#who would've thought lmao

[nhaneh]

Anyway it really cannot be exaggerated how much the current situation with the shortage of certain types of diabetes medications is very directly the fault of fatphobia and the weight loss industry.

There are doctors out there - particularly in the US is my understanding - actively prescribing those very same medicines purely for weight loss, while plenty of us actual diabetics who kind of need those medicines to actually, you know, physically function and possibly not die, end up unable to get them because of the subsequent shortage.

This situation also, more than anything, clearly demonstrates how the claim that "concerns" about overweight are not and never were about health - that when it comes down to it, those concerns run contrary to health, if not life.

Fatphobia kills people. The weight loss industry, the tabloids, the beauty magazines, the TV celebrities - they all have blood on their hands. I need you to understand that.

[sakurartsy]

So uhh hi. Looks like I’m back here for the meantime, just in case Twitter fully goes to shit. Still trying to adjust back to everything again, but tis good to be back I suppose? xD

[martianbugsbunny]

BITCH they had a WHOLE LOTTA NERVE to SPECIFICALLY HAVE STEVE SAY "bro, it's hard to date when nobody has shared life experience with u"

......IN THE MOVIE WHERE THE GUY WITH SO MANY SHARED LIFE EXPERIENCES SHOWS THE FUCK BACK UP. THE GUY WHO LIVED IN 1940S NY WITH HIM. THE GUY WHO SERVED IN WW2 WITH HIM. THE GUY WHO GOT THE SUPERSOLDIER SERUM LIKE HE DID. THE GUY WHO MANAGED TO STILL BE ALIVE AND LIKE THIRTY IN THE 2000S JUST LIKE STEVE. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING. WHY WERE THEY SO STUPID

[ashiyn]

iskall and stress have one of the best dynamics in hermitcraft and i need more people to be obsessed with them cause im sitting here smiling so hard it actually hurts like a love struck fool as these people giggle during every interaction over the most stupid things. they make me so insanely happy its actually surreal.

[hood-ex]

Cackling over the fact that Damian was the only one home when someone broke into the batcave, and when he went to go attack the intruder, he found himself confronted by 4 giant turtles. Then one of them proceeded to sit on him.

[dodorimo]

Going to go out on a limb here, but while I understand folks have different tolerance levels and have every right to be uncomfortable, people losing their minds over a line that's been in a game for almost a year is a bit silly. I'm sorry, but this is yalls fault for babygirlfying this man in the first place.

[nero-neptune]

WICKED! (remember that one cartoon about the gothy girl and her bug family?)

[bklily]

This weekend we had Bi Visibility Day, so here's the visible (canonical) bisexual kings of Twisted Wonderland, reminding you we're visible everyday 💅

...Well, except in the English Version maybe

[ryuki-draws]

Local trains au? Local trains au please?

The next part is in progress, chief 🫡

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

catra:

also catra, 5 minutes earlier:

“you will never get your hands on adora” my brother in christ you are the one who gave him the coordinates to track her.

[mastersoftheair]

So just to clear the air (and I guess my massive confusion) Harry never slept with Sandra, correct? I gotta say I need to read his memoir at this point as he is so intriguing to me, as well as masters of the air book, but like you said it’s a “blink and miss it” thing. I didn’t interpret it as anything more than having a few friendly conversations. It was more about emotional infidelity to me than physical, but given the circumstances and that exact heartbreaking point in time for Harry I can’t find it in me to blame either of them.

for me, ig i'm coming at my position from a place of bias. i'd read crosby's "a wing and a prayer" sometime in either 2021 or 2022 (those years blend together tbh), so i've had a lot of time to think about those 2 and their relationship and i lean towards "yeah, it likely happened" (this is a long response btw bc i'm quoting from the memoir):

crosby introduces his new friend, alexandra "landra" wingate (aka sandra westgate), in the chapter "learning about americans from the british" (this chapter was basically what we see in episode 6). moving on from this tho–

in the chapter "with landra in london", he expands on their growing relationship and the reader learns more about landra (she is genuinely Such an interesting person, and probably a spy). crosby writes about her with such admiration, regularly bringing up how smart she is. also, she's a captain!

this chapter's pretty important in how i formed my opinion on the matter. i understand the argument that the closeness of their relationship was intentionally left vague, but this chapter reads in a way that makes it feel Heavily implied despite not saying a lot (especially alongside crosby's emphasis on his wife jean being "four thousand miles away", as well as his own loneliness and despair wrt to all the missing and dead). there are some standout lines here:

-"I had Jean at home and Landra in England." (not a red flag, but it's a flag) -"I started seeing Landra every time I could." (cool) -"All I knew was that [Landra] was making my life much more endurable." (also cool) -"I did not tell Jean about Landra." (the last sentence of the chapter. it gave me pause and almost instantly reshaped the way i viewed that whole chapter)

the next chapter, "r&r with jean", crosby recalls how much the war took a toll on both him and his relationships. for a time, jean wrote more letters to croby than the other way around ("I began to skip writing to her."). i assume crosby must've been radiating Exceptionally negative energy bc he gets told this: "Croz, we can't stand to have you around. We want you back, but we want you to go home for a while." (i found the phrasing here really funny tbh. your vibes Suck! just Get Out of here!!)

so, crosby contemplates seeing jean again, wondering how both of them may have changed. he also brings up landra, for Some Reason: "What would I think of her? Protected in the States as she was, how would she compare to Landra? Now that I had grown so much, had such experiences, how would Jean and I fit together?"

the rest of the chapter Is about meeting and catching up with jean, however, and you can tell that he loves her a Ton. it's very sweetly written (he also basically ends the chapter saying "btw, we conceived our first child ;) ")

the final chapter about landra is "london junket" which begins with "When I returned from the United States and my idyll with Jean, I knew I had to do something about Landra." i think that sentence alone is pretty damning. if landra was just a friend, why would you be anxious about calling a friendship off? is it a guilt thing?

the context here is that crosby feels Far less lonely and depressed. he's met up with jean, life in london is finally "a delight". i found that important bc it gives me the impression that crosby desperately wanted companionship (possibly of two kinds), and he found that in landra– a friend and a maybe a [REDACTED]. now that he's having a great time with his friends in the 100th And he's met up with his wife, that itch's been scratched (that's just my opinion tho). bc of that, he decides to say goodbye to landra. they have this exchange:

"When a month passed after you were to return, and you did not phone me," she said, "I suspected that it was over. You found things good with Jean?" I told her about R&R in the U.S. I told her more about Jean. I told her about Stephen Patrick, Jeffrey Allen, or Evalyn. "When I realized you were gone," she said, "I no longer said no to a nice American at my office. I have been with him several times. I like him." (interesting) "I’m glad." (also interesting) "He is not married, He is not so dashing as you, but we have good times together." Me "dashing"? That was not my self-image. So much for Landra."

all put together (and with over 2 years to think about it), i Really kinda saw That Scene coming. but, like i said, i had that bias. and since i'd had a good amount of time to think about them, i came out the other end still excited to see them on screen. i found (and still find) landra a fascinating woman who must've had an exciting life (crosby's okay too ig lol). i also see them as a couple of imperfect, even selfish, 20somethings (speaking as an imperfect and selfish 20something). not to be corny, but "it takes 2 to tango". landra is Very intelligent, and crosby recounts how that aspect of hers left him in awe. she'd've 100% known the guy was married. and if signs point to her having had sex with the man, then she either made peace with it or simply didn't care (a lot of women are like that). plus, they're real people and real people contain multitudes idk. maybe some wife somewhere across the atlantic is hard to care about if you've never met her and never will. maybe it's hard to consider your wife's feelings in the midst of your own misery. a female character doesn't have to be wholesome and pure to be considered well-written. that certainly doesn't apply to most male characters. like you said, no one is perfect!

maybe, crosby left it vague out of respect to his wife. maybe it's vague bc nothing happened anyway (funny way to write it tho). maybe the wingate family wanted to avoid association with MotA bc it Literally didn't happen. or maybe they know it happened, but want to keep her name clean out of respect (who wants one brief relationship that happened 80 yrs ago to define you/your loved one decades later? that's 100% understandable). whichever the case, even crosby's kids are in a 50/50 split. i still lean towards "it happened", but it doesn't make me dislike either of them. they're flawed and i can respect that more than the show portraying either as picture perfect.

NONE of this is to say that i'm cool with cheating (or giving a "world war cheating pass", so to speak). while i find it realistic, it still wouldn't have been fair to jean, whether she knew about it or not (being a woman in the 1940s wasn't easy by any stretch). this Also isn't to dismiss anyone else's opinion on the matter, bc cheating on your partner is still a shitty thing to do. this whole spiel of mine is bc i like to share my opinions and i'm allergic to being concise. i write like i talk and on all levels except physical, anon, i'm giving you a long-winded rant over coffee and croissants lol

thanks for the ask!

[driftingmoonmenace]

✨ hap birth 2 me ✨

[despairforme]

SEPTEMBER WRITING GOALS .

[ So, hear me out. My philosophy this year was that I was going to stop "pressuring" myself to write. That I wasn't going to set myself writing goals, or schedule my time for writing, and just write when I felt 100% inspired. Even though I said in my new-years post that I was going to stick to schedules and goals, I scrapped that mindset and went for a "go with the flow"-mindset. This has been an absolute catastrophe for my writing. This is my worst year (writing wise). Not only have I not gotten to write much on my roleplaying blogs, but my personal projects have ALSO suffered. I'm 100k behind last year's word count ( on Nnoitra alone?? ). I wrote more on my personal projects in January of last year than I've done ALL YEAR in 2024.

NEEDLESS TO SAY - We're changing it up with writing goals!

Writing goals for September;

10 000 on Nnoitra ( this is a small goal, but considering I haven't reached 10k on him for any of the previous months... )

30 000 on my personal projects .

10 000 divided across my other blogs / other fandom projects .

Schedule goals;

Writing dedicated to roleplaying / fandom writing scheduled on weekends and evenings.

Personal ( book ) projects being prioritized during the day.

I realize it's a bit late to be posting goals, since that's something I used to do on the 1. of every month, but better late than never! Happy writing in September guys! ]

[docnukes]

Oc stuff featuring Robert (@freyoru)

The only time you get to see younger Vlad is in fact in a stupid meme redraw

[jichanxo]

how it started:

how it's going:

[heldenherzchen]

saturday, august 12 day 6: Benji getting hurt on a mission because of something Ethan does (direct or in-direct); Benji having to assure Ethan he’s not blaming him (@benthan-week-forever)

They were on a mission. They were on a mission and Ethan made a mistake. They were on a mission and Ethan made a mistake that caused Benji to get injured. He blamed himself. Of course he did. He couldn't help but feel responsible for everything, despite knowing deep down that it wasn't entirely his fault; that he couldn't be in control 100% of the time. But that didn't stop him from feeling guilty. It manifested in several ways (but it was always the same):

Guilt: He was consumed by it; blaming himself for the injury that befell Benji. He believed that he should have been more careful, more vigilant, and that his actions had directly led to Benji's harm. This guilt weighed heavily on him, causing him to question his abilities and judgment as an agent - as a partner.

Self-doubt: The incident shook his confidence in himself - in his decisions. He began to doubt his skills and capabilities, wondering if he was truly fit for the dangerous world they inhabited. He questioned whether he deserved to have someone like Benji in his life, fearing that he would only bring harm to those he cared about.

Emotional turmoil: His self-blame and guilt created a whirlwind of emotions within him. He felt a mix of anger, sadness, and frustration, directed mostly towards himself. The thought of losing Benji, the person he loved the most, intensified these emotions, making it difficult for him to find solace or peace of mind.

Overprotectiveness: In the aftermath of the incident, he became overly protective of Benji. He was afraid to let him out of his sight, fearing that any harm that might befall him would be his fault once again. It stemmed from his desire to shield his lover from any further danger and to make amends for what had happened.

But this was not about him. This was about Benji. Benji - the love of his life - bleeding, bruising, hurting. Ethan was patching him up, trying to make him as comfortable as possible. Benji looked up at the older one, his eyes filled with love and tenderness, sensing the brunette's inner struggle - the viciouis circle of Ethan blaming himself over what happened (because he always did; carrying the weight of this world on his shoulders).

"It's not your fault, Ethan," he said, his voice soft and reassuring. "These things happen, and we can't always control them."

Ethan looked at the blonde, his heart filled with gratitude and love. He knew that Benji was right - in a way - but he just couldn't help feeling responsible for what had happened.

"I'm sorry, Benji," he said, his voice filled with regret. "I should have been more careful. It's my fault that-"

Benji reached out and took Ethan's hand, squeezing it gently.

"You did everything you could, Ethan," he said, his voice filled with compassion. "You're a great partner, and I wouldn't want anyone else by my side."

Ethan felt a wave of relief wash over him, knowing that Benji didn't blame him for what had happened (he never did). He leaned in closer, his hand still carefully holding Benji's bruised one.

"I love you, Benji," he whispered.

Benji smiled, his eyes sparkling with love. "I love you too, Ethan," he replied, his voice filled with tenderness.

As they lay there, cuddled in bed together, their love giving them strength and comfort. They knew that they were meant to be together, and they were grateful for every moment they had.