#like he's used to 100° and now it's 75° and his tolerance is NOT with it 😔

[willowser]

aw winter being the time of year katsuki doesn't want to get out of bed without you 🥺 you've grown used to waking up in the morning when he leaves, and then waking up a few hours later in an empty bed—but during this season, you wake up with him curled around your back, leg between yours, face buried in your neck below the blanket. like fully encapsulating you and trying to roast you both alive 🥺

#it's not even that he's *cold* bc i think he runs hot but he's colder than *usual* #like he's used to 100° and now it's 75° and his tolerance is NOT with it 😔 #i imagine him like groggily walking out of the bedroom behind you and bringing the comforter with him LOL #hair flat on one side looking like a little BOY how CUTE #GRUMPY AND FROWNING #✿ willow writes #✿ thoughts: bakugou #✿ theme: domestic bakugou

[extraaa-30]

PJO & Palestine pt. 2

This is going to unpack some bullshit I've seen about Rick Riordan. For pt. 1 about why "boycotting Disney" is not actually the thing you need to be doing right now, go here.

Imma try to keep it brief this time <3

In addition to the misleading info about Disney as a boycott target, I've seen some ridiculously facile takes about boycotting the show because of Rick Riordan.

As far as I can tell, the drama stems mostly from this blog post, where he shares his (fairly tepid but still principled) view of Palestine and Israel.

Here are some key takeaways:

The blog post is from Oct 17, 2023. Only ten days into the genocide, and with plenty of attention still lingering on Oct 7 worldwide. As far as I know, he hasn't shared any updated reactions

Should he? Maybe. Here's what he has to say about it in the blog post:

He goes on to talk about having readers in both Israel & Palestine:

Maybe you think he should pick a side. Maybe you're sick of both-sideism and if you see one more media take equating Israeli grief to Palestinian grief during a motherfucking genocide you will launch yourself into the sun. Rick goes on:

I don't know what you were expecting from a children's author whose overarching theme is, "You might think you know who the monsters are, but be careful; black-and-white thinking like that reduces us all."

[SPOILERS for non book readers] In PJO, Percy ultimately agrees with Luke that the system is unjust and can't remain as it is. Luke's willingness to sacrifice the lives of their friends is the thing he can't support.

The series deeply explores questions of monsters vs. victims, how our circumstances shape us, institutional injustice...

I get the anger when people, especially celebrities and the media, use calls for nuance to avoid taking a stand. I don't think it's accurate to say that's what's happening here.

I said I'd keep this short and I've obviously failed, so let's get to the most damning part of Rick's blog post:

This is what has people calling him a Zionist. And do I kinda hate it? Yeah, I do. That line "security and support" is propaganda that Israel has spent 75+ years feeding into the global media machine. I also hate that the overwhelmingly pathetic response of most public figures has conditioned me to be impressed by breadcrumbs like 'Palestine should also be secure and supported and free.'

So there you have it. Rick's opinions from 10 days into what has become a 100+ day genocide.

Maybe this all sounds unforgivably centrist to you, and that's your right. You don't have to engage with his stories. Approaching content with an eye to the author's real positions and attitudes is a healthy way to interpret media critically.

However, I'd really like people to remember two things:

This is not a JKR situation. Watching the show does not give money to someone who actively uses their platform to spread hate.

If this is about your own media purity, I have bad news for you. Literally none of your faves are perfect, and neither are you. Trying to only interact with un-cancellable media is futile, discourse-killing, and self-absorbed at a time when there are more important things we should be doing.

Ultimately, the choice of whether to engage with content from someone whose views you don't agree with is your own. You get to decide where to draw that line.

I, personally, can respect a lot of what Rick says here. He's a children's author using his platform to speak to children. He has his eye on the long game. He still emphatically argues for a free Palestine.

There have been other betrayals from other artists that I couldn't tolerate. It's a personal choice.

So please, stop shaming people for watching this silly little show. Stop trying to police how others engage with media that isn't hurting anyone.

There's work to be done.

#and bickering with strangers online or cultivating a perfect media diet aint it #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo series #rick riordan #palestine #free palestine #pjotv #if you're gonna rest by talking fandom on the hellsite then rest #we need all the energy we can #stop wasting it with petty bullshit #literally there is not enough time #also zionists feel free to interact. i look forward to blocking you. #extraaa

[pep-rambles]

Hey, I saw your lucifer swiftie playlist...the thing is it is not available in my country...so I can't even see which songs are in that playlist... I've thinking whether or not to ask but...if it isn't much of a hassle, can I know which songs are in his swiftie playlist?

Sure thing!

1-18 Just songs I think he'd vibe to with no real personal context

Hey Stephen

The Man

Stay Beautiful

Marjorie

Better Than Revenge

Mad Woman

You Need to Calm Down

Love Story

Holy Ground

Fearless

Cardigan

August

Betty

Mine

The Last Great American Dynasty

You Belong With Me

Miss Americana

Illicit Affairs

19-20 Songs for Charlie

19. Never Grow Up

20. Safe and Sound

21-29 His fall/ Depression

21. Nothing New

22. Would've, Could've, Should've

23. Castles Crumbling

24. Mirrorball

25. Dear Reader

26. The Archer

27. You're On Your Own Kid

28. This is Me Trying

29. Anti-Hero

30-62 Lilith leaving

30. All Too Well (10 minute version)

31. Dancing With Our Hands Tied

32. A Perfectly Good Heart

33. My Tears Ricochet

34. Say Don't Go

35. Tolerate It

36. Cruel Summer

37. Getaway Car

38. The Story of Us

39. Forever and Always (Piano version)

40. Haunted

41. Hits Different

42. Champagne Problems

43. You're Losing Me

44. Breathe

45. Death By a Thousand Cuts

46. Red

47. Cold a You

48. Last Kiss

49. Coney Island

50. The Moment I Knew

51. Mr. Perfectly Fine

52. Now That We Don't Talk

53. You All Over Me

54. Sad Beautiful Tragic

55. Don't You

56. Happiness

57. All You to Do Was Stay

58. Exile

59. Right Where You Left Me

60. Maroon

61. Evermore

62. Is it Over Now?

63-98 RadioApple shenanigans

63. Gorgeous

64. Sparks Fly

65. Glitch

66. I Can See You

67. Labyrinth

68. Untouchable

69. Enchanted

70. The Other Side of the Door

71. Blank Space

72. ME!

73. Message In A Bottle

74. I Think He Knows

75. Long Story Short

76. Electric Touch

77. Wildest Dreams

78. Snow On The Beach

79. Willow

80. Daylight

81. Begin Again

82. Treacherous

83. Cowboy Like Me

84. Don't Blame Me

85. State of Grace

86. Style

87. Cornelia Street

88. End Game

89. Everything Has Changed

90. ...Ready For It

91. Mastermind

92. So It Goes...

93. Out Of The Woods

94. Ours

95. King of My Heart

96. Paris

97. Hoax

98. False God

99-103 Finally standing up to Heaven and empowering Hell

99. Bad Blood

100. I Bet You Think About Me

101. Look What You Made Me Do

102. Karma

103. Long Live

#Lucifer Is a Swiftie #long post

[spideyskrunkly]

Love & Healing

Characters: Alex Turner, Cathy King, Samuel King, Donna King, Nathan Pandit

Warnings: Swearing, mentions of sex (no, not actual sex), headcanons

Samuel is just so embarrassing sometimes. Nathan tries to console, though.

(This is an AU where the Crimson Order doesn't exist and where Donna's alive)

"Samuel."

"What?! He's the one who started it!"

"He's just asking her out, sweetie."

"He's taking our granddaughter from us!"

Samuel didn't want to believe that his technician, Alex motherfucking Turner himself, asked his granddaughter, Cathy, on a date.

"Samuel, you remember my dad being overprotective as well, right?"

Samuel nodded in slight embarrassment.

"Well that's who you're being right now. Except he didn't bring a gun."

"I'll do it again after last time."

"First of all, the cat should have not ran out in the first place. Second, yes, last time was a disaster, but she's willing to give him another chance. Plus, Cathy is old enough to make her own decisions now. After her ex boyfriend, she was real sad. Let her have this."

Samuel couldn't really agree, but because he loves his wife, he decided that maybe keeping quiet was the best idea.

-

And calling up his best coroner as well.

"Pick up the damn phone, Pandit...." Yep. Samuel was not having it.

"... If it's Ramirez, no I'm not giving Jones, his gossip magazine."

"... no comment. It's Chief King."

"Chief? Didn't we all get the week off?"

"Yes, but long story short, my granddaughter's going out with Alex again and I will not tolerate it. But Donna won't let me call it off!"

"... as upsetting as it sounds, sir (which isn't, really), what does this have to do with me?"

"You're going to help me spy on them. You're more of the quiet kid in the force, I expect you to spy on them in the park tomorrow."

"As fun and weird as it sounds, I'm 32 and I happen to be busy with my studie-"

"I'll give you a payday tomorrow for just checking on them. $10 per hour."

"... $15 dollars per hour then consider me free tomorrow."

"Deal."

-

"You remember the plan, right?"

"Yes, Chief."

Nathan did not want to be in the middle of this. But it's 15 dollars per hour for the crazy killer doll movie which was like, $100 in tickets.

Nathan's hidden area was behind a tree, near where Alex and Cathy's little date were.

It seemed to be going well, too. Cathy was talking about how her favorite music should be powerful and Alex is just falling in love too much to even disagree.

"Sir, they look peaceful." Nathan talked on the phone.

"Don't judge quickly, Pandit."

"Isn't it honestly best to just let them be? There seems to be no problem."

"There was a problem last time they had a date."

"I bet not even Donna would agree with this plan."

"Do your damn job, Pandit."

Nathan shrugs as he watches the lovebirds getting ice cream. It seems that Cathy dropped her cone on the ground after a dog tried to jump on her. But then Alex gave her his cone and got himself another one.

"Well, isn't that adorable."

Nathan remembered how much of him, Grace and Jones were dorks with love in high school. Grace had a crush on a girl who was real pretty. Jones like Charlotte as they were high school sweethearts. And Nathan was more interested in snakes and some snake jewelry. Sure, he had some crushes, but then they'd immediately fade. He thought love was kinda dumb, especially when people had sex. And they never really use condoms which made a dad leave.

"PANDIT! Updates?!"

"Oh, shit, no, seems like it still swell."

"Nathan, I need you focused!"

-

Time passed and it was dark out now. Nathan should probably be getting about 75 bucks for this. It's been 5 hours.

"Sir, no updates. When can I stop spying?!"

"When they get home separately. Now stop complaining and- wait."

"?"

"IT'S 7:38 O'CLOCK! THEY BETTER START COMING HOME!"

"Relax, sir, they're leaving the park."

"Alright, then, I better see Cathy at the doorstep. Meanwhile, come to the car."

-

Following home, Nathan and Samuel follow Cathex to the university without trying to be spotted.

"I swear, if he does anything..."

"They've been okay for 5 hours, sir."

"I just don't want her heart broken again."

"But that's life, sir. Jones was in love with Charlotte. They had a divorce, unfortunately. Grace was in love with a girl. But that girl passed away from cancer. But then guess what? Grace has a fiance and Jones has learned to heal from his divorce and is probably looking for love again. And it seems that Cathy has healed from her last breakup. And she seems interested in Alex. If he would hurt her, then you have an excuse to be mad. But it's Alex we're talking about. He's a good boy and honestly, I think they'd do well."

Samuel hated that Nathan sounded like he had good points. And now, he's starting to believe that Donna may have been right, too.

"Cathy kissed Alex on the cheek and went in the university. And it seems like Alex is... uh..."

"Alex is what?"

"He disappeared in the dark!"

"Really? Where?"

"I'm right here."

Both men were shook when they heard a familiar voice next to the car. Alex was right next to their car when the window was open.

"Next time you guys spy on someone, wear disguises. And use a different car to where I don't see it at work every day."

"Alex! We were, uhm..." Damn, Samuel didn't really have an excuse, did he?

"It's okay, Chief. I understand. You're lucky Cathy didn't notice, though."

Silence raised in the air until Nathan said something.

"Alex, we're gonna go to the pizza palor tonight! As awkward as this is, I think we're all pretty hungry. It's all on me. Wanna join?"

"... It'd be nice to bond with the chief and maybe understand a father."

"Lovely! Chief?"

"... How about it'd be on me tonight, gentlemen. I feel like... you both deserve it."

".... Sweet."

"And Alex?"

"Yes, sir?"

".... Welcome to the family, I guess."

#criminal case #chief king #nathan pandit #alex turner #donna king #cathy king #cc cathex #cathex #grimsborough #cc fanfic

[sadgirlmadgirlbadgirll]

Genshin Character

Name: Zixin (meaning: new son)

Rarity: 5 stars

Vision: Dendro

Weapon: Catalyst

Meta role: DPS/ sub DPS

Substat: ER%

Nation: Liyue - was born in Qingce village but lives in the harbor now

Age: About 25

Pronouns: he/him

Hobbies: Checkers, puzzles, reading, gardening, taking the tea, walking around to clear his mind, feeding birds and fishes

Occupation: Scholar, employee of the ministry of civil affairs who works closely with the Feiyun Commerce Guild

Goal: Help the people of Liyue, make discoveries, travel to sumeru one day

Character traits: curious, outgoing, serious, rational, creative, smart, witty, grounded, composed, mature, extrovert, talkative

Childhood/ background: Grew up in Qingce village with his parents and older brother, but left to study medicine under Baizhu in the Harbor, and started working at the ministry of civil affairs for money. He is now in the higher ranks, and works closely with Xingqiu on a lot of matters. He often visits his parents in his town, and helps with chores in the garden and makes sure they have everything they need. He’s also well trusting by the higher ups of the Liyue Qixing, and by Yelan, and he never hesitated to help out for the greater good. Whenever legal trouble comes up, Yanfei runs to the rescue to make him understand the matter. Baizhu still teaches the young man, though he has grasped most of the concepts long ago now.

Fighting style: lots of hand and arm movements (flowy), makes vine like plants go out of his hands, adding the dendro effect to enemies

Skill: Favour of nature; renders enemies in a small radius immobile for 2s, and applies the dendro effect to them with a vine-like rope around them. Skill also reduces opponent’s RES to all dmg for 6s. CD: 7s

Ult: Downfall of the unworthy; targets the 3 strongest opponents (based on HP) on the field and gives them the mark of the unworthy. Those marked will have reduced RES to all dmg, and will take a CRIT hit when a dendro atk or skill hits them. Skill deals base dmg as well. EM is increased for all party members. Mark duration: 12s. CD: 15s

Additional talents: Favour of nature’s radius is expanded by 30% / For every elemental particles received, Zixin gains a 2% dendro dmg bonus. Max 10 stacks, each stack lasts 5s.

Passive: When picking up a plant when Zixin is in the party, there’s a 35% chance to obtain a second one (does not apply to the teapot flowers)

Signature Weapon: Grimoire of forbidden sunlight; CRIT DMG% - When the character has full elemental energy, they will gain a 30/45/60/75/100 EM bonus thats lasts 5s. This effect cannot stack.

Friends: Yanfei, Xingqiu, Hu Tao, Zhongli, Baizhu, Yelan, knows Xiao but they aren’t close (acquaintance) , would be friends with Albedo if they ever met

Fav food: Mochi, Lotus Flower Crisp (specialty dish - when he cooks there’s a chance to obtain Evergreen Lotus Bloom)

Least fav food: Marshmallows - too soft, he likes crispy things

When it rains: Hmm this’ll be good for gardening/ I knew i should’ve brought an umbrella…

Thunderstorm: Yikes! We should get inside!

When it snows: I admire those who can tolerate the cold…

When it’s sunny: Ah, the perfect weather for growing flowers./ Sun’s out, let’s get on the move.

Good morning: Did you sleep well traveller? I made you some herbal tea with wild mint and glaze lilies fresh from my garden. Or if you’d rather eat i can make something?

Goodnight: The moon is out, that means we should rest. Sleep well, traveller. Tomorrow will be a good day.

Chatting: Have you ever heard of the Mare Jivari, traveller? they say that the wind never blows there… and that makes me wonder, what kind of life is there over there? Is there truly no vegetation? Can a even gods discover the secrets of this place?/ Qingce village used to be full of life and young people, but now only the older folks are left. Sometimes i feel bad for leaving, but i met you, so i don’t regret anything.

Levelling up: I can feel the power coursing through my veins… amazing! / This journey has taught me so much, thank you for allowing me to join on your adventures.

Low Hp: I can’t take much more/ I’m gonna need a lot of tea after this!

Hit: Hey!/ You better calm down!/ Enough!

Fallen: Take care of my plants…/ Please don’t forget about me…/ Carry on my research…

Opening a chest: ohh! what’s in there?/ Look at all of this… we got lucky!

Sprinting: Catch me if you can!/ Alright, let’s go! // when stopping: Ah, you’re fast!

Adding to party: Are we going foraging?/ Is my expertise required?

Idle animation: Adjusting glasses/ playing with dices or chest piece/ flipping through an old book/ making a little plant grow at his fingertips

Idle voice lines: Teyvat is beautiful, don’t you think?/ The soil here looks perfect for growing flowers/ I always appreciate a good scenery

#original character #character #oc #ocs #genshin #genshin impact #genshin oc

[tech-knowing-hillbilly]

The Hillbilly:Mountain Dew

It has been three weeks since the group of humans has come aboard the G.U.R.V. Frailing, and things have calmed down, for the most part. Mike had stopped bothering Amos when Amos threatened to “Mushroom Stamp” his forehead, whatever that meant, though it may have also been in part of Tr’thl’ia warning him to leave Amos alone, or he would be fired and blacklisted from working on any G.U. vessel, even down to a simple merchant vessel. Now, the only issues that are arising are the ones that are to be expected when several new crewmembers come aboard, things like a crewmember getting lost on their way to their station, accidental minor injuries from training on new equipment, where’s my bunk, etc.. As each new crewmember was getting acquainted with the ship, the other members of the crew were starting to warm up to them slowly but surely.

Tr’thl’ia was making xis rounds around the ship when xe heard a sound coming out of the storage area that contained sheets of metal, and went to investigate. Xe saw two of the new humans “John”, and the one the other humans called “Corny”. They were standing by an odd object that had a large barrel above a heating element connected at the top to a pipe that ran into another smaller barrel that had yet another pipe feeding out of it into another barrel that was made of a type of self-repairing plastic filled with water that had a pipe leading out of it, and that pipe had what looked like water flowing out of it into a basin.

“I think we’re almost past the heads.” Said Corny without noticing Tr’thl’ia. He swaps out the original basin for another and dumps out the “water” into another basin. 

John moved over to the basin and cupped his hand under the flowing liquid and brought it back up to his mouth to take a sip. “She ain’t popcorn liquor, but I reckon she’s about 100, 105.”

“What are you two doing?” Tr’thl’ia says, startling the two men.

“Carrying on an old tradition from the mountains,” John says. “We’re making mountain dew.”

“We have some of that in the galley, though.” Tr’thl’ia says questionly.

“It’s not that type of mountain dew. In fact, this is where that drink gets it’s name from, seeing as that pop was originally made to be able to be mixed with rotgut, or so the story goes.” Corny replies. “It is a form of high proof alcohol that is made for both traditional and pleasure reasons. Would you like to try some of the finished product when it is done?”

“How long will it be? I have heard that your species love of alcoholic beverages is on par with my own species, I wish to see if the rumors are true.” Asks Tr’thl’ia.

“We will be finished in around an hour or so as far as the distillation process goes. We will be making some various cuts to get the right flavor for it down, which could take as little as five minutes, or an hour. I haven’t had the chance to ask, but how many of your people are on this vessel?” John replies warmly.

“Including myself and the first mate, there are 20 T’cheal’ge on this vessel, but only four of us choose to consume alcohol.”

“Alright, then we will come get you when we are done.”

The last thing that Tr’thl’ia remembers when xe woke up is John coming down to get xem and first mate to try out this “Mountain Dew”, as well as the taste of it. It tasted as if somebody had took a piece of that rye bread xe liked and added a lot of smoke. All xe knows now is that the rumors were wrong, the human’s love and tolerance of alcohol was way stronger than that of a T’cheal’ge.

(The mountain dew that is referenced here is rye mixed with malted barley, and is based on the recipe that my great-great grandfather ran during prohibition. We recently found a jar on the old homesite that surprisingly was still good to drink and we reckon that his recipe when it was first ran was probably around 150 proof. Also, as a bit of side info for future reference outside of stories, the best way to figure out proof vs percentage is whatever proof it is, divide by two and you got the proof(80 proof is 40%, 150 is 75%, etc.) Thank you for reading this and I hope that you enjoy it.)

#humans are space orcs #humans are confusing #hillbillies

[spencer-reid-in-a-pool]

A - Z 🤍🤍

I’m assuming this means all the asks! So buckle up LOL. And thank you for taking an interest in lil ole me. 

A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?

Since you didn’t specify which title, I’m just going to talk about how I come up with titles in general. Normally, they happen one of two ways. Either I will come up with a title I think sounds cool out of the blue and then base a fic of its vibes, or I will write a fic to completion before deciding on a title. I like to use something that one of the characters say in this situation. It feels very full circle to me, if you will. 

B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience?

Unfortunately, my life is nowhere near as cool as the characters’ lives I write about. So no, I can’t say that my stories are based off personal experience. Unless you count me naming side characters my middle name every so often to indulge myself oops. 

C: What member do you identify with most?

I guess by member it means character? And to be honest, I’m not really sure. I relate a lot to Spencer Reid I suppose, because I have never been popular and have always been a target for whatever shit life throws at me. I also like to think I’m kinda intelligent? Although if you look at my grade in my stats class right now, idk what to tell you-

D: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?

Since there was no specific fic asked about, I can’t really answer this one! But to be honest, I don’t think there are any fics that I have written that I associated with songs. 

E: If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it be about?

The first one that came to mind is Guest Speaker. If I wrote a part three for that, it would probably be fluffy domestic cute stuff with Spencer. 

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“I don’t even know what it was…it happened so fast. Did you kill it, Geralt?” Jaskier asked in a huff. Geralt crossed his arms, and shook his head. “I figured I should make sure you didn’t die first, bard.” Jaskier nodded, a simple “Ah,” leaving his lips. “Well, no matter. You can fix me right?” 

He sounded like he was poking fun at the situation, but I could hear the fear in his words. I decided to try and make him smile before I did this next part. It would be painful.

“Anything for Geralt of Rivia and his emotional support bard.”

(This was just really funny to me for some reason, and I feel like I did a good job with their characterizations! And then Y/N comes back with the emotional support bard comment and it’s something I would say in real life. From this fic.)

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

It depends on my mood! Sometimes if I’m frustrated with a story or a scene, I’ll write them out of order based on what type of thing I feel like writing. But I would say 75% of the time I write my fics in order.

H: How would you describe your style?

To be honest, I have no idea. Do I even have a style? I just write stuff and hope that people read it and like it. 

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

Happy endings pfft. So cliche, but like- they make me happy. Unless I am feeling particularly angsty that day and want to make an ending a complete train wreck >:) 

J: Write or describe an alternative ending to [insert fic].

In this fic...I would let reader live LMAO. But like- I was feeling angsty that day okay-

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

Reader dying at the end of the fic LMAO, in the fic linked in the previous one above this one.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

Uhh 😬 Maybe once? If that 😅 I’m usually so excited to post that I just kinda go ahead and click post and hope for the best. I rely on spell check and grammar check a lot 💀And I just hope my story flows well.

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

I don’t think so! I keep my to do list public so everyone can see what fics I have planned. The only two I don’t have on there are the ones for the upcoming fic swap on @imagining-in-the-margins ‘s discord! But that’s cuz they’re secret :)

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

I wish that I would finish the 85486824 WIPS I have, does that count? And that I would write down all the ideas I have in my head that I haven’t even given words yet. 

O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?

Ooh this is a tough one. I’m not really sure how to answer it actually. There have been fics that I come up with a general idea for a plot for first, and then others I will decide what characters I wanna write for before I have any clue as to what the plot might be. 

P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)

Oh I am 100% the type of writer to let the story unfold as I go. I have outlined two, maybe three of my fics? And then I didn’t even follow through with them because I had more ideas come to me as I was writing. 

Q: How do you feel about collaborations?

I would literally LOVE to collab with someone!

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

There are a ton, and I am so sorry if I missed any! @imagining-in-the-margins @randomfandomimagine @reidetic @lexieshuntingsstuff @writing-in-april @reidgraygubler @zhuzhubii @dreatine @andiebeaword @dontkissthewriter @spencers-dria @sunlight-moonrise @personofsinterest @ontheoddoccasioniwritestuff @reidlusts @itslatinamagia

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Oh boy! 😅 There was only one bed, mutual pining, manic pixie dream girl, kissed to keep quiet, just to name a few!

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

Not that I can think of! 

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

But I have way more than three :’( @imagining-in-the-margins is definitely the first one off the top of my head. Last year I was in a really bad spot, and she invited me to her Discord, and it helped me get back into writing. Plus I made some life long friends in the server. @writing-in-april I love her sm because she is always around when I need her, and it’s nice to have a friend that thinks fairly similarly to me. @lexieshuntingsstuff and @reidgraygubler go hand in hand! They are the best sprinting buddies a girl could ask for. 

V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

Ooh this is a tough one. I can’t think of any off the top of my head! Lame answer, I know 😅

W: Do you like more general prompts, or more specific ones?

Definitely more specific ones lol. It makes it a lot easier on me. 

X: A character you enjoy making suffer.

Reader >:))

Y: A character you want to protect.

SPENCER REID AND JASKIER OKAY THEY DESERVE THE WORLD

Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

Again- Spencer and Jaskier. I will not TOLERATE THEIR ERASURE !! 

[hjartasalt]

would absolutely love to know the story behind you bringing six hundred spiders to class (also were any of them named carl?)

Ok so this one needs a bit of backstory I guess. When I was in 5th grade, I had 75 classmates. Due to there being so many of us, we had three teachers between us: Thora, Ava, and Jonah.

Thora was my primary teacher and also the fucking best and g*d class discussions were always so much fun when we had them with her, which was most of the time. Every once in a while we'd get Ava, whose discussions were generally not bad but definitely not memorable, and then there was fucking Jonah. Jonah was the worst. Every time we had class discussions with Jonah I had to mentally prepare myself as if I were about to walk through hell barefoot and blindfolded.

I swear, there are some things I never feared until after class discussions with him. It's almost as if he went out of his way to pick the most disturbing topics possible for a room full of ten year olds. This included telling us some of us would inevitably die of cancer and very possibly not notice the tumor until it's already too late or going into details about these fascinating bugs that crawl into your ears while you're sleeping and lay eggs. Needless to say, I hated class discussions with Jonah.

So, when one day he suggests we should get a class pet, everyone goes wild. We're all expecting maybe a hamster or something that we can name and collectively look after but then he keeps talking, saying how great it would be if everyone in the class could go outside and collect pets to bring to class. Spiders.

Ok so when the fearmongering bug fanatic teacher suggests we get a class pet we really should have known it was too good to be true. Regardless, we eventually accept that our class pet will be ~spiders~ and start collecting. I spent every recess playing in the lava field outside of school so I knew where to find them and usually managed to bring at least 2 or 3 new ones every day.

For a while, things just went on like this. The class steadily collected spiders to put in the big Spider Box, Jonah would regularily talk about how great we were doing, that kind of shit. One day one of my classmates brought a game changer to class: an egg sac. 100 spiders, all in one go.

Seeing how impressed everyone was, I decide it's time for me to step up my game. The next day I bring 6 of these to class, totaling to 600 spiders. Sadly, one of them burst when we were transferring them to the spider box, sending at least one hundred tiny spiders scattering all over the pace.

Everyone was on their toes after that. For the most part we could tolerate the spider box, but now when every light brush against your skin was a potential spider? No one was a fan. We started asking Jonah to get rid of the spiders. He did not get rid of the spiders.

Eventually, we came to accept this. No one liked having nearly a thousand spiders in the classroom, but since most of them were contained it wasn't exactly a huge deal. Then, eventually, the spiders started to die. Everyone noticed, and we asked Jonah to get rid of them again.

Here is the one part I will never understand: the same person who liked to spend class discussions talking about all the horrible ways we could die looked at our hundreds pf dead spiders and told us it was fine, that they were just sleeping.

No one believed him. Eventually all of the spiders died. For a while we just had to accept the fact that our class pet was a thousand dead spiders, and then one day they were gone. Jonah never spoke of them again, nor would he tell us what he did with them.

As horrible as this sounds, it could have been worse. My brother's class pet was various rotting plants that made the place smell like actual hell ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

#anon #spiders #spiders tw #thinking back maybe my teacher was just spiders georg in disguise #also #despite them being a class pet we never got around to naming them #but if any of them were named Carl then my hatred for them was fully justified

[norbah]

Huitzilopochtli

-Saber (5*)

The proud Aztec god of war and the sun, Huitzilopochtli was born armed and ready for battle. The serpent of flame, Xiuhcoatl, was his weapon. His first action was the wholesale slaughter of his 400 brothers and dismemberment of his sister Coyolxauhqui in defense of his mother. Although he is technically a Pseudoservant, his face is not a familiar one, as he inhabits the body of a particularly worthy Mexica warrior. He does not tolerate weaklings as his Master, and one would be well advised to pull their weight and prove their worth as a warrior early on, lest the violent deity withdraw his favor and support.

Huitzilopochtli is particularly difficult to get along with at first. Mages remind him uncomfortably of Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec god of night, and thus his relationship with his Master will be automatically on the wrong foot from the start. He respects strength and valor, and rankles at cowards and cheats. He revels in violence and has little patience for activities unrelated to combat, meaning training is one of the few ways to bond with him.

Huitzilopochtli is brimming with raw power, and believes in honorable combat, although he finds the idea of giving his opponent a choice in the matter laughable. If Huitzilopochtli wishes to fight you, there’s not much you can do to avoid it. He is vulnerable to ambushes and assassinations, and it is no exaggeration to say his weakest point is his Master. The low respect he has for mages as a whole means he is unlikely to protect them at first. Indeed, if he finds them to be cowardly or spineless, he is perfectly willing to stand back and watch them be killed, as defeat is preferable to cowardice. Unlike his brother Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli loves only the strong among humanity, and will expect his Master to personally take the life of at least one other Master during the Grail War.

However, he is no mindless Berserker, and relishes the use of strategy against his enemies. If one can prove to him that their mind is sharp and well-versed in the art of tactics, he will quickly grow to respect his partner, and may even waive his demands for actual combat from them. It would be a good idea to avoid suggesting an assassination or underhanded tactics to him, however. The memories of what the deceitful Spaniards did to his people still make him bristle with blazing rage.

He burns through mana at an alarming rate, and unless one has enough in reserve, he is likely to go find a worthy sacrifice, or worse still, demand that his Master provide one for him. He will not select civilians, not out of concern for justice or discretion, or even mercy, but because he wishes only for warriors as sacrifices to himself. Anything less is unworthy.

In the context of the Grand Order, the chief god of Mesoamerica is easier to handle. Being surrounded with mighty warriors from across all ages and nations, he is quite enamored with the concept of testing himself against them. To his delight, there are many capable of holding their own against him, even if for a short while. He also has a secret soft spot for mothers, and will go out of his way to assist them if he can.

Inevitably, he will come to respect the last Master of Chaldea, as their struggles against insurmountable odds speak of true valor and strength of spirit. Indeed, he will go as far as to refer to them affectionately as “Tlatoani” after a while.

All in all, Huitzilopochtli is proud, stubborn, violent, and difficult. But should you earn his trust, there is no ally more steadfast and fierce you could find than the Fifth Sun.

ACTIVE SKILLS

Charisma B+

Although Huitzilopochtli and his people were the dominant culture of Mesoamerica, they did not reach this summit through diplomacy, but rather coercion and fear. Other tribes obeyed them only until somebody crueler than the Aztecs came along and offered to depose them.

----Increases all allies’ Atk.

Lake Texcoco

Huitzilopochtli could be an unreasonable deity, but he could also be a guiding hand. Through the augury of an eagle devouring a snake atop a prickly pear, he led his people from the mythical Aztlan to what would one day be Tenochtitlan: an island in a lake, infested with venomous snakes. The surrounding tribes gifted the island to the Mexica people, expecting them to die. But the Mexica ate the snakes, and claimed the island for their own.

----Increases allies’ Atk and Def. (3 turns)

----All allies gain Debuff Resist (3 times)

Blue Hummingbird EX

This skill is an embodiment of his nature as the bloodthirsty chief of the gods. As the sun, he gave life to all beings on earth. He demands blood in return, that he may be strong enough to hold back the eternal night. As his allies are spirits much like himself, he does not take their hearts as tribute, but rather drinks from them without taking their lives.

----An ally of your choosing loses 50% of their remaining health

----Increases own Buster strength depending on how much health was taken from ally (3 turns)

----Extra effect if NP is used (1 turn)

NOBLE PHANTASM

Name: Tonatiuh

Rank: A+

Class: Buster

Type: Anti-Army

“I am Light. I am War. I am he who holds the Moon and Stars at bay. Gaze now upon me as I am reborn from the Southeast. I am the Fifth Sun—- TONATIUH!”

As the dual deity of war and the sun, Huitzilopochtli displays unbridled power that few can rival. In Aztec myth, he is our current sun, and his power is what keeps the moon and stars from descending upon the Earth and devouring all living on it. This power grows as he is fed the blood and hearts of captured warriors, or even allies deemed worthy of this honor. This Noble Phantasm manifests this legend by transforming into the Solar Disc, Tonatiuh, and unleashing his might towards the surrounding area. Those blessed by him will feel the warmth of the sun on their skin and the strength of their allies at their side, giving them the spirit to fight more fiercely, while those who stand against him will feel the devastating power of the Sun in its most bloodthirsty and violent form.

----Deals significant damage to all enemies

----Increase Atk for all allies. (3 turns)

----Stuns Self for 3 turns (Demerit)

----If under the effect of Blue Hummingbird EX, Huitzilopochtli is not stunned. Instead, increase Atk by fraction of HP taken as tribute. (Effect increases with Overcharge. 100% is an increase by 50% of the tribute. 200% is an increase by 75%. So on.)

Additional quotes for other Servants: -Quetzalcoatl: “Quetzalcoatl, my brother! It has been too long! ... You... seem different than I remember you. ... Did you do something with your hair? And do you know what happened to my Piedra del Sol?” He still holds Quetzalcoatl in high regard, as one of the few siblings who aided him in defending their mother, Coatlicue against Coyolxauhqui. As such, Quetz is one of the very few people you will catch Huitz being affectionate with... and is, in fact, the only Servant capable of calling him Huitz without starting a fight. -Jaguar Man: “I see you in there, Tepeyollotl. You think you can hide behind this woman, but I know you’re in there. ... Eh? You evicted him? You evicted the Heart of the Mountain? ... I would not have liked to be in his place. You have my respect.” Huitzilopochtli respects but mistrusts Tezcatlipoca and all his avatars. To find that this woman was willful enough to turn the tables on the Smoking Mirror is a very welcome surprise, but he will keep an eye on her nonetheless. -Karna: “You there, spearman. Stop for a moment. Something links us. I can feel it. ... Ah. I understand now. ... You are a capable warrior, I see. Would you join me in the sparring ring? I would like to know you better. We are practically family, after all.” He sees Karna as a nephew of sorts, being the son and incarnation of another sun god, albeit a much less violent one. Challenging Karna to brutal fights is his equivalent of playing catch with the demigod. -Leonidas: “You are not Mexica, are you? No. Your weaponry and armor, it is too different. But I see it in your eyes; that same sliver of the sun that burned in my warriors. Please, grant me the honor of joining me in a spar.” He simply recognizes a man who may have been an Eagle Knight or even a Tlatoani, had he been born in a different time and place. He goes all out against Leonidas as a sign of respect, and is delighted to discover just how strong and durable the Spartan is. -Tiamom: “I... Mother? Mother, is that you? ... No. No, not quite. You feel like her, and I hear her in your voice, but you’re much gentler. Yet... somehow, it feels like you’re... I’m so confused.” This is where Huitz is the most vulnerable. He is dearly fond of his mother, and sees much of her in the Foreigner Tiamat. Both are mother goddesses, greatly associated with the earth and with serpents, and both were turned on by their own children. Huitz can't help but feel protective of Tiamat, and subtly tries to make her proud of him. It is a good thing she can look after herself. If his new surrogate mother were threatened, there's no telling how much carnage Huitz would cause in his desire to protect her. -Artemis: “A moon goddess? Pah. More trouble than they’re worth, the lot of them. Watch your back, Master, lest you find a dagger in it.” Self explanatory. Huitzilopochtli feels great distaste for moon goddesses, and would see no problem in getting rid of all of them to avoid a potential Coyolxauqui 2.0.

#fgo #fanservant #huitzilopochtli #dammit all i caved and made one of these #actually kinda happy with him but i'm worried his NP might be a bit overpowered #oc

[jewish-privilege]

The note jammed onto a windshield in Sweden in March last year was designed to terrify. WE ARE WATCHING YOU, YOU JEWISH SWINE, read the message to a retired professor, written on paper with the logo of the Nordic Resistance Movement, a Swedish neo-Nazi organization.

In the bucolic university town of Lund, with its cobblestone streets and medieval buildings, the threat seemed jarringly out of place. More notes followed. “I was really scared,” says the professor, a small woman of 70, who is too fearful about a further attack to reveal her name in print.

Finally in October, an attacker broke into the professor’s home before dawn and set it alight. By a stroke of luck, the professor was not there. But her living and dining rooms were reduced to ash. So too were the writings of her late mother, detailing her internment in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. “For the first time in my life I have needed therapy,” she says, over tea in a sunlit café in Lund. “I have not known what to do with my life.”

The professor was targeted because she is Jewish, and in that she is not alone. Anti-Semitism is flourishing worldwide. Attacks on Jews doubled in the U.S. from 2017 to 2018, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York City. That included the shooting in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue last October, which killed 11 worshippers.

But the trend is especially pronounced in Europe, the continent where 75 years ago hatred of Jews led to their attempted extermination. The numbers speak plainly in country after country. For each of the past three years, the U.K. has reported the highest number of anti-Semitic incidents ever recorded. In France, with the world’s third biggest Jewish population, government records showed a 74% spike in anti-Semitic acts between 2017 and 2018. And in Germany, anti-Semitic incidents rose more than 19% last year. The findings prompted Germany’s first anti-Semitism commissioner to caution Jews in May about the dangers of wearing kippahs, the traditional skullcaps, in public.

Unsurprisingly, many Jews in Europe feel under assault. In an E.U. poll of European Jews across the Continent, published in January, a full 89% of those surveyed said anti-Semitism had significantly increased over five years. After polling 16,395 Jews in 12 E.U. countries, in a separate survey, the E.U.’s Fundamental Rights Agency concluded that Europe’s Jews were subjected to “a sustained stream of abuse.” With the decade drawing to a close, 38% of those surveyed said they were thinking about emigrating “because they no longer feel safe as Jews,” says the E.U. report.

European officials were stunned at the findings, but perhaps they ought not to have been. A complex web of factors have combined to create this moment in time for one of Europe’s oldest communities. Anti-Semitism has found oxygen among white supremacists on the far right and Israel bashers on the far left. Millions of new immigrants are settling in Europe, many from Muslim countries deeply hostile to Israel and sometimes also Jews. Exacerbated by the Internet’s ability to spread hatred, anti-Jewish feeling is surging in way that experts fear could result in a conflagration, if governments and communities fail effectively to tackle its causes.

...Not waiting for their leaders, communities across Europe have begun to take action themselves. Raised learning about Nazism, many fear what might happen if anti-Semitism is left unchallenged. In recent years, teachers, imams, rabbis and local activists have launched countless initiatives to break stereotypes, educate youth and forge links across religions. In several interviews with TIME, those fighting anti-Semitism caution that it is likely to take many years for their efforts to succeed. Still, they have begun. In Paris, Delphine Horvilleur, a rabbi and author of a recent book on anti-Semitism, says a young Muslim worshipper approached her in her synagogue after she presided over a joint Muslim-Jewish prayer service.

“He told me, ‘I grew up in a family where anti-Semitism was the music in the background,’” she says. Now, she says, “We have to ask ourselves, How can we make sure they have the ability to lower the volume?”

The horrors of World War II shamed the world into acknowledging the evils of anti-Semitism. But exposure did not cure it. Instead, say experts, the hatred simmered for years. “There was a consensus that anti-Semitism should not be voiced openly after World War II,” says Günther Jikeli, a specialist in European anti-Semitism at Indiana University, who is German. “This has gone away with time.”

The growth of the Internet provided new platforms for conspiracy theorists to circulate racist fantasies more broadly. After the financial crisis of 2008, for example, the ADL warned that anti-Semites were spreading lies on message boards that Jews were somehow to blame for the crash. One rumor went that Lehman Brothers, the vaunted U.S. investment bank founded by Jewish immigrants from Europe, had transferred $400 billion to Israeli banks prior to its collapse.

A decade on, those who monitor anti-Semitism believe each attack or conspiracy theory posted online, no matter how small, sets off others. As social media has become an ever greater and yet more unregulated part of our lives, hatred has proliferated. “It used to be that anti-Semitism peaked during times of conflict in the Middle East,” says Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Commission’s first-ever coordinator for combatting anti-Semitism. “Now the incidents remain at their highest level ever recorded.”

...Tensions sporadically erupt in violence. In Sarcelles, a French commune where Jews and Arab immigrants have lived alongside each other for decades, violence erupted during a pro-Palestinian march in 2014. Jewish businesses came under attack by demonstrators, many of them Muslim. Five years on, the Jewish residents of Sarcelles live with armed French soldiers on permanent patrol on their streets, in a measure of the government’s concern about further race riots. “We live with a sense of anxiety,” says René Taïeb, a Jewish community leader, sitting in a kosher café in Sarcelles. “We have a bag packed, ready to go, in the closet.”

But Europe’s most hardcore anti-Semites are arguably on the far right, and they are slowly joining the mainstream, as Europe’s political loyalties have fractured and polarized. In Hungary, the far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s campaign against Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros is regarded as thinly veiled anti-Semitism. And here in Sweden, ostensibly the most liberal country in Europe, a group of far-right extremists has achieved something close to political legitimacy.

...On the opposite end of the political spectrum, anti-Semitism has also flared up. During months of the so-called Yellow Vest protests in France, a handful of demonstrators in the crowd resurrected the stereotype of Jews controlling the levers of power. In February, a group of protesters accosted renowned French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut on a Paris street, screaming, “You are going to hell!” and “Go back to Tel Aviv!”

The problem is not always so overt, however. In the U.K., the opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has faced fury among some members over his alleged tolerance for anti-Semitism, especially regarding criticism of the Israeli government. The veteran leftist has said the party’s problem stems from a “small number of members and supporters,” and has pledged to stamp it out. But his defense has rung hollow to some. “The party is institutionally anti-Semitic,” says Luciana Berger, a Jewish member of Parliament who quit Labour this year over the issue. Under Corbyn, she tells TIME, “there is more of a permission for it to happen now.”

...Many Jews in Europe say it is not the major incidents but the minor ones that prove how widespread this problem is. They describe anti-Semitism as having seeped into quotidian life, in some ways complicating the effort to tackle the problem. “Unless it is very serious and you are physically attacked, there is a tendency not to call the police,” says Fredrik Sieradzki, spokesman for the Jewish community in Malmo, on Sweden’s southern border with Denmark.

...The more insidious effect is not at all visible: the choice by many Jews to remain discreet about their religious background. In numerous interviews, European Jews tell TIME that they avoid wearing a Star of David, and if they do, they tuck it under their shirts. Many also forgo affixing the traditional miniature prayer scrolls, called mezuzahs, to their doorposts, as many American Jews do, choosing instead to hang them inside. “Parents say to their kids, ‘Don’t tell your friends you are Jewish.’ Jewish teachers are afraid to tell kids they are Jewish,” says Shneur Kesselman, the Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi of Malmo, who moved from his native Detroit in 2004.

Kesselman recently installed bulletproof glass on his office window in Malmo’s synagogue, which dates from 1903. He says Jews have steadily adapted to low-level hostility. “We feel so long as our names are not on a list, we are O.K.,” he says. “There is a danger that we are accepting much too much.”

...Taïeb, the community leader in Sarcelles, says the best form of resistance might be to remind anti-Semites who Jews really are — their neighbors, and fellow citizens. He recalls watching the protest in 2014 spiral into violence and deciding to gather about 100 men to surround the synagogue. Instead of chanting Jewish prayers, as one might have expected, they decided instead to sing “La Marseillaise,” France’s national anthem. “We wanted to make the point that we are French, really French, who happen to be Jewish.”

...Yet, after a long period of feeling paralyzed by fear, the professor says she is finally venturing out. “Every day, I wake up and tell myself to go out and repair myself,” she says. Her home, rebuilt, now has security glass and alarms, far different from before the attack. “My house was wonderful, totally open, with big magnolia trees in the garden. The magnolia trees survived.”

[Read Vivienne Walt’s full piece in Time.]

[the-skooma-den]

My Dragonborn, Tenara Aedaire, A former Thalmor who is now known for her pretty fucking ruthless rebellion against them

Class: Spellsword of a sort, only uses magic and summons swords. Beyond that, uses Mainly destruction and Alteration with restoration as as distant 3rd.

Age: 207 

Race: Altmer. There were rumors that she had human blood in her because of her Black hair but she’s 100% altmer

Personality: She was once upon a time a complete straight edge with only a little bit of a strange and buried sense of humor. That was at least 50 years ago now. 

Nowadays she’s far more outwardly goofy and cares little for others opinions about her (though to be fair It was never that much of a concern for her).

Though outwardly extremely friendly,outgoing and helpful she allows very few people to be truly close to her. She will usually push any who try to get close to her away and it takes a very certain kind of person to break through (i.e stubbornly kind). 

She is always happy to learn experience new things and will go out of her way to see the sights wherever she is. Tenara is creative and constantly keeps a sketch journal of sorts, keeping notes on everywhere she’s been and everything she’s seen.

She is rather debaucherous as well, those new experiences aren’t always just new food or to see the sights, She will happily try out any drug or alcohol. She is also very flirtatious and will happily have one night stands or short flings with just about anyone anywhere she goes. She tends to leave a string of broken hearts, albeit unintentionally.

Even she can get annoyed by how over the top heroic she can be. She’s someone getting robbed and she goes “Oh shit” gets off her horse and trudges over to help them. 

 Backstory:She grew up in the Summserset isles and was only about 5 years old during the oblivion crisis. It was of course a scarring time for her as the part of the isles she lived in was hit harder then the rest. She watched her father get burned alive by a flame atronach and was almost burned herself only escaping because her mother was able to save her just in time. She has ever since had a fairly reasonable phobia of both Daedra and Fire. 

She was never close to her mother before the crisis and any chance they had of a normal relationship was dashed when her father died. Tenara would spend most of her Childhood and adolescence trying to impress her mother. (spoiler: didn’t work)

Not long after she discovered her own talent for magic, though she absolutely refused to touch any conjuration magic, she had quite a talent for destruction (specifically shock spells) and Alteration. Eventually when she was older she started to reluctantly use summoned weapons. 

She was in her early 20’s when the Thalmor we know today, the Xenophobic ones that dispise all the “lesser” races of Nirn and would destroy Mundus as we know it if given the chance, started taking Summerset by storm. Her mother encouraged her to join and unfortunately Tenara listened. She didn’t really want to, if she had her own say she’d have run off and joined the house of reveries. But her mother was Insistent and she was young. 

 She rose quickly through the ranks and ended up never doing much field work and rarely leaving the isles, taking a more behind the scenes position there. (To this day she refuses to say how important she was but more than a few of the really important members do seem to recognize her)

Everything was for a long while perfect. Her mother respected her, though if she was honest with herself She knew it was mostly that she liked having a child at such a high rank in society rather than any kind of maternal affection. She ended up falling in love, with scandalously enough a member of the lower class and they had a little girl of their own. It all fell into place rather nicely for her. 

Things of course went wrong rather stupendously, as just because she was able to push her empathy down and ignore it doesn’t mean her husband was able to. He spoke out against the Thalmor’s awful treatment of….anyone that wasn’t an altmer really and it was tolerated thanks to his wife’s status. And when Tenara agreed and started to advocate for more fair treatment of the other races. That was when it became an issue. Tenara was competent, well liked, and pretty well respected. They didn’t want to lose her, but they didn’t want her to change anything. 

So when her husband disappeared the message given to her was clear. She was to follow their rules. Not to try and change them,or else her daughter would end up alone. Her daughter was only 10 at the time.

So years go by. Her daughter,Ciriwen, grew distant but at least it wasn’t out of spite (yet) just the result of the usual teenage angst, a dose of trauma from her father apparently abandoning them, and her mother working so much and simply not being around. Ciriwen turned to her books and was very interested in history, with the 2nd era being her favorite and on the occasions she was left unsupervised (or snuck away) she would sneak off to explore the nearby ruins. (Tenara knew she was running off, but she was certain no one else did and Ciriwen never went anywhere to dangerous so she let her have the small rebellions). She was also was frequently allowed a look at far rarer history books and first hand accounts thanks to her mother’s high position. 

As Ciriwen dived deeper into the ruins and into ancient history she was…distrubed. The history in the more modern books was wildly different than the first hand accounts and older history books she found. The story of Queen Ayrenn and the first dominion in the 2nd era had been twisted in horrible way. The more she dug the worst it got and the clearer it was that the Thalmor had been trying to rewrite the past.

She went even deeper and started to sneak into her mother’s records (as well as other Thalmor’s records whenever she got the chance) and found out even more. Of the goals of the Thalmor, of what they’d been doing. And she was horrified. The discoveries went on for years. It accumulated when she found out the truth of what happened to her father, that he had been killed for only slightly speaking out against them. 

She was 20 she just couldn’t take it anymore. She left. Leaving a hastily scrawled note explaining at least some of why she left. She went to travel Tamriel and to stop these people wherever she could. 

Tenara went into a panic and for weeks tore apart every file she could find to make sure that her daughter hasn’t disappeared in the same way her husband did. Eventually she came to the hard truth that her daughter had just left. Still preferable to being dead however.

She started going through her daughters notes and books and ended up on a similar journey with similar realizations. Even Tenara hadn’t known how much history had been changed. She thought it had just been a few simple smaller things that put current politician in a better light and the past would probably come forward again after they passed but what she found was a total rewrite. Completely rewritten speeches and manifestos and histories all the way back to.

When Tenara finally read through the end of the extensive note it was months later, and it had finally hit her how irredeemably evil the organization she had been working for for almost 100 years was. She knew it was bad but not like this. Not to mention how evil the things she was doing for them was. And reading through her daughters notes she also read her journal entires. Her shock and horror at discovering it all, including the truth behind her fathers death. It finally put Tenara into action.

A week later she took off after her daughter. At 130 years old she had finally left the Summerset Isles for good.  She would spend the Next 75 years or so wandering Tamriel looking for Ciriwen, always either just missing her or hearing a rumor that she was halfway across the continent. Tenara also did her part in fighting against her former comrades. And her eyes opened more and more to the atrocities the Thalmor had committed, some of which she had ordered or suggested and what it truly meant and was leading to. 

She never forgave herself, and very likely never will. She will and will continue to do everything in her power to fix what she’s done and what she can’t fix, she will stop from happening again. 

Eventually she figures that at this point, her daughter MUST know Tenara is looking for her, and at this point must be avoiding her. To a point Tenara accepts this and truthfully she never expected her daughter to forgive her, at least not fully she just wanted the chance to apologize. To maybe work together to fix what shes done. But she also realizes at this point, It’s not likely to happen.

She hears a rumor that Ciriwen is up in skyrim, she doesn’t really question it. With the Civil war the Thalmor had increased their numbers there that sounds exactly like the kind of place Ciriwen would be.

Tenara tries to follow but gets caught up at the border and ends up tied up on a cart ride to Helgan. 

#My art #tenara #Skyrim #Dragonborn #directory #I might add a bit more about the personality later #and ill defiantly add more about her life in skyrim #Ciriwen will likely get her own post as well #also yeah she kept her old thalmor cloak #as Inigo says they may be intolerant but they are snappy dressers

[nadziejastar]

It's sort of amazing the difference between the fan interpretation of RAX and how they interact in canon. In Days they're super dysfunctional, border on being toxic, and their friendship was unsustainable from the start even if they didn't realize it. In fanon they're a picture perfect family who can never be torn apart. And the KH3 went with the fan interpretation instead of acknowledging any of their issues.

I totally agree. I think the reason is that the fandom tends to be very young. It’s a big reason why Akuroku became so popular, IMO. Young teens tend to misinterpret unhealthy obsession (like Axel’s) as romance and true love. And the Sea-Salt Trio’s dysfunction also was also overlooked in a similar manner.

I gotta be honest. I feel pretty uncomfortable with the general interpretation of the Sea-Salt Trio in this fandom. It’s just so bizarre to me how Roxas and Xion’s friendship with Axel was put on such a pedestal and how his relationship with Isa was pretty much ignored by almost everyone. It’s just…amazingly unrealistic if you think about it. I think it’s a testament to how young the fans are, in general.

Axel’s relationships truly aggravate me, because he was written a LOT differently than Sora or other simplistic characters. I know that the target demographic for Kingdom Hearts is pretty young. And in the end, I think Axel’s character was a victim of that. Nomura tried to write him very authentically at first.

But his characterization was dumbed down to fit in with a largely tween/teen audience and their preferences. I don’t say that to be disparaging to younger fans or anything. But, had KH3 not been a Disney property, and had it been targeted to a slightly older audience, I think Axel and his relationships would have been handled a LOT differently.

I definitely think the Sea-Salt Trio was VERY misunderstood by the fandom. Axel has known Saïx for at least 10 years. Probably more. Even before their backstory was explained, you could tell they have been through hell together in the organization, without anyone else to trust besides each other. Axel was willing to do all of his dirty work. 

Then Axel meets Roxas and Xion. Two kids who—let’s be honest—are about on the level of your average fifth grader. Not a bad thing. They’re just very naive and childlike and he obviously can’t be 100% himself around them. Do people really think Axel is gonna replace his best friend so easily with two kids he’s known for less than a year? Apparently, yes. Let’s look how absurd it is.

Day 75

Inseparable

The Genie we met in Agrabah said he and his friend Al are "inseparable." Axel told us best friends can be inseparable even if they're not always together, but it sounded like he wasn't too sure about it himself. I thought Axel knew everything. Oh well...

At this point, Axel spent quite a while at Castle Oblivion. He hasn’t even gotten to know Roxas that well, and he’s only known Xion for a few days. It’s totally realistic that he’d say he doesn’t have a best friend. He sounds like he knows what it’s like to have a best friend, though. He just doesn’t have one anymore.

Day 96

Roxas: I just…want these days to last forever. Hanging out, the ice cream, the sunsets…

Axel: Nothing lasts forever, man. Least of all for a bunch of Nobodies. But you know, we’ll still have each other…even if things change and we can’t do this anymore.

Roxas: Yeah?

Axel: As long as we remember each other, we’ll never be apart. Got it memorized?

Roxas: Ha ha, wow, Axel. That sounded ridiculous.

Axel: What? I thought it was pretty deep.

Not even two weeks later, he’s acting all touchy-feely about the time they spend hanging out together. Roxas and Xion make fun of him because even they know they’re not really that close, lol. They hardly know each other at this point. If you read between the lines, you could tell that he was thinking about Saïx here, too.

Friends

Author: Axel

I feel like I’ve been spending more time talking to Roxas and Xion lately than my old friend, Saïx. This has to have been what it was like, friendship.

But if that wasn’t obvious enough, the report clears up all doubt. He WAS thinking about Saïx. The message I got was: Lea and Isa had a very close relationship as humans. They were the ones who were really inseparable. 

Axel misses that and, the more he remembers it, is desperate to fill the void. Every time he mentions “best friends,” it relates back to this. But this concept went “whoosh” over 90% of the fandom’s head. It baffles me. I really just don’t get it. Again, I have to think it’s due to the fact that this series skews really young. 

Day 118

You Changed, Not Me

Author: Axel

Talking to Roxas and Xion always brings back memories of my human life, back when I was a kid. It’s a weird sensation. I ought to be able to share all this with Saïx, but I just don’t feel like it anymore. It’s strange, but I’m content with just missing what’s gone. I’m not the one who changed. You did.

Anyways. Three weeks later. Axel is very hung up on the past. He sounds like a heartbroken lover (because that’s exactly what he is, if you ask me). The reason Axel spends so much time with Roxas and Xion is because Isa changed.

Day 150

Too Precious to Lose

Axel and I talked for a while about the things we can’t bear to lose. Axel thinks that for Nobodies, it’s our pasts, because that’s all we have to remember the pain of losing something. I don’t remember my past, but the idea of losing the present–Axel or Xion–scares me.

A month later. Axel comes back from Castle Oblivion yet again, and he’s even more nostalgic for the past than last time. I bet Axel’s time at C.O was gonna be featured as a blank period in BBSV2. But whatever. He couldn’t bear the thought of losing his memories of the past.

The reason Axel treasured his memories so much was because it’s all he had left after losing something. OBVIOUSLY it’s because of his relationship with Isa. I mean, duh. It implies a pretty special connection between Axel/Lea and Saïx/Isa for him to feel that way, especially considering how mean Saïx is to him.

I’m not trying to trash Axel’s feelings for Roxas and Xion, either, or make them out to be unimportant. They were important to him, for sure. But they absolutely did not reach Isa’s level of importance to him. No fucking way. Not. Even. Close. Especially not on Day 150. By the end of the story, Axel couldn’t bear to lose Roxas and Xion because they were all he had to fill the void of Isa.

That’s not to say that he didn’t care about them as friends, or that he was just using them. It just means that I don’t think Axel really would want to be “inseparable” with Roxas and Xion once he was mentally and emotionally healthy. He’d want to be friends with them, of course, but not hang out every day like Hayner, Pence, and Olette. He’s not on the same level as Roxas and Xion. And that’s fine.

Terra: Protect the things that matter… Right. My friends matter to me, too. So, I still have things that I have to protect.

To use a comparison, Riku was very important to Terra. I LOVED the connection between them. Other than Lea and Isa, one of the things I was most excited to see in KH3 was Riku and Terra reuniting (yeah…). They had a very special bond. Riku helped comfort Terra when he was down. But. Riku was NOT as important to Terra as Aqua and Ven were. Even if Terra had spent a whole year with Riku, he still wouldn’t be as important to Terra as Aqua and Ven.

Roxas and Xion being portrayed as the most important people to Axel is as ridiculous to me as Riku being portrayed as the most important person to Terra. It would be weird if 99% of the fanart out there depicted Riku as Terra’s best friend and Terra’s reunion with Riku got more spotlight in KH3 than his reunion with Ven and Aqua.

That’s how I feel about the Sea-Salt Trio. I really liked it for what it was in Days. A complex, morally grey friendship between an emotionally damaged adult and two innocent kids. But I really don’t like the overly saccharine, cutesy, cuddly, one-dimensional fandom version of it, where Axel is treated like he’s on the same level as the two teens. It’s a testament to how young the fandom is that people really thought Lea would be “meh” about reuniting with his childhood best friend who’s been possessed for 10 years, and be waaaay more excited about getting to eat ice cream with two teens every day once again. 

Day 172

What’s Love?

On my mission at Beast’s Castle, Xaldin told me about "love” and the special power it has over people. I tried to ask Axel about it, but his explanation didn’t make any sense to me. Every time I ask him about this kind of thing, he tells me I need a heart to understand. It’s like he’s dodging the questions.

Axel tolerates severe emotional abuse from his possessed best friend because he loved him back when he was normal. He copes by with his extremely shitty life by living entirely in the past, through his memories. Hanging out with two kids helps him remember his old life, back when he was happy. God, he was such a fascinating character. Such wasted potential.

Day 193

Best Friends

Xion's awake now. The three of us were gonna go get some ice cream after our mission, but she passed out again, so we had to take her home. I talked with Axel in her room until she woke up. He said the three of us were best friends—inseparable. 

Axel said he had no best friend on Day 75. Now it’s Day 193. That’s only 119 days. That’s less than four months!! He gets in a fight with Saïx, who, once again, says he’s changed. A very sore topic for Axel. Then immediately afterwards, he says these two kids are his best friends.

If I was gonna compare it to real life: Let’s say Lea and Isa were two normal high school kids who were kidnapped and raised in a gang. Axel is a 25/26 year-old former gang member. He’s got blood on his hands. He’s a good person deep down, but he’s seen a lot of shit. Then he meets these two fifth graders. This adult gang member, with tear-drop tats and everything, suddenly starts calling these two fifth graders his best friends. He wants to spend all of his time eatig ice cream and playing Minecraft with them.

If this was real life, would anyone say how cute it is that they are best friends? Two kids who he had to teach the concept of “best friends” to? NO! No, they’d say that’s unhealthy and weird and that the guy needs therapy. Because it IS unhealthy and weird. Perhaps it easier to see that as an adult. Perhaps it’s easier to see it in a romanticized way when you’re young.

The Sea-Salt Trio was, in a way, Axel forcing the label of “best friends” on two kids in an attempt to cope with the heartbreak of his loss of innocence. It did have genuine cuteness and sweetness. Of course it did. Axel was not a predator or anything. Roxas and Xion loved him. Axel loved them. But…it wasn’t as cutesy and wholesome as people make it out to be. At least not from Axel’s end. It wasn’t JUST a cute wholesome trio. 

That’s what made it so good. It was complex and grey. Axel never went against the organization, even though he could have if he really wanted to. It got to the point where he nearly killed both Roxas and Xion, just because he couldn’t bring himself to go against the organization. And the reason he couldn’t go against the organization was because of Saïx. Yes. Axel came thiiiiis close to killing both Roxas and Xion for a sociopath who treated him like shit. Their friendship was very dysfunctional and had a lot of kinks to work out.

Again, I’m not trying to denigrate the bond Axel had with Roxas and Xion. It was still genuine and sweet, in a sad and messed up way. I can still appreciate the cuteness of it.

But I hated the Sea-Salt reunion in KH3. Because it only focused on the most one-dimensional, saccharine and cutesy portrayal of them possible. They didn’t have to talk about anything. It was just instant hugging and ice cream, now they’re best friends forever. Everything played up to the max to manipulate people’s emotions. None of their issues were worked out and they had no better understanding of each other than they did at the end of Days. Honestly, even though Roxas and Xion got the red carpet treatment compared to Isa, the resolution to their trio was just as pathetic as Isa/Lea’s duo. 

[whimsicallyenchantedrose]

Fluffy Fridays—Chapter 148: The Groom’s Side, pt. 2/2

Fluffy Fridays—Chapter 148: The Groom’s Side, pt. 2/2

Pairing:  Captain Swan

Summary:   A series of unrelated, fluffy one shots featuring Killian Jones and  Emma Swan and the relationship that makes us all swoon. Will contain  both canon and AU stories. My contribution to Operation Rainbow Kisses  and Unicorn Stickers (aka, my attempt to drown out the season 4 finale  angst with ridiculous levels of fluff.)

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The Groom’s Side—pt. 2

CS Genre: Canon divergence from 6x20

Emma smiled a she leaned back against the door, her heat lighter than she remembered it ever being. She was so in love she nearly ached with it, and tomorrow she got to declare that love before all of her family and friends, she got to make a commitment to the man she loved that would last for all eternity. A few years ago she wouldn’t have believed a love like this existed, she wouldn’t have believed happiness like this existed, but a surprise visit from Henry several years ago had changed her entire world. Now she had love, family, a home, a place to belong, a place that not only tolerated her presence but actively wanted her.

It was almost too much to take in.

“You must be thinking about Killian,” Henry said, rolling his eyes as he stepped up before her.

She grinned at him before ruffling his hair.  “What makes you say that kid?”

“That look on your face,” he said.  “If it were any more sickly sweet, I’d probably get tooth decay just from looking at it.”

Emma laughed.  “Hey, can I help it that I am so happy I’m about to explode?”

“Yeah, don’t do that,” Henry sassed, “it would be a pain to have to clean up.”

They were silent for a moment, before Henry abruptly reached up (not so far up anymore) and hugged her. “I know I complain about you and Killian being all lovey-dovey and everything, but I’m happy too mom, and I’m really glad to see you happy.”

Emma kissed his forehead before letting him go.  “Thanks kid. I really am.  Anyway, we better both head to bed.  Big day tomorrow.”

“Okay,” Henry said, turning toward the stairs before abruptly turning back.  “Oh, I almost forgot!  I heard back from them a little while ago.  Operation Groom’s side is a go.”

Emma’s heart swelled. About a week ago, Henry had met with her and her parents to discuss an idea he had for a wedding gift for Killian, a gift from all of them.  It had been unorthodox, to say the least, and something that no one in the world but Henry could have done, but they’d all enthusiastically agreed.  After all, everyone deserved to share their most important moments with the most important people in their lives, didn’t they?

“He’s going to love it, Kid,” Emma said, emotion in her voice.  

A few minutes later, Emma laid in her bed, hoping to fall asleep right away.  The sooner she got to sleep, the sooner she’d wake to her wedding day.  But after tossing and turning for fifteen minutes, she finally gave up, turning on her bedside lamp.

It was just no use. Without Killian here, the bed was too big, too cold, too lonely.  It should scare her how important he’d become to her, but it didn’t.  If Killian had shown her anything, it was that he was never going to leave her.  Even death hadn’t succeeded in keeping him away.

The only thing, apparently, that could keep him away from her was a stupid wedding superstition. Emma huffed out an exasperated breath as she reached for her phone and swiped at it until she’d reached his phone number.  Her finger hovered over the little phone icon, indecision filling her.  She wanted to talk to him, needed to talk to him, but should she call him?  Did talking to the bride before the wedding risk bad luck too or was it just seeing?

Before she could make up her mind, her phone began to ring, and the butterflies fluttered around Emma’s stomach as she looked down to see the photo she used as Killian’s contact. Apparently she and her True Love had the same idea.

“Hey,” she said.  “I was just thinking about you.”

He chuckled.  Hello love. As it turns out, I’m always thinking about you.

“So apparently we’re not risking bad luck by talking?”  She asked.

Wouldn’t matter if we were. He said.  I just needed to hear your voice, needed to be near you, even if it is just through this talking phone.

Emma laughed.  “Killian, have I told you lately how much I love you and your old man ways?”

As they continued to talk, Emma settled back in her bed, smile back on her face.  The thought that she had an entire lifetime to spend with this man was quite possibly the best thing she could imagine.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Killian’s wedding day dawned crisp and clear and utterly beautiful.   He took a brisk walk along the shore before heading to Granny’s for his morning repast.  He was happy, happier than he’d ever been, but try as he might, he couldn’t banish the small kernel of sadness in his heart when he thought about how much he wished Liam might be with him today.

He took a deep breath and slowly let it out as he boarded the Jolly and headed below deck to his cabin.  He wouldn’t dwell on what couldn’t be changed.  He had to believe his beloved brother was looking down on him today, was with him in spirit.  That was enough.  That had to be enough.

He’d been in his quarters for no more than fifteen minutes when he heard a quick knock.  “Killian, can I come in?  Gramps sent me over with a tux for you to try.”

Killian grinned, letting his soon-to-be stepson in.  “Aye? And does your grandfather have better taste than your grandmother?  That white monstrosity the Lady Snow left for me this morning was truly an abomination.”

Henry laughed, hanging a garment bag on one of Killian’s cabinets and unzipping it to reveal a fully black tuxedo.  “This more to your taste?”

Killian looked it over carefully, before turning back to Henry.  “Aye, that will do nicely.”

“Thought you might like it,” Henry said, his voice a bit distracted.

Killian noticed that the lad kept looking to the stairs.  “Anything the matter Henry?”

“What?  No!  Why should anything be the matter?”

“You look quite agitated, lad,” Killian said, placing his good hand on Henry’s shoulder.

Henry shrugged, looking to the stairs again.  A moment later, there was the sound of footsteps nearing, and Swan’s lad visibly relaxed. “Nothing’s wrong, Killian,” he said with a smile.  “In fact, everything’s right.  I was just afraid the wedding gift Gram, Gramps, Mom and I got you wouldn’t get here in time.”

“Wedding gift?” Killian asked, brow furrowing, “what wedding gift?”

“Permission to come aboard, Captain?” came a booming voice from above.  If Killian didn’t know he was in a far distant realm cut off from communication, he would have thought it belonged to…

“It’s Nemo!”  Henry said, sounding more like the excited child Swan talked of meeting when he was ten-years-old than the teenager who stood before him now.  “Nemo and your little brother Liam!”

Killian’s eyes widened as his eyes sought the lad.  “Nemo and...and Liam?” he breathed.  “But how?--”

Henry rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.  Ah, there was the teenager he knew and loved.  “You gonna let them board or not?”

Killian pushed aside his surprise, a smile covering his face as he called up.  “Aye!  Permission gladly granted.”

A moment later the tall, lanky form of his younger brother bounded down the stairs before Captain Nemo followed at a more sedate pace.  The men greeted each other with much laughter, handshaking and the affectionate clapping of hands on shoulders, before Killian pulled back, looking at his recently found family.

“You’re here!  You actually came!”  His voice was small, filled with wonder.

“Of course,” Liam said with a grin.  “I wasn’t about to miss my own brother’s wedding, especially after how desperately you fought to get back to your lady love after our last adventure together on the Nautilus.”

“But how?” Killian pressed, looking toward the captain for answers.  “Swan and I tried to contact you, but you were beyond the reach of even our magic.  How did you know to come?”

Nemo nodded toward Henry.  “For that, you have your lad to thank.”

Killian glanced over at Henry, who was beaming with pride.  “Henry?  I’m grateful beyond words, but how did you manage a feat even both your magical mothers were unsuccessful in attempting?”

Henry rolled his eyes good-naturedly, pulling a pen from his jacket with a flourish.  “Duh.  I’m the author, remember?  The rules say I can’t write my own happy ending and stuff, but they don’t say anything about using the pen to get a message to hard to reach people.”

“And this was the wedding gift you say your mother and grandparents and you put together for me?  My family present for my wedding?”

Henry shook his head. “That’s only part of it.  Captain, did you get the other part?”

Nemo nodded and reached into the satchel on his shoulder, pulling out a large flagon of some kind and handing it to Killian.  Killian turned it over in his hand, felt its weight, and then turned confused eyes at first Henry and then Nemo and finally Liam.

“Spirits?  Your wedding gift to me is spirits?”

Henry barked out a laugh. “In a manner of speaking.”

The furrow in Killian’s brow deepened.  Swan’s boy was talking in riddles, but all three men looked intently at him as though they expected his understanding, so he mumbled out a confused “Thank you?”

“There was one other thing I wanted to talk to you about, Killian, though, before the wedding,” Henry said, an odd, almost expectant glimmer in his eye.  Killian was tempted to pinch himself.  This conversation was so odd he felt he must be dreaming.

“Aye?” he said hesitantly, noting the broad grins on both Nemo and Liam’s faces, “and what might that be, Lad?”

“I’m sorry but I can’t be your best man anymore.”

The statement was swift, to the point with no explanation, and Killian felt as though the proverbial rug had been pulled from beneath his feet.  “You…you don’t wish to be my best man?  Have I, have I done something to offend you?”

Henry quickly stepped forward, placing a hand on Killian’s arm just above the brace for his Hook, the smile slipping from his face.  “No! Nothing like that!  Of course I’d be honored to be your best man, I just figured there was someone else you’d want to have that honor.  The person who’s been the best man in your life since about two-hundred years before I was born.”

Was he suggesting…?  Surely he couldn’t mean…?  It was impossible!  Killian had seen him move “on” with his own eyes!  How could Henry…?

“You can’t mean…?” Killian whispered, feeling the tears prickle at the back of his eyes.

Henry nodded emphatically. “I do mean.  You see, that ale Captain Nemo got you isn’t just any ale.  It’s magical ale from Dunbroch.  I asked the captain and your brother to get some from the witch there on their way back.  You pour it on the ground, and you can bring back one person who’s already passed on. It’ll only last a few hours, but I figured there was someone you might want to bring back for your wedding.”

The tears truly filled his eyes this time, and one escaped its banks and trailed down his face.  “You mean, I can bring Liam here?  I mean the older Liam,” he clarified with a nod in his younger brother’s direction.

“Uh-huh,” Henry said. “He’ll have to go back at the end of the reception, but he can be here for all the main events.”

“And you and your mother and grandparents wished to give me my brother as my wedding gift?”

Henry shrugged again. “Yeah.  I mean, everyone should have their closest family members with them for their wedding.”

Killian felt as though his heart would burst.  It was everything, everything he’d ever wanted.  There was not a thing in the world that would make this day more perfect. “Come here, lad.”

Henry came willingly, leaning into the hug, returning it in equal measure.

When Henry finally pulled away, he looked up at Killian with an excited sparkle in his eyes.  “So, what are you waiting for?  I think it’s about time Uncle Liam got here!”

Killian smiled.  “Aye, I believe you’re right.”

Uncorking the flagon with trembling hand, Killian poured its contents upon the floor of his quarters and watched as a fine mist rose from the liquid.  When the mist cleared, there was Liam, his brother, his hero, his whole world up until Neverland stole him away.  He stood tall in his naval blues, proud delighted grin on his face.

“You look a damn sight better than you did the last time I saw you, little brother,” Liam the elder said, by way of introduction.

“Younger,” Killian corrected automatically before pulling his brother to him in a crushing hug.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Several hours later

Killian took Emma’s hand, lacing their fingers before leading her out the door onto the secluded balcony off of the ballroom of the sorcerer’s mansion, where their wedding reception was underway.  She looked up at his beloved face with questions in her eyes.

“Why are we out here?” She asked.

Killian gave her a wicked grin before swooping down and capturing her lips in a kiss that threatened to make her knees buckle.  They’d been together for more than a year now, but he still had the ability to make her feel like she was about to melt into a little pile of goo at his feet. Finally he pulled back, resting his forehead against hers.

“Well, wife,” he caressed the word in a way that made her toes curl in her ridiculously uncomfortable heels, “I thought it was high time we have a moment to ourselves.  It seems the entire town is conspiring to keep us from each other.”

Emma laughed and looped her arms around his neck, bringing his head down for another kiss, this one slow and deep, her tongue swiping at the seam of his lips seeking entrance, a request he readily and eagerly granted.  Reluctantly, very reluctantly, she pulled back several moments later as hands began to wander.  “Think we’re gonna have to hit the pause button for now, sailor.  Married or not, I have a feeling my dad would murder you for having your way with his daughter out in public where anyone could walk in on us.”

Killian grinned and then shrugged.  “It’s not as though I’m unacquainted with the prince’s wrath.  He has, quite literally, stabbed me in the back before.”

Emma laughed and reached up to peck him on the lips once more.  “You’re really never going to let my dad live that down, are you?”

“What kind of a pirate would I be if I let an advantage like that slip through my fingers?”

Emma laughed, cupping his face in her hands and caressing his scruff with her thumbs.  “Was this day everything you hoped it would be?”

He kissed her again, this time making sure to keep it short.  “No, it was much, much more.  I have no words strong enough to express my thanks for bringing Nemo and my brothers here tonight.  You’re a marvel, love.”

She beamed up at him. “Hey it wasn’t all me.  It was Henry’s idea, actually.  He wanted you to feel as loved and surrounded with family as I do.”

The skin around his eyes crinkled as he smiled tenderly at her.  “I already did, Emma.  You, your lad and your parents made sure of it.  Nevertheless, the fact that I got to spend this most important day of my life with Liam…I am blown away that you would do this for me.”

“I’d do anything for you, Killian,” she said, feeling the truth of the statement to the marrow of her bones.

She saw his eyes mist with emotion before he leaned down and captured her lips once more.  She had no idea how long the kiss lasted, it could have been moments, it could have been hours, but eventually they were interrupted by the clearing of a throat.

“I don’t wish to interrupt,” Liam the elder said, grin on his face suggesting he found a good deal of humor in doing just that, “but my time is nearly at an end.  I can feel the other side pulling me back.”

Emma heard Killian’s quick, indrawn breath, and she squeezed his hand sympathetically before letting him go.

“So soon, brother?” Killian said, “It seems as though you just arrived.”

“I’m afraid so,” Liam said. “I sense Zeus already gave me more time than I deserved, but it’s time I get back to my ship and my crew.”

Killian stepped forward and hugged him, burying his face in his brother’s neck as he used to do as a young child in need of comfort.  “And you’re happy there, Liam?” he asked in a choked voice.  “In that great beyond?”

Liam laughed.  “Happy doesn’t begin to describe it.  Killian, it’s perfect happiness all day every day.  It’s fair winds and blue skies, perfect sailing weather.  There’s not a thing I’d change about it, save for the absence of my younger brother.”

“I’m sorry to keep you waiting,” Killian said in a small voice.

“Nonsense,” Liam said. “You deserve this time of happiness, this love and family and joy.  We’ll be together again someday.  Until then, I’ll be watching over you from above.”

Emma felt the tears blur her vision as she watched her husband hug his brother one last time, before stepping back and watching Liam disappear into a bright, glowing light. Stepping forward, she took Killian’s hand and laid her head on his shoulder.

“You okay?”

He turned his head and kissed her forehead.  “Aye, love. More than okay.  Having him here with us on this day, even only for a few hours, it made what was already a perfect day bliss.”

She kissed him one more time and then grinned at him wickedly.  “Speaking of bliss, how about we officially take our leave and then get started on the honeymoon?”

 Notes:

--So there you go, the rest of the CS wedding fluff!

--It probably won’t be next week, but the next installment will take place during 7a.  We’ll get to see what is happening back in Storybrooke while Henry’s off living through curses in Hyperion Heights.  Specifically, I think I’ll focus on something related to Emma’s pregnancy with Hope.

                                                                                          NEXT CHAPTER -->

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PRESSPLAY STARTER MEME #1

hit like and i’ll generate a RANDOM NUMBER (1-120), then use the corresponding quote as a starter. warning: some swears and adult content.

1. " a pink frosted donut? what are you, six? " 2. " nothing fixes bad times like good food. " 3. " what other people think of me is none of my business. " 4. " yes to love, yes to life, yes to staying in more! " 5. " start with the letter n. the letter o. period. " 6. " the best revenge is to just do better. " 7. " oh, i'm very normal. i've had everything normal happen to me. " 8. " i aim to misbehave. " 9. " it's easy to bond over hating something together. " 10. " this will either be fun or terrible. " 11. " i'm always right. except when i'm wrong. which is often. " 12. " don't come back without cake. " 13. " everyone in the world is having sex right now. except for us. " 14. " so, how much trouble are we in? " 15. " don't give up. not ever. not for a single day. " 16. " i'm probably fine, but i also might be dead. " 17. " my body is about seventy-five percent caffeine. " 18. " everyone wants to be us. " 19. " are you trying to call me pretty? " 20. " when you speak my brain gets angry. " 21. " do i regret it? yes. would i do it again? probably. " 22. " please just leave me alone. " 23. " i'm so cute! look how cute i am! " 24. " i wanna hug you and slap you at the same time. " 25. " do you want me to pinky swear? " 26. " i was so worried, i ate a whole cake! " 27. " were you dropped on your head as a child or were you just born stupid? " 28. " don't believe everything you hear, unless it's really good. then it's true. " 29. " time can heal a broken heart, just like time can heal his broken arms and legs. " 30. " that is a hell of a thing for you to say to me! " 31. " don't hate me for this, okay? " 32. " mister, you don't know who you're dealing with. " 33. " try not giving a fuck. there's a lot of power in that. " 34. " i'm sorry, is that a flirtation? " 35. " you don't win friends with salad. " 36. " this is who i am. if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself. " 37. " who cares? i'm awesome. " 38. " you're only allowed to bring one stuffed animal?! " 39. " i need money for real stuff. like candy. " 40. " i'm pretty impressed, but... not that impressed. " 41. " your tone seems very pointed right now. " 42. " my good looks are ruining people's lives! " 43. " i'm not scared. i've already lived longer than expected. " 44. " don't go around pretending that's a word everybody knows. " 45. " a hug can turn your whole day around! " 46. " i excel at not giving a shit. " 47. " i have dreams. and sometimes, in those dreams... bad things happen to you. " 48. " i can't sleep in my room. i saw a spider in there! " 49. " i'm in the mood for chaos. " 50. " who's not for chocolate? everybody at least tolerates it. " 51. " i will either find a way or make one. " 52. " hey, my mom says i'm cool! " 53. " a person who envies me is a person who needs help. " 54. " oh, it's okay. i guess i wasn't meant to have a good life. " 55. " you don't love people with hopes of a reward. you just love them. " 56. " i believe 'being an ass' is the technical term for that. " 57. " oh, i wish i could be a cat. " 58. " i have way too many things to do today! go home, get food, finish my book..." 59. " i'm gonna eat all the cake on earth! " 60. " i know what true love feels like... and i wish i didn't. " 61. " i'm hilarious, beautiful, talented, and humble. " 62. " if you pay me, i'll be there. " 63. " lets give a big, warm welcome to sadness. " 64. " someone's gonna end up crying. probably me. " 65. " i like weird. no, i love weird! i bask in the glow of weird! " 66. " pretending to be polite is so exhausting. " 67. " hm, this is a problem. have you considered running away from it? " 68. " would you be terribly upset if i threw up in one of your shoes? " 69. " the party lasted all night... and honestly, i can't remember most of it. " 70. " i have done nothing all day except eat chips and stare off into space. what is my life? " 71. “ you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity. ” 72. “ sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things. ” 73. “ you’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you? ” 74. “ it’s dangerous to go alone, take this. ” 75. “ you sit on a throne of lies. ” 76. “ kids like you should be burning in hell. ” 77. “ a heart can be broken but it keeps on beating just the same. ” 78. “ are you a politican or does lying just run in your family? ” 79. “ i wonder how many times each day she dies a little. ” 80. “ someone needs to push the reset button on this planet. ” 81. “ just because you’re funny doesn’t mean you get to be cruel. ” 82. “ how do you accidentally have sex with someone?! ” 83. “ yep, shouldn’t have said that. regretted it immediately. ” 84. “ tact is just not saying true stuff. i’ll pass. ” 85. “ that is so romantic. it disgusts me. ” 86. “ i’ll be in the kitchen rationalizing my panic attack. " 87. ” i’m going to say this as politely as possible: i will fuck you up. “ 88. ” clearly you don’t understand anything about defeating trolls. “ 89. ” i’m sorry, is that a flirtation? “ 90. ” quick question: what the heck is going on? “ 91. ” a queen is never late. everyone else is simply early. “ 92. ” i’m not okay. i just decided being sad is a waste of time. “ 93. ” when i’m upset i eat. when i’m happy i eat. “ 94. ” seize the day. because tomorrow, you might be dead. “ 95. ” i feel like doing something stupid. “ 96. ” i know what you’re thinking: birth is a curse and existence is a prison. “ 97. ” i don’t believe in dibs. or love at first sight. or love. or best friends. or doing things. “ 98. ” i’ve been drinking. i mean, thinking! “ 99. ” you’re tacky and i hate you. “ 100. ” i’m sorry, i’m uncomfortable with emotions. “ 101. ” sweets, you couldn’t ignore me if you tried. “ 102. ” i don’t have regrets. only fun. “ 103. ” what is this feeling i’m feeling right now? it’s like i’m sad for another person… is that a thing? “ 104. ” well don’t you look like a virgin sacrifice? “ 105. ” nobody exists on purpose. nobody belongs anywhere. everybody’s gonna die. “ 106. ” why didn’t i just stay home where it’s nice and quiet and nothing ever happens? “ 107. ” if you need anything from me, reconsider. “ 108. ” if you’re not scared then you’re not taking a chance. and if you’re not taking a chance, what are you doing? “ 109. ” a wizard is never late, nor is he early. he arrives precisely when he means to. “ 110. “ i was hiding under your porch because i love you. “ 111. “ i’m a damsel. i’m in distress. i can handle this. “ 112. “ welcome to the real world. it sucks! you’re gonna love it. “ 113. “ i drink and i know things. “ 114. “ i’ll sit down, but i’m sitting because i want to. “ 115. “ there’s cake?! i’m on my way! “ 116. “ my dear, i’ve kicked more ass than you’ve sat on. “ 117. " what doesn't kill me better watch out. " 118. " i don't hate you, i just hate everything you like! " 119. " happiness is not having to set the alarm for the next day. " 120. " some people just need a high five. "

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[ahmuteun]

All pleease

1. Who was the last person you held hands with?

Uuuuhhhhh n LOL whoops

2. Are you outgoing or shy?

Depends on the situation but I think I’m more on the shy side

3. Who are you looking forward to seeing?

heheHEEHEHEHEH LET’S NOT GO THERE

4. Are you easy to get along with?

I mean I think so but idk

5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you?

O boy

I mean he has the one time I died soooo

6. What kind of people are you attracted to?

Idfk man, I don’t have a type

7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now?

LOL idk I’ll probably die single but I’ve been wrong before. H and t would probably say yes buT WE DON’T KNOW THE FUTURE NOW DO WE???

8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind?

uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable?

It depends on the context/ situation

10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with?

Uummmmm I’m not sure, it was probably h or n maybe??

11. What does the most recent text that you sent say?

“When do u wanna go?”

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now?

Moonlit lilac sky - jas

You and me - yoon mi rae

Countless - shinee

All night - soyou

History - rich brian

13. Do you like it when people play with your hair?

Yeah it’s nice

14. Do you believe in luck and miracles?

Eeehhhhhh I guess I believe in luck but I do believe in miracles

15. What good thing happened this summer?

HAH

I mean I don’t know if I can list just one good thing that happened because, aside from all the drama and crap that went down, it was a good summer spent with people that I care about and created good memories with

16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?

I mean I plan on it so yes

17. Do you think there is life on other planets?

I do cause statistically speaking, it’s so unlikely that we’re the only living things in the universe, even if it’s just tiny little microbes

18. Do you still talk to your first crush?

Nah, I hardly ever spoke to him cause I was a shy little third grader LOL

19. Do you like bubble baths?

I don’t like baths at all lmao

20. Do you like your neighbors?

I mean I only talked to one of them but he seems chill so sure

21. What are your bad habits?

Procrastinating and making bad decisions™

22. Where would you like to travel?

Korea, but I still wanna go to Canada for spring break. Or just visit New York

23. Do you have trust issues?

Yep LOL

24. Favorite part of your daily routine?

Idk I don’t think I have a favorite part

25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with?

Most of it LOL but specifically my belly and arms/ shoulders

26. What do you do when you wake up?

Wonder why I woke up before my alarm or snooze my alarm LOL

27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker?

I’m already super pale and I’m fine with that so neither

28. Who are you most comfortable around?

My best buds: jen, cat, h, n, and t

29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up?

Oof I mean I don’t really have one so nah

30. Do you ever want to get married?

Let’s cross that bridge when/ if we get there LOL

31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail?

I would cry if it wasn’t

32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with?

Idk man I can’t be bothered to figure out two celebrities I would want to bang

33. Spell your name with your chin.

No

34. Do you play sports? What sports?

HAH no

35. Would you rather live without TV or music?

Tv, easily

36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them?

O yeah

37. What do you say during awkward silences?

Idk I guess I just try to keep the conversation going however I can

38. Describe your dream girl/guy?

I don’t have one

39. What are your favorite stores to shop in?

Forever21, h&m, idk that’s it I think

40. What do you want to do after high school?

I’m already in college so

41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance?

No, it depends on the situation

42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean?

It depends lmao wot

43. Do you smile at strangers?

Depends

44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean?

Space cause that’s probably safer

Wait no, bottom of the ocean and I can just fuckin die LOL

45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning?

The fact that I have shit I need to do

46. What are you paranoid about?

People finding out my secrets I guess??? Or something happening to the people I care about

47. Have you ever been high?

Nah, I mean I was once I got my wisdom teeth out but I don’t think that counts lol

48. Have you ever been drunk?

Yep LOL

Side note: my tolerance is not what it used to be :c

49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about?

I mean people are already finding out so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore?

HAHAHA pink lmao

51. Ever wished you were someone else?

Maybe when I was younger but not anymore

52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself?

My body/ weight lmao

53. Favourite makeup brand?

Idk, I have a lot of tarte stuff so probably tarte

54. Favourite store?

Foverver21 probably

55. Favourite blog?

Idk I don’t have one

56. Favourite colour?

Blue

57. Favourite food?

KOREAN FOOD

58. Last thing you ate?

A sandwich

59. First thing you ate this morning?

A banana pancake

60. Ever won a competition? For what?

Idk I don’t think so

61. Been suspended/expelled? For what?

No, I’m a fuckin pansy

62. Been arrested? For what?

nOPE

63. Ever been in love?

I thought I was at one point but looking back, no

64. Tell us the story of your first kiss?

It’s honestly v underwhelming and not worth telling

65. Are you hungry right now?

I’m rlly full rn but h wants to go get pho with n later so hopefully by then I will be lmao

66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends?

Nah, I don’t think I ever could cause my real friends have done so much for me

67. Facebook or Twitter?

Twitter

68. Twitter or Tumblr?

Idk both cause I use both

69. Are you watching tv right now?

Nah I’m watching youtube

70. Names of your bestfriends?

Jen, cat, h, n, and t

71. Craving something? What?

BOBA FUCK

72. What colour are your towels?

White

72. How many pillows do you sleep with?

Two if I’m at my own apartment LOL wot

73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?

Nah

74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have?

Like three?? I had more but my mom got rid of them :c

75. Favourite animal?

My bb duke

76. What colour is your underwear?

Black

77. Chocolate or Vanilla?

Vanilla I think? It depends

78. Favourite ice cream flavour?

I’m too indecisive to have a flavor lmao

79. What colour shirt are you wearing?

Black

80. What colour pants?

Black LOL

81. Favourite tv show?

Grey’s anatomy

How to get away with murder

Brooklyn 99

Criminal minds

Idk there’s probably more but I can’t think of them

82. Favourite movie?

I have too many

The prestige

Star wars

Indiana jones

83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2?

I never saw the second one so

84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street?

I never saw jump street lmao

85. Favourite character from Mean Girls?

I don’t have one

86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo?

I dunno, squirt was cute

87. First person you talked to today?

N LOL

88. Last person you talked to today?

Wait it was also probably n LOL

89. Name a person you hate?

I don’t hate anyone

90. Name a person you love?

My brothers

91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now?

yES O MY GOD

92. In a fight with someone?

No not really???

93. How many sweatpants do you have?

Like one lmao

94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have?

Well sweaters idk but I own like two hoodies but idk where one of them is soooo

95. Last movie you watched?

Uhhh venom I think?

96. Favourite actress?

Idk I don’t have one

97. Favourite actor?

See above

98. Do you tan a lot?

I’m called “ghost” for a reason so no LOL

99. Have any pets?

Yep

100. How are you feeling?

Very full lmao

101. Do you type fast?

I mean I can type at a relatively quick speed

102. Do you regret anything from your past?

Yep LOL

103. Can you spell well?

No not really lmao, but I’m not completely awful at it

104. Do you miss anyone from your past?

Uh, I mean if I can’t think of anyone I guess I don’t

105. Ever been to a bonfire party?

Nah

106. Ever broken someone’s heart?

LOL I mean apparently

107. Have you ever been on a horse?

Yeah

108. What should you be doing?

Going home and getting ready

109. Is something irritating you right now?

I mean kind of

110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt?

Uh no?

111. Do you have trust issues?

Wasn’t I asked this already??

112. Who was the last person you cried in front of?

Everyone at tsdon lmao

113. What was your childhood nickname?

Uhhh “court” or “court court” as Jonathan would say lol

114. Have you ever been out of your province/state?

Ye, I go to school out of state

115. Do you play the Wii?

Not really anymore

116. Are you listening to music right now?

Still watching youtube lol

117. Do you like chicken noodle soup?

Ye

118. Do you like Chinese food?

Ye, I really want egg drop soup

119. Favourite book?

Idk man

120. Are you afraid of the dark?

Nah

121. Are you mean?

I mean I like to think that I’m generally a nice person or I try to be

122. Is cheating ever okay?

On tests/ assignments, sure. On people, no

123. Can you keep white shoes clean?

I just wash them lol

124. Do you believe in love at first sight?

No cause I’m not a fuckin idiot lmao

125. Do you believe in true love?

Idfk man

126. Are you currently bored?

Meh I’m not that bored

127. What makes you happy?

Spending time with my mates/ loved ones

128. Would you change your name?

Probably not

129. What your zodiac sign?

Gemini woooo

130. Do you like subway?

Ye

131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do?

HAH jokes on u, he used to but I already rejected his bitchass

He’s still one of my best friends tho, I’m really glad to have met him

Holy shit, that was like around this time last year woah

132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with?

Didn’t I answer this too???

133. Favourite lyrics right now?

The lyrics from moonlit lilac sky by jas, you and me by yoon mi rae, and honestly by eric nam

134. Can you count to one million?

I mean I could but I don’t want to

135. Dumbest lie you ever told?

I dunno I can’t recall rn

136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed?Open cause the ac unit is in the other room

137. How tall are you?

5’2, I’m smol

138. Curly or Straight hair?

My hair is straight/ kinda wavy

But if u mean preference then idk I don’t have one

139. Brunette or Blonde?

I don’t have a preference

140. Summer or Winter?

Winter, I hate the heat

141. Night or Day?

I like both

142. Favourite month?

Any fall or spring months

143. Are you a vegetarian?

Hell no lmao

144. Dark, milk or white chocolate?

I like dark and milk

145. Tea or Coffee?

TEA cause I’m a little bitch and I don’t like the taste of coffee

146. Was today a good day?

Yeah, I mean I hated working out but it was still a good day

147. Mars or Snickers?

I’m not crazy about either

148. What’s your favourite quote?

Idk, the quotes I used to really like don’t really apply anymore

149. Do you believe in ghosts?

Yes, cause I am one LOL

150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page?

I’m in the study section of the library and I can’t be bothered to go find a book in the stacks so I’ll pass lmao

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#and told me he basically got a lot of “’you are lying about your country because you can’t be from chile and look like this’when he went to

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Things nobody is talking about because who cares about Italy (pt. 2 - the sequel)

During the Pride in Rome, a person dressed like Jesus was followed by a sign that said: “to preserve the secular state we need to cancel the treaty with the Vatican” which is something should have be done at least 100 years ago, and was clearly written to wake up all the people who think that the Vatican asking to the State to stop the approval of DDL Zan was a good idea; considering that the closest thing to a Prime Minister we have, Mario Draghi, clearly said he wasn’t going to accept intervention from the Church in something which didn’t concern the Church at all.

Now, Italian politician Mario Adinolfi — who Wikipedia mentions as: “Italian journalist, politician, poker player and blogger. He is famous in Italy for his conservative Catholic beliefs.” - like, I’ve nothing against poker players and bloggers, but MAAAAAAAYBE you should say the fuck away from politics — posted this on his Facebook page - screenshot taken from Commenti Clericabili & Co. -

I’m going to translate this really fast (only highlighted parts cause my stomach couldn’t take more homophobic shit):

“An anti-Vatican sign has been open during the Pride in Rome with a man mocking Jesus Christ. […] I envied the muslins who are able to instill respect of their sacred images, inculcating fear in people like those 4 idiots (he’s speaking about the LGBTQ+ community here). No Gay Pride would have dared to insult Mohammed. […] Our (the Christians’) tolerance it’s what pushed people to do everything they want, including mocking what is most holy to us (I guess with “us” he meant Italy, I don’t know)”

Now, even writing this to let you understand which is the situation the community has to suffer here makes me want to vomit. I want to answer to “dear” Mr Adinolfi, though, and maybe let people understand a little bit what the heck is going on here.

A. I translated the sign, and as you all can see it was nothing anti-Vatican, people are just asking to let a secular state, like Italy is, live without the looming shadow of a foreign monarchy. This rethoric won’t lead at anything.

B. The Pope said he didn’t know about the Vatican request, he wasn’t around, and if he was, he was sleeping. Bullshit, GIANT GINORMOUS BULLSHIT!

C. There’s has been AT LEAST one openly gay Pope in the past (Giuliano della Rovere aka Iulius II, please ask me how I know this! I fucking love Renaissance history) so the entire opposition is just for keeping their fucking Puritan image.

D. Glossing on the poorly hidden racism of his affirmation about Muslins - I don’t want to touch this discourse with a 10mt long pole - he’s basically saying that people should be punished and eventually killed, I guess, for having THEIR OWN OPINIONS and exercising their freedom of thoughts. THE SAME thing Christians asked to be preserved with the non-approbation of DDL Zan. Error 404: coherence not found.

I just… i don’t know how people like him can have an audience and following in this country, which yes, it’s fucked up and I absolutely hate, but it used to be the cultural center of the Western World from the Romans until the end of Renaissance… what the hell went wrong?!

22 notes • Posted 2021-06-29 09:00:49 GMT

#4

Was somebody going to tell me that the first episode of Sweet Tooth is fucking sad or did I had to find it out while watching it?!

23 notes • Posted 2021-07-03 09:42:32 GMT

#3

Why throbb is endgame and I don’t care about canon, an essay by me

I was talking with two friends about game of thrones/a song of ice and fire. One of those friends read the books (male friend) and the other didn’t and only watched the show (female friend). We were talking about disastrous last seasons and how characters got butchered and OF COURSE I had to brought up Theon’s death and storyline.

My male friend went all: at least they give him a bit of character development

While my female friend was: who is he again?

MF: the one who had a veeeery special relationship with the Starks

Me: yeah, Ned’s ward

MF: Sansa’s friend. And Robb’s more than friend.

I mean, I mean! A straight, 30 year old man confirming the two of them fucked, it means they did fuck! There’s NO straight explanation for Throbb! I’m sorry I didn’t make the rules

27 notes • Posted 2021-09-10 18:05:54 GMT

#2

Things nobody is talking about because who cares about Italy

The fucking Vatican is using some old as fuck laws signed with Mussolini - Yes, that Mussolini - called “Patti Lateranensi” to stop the government to approve a new law against homo-transphobia.

According to the Vatican Minister of Foreign Affairs, the DDL Zan will prevent Christian citizens from their freedom. Therefore they are admitting that the Vatican and the Christian Church condones the discrimination and the hate toward other people who have different ideas form them.

Like what the actual fuck?! I’m livid! We are 1000 years late in terms of social rights and the church is the reason of it, but everyone is just pretending everything is fine and when someone tries to change things this is the shitstorm they have to go through. I’m fucking disgusted!

36 notes • Posted 2021-06-22 19:29:50 GMT

#1

Things nobody is talking about because they happened in Italy and who cares about Italy part 3

So, after having given the time to completely forget about it, the famous DDL Zan went to the House of Representatives to be approved and, long story short, it didn’t get the required number of votes it was supposed to so that Italy could FUCKING FINALLY have a law anti homo-transphobia.

This is bad enough as it is, but what is even worse is that all the people who were strongly against the approbation of this law started to scream and celebrate INSIDE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES! Our politics is a freaking joke, we all know that, but those votes - obtained to be taken anonymously - aren’t only from the “usual” parties (Lega, Fratelli D’Italia, etc.) but even politicians from the most liberal parties used the shield of anonymity to vote against something which was aimed to protect people.

And the sad thing is that nobody outside from Italy is talking about it. I just can’t anymore with this Country.

103 notes • Posted 2021-10-27 16:53:39 GMT

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