#shirking

[tenth-sentence]

Some towns insisted on giving women traders femme sole status to prevent them hiding behind their husbands' names, dodging taxes and shirking their civic responsibilities.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[mega-delicatelysuperbcollector]

DON'T CELEBRATE YET

Melissa may come back to work, I call that a positive perk… She needs wheels, Maybe someone reveals A car deal that she wouldn’t shirk! – Jonathan Caswell

[slavhew]

talking to yourself again?

alt + clean before i started playing with layers like theyre dolls

[hypogryffin]

[oc] protectors

[givemedamage]

imaginary charisma (my gf's fake)

[pixiedustandpetrichor]

“Odysseus just wanted to get home to his wife—”

you know who else wanted to get home to his wife? Eurylochus. You know who his wife was? Ctimene. Yep, Ody’s sister. My boy just chose his happiness over his sister’s

[souenkun]

I love yewww questionable merchants from old-era japan who lives for a totally different quest from their day jobs ❤️

[mythicalmage]

All this time, Rayla was reading smutty self-insert fix-it Conrad/Esmerelda RPF (and thinking about Callum).

[jonahmagnus]

Reporting in for yuri duty

[bob-artist]

I was forcing myself to take yesterday and today off because I worked way too many days in a row, but then my hand slipped and now I'm 3200 words into a new Into the Smoke short story. 😬 So, uh, special gift to my patrons coming soon I guess!

[bi4demibuddie]

Love how Bobby doesn't even question Buck coming to get him. He sees him arrive and just takes it in stride, asks where his car is and then proceeds to steal a truck alonside Buck as if it is the most natural thing in the world.

[utilitycaster]

It's telling that the thing that finally makes Indry reveal a degree of rage to Ame isn't Suvi showing up with blood on her face to dinner nor the various other insults from other witches during dinner; it's not Ame insinuating that with her departure another witch would have to be killed as well nor pointing out the key importance of her station, and it's unclear if it's even the hint that Ame was aware of the scarf. It's the mention of chores as part of apprenticeship. I think underpinning all of this is that the Witch of the World's Heart reminds everyone else, uncomfortably, that they assumed these roles without any particular authority with an ostensible goal to tend to their domains, and that this power comes with obligations towards service.

[pastelchad]

Takano is such a hypocrite for getting angry at Ritsu for never breaking off the engagement officially with An when Ritsu TOLD HER that he didn’t return her feelings already. Meanwhile takano strung yokozawa along for almost a decade and didn’t even properly reject him until Ritsu had come back into his life. Man was keeping yokozawa on the back burner just in case but he’s acting morally superior to Ritsu who has attempted to make it clear several times that he had no intentions of getting married to An but was never taken seriously by her or his family. I want to jump through the screen and choke him out.

[shirkshingatumadre]

I Love This Two Evil Man.

Too Late For The Meme, But I Give A Sh-

(I Also based Shirk on these two)

[quirkyfries]

I feel like I should mention that I am not a Ruin defender or apologist because a lot of my thoughts recently have been picking Ruin apart and if you weren’t me you could say I was woobifying him. I like to think of myself as a Ruin understander? I try to understand him as best I can with the means I am familiar with—which just so happens to be speculation.

Ruin is one of those Morally Ambiguous™️ characters that lands on a spectrum in the extremes. The worse a character’s crime, the more dire a reason or event(s) that pushed them to do it. The worse a character’s crime, the more they will try to cope with whatever they did, or they don’t cope at all. (Nevermind additional factors like environment.) That is what I like to think about. Crimes are not excusable no matter the reason; what makes a character like this interesting is how they think they were justified in what they did. It makes them varying degrees of sympathetic, but not correct. This goes for a good handful of the cast!

That being said, the fact a character committed a crime is not always a justifiable reason for other characters to commit crimes against them. In the case of Nexus’ treatment of Ruin, you could argue that it was a little bit justified in the beginning, Ruin killed Solar, but as that went on it was overkill and no longer about Ruin. In the case of Dark Sun’s treatment of Ruin, you can’t tell me that was done out of solely righteous intent. In the case of Molten, that was a direct consequence of the dimensional collapse, and Ruin had that one coming.

“Ruin kinda deserved how he was treated post Dimension collapse” and “It’s kinda messed up what happened to Ruin post Dimension collapse” are two statements that can (and should) coexist. Furthermore, there is no one correct interpretation of a character! But that’s just me

[shitouttabuck]

not strong enough to be your man