#very hostile environment

[m-is-for-mj]

Bar shampoo and conditioner??? Sounds like you now have THREE opportunities to drop the soap??? And two of which whilst your eyes are probably closed????? Just saying.

[sandinmybed]

can i be fr for a minute?? sending abuse to people online for holding different views than you is not activism and in fact actively hurts your cause. most people are not extreme in their viewpoints, you can give them a new perspective if you're willing to spend some time explaining shit. if someone is saying something you disagree with and you rush in there to condescend to them and call them disgusting and subhuman and dont even TRY to explain calmly why their views are harmful, they're going to shut you out instantly and double down on their views.

most people are simply genuinely ignorant to the issues they're talking about - they just pick their views up from the news and the world around them and express opinions because that's what every person does. if you run in there and tell them they're scum for it, what then? if someone does that to you, are you going to think "maybe i should do some research" or are you going to think "this person is an asshole, im blocking them." a lot of you think you're activists and then refuse to do any kind of actual WORK to support your cause.

[katsigian]

Hiii would anyone be interested in sending some oc asks my way maybe possibly 🫣 all of mine are in my pinned!

Been feeling so weird about my ocs lately 🫠 I've been making good progress with lore/rewrites/filling in blanks but the idea of putting any of it in the public eye is just 🥲 but I gotta get through it I have to just push through. I'm really trying to find confidence in my ocs again so I'd really appreciate any little chance to talk about them

[saturnniidae]

everytime Taylor Swift releases a new album and I'm forced to hear about her, she gets a little higher on my top 10 most despised (living) white women list.

[thesovereignsring-if]

How would mc’s family and ros treat a romanced mc who is kind and merciful? Basically they wouldn’t even hurt a fly

This is cute :)

RO(s):

Finny: Finny is a hot head and if he thinks the MC is being too kind and gentle towards people who deserve it- prepare for a shouting match or some very vocal disagreements with him. He'll wilt when push comes to shove and respect the MC's wishes, but his guard will always be up for them.

Thea: She'll call the MC an idiot to their face, but will want them to never change. She's lil jaded, she believes people will aways take kindness and mercy for granted.

Linnet: She'll respect MC(s) who are kind and merciful in the face of adversity. She thinks those traits very admirable in a person. She'll want to try an emulate that behaviour herself and feel bad when she can't :( But she isnt a doormat, she'll kindly voice any disagreements she has over mercy choices. She'll worry about being the more tougher and ruthless partner of the two.

Medea: Will find it as endearing and it makes her lil heart very soft for the MC. That being said, if the people the MC spared magically died of a tragic accident. Oh well. What a shame. Such a coincidence!

Helios: Tease and bully. Bully. Bully. Bully. Not maliciously, of course. Helios likes getting a rise out of people. If Helios really disagrees with a mercy choice, they'll openly be vocal/mocking spiteful about that decision. Will challenge the MC's ideal and morals. Will kill people/enemies behind MC's back.

Eirik: Will think the MC is a fool for being merciful. Will be skeptical and thinks it's a front. But once he realizes that it isn't, will be disarmed and will start make the tougher and less kind calls if he sincerely believes the situation calls for it.

Family:

Alberich: He'll be annoyed at MCs that are merciful to a fault or are kind to their enemies. He'll find those traits endearing, of course, but he'll start having people in the background making sure that the MC won't be taken advantaged of. Would probably find a way to use MC's kindness and mercy to trick enemies into a false sense of security.

Sieghardt: Must protect at all cost. Will do things on MC's behalf if it means they're safe from threats. He'll want to the MC to preserve the kinder/gentler aspects of their personality as much as possible.

Maeve(The Empress): She's gonna start getting grey hairs. 😭 Omg. She loves her bby she really does, but kind/merciful MC(s) are easy to be taken advantage of and she'll be so worried what'll happen if she or their brother's aren't there to protect them. I wouldn't be surprised if that'll cause her to be more stern and cold towards gentle MC(s) to correct that behaviour when they make decisions that will get them hurt.

[helsex-moved]

The KOSA bill is so incredibly terrifying to me as a precedent on a personal level because on paper it's to 'protect the children' but the real intended and desired outcome is exactly what I went through all my life, what I'm still going through for the time being

It sounds silly and people can scoff all they want saying how maybe it's not such a bad thing, but in the hands of the type of parents who want this bill it will do nothing but harm. There is nothing more isolating and paralyzingly scary than the knowledge that even online can't be an escape or source of help or community anymore, because the people who already have full control of your autonomy can now watch every digital move you make, censor and block absolutely anything they want. It doesn't matter if you're not doing anything wrong because to the parents who want this anything you do can be wrong, especially exploring and discovering your own queer identity - among any other number of things.

And of course it doesn't stop there because if they can pass this kind of bill, how much further can they push this?

[mushtoons]

Are you like, normal about people who might happen to have endogenic origins or are you awful about it. I want to check because I didn’t ask to be endogenic but the people who think they know the end all be all of how brains and minds work still hate me for it

first off we arent comfortable talking about syscourse one way or another, we've seen how it has hurt people on both sides and its just toxic in itself, so we will not be giving our opinion on it

secondly we do not appreciate how rude you worded that, and it is a prime example why we do not want to be involved. please don't ask us questions like this again.

we're a silly fanart blog we draw not make drama

[ukusreticence]

self indulgence. he's asking for a dance.

[quaalussy]

had to go home on saturday for a sec for the first time since coming out to get some mail and it was so weird. idk if its the transness or my buzzcut by my mom is clearly furious. she wouldnt even look at me and barely said a word, just sat on the couch staring at the tv while i talked to my dad. then i asked abt thanksgiving and they were like oh we assumed u weren't coming home so we already made plans without u. i know thats total bullshit and that they just didnt want the family to see their freaky tranny kid. its not that i wanted to go to thanksgiving im just having a hard time handling how disgusting they think i am.

[askthesmoltitans]

First Encounter of who would eventually join the Alliance; Galaxy "Mini-Speaker"

[sskk-manifesto]

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[flintmcgraw]

i saw a post floating around a bit ago that said something along the lines of "i think everyone needs larger living spaces with room to exist in" and it kind of really irked me as a western-centric view, but i only just put my finger on what i think the issue is.

it all comes back around to third spaces. someone who lives in a village of one room mud huts is not less happy or less fortunate than an American in a townhouse - they get their solace in outdoor/separate from home community spaces. my mother lived a very happy childhood with her whole family in an apartment the size of our current living room - and upon reflection, she credits it with the state-built parks between every complex that she played in and was called from to dinner through an open window.

and there is a draw towards alone-ness for a lot of us, in equating peace to silence and ownership of our own space, but i can't help but wonder if we would be so exhausted by the outside if the outside were more livable, and if we didn't have so much of a need to recover from existing in the society we built

[fideidefenswhore]

[Henry] had asked Lady Shelton whether Mary [was] persisting in her obstinancy. Hearing that she was, Henry became certain that she was being encouraged by secret communication from Katharine. Lady Shelton thought the only possible messenger was Mary's chamber woman. In this she was correct. The maid had been smuggling letters in and out. She was dismissed, as was Mary's confessor, to be replaced by one whom Chapuys characterised as 'Lutheran'.

The King’s Pearl: Henry VIII & His Daughter Mary, Melita Thomas

[secretmessages1983]

having my monday morning anxiety attack during my planning period about how my one coworker who's been harassing me all school year and trying to get me to quit or get fired is going to torture me this week

[pearlcaddy]

I’m at that stage of homesickness where I came across one of those kitschy LA tourist shirts at TK Maxx and almost burst into tears.

[fumifooms]

Holy shit guys, holy. Holy-

I was writing a larycent fic bc obviously, of course, and I thought of honey-like voice as descriptor for Larys, and I immediately go galaxy brain and look up if it was intentional (having never read the book myself) and- It WAS.

Alicent has been compared to a flower by Larys so many times now, with thinly veiled metaphors and framing with him plucking flowers, tending to them like a gardener waiting for harvest. He’s a bee, guys. Bees collect nectar from flowers to make honey, which are their life’s work and most prized ressource. The metaphor of milking Alicent for his own purposes is just- so fricking literal. 

As always, Larys hides everything he is in plain sight, and no one notices.

Bees dance to communicate… Larys CLUBfoot am I right??! 

Anyways this was your PSA that in a relationship, Alicent would call Larys honey while Larys would call her his flower <3

Edit: Awww it’s been confirmed by the cast to be a firefly so I wanna rectify my claim here that this was intentional, but you know what it’s fine this is still very cool