#still pretty unhealthy

[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.

[cringefail-clown]

i need this bizzare phenomenon of people who dislike dirkkri yet are still following me studied. did yall somehow miss like 80% of the shit i post or

[cappycodeart]

I got tired of circling back to frustration over my nitpicks on the f&c series so I OC’d my boy. Whoops. 😅💦. I'll still post stuff in the future about the AT version because I still have a lot of doodles I haven't posted yet and doodle ideas I want to draw!!... Buuuuuut in the meantime my brain gears have been turning hardcore over incorporating this version into my OC-verse... he's a silly astronaut now <3

[lisavetbathory]

crimson peak loustat au would be so easy….

[annefic]

Do you think Anne is a pilates girlie? I think she'd love it but would hate group fitness classes like Soulcycle (and the hype around them)

I think Anne is a horse girlie who cannot physically make herself sit still for more than five minutes at a stretch

[everdares]

Idk but every time i see your username I think of everthorne 😭 i def thought you were a gale/Katniss fan for a while there

WHAT 😭 i was thinking of changing it already but that's uh definitely the push i needed 😀

everdares came from everdair (platonic katniss and finnick, pls) because their dynamic is one of my favorite things in the books and i wish the fandom explored it more, on canon and aus!!! so i wanted to bring that friendship to represent myself here, but i've been considering changing it lately tbh

[spaghett-onaplate]

teehee i now have a very very wonderful photo

[idknotgonnapost]

SPOILERS FOR THE NEW IWTV BUT OMG THAT LAST 20 SECONDS IM GONNA LOSE IT WE’RE FINALLY GETTING MORE CLAUDIA AND LESTAT INTERACTION I HOPE HE FEELS A TINY BIT OF SYMPATHY AT LEAST BUT HE PROBABLY WONT BUT WHQTEHWR IM GOING CRAZYYY

[sadgirlautumn]

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[ilovebeatingmywife]

dude its so stupid Why was i happier whenever i thought i was truly ugly

[astraea-linden]

"That villainous/morally ambiguous character only changed their ways so that they could get with their love interest, they aren't actually a good person and therefore their relationship is toxic" has become such an umbrella statement that is used to describe literally any ship in which one character started out evil and toxic, only to gradually change as a result of their love of their romantic counterpart, and it's kinda tired tbh. Because there is such a major difference between "You make me a better person" and "You make me want to be a better person" that is getting ignored, and while one of these is definitely unhealthy, I don't see anything wrong with the other.

"You make me a better person" is what I would consider to be the toxic version of these relationships, because the morally ambiguous character is placing all of the responsibility for any misdeeds they commit on their significant other. "You weren't around to be my moral compass, therefore I killed people, so it's your fault." "If you leave me, I'm just going to go back to doing bad things." It's very manipulative and plays on the guilty conscience of the morally good character in order to prevent them from leaving. This usually ends up with said good character believing that they are needed by the villain and results in them staying. There are instances in which this is presented as a good thing, which it's not, and I fully understand criticizing these sorts of dynamics.

On the flip side, "You make me want to be a better person" is actually one of my favorite relationship dynamics, because it involves actual accountability and growth for the morally ambiguous character. There's something really beautiful about someone who has been so horrible for a good chunk of their lives, only to meet one person and have their entire worldview changed. They see their goodness and not only feel inspired to change, but actually go about doing so because they want to feel worthy of their affections. I'm not sure how or when that got conflated with "they're only changing so they can get in (insert character)'s pants," but it's really a shame, because there are some really amazing ships that align with this trope that get torn to shreds because people can't differentiate between the positive and negative variations. I want to see characters grow and change, and if falling in love is their ultimate reason for doing so, what exactly is so wrong with that?

[sporco-filth]

A tthought for the slob city setting. Water is out, and every variety of soda and sweet drinks are in. Yet, for many of these drinks, they are best had when they're cold. But if there's no clean water, how do they get ice? Or is it like the ice cubes made from liquid sugar or different drinks?

I will like to preface this by saying I actually don't drink soft drinks. I pretty much just drink water, tea (unsweetened) and sometimes milk. So I do not really consider things like this at all.

By liquid sugar, I assume you mean syrup (water/sugar mix). The problem with this and soft drink 'ice' is that the sugar makes it hard to freeze (it's a bit like how alcohol won't freeze easily). With a high enough water content, it could work. Otherwise I think it ends up like a slurry (according to a brief internet search).

The bigger point to consider though is how they would be consuming their drinks. Because to use ice, you need to pour it into a glass. And honestly, since 1) they're going to drink the whole bottle/can and 2) it's more effort to pour into a glass, I don't think they would even really use ice if they had it. 99% of the time I picture my slob characters drinking straight from the bottle.

Also if they just store it in the fridge or freezer (and let it melt a bit) then it should be cold enough if they don't leave it out.

This is such a minor issue but I am pleased you think enough about this world for minutiae like this to cross your mind. I'm sorry I don't have a great answer for you, so I'll leave you with this science fact:

Interestingly enough, adding sugar will decrease the temperature of water (for 100 mL of water, my calculations say it goes down by 0.2 degrees Celsius with each teaspoon you add (~4 g)), but you would need to add a lot of sugar to get a noticeable decrease (50 teaspoons for 10 degrees C) and at that point it might be saturated, especially since the drink probs already has sugar in it, so you'd just get syrupy stuff and the sugar will eventually crystalise out).

And on the subject of adding sugar to soft drinks, I am reminded of one of my favourite videos that has been lost to the sands of time: Chikaranese's "My Tribute to Junkfood". At one point, Chikara lists his junk food combos (frosting and caramel on doughnuts, marshmallows on pizza, etc) and one goes "soda is sweet, but it can always be made sweeter by adding syrup".

[nexus-nebulae]

every time i eat alfredo i struggle to keep myself from eating the whole fucking container at once, i love pasta but i cannot fit that many noodles in me

[kitchensinksurrealism]

hate yourself by tv girl almost ticks all my boxes in a perfect song, but the only thing stopping it (other than my dislike of absolute statements) is the fact they don't finish the word at the end

[requiesticat]

One thing I hate is how people are misinterpreting Roger Waters performing the "fascist" sequences onstage nowadays, when he and the other members of Pink Floyd are against war in general. Consider how personal The Wall was as a project for the band to make, given that it's based on real-life experiences, and that they've been performing it for decades as part of live shows. That would have been during the Cold War era before the Soviet Union dissolved, which was fresh in people's minds during the 80s and left them in a state of constant fear that the government would resort to nuclear options. Nowadays, with similar situations going on in Gaza and Ukraine, The Wall still is incredibly relevant.

The whole meaning of those scenes toward the end was to show how Pink's been slowly driven insane by all he went through, and reaches a breaking point where he finally goes off the deep end, becoming a dictator who gleefully orders troops to take out targets. His actions afterward are never depicted in a good light. Since the character's father was killed while serving as a soldier in WW2, and this event indirectly influenced trauma, Pink became the very thing he feared upon reaching adulthood. There's a song that wasn't included in the movie but appears on the soundtrack, Stop, where he sings about how he's sick of being a leader committing all these horrific atrocities and wants to go back to his old life. It then leads to the trial sequence.

One site does an interesting job of analyzing each scene along with lyrics, and gives more thorough insight than I'm able to provide

[eveninglottie]

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