#also sorry for the run on sentence

[remus-poopin]

In a modern muggle au James and Sirius would be one of those left leaning debate bro-esque streamers who spend their time yelling at bigots online but then says some real off the wall shit after talking incessantly for a couple of hours during a stream because they don’t want to actually investigate/interrogate their own prejudices and learned biases/behaviors because they think just because they identify as progressives they therefore can do no wrong.

#🚨 PROJECTION ALERT 🚨 #also #Remus-poopin: queen of run on sentences #is it clear that I’m making a half baked comparison with fictional characters because I’m frustrated with certain streamers? #I feel like that’s clear #but honestly I could see them doing this so I remain justified in my stance! #kinda #im actually just being annoying #and ​no i will not be naming names but I think you know what dudes I’m referring to #Sirius is very blank coded.. #Sirius I’m sorry :( #you know the drill I’m tagging this as anti even tho I’m NOT #anti sirius black #anti james potter #anti marauders #let me get this off my chest!

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

this article starts by talking about how the Black Brute is a way of manufacturing consent for racial apartheid in the american south. rape, especially mass rapes or lurid claims about particularly gruesome rape, are mainstays of atrocity propaganda used to manufacture consent for indiscriminate violence, invasion, and most importantly, ongoing brutality as apart of an oppressive regime. tuskegee institute investigations on lynching say that around 25% of lynchings were said to be done as punishment for rape or attempted rape. but we have strong reason to believe that number is falsely inflated. for atrocity propaganda, there need be no victim. it is largely fueled by second and third hand accounts or outright, conscious lies.

but then, the article conflates exceptional incidents - like white people making up black perpetrators to cover up their own commission of a crime - with endemic racial propaganda used to manufacture consent for racist regimes, putting the cart before the horse. it gives three examples: charles stuart, a man who claims a black man ambushed he and his pregnant wife, shot his wife in the head and raped her, and then attacked charles (but left him alive); susan smith, a young mother who claimed a black man carjacked her and in the process kidnapped her two sons; and mabel hallam, a white woman who in 1908 claimed a black man had raped her, to cover up an extramarital affair. charles stuart had actually shot his wife for insurance money and susan smith later admitted to drowning her own sons. in all three of these cases, the accusation of black criminality resulted in consequences for individual innocent black people and the black community at large. they also negatively affected the way individual white people responded to and treated individual black people in their community. but these are deviant behaviors. focus on what are extraordinary situations do a disservice to our understanding of how racial violence, or sexual violence, operates in the overall scheme of oppression.

the article compares these cases to the use of willie horton, a man who committed violent crimes while on furlough during his life sentence (without the possibility of parole) for murder, in george h.w. bush's campaign for president. bush used willie horton in campaign ads to smear his opponent as "soft on crime," yes. but more importantly, bush (and the republican party) invoked the idea of a black predator to manufacture consent for destructive "tough on crime" policies that eroded the rights of the accused and the incarcerated, including many that resulted in the dehumanization of people behind bars for years to come and that would contribute to the crisis of deaths in county jails we experience today. that is not an individual act of deviancy, that's an example of the kind of propaganda endemic to a racial capitalist carceral state, that propaganda which informs the decision of people like stuart, smith, and hallam to do what they did. not the other way around.

that is also why atrocity propaganda, whether during wartime, under apartheid, under colonialism, or racial authoritarianism, also trafficks in extremes. see this description of such propaganda used by both sides during the first world war:

while white people who do create imaginary black predators to evade punishment for a crime or wrongdoing they've committed deserve condemnation, someone who murders their pregnant wife or their young children is already going to be condemned. in 1908, even a woman who has committed infidelity will be punished for her actions. but racism - nor sexism, nor colonialism, nor apartheid, nor the war machine - is not defined by the particularly exceptional acts of a minority of people. what defines these is the mundane, what evades our attention because it is woven into the fabric of society. racial narratives, like those about women or gay people or other oppressed groups, are created from the top down. they do not have grassroots origins. for propaganda to be effective it has to prey on real, and realistic, fears. it will not abandon the realm of reality; it often is concerned with that those things that do happen. men, regardless of race, rape women. in war, civilians are often killed and children are not spared. people do rob other people, often while armed, and robberies can become violent to the point of murder. there have been a number of carjackings in which children have been in the vehicle (one just happened in houston a few weeks ago!). but propaganda distorts reality for the purpose of dehumanization of the enemy (black people, hamas, the german empire, imperial japan, saddam hussein's iraq, etc); the point is for you, the target, to endorse - implicitly or explicitly - violence you otherwise would not. many white southerners thought lynching was brutal, but necessary. the invasion of iraq was brutal, but necessary. dropping the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki was brutal, but necessary. and so on. it is far more insidious than an individual using racist stereotypes to cover up a crime.

*i also want to say that rape accusations for the purpose of lynching should not be treated as though they are rape accusations like we understand them. it is true that women's rights have been used to manufacture consent in modern contexts, but that's not what they were doing. rape accusations were about the maintenance of "racial purity." rape, though an everyday part of life under the regime of male supremacy for white and black women alike (and all women under patriarchy) was often characterized as a uniquely savage behavior (operating under the cheney rule, of course: "we aren't savages, so if we do it, it's not rape"), especially when done to respectable women. so, white, married with children, virginal, middle or upper class, etc. the racial patriarchal regime in the american south also heavily policed white women's sexuality, as they were seen as the preservers of racial purity (this was also given as justification for the denial of white women's bodily autonomy, and still is!) (this is also not exclusive to white people). while white men were allowed so-called dalliances (often, actually, rape) with black women and to father mixed race children, white women were not allowed to even speak casually to black men outside of a rigid social script and in limited situations. surely, some lynchings involved the false claim of a specific white woman, but we have more reason to believe that the majority of claims of rape used to justify lynchings were entirely fabricated or regarded scenarios that could not reasonably be described as rape or attempted rape (including those involving consensual relationships in which both parties denied rape was taking place). some claims could also be retroactively associated with rape after particularly brutal lynchings and in the wake of anti-lynching backlash, which was happening all this time.

#imo the policing of black men's interactions with white women and vice versa is primarily to prevent solidarity and organizing #seeing as how - to this day! - white women are more involved in radical and progressive movements than white men #but also just due to the radical potential in black men and white women's collective consciousness #specifically #also.............sorry this is so long.................................... #i've been writing this post over the course of several hours.......... #the sheer amount of run on sentences.........i'm sorry afkjdaskl

[kinnbig]

ooh trick or treet!! 🎃

hello beloved here is an ArmKhun flavoured treat for you from a lil oneshot WIP I've had in my drafts for way too long 👀💖

It's the third outfit that does it.

Really, Tankhun isn't sure why he's surprised. The outfit is to die for. Tankhun looks incredible in it. He should almost certainly have anticipated some kind of reaction.

Perhaps it's different because it's just the two of them this evening. Usually, a bigger turnout is inspired by Tankhun's Pre-Party Styling Parties (wherein the afternoon before any excursion to Hum Bar (or really, to any function that Tankhun might care to attend - he's branching out these days, he's even been on a boat) is spent drinking cocktails and grazing on canapés and, most importantly, showcasing all of Tankhun's potential looks for the evening) - but today Chay has an audition, and Kinn and Porsche are away on business, and Pol was called away after barely ten minutes of partying (because one of his frankly ridiculous number of sisters rudely decided to give birth during Tankhun's gathering, which for some ungodly reason required Pol's presence) - and so now there's just Arm.

Arm, leaning against the wall in Tankhun's bedroom, wearing a surprisingly tasteful (albeit uninspiring) sky-blue button-up and holding a cocktail glass that no longer has a cocktail in it - because the entirety of said cocktail now finds itself staining the front of the aforementioned sky-blue shirt.

Tankhun had just swept aside the curtains of his dressing room to reveal his new outfit (his favourite so far; sheer, slinky mesh on top that clings exquisitely across his chest and waist and yoga-toned abs, if he does say so himself; expertly paired with a pair of flowy, delicately-patterned trousers with gorgeous corset detailing on the waistband; heeled, glittery boots; and a selection of fine silver jewellery, including a stunning body-chain that fastens quite eye-catchingly against his throat and waist), and Arm had looked up as he entered and promptly spilled his drink all over himself.

The thing is, Arm doesn't really even seem to have noticed. His eyes have gone very wide, and Tankhun can feel them on him; feel the heat of Arm's gaze on his skin as it traverses over him; feel Arm taking in the dark smudge of kohl around his eyes, the cling of shimmery black mesh to his torso, the caress of the delicate silver chain against his throat and sternum and waist - and Tankhun knows he looks good, of course he does, but the way Arm is looking at him stirs something molten and exhilarating deep within his gut.His blood seems to crackle.

Arm wants him.

It creeps through his veins, heady and powerful and intoxicating. Arm wants him, and it's so incredibly, electrifyingly perfect, because Tankhun has wanted Arm since the night he took off his clothes in Yok's bar.

(Or at least, the night Arm took off his clothes in Yok's bar is when Tankhun first allowed himself to admit that he wanted Arm; an earnest agreement to Yok’s drunken, filthy confession, whispered through a conspiratorial grin into Tankhun's ear, "I'd let that bodyguard of yours do more than just guard my body, I'll tell you that much," - but in truth, if he thinks about it: it's been longer than that. Much longer.

If Tankhun is honest with himself, he knows that this clawing, aching want has been simmering inside of him for so long that it feels perfectly at home in his rib cage; woven into the very fibre of his being; part of every single cell in his body as if each one had been designed to contain it - as if deep down, at his core, Tankhun had been built to yearn. To long. Like this. For him.)

Now, Arm stares at him with unmistakable desire, and Tankhun stills, for a moment, and lets the thrill of it hum down his spine; shuddered and singing and stuttered like wind-chimes in the breeze.

And then he tuts. "Oh," he says, and Arm startles at the sound, his eyes snapping to meet Tankhun's before abruptly dropping again, embarrassed, a pink flush rising high on his cheekbones as he inspects the damage to his shirt, "this won't do at all."

✨🍬 fic writer ask box trick-or-treat! 🍬✨

#edit: oh my god sorry the formatting has been so fucked up on this i hate tumblr actually #sorry emma lmao i know you've definitely read this snippet before... so perhaps this is more of a trick! #also this fic is my first ever attempt at tankhun pov i was so nervous to try it but turns out i love love love writing his voice #so many run-on sentences #an aside in parenthesis that is TWO PARAGRAPHS LONG. #only tankhun! he just has so much to say! #hehehe #armtankhun #ask game #darcey.fic #thewholedamnboulangerie #ask #trick or treat

[thetrashthatsmilesback]

Me: the Jedi order did fail many of those who fell to the dark side, especially Bariss and Anakin, but acknowledging that is not justifying their eradication. The movies exist as a commentary on wider social failings which cause people to buy into fascist ideology. While individuals are responsible for their own actions, it is true that broader social issues lead to the rise and prominence of fascist ideology, and the Jedi order was acting as one example of such a situation - with George Lucas himself holding firm to the idea that Anakin (and by extension the others who fell during the Clone Wars) were victims. The Jedi being flawed makes them more interesting. The historical context of the time when the prequels adds even more context to the message they were intended to display - the Gulf War had ended in 1991 and the Iraq War began in 2003. These movies were a commentary on American military culture of the nineties and early 00s much like how the original trilogy was a commentary on imperialism during WW2 and the Vietnam war. The failures of the Jedi to provide proper mental health training (the lacking of which is especially prominent in the books and comics published in tandem with the prequel movies, particularly those books which were line-edited by George Lucas himself such as ROTS's novelization, and while some concepts of DBT are present in Jedi teachings they are not extensive or well communicated as they would be in proper therapy), their subconscious bias towards the core worlds, and their detachment from those they set out to help were all commentaries on how those who set our to help can lose focus as well as acting as a broader commentary on social attitudes during wars which lead to the broader social context from which fascist ideas spread. No single Jedi failed on a personal level, but rather the social systems within which the Jedi operated led to radicalization of some but not all Jedi youth. George Lucas's anti-imperial and anti-fascist beliefs are integral to understanding the message of these movies regarding radicalization.

Also me: none of this applies to Aayla though <3 she did nothing wrong <3

#listen i can understand that in a society everyone is socialized to contribute to the wrongs of that society #like aayla still agreed to be a general of the slave army #but also i love her???? #like i love mace windu and Quinlan Vos as well #but aayla is extra special #sorry for the run on sentence in this post #im sleepy #star wars #meta #i guess??? #prequel era #star wars prequels #aayla secura #jedi

[luunarmoon]

i've tried to analyse Dazai's feeling towards Atsushi for the last couple of days, and i still don't fully get it

does he see him as a friend? or as a soul that he's now responsible for? maybe it's his first time when he helps someone and finally Atsushi is the one who thinks of him as a close friend and is ready to spend great amount of time with him (after Odasaku ofc, but that was different situation where Dazai was still a child)? maybe he is working to accomplish Odasaku's last wish?

but also Dazai definitely sees Atsushi not as a kid, but grown man, still young and inexperienced in daily stuff, but anyway responsible enough to solve important tasks by himself

maybe Dazai's goal is to grow Atsushi up to the point when Atsushi won't need any mentor anymore, but we can't ignore the fact that Atsushi genuinely cares about Dazai and he with high possibility won't allow Dazai to suddenly disappear after his aim is completed

I CAN DEFINITELY SAY that Dazai won't ever think about himself as a good person no matter which good things he has done, he still has his dark side inside of him and he can't get rid of it so easily. and maybe one day he'll try to hide from the world again, because he has accomplished the thing that every good person should do, right? he has helped a kid to get a new life, he is not needed anymore when this kid has grown up, right?

and poof! there's Atsushi who won't let him go so easily. and who STILL thinks that Dazai can be a good person. and who CARES about him and... you don't need to be useful as a person to receive love and appreciation, right?

right.

so I will look forward to their relationships in the future, I think there definitely will be moments that break our hearts and let us cry from joy at the same time

#even besides shipping topic their relationships are worthy to closely watch at #they are so specific and.. kind... #and also i can't build beautiful sentences i just run around screaming sorry #dazatsu #dazushi #dazai x atsushi #dazai osamu #atsushi nakajima #bsd #bungou stray dogs

[bluejeanbaby]

@finalsurvivorgrp​

Steve was barely fully healed when he decided to go back to the upside down. It was a stupid idea; one that he knew if he told anyone they’d all try to stop him. So he went on his own. Eddie was dead, and he knew it wasn’t worth going back, but Dustin had been so upset to just leave his friend there out in the elements. Though he knew he couldn’t bring the metalhead back with him, Steve figured he could at least bury him semi-properly. He’d be in and out. Quick. Quiet. 

Yet when Steve got to the trailer park in the upside down there was no body to be found. No remains. No blood trail. He searched the dirt roads for hours before he gave up. Before heading back to find a gate, he took a detour,  and approached Eddie’s trailer. He wasn’t sure why he wanted to find him so badly. There was just some connection between he and Eddie that he couldn’t put his finger on. Steve was still wearing the other’s vest. But he could never admit how devastated he was to lose him, because he had no right to feel that way.

“Where did you go?” Steve whispered aloud as he looked around Eddie’s room, gently reaching out to touch his acoustic guitar. His hand froze however as he felt eyes on him. 

#d:eddie #steve harrington #OKAY i am sorry it became a novel #but you love me #and you love the gays #so deal with it kittany #also alex avoiding run on sentence challenge: impossible

[halfelven]

love random not even logged in readers just dropping their 'constructive criticism' on your 100k+ story that you're putting online entirely for free. this is just a rant btw

"You obviously have a great talent and I think you should work on honing it some. As much as I’ve enjoyed the story, there are a few things that stand out that you might consider looking at. I feel like the story isn’t sure what it wants to be at times; is it character driven or plot driven? It doesn’t flow smoothly because sometimes we have these wonderful character vignettes, like Illumi and Kalluto on a road trip or Kite/Leorio/Gon/Killua in an apartment where plot doesn’t really feel important, followed by what feels like heavily plot driven beats, like Kalluto and the spiders. In addition, it contributes to confusion because sometimes we see established characterization turned on its head. Especially the weird way everyone all of a sudden just sort of was OK with Kalluto being a spider and then working with Illumi when they just went to all that trouble to escape him? It all kind of feels forced and not natural. You know?

Anyway, I’ll definitely keep reading and look forward to seeing what happens."

first: love you trying to sound legitimate with your "in addition" like this is some kind of writer's workshop. second: in what way would I, the writer, think that an incomplete part of my story in which the reader does not yet know most of the main motivations (they are only hinted at so far) feels forced and not natural when I know what's happening, where it is going (and where I haven't had other readers comment with confusion about that part)

and moving on. don't do this. also like i said this is a wip in and no, no one is cool with Kalluto being a spider and no they're not cool working with Illumi, really. it was already established that some of them /have/ been working with Illumi before this~ he's someone that they know. like have you never been in a seriously dangerous situation that you just have to get through before you get back to what you want?*** also at this point Chrollo's real motive hasn't been entirely revealed.

Killua keeps changing his mind about what he's doing because he's a scared kid whose self-hatred is destroying him from the inside out. the POV is so tight that I have to keep dropping reminders that what is stated in the narrative is often not true! Illumi's POV, for example, keeps showing Killua as really loving him and being happy he's around but struggling with a desire for freedom, while with Killua's POV he's terrified of Illumi most of the time. like how is that not obviously a distorted POV where you can't trust the narrator?

"where plot doesn’t really feel important, followed by what feels like heavily plot driven beats"

this part is especially irritating because it's like yeah that's how I want to write it? this isn't a published novel. I don't have to commit to making sure every scene is important to the plot. I can spend time writing a full scene about someone drinking a glass of water and then 13 chapters in a row that are for moving the plot forward. I didn't even tag it as a novel... I did tag it for unreliable narration and I keep getting annoyed that people keep ignoring that.

"I feel like the story isn’t sure what it wants to be at times; is it character driven or plot driven?"

it's both??? it's neither??? it's a fanfic??? why do I keep getting comments lately where people are expecting me to adhere to like fucking publishing standards. this keeps up and I will write a chapter which is entirely about a minor character drinking a glass of water. watch me. I'll write one about phinks drinking a glass of water and you'll like it*

"Overall, the story is good and presented a compelling alternative to CA. Look, each fan has their own opinion on CA and I know I didn’t like it. I think it was a product of what Togashi was going through as he began to experience health issues and then finding himself right back where he said he wasn’t going to be mentally after he ended his earlier manga. We can never know for sure, but it certainly had a “watch it all burn vibe” to it near the end. I honestly believe he wanted it to end with the finality of Gon’s suicide as a capstone statement, but was probably convinced to go a different route, which kinda of left a jarring feel in the narrative and culminated in a rather unsatisfying end to Gon and Killua’s journey. Despite that, I am very reluctant to read fics where the events of CA are erased or grossly modified and honestly yours is really the first long AU/alternate timeline I’ve enjoyed"

okay first of all, I love the CA arc. but I had to split a point off where Kite was going to survive. why do you have to leave this whole paragraph about how you think Togashi was or wasn't going to go with the CA on my fanfic? I didn't even write this as 'oh look at my alternative to CA bc I hated CA' I don't really look forward to hearing comments about how random people didn't like so and so aspect of the story that I'm basing my story off of. I've never written fanfic for a story that I didn't like (except for some things that I don't have published I wrote at a request for friends for a fandom they were into that I wasn't really) and yeah I've wanted to 'fix' aspects (like tolkien's treatment of women for example) but I am not looking for your 'this is what I hated about the source material' comments on my stories

tired of getting comments with little 'oh I didn't like your style at first but now I do' or 'here's how to fix your story!' unsolicited advice from people who aren't better writers than me (I don't even want it from people who would be better writers than me on stuff I'm just doing for fun and for free)

when did stuff like this become normal? at least don't be a coward and be not logged in so you can't even get a response notification. like girl they aren't cool with it! why do you think everyone is on guard standing around like they're in a fucking hostage situation? how do you see such wildly different interpretations from different character's POVs and think it's not intentional? what part about Kite watching Killua like a fucking hawk makes you think he's going to let Illumi take him after this?

like if you've never had to smile and pretend to be cool with your abuser (pretend to love them) or someone who was threatening you to keep someone else safe then good for you! it fucking sucks! also don't know how to explain to you what a child who is growing up in an extremely isolated abusive situation goes through (though I keep writing about it in this story you should catch on...) but it's a million back and forths with emotion and feelings--especially if their abuser does (to in some way or to some degree) love them. and it is often blaming themselves. I'm not letting my years of studying human psychology and child development go to waste here**

is this story perfect? no but I'm not gonna hire an editor for a fanfic. and everyone's interpretations of characters will be different. especially with child characters who are going through huge changes in the world around them and their personal lives. part of the appeal of fanfiction is 'who would they become if this happened instead?' *sorry I keep writing about starving and not having clean drinking water but I will never stop because that's what I grew up with and it's hell. also phinks drinking water would be compelling since I assume he'd have harder access to clean drinking water

**hunter x hunter is also one of the only stories I have encountered with characters who have backgrounds as fucked up as mine and Togashi's interest in human psychology really stands out.

***like good for you but that was most of my life and you sometimes just have to shut up and get through it. and no I will not put my notes in the right order bc I'm not being paid enough****

****I'm being paid nothing

#sorry i got one too many comments that irritated me #feel free to chime in if you're getting comments like this too #it's been really getting on my nerves lately #and making me not want to post anything #you're not my teacher or editor #and i don't use a beta reader bc i'd never post anything #if i had to think of it as work and not just for me #i already do writing for work where i have to really consider the reader #i also didn't like one commenter pointing out typos #i'll catch them at some point #they were like great chapter! here's all the mistakes i saw #so download the story and fix them yourself if they bother you so much you have to run through and do line edits #if you don't want typos i'd have to wait two to three months so the story looked fresh #to catch them before posting and i'm not doing that #you can think this sounds bitchy but writing is hours and hours of work #i could jot down five sentences just for myself and have a story for years just remembering what i was thinking when i wrote those #you want a perfectly edited story? then go read a professionally published book #oh i guess that's not good enough for you either #okay now i am being bitchy but in my defense #i'm not forcing them to read it

[sspoike]

your tags on that buffy/willow post 👌👌👌 I love how differently they interact with power, buffy tries to stay as far from her power as she can for fear of losing herself, willow dives headfirst into hers to make SURE she leaves herself behind, I love you crazy women who could kill god but not your issues ❤️

ty ty ty I appreciate this. something about buffy saying “Willow you’re my strongest weapon” just ignited so many thoughts in my head like… what it means with Buffy using that specific phrasing, Buffy’s own relationship with being objectified as a weapon herself, the look on Willow’s panicked face at the thought of humanity’s safety really being on her shoulders now, how Buffy has been girl versus world (technically like we know there’s Kendra and Faith but Buffy has been bearing the brunt of Slayer-duty and saving humanity for years) but with Willow being officially established as THE most powerful witch in the world, a comparable weight and sense of duty now sits on her shoulders…. Like she forged her own way into being a chosen one… but now that she’s at the point, is it how she imagined? Is it still what she wants now that she’s on the other side? So many questions so many questions…

#also sorry but me and run on sentences and ellipses are ride or die at the moment #thank you to anyone trying to read thru this I acknowledge it is a rambly mess :) #EDIT: what if I checked my grammar before posting. what then

[slayanyhivegodslately]

So I'm quick speedrunning through the seasonal quest on my other two characters, and something came to mind about the whole Misraak's backstory reveal, and specifically Eido's reaction to it.

A lot of people have felt her reaction to be a bit much, and I've agreed for the most part but I just had a thought having watched that whole interaction play out twice in a day. She says that she "understood he had a past", but she somehow finds it strange that he killed people like that? She knows the history of the eliksni after the Whirlwind, why would she find it strange he did those thing? So then I thought, what if he insinuated, or maybe outright told her that he had never killed anyone at all in his life?

Or maybe said that whatever few killings he had done were all in self defense, that he had no choice? Or it could be he told her that whenever he did have to kill, it was only as a last resort, and so finding out he killed so many with so little thought is what is throwing her, because he had told her he had never resorted to the brutality of the other eliksni?

Because if that were the case, I guess it could help explain why she reacted to what Eramis tells her like she did, at least for me. Just, trying to make it make sense you know?

#destiny 2 #season of the plunder #misraaks #eido #eramis the shipstealer #my posts #i dont know if anyone else has had this same thought #but i came here as soon as possible to get the thought out lol #got the starchart noises in the background as i type this #also sorry for so many run on sentences

[girlpog]

Thinking about how everyone called Charles ‘Charles’ instead of Chuck because everyone admired him but no one was friends with him and everyone called Jimmy ‘Jimmy’ instead of James or Jim because even though he wasn’t as accomplished everyone loved him for who he was; and how Jimmy was the only person to call Charles ‘Chuck’ because he was his brother and he loved him but Charles was the only person that called Jimmy Jim or James because that love was never reciprocated.

#hi ive been thinking about this for a while im normal #ALSO IM SORRY FOR THE ONE LONG ASS RUN ON SENTENCE NO I WILL NOT RUN IT THROUGH GRAMMARLY #better call saul #bcs #jimmy mcgill #charles mcgill #charles bcs #jimmy bcs #textpost

[swallowtail-ageha]

So... You've mentioned something about Izzy x Maria...... 👀

Yeah yeah!!! It's a ship that has been growing a lot on me lately ig i am made to ship rarepairs

I have a few hc about them but they're probably gonna change because one i still have to form a "canon" version of it in my extremely dramatic and hbo esque version of bloodborne lore and i am also not well known for keeping constistencies LMAO

I hc that Izzy was actually one of the first tomb prospectors from when byrgenwerth decided to explore the chalices dungeons as she had interest in the beast scourge as i hc her to be a descendant of one of the few survivors of Loran and that's how she met Maria, through Gehrman and the tomb explorations!

I do not think they actually got very along at first, i think their personalities clashed a lot, with Izzy being more of a "i actually do not care what others do or think, i'll do whatever i want whenever i want" while Maria was still stuck in her old rule abiding/stuck up Cainhurst ways (both i think out of habit and both out of a fear of being kicked out of the tomb prospectors/proto hunters? In my hc she was never happy to begin with at Cainhurst but repressed a major part of her unhappiness. She only realized that after she left it and her biggest fear was to be somehow forced to return to it. So yeah my Maria is also someone who gets morbously attached to those who she sees as her "superiors" who can lead her to do better and will obey them no matter what, something that was going to bit her in the ass later in life).

So Yeah, i expected them to have lots of fights especially when regarding how to approach the actual exploration part and how to handle certain artifacts they found, but i also think that their big "bonding" moments were also born out of both's genuine interest in exploring and wanting knowing more about their respective ancestors (people of Loran and Pthumerians). So after a while they found a midway point to concile each other and after that they fell in love.

I also Do Not Think they were the most stable relationship ever

(they fought. A lot, especially as Izzy's ideology begun to shift and she began to think that becoming a beast was the true path to ascension while Maria became more and more aligned with the Healing Church methods of ascension. This is also what caused them to separate forever on bad terms. Izzy will keep thinking of Maria as the Church's lapdog for the rest of her life, without ever knowing that Maria too felt trapped by what the Church had become because at that point their relationship had become too strained for them to have an earnest conversation again + again i think Maria's deep emotional repression and denial had an hand into this)

BUT i also think it was the healthiest relationship that Maria had with someone as it didn't involve really manipulation or a power imbalance on neither part, while Izzy even after having her whole image of Maria soured after the Research Hall would think of their early days together as one of her happiest times (buut if we want to add a little more messed up layer to this we can also say that one of the reasons why Maria was attracted to her was because she reminded her of Gehr//HEADSHOT)

As a lighter headcanon i also think that Maria would have been extremely fascinated by Izzy's ability in weaponcrafting and she would spend just... hours looking at her smithing, and that sometimes they'd go together binging on pubs and inns for shits and giggles. Do not ask them from how many of those places they've been kicked out

#i am also toying with the he/she genderfluid izzy idea #not rlly important as a whole but hmm. i like it. #anyways. this got huge. sorry for the run on sentences and the endless periods between parentheses!! #an italian moment if ive ever seen one #bloodborne #lady maria of the astral clocktower #irriverent izzy #me?? posting on the tags? More likely than you think!!! #i think me gaining followers after posting that evichro tc0aal edit has given me an epiphany

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

In a very roundabout, adhd sort of way a documentary about princess anne (and the opinion that she should have been heir to the throne instead of Charles) got me thinking about the fact that the royal family probably can't really have family reunions because having that many royals in one place could do irreparable harm to the line of succession, which got me thinking about a designated survivor type supercorp au where Lena was like, the cabinet member for the dept of education or something and a massive assassination plot leaves her unexpectedly assuming the role of president (with the Danvers sisters as heads of her secret service detail), which in turn got me thinking about another potential canon verse au where the royal family of a small country experiencing political unrest is all assassinated, and they have to trace a new heir through the distant branches of the family tree, leading them to Lena Luthor, CEO of L-Corp.

Now. I'm not sure if she'd be related to the royalty via her Luthor or her Walsh blood, but they do send emissaries to pay her a visit (which she puts off because her schedule is so full and "they'll have to wait their turn, Jess") until they eventually barge into someone else's meeting with her and-- apologizing profusely-- explain that the matter is most dire and cannot wait any longer.

Lena would obvs be stunned. But she'd also be sympathetic towards the plights of the people who have been victim to the violence that preceded her distant family's deaths. She hems and haws over it, but ultimately comes to the conclusion that she CAN do good there, even if she's only there temporarily, and therefore she SHOULD do good there.

Kara offers to go with her as protection, but Lena refuses, citing that Supergirl is needed more in National City, and besides-- helping a human monarchy regain power isn't a good look for an alien champion of earth. So Lena goes it alone.

For months the only things Kara sees of Lena are the news reports of Lena visiting colleges and schools and community centers and farms, winning affection and effecting change. She contributes to rebuilding efforts both directly and indirectly, and even parlays with the insurrectionists to hear their terms and move the country towards democracy.

And though Lena promises Kara that her work in her family's kingdom is only temporary, her stay lengthens and lengthens until suddenly it's been years and Lena still hasn't come home for good. Kara visits occasionally, when things are peaceful enough that there can be events where plus-ones are invited. But it's not the same.

Lena misses National City. She does. But at the same time she's found a part of herself here in her family's country, a part of her legacy. They may be moving towards democracy, but it will be decades, perhaps generations more before the monarchy is fully abolished. She doesn't know if she'll ever really be able to resume her old life again. Perhaps this is her new normal-- the life of a dignitary, a figurehead and a political powerhouse.

So she and Kara have to try and navigate a romance and a life where their roles have them pulled in two different directions. Especially when it comes time for Lena to secure a politically advantageous marriage to another royal/elite family.

Bonus: Lillian isn't dead, but it's post crisis so she isn't in prison, and when she hears that Lena is being bullied into a political marriage (especially a marriage where the husband would do all the political heavy lifting, relegating her to a consort, essentially), she looks her daughter in the eye and tells her "I didn't raise you to take second seat to anyone."

To which Lena pegs her with a glare. "Except for Lex?"

Lillian merely gives a coy smirk. "I always suspected you had the potential surpass your brother-- no matter how much I didn't want to believe it." She tilts her head. "And now that you have... don't squander that same potential by settling for whatever gilded lily they're foisting on you. YOU are queen. YOU decide the shape your future."

Lillian cups Lena's chin.

"You always have."

#supercorp #i dunno what to call this idea #distant royalty au #dunno if ill remember that later #oh well #also sorry for the worlds longest run on sentence

[vulcanette]

having work troubles again where all my temp jobs are ending abruptly and I can’t keep a steady source of income and I’m quite anxious and upset (but I have faith it’s gonna work out) so I used my nervous and upset energy to clean my entire house this weekend, culminating in an aggressive round of mopping and washing today and now, at least, I feel worn out and like I did something. so 🤷🏻‍♀️

#personal #a small diary entry #a lot of people I know are having a hard time rn #we will get through this I trust and believe #also sorry for the run on sentences but I don’t have the energy to punctuate or give Order to my adhd stream of consciousness writing #the house smells lemony fresh lol which I’m quite happy about

[cosmicrhetoric]

i will admit i dont remember much about the 1995 persuasion movie (or the 2000s one) so i cant do direct comparisons with this new adaptation but. i really dont get the girlbossification of classic lit characters like why would you pass up the opportunity to explore what the idea of a woman alone was during that time period in favor of removing the social structure that make a stigmatized character's actions and motives and frustrations interesting. you can make a movie about what a independence looked like in 1817 and still portray it as restrictive by modern standards, ESPECIALLY with a story that focuses on a family that had a huge class shake up. just watch a regular romcom if thats not what you want. just watch bridgerton. cause this is just dakota johnson in a period dress

#sorry for the run on sentence of all time but well here we are #like anne elliot is kinda a hard character to pin down but she's one of austens most authentic. like hands down. #i know its not that deep but it is annoying to me personally. also ive been reading a lot of cranford and i fully blame bridgerton 4 this #netflix persuasion #persuasion 2022 #not even going to talk abt colorblind casting idk how 2 feel

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

like. vagabond cookie is jus a chill guy doin whatever who is Sick at performing. gim cookie is jus a chill guy doin whatever who is Sick at exorcising. same thing different specialties. maybe they should kiss about it

#the cryptid speaks #cookie run #'like' i start the sentence as if i am continuing this from anywhere other than my own mind #i dont even Know anything about vagabond outside of a quick read of his ob summary and the two of them have had like 4 cutscenes together #but . i think . they . you understand #sorry guys im both very tired and also itching to be Doing Smth so im spitballing into the wind

[girldraki]

not to be insane and relate fucking adventure time fandom bickering to actual queer infighting but we did once see someone say that a lot of people doing queer discourse framed as an issue between two groups ("are ace people lgbt", "can bi women be lesbians") do this nasty framing trick where one of the groups (again, "real lgbt people" or "[mono] lesbians") is positioned rhetorically as the ultimate authority over the situation with the second group being obliged to defer to them automatically, producing a fait accompli situation where the argument is functionally over before it begins because one side has arbitrary veto power over literally every possible argument made, and if these things were legitimate discourses both sides would by right be framed as equal authorities, and the thing is we have been unable to stop noticing that happening since

like, to again bring it to stupid bubblegum comphet discourse, by rights bisexual women should have the exact same amount of authority on whether the events of too young represent legitimate attraction on her part as any given lesbian, but somehow this is not the case. fucking fascinating

#txt #sorry for the godawful run on sentence this is somehow the best flow possible #do we need a little banner to remind everyone reading this post that half of the guys who own this blog are gay women #Actually now that we mention it this is also a problem in syscurse but we're half convinced that was straight up invented #by a guy who liked ace disco and needed to feel the thrill of online harassment even more