#woman returns home

[cyanbeetle]

Trinity thesis

[lazycranberrydoodles]

everybody go home. this is my magnum opus

[schemelin]

Palmer and Altairus

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

"contentment in singleness" doesn't require you to stop desiring marriage & family. it doesn't require you to stop pursuing marriage & family.

Christians are called to be content in any situation--that doesn't mean we abandon all our good desires and concrete goals.

contentment is to trust/rest in God's promises to love you, provide for you, and make you holy.

you can do all of those things, and earnestly want and seek a husband.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord. Proverbs 18:22

"Favor from the Lord" meaning, of course, blessing as the result of a life molded by wisdom.

Now, how can one find a good wife without seeking? Seek without wanting? And how can wisdom and contentment be mutually exclusive?

[fromtheseventhhell]

George did not write Arya naming babies in Winterfell and taking care of a child in the middle of a WARZONE just for y'all to say she's not going to end up with kids/family because she's "not that type of character" 😒

[arthur-side]

"I'm just a [man]."

No matter what the gods tell her, no matter how cold, distant, or scary she is, in the end, she's just a loving mother who's waiting to get back home.

Waiting, waiting.

[haminamibami]

No but honestly I would absolutely sell my soul for Miss Holloween

[brainrotcharacters]

"even if she's a woman from Sparta it's not the same as experience" Odysseus didn't want to leave for war until almost killing his son confirmed he was sane enough to be a war general. He didn't ask for experience. He's a family man. Odysseus specializes in long-range. Penelope specializes in long game, manipulation and deceit, and probably, close-range. Sparta trained their women; Sparta trained their princesses. Safe to assume Helen is also able to cut a bitch up if they get too close. No witnesses, and all that.

Ithacan and Grecian politics would have come for Penelope's ass if she made a move against the suitors directly because 1) Xenia 2) she's not considered man of the house even if she literally kept the kingdom going for the 20 years Odysseus was away 3) Ancient Greece was heavily patriarchal and misogynistic. Penelope's patience and scheming is a deadly ferocious thing and she is, above all else, married to Odysseus.

A woman at that time was expected to stay indoors and practice household duties. Her focus and concentration went into Spartan royalty training. The fact that we don't know to what extent is either a testament to how little they knew about women at the time, or how little Penelope let anyone know about her training at the time, or both.

[citrlet]

✨️ djunkelskog acquired ✨️

[revserrayyu]

One HSR Character a Day Extra 3 (Day 54): Feixiao

[staticymaticyyourlifeisatravesty]

Managed to make my warhammer oc in heroforge and fuck it, I guess she looks like Sanguinius- She's supposed to be a rogue trader whose slightly warp afflicted. Imma just role with it because man does she look dope asf.

[revvethasmythh]

it is good for me to confirm that no, my general irritation with percy when i watched the campaign in 2020 was not isolated to that period of my life, it really is just him that i'm allergic to

[snowshinobi]

Kaveh's relationship with his mother is fascinating. She's alive but she's gone. A massive desert plus an ocean away. His father sank to his death in that very desert. He has a copy of the architecture textbook she wrote; in his journal, he nitpicks the cover design. He mentions his absent mother's name, Faranak, but not his dead father's. He calls her mother, not maman or even mom. It's implied he learned his trade from her. His journal reveals that he feels agonizing guilt about his father. He has never spoken of visiting his mom in Fontaine, nor her returning to visit Sumeru.

like what the fuck is going on. There's intimacy here, but it's strained. There is the person she was, of whom Kaveh speaks fondly, and the person she is, who he neither knows nor seeks. HUH?????????

[tommygotwrittenoff]

i need them to put eddie in a coma so he can have his own little coma dream realization

[mollypaup]

story 5 by clipping. my beloved.

[sincerely-sofie]

Ruby anon again! I’m glad that I haven’t been interrupting your creative process or intervening at all. I can’t wait to see what you do with Ruby and her siblings!

The siblings, btw, were a piece of work for me to write and develop until I decided to peace out on really doing anything with them. The only two things I remember about them really are:

• They’re bounty hunters and their parents did the same thing to them that they’re doing with Ruby. They’re repeating behavior taught to them and they legitimately think they’re helping Ruby. I scrapped that idea quickly because I felt like that could push out the problematic “the abused become abusers” message and that it could possibly make the siblings sympathetic, and I did not want to make them sympathetic in even the slightest way. Anything I had involving the backstory of Ruby’s siblings and/or what happened to their parents was just tossed out after that.

• I thought about the siblings having opposite personalities and looks: one is more loud and aggressive and the other is more quiet and passive aggressive. One is shiny while the other is not. One is the physical abuser while the other is the emotional abuser. Despite their personalities contrasting, they get along well with each other. I wanted it to symbolize that abuse can look different, but it’s still abuse and can often come with other forms of it. I was still on the fence about that idea because I wasn’t sure if I liked it.

I hope you can write the siblings better than I ever could. I can’t wait to see more of your work! It’s amazing! I hope you have a good night. ^^

OHHHHH MY WORD I CAN’T BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW AMAZING THESE NOTES ARE AND HOW EXCITED I AM TO INCORPORATE THEM

I love the idea of the siblings embodying different forms of abuse and the significance of how their differences ultimately play off each other in a way that they get along swimmingly. That’s a brilliantly layered piece of storytelling, you’re a genius! And thank you for the compliment, you’re super sweet :>

Real quick, an important thing to note about the possible problematic message that “the abused become abusers”— it’s a heartbreaking fact that many cases of abuse are generational in origin. The documented fact that domestic abusers are frequently victims of corporal punishment is one of the most devastating examples of this. To write a couple of characters who reflect this fact doesn’t automatically push out the idea that the abused become abusers— heck, it could be written as an important insight into the devastating effects of abuse and how it impacts its victims, and how breaking the chain of abuse is even more significant than its already seen.

Just because you write a reason for a character to be a horrible person doesn’t mean they’re automatically sympathetic, or even that they’re sympathetic in a bad way. Villains people can relate to are very powerful from a writing perspective because they make the reader stop, stare into the abyss, and see it staring back at them. A sympathetic or “understandable” villain who is still clearly villainous is terrifying compared to one that’s cartoonish pure evil. I can’t think of anyone who wants to blow up the universe, but I can think of a good few people who are xenophobic to the point of dehumanizing even themselves through their hatred. An origin story isn’t always an excuse. Sometimes it’s nothing more than an explanation— a cautionary tale that says “this could be you, so watch yourself.”

The fact that this is a possible backstory for Ruby and her older siblings is very relevant to Twig’s character in particular. I haven’t talked about Twig’s aunt Rue or mother Rowan’s backstories very much, but Rue was very similar to Twig while growing up— and Twig resembles Rue as a child more than she does her own mother. In a piece I haven’t finished yet, there’s a flashback that reveals the lighter that featured so heavily in the abuse Twig suffered is printed with her grandfather’s initials. Ruby and Twig could talk for hours, I think, about the torrential emotions that come from knowing your tormentor was a victim as well.