#won't ever be accurate

[soothsayerditty]

★I don’t know the reason why Running through this endless sky I can’t see the journey’s end Yet I swear I’ll try again Wish the world could always be Like the light that’s shining here with me★

★BNA - NIGHT RUNNING★

[a-host-of-dancing-daffodils]

And because I recently read the Chocolate Box...Please enjoy one of the only things I feel like the show did right with this particular story...

Poirot looking super dapper in his Belgian police uniform:

The cut of this uniform is very flattering on him, I must say...especially with the way it accentuates his chest, his waist, and his ''''''''seat''''''''

And I love the design on the collar/sleeves. Very fancy/official

also. please look at his very silly official hat

Gotta say. Hugh Fraser may have been the eye candy of this show, but. David Suchet sure knows how to be pretty, too

[nightmarecountry]

trying to be the change i want to see in the world (sending my friends asks about their characters so they can yap and i can learn things)

[joy-girl]

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

i fully understand what's going on to make john act the way he does in the farm divorce, these are Very Extenuating Circumstances, i don't like, blame him for it or want to hold any of it against him, but also, maybe his worst moment (that shows up in the actual podcast and isn't just alluded to). he is so genuinely nauseatingly awful in that entire fight. honestly worse than i think he even ever got in season 1. his moral grounds are getting questioned so he retaliates with the most blatant and aggressive manipulation tactics possible, throwing arthur's s3 breakdown in his face so he can cling to the high ground while simultaneously continuing to try to lie about basic facts of what's happening and i'm just. jesus Fucking christ, john. you Cannot be doing this.

and then on the other side of the equation arthur spends the whole fight accurately deconstructing where john's coming from emotionally and then tries to absolve him of all responsibility for his actions bc of it?? going "actually if you think about it all of this is really my fault for not being nebulously better at keeping you on rails." and also killing his friendship with oscar basically unprompted to placate him. honestly deeply concerning behavior the whole time this man needs so much fucking therapy it's not even funny.

[dirtytransmasc]

Are yyou team green or black? And why?

team green, though I'm not in support of every green character (namely Otto though my opinion of him is complicated. I also have opinions on Aegon and his characterization that makes it even more complicated)

[I have only read bits and pieces of the book, so my opinion is based almost solely on the show. keep this in mind]

I'm team green for 3 big reasons. they're more complex, thought not perfect by any means, more morally "right", and are simply more my vibe when it comes to characters. now this is very simplified and not at all nuanced, so stick with me for a minute.

Firstly, they're more complex. the greens have very deep, detailed, and nuanced lives and stories that lead to them being very complex characters that can't be put into a box. Alicent was a child bride who had lost her mother young became a mother young and suffered at the hands of power and men all her life. her children were affected by this and the world they were forced to grow up in throughout their lives. even individually her kids are drastically different; aegon the child who was forced into a life he did not want and suffered due to his father neglect and mother pain. Helaena who was never understood and grew up treated like an oddity. Aemond who was never seen to his full potential, always ignored or looked over, angry throughout his life. each of them has strengths and weaknesses, flaws and benefits, they're imperfect but never completely horrid. they're also never simplified (not entirely, even when the plot and writers seek to simplify them) to the point that they put on a moral pedestal or made straight evil (i'd even argue that the attempts of the writer to oversimplify them as evil and in the wrong makes them 10x more fascinating). I find TB characters tended to miss the mark on that, always put in the moral light, not even allowed a moment to reflect on their actions, lives, or positions in any nuanced or meaningful way, so they always just feel dull. they're also out on a moral highground that they can never be budged from, which makes them harder to like and honestly, really boring. they get away with everything instead of being emotionally and morally nuanced.

secondly, they're more morally "right". I will never say that any of the greens are perfect, they are far from it (with the exception of Helaena and her kids, who have done literally nothing to anyone, but I digress). what I will say, 9/10 times there is some level of reasoning that has some level of reasoning. Alicent always tries to do whats best for everyone, all throughout the series she tried to do best by the court, the king, her children, the realm, and Rhaenyra. did she always succeed? no, but she always tried and her mistakes were almost always honest. I will say she held resentment towards Rhaenya, but honestly, I can't blame her. Rhaenyra's lies and behavior hurt Alicent over and over again so for her to be angry is expected.when it came to succession, Alicent backed Rhaenyra until it was made clear she and Daemon would be a threat to her children's lives and even than she held mercy for Rhaenyra. Aegon's drinking can be blamed on the abuse and neglect he suffered at Viserys, Otto, and Alicent's (though the abuse and neglect from his mother is insanely different and nuanced. she perpetuated her pain onto him because she couldn't heal herself. so I hesitate to call it abuse, cause its so much more complicated than that) hands. though nothing will justify his rape of Dyana, I personally think it was a bad add in on the writers part, and leave it at that. Aemonds rage after years of being ignored doesn't entirely justify what he did to luke, but he had reason for his cruelty after years of Luke (and jace tbh) being cruel just because they could. TB characters tend to do terrible things in response to either A. nothing B. their own terrible things. Daemon kills who he wants when he feels like it, even for stating facts. Rhaneyra will lie and hurt those around her to protect her bastard children. both of them conspire to protect themselves and allow themselves to be wed, really just cause. while there are times they have their reasons, its a lot less of the time, and typically the backing to their actions, is they were trying to unbury themselves from within their own graves. (to preface, I don't care about rhaenyra sleeping around, it doesn't bother me, but its the fact that she will hurt everyone around her to protect her lies, allowing a child to be maimed and people to be murdered)

thirdly, they're my vibe. I like morally complex character, who are, to be frank, pathetic. I like characters with complex trauma's and issues, who aren't perfect people but its not entirely their fault. I would much rather watch a whole show about alicent, a child bride who tries so hard to be a good wife, queen, and mother while not prepared for any such role. Aegon who is a boy with severe mommy and daddy issues, a drinking problem, a flawed past, and constantly wet eyes. Helaena an ignored girl who has suffered for no better reason then her family. and Aemond, a boy who was tormented, bullied, maimed, and made stronger by it at the cost of his compassion and emotional stability - over a nepo baby who was coddled by her father, her murderous husband with a knack for unneeded violence, and her similarly coddled children (the show boiled them down to this, in my opinion). one is simply more up my alley than the other. I want character that need to be dissected, who have suffered, who hurt me to look at.

also, team black created almost all of their own problems. seeing as the main source of contention had to do with Rhaenyra's kids being bastards, which was Rhaenyra's problem, which she caused, and kept digging and digging that grave (faking Laenors death just so she could marry daemon, turning the blame on aemond when luke maimed him furthering the divide amongst the house, trying to wed Helaena to Jace putting her in danger, trying to take the driftmark throne and killing Vaemond for a claim her sons did not have, etc,) till viserys's death, earns her a lot less pity from me. at the end of the day, her being a woman was only a needle in a haystack worth of problems she caused herself that hurt her claim. if she had just strived to create to connection with ancient and her kids, and didn't make herself look like a threat to everyone who lessened her claim (which alicents kids would be the first people to be taken out) alicent would have backed like she had all season and there would have been no war, maybe conflict, but no war.

theres also the effect of the fans on my opinion. I have faced more cruelty, terrible media analysis, and outright ableism/misogny/(blood and sexual based) purist ideology/etc. from the TB fans then I have ever witness by TG fans. TB fans have ruined almost all of the TB characters for me in more ways than I can count, so I will say I am very biased.

thats why I'm team green. as a whole they are simply more appealing, their stories are more interesting, demand more attention to detail and emotional understanding, and from my point of view were the "right" side to be on in the war (the war was wrong on both sides, but my chips lie in the favour of the greens).

[pourable-cat]

@starscall 30 Days Infinity Nikki Styling Challenge Day 5 - Save slot #2

Since save slot #1 is named Mary after Mary Crawford, save slot #2 is named Fanny after Fanny Price, protagonist of Mansfield Park, foil of wicked, uncle-badmouthing, gold-fishing Mary.

The Endless Longing shawl goes very well with that one white sundress to produce a sort of movingly pretty but also kind of sickly effect, because Fanny can and will drop dead without her Daily Horse Rides. The neckline is a tad low, but nothing can't be solved with the Aurosa collar. (Bonus: it comes with a little necklace, just like the chain she hung her crush's cross on)

Fanny might strike one as having a stick up her arse, but she's one of my favourites among the Austen protagonists. It's something about slowly but surely growing a backbone in an increasingly disillusioning world while never losing hold of her compassion.

[arsenicvirgo]

And the crazy thing is, I still dream of being able to trust you again.

I know that lifetime is gone. I know that like old ink you will fade from my mind and your face will be smeared out in my memories. But in the meantime, I will let myself dream.

[recre8ed]

what chess piece are you?

→ white bishop.

You are a White Bishop. There is something you believe in, be it an oath, a phrase, a promise. It's what keeps the bishop on the diagonal path it takes on the board. You live by this creed and infect others with it. You are empathetic, able to feel others' pain like it's your own, and offer advice or help to them. But be careful, because every bleeding heart runs out of blood eventually. Every leader crumbles to the next generation.

tagged by: @dreadedwxlf tagging: @vastiitas , @mkoshi ( any muse! ), whoever else wants to.

[beecreeper]

Please ignore my dirty mirror and my cheap ass accessories and my first ever attempt at beard makeup done with makeup three years out of date. Just ignore all of this actually. This is for me.

[ssspringroll]

Saddens me greatly that even with my giant/tiny slider, i will never be able to make my favorite ocs height-accurate. The tallest one is 20ft (6m). That's like a 2 story building. Game just can't handle dudes that huge ;-;

[daisywords]

nothing like getting very minorly told off at work to make me feel physically ill for the rest of the day

[espopstar]

Armchair diagnosed npd by the mutuals

Makes one post. Is immediately diagnosed by tumblr.

[somedaytakethetime]

I'm so amused by myself constantly because I went from having no attachment to F1 to actually arriving at a stage where I have very clear likes and dislikes for certain drivers and I'm sat watching these practices and qualifyings and races all crabby if my clear favourites aren't doing well and my clear dislikes do something of any importance...

[21st-century-minutiae]

The above is a variation of an early early-twenty-first meme template where two different groups with the same name are summoned in the opposite situation causing confusion. In this case, it is 'the sea people.'

In around the twelfth century BCE, at least half a dozen advanced, interconnected, literate empires collapsed without much explanation. Because literacy and written records were vastly reduced in the centuries following, we do not have a strong sense of why this happened. By classical antiquity around the sixth century BCE, new civilizations had emerged and they, too, did not have much of an understanding of why their predecessors disappeared, but they had a vague and mythological knowledge of their existence. Writings from the 6th century BCE laid some of the blamed attack by "sea people," as in, raiders from the Mediterranean causing chaos. This became a foundational part of conspiracy theories regarding Atlantis. The three bronze-welding warriors from different civilizations in the top panel are said sea people, and they correspond with the bronze age pharaoh in the bottom panel. While early twenty-first century denizens might not recognize their garb in particular, they can generally get the idea (if they are aware of the Bronze Age collapse and its associated myths), and they are somewhat likely to recognize the garb of the pharaoh, which is particularly distinct.

In the 20th century, starting with the works of H.P. Lovecraft, many authors contributed to the vague canon of a cosmic horror series known as the Cthulhu Mythos. The sea and the mysteries of its depths were a common theme in this genre of horror, and there are multiple maddening entities and civilizations that were said to live deep beneath the waves or who have drowned when they collapsed. These, too, could be considered "sea people." The bottom panel depicts three different horrors of the aquatic variety from the mythos, and their corresponding summoner in the top panel is a cultist from the same. In the mythos, it is a common theme for people to go mad from revelations and, in their madness, seek to serve the cosmic entities and bring destruction to society by using the damning forces of the eldritch, so it is appropriate for them to attempt to summon monsters for some mad reason or other. People in the early twenty-first century would understand the monsters to be from the mythos and the cultist to be a cultist, if they had any familiarity with the genre.

[light-wrath-paradise]

Funniest fucking thing is that I feel obligated to use this song as Billy's and Ewen's relationship song because the occupations inn the song (lighthouse keeper and traveling preacher) are literally the occupations of the characters they're both inspired by lmao