#i’m not opposed to that though-

[pastaghostt]

[turtleblogatlast]

Personally what I like best in terms of who’s older between Donnie and Leo is just them never knowing for sure BUT imagine Leo going up to Draxum and saying he’ll never bring up the roof incident again if Draxum tells Donnie that Leo’s the older twin.

[daylighteclipsed]

Y’all ever think about if Sora falls to darkness that inside his heart will look like the Destiny Islands falling again

[quibbs126]

I know this is just what the guy looks like and he looks cool with his contrasting hair and dough colors

But also he kind of looks like he got half hit with the Pale Ailment

…Sorry it was the first thing I thought of

Ironically though, he looks more befitting of the “Marble” name to me than Marble Danish. You know considering that he looks like a marbled cookie

But I guess they can’t reuse parts of names too soon in the same game without them being related in some way

[lukashaa]

Had to physically stop myself from taking a photo of a shrivelled up lemon I saw in the parking lot of my local college, thinking “this is just like pathologic”

[articskele]

“...Wrong? Why would anything go wrong?”

Without further ado, a stimboard for @ask-the-biggering-onceler!

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[oliversgarden]

I’ve settled on an Oscar Malevolent design, the second I settle on a detective Noel design I’ll be a force to be reckoned with.

[amethystroselily]

I don’t ship feng xin and Mu Qing bc I think it’s just so much funnier if it’s genuinely platonic. Like imagine being that fundamentally intertwined with some guy you hate and weird intense emotion of it all isn’t even bc of sexual tension, one of you is just genuinely that bad at expressing that they want to have friends and the other is kind of dense.

Kind of like how Hua Cheng can devote his entire life to the person he loves romantically but gets real weird about friendship. Like he’s out here hyping up He Xuan and helping him in ways he would never help anyone else but Xie Lian, and actually even kind of siding with He xuan over Xie lian when it came to the revenge plot. But whenever he talks about it he gets so cagey. Like oh he just owes me money. And you keep helping him even though he doesn’t seem to be paying much of it back??? Ok. Sure.

So I think characters being weird about desiring friendships is just like a theme in this novel. (And I think Hua Cheng and Mu Qing are supposed to be parallels)

(Also, Mu Qing actually does kind of have to keep that chastity vow unlike Xie Lian. And breaking it would not represent the same things for him. For Xie Lian it’s freedom, it’s a release from this purity culture he got trapped in from a young age, he chose it and he doesn’t have to care what anyone thinks about it bc he has someone who always support and protect and love him. For Mu Qing it would probably represent the loss of autonomy and power he worked so hard to gain. Mu Qing didn’t just stumble into cultivation through means of birth the way XL did, he had to choose it and work very hard to keep choosing it. Giving any of his power away would not represent freedom for him, it would probably make him feel powerless to have to rely on other people like that. IDK I would have to reread tgcf to see if I’m fully right. I have no idea what I’m talking about I think.)

[xbomboi]

i’ve got a question to ask out of curiosity about the eah community’s general consensus

since the books and the show have different continuities and also within the world of the supplementary Ever After High media, the books themselves differ in continuity depending on series/author, i have a feeling this answer could vary depending on one’s bias…

i’m not adding an “other” option because you’re crazy if you think they met in infancy/as toddlers or if you genuinely believe the beginning of canon in the show (start of legacy year) is legitimately when they first meet.

[goldensunset]

what if they gave you the actual arcphone instead of just a case

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[wonder-worker]

"Among their complaints [in 1460, the Yorkists] specifically blamed the earls of Wiltshire and Shrewsbury and Viscount Beaumont for ‘stirring’ the king [Henry VI] to hold a parliament at Coventry that would attaint them and for keeping them from the king’s presence and likely mercy, asserting that this was done against [the king's] will. To this they added the charge that these evil counselors were also tyrannizing other true men* without the king’s knowledge. Such claims of malfeasance obliquely raised the question of Henry’s fitness as a king, for how could he be deemed competent if such things happened without his knowledge and against his wishes? They also tied in rumors circulating somewhat earlier in the southern counties and likely to have originated in Calais that Henry was really ‘good and gracious Lord to the [Yorkists] since, it was alleged, he had not known of or assented to their attainders. On 11 June the king was compelled to issue a proclamation stating that they were indeed traitors and that assertions to the contrary were to be ignored." - Helen Maurer, "Margaret of Anjou: "Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England"

Three things that we can surmise from this:

We know where the "Henry was an innocent helpless king being controlled and manipulated by his Evil™ advisors" rhetoric came from**.

The Yorkists were deliberately trying to downplay Henry VI's actual role and involvement in politics and the Wars of the Roses. They cast him as a "statue of a king", blamed all royal policies and decisions on others*** (claiming that Henry wasn't even aware of them), and framed themselves as righteous and misunderstood counselors who remained loyal to the crown. We should keep this in mind when we look at chronicles' comments of Henry's alleged passivity and the so-called "role reversal" between him and Queen Margaret.

Henry VI's actual agency and involvement is nevertheless proven by his own actions. We know what he thought of the Yorkists, and we know he took the effort to publicly counter their claims through a proclamation of his own. That speaks louder than the politically motivated narrative of his enemies, don't you think?

*There was some truth to these criticisms. For example, Wiltshire (ie: one of the men named in the pamphlet) was reportedly involved in a horrible situation in June which included hangings and imprisonments for tax resistance in Newbury. The best propagandists always contain a degree of truth, etc. **I've seen some theories on why Margaret of Anjou wasn't mentioned in these pamphlets alongside the others even though she was clearly being vilified during that time as well, and honestly, I think those speculations are mostly unnecessary. Margaret was absent because it was regarded as very unseemly to target queens in such an officially public manner. We see a similar situation a decade later: Elizabeth Woodville was vilified and her whole family - popularly and administratively known as "the queen's kin" - was disparaged in Warwick and Clarence's pamphlets. This would have inevitably associated her with their official complaints far more than Margaret had been, but she was also not directly mentioned. It was simply not considered appropriate. ***This narrative was begun by the Duke of York & Warwick and was - demonstrably - already widespread by the end of 1460. When Edward IV came to power, there seems to have been a slight shift in how he spoke of Henry (he referred to Henry as their "great enemy and adversary"; his envoys were clearly willing to acknowledge Henry's role in Lancastrian resistance to Yorkist rule; etc), but he nevertheless continued the former narrative for the most part. I think this was because 1) it was already well-established and widespread by his father, and 2) downplaying Henry's authority would have served to emphasize Edward's own kingship, which was probably advantageous for a usurper whose deposed rival was still alive and out of reach. In some sense, the Lancastrians did the same thing with their own propaganda across the 1460s, which was clearly not as effective in terms of garnering support and is too long to get into right now, but was still very relevant when it came to emphasizing their own right to the throne while disparaging the Yorkists' claim.

[mey-amor]

“Namor and shuri don’t have anything/much in common,”

I beg to differ:

- both were born into royalty (and hold themselves as such)

- both come from and live in (similarly) culturally rich nations

- both enjoy history, science, and art

- both design/draw

- both invent/innovate to improve their nations

- both are leaders (shuri leads/is the head of her lab).

- both are now enhanced individuals that protect their nations

- both are associated with animals

- both have been through severely traumatic events and have bonded over that

- both are great listeners, both are playful

- both have lost mothers/close loved ones

- both have been leaders of their nations

- both come from the strongest nations that have vibranium

- both are anti-colonialism

The list goes on and on..

Just kept seeing this pop up in certain spaces and just personally felt the opposite.

What draws me to them as opposed to their other ships is that they do have so much in common. they are very similar, and because of those similarities they truly understand each other the most. Something that Namor needs, and something that has been very healing and maturing for Shuri.

[littl3d0ll-art]

What happens when the goat finally had their breakthrough moment? you probably won’t tell us WHAT causes it (though I love it if you did, is it realizing the lamb is straining them along, seeing Narinder and the lamb, talking with the bishops, (maybe Leshy or Shamura) and they’re like dude what the fuck that’s not healthy)

But what happens, can a golem fully break free of their masters control? Would they end up leaving the cult (probably not cause they’re close to the bishops now) would they stop listening to the lamb? Since the seduction is a part of the lambs control of the golem how would they react? Would they worry about the goat going AWAL, try to replace them with a new one?

Goat’s realization is more of a… gradual one, I guess? There isn’t an “aha!” moment or anything, it’s more like a slow build up alongside a change in habits and thought patterns. This happens through them finally hanging out with people that aren’t the lamb(i.e. the bishops), getting closer with them and respecting them just enough to care about their opinions. Not much but just enough to where if someone says something about the relationship they’ll actually think about it.

At some point, towards the beginning of lamb’s ascension to godhood, the goat realizes that they don’t really know who they are outside of the lamb, and it causes them to go on a whole existential crisis spiral lmao. This happens because since the lamb is sharing their life force with the goat this causes the goat to also change appearance alongside them, and the horror of realizing your body is not only changing against your will but because of someone else sends them to a bit of a panic. After a while of this they realize that they need to be on their own and away from the lamb to be able to find themself, and so they’ll need the lamb’s permission for that. There isn’t actually a way for a golem to break free from their master, and a golem can be summoned whenever at whatever distance, so the goat will have to ask the lamb to not summon them and trust that they really won’t. By this time they’ve both just kinda been doing their own thing and the lamb stops caring much about what the goat does since they can still control them at any time, so they let the goat do their own thing. Every once in a while the lamb will summon the goat though, mainly just to vent or something since the goat is the closest friend the lamb has ever had aside from Narinder. This just causes the goat’s feelings towards the lamb to lessen since they’re finally coming to terms with the fact that the lamb doesn’t really care about them and has always just used them for their own benefit.

This would make the goat kinda hate the lamb for a while, but ultimately they’ll be fine with that too. Whether they like it or not they’re both connected to eachother forever and the lamb still holds the power so there’s just no point in staying mad, they just have to accept this is a part of their life and deal with it. In the end they do make a life for themself that’s separate from the lamb, but they still work for them sometimes. It just becomes… actual work, like a job

[sunglassesmish]

two days ago me and my mother were coming back from buying some stuff and when we got home, she parked in front a house where there was a little girl sitting by the door. and we got out of the car and she goes ‘there are no little babies in this family anymore 😔’ and in my head i was like…. just because you got an arranged marriage and had a baby at 21 does NAWT mean i’m going to as well. but what i actually said was ‘ask (my sister’s name)’

[crystallizsch]

i’ve had some finished art ready since the beginning of the month but i haven’t sent them to the aether yet so it just kind of. piled up —

also i just put emojis only bc i don’t want to reveal it entirely ;; just choose what looks the most interesting!! 🙏

[lunatih]

Fireflies danced in the night, lighting up the dark patches and resembling the stars above.

From my fav LOZ fanfic "The Curious Minds" by @allthegoodusernamesaretakenagain