#should be taken away from her

[nerdgirlnarrates]

Recently I was talking to another med student and shared that before my grandmother died, her heart failure had gotten so bad that her doctors couldn’t effectively diurese her and she ended up needing several thoracenteses. The other med student suggested that these procedures were too aggressive and my grandmother’s doctors should have let her die instead. And I’m confused, because these procedures were very much palliative in nature: it is painful to have a pleural effusion preventing you from breathing well. She needed surgery to address the valve issues causing her heart failure, but she was not a good candidate for surgery, so she had already foregone curative measures. Also, my grandmother did not want to die of a pleural effusion. I’m not saying her quality of life was good--it wasn’t--but she didn’t want to essentially drown to death. And I’m kind of upset at the notion that her doctors should have forced her to die that way. That’s not humanity, peace, or dignity in death. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but the conversation has left me unhappy.

#I honestly hope I'm missing something #but I really think refusing my grandmother a procedure she wanted that relieved her pain would be incredibly cruel #also not sure how we're bypassing the issue of her very much having capacity and consenting to the procedure #idk this philosophy that this decision about her life #both its quality and quantity #should be taken away from her #makes me queasy #medblr #med school #med student #medicine #palliative care #end of life #my content #my text posts

[foxx-queen]

thinking about the way shadowheart, lae'zel and minthara deal with breaking away from a god/god-like figure they've dedicated their lives to. shadowheart immediately latches onto rescuing her parents as her new 'mission'. lae'zel immediately dedicates herself to freeing orpheus with the vigor she served vlaakith. minthara fixates on obtaining the power to make sure she's never controlled again.

its like. breaking away from gods/god-like figures leaves a void to fill. they're trying to fill it, and trying to choose what they fill it with. and they know that's what they're doing, in some ways, maybe to avoid the enormity of what it means to have broken away. maybe to avoid working out what they'll do as individuals. shadowheart doesnt know her parents, and they dont know her anymore, but she has to save them. you can ask lae'zel why she won't focus on herself, and she acknowledges there's no time for that. not yet. minthara wants you to use the power of the brain, but has dialogue/approval when you speak to ravenguard and she realizes hes still in there beneath the tadpoles influence, just like she was.

'my deference to him is a habit that will die hard, i fear'. minthara still calls the elder brain the absolute, even after she knows the truth. lae'zel still calls out to vlaakith in battle. shadowheart still wears the symbol of shar in her hair after dyeing it. indoctrination/ingrained beliefs are hard to break.

they've broken away from what was controlling their lives. they're free. they've lost everything. shadowheart can save her parents and but will always have that mark. lae'zel has been declared a traitor and will be hunted until vlaakith is overthrown. minthara can never go home, and would be executed if she tried.

they've broken away. they've lost everything. they're struggling with what that means. they're free. they wouldn't have it any other way.

#baldur's gate 3 #shadowheart #lae'zel #minthara baenre #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #i just. i love them #i love characters breaking away from religion and dealing with the religious trauma #i love when its not simple and easy #i love when the time is taken to show that its not easy #that theres a void thats not always filled with something 'good' #minthara wants u to use the power of the elder brain. maybe shes ignoring that means using people in the same position she wa #maybe shes telling herself she doesnt care #but when u meet ravenguard and reach out with the tadpole and find out hes still in there #she approves when yuo tell him hes being controlled #and says that hes still in there just like she was. that we should help #i dont know if lae'zel still calling out to vlakkith in battle is a bug or a mistake or something but it /works/ #she hates her shes rejected her but thats been her entire /life/. its not discarded easily #same with the shar headpiece. i dont know if thats an oversight. but it works. shadowheart is still shadowheart. #like she says when she rescues her parents. she can't just forget shadowheart. thats not what she does anymore #i have some gripes about this game but god this is all so good

[ilovebeingaturtle]

Made an 1987 Venus, and a 2012 Venus, so I’ve been long overdue to make a 2003 Venus! Tada~

In this interpretation, Venus wasn’t initially separated from her brothers. Instead, she was raised alongside them-up until the family went on the trip to Japan to return Hamato Yoshi’s ashes. The whole ordeal with the ninja tribunal happened around about the same, however at the end, while erasing the turtles memories, the tribunal saw Venus’s mystic potential and took her away to be trained by them, wiping her families memories of her as well.

Skip ahead a few years, and when Leo his sent away from is family-instead of the Ancient One, he meets her. Another turtle willing to help who feels so so familiar…

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 2k3 #tmnt venus #tmnt leo #donnie tmnt #raph tmnt #mikey tmnt #tmnt april #tmnt splinter #tmnt fanart #tmnt au #tmnt venus de milo #this backstory would like majorly change season 5 which’ll be fun to mess around wiTH AHA #Also yeah she should probably? have one of the mystic necklace thingies on her design? but I was too lazy to remember what they looked likS #o also! I didn’t want the post to get long but Venus also had her memories taken by she regained them as her powers got stronger #which caused her to run away from the tribunal #Venus is the name she chose for herself without her memories #because it subconsciously reminded her about how Don would tell her all about the planets and stars when they were little

[just-a-little-radish]

These articles are both from today, April 7, 2023. I’ve combined different quotes from both articles below for a fuller picture of this case.

Two weeks ago, Dallas parents Temecia and Rodney Jackson opted for a home birth for their newborn daughter, Mila, with licensed midwife Cheryl Edinbyrd.

Shortly after Mila’s birth last month, upon taking her to see their pediatrician, they learned she had developed a case of jaundice—a highly common condition in newborns resulting in the yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes, which typically goes away without treatment within one to two weeks.

Temecia and her husband, Rodney Jackson, said they were following their midwife's care protocol for their baby's jaundice.

Dr. Anand Bhatt said the case was severe enough that they should take her to the hospital for phototherapy treatment, but the Jacksons opted to do the same phototherapy treatment for Mila in their home under Edinbyrd’s guidance.

Within days, the Jacksons say Dallas police officers and CPS agents arrived at their doorstep at around 5 a.m., informing the family that their pediatrician had reported them and demanding that they turn her over. The officers eventually left their home when the Jacksons refused—only to return hours later and tell the family that Mila was legally in the custody of Dallas CPS. The Jacksons again refused to turn over their newborn and instead reached out to their midwife for help. “Our midwife then reached out to the pediatrician, just letting him know that he had traumatized us, that we were woken up by police banging our door at 4 a.m., 5 a.m. Then after she gave him all the credentials he’d requested from her, he pretty much said he was going to leave our care and our midwife teams,” Temecia said at a Thursday press conference organized by the Afiya Center.

Over the next few days, everything seemed fine. But last Tuesday, as Rodney was walking the family’s dog outside their house, the police returned. He refused to surrender the baby when they confronted him, so they placed him under arrest, seized his keys, and used them to enter his home. There, officers took Mila from Temecia while she was alone.

"When they came in and took her from me, I requested that I needed to see the paperwork. They insisted, 'No, give her first, give her first,'" Temecia Jackson said at the press conference. "So they took her from my arms and they gave me paperwork. When they left, I looked at the paperwork and the paperwork had another mother's name on it."

Temecia claims the warrant that the Desoto Police Department and CPS agents used to take Mila didn’t even list her own name, instead listing [Mila’s] mother as another woman who’s previously had run-ins with CPS. The Jacksons still don’t even have Mila’s birth certificate because she wasn’t born in a hospital.

“Instantly, I felt like they had stolen my baby as I had a home birth and they are trying to say that my baby belonged to this other woman,” the mom continued, holding back tears. “I did not know where to turn. They had taken my husband from me and then took my daughter from me and I was left by myself.”

Temecia Jackson says her husband was not initially listed on the warrant. Later, she says the document was updated to list Rodney Jackson as the “alleged father."

Mila remains in Dallas CPS custody and under the care of a foster family. The couple's hearing with the Dallas County's juvenile board was originally scheduled for April 6. That morning, the couple says the hearing was abruptly postponed until April 20.

The Jacksons say they have been allowed only a few supervised visits with their daughter, which they say have taken place at CPS offices and in the presence of police officers.

During the press conference, the couple said they "feel like criminals" during their visits, and claim their attempts to deliver breast milk to their newborn daughter have been denied.

The couple told reporters that at their latest visit on Wednesday, they noticed Mila had developed some irritation in and around her genitals. When they raised this to CPS workers, they were told the foster family would handle this, and they weren’t permitted to take Mila to get care. “With the foster parents is where this build-up and irritation [in Mila’s genitals] occurred, and yet you’re sending her back to the same foster family. We just feel helpless in this situation as we wait,” Temecia said. She and Rodney are already missing a critical postpartum period for parental bonding—now, they also have to worry about whether she’s safe in the care of strangers.

According to one 2016 academic study, 53% of Black children experience child welfare investigations before their 18th birthday, compared to 28% of white children. Once in custody, research shows Black children are less likely than white children to be placed with a family member or ever returned to their families.

From 2019 to 2020, more people of color chose to give birth outside a hospital setting, according to a 2022 report released by the National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF), a nonpartisan and nonprofit advocacy organization that works on public policies and education about women and families.

The increase was greatest among Black parents (30%), followed by Indigenous (26%) and Latinx (24%) parents — likely a response to "the higher risk of maternal mortality and morbidity they face and the impact of discrimination and structural racism in hospitals that result in lower-quality care," the report said.

Black people are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Texas, at least 118 women died and nearly 200 children were left without a mother in 2019, according the state's 2022 Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee's biennial report.

Discrimination contributed to 12% of pregnancy-related deaths in 2019, according to the same report.

As of Thursday, the infant remains in the custody of Dallas Child Protective Services in what the Jacksons and their advocates at the Dallas-based, Black-women-led birth and reproductive justice organization The Afiya Center have likened to a “kidnapping.”

"What did happen was misogyny. What did happen is white patriarchy. The intentional denial of Dr. Cheryl's ability to birth — that happened," Jones said. "The same thing that happened last week happened after Reconstruction with Black granny midwives — that happened. The removal of Black people's ability to take care of Black people — that happened."

D’Adra Willis, a birth justice coordinator at the Afiya Center, told Jezebel that the Jacksons’ experience is part of a broader issue with the racist over-policing of Black families by law enforcement and child welfare system. “It’s a prime example of over-policing of Black children, Black families, Black women, Black community workers, and also the Black midwife, who’s not being trusted of what she’s capable of doing when she’s licensed and certified to do so,” Willis said.

“It would not be going this way if they were a white family,” Qiana Lewis-Arnold, a birth justice associate at Afiya, told Jezebel. “Police have always been a threat to Black families. And that includes CPS, which is the family police. They treat Black people as just guilty or wrong, without an investigation, and they’ll just take action and figure it out later while we suffer through the process.”

Edinbyrd, the Jacksons’ midwife, was also present at the Jacksons’ Thursday press conference and has continued to support the family as they await their rescheduled hearing in two weeks. “This child was being nurtured. This child was being supported. And this child was being loved. And this child was kidnapped,” Edinbyrd said. “Mila needs to be returned home.”

I cannot imagine the pain and trauma Temecia must be experiencing, and the fear she feels not knowing what is happening with her daughter and when she will be returned to her.

And now the hearing to decide if this abducted baby will be returned has been pushed back to April 20th, at which time Mila, who was taken at only a few days old, will have spent the majority of her life being kept from her family.

#taking a baby from her mother without the strongest evidence is one of the worst things you can do IMO #everyone involved with getting this baby taken away should lose their jobs #and be charged with abduction #I wouldn’t be surprised if theyre panicking #because Mila was just fine and her jaundice cleared up #without needing medical intervention #proving her removal wasn’t justified #misogyny #racism #misogynoir #sexism #discrimination #corrupt officials #fuck cps #corrupt system #woc #human rights #social justice #BLM #black lives matter #feminism #feminist #radfem #radfems do touch #radfems do interact #radfem safe #pro radfem

[summer-fire]

Muppet ass bird movie

#the boy and the heron was good! visually stunning #however. I think it falls into the same trap that everything since ponyo and arietty has fallen into #which is too many elements. the ‘rock’ was unnecessary. it should have just been more of a… crazy wizard guy found some way to alter the spo #spirit world/afterlife on his own? I think the element of accepting new family members was a bit lost. #the heron wanting to bring him to the spirit world would have been a bit more impactful if he had been the g.grand uncle in disguise? #parrots were a really fun element but using them as the end-villain was not satisfying #there was a chance to have the main character decide the end of the plot but that was just taken away from him #cursed with never remembering character names. but the plot I was expecting was a bit more mature with the pregnant aunt being asked to give #up her child to be the next wizard or something. like that’s why she was brought there. because the main character resisted so much so they #took the next youngest of kin to raise in the spirit world #man. that said the scenery surrounding the first pelican scene until they get the fish is like. directly from many dreams I’ve had

[oak23]

Tbh I feel like Disney holding off on showing anything off from the Live Action Little Mermaid movie aside from Halle Bailey herself for literally years up until two months out from release feels pretty calculated.

Cuz it meant any misgivings about the film was basically funnelled through to solely being on Halle Bailey's casting and race. I feel like Disney has thrown yet another black actress to the wolves to deal with the racism and harassment, instead of promoting anyone or anything else associated with the film up until the full trailer released, and I feel like ANY promotion of any of the other characters would have blunted the racism and hate aimed squarely at Halle Bailey.

Idek it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth how poorly Disney seems to treat their non white actors and leaving them to deal with the online hate when Disney could have literally had the burden shared if any of the other actors had as much promotion as she did for this film.

#like idek im just sad about the whole thing lol #like look at how rose tico and finn were handled by Disney #like the full trailer finally giving us looks at the other characters has shifted the conversation away from Halle's casting #but it should not have taken this fucking long to toss her to the wolves like they did

[the-lark-ascending69]

> be a robin buckley fan

> be lesbian

> project on robin

> look up "internalized homophobia robin buckley" on tumblr because it's cathartic

> 3/4 of the posts are about st3ddie or just about steve

#saw one in which steve was like ''no robin you don't understand! i have never been loved! i don't know how that feels like!'' #i have several grips about that interpretation #going from the fact that's not true (dustin is clearly a big steve fan + robin herself cares about him deeply) #to the fact he probably wouldn't be introspective enough to voice his emotions this concisely not to mention he'd probably wouldn't take #a moment to realize he's never felt loved if that were the case. i mean. he could think that. when he's like 35 and more in touch with his #inner world. 19yo steve can't even get the hint that hitting on a girl who's already clearly taken (nancy) is wrong so like i don't expect #him to be that smart #but i can live with people having takes i don't agree with. my opinion doesn't have to be everyone else's opinion if you see steve that way #it fine #what bothered me was the fact he was saying this to a lesbian living in the 80s lmao #who tells him that 1) her whole life has been an error 2) she doesn't think he'd want to be close to her if he truly knew her and 3) #3) is paralyzed by fear of social suicide if she dares believe for even a second that the girl she likes may like her too #like i dont need people to do deep dives into robin lore and quote from memory lines from Surviving Hawkins abt robin feeling like she's #rotten inside. not supposed to have friends. feeling like something is wrong with her and that pushes people away etc etc #the fact that she's a lesbian should tell you enough abt who has the biggest chances of being loved 😭 #also bothered me that it showed up when looking up posts abt internalized homophobia because?? where's the internalized homophobia therw #unless it's gay steve feeling bad abt it in an AU (as if canon robin didn't go through it) #like look im not bothered to find steve-centric content in the robin tag cos people are gonna tag her in posts mentioning her. #she's his friend. #but there are barely any posts at all about robin's internalized homophobia. like i saw 2 or 3. compared to all the steve or steddie ones #where's the love for my babygirl 😭😭 #anti steddie #not really but y'know i don't wanna bother anyone #edit: the bit about there being like 3 posts on robin w internalized homophobia isn't exactly true. there are a few. but they still feel #drowned in st3ddie posts #like something isn't right here

[asteralien]

richard's relationship with money is so interesting to me despite/because of how vague and nonspecific it is in canon. which only makes sense because the show isn't interested in richard's backstory at ALL and, it being an audio medium, it can't exactly give many context clues like wardrobe/style or what his apartment/house looks like. but it's like......... he doesn't have interests, he dabbles in money-making activities. i am practically forced to assume that his mention of being good at pool also = a side hustle. his estranged dad up and left him a house and a paid ride to college. at this point he's way better off than he's ever been -- after 18 years of living with two separate conmen and a mother who doesn't care about him in mediocre apartments, he's suddenly on his own with his future out in front of him, and....... he STILL takes very risky grade-changing jobs for money? like he bypasses getting a regular college job and goes straight to petty crime? and apparently "far worse" crimes??? it's such an interesting balance between craving the security of Having Money and being pathologically unable to get it in a "normal" "safe" way. he doesn't even do anything with it in canon, he just GETS it. he isn't even buying lucy's drinks himself!!!! obviously even richard has bills to pay (which is. very funny to me. sorry that i think 19-year-old college era richard is the funniest person to ever exist, gremlin who's only ever lived in an apartment with his mother, sister, and mother's rotating cast of boyfriends, suddenly has a whole ass house dumped in his lap on his 18th birthday in exchange for his whole ass father's wholesale abandonment of him, has to figure out how to pay utility bills on his own, maybe thinks about getting a barista job or whatever kids did in the 80s, record shop clerk job?? and then nopes past it and picks "exploiting a child genius" as a career path instead. what a fucking legend. i also think he murdered people for money a couple times but that's just me) sorry i've lost the plot of this post thinking about campbell county community college computers richard. imagine being the people at the 5 Cs in charge of hiring STUDENT COUNSELORS and seeing richard maxwell strut into his interview and thinking "yes this 18-year-old suspiciously home-owning kid who talks like a john hughes movie antagonist and is currently his kid sister's very much illegal guardian is the perfect fit for our emotionally and socially fragile 11-year-old resident genius. what could go wrong" and then they have to pay for nicholas adamsworth's therapy sessions for the next 5 years because richard maxwell was what could go wrong. fuck. "waylaid in the windy city" maybe be my personal favorite richard but pre- and mid-"eugene's dilemma" richard is definitely the weirdest and funniest

#richard maxwell #aio #richard goes home deliriously exhausted from his college classes and 14 illegal side hustles and has to help rachael with her math homework #'why does he talk Like That' because it was the 80s and he's a single father next question #no wonder he genuinely likes lucy she's a Good Kid who doesn't need him she just likes him #despite everything that's probably the most straightforward relationship he has #unfortunately on lucy's end she also requires several years of therapy after her category 5 richard maxwell moment #like EVERYTHING about eugene's dilemma richard makes simultaneously more and less sense #when you realize that he's got the background radiation of 'my estranged mom showed up out of the blue to make me take care of her/my siste #'and then she left me alone with my sister and no way to contact her if i needed help' #'and then my sister got taken away from me because she got busted for shoplifting several times in a row so now i'm alone again' #'i canonically hate myself for failing her this way' #'also someone almost kidnapped me in a creeper van the other day' #the fact that fotf created the Most Character of All Time without meaning to or realizing is so fucking infuriating to me #at the very least richard maxwell should have been a supernatural character. he could have shone there. #instead. here we are.

[gojuo]

Proshippers be funny af. GoT opening sequence is nothing like hotd so that comparison they pulled up is false and desperate.

me: i want helaegon to be the deconstruction of targaryen incest that examines the psychological horror of a forced marriage to one's own sibling in which the full family is already hanging by a thread in a treacherous situation since there is no other targ couple in the entirety of canon perfectly situated to explore and dissect this horrific aspect of targaryen culture

#them: i want an incestuous love triangle (that is not canon) because incestuous love triangles is interesting writing or something

#i cant believe there are asoiaf fans out there that seriously dont want the targ inc*st to be probed and taken apart and vivisected. likeee #the entire point of targ incst is that its a horror show. its wrong. it should be denounced by the narrative. helaegon is the perfect fit #for that exploration and condemnation. hightower mother. first non targ parent and queen. first targ son that is disowned and emasculated #which leads to aegon not wanting to be a part of targaryen culture. neurodivergent helaena who does not or cannot understand why aegon acts #like it. who doesnt understand whats wrong with her (theres nothing wrong with her). aegon who just wants to be a brother since he cant be #son nor an heir. but hes not allowed to bc the dad who disowned him forces him to partake in targ culture. the blurring lines between #brother and husband and sister and wife and the horror of it all. what is love? i love you bc you are my sister but i cant love you bc you #are my wife and bc you are my sister it is wrong. big bro and first son aegon who has nothing to his name wanting a good life for his sibs #since aemond and daeron are not first sons and will never be first sons they are not doomed like aegon the first son is #and helaena could have lived a happy life married to a good guy with an inheritence who can actually bring smt to the table (unlike disowne #aegon) and who is not related by blood to her somewhere far away from KL and all of its grief. but its never gonna happen now bc they are #targaryens and this is what targaryens do. and alicent watches on unable to stop it. unable to spare her children from this horror show #and then blood and cheese happens... #and what does helaemond bring to the table ? .... uhh incst love triangle i guess 😒🙄 #anti helaemond #helaegon #hotd critical #anonymous #answered

[mdemn]

walk with me here. sarah angelo & alice colletti jennifer’s body moment of “you’re killing people!” / “no. i’m killing boys!”

#ok? OK ⁉️ #ARE Y’ALL WALKING WITH ME ? #sarah who grew up with alice (alice is a few years younger but since she was the only other girl they were forced to play together) #and sarah wanted to be rough and wanted to be ‘one of the boys’ so to speak #like she wanted to be involved in the family. was mad when she wasn’t taken seriously #alice wants to be a Good Girl. goes to mass every sunday. says her prayers. she’s smart n march is ensuring that she gets away frm this life #but also . alice has a MASSIVE crush on sarah #sarah who was her first kiss. sarah who was like ‘well if you’re gonna go off to school and change the world- #- you should at least know how to kiss so you can get you a rich husband’ #and therefore teaches alice to kiss. more than once. in more than a couple ways #because two girls kissing is not against the rules. it doesn’t count. it’s not sex before marriage bc two girls can’t have sex . right ? #and so anyway . alice is in love with sarah and she’s naive . and sarah is a ‘bad girl’ and march begs alice to stay away from her #bc sarah is starting to help the family in some petty crimes. sarah can drink and handle liquor. sarah enjoys being around men. #sarah’s HURT people before. and alice who doesn’t get it who will never get it #i’d like ‘sarah! you’re KILLING people!!’ and sarah who smiles as she’s washing the blood from her hands is like #‘no.. i’m killin’ boys.. :)’ #sarah marino #sarah angelo #alice colletti #mde #mafia definitive edition #post: personal

[clockworkreapers]

What are the main characters canon sexuality’s?? Have they any or is it up to interpretation

Twas from a past pride month I think? Either way here u go. Canonically none of my trolls are like “straight” in the human sense lol they don’t exactly have a concept of it or like most human sexualities due to different social norms and all to them it’s like baseline everything is a valid relationship and any gender expression is also just as valid (why I tend to mark them as masc fem or enby presenting not male or female weird biology headcanon stuff yada yada they are not human) their universes Alternians are more concerned with blood anyways.

Considering quadrants everyone here is technically poly to an extent that’s literally just a cultural thing with seeking out two partners. ANYWAYS.

Sauron is gay he prefers masc romantic partners and he is demi so under the ace umbrella

Falmea is pan and aromantic

Majell is a lesbian she just prefers more fem trolls

Helstm is bi

Then Cybele and Cyrusk are both pan!

#can you tell I am also pan is it that obvious lol #but yeah a lil bit of me of course rubs off on my characters #also while trans and enby trolls exist in Aleph Null it works differently than humans due to the whole biology thing #their gender presentation and how their bodies kinda developed is due to a biological mimic #the gender of their lusus is what like makes them sway to one side or the other #or just stay in between if their lusus isn’t around as much #Majell and Sauron both had lusus issues (Majell was taken away from hers and Sauron’s well… it died) #while they both tilt a bit more center than like super masc or super fem Sauron still prefers He and Majell She #the amount of times they have been mistaken for the opposite gender by people who do not know fantrolls or homestuck smh lol #I’m fine pointing it out tho cuz I don’t think either of them would want a human calling them something they aren’t #I could go on about it so many headcanons about these grey alien dudes ugh delicious #I should stop lol #clock rambles #ask

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

why was one of the lessons barbie had to learn in barbie movie that she should have spent more time hanging out with the guy obsessed with her who refused to accept a soft no and didn’t respect her boundaries…..

#it’s annoying that all criticism of this movie is either #‘greta gerwig is trying to castrate me personally’ #or else #‘why wasn’t the toy commercial a manifesto for radial queer liberation’ #and nobody is out here criticizing the movie in a normal way…. #i did figure out how i personally would fix barbie movie but i don’t feel like typing it out on mobile #but. if barbie wants it to be girls night all the time that is fine considering that she literally does not like ken or want to be his gf #i think it’s fine for her to feel bad she wasn’t honest with him and led him on… but why have both that and #‘i should have taken more time away from my supportive female friends to give you attention’ #just keep the focus on honesty and kenpowerment…

[franeridan]

I understand why everyone who read dunmeshi instantly shipped marci and falin but tbh the fact that it's just treated as canon by the fandom cuts on a lot of interesting analysis that could be done on their relationship outside of the romantic reading, which is kind of a shame

#when i read through i spent a lot of time trying to understand if marci saw her as an equal or as a younger friend she had to take care of #this started from her comment about how 29yo is “a child” and falin is younger than that #and then the scene in the bathroom which is very loved by the shippers #it felt a lot like falin understood the implications and marci didn't yk #i read that and it just felt like they were failing to communicate bc marci just couldn't see falins body as something she should be #embarrassed about #very mom with a child behaviour #same in the bed falin mentioned growing up and marci said it was just the same #doesn't it imply she still sees her as a kid? #there's that time in the backstory of when she first met laios and how she treats falin like a kid who can't make her own choices too #like she tells laios off for taking her away and then tells her she'll take her back to the academy like falin isn't #perfectly able to choose for herself #extremely “mom knows best” of her?? #there's a lot of moments like that #then there's also everything that could be said about falin being marcis first friend and what it means for her to die #like...if you just call it romance it goes to undermine a bigger issue in marci's character imo? #like marci went to those lengths just cause she's in love with her but i think the point is that this was yet another person she lost before #she was ready to let her go? her character arc culminates in her accepting that falin might just be dead after all #and even with the possibility of falin being reborn she was ready to be taken away by the elves and never see her again #this is incredible growth for her but it only makes sense if falin was just one of many friends this could have happened with #and not the love of her life? I'd assume she would want to spend the rest of falins life with her if that was the case #whether or not she got over her fear of everyone dying before her #it's a thought! i think it's interesting to think about! #it's fun to ship them so I'm not saying we shouldn't or whatever but not treating it as canon now and again would open #to so many possibilities #for example I can't get out of my brain the scenario in which falin is in love with her and marci just can't see it until it's too late #kind of like himmel and frieren? think of the angst!! all lost because we just assume they're canon......tragic

[pcktknife]

me(annoying) looking at nimbasa trio art where the twins r taller than elesa(inaccurate)

#luv seeing them together but girlie is 6'2 and i hate to see that taken away from her #when i see submas is pokemon masters do i gasp at their heights? no but elesa should leave me mouth agape #and if shes not shes too short #i wont say anything obvi ill enjoy the art regardless i love seeing them just a teeeeny voice at the back of my head going hm #kae.txt #submas brain real active tonight huh

[wizardnuke]

you can take the caleb out of the volstrucker program but you can't take the volstrucker program out of the caleb.the point of it all

#ill write the whole thing later. gotta do that assignmence. but for now #he is never getting away from it. he never really meant to . professor at soltryce ffucking academy? are you kidding mee? #caleb handshake beau. willingly walking into the organizations that hurt them . it's kind of different for them . but kind of not because. #well. soltryce/the assembly fucked caleb up real bad. the cobalt soul should never have taken beau and it took a long time for her to #get support/have those wrongs righted. not the same scale but like. waagh . you know. anyway. the way that they knew that they #were never getting out of there and getting out was never the point.hhhbbbh. the other meta isnt fully about that . the other meta is #campaign era caleb behavior and volstrucker behaviors. different but not. he is never getting out and he never meant to #caleb weaponizing his training both against the assembly and essek. beau weaponizing her training against the cobalt soul (via rightfully #speaking out abt the circumstances that brought her there) and using that Search For Justice to rightfully call people out. and quietly #gather info . which caleb also does. #fjord the charismatic (persuasive and friendly) face of the party and caleb who knows how to play a part and beau who knows how to #keep watch. and remember. #charisma stats r craazy . beau's is lower than i thought but it's a wis thing actually . the way wis and cha are intertwined from an rp #standpoint.. the way those three bounce off each other but also like specifically beau and caleb the dynamic duo

[talentforlying]

also forgot to post about it yesterday, but i have designated december 2nd as constantine's official catch-up day with his niece gemma!! they don't see each other often since she "quit magic for good" (or is very good at pretending she has) but the holidays are a hard time for them both and it's too awkward to explain every year why you avoid your last living relative, so they've agreed on early december for an annual short dinner and chat. sometimes they call on christmas day, but they never meet up; neither of them wants to do christmas without cheryl.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #constantine's holiday timeline is very upsetting to me personally :') #his sister was his sanctuary from the life of magic and loneliness and she was taken away from him #and now not only is every holiday season this massive gap in his life where a brief moment of peace should be #but it's an active and painful reminder of what he's lost. and what he's cost his niece #and i think gemma's still resentful of john's failure to save her but she still loves him. and he still wants to be in her life #so this is their compromise. not acknowledging the anniversary of cheryl's death. not faking it through a holiday #dinner and a chat at the top of the month and a reminder that he's a phone call away whenever she wants him around #and then he fucks off to ireland for the pagan festivities until the new year #cos he only really did christmas for gemma and his sister in the first place lmao he'd rather be around the Magic #( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE.