#she lives in another state

[fruitbasketball]

my paige wife delusions are really coming in hard rn😊

blushing and shi

NAH she got me kicking my damn FEET

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.

[fumifooms]

What if we were both magic prodigies and it otherized us in different ways and we devoted ourselves to protecting a family member who has general other goals & priorities. What if we both did self-sacrifical devotion in opposite ways.

What if we were dark mirrors of each other and where I've grown overcontrolling you've grown complacent. What if, bought as a servant into a pretty loving home, ownership and control is what love looks like to me, and to you neglected and lonely growing up, love is gratefully taking any scraps of it you’re lent.

By belonging to someone, even if she comes back injured or fails at finding Delgal, she feels like she belongs and is cherished, by owning someone he feels safe in them not leaving him.

She’s what’s tethering him do you see… And he’s the only thing giving her direction and purpose in her state. She needs a compass and he needs a support.

They’re both so out of it 😭 It’s the weirdly intense and unearned mutual trust and reliance on each other?? They’re each other’s weird little comfort codependent teddy bear. Or at least they were headed towards that before SHE DIED THEN HE DIED THEN THEY BOTH FORGOT ABOUT EACH OTHER AND NEVER MET EVER AGAIN. Though she’s also the guard attack hound keeping him safe… And vice versa he heals her and can rewrite her very being with just one wave of his hand. They’re both so so mentally and physically vulnerable both but they cling onto each other. They can’t perceive things accurately but despite it all someway somehow they stumble into something closer to resembling companionship just before they both die. Falin is just that kind and Thistle is just that lonely. Overworked. We both haven’t lived for ourselves in a very long time, haven’t we.

They both have a similar devotion to the people they love but again the difference is that Thistle starts overtsepping while Falin is self-effacing. The other difference between them is that people care about Falin <3 People have given up on Thistle long ago, and he has given people reasons to, while people refuse to give up on Falin. Yaad has a mini arc about it dw about it it’s ok he’s not all alone in the end 😭😭 He reached out for Marcille’s hand but they already all wanted to help him, they just had to be given the chance to, Yaad just had to be given the chance to, it’s okay I’m okay

Hey what if we learned to get in touch with our own identity and the world around us and living in the present again through being in the worst codependent situationship ever.

Falin and Thistle sitting in a tree, sucking on flowers together because they’re h-u-n-g-r-y 💕💕💕

I bet he’s only ever thought of flowers as useless ornaments. Weak weeds. But she shows him they’re tasty and useful and good and pretty in their own right too and deserve existing without proving their worth and waaa <33 Thistles…... Did you know thistles taste sweet if you remove the thorns and eat them?

"Even as a chimera, her kind nature remains" you can’t suppress her in the way that matters. You can’t soothe him in the way that matters. It’s doomed. You’re doomed. It’s all doomed. Save me.

[astarlightmonbebe]

slightly hot take (?) but personally i felt the reactions in ep 17 were all in-character and justified... don't have the time to get into it, but it boils down to the fact that knowing something logically =/= knowing it emotionally

[zimshan]

do not fear the winter blowing in the hearts of men i’ve seen american flowers they will bloom again

[isfjmel-phleg]

🥜

[alliluyevas]

I feel like if a child is old enough to understand the concept of death and that their loved one has died, there’s no reason why going to a funeral would be any more upsetting than knowing they are dead in the first place. if the child is too young to understand the concept of death (ie a toddler or baby) there is also no reason not to take them to the funeral unless having to take care of them there would be distracting or burdensome on their parents.

[even-disco-baby]

(No caps lock version below asterisks)

Who are you?

What do you want?

Why me?

SHIVERS — I HAVE TOLD YOU. I AM THE CITY. I AM LA REVACHOLIERE. I AM…

I AM NOTHING AND EVERYTHING. I AM DYING. I AM AFRAID.

EMPATHY — Her voice is so loud that it is all there is to hear. And it is so small that you barely hear it at all.

She is afraid of silence.

Who are you?

What do you want?

Why me?

SHIVERS — I WANT TO LIVE. LOOK AT ME. LOOK ALL AROUND YOU. CAN YOU NOT SEE ME? I AM HERE.

I.

AM.

HERE.

DO NOT ABANDON ME. DO NOT LEAVE ME BLEEDING IN THE STREETS. YOU SEE ME. AND I SEE YOU.

Who are you?

What do you want?

Why me?

SHIVERS — BECAUSE…

BECAUSE YOUR BLOOD IS MY BLOOD. I HAVE SEEN YOU CRUMPLED IN THE ALLEYWAYS. I HAVE SEEN YOU HUNGRY AND ALONE. I HAVE SEEN YOU STANDING ON THE PRECIPICE, AND I HAVE SEEN YOU TURNING AWAY FROM IT.

I AM THE PRECIPICE. AND I AM THE LONG WALK HOME. AND I AM THE DYING MAN, AND EVERY MAN WHO DIED BEFORE HIM, AND EVERY WITNESS WHO STOOD SILENTLY BY. I AM THE CITY.

I AM MADE OF YOU. I LOVE YOU.

I DO NOT WISH TO SEE YOU DEAD.

Then why is this city *killing* me?

I hate you. Nothing good has ever come from you. I wish you would burn to the ground and be forgotten forever.

I love you, too. You are all that I live for.

But don’t you understand that people have to die for you to continue?

SHIVERS — NO!

NO…

…

RHETORIC — She *is* the people that built her. And so she cannot make sense of her own design— a perpetual motion machine fueled by its own suffering.

INLAND EMPIRE — An infernal engine. Just like you. Just like everyone else.

VOLITION & SHIVERS — NO.

SHIVERS — THEN YOU MUST CHANGE ME. RENAME ME. SHAPE ME INTO SOMETHING SOFTER. DO NOT TURN AWAY AND LEAVE ME TO DIE. DO NOT LEAVE ANYONE TO DIE EVER AGAIN.

PLEASE… DO NOT ABANDON ME TO MY END…

What do you expect me to *do?* I can’t change humanity itself!

I won’t abandon you. We can die together. That’s all we can do.

I am on the side of the adversary. It will not fail me like you always have.

You’re scaring me… I don’t know how to help…

SHIVERS — NO ONE DOES…

BUT YOU MUST TRY. YOU MUST NEVER LOOK AWAY. JUST AS I WILL NEVER LOOK AWAY FROM YOU. I WILL ALWAYS KNOW YOU. I WILL NOT END SO LONG AS THERE IS SOMEONE LEFT TO KNOW.

SO DO NOT LET ME END.

*****

Who are you?

What do you want?

Why me?

SHIVERS — I have told you. I am the city. I am La Revacholiere. I am…

I am nothing and everything. I am dying. I am afraid.

EMPATHY — Her voice is so loud that it is all there is to hear. And it is so small that you barely hear it at all.

She is afraid of silence.

Who are you?

What do you want?

Why me?

SHIVERS — I want to live. Look at me. Look all around you. Can you not see me? I am here.

I.

Am.

Here.

Do not abandon me. Do not leave me bleeding in the streets. You see me. And I see you.

Who are you?

What do you want?

Why me?

SHIVERS — Because…

Because your blood is my blood. I have seen you crumpled in the alleyways. I have seen you hungry and alone. I have seen you standing on the precipice, and I have seen you turning away from it.

I am the precipice. And I am the long walk home. And I am the dying man, and every man who died before him, and every witness who stood silently by. I am the city.

I am made of you. I love you.

I do not wish to see you dead.

Then why is this city *killing* me?

I hate you. Nothing good has ever come from you. I wish you would burn to the ground and be forgotten forever.

I love you, too. You are all that I live for.

But don’t you understand that people have to die for you to continue?

SHIVERS — No!

No…

…

RHETORIC — She *is* the people that built her. And so she cannot make sense of her own design— a perpetual motion machine fueled by its own suffering.

INLAND EMPIRE — An infernal engine. Just like you. Just like everyone else.

VOLITION & SHIVERS — No.

SHIVERS — Then you must change me. Rename me. Shape me into something softer. Do not turn away and leave me to die. Do not leave anyone to die ever again.

Please… Do not abandon me to my end…

What do you expect me to *do?* I can’t change humanity itself!

I won’t abandon you. We can die together. That’s all we can do.

I am on the side of the adversary. It will not fail me like you always have.

You’re scaring me… I don’t know how to help…

SHIVERS — No one does…

But you must try. You must never look away. Just as I will never look away from you. I will always know you. I will not end so long as there is someone left to know.

So do not let me end.

[wonder-worker]

“…The Anglo-Saxon era is often thought of as having been a golden age for women. Since the late eighteenth century, it has been a commonplace that women in England had better rights before the Norman Conquest than they did afterwards, and were held in higher esteem by society. Before 1066, said one eminent historian in the mid-twentieth century, men and women enjoyed ‘a rough and ready partnership’. As so often with golden ages, however, this picture rests on a selective reading of very limited and debatable evidence. One of its principal props is an account of German women written by the Roman historian Tacitus towards the end of the first century AD. These women, claimed Tacitus, were virtuous, frugal and chaste, and supported their sons and husbands by encouraging them to acts of valour. But this was simply a Roman praising ‘barbarian’ society in order to criticize his own. German women were portrayed as laudable because, unlike their Roman counterparts, they did not conduct adulterous affairs or waste their time at baths and theatres. The reality, unfortunately, seems to be that the status of women in first-century Germany and Anglo-Saxon England was no better than it was in later centuries.”

-Marc Morris, "Anglo-Saxons: The History of the Beginnings of England, 400-1066” / Pauline Stafford, "Women and the Norman Conquest"

Anglo-Saxon England has thus been a Golden Age variously of women's domestication, women's legal emancipation, women's education and women's sexual liberation. The length of a tradition which has changed so fundamentally over time is no guarantee of its veracity. A cursory view of a range of evidence from either side of the 1066 divide casts immediate doubt on the idea of a brutal Norman ending of the Golden Age. The raw statistics of Domesday, for example, suggest a different picture of England on the eve of the Norman arrival. No more than five per cent of the total hidage of land recorded was in the hands of women in 1066. Of that five per cent, 80-85% was in the hands of only eight women, almost all of them members of the families of the great earls, particularly of earl Godwine, or of the royal family. By the tenth and eleventh centuries women other than the queen are virtually absent from the witness lists of the royal charters, and thus apparently from the political significance such witness lists record.”

[thegreatkarma]

okay so i might need some help

there’s this girl i kissed a couple years ago, she’s my friend/friend’s sister. we don’t meet frequently, and we don’t text much, but every once in a while we meet up at some parties. and we’ll be singing and dancing together, walking around holding hands and hugging…

i always feel like there’s some kind of (good) tension between us, like both wanting something, but not knowing how to say it or how to take the first step. we stare at each other a lot, and get super close (she sat on the floor hugging my leg once, while i caressed her head)

i really wanna kiss her again. i really like her.

but i’m not sure if this tension is there and she wants the same, or if i’m seeing things. i’m scared of saying something and possibly ruining the friendship (both me and her, and me and her sister)

[ancientgreekyuri]

aznerine is unforgivable....................

[why-yes-i-am-an-adult]

This world is messed up and almost everything about it makes me sad, but when I look at my doggie all I'm able to feel is joy and all I can think about is how much I love her.

[beepbeepmfkr]

"I can't get everything I want from this politician so obviously the solution is to throw a tantrum and not participate! That'll show them!" - person who is very likely not at personal risk of being murdered or hate crimed by an institution getting pushed further right than it already is.

[howtobecomeadragon]

mkay.

[theramblingsofadork]

“Well Doc? What do you think? Can I pull off your look?”

This was prompted by a cute idea my friend and I were talking about where Rivet tries on Starline’s coat and he adjusts and fixes it for her because she didn’t put it on right.

But uh— then I went overboard and wanted to see if she could pull off his entire look, so, let’s just say hypothetical-villain-Rivet has been born!

Starline’s more just stunned that what’s going on in front of him somehow works.

[astriiformes]

Someone put a curse on my family this year for real I am holding my head in my hands I have no idea how to fix any of this anymore