#first comes marriage

[suburbanbeatnik]

Catriona Fergusson never expected to wind up in a London workhouse, but then, she never expected to be disowned by her family or to become a married man’s mistress. Falling pregnant when her protector believes he cannot father children is simply the latest calamity to strike her. Turned out of her home and stripped of funds, she has few choices and fewer friends. Recently elected to the House of Commons, Noel Langston is on a mission to reform England’s cruel treatment of the poor, especially women and children. So when he stumbles upon the pregnant mistress of his bitterest political rival during a visit to a workhouse, he sees an opportunity to fulfill his goals…and to ruffle the feathers of her former protector. First comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. Can love come last? The frontispiece for the brand NEW book by Jackie Barbosa in the House of Uncommons series!

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#illustration #art #jackie barbosa #first comes marriage #house of uncommons #romance art #1830s #victorian #regency romance #painting #red hair

[adastra121]

Leander: It's dangerous to go alone, MC! Take this! *places hand in MC's* MC: That's your hand. Leander: Take me with you. I'll keep you safe. ;)

#Leander's alternative response: “I'm all you need. :)” #which is a sweet saying that sounds menacing when it comes from him #something about hand in marriage I don't know #touchstarved #touchstarved game #touchstarved leander #touchstarved mc #leander x mc #mc x leander #incorrect quote #incorrect quotes #source: legend of zelda #at least that’s where the first quote comes from

[rikebe]

tfw your shitty dad wont stop having kids

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#daken akihiro #laura kinney #gabby kinney #raze darkholme #jimmy hudson #dark wolverine #all new wolverine #honey badger #xmen #x men #wolverine #snikt family #sniktfam #saw a comment calling akihiro the oldest child coming out of the first marriage and its SO real. he has child of divorce energy #this ones a sketch that got away from me lmao #ig this could be like a normie no power au but also i just wanted to draw angsty teen akihiro its very fucking funny to me #think of it as ~metaphorical #also raze bc i love raze. nobody appreciates him #im rly into the nonexistent relationship between the wolverine brothers #art only

[smittenskitten]

MOM! Do you see this?

#oh no! here comes trouble #twdramaedit #不良執念清除師 #asiandramaedit #peng cian you #tseng jing hua #cheryl yang #taiwanese drama #onhctedit #prangon gifs #oh no here comes trouble #tw flashing #between yiyong's mom and guangyan's dad i wonder who'll send their marriage proposal first

[selkiemaidenfae]

i’m a bit too hungover to fully articulate this the way i want to but

there’s something about camila dragging billy to that party where he’s immediately offered alcohol because she’s never truly seen his addiction for what it is vs daisy staying in his tour bus with him because she understands that they’re fighting the same struggle

there’s something about camila not really having any clue why billy needs daisy so much to the point where she has to ask if daisy’s a better lover than her vs daisy inherently understanding why billy had to choose his family despite never having a family of her own

there’s something about camila never intervening in the billy/eddie conflict in all those years vs daisy showing up and immediately telling billy that aurora needed to be eddie’s project too

there’s something about billy writing the same songs over and over with camila vs daisy forcing him out of his songwriting comfort zone leading to him writing the most personal and beautiful songs of his career

something something daisy allowed him to be the truest version of himself while camila let him hide behind the idealized version something something billy ultimately chose camila because he wanted to be the man that she saw instead of the complicated mess that daisy understood him to be

#daisy jones and the six #daisybilly #daisy jones #billy dunne #essay in the tags incoming so hol up #so listen i feel like ppl say that camila is the healthier or outright better option for billy but what they actually mean #is that she's the easiest option #billy doesn't have to acknowledge that he's an addict with camila because she doesn't acknowledge it either #he doesn't have to address his control issues or his conflict with eddie or the ways that he messes up outside his marriage #but then daisy pops up out of nowhere and acts as a mirror to his true self #and he hates her for it #and yet he also loves her for it because there's something so holy in being seen for the first time #but among other things billy dunne is-- respectfully-- kind of a coward #being with camila means that he can pretend to be the man she wants him to be #he can even pretend that it comes naturally #with daisy there's nothing to hide behind or pretend #there's only him and her and the truth between them #and for a man like billy that's the most terrifying thing he can imagine #i am a ~daisybilly is healthier in the long term than c*millabilly~ truther and i cannot be silenced

[martianbugsbunny]

So I just spent the last ten minutes all-capsing at my mom over text about Kalluzeb, and she said this:

the holy grail of canon kalluzeb content, is adorable, so she gets it

#she saw about zeb and her first reaction was to text me about it #she knew I was gonna be smad #love her #and she like many of us Tumblr goblins has come to the completely accurate conclusion that kallus is at home taking care of the kids #take that filoni #also she says it's too bad zeb isn't enjoying a nice retirement #I sent her the pic and she was like wait is that legit? is that canon? and I was like yes indeedy-do it is #I told her about how apparently sabine just forgot to mention jacen (ain't seen the episode yet so idk if that's true but it probably is) #and how if she can leave out a whole kid she can leave out a whole marriage #and she was like well maybe sabine is just a bad storyteller maybe she should've drawn a picture #and then I put on my pixelated sunglasses and I'm like 'mother do I have news for you'....*pulls picture out of wallet* #favorite interaction of the week #kalluzeb #garazeb orrelios #zeb #alexsandr kallus #star wars #Star Wars rebels #ahsoka show #ahsoka series #martian's mom #martianbugsbunny ships

[heretherebedork]

I love Do Han, okay? He is trying to balance his love for his brother with the truth he can't share with him and the lie he's living and the family he's trying to not be responsible for and the life he wants to lead that means he always has to leave Ji Han behind, every single time.

Do Han living a free and happy life means that he cannot be the brother he wishes he could to Ji Han and that's so painful to him.

It's how he knows his brother and worries and how much he wants to be who he cannot be if he ever wants to own his own truth... this is a man who is marrying his best friend in a marriage contract so he doesn't have to come out as gay because he knows that coming out as gay will destroy his family and his life but who also cannot face the life he will have if he stays in the closet with someone who doesn't know, who cannot bring himself to lie to a woman to marry her but must forever lie to his brother for fear of what might be.

How does he face this? How does he face his own fear of being fully seen by the people in his life because he is certain that there is no way for him to be accepted as himself versus his love for them? Do Han was free for five years in New York and now he's returned to living a lie that he wants nothing to do with but is absolutely trapped in if he ever wants freedom again.

(Can he truly have freedom again, someday, or will he never again escape and how badly is he willing to hurt the family he loves for his own need and desire? How long can he stay in the closet for their sake when all he yearns for is the life he lead away from them while also wishing he could be there with them at the same time?)

And the hardest part is that Ji Han doesn't even know why Do Han says that, not really.

#wedding impossible #kdrama #ugh i have so many feelings about lee do han #i adore this boy #my beloved gaybe #he absolutely has to come out in the series okay?! #and get a boyfriend #and ji han has to understand #and then do han will be at his brother's marriage with his boyfriend #but it is gonna HURT first

[poorlittleyaoyao]

You're doomed--may you never fathom who you are!

Oedipus Tyrannus, lines 1167-1173 (tr. Robert Fagles)

#qin su #jin guangyao #this play isn't even really about the incest! it's about the nature of fate and the cost of truth!! #because Oedipus doomed himself years before the play even started by trying to AVOID his fate #and dooms himself a second time with his well-intended pursuit of the truth because he cannot handle what he learns #meanwhile a critical choice that Jocasta's actor gets to make is when SHE finds out #is it somewhat earlier in the play? or is it before the play even begins? #because she and Oedipus have a good thing going #given the typical first-marriage age for girls Oedipus and Jocasta likely have the same or LESS of a gap than she did with Laius #and so you can absolutely play it as her knowing but not wanting to mess things up #sorry for the tag wall but ppl have such misconceptions about this play I need you to know why it workssss #thank u for coming to my Oed Talk

[toxifoxx]

okay. henry breaking it off with william because they Just Cant Be Together Like This(bla bla bla 60's/70's homophobia) and he's a Good Christian Man. immediately going to marry a woman to make up for his 'sins'. william getting a wife because he sees henry doing it and feels like its something he has to do. dating around, escalating to sleeping around trying to fill the void, hoping someone will click but nobody makes him feel the way henry does at all. even clara, who came the closest out of anyone else, was still more out of obligation than true love cause of an accidental pregnancy. as much as william loves his kids - michael was a mistake and he really wasn't ready to have a kid yet, locking him to a path he wasn't sure he wanted to walk. he's a shitty parent because he was never actually prepared and at that point the diner is taking up a lot of his time so he just kinda escapes to the diner and buries himself in his work most of the time. once michael's siblings are born, he tends to give better treatment to them(better experience + he actually wanted them), even though he loves them all there is definitely favoritism and a hint of resentment. despite knowing that michael didnt do anything wrong. of course he feels a lot more justified in that resentment after evan(CC)'s death

#SINCE the accidental pregnancy in college storyline simply wouldn't work after i increased william's age #(michael would be wayyy too old by 83 - like in his 20's) #this is the adjustment that i have come up with #casually avoiding mentioning william was the one who got pregnant because i know the 'marriage to save face' trope barely makes sense in #this particular context But that is what happened and you will pretend it makes sense. Please #also yes henry is christian not mormon im not touching mormonism with a ten foot pole thank you #hey this is actually like. my first un-prompted lore post. yayyyy! written at 3am btw #toxi fnaf lore #toxi.txt

[midnightfrappe]

Hi all. I have decided to fully quit tumblr and any social media

These past few days were extremely eye-opening to the type of friends that i have and content that i consume

I'll stop using this platform by the end of the year because i am getting married to Sun and Moon fnaf

#daycare attendant #sundrop #moondrop #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf #midnight rambles #i'm so sorry #my marriage comes first #but i'll come back if we get divorced! #:3 heehee #silly :3

[welcome-to-green-hills]

Sonic would totally call his boyfriend Grumpy Bear

Pookie and Grumpy Bear sitting in a tree!

K-I-S-S-I-N-G!💋💋💋

#First comes love! Second comes marriage! K-I-S-S-I-N-G! #Sonadow

[finelythreadedsky]

genuinely though i am curious about what social circumstances led to this late 1st century bce phenomenon of large numbers of elite roman men not wanting to get married or have legitimate children. was this a huge fad, ending your family line and leaving your money to your buddy who you adopted despite being the same age?

#like i would understand widows not wanting to remarry #or fathers not wanting to pay dowries for their daughters #but it seems like the resistance to marriage/offspring was coming from single/childless men? #why did augustus feel like he HAD to pass laws encouraging getting married and having children in the first place? #arent there some shinzo abe memes applicable to this situation... #mine

[cienie-isengardu]

Remeber the scene in Triple Zero, when Sev was explaining to Fi the Atin-Vau freud?

“Atin’s sworn he’ll kill Vau.” Fi almost stopped dead. “Atin? Old don’t-interrupt-me-I’m-working-on-a-really-interesting-circuit? Our At'ika?” “Seriously?” Sev asked.

Yeah. One year later:

The ARC was walking briskly, heading north. Twice he paused to buy food from a street stall and slipped the wrapped packages inside his coat. Then he walked into the huge transparisteel foyer of the unirail terminal, forcing them to follow. "How far are we going to take this-?" Darman whispered. "I thought we'd just follow him and see where he goes." "Remember Sergeant Kal giving Sev and Fi an earful for doing an unplanned tail on a suspect and nearly screwing the whole operation?" "Skirata's light-years away." Darman wondered why he'd ever thought Atin was the quiet, thoughtful one. [Republic Commando: True Colors].

#star wars #clone commando darman #clone commando atin #kal skirata #republic commando #clone commando fi #clone commando sev #Darman wondered why he'd ever thought Atin was the quiet thoughtful one XDDDDD #i love how the perception of atin has changed #I think back then it was easy to assume Sev just doesn't know Atin that well and his opinion could be colored by his own conflict with the #it was Fi (and Darman and Niner) who spent the first year of war with Atin in the same team and Atin was the quiet one #the reasonable commando. #I mean #what Sev really could know about Atin #that Fi or the rest of Omega didn't when it comes to the man's behaviour? #and then one year later and atin is ready to beat down a'den and doesn't care what skirata will say when they are tracking missing arc #and he challenge niner about marriage #and really is there to get the life he wants and god helps those in his way #i think omega squad just needed more time to figure out atin while Sev has pretty good idea about his batch brother's nature #so i like to imagine deltas simply observed amused as each member of omega finally get the point that atin being quiet is a very misleading #impression (and isn't it the same about vau? XD)

[dennisboobs]

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#absolutely do not want to argue because i get where the post is coming from with but im gonna give some thots #re: dennis autism!!!! ok!!!!! #ive talked about it before but there is WAY more to him being autistic than just the buzzer noises. when i first watched that i was like #is THIS really why people hc him as autistic. :/ and i get it! i do! i think he has misophonia inherited from glenn personally #its actually why i captioned the noise sensitive den gifsets as that rather than just. autism. #but personally i see his scripted social interactions and i go. yeah. me. me fuckin too. #and his outbursts. which are VERY personally relatable to me #i have uh. basically the same triggers? very similar triggers at least #i think dennis' neurodivergency presents itself differently because of his upbringing and thats why a lot of ppl go ???? when you say. #'yea i think den's autistic actually' #and like i said i was absolutely like. what the hell are people talking about. he's not autistic #but uh. on rewatches? hm. #dennis quite literally masks almost 24/7 #charlie has no qualms about being perceived as like. weird. but dennis masks SO hard. SSSSSSOOOOO hard #i once saw a post like. charlie has boy autism and dennis has girl autism which honestly fucking hate that but its... kiiiind of true #ASD presents itself differently in adults depending on early social conditioning #mac fights gay marriage. group dates. new wheels. dee day. celebrity booze. all the big ones. all the hits. #look how he acts when he goes off script and is forced to speak off the cuff #the way glenn describes him as being very emotional but unable to adequately express his emotions too like. yeah. same. #theres so much more than the noise sensitivity #i could go on and on about how many fucking boxes he ticks but i honestly hate that shit. i know how autism works and that bitch is autisti #im going to refrain from commenting on the reasons why i feel charlie is more acceptably hced as autistic vs dennis because mmmmm but #dennis being 'hypersexual' (not about the sex. at all) and socially adept (has scripts/systems. charlie is more emotionally intelligent) #smells a lil stinky. smells a little bit like infantilization on charlie's part. #ada speaks #ok ill spare you guys. someday ill write a proper meta on this. ive talked about it before but.

[dontgofarfromme]

I know we like to drag Fitz for his refusal to recognize that he's in love with the Fool but also I think we need to acknowledge that in addition to the significant contribution of massive boatloads of internalized homophobia, this man has approximately zero platonic friends his age and therefore cannot be expected to accurately assess what a normal friendship feeling is

#kettriken is the only person who comes close and she fluctuates between friend and liege with occasional vague romantic undertones #starling: frenemies with benefits #jinna: friends with (?)benefits #molly: first love angst then messy love triangle angst and then marriage or whatever #the fool: as we discussed #andddd thats it thats his entire peer group the man is not allowed one friend who hes not either in love with; banging; or both #wtf is he even comparing their relationship against??? absolutely zero normal platonic friendships thats for sure!!!!! #anyway u know the song what am i feeling from galavant? thats fitz. #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer

[stacotto]

God, I am such a hopeless romantic, there is nothing more fulfilling to me in a ship than:

Person A: Asks about love interest's life after they imply something terrible about it

Person B: Tells them about the terrible parts but in a "I dealt with it" sort of way

Person A: *protective instinct intensifies*

#ramblings #the apothecary diaries #my happy marriage #those are the first things that come to my head but i know i know more