#Owned for a Debt

[dargeereads]

Han by Theodora Taylor

5 stars

audiobook

After seeing Han in two previous books, I was anxious to get his story, and he did not disappoint in any way, shape, or format! Tough as nails, heart of gold, he meets his match with Jasmine, and they clash magnificently because of it. All that passion completely translates in and out of the bedroom, as they take convoluted path to their HEA <3

#Theodora Taylor #Han #Her Ruthless Mistake #Ruthless Triad #50 Loving States #Owned for a Debt #Forced Proximity #audiobook #Kobo Plus #KP #am reading #read romance #romance reader #romance books #read #romance #books #reader #bibliophile #book love #book blogger #book review #steamy reads

[maggot-baggage]

Methinks its time to move back home actually

#i talked to my aunt about it and honestly like. i might as well #im broke im in a bunch of debt i have no access to medical insurance so i cant get therapy im alone depressed and my bills are always late #and ive been stuck in my apartment for months bc of this ridiculous registration shit for my car #so as much as i dont want to sell my car OR move im. thinking about it now #like at least id have the house almost to myself since my sibling moved out #and i could make the upstairs my own pretty much. plus ive been meaning to jelp renovate up there so #why not #plus i can save for tattoo stuff properly #i just feel like im giving up i was trying to prove i could care for myself and #I feel like ive proven km incapable pf being an adult bc of this it sucks #but at least my ma and my aunt are willing to help me as i figure shit out. im lucky to have them #mag.txt

[radlymona]

TRAs having no empathy yet again

Teenagers who are pushed towards transitioning aren’t “pushovers” they’re mentally and emotionally vulnerable young people who shouldn’t be allowed to make life-changing medical decisions. Acknowledging this fact isn’t stopping adults from transitioning. It just aims to stops other vulnerable teenagers from doing the same.

#love how they quote peer pressured because deep down even though know they’re speaking with an incorrect euphemism #being told you’re at risk of suicide if you don’t transition is not peer pressure ffs #they hate their own community so so much #gender critical #also I’ve known very mentally ill people in the early 20s who have also transitioned #out of acknowledged internalised homophobia #one of them especially is having several mental breakdowns per year and is still allowed to transition #going into a shitload debt as he does so #they’re always willing to acknowledge how the medical industry preys upon vulnerable people except when it comes to comes to gender ID #then the medical industry can do no wrong

[reality-detective]

"You will now be on the hook paying the loans of someone else who makes $300,000 a year, that is the financial burden Biden has brought to all of us."

Bob Brooks slams Biden for cancelling another $7.7 billion in student loan debt. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #student debt #government corruption #lies #you decide

[hellishfig]

something i love about (at least a few of) lou wilson's dnd characters is that they always start out with a fun and interesting concept that would make a great character in its own right

and then lou says, "you know what would be hilarious?" and creates the most devastating, heartbreaking, stress-inducing, tragic backstory for said character

and i eat it up every time

#i am thinking about gunnie and eursulon specifically #gunnie's debt is so upsetting #but eursulon literally got trapped in a world not his own as a child!!! #and lou was like 'this will be so funny' NO IT IS NOT!!!!! I AM SAD SIR!!!!! #anyway. thank you mr. wilson. you're doing good work #lou wilson #dimension 20 #d20 #a starstruck odyssey #d20 aso #gunnie miggles-rashbax #worlds beyond number #wbn pod #wbn: www #the wizard the witch and the wild one #wwwo #eursulon the wild one #eursulon toma #eursulon wbn

[brother-emperors]

CAESAR AUGUSTUS AND MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS

this is about the spolia opima that crassus was robbed of lmao. like, yeah okay octavian could've asked him not to claim it, but nevertheless. a kind of theft happened there.

Fact and Fiction: Crassus, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima, Catherine McPherson

#this is one from the vaults I started a few months ago and finally finished. it’s always the furniture details that put things on hold lmao #the former co consuls are fightinggggg (?) #rome is built on top of other people. this is about both the imperialism-slavery machine and the way that all these guys would #politically devour their own generation to sit on a throne. etc. anyway. octavian specifically sits on a throne of other people’s #accomplishments. that’s a specific kind of debt to carry around your neck. or theft depending on who is doing what #this was theft. anything involving Agrippa was a gift so there’s an obligation to succeed which is it’s own kind of currency so to speak #sugghrhfh. every crassus always has to be like this. in my heart i always root for whoever decides to go up against rome #and then i'm stuck with the guy who should've got a spolia opima like. congrats on your win. i guess. i think. RIP. #ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT. while im talking about this crassus. domina fucking sucks. what an absolute clusterfuck of a show #anyway. if anyone ever does augustan age politics again. octavia would be a great character if you want to invent shit #but also more importantly octavian should seduce crassus for this. thank you. #octavian #marcus licinius crassus.....christ how do i write down that he's the grandson of my crassus. i'll figure it out later #roman empire tag #drawing tag

[brotherconstant]

Two Types of People: Pregame Rituals and Superstitions

#aloto #alotoedit #a league of their own #lupe garcia #jess mccready #maybelle fox #greta gill #ana blair #jo de luca #beegifs #if anyone can make out what jess is saying to greta in that scene i'll be forever in your debt #didn't notice it on my first watch and now i'm sooooooo #anyway. locker room shenanigans #yes i know they're in the wrong order but i don't care. too late now

[themalhambird]

Thinking about Tom Bertram's sick room and how we only see it in Fanny's imagination (painting from what Edmund's letters tell her) and I'm just. I don't see Tom's illness being the bonding time it can sometimes be taken as.

#idk i guess I just think that solid friendship between the two of them is something thats more likely to develop #as Tom's reformation becomes something thats obviously sticking and ALSO as Edmund does a bit of growing up of his own #mansfield park #(I also headcannon that selling the living was in fact Sir Thomas' EASIEST way of clearing Tom's debts-- not the only way) #(but thats a different post. as is my 'Tom's debts in general are somewhat smudged and he doesnt lose gambling as often as Sir Thomas thinks #that he does) #(absolutely not routed in anything canon that last one its just something brewing at the back of my mind that rounds the characters out)

[virfujiwara]

He doesn't drink blood btw

#BFUCU #sleepless art #Steven Lim #watcher entertainment #Phil 🦇 #doodle dump #My art #Vampire #He's broke he owns a nightclub he's a vampire he's immortal but he's got limited memory #Filthy McNasty #He's physically immortal but the mortality he experiences lies in no longer being the person who once was #He's drawn to items made of gold and finds solace in the symbolism of death and ritual #He has student debt he's bad at names he's an edenite vampire he doomed his best friend forever he's a funky and kinds little dude #we are watcher

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #public schools #ohio #education #food #black owned business #school debt #school to prison pipeline

[dosemakesthepoison]

Baldurs gate 3 spoilers about gale (and rolan kinda) under the cut

If you take gale and karlach with you to the counting house in the lower city, they have a conversation about how neither of them have ever had much money and I find that for gale, that provides some fascinating context for his life.

How much did his mother sacrifice to send him to university? Of course hes a mama's boy, getting him into magic college was probably her main priority for most of his childhood. How difficult was it for him to get learning materials? Gale loves libraries, which is a standard nerdy thing but as a kid whose family might not have been able to afford the books he needed to learn about magic? Libraries would have been his one connection to the world of magic. Every scrap of magical material would have been precious and hard won.

Mystras attention would probably have been absolutely life changing for him. If he doesn't have a fortune to fall back on, like lorroakan, having the attention of the literal embodiment of the weave is probably the only way he was ever going to get anywhere in his field. Speaking as someone who works in academia, it doesn't matter how smart you are if you can't get funding. Their relationship is already deeply one sided, but man if gale feels like his opportunities for success are because of her? Fuck.

We see a sort of similar (please for the love of God bear with me) situation with lorroakan and rolan. Rolans poor, reasonably talented, and loves magic more than almost anything besides his family. He was, up until the enslaving dame Aylin plan, willing to put up with lorroakans abuse and whims because he wanted to be a wizard so bad. Now gale has several in universe advantages compared with rolans situation, but it's clear that the Wizarding profession is not a profession you can easily get into if you don't have funds or a very rich patron.

Not really sure where I'm going with this. I saw a post about gale joking about how his tower was never cleaner than after he lost the orb and I just. For a kid who grew up in a low income situation, his tower is 100% a point of pride and something he identifies with very strongly. To have had to literally devour his tower to stay alive, to have had to literally destroy everything in the life he built for himself as a result of the orb. That must have been horrifying for him.

#i have a lot of feelings about gale #as someone who just finished their graduate degree #and has filled their home with trinkets and objects that pertain to my field #the thought of losing it because of my own mistakes #damn #gale #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #mystra is like a famous and self absorbed graduate advisor #shes got tenure and she doesnt care if her students complete their degrees #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 spoilers #baldurs gate 3 #gale worked hard to get his degree #maybe his family went into debt for it #gale getting his tower was probably like a huge cause for celebration in his family

[heckyeahponyscans]

So apparently Evermore Park has finally shut down.

The owner of Evermore, Ken Bretschneider put out a vague statement about unforeseen challenges, but the guy who owns the land which Evermore sits on (Brandon Fugal) was like "Yeah, they hadn't paid rent since December so I'm evicting them".

#Evermore Park #Ken Bretschneider #Brandon Fugal #Bretschneider used to own the land but sold it to Fugal #because Fugal agreed to settle the MILLIONS of dollars of debt that Bretschneider had racked up #mostly from not paying construction companies #if I were Fugal I'd be mad but I guess I'd also be thinking 'what did I expect from this fiscally irresponsible person'

[time-slink]

i dont think theres a single hermit who enjoys lying through their teeth more than iskall

#shush slinky #to be fair most of them do. enjoy doing this. iskall is just specifically good at it #to anybody. about anything. doesnt matter if its about something that just happened in front of both parties #killed his own horse. went beef i cant believe you just killed my horse. ill never forgive you. and then procured a life debt from him #fucking. somehow #hes got a strange and unique charisma man. i love this for him

[balfazuar]

#memes #fresh memes #animal crossing new horizons #I’m in severe debt to a fucking racoon #tom nook owns my soul #twilight saga

[hecksupremechips]

Ever think about Date’s view on family and how that relates to his character? When Mizuki asks him to define family, he just awkwardly offers that its like being blood related to someone. It leaves a bitter taste in his mouth and Mizukis, but like, he literally had no idea what a real family looks like. He’s an orphan, a man who grew up with no family and no name, but he doesn’t know that yet. He has no memory of his past, no way of knowing if there’s someone out there waiting for him to come home, if he even had a place to call home. His only frame of reference for a family is Mizuki and her parents. Deep down he knows it’s not right, not loving, but it fits the mold of a nuclear family, man and woman, blood related, so that must be what family is. When he’s asked to take in Mizuki, he’s absolutely clueless because he literally has zero frame of reference for how a child is supposed to be cared for. He puts distance between them because this isn’t his place, he doesn’t have the right to love this child as his own because he isn’t the real dad. There’s no place for someone like him in a family. And it’s baffling to him to hear that Mizuki not only loves him, she needs him because he is her family. Date believes he’s a nobody, just a sad, lonely man with no name who absolutely does not deserve this kind of love. But he has it anyway because he chooses it, he makes something that neither he nor Mizuki have ever had before. HES HOME

#aitsf #ai the somnium files #kaname date #mizuki date #just crying about the date family for the millionth time nothing new #also i just had this realization that like date literally had absolutely ZERO clue what he was doing #cuz its not like he remembers his own childhood so he cant use that as a frame of reference for how to treat his own child #and yet despite this he does a much better job than renju and shoko ever did just because he like. actually loves mizuki lol #honestly kinda fucking insane that date was asked to take care of her instead of hitomi #like renju has a choice between his long term friend who hes really close with and who he knows has lots of experience in childcare #versus his silly friend who lives in the smallest apartment with tons of debt and has literally never seen a baby before #then again thats probably why he didnt choose hitomi cuz he probably wanted to keep mizuki separate from the family he actually cares about #also for meme purposes its just like date is like wow renju youre literally the worst dad ever #and renju is like well okay hotshot if you think its so easy then how about you raise my daughter asshole #and date is like okie and does a significantly better job at it #i love kaname date so fucking much you guys will never understand what we have 😩

[good-beans]

I know most of our focus goes (rightfully) to the trial songs, but I genuinely believe Baptism of Fire is equally a masterpiece of meaningful writing and intense vocal acting

Incoming tag rant because I need to yell about this, feel free to yell back

#milgram #fuuta kajiyama #like the other vds have good writing about the character and whatever social issue their crime focuses on #but this one is very pointedly about YOU #its about the audience. its about the milgram project. its about self reflection. its about self-appointed roles. its about you #even if you didnt vote t1 or anything the whole things is calling on you to reflect on your own judgements of others #how you treat people who come off rougher. how you treat people who have made a (bad but) common mistake. #do you also find entertainment in seeing people dragged down and suffering because it would 'serve them right?' #but es always remains in control of the situation. the drama doesnt end with 'and fuuta was right - you guys suck!' #its clarified that situations are different and have nuance. we are reminded to look at things with nuance. #then we are smoothly re-immersed in the story #and then!! the acting itself!!! #arthur lounsbery put his whole fussy into that performance (<- fuuta pussy) and i am in his debt every day for it #in both his vds hes just super expressive and fun to listen to #i dont understand japanese but he packs so much interesting intonation and emotion into every word -- im obsessed listening to him #he nails all the subtle emotions fuuta has: the pouts and outrage as well as underlying fear grief insecurity and immaturity #and then baptism of fire hes just... Wailing #like mahiru has her innocent and pathetic cries of pain in her sweet voice that works for her character but fuutas pain feels much more raw #the way hes practically sobbing at the end -- his voice cracking and screeching throughout -- the whimper of pain #its so unbearably intense!! it hurts!! and its supposed to!! but hes just so raw with it #and dont even get me started on his pained hysteric laughter omg.... #its just. a masterpiece. #i always appreciate the vds but i dont think ive enjoyed/relistened to one as much as this one #okay WAIT im back to add one more thing because im obsessed with ths idea of intentions #specifically in milgram i think the intention behind the murders are very important to consider #so i love love love the huge focus on 'i didnt expect/mean for this to happen' #plus as a general theme in fiction i think its sooo juicy when good intentions get fucked up #so i loved the repetition of that #fuuta is such a special case because he genuinely had no desire or expectation for his victim to die #(maybe kazui too? but he doesn't say so in his vd like fuuta does)