#general fray

[raayllum]

Some things we don't talk about Rather do without and just hold the smile Falling in and out of love Ashamed and proud of, together all the while

[violinist-rachel]

do you like cats

"I love cats!"

"I actually volunteer at my local animal shelter once a week so I get to see them fairly regularly! Truthfully, I also happen to be mildly allergic to them but..."

"Worth- *achoo!* it- *achoo!* -!!"

[age-of-moonknight]

“Crusader,” Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #1.

Writer: Benjamin Percy; Artist: Rod Reis; Letterer: Cory Petit

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

ok i think the best part of the drk quests overall though is the point whenever you open up your journal midway through and abruptly realize that your wol has started taking notes in a completely different voice

[sercphs]

Also, I've been penciling Seth's HSR kit and combat style, so that'll be coming out soon-ish.

[lanaevyssmoved]

i keep getting so tempted to talk about the exploration of toxicity and abuse in fiction and how it can be a genuine recommendation from therapists to help you heal and talk about your experiences while othering yourself, and how if you do it online you're going to make people uncomfortable and you will be judged, so you need to learn how to balance these things, to do what you want to do for yourself while also being mindful of those around you.

but then i remember how disasterous this conversation is whenever it seems to be brought up and i change my mind

[fuzzychildchopshop]

Eli and Clare are like Jace and Clary

they have a lot in common

[memryse]

one thing that really irks me is when people complain about merch being too expensive like i understand that it is expensive but it generally is actually a reasonable price for clothes that aren’t made by slave labour. clothes especially merch are a luxury and if you want decent quality clothes made even remotely ethically, then you are going to have to pay considerably more than the £10 you would pay for a hoodie that was mass produced in a sweatshop and will start fraying after you wash it once because it’s made out of cheap material by garment workers who don’t have time to properly finish the clothes. please stop encouraging fast fashion

yes there are shitty merch companies out there and a high price tag does not necessarily mean a high quality product because of issues like that - stares at certain wilbur and ranboo merch drops - but on the whole like. ccs want to associate themselves with high quality merch that people will actually like and wear, because that’s what we as fans have asked for. we don’t want crappy t-shirts with a transfer of their logo anymore. which means paying artists more to design quality merch, it means working with their merch company to source good quality materials, it means embroidery and acid washes and all those sorts of extra processes, it means not using sweatshops. all of that adds up and yes it’s going to set you back more money but it also means it’s going to last longer and be more comfortable to wear.

[belelzebub]

More ffxiv sticker designs…ever closer to being free from sticker hell

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok cradling one of his infants and quietly singing to them so they stop fussing and they’re both tired and irritated but slowly, slowly the baby calms down and just stares at Tuvok who stares back and even though he’s still tired he isn’t irritated anymore.

[ylajali]

i feel like something important that’s really dropped off in the age of cheap, mass produced items is finery. i find something very valuable in my grandparents’ china with gold leaf accent that only comes out at thanksgiving, the porcelain nativity set my mom and aunt painted together, the hand embroidered tablecloth i spent too much money on in budapest because i wanted something to pass down. and not just the value that comes from it being expensive. obviously not everything can be something well made and expensive- and i wouldn’t have much of this stuff hadn’t been passed down to me- but i think we’re all a little too used to .50 cent target dishware and h&m shirts and ikea furniture. we need 90 year old bone china tea sets or grandpa’s gold cufflinks or great aunties mink stoll for our health.

[peri]

"you found me" by the fray sparks such intense nostalgia in me. eating ice cream in a mcdonalds parking lot 2009

[impossible-rat-babies]

I just. love the funny intersection eyrie has between DRK and WAR it just tickles my fancy

[oveliagirlhaditright]

So, about the apparent Twilight TV series that I literally just heard about... even though I'm really not a Twilighter anymore, here are my thoughts on it: I actually do think a TV show has a chance to be better than the movies (or, if nothing else, shed some new light on things or to show us some things that weren't in the films), since the movies really did leave a lot out.

I kind of wish that the show would be animated--because strangely enough, I actually feel like Twilight would lend itself better to animation (like, the comics were pretty cool, and the little bit I saw of the kind of manga-like version of the story that Japan had instead of the books). And even Meyer at one point said that if Twilight ever got adapted again, that she sort of would want it (or at least be open to) it being animation. But sadly, I really doubt that's going to happen. Alas.

There's a part of me that does hope that Meyer is more involved in things this time, because a part of me does think that some of the issues with the films (and even The Host movie. Maybe especially The Host in some areas. Oh. We're not talking about my beloved The Host? Shutting up now) might have been because she didn't have enough control, or that she was too nice and maybe let things go with the movies that she shouldn't have. But at the same time, I also recognize that the books are littered with flaws and some of the movies' saving graces were probably that Meyer was less involved in some areas and that we got Rosenberg's writing over Meyer's (who won't be involved this time, I'm sure). So I don't know. I'm sure there's a balance somewhere, and hopefully it's found.

Also... "Life and Death" (which was Twilight gender swapped) actually fixed some of the issues with Twilight, so I am praying that some of those changes go forward into this new adaptation, and maybe even many more.

Edit: I also hope this TV show doesn't take itself too seriously, and has all the comedic moments that the books have.

[fideidefenswhore]

Why did you vote for the third one in Katherynparr's poll?

To me, it just seems more likely than not? I'm rereading material on the Anne of Cleves marriage rn and funnily enough am reminded of that, like... to leave the marriage unconsummated was to mean it was very easy to annull, would be to leave the state of it contested and vulnerable. Most CoA partisans insist (and I agree, although I think this became even stronger and reified with her accession in 1509, I think it had always existed to some degree) that Catherine had it absolutely drilled into her that for her to become Queen of England was divinely ordained, her sacred duty, etc. That does not square with leaving the matter insecure. Those that insist on #1 tend to really ignore the timeline here... it's not like they married in November and he fell ill and dropped dead the very next week.

So, to follow that thread...would she have lived in that uncertainty and insecurity for months? I find that unlikely. She couldn't have seen the future, so how was she to know that it could ever become such a contentious issue, the did they/did they not?

Frankly, Catherine in these circumstances was the one that was more (relatively) vulnerable. Arthur was always going to become King of England, come hell or high water. They both would have felt pressure, but Catherine would have felt more; to present grandchildren to her in-laws would have guaranteed the security of her future and been met with the gratitude of her own parents for securing the alliance with finality.

I won't go into all the evidence generally used for Vote #1, but I'm familiar with all the usual points made for it, and I'll address some of them in order.

Catherine's testimony that they only spent 'seven nights' in bed together. There's testimony from members of Arthur's staff that contradicts this (saying the number of nights was much higher) and even if it was true (it's a very specific number to remember, I'll say that, six more than the night of their wedding, which she couldn't dispute because chroniclers recorded it), seven nights is plenty to figure it out, if the motivation was there (and see above, I believe it was)

The impression this was supposed to leave, I believe, was that Arthur and Catherine didn't enjoy intimacy together, and didn't really care for each other. Frankly, this has some support (Catherine's rather demurely ambiguous response to Henry VII's question of the matter of whether or not they should reside together was whatever you think best, Arthur spoke of how pleasing she was to him, but that was boilerplate political speech), even speaking broadly (arranged marriages could be awkward, the only language they shared was stilted Latin). There's also the matter of how Arthur left Catherine absolutely nothing in his will, only leaving things to his sister, Margaret.

However, that doesn't preclude that any attempt of consummation was never made...this was often the case, and those in politically arranged royal marriages (Henry VIII being an anomaly) were supposed to, yk...get over it.

The strongest contender is her swearing otherwise to Campeggio. There was another confessor of Catherine's, though, who believed otherwise in 1502, and whom Catherine refused to ever see or write to again (even when the Pope reccomended him-- Catherine was not always such a staunch, to use a retrospective term, 'Papist' as some have supposed); in the context of Catherine having not yet had any surviving son by her marriage to Henry.

Additionally, while she spoke of many things on her deathbed (feeling some blame for the 'increase of heresy' in Engand, namely), and did take confession, her marriage to Arthur and its alleged unconsummation was not among either. Even Chapuys, her staunchest supporter, was rather distressed and seemingly puzzled by this (he had been "assured" that it was her intention to do so)

We're never going to know definitively, of course (those that say Pope Clement made a final declaration that her alleged virginity of 1509 was 'proven' are incorrect-- he did, on the last, defend the sanctity of her marriage, but on the grounds that Henry had for too long acted on the dispensation given for it, and "deprived himself of the right to protest against it"....a conclusion he surely could have given by 1530 at the latest, if 1527 was so clearly 'too late' to protest, but I digress... no mention made of the state of her marriage to Arthur); but regardless of whatever the truth was, I think something that's often said of Henry applies equally to Catherine (and, honestly, most people):

They believed what they wanted/needed to believe.

[facesmadeforsmut]

What’s the standard these days for FC resources? Gif icons? Medium gifs? Bit of both?