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Aa realizing I'm probably just gonna have to be okay with posting sketches more often.
As much as I love pouring my heart into a piece and showing it off, I am simply not in the headspace nor have the energy to juggle big pieces and everything else.
Aa
#text post#just rambling#more like speaking into the void#haha aaa#i hate giving up on my vision but ya kno. stressing myself out for art defeats the purpose for me#a hard thing to be okay with#but im dealing with! a lot rn#so haha art cannot be an added stress or i will die /exag#im doing my best and thats okau#ill be alright btw. dont worry too too much!!!#trying so hard not to need a break#i dont wanna break :(((((#just wanna be okay#augh#anyway pity party over#insert toothless dancing gif now
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It can't be overstated how powerful the catharsis is when a scene of a character connecting with their wounded inner child is done right. The key poses...the expressions...the timing...storytelling like this can help to provide some healing for so many people in the audience.
#(hear it from me as a former therapist --)#I basically have had many sessions with clients where it's WAY easier to visually show them what inner child work is like#rather than verbally trying to break down the concept and explain it to them in mere words#if you show them visually it hits the subconscious right away. bypasses the conscious mind and cold logic#to show this in the form of art drives the concept home that much more#that's why we need stories about healing done right#the How to Connect Lovingly part is soooo hard to do honestly (speaking from my own personal experiences too)#it's so easy to keep loathing your wounded inner kid and finding him/her/them pathetic#arcane spoilers#arcane s2#jinx arcane#isha arcane#arcane#literally like...now that I have seen this scene I want to dig up the old photo of smol me that I used in my own therapy --#to connect with my own horribly traumatized inner kid
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to all people who said PART 1 made them laugh - i lov u 💗 this is for u
#look...i know it's been a month but hear me out-#guys don't yell he's really trying okay!!#NOT a mean ww truther bc he really isn't mean like at all#not in an intentional way#he's just stressed and embarrassed and tipsy here give him a break#he's swagless & thinks it's yet another reason he's unlovable (untrue)#dont worry woowoo vash also severely lacks in the swag department#but funny doodles aside i have other more serious art of them already posted + in the works#their understanding of each other ends up being so deep#but at the same time they manage to be so utterly stupid about it#how do they manage? i don't know#they just make me want to tear my hair out#you're important to each other!!!! get!! that!!! thru!! ur! HEADS!!!!#neither of them think they deserve what they want/need#i'm inconsolable actually nobody talk to me (talk to me please)#see using words isn't so hard. stupid fictional men#(she thought she did something with those tags)#times are hard but i stay silly#by that i mean i re-read vol 10#on the daily.#vashwood#vash the stampede#nicholas d. wolfwood#nicholas d wolfwood#trimax#trigun#tzarrz
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BAND OF BROTHERS: EPISODE ONE + my favorite closeup shots
#bill guarnere#dick winters#carwood lipton#george luz#joe toye#luztoye#lewis nixon#donald hoobler#harry welsh#band of brothers#mine: gifs#did i need to include 10? no#but i love each of these and here's why#1 bc he's so absurdly cute and happy and carefree here it makes my heart melt#2 bc you can him trying so hard to keep his face neutral with sobel when he says 'what infractions sir?' and sobel says 'find some'#3 bc i could watch it all day... how does Lipton look so hot just moving his face like that???#4 bc there's no heterosexual explanation for this scene and i love these two being sexy goofballs together#5 bc it's the moment that almost single-handedly made Toye one of my earliest fave characters#6 bc that is literally Nix's expression when he sees Dick smiling tenderly at him... enough said#7 bc the early foreshadowing kills me UGHHH#8 bc he's pretty and glowing and there's that glimmer of mischief in his eyes#9 bc Harry is my most precious beloved wifeguy and goddamn what a smile#10 bc god it breaks my heart every time
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his horns (finials) (idk)(ears)(whatever) shaking... the jumping ??? the struggling 😭 the off center twitching ..he is PISSED. AWF !!!!!!
#his defeat being planned makes this either hes playing up his rage bcs he definitely played up his defeat#or a mixture of playing up his rage and actually being a little pissed bcs he wanted to get more licks in but couldnt#anyways i cant take him sersiouly with those big ass ears#like an angry kitten trying to escape the burrito calm down blanket of doom#his helmet shape is so cute to me inearth spark it almost looks like a 80s mom hairstyle with the hair#cropping a symmetrical curve around her face or smthing#tbh if u are delusional enough all soundwaves are hot moms#i mean come on it's a given#except the animated one. he was freshly birthed. a little baby#megatron and optimus watching him freak like : 😦#optimus: so he served under you#megatron : oh Yes 😼..#meg: iMEAN yeah 😦#meg: i mean .. yes 😞..#need somebody to clip all soundwave appearances pls all seasons need it. NOWW!!!!!!!#at first i wasnt a big fan of his voice bcs i think when ppl try to harden that demonic voice underneath the autotune factor#which is rlly cool#they can kinda go too hard and it sounds almost too cartoony like a cartoon monster villain whos not calculated but vry primal#which goes against soundwaves whole cool calculated spy techno soundguy thing#but im warmed up to it now bcs it's a cute contrast like. u see this beautiful mech with magnificent curves & ure like omg hey hot mama#and then a voice from the 9th circle of hell growls at you like thats lowkey hilarious#dont mess with a bad bitch !!!!!! who just had a bad break up!!!!#he WILL kill u !!!!!!!!#soundwave#transformers#maccadam#tf#tf es#tf earthspark#arcee
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Stepping Up. (Part 1)
I wonder how much Neo3 carries on her shoulders, too.
#splatoon#splatoon fanart#agent 4#neo agent 3#agent neo 3#opal owl’s nest#...do tell me if I need to tag these as smth! Im not sure what to use in these.#like trigger warnings I mean#captain 4......that image breaks me#look at her trying so hard to be like 3
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thinking about how mulder loves to get scully a gift, usually terribly heartfelt, even if disguised as something flippant:
the superbowl vhs tape he brings her when she wakes up from her coma in one breath (and her deadpan "i knew there was a reason to live")
tickets for a football game to watch together in irresistible
bringing her flowers to the hospital in memento mori (he lies, saying he stole them from a guy with broken legs to make her laugh)
the birthday keychain in tempus fugit (and when she finds a meaning to it, he claims "i just thought it was a pretty cool keychain")
that is a man who is always thinking about her.
#you can just picture him at the store thinking “oh boy she's gonna love this :)”#i think the superbowl vhs one chokes me up the most because he's trying so hard to play it cool when he had just lost her#and he needs to break the ice somehow because he hates to put those big feelings into words#he's more into saying what he means with touch and subtext#it's as if he needed SOMETHING off of the shelf at the store to say “i'm glad you're back. i missed you. i hope you're well”#so he goes with a dumbass VHS she is never going to watch. just to see her recognize his coded declaration of love.#and that exhausted smile she reserves for his antics#and it makes me tear up! still! thinking about it!#i know love languages are problematic but i do think there is something underrated about giving gifts as an act of love#of having your thoughts for someone being represented with a physical object. making that love tangible. you can touch it.#(it works very well on me because i tend to assume if you're out of sight you're not thinking about me)#(so looking at a little trinket someone gave me is like oh!!! they actually are thinking about me often. enough to find this Thing)#anyway. that is my emotional ramble for the evening. please enjoy#AND DISCLAIMER: i am sure there are other examples of him giving gifts i forgot and that there are more yet to come#but as a reminder i have only seen up to s5 ep 3 so! pls no spoilers even if i do tag this for the general public#okay promise? promise no spoilers in the tags? thank youuuuu mwah#the x files#txf#msr#fox mulder
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Hi. Look at this.
I just spent two days straight making a digital conspiracy board trying to piece together my favourite genre that isn't really a genre and more just a very particular niche which doesn't really have a name.
If you want to look I reccomend downloading and zooming in on the image to read everything LMAO, I want to try and convert it to a page on my neocities at some point so its easier to view but for now you guys just get a big ol' jpeg. You're welcome :)
#THIS IS ALL ABOUT ME TRYING TO LIKE BREAK DOWN A SUB-GENRE I'VE NOTICED like thats the main thing i'm trying to do here#its so broad but also so specific and trying to explain it is hard#so i made this#welcome to my twisted mind etc#just realised i forgot to include Long Exposure :(#i'm actually posting this a day later cause it was like 4am when i finished this#gravity falls#psychonauts#coraline#paranorman#sequel post to my one from a few days ago which got way more notes than i expected asedrjthgdrf???#this is a wip also i still wanna edit things and add things later#need to improve my silly lil' sticker labelling system#mystery kids#should i tag a few more of the things i included? at least the bigger things???? uhh#i'll tag#scooby doo#at the very least since i dedicated a whole corner to them#fandom conspiracy board#is that a thing is this a thing people normally do#idk#it's satisfying though i like it#enrichment for me :)
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hi i feel 100% normal about this scene
#i definitely do not have over 50 caps of this scene#for sure not#pike x una#una x pike#pikeone#una chin riley#christopher pike#star trek strange new worlds#stsnw#is there a fic set after this scene where Chris completely breaks down cause he finally can cause Una is back ?#cause if there isn't there should be I need to read it asap pls like look at him he's trying so hard not to cry in front of her#~#~sc
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The vampire/human yaoi I have concocted in a lab, view them
#if you want blood sucking im afraid you may not find it in this yaoi.....#Ante likes blood type O but Ryn is blood type A so he tastes like rotten eggs to him im afraid </3#also Ante is kind of a pussy i dont think he can break skin w his teeth if he so much as scratches anyone he cries and apologizes profusely#he gets blood donations from classmates 😭😭😭#he tells everyone he needs constant blood transfusions for his pet dog and theyre like ☺️☺️#thats not how it works........ but no ones going to say anything they just give him blood. he must be fed !!!!#ryn is like god this guy is so STUPID i want him (<as if ryn himself isnt dumb as bricks)#when ryn first meets ante everyone tells him no matter how weird ante is ...ryn must NOT say anything abt it#and ryn is like Huh bc usually hes the weird one but hes like ok. and then he meets ante and 30 mins in he texts a classmate#and the classmate forwards the message to the class groupchat (minus ante)#and ryn is basically like hey this is kinda crazy but is this guy a vampire . and everyone's like yes but dont say anything abt it#because it might hurt his feelings like hes trying so hard to pretend to be human yknow its like. the morally correct thing to do#this is just a romcom they are silly#ocs
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could I ask about either soulmate AU or fantasy AU with Kid, whichever one is more interesting for you? :O thank you!!
Oooh I love both the AUs
Soulmate AU with Kid:
-:- Childhood friends - kind of. You and Kid were in the same grade, in the same school. Your brother Wire was one his friends, though Wire, Heat and Killer were all older than you.
-:- People earned their Soul Marks when they came of age, which was apparently 16 as far as the fates were concerned. Marks would match with your soul mate, but they were so complex, and sometimes in embarrassing places, so people wouldn't realize they were matches until they made physical contact.
-:- You and Kid weren't so lucky though.
-:- You'd been at each other's throats since you were 4 and 5, and the rivalry never ended. You fought physically, verbally, and in any ways made available. you were the top two students in your classes by sheer spite, constantly trying to out do the other.
-:- 10 years you never got along.
-:- Kid got his first, coming into school with two jagged lines down the side of his face. He loved it, said it made him look like more of a bad ass, and it was one of the most easily recognizable marks someone could have. You said of course it was so obvious, a gear-head like him would need something that beats him over the head to get it.
-:- You woke up with yours later and didn't know what to do.
Two jagged lines slipped over your face. It wasn't grotesque, it looked kind of cool, actually, but you were already panicking internally. You knew these marks. Knew these exact shapes.
You'd seen them on Kid's face, and you remember being strangely angry about it. You'd cried after school, the whole weekend you stay locked in your room. Everyone got marks, but the idea that someone else would be so important to him. You fought, you argued, you competed, but you were always in one another's live, even if it was as enemies, you didn't want someone else to come along.
And no one else had.
Standing in the hallway outside class, you watched the cocky grin slip off his face as he turned to look at you. Confusion at first, panic next - you'd seen your own face go through the emotions earlier.
He reaches out to you, electricity zipping through you both at the contact and he pulls you in close, a desperate, heated hug. You can feel his heart racing as he holds you to his chest.
"Heh, seems like I win." He says, voice soft and just for you.
"What are you talking about?" You murmur, unable to think what it was that you were both competing for now.
"I got you, Mouse, what else do I need?"
Send me a character and an AU and I'll give you a treat.
#quin answers#ask game#x reader#reader insert#anon asks#au roulette#eustass kid#I was gonna try to do both#but it's hard to concentrate with my spouse streaming#and I need to eat before my food gets cold#so taking a break for now. =D
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I was thinking on when Steve lost Bucky for the 3rd time (1st when he was drafted, 2nd when he was told he was MIA, 3rd when he fell) he tried to get drunk to forget, right? If he did that then...
What did he do when he lost him for the 6th time? (4th when he escaped, 5th when Bucky was in cryo, 6th the snap)
I mean technically Bucky died twice, but Steve lost him six times already.
And of he tried to get blind drunk once of those times- did he self-harm in other ways too?
To dull the pain? He can't get drunk, he heals quickly, he can't die easily either, so what did he do?
He wouldn't want to die when he knows for a fact that Bucky is alive ofc, but I can't see him acting normally or without a little bit of reckless energy.
To dull the pain and disappoinment (he can't feel like that, that's Bucky's choice -Cryo-. But how it hurts him tho).
(unrelated to this line of thought but it is relevant to the idea regardless)
That's why I can't fathom the idea of Steve abandoning Bucky in endgame.
He lost him 6 six (6) times already and he just... Went away? To a woman he only kissed once? After all he did for him, the pain and loss?
Even if you don't ship them, you have to think that to be really ooc on Steve's part. Everything in his character arc in the MCU is related to Bucky (and loss). Yes he liked Peggy, but he didn't suffer nor mourn her the same way he mourned Bucky (She was alive, but had dementia and was also very old, and had her own life).
His feelings for Peggy were more a "what if" and lost possibilities than anything.
She was an idea, a fantasy (that's why Wanda used that when fighting with him, right?). Not something real.
He wanted to be with her, but he didn't really knew her or love her (at least I don't think so).
She was the first woman that saw him for him after all. Before everything. But that's it.
He liked her for that (and her strong personality too) but did he love her? He didn't try to get on dates after he was defrosted because he knew people would only see Captain America, not Steve Rogers. He needed to represent an ideal and knew no one would understand (the pain, loss) and have the patience to be with him. That’s why he also highlighted the shared life experience thing.
So she was comforting, reassuring in a toxic and unhealthy kind of way (memories and fantasy aren't healthy when used like that). But still a what if and lost opportunity. He had to let her go at one point. And he did(!) But they had to fuck it up…
I mean... it's the same thing when you're still hung up on an ex. You want to think of the possibilities, the what ifs, the "what could have been" But when you go back to them nothing is like you remembered, nothing is like you wanted and you are dissatisfied and disappointed.
(Because all of that was in your head, it wasn't real).
And besides, he knew she had a life of her own (a fulfilling one at that) so what, he was selfish enough to fuck that up too? Without helping HIM? Without saving HIM? Abandoning HIM? After just being brought to life? After grieving him for another five years? Bucky was his best friend, his companion, his best pal…
He wouldn't do that to him. He would die before hurting Bucky (as they already stablished for most of the fucking movies) He even was like “You don’t understand” when Peggy talked to him in the bars ruins.
I think in canon (not ooc/EG)Steve would entertain the idea, but would decide to just keep it as that: An idea, a fantasy. And move on like he already did before.
Also the idea that it was a Peggy from an alternative universe is flawed because he abandoned HIS Bucky, even if in the other universe he helped or whatever.
In HIS UNIVERSE he abandoned his best friend? Not believable. And the logic of “oh it didn’t change their timeline because it was another one” is also stupid.
They already fucked up with Steve fighting 2012!Steve and also telling him about Bucky (creating another universe more than likely). And they were supposed to be undetected. Not create new universes. Thats also why I’m so keen on the idea of Steve being in a prison or something. He already fucked up once, twice if you think he went to the past to stay.
How can he be free while fucking up the timelines? Yeah, nah.
Also… they implied Steve can’t age in a movie if I remember correctly…. How did he become old?
And the idea that he went to Peggy because “Tony told him to have a life outside of captain america” is fucked up. So what? He relates his Bucky’s existence with work? FUCK OFF. Endgame Steve is fucked up and the worst character assassination I’ve ever seen.
They were just too annoyed with the fans because we ship Stucky (even tho they used that to promote the movies in panels and stuff, hypocrites -I remember clearly the producers? of the movie talk about gay characters and the actors talk about Stucky in those panels for then…be one of the russos in like 1 second and have that shit ass, fuck ass ending for Steve and Bucky. That shit was vile-).
im also annoyed with some people that now shit on Steve when umh… did you see the movies? The other movies? Not only Endgame? (Btw the only one that got a “good ending” was Tony because he died as a hero in front of everyone -even tho he didn’t want to help at first because he had a good life, the ONLY ONE OF THEM might I add-, everyone else got worse, is dead or they’re neglected and treated as haha funny character or haha funny moment)
Im all for ships and ideas and headcanons (even when I hate them with passion, you do you) but don’t try and use this character assassination as an excuse to shit on Steve. If you NEED to shit on a character for your ship to work, then you’re not doing a good job at it or your ship sucks. Idk what to tell you.
#steve rogers#im rambling about Captain America and the stupidity of Endgame#anti endgame#mcu#marvel mcu#ramblings#im rambling bc Im pissed off#i wrote this on twt originally#but I expanded it on here#stucky#endgame isnt canon in this house#Tbh im also mad at the idea of Tnoy being selfless or a hero for dying#he didn’t want to help bc HIS life was good#and of course he had to get the only good ending out of everyone lmao#even Natasha was neglected#endgame is so fucked up man#I fucking hate the ending so bad#you dont understand#also I dislike Tony because they always always try to make him more likeble by omitting info (like in the accords)#or putting a kid in front of him and saying see he’s doing it for the kids benefit!#like no the accords would have fucked up with Peters life too#and Morgan was only there to make them not go back in time bc the fucker abandoned his kid anyway#by dying but you know#he needed to die a hero#gimme a break and now RDJ is back in the mcu#idk Im really not a hater of Tony but I dislike when they try too hard to make him likeble#hes an asshole deal with it#dislexia hates me rlly bad and im not going to correct the tags but you get the idea#i had to edit this bc I realized that Steve actually lost bucky 6 times#i mean technically
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Huntlow situationship gives me such intense brain termites you don't get it
#no i dont think its because Hunter needs time to heal first#i think if it was up to Hunter they would plunge into a committed romantic relationship immediately after the events of the finale#he would propose to her in like. 3 months probably#i know that sounds intense but i think this is what ''i literally died and came back to life'' mania does to a guy#he is so carpe diem minded hes become a little insane. he wants everything#no more waiting around. no more hesitating. he cant afford to do that anymore#would it have been the wise decision to enter a romantic relationship immediately#who's to say. but Hunter would have done it without thinking about it#its Willow that makes the decision to slow down and wait a while before they make any committments theyre not ready for#i dont think she's entirely learned her lesson about letting herself be emotionally reliant every once in a while#shes made progress but the events of ftf were such heat of the moment responses#once things are semi-stable she still needs to adapt to acknowledging that her feelings for Hunter are like. serious. and scarily intense#so like. yea Willow is slamming her pedals on the breaks for both their sakes. shes thinking about how this would effect Hunter too#but also. she scawwed.#when Willow tells him she wants to talk and she's like ''i think we should just be friends'' oh the face he makes is DEVASTATED#he didnt expect it was going in this direction at all. but like. once Willow explains how this is the most reasonable decision for now#he DOES agree. he understands what shes saying and he agrees that it's the best decision to take a breather before they jump into a romance#anyway even when theyre not officially dating the flirting continues insistently. they are very obsessed with each other and cant stop#Willow keeps trying to insist to herself that its just messing around. nothing serious. they find each other hot. its fine to kiss a little#but Hunter makes it very hard when he looks at her with big brown labrador eyes. looks at her like shes the entire world#i think if it was up to Willow they would have been trapped in that uncertain limbo forever. shes too scared to take the plunge#even if she wants to. she badly wants to#but Hunter just wont let that happen. every so often he says ''im ready whenever you are''#he makes his intentions very known. he is not the shy boy from Camila's house anymore#Willow cant just playfully flirt with him without worrying that hes gonna reciprocate. he talks now. he expresses himself#shes a little afraid of that. but she adores it too. he makes her feel safe but also he wont let her stay in this comfort zone#hes giving her the push she needs to pursue this relationship. gives her to push to feel like she can go after what she wants#because god knows HE knows what he wants#they make me so insane
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Augh
#fancy is really struggling#and the babies are lovely and just FASCINATING in how they developed around but not shaped by humans and i so very deeply enjoy them#but they are also a little ungovernable due to their age and general lack of caring about rules and they are bothersome and rowdy#and it is obviously so so hard on her and my heart is breaking because im afraid we wont be able to get her through this#and i will have to give the babies up#and...not have another cat#just one#i would be crushed#and added to all of that is that the babies are taking their time learning to be pets and that is fine and wonderful actually#but...i need surgery on at least one ankle and i won't be able to keep up with them if things haven't sorted themselves out by then#and they haven't become more manageable and fancy hasn't adjusted#so we are asking about meds for poor fancy and hoping that works#but she's really having a hard time guys and i am fighting so hard to cope in a household where i spend most of my time alone#with two animals who don't love me yet or interact with me like pets (i'm a source of three things: food and snuggles on demand and NO STOP#and one who is sad and not herself#and frankly it's terrible that i can't fix this#and i am trying not to lose my shit but this wasn't supposed to be so hard#and im afraid i may lose five cats and not three#and im already barely holding on#i don't know what to do and neither does my boyfriend#i don't want to turn around and have to tell you guys we can't keep the babies#i feel like i am failing at something i am supposed to be GOOD AT#i don't want to be in a house so empty#i can't live like that#having the babies is lovely#they're so alive and the boys were so sick by the end and the stress of the constant anxiety and grief as they faded away was crushing#even before they died#it's been so good to have them running about#i don't want to LOSE that#im so tired of LOSING things
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this is the coolest thing ive ever made
#snickart#inscryption#irlscryption#no id#HOORAY#i couldnt fucking find the long elk/vertebrae artwork so. i just kind of gave up on themHAKAHSJH#but everything else is there!#no kaycees cards#(i am using kaycees mod stoat though(#no talking cards (stinkbug/stunted wolf)#the cards are. finished#so like. i guess i work on the campaign now?#TOMORROW its 7:30 pm#or another time.i might just need a Break#but like#i wanna try and make my own little campaign i think itd be fun :]c#instead of just copying what leshy does ingame#very hard of course. but this entire project is hard#okay.thank you. i am goijg to bed soon#irlscryption is so fun and cool
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Rereading everblaze has been so interesting and I could talk about it for so long but I’m goin to talk about this specific part that had me SOBBING when I first read it (and again the SECOND time I’ve read but for a different reason)
And this is also a reason to complain about the council (I hate them all) (yes ALL of them)
Tw mentions of eating disorders and suicide 

“Instead, all we find is wrong." He turned to stare at Sophie, making it clear he included her in that wrongness,”
I want to talk about this part first before the rest because I find it really interesting. (And because the other parts will be longer) It’s clear to me that the cancel is afraid of Sophie in some kind of way they find her threatening even though she’s proven all she wants to do is help. They’re scared because they know her existence threatens there’s she’s the savior that’s supposed to fix’s the wrongs of their world.their wrongs they know there’s another group out there they know that’s the group that kidnapped Sophie and Dex but instead they fixated oh the black swan because to them it threateners there power and control. they feel the need to keep Sophie under control they need to keep her under their control.
“Sophie foster is not normal.” She closed her eyes as the words rattled around her mind”
This part comes a bit before the first one but that’s because I knew I wanted to talk more about this specifically it hits heard for a couple of reasons I’ll get into.
Gosh…. This part man :( ok let’s start with the fact that the lost cities was a place that was supposed to be where she belong it was supposed to make her feel normal and safe but instead she met with same kind of hate that she got from the humans. Sophie to me feels like a fallen gifted kid someone who was able to get to the top of her class now at the bottom and shamed for it. It wasn’t her fault that she could read minds as a kid and not know how to stop them it wasn’t her fault that she never grew up in the lost cities to learn the ruins everyone grew up learning. And yet they still shame her, for not being normal not being like them because she grew up with humans because she some kind of lab rat someone that’ll hurt there kids and them
They never see her for the child that she is the smart brave funny individual who’s saved their lives more then once no. Because she not normal. she doesn’t act right
As someone who neurodivergent this hits really hard I was constantly told when I was younger by my peers that I was weird. And I’m sure most people who are neurodivergent have a similar experience of being treated differently just because you’re not normal.. 
 “She closed her eyes as the words rattled around her mind”
For so long she been called not normal by almost everyone around her her human mother (even if she never said it to her face) her classmates in school and her classmates now In The place she was told was perfect and safe and were she belong.
GOSH I JUST WANT TO GRAB THEM AND THROW THEM AT THE SUN DIE
She deserves to live a happy life for once :(
“It wasn't until he raised it over her head that she realized what was happening.”
“Two of the Council's bodyguards rushed to her sides, holding her in place as Councillor Emery clamped” the silver band around her forehead.
“The circlet was Dex's telepathy restrictor.”
“The Council was trying to take away her abilities.”
This part makes me sick SICK this was the part that I cried at when I first read it. The realization of what was happening to her felt like I was being hit by a truck. The fact that the council had there bodyguards hold her In Place …… UGHHHHHGGH I want to fall them to in a ditch I swear. they were trying to make her talentless in a weird fucj up way to control her if wasn’t for the fact that her powers are so strong they would’ve forcefully made her disabled. Because that’s what talentless elf’s are to them. It’s how they treat them. It’s how they treat Dexs dad it’s how they treated Brant
I can’t imagine the horror and fear Sophie felt in that moment they had other options but no the reason they chose this one is because they knew it was the best way to keep her under control.
“She knew it was slumberberry tea even before she saw the purple color, and she drank it gladly, downing the whole thing and hoping it knocked her out for a few years—decades-the rest of eternity.”
How do you fuck up so badly that you get a girl WHO REFUSES to drink any kinda of sleeping drug do to the trauma of being kidnapped and drugged against her will. To DOWN like ten of them because of the pain and trauma you’ve brought her.
HOW CAN YOU CAN YOU NOT SEE HOW F UP THAT IS
“Edaline tried to get her to eat something, but she wasn’t hungry”
“All she wanted was more tea.”
I’m thinking back to this post I saw were someone mentioned that Sophie shows a lot of signs of eating disorders. And here it pretty prevalent. Her avoiding eating and avoiding the waking world to me in way makes me think she could be suicidal. She obviously depressed and ashamed. She feels like she should be disowned by her friends and family because she useless now. Or well in her eyes she is. 
“begging begging begging her to wake.”
“So she dove deeper into her drug-induced haze, wishing she could find her way back to the nook in her mind and stay there forever. She'd been happy there.”
“Safe.”
This is where I see it most. All she wants to do is hide in this drug-induced haze, wanting to go back to the nook in her head were she felt Saft warm and happy. But once the drug wears off she back in the living full of a pain and heartache. Where she feels utterly useless and broken. All she want to do is be happy. But because the council are all absolute idiots they decided to make her life a living hell!!! I’ll still never forgive Bronte for inflicting her In Exil still one of the most F up things he’s done.
Anyways I’m tired and if I try to write more it might not come across right oop just know I hate the council !!!
Thanks for reading my nonsense I hope I made sense or a least made a good analysis :D

#the council to me are cowards#they pretend not to know what’s right in front of there eyes#because they don’t want to break the already fragile system that they’ve built up#mind you#the very Flawed System#they hurts more people then it dose any good#I’m obsessed with the way Shannon wrote this system#its so Clear to me that they try so hard to convince you#they there world is Perfect#and that there perfect#when in reality there not#and Sophie proves that#her existing proves that there world is flawed#now that may sound weird BUT HEAR ME OUT#the reason the black swan made her#was because there world was so flawed they needed hope#and Sophie that hope#she the hope that one day#this world can be fair and good#idk maybe I’m just writing shit#keeper of the lost cities#kotlc fandom#kotlc#kotlc thoughts#sophie foster#kotlc everblaze#floof thoughts#Essay#personal essay
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