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[jefkphotography]

A photo of me, holding a dumbbell vertically with one hand.

[megpie]

To connect with others, you have to open yourself in a way that makes you... vulnerable. You take down your walls. Start peeling off those layers. Crack your rib cage all the way open to share your heart, knowing there's a chance they'll smash it to pieces. Discernment. Caution. You need those. But don't be so careful that you risk missing out on possibilities. Because eventually, the risk will be worth it. ✨️🖤 #loveagain #loveanyway #lovealways #stronghands #steadylove #datingafter40 #datingishard #trustyourintuition #trusttheuniverse #theuniversehasyourback #lovelylife #loveyourselffirst❤️ #authenticity https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl4QJQFyyk3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[jameswestwelding]

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[jrueships]

the barksdales vs the Stanfield organization was like toxic yaoi vs toxic Yuri to me

marlo and i don't agree on many things (because that would be really concerning) but we do agree on some things and that some things is Chris Partlow

[scar-crossedlvrs]

im not gonna teach you how to make a form in dreamweaver but here it's part of your final.

[shortghouly]

[dreamlesssheep]

me after masterbating for the fourth time today

[spainkitty]

TAG GAME— List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms

Tagged by @sillyliterature 💖 Thank you!!

1. Stiles Stilinski (Teen Wolf)

2. Castiel (Supernatural)

3. Nina Zenik (Grishaverse)

4. Anders (Dragon Age) (because I can't choose my OC Lanil Surana 😔 Anders is a very close second choice 🤣)

5. Atton Rand (Knights of the Old Republic)

6. Riku Kaitani (Eyeshield 21)

7. Sybil & Tom Branson (Downton Abbey) (They may have ended in tragedy, but they remain together forever in my heart)

8. Spain (Hetalia)

9. Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)

10. Stronghand (Crown of Stars)

Tagging: @ketolic @kiraheartilly36 @iridescentmemoria @faderifter @azurechicken

[lyreonart]

Renewable production

Art for my brazilian Cyberpunk RED setting.

Cabral Corp is known for their steadfast and stronghanded aproach to protecting their property and production from raiders, applying the most modern technology from Zhirafa alongside their own armed personnel.

This tactic became an effective Agrarian Reform repellant, despite whan humans rights orgs try to say about it.

[naturuallysexy]

#Repost @tjlynncountry

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Is there any better way to unwind? Hopefully you are using the link in my bio to unwind too 😜

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[megpie]

Strong enough to steady you, when anxiety makes you want to flutter away fearfully, like a bird sensing danger in every shadow. Strong enough to hold you, when the world is a lot and you're struggling to hold it all together. Strong when you need somewhere to lay your head, safe. Soft enough though, to let your wings stretch, to fly, to try, knowing that locking you in a cage is the opposite of love. Soft enough to wipe your tears and kiss your forehead, being unafraid of the oceans of emotions you sonetimes pour out. Soft enough that laying your head with them feels safe. And knowing the difference. When you need strength, and when you need gentle softness. That's a good man. 🖤 #loveagain #loveanyway #lovealways #datingafter40 #singlemomma #healthymasculinity #goodmen #nrhart #nrhartpoetry #softheart #softhands #stronghands #keeploving #keepgrowing #wordsaremagic #wordsarepowerful #poetryofig #relationshipquotes #relationshipmemes (at Terrace Heights, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6aolKJOau/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ridingbigcalves]

Instead squeeze my dick head between your legs.

#calves #bigcalves #bigveins #stronghands #hugequads

Squeeze

[jameswestwelding]

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[kunosoura]

My final rating of the Crown of Stars major PoV characters after book 7

Top tier:

Liath - her growth from an abused girl clinging desperately to any affection she could and trying to build the strength she knew she needed to the confident and powerful sorceress we see in the end was SO satisfying. I love that in the end she felt no need to be cruel or vindictive toward Hugh and merely did what was needed so he could never hurt anyone ever again. I love that we see how the world outside views her - as a dangerous, mysterious witch with inscrutable motives and an unknown agenda - while also showing us her internality (that of a woman dedicated to peace, truth and knowledge, with stunted social skills).

High tier

Hanna. Last time I talked about how her narration was always refreshing because it wasn't maudlin or centered around trauma, and instead was just her doing her job. Boy did I not know what was coming in the back half of the series. For all that I didn't love that we lost what made that perspective so refreshing after the Quman business, I guess it was unfair to hold her up on that pedestal in a series ABOUT trauma. And anyway, she bounced back and, though never quite the same, became a complex character who still got her shit done and always remained a low-key fixture of the plot, giving us a PoV on important events without eating up too much airtime with her own issues.

Alain. I like how he's clearly meant as some saint-like figure, but isn't perfect. He resents Tallia for abandoning him while "accepting" Conrad even though he knows she's never really had a choice in her life. He hates Lavas's brother for scheming to depose him, and then later tormenting him and hauling him around for weeks while he was suffering from severe physical trauma. Despite all that, he's still a fundamentally decent man who does what he can to see that the right thing is done. Is he some half-divine saint sent to guide the world through a time of trials? I think it's more likely that he's just the sort of person that treats people well, who gets entwined with big destinies because he's a good person who wants to help.

Antonia. Delusional QUEEN. I love how she steadily gets more self righteous and less connected to reality as the series progresses to the point that she's in a contentious alliance with Queen Betrayseveryone Evenherbelovedhusband and General Machiavelli Turncloak, casting dangerous evil spells left and right, and doesn't seem to realize she's in danger. She died as she lived: fucking clueless and with way too much power.

Mid Tier

Rosvita. Girl I wanted to like you so bad but your PoV just never had a good hook. I wish more had been done with her fascination towards sorcery and the arcane that tugged at her otherwise straight-laced personality, but we didn't get much and the remainder is just her being a not particularly interesting PoV to some major events. Still, she had a compelling and steely core, even her chapters lacked bite.

Sanglante. Blissfully absent as a PoV for most (all?) of the final book. Muh duty to my dad muh deadbeat wife.. Idk he was never that bad but his PoV never compelled me that much either. Liath wasn't even a deadbeat he literally saw her getting kidnapped by angels of course she might take some time getting back. And then he slept with another woman after learning she was Alive and Trapped. Come on man. I always wanted her to dump him. But his chapters weren't that bad. For how much all the other characters have their internalities defined by trauma and how they're recovering and moving on from it, he weirdly seemed to have completely gotten over the whole "kept as a squalid human dog by the former king of the lizard men for over a year" pretty conclusively by the last few books.

Stronghand: A victim I think of how much the author was tired of writing the series by the end. The early to middle parts of the series, where his stoic cultural condition has been alchemized by Alain's kindness into a sort of justice and compassion that's almost alien to medieval alt-europe, is really compelling, and there's the ~bones~ of a resolution to his character arc in the end, but it just sort of landed without fanfare. I wonder if he and Theophanu ever ended up consummating

Secha. Our crucial eye on the inside for the Ashioi, introduced a bit too late to really have her own arc and given no real resolution either. The idea of there being deep rifts between the Ashioi who'd been caught in the exiled country, doing whatever they could to survive including casting off their religious caste and letting their hatred of humanity simmer down, and the Ashioi who were caught in the world between, experienced the hundred+ years the others did as a scant few months, bear all the old prejudices and hatreds fresh, and are appalled that the others cast down the castes, is SO fascinating, but I think it's clear Elliot just wanted to be done with the series by the end.

Low tier:

Ivar. Boy I'm never forgiving you for fumbling Baldwin because you were too lost in your incel cups about Liath to appreciate him. And then you go off and get thrown together with Hanna by the narrative? I'm laying the blame on you for that shit, Hanna went through a lot and never even got laid so of course she'd nurse a flame for her childhood crush but with you it seems like you just shacked up with the first blonde woman who gave you attention so you could get over Baldwin. Yeah you weren't as insufferable in the last couple of books I guess but it's hard to outrun how bad you were in the first like. two thirds of the series.

Zacharias. For all that he's someone who's objectively gone through some of the worst trauma of any of the PoV characters, and we're supposed to be uncomfortable with how everyone dismisses or distrusts him, it still feels like even above that the narrative punishes and dislikes him disproportionately and I can't fathom why. I really wish he could have met Liath because the two would have gotten along so well. The Hugh thing was just cruel. I get that's the point, he died early and tragically, able only to reclaim a fraction of his dignity, but it really was just something sour to me. Not to mention how forgotten the old gods were after his death.

Bottom tier:

Anna. what was the fucking POINT. She just seemed to be there so we'd have a Blessing-proximal PoV. No character arc except getting depressed because she had no real identity. Her reuniting with Papa Otto might have have redeemed her character, given it some sort of closure or bookend but for some reason we didn't even get that. Come ON.

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