#this will be a bit depressing tbh

[barbieaemond]

The Favourite (teaser)

Pairing: Aemond Targaryen x brothel employee!reader

Warnings: angst, mommy issues, mentions of SA, smut, reader is a bit older than Aemond, emotions?

Long Synopsis: On his thirteenth nameday, Aegon brings his little brother to the brothel, thinking it’s time for Aemond to become a man. He pays more than he usually does his whores to have the best one, Madame Sylvi no less. She serves young Prince Aemond as a Prince deserves, showing her well-crafted skills. When she leaves the room, the young boy feels like retching on the floor.

He’s unaware that someone is watching, has been watching all along. Because Madame has bought another girl and she has no time to teach her all the tricks. So, she tells her to watch and learn through a peephole, special feature of all the brothels. And she watches, feeling her skin crawl, but she doesn’t stay there. She gets closer, unexpectedly closer, more than anyone has dared or cared enough to.

A week later, he returns to the brothel and asks for her. He will for all the times to come, while he grows into a man. And the whores and the customers begin to whisper, to question, to guess, because there’s only a curtain separating the Prince and the woman from the hall, but above the music they hear no moans, lewd cries or sounds of flesh against flesh coming from there.

Occasionally, they only see a glass of milk being brought in. Sometimes, they steal a furtive look inside and see the Prince lying in her lap, both of them sprawled on soft cushions, candles all around. Sometimes, she takes him to her private room upstairs, holding his hand as they walk through the crowd, all dazed and whispering. They call her The Favourite.

[demaparbat-hp]

Zuko was a child when he met Agni. Then, the spirits started coming to him. Eyes hidden in the hallways, voices pleading for help, for recognition, for remembrance.

Zuko could see Agni. He could see the broken remains of a Great Spirit and the empty smiles of amnesiac ghosts.

And they could see him in return.

[arinmoss]

finished commission for @/adamantiumdilf on twitter!

[reading-comp-posting]

Hey everyone.

I have no idea how this happened, but I'm feeling completely fine and this condition seems to be stable. So this is the end of my hiatus that lasted a whopping three days.

The day I made the announcement that I was going on hiatus was honestly one of, if not the worst, days I have had in the last 5 years at least. Nothing even happened except my own poor mental health, but I just woke up that morning like 75% of the way to tears. I was choking down sobs when I wrote that announcement and for a good hour or so afterwards. I just felt so awful that I knew I surely wouldn't be able to do anything here for a good long while.

That night I went to sleep, and I woke up the next morning feeling good, notably better than I was even before my depressive episode started. Maybe it was the catharsis of the previous day. Maybe the hbomberguy video on plagiarism was so good it cured my depression. I genuinely don't know what happened there.

I gave myself a couple of days to see if it was a temporary thing and it's lasted so far. I was going to wait an entire extra week or so before saying that I was definitely better, but honestly I wanted to start posting again earlier.

We now (hopefully) return to your regularly scheduled reading-comp-posting

[wild-moss-art]

I didn’t draw much this year and it was hard to find something from every month, but I managed to do it. Frankly I don’t think I improved at all, which sucks, but hopefully I will next year. I just need to study arcane screencaps

[chibishortdeath]

Mspaint is really fun actually—

[mitsybubbles]

Sometimes I remember that when Mob was 3 Reigen was 17 and Reigen makes a lot more sense to me lol

[vvitchering]

I’m replaying act 1 (for the fifth time) and when Gale is explaining his condition to you he mentions he’s “never told another living soul” about it, except for Tara. You’re telling me this man shut himself up in his tower for an entire year and didn’t tell anyone why and no one ever bothered to find out? He has so few people who care about him in his life that he fell into a depression and disappeared for a year and NO ONE thought to go and check on him and find out what was wrong? He’s had no one but Tara providing help and support until he meets Tav???????

[plantsjustwannahavefun]

I am once again begging Ed stans to understand that it's possible to love Ed and believe he deserves love AND also admit that he mistreated and tormented the crew during the Kraken era. Not only is this possible, this is the position the show wants you to have. You think Izzy deserved everything he got? Fine, whatever, forget about him for a minute. There's a whole crew in there you're supposed to empathise with and feel sympathy for, too. The six of them that Ed actively tried to kill or left for dead, for starters. Pay attention to the crew's experiences and reactions. They're shown to be traumatised, grieving, clinging to disassociation (Frenchie) and nihilism (Archie) as coping mechanisms and suffering from PTSD flashbacks. And, since this type of fans constantly go on about how it's racist to think Ed did anything wrong... what about the fact that a lot of the crew are PoC too? What then?

If you've watched the first 3 episodes of S2 and there was only one person on that ship you felt sorry for, then you're not a fan of OFMD, you're just a fan of Ed in isolation. And if the only way you can love Ed is by denying that he ever did anything wrong, then you're completely missing the point of the show. OFMD never said that people only deserve to be loved if they're morally perfect and flawless. The show doesn't subscribe to the dichotomy of Good vs Bad. Good people can do bad things. They can hurt the ones they love. Even if they didn't mean to, even if they themselves were suffering at the time, it doesn't mean they don't need to take responsibility for their actions or avoid the consequences. Stede didn't mean to hurt Mary and his kids when he left, but he still did. He had legitimate reasons for leaving, he didn't just do it for the lolz, but it was still wrong and Mary was right to be angry at him. And Stede needed to face up to this - not just for their sake but his too. Even though it turned out their lives were better off without him, reconciling with Mary was still crucial for his character development.

It was the same for Ed, it just didn't get handled quite as well due to lack of screentime, but the idea was the same. When Ed realises he'd been cruel to Fang and apologises, he isn't sinking into self-hatred and despair. Quite the contrary, this is a moment of growth for him. Because the fact is, just because you as a human being are inherently worthy of love doesn't mean you can go around hurting everyone and expecting them to put up with you. That's just not how it works. You don't need to be perfect, but you do need to listen to people when they tell you that you hurt them and apologise genuinely and try to be better. The show is very sympathetic to Ed but it does NOT excuse his actions. The crew aren't portrayed as villains or antagonists for being scared and angry at Ed for what he did to them. Even Stede was on their side with this one. If even Stede is able to see things from the crew's POV and have sympathy for them, then you should too. Stede doesn't love Ed because he sees Ed as a pure uwu angel. He loves Ed... because he just does. He loves being around him. They really click together. They have so much in common. That doesn't mean he approves of literally everything Ed has ever done. It just means he loves Ed despite that.

[b4kuch1n]

more sk8. I think the cindereki stuff is extremely stupid but I am not immune to trying to conceptualize a princess gown in any setting

[the-busy-ghost]

Minor throwaway sentence in a book on corruption I've just finished was talking about 1930s gangsters and about certain organisations in Chicago which the author stated were more ethnically diverse than the Italian mafia, and whose members were said to have included 'Irish, Welsh, Italian, and Jewish' gangsters.

Now call me sheltered but I've seen MANY Italian American gangsters immortalised in film, I've heard of the Jewish mob, and the police Irish American gangs but I have yet to see a movie about the Welsh mob. As a rule I don't go in for gangster movies but I feel there's an unfilled niche here and also I need more info.

[there-will-be-a-way]

So, I started working at a sheltered workplace on Monday and although I'm soooo exhausted, I'm actually enjoying it too. I feel like more of a normal person now. Get up early in the morning. Go to work. Have breaks. Wish everyone a Schönen Feierabend™️. Go home. Go grocery shopping. Chill until it's time to go to bed. Have a real weekend. Nice.

[sweettsubaki]

I started re-watching Stargate SG1 and I'm on the 1st episode (well 1&2 technically) and as soon as I started my grandma started watching too ??????

Like it might not seem that weird but she only likes historical romances (at most she'll accept a soap opera) and thinks everything else is stupid.

She can't hear what's going on bc she's mostly deaf.

Also I downloaded it from your basic downloading website so it's in English which she does not speak.

The 1st episode is 1h32 minutes long and we're at about 1h10 I think. She's barely blinked. It seems to be riveting to her.

It's been very distracting.

[risingsunresistance]

i love worm paint

[rosicheeks]

Anyone have any easy (cheap) dinners when you feel like shit and don’t want to do anything?

[cubey-cube]

hey guyz!!! its been awhile !

A gay little SwiftLi At the lake DRAWINNN!!!