#or is this meta???
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thinkinnn bout arthur pendragon. my baby boy. he's such a bitch but also such a baby girl.
he never felt the love of a mother and relied on his father for all of the love and validation he needed growing up but uther never gave it to him unless he succeeded in battle - probably against druids/sorcerers. arthur never feeling like he was enough, that he was never worthy of love unless he did something for them or won a battle because that was the only time his father looked at him with a modicum of warmth.
being a prince raised to one day be king and being taught to never trust anyone, that as king he can only trust himself, and then watching his father fuck over the people of camelot and going "a king must make hard choices" but arthur never agrees with any of that!! he puts on the aloof asshole act to keep people away so he doesn't get hurt but baby boy wears his damn heart on his sleeve. he cares. SO much. he trusts everyone, no matter how many times he's been betrayed. he does everything he can for his people
he strives for their love and pride because he never got it growing up. he works his ass off to be the best king for his people that he can be, so he can be the best heir for his father that he can be, so he can be the best son for his mother that he can be - all so he can prove that he's good enough and worthy enough of love. yet time and time again, he's betrayed by those he has done nothing but be there for. time and time again, the people he's loved and trusted most have betrayed him and left him like he was nothing. proving to him time and time again that he wasn't enough, that he'll never be enough for their love or loyalty.
#INCLUDING merlin btw#i love merlin and as the audience we understand merlin's pov a lot better#but speaking from arthur's pov...merlin also betrayed and hurt him DEEPLY by hiding and lying to him for years#in the end ofc arthur realizes that merlin never meant to betray him and that he really does love him#and that kinda makes merlin the one exception#but for a moment he was also betrayed by the man he loved most#the man whose opinion mattered most to him#god could you imagine how broken and worthless arthur felt then? its why he couldnt even look at merlin afterwords#not only bc he was angry at merlin for lying but bc he was ashamed and embarrassed at not being enough once again#arthur pendragon they could never make me hate you#bbc merlin#arthur pendragon#kind of character study??? idk#or is this meta???#idfk tags bro#dont ask me#this is just a page from my tear-soaked diary#i love him so much#arthur pendragon needs more justice
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This is the best idea in the history of film.
#also Taika should direct it#Aubrey plaza#patti lupone#muppets#miss piggy#Pedro pascal#agatha all along#jennifer coolidge#threads#meta
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The Monster Manual but it's blatantly written by the monsters
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Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”
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so matt's absolutely giving scorched earth orders behind the scenes right. Not only are publically visible transfems dropping like flies, but every third person who musters up the audacity to comment negatively on Staff or Matt about this vanishes fucking instantly
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Expertise can't help you here.
#dungeon meshi#kabru#laios touden#falin touden#Happy Thistle Thursday once again. Have I been holding on to this comic for several weeks? Sure have!#I forgot how long it takes for Chimera Falin to come into play.#I still really love my 'better drawn' art of her - unfortunately it was several weeks too early for the anime only folks.#Slowly getting the hang of drawing Laios. I don't know why I struggle so much but I am getting...somewhere.#Meta time: God damn I love how the chimera shows off the expertise and gap between Kabru and Laios.#The truth is: they are both *right* and they are both *wrong*.#This creature is a combination of monster and human and they only have the skillset to deal with one of those.#Kabru goes for all the human vitals - but she isn't human.#Laios tries to approach her as a monster and is struck down by the humanity he sees in her.#She is something new that defies what they *both* understand about the world. And that makes her such a perfect antagonist.#The damsel was the dragon all along!#...She is really so cute though. Terrifying! But adorable. I am so excited to see the boom of fanart for her.
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plz reblog for science
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a face you'd find on the side of a milk carton
#dungeon meshi#dunmesh#kabru#mithrun#kabumisu#my art#put a lot of unnecessary thought into how unconnected to portray him & how meta vs literal to make the other entries.#all of the notes mean something <3 its not that deep but it is meant to hold up to being pored over
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#from the desk#tumblr#tumblr ads#tumblr meta#hellsite#meme#what's your opinion on#as far as i'm concerned
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The 2024 Gender Census is now open!
[ Link to survey ]
The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.
It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.
After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.
If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.
Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com
The 2024 survey is now closed!
The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.
For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.
Thank you so much!
[ Link to survey ]
Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.
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like. imagine seeing your sibling at 18. and then not seeing them again until you’re 28. and then not seeing them again until you’re both 58. but you’re identical twins so every time you look in the mirror you wonder if this is what they would’ve looked like.
imagine never needing glasses but your brother did, and then in your adulthood your eyes get worse and you suddenly need glasses and you pick out the same frames your brother wore.
imagine always protecting your brother growing up cause he was different and kids picked on him. but you always protected him. and then you have a falling out and neither of you speak for years, and then finding out that in those years you didn’t speak, he was being isolated and tortured by a monster and didn’t think you’d come if he called. but then he calls and you go. and his house has blood on the floor in every room and writing on the walls and his journal devolves into paranoid ramblings. and you can’t protect him because you showed up and he got ripped away. and you can’t even ask him what the writing or the blood or the state of the house means because he’s gone. and you don’t have a penny to your name so you have to clean the blood up yourself and fix the house and live there. so you board up his room.
#gravity falls#stanford pines#stanley pines#ford pines#pines twins#stanley pines meta#stanley they can never make me hate you#i was texting L and this tumbled out so it’s going on here
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anyone else seeing weird mysterious failures on Tumblr
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When's the new season of Séance Dog coming out? You mean the show? Probably not for another year.
INVINCIBLE (2021 - ) I 2.07
#dcedit#dc#invincible#invincibleedit#byaurore#usersugar#tuserrachel#userallisyn#tuserpris#nessa007#userpayton#usersavana#userzo#usereena#userelio#userdiana#dcfilmblr#this is so meta i love this show#useranimusvox#they actually cut the characters speaking just after lmao
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“I hope this email finds you well”
First of all the only emails that ever find me well are from AO3
#fanfiction writing#ao3#ao3 author#ao3 stuff#archive of our own#ao3 meta#fandom culture#fanfiction culture#ao3 etiquette
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