#but ive talked enough

[mariatesstruther]

Do you think Maria and Tess would immediately get along, or would it be a process to become friendly? Not due to woman vs woman bullshit but due to both having overly protective natures and Maria being (rightfully) hesitant/suspicious around Joel at first for his past actions that Tess has been his partner in all ways in?

yes! very much so! (full disclosure i have only watched gameplay of tlou and tlou2 and it was a while ago so im gonna be show specific here): i think if tess survived and made it to jackson to meet maria as she was in the show, it would be extremely tense—but still definitely smoother than it was in the show because of how much better tess is with people than joel.

her and maria would essentially be in opposing positions. maria would be protective of tommy and tommy first and tommy’s trauma first because that’s her mf husband, her partner, her everything (and i know most people assume from what is said in the show that tommy has only been in jackson for maybe a year or shorter or since he stopped contacting joel—i actually suspect he stopped contacting joel because/after he found out maria was pregnant. it makes communicating over the radio way more of a pressing risk. considering tommy and maria are MARRIED and she’s already months along, id think they would have been partners for a few years, if not at least half a decade. that’s a long mf time in the world they live in, even in the place as nice as jackson. so yeah maybe her and tommy haven’t been through quite as much as joel as tess, but they’ve definitely been through a lot and enough—so much so that they got married and are excited to raise children together. they’re a team).

and of course, tess would be protective of joel and joel first and joel’s trauma first because that’s her mf husband, her partner, her sub, her everything. she’d be pissed at tommy for leaving joel and then even more pissed at him for not radioing, mostly because it puts her partner in distress.

i do however think tess would be less combative with maria and more just cautious, because i do think she’d be objective enough to understand why maria feels what she feels. she’s heard how people talk about her and joel around the QZ, and she knows how threatening and dangerous they seem: it’s literally by design. she’d probably think maria would be an idiot to not be cautious of her and joel, honestly. i don’t think she’d be offended by it, moreso impressed.

i also think maria would’ve been far less cautious of joel had tess been there, because let’s be real—those two situations would look very objectively different to maria in terms of ellie’s safety, which is what she was concerned about in the first place.

and furthermore, i think maria would hear enough stories about tommy’s time with joel and tess to understand where tess is coming from, as a woman who also needs to do what she’s gotta do to survive. i think they’d see a lot of themselves in the other woman in almost an instant

so ultimately, there’d always be respect between them

also, i know i just mentioned them but @hypnotisedfireflies wrote a chapter of The Ensemble (so sorry im unable to link rn!) that i think covers this dynamic beautifully, based off a prompt i wrote to them on anon because i was too shy to tell them how amazing drifters is and didnt have this blog yet 🤪 i really recommend it to anyone wanting more maria and tess!!

[hinamie]

corvidae

[stealingpotatoes]

WHY IS EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF ART IVE EVER DONE ON PINTEREST AND WHY DOES PINTEREST KEEP RECOMMENDING ME MY OWN ART

[stil-lindigo]

HELP PALESTINIAN ARCHITECT EVACUATE HER FAMILY FROM GAZA

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[thecmaly]

really? right in front of my karaage?

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more windbreaker comics

[puppppppppy]

act 4 :(

@chipper-smol and i came to a realization

[autisticjoshrusso]

one quick thing i need to put out there uh as funny as it is to be like "omg the Glee namedrop bc he produced both shows" or whatever i DO need to inform you that pre-Glee/post-Glee era IS an actual academic discussion point. that is a genuine unit of cultural measurement and had been long before this. that piece of dialogue was not pulled out of nowhere it was pulled directly out of existing queer discourse.

[velvetwyrme]

MORE TITAN AU!!! of the cityspeaker rodimus variety <3

extra context for these:

this is inspired by the concept of the city/internals of Megatron changing colour in response to heat- something Rodimus has plenty of! (as mentioned in asks here and here)

in this AU Megatron rarely speaks to/acknowledges his cityspeakers, so Rodimus is trying to get a rise out of him the entire time :]

majority of the dialogue is by @callsign-relic whos blog this au lives on! the first section of dialogue is from one of the first titan au posts :]

check out the #titan au tag over on Relic's blog for more Thoughts about this au and its many offshoots!!

[corviiids]

i found a bad post i made months ago in the privacy of my own home and now i need to air it out in public because it's getting mildewy and moths are eating it

[conjuring-ghouls]

Papa Emeritus "I wIlL hAvE a LoNg ViOlEnT sHoWeR" The Fourth.

[saintaviator]

4 YEARS!! 🧪✨🫧☀️🌈🔥‼️

[robotpussy]

ok this is the first time ive ever had to do this but I really need the help right now. i know its going to be hard to get the full amount in the time that I have but any help would benefit me so greatly. i am putting the explanation under the cut as it is very long but TLDR:

I got into the film school of my dreams on a scholarship, but student finance will not pay for the full course fee because my university is independent, (£20k, SF can only pay £14.4k) so I have to pay the remaining fee (£5.6k) by June 1st. I cannot graduate if I don't pay this fee and I am under 2 months away from graduating. all evidence and explanation is under the cut.

gfm is here if the link above doesn't work

thank you to anyone in advance.

I have been studying filmmaking for 2 years at university and I am 2 months away from graduating. I got into this university through a scholarship that reduced the standard course fee in half. Usually, Student Finance/the government will pay for these course fees, but because my university is private, they are unable to pay the fee in full. My course costs £20k and Student Finance will pay £14,400 of this. This means I have to pay £5,600.

Here is the evidence and proof that I did get into my university on a scholarship and what my university offers in terms of fees:

I have been looking for financial support for 2 years (before I even started attending but had a confirmed place) and it has not been enough. I have contacted my local authority for years about the grant I am entitled to as a foster care leaver and the most I could receive was £2,000 that ended up going to paying my gas and electric bills.

I have also gone to many charities to ask them for support and many of the responses I got were "go to your local authority". I did find one charity that was willing to help me but the sponsors of the charity decided that I would receive a laptop and they would pay for the travel costs to my university for a year instead. I am eternally grateful for that but now I have nowhere else to go for this.

I would really appreciate any help I am already having a extremely hard time dealing my current eviction and I am on the verge if being homeless I would just like to get something off my back and I would rather graduate and get this over with. I am still actively working to find places that are willing to help me but in the time that I have now I would appreciate it if I could get something in the meantime.

[hinamie]

So remember me in a softer light

[sketchy--akechi]

November 20 interrogation but they had a long talk

[redfishdeadfish]

does anyone ever feel that they’re like. too neurodivergent to fit into normal society but not neurodivergent enough to relate to other neurodivergent people or is that just me

[yumishisu]

ok obviously 'like a prayer' and 'youre the one that i want' have huge thematic significance but can we talk abt 'im with you' before all that??