#dont even get me started on like

[notebooks-and-laptops]

I've been thinking and from what we see in Dragon Age Origins there aren't really? Places? For the children? In the circle tower? We see children walking around, Wynne is protecting them during broken circle and we know magic manifests during childhood. And yet for all that the tower doesn't seem to have a cresh or children's toys or spaces where children could run around and play? It doesn't even seem to have just like. A separate room for them to learn/hang in. The apprentice floor is largely taken up by the tightly packed dorms and the huge library and not much else.

What do you think its like for a child in that environment? Constantly watched by templars, yes, but also with nothing really made for your age group to engage with. I can imagine the young apprentice mages running through the library being a regular occurrence as they work out their childhood energy - "slow down" shouted after them but everyone just kinda accepts it because what else are they going to do? Kids making prank games or stealing games or "how high can you get up the tower before your noticed" games? Kids being loud and crying in places where tired young adults just want to study (maybe that's why there's the big library downstairs and a smaller one upstairs for mages who passed the harrowing and don't want to deal with children making a racket as they try and write their magical theory proposals?)

Kids who were ripped from their parents now being placed in a really large dorm with a bunch of older scary people and what are they going to do? Trying not to be too obvious about their tears. Maybe climbing into the bed of an older apprentice they trust or a fellow young mage they were brought to the tower with.

Idk man. Children in the circle and the lack of space/provisions for them is just. Wild.

[airanke]

THE WAY I CAN SEEE *SEE* THAT IMAGERY. HOLY GUACAMOLE AIR. OH MY GOD MY HEART IS GONNA COMBUST!!!! I CAN SEEEE IT!!!!! DABI ALL BRUISED, BLOODIED AND ABITETH BATTERED AND SICKLY PALE FROM OVER EXHAUSTION. HOLY FUCK AIR.

THAT'S EXACTLY IT THOUGH!!! AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT IN THE CONTEXT OF ABITETH HAVING A PRE-ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP WITH DABI, and when you consider that she is AWARE that his quirk is dangerous, that HE IS powerful, then her acting to protect him is not just her protecting Dabi.

It was her protecting Hawks and Eraserhead too.

UUUGUGHFJG HAVING SO MANY FEELINGS ON MY LUNCH BREAK WAAAA

[fairycosmos]

how does us politics affect places outside the us? you guys are obsessed with us

i think if you cracked open your skull there would just be a bunch of cotton wool in there

[msmoiraine]

the way that carmy made the best meal sydney has ever had and he just had a feeling on a whim to make it his own instead of the sanitized, stripped down and "othered" version that was basically stolen from him by his boss ("you know this is my dish now right"). he said "fennel allergy" when we know from the very first time that sydney cooked the family meal in the pilot episode and she made a fennel salad that he just made it up! the whole episode builds up how his boss has been insulting him and stripping his individuality away from his dish and you can tell he doesn't like it and you can tell that he thinks something is missing from the stolen dish and you can tell that he doesn't like serving what he's serving. so the one time that he follows his instincts and makes it how he wanted it and has it served that way is for sydney? and it was the best meal she ever had?? the bear is a love story!!

[agnes-come-back-challenge]

I love that everyone in TMA is just. Unremarkable. Jon isnt a heroic character; he's self-loathing and depressed and he exhibits the same self-pity as I do when I'm self-loathing and depressed. He doesn't stand out for his strength of will or quick-thinking or virtue. He's a good person but he stops trying to stay human when it gets uncomfortable. He's everything that a regular person is when theyre trapped in a horrible situation and it's ugly and insufferable and Real.

[sunlit-mess]

trying not to get attached

[dukeofthomas]

Here's my controversial opinion; if you're trying to write Bruce as a non-abusive, good parent, you should also write him respecting his kids' privacy, boundaries, and not stalking&surveying them.

[feelo-fick]

"it must be the caffiene."

"...? we didn't have anything caffinated?"

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CHILAIOS WEEK DAY 2 : Changeling

HI THIS IS SUPER LATE BUT ART HAS BEEN. HARD. AND YES I SKIPPED ONE DAY THAT ONE IS GONNA GO LAST BECAUSE ITS TAKING SO LONG TO MAKE.... ill get to the others when i find the time.

Bonus :

[camelotsheart]

i dont think we talk enough about how popular merlin is with the ladies. like, this boy got gwen - the everyone has a crush on her gwen - to kiss him in the span of four episodes. he got morgana's "he's a lover" approval in less than three. he had freya falling for him in less than two days. mary saw him for less than a minute and insulted the prince of camelot to his face. he and mithian had basically the same or even more chemistry that she had with arthur, who was set to marry her. and then he has a quintessential anime meet cute "i bumped into you and helped you pick your things up from the floor" on the first episode of season 5 with sefa

forget lancelot being a knight in shining armour, hot rugged gwaine, hunk percival, loyal swordsman elyan, leon being leon, or literally any other bachelor including arthur "every woman in the land is attracted to this boy! i'm almost attracted to him myself" pendragon. ladies see merlin and immediately label him as marriage material

[leechjam]

riley is legit like "buffy isnt giving me enough love and attention bc shes too busy with her sickly mother and all her other slayer duties and she doesnt need me to protect her and she wont cry on my shoulder and let me fix her so im gonna go hook up with some lady vamps. thatll make me feel better" his ass gets caught and then IMMEDIATELY, without even giving buffy a chance to process anything, comes to her and goes "if u dont forgive me and tell me u love me and are hopelessly devoted to me right now this second then im dumping you and hopping on a helicopter and flying halfway across the planet, also this is all ur fault"

RILEY I HATE U SO MUCH I WISH I COULD RIP U LIMB FROM LIMB

[lunarcrown]

OLLD drawing I can share now of Timmy after recovery and care from staying on double life and being looked after by the box boys~

He’s healthier, happier, his hair and wings have grown back out and have a pretty blue-black sheen to them (that he never knew he had bc in hels his diet and environment only let them be dull) and he just heard the sound of a portal opening for someone to come visit~!

[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[tubbytarchia]

gg buddy am I right (ethubs doodle that I don't know what to do with)

[wormteeth2004]

my toxic trait is that people who hate bugs make me so incredibly mad and I'm always convinced there's absolutely no way people could find certain bugs scary and that they have to be exaggerating or joking or something. what do you mean you're scared of weevils. grow up.

[afflatusssss]

It was the weight of guilt that sent Icarus crashing down a second time; he wondered if he was always destined to be punished for loving something brighter than himself, even in death.

[s0fter-sin]

soap's whole deal being sniper and demolitions gets me going bc on the surface they sound so different but when you get into it, you realise it's bc soap's smart

sniping is all math; calculating distances and wind interference and bullet drop. something i think people overlook is he was listed as a sniper first so it can be implied that he's better at it than demolitions. he does more sniping in both campaigns than demolitions work; in capture or kill, ghost specifically calls on him to take down the aq snipers

and demolitions is math with a hit of chemistry; knowing what mixes with what, knowing how much to use, recognising environmental factors and adjusting accordingly. it's not just about the boom; so much work goes into contained/ planned explosions. especially when having enough power for a breacher charge and not bringing down the whole building is the difference between mission success and failure

the chemical bombs he makes in alone can't just be any old cleaners, they have to have the correct reaction to each other; he just knew off the top of his head what would mix with what to create what reaction. he would also potentially have to recognise them by sight/smell bc they would’ve been written in spanish

soap would also have to know architecture; recognising structural integrity and weak points so he knows exactly where to plant a charge to bring it down and how it'll come down

he has an incredible soldier's mind people just forget that bc he's sociable which itself is a skill

we know he tends to buck against orders he doesn't agree with like when he pushes back against ghost in capture or kill and shepherd when he tells them to release hassan

he gets closer to people and sees if he can trust them and that's when he follows them without question. really think about how he talks to alejandro and rudy; he asks about their home and alejandro's family and rudy's relationship with him. those aren't questions you ask a stranger after a few hours of knowing them. that's not even touching on his relationship with ghost

he also deliberately brings people of higher ranks down to his level; talking informally with ghost and giving him a shoulder punch, addressing alejandro (a colonel!!) by his first name and rudy by his nickname despite literally just meeting them. he personalises all of them and it’s in direct opposition to the reason most characters do that; it’s not due to insubordination or lack of respect, the more he respects and trusts someone, the more casual he is with them

he digs into people; he wants to know what makes them tick and that determines if he can one, trust them and two, follow their orders. once he decides that, he's the ultimate soldier; he bleeds loyalty which makes him vicious when that loyalty is taken for granted

he isn't naive or bubbly or insecure; he's an incredibly smart and aware soldier. he's aggressive and bloodthirsty and loyal and intuitive and i love him so much