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[warsmade]

for meryem: why do you stand by rohan's side instead of your own brother? do you think he and your parents will be disappointed in you for it?

        ❝   i  have  two  brothers  -  two  ,  but  that’s  all  right  ,  my  parents  forget  too  .   ❞   said  with  a  sigh  ,  meryem  has  never  done  anything  due  to  pressure  from  others  ...  in  fact  ,  they’ve  always  been  adamant  about  doing  the  exact  opposite  .  why  would  this  be  any  different  ?  she’s  not  a  puppet  of  her  parents’  creation  ,  despite  popular  belief  .   ❝   yeah  yeah  ,  they’ll  be  disappointed  regardless  .  at  least  if  rohan  is  ruling  lord  ,  their  survival  chances  are  higher  .   ❞   in  the  aspect  of  their  mother  and  younger  brother  ,  even  the  north  ,  not  so  much  their  father  ...  but  meryem  didn’t  care  about  that  part  .

[petricorah]

relax bro no one's taking him from you [id in alt]

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[charlottedabookworm]

hotd au where rhaenyra/harwin/laenor are stuck in a timeloop that starts after luke's birth and ends when they're dead and canon is actually their third attempt and the three of them wake back up in the red keep and rhae is just like-

fuck it. we're going on holiday to essos. laenor, you're going to seduce daemon. i'll seduce laena. harwin will easily seduce them both. we'll bring them back and make sure laena doesn't die in childbed and then maybe they'll hesitate to crown my brother with so many adult dragonriders supporting my claim

and if that doesn't work then next time we'll just move out there permantly

yes laenor your mother and father can visit. no my father cannot

[phoenixyfriend]

[taps microphone and gets in way too close] I actually like S17+ Project Runway more than S1-10.

(S11-15 is... decent. But imo saying that the Siriano seasons are worse than 1-10 is just the nostalgia talking lmao.)

please don't argue with me I'm just here to complain about Popular Opinions I Disagree With

[of-nyon]

got a little silly with it and sent in a job application, I'm okay where I am right now but the fact I was looking at listings at all says something i think. Not expecting too much but I'm gonna ring them in the morning to see what they're like.

[wewindondowntheroad]

i need to somehow text this contractor again and determine whether he wants to do the work or not?

But I can't be like you're giving me wishy washy vibes. are you in or out?

[starlit-mansion]

tbh my enjoyment of dungeon meshi is entirely disconnected from if i find the characters attractive or not and i really don't feel much about the fanservicey parts besides vague amusement at their existence when i'm watching the show

however. solid 'would' wrt that bitchy old gnome dude

[paimonial-rage]

what do you think was the biggest culture shock for thoma when he came to inazuma? -- @milkstore

[Character Analysis Ask Meme]

What do you think was the biggest culture shock when Thoma came to Inazuma?

Honestly, I think the biggest culture shock Thoma had upon coming to Inazuma was, well, the culture. It’s mentioned multiple times in his lore that he came from a very carefree and happy atmosphere, which doesn’t come as much of a surprise to us seeing how Mondstadtans are in general. However, Inazumans are not like that. The majority of them are not outgoing. There’s an increased level of pride and a sense of duty.  While Thoma is generally liked, his lore does state that not everyone is his fan. He was the subject of strange looks and gossip. In his hangout, some people see him as the kind of person that schmoozes his way through life. He’s even seen as a threat to the samurai spirit.  The culture shock for Thoma would be realizing that the way he brought up isn’t necessarily culturally acceptable in every place. His friendliness, though good in Mondstadt, is more of a source of distrust in Inazuma. I have no doubt that probably during his first few years in Inazuma, he had to make the decision whether to stick true to his Mondstadt roots or to change himself to become more like his Inazuman heritage.

[lettersiarrange]

All of your "fun facts" are either outright brags, kind of weird and personal, or just kind of boring. That's why people don't like doing it.

I mean, I'm sorry you don't like sharing fun facts about yourself, that sucks esp when "fun facts" are a pretty common thing when getting to know people in a group setting.

IMO, the point of a "fun fact" is to help people get to know you a bit and to share something memorable about yourself so you stand out when getting to know a bunch of ppl at once. Sharing something weird or impressive is a good way to accomplish that.

I'm also confused about your logic here. So you're not allowed to say something cool/an accomplishment (that's bragging), you're not allowed to talk about your family (your # of siblings is apparently uncomfortably personal), god forbid you say something weird, and you can't say something normal because that's, apparently, boring. What exactly IS an acceptable thing to say? Kind of sounds like there's no correct answer.

Honestly, if someone hears me share a fun fact in a group setting and ends up thinking I'm weird/full of myself: cool. we've immediately established that we don't vibe. we don't have to awkwardly discover that 10 minutes into a conversation that's going increasingly downhill. we know our personalities clash and we've saved ourselves time. you don't have to vibe with everyone.

Personally, I'm not sitting around analyzing everyone's fun facts. I'll probably forget them in 10 seconds unless they're particularly cool/strange/unexpected. The point is just to get people talking and give them a chance to make an initial impression in a room full of strangers. Unless you say something wildly inappropriate, the worst case scenario is that you're forgettable, or people don't immediately vibe with 0.001% of your life. Pretty low stakes.

I don't know if I've ever initiated fun facts in a group setting, and it's certainly not a hill I care about dying on, but I do think it's pretty wild that you hate them so much that you felt compelled to tell me that mine suck. But, much like a fun fact, this short interaction gave us the opportunity to establish an initial impression of you: you're kind of rude!

Best of luck navigating the dreaded "fun facts" conversation in your future life. Hope you make a better first impression next time, lest strangers think of you unflatteringly for even a single moment.

[whoviandoodler]

(this is a ramble and isn't complimentary, so if you're in this tag purely for positive stuff, please swerve around this post; you have been warned, so pls don't add negativity to this post either, thanks)

Just finished hmc (book) and i have so many conflicting thoughts about it. Like it was obviously very well written in terms of the worldbuilding and the characters and the plot but then with the romance it felt,,, so odd to me.

Maybe it's the fact that it's decades old, but it has that feeling of vagueness that classics and stuff often do, where I don't feel at all invested because it all feels surface level. Like Sophie and Howl clearly have a connection, but I felt like it was never explored in a way that tugged at my heart strings, it was more like they had the grounds for friendship and then bippity boppity they held hands and were getting married.

Which gets me to another thing- this felt very much like someone had taken a very interesting queer character and put them in a very heteronormative romance plot??? Like howl has such major queer vibes, but then he interacts with sophie and vice versa like they're the protags of every heteronormative straight romance book (if there weren't even making out to keep your attention on SOMETHING), and it just feels like they were done dirty even tho they are as the author intended them to be and saw them as.

Idk just... They're such interesting characters and I would have loved to see their love story if it weren't trapped in a heteronormative cage.

The rest of the story is just so incredibly fun and engaging that whenever this stuff popped up and they were forced to play into these roles it felt jarring and left me at the end wondering if I'd just ruined the experience I knew from the ghibli movie and wasted hours just to end up feeling neutral about the story.

[22degreehalo]

maybe it's just the internet spaces I hang out in but I just don't. really ever see female characters hated for dumb reasons anymore tbh.

[adriartts]

For no reason other than I feel like it here's the fur (or feather) pattern of humanoids, color-coded by how long it grows.

[neranishin]

Do need to clarify that the article linked in the twitter post that that tumblr post links to doesn’t *specify* that the algae/cellulose in the tanks can be turned into drywall, specifically. But it does mention construction, and alternatives to wood, so I assume it’s being turned into some kind of board, so like. Maybe it can also be an alternative to gypsum board. That would be nice.

[littlelordalphinaud]

I spun the wheel and got Allir Sandvik! \o/

The funniest moment with Allir is when their polycule found out they'd birthed a child.

They gave their daughter up for adoption because they realised they wouldn't be a good parent, and she's in Sharlayan, 8 years old as of Endwalker. When her parents saw Allir, they offered the chance for Allir to meet their daughter. And they turned it down, citing that they gave her up for good reasons and those reasons haven't changed and they didn't want to cause any confusion or upset.

And then returned to the Baldesion Annex where G'raha asked who they'd just been talking to.

And they go "Oh, those were the Parents of my kid."

Cue three voices with the same "They're WHAT!?" from G'raha, Alisaie and Alphinaud. Allir still chuckles when reminded of it.

[thelittlestspider]

idk why people get defensive over other people not liking marvel. they're just some fuckin superhero movies.

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

🥀&🍎 (yeah I love angst)

good cuz I can't do funny or sweet, only angst 😅 maybe poetic on good days

🥀 favorite angst quote from a published work

And Cassian never asked for anything for himself. 

Because he'd left her behind. But Cassian never left anyone behind if he could help it-

If there was anything after death, she hoped it would treat him more kindly.

all from chapter 13 of this

🍎 favorite angst quote from a wip

Anything to be included in that way that very young children often do. Perhaps something in him had sensed that he had to soak up every moment while he still could.

For a moment, he is tempted to succumb to this grave. He has faith in her, he has hope always in his desperate grasp, and he has done his part. Why should he not rest?

from the upcoming chapters of this

sry for cheating and selecting more than one quote. In true libra fashion I could not pick just one 😅