#she needs her anchor

[that-random-outsider]

Ella being the only thing between Bridget and watching her burn all of Auradon to the ground by the time she turned 16 will never not be the most romantic and terrifying thing ever to me.

[queernarchy]

something something the emotional divide between scary and the boys. being excited by the prospect of dming for her friends but unintentionally making the game so miserable that eventually they end up playing without her.

something something the role of isolation in manipulation, and scary becoming so disconnected from the world and other people that the question she asks at the prospect of something horrible happening to them or their families is "what's the big deal?"

something something the consistent clashing of scary, a kid unwilling to love or accept love, and normal, a kid who gives love so freely and wants nothing more than to receive it.

something something willy using lark, a kid so consumed with anger he could no longer feel love, against henry, too trusting and willing to forgive, to get to the doodler.

something something scary. fighting to be understood but hurting the people around her. just like lark. just like the doodler. and pushed farther and farther away from her friends until she's perfectly positioned for willy to use her against normal, to get to the doodler.

[kuno-chan]

Nima in pink formalwear 🌺

[confusedlucifer]

there's no Shepard without Vakarian

this is from 2021 but i never posted it here so, happy n7 day! in many small ways i will always care about these characters and their journey

[crystallinecardinal]

I really want to make a Ceroba art piece with Crane Wives lyrics…… she is so Crane Wives to me

Would probably make it match with my October art? So, implied Staroba— I think How to Rest works well for her as she struggles post-pacifist

[lavellane]

do i make ashara more devoted to mythal post trespasser or do i alienate her from the evanuris entirely. is she immune to propaganda by virtue of how badly solas damaged her ability to believe in anything or is she especially vulnerable to it now bc she still WANTS to believe in anything. is she sporting subtle mythal details in her costume design or is she not

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I feel like the post I just reblogged pointing out the all-or-nothing in how many people interact with their deconstruction of systems of oppression is resonating for me right now with so many different moments in my life where someone decides that because some part of myself has access to some of the levers of control/influence/etc that come with the relationship to power, and decides what that must mean about all the other parts of me that might be explicitly refused access to those same levers.

It has happened in so many spaces/aspects of my life, and it can be so hard to feel safe and seen and trusting of others when that's my chronic relationship to being perceived - half truths and obfuscation.

It doesn't really change regardless of who's doing the assuming either. Like, where they land in relation to systems of power may influence which direction they lean in their assumptions about me, but even that is often inconsistent. Both sides of the equation (those who share my marginalizations and those who exist in spaces of closer proximity to power) will still do it nonetheless.

When I was doing my liminal social identities work in undergrad, this was actually a big part of the conceptualization we explored of traumtic alienation of self as individual from self as collective, and what it can do to people to exist in this liminal relationship with your environment and the people in it. As I'm starting to gather my thoughts about my stress modeling, this conceptualization is bubbling back to the surface. I'm finding myself meandering through it on both a path specifically my own, and in an effort to better understand what other paths may be available to people during their version of the process/experience.

Selfhood is so fragile, and so in need of balance between self-construction and co-construction for us humans, and that gives us so many beautiful, even spiritual, experiences of meaning making and generativity of self. It also createa many pivot points where we may find room in our path for vulnerability or blurring of self. As much as these pivot points can be distressing, I think they also sometimes become our foundations of change/personal evolution, when we find that through the distress of existing in shift, something meaningful is occurring or observable in our experience of self-in-transition.

I think something I've valued especially about my own relationship with self is its transience. It doesn't always end up somewhere I would be happy to sustain, but it always allows me a degree of comfort in complexity that I think has made my body-mind a safer place for me overall.

[leavemilkoutforthecatsandfaeries]

Enjoyed the first 4 episodes of Hazbin, though it didn't quite grab me like I'd hoped? I think Helluva is my favorite of the two. There was a bit too much singing for me personally, but I'm so glad there IS singing because adults deserve singing cartoons, too!

A complaint I have is that while I AM SO GLAD they didn't try to remake the YouTube pilot, you kinda need to have watched it in order for the show to make sense, and so as far as being friendly to brand new, curious people? It doesn't do a good job setting itself up in episode one with introducing the characters.

But, you know, I DID see the YT pilot, so OF COURSE I will tell people to go watch it first and, while they are there, to watch Helluva, so maybe it's just a clever marketing tactic, who knows!

Absolutely LOVE Alastor even more. My chaotic ace ass vibes so hard, and episode 3 and 4 are the best ones. And, like...I REALLY like how Charlie, who is a Princess of Hell, looks more angelic than the actual angels. Clever clever.

And this was my FAVORITE song, and scene, and still, and is now my wallpaper. Because, yes...yes I am.

[synodic-lupine]

BPD Tenth Doctor

[shift-shaping]

I must write Eirwen again

[martyrmarked]

sidri trevelyan, debuff queen

[fiovske]

jesus christ you guys were NOT kidding about how bad the last few seasons of veep were huh

[alihightowers]

you know what I would love? for helaena to subtly reach out and hold onto alicent's hand during the funeral procession for jaehaerys.

[anxiously-sidequesting]

So this thought has been in my head for quite some time but... I can't help but think about an angst filled, heartwarming tale between Morganthe and Malorn if Morganthe was still a teenager and a student struggling in Ravenwood

[duckuwu]

finally dove into the private plane stats etc because idiots keep bringing it up and swizzle isnt even in the top 30 of users (she was 29 in 2022), but you know who was #4 two years running for most use / carbon emissions? a certain queen bee and her hubby, but we're not seeing anyone talking about that.

and i'm not trying to start shit, i'm firmly in the 'this is their only safe mode of travel when not in-town' stance. i just am not here for the double standard and the very very obvious aimed focus.

such a weird time to be alive and love and respect both artists

besides none of their emissions are anywhere close to what shell is doing. again. one individual changing their ways isn't going to make a dent until we can get Big Oil to change theirs. but sure sure let's stay focusing on tearing down successful women who learned to stay in their lane.

The flight receipts: https://twitter.com/PopFactions/status/1755194440778490060?t=RuaMxZNUDkMUyaCUPHS6dA&s=19

[outeremissary]

Poll about creating characters for a game really has me thinking about my methods because while I don't usually situate a character in the world/create a full backstory beforehand I feel like I need such a strong sense of who a character is, how they behave, and at least the skeleton of why they behave like that that I usually get bored and feel like I'm playing some flat nothing when I don't have that. I guess that isn't the same as having a fully rigid concept, especially since I'm happy to change things radically in conversation with a game when it's going well, but it's still enough of a distinct Guy Who Already Exists In My Brain I couldn't call it a loose concept. And usually when things go well for my looser concept characters and I develop them during a playthrough I just hit a point partway through where it's like... cool! I have completed the concept for this character now, I can stop playing and relocate them to a Real Story. They almost never feel like they fit right until they're in something where they're starting from that state, haha. I'm like this with tabletop stuff as well. I'm not always the ten page backstory guy but if I'm not at least coming in with some needlessly complex portrait of personality the character is not going to stick for more than a oneshot. Just doesn't interest me to play! I don't feel like I'm seeing through their eyes yet. Can't get in the right zone mentally. I think that's what it's really about for me- a loose concept is rarely immersive, and without that immersion I just struggle to feel like the actions are coming from the character instead of me and come together into a cohesive story about the character (rather than one about me pushing buttons).