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la-novellista · 3 months

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Raccontami, in silenzio, qualcosa che tu non abbia mai raccontato a nessuno.

#pensiero #A modo mio #Distorsioni emotive #Proposte quasi indecenti #Ispirazioni a delinquere #Hands #Essere tua

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kara-zor-els · 2 months

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Also, while I dislike it when people ship Kara with Jason, her time as supergirl did briefly overlap with his time as robin pre-crisis and I think it would have been very funny is she found him miles more bearable than Robin!Dick.

#I'm a firm kara and dick should hate each other truther. because it's funny #but also her becoming like a quasi-big sister to jason could have been cute imo #also the emotional drama if she had survived coie and seen his red hood arc...#kara zor el #jason todd

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soldier-poet-king · 2 years

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Me, after one (1) day of partial sun after 5 days of rain and darkness: maybe life IS good and I can find a fragile broken peace and things will be okay and I can smile on the bus early in the morning instead of trying to not cry

#IM A PLANT WITH COMPLICATED EMOTIONS #oh vitamin d supplements and seasonal depression lamp we're really in it now #franposting #in my sad man tortured by god era #but ft manic swings to a quasi peace #would it be enough if i could never give you peace?#IDK MISS SWIFT IDK ANYMORE

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everysongineverykey · 9 months

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[images id: three screencaps of crowley from good omens, sitting in the bookshop trying to convince aziraphale to help him raise the antichrist. he has long hair and is without his glasses. in the first photo he is smiling genially, in the second and third he is staring at aziraphale expectantly with wide eyes, leaning forward. end id]

i gotta say aziraphale is so fucking strong for resisting crowley's appeals for help with the antichrist even for a little bit because if i had had THIS face leaning in close, looking at me in that appealing way, swaying slightly from side to side in a subconsciously hypnotic fashion, soft-looking hair perfectly framing his wide soul-probing eyes and serpentine smile? dude there would've been no argument from me about ANYTHING. this man-shaped creature could've complained languidly that he was chilly in that smooth calculating voice and i would've been like oh no that won't do at all ma'am let me pop down to seven-eleven and douse myself in gasoline so you can warm up by the flames of my burning corpse and while i'm there do you want anything? i'm so so fucking normal about men

#not tagging this. you find this while scrolling my blog or your dash or you never see it at all. it's fine to reblog though lol #not h/rny on main perse but absolutely down bad in a strange quasi-romantic mental and emotional way #mr tennant sir WHY. why do you look the way you do. who fucking gave you the RIGHT.#anyway i didn't bother with individual ids because they're all basically the same and it would've felt redundant describing them all #hope the bulk id's okay!

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uppastthejelliclemoon · 2 years

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Tell me about Quasi and his relationship with Jerrie and Teazer, please!! (And maybe jerrie's gf too but only if you want to lol)

YES QUASI AND THE CHAOS TWINS AND JUBILEE!!!!!

so Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer were the ones who took Quasi under their wing when he first joined the henchcats!!!

they're the reason his name was "Slip", during the first few weeks he would often manage to get away from them, and they said he was a "slippery little thing", and it just got shortened to Slip!!

like it was the three of them for SO long, and Quasi adored having his two best friends with him

he was heartbroken when they left, and that was the main cause of his resentment towards the Jellicles. Not because of anything Macavity had said, but because they had taken his best friends from him

but also them leaving is what forced him to start reconsidering Macavity's stance on certain things and became the push he needed to leave!!

when they reunite???? it's so emotional???? and Quasi explains why it hurt so much, and Jerrie and Teazer completely understand, because it broke their hearts to leave their best friend behind too 😭😭😭

Jerrie is literally over the MOON that Jubilee and Quasi get along so well!!!

like Jubilee is the one other cat outside of the twins, Antoinette, Jitterbug, and Quill that Quasi feels fully comfortable relaxing around!

Jubilee's definitely the cat Quasi goes to when he starts feeling a little insecure about his place amongst the Jellicles

she's also the one who encourages him to finally sit down and talk to Munkustrap and Tugger

Munkustrap ofc trusts his niece's opinion so much, and Tugger adores his daughter and knows she doesn't trust easily, so they both know that Quasi is okay and trustworthy and can be welcomed into the Junkyard, but they wait for him to approach them

when Munkustrap and Demeter adopt Quasi, Jitterbug, and Quill, Jubilee is SO excited because now they're officially family!!! they're cousins!!!

#quasi the henchcat #mungojerrie #rumpleteazer #jubilee the library cat #cats the musical #munkustrap #rum tum tugger #demeter #also i have so many emotions abt munk and dem's relationship with quasi

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fruitgoat · 2 years

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I got to (finally) meet my new Almost Boss Thursday. I think we're going to get on really well. I got bonus points all around when I suggested she stop by the office after lunch. My Boss (might have to switch up names; I'll think about it) had to get to an appointment so Quasi Boss drove me the dozen blocks back to the office. (What? It was aggressively warmish.) Here's part of out conversation:

QB: Again, I probably have a lot of bad habits so let me know when I'm getting annoying. It's- I'm ADHD.

Me: *grinning* So am I.

QB: But I'm medicated!

Me: So am I.

QB: *laughing* Oh god, two of us. Poor Boss.

Me: Well, the clincher would be, when were you diagnosed?

QB: When I was 9.

Me: Cheater. I only figured it out a couple of years ago.

#i love my job #i love my boss #i love my meds #i probably will love new quasi-boss #adhdragons!#Boss is probably also mildly adhd #she praised my Emotional Intelligence the other day #i tend not to take offense when my co-workers and bosses yell at me about random ass shit #because i know they're just super stressed and it's not actually about me #when the remarks are more pointed or made by clients? i'm not above setting you up for tax fraud #i'm usually willing to forgive the first offense - i might not know what you're dealing with #we have an excel spreadsheet of clients we want to fire and Rude To Me is a unquestioned reason for putting someone on that list #Q-B is going to give me a list of her old clients that will probably call but that she doesn't want to work with #it probably says a lot about me that i'm very much looking forward to politely and professionally telling them to fuck off #i don't even know what they did #but *big smile* sorry!

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konnfusion · 1 month

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being intentionally vague about my own writing but it's cool that a character I originally created for some Fun, Light Sci-Fi Adventures when I was 20 now has so much lore that talking about her feels like cracking open a reference text about as thick as The Lord of the Rings trilogy--and it all just happened! it just happened because she turned back up in my mind and she developed an honest-to-god life of her own! I love it!

#oc talk #text #kelsey rambles #odessa #like we have a pocket version of her timeline where she winds up on a ships of other quasi-immortals going on adventures together #it's not her main timeline but i love how many different directions her story has a chance of taking now! it's cool!#she matters so much in her story when she thought she'd never matter to anyone ever again! i get emotional about it!

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vigilskeep · 7 months

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back and even bulkier with another powerpoint! i opted for spreading the information out in a hopefully engaging way over limiting the number of slides. the circle is a BIG, big topic, with such focus over the course of the games, so if i didn't cover anything useful, you want to know anything more specific, or equally if i made a mistake and missed or misinterpreted something, please let me know ily!!

transcript below the cut! my eternal thanks to @bisexualcommandershepard for providing one for the previous powerpoint and in doing so reminding me to get my act together, you have my sword

zevsurana’s guide to the circle of magi

can’t tell your circles from your chantries from your colleges from your conclaves? boy, do i have the powerpoint for you!

hit me with the basics

under the law of the orlesian chantry, every mage is required to join the circle

a mage who does not join the circle, or escapes one, is labelled an apostate, a crime punishable by death or tranquillity

tranquillity is the process by which mages are branded on the forehead, robbing them of their emotions and magic

at the end of their apprenticeship, each mage is taken without warning to their harrowing. they must choose between being sent into the fade for a dangerous test against possession, or tranquillity.

it is illegal to make harrowed mages tranquil, but they are still required to live under the circle’s supervision

depending on which text you believe, there are 14 or 15 circles under orlais’ chantry.

[this slide is accompanied by an image of a map of thedas. there are small markers spread across the map on 12 locations, mostly in orlais and the free marches, but included everywhere except tevinter and seheron.]

these are the known locations!

i didn’t include starkhaven’s, which was destroyed in a fire at the start of da2, or jainen’s, which is mentioned in an online game but as another circle in ferelden makes the dao plot make no sense. i suppose that would have gotten us up to 14 but i’m not doing it. cope

hierarchy of the circle

there are six ranks:

the grand enchanter is the mages’ direct representative to the divine. in our time, this is grand enchanter fiona, who famously stated “fuck the divine”

the first enchanter leads each circle. theoretically, their permission is needed for a mage to leave the tower, for a harrowing, and for a mage to be made tranquil. in practice, their actual power depends hugely on their political skill and their corresponding knight-commander

the senior enchanters are the most experienced mages in a circle, and advise the first enchanter, who will select one of them as their successor

those who have gained the rank of enchanter (also known as junior enchanters) are now expected to mentor apprentices

the simple rank of mage designates those who have passed their harrowing. an inhabitant of the circle fully capable of magic might say “i’m not a mage, just an apprentice”

the apprentices are children and young adults who have not yet completed their harrowing

outside of this hierarchy are the tranquil. they instead belong to the ‘formari’, who perform enchantment and sell enchanted items to produce the circle’s wealth

(it’s really important to me that you know the different ranks usually have different coloured robes to mark them out. i can’t explain that all here because it varies from circle to circle and we don’t have all the data but i think that’s so fun that i have to point it out even though it makes this slide super crowded i hate it i’m sorry)

politics of the circle: what are those first enchanters even doing?

an ideal first enchanter should govern their circle as a quasi-parental figure who can protect their mages while maintaining an uneasy balance and accord with the templars

they are also an administrator managing their circle’s finances

a weak or unskilled first enchanter can spell doom for their circle just as much as one at odds with their knight-commander

the college of magi is a council of all first enchanters

the college regularly meets in cumberland, nevarra, to discuss circle policy and elect the grand enchanter from among them

politics of the circle: what’s this about frat boys?

once a mage achieves the rank of enchanter, they may join a political fraternity

choose your fighter:

the largest fraternity, the aequitarians, are centrists

the loyalists are chantry bootlickers

the libertarians seek greater power and independence for the circle. the resolutionists are an even more radical group that emerged from them

the isolationists wish mages to withdraw from society completely

the lucrosians prioritise the accumulation of wealth and influence

the aequitarians maintained an alliance with the loyalists until the final vote to rebel, when wynne’s son rhys, asked to represent the aequitarians by first enchanter irving, voted with the libertarians

that was a lot of politics.

let’s take a breather because we haven’t even gotten to history yet oh boy

[this slide is accompanied by two pieces of dragon age concept art of white-haired mage women casting spells. one is an older human white woman who may be wynne, dressed in ornate robes and casting purple magic with a casually imperious gesture. the other is the concept art for warden surana, an angry-looking young elven white woman with a palm full of icy magic.]

hot circle mage concept art break. of course you have white hair and [caps lock begins] one thousand points lightning damage-- [caps lock ends]

but where do circles come from, i hear you cry

well, when two semi-circles love each other very much,

the year is 1:20 divine, and our questionable hero is kordillus drakon…

the circles had existed long before this, of course, in a very different form: elite tevinter academic societies

but right now, the south is in chaos. the first inquisition’s reign is coming to a close. the second blight is fifteen years underway with no sign of stopping any time soon, and will rage until 1:95 divine

kordillus drakon, the very first emperor of orlais, has a budding empire and a budding chantry that look like they might die in the cradle… unless he can continue enlisting mages against the darkspawn

we may wish to take a moment to register that kordillus drakon apparently looked like this. Sure.

[this slide is accompanied by concept art of kordillus drakon. he is blond white man in vaguely iron age dress, with an interesting hair cut including bangs, a high half ponytail and a very large moustache. he wears a swamp-green cloak and a black fur pelt over a green and white striped tunic, with a hand-axe slung through his belt, and crossed garters over whatever combination boots and pants he's wearing, which seems to be one singular garment.]

the solution to drakon's problem?

the nevarran accord

“what do video game enjoyers love? fantasy historical treaties? yeah, probably” – bioware, constantly

and they’re right unless you’re a joyless hater

the nevarran accord was agreed between the newly formed chantry and the original inquisition in 1:20 divine

the people of the south feared magic, but they also wanted to be able to use its power against great threats like the darkspawn

in one move, the circle of magi, the seekers of truth, and the templar order were created

some mages considered the circle a refuge in a world full of terror. to others, it was a prison

but this is dragon age, so maker forbid we would only be told one version of events

there is also a codex entry called ‘history of the circle’

it describes the mages of the divine age as chafing under being allowed to do little more than light candles and lamps for the chantry… as if there wasn’t a fucking blight going on

in protest, mages snuffed out the eternal flame in the grand cathedral at val royeaux, and barricaded themselves in the choir loft. divine ambrosia ii attempted to call an exalted march on her own cathedral, but even her templars discouraged her

shouted negotiations were conducted for 21 days before the mages “went cheerily into exile” in a remote fortress, separated from society into the circle for “the first time”

nerd's note:

personally, i would understand this as the circle as an organisation being created with the accord in 1:20 divine, and the mages being relegated to this lesser role after the greatest battles against the darkspawn, with the establishment of circle of magi towers after the protest. there’s no date of events on this codex, but since it mentions templars, it has to have been post-accord.

i would also take this account with a grain of salt in-world, as it was written by sister petrine, a controversial writer to the chantry, but nonetheless a chantry scholar.

this has been a lot of chatter about mages. but there’s an elephant in the room, and it’s looking at us suspiciously…

the circle and the templar order

the circle does supposedly have nominal independence from the chantry…

Knight-Commander Greagoir: I promised you aid, but with the Circle restored, my duty is to watch the mages. They are free to help you, however. Warden: I thought the templars were in charge of the Circle. Knight-Commander Greagoir: The templars guard and advise, but the first enchanter has the last word in what happens in the Circle.

...

Warden: Won’t the Circle of Magi do what the Chantry says? Alistair: Technically the Circle of Magi is independent. We don’t know that the Chantry won’t support us, of course. Morrigan: You truly believe that? Alistair: If we speak to the First Enchanter, he should see that his responsibility to the Grey Wardens supersedes anything the Chantry or even Teyrn Loghain might have to say about it.

… but since when has power ever gone where it’s supposed to?

as world of thedas volume 1 explains, “Although the Circle is supposed to be autonomous, a heavy Templar presence in all Circle towers has effectively made the organisation an arm of the Chantry for ages.”

a first enchanter can quickly lose all the power they allegedly hold

even in the best of times with a skilful, well-intentioned first enchanter, templars reserve the right to send mages to the dungeons, to take away their children, to kill any who leave the circle, etc. as a matter of course

grand clerics reserve the right to grant the right of annulment

generally, the system is maintained by a mutual interest in avoiding open conflict

the templars are the ones in power with the chantry’s full support. if they drive the mages to open conflict, their comfortable routine is uprooted

templars are equipped to hunt down individual mages, even blood mages and abominations

templars are not equipped to be outnumbered or face even numbers. mages are simply far more powerful in a fair fight than they are. lyrium can only do so much

...

mages, meanwhile, operate under the not entirely unfounded belief that the outside world is entirely hostile to them

at least if they remain, they can keep an uneasy balance in which most mages survive, their existence tolerated by the chantry. they can continue studying among their own kind in the only home they know

if they openly rebel, they may throw aside what limited protections and goodwill they have. mages like wynne outright state certainty that if they rebel, “genocide” will follow

furthermore, those mages with more status have more access to privilege. they’re also the ones who have best passed the chantry’s tests. thus, those in a position to lead are least inclined to rebel

you only rebel against the circle because you think less of your children are going to die starting a war than they are in here.

and, uh, on that cheery note… any questions from the class?

#zevsurana academics #dragon age #circle of magi

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rosepompadour · 2 months

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- Anne Boleyn's Sleeve by Juliana Gray, "The End"

However understandable the impulse to universalise Anne Boleyn’s story might be, these attempts mostly fail to account for the very historic specificity of her narrative. How can we account for a woman who apparently had so much sexual and emotional appeal she had the power to cleave King and country from the control of the Catholic Church, yet whose downfall was so complete she became the first English queen consort to face the executioner? The story of Anne Boleyn is about dissenting from and challenging the dominant cultural norms; her example is that of the woman who created herself and, for a brief time, through her brilliance and her beauty and her will, maintained herself in a society in which quasi-independent female empowerment and agency were relatively unknown. She continues to speak to us as an avatar of feminine power. - Stephanie Russo, The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen

#i start preparing for may in january 💅🏻#historicwomendaily #historyedit #anneboleynedit #anne boleyn #anne of the thousand days #genevieve bujold #history #*

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gothhabiba · 1 year

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I understand what people mean by prison abolition, but what does it mean in practice to abolish the family? I've never quite got it - who is raising children? How does it work? I'm asking in good faith, I've just always been a bit embarrassed to ask anyone

Like positions that are “anti-work” or against “gender,” the thing being objected to is more detailed and specific than the range of meanings that can reasonably or semi-reasonably be assigned to the word in question (“work,” “gender,” “family”)—which is why these propositions and programmes can have a bit of a PR problem. And, as with all terms that position themselves against something (e.g. "anti-psychiatry"), the term "family abolition" can be taken up by people with a range of different positions who disagree amongst themselves on some issues. In general, though, no one objects to "people living together or being emotionally close to each other" or "children not being left to roam about at random and get eaten by wolves" or anything.

Rather, anti-capitalist objections to "the family" tend to hinge on objections to:

parental rights, or "the special legal powers of parents to control major aspects of their children’s lives," which function as "quasi-property interests" more than anything that is in the best interest of children (link explicitly relates to U.S. law). Parents legally control where their children live, whether and where they go to school, what information they have access to, what level of freedom of mobility they have, what medical care they receive and don't receive, and what they may do with their own bodies, and are legally allowed to physically assault their children.

relatedly, the lack of legal autonomy that children possess (this is also often discussed under the banner of "children's rights" or objections to "adultism").

the positioning of "the family" as the only economic or social "safety net" in an economy and a society which provide no other one (creating an artificial "structural scarcity" of care). In a society which is otherwise dominated by "economic competition between atomized individuals," the family must be relied on—and yet, for some people (whose families cannot or will not provide living space or financial support in an emergency; whose families are abusive and physically or psychically dangerous to be around or rely on; who will not receive help or emotional support from a spouse or family unit without making serious concessions on the level of their personhood being basically respected; Black working-class people in whose communities the nuclear family unit has been deliberately prevented from forming by government intervention), the family cannot be relied on.

the way that the positioning of "the family" as the only safety net therefore constitutes economic coercion that works to keep people (especially women and LGBT, disabled and/or transracially adopted people) in abusive or exploitative situations, and that works to create incentives for working-class women (whose employment is generally less secure) to make themselves erotically desirable to men & disincentives for doing anything else.

the idea that housework, gestational labour & childbirth, and childcare are tasks "naturally" falling to the "mother" ("mother" as a "natural category"), such that the social, political, and economic nature of these tasks, and the economic and political discourses that mobilise the creation of our concept of "motherhood," are obscured.

Thus the objection is to "the family" as a unit of social reproduction under capitalism—as a legal, political entity that structures inheritance, taxes, health insurance, "race" and ethnicity, &c., and therefore works as a sort of interface between the capitalist state and the individual.

So the programme of "family abolition" involves, firstly, the control of the means of production on the part of the proletariat (this is a communist programme—the point isn't to remove the safety net of the family while keeping capitalism in place, but rather the idea is that without capitalism this ultimately abusive safety net ought not to be needed); and then the abolition of marriage as a legal institution; the abolition of parental rights; the putting in place of measures for the elderly and disabled to be cared for regardless of whether they have family alive who are both able and willing to care for them; the forming of social networks at will; and, depending on who you ask, the communal raising of children (which involves ceasing to privilege "parent" as a legal title automatically conferred upon biologically creating a child).

Obviously, toddlers who do not yet understand things about the world including "causation" and "mortality" will need on occasion to be restrained from running blithely into the jaws of wolves &c. The argument is just that coercion of this sort should be legitimately in the best interests of the child; not performed by two people who need answer for their actions, up to and including battery of their children, in no way other than saying that they "plausibly believe this to be necessary to control, train or educate their child"; and walked back in measure as the child gains the ability to assert their own desires.

Probably no one has a perfect solution 100% worked out—life is messy, and we don't know what the future will look like—but having a perfect solution 100% worked out should not be a prerequisite for noticing that the current situation is abusive and untenable.

#family abolition #nuclear family #family #capitalism #communism #questions #Anonymous

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