#woke up this morning and chose violence

[flowerbeds-and-fairywings]

doodles because i decided to be devious >:D surprise !!! ✨✨

( @heartofalark and the artilleryman / @ghostingselfships and the host ; @jocelynships and draxum / @edjlord and hypno ; @squips-ship and javert / @soulnottainted and copia ; @moth-selfships and mochi miles / @selinas-ships and cedric ; @gible-love-nibles and p03 / @wisp-herr and marvin )

[giolovesyousm]

“you left me no choice but to stay here forever„

[bass-alien]

good morning also I’m gonna start exposing all the men on here who say out of pocket vile shit to me because I am over 👏🏼 it 👏🏼

[greenthena]

Ah, was I listening to Bowie today?

I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim

Though nothing, nothing will keep us together

We can beat them, for ever and ever

Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day

I, I will be king And you, you will be queen

Though nothing will drive them away

We can be Heroes, just for one day

We can be us, just for one day

Heroes, David Bowie's Changes

[skrifores]

I have seen the point being made that you don’t have to be in a romantic relationship for some behaviour to constitute domestic violence. I’m seeing this said with regards to Our Flag Means Death and what some people perceive as domestic abuse on Ed’s part - that him not being romantically involved with Izzy shouldn’t mean behaviour between can’t be considered domestic abuse.

It is an excellent point that in many places, the definition of domestic abuse isn’t restricted to intimate partners! It is often widened to consider any violence, coercion and emotional harm taking place within a home environment. Under this definition, children can be victims of domestic abuse by their parents, it can occur between siblings, even roommates - especially with a live-in landlord situation. And of course, the Revenge as well as being a workplace is ultimately where the characters live.

I think it’s very clear that the show is a workplace comedy about pirates, but if you want to apply the definition of violence, coercion and emotional harm within a home environment to your reading to the show, that can be done.

Of course, I would be surprised if you genuinely view it that way and still made it as far as even watching Season 2, given the way what you consider to be domestic abuse in this fictional setting happens so very often with little to no moral consequence, and is often intended to be taken as a joke.

I mean. In the very first episode, the crew talk about killing Stede, and begin to plan for this, including lighting him on fire.

Jim threatens Lucius and actually physically locks him in a small wooden box in the second episode for what seems to be quite a long time.

I think in 4, Izzy pulls on Fang’s beard and it really upsets him. He also talks pretty openly about the intention to kill the Revenge crew, though I’ll let that go at this stage since he doesn’t really live there so much as being there for the purpose of murdering them and stealing their stuff. Still, poor Fang, that looked like it hurt.

While we’re on Izzy, he does also actively try to kill Stede by stabbing him, and he then he goes and does the olde worlde equivalent of calling the cops on him on the intention of having him executed, which seems pretty fucked up on the ‘violence’ part of our DA definition but also hits pretty hard on coercive control since he’s doing this to get Ed to behave differently.

He does prevent the Navy from executing Ed, which is nice, but he does point out that he regrets this, which, ouch, emotional harm. If we’re doing real world definitions, “I should’ve let the cops I called on you murder you” is the sort of thing that would make me feel pretty fucked up. And we all know what it means when someone tells you to watch your step.

But it’s not all about Izzy! (It’s really not, guys, there’s a whole TV show here!) Buttons bites Lucius - who ends up needing the whole finger gone! And he’s a visual artist!

Even my darling man Roach tries to eat the Swede, and I’ve gotta say, I don’t think they were on that island long enough to justify murder.

And who could forget Mary?? Wonderfully written character, love her, but, she does with malice aforethought attempt to kill her spouse in his sleep with a skewer. She was right to do it, in my opinion, but y’know, even without broadening the definition beyond partner relationships, murder of your spouse is pretty classic domestic abuse.

So, y’know, the point I’m getting at really is that if your definition of domestic abuse is violence and control wherein the perpetrator and victim share a significant aspect of their lives like living space - that’s a fine definition in real life. It is the one I use, in real life. But if you apply it to Our Flag Means Death, I really don’t understand how you stomached watching the first season or why you came back for more.

And if you only apply this definition with regards to Ed’s behaviour, but not the rest of the characters, I do wonder why that might be.

[aleksanderscult]

“Did you tell him, Alina? Does the boy know how willing you were to give yourself to me?

Did you tell him what I showed you in the dark?”

This is the level of savage I aspire to be.

[schibi12]

A whole generation of children unwillingly learned the concept of mpreg and its thanks to the fairly oddparents

[iamthat-iam]

Let's address the elephant in the room shall we~~~

Invasion of privacy! HUGE issue that has been normalized on this app and I know for a fact wouldn't fly on other apps like IG, FB, Twitter or Tik Tok

Your "seeming journey" is supposed to be about YOU! It's like people hold bloggers to such a high standard like we're not allowed to react to disrespect, we're not allowed to defend ourselves, we're not allowed to have any type of privacy!

Even when I was still into LOA, I didn't judge content creators for having a "human" moment or reacting emotionally to situations. I didn't go out of my way to STALK their social media to figure out if they were fake or "catfishing" or not. I didn't do any of that, I was just focused on the TEACHINGS. Same thing when I joined the ND community. I was focused on the POINTERS.

Some of y'all should hit up Nev from Catfish and apply for a job with all the detective work y'all be doing 😭

Are you kidding me? I just find it funny that no one actually tries to debunk what bloggers ARE ACTUALLY TEACHING, but they try and find some character flaw (lying about their identity or their experiences) so they can ""cancel"" them.

Reminds me of when I joined the ND community, NOT EVEN A MONTH IN people ran to find my old YouTube channel where I talked about the void state, and were mad because I didn't want to talk about it on my blog 💀 a mess fr. Let us live!!

How hard is it to mind your own business? Seriously. We all get so many asks from people who desperately want to improve situations they're in, they desperately want to feel the oneness and omnipotence that we feel. If they would invest the amount of energy they put into trying to prove bloggers are fake into HELPING THEMSELVES, and LOOKING AT WHAT WE'RE POINTING TO, we would not be in this predicament now.

[starstruck-sillies]

Oh btw fakeclaiming someone based solely on syscourse is really fucking shitty. If they have DID/OSDD, they're a system. Doesn't matter if they're pro endo, anti endo, endo neutral, whatever their stance, they are still systems you shitheads. I've seen so many people go "Pro-endo systems are just faking" no they fucking aren't. People can, infact, be misinformed about disorders they have, whether they're diagnosed or not. That doesn't change the validity of their system, or their disorders. Their stance on endos doesn't change their disorders in the fucking least. Stop! Being! Shitty! To! Other! Systems! You! Fuckheads!

-Toby

[audioslavedragon13]

I swear, Oblivion is something else. Here I am, escorting Martin and Jauffre to Cloud Ruler Temple when a wolf attacks Jauffre on his horse. Martin, before I could even blink, sends the damn wolf flying in a somersault with a frost attack before turning to me, absolutely beaming.

That would not be the last time Martin would stare at me smiling after brutally killing something on that trip. The man stared at me with an honest to Akatosh smile on his face while the horses stepped all over the bandit's corpse. It was beautiful.

[purplebass]

Sometimes I think about how many times Tessa woke up at night in search of Will and Jem, after Will died. How lonely she must've felt, knowing that she couldn't see either of them. How she missed their voice or simply, their presence. The color of their eyes, the streak of gray in their black hair. How, sometimes, she even asked herself if they had really meet, if everything they had been through had really happened. How it hurt remembering when she had had nightmares before, and Will was there to circle his arms around her to tell her everything was fine, and she felt better. Or the words of comfort Jem reserved only for her, whenever they met at Black Friars bridge.

[the-insouciant-scientist]

Siblings bicker, it's what they do. It's not a bad thing in and of itself. But what happens when an argument becomes the last interaction you ever had?

(Translations:

<I regret it / the blame is on me>

<I regret it / the blame is on me>

<Please accept my most sincere apologies>

<Come home>

<Please>

<...Come home>)

[perotovar]

CARRY ON WITH THAT THOUGHT 👀 PLEASE AND THANK YOU 🙏

LISTEN

i just think javi g would make the prettiest sub with blushing cheeks and glazed over eyes and make the prettiest sounds because he wants to be so good for you and make a good impression because “mi amor, it’s been hours, please may i come? i’ve been good” and he’s tugging on the soft leather keeping his hands off himself and he’s so needy and his cock is throbbing and flushed such a pretty deep red color and “it’s starting to hurt, please” but really he likes the pain a little because he feels alive while he’s being pushed like this and he loves you so much and there are tears making pretty little tracks down his eyes because “i’m so close” without having been touched in so long and he’s sweating and his golden skin is glowing with the perspiration and his gorgeous curls are sticking to his forehead and neck and his hips are bucking and then finally you say “you do look beautiful when you come apart for me, javi. come for me” and he nearly sobs as his cock twitches and he spends all over himself, making a mess but he looks beautiful and he’s smiling as he breathes heavily and makes those pretty sounds again

😌💕

[ex0rin]

sometimes I'm just living my life at work and my brain will be like: hey, psst, remember that time Negan said "shit kid, lighten up, at least cry a little" to Carl?? and then I'll have to stare at the wall for the next twenty minutes

[impishtubist]

Remus not checking up on Harry for 12 years because he was busy being sad in Wales and Sirius not breaking out of Azkaban for 12 years because he was literally being tortured every single day are not the same thing at all, in this essay I will--

[nicoscheer]