#fucking Owie

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Your blood loving yassified howdy made me remember that there's a family of moths that are quite literally titled "vampire moths" that like to drink blood [and fruit juice!]

ok i had to look those guys up and! wow! what the fuck! nature took one of its Best things (moths) and combined them with one of its Worst (mosquitos). they're so cute and yet i'm reflexively Afraid!

[hmmbo]

CRYING i forgot how shitty healing piercings is. my eyebrow is bleeding again bc it's only been maybe 48 hours ;-;

[someunamedfarmer]

It bitted me.

[dragonfruitticus]

AUGH

MY FUGUGING HART

i want asriel to know the inherent rage of being an older sibling and realizing ur parents dont know how to raise ur alienated little sibling

[whorefordean]

nobody fucking talk to me. i just stubbed my toe on my bed while sitting down.

[awolfnamedluna]

WHY HEAD HURTY

I TOOK PARACETAMOL ALREADY AND I WANNA SLEEP

[lifeintheworldtocome]

lately ive been like. getting such bad stomachaches it fucking wakes me up. good morning all

[im-gonna-squeet]

r u shitting me rn i just cut my finger on a box of creral bars

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

while we wait.

may i offer you all a pubby?? lil bby barns?

[sassmill]

Owie

[vind3miat0r]

Sophie i love you so please dont take offense to what im about to say

KILL YOURSE—

Sunshine who just wanted to hear him talk about the stars again

[rottmnt-residuum]

Part 3 of Arc II (Part 29)

and with this we hit 100 pages 🎉

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[bonefall]

.. opinions on wind runner? i feel like im one of the only ones that genuinely hates her sometimes

If you feel like the only one who genuinely hates her, I think you need to look around more. Wind Runner is a very widely disliked character, because she's often used within the story as a small antagonist who "threatens" the authority of Tall Shadow. Gray Wing dislikes her. Thunder is openly cat-racist to her. She spends several books trying to break through the moor cats' xenophobia to join a group that came to HER LAND.

Then, when Moth Flight is old enough to be a relevant character in Forest Divided, Wind Runner is turned into Yet Another mean mom the very moment Moth displays ADHD. She's contrasted to her mate Gorse Fur, who is a Soft And Good Dad, and ultimately MASSIVELY punished with the harrowing events of Moth Flight's Vision (even though, for most of that book, she's completely right.)

Ask yourself why they're especially harsh on WIND RUNNER for being mean to her child, in the arc with Tom the Fucking Wifebeater and his redemption death, plus Thunder being forced to stop being mad at his abuser Clear Sky, please.

To me, Wind Runner is an intense, ambitious woman who's demonized for it in a way that men just aren't. She's subject to several misogynistic trends within WC, plus a huge helping of xenophobia that goes absolutely unexamined. If DOTC cared at all about women, it would have treated her with the nuance she deserves.

Wind Runner is treated with nearly endless suspicion by Gray Wing through books 1 - 3, while he's bending over backwards to suck Clear Sky's toes.

Her wanting to join the group that came TO HER HOME and being a bit pushy about it earns a stronger reaction from Gray Wing than Clear Sky murdering people.

She's pressured into changing her name "to fit in," and it's still not enough. She wanted to join the group so bad she changed her name, at the request of the Mountain Cats, for a chance of being better accepted

This came after she'd already saved Jagged Peak's life when a burrow collapsed on him. She's plenty trustworthy.

She keeps doing shit to try and prove herself to this group of assholes. Remember Bumble being dragged back to her domestic abuser? Gray Wing interprets this as a power struggle, when WIND RUNNER WAS NOT EVEN PART OF THE GROUP AT THE TIME.

From Wind Runner's POV, she did something that the Moor cats wanted done. It was fucking evil. It was committing violence against another member of the out-group the cats see her as.

But who actually has the power here? Tall Shadow does.

Gray Wing said it himself that she could have come up with some excuse for Bumble to stay, and she didn't. In fact, any cat could have spoken up. No one did.

and still. STILL. Wind Runner gets nothing. Her reward is Gray Wing surmising that actually, her doing their sick dirtywork was a political move.

It's more consistent as a motivation with how Wind Runner wants to join their group. The thing she's been doing.

She only actually gets to join the group after Thunder starts publicly hurling slurs at her for suggesting they need to be ready for Clear Sky to attack them. "What do you know about peace? Last time I was here you were NOTHING BUT A ROGUE WITH A ROGUE'S NAME"

Gray Wing even starts purring when she gives birth, because her ambition goes away briefly and she "stops bossing everyone around." this is treated like a sweet thing. god forbid women retain their personalities when they have kids

She loses her first premature child to a seizure and Gray Wing starts proselytizing his religion to her. "Maybe it's a good thing your weakest child died because Jesus has them now" I want to beat him with a hammer

When her second child gets sick, Clear Sky has a bright idea that involves killing it. I refer to this as his "reverse leper colony" suggestion. He only develops a sense of humanity towards the sick when his brother's pregnant wife is in danger. Wind Runner and her kitten barely seem to clock as people to him.

It's only after her SECOND baby succumbs to a horrible, painful death that she decides the moor cats are assholes, and she goes to start her own group. It's LONG overdue. I was extremely excited to see it.

Now. Listen.

I've been treated just like Moth Flight before. I've practically heard the scolding in Book 6 Chapter 3 verbatim. I'm not downplaying anything about Wind Runner being harsh to her; being yelled at like that never fixed the problem.

What I'm saying is that this is the SAME arc that summons the hollowed-out ghost of Storm to coo that Clear Sky "never drove anyone away" with his abusive behavior and gives Tom the Wifebeater a heroic redemption death.

So why is the scolding from Wind Runner treated as unambiguously harsh? What's the difference between her and them?

Why is it that outside of this little bubble of the community, you can get buried in a flood of people crying about how "Clear Sky made Summisteaks Butt he thought it was the right thing :((( He feels bad about shoving Thunder's face in a weeping, pus-filled wound and trying to kill him :((((" but Wind Runner is mean about Moth Flight not catching a rabbit and she should be skinned alive

Why is WIND RUNNER held responsible for the death of Clear Sky's child in Moth Flight's Vision, WHEN IT WAS COMPLETELY HIS OWN FAULT??

So, why should I hate her? Because she's mean to the idiot protagonists? Because she's Yet Another Bad Mom whose actions ARE treated as Bad in the story, in the arc famous for openly weeping whenever someone's mad at their abusive dad?? When she has this whole horrific, unexamined story about how incredibly bigoted The Settlers are towards her and the extremes she goes to in order to please them?

I'm glad she's mean, actually. She should have been even meaner. I think she should have a gun

[tojisun]

how to win my husband over (남편을 내 편으로 만드는 방법) fits simon/reader so much. the miscommunication, the misunderstanding. rugged duke of the north (😭) simon appearing to be brutish and angry, when he’s truly so deeply in love with you. that when he pushed you away—physically and figuratively—it was actually to protect you because he’s made a lot of enemies, and they’re hurting you to corner him.

that when he’s getting angry, it’s not because of you but for you—don’t you know? simon had his sister’s nanny, the only woman who ever loved her as a mother when their own couldn’t, exiled because he learned that she told you that he couldn’t possibly be truly in love with you.

(he is. in every life time, he is and will always be irrevocably in love with you.)

don’t you know? when simon thought you were taken by the monsters, he spent three sleepless days, and would spend even longer if it came down to it, searching the empire for you. he believed that you were alive even when others said you couldn’t possibly be, and ordered the duchy’s knights to never give up because his wife is missing damn it—

(please. please be safe. please come back. he has so much to say to you; has so much to do with you. you two have barely had a life together so please—)

god, simon loves you so much and it doesn’t matter that people are calling you a witch because all he needs is your love. all he needs is to protect you and to be with you, and he swears on his life that he will do everything to fight for you. simon is willing to, and does, go far to ensure people’s opinions of you change because you deserve a good life. you deserve to be happy and to be safe and simon will always, always fight for you to have that.

hhhhs m sobbing 🙂‍↕️

[sevenelevendata]

i hate hearing other people sad and hearing his voice just broke me

"this kind of thing happens to other dads/it don't happen to mine" followed a few lines later by "come on dad, get out of bed" with the emotion in that line and. i cannot do this

[captainyaps]

Isn’t it crazy how despite Hades Halls being filled with the dead, there was always so much life in it? There was always shades milling around, always Dusa fretting in the corner, always Hypnos not doing his job, always the head chef chopping the same onion. But in hades 2… it is truly dead. There is none of that. When Mel goes into Zag’s room, the mess is coated with dust and bed too perfect to have been recently made. The lyre lies untouched. The scrying pool holds ancient, withered numbers, meaningless and still. When she goes into the great hall, there is no scrawling of Hades’ quill, nor his loud complaints. There is no great maw of Cerberus nor the silence of Achilles. No Thanatos waiting at the end of the hallway, no Meg scaring the shades. It is just empty, a cold reminder of what once was, of what was taken.

She stops needing to look at the portrait to remember what the Titan took from her.