#yeah that about sums her up

[fusionsprunt]

me when my meteor-powered robot gf attempts to murder me 😳😳

[starry-bi-sky]

I'm so annoyed. @kingcrow01 tumblr ate your ask about Danny's opinion on the League. tumblr i pressed 'save draft' why didn't you sAVE DRAFT.

ANyways I'm making a post instead. For everyone else, the ask was in summary:

What was Danny's opinion on the League now that he's left it? If he missed the familiarity of it, if he recognized the cult-like behavior inside it, and if he now detested his grandfather.

And to answer (again, grrr): It's complicated! We love complicated <3. Yeah, Danny does miss the familiarity of the League, it was still his home for the first ten years of his life and he has a lot of memories there. Plenty of good along with the bad, and while he's less homesick than he was when he was 10, it still hits him like a truck at random intervals.

Sam, Tucker, and Jazz are great, and he likes the Drs. Fentons enough that he's contemplated murdering Vlad for his meddling, but if he wants to eat the same food his mother used to make him and Damian, he has to do it himself and he can't get the taste right. No one knows arabic so he speaks it to himself because he doesn't want to forget his mother tongue, and he has a few books too. Frankly? He genuinely misses training.

Getting to use Sam's gym helps with his restlessness, same with training with Maddie, but he has no one on or above his level to go against other than his mother. And he only sees her twice a year at most. He knows that he's getting stagnant and he fucking despises it like a bad itch he can't scratch.

He feels conflicted about missing the League, however, since by now he recognizes the flaws and what was wrong with it, and he recognizes that it was cult-like. But even that is kinda, hrm, complicated? If this was a fic I would be able to go better into depth about what he has and hasn't unlearned because cult deprogramming is hard and Danny's doing most of this on his own.

Sam, Tucker, and Jazz have helped with the more obvious stuff: like the ecofascism, the disregard for human life, his emotional constipation; the more obvious stuff that shows in his behavior and personality. But none of them are professionals nor do they actually know the full extent of what Danny's life in the League was like. They only have snapshots since Danyal is very tight lipped about it. So they can only help with what they see themselves through Danny's behavior or word of mouth.

But in summary: He sees, for the most part, what's wrong with the League and disagrees with some of the stuff they do now. But he's very conflicted, and trying to dissect his feelings on the League confuses him. His protests about it whenever Sam and Tucker joke about it have at this point become mostly empty (altho it still causes him some discomfort), and its an inside joke between them three.

As for Ra's? Despises him. If only because Ra's wanted him to kill his little brother -- thinking about his motives with the League confuses Danny, cognitive dissonance and stuff, -- a lot of his hatred stems from "He wanted me to fight my baby brother to the death. I destroyed my relationship with Damian because of him, I had to fake my death and leave my home, and I will never meet my father or see my brother again because of him. Fuck that guy."

[deliriuxe]

[dykesevika]

[thestellargoblin]

i swear to god, if i see one more "poor calypso, she deserved better, such a tragic unrequited love story 🥺🥺🥺" post/tiktok/content/literally anything online, something is getting brutally stabbed

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

see in terms of hatchetfield str8 ships we all know that the dynamic apparently, legally, has to be a magical, powerful, effervescent woman/Just Some Guy-- but a very important aspect of that dynamic is the magical, powerful, effervescent woman in convinced that their Just Some Guy hung the moon and stars in the sky and would kill anyone who insinuated otherwise

EXCEPT (this is so incredibly important) for paul and emma

like does emma love paul? obviously yes! but also she knows he is Just Some Guy, Just A Dude, a wet paper towel of a man-- this is a large part of the appeal

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i think i've talked about this before but fuck it, i want to talk about it again. i find it concerning how little the spop fandom cares about morals or compassion towards others.

they think that adora should have stayed with catra and let the horde kill everyone in etheria.

they think that catra trying to destroy the universe and kill thousands of people was justifiable.

they think that shadow weaver is evil only because she's abusive, and refuses to acknowledge the fact that she's the only character who was actually trying to do something useful during the war.

they think that adora should not have taken the failsafe and that she should have instead stayed with catra and let everyone die, including herself.

they don't give a fuck about the characters who suffered because of the horde and because of catra, especially angella, micah, glimmer, etc.

and i know that these don't necessarily reflect their actual morals. i'm not saying that these people are bad just because of their opinions regarding fiction. but it is still a bit icky to see people be like “omg adora is so mean for abandoning catra, she should have stayed in the horde” when adora was trying to put an end to a war.

we're talking about a war here. adora didn't leave the horde for glimmer and bow, or for some luxury she didn't get in the horde; she left because she didn't want to support the group of people who were literally slaughtering innocent people by the hundreds.

[pigeonclaw]

This is my favorite part of Ivypool's Heart — it happens after Stalk Purr basically tells Ivypool that there's a whole wide world outside of what the Clans know.

After this point, Ivypool continues to struggle with her grief, but it doesn't pull her down into the pits of despair like before. It's still hard to move on, her problems aren't erased, but she has new hope. These paragraphs sum up what I think is a very beautiful way of looking at life — it is hard, there is pain and loss, but there's also so much wonder out there and isn't it incredible that we get to see it?

And I especially love that this view comes as the result of Ivypool opening up and having an earnest discussion with someone she'd ordinarily have written off as lesser for being from a different culture. It's important to widen your perspective if you want to grow as a person.

[victorluvsalice]

Well, it took a while, but here we are, the final chapter of "Start At The Beginning...Sort Of!" Which is also the longest chapter, because -- as per the chapter title -- this is where all the exposition lives. XD But yes, if you were at all interested in seeing how this story wrapped up, here you go!

[wonder-worker]

Writers who knew [Marie of France Countess of Champagne] depicted her in several guises. For Chrétien de Troyes, the most elusive of contemporary writers, she was an assertive patron of romances, dictating for example the subject and meaning of the Lancelot tale. The mischievous Andreas Capellanus, who was close to Marie in the mid-1180s, drew a highly entertaining parody of Marie and the prominent women of her milieu resolving the conundrums of amatory conduct in “courts of love,” in the manner of modern advice columnists. In Hugh of Oisy’s musical performance, Marie cut a fine figure as a combatant in a tournament of elite women. It is striking how in three quite distinctive imaginative works written in the 1180s, Marie appears as an author of an Arthurian romance, a judge at a court of love, and a participant in a tournament mêlée.

Others who knew Marie well in the 1180s and 1190s remarked different aspects of her character. The Eructavit poet noted her penchant for the trappings of wealth, and addressing her directly during a performance of his religious drama, chastised her for her “largesse and lavish expenses.” [Canon] Evrat, on the other hand, a resident canon of St-Étienne who observed Marie closely in the 1190s, stressed her spiritual and moral character. Seeking to understand the deep meaning of the scriptures, he wrote, she provided him a copy of Genesis to translate into the vernacular and annotate with the findings of the latest “academic” studies. In an epilogue added after her death, Evrat penned a eulogy praising her largesse and renown, and comparing her, la gentis contesse Marie, to the three biblical Marys—“she would be the fourth.”

An entirely different side of Marie was captured by Marie’s court stenographers, William (1181–87) and Theodoric (1190–97), who made verbatim transcripts of her comments and directives while observing her deal with the practical affairs of governance: assigning revenues (“I assigned 100s. on the entry tax on wine”), resolving disputes at court (“resolved in my presence in this manner”), confirming prior transactions (“I approved this act”), registering acts done at court (“done in my presence”), consenting to feudal alienations (“I approved because it was my fief”), founding chaplaincies (“for Geoffroy, count of Brittany, my brother”), and establishing endowments (“for the anniversary of my lord and husband, Count Henry”). All of that was “done in public,” usually in the presence of her officers and witnesses. It was precisely in her capacity as ruling countess of Champagne that she continued Henry the Liberal’s example of performing in public as prince of his principality. Having observed Henry at court—just as Henry, while a very young man, had observed the conduct of his father, which earned him the reputation as the “good” Count Thibaut—Marie understood that the comital court, as the core institution of the principality, demanded her active participation, and she paid close attention to the great and the minor issues presented there for her disposition.

It should be emphasized that Henry the Liberal’s principality was only three decades old when Marie became regent in 1181, and the primary comital residence and chapel in Troyes were barely twenty years old, not yet fully implanted as the seat of a new territorial state and mausoleum of a princely lineage. Marie’s task was to preserve the principality and its institutions intact, and to assure the continuity of the lineage. And that she did. Evrat sensed both the precarious nature of her rule and her achievement in holding a firm hand on the levers of comital authority, especially during those anomalous years of the 1190s: “Well did she protect and govern the land / letting nothing slip from her hand, / she was gracious, wise, valiant, and courageous.” By all accounts, Marie projected a complex, forceful, and captivating character, one that proved a worthy counterpart to the compelling personality of Henry the Liberal. [Canon Evrat rendered homage to her in the epilogue of his Genesis translation: 'She had the heart of a man and the body of a woman'].

-Theodore Evergates, "Marie of France Countess of Champagne, 1145-1198"

[oneguardian15]

when i say. i audibly gasped. when i saw elektra!!! in deadpool and wolverine!!!! i fucking GASPED

[a-gaime]

Every time I see bull red son an angel (me) loses it's wings (gets mildly annoyed)

[musingsofayounggirl]

melancholy.

eyes that linger,

how my heart aches for your touch,

how my throat tightens for your hold.

seventeen years gone by, and i have never,

felt so old.

something on my tongue as you pass on by,

careless shoulder brushing mine,

a whisper of dissipating, fleeting time.

it’s sweet and sour and bitter and dour and all of a sudden,

all at once,

i’m in the school bathroom,

stomach lurching, heart pounding, eyes pouring because it’s a punch,

it’s a teeth-clenched, full-knuckled slam across my jaw,

dignity scattered across the floor,

i am the one who cannot get up, yet i am the one who desires more.

are we cool?

are we fine?

i poured out my heart to you on that juvenile, fluorescent app,

messages fading though the haze as the words came out clipped and crazed, shaking, hesitant lines.

i sit with the melancholy in my mind as your eye catches mine from across the room,

i toy with the melancholy at play as i pretend not to see the way you light up when she arrives all too soon.

really, it’s always just melancholy as you two walk in tandem down the halls,

and it’s melancholy once more as i slowly come to terms with the fact that you never really loved me at all.

i cannot truly be her friend or yours, perhaps not ever again.

these juvenile memories of what if? and what about me? haunt my being, tarnish my soul.

there’s only so much a human heart can be bent.

but i can’t hate you,

believe me, I’ve tried.

what crawls out from the dredges of my soul, the crevices of my mind,

it isn’t hatred,

it isn’t loathing.

but it also isn’t cheerful,

and it also isn’t kind.

melancholy fills my lungs like a painfully sharp breath,

thick sap of a stagnant tree trickling down into my throat,

frame trembling with emotion,

trembling with something,

yet all i can feel is a dim, hazy burning,

all i can feel is numb.

melancholy is sweet,

it is disgusting,

it is honest.

melancholy is the reason i can force out a smile at you two in the halls,

but melancholy is also the reason why I’ll never, ever forget how we almost could’ve, had it all.

[captainfairygodmother]

I guess you could say that Joe Biden's stepping down, he's not running for president...

[thisisbecausepolyvoreclosed]

Concept looks for Love From The Stars AU counterparts of Power Rangers: The New Samurai team (bar Arianna due to being unsure where she'd appear really if she does exist in the AU), this AU being something me and my friend, @disneyfan50 , discuss a-lot that technically started with just Reese but slowly expanded to the rest of the team as well.

From top to Bottom:

*First human outfit for Reese once back on land after having been a mermaid and sea monster with Lia while the two went after the sea witches, with the outfit having been created by Lia based on Reese's prior outfits and while stuff like her ear wrap and nails remained the same as prior to the adventures under the sea, she finds that Lia has created a new necklace for her, much to Reese's surprise but Lia says its a present for someone she has begun to view as a sister slowly, though that just increases Reese's surprise fully...but also makes Reese happy as she's starting to view Lia as a sister as well. *Human form concept of Morgan, daughter of Tameka in this alternate universe, who is staying with her aunt Ariel and uncle Eric for the summer so she has time to get used to being human in time for the new term of Auradon Prep, but any normal summer plans go out the window when King Ben's wedding goes awry... *Mermaid form concept of Morgan, which she takes while diving into the water around the kingdom due to the fire in her aunt's and uncle's palace, being the mermaid to pull Reese out of the water when she and her family quickly went to Reese's, Lia's and Eric's aid after the three ended up in the water during their escape. *Tour of Auradon Prep concept look for Jesse, son of Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen in this alternate universe, who volunteers to help out with the tour, Reese among the attendees of the tour as she at first, does plan to attend Auradon Prep at the start of new term, but after the tour, isn't so sure... *Pirate look concept for Caleb, eldest son of late pirates Mike and Emily in this alternate universe, who is one of Silver's cabin boys on the RLS Baelstrom and is pretty excited when the ship finally lands on Ixsol, not only due to it being a new planet but also being a new planet to solar surf on, though when it comes to befriending the kid Jim brings to ship a-lot, Caleb is the one who did most of the befriending part, Reese swearing she relented to his annoying of her. *Pirate look concept for Silas, youngest son of late pirates Mike and Emily in this alternate universe, who is also one of Silver's cabin boys on the RLS Baelstrom, who similar to his brother, is pretty excited when the ship lands on ixsol, as Silas enjoys learning about new planets, let alone about their music, and he's probably the only one of him and his brother who doesn't completely annoy Reese when befriending her...if anything, he's passing on notes on how to tolerate his brother. *Aurora (left) and Helia (right) Etherial form concepts, who in this alternate universe are twin creations of their Etherial creator and human father, adventurer Antonio, who the twins constantly look out for when ships pass through their mother's system, given he does try his best to surprise visit them when he can, but one of these instances of checking for their father's ship results in them checking in on the RLS Baelstrom, a ship of pirates led by the Commodore and his adopted daughter, Reese, who Aurora finds herself developing a crush on.

[raayllum]

You should cut yourself a break. We all mess up sometimes. Or in my case, all the times. What are you talking about? Trust me, if the plan hadn’t gotten messed up when Bait flashed, I’m sure it would’ve flopped when it was my turn. Are you kidding? From what I can tell, you’re awesome at everything. Well it’s true, I am pretty awesome at everything... Right up until the moment when it really matters. That’s when I just - poof, screw things up. What do you mean? I dunno. I hesitate. (And in that moment, you hesitate. I won’t hesitate again. You will.) I think too much, get confused about the right thing to do. And then the next thing I know, I failed. I’m not good enough and I never will be.