#lets talk periods!

[distressed-bird]

Kalina is the most interesting character to me because of all she has going on…

she is Cassandra’s familiar, she is simultaneously a pet and a friend and a servant and a family to a goddexx that is simultaneously her owner and friend and creator and parent and her god and reason to be—Kalina’s relationship to Cassandra is hard to put a name or label on (since what does being a familiar even mean?) but the bottomline is that this cat loves her deity enough to put everything and everyone on the line for her…

And adding in that she is a child of divorce. So to speak. I am extremely normal and haven’t been driven mad by the detail that baby itty bitty kitty Kalina was at Cassandra’s wedding to Ankarna and is remembered to have been toddling after her as she walked down the aisle…

Kalina will be the death of me /lh

#fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #kalina #oh my god and the fact Kalina was there at that wedding—there at the period of time where Ankarna was alive and still a known god and not #presumed dead… this makes the Sylvairean Heresy even WORSE of a life event for Kalina and Cassandra… #the existence of baby kalina implies that Cassandra *raised* Kalina… and the fact they were married means that Kalina wouldn’t have been #raised by only Cassandra but *also* Ankarna. #you are Kalina and one of your parents just was killed by your uncle—their domains were too alike—and you can never talk about them again. #you can never speak their name—share in their memory—the only place they exist is quietly in your memories that must go unspoken due to #Oblivata Mori. And there’s nothing you can do about it… #And then the followers and clerics of your remaining parent start trying to kill her—being mislead by the followers of your goddexx’ sister #Cassandra is the only family Kalina has left—and Kalina’s sentience leds me to think she agreed to become a Curse #kalina let herself be unmade and changed to keep Cassandra alive… and even as the shell of herself—a familiar once but now a living plague— #is so deeply loyal and only interested in what is to the benefit of her *everything*… even if they are currently a Walking Corpse. #Kalina dislike Kristen so much because Kristen is just not being a good cleric and is in the precarious spot of being Cassandra’s only #follower… but ultimately won’t harm or attack Kristen—killing herself first—because Kristen is the only one keeping Cassandra uncorrupted. #yeah im crazy about the relationship and history between a cat familiar and her witch goddess and the layers of their relationship

[scintillyyy]

related to my last rb tho i'm gonna be a bit of a hater again, tho, and say it. you are all very lucky that steph was written as good as she was back in the 90s. all the issues (the jealousy, the not as compentent as male characters, the mistakes, the unreasonableness, etc etc) could have, in fact, been way worse. and might've been, actually, under another writer at the time.

#(especially under a female writer oops) #she was treated. actually kind of pretty well for the time period. #and lbr. the sexism present in tim's robin comic is downright tame compared to other comics of the time #(cough superboy cough. i mean. i liked it well enough but let's be real.) #idk maybe because i can very easily separate in my head what's there just because it's 90s media & to be expected. #it's easy for me to see the ways in which she was treated narratively very well despite the 90s ways in which she wasn't #obviously i'm talking pre-2003 this is ignoring anything war drums on. #anyways i think it's important to discuss the flaws & biases of the era #but i also think it's important to understand the culture of the era in which things were made #i feel this was about drake parenting too btw #and the overall cultural shift in how parenting is done & understanding the needing for parents to be absent #for the story of a child hero #but also at the time there were differences in what parents were taught was best practice and what was considered good parenting #there's so much that has changed as far as best practice & considered good in the past 10 years let alone the 80s and 90s

[gxlden-angels]

I don't know if it's the religious trauma or the dead mom trauma but the conservative christian insistence on not teaching children about their bodies in school and insistence that this knowledge should be private in all circumstances with no exceptions should be seen as suspicious at best and criminally malicious at worst

#but wait there's more #I know this isn't a new hot take or anything #but I have 'periods' without blood cause of medical reasons and every time I get them #I think about my great aunt scoffing at me for admitting Im on birth control before she told me #how until she was maybe 16-18 y/o she thought holding hands with boys she liked would get her pregnant #and I think about being 9 y/o and just losing my mom only to be told a few months later that Im a woman now #I was barely sentient let alone a woman #and with the recent period talk ban in florida #where you can't even discuss periods without getting in trouble before 6th grade #how scared and alone I already was being raised in this cult where everything was hush hush #My dad couldn't teach me about them and my extended family didn't tell me about all of the reproductive conditions we have running thru us #so I barely talked to anyone until I was like 13-14 and so anemic I was blacking out and sleeping 14 hours a day #and no one told me it wasnt normal until then #it's dangerous at best and deadly at worst

[yotasukekun]

blue period (ブルーピリオド)

#caught up on blue period after disappearing tumblr and manga for months and months and let me tell you ... i have Thoughts #are y'all still here or am i talking to a ghost town? #this arc is GOOD #mangacap

[bhaalsdeepbat]

sometimes when people describe astarion as pathetic, they'll list all his more feminine characteristics rather than like

it's fucking pathetic of him to be mad if you save the gnomes, even if you understand why he disapproves it. It's still fucking pathetic. he's also extremely pathetic when he ascends and starts becoming more like Caz, but it's bc it's pathetic that the power goes to his head like that simply bc he would rather insulate himself with power than allow himself to face his past and overcome it.

not because he deserves nice things and finery.

#bat rambles #like idk i made that post abt how i don't find him to be pathetic #and it really got me thinking about astarion #and like YEAH he isn't GNC for his time period but a lot of his characteristics aren't traditionally masculine by our standards #but then he EMBODIES those when he ascends #and i'm still unsure where i sit on whether or not that was intentional #but it's there #pathetic is also such a loaded term #and someone also pointed out that the way people talk about astarion is very similar to how caz talks about him #and i wholeheartedly agree #like sometimes i wonder if astarion fans even like him ??? #like i'll be mean and call him pathetic when i'm trying to not let myself be overly emotional about the fictional man #but that's all me projecting cus i'm the pathetic one for being so moved by pixels

[todayisafridaynight]

what if i ufcking threw up and dcried look at him hess oooo i hate himmmmmmmmmm

#snap chats #RGGO BEEN SO NICE WITH MASAT/AOKI CARDS REAAAGGHHHHHH #GRABBY HANDS #HE WAS IN THE GAME FOR LITERALLY FIVE SECONDSSSSSS WHY ARE YOU HERE !!!!!! #BRO THINKS HES A PART OF THE TEAM !!!!!!! #rggo absolutely failed me on the ten-free-summons bit ok will they let me get my evil old-time-period girlfriend.. they should.. #ohhhhh i need to update my priv twit's pfp now........ its katsu is the context lol.... #i lied i still like the cap of katsu i have now.... he looks so evil in it lol.... #sorry eveyr time i see masato i throw up and die he's soooooooooo //grabby hands but with more rage// #HES SO HANDSOME I DONT CAAAARREEE none of you talk to meeeeeeeee im sick

[tskva-happens]

seems like so far the #1 enemy of the bg3 modding community has been... *checks note* age. just like... any signs of age whatsoever.

#bg3 #bg3 mods #fandom critical(?) #modder critical #when i started seeing these i tried to give people the benefit of the doubt #because i remember when i was in my late teens and early 20s the concept of being past my 30s/40s/etc felt so far away #and therefore people in those other age ranges seemed to exist in a different world from mine with different life experiences #and back then i would have created ocs that felt and looked as young as i was #and maybe would have felt uneasy romancing a character who seemed to have a large age gap with my oc since that's not my personal preferenc #and maybe SOME of the modders doing this are young and have similar reasons? #so i Sorta. Kinda. understand that thought process. #but i'm skeptical and would bet most of them are actually just adults who cannot handle age. period. #not to mention we're at the point where mods try to de-age npcs for no reason or straight-up ''''yassify'''' companions #or deprive them of their unique physical traits #and that's just. so frustrating and borderline gross. #let the characters in this game exist as they are. they have LIVED and they look like it!!!! that is good and their world is richer for it! #btw i'm talking about age and cosmetic changes exclusively. i'm not even including the racist whitewashing mods in this discussion because #those can go fuck themselves and i hope it goes without saying they deserve no benefit of the doubt. like zero #anyway. rant over for now #auri rambles

[ispyspookymansion]

chain shipping is like the only saw ship that people always try and make softer. maybe shotgun shipping on OCCASION but like no one is doing that to coffin shipping or like. well that’s all the saw ships actually

i honestly dont know enough abt the state of hoffstrahm to speak to it much but i know it happens Sometimes with both of them i fear chainshipping is just the most popular/accessible as its built on one movie and the first in the franchise so it gets the most. how do i even say this. easygoing casual enjoyers vs like you need to see at least 3 to be into lynnmanda, 4 or 5 to be into hoffstrahm, etc. its so weird to me it loses all the appeal when you want any of them to be like happily married and healing together!!! at least give it a Little spice!! wheres adams anger wheres lawrence’s shortcomings in human connection wheres the desperation and guilt and such!

#willzeke is out there and almost all of those fics are like What if it was so fucked up and they had sex in blood. or there were strange #psychosexual dynamics to the period where zeke has to grapple with will vanishing #or lets talk about the crazy obsession and idolization of zeke by will #and such. that rocks #kora.txt #asks #anons

[anakinh]

it took me 3 years to start reading the ballad of songbirds and snakes because I was very cynical about a villain prequel that kinda sounded like a cash grab, but it only took me 2 days to finish it. this is a really, really good book. holy shit. Snow is such a good villain protagonist. I called him a terrible person as quickly as chapter two and he still managed to elicit some sympathy (granted, from me, notorious villain stan). But that didn't change the fact that he was a terrible person the entire time. What a great change from the popular 'this villain was such a good person before!' prequels we often see

#me.txt #not that there's anything wrong with that (if it's done well) #but also #many people and most prominently(?) brennan lee mulligan once said that people don't become fascists in a vacuum. #there was always *something* there beforehand #and at the end the justifications and rationalizations Snow made to be a tyrant and continue the Hunger Games #was built on the classism that he displayed from CHAPTER 1 #fun! good book! TERRIBLE person! #i also really like the deconstructed teenage whirlwind romance #two people falling in love with the idea of the other during a traumatic period of time #do they know anything about each other? their favourite colour? nope #and it immediately bites them in the ass the moment they have a talk about politics #like that anidala meme from aotc lmao #'let's run away together! romantic! oh fuck i hate dirt' #EDIT: also. Reaping Day's on the 4th of July? #Suzanne did NOT hold back #tbosas

[hauntedpearl]

so trapped in the narrative that you can't be earnest about breaking free, but you can be earnest about being doomed, with love as your companion. yes the ship is sinking but I got to hold the love of my life as the cold seeped into our bones, as the life bled through us both. isn't that enough?

#i am. going through like a period in life i think #it sure is a period alright #like. idk if im articulating this properly but #lwt the ship sink #is what im saying #there is choice in that too and not like in the depressing let's kill ourselves way but more in the #look life is like this. i can't change this big tragedy #but i am making thr choice. to hold the hand of yhr person i love. #you know what im saying #anyway #doe is talking again #depressing posts at midnight. i have a fever btw. so blame that.

[flowergirlmiwa]

Lego Star Wars 3 Clone Wars kinda fucks. Usually I get bored a couple levels into a TT Lego game but the levels in this one aren't so bad and it has lite RTS missions that rule. I remember playing the game over a decade ago in high school with a friend helping him finish those missions, honestly I'm pretty sure we never played any other mode or walked around the hub or anything because it's all I remember. And yeah you might need a friend for some of those missions as they can get INTENSE.

Seriously I'm just like goddamn I'm having fun playing a Lego game this is crazy. Also The Clone Wars! And Ahsoka! You love her

#my post #Lego Star wars #AND it's still in the period before they started having the Legos talk. Don't let Legos talk!!! Ani don't talk and it's a great depiction #(by which I mean don't let Legos talk in tt game adaptations bc I hate it)

[genderjester]

When will my internal organs stop being at war with me. Please

#bad cramps since the day before yesterday but no blood no nothing. #come on if im gonna get the period cramps at least also let it be my period ffs #grrrrrr #im soo angry #just sitting around feeling narsty and terrible •_• #sel talks

[junesprince]

when im in a yearning competition and my opponent is toshiro kasukabe

#persona 5 tactica #toshiro kasukabe #we dont talk enough about how pathetic toshiro is when it comes to eri. he just melts #like he yearned for her SO MUCH during the time period when they were separated #like. he always thinks of her and in leblanc he tends to think about her and he even said he always thinks of seeing her again #its so much to the point the physical manifestation of his soul is LITERALLY HER #THATS CRAZY #sorry just yapping rn #even in the 3rd kingdom the clock is stuck at 6pm (eri train accident time) #he just couldnt move on #toshiro said he keeps thinking about reaching out to eri again. but what about eri #did she think of seeing him again too?? #i imagine she tries to reach out every once in a while #but toshiro just. he tortures himself by letting his phone keep ringing with eri on the other line #because he thinks he doesnt deserve to see her again after all that #oh toshiro you dont know how much she loves you. she doesnt hate you at all #and its like. wait I'll try to make this comprehensive #eri found toshiro in their school days. she was the one who came up to him and offered him help #and after the whole train incident toshiro just. pushes himself away because oh god he thinks he did that to her #but no #she finds him AGAIN. and i think thats beautiful #and as toshiro turns around and sees eri THE WHOLE SCENE CHANGES INTO A LIGHT PINK #yes its romantic n stuff but its such a good moment that toshiro realizes that eri still loves him as much as he loves her #AGHHH MY T4TS EVER #and by t4ts i mean toshiros the wife and eri is the husband #its 12am im pulling thoughts from my ass #eritoshi #persona 5 tactica spoilers

[stellernorth]

for @assigned-boyking-at-birth ’s birthday event day 3: enochian

#about how i portrayed sign language #first of all let me know if there’s any issues ! #second this is meant to be between into the mystic and the british invasion a time period where it’s implied sam and eileen facetime #i don’t think he’d be only talking and having her lip read like he does in the british invasion #bc as i understand its rlly hard/impossible to catch every word when lip reading. but i don’t think he’d be this fluent in asl either #probably he’d talk on video and type what he was saying into the chat like on a zoom call #boykingsevent #post i made #sam winchester #sam and eileen #and yes sams laptop has a hail the sun logo. why? idk

[kvtnisseverdeen]

france waking up another day to be islamophobic.......

meanwhile the premier league:

#also ngl super disappointed that no one is really speaking about this #france is islamophobic period #but they're doing this on a football team as well where they have muslim players #and NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT #Chelsea fc literally hosted an iftar #premier league lets the refs allow them to break their fasts #like WHAT!!! #bffr @ france #football #france national team

[ithinkheknowss]

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#it's so weird that people are making fun of joe for not having any announced projects rn #you talk big about supporting artists (and so does taylor btw) but suddenly you have a vendetta against someone you don't know? #and the specifics of whose personal life you'll never know either? #admit it you just want sooo bad to be Taylor's besties who dump on her ex with her but uh you'll never be #also art is never constantly successful and some aspects (like acting) often come with quiet periods too #but let's face it this was never about his actual career #annie talks