#no other qualifications

[ladystoneboobs]

[Cat, to Brienne:]"And Arya, well . . . Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. [...]" -Catelyn VII, aCoK

ok, this is another thing that makes me feel like i'm taking crazy pills bc i never see it talked about with all the implications behind it. so if anyone is more versed in androgynous medievalish clothing, feel free to correct me here, but my thinking is if unannounced visitors mistook arya for a stableboy, would that not mean she was wearing boyish riding garb, trousers and all? bc if she was running around with messy hair and a dirty gown, wouldn't she more likely be seen as a female servant? if my reading is not wildly offbase that does not jibe with the idea of arya being terrorized all day by both septa mordane and her mother to be more ladylike. rather, this limited freedom to be mistaken for a servant could suggest that pragmatic catelyn was picking her battles with arya too, not forcing her to always appear prim and proper on days when they were not expecting any guests to see her. catelyn "despaired of ever making a lady of" arya, though neither she nor ned could abandon the goal, which could mean a more measured approach, not exhausting herself by going after arya for every unladylike move she made, especially when she was still a prepubescent child. the quote above starts a paragraph which ends with catelyn feeling "as though a giant hand were squeezing her chest" after saying she thought arya was dead like bran and rickon, after no word of her since ned's arrest. in that context of grief, i think all her words about arya should be read as coming with bittersweet fondness, just being honest about their problems, not sugarcoating any of it.

but let's compare catelyn's trials with arya, including her often running around looking like a stableboy, to arya's interactions with lady smallwood, somehow seen as an even better mother-figure than her own mother, whom arya found easier to comply with bc of her kinder manner. first of all, lady smallwood's efforts to make arya ladylike included two baths and two dresses in one day after arya and gendry ruined the first dress, before finally giving her boy's riding clothes to leave in. i would argue a full second bath was unneeded when they could have just washed the dirt off her face and hands, and, furthermore, that both the dresses were an impractical waste when she knew arya would be riding back out with the outlaws and could not look a highborn lady when doing so. idt pragmatic catelyn would have gone to all that trouble just to make arya look ladylike for a few hours when there were no other ladies around. as for the claim that arya found it easier to comply with her? no, that's just flat-out demonstrably false. the text says she was "forced" into a tub and "they insisted" she wear girl's clothes. what room did she have to refuse as a hostage in a stranger's castle? she certainly felt no compunction about fighting gendry in the acorn dress she'd been forced into, and only felt bad about it afterward when lady smallwood talked about her dead son.

now, let's move on to the only canon quotes we have from cat to/about arya in arya's pov.

"Sansa's work is as pretty as she is," Septa Mordane told their lady mother once. "She has such fine, delicate hands." When Lady Catelyn had asked about Arya, the septa had sniffed. "Arya has the hands of a blacksmith." -Arya I, aGoT Her father had hunted boar in the wolfswood with Robb and Jon. Once he even took Bran, but never Arya, even though she was older. Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and Mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. -Arya V, aCoK Her mother used to say she could be pretty if she would just wash and brush her hair and take more care with her dress, the way her sister did. -The Blind Girl(/Arya I), aDwD

in the first quote we don't know catelyn's reaction to septa mordane's rude disapproval of arya, certainly not if she agreed with it. what we do know is she was not interested in only hearing endless praise of sansa and wanted to hear if arya had made any progress. although admittedly that was a vain hope, which ignored arya's true strengths and the possibility that she could never master and enjoy needlework the way catelyn did.

the second quote better shows the difference between arya's mother and her septa. catelyn does not criticize arya for wanting to hunt boar nor dismiss her interest. instead she tries to mollify arya and accomodate her desire with the promise of a future hunting hawk. that this was a promise, not just an idle thought, suggests this would have happened in due time and could have been a bonding activity for them if the plot hadn't intervened.

the third quote is definitely a backhanded compliment and doubly unhelpful in comparison to sansa, but at least it shows catelyn did not think one of her own daughters was ugly. she thought both were pretty even tho sansa was the more admired as traditionally beautiful, and she thought arya's looks were held back by her messy hair and clothes. (useful to remember for those fans who like to keep track of how many characters called arya pretty vs. how many call her ugly.)

yes, it is a bad sign that arya genuinely wondered if her mother would want her back, dirtier than ever in her disguise as a peasant boy. their relationship definitely had faults which the adult parent must bear responsibility for. but we must remember that arya also worried if robb would pay a ransom for her, and was most ashamed about the people she'd killed, and couldn't bear the thought of ned knowing all she'd done. and we must keep in mind that even ned never openly gainsaid septa mordane on-page either, and that arya desperately wanted to renunite with her mother and felt confident gendry could stay with her if she vouched for him with her mother. that confidence would seem completely unwarranted if their mother/daughter relationship was as utterly bad as some fans make out.

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #catelyn stark #arya stark #a wolf with a fish in its mouth #that most recent post in the tag is actually insane but these are things ive thougt abt saying for awhile #i could also say that jon's doubts and fears wrt his mother are also unfounded and that ned bears some blame for that #by never telling him his mother loved him or even whether she was alive or dead #funny how people can recognize lady smallwood's similarity to cat as a mother figure but just saying aryas pretty w/o qualifications is #enough to make her better in every other way too #anyways #happy wolf pack wednesday! #(c)lsb

[ghoulgeists]

*waves wand* BAM im putting him in more funny little outfits

#remember when i used to draw other things. like women. lol senior discount qualification #tiefling #dnd #dnd oc #lingerie #dungeons and dragons #devil #demon #destreza #POSTING THIS AT 2:30 AM LETS GO!! #i was recently re-enlightened to the existence of lovechild boudoir and man #i have never wanted to frivolously spend money on things i would never in a million years wear more #their lingerie is SO pretty its SO detailed its SO out of my budget #someone who is good at economics please help me #anyway that was inspo #kinda #i mostly just went wild #anyway uhhh one day i will draw consistently again.... sorry #once i start my job i might disappear off the face of the earth (swallowed by hole) #my art #ghouldraws

[ohmystarrynight]

RRRREHEHEHEHEHEHE Cass & Clark but make them toon-ier >:)

#concept art #illustration #digital art #pilot's art! #pilot speaks! #color study #50s #vintage #retro aesthetic #retro style #retro #1950s spy movie but make it so queer coded #spy #Cassius takes laser tag waaaaayyyy too seriously #idk what Clark expected bringing his spy-boyfriend to laser tag as a date #Clark is an honorary spy but only because he’s Cass’s boyfriend. no other qualifications. #pilots ocs!

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

I AGREE WITH THAT ANON- MOTH COAT!

I saw the tags on that post and now wanna see FL reacting to us wearing Tartar’s coat. It’s only our head poking out and we’d be swallowed up in it if we tucked our head in. They look like tripping hazards too not gonna lie-

AND we could flutter the coat + shake the fluff on the collar and make it look like we’re mimicking his wings and neck floof! He’d be SO happy if he saw us trying to copy him! We are honorary moth to him :’3

MOTH COAT MOTH COAT MOTH COAT!!!!!!

alright alright consider: you wearing Childe's Harbinger coat, and then Foul Legacy wrapping his wings around us- you're going to be SO toasty and warm!! because he's taller than you even in human form you look very much like a puffball when you're wearing his coat, your head poking out amongst the soft fur collar, a cheeky grin on your face. Foul Legacy practically warbles when he sees you all bundled up, excitedly poking the coat here and there and snuggling his face against your cheek- you're like him now, all fluffy and cozy!!! he pulls you closer, claws sinking into the fabric of the coat, and wraps both his arms and wings around you, essentially caging you in a comfy moth embrace with a happy, rumbling purr

the most adorable thing ever is seeing you and Legacy stand next to each other, one wrapped in a pair of glittery wings and the other in a thick winter coat. sometimes you look up at Foul Legacy and shake the sides of the cloak to mimic how his wings flitter and twitch, drawing a delighted chirp from your beloved Abyssal moth as he flutters his sparkling wings in return. when he's bored he also bats at the dangling ornaments hanging from the coat, fascinated by how the light reflects off the metal and gems; or he snuggles into the collar, burying his face in the soft fluff the same way you nuzzle into his after a long day

you're debating if you should ask Childe for two more copies of his Harbinger cloak, one smaller and one larger

#genshin impact #childe #tartaglia #foul legacy #foul legacy childe #genshin tartagalia #genshin childe #genshin tartaglia #chit chat #anon #hey hey look at the tags again hi #what if we get foul legacy his own harbinger cloak #he deserves one!!! technically he's a harbinger!!! #or childe gets you one and brings you along to the meetings #harbinger qualifications: cool coat #also sidenote i was feeling really anxious tonight and then i saw a funny video and started cackling #and now i'm feeling a lot better :) not sure how long it'll last but it's something!! #short scenario #other's stuff #good evening :) #FAVE

[hetairoi]

Resume tips from Darius II

#I have many other qualifications for this position that I have omitted for brevity :)) #tagamemnon

[blueper-saiyan]

Despite not enjoying reading Planet Vegeta survives AUs very much, I still end up spending a fair amount of time thinking about what Vegeta would have been like if he’d actually grown up in the role of prince like he was supposed to. Obviously, he would have still been a tyrannical mass murderer except with far less insecurity and trauma, but that’s not really what I find interesting. I’m curious how he would view his role. In the regular timeline where basically every other Saiyan dies, he’s clearly (imo) decided that he needs to embody the absolute ideal for a Saiyan (or at least the version that he’s come up with, which is strongly biased by the fact that he grew up with only one adult Saiyan, was surrounded by people who hate his whole species, and was influenced by Freeza who both enjoyed messing with him and could directly profit if Vegeta was wrong about his own culture. So uh, probably not a particularly accurate version. But that’s a different concept to explore.). I’m not even sure if it was a conscious decision by Vegeta or not now that I think about it. Being very likely to be the last member of his species puts a very strong pressure to live up to or down to the expectations that everyone who met him would have. Beyond that, he’s royalty, and that means he’s supposed to be held to a higher standard, so he’d feel that pressure to leave a final impression even more than Nappa or Raditz. (And they both seem to care about it too, especially Raditz, which is interesting, but I’ll leave that sort of meta to the hardcore Raditz fans since I mostly just care about Raditz for the way he impacts Vegeta and don’t think as strongly about him)

So in contrast to the canon timeline, if Vegeta was growing up in a timeline where there were plenty of other Saiyans, would he feel that same pressure to be exactly what everyone expects of him? He’d have a more accurate picture of those expectations as well. I can’t decide whether or not I think that alternate version of Vegeta would still want to be the perfect Saiyan in quite the same way. Would he chafe against the actual ideal if it wasn’t more or less a framework he formed for himself? Would being able to actually be judged against it make it less appealing? What if some of the ideas about what makes a good Saiyan were things he disagreed with? Or would he still be loyal to his species and do the best he could to be the perfect Saiyan prince and then king, regardless of how high that standard might be or how much he dislikes some of it? He’s certainly canonically willing to subject himself to an impossible standard that causes him and everyone else a lot of problems. But is that only because it’s a standard he constructed himself?

Admittedly, at that level of divergence in experiences between canon Vegeta and a Planet Vegeta lives AU Vegeta, it’s hard to even really call the resulting character Vegeta still (the reason I don’t enjoy Planet Vegeta lives AUs) but I do feel like something about this question has relevance to actual Vegeta’s characterization and motives. Does he care so strongly about being Saiyan only because they’re all dead and therefore he’s forced to represent the whole species whether or not he wants to, and he’s embraced it at this point? Or is it because his father did a good job of instilling pride in him during the brief time they were together (for all the good and ill that his pride has caused)? Is he only so devoted to his “Saiyan pride” because he’s the one who came up with his version and no one else can truly decide how well he’s following it? Or does not having any external validation of how well he’s doing just make his self-imposed (and generally self-destructive) task harder? How much of why he’s so insistent on it is due to Freeza?

Freeza has a line shortly before he starts torturing Vegeta that I think about sometimes, where he basically says that he thought Vegeta was special and better than the other Saiyans. Up to your interpretation of Freeza whether Freeza genuinely believed that Vegeta is special somehow or if he was just doing some particularly cruel emotional manipulation there. Regardless of the intent behind it, if that was the attitude that Freeza was demonstrating most of the time, maybe Vegeta doubled down on being Saiyan because Freeza kept trying to claim he wasn’t like them, and he was able to see the insult. There’s also an alternative interpretation of Vegeta that he was convinced he was better than the rest of his species because of the way Freeza treated him. It’s an extremely good way to isolate him after all. In which case Vegeta only started (I often mentally call it “performing Saiyan pride” but I’m sure there’s a better way to refer to the behavior) after realizing he’d been lied to and manipulated for the majority of his life. So embracing being Saiyan so aggressively is a sort of penance for discrediting his people in the past. Or if he’d been performing Saiyan pride all along, the reveal that Freeza killed the Saiyans just spurred on a more intense performance.

Seeing a version of Vegeta with different pressures on him might give answers to some of these questions I have about why he behaves the way he does (yes it’s because he was never meant to be inspected this closely and he takes the roles he needs to for the sake of the plot, no I do not care I’m taking him seriously anyway), so I end up thinking about that version of him where he knows for sure what it means to be a Saiyan.

#Vegeta #dbz #long post #More or less a long post at least #I also think that how few other Saiyans Vegeta has really met is absolutely part of why he was willing to wait #Three hours to meet Goku like yeah he says he wants to torture him but there’s definitely some curiosity there #He just can’t admit to it because that goes against his idea of what a Saiyan is supposed to be #There’s also definitely still more to explore in why Vegeta performs Saiyan pride so aggressively that wasn’t relevant to an AU where #Vegeta knows a lot of other Saiyans #Like in the canon timeline how much did meeting Goku #Who is not at all like what Vegeta thinks a saiyan should be #Cause Vegeta to double down on his saiyan pride? #I barely even touched the surface of whatever the fuck was up with Vegeta and Freeza because that’s at least another essay #That I tend to leave to people with more qualifications to write

[moreaugriffins]

#doctor who #classic doctor who #doctor who memes #liz shaw #first her job is given to 3 then she has to deal with sexist ministers #and nobody respects her doctorates (she has 2! and 2 more honorary doctorates! as well as other qualifications/degrees!) #she deserves better (and she so deserved to slap those ministers)

[wyrmsweven]

the thing about hotd is that it's very smart of them to instead make it a clash between rhaenyra and alicent because absolutely no one would have actually seen aegon II the dogshit and actually wanted him so they had to actually conscript olivia cooke to do some intense love/hate lesbianism pining 600k hurt no comfort for the show to actually sell

#hotd #olivia cooke #alicent hightower #rhaenicent #hotd alicent #this is just my hot take by the way #reading fire and blood...georg tries so hard to make the greens likeable and entirely fails #I was fully on rhaenyra's side #The only qualifications for Aegon II is that he's a man #They both suck at ruling and politics though #they also probably included alicent because she's the only one with a decent head for politics other than her dad and he sucks #alicent #helaena and probably daeron are the only likeable greens #and daeron doesn't even exist. it's very likely they'll write him out because he does very little overall #he just fumbles about in the reach and then dies #I don't know why people are so insistent on him being there #tessarion vs seasmoke is not very important and you can just focus on seasmoke v vermithor.

[wraenata]

Hello!

I hope your having a great day!

I have a gift for you!

A pink flower crown!

Hope you like it!

I know my art is ugly

Aw thank you so much! (I'm going to answer all your asks together if that's ok!)

I would be delighted for you to be my daughter, but I can be a little overbearing with my care I think haha! Thank you for being my tumblr family <3 And thank you for the flower crown! And your art is beautiful! I love your line art and your character design and lore! And your anatomy is perfect! That is really impressive for your age! Please don't look down on your art! It'll make me sad!

Also thank you so much for the peepaw name idea! As well as @/bambiraptorx and @/hellishgayliath! Cawpaw gave me a big ole wheeze so that is what we are going with! Thank you so much helli!

For now cawpaw is a royal spoonbill (cause wrinkles, get it?) but that can always change as I am a shapeshifting lil birb haha

As for the sona design, well, here are the ones I've done so far, under the cut! But the basic gist is birb of whatever I am feeling + green ribbon + heart somewhere

#wren askbox #i have tumblr family dawww #was joking with heck the other day on what qualifications i need to be a peepaw #but now i have a daughter so that makes me a peepaw hehe #royal spoonbills actually have these big ol crests on their heads but i think putting them into a braid fits me #cause my hair is literally ALWAYS in a braid #wren tries to art #never look down on your art or wren will turn into ugh #gotta think of a birb that gives off not angry but disappointed vibes #that'll be thinking for another day

[magentagalaxies]

just finished interviewing bellini for one of my finals in my comedy class and i'm losing my mind over bellini going on a tangent about how if he were grading my comedy over the past year he would give me an A+. like i didn't ask him to say that and it wasn't related to any of the questions i asked but you better believe i'm leaving that in to be like see professor? BELLINI gave me an A+!!!

#it was very sweet lmao and a great conversation over all #last time i was in town i told bellini a one-liner i came up with about the 2SLGBTQIA+ acronym having the exact qualifications #for a strong password (8 letters a number and a special character) and he said he's repeated it to several people #and it's always gotten a big laugh!! which is so cool!!! i'm not typically a ''joke'' writer my stuff is usually character-driven #so that's awesome that both bellini AND scott really loved that line!! #bellini in particular has been such a fan of my comedy since we first met (across multiple eras now) #like we met while i was working on my musical ''other girls'' and he was so excited to hear about it when i first mentioned it #and had me send him the recording as soon as i got it #and he's been so helpful in developing aubrey as a solo sketch character too #it's so cool having a professional comedian (especially one with such a meticulously good ear for comedy like bellini) #be as excited about my work as i am and be able to help me refine it into something even better #and especially as a queer comedian today who's finding it difficult to navigate this landscape of being ''bad representation'' #bellini having been an openly gay comedy writer for almost double my lifetime is such a great resource to have!! #of course a lot of this is true for scott too (tho scott hasn't actually *seen* any of my comedy yet. he's just heard me tell jokes from it #but bellini is such a special mentor for me and i'm so happy we randomly connected over mouth congress over a year ago

[forkaround]

Me reading Baek Hyun Woo saved his dad's contact as not Abba but as Abba-ji: Where can I get a man like this?

#i won't look at another man or woman #promise #queen of tears #tbf many people save it like that #but look at all his other qualifications

[superhell]

logan roy died on the toilet #tywinlannistercore

#its a bad father thing they do that. die on the toilet. other qualification is to be rich #logan roy #succession #tywin lannister #asoiaf #i dont even watch succession i just think this is funny

[ohmystarrynight]

You've been very active lately! Very cool!

Yes!!! I’m in recovery from a surgery so I have not been able to work :) it’s given me looooots of time to draw (and stare into the void) and get back into my ocs and old fandoms!!

Clark gets so excited about spy stuff. Is he a spy? No. Does he have any qualifications to be one? Also no. Does Cassius let him tag along? Begrudgingly.

#concept art #illustration #sketch #pilot's art! #pilot speaks! #spy #clark is an honorary spy but only because he’s cass’s boyfriend. no other qualifications. #50s #50s aesthetic #retro aesthetic #retro style #retro #vintage #ask box #ask #pilots ocs!

[lesamis]

📠

one thing i like about the new job is that public service really drives home how diverse and interesting any random sample of people actually is. you kind of can't keep thinking that there's one single way in which ordinary life typically goes when you're dropped into the middle of other people's lives on a daily basis. like within two weeks at a public service job in the most boring town imaginable someone will come in and be like hi i'm blind, can i have some adjustments for my advanced degree. hi my grandmother died, can i have an extension. hi i moved here from taiwan literally two months ago and misunderstood some instructions, can i repeat this process. hi i'm competing at the olympics, can i put my studies on hold.

there's just this certain kind of rhetoric that wants to make you belive that A Normal Person is this or that and their life goes this or that way, when really there's no limit to the chaos of human experience or to the endlessly new-shuffled variations of Circumstances and i'd defy anyone who believes otherwise to keep believing it after one day in public service

#the reason this is on my mind sm is bc i've lately been encountering the ''who is this even for'' argument a lot #from people who think certain adjustments are for ''fringe groups'' or whatever #that they believe don't really involve anyone of any note and aren't a good use of public resources #& before this job i never realized that statements like that are someone showing you their shitty qualifications? #like ok you don't know people then. you've never bothered to encounter People As People. you're in a deliberate bubble. cool #that's all i need to know abt your suitedness to comment on public interests lol #it'd be so convenient for them too. sooo easy to believe that ppl fit into neat little groups of The Rule and The Exception respectively #and therefore groups they can consider worthy of their service and groups that aren't #like i know that as a conservative you want to think of a theology student and a trans student as separate entities. #however over here in reality that's the same guy :') cope ig. hope this helps #it's about think of others by mahmoud darwish. you guys get it

[todayisafridaynight]

Top ten Yakuza characters who could become Tumblr Sexymen

top ten yakuza characters who could be tumblr sexymen

majima.

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majima.

#snap chats #yakuza fandom is like. kiryu majima and then literally everyone else #and kiryu's too docile and too fatherly to be a tumblr sexyman #so LEGALLY by definition majima is the only yakuza character qualified to be a tumblr sexyman #alright there's very particular qualifications to be a tumblr sexyman and one of them is popularity #A Frightening Amount of popularity like aoki pissed he could never be a tumblr sexyman #but its not just popularity you also need a sense of mystery and an alter ego of sorts and danger. having goblin/mischievous energy helps #the only exception to that rule is jack skellington but he's like Dignified Trickster it's his job to be spooky and impish #so yeah its just majima because Again we have no other candidates that meets the qualifications

[cantsaythetword]

fuuuuuck ive dug myself such a massive hole and there's no climbing out now

#he speaks #love lying to my parents about how my uni career is going #cause i know they would cut me off from EVERYTHING i care about if they find out im failing anything #so just softening the blow by being like hey im barely passing #(which was still a DIFFICULT convo) #and saying oh im struggling heaps keeping up with readings and assignment deadlines so im just doing the bare minimum cause im exhausted #cause adhd #and them wanting to be super helpful and being like oh give me a list of your assignments and their due dates and your readings #and ill read the stuff and look at your assignments #cause you said you were doing summer semester to catch up on your classes from the trip #but in reality youre not you just said that so your parents would let you go #but now youre gonna have to do assignments over the summer break (aka for the next 4 weeks) and then be stressed about getting set up #and now youre so far in that you have an elaborate plan that you've “talked to the academic advisors” about your struggles and your adhd do #and both said you should go part time #so that it looks like youre graduating “on time” #but in reality youre just catching up on the courses you failed #and still struggling and hating full time #i stg if there were ANY other way to get the qualifications i need for this job #i would have left uni after first semester #i actually fuckin hate it #sorry for the rant lmao #kinda a vent post