#we'll never know of course

[dofnup]

Hey y'all I took Missy to the vet yesterday (link to watch her screaming), and the vet said she thought "dilute calico crossed with marl" (or marled? I dunno). So there you go, a new, completely different challenger enters the chat!

This is Missy, she's a diva who thinks she's a human ... a human who dislikes cats! 🤷🏻‍♀️ Anyway it was love at first sight for my husband who says she's the most unique cat he's ever seen. I think she's a brindled tortie, but only @whatcoloristhatcat knows for sure 😉

[saintobio]

sy13 | sneak peek. a long one, kinda :)))

You could see the torment in his eyes as he looked at Sachiro, the helplessness of a father who could do nothing but watch. You just couldn’t bear the silence any longer, so you finally spoke. “Satoru… just go home.”

He froze at the sound of your voice, as if caught off guard, but quickly shook his head and wrapped your belly under a warm blanket. “Did I wake you up?”

“I can look after Sachi by myself,” you urged, disregarding his question. “You need to rest.”

But again, he refused. “No.”

“But—”

You opened your mouth to speak again, to reason with him, but before you could, Satoru’s voice cut through the air, breaking in a way you had never heard before. “Y/N, let me be a father to my kids… Please.” His voice cracked, the raw emotion spilling out as he looked at the ceiling with somber, tearful eyes. It was the heartbreak in his voice that made you realize that you were the only family Satoru had left. And it was the tremor in his hands that made you see through the trauma he had developed after he was led to believe for three years that his son had never existed. In a way, you felt responsible for the pain you had caused him, too. “Just please let me love you and our babies. Don’t take them away from me.”

For a moment, silence became your friend. Yet, the quiet that enveloped the room was more of a tender moment suspended in time as you let Satoru embrace you in his arms. You both remained there, connected by the warmth of his hand over yours, and the gentle rise and fall of his breath. He caressed your belly as if you were going to take his baby away—that if he closed his eyes, even for a second, he would wake up to see his unborn child gone. 

But then, a soft knock on the door shattered the stillness. Satoru’s grip on your hand loosened as the nurse poked her head into the room with an apologetic expression on display.

“I’m so sorry to interrupt, Mr. and Mrs. Gojou,” she began, her voice quiet and gentle, ���but you have a visitor.” Satoru’s brows furrowed slightly, but before he could ask, the nurse continued, “Her name is Akemi.”

At the mention of her name, he immediately sat up, his body tense as he instinctively prepared to stand. You felt the shift in his demeanor, the way his hand slipped from yours as he moved to the edge of the bed. You stayed still for a minute, processing the sudden change, and your heart sinking at the thought of yet another intrusion by her.

You took a deep breath as you began to pull away, already bracing yourself for what was to come, and for the inevitable exit he would make. Like always. Choosing another woman over you. Choosing another woman over his own child. Of course, that’s what he’s about to do, right? You started to gather the strength to let him go, to retreat back into your thoughts, until the nurse spoke again.

“Actually,” she said, her eyes flicking between you both, “Miss Akemi wants to see you, Miss Y/N… not Mr. Gojou.”

[fenrichaita]

Sometimes I wonder if people understand that you cannot make people stop comparing mentally ill and neurodivergent people to like serial killers and horror movie monsters without abandoning most of how we conceptualize and categorize mental illness. It's not like an ableism that comes from outside of the DSM or ICD from laymen, it's entirely baked in. The entire mental health system is about categorizing mentally ill and ND people as threats, liabilities, and inconveniences, while blaming it on intrinsic brain illnesses based on the ideas of typically incredibly biased and bigoted psychologists from several decades ago which are not founded in evidence (and said ideas persist mostly unchanged with the reasonings merely altered or justified with a shrug). The fact that after every mass shooting there is more posturing of "mental health awareness" and increasing MH services, when most mass shootings are committed by radicalized cis (and usually white) men tells you that a lot of this is security theatre. The MH system really just makes it more unsafe to seek medical help but it helps "neurotypical" people feel better, and it is the comfort of "NTs" that is most prioritized by this system. And of course, anyone who commits acts of extreme violence like mass shootings will likely be labeled mentally ill first (rather than radicalized, exc.) because of the circular logic that no one can be a Threat without being mentally ill. Do you see The Problem?

[lieutenantism]

i'm currently thinking about how jean loses himself completely to harry. just dissolves entirely. very little sense of identity left outside his partnership with him, which i find so intriguing. i mean, it's the definition of codependency, but that doesn't make it any less interesting (long post, again).

"i won't let my life unravel because of this." is just so insane and melodramatic to me because WHO is that man to you, jean? and why is his alcoholism the reason for your life unraveling? jean takes on harry's drinking problem as a problem of his own, a threat to his life before harry's, even though the drinking doesn't affect harry's ability to do his job, and jean acknowledges that as well as everyone else in the major crimes unit.

but why does he have such a big problem with harry's alcoholism? why's he the only one out of the task force who seems to care obsessively? because the one before him failed to save him, and he feels as though it's his responsibility now. to jean, harry's life is divided to three parts; before him, during him, and tragically, after him.

the fact jean puts himself in the same position as dora, harry's ex, tells you enough. almost as if he considers them to be the same, in terms of responsibility for harry's wellbeing. he's cleaning up her mess, he seems to think. she was way before my time, as though they hold the same significance to harry. of course, this isn't entirely jean's fault. both him and harry share the guilt of their twisted relationship; harry's guilty of getting too personal with anybody within arm's reach.

and jean's guilty for wanting to clean up a mess that he didn't make, and losing sight of himself and his true professional duties in the process. so it goes like this; they partner up, harry's bad at drawing the line between personal and professional relationships and jean's even worse, harry goes on benders every week and jean witnesses them and tries to pull him out of them relentlessly, which then leads to whatever fucked up partnership they had, right before martinaise. the question is why did jean feel the need to save him? because he projected onto him severely.

they're both broken men; mirrors of each other, though jean will never say it out loud. he sees himself in harry, and since he can't save himself and everyone's given up on him, even the professionals, he decides not to give up on harry. in a way, jean's trying to prove to himself that he's not a lost cause through sticking by harry's side through it all, because if even the most lost of causes manages to have at least one person who's there for them at all times, who says he can't have one too? why must he be labelled as the anomaly? if harry du bois could be saved, so can he. he maintains this "i have my shit together, i'm better than you." persona during the entire confrontation, when he isn't. like i said, harry is everything jean works hard in order not to become, yet he still manages to lose his sense of identity while "saving" him and only becomes "harry's partner". that's all he is. nothing but a safety net, there to catch him at all times.

that's why he becomes extremely defensive when you choose the "kim's cooler than you." option, because you're practically robbing him of his identity. throughout the entirety of the game, he keeps repeating: "i'm your partner", to reassure himself more so than anything else, and what the game does here is very clever. you first hear him say that on a call, so distant and away from you; he cannot convince you that he's your partner even if he tried. then, he says it when he's in an idiotic disguise that you didn't recognize, and quite frankly it's making you uncomfortable, it's hard to take him seriously when he looks so stupid so you don't believe him, again. then at last, when he confronts you, and he's himself. then you think it sticks.

but it doesn't, and you dismiss him again to ask about the others. i've always found it perplexing how there's no "how can you be my partner?" option during the confrontation. you can ask about mikael heidelstam for fuck's sake, but not your partner. simply because you don't believe he is, at least not anymore. he's just a very angry man who was in a stupid disguise, and that's all you can ask him about. isn't that so insanely tragic? when you think about how dismissive the "confrontation" is? and jean's lashing out that way because his whole identity is hanging in the balance? no matter what jean tells harry, there's no click, no lightbulb flickering moment, nothing. jean tries everything, it's painful to see, really. the "i didn't lie to you. no one lies to you." and his lines to judit and trant where he's like "i told you, it's typical harry behavior. it's our shitkid." and so on are all attempts to prove that he, jean, knows him, harry, better than anyone else, even himself. he KNOWS him, which is why harry has to need him. he has to keep him. as his partner or whatever the hell it was, because nobody else knows him or will ever get to know him that way.

jean's response to harry telling them "i don't wanna be in your unit." only further proves it. "i'm your partner, i answer for you when you're not there." considering the fact harry and jean had begun to blur ever since their partnership came into being makes the line funnier lol. jean had locked himself up in a prison of his own making, of course with harry giving him all the means necessary to build his own cage beforehand. it was a matter of time and conditioning, and severe loneliness. every crime of harry's feels like one jean is guilty of.

[allyriadayne]

Would love to hear about this degendering theory for the maidenvault sisters?

the term might not be right but it's a little like this: daena, rhaena and elaena escaped their gender, the thing they were guilty of after leaving the maidenvault.

the sisters in the maidenvault were explicitly locked up for being girls and for their potential temptation of baelor the blessed. this a very gendered punishment (look how elaena cuts her long hair, a sign of her potential womanhood) that ties both into their status as unattached maidens and as sisters of the king. note that 1) naerys was not locked up because she was married, she was a matron with a son and thus unavailable to baelor for being claimed by another man; and 2) non targaryen girls weren't locked up either, they just served as temporary companion to the sisters.

so ten years passes and they are freed after baelor's death.i'm not going to get into the psychological implications of spending formative years locked up for being a woman with only your sisters as company but i am interested in how each one dealt with this, how they escaped their """crime""".

daena. most obvious of all. she's the oldest and boldest of the three. in the books this part of the story revolves around her exploits and her ultimate purpose within the story: birthing daemon blackfyre. she's said to escape the maidenvault alongside her cousin aegon to meet men and drink in taverns, she probably did races as well and caused mayhem as a way to free herself from the oppression she lives at home. during this time she eventually falls pregnant and has a bastard, a direct parallel to what aegon was doing around this time too.

we all know how it goes yadda yadda baelor fasts and kills himself (or not...) and after this it's very probably daena continues with even more excess now that she's free and was never chosen as the next queen. daena acts just like any second son noble born without responsibilities (like aegon!!!), mothering bastards (grrm saying she was a "stepmother of sorts" to bittersteel...), drinking, going to town and generally being very debauched. compare how naerys spends her time in the story! daena has put herself outside of the woman, princess, lady role. none of the usual rules apply to her at all, she can't ever be locked up again by her gender.

this is why my speculation that she died in some mishap riding or hunting fits very well with what her life was like after the vault. just like viserra trying to escape a marriage, daena could've died doing a typical male-dominated hobby or activity (i unfortunately don't discard dying in childbirth due to how common it is in targ women).

rhaena, though we don't know much of her, we know that she was the most pious one of the sisters and "never chafed" at the captivity due to her being more meek, ladylike and kind. it isn't said if she had aspirations of becoming a septa before their imprisonment but that she followed through it's incredible interesting for me. she fully escaped court and any role as a lady, mother and wife she could've had if she had stayed available. it's like she removed herself completely, like daena, from another maidenvault situation.

of course, a motherhouse is just as restrictive if we liken it to a real world convent but we can't ignore that as a septa she's just another servant to the seven gods and has much more freedom than any other lady of the court (think naerys and her constant motif of escaping her role of wife, sister and mother by becoming a septa), which is ultimately, what they are all looking for.

elaena, at last, embodies perhaps the most successful of these attempts. she was the youngest one of the three but the cutting of her hair shows a real clarity in the situation they were going to put in, this same clarity is what separated her from her peers in later years. she begins as the little sister following into daena's footsteps by having children outside of marriage, again, a typical male-dominated occupation, and then she's married off to lord plumm.

i think elaena was the most practical one out of her sisters (she was like aunt rhaena in this way #ToMe). she understood it was better to follow along with what was being presented to her after the maidenvault and specially after having two children with someone who wasn't going to marry her. better this than what i had before, better this than being adrift. nonetheless with her subsequent marriages she takes a decidedly masculine position by being in all but name, the master of coin. another thing i find particularly interesting about elaena's story is that she has a third marriage (practically unheard of in asoiaf female characters), that she personally chooses in a younger man without obvious ambition and with what we could say mere ornamental (and sexual) purpose for the well established and older elaena, AND the narrative allows her to very probably die of old age (something very very few targ woman are allowed to do).

ultimately, this is no more a theory than a different way to view the sister's story post maidenvault post baelor in a way i think sheds some light in the gendered punishment they suffered and the fascinating way they escaped it. thanks for the question!

[mintedmouse]

I'm setting my expectations low because I'm still not ready to believe after years of queerbaiting(as in other media queerbaiting) but

Alt title: worst ways mizuki could come out poll

[wonder-worker]

"It is too easy to dismiss [Leonor of Navarre] as an overambitious schemer who would do anything to obtain a crown, shedding the blood of her own siblings and her subjects in order to attain the throne. However, a deeper investigation of her long lieutenancy and ephemeral reign shows a woman who fought tenaciously to preserve her place but also worked tirelessly to administer a realm which was crippled by internal conflict and the center of the political schemes of France, Aragon, and Castile. She tried to broker peace, fight off those who opposed her, repair the wounds caused by conflict, protect the sovereignty of the realm, and keep the wheels of governance turning. Leonor was not always successful in achieving all of these aims but given the background of conflict and the lack of cooperation she received from all of her family members, bar her loyal husband, it is a huge achievement that she survived to wear the crown at all. Many writers have argued that Leonor deserved the troubled lieutenancy, personal tragedies, an ephemeral reign, and a blackened reputation, basing their assumption that she committed a crime that cannot be [conclusively] proven. However, a more fitting description of her would be that of a resolute ruler who successfully overcame a multitude of challenges in order to survive in a difficult political landscape and gain a hard-fought throne.”

— Elena Woodacre, "Leonor of Navarre: The Price of Ambition", Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600 (Edited by Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz)

[liquidchocolatecake]

currently captive audience to a knock down drag out fight in my brain between desire to respect the wishes of the creator and not look for anyone redistributing the comic and god i fucking miss wonderlab i miss wonderlab so much you have no idea i want wonderlab back so bad

[fictionadventurer]

I didn't realize just how much Little Town on the Prairie meant to me as a book. I've barely started and every bit feels iconic. This one and Little House on the Prairie feel more like home than most of the other books do.

[yesterdayiwrote]

https://www.tumblr.com/furysangel616/759017482280419328/excuse-me-what?source=share

ayo what

tbf this is a VERY old quote that has just been dragged up. George first said this just before Singapore in 22 so I'm not quite sure why it's suddenly been noticed by everyone?

Idk that it was a case of Alex's family ringing to prepare him for the worst so much as it was possibly him ringing them to ask for an update and then telling them to keep him in the loop when they said it wasn't great, but we'll never know the specifics and its not really important I guess.

But yeah, this is why it was so funny when I got that anon telling me they're just 'racing friends'. They're besties through and through. George was literally fretting to the press that Alex was coming back too quickly. It's just part of their lore!

[ph-cutie]

i love this moment so much. even when harry is trying to be cool he ends up being evrarts personal little jester

[sunny-aster-dreams]

Year of the snake, year of the don't tread on me.

[frigusdingus]

Oh brother... this guy STINKS!!

To start off, I've spent the last few days, or the past week gathering information on the ColorQuest Thrill Kill Animatic, as to who had possibly murdered Vilmr. Big shout out to my buddies Debbie and Azazel for sparking this fire within me on this topic!! It's the most productive thing I've done in weeks, lol. Anywho, I've concluded that my beliefs are that Ching had murdered Vilmr, for a handful of reasons I find to be appropriate. This is not to bash anyone else's opinions in any way, as the sole reason of this post is sharing my own opinion, (and hear your guys' thoughts as well, of course!! ^^) For starters, when the body is discovered, it states that Ching is a self-proclaimed thanatologist, self-proclaimed meaning that one has given their self that title or role, rather than being handed it by other people (or in other words, not official.) The problem with this is Ching (along with Caela), are known to be very excellent liars, and have lied to Vilmr's gang before.

Referencing to Vilmr's character relationship sheet, inside the "foes" section, Ching appears, with text directed to him stating that Vilmr often feels that he's the one who doesn't trust Ching, and that Ching makes him incredibly uneasy. Text from that same source also states, " Vilmr's paranoia often dictates who he believes to be malicious, and though his premonitions often seem baseless and absurd, he almost always ends up being right.. in some way or another. " Using this information, we can automatically assume that everyone else trusts Ching, hence they trusted him with investigating the crime scene. Ching could easily use this to his advantage.

Another extra possible thing is relation from Ching's animation in the VOICE CLAIMS video to the near end of the Thrill Kill Animatic. Brook is shown to be at a window possibly similar to the one in Ching's animation, comparison pictures shown below.

Overall, there's probably a bunch more reasons why Ching may or may not be Vilmr's murderer that I missed, but I've been working on this for 2 hours now lol. If you have any ideas, or anything to add on I'd love to see them!! :3c

COLORQUEST BELONGS TO: @creaturefeaster / @chickenstab

[nattikay]

Neteyam, 20!

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

Ooooh, for Neteyam? That's a tricky one. For Kiri it's clearly Spider, for Lo'ak it's clearly Payakan, but Neteyam...hmm.....I'm trying to think of which characters are even viable options here lol

I always assumed he would be friends with a lot of his peers back in the Omatikaya clan, though of course we never meet any of said peers, so that wouldn't count as a good answer here...Kiri, Lo'ak, and Spider kinda already have designated best friends...he does have a cute sibling relationship with Tuk but she's so young that it feels weird to have her fill the "best friend" role...and same thing but reversed for Jake, Neytiri, Norm, Max, Mo'at, or any of the other adults in his life; there's some good relationships there but the age gap makes it weird for any of them to fill that "best friend" role.

I suppose that just leaves the Metkayina kids. Hmm.....well, as much as I don't really like the guy, I might have to go with Aonung...IF he can get over some of his jerkiness. Neteyam wouldn't want to be friends with a bully. But on the flip side, Neteyam could be a good influence on him, so perhaps it'd work out. They could probably bond over their experiences as the chief's firstborn son or smth.

Rotxo also has potential, but we just know so little about him that it's really hard to say. He wasn't involved in the fistfight though, so I suppose he earns some points for that. Although...Rotxo and Aonung already seem to be each other's best friends, so would that disqualify them, like Kiri/Spider and Lo'ak/Payakan? Hmm...

Tsireya is an absolute sweetheart of course, and I'm sure she and Neteyam are friends, but best friends? Nah...that'd be a little awkward given that Tsireya and Lo'ak are clearly into each other 😅

[grimgrinnrs]

Suddenly appears out of thin air with a terrifying explosion of shadow magic and the bright neon eyes of his little shadow helpers mixed in.

With a hot cup of tea in hand. " So! That was an unexpectedly long retirement from the public eye! What have I missed? "

[serendipitousoracle]

there really is a mystical special layer to Boop Day in that I know what the little funny that Tumblr's pulling on me is, but for a good twenty minutes or so I was really struggling with whether The Population of Tumblr had constructed a second layer of joke in the alleged "Super Boop," the truth of which I'm not clarifying here for what I think are now obvious reasons