#and my economics too

[padfootastic]

i just want to put it out there that sirius black is scary as fuck from a purely physical point of view.

he’s tall as shit, has been since fifth year when he got his growth spurt, and he has tendency to loom over most people.

there’s also the matter of his poker face—it’s impeccable, untouchable. can make anyone feel like him stuck to the bottom of his shoe. he learnt it from the best in house black and it’s his default. there’s a reason people are afraid of approaching him, and are slightly awed by james’ ability to unconditionally do so at all times.

his magic is ridiculously sentient. it swirls around him at all times, often feeling suffocating to those near him. he doesn’t even notice how it swells with his emotions, rising in his defence without him having to call it. at times, it can feel like a brick wall, that’s how powerful it is. and it’s cold. people have been known to shiver and turn into metaphorical icicles around him.

and he’s also just intimidating in a—social capital way ykno? so much money, training, and status. it shows. he could be dressed in a potato sack and he’d still reek of royalty. which is essentially what the blacks are.

and this is it u don’t take padfoot into account. this fuckoff huge Grim who’s literally an omen of death, easily twice the size of any human around him, just bounding around with sharp canines on display and malice in his eyes. it’s the easiest thing to piss ur pants when u come into contact w him.

#sirius black #james potter #goes without saying most of these are hcs #not the height thing tho that’s just canon #(and what inspired this too lol) #i was just thinking of how sirius is physically imposing #and how u don’t need to be built like a truck for it #bc james is. but he’s not threatening. he is slightly intimidating in that he commands authority #but people aren’t *scared* of him #sirius tho? #people cross the road to avoid him #and this is just him as is #when he actually starts dressing up and shit #it’s worse #some of my fav sirius descriptions in fics are just when they’re describing his power lol #pura khada ho jaata hai ngl #bc he just??? has so much?!? of it?? #and that’s not to even touch the political or economic part of it #idk man he’s just hot all around bc of how powerful and this scary he is #also re sirius’ height; one of my fav posts on this hellsite will forever be the nba player sirius one lmao #v v accurate i think #pen’s notes

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 99

i have NEARLY finished the skirt for my ren faire fit i just gotta get a few finishing details added and also get the undershirt bleached (bc i got a bunch of makeup on it at last years fair and shit Stained) but THEN i can show yall the final fit!!

#day 99 #year 5 #aradia megido #homestuck #its gonna be cute #i was so fucking stressed abt this one because like. #i bought my fabric and i was like oh yeah dude this is toooootally more than enough for a circle skirt #went to finally cut things #realized i only had enough for a half-circle skirt and it would end up with a bunch of weirdly-shaped scrap at the end #(ie i would have to do a bunch of weird piecing to make the waistband and pockets and such) #and like honestly a half-circle skirt was NOT enough volume for me i need my skirts swooshy #so i was like well. okay. i think i can optimize my fabric usage more if i draft a paneled skirt #but this of course required..... Math. #and unfortunately. i was an art major. so. there was a lot of struggling #BUT I DID IT. THERE WAS STILL A LIIIIITTLE BIT OF PIECING THAT HAD TO BE DONE BUT IT IS MINIMAL AND CAMOUFLAGED PRETTY WELL #and also this is for a ren faire primarily bc i dont wear a lot of skirts in day-to-day #SO. economical fabric usage is absolutely period accurate. even though none of the rest of my outfit or techniques are. #basically all thats left for me to do is add pockets and the closure at the back #i meant to add the pockets as i was doing the main construction but i got too excited and forgor #so theres gonna be some seam ripping but nothing too bad

[strayv3rse]

day two -16°C, and an early morning

#strayverse100days | 100 days of productivity challenge

hi hi hello!

compared to yesterday i am doing really good, no pain or soreness and i haven't been very tired either (thankfully). i woke up at 5am today and had a slow morning and started studying first at 7am! which was still a success in my eyes :p

it was a bit cold in the morning, and since the house warms up slowly i stayed in one room the entire day instead of moving around too much throughout the day~

at 10am it was still -16 °c outside! (which is roughly 2°f) so i have stayed inside all day apart from when i went grocery shopping with my mum, and now im sitting in the sofa with our cats :)

today, i focused on mostly economics, and did some thai during my lunch break! and ended off the day with a short hour of biology.

all in all i find it to be a success of a day Cx

#international baccalaureate #study blog #studyblr #study #student #strayverse100days #biology #science #economics #economy #thai #studying #study motivation #studyspo #student life #study aesthetic #how many tags is too many tags #mine #my photos #100 days of studying #100dop #100 days challenges #100 days challenge #100 days of productivity

[brother-emperors]

Now, Caesar had long ago decided to put down Pompey, just as, of course, Pompey also had decided to put Caesar down. For now that Crassus, who was only waiting for the issue of their struggle to engage the victor,​ had perished among the Parthians, it remained for him who would be greatest to put down him who was, and for him who was greatest, if he would not be put down, to take off in time the man he feared.

Plutarch, Caesar

me Crassus when Caesar and Pompey start fighting: 🍿🍿

there's a more dramatic illustration I want to do of this particular aspect of the Caesar-Pompey dynamic, courtesy of Lucan's Pharsalia, but first. I need to get this out of my system

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#gaius julius caesar #gnaeus pompeius magnus #marcus licinius crassus #tris homines #komiks tag #drawing tag #roman republic tag #other things i need to get out of my system: all this sulla-crassus-pompey brainrot #sometimes i have commentary in the tags but i keep circling back to the homoeroticism of patron-client relationships #(and resulting debt subtext) courtesy of the quattrocento #and quite frankly. i am too sleepy to talk about economic discourses without saying something deeply weird about it all

[hella1975]

not to be repetitive but i hope my exams blow up into a thousand million pieces and i never have to do them and also the uni pays me for emotional damages

#I CANT DO THIS SHITTTT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE SO DIFFICULT #CANNOT BELIEVE IM SAYING THIS BUT I MISS FIRST YEAR ECONOMICS #YEAH I HAD A BREAKDOWN ABOUT THAT TOO BUT MY GOD IM SMARTER NOW PLEASEEEEE #FINAL YEAR ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS WHEN I CATCH YOU. SHREDDING YOUR SKIN OFF WITH MY NAILS #hella goes to uni

[nygmab4lls]

#matt murdock #daredevil #my bbg #elektra natchios #wilson fisk #kingpin #foggy nelson #mike murdock #bullseye #frank castle #the punisher #got a little too bored during my economics class #shitpost #needs id

[justsomeectoplasm]

I started playing Disco Elysium, and I'm losing over the whiplash it's giving me. The themes and scenes are so jarring but blend in so well that I can't help but be absorbed in the world. Where is your political stance, btw. You flipped off the cafeteria manager mid-air when he asked for your tab and crashed into a person in a wheelchair. There's a dead body hanging from a tree. There's a haunted bookstore. What's your opinion on worker's rights. You can punch a racist or agree with his critical race theory to bypass him. You can talk with a corpse. You can 'I want to have fuck with you' to a hot lady. You can punch a kid that calls you the f slur. You don't have any memories, but it's mostly OK because you can bullshit your way through your identity.

#disco elysium #disco elysium spoilers #fucking 10/10 game #I genuinely recommend it for it's art alone it's soooo pretty #but if you have triggers that include alcohol and other addictive drugs do not play it because some of it is a mechanic #The game reminds me a bit of my country #grew up in a tough economic environment where there's hundreds of clashes of cultural and political views #too bad I keep picking the funniest options because I want to fuck around and find out

[aheathen-conceivably]

Ok so I read the post on your thoughts on Gio and the American Dream and I hate to say it … as an immigrant, I understand him.

I also come from a culture where women tend to their male partner's needs and I don't believe he wants to turn Jo into a subservient wife. He fell in love with a lively, free, and wild Jo and loves that aspect of her.

At the end of the day she loves him too so why would she leave? I understand she doesn't like to be dependent of him but where else would she go? There are no parties or glamour, which was her whole thing, anymore. At least the farm offers stability in the economic crisis.

Point is, I understand Gio as an immigrant, but don't understand Jo as a woman.

BABES! We’ve got another one…

(As in me being touched and having no other means to say how much I love y’all takes other than to give them a standing ovation in GIF form).

But you know…there’s a whole lot to break down here, friend, especially about Jo. I think you know what that means! Under the cut we go….

First and foremost, I very much appreciate you saying you understand that aspect of Gio. I did in part write him as a commentary on the immigrant experience in America (filtered through his own personality/character of course), and so to know that is relatable means a lot to me. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to tell y’all his journey is far from over, and you can already see the cracks in his outlook beginning to form. Whenever Jo is depressed he says this quite vividly:

Because you are very, very correct. This isn’t about molding Jo into some subservient housewife, or even eroding those exact qualities that he loves in her. This is about Gio attempting to square what he’s been taught/believes will bring his life happiness and meaning with his own experience and emotions. It’s about the myth of the American dream and the perfect housewife and the very real struggle of those things existing as actual, lived realities.

Because at the root of it, Gio is amalgamating an understanding of his own family unit and what he knows he doesn’t want in this country. He has seen another methods of “making it” in America, and so he thinks if only he can make the “right” choices, he can avoid that, and become the respected and happy man that he wants to be.

Now onto Jo, boy oh boy, Jo….

I think one of the core misunderstandings here is that Jo wants stability. This is kind of the crux built into her desire for control and her never-ending failure to achieve it. She wants to control her surroundings, to make sure nothing and no one can hurt her, but she also wants to feel in a way that is hard to find in a stable, heavily domesticated life. On the flip side, despite whatever imaginary dream Gio has, he’s the same way. They both want a life filled with excitement and new experiences, new people and rushes of emotions. This is one of the ways they differ heavily from Antoine and Zelda.

Now on one level, this is simply the way Josephine is. She’s high energy, fun loving, and insatiable. But on a deeper level, this is tied into her experiences not only as a woman, but as a daughter. She has a brief moment of clarity in that last post where she realizes:

Now I have chosen not to go too in-depth on Josephine’s trauma, but you can see her lay out the course of events here and also her deep hesitation to any of it here. Josephine is still only a teenager in that second post. Her mother not only told her things like that (“this is the weight that prejudice and expectation have placed upon us”) but also “what do you want to be then? Some glorified maid to a man?” (Which, frankly, I can write another Ted Talk about the juxtaposition here, but I think ya'll can pull some threads).

So when you see Josephine’s struggle with control, this is heavily rooted in bodily autonomy. Now all things considered, Josephine has managed to make great strides toward reclaiming this and reasserting not only her sexuality, but also her sense of self in her body. Gio knows this. We see him recognize and respect it quite clearly in that last post. He’s been part of that process for her, and that only adds another element of love, trust, and safety between them.

But on a fundamental level, neither Gio nor Josephine has made the connection between that trauma, her own personality, and why she hates her life now so much:

Here’s the issue right now: Josephine doesn’t feel like she’s living her own life. We have seen how she would like to live in the 20s not just in the parties and glamour, but when she was managing bands. She wants to be fulfilled professionally, through helping people/places she believes in and bettering her own life by bettering theirs. That’s how she gets her joy, and that’s what she would chose to do if given the chance.

And right now, she does not feel like she gets to chose. You’re correct in that part of that is coming from the current economic situation. Again, she sees that herself here. She knows what demons are waiting outside her window, and how easily poverty can make them rearise. That only makes it worse. It doesn’t make the smell of bread (domestic security) any better or more comforting. It makes it bitter, because she didn’t chose it. She was backed into a corner by circumstance (and, as she can sense, by the choices men made for her without telling her), and now she feels like she can’t say no. That’s her ultimate trigger.

Now whether or not that loss of control is simply perceived, or should be offset by how “lucky” she is to be in a stable position in such precarious economic times, we might all have different options on. Even more, I’m sure each of us would answer differently for ourselves in that situation. I know I would. But for Josephine? Not only is this a life she will never find joy in, because even without her trauma, she is an ambitious, restless, and outgoing person with different goals for herself; but that added memory and pain makes her reaction to it all the more volatile.

Perhaps most importantly, Jo feels as though her life is being controlled again, whether by Gio, the reality of the world outside her window, or by her own guilt/love that makes her feel beholden to the people around her (just like it did to her mother). Because you’re right, she does love him. She wouldn’t leave because she doesn’t. If she leaves now, it would leave because she panicked, because she feels like she’s lost all the autonomy she worked so hard to regain and she’ll never feel the fulfillment she felt when she was successfully independent ever again. That’s the element I hope we can understand, even if it’s not what we would do.

#okay THAT might be my longest Ted Talk yet 🤣 #which if you’re actually reading you really deserve a tshirt let’s be real #and I’m so very sorry they’re so long #I try and infuse them into all the posts but like to condense it and write it all out clearly can be so helpful sometimes #for me too let’s be real #and like I want them to have a real solid base before we move into ~the great unknown~ #anywho there’s a number of threads I could have touched on here that I didn’t for ~time~ #but if you’d like to go through the #Josephine Duplanchier extra #tag there’s some good stuff there too 😉 #Giorgio Mistretta extra #also #*ahem* #does it REALLY offer stability in the economic crisis? #y’all remembering what I’m remembering? 😬 #ain’t a true American dream without a healthy serving of debt aint it

[blue-jisungs]

i love my moots sm they are all so smart and talented and creative and pretty and and

#i love you guys did u know that #and the amount of respect i have for u people is through the roof like #playing instruments or studying medicine economics or graphic design like WHAT #WHAT DO U MEAN MY KOOTS DO THAT GHATS SO COOL??? #speaking multiple languages or being good at art too #or when they are passionate abt their hobbies n interests my heart just warms up #let’s not forget about their writing skills ??? like scrumptious!!!!! #cries why am i being sappy rn #a is for axe’s rambles!!

[irhabiya]

it's literally so easy to boycott shit ik we're all tired of this and we've been over this a million times already but i really still can't believe that people are talking about boycott fatigue

#there's so many unintended benefits too😭 #like ofc placing economic pressure on these companies is the first and foremost reason to boycott but also it just helped me get over #certain bad habits. like i've been meaning to stop drinking carbonated drinks for a while now #not that i drank them a lot but i wanted to cut them out of my diet completely #and what do you know i haven't drank any since september #so many things like this....just get over yourself goddd

[buglaur]

answered asks below 💞

THANK YOU GUYS 💞💞💞💞💞 it really means a lot 🥺 @deehya @pxeltownie @leafbatraccoon

AWH thank you!!!! you're literally so sweet. i'm so happy you like my gameplay!! i might try and get some new cc out soon too, i was working on a new pair of earrings before i started my exams. you made my day with this seriously thank you 🥺🙏

right?? i feel like a bit of a fraudster tagging all the posts with tjol, because he's literally not doing ANY of the things he's supposed to. i honestly might abandon the tjol efforts and just play with him regularly 😭 so glad you've loving him though!! i love him too no matter how much grief he causes me 😭

@rainymoodlet i've been hoarding your asks like little good luck charms in my inbox for so longgg 😭😭 and i've read your tags on my post and I MISS YOU TOOOOO i can't wait to be back around here on the daily. so glad to be almost done, when i am i'm going on a huge rainymoodlet.tumblr.com binge 💞💞💞 seriously thank you for checking up on me!!! ilysmmm

#ask #my last exam is this friday #it's economics #which i hate with a burning passion #my teacher and i were not too fond of each other #so i learned literally nothing in her class #i don't have an academic brain i can't stand all the theory and learning stuff off by heart 💔 #i honestly don't care what happens in this exam though #nothing can bring me down from the high that was art appreciation and art history #that exam was so beautiful i want to kiss whoever made it #that grade will carry me #have i done enough to get into my preferred course? no fucking clue #we get our results on aug 28 #i'm not going to think about it until then 😭 #bring on july i'm so excited for that music festival #blondie i'm coming

[fellhellion]

the USAmerican centric views on this site regarding protesting the genocide in Gaza are just astounding at times. Do y’all hear urselves when you say “they’re bombing Gaza during the Super Bowl to distract Americans from protesting!!”.

#THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU #the fact that the western world carries on while genocide happens IS indicative of the political and economic interests those powers stand #to reinforce and protect #but to claim the Israeli government is sitting around going man we gotta time our next bombardment for when the USAmerican citizens are too #busy watching baseball is not only bordering on conspiracy but an INSANELY USAmerican centric view of the world my fucking god

[ceruleanfuckup]

I'm so excited for my D&D campaign

#i ran one in this world for two and a half years where everything is ravaged by dragons #but now theres been a somewhat revolution because one of the only surviving major cities was impulsively conquered by my players #so things have been shaken up a lot and now they have a holiday because they brought i think three gods to earth at once #two of my players became the vessels of the gods of light and darkness and duked it out and fast forward a year or two #and their hold on the economic powerhouse of the continent is solidified and they have partnered with an organization #that specualizes in magical artifacts from every concievable reality #and my NEW campaign is people hired by this organization #The Forge of Wonders #they have this entirely greyed out library full of strange books that when you pick them up gain color and you can read their spines #and these books are stories. theyre fairy tales. theyre pirate adventures. theyre dragon babysitting. theyre demon apocalypses. #and these stories are worlds. theyre stories in truth. and my players have been hired to dive into the stories and retrieve Thing #for the forge of wonders #which means i get to make WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT BITCHES #i get to be so fucking impulsive with my story crafting #and im not going to balance anything correctly. theyre just going to have to assume from the summary in the front page if its doable #demon apocalypse? probably outside of our level. gnome tinkerers? probably not too bad #and ill have prebuilt stories and something theyre taked with retrieving and they get to choose which onr yhey do #anyways the forge of wonders started as a magic shop that only accepted platinum (1000 gold) as currency so they did a lot of shopping ther #i just took that old document full of crazy magical items and i tweaked it and molded it and added to it and the new version is 33 pages 🥰 #thats what ive been doing at work the past three days lol #dnd #my dnd

[frodo-with-glasses]

MY CABBAGES

#frodo baggins #gaffer gamgee #lord of the rings #lotr #my art #fig tree au #now back to your regularly scheduled programming #this whole conversation is so sweet and so funny lol #frodo just saved the world! but the gaffer doesn’t know and doesn’t care #all he cares about are his taters #but frodo is humble; and if it’s important to the gaffer then it’s not too small a thing to be important to frodo too #and i love that the gaffer feels bold enough to ‘pick a bone’ in the first place #it says very good things about how much respect and trust and love there is between the bagginses and the gamgees #despite their different economic and social standings #it’s just so sweet =^-^=

[oatbugs]

oh my god ! haha . anyway a bit buzzed perhaps. anyway here's what happened on the date

#at some point i took the earrings off. the metal clanging was screaming their name too loud and it #was 6 knives to the throat and he confirmed it so. here's the kicker. you can be taught a lot and you can have their hands on your thighs #and you can kiss them but even if they pray even if they tell you about the bible looking into you like really they lost what they believed #in a pennsylvania countryside catholic schools with a protestant family since joining the london school of economics #even if they pray for you to stay the whole way even though their hair was softer than hers you think of her and he thinks of someone else #and be tells you none of it will make sense. they smile and they say what a shame you might miss the train but they hold onto you #the entirety of you - like a religion or a polite insistence or something to keep. #you learned they were used to losing everyone they felt bound to love. they said they got really good at letting go. you were told #you think he's being epistemologically #irresponsible and he tells you he carries a massive task. he tells you the responsibility is monumental #and he feels responsible for defining responsibility. he shows you songs and his poetry. my eyes feel on fire. #she doesnt know this. this is marylebone. the next station is edgeware road. everyone here looks happy and high and clear of the doors. #he says tell me when you get to the station and very especially tell me if you don't. the next station is paddington. please mind the gap #between the train and the platform. you say this to him. he says i minds the gap between you and i. i mind it so much that i need you to #come back. he says this because you kissed him briefly but you kissed him well. she says you're a good kisser but he says you have him #stunned. he asks you who decides the truth. he tells you you decide the truth without his mouth. you're fast enough to make it there before #the wheels do. this world is lit by glass and light and people with a pact to fall in love with the abstractions more than each other. #he tells you to be committed to your various intangible loves more than anyone. you both have to be. they love each other anyway. #i was supposed to find a persian poetry book with her on our fourth date except she was hours late. i found it with him. he didnt give up #he should be perfect and i should really like him.