#private muses

[iamnmbr3]

in book 4 when draco attacks harry from behind i wonder if his spell missed harry by mistake or if it grazed harry's face as a warning and he didn't actually mean to hit him. also shoutout to draco to being able to cast nonverbally in book 4.

[bukkuobujiendo]

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[sweethangman]

these old gay men </3

[chiphersconsort]

Do…do those tattoos on your hands say “MONSTER FUCKER”? Did I read that right? Does that even bother you?

[reallyrandomtj]

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[cobra-wives]

no, bird. we aren’t gonna do that. we aren’t going to scroll through nina carnahan’s tiktok to look at videos of her husband being cute. no bird NO STOP THAT CLOSE THAT BARRETT CARNAHAN TAG. BIRD YOU’RE NOT GOING TO SEND THAT VIDEO OF BARRETT CARNAHAN TO EVERYBODY YOU KNOW

[captainseamech]

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The whole discourse about the privacy/secrecy/support thing has been sitting with me for a few days (I mean other than it always does to a certain degree) thanks to all the excellent discussion happening and I know I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said a million times before, but I think what we're seeing and what we're going to learn (e.g. from TTPD) is that it wasn't just the support issue, but how it was shown/handled.

We've all gone out of our way to show that introversion =/= lack of support. Someone can be shy, reserved, etc. and still show up for their partner, whether in public or at home. To chalk any of the differences up to the clash between introversion and extroversion is unfair to folks who count themselves among either tbh.

@thisisctrying said something the other day that hit the nail on the head about how if that support had been offered in private, there very well may not have been a Joever to begin with, or at least not at this point in time. (Sorry for loosely paraphrasing, and for namedropping you! Long time listener, first time poster.)

If this were a case where the "shy" partner said, "I am really uncomfortable with the spotlight personally and do not want to court it, but I will support you in your ambitions and offer you whatever you need to make them happen and make the glare bearable," I suspect that would have gone a long way to making Taylor feel seen and comfortable in pursuing her goals in the way that she now has. Again, that might have been more akin to the balance that seemed to have been struck around 2019 from what we can see, but even speaking in a general sense, there are lots of couples out there, celebrity or not, that have similar approaches where there are highly driven people and busy careers involved.

(A famous example being Dolly Parton's marriage. Tbh I know next to nothing about her and Carl, but she's always heralded as an example in this regard, because her husband is famously uncomfortable with the spotlight and hasn't accompanied her to public events in decades, but she's said that she never minded that because that was always work to her, and what was important was that he supported her in pursuing all her career goals and basically ensured she had a place to call home to return to at the end of the day.)

We're kind of in a brave new world with her current relationship because it felt like, at least at the start, we were maybe watching her figure out her boundaries in real time as to what she was comfortable with or not and adjust accordingly. Like so many have said, I fully believe the extreme privacy thing was initially driven by herself and her experiences in 2016, and she needed that quiet time to recover from all of the things and figure out how to exist in the world again.

Stating the obvious, it seemed like eventually privacy was equated with secrecy, turning the relationship and the celebrity into the elephant in the room and something to never be spoken of to the outside world. People are free to choose whatever works best for themselves and their relationships, and for some the separate public lives might work, but the “kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath” theme is all over her work and it’s clear that it’s a sore spot for her, because she’s been made to feel shame just for the life she leads so many times in the past.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s pretty obvious something Not Great was happening behind the scenes, which didn’t just amount to “she wanted to be a public celebrity and he wanted to be a private hermit.” (Also, in case anyone forgot, this is a person who also chose a public-facing career who also has to engage in press for it, but I digress.) As her career reached new heights post-folklore, if she had the support at home to do all the things without judgment and with encouragement, and in turn offer the same support to her partner, she may have very well lived just fine with that, not unlike Dolly Parton’s case.

By reading between the lines in all the press since, as well as comments on tour and general ~vibes~ with TTPD teasers, it seems like one of the issues was that that was likely not the case. There was all the stuff that we saw — the reticence to acknowledge each other in the media (particularly on one side), the lack of public support even at events at which they were both in attendance for their respective jobs, the great lengths they went to not to be photographed together at events they attended yet no problem taking pictures with other friends and coworkers, the jobs that separated them, the withdrawing from the public even for work accomplishments, etc. Which could all be manageable if a couple chooses to do so together and are not inherently a sign of trouble in themselves.

But what we’re seeing now I think is a reflection of the things we weren’t seeing then, and it seems to indicate some very deep hurt. (I know, call me Captain Obvious.) And like so many have been saying, it feels likely that that part of that hurt is rooted in that very lack of private support where a person would expect it from their partner. Obviously as a Taylor fan blog I’m going to be more inclined to understand her side of a story, but tbh, it’s also because… this is sooooooo common, and something I’ve experienced in my friend group. (@taylortruther is right when she says most breakups are the same one way or another lol.)

One partner is resentful of the other’s success, or resentful that the other’s priorities begin to evolve as new experiences unlock new goals, or feels the other’s ambitions are not worthy of pursuit, and coupled with perhaps their own struggles in the same domain, it’s easy to see where that can chip away at the other partner’s morale and faith in the relationship. I know I’m just speculating here, but I also don’t think it’s totally unfounded. (Again, because a) I’m picking up what she’s putting down and b) it happens to sooooooo many women even among us dull normals.)

With all the pointed mentions about how much Taylor feels supported in her current relationship and how she in turn loves to offer the same show of support to not only her partner but other loved ones, how she’s stepped out more in the last year to a whole host of events, how she’s mentioned feeling like she locked herself away for years and she’s just proud of her partner and happy she can show up for him even if the chaos around it is unsettling, it paints a picture of what perhaps was happening before last year.

To feel like you’re all alone in carrying the weight of the relationship (or burden of it), of twisting yourself into knots to accommodate the other person’s boundaries (or insecurities) but not feeling reciprocity for your own has to be so painful. (The idea that it may have been even darker and to have a partner not only be unreceptive to your own needs but even perhaps resentful/dismissive/belittling of them is even more painful to think of. I guess we’ll find out when TTPD comes out if that was the case, too.)

At a certain point, that lack of acknowledgement will force your hand to be able to reclaim yourself. And it feels like the further removed Taylor in particular is from it, the more she moves from being sad about the life she felt she gave up by leaving, to angry at the life she felt she was giving up by staying. Especially being in a relationship now where it seems like everything comes much easier, where she can be open about the person she’s with and show up for them, all the stuff that seemed as challenging as climbing Mount Everest in her past is nothing more than a molehill at best in her current life.

TL;DR: I don’t think it’s privacy that inherently spells doom for a celebrity relationship like this; it’s the mutual support and respect that does. If Taylor had felt that in the later years of her previous relationship, I think we could be seeing a different, though not necessarily unfulfilled, person right now in 2024, who’d be happy on tour but whose personal life would look a little different. But it seems like by losing that support she lost parts of herself, and we’ve seen her reclaim that in spades in the last year, and perhaps to degrees she didn’t even realize she could from before all the Bad Stuff started happening in her young adulthood.

I know this was extremely long-winded and unnecessary, especially about total strangers we only know through scraps fed through the media, but I just always bristle at this idea that issues like these boil down to “personality differences,” as though one person wants to live in a city and the other on a remote island, or some shit like that. The whole support (and gender tbh) issue is one that’s just very close to my heart because again, I have seen it play out with so many of my friends in long term relationships and marriages and I just think people in relationships (and women in particular in some circles) deserve better than to feel like they’re being, well, tolerated.

[muses-inn]

[💽]   It is rare to get contracted by the Federation. But when they do expeditions on planets that belong to 'the Company', they have to go through the same steps as any other person. Get a contract, get a Company Habitat and get a SecUnit for safety protocol reasons. And pay a lot of money in the process.

The Company hates doing business with the Federation for political reasons, and the Federation hates the Company for buying inhabited planets to build a resource monopoly. That's as far as 'Murderbot's understanding goes, anyway.

It cares as little for Federation humans as it does for any other, really. And even less so for their politics.

As it has to set out into unknown territory with the Chief Medical Officer to gather samples of plants and minerals for potential medical usage, it wants to be anywhere but out there. With a human. It just wants to start season three of Secret of the Stars. Season two's cliffhanger was excruciating.

"Dr. McCoy, you're nearing a hazard marker. The swamp area is off limits for safety reasons", it indicates with a bored, monotone voice.

@sayonaradumbass (for Leonard McCoy) | sc

[sioneve]

theory: mei is maki's biggest simp

nico is feeling challenged looking at mei's collection and the next minute they're excitedly talking about how cute this maki photocard

another idea that came up because of this: shiki can't sleep without her mei nesoberi

[iccarian]

like this and specify a muse in the comments (specify your own as well if you’re a multi, please. multiple choices are welcome) and i’ll send you a short-ish starter based off a verse from a song i have in that characters playlist! (or if i don’t have a playlist for them yet, a song i associate w them)

[styxisms]

// Inbox call! Specify a muse or fandom or you get the wheel

[b3ast0fburd3n]

Victory "Vic" Abrams RP Promo

FC: Viola Davis

Age: 46

Visual info: Black hair, brown eyes, scar on left eye brow, hair is pulled into a faux-hawk style, wears khaki pants/grey t-shirt/black boots + bulletproof vest, single pistol with two refills, carries a brown clipboard everywhere she goes

Occupation: Logistics Assistant/Privateer

Negative Traits: cut-throat, inflexible, judgmental, apathetic tendencies

Positive Traits: strong morals, organized, good communicator, trustworthy

Family: Mother Serena and father Richard Abrams (deceased)

With a name like Victory, Vic was always a competitive person. She did track and soccer throughout school, winning a fair amount of trophies before joining the Navy*. After 20 years* in, now able to retire, Vic found herself out of work for the first time. Time got away from her, bills stacked up, and she ended up homeless.

Desperate and out of options, Vic reaches out to an old friend of hers for any work he could possibly offer her. She lands on the South Rook island soon after, working for Keamy ( @badtrigger ) as his assistant.

As for the conflict on the island, Vic almost couldn't care less. She's lucky enough to spend most of her time away from locals and hostages, but the few interactions with them certainly tug on her heartstrings. She always shakes it off, though. There's always something else to focus on, another task to be completed.

Vic does what she needs to do to survive. Nothing more, nothing less.

(*Details might change bc I'm writing this character with help from someone!)

[shinigxmi-muses]

{ SUMMONED TO LIFE THANKS TO OKAMI SEQUEL ANNOUNCEMENT....!!

{ Time to check back on old threads- lemme know if any want to be continued as they were, or rebooted in some way- and... I will do some quick blog reworking.

{ Going forward, I think I'll def shift gears a little into making the ask blog side more apparent; allowing fandom interaction is pretty pleasant for me! And as long as rules are followed in terms of "typical interactions" (primarily: don't RP my RPs, likes only) I don't really see a problem with continuing to encourage that.

{ So-!! Planned updates will be ensuring that the descrip. promotes the ask blog side to things, and then adding "non-RP blog" rules to the rules page. It'll be it's own, separate thing for easier readability. }

[aranostra]

I'm thinking about having a mains list (even though I don't usually) in the sense of

you're okay with me replying to our threads quickly

you're okay with me sending you memes regularly even if we already have threads

you're okay with me popping in to talk plots and stuff

i'll probably do more replying/liking headcanons and other posts

i might dm or discord more regularly

it would not mean i prefer anybody's interpretation of a character more than anyone else's... i don't want anyone to think we can't start interacting just because i have another writer of the same muse as a "main".

soooo, if you want to be mains in that sense, maybe like or reply?

[astoldbychae]

Norvina Brielle 🥀