#minefield of feels

[nade2308]

"Steve, get the package out of here, I've got your six."

Part 1 || Part 2

@thethistlegirl

[babsvibes]

Unpopular Opinion Time:

What is your unpopular opinion?

Frond is not a good guidance counselor

[july-19th-club]

the bright sword is a book about how even in the highest of all fairytales there was always something higher and more glorious that came before and is just out of reach . which is SO, so very arthuriana, a story about all the many ways in which the golden age is over before it begins, in which the crowning of a king is the cause of his dying

[tinyfantasminha]

would u guys beat me up and throw me in a ditch if I said that i've been thinking about leona for a worryingly amount

[astralleywright]

Marisha's comment about how Relvin is one of those parents who ended up with a child they didn't know what to do with really gets to the heart of it, i think, and is such a good way to tie the fantasy element of Imogen's powers into things more tangible. because there are really a lot of parents like Relvin in real life, who have a child with the person they're happily married to and never expect to be left alone with the kid. or who expect a ""normal"" (read: cisgender and heterosexual, able-bodied, relatively neurotypical and obedient, etc.) child and end up with one who's ""difficult"", who demands more or different of them than what they believe they signed up for. and that's not entirely entitlement on a parent's part- many cultures' common frameworks of parenthood and child-rearing do not include space for these children. it makes sense that Relvin was unprepared. raising any child is difficult, and raising a child whose needs you were never taught how to accommodate, who the world is so cruel to, is even more challenging.

and yet. and yet, the person who bears the brunt of the harm in these situations will always be the child. they're the ones who have to live every moment of how the world treats them, without the support that their parent is supposed to provide them. and when asked to care for his child even when she turned out to be ""difficult"", Relvin couldn't. for entirely sympathetic reasons, of course. he tried, in his own way. i don't think he's a bad guy. but he's let his own broken heart bleed onto his daughter. he hasn't been able to give her much else.

[brittlebutch]

i feel like there's no way to say it without sounding Insane and attention-seeking but i Do wish that there was language that existed for talking about being traumatized by delusions/hallucinations without sounding like you're just saying "i made up something in my head and got hurt feelings about it"....

[lynpheas]

i have a paper to write but. i cannot stop thinking about musa and stella. their dynamic is SO underrated…

they both have such strong personalities except musa is a lot more understated and subtle while stella is more exuberant and outgoing!! but in a subversion of expectations, stella is so down to support musa being in the spotlight — like in their s2 red fountain performance where stella did backup vocals/dancing while musa sang her heart out.

they both have familial issues & come from very different backgrounds, which simultaneously threads them together through a commonality and then sets them apart. for example, they both understand somewhat unconventional family dynamics and the absence of a parent, their mothers. stella’s parents were so busy arguing and just generally being unhappy in their relationship that they overlooked stella and how they made her feel and how their actions affected her. the loss of stella’s mother in her life is something we can infer that stella has had very little room to openly discuss with her parents, and so she has all of these internalized and idealized hopes for a future that we know will never come to pass. but she’s navigating these feelings without proper support from luna and radius. similarly, after musa’s mother’s passing, musa’s father reacted to his grief without taking into account how these events affected musa. ho-boe blamed music for matlin’s passing and so he rejected it completely, imposing that will upon musa and straining their relationship because of it. musa’s only avenue of feeling close with her mother is through music, but her feelings are disregarded and so she has to navigate this relationship with music and also her late mother all on her own.

however, for stella, she is a princess and her parents are merely divorced; so, although she rarely sees her mom and her parents don’t get along, she still has the option to go see her. i think you could say, on top of needing to be charismatic and charming as a leader, stella’s exuberant personality might’ve developed as a result of her wanting more of her parents’ attention, to be seen and understood by them. i think the 4kids dub may say otherwise, but i think it’s fairly clear that musa comes from a more modest background. and contrastingly to stella, musa has completely lost her mother and so their connection is almost…spiritual? and introspective. without her father’s guidance and understanding, musa would more have to retreat into herself. still, both of them are individuals with strong senses of self—their specific familial situations have simply informed their coping strategies and the personalities they’ve developed.

with or without that background in mind, i also just love the way stella and musa’s personalities play off of each other! because of their strong personalities, they’re prone to disagreement and small clashes. musa’s more sensitive, while stella is—although well-intentioned—more thoughtless with her words. i find musa to be more measured, but perhaps equally as blunt at times. these personality differences might result in small but realistic bumps and tiffs within their friendship, but they also have a shared understanding of one another that gives their relationship a strong foundation. and again, despite musa seeming more chill and stella seeming more prone to wanting the spotlight, stella is absolutely musa’s cheerleader!

[snakedogge]

yknow maybe its tmi but. when i was getting diagnosed with my litany of mental health issues people really dont like to talk about how they affect you sexually and its. upsetting to have no guidance? i will go half a year, NO libido. actively sex-repulsed. can't do it. then i'll go 3 months where i have to change my underwear twice a day because sexual thoughts become a /compulsion/. then ill have a week where i feel like im balanced. back to the start.

and medication? just kills it entirely and thats basically your only option??

[prince-aegon-targaryen]

I would make a ranking of hotd characters from favorite to least liked, except this fandom is too scary for that

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

I have no problem projecting my own discomfort with negotiations and group projects onto Anakin. You know how when you're disagreeing over something, not getting your way feels bad, and getting your way feels maybe even worse, and compromises often make no one happy anyway? I think maybe Obi Wan can handle all that. I think maybe he feels smug when he gets his way. It's because of his time with Qui Gon, probably. Anakin though, I think he's more like me. I think he finds the whole thing a bit of an ordeal, just bad vibes all round. He's literally an apprentice diplomat and the whole process is causing Stress. This is why when he caught the dark side he just went ahead and started selecting option murder everytime. That also causes lots of bad feelings but like, he gets his power from them and his master tells him he's a good boy, so.

[dollypopup]

interesting how polin is all here for multishippers when it comes to penelope being shipped with literally everyone and their father, but the second someone ships colin with marina, it's suddenly controversial and bad and wrong and they should be totally fine with people talking shit about her and acting like she's the worst and how dare you post anything in the archives about it or in the tags, don't you know that he'd be miserable and the two of them would never work and I HATE HER AND AND AND.

this fandom will lose their shit over penelope with literally every bland whitebread man in her general vicinity and fics on fics on fics get written about her with OCs and his brothers and his sister and people she's never so much as shared a room with but heaven forbid you think Colin and Marina were cute during their canonical courtship

[pepperpixel]

Playing more rune factory 5,, and,, all of the events that r focused on Lucy and Priscilla just make me want them to get married… like how is this a romance event for me??? Clearly these two are in fucking love… destined to be together… how could I possibly fucking intrude???? On these twos beautiful thing they got goin on??

[kafus]

genuinely one of my least favorite misogyny things is the tie of breast size to womanhood. i hate how growing up i was made to feel like there was something wrong with me because i am “flat” and because i didn’t want to Not be flat either. i am still a woman!! that’s a normal body variant to have!!!

and then on the other side of things i hate how people who claim to be progressive or whatever act like if you’re attracted to someone with a flat chest that you’re attracted to children. like thanks! i guess if someone is attracted to me, a 23 year old woman, they’re a pedo and i’m a child???? give me a fucking break dude

[nerice]

🌙 loot drop // 2025 reading shelf LFG

★ a history of the world in 100 objects by neil macgregor (what it says on the tin. stories abt old relics to modern inventions) ★ anime: a history by jonathan clements (last year's revised edition w new chapters on 21st century market shifts nd trends :3) ★ anti-story: an anthology of experimental fiction edited by philip stevick (niche creative writing content i like weird things) ★ design your own anime and manga characters by tb choi (lighter fare for studies than drawing form & pose which i recc to everybody but could murder a man) ★ fly by night by frances hardinge (i feel like elise sleeper agented this into my list years ago. excited to find out why) ★ i contain multitudes by ed yong (microbiology nerd shit) ★ lapsing into a comma by bill walsh (impeccable title. more writer nerd shit abt grammar and punctuation rules and violations) ★ leviathan wakes by james s.a. corey (the expanse source novels!!) ★ the elements of eloquence by mark forsyth (literary devices enjoyer gang) ★ the monstrumologist by rick yancey (body horror. high hopes) ★ the poppy war by r.f. kuang (long recc'd to me cn historical fiction) ★ understanding english-german contrasts by ekkehard könig & volker gast (translation nerd shit from my master classes) ★ why nations fail by daron acemoğlu & james a. robinson (famous acclaimed etc. finally reading it)

[jakeperalta]

would somebody be able to give me a brief explanation of the bad thing(s) liam payne did? I hadn't followed him in years (other than seeing the occasional clip of him where he came across as like. annoying but not Bad) but now I'm seeing references to abuse and victims so would appreciate some insight!

[beforeviolets]

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