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[app1es0uce]

Poseidon: After everything you’ve done… How will you sleep at night?

Odysseus: …..On a mattress from MattressFirm. So I sleep All night long!

[suchscary]

[valyrfia]

I'm so sad the only Charles blogs left is people with schizophrenia like you, they keep posting your shit on twitter and laughing are you insane? Drivers are not allowed in board meetings. Because board meetings are for board members. You sound 12. *ourrrrrrhhhh I know Charles raised hell in there* Ferrari would lynch him. Ferrari dealt with 7x champ Schumacher who actually had half of Ferrari in his pocket, you think Charles who has less wins than Schumacher had championships is going to be mouthing off to BOARD MEMBERS? OF FERRARI? THE BOARD MEMBERS WHO HAVE A HIGHER NETWORTH THAN MULTIPLE COUNTRIES? THEY'D LITERALLY DUMP HIS BODY IN A SHALLOW DITCH YOU PEOPLE ARE MENTALLY UNDERDEVELOPED

can i use “you people are mentally undeveloped” as a chapter quote in my thesis thanks xx

[crow-caller]

My body has an uncanny sense to f----ing murder me the moment I'm awake enough in bed to begin the day. I wake. My meds kick in after an hour. My body decides to slam dunk me into the earth like its trying for an extinction event. Ow.

[bvckbiter]

its so fucking hot even though its already november oh my GOD

[crazykuroneko]

Now, since we have had our S3 confirmation, this is a great time for bingers to catch up with IWTV and join for the S2 season's finale this Sunday on 9 PM. The finale will conclude the past two seasons, before the show switches the POV next season. You can use the code IWTV30SH2 to get a 30-day free trial on AMC+. For other countries, you can check here.

[a-not-so-beginner-witch]

gamer witch tip of the day?

hey figured i'd share this

you something that made me fell cozy in a worship the gods kinda way?

Assassin's Creed

Hear me out:

The later games on the franchise were Ancient greek, Egypt during Cleopatra's reign and England tenth century aka Viking invasion.

These later games had heavy reference to the gods, but most importantly: they had the temple recontructions of them

So in the egyptian one (Assassin's creed: Origins) we have the Temple of Karnak, Luxor, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Alexandria and a whole lot of other temples and tombs that have been recreated with some artistic liberties of course. (And with DLC curse of the pharaos you can get a glimpse of the Other World of some Pharaos its really neat)

In the greek one (Assassin's creed: Odyssey) you have an INSANE big map on greeces continental part like athenes, sparta with big temples like Pathernon and Delphos, and lots of islands such as Mykonos, lesbos, andros etc

These two games especifically have a tour mode where you can go everywhere and climb everywhere without guards or enemies. I dont think that the Viking one has such mode, so be careful while exploring.

The viking era one will be more focused on the seasonal festivals that happen in camp, and the mystical/astral travels to the other realms, Jotunnheim, Asgard etc. while also giving an idea of the culture back then and seeing whats left of the roman empire.

I'm not someone who is really into technomagic but seeing these places "alive" even if it's in a game, brings this fondness, yearning, and connection that i didn't know before.

So if you have the money to spend, id say to give it a look (btw ubisoft has a subscription that may be cheaper than buying a whole game that you might not really want to play)

[chicagamingzee]

Donbei Sephiroth fanart!!!!

After 2 months of him being announced lol

This was also a shading test too from using a brush that I snagged from somewhere online lol, I think I wanna continue using this shading style in the future...

Bonus doodle included below (ft. Cloud+Angeal)

[tiraam]

Honestly, happy that Charles got that win. He deserved it today with how he drove.

And I’m not anti Oscar, but I do think his move on Lando is what cost Mclaren the 1-2 today. I don’t think it cost Lando his win necessarily, who knows Oscar might have been able to overtake him later on anyway. But his aggressive move forced Lando’s hand which left a door open for Charles.

And I do think Mclaren quite clearly showed actually who their priority is with this race, and it is not Lando.

[getinthefuckingcarkitten]

This isn't a sequel to my last fic but i uh. I'm. I needed some tooth rotting fluff. Guilty as charged.

You stir and turn around as you feel constriction around your body, blinking blearily in the darkness provided by the blinds that blacked out the sun. Not that it was a problem for you to see in the dark, but all you saw when turning your head was silky dark hair covering your vision almost completely, the press of warm, soft skin against your own almost able to lull you to sleep again if you weren't having your waist squeezed like a stress toy.

"What's wrong?" You asked, your voice wispy from sleep.

"Nothing." Avery replied with surprising snappiness, which made you blink before her voice softened. "Did i wake you?"

You sighed in relief. You were just asleep, so there was no way you could've had provoked her then, but it was good to realize that she wasn't mad at you nonetheless.

"Yeah." You nodded, feeling your cheek brush against bare skin as you did so. Was she holding you against her chest? You couldn't help the giggle that escaped you, then.

"...I was only dreaming." Avery confessed, and after a while more, her arms around you relaxed considerably.

"What kind of dream?" You asked, suddenly perking up.

"The unimportant kind." Avery brushed off your question, making you chuckle again. A nightmare? She wouldn't tell you if so, would she?

Hesitantly, you wrapped your hands around her. She didn't resist. Her hands left your sides and found the back of your neck, pulling away from you slightly before you could see Avery's face, still exhausted from the party, a weary breath leaving her pretty lips before she pressed a kiss to your temple.

It made you freeze for a bit. As much as you couldn't have provoked her rage while asleep, you weren't sure of what you had done to earn this affection. But it wasn't so bad, either, and surely you must have earned it somehow, or so you'd like to think. You closed your eyes and laid back, but as you felt her warmth leaving, you weakly pulled her back on top of you. She didn't resist.

Avery must have been very exhausted indeed, as she just laid there and fell asleep on top of you. That was fine. You pushed her hair out of your face, inhaling in a deep breath, and tried to go back to sleep along with her.

[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.

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

Wait... Silvio would make a great Shakira with all those jingles and jangles... I just need to get him to say lelolorelore ONE time-

those hips don't lie 🎵

[nineblades]

I think the worst part about bg3 for me is the way I see a character I was not intending to romance smile or say the saddest fucking thing or their romance trigger cutscene pops up and I go. I need to romance you right now. and make a new character. and then I see a character I was not intending to romance smile or say the saddest fucking thing or their romance trigger cutscene pops up and

[abhainnwhump]

Break your Whumpees like KitKat bars.

Break their back, have a KitKat.™

[mintmatcha]

Israel or palestine? I'm sorry if I sound rude, I just want to make sure . I'm sorry for the bother, and thank you!!

im very pro Palestine!! donate and get involved in any way you can!! real life protestors and vigils happen every day!

a lot of my friends are doing the fics for gaza!!! please sponsor them if you're able to!!!!!

[eurosleaz]

raises hand I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY