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[dadrielle]

I can't stop thinking about just how emblematic everything in those conversations of Ashton being "a child" are of how, even at her most beaten down, triggered and traumatized, Laudna is not and will not be what Delilah wants her to be.

For Delilah, "they're still a child" is dismissive, a bit derisive, but doesn't even merit being truly hateful. She doesn't find Ashton worth the attention Laudna is giving them, not when there are such more interesting, important things to pull the attention of an adult. Children are only important when they are useful. She will indulge Laudna on the subject, because Laudna is useful, is her vehicle for action in the world, but she only cares about it in the context of getting Laudna to do what she wants. Calling someone a child is calling them unimportant. (Laudna is a child to her)

But for Laudna, who loves children and who understands intimately what it's like to have the helplessness of child, to be trapped under the authority of someone who will never treat you as a full person, even when they are being ostensibly kind, to be so confused and lost and powerless...a child deserves attention more than anyone else. Of course children lash out. Being a child IS in many ways quite awful because the world is so big around you and you don't know yet how to react to any of it, how to soothe yourself - and if you aren't given the attention, you never learn how. Ashton never learned how. Her instincts - instincts trained into her by manipulation and abuse from inside and the world around her - may say kill him, but she fights them the whole way because her heart is stronger and her heart says that the angriest, most volatile child needs care as much as any other. More, even.

Laudna hears Delilah call Ashton a child and agrees on the word, but they have diametrically opposed understandings of what that means, and diametrically opposed instincts on how to treat a child. Laudna doesn't want to hurt anyone, especially children. She loves children. She loves so much and so selflessly. And Delilah is so very very good at manipulating her but she has tried for 30 years to change the bedrock of Laudna's psyche, the truer thing that drives her beyond the base animal instincts of survival, and it hasn't worked.

[fuck-off-im-ace]

I think Ashley Johnson should personally send a 20$ bill in the mail to everyone who has played Stray Gods for the emotional damage she dealt by singing Adrift in this way. She was so cute and soft. And for what.

[thevulturesquadron]

The breeze is gone...

[x22817]

Four hours at the dentist wooooooooooo

[thelesbianluthor]

Angela Giarratana as Lex Foster in Yellow Jacket you will never be forgotten.

[pupstim]

Okay but really I just... Dapper's Admin <3333333 its probably just me but I just feel like it's not a coincidence that Dapper's really cooking up something and leaving all sorts of clues for Bad to pick up on and investigate.

Its just rly nice for Bad to get some lore and from how Dapper is acting they REALLy want Bad to investigate this. I know the admins are not to blame and they're just really overwhelmed with work with adding new players and everything but its just... its just really nice for Dapper to be cooking like this and try and leave trail for Bad to investigate

[randomname3]

My first impression of hades 2: its fucking awsome

My second impression of hades 2: its fucking ADORABLE

[barksbog]

female hercules beetle!!! large baby!!

[cicidraws]

if u like chappell roan give some love to hemlocke springs

[chthonic-cassandra]

Was feeling a little disconnected and depressed (getting over being sick, hard week of work, etc), but then I watched Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala and now all is well with the world.

[teenwolf-theoriginals]

caitlin foord - australia vs switzerland, friendly match (26.10.24)

[fuck-off-im-ace]

If you like Reneé Rapp but you havent watched this performance please do yourself a favor and do it now. You will enjoy it. It's impossible not to.

Renee Rapp — Don't Leave Me Lonely (Mark Ronson Ft. Yebba & James Francis Cover) [Live @ SiriusXM]

[brickcollector]

dilly bean + her love for my space heater

[some-overlyrandom-stuff]

It is fortunate that Xueyi's body is mechanical, otherwise her back would surely hurt after carrying me through the entirety of Swarm Disaster

[myrnadalgleish]

oh siobhan......

[missanthropicprinciple]

totally not crying because Mims is played by Warwick’s real life daughter and she’s saying goodbye to him and telling him he’s her hero