#substantiation

[totesmccoats]

The Substantiation

~Spoilers for The Substance & Oshi no Ko~ It’s been about a week since I saw it, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance – a film I, to be completely candid, didn’t particularly like. I like a lot about The Substance. Co-leads Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley are both fantastic, with the former going from raw and vulnerable in the first act to whole ham…

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[salmonrowe]

Bad art is better than no art

[mentagenesis]

An Insistence on Persistence!

by Daniel Wolfert. “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” – Admiral David Farragut. During the American Civil War battle for Mobile Bay (August 5th, 1864) Admiral Farragut was commanding a squadron of Union warships into Confederate controlled waters that were known to be mined with explosive devices. One of the ships exploded and the others began to turn around. To inspire courage and…

[dragonomatopoeia]

i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up

[thecpdiary]

Validation of The CP Diary

The CP Diary is now on Medium! Below is the first paragraph to one of my mental health blogs, followed by a response from a reader, Julia Kalman. I am grateful to Julie for her validation.

"Writing on my blog for 12 years, I have seen many mental health changes, but I have never seen a change as I have in Covid-19 and we’re not through it. Emotions impact our thoughts, our mood, our ability to relate to others, our behaviour, and any decisions we go on to make."

Julie's response:

"Your reflections on the mental health impact of Covid-19 are deeply insightful. Your experience in blogging over 12 years has clearly honed your ability to capture the shifting emotional landscape. This piece resonates strongly with the current global sentiment, making it a must-read for our times. Thank you!"

Julie’s validation, strengthens, enforces, confirms, and establishes The CP Diary’s worth and value. It makes me, my factual writing and my blog worthy. That’s worth its weight in gold and I couldn’t be happier.

For more inspirational, lifestyle blogs, please check out my site https://www.thecpdiary.com

[transyashiro]

[ooliecat]

they're a little similar i say as i run into a pole

[giganticmarshmallow]

Who needs therapy when you can spend all evening drawing feanorians

[doodledrawsthings]

recent oc doodle pages

[desertduality]

The way there has still not been another desert biome since the very first season. situationship so intense that every new world simply refuses to generate the landscape that defined it,

[maxgrowth]

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[daily-sifloop]

Loop and Sif fishing together? 🥺

Day 76: sleeping with the fishes

[washingtonwhitemarkiplier]

divine intervention

[sotc]

as fun as it is to talk about the sillay crow family dynamics, i'm soo interested in what this means for the crow familia going forward in a darker lens.

im mostly speaking from the perspective of a rook de riva who romanced lucanis btw <3

illario brought the axe down on his own head after failing to take first talon. he's imprisoned except to play house whenever caterina wants to see him around for family dinners before tensions inevitably shove him back into the cage he's been left to like some house pet lmfao. it's actually kinda fucked up and as a certified sicko i love it. especially considering the casualness in which lucanis describes all of this. crows gotta be a little unhinged<3

But!!! while lucanis was right that illario's reputation is ruined forever as a traitor crow beaten to his knees before every house that doesn't exactly free house dellamorte either. Talon houses will want their pound of flesh of illario for nearly trying to put antiva under venatori control. and yet lucanis refused. house dellamorte showed mercy. they are breaking the rules, making exceptions. this is not how the crows operate and there should--WILL be retaliations for it. illario left this house bleeding in his attempt to claim first talon and their blood is in the water now with house dellamorte having a sole heir who blatantly exposed a weakness and seemingly has no lineage to take after him.

and nevermind that we know murmurs amongst the crows will linger about a first talon being an abomination. i know lucanis kind of handwaves it off as at the coffee date like 'there could be worst first talons' but baby boy, you have avoidance and denial issues this WILL become worse of a problem the longer it goes on. <3

more under the cut bc i didn't realize this was getting so long lol

but in comes fifth talon viago de riva. a bastard to the king of antiva who wants to strengthen the crown. a man who has been ruthlessly exacting and meticulous to get where he is now. and the scariest part is that he has ambition, always has, and knows he has more power than the king himself to make plays if he needs to. this makes for a dangerous (and sexy) combination. in comes his protege rook. casting silly family dynamics aside, viago knows this union between house dellamorte and de riva is extremely beneficial for both houses but also very dangerous. even he knows his ties to teia show a weakness in him that other crows may seek to exploit. and while i do think he may be sincere about wanting rook to find their happiness with lucanis as he has with teia - i truly think he will not shy from showing the importance of a 'political alliance/union' especially with first talon house dellamorte struggling from the blow after all is said and done.

and of course, by extension to de riva, house cantori and the beautiful lovely miss teia, will be extending her support to strengthen their houses but also herself from any opposition. as much as i love that she's kind of the heart that brings this fucked up lil familia together, i know she is just as cunning and clever to recognize what this alliance does for her too.

and caterina.. well, without going into a whole thought piece on her, she has built her (and her grandson's reputation) entirely to instill fear in others, even command enough respect to know she's the one running things while lucanis is just a stand-in as first talon. but what happens when caterina is gone? another dellamorte dead just like all the others. all lucanis has left is himself and his traitor brother. how does he handle illario? how does he fair being a leader to the crows when he didn't want any of this in the first place and no longer has caterina to guide him? how does he wish to pursue carrying the dellamorte legacy (if at all)? does he seek a protege of his own to take on after him? i can't remember who says it (viago or lucanis) but there's a line about how saving thedas will make their houses immortal (hot and very sexy) but also how far can that reputation protect house dellamorte, really?

i don't really have a point to all of this, this is all just stuff im simply chewing on and letting out into the ether because the ripple effect of repercussions with what illario did and what lucanis now has to deal with fascinates me SO MUCH.

[torchtour]

Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4

as promised, here's one of the unposted photos i took while (and i hate to use this word but unfortunately it's the most correct) possessed by bill cipher. if you've been keeping up with my blog (specifically the influx of asks), you'll know that i am no longer his flesh puppet! hip hip hooray!! 🎊🥳🎉

i'll try to explain the context of this image anyway. this is my basement, and it's hard to tell with the camera artifacts + flash but im in my pajamas (they have little pine trees all over them and they're very soft 10/10 pjs would rec) so im assuming he dragged me out of bed and right on into the workshop. where all of the dangerous power tools are. yay.

i probably took this picture because i was "enamored with the beauty of my muse 🥰" or whatever but good lord he scares the piss outta me now. his eye looks like an open wound in the hip of the universe.

(inspired by @/squidflavoredsoup)