#helpless mother

[thedarkcoven]

i’m exhausted, im frustrated, i am just overall fed up with everything. Crying on and off because it seems like no matter how hard we try, my husband and I get the shit end of everything. We’ve tried everything to fix our problems we have with our shit hole of an apartment and 1) the city isn’t doing anything to help like they should 2) the slumlords we ahve dont care about anything but money; they haven’t fixed ANYTHING in our apartment and its been about 2 years since they’ve became our new landlords.  I am extremely embarrassed to say this but we have dealt with bed bugs for as long as we can remember due to the old tenants that lived in this apartment and we didn’t know about it until it was too late. We ahve tried chemicals, rubbing alcohol, steaming, heat treating, EVERYTHING you can think of even to throwing everything away and we are still dealing with the problem. I am pregnant with my second child and I am just so fed up with not being able to do anything or being able to get out of this place. Rent everywhere is way too god damn high. I just don’t know what to do anymore. I am so helpless and can’t stop crying due to exhaustion and frustration. I just want to find a better place so we can leave all our old shit that’s infested behind in the trash so we can finally be free of the pests. I just don’t know what to do. I’ve lost hope a long time ago. I just can’t anymore. 

#i feel lost #i feel hopeless #i am done with this place #slumlords #new york #new york state #helpless mother #i dont know what to do anymore #i am so embarrassed #and so fed up #i cant stop crying #i really dont know what to do #i want to be able to sleep comfortably again #please #help? maybe? #i just need help #i need a better place #i dont want my children to live like this #i feel so disgusted #i am tired of these landlords not helping #i am at the end of my rope #all i want to do is cry #depression post? #rant #i just really need help #im begging #i cant deal with this shit anymore

[fanficmemes]

Hey why are we not talking about monkey man. Dev Patel writes, directs, produces AND stars in one of the best movies I’ve ever seen and not one single post about it has come across my dash!! Go watch monkey man and leave a whole new person

#personal tag #monkey man #the camera work #the colors #the acting #the rage the helplessness #the refusal to fail #ohhhhh my god #blessings from my mother LIKE JFC #IM FEELING CRAZY

[pbnmj]

tfw the man you love against your better judgement gets a kid to help him with his photojournalism and dies trying to expose the criminal he's been blackmailing and then the kid puts on a uniform that's way too big for him and calls himself spider-man after ben urich and you know he's going to get killed trying to serve justice to all the criminals in new york. and now there's a sixteen year old kid bleeding out on felicia's doorstep and again despite her better judgement, she cares. how much of that is a misplaced sense of responsibility for her dead lover, and how much of that is the deep feeling of injustice over how this child is the one fighting, and how felicia knows that she could never turn him away. what then </3

#we need more jaded old man who hates everyone and is overly harsh to the young girl theyre protecting but they end up like family #except the its a jaded old woman and a young boy. and i think noir peter felicia could be set up like this :) #especially bc i rly dont think felicia has a parental bone in her body. the dynamics get better/worse due to this #i really really need that feeling of guilt and helplessness and the 'YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER' fight with them #i also think they need to have an awkward touching talk about ben and the mess he leaves behind and EVERYTHING #first thing that is coming out of the drafts in so long and its deranged noir takes what else did anyone expect tbh #spider-man noir #spiderman noir #peter parker #felicia hardy #my art #noir #felicia

[aingeal98]

When Daisy is kneeling next to May's body in S6 and Jiaying's body in s7 and each time she reaches out to smooth her mother's hair out of her face, to give them that small bit of kindness even if they are no longer alive to appreciate it. File those moments under acting choices Chloe Bennett makes that personally murders me.

#Aos #Aos rambles #Daisy Johnson #The helplessness of it all. The cycles of grief of it all #She didn't get to hold her mother's body the first time #The first time her mother died trying to kill her. The second and third time she died saving her #How do you even begin to process any of that #(if you're daisy you get a haircut and honestly fair enough)

[noxexistant]

on oscar and morris delancey

steven berkoff, the fall of the house of usher / the fall (detail) by alan stephens foster / two friends by malcolm t liepke / wikipedia, “law of holes” / embrace by peter wever / margaret atwood, the blind assassin / how the light gets in / hera lindsay bird, mirror traps / tabitha suzuma, forbidden / sue zhao, where to begin

#oscar delancey #morris delancey #the delancey brothers #web weave #so normal about them! have such normal feelings about the complexities of their relationship #how trauma plays into it intrinsically and how it’s so tangled with obligation and trauma bonding and helplessness and you are all i’ve got #so codependent that they don’t know where the love starts and ends #or maybe the love is all of it #sometimes it feels like it’s none of it #oscar’s an older brother and a father and a mother and a sister and a child #morris is unwanted #they love each other #they’d have nothing if they didn’t

[taviacoolcat]

as much as i love fics or hcs where neil kicks ass, i also think it's so funny that he repeatedly states in canon that he's only good at picking fights and not winning them

#cat talks #we love you self aware king! #also i don't think neil is helpless in a fight but i think on the run he was obviously more worried about. running #plus he had his mother to protect him. so it makes sense to me! #aftg #neil josten #the foxhole court #my neil tag

[eroticcannibal]

Being genuine for a moment. No clowning. No mockery.

Most of you would have a child removed from your care in an instant if you genuinely believed what you tell me to do is right. That kind of overbearing, independance-killing, cotton wool and helicopter parenting is ABUSE and children ARE REMOVED when that happens. It also SPECIFICALLY goes against my child's care plan and going against care plans is generally VERY RISKY where custody is concerned.

You're all future child abusers (I fucking hope! Call children's services on yourself NOW if you have access to kids I am begging) and I am never going to listen to you ✌

#word of god #i do know of a case where a toddler was removed because they were... over parented i guess? #like the child could not develop #they were helpless #it was so sad #and the mother just wouldnt listen #because she had this compulsive need to constantly parent #because not parenting for a second would be 'bad' #that child's legs were atrophied #this attitude has a real life cost and children are paying it

[bellaaldamas]

@stupidrant this is the official, SMS approved (hopefully) gif everyone should use whenever they encounter a fandom troll.

#because any other reasoning just wouldn't work on those people #yesterday stumbled across another troll comment (though not a new one) from an Odin apologist #saying that Odin 'never abused Freya' and women like her 'always lie about those things' #alas there's no option to post gif responses in the YT comment section #otherwise I'd be doing that on a hourly basis whenever seeing nonsense like this; or posts about how #'Thr*d and Atreus should get together; because apparently a girl punching a boy in the face before trying to #chop his head off as he lies helpless on the ground (which she would've done if her mother hadn't interfered) after calling him #'a killer just like his father'; or a boy 15 years of age playing a parent to girl's actual parents - one of whom is #a semi-functioning literally gigantic alcoholic who slaughtered this boy's people and bragged about it in front of him - #is a basis for healthy romance #rather than an actual healthy and equal and caring relationship between Atreus and Angrboda #who trusted him when he admitted he had no idea what he was doing and agreed to share responsibility with him #which was supposed to be his all along but that he wasn't ready to take just yet #in addition to opening up about her own pain of losing both parents just to help him feel better #and aiding him in embracing their shared heritage which was what Atreus wanted from the moment he #learned of his giant background and 'Loki' #that is on top of taking care of Fen while Atreus embarked on a quest of his own (both times) and being the only one who could #sooth him back into human form during his animal transformations using only words of support and physical gentleness

[yxngchen]

everyone always talks abt how katara mentions her mom too much, but i never see anyone talk abt how much tenzin talks abt aang. maybe they both talk about their dead parents bc they feel like they failed them and the guilt eats away at them. just a thought🥰

#katara feels guilty bc she was helpless to save her mother #and tenzin feels guilty bc he feels like he didn’t live up to aangs expectations #so. maybe that’s why they talk abt them so much 😍 #iduna.txt #atla #lok #aang #katara #tenzin

[raayllum]

yk i was going to ask what your takes/predictions are for the rayla/sarai parallels but then i realized they sure weren't gonna be good and would ruin me but then i realized i do not like myself anyways so you have the floor

So I have a lot of feelings about Sarai and Rayla (and Claudia) being women who are doomed by the narrative and I will try to express them eloquently

Post with Sarai and Rayla parallels (pre-S4)

Post with Harrai and Rayllum parallels (pre-S3) featuring all the potential parallel pairs

The Viren-Avizandum theory that Viren paralleling Avizandum in the intro was to also parallel how the dragon queen caused Harrow's loss of Sarai by having Viren cause Callum to almost lose Rayla (pre-S4, largely defunct but still interesting)

Bonus Claudia and Sarai parallels (being used for dark magic, etc.)

With that out of the way:

Rayla and Sarai do have their similarities, given that they see their enemies as people even when it would be far more convenient not to and everyone else around them is telling them not to ("The human looked up at me, and I saw the fear in his eyes" / "You keep calling it a monster!"). And they see these people as well, people, even when ultimately taking the act of dealing the final blow upon themselves (Sarai being the one to kill the Magma Titan, Rayla killing/tackling Viren off the Pinnacle). There is, of course, the very obvious framing parallel between Harrow watching Sarai ride away in 2x06 and between Callum watching Rayla leap away an episode later in 2x07 that makes my heart do a little pitter-patter every time

We know from Callum's Spellbook and from Sarai's argument in 2x05 that she is staunchly against dark magic - just as Rayla is - but they are both willing to stand by Harrow and Callum anyway even when they choose to engage with it: "I disagree, but I stand by you anyway" / "It doesn't matter what you did before, I just want you to be okay again". (This bodes well for S6 Rayllum in particular.)

There is, of course, that Sarai dies saving Viren, and Rayla almost dies killing Viren / wrecks her relationship with Callum by leaving to hunt him down, causing mother and son to both assume, "Without Viren to perform the spell, the heart is worthless and this was all for nothing" / "I didn't find him..." "Oh, so you disappeared for two years for no reason at all?"

While Harrow and Callum parallel each other more framing and devotion wise (Harrow never moved on from Sarai just as Callum never moved on from Rayla, while Sarai must've moved on fairly quickly after Callum's father's death for Callum to be able to remember the man and only have a 5 year age gap with Ezran. More thoughts on that in this oneshot here <3)... I think Harrow and Rayla are more similar personality wise and that Callum also has a great deal of similarities with his mother. (This is also why Rayla-Harrow and Callum-Viren dynamics tend to parallel each other as well, tbh.)

Basically I don't think there's a clear cut-ness to it - almost everyone in TDP parallels each other at least a little with a generational breakdown of

Personality:

Harrow-Rayla

Viren-Callum

Sarai-Ezran

VS Generational roles

Ezran-Harrow

Rayla-Sarai

Callum-Viren

if that distinction makes any sense? There may be more to the Sarai-Rayla parallels (certainly I can see the "Tell me she wasn't your world" + making a choice said woman doesn't want you to make on her behalf involving dark/star magic and shit, which Callum arguably already has) in S6/7 in the way I thought might be happening pre-S4, but I lean more away from it now. There could always be interesting (or sad) stuff I missed though between the two ladies, so anyone feel free to leave your thoughts in the reblogs/replies!

And like yourself anyway, you deserve a seat

#thanks for asking #requests #queen sarai #tdp rayla #m4rs-ex3 #tdp #the dragon prince #there's also stuff in the book 1 novelization of when callum realizes the egg won't make it #it reminds him of how helpless he felt about his mother's death #and like. that coming back with the prison's comparisons to the egg / #callum always just wanting to Save the People he Loves no matter what?? #his mother being that Initial loss in a lot of ways for him? yeah. yeah. i could see it

[fromtheseventhhell]

I am almost there, Arya thought. She knew she ought to be excited, but her belly was all knotted up tight. Maybe that was just the fever she’d been fighting, but maybe not. Last night she’d had a bad dream, a terrible dream. She couldn’t remember what she’d dreamed of now, but the feeling had lingered all day. If anything, it had only gotten stronger. Fear cuts deeper than swords. She had to be strong now, the way her father told her. There was nothing between her and her mother but a castle gate, a river, and an army … but it was Robb’s army, so there was no real danger there. Was there? (Arya X, ASOS)

I'm feeling very unwell

#arya stark #asoiaf #I just read the red wedding and I am not doing okay #this is how I cope #I felt so sick seeing all the obvious signs that something terrible was about to happen oh my god 😭 #Arya didn't even get to feel relief at the thought of seeing her mother and brother because she FELT that something bad was going to happen #SHE WAS SO CLOSE TO BEING ABLE TO REUNITE WITH THEM BEFORE SHE WAS HELD HOSTAGE BY THE BWB AND THEN SANDOR I- #SHE WAS THERE SHE WAS RIGHT THERE WHEN HER FATHER DIED AND THEN WHEN HER BROTHER AND MOTHER DIED AND SHE WAS HELPLESS BOTH TIMES I CAN'T

[arathenerd]

✨Fanfic soulmate AU idea for Merthur✨

Hi, hey, hello.

So. Here’s the thing: this idea has been literally living in my mind rent free and it has developed into a sort of monster idea at this rate. I NEED this thing out so maybe someone actually competent at writing can pick it up and make me very very happy. So. So. So. I’m gonna divide this post in three parts to make it more understandable and all that, starting with the world building.

World building 🌎

I know what you are thinking. “Oh, soulmate au, must be very straightforward and boring” NO MY FRIEND.

Usually, in a soulmate au, a superior divine power (be it a god, the universe, or whatever) chooses the characters partners without their intervention. In this world, the characters are the ones who choose their soulmate.

“What?” Yeah. Hear me out.

In this world magic not only exists, but it’s also widely accepted and integrated in society. That includes practices such as marriage, which can be accomplished in three different ways.

Your usual magicless ceremony, though in this world is not as popular as,

Emotional-bonding ceremony. Pretty self explanatory, I think, but nevertheless, is about bonding emotionally with your partner, which means people can feel what the other is feeling. Is believed that this bond allows for a deeper connection in the relationship. And then there’s the most rare one,

The soul-bond ceremony. Like I said, extremely rare. This is mostly because of a series of different reasons, but is also considered the most important marriage bond you could ever have, if you do, and is widely romanticized. Soul-bonded pairs, because of this, are deeply respected, to the point that separating them is considered a grave violation.

Some of the reasons why soul-bondings are extremely rare:

a. It doesn’t work for everyone. What I mean with this, is that just being in love with someone isn’t enough. The soul bond requires not only a deep mutual understanding, but a love that transcends the body. In a matter of speaking, your soul has to be in love with the other person's soul.

b. It’s not enough if you do happen to love that person that way, but the same kind of love it’s not returned. It needs to be mutual.

c. It cannot be forced. You can’t make an arranged marriage with a soul-bonding ceremony. If the people involved aren’t willing and don’t feel like that, the magic simply won’t take. And finally,

d. Not that many go for it? I mean, the prospect of a soul bond is daunting as it is but on top of that, this ceremony is not as simple as that. As the name itself tells you, this is a soul-bonding ceremony. You are literally uniting your souls. That’s not only permanent, my friend, it will also transcend your mortal life and bleed into the next. Do you have any idea how desperately and profoundly in love you have to be to go for it? Yeah, exactly.

As you probably noticed, yes, this is where the chosen soulmate thing comes into play 😏.

Reincarnation exists in this world, but mostly, people can never know if they are reincarnations or new souls… unless, of course, the had a soul-bond from a past life.

People really don’t get flashbacks or memories if they do happen to be reincarnations, soulmate or not. There’s no such thing as a soulmark but the universe does have its ways to push people that are supposed to be close together.

You know when you are about to go on a trip, add all these thing to your baggage, and feel like you have everything you need, except… no. Not quite so. There’s something missing. You turn around your room, even search the bathroom, but for the life of you, you can’t figure it out. The feeling it’s maddening, anxiety inducing, really. What is missing?

And then, you can’t wait anymore and need to leave, so you do. You get to your hotel, and, while unpacking, it hits you. Suddenly you know exactly what you left behind and, yes, it turns out to be something you very much need.

That feeling, that nagging at the back of your brain, it’s how it feels to be reborn soul-bonded. Not that people can recognize it easily. Besides that, there’s the hunches. Sudden strong feelings that say “yeah, if I do this, if I go down this path, I’ll get closer to finding this thing I need, even if I don’t know what it is yet”. It’s slow working, but people always get there. Eventually. It only takes one look for your soul to sing in recognition.

Also, just because they are soulmates doesn’t mean they immediately fall in love. They are still strangers to each other. It’s more like, meeting someone and having the perfect comfort that if you work for it, give it your all, you will find a love like no other at the other side.

Engagements are also done with magic, usually. The practice is as sort of more formal promise, because once a person is magically engaged to another, any magic done in a ceremony (marriage) that isn’t done with the person you are engaged with simply won’t take.

Not only that, but if you happen to already be married (either with an emotional bond or a soul bond) and try to get engaged, the magic won’t take either. This means that if you are a reincarnated soul with a soulmate, you might find something new about yourself at your engagement ceremony lol.

Unless you happen to do a magicless ceremony I guess, but like I said, it’s really not the preferred thing.

Arthur in this AU 👑

After laying down the basics, who’s Arthur in this AU, within my head?

He’s the crown prince of a kingdom (it can be Britain if you wish, or a modern Camelot, idk, it really doesn’t matter) and he’s about to go through his engagement ceremony. *gasps*

Is an arranged marriage, of course. If you write this, you can choose whoever you like to be the woman at the other side, but either way it’s not gonna last.

Arthur, of course, isn’t happy about it but knows this is his duty and all. Never mind the constant feeling that he’s doing something he really shouldn’t be doing, or the feeling of guilt he doesn’t understand.

The ceremony is a public affair. Nobility, high society and royalty are all there to witness the event as expected, including journalists to document the event. Then the ceremony begins, Gaius, the Court Sorcerer to King Uther, doing the spell casting. Except, it doesn’t take.

The guests, who had been silently expectant, suddenly start quietly murmuring. What’s happening?

Uther frowns, going to Gaius, wanting an explanation. Calmly, Gaius tells him that the engagement won’t be possible, since the magic bounced against Arthur. The murmuring gets louder. Is the prince already engaged? Married? Oh, my!

Uther turns to his son, red in the face, screaming “what have you done?!” But Arthur is just as confused as everyone else. He says as much.

Gaius intervenes, telling the king there’s no point in being mad at Arthur, since the soul bond was clearly done in a past life.

Now people are really going nuts with this. Soul bond? It’s rare of course, but do you have any idea how many centuries it has been since a noble, let alone a royal, was soul-bonded? Let alone the crown prince?

Arthur can feel his heart beat out of his chest.

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This is pretty much the only clear scene I have in my head, so, yeah. I also played with the idea of having a sort of soul-tracking spell that lets you see who’s at the other side of the soul bond as if it was tv and make everyone look at Merlin and realize it’s him but I wouldn’t know how to make it work. If you can, I might kiss you.

Merlin in this AU 🧔🏻🪄

So, you probably noticed Gaius being Court Sorcerer to king Uther there, didn’t you. It will be relevant here.

Court Sorcerers and monarchs in this world work as a team. Usually, when a new king is crowned, a new court sorcerer will be named, and this sorcerer will be the most powerful one of the same generation as the will-be-king. Sometimes, they'll meet before the kingship, sometimes after. There aren’t really any hard rules about that.

The new Court Sorcerer prospect is not obliged to say yes, but it is considered a high honor. Not that Merlin in particular wanted to.

Merlin is not only the most powerful of his generation, but also the most powerful to be born in centuries. This is not surprising, since it doesn’t matter if he’s reincarnated or not, Merlin is always going to be the most powerful one. But I digress.

He was found by Gaius, when he was 17, barely getting out of school. He explained the process: he would go trough training, and when the time came, he’ll take his place.

Merlin really wanted to say no. He almost did, but something stopped him. A hunch, a feeling that, maybe, just maybe, saying yes would be worth it. The feeling was strong enough for him to doubt his original stance, and then, to yield.

And so, the man would spend years under Gaius’s tutelage on all things magic and royal customs and etiquette, these days being closer to his thirties (somewhere between 25 and 29 years old). And everything would be perfectly fine if he hadn’t had the most curious dream.

You see, I said that people usually don’t remember their past lives but Merlin is a bit different. He’s pretty sure this was a past life.

In the memory, he’s running through the woods. He runs, runs, runs, feeling the heartbreak, the pain, the tears running down his face.

Modern Merlin doesn’t know it, but his past self would dare to soul bond with prince Arthur of Camelot, even knowing he wasn’t his to have. They did it because they wanted something only theirs, for once. Something no one could take away. But, as was usual when it came to duty, prince Arthur would be forced to marry eventually. And that day was that day.

So Merlin runs. Eventually, he reaches a hidden stone cellar, abandoned a while ago. He goes in it, burying the precious item within. He buries it because he knows no one must ever find it. The gods only know what would happen if the nobles or, gods forbid, the king figured out what they’ve done. So he buries his dreams and hopes, protects them with magic so they are not eroded and damaged by the earth, enchants the cellar so it doesn’t fall apart on top of it, no matter how much time passes.

A sudden fear paralyzes him. What if he tried to recover it and didn’t find it? No. That wasn’t an option. He was being a fool, he knew. He would never get the item back. But just in case, he needed to make sure that he could.

And so, the Merlin of the past didn’t know it, but, the spell might have worked too well. The point was to brand the location in his brain, but he’s so desperate, so scared, he doesn’t realize he branded it in his soul.

Modern Merlin wonders at this memory, wonders at the sudden necessity to go look for the item. But the thing isn’t there anymore, is it? It probably never was. It was just a dream.

And yet, before he knows it, he’s already looking, something he can’t name driving him forward. He feels ridiculous, set for disappointment, but he can’t stop. He walks as if he knows where he’s going.

His heart stops when he sees the beat down entrance of the cellar. It goes up to his throat when he goes without stopping to the specific place the item was hidden. He chokes on it when he knows not only where it is, but how deep it was buried.

And then, it’s in his hand.

The ring is simple, but beautiful. A gold band with elegant Celtic runes. Merlin looks at it, fascinated. He can feel the magic embedded in it. Soul-bonding magic.

He gasps. It is believed that touching a soul-bonding item that’s not yours is bad luck, but he has the all encompassing feeling that this ring is his.

Now, within the library he seats with Will and tries to pretend there isn’t a necklace around his neck with a ring hanging from it, hidden under his clothes.

Finishing thoughts 💭

If you write this in a slow burn, longish fic, with angst but also mostly softness and drama from an external threat I would love you forever. Bonus points if you use third pov, specially with the media. I love when that’s included with characters that are supposed to be public. I mean, people gushing about the fairy tale with prince Arthur on twitter? Newspapers documenting what’s happening? Yes please. External pov is the best.

Super extra points if you write it without miscommunication being the center of the angst and the fic. Forget kissing you, I would soul bond with you.

Anyway that’s it. It’s pretty long, but hopefully someone feels as excited as I do about this AU and picks it up. If you do, don’t forget to leave the link in the comments ❤️.

#bbc merlin #merlin #Merthur #Merthur fic #fanfic idea #fic idea #Merthur fanfic #Arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #this idea has been HAUNTING ME I SWEAR #Is it obvious with how long this post is? #i just keep thinking about Arthur suddenly looking at Merlin and forgetting how to breath bc holy that man’s gorgeous #and the media going crazy bc the crown prince being soul bonded to a man? talk about unexpected #and then everyone and their mother shipping it so hard they are trending on Tumblr for a full month with gifs and everything #and Merlin seducing the hell out of Arthur and Arthur trying to pretend he isn’t helpless against it #uuughhhhh #king arthur #camelot

[blacknidstang]

Sometimes i remember the scene involving samuel possessed by Azazel taunting dean was him telling dean what he"s gonna do to sam and how exactly he is going to violate him while calling mary a whore and how he'd personally fuck her and my head starts to spin literally

#azazel is the plague on the family that dean had to witness #violating all his loved ones #possessing his grandfather kissing his mother invading john multiple times bleeding into sam's mouth #and dean is standing in the middle of it all taunted and helpless #not only a witness to their assasult but a prey to their threats too #anyways #spn #family sickness #i think azazel metaphorically has a lot to do with abuse and incest themes

[buggybestfriend]

who wants to love me so fucking gently that it feels more like religion than love

#something something i need to be loved like i never was #loved like how a child loves their favourite plushy #enough to care for it and hold it in their arms when they get scared #enough to trust that it will protect them #i need to be loved like how a mother loves a newborn. repulsive and new and helpless but a wonderful miracle nonetheless #i want to be kissed every night like how icarus kissed the sun #with enough passion to burn #i need to be loved like how a drunkard loves his wine. enough to commit himself to something he knows will be his demise #like how the moon loves the sea. enough to try again and again for all eternity trying to embrace it #oh dear christ upon the cross i need to be loved

[iosagol]

Cant tell if Leon Mighty-ass Redbeard not having a red beard as a human is the funniest thing I've ever seen or a tragedy of incredible proportions

#Okay the hair color doesn't even matter it's the fact that his human face was drawn looking so round and squishy #I know Kazu does all his noses either big and squashy or does the little half circle but Leon was ALL pointed shapes as a fox #I expected his human form to be pointy too #Maybe even an elf if that's what it took to keep the points there #But suddenly he was this round squashy character in Leon's clothes #None of his iconography #None of the intensity no poky edges I mean Max was pointier as a human than Leon #Mmmm #I have much beef with Amulet 9 but as a Leon fan since I was twelve his sudden human reveal is the most shocking #Amulet 9 #waverider #amulet #kazu kibuishi #leon redbeard #Maybe we can argue that it's to symbolize that now Leon doesn't have to be sharp and dangerous #And always defensive #He can be at peace #But honestly I think that sharpness is a major part of who he is and it's not just there because of trauma or war time #Leon is a protector #He stood between two helpless mothers in two separate books without a moment's hesitation #He's viciously brave and viciously strong and occasionally he even uses this strength to push others beyond their boundaries #I don't think that will ever change

[lunannex]

The day people stop mischaracterizing Kaveh and Alhaitham is the day I will finally be happy

#alhaitham isn’t mean he’s just very blunt #kaveh isn’t a helpless damsel in distress #i mean #he IS in distress #just not in the way you think #people dumb-down kaveh so much it’s so annoying #he graduated with honors!!! yeah he’s a little gullible but he’s not fucking stupid #also this whole ‘kaveh wouldn’t know how to function without alhaitham’ bullshit #besties he was practically taking care of himself after his dad died because his mother fell into a very deep depression #and THEN she moved to fontaine and he was living alone #he went to school and GRADUATED TOP OF HIS DARSHAN #everyone wanted him to work for them after he graduated #he built a palace and YEAH now he’s in massive debt #but like?????? #he landed himself in that position and he’s TRYING to get back on his feet #i’d say he’s pretty independent idk #yeah yeah alhaitham pays for all his drinks most of the time #and he helps kaveh out a lot in other ways as well #but the point of their dynamic is that they’re mirrors to each other #you can’t really have one without the other because their stories are so intertwined and they help each other grow #they keep each other in check #luna talks #anyway #i’m very upset :)