#and that it cost her their family

[dreamofbecoming]

current mood: thinking about the unbearable tragedy of lucretia tazbalance

#the way the temporal chalice is the only relic she warns them about #because the power to fix your mistakes is the most tempting thing she can imagine #they way she has to beg her dearest friends not to give into what she knows magnus made with love and hope #the way she looks her beloved brother in the eye and tells him she didn’t have enough faith in him #and that it cost her their family #and has to live with the fact that he just nods along without a hint of recognition #the fact that he still cares for her and supports her and is proud of her even without their history #and she just has to live with that because she can’t go back no matter how much she wants to #i’m onto the rest&relaxation interlude/the eleventh hour today can you tell #god i just have so many fucking feelings about her #all the wrong choices for all the right reasons #taz balance

[boylikeanangel]

anyone else think the timing of this whole queen dying shit is a little bit convenient considering if she actually kicks it all the media is going to be talking about for the next however many months is her funeral and the new monarch instead of. yknow. the fact the government is in the middle of taking our human rights away. anyone else feel like this just a little bit too perfectly timed to not be blanket coverage

(EDIT) y'all are doing my fucking head in in the notes lmao like you really missed the point here, just ignore my mostly joking accusation of staging the queen's death for a sec here and maybe think about how even if they didn't do that, they are definitely going to take advantage of the situation as much as possible to distract from the fact that millions of poor brits will starve and freeze to death in their homes this winter whilst what little money they have will be spent on her solid gold coffin. if it's not a conspiracy already it's going to become one. they will take any opportunity they can to make sure the media and the government and by extension WE don't have to talk about the worst cost of living crisis in decades and our increasingly fascist leadership. they WILL make sure this is all we hear about as they continue chipping away at our rights and our wallets throughout autumn and winter and beyond. making jokes and celebrating her death is all well and good and we should be glad she's dead but this is only going to make matters worse for the poorest and most vulnerable people in our country. the tyranny she oversaw and was complicit in will not end just because she's dead. they'll use it to get away with even more shit

#theyre literally putting her down so we dont focus on the cost of living crisis. im convinced of it #current events #royal family #queen elizabeth #uk politics

[ssalballoon]

"God, his knees are starting to hurt."

based on @troutsoup's writing! love the exploration of gale's childhood... an extra level of horror that mystra visited him in the form of a child

#mystra even more derogatory than ever before #my favorite line from it is actually “[the dress] must have cost her family a small fortune” #something about it being so inconsequential and innocent... gale has no idea what he's gotten himself into #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 fanart #my art #mystra #drawing children is very hard especially for someone so stern like mystra

[alicentes]

“Team Black or Team Green?” What about team smallfolk overthrowing the monarchy that are are carelessly flying around on weapons of mass destruction and committing war crimes because of their entitlement over a damn chair when neither side are giving two shits about the people they are supposed to govern

#house of the dragon #hotd #i’m making it a thing #team smallfolk #yeah i’m still mad that GOT never abolished the damn monarchy but at least this story is showing us that power corrupts everyone #and the fight for the iron throne costs the main players everything that matters. you either win or you die? nah there are no winners #more like you die or you live with consequences of the bloodshed for power #even if you are an innocenf child who gets the throne he never asked for but loses his entire family #or you live like alicent who’s fate is worse than death would’ve been for her

[lilaccatholic]

I am once again thinking about the reluctant ruler whose arc justly and correctly includes assuming the throne and taking responsibility for the people set before them

#it's about simba coming back to pride rock it's about aragorn using andúril to fight for middle earth and assuming the throne it's about #hiccup marrying astrid and assuming his role as chief and moses returning to egypt #and it's about irina loving her people so fully that when she claims all of her subjects as hers that chernobog must release them to her!!! #and it's about miryem choosing to stay with the staryk and repair the damage and assume responsibility for the land and people!!!!! #and! it's! about! gen!!!! #it's ALWAYS about gen!!!! #gen who didn't want to be king. who hated being king and only wanted to marry a queen but who obeyed his gods and became a king over kings #who lost his home and half his family and his HAND but who ushered in a new golden age. #and it's about sophos who ran away but who shot the ambassador and took back his kingdom #it's about duty and it's about sacrifice and it's always ALWAYS about doing the right thing even at great personal cost because it's about #submitting to a power higher than your own. of recognizing that the calling on life is one for serving others and having so much more to #answer for than just yourself. it's knowing duty is love is duty #i cant stand stories where the answer is 'give up the throne and reject your duty' because no!!! you dont get it!!! #thats how you get the monsters!!! thats how you get the prince turned into a beast and thats how you get every terrible weak king that #aragorn feared becoming #to accept your throne is to die to self!!! you are no longer you but 'king' or 'queen' #it's like queen mary says to qeii in the crown 'elizabeth mountbatten must die #elizabeth regina must take her place.' #that's terrifying! but it's also everything!!!! #die! to! self! die! to! self!!!!!! #lilac rambles #lilac goes to the movies #lion king #prince of egypt #lotr #spinning silver #the crown #tqt #the queen's thief #httyd

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

I bought a chest freezer recently so I can finally indulge my grandma instincts of Make An Unreasonable Amount Of Food For Not Much Money And Eat Of It For Months

Today I bought two rotisserie chickens and made SIX large chicken pot pies (9" pie tins), used the leftover carcasses and have chicken stock going in the slow cooker, with enough leftover chicken meat and veg to make chicken rice soup tomorrow for DnD and probably have quite a bit to freeze as well.

#totaled up everything cost abt $35-40 #including the foil pie tins because i did NOT have that many glass ones #which? for that much GOOD food? im quite proud #coulda done it for less if i hadnt used instant mashed potatoes but it saved enough hassle to be worth it #my family always made pot pie to use up leftovers from a Big Chicken Dinner #bottom 'crust' was mashed potatoes #middle filling was chicken bits and whatever veg we had mixed into the gravy #one crust on top #mom ALWAYS made her crusts by hand #but i decided to just use store bought ones #ive missed pot pie #but my teeny tiny freezers have never allowed for it really #because its most efficient when done in a Fuckoff Huge Batch #and my tiny amount of freezer and fridge space never made it worthwhile before

[thiziri]

Princess Anne being a total sweetheart as she attends day two of the 2024 Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse, on 13 March 2024 🥰

#IT'S SO NICE TO SEE HER LIKE THIS #she's so precious #she must be protected at all costs #😭😭😭 #bless her #smiley princess #happy princess #princess anne #princess royal #brf #british royal family #cheltenham

[br-uwu-cewayne]

Thinking about afraid of the dentist!Bruce and like

Bruce Wayne's dentist seeing all the #DoTheButtsMatch twitter trends and wanting so fucking badly to violate HIPPA and join in like

(ID in alt)

Because 1) honestly she loves the man but FUCK it's so annoying. She'd take a bitey toddler patient actively throwing a tantrum over Bruce Wayne any day, I mean she understands nervous patients because the man is so damn eccentric to boot she's never sure what kind of response to prepare for,

and 2) look, dental records are so very, very specific. Like ,"legally acceptable to identify the body" kind of specific. So she ALSO would absolutely know that Bruce Wayne very much is the Batman, so it would be the same level of trolling as the Wayne kids.

#brucie wayne #batfam twitter #batfam #batman #bruce wayne #bcause dentistry can exactly just be Field Medic'ed like some iterations have him avoiding the doctor and just having Alfred patch him up #theyve GOTTA have a dentist who's In The Know #and she is Tired #she could probably close her practice up and live off of just the operating cost of fixing the batfam's teeth #but Wayne had a program set up so she could offer free of charge services to local families im exchange for her discretion so #because dentistry CANT*

[caitlynmeow]

Her, held accountable? Never.

#house dimitrescu rules #dani can get away with anything #house dimitrescu #daniela dimitrescu #resident evil village #resident evil 8 #re8 #look at this absolute angel #like why is she so adorable??? #only a heartless person woukd actually get mad at her #Daniela is the baby of the family and it shows #it’s in her every move you can’t unsee it #yeah she’s a little caught up in her head but she’s naive and innocent still #must protecc at all costs

[outer-edges]

i’ve been returning to my roots lately and watching agents of shield and i cannot believe i forgot about my ORIGINAL comfort found father-daughter duo, daisy and coulson.

#‘she’s not my daughter but she’s as close to family as I’ve got and I’ll save her no matter what the cost’ #‘all of this protocol crap doesn’t matter to me. all that matters to me is coulson’ #‘you’re the closest thing to family I’ve got’ #‘it’s the only home I’ve ever known’ #i’m going INSANE over these two btw #daisy johnson #phil coulson #agents of shield #aos

[dannybobany]

Fnaf au where William figures out how to actually resurrect cc and then the aftons just have to live with that— not only is cc undead now but dad is freaking victor Frankenstein !! (like, literally, I imagine William discovered how to harvest remnant from recently deceased corpses rather then killing anyone himself, thus the mci doesn’t happen and Charlie doesn’t die either)

They just have to pretend this is normal and fine

#I imagine it’s especially awful for cc and Micheal I mean #think about how odd that is for cc #most of him are the original parts but many internal organs had to be replaced #the parts that become unusable quicker.. #he looks the same on the outside but he knows the difference. he knows something is very different #furthermore he wouldn’t age normally #if he ever wanted to look older he’d have to add new parts.. new bones and skin #and I imagine that’s a disturbing prospect for him so he’d avoid it at all cost #trapped in an unageing body for presumably eternity #and then theirs Micheal #while the whole family grieved Michael’s grief was in tandem with guilt #he killed his brother- it’s his fault this happened #but then he just.. came back.. as if it didn’t happen? how is Micheal supposed to be ok with that #how can you ever reverse the death of someone in your mind when you’ve already lived the grief? #I wonder how this would effect Williams relationship with his family #Clara I’m sure would be upset with him for not telling her #like he was digging up corpses and experimenting with forces beyond human comprehension #and he didn’t think for even a second “maybe I should tell my wife??” #she’s worried she’s not getting the full story- that’s it’s worse then he’s telling her #and I think Williams relationship with his kids would change too #Elizabeth could go either way but maybe she’d side with him #she in her naivety would believe that it’s a good thing #cc is alive! isn’t that what matters? didn’t you miss him? aren’t you happy he’s back? #I’m gonna cap this here #I’ve been going on too long

[wafflesrisa]

Why are they cancelling concerts and sporting events? Musicians and gig and shift workers are literally living hand to mouth right now and they’re cancelling their income in some “grand show of grief”?

Where’s their grief when these workers’ children don’t have enough to eat? Absolute bull.

#queen elizabeth #queen elizabeth ii #British royal family #uk politics #politics #i cannot believe this bull #no matter what you think of the queen it’s atrocious that her death is causing more pain and suffering #more than what her family and governments already cause in the bloody centuries beforehand #ahead of a winter in which cost of living and energy prices are skyrocketing as well #how are these workers supposed to eke out a living

[lovesickeros]

putting my thoughts under the cut in case people dont want to spoil themself on arle voicelines

currently obsessed with the view our current harbingers have of the Tsaritsa. both childe and arlecchino greatly respect her even if arlecchino is dubiously loyal to the Tsaritsa at best. they both talk about her as a figure who is gentle and compassionate, completely at odds with both the organization she allows to commit horrible acts (dottore. its a lot of dottore. he canonically took children from the hoth under the old knave if they were no longer considered "useful" and used as test subjects). shes described as someone with no love left for her people yet the harbingers we've heard talk about her never seem to describe her in such a manner. of course, childe mentions she had to harden herself to complete her goal, but he still notes that shes too gentle. the more we learn about her the more i want to meet her purely because she is contradictions all the way down and its great!!! taking whatever scraps i can get and its perfectly in line with my characterization too so i stay winning

#not a fic #shaking like a rabid dog TSARITSA LORE TSARITSA LORE TSARITSA LORE #lore that actually follows how i characterize her too!!!!!! #a woman who is the goddess of love yet so clearly incapable of it and still it peeks through anyway #a horrible contradiction of the goddess of love and the tsaritsa. the cryo archon. #a woman who is gentle and loving and adoring at her very core but she cannot love. she cannot allow herself to love #despite the fact it was the very thing she was known for. she was the goddess of love and now she must sever a part of her #the fatui as a whole is all about “the greater good. no matter the cost” and it shows through every member!! #also the themes of “love” are shown through her harbingers as well in interesting way that i adore #childe and arlecchino themselves especially. #childe is all about familial love. he adores his family and esp his younger siblings. he'll do anything to make them happy #contrasted by arlecchino's lack of emotion at all. she cares for the kids but does she love them? maybe. but she is not a good “father” #she is still a harbinger. still raising children to be soldiers in the name of the tsaritsa. #but also her + clervie as a theme of love (however you see them aside) #i wont go too in depth but scara and his is familial as well (ei. and later nahida) #and also signora (romantic. rostam) is the turning point in her story. it made her into the crimson witch of flames!!! #something something love is consuming. and it consumed her (also applicable to arle to an extent) #okay ill shut up now this has been ur daily tsaritsa yapping

[coochiequeens]

This wasn't about doing a good deed. This was about undermining a boundary set by the gf of less than 2 years to show her that he knew better.

#Reddit #Glad she dumped him #He didn't tell her about why he was working extra hours which impacted the relationship before everything else came to light #He fucked up his credit #If they marry she could be dragged down by that #He's potentially facing criminal charges #Is she supposed to put her life on hold while he goes through a trial and possible jail time? #Even if he's found not guilty his defense is going to cost him a lot of money #He wasn't pulled into that mess he created it in the first place #It wasn't a big enough clue that not just the gf but the rest of the family stopped talking to the brother?

[adipostsstuff]

New theory: at least one of Kotoko's parents is a police officer and she (and her brother most likely) were trained to become police officers themselves.

#HEAR ME OUT #so many things fit together when you think of it like this #Her mindset is exactly like cop mindset and it would make sense for it to be something she was trained into from childhood #She has been taking martial arts lessons from a young age using protection as a reason #Her parents would have had to allowed her to take them. What of they were the ones who set her up for them in the first place? #It would explain how she became Like This with the no persecution thing being true #She didn't go through an event that make her like this. She was taught to be this way #Well you could argue having cop parents and being pressured from a young age is traumatising in itself but I digress #It's the kind of trauma most wouldn't really recognise as such because it's common and not very extreme #She goes to a prestigious university which likely cost a lot in tuition. Her family would need to provide for it. Likely made her go into i #Which would mean she was probably ostracised from her family once she was sent to court and had to drop out #Because a good cop shild would not do this #This would also make her foil Kazui because they had similar childhoods #But one stepped into it a bit too well while the other wasn't ever able to truly fit in #milgram #kotoko yuzuriha #everyone needs to see my vision

[moe-broey]

Do uou ever think. Cause I do

#feh #listen i can't just post a nice drawing. i gotta post shitty pencils sketches. gunshot. lower the rent. #anyways i can never quite parse out the peony alfonse dynamic bc i think they just avoid each other. at all costs. #peony doesn't even realize her actions have like. ripple effect consequences. she thinks everything is fixed. #esppp doesn't help that alfonse just. doesn't fuck w feelings. he would prefer to opt out. #still. i am always thinking about it. how alfonse loves sharena so dearly. how he still loves her and nothing can change that #and. then there's peony. #like do you ever think about them as estranged siblings. cause i do. #somewhere triandra slots into this. normal family tree that makes sense 👍 #fe peony #fe alfonse #my art