#they are friends do not separate if possible

[balkanradfem]

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a park, and two young women approached me with a prompt. They could have been 16 to 19 years old, they looked young, and foreign, but could speak croatian pretty well. They told me they were holding an event where they prompted people to write down what made them happy. I thought that was nice and harmless, and I accepted to go and write things up on the board. People wrote down things like 'family, friends, love, food' and I added things like 'forest, mountains, sunlight, flowers, garden'. In return they gave me a piece of candy! I love taking candy from strangers so I was pleased.

Today, they approached me again, I was sitting in the same park. They recognized me from the event, and wanted to speak to me again. Both of them were holding the same book in their hands, and I tilted my head to read the title. 'Book of Mormon' it said. My expression changed from a smile to panic, because I hadn't up until that point realized, that they were missionaries. I'd never seen a mormon missionary in this area before. They asked me for my name, and I politely said I would prefer not to share personal information, and that I wasn't interested, and then I kept avoiding eye contact, until they went up to a different person. I felt awkward at first, but then figured there was no better way to handle it anyway, and went home worried. They were such nice and good girls. They approached me so gently and cautiously and never made me uncomfortable for a second, it was only the knowledge of their cause that made me freeze up.

I've been watching Alyssa Grenfell's videos to the point where I understood that these almost-children were on their mission. They were stuck for more than a year separated from their families and homes, and they can't go back until they complete the mission. Before this, they spent months or a year in a facility specifically to learn croatian so they could convert people in this area. They probably lived in someone's house and had a tiny budget of they were allowed to spend on food and necessities. They looked so thin and underfed in the park. They would continue to spend a year of their life trying to convert people to mormonism, because the mormon church could claim 10% of the income of their converts, making it even more rich. And the girls were doing it for free, exposing themselves to danger, isolation, loneliness, and fruitless effort of working 16 hours a day only to maybe get a few converts in a course of a year.

I feel so bad for them! And there's nothing I can do because it's integrated in their culture, their families will expect them to do this, and afterwards they'll be expected to marry as soon as possible. Mormon church integrated the mission of 'making the mormon church richer' into a cultural event that people held as an important part of their life, something to prove themselves over, something that should be an honour for them to do. I'm heartbroken about it, now that I've seen the girls up close. They really are so young, I think they had to be 19 to be allowed to go on a mission, but they looked 16. And croatia is dangerous for young girls, there are so many pedophiles, so many predators. I can only hope they return home safe.

[quantumized-insanity]

Don't add your contact info for one site to another one. Don't list your insta on your tumblr, or as I saw recently, your discord on your ao3.

Use different usernames across different sites, don't reuse usernames, and have a number of emails that don't intersect so that you can sign up for services without drawing too many connections to one email. Essentially, vary usernames and emails across sites. If someone can pull up 3 or more sites from typing in your username, you need to be varying your usernames more.

On that note, your steam(if you use it) should have an entirely separate name, email, and username, from everything else. Some of your friends on steam might use their real names, if they do, that is a direct link to you and your username and potentially your email.

Use a VOIP to sign up for services that require phone number, and avoid services that use phone numbers as best you can

Stop using apple if you can. They have significantly less control over settings and the inner workings of the phone as opposed to android or other services. This goes to my next point.

If you have an android or other systems that have a dev mode, activate that dev mode and see what programs are using what data, and stop them from collecting as much as you can.

Keep apps from using your location using dev mode. Just because your location is "off" doesn't mean that your data isn't going somewhere, individual apps can still send data regardless of that setting, especially system apps. You can use developer mode to stop them from transmitting, and set the permissions so that they have to ask you before they start transmitting again

Stop using google and most every social media site your familiar with. They all collect egregious amounts of data, and there's not much you can do to stop it without simply, not using it.

Use firefox and DuckDuck Go, and use Ublock origin as well as some form of datascrambler; IE: Privacy Badger or Privacy Possum.

Check public records. Find out if your voting record has been published, or if your name and address is on finder sites. Your data goes everywhere, including sites that allow people to find you. You can then lodge complaints to get that data removed from the site. This is a measure that you should take every few years, as info about you can leak out and be assembled over time.

If you post pictures, removing the EXIF data is a good step to take as well. That's intrinsic metadata that has info about the photo, potentially including information about the device used to take the photograph, camera settings, and other things that the device embeds based on settings. That data is rarely compromising, however smartphones can embed relevant info into the EXIF data depending on your settings.

You can't be completely untraceable to governments, but you can scatter most activity, keep what can't be scattered to a minimum. That makes it almost impossible to trace using automated programs,and relatively difficult to trace manually. Your goal isn't to disappear from those larger interests, but to make it as difficult as possible to associate relevant pieces of information with your real identity. If you do it right, you can disappear from average or proficient individuals, even if they use services to try and find you.

do you have any knowledge of secure online communication that cannot be tracked or is at least difficult to track? my friend and i want to organize but we want to stay safe.

Secure vpn

Variety of different names (do not use ur govt name online at all)

Share an online document such as libreoffice

Move away from Google and chrome (Firefox & duckduckgo)

If anyone has better suggestions, pls drop in. I also think I reblogged a good post abt this, I will go looking

[montythehumancrow]

stolas and monty would be best friends and so would stolas and edwin but they'd be friends separately bc edwin and monty fucking hate each other and do anything possible to avoid each other. anyways, blitz and charles would be best friends too and uhhhhhhhhhhhhh niko and moxxie would be best friends too

[markantonys]

the tanchico pictures seem to mostly just show off the ambience rather than reveal anything in particular about the storyline, so not much speculation from me this week! but a couple of things:

i really do strongly believe we will get Surprise Tuon in tanchico this season. i will be more surprised if we don't see her than if we do! every single major character is in their TSR book locations in s3..........EXCEPT mat and min, who have BOTH been transported into a western coastal city for a storyline neither has anything to do with in the books. there HAS to be a reason for moving them and only them into a different storyline & location, and i can't think of one except having them both meet the character their series endgame fates are tied to who might currently be found on the western coast near falme. plus, these pictures confirm that Tanchico Veil Fashion is being kept (as hinted in that shot of liandrin in the trailer), and that would tie in extremely neatly with tuon's whole veil motif when we first meet her - too neatly for it not to be connected, i say!

the nerdist article confirms that some tanchico stuff (exterior port scenes) was filmed in south africa, which wotseries had previously speculated but not confirmed. interior scenes were filmed at the prague studio. so, it's very possible that donal's seemingly-brief stint in south africa was only for tanchico scenes after all, and not for getting yeeted into rhuidean for cauthor CPR in 3x08. but it's also possible they could have had him do both; who knows how long he was truly filming there or how much of that time was taken up exclusively by tanchico exterior port scenes? either way, elayne and min and nynaeve all need to meet up with rand and aviendha and lan soon for romantic developments, so i'd still feel fairly confident in mat meeting up with rand for s4 even if no rhuidean-yeeting happens and he's still in tanchico with the girls at the end of s3. but i will not give up hope on cauthor CPR until and unless it is definitively disproven! narratively, i'd say the only character whose right to give mat CPR might outweigh rand's would be tuon, so if mat does receive CPR in tanchico, i would somewhat expect her to be the one administering it. (nynaeve, elayne, or min administering it would make sense logistically, but tuon would be the better choice narratively because it would set up a little ship-tease and give them a meaningful emotional beat early on, plus once mat and the audience have learned tuon's true identity (if they haven't already) the memory of this incident would tell them that she must have some kind of humanity and empathy underneath the seanchan high blood mask, if she went out of her way to save the life of a guy she barely knew, and therefore that it might be worth trying to look underneath the mask and see if there's a person there.)

finally, the big statue in that one picture. related to the choedan kal or some other kind of magical stuff, or just decor? we shall see! ooh, that made me think of the book tanchico plot of tracking down the male a'dam - if that's included in the show, then having tuon in tanchico and maybe even (disguised) semirhage accompanying her could be a nice easy way to get the male a'dam into semirhage's hands For Later. the books introduce tuon and semirhage together but then they basically have completely separate storylines for the rest of the series, so it could be super interesting for the show to keep them narratively joined for longer (and giving tuon a chance to find out onscreen that her truthspeaker is actually a forsaken and to reject and condemn her for it would show us firsthand that she opposes the shadow; selling the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing well is essential in making the overall seanchan storyline work, and giving tuon a brave and heroic moment of holding firm against a forsaken would be a great way to back up book!mat's claims that she's better than other seanchan and will make a good empress, though of course she'd have a lot of other work to do too to fully back up those claims!)

sorry to egeanin fans, but the more i think about it, the more i just don't think she should exist in showverse (at least not more than in a minor cameo-like role like bayle domon had in s2). if anyone is to get an "unlearning seanchan conditioning" storyline, it HAS to be tuon. that storyline is too important to leave in the hands of a secondary character, and tuon desperately needs a strong, impactful long-term growth arc if the audience is to accept her as a viable love interest for mat. not to say we couldn't see both characters in the show both experiencing this storyline, but the show tends to prefer to have one character do one storyline in a big way than to have multiple characters do similar storylines in smaller capacities (like just focusing on alanna for all things related to non-con bonding rather than also including myrelle). tuon befriending elayne and nynaeve would be soooo fascinating, and it would help her character immensely to be connected to more mains than just mat!

[moeblob]

I started fanart today but my thumb kinda hurts so I can't finish it so take OC art I never posted as my 'art of the day'.

Melo (mute) and Lody (can talk) are the twin advisors to the demon lord Sascha. They're probably his two most trusted demons and they adore him and respect him. While everyone in the demon army calls him "boss", Lody addresses him as "my lord" or "our lord" if with Melo.

Their pink/yellow eyes are actually a link of sorts. Whatever Melo sees, Lody can see. Whatever Lody sees, Melo can see. So they often travel apart from each other to have a wider range of what's going on in order to help Sascha determine the wisest course of action.

[sleepyagentdavid]

Not just ominous, but absolutely terrifying. As somebody with dissociative issues, watching Severance hits so hard, because not having memories is scary as fuck!

When you know somebody, especially if you're certain they are (or were) a friend, an overall positive emotional reaction- but you cannot remember a single moment even sitting next to them. No memory of any conversation, there's pictures, pictures of you, of them, but there is no recollection of the events despite the recognition.

When you are connected to somebody who is a complete stranger to you- that you should have more memory of them. But you don't know them. You can't remember.

I fear losing the connections I have one day, because eventually my mind will disintegrate beyond repair, and I will no longer be able to recall the names of those I love sitting next to me. I can only hope that they will still, despite this, somehow, someway, be sitting next to me.

Worse, when I cannot shape the names of people who hurt me, or in what ways they have hurt me, because I cannot remember it clearly, if at all. It opens a path for them to return, to do what they will again and again, if no one else knows or cares to keep them away. If time and/or other factors erodes the safety of a support system, it is possible I could be calling out for a helping hand and find- if not a fist- none reaching out for me.

The dehumanization of the self, the intertwined symbolism- like an ecosystem, even, of symbolism- in Severance of grooming, of capitalism, and the downright cult worship of that capitalism and how it is very closely interchangeable (if that's even the right word) with heavy religious belief. The dehumanization from those who hold power over you, while they too answer to someone with more power that dehumanizes them, to the point neither you or they can tell what is good, what is okay, what should be questioned if anything at all-

The dehumanization you push on yourself through yourself, because of this cycle. This hierarchy, pushing and spreading belief through ignorance and separation and the purposeful lack of tools to educate the self outside of what's given by Lumon.

The re-humanization of Cobel in the way she crashes out, and tells Mark Scout that it is a good thing he is looking to quit. Taught and trained, in an unknown way (but surely similar), the same thing she had been pushed to teach and train Mark S. The mental illness, the pain, the way of thinking. It's bigger than she is, yet throughout Season one it is so hard not to tunnel vision on her, who HAS power, to see that even she has a range of helplessness that's been learned/taught by someone else above her.

Helena tells Helly she is not human, Mark Scout using Mark S. to repress- yet, Helly & Mark S. ARE Helena & Mark Scout, and I could go on and on and on about the Russian doll scenario that is. I could also go on and on about Helly's initial and aggressive/violent defiance of it all, and how even as she starts to push less and less against the lid, her spark being the thing that pushed the others to think in ways they were too afraid to.

The similarities to (if not a straight up parallel/I have no other good word, send help) DID &/or other dissociative disorders, the way the show represents derealization and grief and love, and the grief of love, and more in so many ways through their film work and writing, and the actors doing amazing jobs...

GRAAAHHHH, you are so right.

There it is again, that funny feeling. That transition between:

"Oh my god! A four!!" and "You're right... The numbers were scary."

can't get over how ominous a severed existence can be. imagine a deja vú feeling multiplied by ten. imagine that split second moment before your stomach drops and somersaults, before your throat does that clicking little thing, before your heart bumps against your ribs. recognition without memory.

there it is again, that funny feeling.

"there it is again, that funny feeling" as helly looks at helena telling her she's not a person. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as petey tells mark scout that mark s carries his sadness with him, he just doesn't know what it is. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as mark s reads the dedication to him on ricken's book. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as miss casey tells mark s that she's been fired. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as irving b looks at irving bailiff's paintings of the testing room hallway. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as dylan g looks at his kid for the first time. as milchick tells him the name of his wife. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as helena looks at mark s and helly's kiss. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as dylan g takes out his figure of the four of them together, before pulling the levers. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as irving b looks at burt and his husband, in a world that he thinks doesn't belong to him. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as dylan george is denied a job because he's been severed. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as the four of them look at their attempts at asking for help from the world be turned into lumon propaganda.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Kept thinking about the decline in popularity of Christmas caroling from the 1800s to now and came to the following conclusions:

Would not go caroling in any time period:

Hickey

Gibson

Golding

Wall

Des Voeux

Fairholme

Crispe

Collins (would like to, but is too shy)

Would go caroling in the 1800s but not in a modern AU:

Goodsir

Hartnell Bros

Diggle

Morfin

Weekes

Hoar

Tozer

Dundy

Crozier (coerced into it by Fitzjames)

Jopson (moral support for Crozier)

Would go caroling no matter the time period:

The Franklins

Gore

Magnus

Lane

Fitzjames

MacDonald

Irving

Hodgson

Little (coerced into it by the former two)

(List not meant to be exhaustive. I left out anyone I was undecided on. Additions and edits welcome!)

[picklesthenonbeanary]

New headcannon just got airdropped into my thoughts. The song Hurts like hell but with click clack and it takes place during a depression episode at some point after thespius ascended but he hasn’t yet and is still dealing with the mental burden that is his friend/partner ascending and how his time is finite and all that sort of mental stuff that comes with your best friend/partner (and crush) now being immortal and them not knowing the certainties of it and if they’re relationship will ever be that same again for better or for worse.

This would honestly be such a cool animation but like I can’t animate for the life of me or have the time too with my break ending soon sadly

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

One day

One day I hope people realize that Kitsunami already "broke through his programming" back by issue #56 of Idw Sonic

He had an entire mini arc where he dealt with being without Surge for the first time, and in the real world. He met Sonic and his friends directly, tried to work out what his purpose would be without Surge in his life (gave it a shot trying to devote himself to Sonic, seeing him as the next best thing after Surge). And when it was all said and done, he decided after experiencing more that at Surge's side is where he wanted to be.

As of the recent IDW issues, Kit isn't sticking with Surge "because of programming" and "because he just needs for other characters to friend him and turn him into a better person". He is at her side because he wants to be. He protects her and aids her because he cares about her, not just because he's serving the strongest guy in the room. And he's not interacting with others because he's decided not to give a shit about anyone else other than Surge (because from his pov, even the "good guys" are fake. From his pov, everyone is someone trying to lie and manipulate their way into pulling him and Surge to their side)

Kit already has decided what he wants to do with his life. And he decided it on his own. Not because of anyone else's wants or wishes. That's the whole point of his speech at the end of #56.

He's burying whatever his and Surge's past is and moving forward with his conviction to be with Surge because it's what he wants.

[athena-xox]

Ok abbreviations:

TLOSH: The legend of shadow high (mh cross over written by Shannon hale where Brooke is the narrator)

SU: spring unsprung

TC: Thronecoming

Ouap was indeed meant to be ouat for once upon a time (not pet I’m just running on two hours of sleep rn)

When I said unmaking lava that is a reference to the legend of shadow high and Ms. Direction. Just if the narrator in once upon a time is indeed bodiless then that could be a possible explanation…….?

Or you can just accept the retcon at face value. I'm not the kind of person to just roll with ret-cons and go "oh this thing I liked doesn't exist now," but it's fine if you prefer to do that for the sake of things making sense.

You are me I am you. Other ppl will try to just say it doesn’t have to be continuous but I. Will. Make. It.

If the legend of shadow high is canon (it does contradict all the books and the show but like we can work around that…) then Brooke having hands and stuff is explicitly canon because there’s a whole passage where she’s running and breaking the fourth wall and what not

Entering the realm of exposing myself as a psycho I have created a timeline of eah and the legend of shadow high goes at the very end. Basically the legend of shadow high references the books and the show (it references the og trio of Shannon hale books as well as referencing dragon games) while also contradicting both (says her parents narrated the og trilogy when it’s explicitly one narrator as well as having never met Maddie but referencing events from the show where she would have met Maddie..).

So kind of my theory of it all working is all the eah timeline continues as it is (books, shows, diaries, social media posts etc it’s all the same continuum to me) and so that’s our two years of canon legacy day-epic winter.

And then the next year (our main cast’s senior year) sometime first semester the puppeteer (random sdcc lore yay?) captures Maddie, Apple & Raven for the Evil Queen (who has escaped… again… what is it with EAH cause the amount of times EQ has escaped or almost escaped in canon is insane) and then she sends them into a labyrinth.

This is when the lost movie comes in. Basically if you don’t know what that is it’s the crossover movie between eah x mh that never happened. But on YouTube there’s storyboards for about half the movie (I have a link to the playlist in my pinned post).

And basically we get the main 3 from eah trapped in the labyrinth by EQ and Cleo, Clawdeen & Drac go into the labyrinth to find Drac’s childhood friend Euna.

The EAH and MH gang meet as well as find Euna. Obviously the movie was going to end with EQ defeated and the worlds combined, however since we don’t ever actually see the ending I like to think that Euna actually is the antagonist and wants to separate eah & mh (I’ve got another post about this somewhere going in depth on her motives) and so she uses some form of the unmaking lava, splits the worlds apart making everyone forget about the different worlds.

And she also makes Brooke forget about being a narrator (well not being a narrator but about having narrated before), because Brooke doesn’t care to follow the rules. She will do what she has to do to save the world.

So Euna makes her forget and thus Maddie forget. And then the legend of shadow high happens. Yay

Ok I hope that made sense lol

HELP LOL THATS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID

Oooh yeah my hc for how the narrators function is basically just what we see in the storybook of legends. Meaning the live in their own world inbetween the fourth wall and the margins. They also have bodies.

Brooke was just being so unserious in her mirror blog and wanted to mess with the readers.

And then my hc for the bodiless narrator was that they were affected by unmaking lava but also like you said, bodiless could just mean not having a body in ever after. Or maybe the narrator purposely said bodiless even though they weren’t, so kitty wouldn’t try to scratch them lol

…. Apologies for rambling this probably will end up being incomprehensible 😭😭

Some Fun Facts About the Wonderlandians from the EAH Books

Maddie and Kitty can hear the narrator, but Lizzie can't. This is because, as queen, it's Lizzie's job to be bossy and bring some order to the chaos of wonderland. She "reminds things what they are when they forget." No word one way or the other on the White Queen, but I'd assume she has a similar problem.

Kitty CAN hear the narrator but spends most of her time pretending not to because:

Kitty does not like being narrated. She actively conceals her thoughts and feelings from the narrator most of the time and they have to guess based on her actions. She does have some tells though, like how she's always thinking about cheese when she licks her lips and looks up. She's also far from infallible and leaves her thoughts exposed whenever she's distracted.

Kitty has also managed to scratch the narrator before, despite them being an invisible bodiless being.

When Kitty turns invisible, she goes to a place called "Between" which is some sort of shadowland behind reality. She describes it as "a little like running, a bit like dreaming, and a lot like swimming." There is no collision In Between---you can freely move through walls and objects---and no significant gravity, since you can float. It also enables you to fast travel (1 step In Between can equal around 50 steps in reality).

It does however, make you feel weird and sleepy if you stay there for too long, and Kitty has an uncle who actually spent so much time Between that he became a permanent shadow.

The Mad Hatter can see Kitty when she's In Between. Or rather, in the words of the narrator: "He's just mad enough to THINK he can, which turns out, is very nearly the same thing."

The White Queen has a poor understanding of linear time, since it isn't linear in Wonderland. Her voicemail message says "I'm busy, call back five minutes ago."

While all three wonderlandians experience intense culture shock, Maddie has it the worst. Kitty and Lizzie are both very aloof and don't really have friends (outside each other and perhaps Maddie), but Maddie is sweet and kind to everyone, and so she has the most chances to experience Ever After's very different idea of manners. For example, Maddie was convinced for years that everyone in Ever After had really bad table manners because nobody had ever started a food fight.

Lizzie has an incredible memory, especially for things she reads, and was able to memorize the entire script of a play within 24 hours.

Lizzie has a deck of playing cards that her mother gave her with advice on them instead of numbers. Lizzie lives or dies by this advice, even when it doesn't make much sense in context, until she goes through some character development.

Sleep magic doesn't work on Maddie because she's crazy enough that her brain assumes a) she is already asleep and reality is just her dreams or b) her dreams cause reality.

Lizzie can build anything out of cards. Literally anything, and almost immediately. It's magical. She's built an entire wall out of them before. I can't remember if she has, but she definitely could build a functional bridge out of them.

All 3 Wonderlandians consider Cedar Wood a friend (best friend in Maddie's case), and would fistfight people for her.

[statementlou]

i’m sorry to bring this up again, but i wanted to ask how are you making sense of harry having his former girlfriend’s name tattooed on his thigh if you don’t think they were really together? i’m not a larrie and i follow you for your louis content, but i respect your opinions, so i guess i’m coming more from a place of curiosity rather than seeking reassurance. do you not even entertain for one second the idea that you might’ve been wrong about things? that harry was really in a relationship with olivia? that he might actually be attracted to women? that he might’ve been with louis once upon a time but not anymore? have you ever challenged your confirmation bias? again, i’m not trying to attack you, i really just want to understand where you stand. i hope u don’t take this the wrong way.

well first of all you bring up the very good point that there are actually multiple Qs at play and not just one, despite the fandom's (and my) attempts to simplify things. I personally am open to the possibility that Harry and Louis are no longer together- we don't have enough info to say for sure either way about that, and I am constantly recalibrating and considering and I'm going to be totally honest, getting flat out ANNOYED at how often I find myself being like oh damn they ARE still (or again) together ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Because it seems so improbable and illogical! You think I don't KNOW I sound fucking crazy?! Absolutely infuriating, and yet there are just all these little Things all the time. Plus ofc the fact that they both constantly wink wink larrie stuff to the fandom which could just be playing to the crowd... except then they both continually take it that little extra way that makes me go oh but... you really didn't NEED to go THERE that seems VERY pointed?? But also sometimes I go well. Okay, maybe not. Since they both seem super happy at this point, it doesn't stress me out to think they might have split, the way it would if they seemed miserable and were still churning out heartbreak songs, but it's schrodingers relationship and with all the savvy they've acquired around this stuff and all the balls they're keeping in the air wrt to fandom etc that's unlikely to change in favor of us knowing anything for sure for a very long time, if ever. But I do not doubt that they WERE together, it's simply not realistic. The evidence of it is overwhelming and imo undeniable when taken all together. And the thing is that knowing one thing with certainty (that they were together back when), having really looked at the things that happened during that time, does actually have a lot of bearing on the rest of it even if they aren't together anymore. Because knowing that and having seen the way fake relationships to make them seem straight were managed back then means that when I see the EXACT SAME things being done in the current day, like they are working from a fucking blueprint, no, I don't look at that and think it might be real. I know that Louis and Eleanor wasn't real in... whenever they allegedly got together lol, that story still isn't even quite straight, so why would I believe they were together in 2020? And if I know Louis has a tattoo for a fake girlfriend why would it change my mind about a million things I can see with my own eyes if Harry did the same (if indeed he even has who tf knows)? So despite what I said at the beginning, in the end it kind of does just come down to the one question people are always asking, are you a larrie? Because when you've actually been down the rabbit hole of details that ends up with you saying yes to that question, it's like acquiring a rosetta stone that unlocks the ability to read everything else, like putting on xray glasses, and I look at what is so obviously a publicity relationship (holivia) and whether H and L are still together has nothing to do with why I don't think it's real. Like could a celeb relationship be both used in typical ways for publicity and be or become real on some level (looking at you Liam, heyyy), sure, but for this question the fact that I have never seen Harry show the slightest sign of attraction to a woman in his whole life and he so clearly embraces and identifies so strongly with gay male culture in every possible way and never shuts up about how much he loves cock does play into my thinking; I simply do not think he is attracted to women, no, and I have yet to see him do anything that doesn't seem consistent with things a closeted pop star might chose to do. So in conclusion yes I have challenged my bias and decided I'm right lol! But for real- all the time I consider that they perhaps aren't together but that isn't really the point when it comes to believing they are gay.

[astranauticus]

oh lol i forgot to post this robit sketches! because i have one (1) bit and im sure as hell gonna commit to it apparently

[wisteria-html]

Oh no!!! He doesn’t care??? Whatever will I do??? This hurts me so badly!!!

[yusufstits]

thinking about nile having nightmares and not being able to sleep post london and then being very tired during the day and taking naps on whoever's around

[kayzero]

ohhhh, i only ship them with the protagonist because i have an issue separating myself from the perspective character. i don’t like them together necessarily, i just like Her and i think i’m Them. i gotcha.

[primordialruin]

A capella of inspiration:

Lilith's single & present in Hell verse/AU, paralleling the Choirs of Inspiration main verse. Lucifer and Lilith's marriage was good. Loving, adoring, and kind. Ten thousand years of it should be seen as a success and a reason for celebration rather than a saddening thing.

Things began to crumble with the arrival of their only child. Fearing his disdain for sinners would rub off on Charlie, Lilith began to distance herself from him, the child having become her main priority. She would take her on business trips, and spend most of her time trying to instill hope, love and compassion for the denizens in the realm, irrespective of Circles. This distance, however, took its toll on her marriage as miscommunications ensued with her husband. That eventually lead to a reluctant but needed separation.

Will they ever reconcile? Who's to say. The love is there, but so is the hurt.