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FEMME FILM

In Celebration of Women Filmmakers

Greta Gerwig as Francis Ha!

Remember when that thing happened called the pandemic?

HAHA! Jk...of course we do. We're still living in a mad, disjointed post-pandemic world, four years later. The pandemic pummeled humanity and just about everything else - Hollywood included.

Covid re-wrote the Hollywood playbook. Theater attendance stopped cold. At-home streaming became standard entertainment practice. The last movie I went to see at the theater before the virus invaded was a little-known 2019 horror flick called The Lodge. I don't remember much about the movie, but, looking back, I feel bittersweet about the experience. How was I to know that would be my last, innocent foray before society unraveled in a such way that going to the movies would never be the same?

So what's the connection between the pandemic and female filmmakers, you might ask? Well, just when the Hollywood studios were on their covid-masked knees begging for something to save the theater experience (and their financial lives), along came:

BARBENHEIMER!

Some say it was Top Gun Maverick/Tom Cruse that saved Hollywood after the virus, but I'm sticking to my pink atomic guns that it was the daring duo of Barbie/Oppenheimer.

WHAT A SUMMER! Those two films energized the movie-going experience like no other and Hollywood was as pumped as tween on Twizzlers and RedBulls.

Nolan's Oppenheimer is epic. It is historical. It is emotional. It is long. It is a history lesson about the annihilating evil that man created and that the world can (literally) be relegated to stardust with the push of a button. Applause, applause! Kudos, Christopher Nolan! Your Academy Awards and other trophies were well deserved!

But Barbie? Greta Gerwig's Barbie is communal. It brought people together for a joyous theatrical excursion. Groups gathered at theaters all over the world, dressed in pink, creating bubble-gum colored watch parties, drunk on the female power the film reminded us we have, and sobered at the admonition that the patriarchy is very real. It was also the highest grossing film of 2023, gracing Hollywood with a 1.4 billion box office gift. Applause, applause! Kudos, Greta Gerwig! Your Academy Awar...

Oh. Wait.

The Academy Awards didn't happen for Barbie, other than best song, which is nice, but...

And them's the brakes (and I do mean brakes as well as breaks) for women in Hollywood. The good old boy network rules in LALA land just like it does everywhere else (click here to see the factual, if not depressing, data).

In this post Cinemagooey raises it's fist in solidarity to women filmmakers everywhere, those heroes of feminine empowerment who buck patriarchal odds to bring their creative vision to life and share it with the world, come hell or highwater.

Highlighted below are just some of the women filmmakers who serve as shining stars and beacons of hope for other film warriors who are following in their path:

ELAINE MAY

Elaine May and Walter Matthau in A New Leaf (1971)

Elaine May is a gift to humanity. A true genius, she's been a Broadway star, film star, playwright, screenwriter and director in her long, illustrious career. If you want to introduce yourself to her prodigious talent, I recommend starting with A New Leaf, in which she performed the Hollywood trifecta: writing, directing and starring in this hilarious black comedy. Other writing/directing credits include: The Heartbreak Kid, Mike and Nickey, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Tootsie, The Birdcage and, famously Ishtar, the film that effectively ended her movie career (here's a little link to that fascinating story). May boasts even more directorial and writing credits, but there's too many to list here. Look her up and prepare to be amazed.

I could go on and on about Elaine May, but I'll save it for a post dedicated exclusively to her and her shining accomplishments. She was one of the early greats who painstakingly forged a path for others in the field.

Today's women filmmakers stand on May's shoulders and owe her a debt of gratitude. Cinemagooey salutes this original, one of a kind bad ass.

With Charles Grodin, directing The Heartbreak Kid

Directing A New Leaf

Schmoozing with the big boys, circa 1980s

NANCY MEYERS

Nancy Meyers is the queen of the cozy romcom. When it comes to LOL-witty love stories that make us swoon, she slays. Meyers is renowned for directing comfy, side-splitting hits such as The Parent Trap (1998), Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006) and It's Complicated (2009), to name a few. She also wrote or co-wrote a number of smash hit screenplays, starting with my favorite, Private Benjamin (1980) but also crafting Irreconcilable Differences (1984), Baby Boom (1987) and the Father of the Bride franchise (1991, 1995 and 2020), just to name a few.

Directing Something's Gotta Give

Meyers is not only famous for her filmmaking acumen, her loyal Instagram fans are obsessed with the houses in her movies, homes that imbue a rich, intimate, put-your-feet-up-by-the-fire-and-let's-have-some-wine kind of coastal vibe. Follow her on Insta. You won't regret it. And watch her movies. You're welcome.

Above: Father of the Bride, starring this house

And the stunning beach home in Something's Gotta Give

PENNY MARSHALL

Penny Marshall Directing Big (1989)

Penny Marshall was a staple in my household in 1976 when she starred as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne and Shirley, about two working class gals sharing an apartment and comedic hijinks in Milwaukee. I loved that show. My sixth grade BFF and I conspired to live just such a life after high school (but with better jobs in a warmer climate). Life can upend the best of plans, howeve - that BFF and I never became Laverne and Shirley and when the show ended, Penny Marshall moved from comedic acting to cinematic directing - lucky for us.

Marshall directed a slew of hits in the 80's and 90s: Jumpin' Jack Flash, Big, Awakenings and The Preacher's Wife. But my all-time favorite is A League of Their Own, starring Geena Davis, Rosie O'Donnell, Madonna and Tom Hanks.

A League of Their Own (1992) (turn up the volume and watch this buddy moment between Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell)

The film is a Rosie-the-Riveter-meets-the-MLB story of the The All American Girls Professional Baseball League, an organization started during WWII when it was feared that men's baseball would die off as a casualty of war. The movie recounts an age when men marched off to the trenches and women were suddenly valued for more than their domestic talents, challenging patriarchal traditions and set-in-stone cultural beliefs. It's all heart and Madonna's moving "This Used To Be My Playground" theme song, as well as the reunion of the real life women who were in the league at the end of the film, poignantly encapsulate a brief, shining moment for women in sports.

Penny Marshall died in 2018. But her cinematic legacy and comedic versatility lives on in her extraordinary films, as well as the dozens of comedic roles she inhabited on t.v. (The Odd Couple, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Frasier, Portlandia and Hocus Pocus, to name but a few). It's well worth your time to dig into her films to appreciate this one of a kind female director.

Directing Tom Hanks in Big (1988)

Awakenings, starring Robin Williams (1990). Pass the kleenex

GRETA GERWIG

With Ben Stiller in Greenburg (2010)

Before Barbie and Lady Bird - two films that placed Greta Gerwig squarely on the Hollywood writing and directing map, she was the darling of a lesser known indie-film movement called Mumblecore. This cinematic genre peaked in the mid-aughts and is best described as movies with impromptu dialogue, realistic settings and low-budget markings. This is where Gerwig got her start in movies as an actress/sometimes screenwriter.

After mumbling her way through a myriad of films, Gerwig teamed up with her (now) real-life partner, Noah Baumbaugh and co-wrote and starred in a sweet little movie called Francis Ha!.

Gerwig, dancing through the streets of Manhattan in Francis Ha!

I fell, and am still, in love with Francis Ha!, a comedy about a dreamer living in NYC whose life is derailed when she loses her roommate and best friend, as well as her position in a dance company, rendering her an unemployed, aimless nomad. Francis Ha! became an indie smash, nominated for several awards (Golden Globe, Independent Spirit, London Film Critics Circle Film Awards, to name a few), and cementing Gerwig as a force in film.

Bouyed by this success, Gerwig wrote and directed Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019, an adaptation from the Louise May Alcott novel) and of course Barbie (2023). I can't wait to see what Hollywood's new femme-fab director brings to the table next. If it's an original movie that resonates with millions and draws in big crowds and big bucks, like Barbie did, maybe the Academy will finally give this remarkable talent the recognition she more than deserves.

Gerwig, directing Ryan Gosling in Barbie

And there are more, but not enough...

Despite the fierce odds against them, women have been fighting to share their celluloid visions with audiences since the advent of film (the first: Alice Guy-Blanché made her first movie in 1896). Hats off to the past pioneers and present day warriors who continue to fight the good fight and inspire future femme filmmakers everywhere. I wish I could write a tribute to them all, but here are a few of the greats and one film that I recommend from each, in no particular order:

Jane Campion The Piano (1993), Sophia Coppola, Lost In Translation (2003), Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker (2008), Ava DuVernay, Selma (2014), Nora Ephron, Julie and Julia (2009), Kelly Reichardt, Certain Women (2016), Debra Granik, Winter's Bone (2010), Lana Wachowski and Lilli Wachowski, The Matrix (1999), Jennifer Kent, The Babadook (2014), Charlotte Wells, Aftersun (2022).

Kathryn Bigelow, making history as the first woman to receive the Oscar for Best Director for The Hurt Locker.

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Sant Jordi can be a bit sad for some people, the streets are full love, couples, friends giving each others gifts, parents with kids... when you are single in the middle of all that, it feels lonely!... It's still a great day to be Catalan and celebrate, but solidarity with the depressed anon and with anybody alone on Sant Jordi ❤💛❤💛

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[selenafreshfriendkidoaf]

Upright Four of Wands Tarot card meaning : Health

Four of Wands Tarot Card Meaning Key implications (Upstanding): Home, get-together, gathering, dependability, having a place, festivity, cooperation, achievement, wedding, occasions, security, confidence, pride, family, settling roots, shock

Key implications (Turned around): Family struggle, troubled family, depression, frailty, feeling unwanted or left out, shakiness, dropped get-together, absence of local area soul, disregard, self-question, no achievement, venturing out from home, evacuated,

Four of Wands tarot card depiction The Four of Wands are one of the best tarot cards as they address unwinding, solidarity, and local area achievement. A period of festivity of progress and family gathering is anticipated by the four of wands. In numerology, Four of Wands are associated with energies and vibration, and that connects with the tarot card four of wands too.

Four of Wands (Upstanding) Upstanding Four of Wands Meaning Four of Wands The four of wands upstanding address serene and agreeable relational peculiarities. It means that achievement and festivity of progress and bliss. As per numerology, the number four is an image of serious areas of strength for an and unwavering quality for one and everyone around them. Especially a period for bliss and flourishing. The presence of four of wands upstanding in a tarot card perusing implies that it is a generally excellent time for you to make arrangements with the family. This Minor Arcana card addresses a family gathering. This could imply that you are returning home after quite a while in the event that you live away from your family, or your family and dear companions will visit you. This will establish a climate of bliss and closeness.

Love and Relationship (Upstanding) It is an extraordinary sign on the off chance that the four of wands seem upstanding in an affection and relationship tarot card perusing. In the event that this is the card that showed up, it implies you will partake in a blissful day to day life and will develop further bond with your friends and family. You will actually want to fabricate stable connections and will have a solid sense of safety with yourself and your accomplice. Four of wands address roots and steadiness, which shows that in the event that you are seeing someone are don't know where the relationship is going, this card says that you and your accomplice will turn out to be nearer during this time, which will carry your relationship to stable ground.

Finance (Upstanding) Monetarily, you will have a good sense of safety and stable. Four of wands upstanding means you will seldom have a worried outlook on cash or costs yet it is likewise a sign that you will spend your abundance on your family and friends and family, which will be intentional. You could get them gifts or take them out for lunch or supper or set up them at a celebratory party.

Vocation (Upstanding) The Four of Wands (Upstanding) represent incredible things for your profession. Being the card of progress and cooperation, assuming that this card seems upstanding in a profession tarot card perusing, it demonstrates that you will get backing and help from your coworkers. A feeling of local area will be available in your work area, and this will turn out to be very great for your emotional wellness.

Upright Four of Wands Tarot card meaning : Health As far as wellbeing, the Four of Wands are a good omen as it addresses great wellbeing and health. Assuming that you have been experiencing a disease for quite a while and are in treatment, this card demonstrates that you are at long last going to get help from that sickness and will carry on with a solid life from here on out. The four of wands are an image of family. So on the off chance that you are pregnant or attempting to have a kid, this card is an incredible sign as it flags that your desire will be satisfied or your introduction to the world excursion will be extremely solid and fruitful.

Four of Wands Tarot Card (Turned around) Turned around Four of Wands Tarot Card Meaning Four of Wands While four of wands upstanding address family get-together and local area soul, Four of Wands turned around address everything inverse it. At the point when this card seems switched, this demonstrates that you are feeling a feeling of dejection and forgotten about. There is an absence of congruity and solidarity among your relatives, which is extremely obvious from the weighty air, and you are finding it entirely awkward to invest energy with your relatives. There is pressure between the relatives and your companions as you can't find a place with them. You are feeling as though you have no help from them and that feeling is hauling your state of mind down. This card demonstrates that you probably accomplished something exceptionally extraordinary and you needed to talk about your thoughts of fulfillment and satisfaction with your friends and family, however you are not getting the response that you anticipated from them. They would rather not praise your prosperity.

Love and Relationship (Turned around) On the off chance that the Four of Wands seem switched, this is definitely not a decent sign as things will get troublesome, assuming that you are seeing someone. This card inversion addresses every one of the negative things that one can imagine for a relationship. This card shows an absence of congruity, despondency from family and close ones, shaky connections, and disappointment of connections. Assuming this card shows up, this implies that the possibilities of debates and misconstruing is high in your relationship. Perhaps because of miscommunication or misconception, you and your accomplice will feel as though you are not viable with each other any longer.

Finance (Switched) Your monetary circumstance isn't supportive of the Four of Wands (Turned around). You are or you will end up being the survivor of poor financial circumstances and a large portion of its objective will be your connections. Your family obligations are turning out to be a lot for you to deal with and are overloading you. Burning through a lot of cash for your family is leaving a major mark on your financial balance, to such an extent that in any event, making a decent living is turning out to be hard for you.

Vocation (Turned around) You will see the contrary response to this card is upstanding. As in Four of Wands tarot card being upstanding implied work-life thriving, a similar card switched implies that things are difficult for you at your work environment. You are finding it very difficult to make kinships and bonds with your partners and your relationship is in strain. This could demonstrate the overall state of mind or energy of your working environment or could allude to a particular occurrence that turned into the purpose for this pressure all around.

Wellbeing (Switched) Be cautious in the event that the Four of Wands tarot card show up in switched positions, concerning wellbeing. Your wellbeing will break down and you need to experience the ill effects of sickness. This card shows that you are excessively associated with your work and your family's necessities, that you have disregarded your wellbeing and bliss.

Four of Wands: One Card Pull One card pull is done when you need to have focused and speedy responses. It is for when you wish to know explicit responses as Yes or No. Thus, on the off chance that you are going through any predicament or are trapped in a quandary, getting a one-card pull is generally useful. Post rearranging the card, you can pick one from the deck. Contingent upon your inquiry, you will find the solution to the inquiry. The outcomes for one card pull in the Four of Wands tarot card is:

Four of Wands Card for Timing If you have any desire to know when something particular will occur, and you take out the Four of Wands tarot card, the time isn't far for your craving to get satisfied. The time will be included in days or months, as in one month after the fact or around the fourth, thirteenth, or 22nd of the following month. Regardless of the specific date, this card demonstrates that anything you are appealing to God for will contact you very soon.

Spring here doesn't really intend that assuming you are doing the perusing in the mid year, so your ideal wish will be satisfied the following spring. It portrays that what you need will show up at you the following month from the date of the perusing. A simpler method for interpretting the time is to observe the quantity of the card.

Here it is four in the Four of Wands, and that implies that your time is in 4 days, 4 weeks, or 4 months. It is difficult to anticipate the future in years through tarot card perusing or some other type of profound perusing, as our future habitually changes with each activity and decision we make in our life.

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jokes Last time the dentist could not pull out a tooth, but when he came again he was training with dumbbells at that time, on the wall is my photo, into which he threw darts, and spitting sluggish spirit, as if the penis is depressed Why is happiness written over your vagina Damn, my ex, and you're talking about the courier's bag, this is cosplay, I dressed up as a courier, such a role-playing game for sex in porn, I'm a porn actor, who am I kidding Builders from Central Asia were building a house, the floor collapsed, I fell out from the stream to the lower floor fell out of the right wall to the left fell out of the ceiling, the whole house fell apart, I'm still on the ninth floor in the air Milk flows out of the pear as if her boobs are crying in pain He's pimply like bubble wrap He did not calm down until the calluses played with my anti-stress toys and broke everything Pads are not surfboards Decided to understand women, decided to sacrifice my brain for science Even her farts are pheromones The forklift brought your drunk husband, he sang instead of the radio all the way You are a urologist, and a plumber Siamese twins who is your tailor No ghost is not a condom You are a psychologist or a lawyer or a referee, you are a psychologist, you must remain neutral, and throw firewood into women's solidarity Auto-stop sex, where they ride on the levers of the speed of sex, beeping orgasms, girls are moving towards wealth, on the gasoline of their boyfriends' sperm How could I get turned on during sex if I imitated a wild monkey it was the sound of the king of the jungle I have an excellent ear for music. You opened the alarm three times, you thought it was a bomb. But there was something ticking in the melody. You are so old that you seem to be wrapping yourself with wrinkles from problems with depression like a blanket, this is just after lepasuction Some girls like to drink from two or three pipes, he is about an orgy, from three holes, she is constantly dry It's no more useful than Chinese lightsaber sticks, chop, chop, chop Asian romance is like watching Pakistani porn, boring and sad, dates and money and gifts are stripping bonuses, I see her naked truth, yes she has another The bus driver braked sharply, I accidentally fell on girls and women and old women, right on their lips and boobs, that's where the bruises come from, but granny takes a hit, one girl broke her arm about me, once fell on her fist, and the penis on her knee, and then they all stretched out their fists it was horror he speaks with pauses, as if I'm watching a video with bad internet, the video freezes all the time, with breaks for ads, he always offers to buy something She's flowing so much it's a water slide Is it worth it to strain your boobs so much, it's not worth it Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

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bestie dont take honors classes god take it from an honors student since 3rd grade that shit fucks you up bad bestie-

too late for that, love

[therealvinelle]

Submasterpost: Twilight characters L-unnamed vampires

Last updated: 24th of December

Leah:

What kind of mother might she be?

Luca (Yes, the extremely minor character who only appears in the Guide gets three metas):

On This Blog We Side Eye Uncle Luca

Side Eyeing Luca Some More

Luca, Laws, And Being a Demon In the Thirteenth Century Without Offending the Volturi

Why Didn’t They Get Humperdinck Luca?

More On Luca

Marcus:

Psych 101: How to Cure Marcus’ Depression (And Why Aro Can’t Do It)

Didyme Is Reincarnated: Marcus Doesn’t Notice and Aro Is More Depressed Than Ever

Marcus, Aro, and the Art of Being Trapped In a Vicious Cycle Where They Can Never Be Happy

Marcus is nineteen

Maria:

Is there a chance she’s gifted?

Renée:

What if she was a good mother?

What happens to Renée after canon?

Renesmée:

Renesmée and the Nature of Good and Evil

More On How Her Gift Works

Renesmée as a Cullen (Featuring Patricide)

Who Would Get Custody for Renesmée If the Cullens Fell Apart?

Would Renesmée Ever Join the Volturi? (No.)

What Does Your Average Vampire Think of Renesmée?

She’s Three Months Old. GIVE HER A BREAK.

Will Renesmée realize the Volturi are good guys?

Is there a Volturi who can counterract her gift?

Before Irina’s fateful visit, was the Cullen plan to keep her hidden away forever, never meeting anybody, ever, a secret from the world?

Thoughts on her name, and possible alternatives

A Ruh-nez-may by any other name

Renesmée and caring about humans, and how her family fits into it

What if Renesmée is a lesbian?

Riley:

The Muffin corrects a mistake, and fails to resist the ever-present temptation to mercilessly ridicule Edward Cullen

Rosalie:

About Rosalie

Rosalie, Gifts, and Misogyny in Twilight

Would Rosalie ever join the Volturi?

Could Rosalie find happiness?

Was there a real chance Rosalie would have killed Bella in Twilight?

Would Rosalie agree to overthrow the Volturi?

Which color would she dye her hair? 

Could she not adopt a human child?

Is she really the most beautiful?

Would she have been a good mother?

Evil wizard makes Rosalie choose between Emmett and the rest of her family. Who does she choose?

How has she never had human blood?

Could Rosalie work with kids?

How Rosalie’s family probably reacted to her death

Hard truths Rosalie would have had to face if Jasper had killed Bella after the truck incident

Who is she close to outside the family?

On the theory that she ate her twin in the womb. RIP EJ Cullen, his name was too awful so he had to go.

Is there a chance she has PTSD?

Rosalie and female solidarity: I don’t think she’s a proponent, guys

Sasha:

Thoughts on Sasha

Seth:

Thoughts on Seth

Victoria:

Why Didn’t She Get Back at Laurent for Cheating on Her with those Stupid, Sexy, Cullens?

Victoria and Bella’s Gifts, With Slight Emphasis on Victoria

Bastards in the 16th century, or: what was the deal with her father

Unnamed vampires:

Is there’s a chance Carlisle’s creator is still alive?

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I think if you are a former gifted kid and recognize that the educational system harms both gifted kids and remedial/special needs kids, the next logical step is to make sure you’re talking about issues specific to special ed, developmental disabilities, the kids that get labeled “dumb”. As a solidarity thing.

We get this here, right? Mental illness isn’t just anxiety and depression, neurodiversity isn’t just ADHD and autism, whatever the deal is with the former gifted kid experience there’s a broader thing (not sure what to call it really, unless we’re deciding this is just neurodiversity from a different angle) that includes students who got put in “well, we can’t put you in the normal classes, that’ll make it harder for the normal kids to learn stuff” classes.

And one of these leaves you in a much better position for the next stage of life than the other, one is much more highly stigmatized than the other.

[wikluk]

Ahhhh!!! Baby Mirabel dies :( I love this sad fic (since it happen to my family but I was Camilo ago when it happened)

What would happen to the family and the town after the funeral? Julieta and Agustin probably get into a heavy depression or something, would they get re-pregnant like in to fall apart? Since it was only 7 months since Julieta was last pregnant it would probably be easy to become pregnant again.

Would alma become more protective? Less strick? I bet once the kids are older Camilo won’t even know Mirabel or have apathy feeling for her. How would the blue family take it when Pepa become pregnant?

Well... I think they wouldn't try for another baby, not really, unless an oopsie happens to them...

I also think that Pepa in a gesture of solidarity would decide to not have any more children, both to not upset Julieta with having another baby, and stopping at two, so they'd keep the even number. When Pepa becomes pregnant with Antonio... She feels guilty and is kinda scared. Because she and Felix agreed on not having kids and she doesn't want to hurt Julieta. But Felix, quite soberly, tells her that she can't feel guilty for something that was out of her control.

When Julieta realises Pepa is pregnant (because Pepa waited with announcing it for so long that Julieta reached the conclusion herself), she's happy, she smiles, she congratulates them... But when she's alone in her room with Agustin, they cry themselves to sleep. Julieta kinda gets baby fever and she feels guilty for wanting another because she feels it's replacing what they lost and she also doesn't want to be hurt again after Mirabel. They may be some worse stage for her marriage as she avoids intimacy because she has this kinda unsettling idea that she may get pregnant and she both wants it and hates it because Mirabel, so no funny business here.

Luisa and Isabela wouldn't have any hard feelings, since Luisa doesn't remember her sister and Isabela has just some flashes of memories, but she remembers how upset her parents were for a long time after they lost Mirabel and she hates seeing her mother like that again when Julieta thinks no one's looking.

At this point, Mirabel was Alma's favourite grandchild (and Isabela was the second lol), so I imagine she's hurting just as much as Julieta. She never lost a baby but she lost her husband so she knows something about loss, and she tries to be supportive and tender with Julieta. She'd allow her a longer break, she'd ask the town to be understanding and not overuse her daughter's gift for the simplest of injuries because it's hard to encourage Julieta to cook these days and she does it out of duty, but it's painful to watch as she struggles and blames herself for not being enough to save her baby.

This Mirabel struggled with asthma and she died because one of the attacks that collided with her teething made it impossible to breathe correctly. My poor baby suffocated to death. And... Julieta's food would never help anyway, but it doesn't ease the guilt she's feeling at all.

[dykebluejay]

NOT anon hate but that post abt GiFtEd KiDs on tumblr is an opinion ive been toying w posting for Ages

like, i was an actual legitimate gifted kid and what did it get me? unrelenting pressure, OCD, depression, and a ridiculous aversion to asking for help

alla these people want to be gifted so badly because of how qUiRkY it is, but they don't like. understand that there's very limited positives to being an Official Gifted Kid. it's all "oh aren't you too smart to ask for help?" and "well *I* got a percent point higher than you, clearly you're a fake" it's not fun!

it's traumatising as hell, and being known as Gifted™ is an experience I wouldn't wish on anyone

nways this is incomprehensible but i wanted to say. solidarity 🤝

lol i saw the ask notif and was like oh god not again 😒 thank u for being tolerable and right. solidarity 🤝

[sanchoyo]

danny phantom 8-13 thoughts! again, under the cut bc I blew through 6 episodes in one go...

-LOVE THE WAY THE GHOST ZONE LOOKS. but theres fucking ghost cops??? ghost jail??? that SUCKS imagine dying and going to jail in your AFTERLIFE. danny going to JAIL WAS NOT something I expected. but seeing all the enemies together and work with danny to bust out. SO ICONIC I love that actually. and the thing about real world stuff acting as ghosts in the ghost zone is very cool.

-'there are some things more important that hunting ghosts!' mrs fenton says, about her husband forgetting their anaversary (FOR THE 18TH YEAR IN A ROW?? CHRIST) and not about, idk, their son clearly freaked out. she didnt even notice he was gone into the ghost zone!!! he might be a bad husband BUT shes not the best mom. they suck and I don't care about their relationship problems I care about these kids. danny doing his best to clean the house to keep his mom from getting mad at his dad?? hes such a good boy I want to cry, this is not his place, his dad should be cleaning his own shit up!!!

-maddie's butch lesbian sister is living my best life in her lil cabin. also being a snarky bitch to jack. queen. and her getting a 10th anniversary of her divorce. LOVE IT.

-mr. lancer being a cheerleader in his younger years makes perfect sense to me. king shit.

-dr. spectra's cat ears/mullet hairstyle?? sooo cute. I also just love the concept of a ghost just. sucking out people's positivity and feeding on emotions. a great villain. she put danny in a fucking diaper what the FUCK. and keeping it cold so no one would suspect shes a ghost??? INCREDIBLE. and her gay little blob sidekick. wlw mlm evil solidarity.

-JAZZ FOCUSED EP. YEAAAH!!! her first thought when she saw the ghosts was like 'omg i gotta tell danny :)' and her going to the teacher and also councilor trying to get help for him...shes just 16 but shes trying so hard to help him out :( watching this when youre younger I can imagine ppl are like omg annoying!! but watching this when im older im just like :( jazz baby im SO sorry </3 SHE BODIED THAT GHOST THOUGH. and the fact she didnt tell danny she knew surprised me. like, shes patient and waiting on him to tell her when hes ready!! thats so so sweet.

-christ the parents talking about 'PEELING IT LIKE AN ONION. AND EXAMINING REMAINS' of ghosts RIGHT INFRONT OF DANNY.

-'why am i so depressed and angry all the time!!' DANNY YOURE 14. i mean it IS a ghost this time, but...

-579$ top?? VALERIE NO ITS NOT EVEN CUTE IT DOESNT EVEN GO WITH THAT OUTFIT AAAA. tho this ep is called shades of gray..VALERIE FOCUSED EP FINALLY????! *THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE* I already knew about red huntress from my redesigns, but I didn't exactly know what that entails or how/why, so, it's fun to see the Origins.

-ghost pubby! ghost pubby!!!!! why is the dog a ghost?? the implication that the company had guard dogs and got rid of them...what did they DO. is it just the unfinished business?? of not having that toy it was looking for?? god I hope so.

I feel SOOO bad for valerie tho, my god. her friends are shunning her for what, because her dad lost her job and she had to move??? horrible. (and the fact the dog wrecked the moving van too...) I also love how 'from wisconsin' on the package was an IMMEDIATE RED FLAG FOR ME. WISCONSIN=EVIL NOW. vlads so petty.

-it took valerie like 5 mins to get the hang of hunting ghosts and shes already a much bigger threat than his parents tbh. who've been trying and studying this for years. and a more valid reason <3 love her shes so cute and cool. new daughter alert.

-'i should do SOMETHING to help valerie' no shit danny???

-'who is that, awesome outfit!' -top gay sam moments. i was going to say. before it immediately cuts to sam kissing danny LMFAOOO. don't think I like that, it puts tucker in a weird third wheel position... the next ep involves them holding hands and blushing when danny's cold...URGH No. not a fan ngl. the trope of 'if theres a girl in a trio she has to end up with one of the two guys!!'

-right as I say that they take it to extremes!! and ember shoots him with a love ray gun that makes him OBSESSIVE OVER SAM. AND SHE TAKES HIS HANDS AND SAYS 'YOU DONT FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT ME, I DONT FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT YOU' and her saying she doesnt want to be together like this. and tucker saying 'i always knew you two would get together!!' dont manifest it tucker please. the show pushing for it so hard makes me not want it KSHKJKJD I KNOW its probably canon. it sucks though. im a hater.

-vlad just LURKING AROUND THE SCHOOL GIVING VALERIE GIFTS ASJKDHKJ YOU WEIRD PETTY OLD MAN GO HOME!!!

-EMBERRRRR YOU WILL REMEMBERRRRRR . this is the one thing I kinda remember from when I was a kid EMBERRRRR ilu. top 10 cartoon bops. sams being a hater. popular things are popular for a reason. mr. lancer also being a hater. also everyone wearing her color scheme ..its a really good look, the purple, black, and minty color...

-penguins exist in the ghost zone. confirmed.

-EMBER JUST SHOWING UP AT A RANDOM HIGHSCHOOL TO PLAY?? UNANNOUNCED, MID DAY??? girl get a tour schedule. make some money or smth damn. I know shes probably doing it for the power boost but. lord. anyway if your show doesnt have a concert scene/ep, is it even valid.

-fellas is this gay. (she uses a GRAPPLING HOOK TO SHOOT OUT THE WINDOW AFTER SEEING AN EMBER VAN GO BY RIGHT AFTER THIS SHOT)

-hey, she had an undercut at some point!! my redesign!!! was accurate!! in..a way

-I feel like danny has a lot of pent up aggression ngl, him being heartbroken about sam and immediately going IM GONNA GO TAKE IT OUT ON EMBER. I mean she needs to be stopped I guess But. jazz has the right idea he needs therapy and a HEALTHY outlet.

-tucker singing > my singing

-girls cant be gamers -tucker and danny sexist moments. her being chaos in the game OWNED.

-TUCKERS HAT IS A BERET??? I THOUGHT IT WAS A BEANIE. SAM CALLED IT A BERET. WH.

-it was actually nice of lancer to let danny retake the test, and he go to play games again. smh. epic cringe gamer moments compilation. and driving him home!!! I actually like him as a character. anyway teachers like lancer are SO appreciated. I was failing middle school because of mental problems, and felt so dumb and got embarrassed by teachers who would just get onto me instead of bothering to ask what the real problem was, but when I was taking my ged classes I had a wonderful teacher who kept reassuring me that I was smart, and I got honors!! danny is SUCH a little shit to him (understandable, 14, but) but seeing them getting along better and danny putting in effort. SO CUTE. THATS MY SON, STUDYING HARD!!!! and being so PROUD OF HIMSELF!!! 91!!! BITCH!!! A- is STILL AN A!!!

-'why dont they ever realize thats me in a dress' mr lancer i am CRYING. i realized.

-technus being my ghost grandpa who cant game asking tucker for help. bless his heart. his out of date old ppl lingo circles back to being endearing <3 tucker not recognizing him despite the like, lack of any kind of serious disguise...I do love their lil in-game outfits....sam being the tank rules. I like technus' spider design also. more characters need to be giant freaky spiders, imo.

-finding your gf a new host because she cant maintain her ghost body outside the zone? amazing. using jazz as the host? ILL KILL YOU. jazz immediately accepting a ride home from a guy she just met and letting him know where she lives. letting him IN THE HOUSE??? nooo girl no lets use common sense </3

-sooo cringe the parents were like 'good job for spying on your sister' tho wtffff. doesnt matter if hes a bad guy, thats fucked. everytime these parents BREATHE im like. these are MY kids now <3

-BAD LUCK BEING A THEME OF THE 13TH EPISODE. thats super fun. johnny 13 being his name is so. iconic. your last name is a NUMBER? also goth tucker. I actually love the look. everyone looks good goth. 'the ladies love the eyeliner and onyx nail polish' sam you are sooo right every man needs to at least try those two things. im a lesbian and I agree. same, danny, your bff is gnc af

-LOVE kitty's design. and just, the concept of a ghost with a bike. couple goals, except yes stay away from jazz.

[hoofpeet]

hating people who talk about gifted kid syndrome solidarity 🤝 im autistic and have adhd and several other learning disabilities so i was the stupid kid my whole life and im just as depressed and burnt out as the rest of you bitches

literally.. its hard to believe some people had ‘gifted kid syndrome’ when i go to their blog and find 7 posts in a row about danganrompa kinnie discourse 

[imagines-to-quench-thirst]

Dating a tattoo artist

Imagine: being a tattoo artist and your boyfriend being part of it

This was a fun idea I had. I hope you like it. Enjoy ❤️

Victor Creed

-he is here for it

-since his loooooonnnnggg life is well long he loves to tells stories of tattoo artists he met Japan, Brazil, New York, New Zeland...

-and you can bet that he will have the most elaborate tattoo you can think of since he said so

'You want a tattoo? From me?'

'Yes, I trust you.'

'That's the problem, Vic, you could end up with a dolphin tattoo on your arm.'

'.... Well... I still trust you?'

-after that, he was a little bug just to be on your good side which you took full advantage of

Being on top, commanding him? Sure

Handing you the remote even though it's next to you? Of course

Helping you choose an outfit even though you are indecisive and he has a short fuse? Hell yeah.

-when the day came you tattooed him a small quote that described him

"Tough times never last but tough people do"

(Robert H. Shuller)

'I love it. Thank you kitten.'

Loki Laufeyson

-Since he was in the cell for most of his life (in my universe that's the worst thing happening for him, he didn't die nor his mother) he doesn't know what a tattoo artist is he thinks that's an alternative art form he is supportive

-after you talk to him describing the definition of tattoos and the art behind it he is very much perplexed

'So mortals pay you to pierce their skin with black ink to paint...something????'

'Tattoo something on their skin and yes.'

'With pain in mind?????'

'Yes, and it looks awesome.'

-when he heard the story of your tattoo shop he decided to tag along to see the magic

-he saw how men and women tattooed others while they squirmed in their seats he chuckled at the sight of it

'Darling you could have told me.'

'What?'

'You torture people with the needle machines and coax them into paying you. Brilliant.'

'Suree~~~~'

-he stayed with you to help you with the pain giving without a medical license

'I'm a God. I'm above it.'

'No one is above the Inspection.'

Thor Odinson

-since his depression and weight gain he is very much informed of the world of MTV tattoo show "How far is tattoo far?"

-so he very much thinks that tattoos are a stamp of disgrace

-and keeping that in mind he is frazzled why are you doing a job like that

'You are a shame barer?'

'Shame-what...? Thor! I'm not. The show is a disgrace to the tattoo world.'

'Shame~~barer~~~'

'Just come with me and spend one day and see it for yourself.'

-Thor is reluctant much to his words but still, you sat him down in the waiting lobby he chats up the customers a.k.a big muscular dudes that are already tattooed from the neck down

'So... what is your shame? What horrible deed have you done to come here?'

'Excuse me!?'

'You must be here to condemn your shame by immortalizing it with a flesh sticker.'

-at this point, the muscle dude stood up ready to attack Thor but you intervene quickly

'Marc, stop!'

-the man turned around hiding his tight fist behind his back

'Y/n, already done? That's fast.'

'Marc, you know that you were released 7 months ago and you are still on parole. Come on. Stop it.'

'He insulted me and-and my tattoos. Your tattoos. You know how am about your work.'

-Thor hears that as stands up grabbing Marc's arm examining the tattoos in amazement

'My darling, I want that felsh sticker as he has.'

'.......... Sure........ Wait here. Let's go, Marc. I need to vent.'

Steve Rogers

-Steve knows what tattoos are since he has seen the stick and poke of his fellow soldiers but never a photorealistic tattoo in your portfolio

-he is very much intrigued how you made that look like a real person on someone's skin knowing very well there is no eraser

-loves to ask how do you achieve such colors that simply jump out or how you make a fabric that of a shirt or some patterns, he is armed with questions

-and since he is an art wizard himself he loves to have a painting duel with you, you paint on his skin with watercolors and he paints on the canvas

-that's one of his favorite moments

'What did you draw?'

'A dolphin kissing a penguin.'

'What?!'

'Just kidding I painted the building in Brooklyn where you lived.'

'Did I tell you how much I love you?'

Bucky Barnes

-this man thrives to see you fulfill your dream and passion

-especially when he picks you up, he parks the car exiting it and walking in seeing you talk to your employees and customers exchanging stories and laughs even though in the near distance is the buzzing sounds of the machine guns

-you see him and grab his hand giving him a peck on his lips as a cheeky grin is stuck on his face

-as you talk about your day he always asks the question

'Were there any wusses?'

-alluding to men who cried out form the stinging pain, eventually tapping out to take a break

'Yes, a big dude Marc. Ordered a neck tattoo with details. Tapped out in 15 minutes.'

'I knew it!'

-he enjoys in the hilarious stories you can make up... I mean tell

Bruce Wayne

-you already know the drill he has money he will give it to you but politely delined

-he tried to help with purest of heart but still, the answer was no

-he loved to see your shop filled with many customers as he walked incognito, sunglasses and a cap saying he wasn't a private appointment with the head tattooer

-Let's just say you were pretty much in tears of laughter as he reveled his face

'At least you tried, Bruce.'

-he loves to talk about tattoos and the process of healing if it's on top of a scar

-you are hooked on the conversation and even make him some sketches

'A huge dragon on your back with black and gold lining.'

'Okay but how about initials of my parents?'

'That sounds... Better much much better.'

-so the day of his tattooing comes you tattoo in his inner arm putting the letter T. & M. W.

'Thank you Princess.'

Clark Kent

-Clark loves to see the vast tattoos so much that he wants one but he knows that his body will "absorb" the tattoo too fast making it disappear in a few months maybe weeks

-but still, he loves to see how your gaze is sharp focused on the tattooing even when HE walks that is how much you are focused

'Alrighty, Marc you are done.'

'Thanks, Y/n, you are the best.'

-Clark also loves to hear the influx of comments of your artistry even if he's a little jealous

-he loves to see just how much you are happier to follow this insane passion

'You are an inspiration Y/n.'

'Why?'

'Because... You just are.'

Arthur Curry

-you already know that Fishman is tatted to perfection and he is here for a tattoo lover as well

-if you ever have someone asking for a Maori style tattoo Arthur will be a fair judge, that's what he says

Case#1

'Why do you want a Maori tattoo?'

'Um, sir beca-'

'It's Mr. Aquaman. Continue.'

'Oh, sorry. Mr. Aquaman, I want it because I find them cool.'

'Just cool? Do you think that the abundant culture of Maori people is cool? Go home boy.

Case #2

'You want a Ta Moko? Do you what that is?'

'Sur-sure, it's a tattoo of the Maori people.'

'Ufff... Do you know how much of a meaning Ta Moko carries? Why don't you go to the Yakuzas and get a tebori.'

'They would kill me.'

'Of course, and I'll whoop your uncultured ass with my two hands.'

-you turned to the now pale boy

'Run.'

-the man ran like the wind as the Aquaman caught him easily giving him a cultural lesson of Ta Moko

Orm Marius

-he kinda has a small soft spot for tattoos especially those with a loving meaning lover, family...

-and he likes to "inform himself" about it so he asks a ton of questions even asking what kind of tattoo would suit him

'I think a small red tattoo would suit your taste.'

'I like the tattoos who can hold audios.'

-with that sentence, he left you frazzled as you google and got the special ink kit gifting it to Orm as a present for being a nice guy and not killing anyone

-he immediately records his audio in secrecy and handing you the ink

-after you tattoo the ink you hand him your phone with the app to scan the audio

'Hey, Orm. I'm just reminding you that I love you. So much. It's Y/n if you forget... Somehow.'

-later that day you doused him with kisses

Joker

-that man oozes with tattoos *cough*damaged*cough*

-and you can bet that he wants more of them he brings into your home the whole tattoo parlor just so he can have a private session with sex mixed in

-you gladly tattoo him patching up some of his tattoos he has outgrown them

'Why did you tattoo Kick Me on your back?'

'I won a bet.'

'Are you sure you won?'

'For sake of this question I did.'

-you cover the kick me tattoo with a large red dragon with green eyes

-he stands up looking at the tattoo in the mirror

'Sweets, you just got a huge tip.'

Duncan Vizla

-for him, tattoo nowadays are dumb in his time tattoos were means of solidarity with people who are bounded by the same ink and gun

-but keeps his mouth shut about it not to offend your dream even if it's tattooing dancing hotdogs

-he loves to pass your parlor when he finishes grocery shopping just to see you in action

-he loves to arrive at the parlor if you are doing a night shift just to keep you safe and in good company

-he loves to bring you lunch and watch you eat it with such content and happiness

-it melts his heart and just wants to make you more food

-but as he is present for the good he is here for the bad

-if he is somewhere anywhere you just need to call him and he is there in a minute be it a drunken person not wanting to exit or an aggressive man trying to grope someone in the shop

-he is ready to kill them if you say so

'You okay sweetheart?'

'Um-yeah...Thank you Donut.'

'Nonsense. That's my duty.'

[pianjeong]

tell us about jeong jeong's childhood from *that* fic, also link the fic, k thx bye

i was so so tempted to just answer this ask with “thats the thing he’s sensitive about!” and leave it at that. but because i love u and i love him i will talk about it for real. fyi, this is the fic in question aka the young!pianjeong courtyard fic

- he started bending v early which was a source of great honour for his family; we get the impression from canon that bending ability was valued highly, obviously in the royal family but also i think that would translate over to the common people as well.

- and he was like, scary powerful even as a kid and was really fascinated by fire even when he couldn’t quite control it which resulted in a couple incidents where he was messing around (like kids do, just trying to figure out what he could do) and set large portions of things on fire

- once his parents knew abt this it was THE ONLY thing they talked about, and rlly the only thing they pushed him towards. they may have believed they were doing a good thing for him but it really backfired in both his perception of them as well as his perception of himself in the long run.

- he also kinda didn’t have any friends?? bc he was always more advanced in training/school and stuff than ppl his own age and everyone was either in awe of or hated him (or both). no one rlly came for him bc the first time they tried he possibly obliterated part of a building (self-defence okay?) and yeah that doesn’t happen anymore. but that means he’s just really isolated and i’m sad now :((

- this means that he just doesn’t Like People...At All...bc he’s been burned (haha) before and doesn’t trust them to have his best interests at heart. developed a KILLER snark complex though so good for him

- when i say prodigy status i MEAN prodigy status...like...audience with the fire lord as a teenager kinda thing. he was able to advance so fast in the navy bc he had..Connections

- he got along really well with his tutors. the gay/gifted kid solidarity experience 2k20.

sorry this was so depressing but my boy just wasn’t having a good time :(

[naturesgender]

sometimes i'm like. "am i rlly neurodivergent do i rlly have adhd or am i faking it because i am a lazy piece of shit who can't focus" and then i experience the executive dysfunction and the depressive spirals and the Pain Noises and the rsd and the hyperfixations and the trouble sleeping and the Brain Won't Shut Up Times and the gifted kid burnout and the Bad Textures and the Good Textures and the rapid mood swings and the bullying in middle school and the impulse buying and the forgetting everything important and the sudden desires to schedule my entire life at 3am and the inability to stick to said schedules and the auditory processing issues and the difficulty regulating emotions and the "all my friends hate me" syndrome and the intrusive thoughts and the ability to write huge long blocks of text but not read said blocks of text and the trouble with social cues and the relating to almost every adhd experience i read/hear about and the rainbow tv static brain and the overanalysis of literally anything anyone has ever said to me and the autism/adhd solidarity and the reading messages via notifications but not responding for hours and the writing this giant fucking paragraph about adhd instead of getting off my ass and putting some proper clothes on and working like a good little neurotypical student who can actually do these things

[ambitcxious-a]

* ABBEY LEE KERSHAW, FEMALE + SHE/HER  | you know ADELAIDE MONTSERRAT, right? they’re 27, and they’ve lived in irving for, like, TWO YEARS? well, their spotify wrapped says they listened to EVE BY KAT CUNNING like, a million times this year, which makes sense ‘cause they’ve got that whole FAWN-EYED, BOWED LEGS,  EXPENSIVE CHAMPAGNE thing going on. i just checked and their birthday is OCTOBER & 30TH, so they’re a SCORPIO, which is unsurprising, all things considered. ( lenny, 24, est+2, she/her )

tw: depression, eating / psychological disorders, animal abuse, drugs

ABOUT.

name: adelaide montserrat

nickname: addie

age: 27

pronouns: she/her

occupation: socialite, philanthropist, prodigy ballerina

gender: cis female

sexuality: bisexual

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The Montserrat established themselves in Barcelona, Spain, over millennia ago,  known as fierce leaders and ruthless business men, quick to make a name for themselves the trading and exporting business,  while the women in the bloodline were promptly pushed aside from books and history, hiding somewhere between a stove and their husband’s fists.  

Adelaide Montserrat was different, that’s what everybody thought - she was graceful, even as a child, she didn’t cry, even as a toddler, and she never ached for her mother’s arms, even as an infant. An early bloomer of exceptional talent, she could dance as soon as she could walk. And yet Adelaide was never one to develop long-lasting or intimate relationships with her peers --- people never seemed to be comfortable sitting with her for long.  Maybe it was because there was never a girl there to begin with, and intimacy betrayed the act:  there was no child,  only a pale, wide-eyed zombie, always hungry,  always empty. 

If you dared to pry beyond the red curtains, you’d not find the delicate creature strangers saw twirling on the stage, but the bottomless edge of an abyss, waiting to swallow you whole as it looked back with smiling teeth. Little Addie, once a girl with pink tutus and ballerina shoes, was never one to be meddled with - while she could easily captivate the hearts of her peers and teachers with red cheeks and a clever tongue, there was nothing warm or kind about the little girl whose parents held so close she nearly choked to death.

Adelaide was the product of a one night stand and poor lack of judgement, or so her mother liked to recount. Her father — whomever he was, was a married man with a lot to lose, and her mother might not have known much — but she knew alimony payments would beat whatever he was willing to offer her in order to get rid of Adelaide. So, she kept the baby, and even then --- she was unbearable.  Adelaide kicked, day and night, as soon as her legs could muster, like she couldn’t stand to be trapped in the womb a moment longer.

They were living largely, manors and pools and cocktails, while Addie grew up receiving the best education money could buy, alternating between hunting and horseback riding on weekends, and training classical instruments such as the cello and piano in her spare time. Being praised for her dedication and skill, for some time, she indulged the idea of becoming a professional pianist, if only to please her parents, but the idea was soon took a backseat in her mind when she discovered just how good she was at ballet.

Adelaide had always been more of a shiny trophy to flaunt at parties rather than daughter or grandchild to dot upon, so by the time she was 13 her family was quite happy to ship her to Paris, if it meant she would enroll in the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet School and make a name for herself. She’d still come home to visit on holidays, that was until her mother moved to New York in order to appease bachelor number three: CEO of Belmont Entertainment Industries (BEI), one of the largest record labels in the U.S, with a side of illegal activities they didn’t really care to discuss at dinner.

It didn’t take long for Addie to make an impression, she was dedicated — hungrier than the other girls, always willing to push a little further, go a little deeper, die a little more. All of the shouting, the groping, the self-hatred, she never broke. Had it been not for her ego and pride, she would’ve been flawless. You’d assume being the young and on the spotlight meant competing for attention - but she never competed. She never even considered it a competition. She won, plain and simple. You see, Adelaide didn’t lose, because she tailored the game to her whims and batted her heavy set of lashes to make it seem fair. And if she did lose - the game be damned; she’d destroy it and any evidence of her failure. She didn’t want to be daughter, or something for men to gawk at, or a pretty glittered thing for little girls to worship. She wanted to be something else. Anything other than this empty shell, dripping with self-loathing , cloaked in a veil of perfectionism. Something that wasn’t rammed into this golden mold before she even took her very first breath.

Fueled by her own insecurities and desire to obtain perfection, paired with the crowd of rich kids that were offered to her as friends growing up, it didn’t take for things to escalate; by the age of only fourteen, drugs, alcohol and kicking each other in the stomach while crouching over the toilet was considered as an act of solidarity. All that deep-rooted self-hatred had to spill someway, somehow, and what are friends for if not offer you relief from the agony of routine?  

It was easier to strap on those old ballerina shoes and put on a show until her toes were bleeding, than to try and show them what was behind the curtains. People don’t want to know what’s behind the curtain — they think they do, until they see it. To live in blissful ignorance is a gift, one she was denied. And all jewelry in the world, all praise, all money and countless designer bags she accumulated over the years could never fill up that gaping hole, that detachment she felt towards the outside world and inability to connect with things and people - even those supposedly closest to her.

With age, Addie learned how to put on a show, be it at home or on a stage; that’s the magic of a ballerina, to empty yourself of that hatred, all that pain, all that ugliness and fill yourself with stories other than your own -  while whatever had been good and soft rots inside you .

And while she made a name for herself, starring role in all the big plays, working with the best and only the best, the tabloids would instiguate: who is Adelaide Montserrat? The reincarnation of the Virgin Mary to some, the dutiful daughter to others, is she a saving angel or a spoiled heir?  She used to laugh, like it was a game - like the answer wasn’t there at all . Maybe what she truly was, was a game of smoking mirrors - a fragmented image, bouncing from broken piece to broken piece, scattered into so many tiny, pretty pieces, that when she looks into a it, the reflection that stares back is unrecognizable.

Adelaide was never their perfect little doll, tied to strings, sitting still waiting to be manuevered . For some time she had watched, prowling quietly in the shadows, observing, learning. She found distraction and excitement in the shadows, drugs, married men, booze, pills - and when those didn’t cut it, she dug a little deeper.

So the child prodigy suddenly moves back to the home, with a ring on her finger and a skeleton on her closet,  all to   shield   from the rising scandal and nonsensical, if you were to ask, accusations of pushing a fellow ballerina down a flight of stairs. Alas, the show must go on, and Adelaide had no plans to stay out of the spotlight for long, or take the fault for somebody else’s imbalance. With some reluctance, she agreed to lay low, but just for how long she’d able to tolerate it, that was anyone’s guess.

Parents often say kids will “grow out of it”; their fits of rage, their apathy towards other children, their unwillingness to share, their manipulative, spoiled ways of obtaining the things they want- but Addie never did. Somewhere inside there’s still that little girl who’d rather break her toys in half than to share it with other kids. Who’d bump into other little girls at school to watch them fall, and tell the nurse they tripped. The little girl who’ll sit in an empty throne, all alone, built with the bones of the people she once claimed to love.

here’s some wc ideas i thought might be cool, but ofc feel free to come brainstorm!!

husband  - it was a marriage of opportunity rather than love, at least for adelaide - a way to deflect attention, however how he feels is completely up to you. she’s manipulative and charming, but can also be extremely cruel if even mildly contradicted

bookclub ( 0/5 ) - just women she hangs out with while trying to fit in and “have ties with the community”. she usually sucks at bonding and sharing, so this could make for some interesting dynamics

lover - adelaide switches it up every couple months, but maybe she has a soft spot for them? maybe they’re also in a relationship? maybe it’s all fucked up and adelaide likes to be nasty, what the fuck else is new

ex - lover - fed up with adelaide? me too. join the club. 

childhood friend - i feel like she might’ve permanently scarred this person for life by ( animal abuse tw ) killing a bird in front of them or something. adelaide was truly a fucking... terror as a child, and i doubt she was a good friend, bc she still isn’t

prodigy that she’s taken under her wings - maybe a young person who loves ballet that she decided to mentor out of the kindness of her heart? *coughs boredom coughs*

drug dealer - probably has a crush on them bc they indulge her bad habits ngl

idk man giv e me   s t u f f  !!!

also romantic connections are open to men and women pls. the only straight she is is a straight up bitch. 

[ghostofpolaris]

Paid Deity Reading Review from @ad-astrum

This is a review I am doing out of my own will for a paid reading that was done by @ad-astrum ! I highly recommend you check Adelaide’s account out! She just is amazing. <3 Tis long so I am adding a cut-off to help. Please note that I am not being paid to say any of this and I want to be as honest as possible with this review! 

TW for: Long post, Personal Topics

To start, I (for a very long time) have been in a place where I was lost. I have had a lot of trials and tribulations in my life and where I know I have made some contact with the deities I (had) followed and worked with, I know I have not always been able to fully comprehend what is needing to be said. 

At least with these last six years, I have had so many ups and downs and quite a few times, I genuinely wondered what the point was in continuing onward with life. I had spent quite a lot of time even contemplating whether I was truly a “spiritual” person and worthy of being a witch. I hadn’t been able to keep up with my gifts I had been providing and I haven’t really done any spells. Maybe a few sigils were made here and there, but the unworthy feelings I harbored along with depression spiraling in from working 40 hours a week, being in school full time, and my mental and physical health continuing to drag me down. 

So, I got desperate as one does when left to their own devices after being paid a nice juicy paycheck and seeking answers and solidarity from others online. Though this was not the main reason I had sought for answers, it was a good portion of why. Primarily, I had noticed signs that were familiar to me, but also not. I had begun noticing crows coming in twos and occasionally threes, I noticed almost everything I turned to, would have some kind of Norse imagery or content involved, and quite a lot of it involved our beloved AllFather Odin. 

Now mind you, I NEVER saw myself as a Norse Pagan. I thought Loki and Thor were cool in the Marvel movies and myths, but I never exactly saw myself being a Norse Pagan. I also was never one for Greek Mythology and Hellenic Paganism either but here we are after receiving aid from Ares and Aphrodite a couple of times in my life. Truth be told, I was the kid that was (and still is) obsessed with the King Arthur myths and Celtic Paganism. I also was obsessed with Egyptian mythology (yes, I was the kid who had the Egyptology book growing up even though I wanted the Dragonology one but that’s okay!).

For me, I tend to be quite dense. I tend to be someone who is unable to really see signs unless they are hitting me right in the face (spiritually I have felt blocked for quite a while and if anyone has any tips for that I am down to listen not gonna lie). With all of the signs I did keep seeing though involving Odin, I knew I needed to start doing my research and find someone who could help shine a light within the darkness that was my uncertainty. Was this truly Odin I was being called to? Why? What did I need to hear?

I stumbled around and I did scroll through various sources until I crossed Adelaide’s tumblr page. I understood her focus was on Hellenism, but after speaking with her in the DM’s about doing a reading, I felt safe and comforted by the fact she was so kind, patient, and informative on what I needed. Absolutely one of the sweetest people I had met on here and I absolutely will keep following her because she is so kind and helpful. 

Like anyone who was hoping for answers, I happily paid the amount we agreed to for the details I was hopeful for. Though apologies now, but I genuinely underestimated Adelaide and her capabilities. I mean, I severely underestimated what this reading was going to be like. If you need detail, and are happy to pay her what she deserves, Adelaide will provide and she sure did.

I opened the pastebin link I had gotten and I didn’t even make it through the first paragraph without breaking down into literal tears. I wasn’t sad at all and it usually takes a lot for me to cry. I had been alone at work so far that night and it wasn’t entirely a bad day, but not exactly a good one either. It was going to be just another night where I went home and unwinded until I felt tired. 

Though this, this really just knocked me off my feet in a way I wasn’t expecting. I always was hesitant with deity readings, I have had someone scam me out of my money and just never provide what I requested and so I was almost worried it was going to happen again. I am so thankful I was wrong. 

To give a small bit of background about me, I originally had worked with Danu and Brigid. They were my first goddesses I had actually met and they both had welcomed me with open arms (though I never really understood why). That seemed to set a foundation of how my other encounters would be as I simply seemed to stumble into the contact of the deities I met and I would find every way to give them the respect they deserved. In turn, they nudged me further down the path that I now am on. 

Back to Brigid and Danu though, they were with me for at least a couple of years and both of them to me are basically like my mothers. I still hold so much love, respect and adoration for the both of them and I felt awful for even thinking, “Should I give my statue of Mother Brigid away to someone who may have more use for it than I?” I am glad I didn’t. 

Just reading that first paragraph was what did me in though and I don’t typically cry as I mentioned before. 

“ I do not believe any of these deities have truly left you “

Reading this made me realize I was silly to think that I was alone. I had spent so much time wondering why I was alone and left to try and fight by myself. I know I was doing better in life, but I knew I was starting to feel consumed by my fears of being alone. I continued onward after settling down again emotionally, but boy did the water works come back when I read,

“ For parting words, she simply said that she was pleased to have been with you and will always be around. “ 

This helped me realize that I needed to buckle up and get ready for a ride emotionally. There was a lot that would need unpacking, and I still have much to unpack from it all. 

After that paragraph, we moved onto Danu who had a similar response as Brigid. Aphrodite herself was as graceful and kind as she always has been, and I still feel I owe a lot of my progress to her as well. Without her, I would have never let go of the toxic and abusive relationships I had been in. I know personally, I should make a better attempt to reach out to her more and thank her over and over again. Ares though, I felt slightly intimidated by him, but at the same time I wasn’t entirely afraid. He just is a much quieter individual than I had expected and that is okay. From what I recall (and this reading proves it to me), he speaks when he feels it is necessary. 

Father Lucifer came next and I definitely cried again at the end of his paragraph. “ Lucifer simply said that he sees the light in you. “ That made me cry like a small child all over again and truthfully I was surprised that I had not known him since I was younger. My timing was off, but I am glad it was actually him as I felt I was not actually speaking to him at some points. 

I have much to thank him for, and I hope me even writing this will show others my love, adoration and respect I have for my deities. My deities, I cannot believe I get to say this and say it with such joy. 

Though with those fears, I just assumed I was just making my interactions up and I feel my self-doubt and mistrust of my own feelings has hindered me (even to this day) communications wise. I once again am glad to know I was so horribly wrong. 

The very last, was the most unexpected, and Papa Odin himself had just known that this reading was coming along, and he had been around the longest. Thinking about it now makes me want to cry all over again, but to me I feel this really reassured me because I know I had moments in life where I would see things involving Odin and feeling comfort in them. Internally, I would ask myself on occasion, “I wonder what it is like to just sit with him and talk. What is it like to work with him and learn from him?” 

Sure enough, here I am now laughing and almost crying at the fact that he was with me all along. I just needed to focus a bit more. I genuinely didn’t believe that I had mistaken him for The Morrigan (so sorry Papa Odin!) and yet he still took everything with good strides. I still am having trouble putting it in words how comforted and rejuvenated I feel to have this kindness, love, and support. 

For Odin himself, I cannot thank him enough for what he has done in my life so far. It makes me want to reevaluate my life and see just how many times I could have mistakenly missed him and signs he has given me. For someone who has been around for so long and has had a formative role in my life, I owe so much to him and am grateful to be blessed with his guidance and wisdom. I remembered for ages I wished I had a dad that would love and care for me and here I had Odin all along. Physically I may not be able to see him or hug him, but he was here all long and that is what matters so much to me.

At this point, Adelaide, thank you for all of this. Your words have brought me such joy, comfort, and inspiration and I had trouble thinking of how to even respond to all of this for a good bit of time. I even wondered what I needed to do at this point and I feel I have a solid idea of what I need to do now, but I just am still scrambling around to figure it all out. 

Little by little, I will walk towards my deities and I will do my very best to honor them. Thank all of you for the strength you have given me to stand back up, dust myself off, and continue on. This was what I needed to keep going and keep trying. I had made my username “mirroredpaladin” because I wanted to fight not only for the good of others, but for myself as well. It is about time I start actually doing that. 

From here on, I do want to find a way to properly and more consistently reach out to Odin, Lucifer and Ares. I want to find a way to properly thank them along with Brigid, Danu, and Aphrodite and it is about time I start looking where I can to do so. I know I need guidance, I never was properly educated on what to do with deity work, but I have to try for their sake and mine.

Thank you all for reading this. To also give some more love, I also want to thank @scarletarosa @thepastelpriestess and @its--in--the--weave​ and @blood-and-bunnies​ (I thought they had another username of @/rosegoldtunic before but I don’t remember) because these people have actually helped me get to where I am now along with Adelaide. <3