#it should've been said more

[poisonedfate]

i don't think it was said nearly enough that merlin needed arthur as well. so many lines eluding to him needing to be by arthur's side, how essential he is in arthur's life. and then, of course, there's the two sides of the coin. but. he needed arthur just the same. not as a goal or a purpose, but as a person. yeah, merlin might've been the driving force behind arthur, but arthur was the anchor holding him steady on the ground. arthur was made to be king, but he was also made to be by merlin's side just as merlin was made to by his. i think he deserved to be reminded of that more often.

#he knew i'm sure #but #it should've been said more

[brother-emperors]

Crassus, Caelius, Cicero, Catiline, Conspiracy

boy howdy these four sure are something. not featured in this soup of C names, Caesar! what on earth happened here.

Plutarch, Crassus

Sallust on Crassus, Ronald Syme

Patron and Client, Father and Son in Cicero's "Pro Caelio"

Crassus' New Friends and Pompey's Return, Eve J. Parrish

Catullus and His World, T.P. Wiseman

Cicero's Catilinarians, D.H. Berry

#flash back to several years ago when I said I could never retain info on Catiline. Turns out the missing link was Crassus lmao #about halfway through drawing this i realized hbo rome era james purefoy would make a really good catiline #which is. not a good thought. bc when i start figuring out casts is when i start thinking thoughts like 'oh what if i did a comic' #conspiracy spotted. absolutely no survivors found here. good grief. we got whatever is going on with caelius. also some kind of divorce #but actually. hey cicero. HEY CICERO. I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. FOR YOU ACTUALLY--- #i remember kaine told me about the executions but i did not fully appreciate. exactly what any of it meant in context. i have context now! #i should've been drawing the man with fucked up wall shadows the entire time. my god. #drawing tag #roman republic tag #catiline #Lucius Sergius Catilina #have i never. tagged him by his full name here. i should draw him more #cicero #marcus tullius cicero #marcus licinius crassus #marcus caelius rufus

[finexbright]

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#as i said i'm only now catching up on what happened at red rocks and honestly i'm just so confused as to #why people are getting hate mail for being at a show???? like unless you were right there at the show you will NOT know what's going on #you can't just ''leave'' a venue because there's security measures ensuring that people don't run and cause a stampede #i get that the team there sucked and should've been much better equipped for an outdoor venue but why the fuck are we blaming the fans???? #and then being mad at louis??? yeah i get that his tweet wasn't the best but i'd imagine that he was trying to help out as much as he could #ensuring fans were safe and taken care of. pretty sure he is the one paying all hospital bills and stuff as well #yeah i know he's an artist and he has people doing things for him but also it's louis. he might not have been at ground zero #but i bet he was doing everything he could to help get fans to safety and he had to tweet something amidst all that #just to reassure fans a bit more and he did what he could #besides. i'm sorry but instead of being all ''louis/his team should've done more'' can we all just make sure that the fans #who were actually in that hail storm and who actually got horribly injured and who actually went through such a scary situation #are feeling okay? like why are we arguing about trivial things when what matters the most out of this situation is the fans and their safety #i honestly need people who were not at the venue and people who do not understand how traumatic things can be #to just shut up and log off #anyways to everyone present at red rocks i'm sending you so much love and i'm so sorry something so traumatic happened #i hope everyone is safe and is being treated for their injuries 💌

[grandcovenant]

it's such a shame that sophia as a character is so reliant on keeping everything about her a mystery until.... literally the last chapter, because it makes her a lot weaker as.... one of the main characters. she's intended to have the same level of importance as geppetto in the narrative, however, in execution..... you can't really get invested in her because she doesn't really offer anything meaningful to you until the very end, and by then it feels a little too little too late. (and so much of it is wrapped around simon's plotline, which i have already expressed i don't really care for.)

i think it's why i try to make a bigger deal of things like the hermit's cave, or the thing about being a listener being "the devil's power", according to sophia's mother. these bits show her as an existing part of the setting she's in, and not as the walking Big Reveal set-up she... kind of is, honestly.

sophia is meant to be p's guide through his growing humanity, a counterpoint to geppetto, and i wish more was done with it!!!

#lies of p #love this game dearly which means i must dissect it like a shrimp. for better or worse #sophia is such a frustrating character to think about writing-wise... girl i am rewriting you in my brain half the time #i still think she should've been granted some degree of complex morality. the most we get is the ~i lied about why i woke you up~ ordeal-- #--which hardly means anything given she still guided him towards saving the city without any conflict with her real goal #it would make more sense as to why the story is so cagey with her. #and would make her a more interesting foil to geppetto. #-> i know what *i* would have her do in that regard. but that's a secret. for now. #theres more to be said but im tired of trying to work this post out. fly free little bird

[tickettomarz]

I know/feel like this kind of takes away from his character growth and Kai stans are free to correct or add on but Kai's "I should've been the green ninja" but in a "I should be the one to bear the responsibility instead of you because your just a little kid and thats not fair" kind of way.

#lego ninjago #ninjago #ninjago kai #kai smith #older brother figure kai #also I know I said that I think this takes away from his character development but on the other side of the coin #I think it fits more inline with his later character arcs like in season 4 where he starts saying #that it should've been him who sacrificed himself instead of zane #that kind of guilt

[capsiclesteebrogers]

viserys showing his rotten eye during the dinner in episode 8 and trying to gain sympathy from his family infuriates me. why? because aemond (you know, HIS SON) lost his eye when he was a child in an extremely violent manner and had to answer an interrogation after being stitched up on the spot and his father did not care. viserys didn't care that his son has been permanently disfigured and did not nothing bring some sort of justice to the situation. but suddenly aemond is supposed to care and feel sympathy? no, he should've spit in viserys' face, get up (and get some dissert) and leave to talk to vhagar (his bff).

#anti viserys i targaryen #aemond targaryen #viserys gets no sympathy from me #he cared more about some insults and rumours than his own son being maimed #but then he wants sympathy points for losing his eye because it rotted away #MAN FUCK VISERYS #aemond was way more collected and polite than i would have been #he should've said a big “fuck you father” to viserys and left #that whole dinner was a mess #i loved it as a scene don't get me wrong #but the actual situation was utter crap #i choose to believe that after that whole fiasco aemond went to talk to vhagar and let it all out #and she would respond in some way to let him know she understands #house of the dragon #hotd

[starpros-sunshine]

I don't know if I ever talked about this on here before but it's been on my mind from time to time and that is the idea that Wataru one time catches a really bad cold so he just avoids Eichi for the time being (Because Hey. Maybe. If you're sick with a bacterial disease that spreads really easily. Maybe try not to pass it on to the guy with the autoimmune disorder. Just a thought.) But he doesn't tell anyone about it because he's The Hibiki Wataru he doesn't get sick.

So the only ones who know about this are his roommates because it's kind of hard to hide this from people you share a room with especially if you stay cooped up in your room a lot to try not to infect others with your cold and also a runny red nose and a sore throat aren't really a good look on someone that's not the biggest fan of open vulnerability. (If you ask yourself why he would stay in his dorm I have no idea either my guess is the guy just doesn't have anywhere else to go on short notice it's not like he has a flat outside of ES or something so as long as I don't have that figured out he'll have to stay in the dorms)

And yeah no back to point do the gist of the thing is Eichi notices that Wataru tries to stay away from him and he does not know why and it makes him sad and kind of angry and because he's Eichi of course he wonders if it was something he did or if it was just Wataru finally realising that Eichi just isn't what he deserves or whatever else self depreciating things could cross your mind in a situation like this.

So basically then he goes to the first person he would think of to know if he did anything wrong in regards to Wataru: Rei. Rei is mildly confused but reassures him Wataru didn't say anything in that regard.

And this entire scenario just boils down to Eichi wondering why Wataru is avoiding him and thinking it's his fault so he goes around asking everyone he could expect a proper answer from without thinking to ask Wataru himself because a) he's avoiding him. Why would he risk making things worse? And b) it's stupider and funnier this way and this entire scenario is just me laughing at their communication or lack thereof completely ignoring the underlying issues that would've caused it. And I know this is dumb and stupid because everyone else in ensquare would need to be an idiot for this to work so I'm ignoring that bit as well and just regarding it as something that would be funny in theory but would never happen. Or actually youcan set this entire scenario at Yumenosaki and then it could make perfect sense this seems exactly like the kind of stuff to happen to dramatic highschoolers

#the whole thing would get resolved with Yuzuru and Tori just convincing him to vall Wataru and ask #and then Wataru tries to talk himself out of it but eventually has to concede because it's hard not to sound sick with a clogged nose #or a sore throat. or both. #and then Eichi is just very relieved he gets to keep his Wataru for a bit longer and doesn't have to worry about endong up a lonely widdow #or something like that yeah as said its silly and dumb but I've been thinking about it and giggling #and Keito would get to call both of them idiots too to make the whole thing even better #as a treat because he deserves it <3 #and this could be set early after graduation at the start of the whole ensquare thing #coild also work in a yumenosaki setting actually it could work even better in a yumenosaki setting #huh. might employ that lense there #nothing would change it would just makw more sense #also character wise I mean #should've put this in the post hut I'm too lazy.... #yeah okay that must do the trick #fair enough at least I hope #wataei

[shima-draws]

Currently in my banging my head against the wall phase. Hope you all are well 🥰

#Doc told me to schedule another MRI on Tuesday. They said they sent the order over on Tuesday. #I call on Tuesday to schedule the appointment. They don't have the referral yet #I called yesterday to try and schedule. They STILL don't have the referral #I message my doc and make sure they actually sent it over to the right place. (They did.) #They say they'll fax it over again! Great! #I call AGAIN today. They STILL don't have the referral #Bro I just need to schedule this fucking MRI so I can find out what's WRONG with me #The girl on the phone was like 'Oh yeah we're real busy we get orders all the time it must not have hit the system yet' #BRO IT'S BEEN THREE DAYS. HOW HAS NOBODY SEEN IT. TEARING my hair out #I went to their website to try and schedule online. Guess what? THEIR GODDAMN SCHEDULING ASSISTANT IS DOWN FOR MAITENANCE #SCREAMS #Anyway yes so in my banging my head against the wall phase. I'm so tired #And still in pain! To nobody's surprise!! #They can't fix what's wrong with me if I can't even get in to get an MRI. Hello. PLEASE #This isn't really smth that can wait a couple weeks #I should've been in to see them like YESTERDAY. #My pain is so bad I had to stay at home today. And I go and ice my back every hour or so #Bc I can't sit down for more than 45 minutes without wanting to kill myself ;)))) #Shima speaks #I'M SORRY I'm just so. I've been over this for months. And now that I'm THIS close to getting answers #I can't. Seem to get these people to schedule an appointment for me #Grinds my teeth

[blusical]

Okay yeah. This... makes some sense.

#not the best source i know but afaik jimmy murphy's legit #chicago blackhawks #hockeyblr #corey perry #connor bedard #btw i'm not defending chicago in any way #i still think chicago should've been more transparent about this (in fact i think all of us do) #but honestly we should probably stop demanding answers #they will come on their own one day. i'm sure of it #in fact we should probably be grateful that something was said (and that something was done) at all #anyways this is my last post on this situation (outside of reblogs) because i'm exhausted #song:serious #corey perry situation

[jacuzziwaters]

I know for a fact that I could not go to Africa because I wouldn't want to come back. Like I'm back in the motherland, I'm already home WDYM we gotta get on the plane????

#thinking back to my African classmates who kept offering to bring me with them when they visted in HS #girl i should've said yes #i feel like i would've been more at peace #jay's attempts at communicating

[yuzuna123]

THIS BASICALLY CONFIRMS THAT THE DEVIL'S POWER COMES FROM DESIRE!!!

#tekken #kazuya mishima #jin kazama #those who said they are beyond redemption can all go home lmao #it was actually implied before when jin said azazel was talking to him in tekken 6 #and now he's influencing kazuya #we been knew!!! #should've said nothing 💅🏻💅🏻 #it makes kazuya's story a lot more tragic #his devil is literally taking advantage of his childhood trauma and his weaknesses

[love-has-a-way-ofgrowingbackward]

thinking about hamilton and burr together but not in a kissing way but in a you are so different on surface but are made of the same core way. they have the same sort of wants and hurt but they project it in such different ways.

#two people put together like that would either love each other with their entire hearts or would kill each other. #maybe both #alex and henry from rwrb are kind of examples from this. #look cmq made alex too similar to hamilton and henry too similar to burr for me to not connect the dots. #but while their character traits put them lethally against each other in the play in the book its.. different. #i can talk about alex more since both in the book and play we see alexander more (both such fucking main characters) #i think alex from rwrb had a comparatively better foundation in childhood than hamilton. he's less scrappy than hamilton #he still does things like be lonely and drown himself in his work etc etc you all saw the parallels #but but but he sort of has room for love in his heart in a way hamilton doesnt. maybe he did with laurens because its said that he #never really opened up the same after he died. makes me think that was pretty serious. but its not in the play so im not going too much #into it. alex isn't as suspicious and survivalistic as hamilton. if hamilton saw henry he would've never put him before his work #but alex does. from his side i think that's what makes the difference. #like how he says to henry in the fight scene that they're not really very different people?? remember that #there's waaay too many coincidences i am ready to believe cmq wrote rwrb as a very very sneaky adaptation of hamiltons life #the slightest hint from them and i would believe it. this is a conspiracy theory i can get behind #rwrb #red white and royal blue #hamilton #hmm i been having thoughts about this for the past 2 hours #maybe this stem thing was a mistake maybe i should've taken literature. i like what i do though

[bredforloyalty]

well i did know that partly because two and two makes four and you watch and read a bit about how it came to be and by whose hands and you know and partly because i was just getting interested right before the charges and allegations (some of it was floating around for years don't think for a second i want to make it seem like it was sooo out of the blue. i wasn't here for those years though), i mean interested in who these guys actually are because i found the extra insight into lives and creative processes and mental illness helpful or like to be an enhancer instead of something irrelevant and unnecessary. i wanted to know and after hearing roiland's own sexual abuse story i was immediately connecting a bunch of puzzle pieces and that's why it hurt in such a personal way when everything came to light

#i found a kinship in gross fucked up stuff just bubbling out of someone and how they put that into a more controlled environment #and made it from anything into something #the voices. this is not how he meant it when he said that but in the end clearly the one that shouldn't have been acted on was acted on and #that makes me deeply sad.. i shouldn't feel anything i should've been letting it go right away but for me personally it felt baked into the #fabric of the show and it was what drew me to it so it was like here's where that leads. are you comfortable with the current degree of #separation or have we been going too far maybe. #it's still what i like about it in a way. that seed #you don't get stuff like this elsewhere lol it all feels like the results of a special set of circumstances #kata.txt #rnm

[psychotickenesis]

My hunt for a good meal in this city is constantly thwaarted . I finally got food that looks good (falafel plate . Absolutely loaded.) Then there was hot sauce drizzled all atop making it a one hit azriel kill . FML

#the descrip said hot sauce on tge side. i should've been more specific snd said none hot sauce but i assumed if they specified on the side. #it would be on yhe side lmao. #i have an allergy to capsaicin im not a little bitch !!!!!

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

maybe a heterosexual cisgender person shouldn't be telling trans people how they feel about a party endorsing transphobia. you cannot understand the way it feels to walk into a supermarket and see every newspaper call you a nonce because of your identity. regardless of how we will actually vote, it isn't your place to speak over us when we talk about our disillusionment regarding parties that are supposed to be 'left wing' throwing us under the bus to 'pander to the moderate right." what are trans people in rosie duffield's constituency supposed to do?

I am not trying or intending to speak "over" trans people. Is simply sharing my views on a matter overriding others? I wouldn't think so, but I could always be wrong. I am completely open to becoming more informed on this matter by trans people and others more educated on this specific subject.

You're right, I cannot understand what it's like to be told I should be exterminated. I should also not be telling you how to vote. What I am adamant upon is that you do need to vote, at the very least. For somebody, for some party. And given the past few decades, I'd say it definitely shouldn't be the Tories. They've had their time and proven utterly incapable of running the country or doing what's good. If it comes to choosing between the Tories and Labour, I would personally choose Labour. You are free to vote how you want (not something you need my permission to do - I have no way of forcing anybody to vote for anything or anyone), but you do need to vote. Even if you don't want to vote for any party, a spoiled ballot is better than an absent ballot.

I know you may not have looked completely into this, but from what I can tell, Labour hasn't actually "adopted" the guidelines in any meaningful capacity. They haven't even been silent on the issue - many labour MPs have come out saying it's unworkable and pointed out how it threatens the lives of trans children. They aren't pandering, they just straight up don't have much they can really do in this specific circumstance. It's not a policy they can reverse right this second or can even vote against. Schools have been encouraged not to follow the guidelines but it's basically out of Labour's hands.

I can't give advice for specific constituencies, but having a look just on Wikipedia about Rosie Duffield's rapport of transphobic sentiments, I can see why you wouldn't be interested in voting for Labour, but I don't really see how not voting would be a better choice. The last Tory MP for Canterbury was adamantly against teachers even being able to talk about homosexuality, wanted abortion essentially torn down and was an avid brexiteer. I'm sure that wouldn't particularly be favourable for you either.

I really don't want to come across as antagonistic, but it does seem a bit strange you're simultaneously telling me I shouldn't tell anybody how to vote, and then promptly pry me for instructions on who to vote for. I'm not entirely certified how I can satisfy this ask by doing two mutually exclusive things.

At the end of the day, I'm not a grand arbiter of whom exactly every individual in the UK should vote for. All I ask is that you get out there and at least leave your mark in the ballot box. There is no real formal system that allows citizens to request a party change who they put up as a candidate for a specific seat, but you can join the people who already campaign for the labour party to do something more than investigate.

If you have any suggestions on how I could improve what I'm saying, or something I can do to not speak over trans people simply by speaking, feel free to shoot me an ask. My inbox will never be closed

#the q's n a's #anonymoose #ask to tag #long post #i looked at my original tags again and again and realize just how contorted they are by the statements of the post above them #my tags were written under the presumption that labour had somehow absorbed the guidance into their manifesto or something #i should've known to be more observant and look into it a bit before commenting #i also should've been way more specific with my message. what i said was sloppy and wrong. #oh well this is probably my last response for December maybe. depends on stuff

[craycraybluejay]

throwback to when I was in elementary- I think 4th grade- and at Halloween, I was in my standard princess getup and there was this really pretty fellow dressed as the phantom of the opera- my favorite musical. I went to say hi and shake his hand, and he brought it close and kissed the back of my hand with a wink.

It was then I realised the power of a loli/shota/kodo. I remember trying to flirt with more adults after that, but I'll always remember that first guy, even though I'm an adult now

I would've killed to have experienced that 😭 who r uu tell me more stories

although i think if that happened to me i would have been crazy over it n probably went overboard,, i was a surprisingly not a very forward kid bc i knew i was like a dog w a bone when it came to anything i wanted. flirting turned to "dating" and feeling each other up right quick, anger turned to bridge burning and actual burning and destruction,, etc. If someone made the dire mistake of imbuing me with any sort of want it would be their problem 😭😂. give me a slice and i will make it my sole mission to have the whole cake. I've learned well to control the impulses involved but I still have the ambition to eat the world.

(also i feel like people do that stuff for the sole purpose of flattering the subject. in a lot of cultures its pretty regular that if someones dressed like a princess you act like shes a princess,, i should've dressed like royalty more.) (but ofc people on the recieving end sometimes like u or i get excited about it lolz)

#anon response #bro imagine if i was as open as a kid as i am now i wouldve been a total nightmare #'YOUNG MAN GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY COWORKER THIS INSTANT' #'STOP TRYING TO KILL YOUR CLASSMATE' #🥰 people were mean to me anyway i should've had more fun if i was gonna be punished even for doing nothin wrong #oh well still had a way crazier childhood than anyone i know by far #delete later #if people start being weird ab this #honestly tho i'd prefer y'all shoot me a dm if you have something that may come off controversial #for me to respond to #that way i can be a little less 'is this PR friendly' and worry less ab annoying assholes claiming i said things i didnt say #ive had people send me things i genuinely cannot publicly respond to #and while i am intrigued and really hella appreciative that they choose to share and WANT TO respond #i cannot and yall should be aware that it takes a lot of work to balance being 'authentic' and staying mostly unharassed on this site #but i do love hearing everyones stories and feelings and unique stuff so please dont be afraid to talk :3 #just know i cannot always respond to some asks for my own peace but will always accept dms #and know that i do read them anyway so if u just want me to see it and not respond thats ok too #i just feel super bad when i have juicy asks in my inbox i cant post