#my girl is traumatized

[mishoarts]

Lily when someone asks her how was her birthday :

(You realize all the shìt happened on her birthday right?)

[zeldas-hair-pins]

I have feelings about botw Zelda and the tragedy of her existence

This is referencing the night of the calamity when Link died

[televisongifs]

QUEEN MAEVE & HOMELANDER

1x04 the female of the species

[feytiaxofxphantasia]

I’m barely afloat / my sails are set and I’m coming home

(You know I’m positive someone has drawn this exact image before, but you know what? I haven’t.)

[cadygroves]

[mishoarts]

Context for that one post

I can't help but feel bad for Lily. Like this poor girl was probably really excited to celebrate her birthday with her brother and cousin, who she probably doesn't see alot. And then all of a sudden her brother's friend needs to be taken to the hospital and because she's so young she most likely doesn't understand what's actually happening.

And then all of a sudden the lights start to flicker and they all see the phantoms. LIKE THIS GIRL IS 8. Poor lily is going to have nightmares for the rest of her life.

On the car ride back from the hospital she probably fell back asleep because, like I keep on saying, she's only 8. And then after 12 she gets woken up by Ben's friends screaming Aiden's name.

She comes into the room to see her cousin laying on the floor his body shaking and reacting to pain, everyone starts mentioning taking him to the hospital and Lily would just be standing off to the side scared, confused and shaking. And when Aiden finally manages to speak and beg to not go to the hospital, she runs up and hugs him. She's trying to comfort Aiden and herself as she would be crying in this moment because of the fear she felt.

Then in the morning, after the others left to go to the school either one of two things would happen:

She would be kidnapped along with everyone else. Since, they also took the parents it would make sense that they would take Lily as well

OR they would leave her behind. Because who's going to believe an 8 year old child when they say that their family got kidnapped while they were asleep and all about the phantoms and such.

But either way she would be alone and scared, unsure of what to do and without any parental guidance.

(Rant over I just felt bad for Lily)

[lizarddealer]

Annabeth: if I had nickel for every time a child of the Big 3 tried to sacrifice themselves in front of me, I’d have 3 nickels

Annabeth: which isn’t a lot, but they need to stop fucking doing that.

[crimson-creature]

I know there are worse reasons to get bangs than going to your boyfriend's house to cosplay as his dead wife to try to resolve his issues but I can't think of any at the moment

[kagoutiss]

din’s champion

[menlove]

another thing i've Witnessed in all spheres of modern feminism is who gets afforded the grace of "internalized misogyny" vs who just gets called a "misogynist"

like if you are a feminine cis girl (& usually white too) all your sexist bullshit is excused as internalized misogyny that was pushed on them by a sexist society that they have to unlearn but in the meantime we cannot hold them accountable or be too mean to them bc they're traumatized and trying :((((( so if you call out their sexism, YOU are in fact being a woman-hating bitch/dyke/etc who hates girls and girlhood

but...... if you are a trans woman or you're butch or a stud or a woman of color and you say anything even perceived as sexist, oh no no you do NOT get the grace of "internalized misogyny". you don't get time to learn or grow. you are a sexist and you should be shot and you might as well be a man.

and usually the latter group's "misogyny" is just pointing out the other group's double standards and sexism which gets us called not girls girls and "pick-mes" (used wrong) and sexist etc. like sometimes obviously we ARE misogynistic, everyone is, but usually it's over the dumbest shit and even in the cases where someone in the latter group is being genuinely sexist, they are NOT given the same grace as the former group

[cursedvida]

Well, Noa and Mae are the classic enemies-to-allies-to-enemies again-to probably allies again-to friends-to-angsty-and-doomed-love and you can't convince me otherwise sorry

[avicecaro]

hate to say it, but part of ending the stigma around sexual assault means not assuming every woman blames herself. yes, female socialization encourages it, but that doesn’t make it a given, and the goal of all of these campaigns is to eventually diminish the proportion of women who do blame themselves. it is entirely possible, and increasingly common, for women to experience sexual assault and not feel shame or guilt, which we should be happy about. but instead, there are only so many times you can hear “you know it’s not your fault, right?” before it sounds like “it was your fault”. and there’s only so many times you can hear “don’t blame yourself” before it sounds like “you should blame yourself”. because it feels good to say, doesn’t it? sure, you don’t believe she’s guilty, but you do believe she should feel guilty, so that you can disabuse her of the notion. just something to consider.

[televisongifs]

QUEEN MAEVE & ELENA

1x05 good for the soul

[ztarryzkiez]

CHOCOLATE BOX GIRL!!! - BY WEEVILDOING

art by me :3c

[abitcaughtinthemiddle]

The Hypocrisy of Vex'ahlia

Before you all come for me, I am a Vex stan and I will defend her until I die - she is my favorite Critical Role character and I'm so glad we're getting a deeper dive into her psyche.

The complexities of her character cannot be overstated. She has a lot going on under the surface, and the breadcrumbs of her deep-seated insecurities have been there the whole time.

I'm really excited we get to explore those in season 3 through her relationship with Percy, in a way different than what we've seen in the actual play streams. I want to commend the writers for being able to convey so much in so little time.

We are introduced to Vex as a sexy, confident woman who uses her looks and charisma to her advantage. She takes charge most of the time, being the unofficial "leader" of Vox Machina. She presents herself as someone who doesn't really need anyone else and does not care about anyone outside of her brother. Keyleth even comments on this in the first episode, "Vex and Vax only care about themselves".

This, of course, is a complete fabrication, a mask she wears to hide her insecurities. A mask, she wants no one to see through. The irony here is that she can so easily see behind Percy's mask - "Darling, take off the mask". It takes one to know one, after all.

She so badly wants to get underneath Percy's mask, for him to show himself to her fully. There's something inside of her that sees the guilt and shame inside of him and that resonates with her belief that she is deeply broken. Vex truly believes that something must truly be wrong with her. And why wouldn't she? Saundor, who said he knew everything about her, saw this, too, after all.

Saundor says plainly, "you will never be enough."

So it must be true, right?

Why wouldn't something be so wrong with her? It would make sense. Her father carries no love for her, her mother died, and Vax had to sacrifice his life for hers. She knows Vax loves her, and she believes he is the only one who does. Even Kamaljiori, an ancient and all-knowing Sphinx, fed into this during their test when Vax fell: "you have no family left who cares for you".

Her hypocrisy lies in the facade she built as a woman who does not need anyone or anything. She presents herself as someone who does not need the love of others, when in reality, she desperately wants to be loved.

Saundor saw this as well.

Vex longs to love and be loved. And yet, she cannot allow herself to give up her facade and let Percy love her and admit her love for him.

The last person to see through her walls was Saundor, and we know how that went.

What he said really cut her deep, as we see after the Kevdak fight when she brushes off Pike's inquiries about her experience in the fey realm.

As we see her relationship with Percy move from harmless flirting to physical intimacy at the beginning of season 3, we see her embrace the physical closeness to Percy but starts to block him out the moment he wants to cement their relationship. But she can't let herself tell him how she feels because that would mean admitting her heart is his - and that would be doomed to end in tragedy, as Vex admits later in the cave.

Putting up this emotional wall between her and Percy will not give Vex what she wants: love.

Love is that emotional intimacy. Vex loves to point out the importance of love between other people- in season 2, pushing Keyleth to tell Vax how she feels ("it always matters"), assuring Allura that Kima's love for her will help her endure after Vorugal's attack, and putting faith in the rest of Vox Machina.

Vex understands what makes love so special, and how important truth and intimacy are to real, lasting love.

And while she comforts others and pushes them to be vulnerable and embrace love, her own fears prevent her from fully doing the same. It's ironic and sad, how one of the only people who can see through her mask is the one she's pushing away.

Trauma makes hypocrites of us all.

Image credits @blorbologist @aq2003

[cactusdying]

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