#quiet observations

[chained-sweater]

Before the Rumble

Ponyboy: Who's turn is it to give the pep talk?

Darry: *sighing* It's Dally's turn.

Dallas: Fuck shit up out there, but don't die.

Two-Bit: *wiping away a tear* Inspirational...

Soda & Steve: *clapping in the background*

[phopollo]

(Stex cartoon post)

Rusty after having a really bad day: Sometimes I wish I were more like Electra >:(

Rusty's dream that night:

[alluralater]

dark brown eyes and dark brown hair people— i would do anything for you. i adore you. i worship the air you breathe and the ground you walk on

[mayasaura]

Makes me feel a kind of way how Gideon does not once question Nona's personality. Like, she knows who Nona is! She knows that's the Death of the Lord, the monster in the Tomb, a being as old as her universe, and she's furious with her. But she still sees Nona and adjusts her attitude to speak reassuringly to her, like a little kid. Even when she's grilling her about Harrow, it's: Where is she? It doesn't matter what the answer is, just tell me. I promise I won't get mad.

[wonderful-magician]

Diamond and Dolly!

( 2024 pearl and 2024 Dinah ! )

Diamond is a bi queen and Dolly is a Lesbian who likes mullets and tall robots. I agree. Real. I LOVE THEM. GRRR. anyway focusing on their characters I will make them slightly different obviously compared to pearl and Dinah since they aren't the same people in my au. Diamond is more shy, but enjoys the spotlight of a good outfit. And Dolly is headstrong but a total hopeless romantic who would put her and thundercabs initials on a tree. Diamond and Dolly are close friends of course! Childhood friends even. ( Diamond offers relationship advice despite never being in a real relationship before 2024 rusty... ) Luckily Dolly and thundercab work out because they are perfect for each other obv.

Tassita and Barbara!

( tassita and 2024 belle )

Tassita is HE/HIM ONLY!! For mine of course :3 and he is dating Barbara because I like these 2 so much. Tassita is a quiet car and Barbara is a sleeping car. They don't go to parties like ever. and usually never participate or even attend races either. They just don't like loud sound, and honestly- when off the job? They'd rather sleep... Or like read... Probably sleep...

[sketchz]

molly and anne!

[bxtxnx]

♏︎

Scorpio women (Sun, Venus, Rising) look great when they are dressed more formally.

Since Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, planet of extreme wealth and other people's money, Scorpios look their best when they are styled in a way that makes them look like they've spent a lot of money on their outfit.

Scorpio is one of the signs I can associate with the quiet luxury trend, as long as you stick to dark colors.

[mymidwestheart]

[co27]

while i agree with a post i just read about falin and laioses autism presenting differently i think its less that “falin has squashed her autistic traits to be more likeable because shes a woman” and more “falins autism which presents as her being more quiet/agreeable helps her be more likeable than laios, especially because people like it when girls are quiet and nice”. idk

[usefulquotes7]

i’m a very observant person, so if you think i didn’t notice, i did. i just decided to keep quiet.

[phopollo]

Twirling my hair

It's time for my obligatory pokemon au that I make for everything I get into for more than 3 days at a time

Just the coaches for the moment, because I'm a little obsessed with them

Love these silly guys,,,

I love you new trainer Pearl being adopted by 3 losers who just think she and her eevee in the little matching outfits are the cutest thing in the entire world, and new trainer Pearl who thinks they're soooo cool because they all have evolutions of her starter and they're and strong enough that they're always asked to help out with the little championship tournament for the double battle section

[violetsinyoureyesandguns]

[hellonerf]

i love crazy contrasting 1p2p in every way(not every way). so i always subconsciously have 2P rusame be friends. unlikely friends etc. in whatever weird school au theyre friends. meri was probably bullied until he started hissing at other kids or something while rus2 was just like huhh okay yeah okay what fine. rus2 found him in a broom closet and it was as awkward as it sounds. in the weird stuckin1Pcoldwar au i have theyre friends also in the torturous existence. 1P rusame is too weird life is too short lets tomodachi✌️

[strawberrytalia]

me when i see people calling duke super observant and citing his photokinetic powers as a way to show how he’s always looking from afar and observing people, as if his character doesn’t revolve around impulsivity, taking action and stepping up when others don’t and putting the weight of the world on his shoulders, as if he’s not a huge adrenaline junkie, as if he’s destined to just be the quiet observant guy

[bruciemilf]

I think I'm gonna die soon if I don't talk abt Martha and her brothers

[katyspersonal]

Marika & Messmer are fascists but not the hornsent who chop people to small pieces and put them inside jars to achieve divinity because they believe they're "chosen" people and therefore superior to other races? Have you considered the possibility that sometimes both sides of a war can suck? This is why frenzied flame is the way🙏

Anon, I am going to scold you before I get to the topic because "have you considered [thing]" here should be reserved for a problem when someone is ignorant and in a bad, poor-taste way! Which I was not because obviously I "considered" this! You are referring to a silly post of me liveblogging how I got to Messmer, and so of course I addressed Messmer! I should not add long disclaimer about every other lore-relevant thing when I make a basically liveblog-ish remark to "demonstrate" that I do not let other culprits in the story "get away" either! 😣 For example recently I've been focusing on Fire Knights to express my hatred for religious purism, but later in another post about story of Abyssal Woods I've instead focused my vitriol on Hornsent Inquisitors! There is its own post and time for everything!

Okay back to the LORE with light heart now!! This is true of course that both sides are atrocious; the Hornsent basically pulled a mad cult crusade on the shamans, and very ironically long time after their folks were victims of also a religion-driven crusade! This is basically playing extermination ping-pong for generations and regardless of who "started it", none of the innocent people (children, those who disagree and simply belong to [race], distant descendants that did not DO anything etc) deserved to be exterminated by association.

To get more elaborate, one has to take into consideration just how long the conflict has been going on for, and everything else Marika has done besides the Crusade. The people being killed by Messmer's army are most likely generations apart from the people who hurt Marika's! I've mentioned that earlier where I questioned how Grandam and Hornsent (NPC) seem to not even know why Marika/Messmer went with war at them at ALL. Like, both are/were barbaric in their own way, but there's clearly a side that has suffered enough now. Like, this was such a disgusting conflict that even Marika, who was the one who had it ordered in the first place, felt the need to distance herself from it because it WAS the battle without glory or honor. There were the Hornsent, likely a cult or something, who murdered and mutilated the Shamans back in their time, but Marika was the one who started the war and kept it going even after it was clear that the Hornsent had lost, and ruined the lives of many people that weren't even part of the war in resistance like the Hornsent NPC! (One more nitpick about it is that her/Messmer's war was that of exterminating of all who have no Grace, as opposed to some insane idea on how to force them to be reborn to "join" her type of people hfhhhbhf)

Correct me here if I am wrong, but so far we can't know if ALL Hornsent accepted the practices of Bonny Village and their higher religious institution. The Greater Potentate Cookbooks that we find relating to hefty pots describe the author as having been "haunted by the grotesque practice of his village of birth". This guy didn't sound like he was very proud of what his people were doing, and it's coming from someone who was raised there! There's likely a lot of other Hornsent who found the practice just as disgusting, especially amongst those that didn't do it themselves, but we don't know that because most of them are dead and the ones who remain are understandably upset and distrustful of "our" kind!

🤔 It is also because of this why it's more reasonable to call the two leading figures of a cleansing war fascists than an entire race, because we can't just assume that ALL Hornsent are fascists just because their religious order and justice system is fucked up. We just don't have a key leader figure to redirect such sentiments towards, unlike with the Golden Order! Basically confirmed fascists are Marika, Messmer + Fire Knights + Black Knights + troops, various warriors and perfumers and what not who agreed to participate @ the Hornsent who are doing the potting, the Hornsent who did slaughter Marika's village, and remaining corrupt clerics leaders of the religion!

(On a side note, Frenzied Flame is definitely the answer but y'all shouldn't tell Melina on me hfjjchjgdh)

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UPDATE 1 from July 4th that I wanted to add in the OG post instead:

I have nothing to add here, all of these are rather fair points! I am a little late with adding these screenshots but you've probably seen some more speculation on the Hornsent Inquisitors these couple of days by me and @val-of-the-north in my blog! Here if you missed these: ( x ) ( x ) The gist of it is that seems like Inquisitors are hunting their fellow Hornsent as heretics for serving the "impure" nobles, but regardless of whether it happened before Marika's mentioned "betrayal" or after, it is STILL horrible to harm people for association with those that didn't even do anything wrong :^)

Still applies that calling the whole race fascist doesn't work (heck, the Hornsent who choose to stand with Midra and Nanaya are confirmation of strong exceptions!), but the sentiment is certainly very strongly rooted culturally.

Sigh.. I am pretty sure there are people somewhere in the fandom that would fall into "hornsent deserved it" pit over this, too. Like "hey, even currently Hornsent culture is a rich soil for Shaman Villages 2.0 and 3.0 and 4.0 and so on to happen, so why not preventively exterminate an inherently dangerous culture?" (..if anyone here really thinks along these lines, please know that this is a dangerous line of thinking and you'll get ideologically groomed into excusing genocides before you know if you don't question what you're implying here) What they needed was more communication with other cultures and adopting more tolerant and humane principles. Seeing that various horn-ness species are just like them rather than sitting in the "we divine they filth" bubble if it is THAT bad. Maybe Marika even HAD the power to provide such change and bridge the gap while she was still a trusted figure to them during her "infiltration", and yet instead of putting and end to terrible traditions with careful planning and diplomacy, she chose the path of revenge..

Genuinely a depressing point to think about. And yes, absolutely doesn't do her a honor to choose ruin and hate.

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UPDATE 2 from July 11th:

I also completely forgot to back it up that the fellow Hornsent were also facing execution through being stuffed in jars!

Yeah nah, definitely their people in power were so dangerous that should someone protest against the murder of Shamans and alike, they'd meet the same fate.. Having to swallow what your insane authorities do, with your own life in the line, is also something very real. This situation obscures the number of people who are against it from the superficial look.

I myself live in the country where people can't protest against the government unless they want to go to prison or face other dire consequences, so having to sit quietly for the sake of yourself and your own families for the outside world LOOKS like we don't care and ""'"agree""". :)))) Fun stuff. :') Here, anyone who would ask why Hornsent that disagree with their leaders don't express it would technically be in their right to do so, but most people will protect their own life first, especially if sacrificing it won't really avail anything. Again, Elden Ring is incredibly real with these topics. :')