#she made it clear

[briaberri]

To Elain, a person to whom bodily autonomy is a cornerstone but it has been often stomped on because of her gender, role, and temperament, I think the most alluring aphrodisiac imaginable would be, consent. No one dances that dance with more natural respect and tender care than Azriel.

As for Luc -- after everything the poor guy has been through, really think he's the one to get excited about an unwilling partner?

Let love live. They both think so, actually.

It dovetails with the musings of my head, anticipating that Elain will be instrumental to changing the game for Vassa's curse. She has bone-deep (literally) empathy for forced transformations on a mortal woman's body through the abuse of power. Her own take regarding one's body, fate, and infractions upon that right, is transparent.

Do I think her story arc will flex that stance to world-changing impact as she takes on a death god to free a mortal who's life she respects? That I do.

[stil-lindigo]

scorched earth.

a comic about a princess who died in a fire.

(this is a sequel to bite of winter, a comic about Snow and what became of her after her death.)

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[gregorovitch-adler]

Translation: Junior, I have told you several times that Lily prefers to be single, remember?

Lily is the new aroace icon. That's all.

[inkskinned]

they want to talk about mental illness and acceptance and how everyone is a little ocd it's cute and quirky and their "intrusive thoughts" are about cutting their hair off and you say yours are about taking a razorblade to your eye and they say ew can you not and everyone is a little adhd sometimes! except if you're late it's a personality flaw and it's because you are careless and cruel (and someone else with adhd mentions they can be on time, so why can't you?) and it's not an eating disorder if it's girl dinner! it's not mania if it's girl math! what do you mean you blew all of your savings on nonrefundable plane tickets for a plane you didn't even end up taking. what do you mean that you are afraid of eating. get over it. they roll their little lips up into a sneer. can you not, like, trauma dump?

they love it on them they like to wear pieces of your suffering like jewels so that it hangs off their tongue in rapiers. they are allowed to arm-chair diagnose and cherrypick their poisons but you can't ever miss too many showers because that's, like, "fuckken gross?" so anyone mean is a narcissist. so anyone with visual tics is clearly faking it and is so cringe. but they get to scream and hit customer service employees because well, i got overwhelmed.

you keep seeing these posts about how people pleasers are "inherently manipulative" and how it's totally unfair behavior. but you are a people pleaser, you have an ingrained fawn response. in the comments, you have typed and deleted the words just because it is technically true does not make it an empathetic or kind reading of the reaction about one million times. it is technically accurate, after all. you think of catholic guilt, how sometimes you feel bad when doing a good deed because the sense of pride you get from acting kind - that pride is a sin. the word "manipulation" is not without bias or stigma attached to it. many people with the fawn response are direct victims of someone who was malignantly manipulative. calling the victims manipulative too is an unfair and unkind reading of the situation. it would be better and more empathetic to say it is safety-seeking or connection-seeking behavior. yes, it can be toxic. no, in general it is not intended to be toxic. there is no reason to make mentally ill people feel worse for what we undergo.

you type why is everyone so quick to turn on someone showing clear signs of trauma but you already know the fucking answer, so what's the point of bothering. you kind of hate those this is what anxiety looks like! infographics because at this point you're so good at white-knuckling through a severe panic attack that people just think you're stoic. even people who know the situation sometimes comment you just don't seem depressed. and you're not a 9 year old white kid so there's no way you're on the spectrum, you're not obsessed with trains and you were never a good mathematician. okay then.

mental illness is trending. in 2012 tumblr said don't romanticize our symptoms but to be fair tiktok didn't exist yet. there's these series of videos where someone pretends to be "the most boring person on earth" and is just being a normal fucking person, which makes your skin crawl, because that probably means you are boring. your friend reads aloud a profile from tinder - no depressed bitches i fucking hate that mental illness crap. your father says that medication never actually works.

you still haven't told your grandmother that you're in therapy. despite everything (and the fact it's helping): you just don't want her to see you differently.

[thats-a-mood-gabriella]

You know what kills me. Via understandably feels like she's been left behind, like Stolas has chosen Blitz instead of her. That they've gone off and formed a relationship she can't be a part of.

And in the same episode as she confronts Stolas about that, she has no idea that the "shitty boyfriend" is daydreaming about not just having Stolas and his own daughter in his life, but about HAVING VIA THERE TOO.

Like I completely get why she thinks she's been left out, but the irony of the very guy she thinks is the cause of her exclusion, actually of his own accord, without prompting from anyone, yearning for her to be part of it, to become family.

It is killing me. In Blitz's perfect family daydream, he has TWO daughters, not just one. He's gonna love her so hard when she's willing to let him.

[aardvaark]

i love how sophie’s priorities are pretty much the inverse of anyone else’s priorities. she’s oddly calm in life-or-death scenarios and mostly just seems annoyed when people are trying to kill her, but things like rain or bugs or the smell of hardison’s van are what really bothers her. like one time she takes revenge on eliot by straight up brainwashing him because he didn’t get rid of a cockroach that was grossing her out… this is a woman who has been shot before.

[jakeperalta]

keep seeing "taylor hates matty just like us!!" like.. she hates him because he broke her heart I hate him because he is a legitimately garbage person we are not the same

[rainboweemart]

Nami’s fan and her new pair the MugiMugi plushies! 🥰🍖🍊

( +marine brothers shenanigans )

[edorazzi]

Page 36 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! In which Chat Noir gets his kiss from Ladybug after all, but at what cost?! 💋💔

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[bigfatbreak]

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[creatingchimera]

* injects my favorite nicktoon into @nicktoonsunite 's timeskip au because she was excluded from the games to spite ME SPECIFICALLY*

edit: colored the initial sketches and added some happy-centric new ones :)

[pepsidogonline]

Eddie talking about chyna 🥺 and how he empathized with her behavior due to their similar struggles.

[helena-thessa]

I thought it was a little silly and superfluous to rewatch Black Sails— like haha, whatever, this will be fun in my spare time— but now I realize rewatching is a downright necessity. As in, holy fucking shit, did you see that?? Do you see this??

I didn’t appreciate the betrayal by Miranda in season one as much the first time around without the context we learn later. But the loss of Gates’ support and the maneuvering by Miranda behind his back both happen at the end of the first season. Gates planning to tell the crew, Miranda thinking James would accept a pardon— both have revealed that they don’t understand the sheer magnitude of what Flint feels compelled to do and the lengths that he will go to achieve it. His closest companions fundamentally do not support or understand him.

Then, literally right after, in swoops John fucking Silver— rescuing his state of mind (“there’s always a way”), rescuing his plans (lighting the canon), and of course quite literally rescuing him from drowning and tending to his gunshot wound.

The stage is so perfectly set for Silver to fill the vacuum of this loss. To become the only person who actually understands him and will go to the finish line with him.

“Brace yourself, but I’m the only person within a hundred miles of here who doesn’t want to see you dead” was always an epic speech, but dear god, it gets even better with that full understanding.

[teaboot]

UPDATES ON THE YOUNG LORD

He is three weeks old and his mom's owner has sent a picture

Momma is the big grey cat, the ears are the bottom of the photo belong to one of his sisters, and the runty black jellybean up by her chin is him.

[sollaire]

i love emotionally damaged characters who get within a hairs breadth of personal growth just to make the worst decision possible, gotta be one of my favorite genders