#love and positivity always wins

[somniacxprzzz]

😽😽😽

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)

[literally-forever]

you ever think about how part of Charles feeling a lot better by the end of the series is because he finally could do something about something? he went and got Edwin from hell. HE did that. and he bloody well succeeded

[messrsrarchives]

Hey! I hope you’re doing okay after your day it sounded kind of rough :/

I just wanted to ask how you have the confidence to continue to be out and continue on your transition when everything is so gross rn in the world. I’m sorry if that’s inappropriate to ask I just have been having a really hard time and just thinking maybe it’s easier to not be out anymore so I was just curious. Anyway I hope you have a wonderful night!

heyyy !!! first of all, hugs 🫂🫂🫂

second of all,,,, it's all a massive façade. i truly wish i had something inspirational to say here but i struggle with it daily. honestly my first thought when the deadname stuff happened was,,, finally. maybe this is my excuse. maybe this is how i justify giving it up.

which is fucking sick (not in the cool way) and i really wish there were kind words to share here but,,, there's no confidence. perseverance, maybe. but not much confidence.

it's more just,,, something i have to do??? and i think a lot about if it would actually be easier? safer definitely, and that always comes first but,,, easier? idk. living a lie is tiring, but so is fighting. but at least whilst fighting, i'm Me, you know??

SORRY i wish i had positive things to say here but i feel like the only reason i haven't turned back on it is because the people around me pull me back every time i mention doing so.

but yk,,, in this together and we get to be each other here and if that's all we have for certain right now, then i'm endlessly grateful for it

[myokk]

Eloise is really, really bad at chess😐

(this is a scene from my fic & I typed it up here:)

"Milady, you cannot send him there! He will surely die a terrible death, and Murdoch is our finest knight!"

Eloise blinked her bleary eyes at the wizarding chess board, not really comprehending what the tiny pieces were yelling at her. The one that seemed to be doing the most talking was gesticulating wildly and jumping up and down, trying to get her attention. When she had taken the pieces out of the box Sebastian had lent her, they had immediately recognized her and started protesting, appealing to 'their benevolent lord's innate sense of goodness', but their protests fell on deaf ears. Eloise was positive that Sebastian took some sort of perverse pleasure at watching her lose at chess.

In the background, she could hear Ominis's laughter echoing through the Undercroft. His own pieces were quite happy at the moment, preening and occasionally sending rude gestures towards Eloise's, much to Sebastian's amusement. He was narrating their every action to Ominis, whose laughter was egging on his soldiers even more.

"Eloise," Sebastian said, propping his chin up by one hand (entirely too amused, infuriatingly so, why did he have to look so handsome when she was trying to be annoyed at him?), "maybe you should move the knight..." his other hand pointed to an empty space on the board, "...here."

This declaration caused an uproar. There were shouts of betrayal, tiny pieces gesticulating wildly to the carnage surrounding the board as they shouted in vain. She didn't see any other viable moves, so Eloise sighed and ordered the brave little Murdoch to where Sebastian had suggested. Chaos immediately ensued and Ominis's queen gleefully knocked his head off with a violent swing of her scepter. Eloise's pawns all doubled over, sobbing as their most valient knight fell, and her remaining bishop shook his tiny fist in outrage up at her.

After a few more minutes, much to Eloise's ashamed relief and the boys' disappointment, her pieces refused to move for either her or Sebastian. They solemnly collected the remains of their fallen comrades with as much dignity as they could muster and marched off the board and back into their box in a mourning parade of sorts.

Sebastian joined Ominis's pieces as they jeered the losing team off the board, causing Eloise to glare fiercely at him. "You were the one telling me what to do, and they're your pieces! Show some loyalty."

He shrunk away from the intensity of her gaze and held up his hands in protest. "I was suggesting the moves as a joke! After last week's fiasco, I didn't think you'd fall for it again."

Ominis was laughing so hard he was gasping for breath, and the two of them turned to watch him. Even through her irritation, Eloise couldn't help but smile at him - he was always so solemn and these bouts of mirth were few and far between. He managed to speak between bouts of laughter. "I...I couldn't...I couldn't believe it when you sent your bishops one by one into my trap! It was so obvious! And then...and then you..." Ominis dissolved into fits of laughter again and couldn't finish.

Eloise turned her angry glare to him. "We can't all be chess geniuses!"

"I've tried teaching you and you don't listen! For the next time, I'm only going to give you one piece of advice: don't listen to Sebastian." He chuckled once more to himself and then turned slightly to the board, addressing his men (and queen) and giving them a debriefing. He always did this after he won the matches; it was a strange sort of ritual that he seemed to look forward to.

[seaglassmelody]

People can discourse about Treviso vs Minrathous all day but even as someone who is biased towards Treviso it’s still a gutpunch every time I go to destroyed Minrathous

The writing on this key plot point is honestly REALLY effective

[mc-critical]

1.06 / 2.09 (33)

[through-rosey-glasses]

The Erin Ambrose mental health talk segment is doing something to me. Her saying she isn't always ok and that she doesn't have a perfect balance down. But she's working on it. I'm in tears.

[fumifooms]

Heyoooo. I wanted to say, I'm sorry about that mean-ass, insulting anon you got a while back. That ask ended up pissing me off so bad I ended up actually reading your Marchil analysis posts. Originally, I was meh and kinda confused when the ship showed up in Ao3 because I didn't see what people liked about it. Reading your posts about how they were narrative foils opened my mind more, and I realized, Oh shit yeah there's a lot of potential in this ship for how these two can develop each other.

Part 2: Marcille and Chilchuck may not have scenes like the infamous bath scene with Farlin, but the concept of someone who's terrified of being alone, the reality of her friends' mortality, a hopeless romantic catching feelings for a repressed, divorced man whose wife left him--okay yeah, I absolutely understand the appeal of this ship. Marcille would be like, Why the fuck is my heart thrumming for this sharp-tongued bitch, and also the terror from falling in love with someone so short-lived Part 3: Either way, love your analysis posts. I am going to be contemplating the potential of Marcille and Chilchuck for a long while. There is something so tragically sweet about it

You get it, you really do… I could list off everything I love about them but I’d be here forever because it’s literally everything and there are so many fun ways to spin it… You’re very right about them being tragically sweet, overall where their arcs meet the most is "Loving is something worth doing even with the risk of loss", and I say risk but really it’s more the inevitable eventuality of it as canon does love to point out. If you want the reward of being loved you must go through the mortifying ordeal of being known. No love however brief is wasted. Let me see you and stay. It’s very much sort of the final boss to their arcs for them to get invested in each other in such a way, to get involved romantically— emotionally with someone knowing what’s coming and that she barely has two decades left with him (who mistreats his health so much he very well could die early), and to shoot your shot for something new with hope in your heart and enough confidence that you’re worth loving. He’s not a prince charming but to her he sort of is, all virtuous husband this reliable dependable Chilchuck that, all "you may be flawed but I’ll still romanticize your qualities and convince you that you and your love for your beloved are something worth fighting for".

What if I was old bread that solidified to be hard as rock and you were like warm soup and by soaking in your presence I softened……… What if you stubbornly grew on me like yeast and it brought out my flavor like beer as I opened up and allowed you in………. What if your hair was golden, the epitome of beauty to me, and my hair turned silver, your worst nightmare……. I think about them a normal amount

[leahthedreamer]

Xuanqi Zhang & Wenqiang Feng (CHN) - Forward Outside Death Spiral || Pairs Free Skate Junior Grand Prix Ostrava

[somniacxprzzz]

been wanting to paint but not sure what theme i wanna go with so if anyone has any suggestions dont b shy :))

all art i post from this personal acc is made by me!

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

you might’ve already seen this but i’ll still share it just in case! <3

russ ballard for kerrang! magazine, august 22, 1985. [x]

"Russ 'Typhoon' Ballard" amazing.

i have seen this, but i forget things exist a lot and forget all of what i've read, so i do love reading things again. and again. and again and again and again an-

i love the way this is worded:

taken their lick-smackin' choice.

and the list has gotten MORE impressive over the years!

SEE, SEE, THIS, I KNEW IT HAD TO HAVE BOTHERED HIM:

AT LEAST A LITTLE. like, he's aware of WHY he hasn't been known that much, as he said in the other part

this part

but he's always like.. he always seems like he's fine and happy with everything, but i knew that him basically being left in the dust all the time HAD to have bothered him at some point. i don't understand how it wouldn't. and things like this:

and then as he says, they'd talk him out of doing his own songs, i mean.

yeah he didn't tour for a long time and the lack of promoting his stuff obviously was a problem, but it makes me sooo sad that his stuff would just be ignored like this, and the way it was like a "this song is a hit, but not if YOU do it" kind of deal with him. it's not like his music is bad. he has a beautiful voice and everything too, like. give him a break?? he deserves the entire world???

anyway, i could go on about this forever but i'll stop. i don't have that much of a grasp on how the music industry worked/works but it just seems unfair. ANYWAY.

i'm crying where do they come up with this kind of wording:

also i like how this says soccer instead of football at first:

i've seen him do that depending on who he's talking to and where they're from, he sometimes will do things like say soccer instead, which i add to the pile of reasons he always seems very aware and thoughtful and like ,what's easier for the people around him to understand.

he''s so cute, i need to see him as coach ballard. I NEED TO KNOW IF HE WORE SHORTS. i realized forever ago that i've never seen his legs and i'll never stop thinking about it, excuse me

this part is making me laugh too much

i need to know if he actually SAID SONG or if it was a typo while they were turning this into text.

"i wanted to see my song grow up"- russ ballard

without context, i wouldn't even question it, i'd just be like "yep that sounds like russ. obsessed with songs"

i love the way he takes things people say to him to heart so much and really thinks about it and applies it to his own life. when it comes to life choices, he does not mess around.

THE WORDING MAKES ME LAUGH SO MUCH:

russ ballard, genial genius of the lamp. what does genial mean, i have to look it up

yep, that's russ.

and. what does plaintive mean(there are many words i don't know)

sdgjhsdg okay. i am. losing it at the image of his phone ringing off the hook from people calling him and just sounding so sad begging him for songs while he's being all cheerful and friendly, sharing his song magic.

who wrote this article, wait. the first page says malcolm dome, does that mean he wrote this? i need to time travel and send him a cake for this or something.

i love seeing things like this from the 80's:

"i may even tour again!" and here he is in 2025, going on 80 years old, putting out a double album complete with a tour for it with his band, still so happy and passionate about everything.

he is actually adorable and i love him

[somebody-already-took-this-url]

Time to daydream about a tww self insert so I can be hecate hardbroom’s girlfriend <3 nobody talk to me for at least three hours

[ourtalechara]

Being obsessed with The House Always Wins sucks because it gets your blood pumping and is so intense and exiting and it just CALLS you to BELT it but it's a RAP by MR. HOUSE you PHYSICALLY CAN'T BELT IT, and like it's so chill and relaxing (which probably sounds contradictory to what I said before but it is it's both somehow) and it's so slow, the most you can do to dance to it is to sit in an armchair feeling cool and bobbing your head to the sick beat, which is awesome but not enough to accurately express all the energy that has been injected into your body through your ears like igdoufpfystcohcjdustxhc I don't even know the words 😣 💙

[miss-celestia13]

Positive Fairy 🧚‍♀️✨💫

If it hadn’t been for Duskwood, I wouldn’t have found those souls that light a fire in me and make life brighter when everything feels dark.

Love you all and I will always support you❤️

Not my quote, just one I love!

[olivegreeennn]

Choose kindness instead of cruelty.