i've read quite a few fics about jamie and malcolm that focus on jamie growing up in motherwell or glasgow and the way it's depicted bothers me so much as someone who grew up in the working class council estates in lanarkshire and edinburgh. some of the fics i've read genuinely treat jamie's home like it's a slum. they make it seem grimy and ugly and unsafe and horrible. as if that's why jamie wants to leave his home, and not because of more realistic issues like his home life or family or a desire to go somewhere bigger / different. 'deprived' areas aren't horrible scary shiteholes where everyone is just waiting for the chance to escape. i'm tired of middle class people looking at places that look like my childhood home and thinking up images of crime and destitution and hopelessness. places that look like jamie's home are the same as the places that hold some of the best memories i have of my entire life. i see a scottish council estate and see some of the most precious people and experiences i've ever known because guess what. it's just a place. it's someone's home. not because they're trapped there and they don't have a choice so they're forced to 'make the most of it'. it's just home. you don't have to understand it or like it or want to live there yourself, but at least try and be normal about areas that don't look like your middle class view of the world
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I've seen people say that Rose (Tyler) is haunting the Doctor's narrative, but they haven't really considered that you never truly get over your Scottish highlander boyfriend and the daughter you guys adopted getting their memories wiped by your own people and having to live with that guilt, which causes you to become more distant to and dismissive of your companions because you can't have the people you love be taken from you again because of your own actions.
You don't want to lose them, but you have to, because that means it's your choice, and leaving someone is a whole lot easier than them leaving you.
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next person tht puts "bbg" n "mike wheeler" in the same sentence in a positive context owes me 10000 fucking dollars. who's up next
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If I'm not reblogging enough 9/11 memes today, it's because-- and I swear to god this is true-- I am on a flight to New York City and the infight wifi is bad.
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the sketch i was planning to do in like 15 min to test if my new USB splitter worked, vs what i spent all afternoon painting over the sketch bc i kept fussing things
I still dont like the final one but i really dont have anymore time to draw bc i have so many assessments due at once atm, but i wanted to draw byleth as the test bc im replaying fe3h
i knew i'd just use the same characters again if i replayed, so I'm doing a PMU (pick my units) run where my friends all voted for who to use. It's been fun so far, the small amount i've been able to play, and i want to draw more for it, if i get a break from assignments soon
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Rereading 'Please Don't Leave Me' and realized that Leon had his shirt removed twice smh.
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