#because they know firsthand

[mohntilyet]

veilguard spoilers regarding a josie romance. but can we talk about the letter josie sends to a romanced inquisitor because. i’m sorry. fucking losing my mind at the fact that the inquisitor and josephine are close enough friends with the guy the inquisitor duels in her romance to be invited to meet his third child. implying they’ve been invited to the other two. at a baby shower and getting introduced as the one who dueled the baby’s father because he was trying to steal your girl. antivan romances insane.

NO LITERALLLYYYYY. AND HE’S AN IN LAW. ITS TOO FUNNY. i cannot imagine how they met and how yvette probably was like “teehee…. the man that my sister spurned…. has fallen in love with ME!” and the best/worst part is that ortranto really has. i like to think of them running around with each other and secretly meeting as though their families actually hate each other (they really don’t lol) . the ortrantos would probably be delighted to have their son actually marry a montilyet like they wanted, even better that they’re actually in love and it’s not arranged!

i have this image of josie going like “you can’t marry him. is this a joke, because it’s not funny. i almost embarrassed him! the only reason the ortrantos do not hate us is because he is a very kind man who saw that i was in love with the inquisitor! ….yes i suppose a very kind man like that could love you…….. yes of course i want you to be happy…… yvette gabrielle montilyet, i fear you are not hearing what i’m saying— DON’T SAY YOU ARE ALREADY AN ORTRANTO. DID YOU ELOPE? ah okay. don’t do that. i said don’t do that. yvette come back and listen to me” etc etc

of course i must believe that there was a big scene caused (once again) by a montilyet and ortranto that ends with lord ortranto making a speech where the publicly declares his love for yvette in front of all of antiva city to see and hear. so there’s no backing out from this one. in my mind there’s a rehash of the big “BECAUSE I LOVE HER!” (ortranto, desperate but genuine), “you do?” (completely aghast josie who has somehow missed the fact her sister has been giggling even more than usual), plus an “OF COURSE HE DOES!” (a thrilled yvette) that reminds josie so fondly of her own love story that she's immediately relaxed (and suddenly accepting) about this whole thing <3

[screampied]

does Sukuna take strap 🤔?

yes he does 😪☝️

[ingravinoveritas]

(CW: Abuse) The fact that people have such narrow, prescribed ideas about what abuse is and what kinds of people can or cannot be abused is the reason why abuse of all different topographies (verbal, physical, emotional, sexual, etc.) is not believed, not taken seriously, and not reported. There is no one gender, one age group, one socioeconomic bracket that abuse belongs to--it can and does exist anywhere, and acting like this is not the case and pretending that it "can't happen" to someone only causes more harm to victims everywhere.

To all of my followers, please know that I am holding space for you. I am not here to judge, to gatekeep, or to tell anyone what to think. It is okay to feel the way you feel, and I want you to know you are not alone.

[sarcastic-clapping]

maybe i am the remote worker that executives and corporate real estate investors fear monger about. i saw a comment on the remote work subreddit that said something like “they think we all just roll out of bed at 10am, pretend to be online while we’re really at the gym, log off at 4, and stay in our sweats all day”

smash cut to me reading said comment while on the treadmill at the gym during work hours

[all-that-jazz-93]

Okay confession time I guess, but...I like Frank.

I know we're not supposed to like him. I know he represents everything reprehensible about the war and America and blind fervid patriotism. I know at worst we're supposed to hate him, and at best we're supposed to feel sorry for him (and I do), but like...I actually like him?

I can't help it. He's just so deeply vulnerable and broken and lonely and I just...

I want to help him. I want to fix him. I want to take him by the hand and gently show him that he doesn't have to be this way, that his parents are never going to love him no matter how much he tries to parrot the toxic ideals they drilled into him, and he would be so much better off just leaving all of that behind and following his own path.

Frank Burns had so much potential, and I'm sad we never got to see it realized.

[e-louise-bates]

Anne remembered that Miss Cornelia had given her a very different impression of Leslie’s mother. But had not love the truer vision?

NO, Anne, for heaven’s sake, no. Even taking into account Miss Cornelia’s bias, there is no way Rose West comes out of this story as anything but the villain of the piece. Even in other versions of this story as told in short stories (i.e, Only a Common Fellow, Four Winds), it’s never a mother who sells her daughter into sexual slavery so she can stay in her house. There’s no way to paint that as anything less than horrific.

Still, it *was* selfish of Rose West to make her daughter marry Dick Moore.

I’m glad you can at least admit that much, Anne! I do love your desire to think the best of people (as shown even in your younger years in your attempt to defend the women who raised you prior to Green Gables as meaning to be kind), but there are limits.

It’s amazing to me how I could read Anne’s House of Dreams as a kid and recognize the inherent tragedy of Leslie’s story without in the least understanding its implications, and then read it as an adult and realize that Rose West made her daughter marry an abusive r@pist so that she wouldn’t have to get kicked out of her house—granted Leslie claims that Rose never knew how bad Dick was, it’s still appalling.

(As a kid it was the bit about Kenneth that hit me the hardest, especially Leslie having seen his face as he was killed and never being able to forget it. I wonder if naming her own son Kenneth was an attempt to replace the old horror of that with new memories?)

[soupbtch]

ummm. my fic is done.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[synonymroll648]

headcanon that as sophie ages, she gets more and more off-put by how she still looks twenty at some age past 40. the only wrinkles she has are smile lines and a barely-there crease between her eyebrows that never leaves. no gray hairs. it doesn’t feel like there’s any physical evidence of how much stress aged her too fast.

(maybe she dyes more grays into her hair to feel better about her reflection, the more time passes by. maybe, on bad days, she contours wrinkles into her skin with makeup. maybe the bad days get more frequent as she ages outside the human lifespan. maybe.)

[golden-stag]

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Gggahh… It’s still so sweet seeing characters support Dizzy like this and seeing more of Testaments soft side ;v;

[taddymason]

I have most of Lightning Pin planned (to give you an idea, the final chapter has a draft and a name even if there are more than 25 chapters left) and STILL I have no idea what Jay's reaction will be when he finds out that he is adopted or how he will find out. Nya accidentally tells him this while she's giving him a recap of the events of Skybound/Prime Empire? like:

Jay interrupting her completely confused: "... wait, what do you mean by 'bio parents'?"

Nya panicking at the realization: "...uh, yeah, about that-"

I just think. in the irony and the awkward silence, and in Jay processing it without saying anything while Kaida blinks open-mouthed in his direction.

[squishosaur]

hey man. i'm just saying. why would we put inexperienced teenagers with over-inflated egos and obvious emotional issues into combat classes and make them claw their way to the top of their dorms and expect things to just run smoothly. who actually thought this

[temperqnce]

how i feel when people still, after playing this game, think bringing down the veil should have been an option and would have been the right thing to do

[heyclickadee]

So, my family is rewatching Rings of Power, and since I’m the one in the family that read The Silmarillion (like a masochist), I’m the one who keeps getting asked all the questions.

[godblooded]

the way i have no one to grieve with and it’s fucking killing me slowly.

[bilboyagathechickenfootedhobbit]

I took my kid to an indoor amusement park thingy the other day with some of his buddies. One of his friends brought his sister, who is eight. All the kids are off doing their thing and the sister comes back to where the adults are, upset because someone bullied her. I was like “Hey, I know it sucks, but just know it’s a problem they have with themselves; you’re fine. They just don’t like something about themselves and are putting that on you. It’s not right, it sucks, but don’t listen to them”

One of the kids grandmas was like “Was it a boy or girl bullying you?” It was a boy. Grandma goes “Oh, he only did that because he likes you!”

Y’ALL.

I damn near flipped the fucking table.

I was like “NOPE. AbsoLUTELY not. If a boy is ever mean to you, it is NOT because he likes you. That is NOT how we show affection. If a boy likes you, he can TELL you. If he’s mean to you, don’t give him the time of day and go tell an adult.” The girl was like “Yeah!” And ran back off to play. I turned on the grandma and was like “I’m sorry, but what the actual FUCK was that? That shit went out of style thirty years ago!! You wanna tell a little girl that ABUSE is a sign of affection?? How do you think that’s going to translate when she starts dating?”

HOOOOO BOY, I had to take some deep breaths after that! What the fuuuuuuuuuck?? We do NOT tell little girls that bullshit!! That’s how I ended up in my abusive relationships. “Oh he’s choking me out because he’s so jealous, this is so passionate!”

Fucks sake, I wonder about people sometimes. Do they literally not THINK before they open their mouths??