#one of (I think) 3 very specific reasons

[cutiesigh]

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Wuthering Waves has taken over all of my free time recently, so here's a sketch of Scar!Ren I originally shared in da 14DWY Discord!!

[sysig]

[averlym]

ghostwriter (their grandma would tell them she'd lose half her soul)

[wonder-worker]

"It is too easy to dismiss [Leonor of Navarre] as an overambitious schemer who would do anything to obtain a crown, shedding the blood of her own siblings and her subjects in order to attain the throne. However, a deeper investigation of her long lieutenancy and ephemeral reign shows a woman who fought tenaciously to preserve her place but also worked tirelessly to administer a realm which was crippled by internal conflict and the center of the political schemes of France, Aragon, and Castile. She tried to broker peace, fight off those who opposed her, repair the wounds caused by conflict, protect the sovereignty of the realm, and keep the wheels of governance turning. Leonor was not always successful in achieving all of these aims but given the background of conflict and the lack of cooperation she received from all of her family members, bar her loyal husband, it is a huge achievement that she survived to wear the crown at all. Many writers have argued that Leonor deserved the troubled lieutenancy, personal tragedies, an ephemeral reign, and a blackened reputation, basing their assumption that she committed a crime that cannot be [conclusively] proven. However, a more fitting description of her would be that of a resolute ruler who successfully overcame a multitude of challenges in order to survive in a difficult political landscape and gain a hard-fought throne.”

-Elena Woodacre, "Leonor of Navarre: The Price of Ambition", Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600 (Edited by Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz)

[uncanny-tranny]

I think as we grow up, we have to be really conscious of romanticizing the world we grew up in in order to scorn how the next generations are growing up.

Nostalgia isn't inherently bad, but especially in political spaces, be very wary of this idea that there is an Ideal Past we must Harken Back To.

It sucks to feel left behind, but such is the human condition. It isn't bad to feel nostalgic, but that doesn't mean that these new generations are inherently "lost" and "need to be saved (by you)", and I think that is very important to remember and try to be conscious of.

[toytulini]

me, stupidly and weirdly resistant to listening to audio books vs reading a physical book for no real reason: man i wish there was a way to like, read a book while i crochet like i do with tv shows and movies and podcasts

[cursed-spirit-manipulation]

jjk is about a lot of things but most of all with regard to Shoko Satoru and Suguru it's about how if you don't interact with people who aren't in your weird fucked up school with like 10 ppl total on a regular basis you WILL become an incredibly interesting adult in a way that makes people pity you

[bluehexagone]

Realism is fun till it isn’t and I realize I’ve already committed too far and can’t just scrap it but I know it will take me too long so here are some sacrifices you may see finished later on

[hella1975]

you ever have a fic get you in such a chokehold you start pacing your room and talking to yourself

[perhaps-mr-collins-has-a-cousin]

Hello praying people, I'm not doing well and would really appreciate your prayers right now <3

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

as much as i despise john house tbh i wish we'd gotten more episodes with him . . . partly for more of that sweet sweet Daddy Issues content but also. because there are so few scenes with this man i have to do so much fucking guesswork when writing him

[thedreadvampy]

it's been a strange arc so far

when I was 19-21 and having an extremely imbalanced relationship with someone in their mid 30s I was like 'we are both adults so the fact that this is fucking me up is my fault'

when I hit my late 20s and saw how young people in their late teens and early 20s seem now I was like 'oh wait I was so fucking young I didn't know shit about my own limits or about managing relationships and I don't know why someone in their mid to late 30s would be into that except for nefarious purposes'

the weird bit is now I'm into my 30s - not even that far into my 30s - and while I still wholeheartedly believe that last thing about how young (and self destructive) 20 year olds are, I'm also kind of like 'huh, actually nobody I know that age has their shit remotely together and frankly the reason this fucked me up is because NEITHER of us knew what the fuck we were doing it how to cope, for different reasons and at different life stages, and there probably wasn't any malice or intent to control as much as there was Blind Flailing.'

[averlym]

(omg your hair looks great) "you turned out so well!"

[otherion]

the thing about william i really like is that the man is a fucking coward. serial killers notoriously target vulnerable people and he fits that to a T. he targets kids, he targets his employees, he targets his own children. he knows that the only people who would take a night shift at freddy's are people who don't have a better option, random people who've hit hard enough times that they need this paycheck that bad. he knows that kids are easy to isolate and there's no chance of them overpowering him. he knows that his children are legally his property.

he only targets people who can't fight back, too, and if he's worried about someone being able to he kills them indirectly. he kills employees through inaction, maybe doesn't even do it for a reason other than it being something he is allowed to do because they signed a contract saying that their families, if they have any, won't even know they're dead for three months. he can't even kill michael in person because michael is an adult now. he might be able to hit him back. he's not a little kid anymore who he can punish for locking his door knowing that he's too small to defend himself. the only people he ever kills directly are kids younger than eleven, and after he almost gets caught the first time he makes robots to do it for him.

which is what lets him succeed. it's why he gets away with it for so long. none of his victims survive(except jeremy, who is left unable to tell anyone even if he figured it out), and none of them have people left who can fight a successful businessman with lawyers on his side(which they must have if he was allowed to keep opening new locations after every single one of them had to close on account of child murder).

but it's also what ultimately kills him. he went back to the scene of the crime, and the ghosts were there, and he was so, so scared of getting hit back this one time that he freaked out and put on the springlock suit in a desperate attempt to regain his position of complete power. despite being the man behind the slaughter, he's just... that scared of a fair fight.

[sarcastic-clapping]

is it just me or did everyone who went to high school/college between the late 00s and early 2010s drive or have at least one friend who drove a used car with a tape deck and no way to plug in an iphone/mp3 except one of those tape to headphone jack converters. like the fake tapes that you’d plug into your headphone jack.

[lavellane]

i was so set on replaying veilguard for the davrinmance but oh my god im SO attached to my agent-of-fenharel hardingmancer rn i actually think the choice is out of my hands lol