#It was absolutely awful

[bonefall]

Do Birch and Alder ever learn of what happened to Misty? Actually, how would stolen kits (I feel like there’s an actual term for this but I forgot) throughout clan history in general feel about their… stolenness (I mean, that is if they ever learned about it) sorry if this is worded poorly hah

There was an old word for Stolen Kits before its outlawing; Honor Child. Kurrnia in Clanmew. They are not called that word anymore.

Through history it was a very bloody thing. Those children got harshly indoctrinated, and the "6 month" apparentice age originally came because that was thought to be the "age of loyalty".

that's just a cutesy way of saying it's harder to brainwash teenagers than children, by the way. To the point where it's not worth it to try.

When Birch and Alder found out, they're going to be old enough to get the "justifications." That they were won fairly, their mother was threatening them, that they were "saved." Petal Claw is the only parent they've ever known at that point... so, they were happy to take those excuses.

I don't think it lasted forever. I want them to both eventually leave SkyClan and find their dad, who desperately misses Misty. BUT, I want one to remain.

Because, that individual is going to get used as an excuse for why Kit Claiming is a viable solution to the Law of Loyalty later. The others are ignored.

In the Code Era and beyond, it's an accepted part of their culture. It's something talked about openly, framed as being taken by STRONGER warriors. Why would you go back to someone who was too weak to keep you?

That would be a terrible choice, so they say, because then you would be part of a worse Clan. It's a normalized part of their culture. So it's very rare that a Stolen Kit ever went back.

One less warrior for them. One more warrior for us.

This is as psychologically damaging as you think it is. "Honor Children" were notoriously violent to prove their loyalty. Their birth family would suffer guilt and pain for years, seeing them as adults and apprentices of other Clans, often stealing from other Clans themselves to fill empty nests and assure their own worth as warriors.

Parents and kits would die in these events. Kits trying to get home, parents laying down their lives to stop raids. Darkstar herself lost a sister, Aspentail, and still had two out of three of her nespring stolen. Only Perchpaw remained.

It was a long, bloody period in their history. The Queen’s Rights started a new era.

Fire Alone cats don't think it went far enough.

#clan culture #better bones au #Tw child abuse #Tw indoctrination #Kit stealing #I feel like I've tried to stress how horrible this was before but I'm not sure if it's landed. It was sick. #It was absolutely awful #And if you look closely at the fabric of modern clan culture you will still see its influence #Its scars and its shape. #Not every consequence is all bad. But the majority of it is and no one is better off for the practice

[bagool-the-wizard]

Somebody ate a hole in the flour.

Any idea who it could be?

#bunblr #bunny #rabbit #bnuuy #house rabbit #bunnies #willow and thicket #gremlin #awful little man #dust eater #flour slorker #wife just found him in there chomping it up dry style #absolutely unhinged behaviour

[creatureimages]

christmas beetle season‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

wahoo! hooray!

#beetle #christmas beetle #coleoptera #scarabaeidae #anoplognathus #it is so sick to see these guys!!!!!!!! #probably a. porosus if i had to guess #absolutely awful dogshit clumsiest fliers you'll ever see :) #actually maybe a. rugosus or olivieri. im shit at beetles

[thesherrinfordfacility]

michael sheen playing aziraphale is like someone being assigned a 500 word paragraph as homework and instead they turn in a 5 page essay complete with hand drawn diagrams, a paper maché model, and a box of homemade shortbread to share with the class

#fuckin send post #we owe him our gratitude and also. our lives #he did the absolute most this season and im still in awe #good omens

[buggachat]

yes the peacock miraculous obviously needs to be felix's and is extremely significant to him and there's so much poetry about the fact that he is the holder of the very miraculous that created him and him being the holder of it is deeply entrenched into the plot. HOWEVER.

sometimes i miss the cat!adrien vs dog!felix dynamic. because it was really fucking funny

#also like. if you listed out the personalities of adrien and felix to an unbiased third party #and asked them to assign one as dog and the other as cat #it would absolutely be dog!adrien and cat!felix. right? like it would. #adrien is like a little golden retriever who follows you around. felix knocks shit off your counters just to get a reaction out of you. #but no. cat!adrien dog!felix. like what the fuck is up with that. bring it back it was so weird #ladybug: aw darn :/ i gave the dog miraculous to the cat-coded guy by accident! i meant to give it to adrien. HE'S the dog guy #chat noir: excuse me? #also the fact they were fucking pet-coded?????? AND THEYRE SENTIMONSTERS??? FUCKED UP TBH. BRING IT BACK

[korina-art]

#in light of Wilbur being outed as a freak abuser #this is the state of Twitter rn #especially with dream absolutely BODYing Wilbur people are forgetting that he’s an awful person too #mcyt #wilbur soot #:/

[vynnyal]

So let me get this straight:

Hollow knight is about the journey of a small creature possessing the corpse of a god's discarded child, and the character arc that unfolds as they realize they're more than the path they were set to take, eventually defeating the corruption instead of merely postponing inevitable destruction.

Rain world is about the journeys and experiences of many small creatures sent by a bunch of gossiping computers, and the efforts to help stop the destruction caused by a corrupted god that unfolds over hundreds of years, all to postpone his inevitable death.

Man, video games are fun!

#rain world spoilers #hollow knight spoilers #gonna ruin both games in one fell swoop for y'all kekekek #I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about rainworld rn #I also have many thoughts about hk but I've been sharing those for years already #Truthfully I haven't talked to Moon in the final campaign yet #I'm afraid to #Rain world plays like a novel you can't set down #Every time you open the game there's more to see #Not to mention just how ridiculously high the skill floor can get #You can absolutely play the game without learning any tech or even caring about the lore at all #But when you really get into it? Aw man it's just absolutely infatuating #hollow knight #art #rain world

[tlotrgifs]

#lotredit #fotr #fotredit #tolkienedit #aragorn #the lord of the rings #fellowship of the ring #our gifs #elise #random but okay #the coloring is absolutely awful #but i'm gonna try to post at least once a month this year

[the-kipsabian]

saw a take so fucking rancid on twitter i almost deleted the entire app from my phone jesus fucking christ

first of all ao3 is an archive site. this is like going to the library and saying "oh i dont like this" on every piece of media you find that you dislike and thinking they should be stamped with some sort of a marker just cause you didnt like it

you can always click back and leave. fic writers owe you nothing to explain themselves and their creations. if they have mistagged or miscategorized fics, then i understand, however there are report tools for that instead of yelling at the artist tbh

im not saying free works arent necessarily above criticism. but this is just. fucking wild. its common courtesy to just enjoy stuff (or fucking leave if you dont, the back button is free) and if the artist specifically asks for critiques, then give one - constructive that is, shitting all over someones work is not proper criticism, mind you

i just find it fucking wild people are treating art and archive sites as social media these days like this and everything needs to be policed and ~catered to the algorithm~ like. no. ao3 doesnt have an algorithm. you should be able to fucking tell what you like and what you dont like and steer away from that kind of content and let people fucking be with their art. they dont owe you anything (except trigger warnings i'd argue, but i know some people disagree with that as well for some reason), and imagine how much more energy you'd have if you only engaged with things you liked and spent time looking at instead of going to places where you dont enjoy yourself. let alone spending time telling other people you dont enjoy what they enjoy. what a fucking life

#like what the fuck #where is the common courtesy of fandoms these days im just fucking asking. its ridiculous #the back button is free. shutting your fucking mouth is free. constructive criticism when people ask for it is nice but only then #these are fucking basic level fandom engagement things #am i old or are people just this fucking awful now that these guidelines dont exist anymore #im just. ough #sorry i had to get this out. idk as someone who has never left unsolicited advice for anyone and never gotten it back it just #it fucking grinds me that people are like this now. like fucking wow #ive been here for almost two decades soon and i still know how to behave. yall better fucking learn #im gonna go back to video game sorry i really needed to yell for a hot fucking second #if you choose to reblog this dont fucking clown on it okay. god #night is an absolute mess on main

[jung-koook]

favorite jungkook looks: this jungkook's black swan outfit ♡  

#jungkook #jeongguk #jeon jungkook #bangtan #bts #skygifs #jklooks #this colouring looks absolutely awful on phone but i promise on my laptop it doesnt look that bad

[nataliescatorccio]

JONATHAN BAILEY as 'Harry Clark' For Comic Relief's 'The Traitors' sketch

#jonathan bailey #jonathanbaileyedit #jbaileyedit #the traitors #comic relief #ughmerlin #arthurpendragonns #ivashkovadrian #userzoya #tuserbea #usernik #flawlessgentlemen #userbbelcher #chewieblog #*gifs #absolutely lost my mind when he showed up on my tv and couldn't stop laughing #i can't get over him in his dangly earring asdfgh #(apologies for awful youtube quality rip)

[taxinealkaloids]

horrible children who are. so so mean to each other

#tlt #the locked tomb #my art #precanon griddlehark dynamic is SO funny. the way they are just no-holds-barred absolutely AWFUL to each other. #the fact that harrow made fun of gideon for saying 'i love you' over her dead mother's grave so gideon nearly choked her to death #and then when gideon recalls this story in gtn she's just like 'yeah lol we were wild kids' #also remember when gideon responded to harrow being kind of bossy with 'your parents must have been so relieved to die' like #imagine saying that knowing full well her parents killed themselves in front of her when she was ten!!!! insane!! #there's no sense of going 'too far' between them. they casually hit what would be considered by most ppl to be 'too far' and then keep going #anyway i don't usually go in for characters-being-kids-together stuff but i will admit that childhood gid+harrow #following each other around absolutely terrorizing each other because they're desperate for each other's attention but also full of #hatred and vitriol #does compel me #like...2 very lonely very traumatized children with only each other for company. what will they do? ENDLESSLY TORTURE EACH OTHER!!! #and yet they are each other's emotional support person. its so good.

[fainlin]

God I love Enver Gortash. Man literally went through hell, came back and made that everyone else's problem. Fell in love with a demigod, robbed a few important devils, tossed what one could possibly consider a friend to devils as he had been. Made an entire army of illithid zombie robot men, still possibly afraid of his parents despite all of that and has to wear anti-anxiety clothing.

#bg3 #enver gortash #lord enver gortash #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate #sorry there's no deep thoughts here my brain ain't wrinkly enough for that today #you just get me staring at this rat man in absolute awe instead

[creatureimages]

look at the absolute size of this archimantis!!!!!!!!

look at the mantis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#praying mantis #mantis #mantodea #mantidae #archimantis #these guys can eat birds!!!!! #absolutely wonderful #not sure if male or female. according to wiki the females can't fly but it's unclear whether that means #'completely groundbound and reliant on jumps' or 'can sort of ungracefully fly' #and im awful at sexing mantids

[theellipelli]

acheron redesign because her shorts annoy me.

#thoughts: #i felt like just putting her in pants was firstly #the boring way out #and two #pants are the devils clothes. no warrior should have to wear awful cloth like that #so instead shes wearing a sort of long leotard?? #or is it a short onesie #i love her top though so absolutely no adjustments there #i couldnt be arsed to draw all her patterns so just PRETEND theyre there #fanart #art #redesign #acheron #honkai star rail #i also think her colour scheme is very boring #bland even #so she got some reds in there

[mako-neexu]

i need to see who the director and animators and storyboard artists are for these episodes its absolutely insane. its seriously insane. everything has me speechless. if the narrative told you she only provided support and cover fire in himmel's party, the very party that slayed the demon king, you would never believe it.

literal chills the clone so coldly glared (keep in mind this is a clone, just a thing that's imitating memories and doesnt have a mind of its own. so the real deal's glare must be harsher) after it was backed into a corner by frieren and fern forcing it to use a spell where even fern couldnt sense any mana from that attack. its not even recognized as a spell. fern couldnt see what hit her when the clone was forced to use something so powerful enough to fern, frieren's apprentice thats been said by time and time again to be a monster of her own right against demons and even fellow mages.

the fight also near the end literally shows how capable frieren is even without her staff. just like when she was imprisoned, the demon that came in to dispose of her was literally nothing more than small fry. actually, that guy probably was even nothing to her. it took her absolute zero effort to kill draht so she's absolutely still capable of killing someone without a staff just like flamme.

from the literal black hole spell, a spell of hellfire where even being in contact in the same room with it would damage a normal human, a spell that seems more like terrifying version of zoltraak- which looks like plasma itself and strong enough to destroy frieren's barrier, to a spell that even shatters the fabric of reality, they really went all out for these fights since the manga was fairly fast paced when it comes to this part. but these displays were amazing in showcasing how terrifying frieren can be when backed into a corner.

#sousou no frieren #frieren: beyond journey's end #along with the feels you get from life lessons in frieren you get to be in awe of #the sheer power someone near immortal could hold in this world #absolute madness. i love it so much. #im desperate for a season 2 and 3... please...