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There is probably something wrong with me, but I'm so happy! We recently did rheumatoid blood testing for me again (This is like the 4th time, the first time was positive, the next 2 were negative) and this time it came back positive for problems! Now normally, I'm sure others would be like "Oh no! I have a problem that they detected in my blood!" but I'm so happy because this whole shit show has been incredibly difficult and having a positive blood test shows that something is actually wrong! Yes! I have proof! Fingers crossed this helps going forward!

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I'm pretty sure the reason the end of the second season of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Doesn't fully connect up the way it should if you read the light novels is because it is only using the manga as a guide (which is only up to a point shortly after the end of the second season which could easily not have been out yet when the season was being worked on) but that also baffles me because they could easily then just use the light novels for reference, like you have all this info in the light novels and you are just going to ignore that and only focus on the manga which is like 7 volumes behind? Illogical.

#my next life as a villianess all routes lead to doom #my next life as a villainess #manga #anime #light novel

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GET TO KNOW ME GIF MEME - favourite group dynamics (2/?) ↳ the barden bellas (pitch perfect trilogy)

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sunsets after 7pm now !!!!!!!!!!! we made it guys !!!!!!!!!!!!

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RITSU!!

I just picked some colors with my eyes closed and did a color pallete

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my cat somehow took hundreds of selfies on my phone when i was sleeping

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I hate when people say ohhhh your pets only love you because you feed them. as if that wasn't the first form of love any of us felt. get real.

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Fascinated by stories of the - I guess you'd call it the "stolen identity" genre, like, of the Anastasia Romanov variety. But - from both sides.

Your husband has been at war for thirty years. You married when you were teenagers. The man who returns bearing his name looks... plausible, you don't remember his eyes being quite so blue, but it's been thirty years and it's not like you could ever afford to have a portrait painted. He knows your name and the names of your children and your parents, but there are curious gaps in what he remembers. But war does things to the mind. And if he's kinder than you remember? Kind enough that, maybe, you let yourself believe...

No one has ever looked twice at you, since you're just the maid, until the day a revolutionary bomb goes off, blowing a crater in the summer palace. The famously reclusive duchess and the rest of her household lie dead in the rubble. You know that you and she were the same dress size. You know where her jewels are kept. Most importantly, you know the location of the secret tunnel that leads down to the docks, and to a life overseas that would be torturously hard going for a poor maid, especially one suspected as a thief, but a lot more comfortable for a royal in exile...

The old king's most faithful retainer swears this is the heir to the throne, raised in secret and trained to one day step into his father's shoes. As the usurper as dragged off the throne, she screams that the old king's children are all dead, she made sure of it; no one pays her any heed. (Maybe they should have...)

The man in the tavern is buying drinks for the whole bar before he sets sail tomorrow for the far side of the world. He's got it all figured out - a ship of his own, retirement to a tropical paradise when he gets sick of the pirating life. His lip curls as he talks about the stultifying boredom of the aristocratic world he's already left behind. You find out that his parents recently died, and the estate is in the care of his younger sister, who was only six when her brother first left home two decades since. Between the lines, they sound like a good family; they sound like they love him, the way your family never did. Your heart aches. He shows you portraits, letters, before shoving them carelessly back in his coat pocket. They would be so easy to lift...

It's a surprisingly common concept and I just love it. It's The Return of Martin Guerre; it's multiple 90s romcoms; Agatha Christie pulls it half a dozen times. Sooner or later, it crops up in fanfic for just about any fandom with a royal or aristocratic main character.

And I can see why, because there's so much richness to it. From the outside, it can be anything from a horror story to an unlikely love story; from the perspective of the person pulling off the con, a heist movie or a tragedy or a heartwarming tale of found family. And then there are the longer-term implications: What happens if you wear a mask so long that it becomes who you are? What happens if you come to love the "replacement" to the point where you don't want to find out the truth? What is it like to uncover such a deception a century down the line, to find out that your great-grandfather... wasn't?

Just. Identity stories, man. <3

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This panel is so funny to me, they are all so jealous and it's just like fair

#my next life as a villainess #my next life as a villianess all routes lead to doom #anne sherry #anne shelley #katarina claes #hamefura

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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

#1 and 3 at 33.3 #2 at 33.4

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Derin, I love your writing so much!

I am so glad that we have made it off the totally normal space ship onto a totally normal planet and that everything is going so well!

From now on, everything will be super fine and normal!

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@thebibliosphere I had to repost this for both of us because OOF