#nurturing the light

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

Guardian swap au for 4/13 ^ ^

#for claritys sake. these versions of the kids are functionally the same character just with different upbringings #like dave still likes music rose still likes knitting (though she has to hide it because bro will throw her yarn off the roof) #jade still likes science. john still likes movies etc. their nature is the same its the nurture thats different #beta kids #homestuck #homestuck humans #guardian swap au #fanart #fan art #Dave strider #dave lalonde #rose lalonde #rose strider #john egbert #june egbert #john Harley #June Harley #jade harley #jade egbert #homestuck au #bro strider #classpect #witch of breath #heir of space #seer of time #knight of light #hs #digital art #implied abuse. Rose is losing at strife and injured #413

[sergle]

what I was talking abt earlier. we have fully looped back around and away from feminism, societally, whereas before it was very Feminism 101 to acknowledge that many parts of existing as a woman in a misogynistic society are painful and upsetting. not that being a woman is Inherently Negative in a bubble. but that living on this earth, in the conditions we're living in, is hostile to women. and that gender is a performance. that many of the Staples Of Femininity as accepted by society are things that you have to create and perform and mold artificially and aren't inherent, that COMPLAINING about day to day difficulties of existing as a woman is something that you're allowed to do. acknowledging these basic, again, feminism 101 things, that something tied to womanhood is more time consuming or more expensive or more dangerous Because Of The Problems. does not CREATE the problems. that when women complain about having to perform femininity, they are not, in fact, oppressing themselves. the call does not come from inside the fucking house. saying that you HAVE suffered does not fucking equate that you believe you SHOULD have suffered.

like I could talk about this for hours. how braindead and one-dimensional the Takes are getting. "being a woman is looking in the mirror and going fuck yeah i'm a woman" damn. I guess any negative experiences you have by living in a misogynistic world... are your fault if you are anything but positive? "you don't actually want liberation" we've fully gone back to telling feminists "you WANT to be oppressed" when anything negative about our society is pointed out. it's not real until I say it out loud, I guess, and then I'm actually the one who caused it. if anybody expresses any unhappiness with how they're treated or the status quo or the language and culture surrounding womanhood and femininity. they've created it, right that second. they invented it just now. it wasn't a problem before somebody complained, right? also trans women aren't braindead zombies who just follow the flow of whatever cis women around them say. I am pretty fucking sure they are very much aware of pain, and are MORE than aware of the swirling torrent of misogyny and standards of femininity than anybody else. actually. and I am pretty sure someone complaining on tumblr that being a woman means always putting on a performance is going to make someone change their mind about transitioning. also "performing femininity" as a necessity to being treated well as a woman is not fucking NEWS to your Local Trans Woman. I AM PRETTY SURE SHE GETS THE CONCEPT. using trans women as a scapegoat for this braindead perspective on gender politics is spineless, meritless, and pathetic.

#how I feel about my gender is not the same as how I feel about the living conditions of my gender #when I saw that post I screenshotted here I literally sat w my mouth open for a minute #sent it to my friends and was like am I fucking crazy. is this what we're doing now #Forced Positivity and that there is no war in ba sing se and actually #you're ruining children's lives if you complain about misogyny on twitter #I don't HAVE to tell little girls about the downsides because they are already being mistreated #before they have even heard the word 'misogyny' let alone know what it means #you do not have to be fucking happy all the time about the cards you're dealt. #you don't live in a bubble where it's just you and your mirror and your pretty dress and nothing bad has ever happened to you #unfortunately bitch. we will have negative experiences that are in fact. part of the package of being a woman #and IGNORING them doesn't make them not exist. actually they will continue to remain status quo unless acknowledged #sergle.txt #I see so much rhetoric that is JUST old-fashioned gender ideals being presented with liberal language on tiktok #that is just telling women that womanhood is just being a girllll and loving pretty things and being kind and gentleeeee and nurturing #and not working and just like being wholesome and being happy and being a light in ppl's lives and just LOVING LOVING LOVING being a woman #so if for even one second. you don't love it. you are actually failing at being a woman #if you complain about the standards for shaving or putting on makeup. which used to be Baby's First Feminism online #that's actually just you creating problems. you're not supposed to acknowledge it. you're supposed to shut up and smile into the mirror.

[sharedshield]

I know what I want from the tv industry and it‘s a three season series on Fernando Alonso.

Not DTS documentary style or self-produced, I want a Hollywood retelling of his story that makes everyone think it cannot be real and then they look it up.

#s1: the incumbent #a young man from Spain comes in to dethrone the great Michael Schumacher #he‘s just a boy and briatore is just a self-made man who helps him #he gets the second title by the skin of his teeth but he shouldn’t it’s the fia #Finale: the season 2007 #s2: The Valley of Death #it’s the repercussions of spygate (Ron Dennis is the villain) #Crash gate #the horrendous years at Ferrari #the blonde bully who makes his and mark‘s life hell but at least he has mark #oh and hi jenson #then McLaren again who pushes him off the plank #s3: Comeback Kid #rejoining with alpine and doing his most to nurture young talent #be thanked with a shit car and shittier attitude #but there’s light: Aston Martin #a decent car a lovable teammate #Boom: in comes ben sulayem #fa14 #fernando alonso #I’m having fun here

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

#nurture #feral beast #primal pair #surrender #light and darkness

[jayvespertine]

— Porter Robinson

#dark academia #literature #poetry #porter robinson #quotes #nurture #poem #light academia #edm #edm music #romance #romantic academia #love quotes #memes

[nhaneh]

Miqo'March 13, Colour

The most challenging aspect of the photo-aether-ographic tomestone had been a question of colour - how to best depict the many shades and nuances in a way that made sense even to eyes that no longer saw light, but aether.

(bonus larger shot of the image they're looking at below the cut!)

#ffxiv #miqomarch #y'shtola rhul #y'shtola x wol #kea lurvis #matoya lurvis #gpose shenanigans #while no two people truly see the world the same way #with kea and y'shtola that fact is extremely literal #they see two distinct and rather different aspects of the world #and it's natural that they'd want to share their respective worlds #to show each other the many wonders they see #however unique or mundane #and that very much goes both ways #just as kea would want for y'shtola to see their daughter #the way she would have while she could still see #y'shtola would also want for kea to see her aether #the light of the soul that they have nurtured and birthed #it certainly has its challenges at times #but they do what they can to work both with and around it

[bones-ivy-breath]

Is the mind a blank slate at birth, or do we have innate knowledge of certain things? My money's on the blank slate.

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

#quote #the alienist #caleb carr #literature #dark academia #aesthetic #light academia #psychology #the self #humanity #personhood #the mind #nature vs nurture #historical fiction #books #bookblr

[vampiresuns]

having a tav that's a Lloth-sworn life domain cleric of a noble background who before getting yeeted into the nautiloid was a sacrificial priestess (gn) during one of the cycles of Drow society and had their own altar and temple under their care, means Solune would have the most insane however many minutes they spent interacting with Minthara and I am obsessed about it. As far as I'm conceptualising it, I'm thinking of Lloth as extremely Ungoliant-like. Goddess of hunger, goddess of wanting and consumption, goddess of excess and exuberance, goddess who unmasked the hypocritical gods of starvation, guilt and purity into a society that cherishes a certain kind of clarity about the double standard they impose. For Drow are evil for their wars and their wanting and their taking, but those other people with their other gods kill, warmonger and enslave with no regard and no self-awareness, calling the indignation about receiving scraps from a bunch of silent, unrepentant gods, "guilt and shame". There is violence in denial and her Children will not suffer it.

In the season of Life, they do not sacrifice the unwilling. It is taboo. The only sacrifice that matters is the desire to be devoured and destroyed by the things you love the most.

And Solune sees Minthara and is like fucking finally, someone rational enough to get what I'm going through, that they're losing their mind that their life was taken from them and if they become this other thing, if they transform, if they do not remain Luxe Solune Mizzmyrra, Life Knife of Lloth, they're never going to be able to be reintegrated into that life. They will die away from home, from their temple, from their (first) spouse, from their mother and their siblings and there won't be the day when they too succumb to the knife, when it is time, when the day they no longer feel hunger comes.

And then the parasite gives them an in into Minthara thinking she was raised from the darkness into a FALSE GOD? One thing you do not do is steal from Lady Lloth, and oh my god, there could've been a time, a chance that existed only in ignorance, of Solune lending a hand to Minthara but this to them is unforgivable because Solune is genuinely a good friend to their friends, but if you keep peeking into whatever mindset nobility and religious authority has given them it's like realising your friend is a cesspool of "what the actual and everliving fuck", and when the knife of the morningstar priestess comes down on Minthara it won't be with love but with absolute rage, grief and disgust and I will be thinking about this for evermore. Thanks, I'm not well

#bg3 #bg: solune #minthara #i love Solune they're so fun to build with because it's like sometimes organically they will reach the same conclusion as Wyll about sth #(I did NOT expect them to get along but he is their highest approval followed by Lae'zel) #but it's someone who has such an Alien concept of society to literally everyone else in the party. Solune is (fundamentally!!!) land owning #power concentrating nobility and no matter what they do not matter what conclusion their reach this specific brand of social conservativism #and verticality informs them to their very core. however also and cannot be dismissed that bc of how I'm conceptualising Lloth #(sorry but to write a vertical society that just brutalises itself what is this? western europe? fuck off) #Solune is by some contradiction one of the most You Do You people possible. but like. to a weird extreme and a wouldn't thou like to live #deliciously manner. oh you want to be FREE from your past then BE IT. oh you want to find your place in the world? then let that place #consume you and change you forever until the day there is no more than hungers in you and you can truly say you have lived #terrible enabling force but also extreme nurturing capacity #and above all they want that life back and sympathise with those feelings so well #but if there is one thing they cannot stand and that they will maim you on the spot about is heresy against lloth because you were not give #the gift of unmasking the hypocrisy of the gods of the above to waste yourself turning your back against the underdark jewels of Drow citie #there where the darkness does not mean shadows but the glimmering light of jewels. what do you mean some people live unfair lives? #well have they thought living better??? #i'm obsessed with Solune and whatever the fuck is wrong with them (it's money. it's having money)

[noreturnz]

I love how MCU money men were like - oh no mcu can't afford a female led movie - for so long and by the time they deemed it safe enough the fans are like - it failed because we are by now done with mcu if only it come 2/3/4/5 years earlier.

You just can't win in this franchise

#it might be over saturated for YOU! but for some of us we don't even have enough to light up forget saturation #they rather have the franchise die than let a unfamiliar demo celebrate their niche #and don't get me started on well if women want it women should show up after decades ofgatekeeping women #i remember the sexualization of scarlett and nat and the intense vitriol against brie and carol #you gatekeep delay any representation and then just drop rhe burden on rhem without any nurturing as some gotcha #ofc ballad of snakes is doing well its a Franchise that needed you to accept katniss as hero when did mcu do a solo non white man film agai #the marvels #carol danvers

[jewishcissiekj]

AU where there's a "Never. I’ll never turn to the dark side. You’ve failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me." moment but it's Asajj (talking to Dooku about Ky). I'm deeply delusional

#daily asajj thought of the day #light side asajj has so much potential #anyway the way her actions parallel and mirror half of the main sw characters will forever be the death of me #knowing she probably had a reverse-luke moment when dooku recruited her and it's something we probably will never see hurts me so much #asajj ventress #ventress #sw #star wars #ky narec #something about her spirit being broken after ky's death and her hatred toward the jedi growing #vs. her choosing to be like ky and nurture faith in people it's really bad for me

[1introvertedsage]

May all beings on earth be free....

#be free #freedom #free to be #existence #connection #nature #nature nurtures #lha #quotes #love quotes #self love #lover of all #spread the love #may all beings on earth be free #1introvertedsage #reality #healing #see #be a light #be love

[giftedeath]

thinking about a universe where buffy moves them out to boston bc dawn got into harvard and where dawn goes buffy goes - mostly bc i think she would love the east coast and winter so much

#i am always thinking abt post series buffy and the weight thats lifted off her shoulders #an opportunity for her to really take care of dawn and make sure she's nurtured and healing and safe #also it snowed yesterday where i am and i was driving at night #and i just kept thinking #buffy in sunnydale's fave season is fall #but buffy in the dead of a massachusetts' winter with snow and fog lighting up the cemeteries #she would love it sm she would thrive and the cute winter outfits ! would slay #i make a mockery of death and a spectacle of survival › hc.

[miraluking-respectfully]

rewatching consular cutscenes & it totally slipped my mind that Master Syo can put you in touch with Tharan because they used to be friends. How the hell did that happen? Did Master Syo used to party?? Was he just that interested in exotechnology?? Did they used to date

#either master syo has long nurtured a secret interest in STEM or he used to light up #there are no other explanations #swtor #jedi consular

[hella1975]

i hope you all know the andrew brainrot is happening simultaneously with the touya brainrot like i have in fact not moved on ive instead found a newer weirder state of being where every single fucking thing relates to them and they both relate to each other and my brain is going to. explode

#'touya is a firewielder in a superpowered universe & andrew is a medicated athlete HOW r they similar' and what if i opened your third eye #it's about the violent villainous character being the one who needed saving the most and never ever had a kind hand extended #it's about the people in their life most in a position to nurture them being the ones to traumatise them most #it's about societal failings. it's about rejects. it's about bearing your pain terribly. it's about being a bad victim #it's about refusing to be put in a cute little self-helping box and instead emerging from your trauma covered in blood and raging #it's about being an obsessive light-haired freak with a weird fucking aesthetic. i can keep going #they are literally the same person in my mind in my mind's eye in my little brain if you will #i wrote 1.3k words of dog teeth yesterday. im going to get crack off the chefs at work today and punch a customer in the teeth #andrew minyard #touya todoroki

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

#confession #goethe #light and darkness #feral beast #nurture #primal pair

[hotgirlyshit]

idk if its just me but I really think girls on here are just so soft and clean feminine,lovely,friendly and enthusiastic!I don't know them personally,but I really feel the healed energy :) Just wanna say,have a great day today,and hope u survive it girly!!!

#art #girlhood #girlblogging #girly stuff #girly #books and libraries #light academia #books #girlsupportinggirls #tumblr girls #girlslovinggirls #classic academia #alternative #hyper feminine #feminine style #femininity #nurture #coquette dollete #coquette #pink bows #pink #explore