#v. adolescence

[hopegained]

@alootus: "i just wanna know who broke your nose." // accepting

Eron hadn't felt the need to ask how or why she found out, but it didn't tame the flush on his cheeks any less. He could only guess as to what the administrators at the flight academy had informed none other than Padmé Amidala. Of what it could mean for him, that was certainly about to be revealed.

"No one." Half of the whole truth that he hoped to still be salvageable before he would ever come to face his grandmother's disappointment. He shifted his feet under her gaze, standing a head taller than her at the bright age of fifteen. "I just got distracted in combat training and got what's coming. That's all."

[haroldherald]

one time i was talking to my cousin about total drama (i think i’m sometimes delusional about what is a dream and what is not) and i said i liked harold, she said ‘ew you like harold?’ and i swear to god i have never been more irritated at my cousin

this is factual information because when i rewatched tdi with my very neurotypical sister and mother over christmas they both hated them and couldn't see why i liked him... all i could say was You Don't Get It!!!

[skyborneveggie]

You know now that I'm thinking about it, musical theater does tend to be the story medium that fails the most when attempting to impart the audience with some kind of societal commentary. There are many hard-hitting plays that do it brilliantly, but for musicals it just isn't there. While what makes a show special to me is the emotional journey of the characters, it's often despite the mangled simplification of whatever message they were trying to get across. It's kind of just a given going in that you're going to have to throw your hands up and say "well, what did you expect?" The only musical I've ever seen that handled its subjects with nuance and gravitas was A Strange Loop, and that is a very unique & alternatively structured experience.

I have to wonder if it's something about the structure of musicals themselves that makes it difficult, or if it's all about the money behind them & backers being afraid of letting creators say anything real at the risk of alienating a certain audience & losing money.

[bewitching-666]

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[horsegirl]

It’s cool going through Miles’ back catalogue and getting a sense of his playing cus now songs like 505 sound SO obviously like him when before I was only like intellectually aware it was him it’s almost like a new song... like becoming familiar with an actor and watching a movie you’ve seen a million times and suddenly seeing them there

[dearmrsawyer]

hello! it has been a long time since i've talked through my day! this one had such a big turnaround that i needed to document it, mostly for myself.

i had an appointment with a 'root canal specialist' today bc i had my first app with my new dentist a couple of weeks ago and his xray revealed an abscess wow how fun :) i couldn't feel it bc that tooth has a decade old root canal so there are no nerves to reveal there is anything going on!! fun!!!! he's a super nice dentist, i like him but he made me very panicked lol he was showing me how close it is to my sinuses on the xray. so he was like 'go see this guy asap' bc he wanted to know whether there was a chance my old root canal could be redone or if i'd have to get the whole tooth removed/an implant, all for the low low price of $5-6000 🙃 but obviously you can never see specialists asap!!! so i've been walking around for 2.5 weeks with dread/phantom pains that by the time i saw him the infection would've spread and idk had catastrophic consequences??? and then today when i went there was CONSTRUCTION at the turn i needed to make and the road was closed and i was like i don't know how to get there from another street??!?!?!??! i spent 10 minutes driving through suburban streets and my navigation kept trying to take me back to the original route with the closed road, and its the middle of town so there was nowhere i could just temporarily stop and look at the map, and i called them almost crying to let them know i'm coming but i might be late bc i just can't navigate these streets jegjkdgkjdkg

anyway i MADE it, i think i parked in another business's parking lot and just hoped they didn't care lol and then the lady at the desk was like 'our other specialist will have to see you bc the guy you're here for isn't here' so i was feeling uhhhh not good after my dentist talked him up so much. AND my dentist didn't send over my electronic referral and i had LITERALLY been stressed that he would forget to do exactly that for the whole 2.5 weeks oh my god, thankfully they didnt even seem to care. but then as i was filling out the paperwork in the waiting room 'no judgment' came on, and then 'wolves' right after??? and i was like this seems deliberate to try and calm me down 😂 and when the substitute specialist called me in he was so extremely calming and talked me through my options, one of which is indeed to try and redo the root canal bc he's confident he can, it would still cost a lot but wayyyyy less. he also said i could 'do nothing' (which is obv risky, and i would never do nothing, but that made me realise my infection is not about to bust through and spread across my sinuses any second, one fear down!). he was just softly spoken and super relaxed and he made me feel like this was not in fact a crisis and said i could go and think about what i wanted to do, and just call for an appointment when i decided. and then when i went out to pay 'i want to write you a song' was playing 😭 i asked the receptionists if there was a 1d fan in the house and one of them said it must just be a random playlist on spotify, so this was all a complete coincidence????? i told them i was enjoying it very much.

anyway long story short i had already taken the rest of the afternoon off work to go work in the garden, but figured there was a good chance i'd be so down about an unexpected and immiment $5000 hit that i wouldn't want to do anything, but i drove home feeling extremely reassured that i had options and i was not on the clock to decide, and also very relaxed by 1d playing in the background the entire time. i have also been extremely stressed that i would need to take the next step asap and this would be such a bad time as mum is working 50 hour weeks right now bc of the referendum, so i am on caring duty with nonna/nonno anytime we don't have carers here. but there's time! i had a v good afternoon in the garden after all!

[asteracaea]

very important question for you, mutuals:

have you ever seen a movie called Candleshoe

[inklingofadream]

part of what i like about dracula daily is that it reveals just how much people's ability to recognize historical jargon and/or recognize that something probably changed in meaning between then and now differs. Like ppl will express confusion about things that i didn't realize weren't common knowledge or that i assumed people would suspect were historical and google. and it changes depending on the term, like "queer dreams" gets less confusion and more in-on-the-context jokes than some of the other stuff

[une-sanz-pluis]

So, we know Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester was at Shrewsbury with the 16-year-old Hal (Prince Henry, the future Henry V etc.), whose guardian and governor he was. We know that some point before the 20th, Worcester slipped away from Shrewsbury to join with Henry "Hotspur" Percy in the lead up to his rebellion, bringing with him "a significant proportion of the garrison" and according to Walsingham, perhaps having stolen money and treasures from the Prince.

I sometimes wonder if Worcester had hoped to or tried to abduct Hal to serve as a hostage against Henry - or perhaps hoped to get him to defect to their side.

And can you imagine this poor 16-year-old kid discovering his guardian just abandoned him to join a rebellion against his father and the city's about to be under siege and his dad's nowhere in sight and a lot of the garrison's troops are gone? And he's in charge?

[heyitsphoenixx]

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[venacoeurva]

sometimes I remember motorcity and how it got replaced by a show about a snail

Like YES it was a kids show but thinking about how good it was for one and we lost it so soon makes me

[hopegained]

@jundlcndwastes | x

"Doesn't seem like the smartest thing to do" was said matter-of-factly, but—there was always going to be a but with her—it'd be a lie to say it wasn't intriguing even in the slightest. "Where'd he say it was gonna be?" Like a particularly meddlesome neighbor living next door to this family, he couldn't help to not pry into business that wasn't his. Adjusting the blaster strapped to his hip, he glanced over at her direction to check if she carried her own. "You got your blaster with you, right? Just in case we run into trouble along the way."

[digital-media-enthusiast]

[chompe-diem]

BEVERLY TOEGOLD V IS SO TRAGIC-

[carrieway]

everyday i commit to making art and making something i can be proud of, then i post it, have a subsequent breakdown and spiral into deep depression when it gets nowhere, and swear off art forever because of how damaging it is to my mental health in the end . then i pick up my pen a day later and tell myself this time will be different, it has to be (it is a cycle, it will not be)

[vuulpecula]

Fox chewed her lip, watching the other young ladies--the proper young ladies--twirl about in their fine dresses as they learned the steps to a special dance that would be preformed at the King's next birthday. She could not help the jealousy that burned in the pit of her stomach and caused her to slouch further onto the high wall as she watched them. She thought about spitting, though that was not very kind, she did think it might be quite humorous to watched all the wretched girls below scream in horror as it hit a skirt or a perfectly coiled strand of hair. As the minstrels below struck up a new tune, she Fox decided against it with a heavy sigh, spine straightening.

Looking around for something entertaining to do that would not make her feel less than the beautiful women her age laughing and dipping gracefully with their partners, she spotted a young soldier approaching from the north walk. Not just any soldier, it was Roche. The jealousy in her stomach grew wings and took flight, erasing the thoughts of the others for the moment. Fox watched him approach, his steps in time with the distant strumming of strings below. The castle melted away, it was only him against the backdrop of the blue sky. Temerian blue.

"Are you stuck patrolling the wall or have you come to delight in the view from up here? Margarete Von Ledger does have a rather low bodice on this fine morning." She was trying to speak the way she had heard some men speak, but secretly she hoped he did not look over the wall to examine the powdered cleavage of pretty Margarete.

@rekakrola ❤'d for a "teeny tiny" starter.