#i am so so dubious

[lurkingshan]

School 2013 is still so powerful. It’s so rare that dramas let protagonists actually make such serious life altering mistakes that they can never make up for. There’s no excuse and no justification and no way to ever really make amends. Nam Soon just did an awful thing and he has to live with that forever.

[obsob]

oooooooooough i love you i love you i love you!!!! hand in loving hand !!!!!!

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

[f-imaginings]

Some Book of Bill musings about the theraprism below the cut.

Bill getting sectioned by the Axolotl (and time baby?) is wild to me.

What sort of therapy would be effective on an unwilling participant with such extreme issues with authority?

Do they enforce medication schedules, is there mandatory CBT or DBT sessions to make him feel bad about his decisions (and is guilt ever an effective method when dealing with someone with Bills issues) or do they do Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Can you use EMDR to process traumatic memories if the patient only has one eye (probably) or would they utilise tapping or electric pulses to trigger bilateral brain movement.

I know they do art therapy and have unhelpful patronising motivational posters on the wall, but who decides by what metric these "offenders" reach reform by?

And who decides their reincarnation fate, is there any oversight there to make these reincarnation decisions client led or is it just one more thing the offenders have to accept they have no control over. They are already dressed like prisoners and subjected to solitary confinement (which can be a passive form of torture in some cases).

Do they address the root traumas effectively given the owners of the theraprism seem to be all powerful (but not powerful enough to eradicate the systemic problems that cause the initial traumas) or do they victim blame and reinforce narcissistic injury through this process.

Are you cured when you stop fighting? When you give up and conform?

How is the theraprism a just solution and who controls it behind the scenes?

Are you free when you admit guilt (Bill already described himself as a monster) or when you take accountability?

Is accountability helpful at all when the Theraprism only seems to release patients to be completely reincarnated to a new form and life? How are you meant to make up for your failings in this life if you're just continually punished for it until you reach reincarnation stage and then continue to be punished in the next life (by only getting reincarnated as bugs or lower life forms if the butterfly is anything to go by). Everyone just trusts that the Axolotl is the good guy, same with Time Baby, but by what virtue are they in charge (when they seem just as mysterious, ambiguous and overpowered as Bill sometimes) and what have they done to prove they are worthy of this huge responsibility?

I have so many questions about the actual efficacy of the theraprism past a funny punchline for the Book of Bill.

[jaxi-the-dragonborn]

I have another round of adopts for everyone! This ones aren't free, unfortunately :(

BUT you can pay ANY amount to my ko-fi :D

if you pay more than 50$ you will get a fullbody included :) i already have fullbodies sketched out for most of the designs here. I would really appreciate it if these got adopted, i really need to fix my car for work and the car problems are getting worse

so to recap: any price = headshot 15$ = headshot and customized wing design 50$= headshot and customized full body :D

adopt status and design notes under the cut

Tarnished gold SkyWing (could have some other tribes mixed in here): Available

Pinto SandWing: Available

SeaWing/Icewing: Available

Sunset Skywing: Available

Spiky Silkwing: Available

Starry RainWing(?): Taken by @number1elfenthusiast

Glory but on dark mode (it was on accident): Available

Lynx point SeaWing(?): Available

MudWing/Hivewing(?????): taken by @miss-grey

Wolf IceWing: Available

Zebra-ish SandWing: Available

Yellowjacket HiveWing/NightWing: Available

Frosty MudWing: Available

MudWing/HiveWing(???? could be siblings with #9): Available

IceWing/SeaWing: Taken by @fivetrench

Barn Owl IceWing (other side of face is scarred): taken by @miss-grey

Sunrise IceWing: Available

Smol Turquoisey NightWing: Available

LORGE Grandparent NightWing: Available

i've always loved the look of tarnished gold, tried drawing that out on a skywing. OH in my head the sizes that they are on the page reflect like how big they actually are so that nightwing is HUGE. so is that seawing/icewing. the two pure icewings on here came from me experimenting how much variety one dragon species can have and they are two sides of the spectrum

EDIT: forgot to mention pls send an ask before adopting so I can keep track of everyone

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Holy shit if you dont want to see owl videos simply change your url

let me ask you something, anon.

Do you think if someone’s url had “dog-videos” in it that would mean they enjoy being sent videos of dogs being beaten or getting hyperthermia in hot cars? Do you think they would take it as a genuine “hey I’m worried about whether this is ethical or not” when the video they send in is a dog getting pinned down by a lion?

People who like and work with animals generally don’t enjoy being sent videos of animal abuse for no reason. A little owl being licked by a house cat, aside from being a video I have rated numerous times over the years, is a bit hard for me to believe is a genuine question on ethics. I can only say so many times that feline saliva is toxic to birds and I can only say so many times that owls don’t like to be touched in most cases.

Any video with an owl interacting with a cat is unethical.

Any video with an owl in an obvious pet situation is unethical.

I cannot make that any clearer, if you don’t know anything about owls, may I recommend checking my “rated: cute” and “rated: not cute” tags. I have recommended tags set up on the search bar for this blog for a reason.

[cyanorhis]

that moment when u meet the disguised version of your culture's satan and u end up making him fall in love with you. absolutely hilarious.

you either make him regret his actions or you make him validate his actions. he will do the shit anyway so pick your poison. doomed divorce forever.

[shioricain]

Jayce hate is so stupid and annoying but I don’t think the other extreme is right (though more bearable as a take), I don’t think we’re supposed to root for Jayce, we’re supposed to first see as his actions as shocking and horrific and we will probably get a flashback where everything becomes understandable but still Jayce is in the wrong (also Viktor is… I wouldn’t say wrong exactly, but a little misguided probably, we’re supposed to be a little apprehensive of the cult and hivemind as a concept).

[variousqueerthings]

smthin important for me in my understanding of mr benton bentoni fraser is that yes he's got the martyr syndrome and yes he was raised in a pretty austere (but loving) environment and was probably one of those kids with an unnervingly large vocabulary and he has real issues related to living up to his father's "image" and that image itself being tarnished and doesn't often allow himself to feel his feelings and has definitely always been an outsider to his peers but...

he is also an adrenaline junkie

my man isn't just jumping off moving cars and getting in trouble and putting himself in hospital a few times a month solely for the sake of the good of the people, he is in danger to Feel Alive and if some smart mean-for-fun dommy sadist figured this out he could get himself bruised (and bossed around) whenever he wanted..... oh look, the show introduced her in s2 👀👀👀

[swallowtail-ageha]

I think someone should study the fact that all of the moral issues people have with coleen hoover are just the modern day version of "this erotic literature will corrupt our pure women!"

[voparwave69]

Hey, so, PSA, just because you write a Long Rambling Post ™️ on Tumblr.com using emoji effects and formatting that is typical of ✨Left Leaning Spaces✨ DOES NOT,

I repeat, DOES NOT, MEAN THAT IT IS AUTOMATICALLY A TRUE AND VALUABLE STATEMENT. Yall need to realize this before you cause very real damage to all of your followers. Yall NEED to realize that those glass rose vases you see being sold at gas stations have a hidden feature behind those innocently beautiful petals: They are actually crack pipes! And something I also don't see discussed enough because this is the Piss On The Poor website is people discussing the fact that meth can also be smoked out of light bulbs. And I see even fewer people discussing the fact that you can easily find cigarette butts, even barely smoked cigarettes, around Walmart employee break areas which are completely accessible to the public! And if you are thirsty afterwards because your mouth is dry after sucking down 40 cigarette butts in a row, there are FREE WATER FOUNTAINS INSIDE, along with FREE POPCORN CHICKEN AND SODAS. Please, if you're going to reblog ANYTHING, reblog this. There are far too many people simply using light bulbs to light their ugly houses and using crack pipes as home decor, and still buying their own cigarettes when there is a wild and wonderful world of already amply tasted and caressed cigarette butts right on the ground beneath them.

[thistransient]

I have a heinous sunburn, my tailbone region is bruised and abraded, my stomach issues resolved after 800mg of anti-dysentery pills, I have a newfound and passionate appreciation for hot water and paved roads, and we finally made it back to the city today. This was probably one of the most unwise yet exhilarating things I've ever done in my life. Also I saw more yaks.

[raindropsfell2]

You guys know DO know that absolving Solas from all the dubious things that he did and pushing the blame for his own actions on other characters is doing a disservice to him as a character...right? you guys know and understeand that? right? right.

[minne-cerbinna]

I think quite often of the optional little dialogue tree that one can get about Yaevinn in TW2 with an imported save if one sides with Iorveth, and particularly of just how Iorveth describes Yaevinn

The dialogue prompt "I once knew another Scoia'tael - Yaevinn." will lead to the following exchange:

GERALT: I once met another Scoia'tael leader.

IORVETH: Yaevinn. I knew him. He had beautiful dreams and desperately wanted me to share them. Asked the same of you, I heard.

GERALT: You know a lot about me.

IORVETH: I try to know as much as I can - about everyone.

They'll elaborate a little further in this dialogue about how they both agree with Yaevinn's reasons and the fact that Yaevinn "saw combat and killing as poetry" which Iorveth deems unrealistic because "war is prose, with no place for beauty" (how poetic).

But the interesting part to me is the statement that Yaevinn had "beautiful dreams" and how he was this grand idealist, because this seems to be in contradiction with Yaevinn's characterisation. In his novel appearance, he argues against Toruviel's idealism as he proposes shooting the unarmed messenger. In TW1, Geralt refers to him in his journal as being "disillusioned", as well as being "a cynic and a pragmatist", neither of which seem to hold with Iorveth's account. While this can be credited to the fact that it's possible that Iorveth's past-tense statement of "I knew him" means that he hasn't seen Yaevinn in some time rather than, or at least in addition to, the implied death. He has perhaps not seen him since the Second Northern War, where they were both in the Vrihedd brigade, and Yaevinn could have grown more cynical since the Scoia'tael were betrayed by Dol Blathanna, his earliest characterisation is that of the novel canon, and he does not present a particular idealism that would reflect the notion that he is a dreamer.

It can be taken as a choice of characterisation, because for all that Yaevinn is disillusioned, he does have his hopes and desires for the future and his plans at Vizima, just as Iorveth has his hopes for Saskia and Vergen. He has these dreams, even if he tenders them close to his chest and puts the practical aspects first before he allows himself to have this hope. And I think that is a really interesting interpretation, to have this juxtaposition, that he can be both disillusioned and a dreamer, and that he chose a scant few, Iorveth, and then Geralt, to share in those precious dreams.

The notion of Yaevinn having these "beautiful dreams" is also very pertinent to his TW1 characterisation, I think, because there are optional dialogues in which Yaevinn tells the accounts of how he once lived among humans and believed in assimilation, that the humans would accept the elves if given enough time, only to be persecuted and harassed at length until he finally accepted that there was no place for him there, that there could be no assimilation, only annihilation. And even though he knows it is a hopeless fight, he still proceeds onward. He knows his people are dying, and he knows that if they do not act quickly, they will be well and truly doomed to extinction, but he is still trying to fight. That is, in and of itself, an expression of a dream for a better future, even if he thinks it hopeless, or, as Iorveth criticises, unrealistic.

Serious character analysis aside, I think that the absolute funniest interpretation of this dialogue is that it is not to be taken literally about Yaevinn's idealism or lack thereof, but rather as a euphemism -- taking "beautiful dreams" as a euphemism for queer romantic interest; hence "he had beautiful dreams and desperately wanted me to share them" is something like "he likes men and asked me to be his lover", "I hear he asked the same of you" thenceforth meaning something like "were you also his lover/do you also like men" (and the response "you know a lot about me" therefore indicating that he is correct in his judgement). There's like a whole rebellion going on but Iorveth is just checking out his options, y'know.

[moe-broey]

I've hired this thing to stand there. Menacingly.

Wow, he's so good at tha--

Nevermind.

He also sits very politely though (needs assistance to do so, but hey! He's polite.)

[jamethinks]

would be so funny if instead of a big showdown or insane string of coincidences and planning from twilight, Donovan just shows up one day

"My wife said you're a therapist so i will given you 1045682 dalc to sit and listen to me share all my personal problem, insecurities and plans to you. maybe even a few confessions. all the information anyone would need to take me down."

like all that for nothing. just the first doctor on his list.