#some food for thought or whatever

[foliejpg]

realistically pete and patrick are both the sun AND the moon. they’re twins, not yin and yang - which is why i think the new fob logo is split straight down the middle instead of curved. that’s why on the 2ourdust poster the sun is crying and the moon is happy, they’re complex and more than just one or the other

[letterful]

Jean Madar, chairman and CEO of InterParfums Inc, recently told Bloomberg that fragrance is part of a person’s “core identity”. And while cosmetic companies can face criticism for conflating external products with existential outcomes [...] perfume conveniently sidesteps the problems of the flesh. It’s not trying to change how you look, but how you feel, and, for the span of a spritz at least, it does. In the age of wellness-as-beauty and neurocosmetics, the science of scent is marketing gold.

[...] I wonder if what we’re after here is not a sense of self but a (related) sense of life.

I say “we” because – despite my documented skepticism of beauty brands – I, too, am powerless against a good perfume ad.

Last month, casually depressed and subconsciously seeking comfort and some sort of release, I spent $240 on a scent called Tears by Régime de Fleurs. “What a luxury to weep,” the website read. It described the perfume as “emotion in liquid form, the romance and the sadness”. It promised “nostalgia” too, with notes of lilac to remind me of my grandmother’s front yard and frankincense to call up childhood Sundays spent in incense-blessed church pews. I suppose I wanted Tears to take me back to a time when someone who loved me baked me cookies every week, when I believed in God and goodness, and life stretched ahead of me in an endless expanse of hope and potential.

Of course, it didn’t do that. It smelled fine. I felt something, for a second. But I was still me, and I was still mostly numb.

I thought of that perfume the other day while reading the preface to Henry James’s 1902 novel The Wings of the Dove. James summarized it as the story “of a young person conscious of a great capacity for life” – someone “passionately desiring” to “achieve, however briefly and brokenly, the sense of having lived”.

Something clicked: how to explain Tears if not a brief and broken sense of having cried?

[pup-pee]

sunshine & maybbbbb starlight?

gift 4 @melonlthawne !!!!!! bc i love their art smm

[dragontamer05]

Okay so something I've been thinking on for awhile about Opera that I don't think I've ever seen others touch on is that although so far having only ever been referred to with and as They/Them.

By all accounts has been confirmed that Opera doesn't align themselves specifically with any gender, beyonc Non-binary I think an argument could be had of them being (by human labels) Agender perhaps.

At the very least Opera very clearly doesn't seem to be the type to have any specific labels happy to use which ever.

I say this because of the Sukima in which Iruma asks if they are a guy or a girl and seems pretty chill with just being whatever Iruma wants/however Iruma sees them.

Oper really saying my Gender is your choice.

This lending me to believe if someone did happen to use other pronouns beyond They/Them Opera might be okay with it. At the very least seem none to bothered if someone were to just assume a gender and just shrug it off as "Well if ghats what you think guess I am"

Though I suppose it could also depend on the person.

Mostly here to say that while we may say Non- Binary Opera is just Opera and very much gives the vibes of someone who doesn't really subscribe to keeping to any labels.

Also Demons in general seem to be a very you are who you are and probably don't bother much with categorizing folks in the same way we do anyway.

[riacte]

so hey guys i finished dungeon meshi yesterday and i'm still thinking about it

[melatien]

tiny yoichi (unwillingly) lures out soldiers by being his helplessness little self so his brother can strike

[moongothic]

A stupid Crocodad related mental image that keeps on haunting me is Crocodile somehow getting to witness a Usual Strawhat Banquet, seeing Luffy eat The Normal Amount of Food Luffy Usually Eats and think to himself "...yeah that adds up"

[icewindandboringhorror]

More misc. daily life pictures and such

[love-songs-for-emma]

flavored water tastes like water drank from an unwashed cup

[not-poignant]

Character Ask Game, 20 for Temsen?

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

In The Nascent Diplomat it's the entirety of the Ohlo Ohlo clan.

Literally everyone comes second to them.

And in Underline the Black I don't think Temsen has any best friends, and I'm not sure who an ideal would be, because he doesn't really want to be super close to anyone.

If they exist, I'm not sure we've met them yet! You know it's probably Marikit though, lol.

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From the character meme!

[mousiefrotting]

was just mulling over some twst thoughts (overblot-related and such) noticing how most of the incidents so far end with the victim getting enough time to rest and get back to a fit condition to live their lives?- and then i suddenly remembered a canon fact that makes for suuuuch good recovery-whump happenings:

if blot accumulation in a magestone subsides when the caster's physical reserves are replenished (food, sleep, etc.), what about the post-overblot recovery?? after all the wreckage of an overblot is said and done, all the emotions have been had and harrowed- what about the physical rehabilitation process?

we see a few mentions of overblotters feeling sick right after the fact- or just generally being physically worse off after burning through a notable amount of magic- and it got me thinking; what about all those post-blot scenes we don't get to see? sure, they've got emotional (often literal also!) messes to fix ahead of them-- but what about that moment where everything just feels bad and gross and the failure of your best laid plans is just heaping onto how absolutely wrecked you are and everyone can see it?

(the thought of any of the prev ob!ers actually having to voice a physical need is just too good to resist imo- especially after the fact and having to see the ramifications!!! augugughghh and while i may have reasonings "blot bad, sleep and food good" does something to the brain i must admit))

just.. AUGH.. i need to see the emotional vulnerability and the walls betrayed by the all-powerful denial-shatterer: good old physical needs!

[girlthativealwaysbeen]

so tired of being a shitty bandaid for my parents' loneliness. like have u ever considered you passed your curse to me and some days i feel so lonely it's like i can't breathe around the emptiness in my chest????

[outlying-hyppocrate]

i hate how absolutely particular i am about some things honestly.

[lbctal]

been thinking about how gamby and russell are dog/cat coded. like gamby’s all like oh you liked that thing i did? do you want me to do it again? and again? and again? and again? and again? and again? while russell is all like oh you liked that thing i did? well i don’t care and i’m totally not stashing that information in my back pocket for later to see you smile or laugh. absolutely not doing that. haha.

basically they both wanna please each other but russell is better at playing it off than gamby. lol. being weird about them hours.

[btsbs]

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[nobodybetterlookatme]

how are you feeling today? did you make it through unscathed?

Yeah I definitely didn't 😭 I've been hella congested all day and I definitely have a cough, but it's more bc my throat is bugging me than anything. I don't think I technically have a fever, my temp's just slightly elevated from where it normally is. It's fucking miserable bc I can't breathe through my nose and the damn thing fucking hurts, and I'm kinda uncomfortable and a little achy, but other than that I'm mostly just tired and a little hazy and generally just don't feel great, so I'm not dying like my partner was lmao. But yeah, all this to say that I'm fucking pissed at him and I literally feel like a goddamn plague rat 😭😭