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Murderbot Diaries out here asking the real questions like:
What if you were something that was neither human nor machine and you had only ever been treated as a monstrous object? And:
What if there had never been a single entity in your existence that you could trust? And:
What if you were constructed from the most basic parts of your psyche to be a violent tool? And:
What if any attempt to protect yourself from abuse would result in torture or death? And:
What if you were finally free? And suddenly there were humans who loved you, but you had no way to comprehend that let alone believe it? And:
What if you didn't want to be human, but you had to alter yourself body and mind in order to hide among them? And:
What if you cared so fucking much that you couldn't stand it, and the only way you could express that was through astounding acts of violence to protect them? And:
What if caring was so dangerous and alien to you that you didn't even know you did? And:
What if you were so afraid that looking at anyone was impossible, and you had to stand at the remove of seeing everyone through a third person point of view? And:
What if you were a sarcastic bastard because you'd never been allowed to express anything but groveling subservience? And:
What if you started to want to accept that you cared?
#i am very normal about this series#i am not engaged in total self-projection onto this character#Murderbot Diaries
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thanks to the ogre poppenang team for giving me the new vocal stim of “OkayQuestionListener are you in sweDEN?”
#hunter: the parenting#hunter the parenting#htp#htp big d#htp marckus#htp kitten#htp kevin#hobbyshoppen#i am very normal about this series
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Right, OK, so here's the thing:
This is. So. Incredibly. Accurate. If you start with Warrior's Apprentice then you primarily see them after they have embraced their hot-mess-ness and decided to work with it, and therefore it's easy for it to pass under the radar, but reading Shards of Honor or Barrayar, it's much more obvious: Aral and his incredibly slow and painful suicide by alcohol ... Cordelia's decision to drown her therapist on her way to convincing a pilot that he needs to assist her emigration (but that she can't explain her slippers because it's "classified")... ... these people are not hinged. And yet --
"I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is ... the higher achievement." She gave him a crooked smile. "It should give you hope, eh?" "Huh. Block me from escape, you mean. Are you saying that no matter how much of a 𝕙𝕠𝕥 𝕞𝕖𝕤𝕤 I was, you'd still expect me to work wonders?" Appalling. She considered this. "Yes," she said serenely. "In fact, since 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕖'𝕤 𝕒 𝕙𝕠𝕥 𝕞𝕖𝕤𝕤 it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of 𝕒 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕠𝕥-𝕞𝕖𝕤𝕤-𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same (Mirror Dance, chapter 16)
-- and yet they are an immensely competent power couple. Compare the Barrayar where Kou is barely considered worthy of life, much less eligible to consider courting a civil-servant bodyguard ... to the Barrayar where that civil-servant bodyguard is considered an acceptable substitute for Lady Alys Vorpatril at Official Imperial Functions, and Kou is considered the lucky father of the four most eligible non-Vor maidens on the planet. Compare Ezar's reign to Gregor's expectations, Serg's goals to Gregor's. Compare Komarr's status in Galen's day to Galeni's position in ImpSec. These people Get Shit Done. And they get it done not despite being a hot mess. They get shit done by being a hot mess.
"Well. For your fourth consoling thought, I would point out that in this venue," a wave of his finger took in Vorbarr Sultana, and by extension Barrayar, "acquiring a reputation as a 𝕙𝕠𝕥 𝕞𝕖𝕤𝕤 who would kill without compunction to obtain and protect his own, is not all bad. In fact, you might even find it useful." "Useful! Have you found the name of 𝕓𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒 𝕙𝕠𝕥 𝕞𝕖𝕤𝕤 a handy prop, then, sir?" Miles said indignantly. His father's eyes narrowed, partly in grim amusement, partly in appreciation. "I've found it a mixed... damnation. But yes, I have used the weight of that reputation, from time to time, to lean on certain susceptible men. Why not, I paid for it." (Civil Campaign, chapter 15)
So yes, absolutely: the bedrock of their marriage, their careers, and their success is a combined and separate refusal to give the slightest damn about whether they're going to succeed wildly or be utterly humiliated.
"I've always thought -- tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.... If you think it's really wrong," said Cordelia to Vorkosigan, "that's one thing. Maybe that's the test. But if it's only fear of failure -- you have not the right to refuse the gift for that." "It's an impossible job." "That happens, sometimes." (Barrayar, Chapter 15)
And you know what? It's fabulous. Mark could not possibly have asked for a better landing place than a family that is 100% made of hot messes and doesn't judge how messy you are, only what you choose to do with your mess. What kind of depressive disaster would Kou have turned into, how much worse a monster would Bothari have been, if they hadn't had an in-house demonstration team of Seven Habits of Highly Effective Hot Messes? How absolutely perfect is it that when Gregor confessed his fears of being genetically destined to become a hot mess, Cordelia could say, with absolute honesty, "Everyone's a hot mess; let's get you some ethical principles and compatible goals."
I love heroism, I love paragons, I love stories that give me this unreachable ideal to try to follow. But I can't measure myself against fairytale princesses and pure-of-heart superheroes. I am not the One True King, to behave correctly at all times and never be tempted to the path of selfishness; I am a person. I am very often a hot mess. What advice, what hope, for someone like that?
And Bujold says, "All the hope in the world. Look what a disaster battle couple can do, if only they accept their shortcomings and decide to push on anyway."
I love that Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan look from a distance like some flawless immensely competent power couple when like
They are ENTIRELY a HotMess4HotMess relationship
He saw her puking her guts out in the middle of a disaster and thought, "I'm going to marry that woman someday."
She got a cheering crowd and a fancy medal for her bravery and stole the mic to tell everyone to get his name out of their ill-informed mouths
The bedrock of their marriage is their separate and combined willingness to look the possibility of utter failure in the eye and say, "Might as well try anyway."
#Ok but actually I have OPINIONS on this#it took me an hour to put this together and it was WORTH IT#Vorkosigan Saga#Lois McMaster Bujold#A Civil Campaign#Mirror Dance#Barrayar#clumsy meme editing#recovery#I am very normal about this series#my addition to a post#thank you for coming to my ted talk
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good omens season two good omgood omens season twogood omens season twogood omens season twogood omens season twogood omens season twogood omens season twogood omens season two good omens season two good omens season twogood omens season twogood omens season twogood omens season twoens season two
#aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa#i am very normal about this series#good omens#good omens season 2#good omens 2
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"Wanna come home with me?"
#the heart killers#the heart killers the series#theheartkillersedit#fadel x style#fadelstyle#joong archen#dunk natachai#joongdunk#tobelle#lextag#mjtag#userrlana#userbon#userspicy#userspring#userrlaura#tusermona#userpharawee#mygifs*#raeblr#rinblr#khaotunq#tuseryoo#uservix#uservid#thai bl#i am so very normal about this show already. and about them. and about Joong in this character...#very normal... yes. i am very normal about it all. *she says trying to convince no one else but herself*
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I only enforce your precedent. This is the world you chose to live in.
#the masquerade series#baru cormorant#tain shir#my art#I am regularly thinking about shir. very normally#a monster so awful and primordial
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would it be enough if I could never give you peace?
#i am very normal about them#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo series#percabeth#annabeth chase#mygifs#pjo tv show#percabethedit#percyjacksonedit#dailypercabeth#pjosource#ughmerlin#userbecca#userhann#useraurore#jemmablossom#tuserlucie#userelio#and it's just around the corner darling???#cause it lives in me?????
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after hours
#kenbig#kinnporsche#kinnporsche the series#kinnporsche fanart#big kinnporsche#ken kinnporsche#nodt nutthasid#perth nakhun#bl tag#thai bl#userpharawee#yes hello I may still be neck deep in bg3 but I am also still very Normal(TM) about these two and I miss them always#😩
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there is no better advertisement than one of your favorite artists drawing art for a fandom you're not a part of. and by that i mean i finally caved and started reading the orv webtoon
open for better quality | no reposts
#kim dokja#yoo joonghyuk#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv#fanart#myart#doodle#normally i don't read series in this genre especially w/ the content warnings but i've heard very good things about this one#plus one of my fav artists drew ship art of these two a while back soooo here i am 50 eps in#there is smth deeply wrong w/ these two (affectionate)#as of rn my fav characters are the army guy and the woman w/ the justice scales skill#joonghyuk is Pretty but idk much about him yet at this point in the story#i've been making bw/grayscale art recently bc i'm using my coloring energy on other things ^^;;#i can do better than this ^ this is just a means of me recording that i actually started this series lol#also i just. really wanted to try my hand at drawing joonghyuk bc he's pretty hahaha
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Nostalgia For A Time That Never Existed in Washington DC - 26 May 2024
#today was such an exhausting day to have eyes#5sos#5 seconds of summer#luke hemmings#luke#nostalgia tour#nostalgia tour dc n1#kh4f post#i feel so sane and normal and not in any way feral or like my brain is on fire#this weekend has been so very fun but so very too much 😌#the content has just been so specifically 👩🏻🍳💋#this first picture is actually obscene#picture 5 has me ready to commit a series of crimes - idk what crimes specifically but i am ready for them#pictures 9 and 10 have me ready to be just straight up committed#this is fine#remember how this isn't even my lane lmaoooooo#remember how not even 2 years ago i had an entire tag devoted to me trying to come to terms with my Feelings about this guy#🤡
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here's my lil sephi stylisation bc ive been experimenting w what feels like a natural and right way to draw him for me
also get ready for a fuck ton of design analysis and opinions about of seph bc I'm kinda chasing a sephiroth high rn and i gotta get it outta me
okay, so, to explain my thoughts on how i view sephi, i'll call back to the post i made right before this one
homeslice is the most miserable and detached man in existence at the time of nibelheim
hes barely there and has barely been there for a long ass while. sure he can do basic things like brush his teeth, shower, brush his hair, but i believe he's too far gone to even give a fuck about his appearance, assuming he ever did back in the day. he's naturally beautiful enough to get away w it, but still
og seph, to me, isn't a person and hasn't been long since before nibelheim. never once in the entire game is he a person. we never get to truly hear about him from himself, only through word of mouth, legends, and from flashbacks from Mr cloud "unreliable narrator" strife. even the words of his clone that usually interacts w the party during the game cant be fully trusted to actually be how sephiroth feels bc of jenova's presence in general (no matter if you believe which one controls the other)
sephiroth is a dead man. even when he was still breathing, he was a dead man. he was a man that was beaten into a complete husk and was left as a corpse w a pulse. a corpse who would rather ignore reality than go through the painful experience of having to live inside his own mind
but thats how i see him, personally
#final fantasy 7#ff7#final fantasy vii#final fantasy#final fantasy series#ffvii fanart#final fantasy 7 remake#final fantasy fanart#sephiroth ff7#sephiroth final fantasy#one winged angel#character design#ffvii rebirth#ffvii remake#ffvii#ffvii crisis core#og ff7#ff7 rebirth#ff7 remake#sephiroth fanart#sephiroth ffvii#character drawing#just yappin#i am very normal about him
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saw this post and remembered that i had this sitting in my folder so. take it
#this is SO DUMB#i dont even want to tag it#razras#c&p#anonart#sonya#dunya#ill add whatever tag i decide for them later ig hmm#raskolnikov#razumikhin#they are peak gay lesbian solidarity argue with the wall#I PROMISE I NEVER DRAW SHIPPY STUFF NORMALLY IM JUST IN A SILLY GOOFY MOOD.#i have serious t/bk art in the works but its a Series and its taking forever#i might delete this immediately akdkkskdkd#edit: YES U CAN REBLOG!! I APPRECIATE THE THOUGHT SM IM JUST VERY SHY ABOUT POSTING LOL#if i make a post and its not gone within 60 seconds of posting then by god i am prepared to deal with the consequences amen
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after i made the undertale ones i knew i couldn't NOT make matching icons of these 2 aswell...
#mother 3#lucas#claus#mother series#even though there are like 15 ppl active in this fandom ❤️ if nobody uses it can just be me and my sideblog fr🔥🔥#i like these less than the undertale ones maybe bc theyre messierr?? i mean my art is always messy but#idk whenevr i indulge in my special intrrest even literally just drawinf the characters i get this like pain in my chest and like my hands#shake which i knwo is very Not Normal i swear i love it it just makes me feel crazy anxious when i draw with the Intent to post knowing how#so so sensitive i am about it for NO reason im just veruy autistic about this game and have a deep personal connection to it#so anyway the point of that tangent was to say i dont think ill ever make m3 art that ISNT messy bc of thr shaky hands#sorry if you read allat i have a tendency to get too real in the tags#izzy art
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I may have died for the last two weeks. . . But with good cause. I finished the Magnus Archives.
Anyway, here's an art dump of "let's draw myself as the Archivist until I can make a proper Jon design".
#the magnus archives#tma fanart#tma#my art#jon sims#I am very calm and normal about this series#I didn't almost cry in an Aldi checkout
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Maxky Ratchata as Johan Fourever You, ep. 6
#maxky ratchata#fourever you project#fourever you#fourever you the series#foureveryouedit#johannorth#lextag#userrlana#mjtag#rinblr#raeblr#userrzey#userpharawee#clairedaring#usermambo#forfive#userspring#thai actor#thai bl#mygifs*#i am feeling very normal about him 😏🥵
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My dear mutuals, I just realized something.
So, there's been talk recently about breaking Papita out of Mandos and I suppose more of us may need help at some point... but we need one fundamental thing if we are to be able to save one another from some terrible prison (or, idk, recognize each other in a supermarket...):
we need to have a song in common
Like, seriously, the default scheme for breaking someone out from somewhere is: character A start singing, character joins them, character A finds character B and gets them out. Except...
I'm not sure there's any song I could sing together with any of you.
We need to make a list of songs that we all know well enough. Seriously.
#i'm sober#it was just cocoa#and listening to the soundtrack from RoP 2 which is of course great#soundtrack I mean#the series i haven't seen#random#silm shitpost#no I'm not going to start the list you start ;)#yes I am obsessed with this trope why do you ask#but seriously how cool is that#imagine learning a really kinda below your level song just because it's the best your friends could come up with it and—#seriously I am sober#I am very normal about this#rambling in tags#one day I will conquer my insecurities and write a coherent post abbout how normal I am about this trope and what scene I connect with it#one day#but this is not the day#I should probably be forbidden from drinking too much dark cocoa when listening to music
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