#i love her a lot really

[unabashedmoonlight]

you calling baghra abusive when darkling is right there is.. interesting

I love both Baghra and Aleksander and they are both abusive people. You clearly already know of Aleksander. About Baghra:

How is continuously having kids only to then abandon them when they don't turn out the way you want them to not abusive? She did this because she wanted a companion to bear an eternity with. Pretty understandable. Pretty cruel. We all know what happened to Ulla. Worse must have happened to others.

I understand her reasons for not telling Aleksander about his father. She didn't want him to get attached to someone only to be hurt when they die rather quickly in the grand scheme of things. But that is not how a child should live. He should have gotten to adjust to having people in his life and then losing them instead of never getting close to anyone at all. The 'no friends' rule while understandable was not ideal.

She was fairly old when she had him. Her immortality had worn her down in ways. She wasn't emotionally capable of raising children.

She overcompensated with Aleksander. She didn't want to give him the issues she had because of how she was raised and ended up giving him different issues instead. "You will bow to no-one." Come on.

She is also pretty clearly an obnoxious, physically abusive teacher.

Also, the context was a scenario of Baghra raising Alina (a child she specifically kidnapped to save her son) who she would have killed, if she could figure out how, to stop her son from having this 'weapon'. She obviously would also raise her in a very specific way to shape her into someone her son could never get a hold of instead of letting her grow on her own.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Gregory, Abby and Cassie are the new FNAF trio

[oh-wow-its-wordgirl]

Friendship is pony….? My little magic!?

[bright-eyed-dizzy]

i think people are too hard on anya (obviously) but especially on the whole “why become a nurse if you’re afraid of blood/ cant give a guy medication,” because that’s not what she can’t do. she more than likely never assumed any of her coworkers or FRIENDS for that matter would be in a state like curly’s. she hates to see someone she cared about and trusted in that much constant pain, and the reason she can’t bear to give him his medicine is because she knows how much it hurts him, and hearing her friend choke down and sob in agony is understandably very upsetting. sure she is sensitive but i honestly feel like people should be more empathetic towards that. idk. i’m sensitive, aubrey

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[deathricedrawn]

i'm ready to try

[noodles-and-tea]

Girls!

[sofiaruelle]

Commission for the lovely @flowerandthesongstress of our fave triad, Sam, Abigail and Sebastian basking in the afterglow of a very productive band practice.

The Companion piece

[quantumshade]

i appreciate that rtd knows when to fudge things in order to make a good story. like he wanted to cast Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble, literally saying it's like she was sent down from above to play the role, but she was 18 when she was cast. so he aged up the character of Rose Noble a couple years to be 14 or 15, not caring that it didn't make sense with the timeline. it's okay if you have to jokingly explain things as a magic time cloud or whatever, the minutia doesn't matter if it means you can cast someone perfect and tell a good story. and Yaz Finney is really, really perfect for that role. it reminds me of that thing Rachel Talalay said about Heaven Sent where the crew pushed back on her about the lighting in a couple shots because it didn't really make sense, and she said "it doesn't matter where it comes from. it comes from 'it looks good'."

idk! i just really appreciate when creatives know when to let things be bullshit sometimes for the sake of good art.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You made her cry, time to die.

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[wuthering-tempest]

dads and the pet they didnt want

[leafspiritz]

III; three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile

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