I keep seeing people say that Kaveh and Alhaitham are incompatible and I'm just like... no u don't get it. They are so compatible that I'm convinced they're literally made for each other. They're both so incredibly stubborn but underneath all the bickering, they clearly have a ton of respect for each other and recognize each other's intelligence. It's because of both that mutual respect and their directly opposing worldviews and ideals that make them both pretty much the only people that are capable of influencing good and meaningful change in the other. Kaveh brings the empathy and artistry that Alhaitham needs while Alhaitham keeps Kaveh grounded. Alhaitham always seems so much more relaxed in every scene where he interacts with Kaveh. Alhaitham is pretty much the only person that Kaveh doesn't feel the need to go full people-pleaser with (excluding the occasional client that really manages to piss him off). They're actually perfect for each other.
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I'm thinking abt that pretty fall leaves embroidery pattern post and about how like... it is categorically a repost, it's a reupload. right? a thing that is generally disliked. but because it's credited, it's genuinely boosting the artist in question.
and it could ALWAYS be like this. reposting content could ALWAYS be a symbiotic relationship, but because sourcing back to the original creator of something is so uncommon, it's just easier to ask people not to repost it at all. and people still don't understand the difference. or they'll go to the effort of cropping out usernames/signatures to repost something, which is More Effort than literally crediting the creator of something you liked enough to want to repost.
Like. I literally don't actually care if my own shit gets reposted, you have to understand. I just don't want it STOLEN. But "do not repost" is easier to write on my art than "you can repost this, but don't alter the image/remove my signature, don't you dare write 'credit goes to the artist' because that is not credit, please link back to my original post or someplace that you can actually find me. please use an actual link/url instead of writing a non-clickable link of my username, because making it text instead of a clickable link cuts the number of people who will go to the effort of visiting my own page in Half."
All those aggregate themed accounts, those fuckin annoying as hell instagrams and facebook groups that are like "body positive art we love wamen 💕 hashtag feminism" and then MASS-STEAL plus sized art created by women, if pages like these that always go and steal my older self-portraits and other works... If they just put a link to my prints of those pieces in the text of those posts, or, fuck, my commission info page? I would literally be living on the moon right now. I would have a house on the moon
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Wait is that actually your ex-boyfriend's hand? What happened to him?
He works with real live dinosaurs so....
Nah, he and are are super good friends--we were before we dated, and remained so after, because the breakup was extremely amicable, and he's one of those people who's a terribly good gift-giver. Most years we still exchange gifts sometime between our respective birthdays and christmas, and he sent me that hand (it's a replica) as a gift one year. I made him the archaeopteryx fossil bowl this year.
Just because this is the OG bone-stealing witch website, I will clearly state that the only real human bones I possess are my own. My animal bones are all either scavenged myself or gifted to me by the people that scavenged them. (I have a sort of energy that consistently makes people go "I saw this dead thing and thought of you!")
I don't have a problem with owning human remains that are ethically sourced, but the reality is that unless you can very precisely trace the origin of human remains to the specific person who clearly and unequivocally stated in life that they're cool with someone keeping and displaying their now-unused crunchy bits, it's...probably not ethical. So if someone has some of their own bones that they're done using that they want to send my way: cool, let's talk, ideally before it's necessary to have the conversation by seance. Otherwise, I will continue to be perfectly happy with my replica remains.
I'd like to will my crunchy bits to someone who will make dramatic monologues to my noggin, but hopefully that's not an issue I'll need to deal with for a while yet.
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I'm thinking about Ernest again.
Imagine you grow up surrounded by a loving family (we'll ignore the kind of fucked up things going on there as well). Then your mother dies and your older brother leaves for university and sure that’s sad but eventually live goes on. But a few years later your younger brother gets murdered, seemingly by the housekeeper who is also your cousin's best friend; someone you thought you could trust. She gets executed for it, maybe you think she deserved it, maybe you wonder if she really could have done it, especially since your brother and cousin are convinced she didn’t.
A while after that your brother's dearest friend, who you likely know very well –he visited so often during your childhood that your house is probably like a second home to him– gets murdered somewhere in Ireland. Your brother is accused of the murder and ultimately aquitted, but when he returns he is like an empty shell of his former self. Maybe you wonder what exactly happened back in Ireland, but even of you do, you will never know.
Your brother and cousin get married as your parents had always wished they did but on the wedding night your cousin gets murdered as well.
Shortly after your father dies broken-hearted.
Now you and your brother are the only ones left. You should stay together, work through all the grief and support eachother after everything that happened, right? Afterall you only have eachother.
But your brother leaves. Packs his bags one day without telling you why. Maybe you ask him to stay, maybe he leaves at night when you're sleeping and you wake up to him being gone.
He never returns. The house is empty, you're the only one left there. Halls that used to be filled with laughter are now echoing the sounds of your footsteps as you wander around them feeling lost and alone.
Maybe you find out what happened to your brother. Maybe one day you receive a letter from Russia or England, signed by someone called Robert Walton, telling you your brother died up in the arctic on his ship.
You wonder what brought him there, what was there that led him to desert you, was there any reason he left or did he just run to leave everything behind, to even leave his only living brother?
Maybe you find out, maybe the letter tells you the entire story, your own brother's narration of a horrifying tale, you wonder if you can even believe it. Maybe he has truly gone mad, but it fits with the events perfectly. You don’t know what to think.
But maybe you never find out, maybe you never even get that letter. Maybe you'll spend the rest of your live wondering what happened. What went wrong, so that you are now alone on this earth, robbed of all those you loved? Maybe you'll never know, maybe you'll never find your peace.
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I understand why they didn't introduce Michael in the past but I think we needed more people suspecting MC was Not From Here™, they should have played More with the idea that anybody could unmask MC/Solomon true motives and Michael already knew, It would have been better for him taunting MC with the idea of telling the truth to everyones else unless they stop making pacts with the brothers (Bcuz y'know, thats what Nightbringer wants, Right? And whatever he wants must be... Not good?)
In earlier seasons the tease the idea of two Rings of Light existing in the same timeline, can you imagine the interactions?
Michael: Wow MC! that's a pretty ring you have there!
MC: ... Yeah...
Michael: It looks identical to the one I have here, see? *Flashes His own Ring of Light to MC*
MC: Ah... *Gulp*
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stultifera navis rerun AKA thinking about Iberia hours again because a lot of the Iberians have such fascinating relationships with the concept of home but specifically Thorns and Lumen are eating at my brain. like where do you call home when the place that is your home Just Fucking Hates You? Elysium's rewinding breeze specifically makes a point to hammers home how differently Iberia treats its Liberi and its Aegir
(which is especially interesting since this comes right after a conversation where Purestream commented on how despite Leizi being a high ranking government official, there are still some experiences that are universal for all Yanese people - because the experience of what Iberia itself is like isnt universal for all Iberians)
But all that being said, Thorns also straight up states that Aegir is not his home, and yeah, how could it be? How could a place you've never been to, never truly known, ever be your home? How could it ever feel like a home?
so where do you go when the place that you are from hates your people and the place your people are from is completely unfamiliar and alien to you? Thorns' answer at the end of the conversation with Aya is: my home is where i chose it to be. my home is where there are people I care about and people who care about me
in the complete opposite direction, Lumen's oprec asks: why do you still stay in a place that wants you gone? because the people of Gran Faro like Jordi well enough but when push comes to shove, they will want the only Aegir in town gone
and yet, when Rald the messenger offers him a chance to leave Jordi turns him down and when he's forced to escape Gran Faro after the people there literally try to send him to his death (or worse) at the hands of the Inquisitors he keeps trying to go back because like everyone in stultifera navis, Jordi is clinging to his own dreams of a golden age
but the shape of that dream is unique to every character and for Jordi, his dreams are deeply, inseparably bound to the Eye of Iberia, the legacy his parents left behind
and it's this dream of becoming someone great, of bringing about that golden age that his parents devoted their lives to help create that ties Jordi to this nothing town because despite everything, despite the mistrust of the townsfolk and the hostility of the Inquisition and the danger from the ocean, he simply cannot leave it behind
(or, because i personally dislike the official translation,)
"I just see this place as my home"
so yeah. not sure what overall point i was trying to make here i'm just. deeply in love with these stories about chosing what is and isn't your home, of saying you will not call a place your home because it has given you no reason to or saying you consider a place your home even though it has given you every reason not to. deeply unwell about them <3
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AND ANOTHER THING
I do,, disagree with Pomme about how she handled q!Bad. Obviously, this isn’t her problem - she’s just a little kid. But her and everyone’s advice is always for q!Bad to just kinda… calm down. Hear people out. Not to be “impulsive”, “irrational” or “overly angry.” Forever even tried to tell him as much during their argument today. and that… has never done anything good for q!Bad before.
What I believe is going to happen, if Bad takes Pomme’s advice fully, is that he is going to assume he is overreacting and that he is the problem. He’s going to repress his frustration and hurt with the people around him, and he’s going to keep helping them to his own detriment. And they’re not ever going to realize what’s wrong, so they’re going to keep treating him like he’s a hammer not a person. So his feelings will build, until something breaks the dam again, at which point someone will tell him to “take a deep breathe” and “sit down” because he shouldn’t “let his emotions cloud his thinking.”
But I think he should. The problem is that he keeps doing what Pomme is suggesting and no one is seeing the hurt behind it. If he suggests it calmly, nobody takes him seriously - we’ve seen that plenty today in how even q!Cellbit disrespected him and reduced his concerns down to “oh you’re just mad you can’t steal furniture” which was quite possibly the least of Bad’s concerns and it very obviously insulted him. I think there has to be some sort of visible impact, or he will be trapped in this “Oh I’m overreacting” mindset until he can’t rein it in anymore.
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