#we're 10 years old too!!

[weird-bookworm]

HAPPY ARMY DAY MY LOVES 💜

[justvea18]

Phthia's new exile kid

[niuniente]

Mom’s acquaintance: Do you have grandchildren? Mom: No and not going to have any. My daughters will not have children, they have said so. Mom’s acquaintance: My daughter said the same! Like “Mom, never expect any kids from me!” and now she’s got two kids :) So your daughters will change their minds, too, just wait for it :) My sister and I:

[knbposting]

i wish taiga had an older sister so bad

[weirdstrangeandawful]

Whumper who makes a huge deal out of Whumpee's social mistakes.

Bumped into a neighbour on the sidewalk? They have to go over and over to do whatever work they need doing.

Spilled water at a restaurant? Have to show up and personally apologise and compensate them for the 'damage'.

Accidentally insulted a friend? Need to get them the most expensive wine and gifts possible and hand deliver it to their door.

Whumpee doesn't know whether they've just been raised a rude bastard and this is how the world is supposed to be or if Whumper is toying with them or if Whumper genuinely thinks this is what people have to do when they screw up.

[lgbtlunaverse]

It is such a travesty I was hardcore not looking at the fact that I was into girls when I was a kid. The amount of "mia and me" mia/violetta wattpad fanfiction 10 year old me could've been writing... tragic.

[agnimybeloved]

regarding that last post... not that black butler's canon has to be uplifting or have dadbastian or a happy ending to be "good" (i'm actually partial to tragedies especially the cyclical kind and would love for the series to straight up end with despair and the collection on the contract lol) but i do think that toboso's largely fumbled the found-family/interpersonal,/introspective aspects of her story and sacrificed a lot of narrative and thematic meat there for low-brow and off-putting comedy.... which is really exactly all she does with ciel's trauma as well-- shallowly using it for the purposes of trauma porn and/or comedy/inappropriate fanservice.

ciel only seems to have reasonable responses to his trauma when its aesthetically convenient if that makes sense. i honestly could go as far as to say that she depicts his trauma fetishistically-- every instance i can recall of ciel having an extreme traumatic response (i.e. vomiting, flashbacks, psychosis) is represented with (imo but honestly.... i'd be shocked if this wasn't intentional...) sexual undertones. his episode during the green witch arc doesn't have one of these moments within the episode itself as far as i can recall, but certainly i think the preceding/inciting medical emergency that forces him and sebastian to bathe together contributes to the reoccurring sexualization of "sickness" (physical & psychological).

not to mention ciel's subsequent episode is treated as the dramatic peak of his ptsd and something that he "overcomes" through sheer force of will (and the threats of sebastian... neither of which are a proper/reasonable way to handle such an extreme trauma response) and doesn't really battle going forward in the story. of course a lot of stories take this "one dramatic moment and then its fixed" approach to representing mental illness, and it makes narrative sense for toboso to want to more or less settle that thread to gear up for the important blue cult arc, but i think toboso's handling of mental illness in general goes so far beyond suspension of disbelief and tastelessness that i think she should lowkey be brained for it. the way she intermittently writes ciel's traumatic experiences as something horrifying and wrong and to be given sympathy meanwhile relentlessly putting ciel in inappropriate fanservice situations that diminish the severity of csa & pedophilia as well as disrespect the complexities of trauma and turn them into comedy... mind boggling...

overall though i think that black butler shows a real mastery of narrative arcs while falling short in terms of character arcs. most of the time these arcs are shown in retrospect with the addition of new backstory, but it feels as if the characters in present have barely grown at all... not that every story has to be character driven and a static character type makes sense for someone like sebastian, but for all that ciel is a unique and mature thirteen year old due to the circumstances of his life, he is still a thirteen year old, and one that has experienced a significant trauma quite recently at that. not allowing him coming of age-esque character arcs considering all that sort of breaks the believability of his character imo.

but i think that coattails does a lot in staying loyal to ciel's character and experiences while also respecting his trauma and bringing the depth and flexibility of adolescence to his worldview and actions that toboso unfortunately seems disinterested in. i love that aforementioned chapter of coattails and its sentiments especially with how it reexamines ciel's actions at kelvin's manor and the worldview that lead to burning it down with the children inside... not that it was an out of character decision for ciel in the moment, but i think it established a lot more severe facts about his character and worldview than toboso is willing to address in her writing and therefore feels unresolved. coattails' remedy to that awkwardness by coming full circle is so intriguing and fulfilling in contrast... it shows how adolescence and trauma can work together to so completely convince one of hopelessness and yet how just a bit of hope can change that worldview entirely. literally just the honest love of a random dog and the mundane care of a guardian... there is a cure and it is this..... what da helllll....

[britneyshakespeare]

Dresses that are nice but they're only made to fit you if you're 5'5 T____T

[allroseshave-their-pricks]

sometimes it's so fun to casually mention your age and see the eyes of the guys who have flirted with/hooked up widen, as they realize they accidentally chose the youngest person at the table

[quinty-imara]

Mina went through uhh more changes in her campaign. So here's these quick doodles about it!

[elenadoeslife]

It's going to be a busy couple of days.

Today babe's best friend and his girlfriend are coming over for dinner, board games & movie night. Tomorrow it's babe's birthday, so we're going out to dinner and the movies. Saturday we're moving birb to my parents' place- me staying there overnight. My cousin just texted me if I could get her a couple of things before we drive up to Italy next week, so I have to pick up that order as well. I already made a packing list and cleaning schedule.

The secretary in me has awoken, loool

[doggirl-narcolepsy]

Hey is it common for gender clinicians to tell you that you can't have SRS if you have an Orchiectomy.. like just straight up telling you that the surgeon won't operate on you if you've had minor genital surgery?

[antennatoheaven]

i keep making the mistake of looking at cat adoption sites :')))))

[windyhaven]

please reblog etc etc. this is like the only interesting poll i have thought of and i want to know the answer

[daedrabela]

sometimes i'll just be chilling with my bf and i start talking about something weird that happened to me as a kid/when i was younger and it turns out that was a whole ass trauma and then we sit there looking at each other like 😮

[glacierruler]

Got a doctors appointment in 1 hr to see what's wrong with my legs. Did you glaciers know that apparently, they aren't supposed to hurt all the time? I didn't. I thought it was normal, until recently ish, I saw this post be like, being in pain all the time isn't normal, even if it's just a little. I thought it was normal, because every time I brought it up when I was younger, it was all 'that's growing pain' this, 'quit complaining about everything' that. So I just thought it hurt for everyone to have legs all the time.