#going to tag this as

[shirleyjacksons]

[hirakiyois]

christopher is going to have the weirdest perception of romantic love when he grows up because his parents were broken up or fighting or in and out of the picture when his mom was alive, and then when his dad finally started dating again he kept his girlfriend an arm's length away at all times and had panic attacks whenever someone accurately perceived that relationship as romantic. but this strange guy that his dad made his best friend on his first day on the job in la now helps chris with his math homework and with baking cookies for his class and takes care of him when his dad is hospitalised and organizes holiday get-togethers so chris can spend them with his dad and is literally always a call away for both of them and keeps the doors of his house eternally open for them and takes him to the zoo all the time. and you'll never believe which of these people eddie apparently actively tried to kiss.

[pencildragons]

biblically accurate alice dyer ???

[corvidexoskeleton]

So because I'm an incurable sap and have been discussing with @rockshortage the possibilities for how marriage could work in nevarran culture, I feel obligated to share some of the headcanons and ideas that have coalesced as a result

So the basic idea is that marriage in nevarran culture is something that is typically a private moment between two people and a skull, because of course there has to be a skull involved

And why a skull, you might ask? Well, when two people wish to be married in nevarra, they must find or borrow a marriage skull. A marriage skull is usually shared communally by small towns or villages, passed down through families, or kept in publicly accessible crypts or spaces in more urban or densely populated cities. They can be identified by a small sigil or summoning circle engraved on the forehead

Once a marriage skull has been acquired, the couple recite an old nevarran incantation in order to summon a spirit of devotion to inhabit the marriage skull, where it will act as a witness as the couple recite their vows to each other. It's also not uncommon for a couple to exchange pieces of jewelry with each other during the ceremony - typically pieces of grave gold, to serve as a representation that the other person is becoming someone you will share your grave with, as the nevarran word for spouse or partner can be loosely translated to "one I share my grave with" (although this step is not always followed if the couple have no grave gold or jewelry to exchange, or don't wish to exchange anything)

After vows and gifts have been exchanged, and having served as a witness, the spirit ingrains a memory of the marriage into the skull itself to serve as a record after the ceremony ends, which physically manifests as the names of the recently married being magically inscribed in grave script into the bone of the skull by the spirit. After this is done, the spirit departs

A marriage can also be annuled by calling forth a spirit and asking that it strike the record from the memory of the marriage skull, causing the inscribed grave script corresponding to the marriage to become blackened and burned out, obscuring what it used to say

Eventually, a marriage skull will be retired when it no longer has any room for names on it, whereupon it will be enshrined in a local crypt, family tomb, or a dedicated room in the necropolis. In the event that the validity of a marriage comes into question, a spirit may be summoned into the skull in order to ask if the marriage in question really took place, but the memories may also be coaxed forth by a corpse whisperer without the need of a spirit

[51-queer-frogs]

Unstable reality zone warning sign

inspired loosely be the never found warning sign and. of course. the good old office for the preservation of normalcy. it maybe could be better executed but ehhhhhhhh.

[lesbianlenas]

going to watch the melissa show now if i flatline & die it’s bc of melissa know that.

[emotinalsupportturtle]

people with who you respect ridiculous non-existent boundaries because they never indicate where their boundaries are at

[kvothes]

so true

[pookapufferfish]

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[aznisure]

something something digital footprint

[gemsandjunk]

the two types of billford content

[cornpapers]

[flame-shadow]

hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???

i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)

[shadow-queens-blog]

hey does this make sense? am i reaching?

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

"Robin brings light to the darkness" or something