#more than they should

[ijjstlostthegame]

Continuing the Ummi finds out about Kuruk's spirit slaying AU, here's how the following conversation/argument:

Ummi: So Spirit Hunter, huh?

Kuruk: Ummi, I—

Ummi: Don't! Don't lie to me anymore, Kuruk. I know the truth, I've read your journal. *Holds up his journal.*

Kuruk: You... you went through my things?

Ummi: I had to, Kuruk. You weren't telling me anything! And I was worried! I've seen the injuries, the way you come home exhausted and broken. I couldn't just stand by and ignore it anymore. Which it seems like I have every right to be because you're risking your life on a regular basis! Why wouldn't you tell me?

Kuruk: I didn't want to worry you! And I didn't want to see you get hurt because of me! I just... I just wanted to keep you safe.

Ummi: By keeping me in the dark? Kuruk you could have died on so many occasions!

Kuruk: ...I...I know, that's why I didn't say anything, like I said I didn't want anyone else to get hurt.

Ummi: so what? You were just going to wait until one day your body just falls apart?

Kuruk: Well..no... me and Nyahitha have been looking for cures, but haven't found any yet.

Ummi: that's another thing, you told Nyahitha, but not me?

Kuruk: ... He found out by accident, he found me crawling on the beach after one of my battles....

Ummi: So did you ever plan on telling me anything?

Kuruk: I'm sorry Ummi, but...no I wasn't.

Ummi: I thought we shared everything, Kuruk. I thought you trusted me. *Tears start to well up in her eyes*

Kuruk: Ummi I'm sorry, I really am, I just wanted to keep you safe, and I thought you would be safer if you didn't know.

Ummi: *takes a deep breath.* I need 5 minutes to calm down, and then we need to talk.. About everything.

Kuruk: ...*Sighs.* Okay, fine.

Next on the soap opera is the full picture, AKA: when exactly Kuruk started fighting dark spirits, whether or not his team Avatar knows, (Ummi has never met his team Avatar because by this point they've all kind of moved on with their lives to do different things and rarely write to each other.) Why there are so many dark spirits in the first place. And many many apologies.

This reminds me so much of an rp i did where ummi also finds out about kuruk’s secret, and i drew art for it that also can apply to this ask

Gosh i love this so much

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

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[iscariotapologist]

today in church one of the priests referred to trans people as "those who are growing into the gender they were called to be" and i'm kind of enjoying the idea of like....divinely ordained top surgery

[thorinds]

1000 Books You May Have Actually Read

[self-loving-vampire]

Problem #1 regarding child abuse is that a lot of people seem to struggle to imagine normal, respectable-looking parents and other authority figures ever doing it despite the statistics so instead they do the stranger danger panic and completely overlook some of the greatest threats.

Problem #2 is that even when people understand, even if in an abstract way, that parents can be abusive they just... don't seem to actually register that as something that can apply to real life. It's just hypothetical to them and doesn't actually guide their ideas of how to prevent child abuse.

Problem #3 is that even after overcoming the above biases a lot of people have a very narrow image of what abusive parenting is where they imagine like... people doing violent things basically out of sadism and without provocation. They don't seem to think it's "real" abuse if the victim did something that "justifies" punitive violence, like disobeying the parents.

In fact, most people think parents have a right to do a whole lot of awful things to their children beyond just hitting them, like violating their privacy, controlling their access to information, and deciding what/when/if they eat, among other things.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

hey um queer desi people if you think you're alone, i promise you're not. i'm here, we're here, and we exist. i love you.

[lurvly-malice]

Credits : 04513114 (on Pinterest)

[wolfythewitch]

Jon sketch

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[thebibliosphere]

Still not over the head of cardiology, who said she wouldn't formally diagnose me with dysautonomia because she didn't want me to think of myself as disabled.

As if good vibes and a can-do attitude can stabalize autonomic dysfunction.

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[shadowhaert]

MY KINK IS KARMA LIVE BRIDGE

[kayleerowena]

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD, FOR NEW PEOPLE / IT IS TOO LATE FOR US

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[derpiedoxie]

I like the silly little new indie show

Someone give Pomni a cookie

[hamvases]

after 11 years of not knowing what happened after chapter 3, i finally played and finished danganronpa 2.