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[stromuprisahat]

Aleksander: “I have no intention of hurting you. You must know that by now.”

Alina: “Forgive me if I don't take you at your word.”

Oh truly? When did he hurt you? When he upgraded your uncontrollable powers? Is that why you continue to do so by yourself now?

Aleksander: “I was honest about what mattered.”

Alina: “Like creating the Fold?”

The Darkling’s always as honest as possible, while not endangering himself and his goals. Makes sense. If you live as long as him, it would be immensely hard to keep track of the lies, so he’s just adjusting interpretations.

Alina’s list of concerns:

Mal

Destroying the Fold

Aleksander: “Your obsession with the Fold is naive. Destroying it won't solve Ravka's problems. They've hated us and hunted us long before the Fold existed. I was there. Now stop this, please. And come with me. We'll rule together side by side. I promised that you and I would change the world. And I intend to keep that promise.”

Not a single word that isn’t truth. I only wouldn’t offer her equality. She’s too short-sighted and inexperienced for that.

Alina: “That is never going to happen.”

Good. He should snatch Nikolai and marry him.

Aleksander: “How do you see this playing out? You and your Lantsov Prince happily ever after? Your faithful tracker curled up at the foot of your throne.”

I’m certain there would be no issues concerning possible heirs, since Nikolai paternity’s questionable, the line of succession should continue through him and people hate Grisha. I’m sure Sun Saint would be venerated enough for people to accept some deserter’s bastard on a throne.

Aleksander: “I have seen what you truly are, and I have never turned away. I never will. Can they say the same?”

Honey, you have some serious illusions about what she is. 

- Do you know what an imago is, Will? ... a term from the dead religion of psychoanalysis. An imago is an image of a loved one, buried in the unconscious, carried with us all our lives.

~ An ideal.

- The concept of an ideal...

Hannibal 02×13- Mizumono

Alina: “They're not the ones obsessed with power and control.”

Neither is he, but the writers didn’t get the memo...

Aleksander: “Power must be controlled. And you are playing a very dangerous game with it.”

Well, yes! She just bitched about her lack of control like five minutes ago! But we can’t have our heroine admit the Baddie’s right, can we?

Alina: “You don't want me to tear down the Fold, because if I do, I'll destroy the only thing you have left.”

I just looove Alina’s empathy. Aleksander let her in enough to show her what their lives look like after few lifetimes, and instead of her at least considering how will that affect her, she’s mocking him.

Aleksander: “Have it your way.”

Sorry, but at this point I want your heartless girlboss dead. Shame the Darkling doesn't.

[victusinveritas]

For those not in the know, this is one of the Amanita mushrooms referred to as a Destroying Angel. Never, ever, ever, ever forage with an app. Especially for mushrooms.

[jackyjackdraws]

I got this idea at 3am.

No, I won't elaborate further

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

[enemywasp]

I'm sorry I keep posting my tiktok comments but please. What does this mean. What do people THINK shipping is for anymore???

[sirompp]

hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[unsung-idiot]

some quick drawings of little Soos I made a while ago

[chongoblog]

Me, after forgetting to cut the top off an onion before dicing it: “Aw dammit”

The Gordon Ramsey that lives in my head: “Don’t worry there, this mistake isn’t going to ruin anything. No need to be too hard on yourself”

Me: “Wow, that’s…not what I was expecting”

Gordon: “Of course, you ought to know by now that I don’t shout at cooks just to do so. I do it because the people in hit television show Kitchen Nightmares are putting their services out into the public and claim to be good enough to have the title of head chef. You’re just some guy in your twenties making beef stroganoff for yourself and your roommate. I’m kind of a dick, yeah, but I’m not gonna scream at you for a minor mistake like this”

Me: “Oh….well…thanks”

Gordon: “You’re welcome…cunt…”

[greykolla-art]

Yeah I think you’re in the right place, Al.

[seldomsee]

I can't stop thinking about this post

[totopopopo]

a good sumerian inexplicably donated five packs of 500 temporary tattoos to the classroom, each pack featuring identical pictures of a different invasive species of bug

[oncorhynchus-nerka]

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

[crystaltoa]

And now for something completely different.

This is the ADHD Teapot. I made it in a ceramics class a few years ago. I use it to explain executive dysfunction to people who haven’t come across the term before (and those who think of ADHD mostly as Hyperactive Eight Year Old Boy Syndrome).

So, most people’s brains are like a regular shaped teapot with a single spout. Let’s say that your time, energy, focus etc is the liquid you have in the teapot. Your executive function is the spout, that directs the tea into the specific cup you want to fill-aka the task that you’re meant to be doing. Spills happen occasionally, but generally most of the tea goes in the right cup.

If you have executive dysfunction, (a symptom of ADHD, trauma, autism, schizophrenia etc.) you have multiple spouts going in different directions. You can try pointing one of them at your chosen cup and you will probably get some liquid in there, perhaps you will even fill it right up (finish the task). But meanwhile, tea is also pouring out of several other places and not going where you want it. If you have another container nearby, perhaps some of it will end up in there. But quite a lot of it is going to end up on the floor and accomplish nothing.

And at the end of the day you’ll have filled one or two cups ( or sometimes not even one) compared to the five or six that somebody with the same sized teapot (but only one spout) has filled, and everyone wonders why you’re so bad at getting tea poured, and why you make such a mess in the process.

One day I’d like to spend more time learning pottery and create a really technically good fucked up little adhd teapot. But that’s a long way off since i currently live in the outback and the nearest pottery workshop is some 400km away. But I figure that for now, it might be a useful or interesting metaphor to somebody even in its rough draft form.

This post is the cup I filled instead of cleaning my house btw.