#parallel socialization

[death-of-cats]

just like the concept of “oathbreaking” is insufficient to cover the Kingsguard’s moral transgressions so too is “kinslaying” inadequate to describe what was wrong with Theon’s murder of the miller’s boys!!!!!!!! the lines that society draws to permit or condemn behavior do not reflect the true weight of the deeds themselves!!!!!!!! it’s easy to see in westerosi society but what if it’s true in ours as well!!!!!

[violynt-skies]

the sacrifice

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the way the cycle of the sacrifice within the hamato tradition are so perfectly displayed between the parallels of karai and leo truly damages something within me emotionally.

i don’t even have to explain it, ik y’all will understand

[sailing-ever-west]

The thought just occurred to me that Belle-mere is 100% abandoned veteran representation. She was an active combat soldier for two years, nearly giving her life to serve the marines. She had an officer rank, and was a good, reliable fighter. Then she came back wounded, decided to retire and start a family, and got zero support. No pension, no nothing. She and the girls were poor to the point of starvation risk and Nami turned to stealing just to get one thing she liked. Arlong's price to let her and her daughters live was 200,000 beri, which sounds like a lot, but beri is closer to yen, basically worth less than a cent. Belle-mere had to give up her kids or her life over the lack of about $1,000, if that. And when she did die for it, she was buried in a pauper's grave and no one from the marines was even in contact enough to hear about it. Then when the marines do come? They accept Arlong's money. They never honor Belle-Mere's death or do anything to help her daughters. They dig up her tangerines and steal Nami's fortune when she's moments away from buying her freedom. Who knows if they ever even crossed her name out in their records? No freaking wonder Nami had no love for the marines despite her mom being one. They chewed Belle-mere up and spit her out.

[stewykablooey]

fuck the other timelines we live in the timeline where ben affleck publicly ships kenstewy at an investment summit whilst being one half of history’s very own rpf kenstewy. there is something so cosmically potent here something beyond us in the works

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autistic Love Languages

Autistic Qualia

[inchidentally]

do you think Oscar of Austin 2024 was having memories of Austin 2023 (esp the tiny contented sigh at the very end)

[cheesewhimsy]

I was your only friend. You had one friend /// There’s a friend card here if you want to play it. You know that, right?

this edit on tiktok

[xxswagcorexx]

regarding whitepine, i feel like it's really important to note that whitepine most likely exists in the victorian or the edwardian era since it is a historical timepiece

the reason why i think this is important is that social class, wealth, and most importantly, etiquette were extremely important during that period, and a result, many people were masking an outward appearance, and as a result, went "crazy" in the home because that was the only place they could be themselves (ex: you can see it in the trope of the crazy victorian wife)

and considering hierarchy seems to be a huge topic in whitepine (ex: clown saying the servants must be in uniform at all times and under no circumstances mix up washing clothes with the washboards and the machines and ivory constantly asking permission from her superiors), as well as background information like the emberton wire revealing that women don't have to right to vote yet and worker's rights are on the fucking floor, i think it's very fair to expect there to be a lot of exploration of class in the upcoming episodes--especially since it seems like we have a "something is wrong in the house" theme as well as ivory's name constantly being wrong is a really good metaphor for deadnaming

[ashiqui]

THE POETS AND THE SINGERS AND THE AUTHORS WRITE ABOUT ROMANTIC LOVE WHEN IT ENDS. BUT NOBODY TELLS YOU HOW TO GET OVER A FRIEND. (x)

oscar wilde / antoine de saint-exupéry, the little prince / the social network (2010), dir. david fincher / @jspark3000 (x) / ocean vuong, thanksgiving 2006 / stephen king, the body / house of the dragon, 1x04 / @s4pphoiduser (x) / the fray, how to save a life / radiohead, life in a glasshouse / succession, 1x08 / @ritikajyala (x) / richard siken, the worm king’s lullaby / hozier (x) / hannibal, 3x04 / fredrik backman, us against you / maggie nelson, bluets

[asoftepiloguemylove]

IT FEELS SO SCARY, GETTING OLD // ON LONGING FOR CHILDHOOD

Lorde Ribs // pinterest // 怪物 Monster (2023) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda // @troyandabedsnewapartment // Broken Social Scene Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl // Jandy Nelson I'll Give You the Sun // pinterest // Jorge Luis Borges A New Refutation of Time // 투모로우바이투게더 TOMORROW X TOGETHER 그냥 괴물을 살려두면 안 되는 걸까 (Can't We Just Leave the Monster Alive?) // 怪物 Monster (2023) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda // Rhiannon McGavin Habit from "Grocery List Poems" // Fortesa Latifi Hold This // Noah Kahan False Confidence // 怪物 Monster (2023) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda // Mitski Class of 2013

[thecoolerliauditore]

jokes aside the scott post would have to include the whole gay thing like in character that's a massive part of his identity (tHiS is WhY I'm GaY referring to pearl). It's just that I always think the thoughts I have regarding that will get me firing squaded somehow but I think I'm at a point where I truly no longer gaf. whateverrrrrrr

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

Do you remember before? We stood facing each other on opposite sides of that door. Now we stand side-by-side. Let's go home together this time.

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

releasing this from the hj discord dungeon because the public populace was in agreement also i'm chronically offline on tumblr and need to fix that for my chronically online ahh

[imonfire1985]

the social network x vampire empire by big thief, live on the late show

[simplysparrow14]

Pikelan is probably the most complex CR ship and more people need to realize that instead of branding it as the "haha funny gnomes" ship.

because the entirely of Pikelan revolves around Scanlan, a very charismatic bard who flirts with literally everyone around him but is head-over-heels in love with his cleric friend but is tragically dogshit at expressing it so he resorts to doing crude bits and gags that ultimatly mask who he truly is.

And then you have Pike, a cleric brimming with self-confidence, who absolutely loves Scanlan for who he is, but is constantly getting mixed signals, because on one hand, he's constantly doing crude jokes and flirting with every person he sets his sights on (even so far as going after his unknown daughter) but on another, he tenderly holds her while she's bleeding and he's constantly at her side during battle and even tends to her emaciated brother for her and it's beautiful to watch, but the moment, the moment she brings it up, he reverts back to his crass personality and it just leaves her reeling about who he truly is.

And then we get to Bards Lament, and Scanlan, after tip-toeing around his true emotions for so long, finally snaps and lets everything he's been feeling (all the pain, and self-loathing manifested as anger towards everyone else, because even in his darkest moment, he's still so dogshit at expressing it for what it truly is) and Pike, who's been wrestling with these mixed signals, finally gets his true feelings on what he feels, calling her magic weird, hating that the same magic that has kept him alive and safe for so long brought him back to his sad existence, hating her for doing it. In the end, Scanlan leaves, just as Pike left the first time and the second time. And Pike stays behind, watching as he heads towards somewhere where she cant follow, abandoning the team and her and grog and everything they've built for themselves. She loves him, and him leaving brings her to that point.

The two are split apart, and despite the anger and hurt, the need for connection with each other is so strong. Scanlan reveals that he dident fully leave Taldorei at first, that he was only 20 miles away in another town entirely, listening to Pike's earing conversations. And eventually, when Scanlan is on another continent, he finds a temple of the Everlight (or just simply begins talking to Everlight) and prays, prays for guidance on finding forgiveness for what he said and did. He's deeply in love with pike, and still is, going to her god for answers to his problems, the quickest connection to Pike that he has between one giant ocean and a continent.

And Pike, despite holding a very rightful disdain for what he said to her, keeps him up to date, informs him of her happenings with the people of Whitestone. She should fucking hate his guts and yet the person she wants to speak to at the end of her day is a bard who (for all she knows) threw his earing away and traveled to some far off place, forever gone from Vox Machina, from her. Yet she keeps speaking.

They switch roles, with Scanlan becoming the quiet solitary one seeking forgiveness for his actions and Pike becoming the people oriented one.

When they reunite, it's tense and sad and angry. So many things said in anger and hurt and they don't really know where to step in the case that something, anything might send them back to that angry, angry place. And suddenly their back at the same place they were before, before the fight.

Pike is, again, trying so hard to sift through the mixed signals he's giving because he's being Scanlan again! Charming bard, essential party member, more confident than he's ever been! but now he's standing near the back and holding his hands and apologizing with a soft voice that she hasn't heard in over a year and a half and rebuilding the bridges he's burned and she doesn't know what to think!

And Scanlan is giving an honest effort at trying to fix what he's broken. He's working harder than ever, he's apologizing. He tries very hard to have conversations with people and fixing what he can. But, again, he's Scanlan, who is less dogshit at expressing what he feels, but still pretty dogshit none the less, and now he's a crime boss and still a beloved bard, but he's also surrounded by the friends, some of them he loves so dearly and he's trying, he's trying so hard

Eventually, everything is forgiven and in the end, Pike and Scanlan come to term with themselves and each other. Pike comes to terms with knowing that Scanlan is a complex person, a broken person just trying to figure his way through this world, just as she had done.

in the end, Pike becomes the person Scanlan feels the most free to be around, one where he doesn't have to put on the mask of a performer, where he can just be Scanlan the gnome instead of Scanlan, bard extraordinaire. and Pike comes to terms with knowing that Scanlan is a complex person, a broken person just trying to figure his way through this world, just as she had done before.

and together, they are beautiful reflection of each other.

[kieran-culkins]

the social network (2010) dir. david fincher // challengers (2024) dir. luca guadagnino