounds pretty dope. I think I see a redraw in the future!

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[possessedplatinum]

“I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much, too much” - W. Livingston Larned

Just finished season 2 and had a brain blast that Jesse is “ more important “ to Walt at the moment than his own son. Felt tbh

[oh-surprise-its-me]

Roy/Jamie fic idea: As a joke Roy says that he's always wanted to come home and be surprised by a French Maid. Jamie overhears and decides to make a move and finally claim his man. One night Roy comes home expecting a quiet night until he gets to his bedroom to see none other than Jamie Tartt, dressed in a skimpy French maid outfit, complete with feather duster. Roy's gobsmacked, and then he completely loses control when Jamie starts speaking French to him. He wants Jamie out of that French Maid outfit and in his bed ASAP!

Jamie speaking French is now going to be in my head forever.

Also I can’t speak French so like… you’ll get google translate 💔

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“How long have you been able to speak French?”

Jamie smiles and curls closer to Roy. He still can’t believe they just had sex. Can’t believe Roy loves him back. “I larned in school. Got into it. Was called a hyper-fixation.” Roy shakes his head. “You’re adorable. And impressive.”

Jamie flushes. He shoves his face into Roy’s chest, “Eh bien, je suppose que tu me trouverais impressionnant puisque tu m’aimes?” He gets a kiss pressed to his head. “No clue what you said baby. But I caught a impressed and yeah. I am.”

A shudder rocks through Jamie’s body. He can’t believe this man. All of his fantasies were accurate. Roy is as incredible as he always dreamed.

“You’re absolutely wearing a skirt again. Next time I’m gonna leave it on you and just flip it up.” Jamie moans. He scratches Roy’s arm with a grin. When he looks up Roy is smiling at him. He wiggles up for a kiss.

Roy bites into his mouth. He slowly rolls them over. Jamie goes willingly. “Again?” Roy starts to bite down Jamie’s neck and shoulders. “Again.”

Jamie throws his head back against the pillows and sinks his hands into Roy’s hair.

Dream come true for both of them.

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The translation:

“Well, I guess you would find me impressive since you love me”

[angel-blitz]

Idk why but my brain is selling that your version of Slim would tach his friends kid/people he with during the invasion how to flip off the cops on earth

Like this came into mind cuz I was about to write something for my self ship cuz they have a kid and my brain wants what if the kid larned to flip off the cops with there aunt or family friend

Than started to think about Petals and Slim

He would absolutely do that. He teaches babies to give the middle finger bc it's funnier

[yuco-the-alien116]

Little baby man!

Yuco and Larne are the same species (name still pending, if you have any ideas people tell me) and Larne got th short of the end of the stick.

Most of their kind has eyes and curved horns, Lost of scales and along with hind legs. Larne has none of those, making him more rare yet hated more among his species.

Yuco is more rare aswell, with 3 curvers in his horns and a whopping 12 ft tall, And even having scales making him look like armor.

Unlike most Yuco doesn't mind Larne and sees him as a little brother (mostly because Yuco was bullied as a kid for how he look) so he takes care of Larne when ever he can!

He also calls him baby man all the time cus it's funny.

[georgi-girl]

Fury Road

Original meme belongs to Archangel470

I really wanted to do a Fury Road recast and since I couldn't any official ones, I used the Action Movie Cast meme (which was inspired by Fury Road)

The cast is this...

Hero: Larn (Fire and Ice) in the role of Max. He was separated from his tribe and was trying to find them when a posse of war boys captured him. Now he's caught up in a high-octane power struggle.

Hero's Love Interest (platonic, not romantic) : Marina (Sinbad; Legend of the Seven Seas) in the role of Furiosa. She was stuck working for the Warlord and plans to get the hell back to her ancestral home The Green Place. And she's bringing some friends with her.

The Villain: Jafar (Aladdin) in the role of Immorton Joe. He's the tyrannical Warlord ruling over a canyon oasis. His prized possessions are the unfortunate women he's chosen as his brides.

The Sidekick: Taron (The Black Cauldron) in the role of Nux. In this verse, he's called Tarry Black due to his black hair. He adores the Warlord with all his soul, and is distraught when he constantly fails him. Being with the freedom convoy gives him a new, better purpose in life.

The Traitor: Snow White (Happily Ever After) in the role of Cheedo. One of Jafars' former brides, she's called Snowflake due to her pale skin and fragile demeaner. When a big chase kills one of her fellow escapees, she panics and tries to run back to Jafar. (She's stopped though)

The Villains' Bodyguard: Mr. Hyde (The Pagemaster) in the role of Rictus Erectus. Jafar's oldest son, deform in body and mind, his one purpose in life is to lead his father's army.

The Hero's Superiors: Amalthia (Last Unicorn) and Yum-Yum (The Thief and the Cobbler) in the roles of Dag and Toast respectively. Called Shiny and Yummy, they adapt to life outside the quickest. When Snowflake tries to run back, they tackle her together. They've never met a man like Larn; when they tell him to do something, he does it with no argument. They quite enjoy that.

The Redeemer: Kaley (Quest for Camelot) in the role of Capable. Everyone calls her Dame. When she sees Tarry Black crying in the back of the rig. She comforts him and encourages him to keep living.

The Villains' Henchman: Dr. Vigglestien (Nightmare Before Christmas) in the role of the Organic Mechanic. Jafar's private doctor, and the only other man allowed to touch the brides.

The One Who Dies First: Odette (The Swan Princess) in the role of Splendid: Jafars' favorite bride and carrier of his next child. known as Golden, she's the bravest of the escapees. She's killed during the chase that freaks out Snowflake and strands Tar on the rig, and her baby dies with her.

Also starring...

Grumpy (Snow White) in the role of Corpus Colossus

Tala (Brother Bear) as the Keeper of the Seeds

Grandma Fa (Mulan) as Miss Giddy

All characters belong to their respective companies.

[through-gayas-eyes]

Father Forgets

-by W. Livingston Larned

“Listen, son; I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside.

There are things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor.

At breakfast, I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread butter too thick on your bread. And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, “Goodbye, Daddy!” and I frowned, and said in reply, “Hold your shoulders back!”

Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came Up the road, I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before you boyfriends by marching you ahead of me to the house. Stockings were expensive – and if you had to buy them you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, from a father!

Do you remember, later, when I was reading in the library, how you came in timidly, with a sort of hurt look in your eyes? When I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you hesitated at the door. “What is it you want?” I snapped.

You said nothing, but ran across in one tempestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms tightened with an affection that God had set blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not wither. And then you were gone, pattering up the stairs.

Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sickening fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, of reprimanding – this was my reward to your for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

And there was so much that was good and fine and true in your character. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn itself over the wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me good night. Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have knelt there, ashamed!

It is a feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you during your waking hours. But tomorrow I will be a real daddy! I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: “He is nothing buy a boy – a little boy!”

I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much, too much.”

[cafeleningrad]

Oh dear, I have a lot of thoughts about this scene especially for what it means to Miki. Like with Tsuwabuki, Miki is to me an entry level into misogynistic beliefs perpetuated but also attracting younger boys in Ohtori. My personal Rosetta Stone. (As always in Utena, a lot of themes and readings are at play, so my five cents are just some cents amongst many, and is non-conclusive.)

Every interaction between Touga and Miki in the Sunlit Garden duology, is a powerplay but also (sexual) temptation. It's a seduction of Miki but not so much for himself but to be seduced by very adult, sexual promises to follow Touga's path. Since motivations and struggles in Utena are often implanted/set up extrenally, and duels just the culimination of these issues, I do think the scene is a key scene in understanding Miki's developement and what he stands for.

How I read Miki is him being quiet symbolic for being the starting point of many boys in Ohtori. Arguably a kind kid who already has some questionable ideas about how women should be. However he and his beliefs get worse from here. And not necessarily because Ohtori's beliefs are necessarily inevitable to exist.

Tsuwabuki might already follow the motions of endaring a girl, getting harmed for her, or following more intentionally sexual acts to be allowed personhood and proximity (at a cost). But he merely replicates the actions without really having an understnading what he does. Whereas Miki... well, he's the youngest memeber of the student council. At the age of 13 years he's definitely older than Tsuwabuki but he's even younger than Utena, and younger than his male superiors like Saionji and Touga. In Episode 4 we meet Miki as arguably kind student council memeber who could make for a friend. He also doesn't seem to have a reason to duel, his hangups are child-like-innocent, apparently, very concerned about his sister. That's until we get the rug pulled under our feet and need to reconsider some "innocent" aspects about Miki. He's easily swayed by Utena's arguments in Episode 4 that no duells should be fought over Anthy becuase it's wrong to treat another human like an object. At this point Miki seems to have a little crush on Anthy. Miki does agree with Utena. When the student council receives the demand from the End of the World to duell, Miki repeats Utena's arguments against the duels almost verbatim. In fact, I like to believe that he's genuine. What happens next is Touga counterarguing that Miki might loose something very dear to him. He does appeal to Miki's egoism. Whereas Miki didn't have a bigger goal for future or desire before, Touga gives him the impression that he would like to have some. Later we also do meet Kozue herself. There Miki's childhood memory shows it's first cracks by comparing how remembers a "faceless", helpless Kozue versus the twin sister who acts on her own, and is met with a loto disdain by Miki's part. Here we do have more overt sexual themes by having Miki's once idealized twin sister engage in obvious sexual acts. What Miki wanted was tied to Kozue. A false Kozue mind you, but it's tied to the persona of his twin. Interestingly, Touga can be close to her by the sexual means Miki condemn's so much. Miki doesn't reply to Touga's comment, he's obviously at loss for words in that moment.

Speculative intermission: The meaning of Kozue's sexuality (non-exhausitve, non-conclusive) One aspect which I do find underdiscussed is how Miki and Kozue want the same thing but have no idea how to approach each other anymore. Of course, Miki and Kozue could be another close to incestous sibling relationships although them being twins seems quiet significant to me. The more we meet Kozue, the more we larn that she too wants to go back to a state where Miki and she were close. Both Kaoru twins are shaken by their parents splitting up (Kozue trying to save a next of baby birds, Miki speaking vehemently against adults about his life (the irony)), Kozue's black rose episode ends quiet harmoniously by them having a normal sibling moment of asking hwo the other is doing, wishing each other a good night, and drinking the milkshake they used to drink as kids. Their happiness, or their ideal version of happiness are visions of the sunlit garden of the other in it. Their happiness is tied to their twin, their twin is part of them. They do also look very similar. However, Kozue is a girl, Miki a boy which makes a tremendous difference at Ohtori. Both Miki and Kozue are subject to sexual advances at Ohtori. Whereas Kozue overtly flirts with guys around them, partly as a reason to spite her twin brother, Miki does get sexually approached by his music teacher. But where Miki gets protected by Kozue by her scaring the music teacher away even by physical violence, Miki doesn't protect her back. Miki is afforded protection where Kozue is scorned. later Kozue does indeed get approached by an adult like Akio. (Questionable, if they actually ever were sexually involved but Akio certainly uses sexuality to manipulate people.) To say, Miki can afford to be innocent about sexuality, Kozue is forced to grow up much sooner than her twin. This is already demonstrated by the piano recital: Miki was allowed to rest, but Kozue crying in fear and nervosity is dragged ont eh stage anyway. By the fact of them being twins, there is a reflection how significantly different the expreince of being raised a girl is than the exprience form being raised a boy is.

What does all that mean for Touga comparing Miki to Kozue in a sexual context? I very much agree that Touga did use heavily sexual inuendo on purpose. Although for Touga the idea of "everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." applies. Touga does use sex as mean to maybe divert himself but he uses it also to reconfirm his power over others. He does sexually approach his own little sister to push her to her final duel, the swaths of girls confirm his masculinity, his first strategy to sway Utena is by romantic-suggestive-advances. The more Touga tries to sway Saionji to do his bidding,e specially in the Akio arc, the more sexually suggestive their imagery together gets. In that sense I do read Touga talking suggestively to Miki after having slept with his twin sister as a sexually charged powerplay. Touga can have Kozue but only by the adult act of sex - pitted against Miki who's biggest advance towards a girl was correcting her math test, something helpful, if not brainy. But there's the seductive element charged towards Miki which might also be used to seduce Miki. Like Akio, Touga is also no stranger to use his sexual appeal on other men - evne if he vehemently insists that liking the same sex is wrong. Agian, my twin symbolism theory is just my theory, but no matter if it's persuasive of not, Miki's desires are framed as obtainable by sex.

And finally the scene with Touga's open chest, sprawling over a pink bed with very suggestive themes: The context here is Miki reciting Touga's words to him at the last student council meeting. It's Miki's imagination framing Touga in such a charged manner. Miki's imagination does play with sexual appeal like Touga implanted it before. Why would Miki imagine another man like that? (Obvious Utena answer he's definitely not entirely straight, hahaha.) partly it is because Miki is attracted to the sexual allure, partly because Touga is sexually imposing over Miki. Touga also imposed sex, the adult action, as a mean to get/get control over a woman. But the words are those appealing to Miki's egoism. the message is alluring itself, and Touga is the persona of seduction, peek manliness and attraction. (If following the theory that to some point the twin-juxtaposition means that, at least in parts, the twins see oneself in the other, that would mean they could be one and the same. (Utena once says to Kozue: "If your were a guy you'd be like Miki." which Kozue doesn't react to positively. Is the only difference in personhood their gender?) In that case, Miki could be as easily subject to sexual desire as his sister. Hence... Miki would rather be the controlling part.)

And Miki let's himslef be seduced. Again, Miki is easily impressionable, the arguments for or against the duels are always provided by others. But he can decide which one he likes to use. Of course there was a lot of manipulation happening to push Miki to duel but Miki also let's himself get dragged by it. As alluring Touga's image is, Miki let's this override his better nature of knowing that it's wrong to treat another perosn like a trophy. Miki's egoism, framed with very adult sexual added to it, has won.

"Your sister's as cute as you are. And as easy-going."

I was going to make a "why did he say this, what's wrong with him" joke, but actually let's unpack this? Fully inviting people to help me unpack this- it's Utena, I'm sure I'll miss something.

The thing that jumped out at me upon first watching this scene is that it's really blatant flirting. "You and your sister are equally cute", he says, just having had sex with said sister.

And I initially couldn't figure out why he did this! Like, this whole scene is about baiting Miki into dueling, the sex with Kozue included. But this? This moment where he straight-up hits on Miki? I couldn't make it fit.

The best explanation I can think of is that flirting with Miki is, like, a show of dominance. "I'm going to compare you to a girl I just had sex with, what are you going to do about it? Nothing. I have the power here." It makes Miki feel more helpless- it also makes him feel some other things, if this shit

is any indication*, but I think the point is less "give Miki the most confusing and twisted bisexual awakening in existence" (although I do think Touga would find that funny) and more "treat Miki like an inferior".

*I am only slightly joking. Like, Flashback Touga doesn't repeat the flirty line, just the stuff about the Rose Bride, but the fact that he's being framed like That in Miki's mind, even though there's also the image of him leaning on the piano with his shirt off that actually happened and would be way less suspicious to linger on... I'm sure there's more to it than just Miki being thirsty, but I think that part is definitely there.

Also, as a younger guy with similar-but-not-yet-as-severe sibling issues, Miki is objectively the best candidate if Touga ever decided he wanted to have his own Touga- that is, Touga in relation to Akio. I don't think Touga ever even tries to go through with it, but this might be laying the groundwork for a similar fucked-up apprenticeship. Make Miki want to be Touga and also stir up some sexual feelings and the Yikesfest follows.

[masud1234-world]

Arabic education for young children. https://youtu.be/cCXmNd5LX0Q

[phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess]

Webcomic Recommendations

1) AVA'S DEMON [Supernatural Horror/Sci-Fi Horror, Mythology, Magic, Reincarnation, Self-Hatred, Growth, Chaos, Space, Running from a Cult, Adventure, Drama, Confusion, Potential Romance, LGBPTQA+]

Ava Ire was born with an unwanted passenger, who could take over her body and ruin her life. A close brush with death changes their relationship, and sets her on a quest to find others like her, to take on the ruthless dictator holding the galaxy hostage.

There's even musical scores and videos interspersed in the comic.

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2) HOTBLOOD! [Urban Fantasy, Western, Chaos and Centaurs, Conmen]

"A centaur in the Old West. Originally drawn 2013-2016, revised and updated for tapas."

[There's a second series called ZARCO as well]

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3) WILDE LIFE [Urban Fantasy, Supernatural Chaos, Friendship, Found Family, Romance, Chaos]

Oscar Wilde, an author like his namesake, finds himself in a small town called Podunk... where apparently every supernatural secret in the entire country is just chilling. If you love Urban Fantasy... read it.

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4) MONSTERKIND [Urban Fantasy, Dork Human Protagonist, Mystery, Found Family, Friendship, Conspiracy]

Wallace Foster is a human social worker sent, for reasons he doesn't understand, to a monster-only district. The monsters there are hurt, they're afraid, and there are secrets no one wants to talk about. He meets a series of dorky, fun friends who straight up adopt him and this is almost as chaotic as his job.

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5) NO END [Post-Apocalypse, Zombies, Found Family, Disabilities, LGBPTQA+, Friendship and Conflict, Conspiracy, Running towards a better future]

After the zombie apocalypse, all that is left are a handful of fortified outposts that the military tend to hold onto with an iron fist. There are people who move between them with messages, and can guide you, but there are still free roaming undead. Into this chaos, two parties travelling through meet and forge a chaotic found family trying to hide from the military who want them eliminated.

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6) SISTER CLAIRE [Urban Fantasy, Magic, Religion but Odd, Ninja Nuns, LGBPTQA+, Supernatural, Heartrending, Found Family, Check each panel carefully]

Sister Claire is a novice who has a visit from an 'Angel' one night, before she has the chance to larn Nun-fu. Things snowball into a chaotic adventure that involves magic, witches, warrior nuns, underwater adventures, and making family through killing prejudices.

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7) NAMESAKE [Fractured Fairytales, Magic, Found Family, Friendship, Love and Sorrow]

Are you an Alice? A Dorothy? A Jack-be-Nimble? Then your name qualifies you for a potential trip to a fictional realm where the same tale plays out over and over with small variations each time.

The good news is that there's an agency who can help you understand what happened afterwards, they are former namesakes, who lived through their own tales. Except... this time, a new name has entered an old story and things are going very wrong.

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8) LOVE NOT FOUND [Affection, Futurism, Other Planets/Space, Robots, Alien Life, Slice of Life, LGBPTQA+, Romance]

In a future when humans are among the stars on all manner of planets, there's been a change for the worse. Humans don't Touch, it's considered odd. Babies are made with machines, intimacy is done through machinery, dancing is done with protective forcefield barriers...

What then, when someone decides this isn't enough?

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9) The GLASS SCIENTISTS [Jekyll & Hyde, Chaotic, Science, Steampunk, Mental Health, Romance, LGBPTQA+, Oblivious Himbo]

A new take on the tale of Jekyll and Hyde, the good doctor runs a whole cabinet of chaotic scientists, and this often ends explosively. Hyde has just as much trouble, and their bickering is bringing them both down.

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10) ZOMBIE ROOMIE [Urban Fantasy, Zombies, LGBPTQA+, Weird Roommates, Slice of Life, Magic, Supernatural]

Ever wondered what it would be like to room with a zombie? Wonder no more.

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11) WITCHY [Magic, Dystopian Society, Hidden Conspiracy, Rebellion, Adventure, Drama, Family and Love, LGBPTQA+]

In a world where the length of your hair equates to your level of magic, and if it is too long, can result in your death... the most terrifying thing to be is someone with rapunzel-length hair and no control of your powers. [Is also being published! I have book one, and #2 is coming soon].

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12) INTERCOSMIC [Celestial Powers, Elemental Guardians, Humanity in Space, Chaos, Found Family, Loss of Mentors, Friendship]

Guardians of Space and elements, they stand to protect the universe against threats. As their mentors were destroyed milennia before, two new elements have passed their training to take over; but could not have anticipated their first task... babysitting a human girl who fell through a rift in space.

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[skycowboys]

Oh my god. Would dressage pegs be trained to show off their wings??? Peacock dressage babies????

Hi!

That'd be pretty neat to have the wings be a part of the moves, like being held in different positions for flare/fanciness. Or taking into account how the tail feathers swish around when you pirouette. Things would def be more difficult if the pegasus has to hold it's wings in different positions throughout the test instead of just having them folded at their sides.

~ Larn

[yokelish]

When is the next chapter coming (ू•ᴗ•ू❁)

Why do u hate Dazai but not like. Mori. Or Fyodor. Kinda the same people no?

You see, I hate Dazai from a writing perspective. I kinda don't give a fuck about moral high ground in a urban YA fantasy. Or any fiction, really. I don't come to fiction for moral lessons, the triumph of the Good and Right.

But I hate them as s a reader. As a person who went from "This is interesting" to "Ah ofc you should have know better this is what happens when planning outside of writers-but-urban-YA-fantasy never fucking happened". Dazai went from a character of ???some sort of trauma??? and nihilism, moral ambiguity and seeking light at the end of the tunnel, depression and obsession with death and futility of it all, he was slowly but surely pressed into a convenient plot device. Whatever the plot needs to happen, Dazai will make it happen. He is the gear box in the car. He will go first, second, third, and reverse. Anything, really, like a Swiss Army knife. He is the cork and the screw, he is the orbit of the Sun, he is....

He is Sherlock from Sherlock BBC.

And he really shouldn't fucking have been.

I hate Atsushi, too, but saying you hate Atsushi is big no-no in this universe. How dare you hate Atsushi he is baby, he is orphan, he is traumatized. He is also most passive, reactive protagonist I can come up with at the top of my head. Every. Single. Time. Cunt. Goes. From a larned lesson on how he should take action to forgetting it and unlearning it and doing it all over again. And it's double stupid considering that the very first thing we know about Atsushi is that he doesn't feel worthy of simply living so he feels the need to sacrifice himself and be stupid in order to gain that worth. He is most vicious cycle, it's both hilarious and tragic.

If I want that, I will go to SHIROU FUCKING EMIYA CAUSE EVEN HE DID BETTER.

I hate Fyodor too but he is so paper thin, and his motivation and character is just so poorly painted outside of "what if Dazai believed in something bigger than himself", it just doesn't feel worth it to even hate him. Fyodor was a device from the beginning and a device he will remain.

Mori's fucking great, you get what the cunt is all about. He's among the very few characters that did not betray what they were introduced as and meant to be for. At least at wherever it was where I dropped the whole thing.

[yuco-the-alien116]

Old art of Larne I stumbled upon

TW/GORE, AND LOST OF IT (he is not in any pain)

(Totally not foreshadowing for what happens in my story)

Poor baby man-

Very proud of this.

[halflifealyx]

today we are liveblogging a morning in the life of larn. we say good morning to the babie boys. we turn on the kettle and pass out on the toilet for five minutes while it boils (not pictured)

[itsnothingbutluck]

FATHER FORGETS W. Livingston Larned condensed as in "Readers Digest" Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside. There are the things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor. At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread butter too thick on your bread. And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, "Goodbye, Daddy!" and I frowned, and said in reply, "Hold your shoulders back!" Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came up the road I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before your boyfriends by marching you ahead of me to the house. Stockings were expensive-and if you had to buy them you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, from a father! Do you remember, later, when I was reading in the library, how you came in timidly, with a sort of hurt look in your eyes? When I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you hesitated at the door. "What is it you want?" I snapped. You said nothing, but ran across in one tempestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms tightened with an affection that God had set blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not wither. And then you were gone, pattering up the stairs. Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sickening fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, of reprimanding-this was my reward to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years. And there was so much that was good and fine and true in your character. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn itself over the wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me good night. Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have knelt there, ashamed! It is feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you during your waking hours. But tomorrow I will be a real daddy! I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: "He is nothing but a boy-a little boy!" I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother's arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much, too much, yet given too little of myself. Promise me, as I teach you to have the manners of a man, that you will remind me how to have the loving spirit of a child...

[onceuponaseriesrewatch]

OUASR Press Release 4x7 The Snow Queen

4x7 The Snow Queen

Synopsis: Emma captures the Snow Queen and interrogates her at the sheriff’s station.  But the Snow Queen uses her prior knowledge of Emma to try to persuade her into thinking that they are more alike than she could possibly imagine.  Regina and Robin Hood’s relationship grows increasingly complex as they struggle to find a way to save his dying wife, Emma begins to see what she missed out on by not growing up and being a family with Snow and Charming when she sees how involved Mary Margaret is in baby Neal’s life, and Henry begins his after school job in Gold’s shop while trying to help Regina find a clue to the identity of the author of the storybook.  Meanwhile, in Arendelle of the past, we larn about the origin of the Snow Queen and her familial connection to Elsa and Anna as we see her discover her spectacular yet deadly ice powers.

Written by: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz

Directed by: Billy Gierhart

Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin (Snow White / Mary Margaret Blanchard); Jennifer Morrison (Emma Swan); Lana Parilla (Evil Queen / Regina Mills); Josh Dallas (Prince Charming / David Nolan); Emilie de Ravin (Belle French); Colin O’Donoghue (Captain Killian ‘Hook’ Jones); Jared Gilmore (Henry Mills); Michael Socha (Will Scarlet); Robert Carlyle (Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold)

Guest Starring: Sarah Bolger (Princess Aurora); Georgina Haig (Queen Elsa); Sean Maguire (Robin Hood); Elizabeth Mitchell (Ingrid); Sally Pressman (Princess Helga); Jessy Schram (Ashley Boyd); Pascale Hutton (Princess Gerda); John Rhys-Davies (Grand Pabbie); Jonathan Runyon (Duke of Weselton); Brighton Sharbino (young Ingrid); Ryan Jefferson Booth (man); Bailey Herbert (young Helga);Ava Telek (young Gerda); Greg Webb (king)

The Snow Queen airs June 23 at 8:00 pm EST