#i apologize for her behavior

[sunlightswallowed]

‘ sorrow can come to any kingdom no matter how happy. ’

THE WORDS FROM her friend's mouth sting like the prick of a thorn. How could Odette say such a thing to her, who knows that bitter truth better than most ? Arianna knows already how capricious and cruel the whim of fate can be, she does not need another to inform her. It gives her voice, usually so soft, a subtle edge like a hidden blade, as she replies:

❝ Aye, and well I know it. ❞

Sorrow has shadowed Arianna's footsteps from the time she was a child. Mother vanished, father dead, babe after babe gone before they could live, and now, finally, the worst wound: Her only living child snatched from her cradle. She, of all people, needs no tutor in all the various ill luck and misfortunes the world could inflict.

❝ Have you come to lecture me on the cruelties of the universe, sweet friend ? I need no reminders on that count, I assure you. There is proof enough in my own household. ❞ She gestures with a hand towards the door of her chambers --- And, beyond them, the empty nursery across the hall where her daughter ought to sleep.

[deityforged]

' That's an awfully nice scarf. A bird person, I'm assuming? ' @umbrx liked for a one liner

[fate-of-the-envious]

The Judoflip in HOO

Do you know what always bewildered me? The judoflip scene in HOO. Not only did Annabeth unexpectedly slam Percy (her boyfriend, not an enemy) on the hard ground with her knees pressed to his chest and her arm to his throat as she threated him to never leave her, but also Percy was slammed to the ground ON HIS BACK WHERE HIS MORTAL SPOT ONCE WAS!!! Annabeth didn't know that he didn't have the curse anymore. That could have easily killed him! One misplaced rock could have hit the small of his back, and he would be DEAD!

Not only was this an abusive and concerning reaction to slam Percy on the ground, but it really shows how much Percy's fatal flaw being loyalty can not see how this is WRONG because he laughed! You don't hit your partner if they're being stupid; you don't elbow them in the ribs if they can't guess what you're thinking; you don't kick them in the shins to shut up. AND YOU DON'T JUDOFLIP YOUR PARTNER FOR BEING KIDNAPPED!!!

This isn't a romantic or healthy relationship. It's toxic and unhealthy codependent where Percy will give and give, and Annabeth will take and take until Percy has nothing left.

[hijinxinprogress]

Coffee addict Never sleeps Tim drake ❌ 

Solving cases in his sleep off 87 energy drinks Tim Drake ✅

The coffee addict never sleeps perpetually tired Tim Drake thing is a widely accepted headcanon however that was elementary school tim but after he stayed up for a week straight subsisting entirely on coffee to decipher the bat weekly patrol schedule and how it aligns with rogue attacks/Arkham breakouts, he crashed then when he woke up it was fucking wednesday so he missed his chance to commemorate his discovery with pictures of Robin and he decided that shit would never happen again and made himself an ‘efficient’ sleep schedule so he could run around doing fuck shit, add to his robin shrine, and stay on honor roll bc he was even more pissed to see the gotham gazette had pictures of Robin with an on site interview credited to Vicki Vale (listen bowl cut tim had a one sided beef with vicki vale that included tim judging who gets better pics of the bats but she isn’t even aware that she’s competing with a whole ass child 😭 he’s sitting at the table with a mug of orange juice and looks at the newspaper snorts and goes ‘fucking amateur I could do better’) 

Regularly unsupervised tiny businessman in training Tim ‘Ten hours of uninterrupted sleep?? That’s so inefficient not to mention fucking stupid’ Drake is so pissed he missed getting shots of Robin dropkicking a rogue from 6 six stories up (for absolutely no reason dick just thinks it’s fun) that he just takes at least 3 hour naps every eight hours 😭 he refuses to spend almost half a day sleeping ‘for no reason when he could be doing something productive’ 

And he still does this as a bat but it’s just easier to tell if he didn’t take his nap bc he has less than zero impulse control and he’s just fucking done with everything like the gcpd is terrified bc tim’s saying shit like ‘This guys a fucking moron, I could’ve done this in half the time without killing anyone fucking loser doesn’t he know if you keep them alive you can prolong the torture?’ and ‘you’re like all hysterical and for what 🤨 ‘you blew up 83% of Bristol waah’ stfu and fucking rebuild it?? It’s only rich mfs that live there, it’s just a matter of them opening their fucking wallets’ once a new recruit made the mistake of asking if robin had adult supervision regularly and Tim responded with ‘well if you’re gonna snitch to cps like a little bitch then yeah’ and that cop did snitch so tim fucking doxxed him

Yj has just accepted that sometimes they will find tim in an air vent, on the roof, in one of their closets, or something just fucking knocked out then an alarm will go off and he’ll just get up like nothing happened but for the first couple of months they were probably concerned bc ‘I’ve never seen you sleep?? wtf are you on man’ and Tim’s confused bc ‘I slept next to you this morning wdym??’ and that’s how yj discovers tim sleeps with his eyes open

But one of the worst things about Tim’s ‘time efficient sleep schedule’ nonsense is that it fucking works he’s one of the most well rested and coherent bats even after back to back Arkham breakouts however the absolute worst thing about his sleep schedule is the likelihood of going into the cave and seeing tim staring in a daze but wide eyed yet somehow never blinking at the batcomputer with 57 tabs open on top of being unresponsive and thinking he has a fucking concussion or he’s been replaced but he’s just doing case work while muttering nonsense in his fucking sleep for some reason

[watcherintheweyr]

desperately need people to understand that alicent is a victim but she’s also an abuser and a perpetrator

that she actively makes choices to harm other women because of jealousy and envy and the greed deep in her bones because submitting to suffering didn’t get her what those women fight to grasp for themselves.

she is absolutely a victim, in show.

that doesn’t change that she abused rhaenyra and her children, her own son, most likely helaena given how she flinches every time her mother touches her, and is actively weaponizing the patriarchy of westeros against other women- rhaenyra primarily, but also mysaria and dyana.

she isn’t the moral, righteous force of good that even she thinks she is, she’s a wounded woman directing all of the rot, pain, and fury inside her at the wrong people and forces.

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

Catra being anxious and having panic attacks over the bad things she did is actually counter productive to any hypothetical scenario where she is self reflecting and/or receiving constructive criticism.

Her potentially having crippling anxiety over being an asshole in the past PREVENTS and/or DELAYS any changes she might potentially make.

Making this character spiral over moral dilemmas does not inherently mean she’s actively working to change her ways. Her being afraid of facing her badness does not make her good; it simply means she has anxieties toward constructive criticism/dialogue.

[kulluto]

okay can someone back me up here. is it out of line for my coworker to be complaining to other people that she can't use the r slur around me and then saying "it's just because her niece is autistic" like....idk it really feels like there was ill intent because why is she bringing that up in a conversation about her use of the r slur? and honestly idgaf if she thinks i'm just virtue signaling but i do care that she's bringing my two and a half year old niece into this weird beef she has with me

[ssaltlicker]

Funniest shit ive seen from an arcane blog was them getting mad at caitlyn and vi for being shipped when caitlyn is bad to her, then immediately shipping ambessa and vi… ambessa, aka the one that murders children and thinks all people from zaun should die. Cant make this shit up

[camgoloud]

you ever just. become overwhelmed by a sudden out-of-nowhere wave of tenderness and affection and longing for reconnection directed towards someone to whom you no longer speak for Very Good Reasons

[pictureswithboxes]

I love Franziska von Karma because her character growth is so unique. She does not acknowledge any wrongdoings, instead she simply changes her behavior and when someone brings up her shitty little past actions she’s all like “that was the past. This is now. Get with the times, old man”

The old man in question is Miles Edgeworth.

[nina-ya]

do yall ever have a friend who's making the stupidest mistake and you can't do anything but watch the inevitable car crash just happen

[relicsongmel]

Sister Iris Fey Hawthorne of Hazakura Temple is so so autistic no I do not take constructive criticism

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

Being raised by adults who never apologized for their wrongdoings and always blamed their behavior on extenuating circumstances or someone else or their mental conditions really messed me up huh. Like all I asked was for you to apologize for yelling at me for asking you to hand me something because you thought my tone was wrong. But instead of an apology, I'm the one in the wrong because after all my tone was hostile to you and I need to remember that due to your ADHD you can't control your emotions. Nevermind the fact that I had carefully rehearsed the question in my head over and over again because this is not the first time this has happened. And I'm clearly a manipulative person for crying after being yelled at. Doesn't matter that I was thirteen, after all, I should've known better.

[sercphs]

Since it looks like I won't get Cradle's bio done for a bit, here's the short summaries of her details for each of her (currently) 3 verses.

In her home verse, Punishing: Gray Raven, she's relatively unchanged from canon. Other than a bit more defining beyond the sparse information of her, she is still very much That Cradle. She's more reserved but still friendly, she'll talk to basically anyone or everyone, and she's very focused on her goal.

Despite initially seeming benevolent, she ultimately wants to use anyone and everyone she can to get to her ultimate goal - and she's careful about it. Even if you find her suspicious, she has a knack for getting you to conclude that trusting her is the best choice available to you, even if you have a certain dislike of her. She still needs a "Curse Queller."

Sometimes the world must burn for its own salvation, and if you take her hand - then in time, you too will see her reasoning as gospel.

(Ignore that she is the daughter of the very threat that would see the world in ruins, just trust her bro.)

In her Project Moon verse, she is the "daughter" of an existential threat that is comparative to The Light itself, given physical form within the City. As "Cradle" in this world, she wanders around the world in a human form to learn everything she can about it. Ultimately her "Father" seeks to consume the world for its own benefit, but Cradle sees instead an opportunity for something else.

In this setting, she takes up the role of "Curse Queller" personally, and is looking for a way to kill her "Father" and save the world from its destruction at either her "Father's" hands - or its own hands - by any means necessary. If she must tear the entire world apart and rebuild it for such salvation, she is not above such extremes in order to "preserve" what exists.

In her Honkai: Star Rail verse, she is similarly a "daughter" to another great being - in this case the reclusive Aeon of Despair. She is born directly from this Aeon, and as such is an Emanator of Despair that is quite powerful, but she rarely ever uses her strength.

In this world, there is no need for a "Curse Queller," as the threat of her "Father" is much less immediate. Of course, she still has the ultimate intention of usurping her "Father" and killing it, to take its place as the Aeon of her Path.

In this setting, due to how much of a not-immediate issue her mission is, she is much more leisurely and relaxed - taking much more time to regularly interact with others while hiding her true nature. Oftentimes she will meddle with others out of an interest in learning about "human nature" and similar things, ranging from messing with someone just because to actual straight-up horror movie behavior.

[itspileofgoodthings]

that Bobby Bones interview with Taylor where he claims that the cookies she gave him made him sick and she tells him to stop lying is my Roman Empire because I can’t stop thinking about how, while keeping it still lighthearted enough for interview etiquette, she unequivocally shuts down his gaslighting and despicable toad behavior.

[ednaeflowers]

@tenebriism : " You're staring... what have I done this time to irritate you? " Meebo to Edna. c;

At his tone, she stares even longer, squinting to build up suspense.

❛  ............  ❜

The silence drags on, and then finally, she says dully, ❛  I wanted to sit there, but I can see you're obviously not going to do the gentlemanly thing by giving it to me.  ❜ What a shame too, because there's a nice cushion where he's seated, and his books are littered on the other seats. Maybe Sorey brought those for him to read? Instead, Edna decidedly claims the only free chair available, propping her umbrella against the table and boredly eyeing the books with disinterest. ❛  So, what geeky thing are you researching this time, Meebo? I can tell your head was in the Land of Geekdom again.  ❜