#i would thank her for her service

[baldchristianborle]

our lord and savior trisha paytas is killing the british royal family one by one

#i thank her for her service #what would we do without her #british royal family #uk politics #trisha paytas #king charles iii

[crumbpigeon]

✸ If you could only see the beast you've made of me, I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free ✸

#im truly so in love with her monster girls own my entire life #thank you studio trigger for the fan service #as a fan i was serviced #but also how wounded and betrayed she looks when kabru and laios start attacking her!! im in physical pain #would have finished this way sooner if not for getting sick + my laptop being on its last legs :ccc #but still!! nothing will keep me from drawing her i am obsessed #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #dungeon meshi fanart #falin touden #chimera falin #falin dungeon meshi #dunmeshi falin #falin fanart #falin #myart

[sbrn10]

C3E23

C3E63

C3E76

C3E85

C3E86

C3E89

#musings: cr #to be clear I am doing this for my own fucking reference but also to be able to point and scream because #my fucking god this conversation was layers on layers on layers #and growth and regression and love and desperation and lies and truths and chef's fucking KISS #*is* Laudna lying in this moment? probably not insofar as what she says specifically - Delilah WAS always there #but in the larger context? fuck yeah she's lying -- mostly to herself #but there's such an interesting question of intention and control seeded through it all -- because was she ever lying about the rock? #and where is the line for her between Delilah made me do it and *Delilah made me do it*? #also friendly reminder that as far as laudna knows (and we know) imogen doesn't even know about edmuda #FIRE ELMO DOT GIF i am living for this #imogen temult #laudna #c3e89 #also surely there would be a much nicer looking way of compiling all this but i am lazy af 🤷 #anyway i would both kiss and pay actual moneybucks to whoever runs searchable cr transcripts thank you for your service

[miralines]

One thing I think is interesting/useful to note about the Rose Red book is that it is a book that was published in the OUATIS galaxy a little under ten years after the war, and that it has an in-story author— and, crucially, that author is not necessarily an entirely reliable narrator.

More rambling about this under the cut

The author, Althea, is a normcivilian with an unusual amount of sympathy for the now-decommissioned Rose Reds. This is not a popular position, and between:

A) her rhetorical goal of changing the minds of people actively against the Rose Reds being allowed to survive

B) the constraints of mainstream publishers, who are under social/political pressure to not threaten the new government, requiring her to be both neutral and not too challenging,

C) her own corresponding bias in believing that neutrality is both possible and desirable,

and D) her limited viewpoint as a normcivilian (not a Rose Red) from a privileged background,

There are quite a lot of places where events, people, and viewpoints are presented in ways that are somewhat misleading. Althea has a degree in journalism, but she does not live in an entirely free society, and both external forces and her own biases do color the narrative she presents throughout the book.

In short, she’s the equivalent of a left-leaning ally to a marginalized group who’s a bit more centrist than one might hope and is presenting herself as even more centrist in order to be published at all through mainstream channels and taken seriously by people who are biased against her cause.

#my fic #one thousand and three #rose red book #I figure she’s willing to bargain the constraints of traditional publishing for the reach they offer #in service of her greater goal of humanizing the rose reds to other norms #this is a compromise she can make. I think many rose reds would feel differently #including several she interviews #it would also fundamentally be a different book if it were written for rose reds #Althea’s biggest flaw in approaching this is attempting to be palatable to an audience who is hostile to the people she writes about #and this creates some. problematic dynamics in how she handles some of the issues she’s discussing as an outsider #I have. a lot of thoughts about the politics of the book #and also how they intersect with broader galactic politics #(especially when it comes to freedom of ideas and censorship) #anyway thanks to anyone who’s read all this meta rambling about rhetoric and narrative in this project #hope you enjoy the book itself lmao

[youssefguedira]

behold, the product of yesterday's lotr au discussion (for @spacegirlsgang)

Nicolò has not spoken to him in days.

He hasn't spoken to anyone. He walks silently at Yusuf's side, hand always on his sword, eyes always on the horizon. When there are people who need it, he helps, tends wounds and lifts the younger ones onto horses and hands out food. He still does not speak, and Yusuf worries for him.

They have already lost Quynh, and Sebastien. Dizzy and Jay may well be dead by now for all they know, and Nile and Lykon… he does not really want to think about it for long. He only hopes they are alive. And now Andromache, too, is gone, and Nicolò will not speak, and Yusuf cannot help feeling very, very alone without him. It is strange: Yusuf would have thought, just a week or two ago, that he would have been glad never to see Nicolò again. Now, the thought terrifies him.

When they make camp that night, Yusuf takes his place by the fire with his sword across his lap and prepares to keep watch. Nicolò joins him, after a while, but instead of taking a seat and silently watching the horizon as Yusuf has come to expect him to, he speaks.

"You should rest," he says, voice hoarse as if – well, as if he hasn't used it in days. He carries two bowls of stew, one of which he passes to Yusuf.

"So should you," Yusuf responds. He's exhausted, but neither of them have slept much – he's not sure Nicolò has slept at all since they lost Andromache.

"I do not need to sleep like you do," Nicolò says, which almost makes Yusuf laugh.

"Bullshit," he says. "Even you can't go this long without needing to rest."

Nicolò doesn't say anything to that. Doesn't even meet Yusuf's eyes, but Yusuf can tell how tired Nicolò truly is, and suddenly he cannot bear it anymore.

"We cannot keep on like this," Yusuf says. "This is not – if we're all that's left, I cannot do this without you, Nicolò."

Nicolò is quiet, for a while. When he finally speaks, he says, "Try to rest, Yusuf. I will keep watch tonight."

Yusuf waits. Nicolò does not move, nor show any sign of conceding. Just as stubborn as Andromache – well. He doesn't let himself finish that thought.

He waits a little longer, but Nicolò remains silent.

"Wake me for the second watch, then," Yusuf says, finally. Nicolò does not nod, but Yusuf no longer has the strength in him to push. He falls asleep quickly.

When he wakes, it is morning, and Nicolò is nowhere to be seen. Yusuf can only hope he found someone else for the second watch, and that he did not stay awake all night, but he would not be surprised if the latter were true.

During the day, they keep to their regular routine – Nicolò's silence and Yusuf's attempts to find anything to do that isn't think too much – but that night, when Nicolò finds him, he sets his sword down by his side and asks, "Will you wake me for the second shift?"

Yusuf nods quickly, too quickly, and Nicolò smiles, though it is small. It's the first time Yusuf's seen him smile in days.

He wakes Nicolò for the second shift and sleeps after that, and the next night, Yusuf takes the first and Nicolò the second.

It's a start, at the very least.

–

The day after they reach Helm's Deep, Nicolò is the first to see the rider.

He does not realise who it is at first: the figure is too distant. They wear a cloak with the hood pulled low over their face, and lean heavily over their horse, as if injured.

Nicolò's first thought is that it is a scout. His second thought, which he discounts quickly, is that it is Andromache, which. It cannot be. He does not dare imagine it.

When the figure keeps approaching, he shouts a warning to the guards on the walls. Yusuf, who had fallen asleep beside him, his back against the stone, startles awake. "What is it?" he asks, still half-asleep.

"I do not know, yet," Nicolò responds. He gets to his feet. Yusuf follows a moment later.

"I see it, now," Yusuf says, furrowing his brow. Nicolò's hand goes to his bow, just in case. If it is a scout, he will deal with them quickly.

Then, suddenly, Yusuf's eyes go wide, and he curses. Taps Nicolò twice on the shoulder, and runs along the wall, down the stairs, towards the gate, shouting at the guards to open it.

Nicolò looks again, then, and realises what Yusuf has seen. The rider's weapon is just visible over their right shoulder, and Nicolò knows the carvings on its handle, knows them because they are the twin of the carvings on the hilt of his hunting dagger, because both weapons were forged by the same person.

He is moving before he truly has time to process the thought. The gates are opened far too slowly, creaking with the movement, and by the time he can see the rider again she is sitting straighter in the saddle, a wide grin on her face, urging her horse forward. It is only Yusuf's hand on his arm that keeps him from running through the gates to greet her; when Nicolò looks back at him, his smile is bright enough to rival the midday sun.

Andromache.

Finally, she is there, riding through the gates like a king returning to her kingdom, like she had planned this all along, like Nicolò hadn't seen her fall from a cliff only a few days ago. She dismounts easily, before the horse has even fully stopped, and then he is running, and she is meeting him halfway and gathering him into her arms and laughing, even as he thinks he starts crying.

Then Yusuf is there too, and Nicolò has to step back but cannot bring himself to go far, and Andromache hugs him too, while Yusuf laughs, bright and loud.

"Where have you been," he is saying, and "I thought you were dead, Andromache, I thought we had lost you," and she laughs again and cups the back of his neck with one hand and says, "I'm okay, Nico, I'm okay."

"So," Andromache says once Yusuf steps back, too, her grin sharp despite how exhausted she must be. "Tell me what I've missed."

#neon writes #tog lotr au #the old guard #look. i have Feelings abt it #firstly. helm's deep is the Major turning point for joe and nicky's relationship but we're starting to lay the groundwork here #i think they're not quite there with talking about feelings yet. but on their way #nicolò a) letting yusuf sleep through the night and b) actively asking him to take the first watch (i.e. listening to him when yusuf says h #needs to rest) is really. its something for me #i don't know if the thing about elves not needing to sleep much is true just go with me on this one. also if ive mixed up timelines its in #service of the Brain Worms. ok #in the actual hypothetical longfic this would be interspersed with other sections / the reunion might be from another pov #the bit about blacksmith andy is one of my favourite details about this au #she makes quynh's necklace AND nicky's knife n him being able to recognise her by the design of her axe because it's the same as that of hi #knife. Yeah it's important to me #anyway mary as always i hope you like this <3 and thank you for continually enabling the brain worms

[duchessofostergotlands]

Don’t know why the Daily Mail changed this headline because it was the most unnecessarily dramatic thing and I found it hilarious:

#thank you for your service ma’am #I feel like even Kate would roll her eyes at this lol #british royal family #Kate Middleton #2023

[starlooove]

I rlly liked red hood the hill bc besides the gift it completely ignored everything else with the batfam which to meeee I’m taking it as the hill has been overlooked by the bats forever (see Orpheus rising) so yeah nobody there gives a fuck about those people and jason knows better than to bring that shit over there

#genuinely tho #I dislike the trend rn of simplifying Jason and Bruce’s issues and making it seem like Bruce was nice and accepting all along and Jason just #needs to get with the program #like the fanficication of that and the Damian Bruce issues or Damian tim issues or even Dick and bruce issues #where everything comes down to the kids being insecure and Bruce being bad at communicating #which has always been PART of the main issues but using that as the crux and lens through which a solution will be acheived is a stretch #a stretch only made in fix it fics that is picked up by ppl who dont read shit and then writers who dont read dont care and get a check #THIS IS MY ISSUE WITH WHERE IT SEEMS BATFAM IS GOING THAT IS NOT AN ISSUE I HAVE WITH RE #NOT ABOUT RED HOOD THE HILL #back to red hood the hill #i DO like them #playing off how jason has always been able to relax there #with a community that has eachothers back #and the flip from #his early red hood days to seeing dana go that path is soooo #what i find interesting tho as that he positions himself as support and backup more than a deterrant #like yes he does try to talk her down a lot but most of the time hes living his life with a worried eye on her #and i think it shows to how he reacted to ppl (bruce) being heavy handed with him #and u know i love the batfam repeating awful cycles shit i think its very interesting that this is one jason didnt repeat #maybe bc hes so close to the feeling or that dana isnt to him what he was to bruce or even that hes just relaxing and thinking clearly and #above all trusts her #most toxic fun future would be for her to break that trust and him to go crazy but thats a diff rant #anyways my entire summary for jasons character is that THAT is what good coochie does to a nigga #carmen thank you for your service another crazy off the street 🙏🏾 #red hood and the hill #oh. still no Orpheus mention #no it doesn’t hurt less anytime 💔 #Jason Todd

[mending-up-your-fences]

Here’s a few examples of Brandi Carlile taking straight solo songs and turning them into gay romantic duets, if you want them:

It All Fades Away - from Bridges Over Madison County (written by Jason Robert Brown), covered by Jennifer Nettles, Feat. Brandi Carlile

I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton and Brandi Carlile, at Newport Folk Festival in 2019

She Used To Be Mine - Sara Bareilles, feat. Brandi Carlile (Girls Just Wanna Weekend 4 in 2023)

#brandi carlile #I would like to thank her for her service #specifically in bringing us one step closer to lesbian bridges

[call-me-maggie13]

If anyone is wondering what the United States Navy listens to on deployment, I will tell you. It is mostly @taylorswift. There’s a little bit of Disney music and some country songs, but it’s mostly Taylor Swift.

Now picture this: the scariest man you know, big and mean and scary, screaming and crying and singing Marjorie into a mop handle. Now picture 20 or so young men choreographing a dance routine to Style. In their uniforms. Now picture a guys vs. gals dance-off to I Forgot That You Existed.

My chief would yell at anyone who tried to play a non-Taylor’s version of any of her songs. We would argue about the best Taylor ballads during watch and had album release parties the day after folklore and evermore dropped. You have not lived until you have dissected Taylor Swift song lyrics with four grown men in dress blues while an officer tries to redirect us. Nothing will ever compare to my SLPO sending us home early because he found out she was releasing folklore and he needed to “emotionally prepare” himself (he bought three bottles of wine).

I know everyone assumes we talked about sports or whatever but you can’t really keep up with those in the middle of the ocean, so we spent a lot of time listening to music because there are only so many stories a person can tell. Unless you’re Taylor Swift, then there’s a never ending supply.

These are the people the US government has defending the country.

One of my buddies just got back from deployment and she’s a submariner so they really really don’t get any news from outside the boat and she sent me a multitude of snaps of her reacting to midnights and the eras tour. There was a lot of screaming and crying and curses. I have never been happier to be out of the military than I was when I realized she has to catch up on the last six months of Taylor lore and Easter eggs.

#the United States Navy is a swiftie #I can confirm #I was in the United States Navy #the only thing everyone could agree on was that Taylor is the music industry #my SLPO took off the day after she released folklore for “mental health” #he did the same afte she released evermore #he had a countdown in his office that he refused to tell anyone what it was for #it was for her birthday #there was one guy who said Taylor swift sucked and he got midnight watch every night and extra duty for a week #if you have never heard a grown man shriek over a Twitter post #join the navy #I’m kidding don’t do that #but Taylor #if you’re reading this #the United States military loves you more than our country #if you ran for President the entirety of the military would vote for you #on behalf of the United States military #taylor we thank you for your service #and we give you all of our support #i love you taylor #dr taylor swift #taylor swift #folklore taylor swift #taylor swift evermore #taylor swift eras #taylor allison swift #dr Taylor Allison swift #taylornation #taylors version #not wn related

[aworldofyou]

The plan today? Fix graves, do some moccasin work, write. I’m up early so I’m gonna do that.

#[ show your local veteran you appreciate them thanks ] #[ that’s where I’m gonna start ] #[ well my grandma because my grandpa- the vet #would have wanted us to help her first because he loved his wife so so much ] #[ which is Romantic because they’re the classic love and war story ] #[ got married and had a baby just before he went in so he likely had their picture - their letters ] #[ when he was asked if he had a lady at home he would have said his wife and daughter ] #[ i love my faMILY and I love my grandpa uncle and friends for their service ] #[ out of character. ] just a shitpost

[todayisafridaynight]

I've never stepped into a hot topic in my life because- #indoterlalukonservatis ngl I wanna see what it's like 🚶‍♂️

i aint the slightest clue what that hashtag says BUT if you go into a hot topic nowadays its pretty chill honestly, it's really not that bad and you'll more often than not find anime and videogame merch

#snap chats #idk maybe im just desensitized #when i was younger i was scared of hot topic and spencer though LMAO #my eldest sis would Very Rarely take me to the mall and then we'd go to hot topic #i would also stay close to her cause i was scared but like. now that im an adult #1.) i go there when i can ☠️☠️ 2.) you will meet the nicest people in hot topics and skate shops and spencer's #maybe its just because theyre working customer service so Respectable but i always end up chatting with them #spencers scares me as a store though. thats just because im a dumb straight edge who hates drugs #and there is drug paraphernalia EVERYWHERE !!!! #you'd think i'd fall in line with my sisters in smoking weed at some point since- esp my eldest- they'd smoked while i was growing up #but no.... ive always hated the smell and the thought of it's just. No Thank You :] idc if other people do it just not around me please #oh yeah theres also sex stuff. 'sex stuff' what am i FIVE #just very much not my speed.. yk... the whole... sex repulsion thing i got going on... #i did get my snake ear cuff from there tho so. maybe im growing up <- i still hate spencers #back to hot topic though im pissed they used to have such a cool logo but now it's that minimalist shit #BRING BACK THAT SLIPKNOT-LOOKING-ASS FONT IT WAS SO COOL

[gojuo]

What are your all time favorite characters from ASOIAF and F&B? 🙏

This answer is so unserious but my number one baby in ASOIAF is ELIA MARTELL!!!!!!! It's so unserious because all we know about her is literally one fucking line of being sweet and kind and clever and that's about it. She's already long dead before the story starts, but I really don't care. The way she is so loved by her brothers, by her nieces, her family, by her entire country, so much so that she is the reason why Dorne is even participating in this silly game of thrones... This deep-set love for her is made clear by how said love bleeds through the narrative all without the POVs of the people closest to her: Doran and Oberyn. It's so fascinating how cherished she is even though not a single POV character stops for a minute to think about her. Ned, Jaime, and Sansa are prime examples of POV characters that have, in some narrative way, a connection to Elia yet she's only a passing thought to them (not even so in Sansa's case). Yet it's so abundantly well-defined how loved and how important she was, even when we only have a maximum of 20 words written about her. It is deeply heartbreaking and compelling to me how this barely-there character, who has died long before the story starts, has this much of an impact on an entire kingdom. And you might be thinking right now, Melda, really? Elia’s worth to you is measured by how loved she was by others? Yeah, well, that's not the reason why I love her this much. I love her the most because she outplayed every single one of them all. She outplayed Tywin. She outplayed Aerys. She outplayed Robert and she did what Rhaegar could not do: she saved her son. She saw to it that the heir to the Iron Throne, her own baby, was whisked off to safety in the hands of her own best friend (Septa Lemore is 100% Ashara Dayne) all during a dynasty-ending continent-wide rebellion. Rhaegar destroyed his house. Aerys destroyed his house. Tywin and Robert put the nail in the coffin and believed they were building a new dynasty for the ages to come, but Elia still managed to outplay them all in the long-run. Her son is now coming back to put an end to the Baratheon/Lannister/Tyrell-dynasty and there will be no salvation for any of them. Elia won.

And that leads me to my second most favorite character in ASOIAF and that is YOUNG GRIFF aka AEGON THE SIXTH TARGARYEN!!!!!! MY BABY BOY DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE HAUNTED BY THE NARRATIVE AND MOURNED BY THE NARRATIVE..... He will die but he will also forever be immortalized as Aegon the Sixth, The Last Targaryen King of Westeros, and no amount of Daenerys genocidal rage will ever change that. He will be loved by the people and he will be eternally mourned as the Last Targaryen. If only he hadn’t been under Varys’ care, if only he hadn’t been Rhaegar’s son, if only he hadn’t been meant for more… Then he could have embraced his mother’s Rhoynish/Dornish side fully and live in peace for the rest of his life, together with the last of his family. He really could have, but he was meant for much more. He was doomed the day he was conceived when that red star bled through the skies and foretold Rhaegar’s prophecy. Aegon never stood a chance against that. If only he still had his mother with him. Aegon is Elia’s living legacy. He is alive today because of her. She almost died giving birth to him, and then she died protecting him. He never mentions her, but what child doesn’t long for his mother? Her touch is all over him—from within her body he first took shape in, to her life-long best friend who took care of him, to her countrymen accompanying him, to her niece who he will marry, to her brother’s, his uncle, support of him—his mother is in everything surrounding him. The woman that saved him. His name is Aegon Targaryen but more than anything he is Elia s son. And Elia has been all but erased from history yet here her son comes back, not to just bring justice, not to just take back the throne, but to put it down in the history books that he was here, that he is alive, that his mother saved him, that his mother mattered. And he will die, he will, because this is not his Song, because after everything still he is a Targaryen, but he will die and he will forever be remembered as The Last Targaryen King of Westeros, Son of Elia.

Now this character was Mother to me long before I even knew what the fuck Mother was. She was everything to me in the first three books and she will always be one of my most favorite characters of all time: CATELYN STARK. Literally no words to describe how much she meant to me when I first read ASOIAF at my big age of 12 years old. I can’t even explain exactly what she means to me. It just immediately clicked, you know? It shocked me to find out the community vehemently hated her because Catelyn was nothing but sympathetic to me. I understood why she took her anger and humiliation out on Jon. I understood that this was not something to be celebrated but that this was something so very human, something so awful yet so true to reality. I just understood, you know? Her shame, her humiliation, her embarrassment, her outrage, her upset—I understood it all. And I loved her through it all. People like to pretend they would do better were they in her shoes, but that is a lie and everyone knows it. The pain she had to live through everyday put her between a rock and a hard place and the majority of people have the privilege of never having been put in that position. But the people who know, know. And the people who don’t know, will never know. But I knew. I did. I still do. She was so human to me. Like a real person. She wasn’t a made-up character to me, she wasn’t fictional, it was as if she was a person that was a part of my life back in the real world, outside of ASOIAF. I can’t even articulate exactly how, what, why and who she is to me. Just, as a person who existed in this world, who took up space, who was a mother, a daughter, a sister, just a person who lived… Catelyn Stark was everything to me in those first 3 books. Everything. Not a single character and their struggle and plotline had captivated me in the way hers had captivated me. I just can’t explain it. When she died it was like ASOIAF was over for me, like it didn’t matter anymore, I was done with it. Reading her death, experiencing it alongside her… Man, something in me changed, I swear. It was over, in every sense of the way. When Catelyn died, ASOIAF died…

… and then in the next book GRRM introduced to us ARIANNE MARTELL. I gave you 3 paragraphs of melancholy but that’s not gonna be the case for Arianne. Because she is the It Girl, she is an Icon, she is a Legend and she is The Moment. She’s going to win. She’ll have a lil detour of being Queen of the Seven Kingdoms but after that little stint she’ll go back to where she has always wanted to be: Ruler of Dorne. And she will continue to slay as she has been doing since those 2 little chapters in AFFC dropped until the end of time. MY QUEEN. Literally if she (and Oberyn and the Martells in general) hadn’t been introduced after Cat died I would have shelved ASOIAF for the rest of my life. But then Arianne came, she saw and she conquered my all and I’m still here. No sad little mournful lamentation on her character here like the rest because Arianne Martell is going to win. QUEEN.

Sunfyre. That’s my fuckin BABY!

#this is so fcking long for no reason LMFAO #its 1.3k words... my gawd #i just went with the top 5 or else this would get crazy #thanks for the ask it was fun lamenting on my faves <3 #no. 6 would be princess nymeria; 7 would be aegon ii (he really jumped up on this list fjvbhehfeje thank you for your service tgc); #8 would be oberyn and doran together; 9 would be daeron the daring; and 10 would be ashara dayne or maybe alicent. if ashara is septa lemor #then no.10 goes to her if not then no.10 goes to alicent #asoiaf #anonymous #answered

[hwiyoungies]

was talking to my mom about how the adoption process worked when they adopted my brother and man some people truly are just scum

#all of their process was basically public? since there wasn't a private institution back then (not sure how it is now) #so it was basically women who were 100% sure they were going to give their baby away no matter what #and then when the day came they were like noo i'm keeping the baby (which should be good right?) #and then they would do a follow up and turns out there was no baby because they were basically sold illegally #obviously to people that were not from chile #because what um hospitals? no it's not hospitals but adjacent i guess #what they would do is that they would have a program basically were pregnant women would be like hey this kid once they're born? #i'm gonna abandon them basically. so they hospital would get in contact with the social service #the social service would contact people that wanted to be parents. the they would come and there was no baby because they were sold #obviously didn't happen to my parents but what did happen was the social service lady asking them #if they wanted to see the kid first in case they ''didn't like him'' #and my dad being my dad got furious because what the hell that's my kid no matter what #and the sad reality was that a lot of adoptive parents would like to look at the kid first to see if they liked them as if they were what #a fucking couch #anyways. everyday i'm more thankful for how open my mom is about this whole thing and how it was #she still has the name and all the info of my brother's biological mother in case he wants to contact her again #(which hasn't happened since he had his very big and bad bipolar crisis) #but yeah idk i admire my mom a lot she's always trying to do what's best for everyone even if sometimes it comes out a little harsh #b.txt

[cxldtyrant]

anonymous asked: What was your relationship like with Berryblue?

"Acquaintances, and nothing more. She was brought in by my father to rear Freeza after our mother had been executed; Freeza was merely a child at the time and needed supervision as father and I were too busy with Arcos and the Planet Trade Organization. I was far too old to tolerate her nurturing, so she spent most of her time tending to my brother."

Neutral as his tone was in regarding the elderly Brench, Cooler did hold some resentment towards Berryblue for what he saw as an opportunistic and underhanded ploy: an attempt to gain power and influence by asserting herself in the place of their departed mother, manipulating the younger heir as she saw fit while their father looked on in approval. And why wouldn't he approve? The woman had been a sycophantic and agreeable minion in his inner circle, and King Cold could trust that she would take great care to mold Freeza into the malleable pawn he desired.

Much unlike the late Queen Froza, who had wanted her sons to grow up independent, relying on their own strength as they carved their paths throughout the cosmos. A lesson only one have them had learned well.

"She did her duty in rearing Freeza, but she should have been retired once he reached adulthood. And he should have known better than to keep her influence long after he needed it," the elder Prince remarked, tone dripping with disdain. "But I suppose without our father to guide him as he played the puppet Emperor, he needed someone to pull the strings. He always was weak."

#[anonymous] #[inquiry; response] #[kin; the cold clan] #[pto; minions] #[I don't know if she's actually a Brench but I'm imagining she is] #[anyway Cooler does not like her given his issues with his parents and seeing her as overstaying her welcome] #[He probably would have been around teen-ish to early adulthood so he didn't really need her services] #[and believes she's manipulative and contributed to Freeza's worse flaws] #[both by her own ambition and by their father's ploys] #[and Cooler wants no part of that thank you very much] #[*whispers* Cooler also misses his mom too so she's on thin ice for trying to take her place]

[abitohoney]

Personal question: what do u think Sevika would think of u if she were a real person? :3c

OMG. Wow. This is quite the loaded question. 😆 A few possibilities come to mind:

"That girl is nuts."

"What a dork."

"Why is she staring at me so damn much?"

"Is she drooling?"

"She's kinda cute."

"Her face looks like a nice place to sit."

Or just some combination of the above

I'll admit, number 6 might be me projecting what I want her to think. 😁

#honey answers #this was such a good ask #thank you June! #I'm pretty sure Sevika would not be interested #I'd find out what brothel she frequented and get a job there #or just catch her at the door and offer my services for free #who am I kidding #I'm horrendously shy #could never pull that off

[heartyearning]

i love you older southern folks on the internet who make videos about fixing your various sewing and knitting machines

#im having delusions of spatial freedom i truly so badly want to get a knitting machine for myself #but like. i for real would not be able to put it somewhere in my house. that shit's huge. #BUT. hopefully. thanks to the internet and youtube dot com. i can figure out whether or not i accidentally broke my schools bulky knitter #i really fucking hope not bc we all still need it and also i would feel horrible bc i told my teacher the carriage stuck but she said it #was ok and i just needed to put more pressure on it and im too shy & nervous to like tell her like no no. i do fr think it's stuck-stuck. #well stuck as in 'is sticking' not stuck as in wont move at all #but at least its like only in one direction so hopefully that means whatever it is is a small thing to deal with #<- please god let it be a small thing #i mean if anything the good news would be that schools almost over so the machines can get serviced #bad news is that i do really still need it