#i am outraged i tell you

[catboyolli]

i'm this )( close to creating a tiktok account just to tell mr joel hokka that shakira's songs in spanish >>>>>>>>> shakira's songs in english

[justgleekout]

I saw @esilher’s incredible artworks of klaine dancing (everyone go check it out they’re incredible!!) and I was sooo inspired I just had to draw them dancing as well because gahhhhh they are so in loveeee 😩❤️

[sevarix-blogs]

also a reminder that no one is immune to propaganda. pls be careful what you take as fact on social media. if you genuinely think "bad ppl should die/suffer/etc" then pls get off social media for a while and think long and hard about what that truly means.

[goldkirk]

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[inhidingxoxo3637]

Autographed Collectables hunty why are Acosta's knee sliders the same price as Mir's and a mere £39 less than Quartararo's??

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

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[mouse-ships]

hey! Rhen a few hours from now! we know you're gonna need this.

don't be nervous and sad. look at the pretty lizard man.

[bonetrousledbones]

ok i still am running so so low on time and energy for The Big Lore but it is my birthday tomorrow and i think yo u should all ask me cool questions about atbb maybe

[afterthefeast]

i actually can’t get over the notes of the twitter thread abt irish people slagging each other. like i get it if you’re not from somewhere where this is common maybe it’s offputting but firstly i guarantee you that if someone slags you they are at the very worst neutral to you if anything this is a sign of friendship. secondly this is not that deep. thirdly it’s funny. this is just like those posts that are like small talk is actually fun sometimes and people get so mad, it doesn’t have to be for you but it’s a social ritual people engage in to make them feel part of a community i think maybe it is isn’t a sign of an inherently toxic culture

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Top 5 golden girls Moments?

How could you ask me this. Not even my top 5 episodes, my top 5 moments. This is an impossible choice. Do you enjoy inflicting pain on me? I may die from this (said in Blanche's half-asleep accent).

I hope you know that producing this list has been equivalent to tearing my beating heart out of my chest.

The Great Herring War scene from S1E25 The Way We Met

Rose's reveal that she had 56 boyfriends before settling down with Charlie from S7E13 Old Boyfriends

Dorothy telling off Blanche's abusive boyfriend (and Blanche kicking him out of the house) from S6E13 The Bloom Is Off The Rose

The little moment between Dorothy and Rose on the lanai from S5E19 72 Hours

The kiss on Rose's nose + hug from S3E3 Bringing Up Baby

There. I hope you're happy. Personally I will never recover from this.

[Ask me my Top 5 anything]

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

while i'm on the topic of my weird 19th century style childhood. when i got chicken pox as a kid, my sores became really badly infected, much more so than my siblings. i was scolded for picking them too much - even though i wasn't picking much at all because i was too weak to itch the pox sores most of the time.

for several weeks i was in a cycle of being made to take oatmeal bath after oatmeal bath, scolded for picking my sores and"faking sick to get out of going to church", and still somehow getting sicker every day. a mystery.

my bellybutton eventually turned into a black boil with a cracked and oozing center, and after 3 days of that and me refusing to wear any clothing but a very worn old navy T-shirt dress, my mom finally took me to a real doctor. i was around 8, i think? i vividly remember laying in that final oatmeal bath and thinking that if i turned my head to the left and took a deep breath i wouldn't have to hurt anymore. not even in a depressed or suicidal way! that was just the most practical solution my childbrain could come up with lol.

i told my mom about those thoughts on the drive to the hospital, and (sing along if you know this one) she told me to stop being so dramatic.

anyhow, it turns out my pox sores had become a staph infection. i was on an IV drip for, idk, maybe a day? time is fuzzy. one of the nurses told my mom if she'd waited even one more day, there wouldn't have been anything they could have done. i know that shit had that bitch feeling guilty because i got a milkshake on the drive home. a SONIC milkshake, so the whole thing was worth it tbh

[etapereine]

also fun fact for all my cycling poetry people the belga image search is, somehow, even worse than alamy

[tieflingbi]

:)

[thebirdandhersong]

I decided this year that being introverted was no excuse for avoiding people, and that I needed to focus less on shyness and more on community building and Being Brave For Once, and so naturally one of the steps I took was attending an English department socialization event today--the first time I have ever attended one of their events. And boy did that come This Close to making me regret stepping out of the house

[kariachi]

Welcome back to Achi climbing out of bed in the middle of the night to ramble. Tonight’s topic: MasterSinger Merelan.

Now I’ve mentioned before how fucking weird it is that in the Menolly books and beyond it’s treated as this shocking, weird-ass thing that a girl could be a proper student at the Harper Hall. Everyone acts like your only options are to be a fosterling/paying student (aka ‘you aren’t here to learn music you’re here to make connections’), be somebody’s wife, or be a general worker. Everyone acts like this has always been the case, or at least the whole of the case in living memory.

But Merelan. The last two MasterHarpers were directly related to this woman, who was very clearly not only a member of the Harper Hall but also incredibly well respected. Yet both of them act like the very idea of considering that maybe a girl could be taken in as a proper student in any capacity is tantamount to asking the Weyrs not to fly Fall. I could understand them being reluctant to do anything that could even hint at being replacing her, but to act like the idea is entirely unprecedented just- What the fuck dudes?

(And this isn’t even getting into the DLG giving us a lady Harper who ended up marrying the Lord of Ista in the far past. Yadda yadda ‘the DLG isn’t canon’, it’s only as contradictory as the books themselves, and it’s statement that ladies have been allowed in several Halls for a good while and the Harpers just got dramatic about it, presumably to present themselves as progressive, tracks better with the sudden ‘what no ladies can’t be Harpers ladies have never been Harpers don’t you dare look at that portrait behind that curtain’ shit than the proper books do.)

And that brings us to another thing buzzing in my brain right now- Meralan is referred to as just Singer multiple times, but is also given the full title of MasterSinger. This is, such a big fucking deal and I don’t know how other people haven’t seemed to notice, how did I not notice-?

First up, Singer as a title brings up some interesting concepts about the potential inner workings of the Halls. We know Harpers as teacher, composer, musician, singer, but for Singer to exist as its own title means it’s its own distinct subcategory. Which leads to questions, the main ones being 1) is this a distinct ‘ladies can’t be Harpers so we’ll call them this’ situation (in which case why not recommend Menolly for the position), 2) if it’s not, is ‘harper’ the generalized term/title (like how you would call your cardiologist ‘doctor’ even though there’s a specific job title), 3) or is ‘harper’ more a term for generalists (people who teach and compose and sing and play etc) while specialists get the more restricted title (singer, player, teacher, scholar, etc), 4) if any of these are true, then are there similar situations in other Halls (does the Minecraft Hall have Miners, Cartographers, Lapidarists, etc?) and if so what are they?

We don’t learn much to help is those questions, though we do know that Merelan was considered a Master in her own right, that she was a Big Deal, and that she had her own students.

But, more than that, much more than that, she’s titled MasterSinger. One word.

A Harper who’s reached Master rank is a Master Harper. A Smith who’s reached Master rank is a Master Smith. Master Miner. Master Healer.

MasterHarper is the title of the head of the Harper Hall. MasterSmith is the title of the head of the Smitchcraft Hall. MasterMiner heads the Minecraft Hall. MasterHealer heads the Healer Hall.

MasterSinger...

I don’t doubt Anne didn’t give a second thought to what that title says about her worldbuilding, but I’m not Anne and so I can. MasterSinger Merelan having that title, in a singular word, implies that she’s not just a singer, not just a Singer, but in charge of all the other Singers on Pern.

Singer is never treated as it’s own crafthall in the series, not to my knowledge, and that makes sense. The Harper Hall covers everything else music and with it the oral histories of the civilization, so it makes sense that Singers would also be lumped in there. But for there to be a MasterSinger says a whole lot about 1) the status of Singers (namely, that they’re likely equal to Harpers as far as Crafthall politics if nothing else, if this was just a minor position among the hierarchy, or even just ‘we give women this so they can be included’, likely there wouldn’t be a MasterSinger), and 2) that one way or the other they were more-or-less self-governing within the Harper Hall. Again, single word Masters, everywhere else in the series, are treated as more-or-less on par with Lords and Weyrleaders as far as power and status goes. It’s a big deal. Meaning that it’s entirely possible that MasterSinger is supposed to be either second only to the MasterHarper or, more likely I think, on equal footing with the MasterHarper.

The power imbalance in place by Merelan marrying Petiron and him being... Himself, may well have fucked up what was supposed to be functionally a dual position- with the MasterHarper managing composing, teaching, and that whole branch and the MasterSinger being in charge of the actual learning to sing and to play. It would also make sense with just how expansive the Harper Hall’s jurisdiction is, if it was more of a split-but-united deal. It’s the Harper Hall because that’s what it’s been forever, but the Singers are a distinct subset within it with power and import of their own.

 Which then brings up the question of wtf happened to the position of Singer? Because Merelan had students, and a very blatant rank of her own for those students to take. And for her to be MasterSinger she can’t have only just started getting students, that would’ve started when she was just Master Singer.

So we’re left with four questions Merelan’s existence and title drop unceremoniously on us-

What is a Singer in the context of the Harper Hall?

What happened to Merelan’s students, of which there can’t only have been the ones we meet?

What happened to the concept of Singers in general, that is never comes up again chronologically?

What the fuck bug crawled up Robinton and Petiron’s asses that despite there being a position in the Hall that explicitly allowed ladies, one that they’ve both been alive to see, one that would likely have been The Norm when Petiron was a student and teacher given Merelan’s position doesn’t seem to be questioned, both of them pull the ‘well you know the Hall hasn’t taken a female student in half of forever if ever, but maybe I can make something work for you’ game?

And we are never going to get a fucking answer so damnit we better start coming up with some for ourselves because nobody else is gonna touch it.

[taexual]

I'm gonna be honest, I love and admire oc soooo much for her determination and overall attitude, because my god, I would fold at any given moment, seriously, throughout every chapter without fail, jungkook thinks or says something that makes me have the urge (at least three times per chapter, I'm not even joking) to get inside of the story, takes oc's place and just smooch the hell out of him, pat him in the back, and live happily ever after

But then again, I also want to replace jk and have oc as a partner or even coworker bc dudeeee, this women is a GODDESS, and boy you better make things right, redeem yourself, and show all that love and affection that WE KNOW YOU HAVE FOR HER, and successfully treat her the way that, again, WE KNOW YOU WANT TO

And yeah, there's my rambling, they're so perfect for each other, and they're both perfect for me, so hurry up on getting together or I'm taking my chance with any of them 😑😑

the rollercoaster you've sent me on with this message, babe....... 😭😭 they can have each other, i want you for myself 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

also... the smooching, patting on the back, and living happily ever after together!!!!! 🥺 in that order!!!! 🥺 i like that so much!!!! 🥺