#the leaves have been cut off

[scullys-scalpel]

Customers say the darndest things

#why are they like this #i had a lady tell me the beets are supposed to be cut at the bottom #and I was like um maam im the produce manager and that's how they come in #they are beek bu the bulk not the bunch #the leaves have been cut off #any way i swear I'm a nice person lol #random text post

[bitchthefuck1]

The thing that really kills me about Logan is that his kids are disappointing and ultimately unfit to be CEO, and it's not just that they're like that because he made them like that, but that they're like that because he wants them to be that way.

For all his talk about them being spoiled or coddled and his rant in the S3 finale that getting cut out of running Waystar is their chance to "be your own man" and build something themselves, he has spent the entire show actively undermining any attempt of theirs to do that. Shiv stays out and works in politics, but as soon as she joins a big campaign that could actually distinguish her from her family, he tells her he wants to make her CEO. He offers to buy Kendall out of his shares, but as soon as Kendall tries to take the offer and cut himself out, he refuses. He says he wants them out of the business and doing their own thing, and then as soon as they start actually doing that and buy Pierce, he tries to get Roman back.

The fact of the matter is that as much as he might claim to want a "real" heir, what he really wants is to never need one and for his children to stay children: incomplete, incapable, and under his thumb.

#something something the purpose of a system is what it does #i feel like the 'they are the way he made them' thing is pretty self evident and understood but it's important to distinguish that it's not #just a question of him being bad at raising kids or that he just can't produce the outcome that he wants: he is 100% producing the #outcome that he wants he's just lying about what that outcome is. he doesn't want them to be their own people or worthy of the position #because that would mean he wouldn't be able to control them and (more crucially for him) it would mean he'd have to give up control #of waystar. he doesn't want a legitimate successor because he doesn't want to be succeeded. he wants to deny his mortality and stay #in his spot forever. if his children grow up that means he has to grow old. if he can keep them trapped in childhood forever then he 'has #no choice' but to stay in power because he couldn't possibly leave it to them could he? they're not ready. it's a kindness to keep the #burden of the crown to himsef. #like imagine for a second if he did have a kid who was a perfect CEO candidate and exactly what he claimed to want. do you #really think he'd step aside and let them rule? #or would he see them as a threat and try to find some other way to cut them off at the knees and sabotage them the way he's been #doing with his other kids this whole time. #logan roy #kendall roy #connor roy #shiv roy #siobhan roy #roman roy #succession

[greenerteacups]

given that vol 3 is titled “son and heir”, is it safe to say that we’ll be getting some more background on the black sisters and lucius? there’s tons of juicy throwaway lines in book 4 that describe how they were at hogwarts that i’ve been hoping will be expanded on eventually.

two words: oh BOY

#ladies and gentlemen and fans of the house of black may i kindly invite you to strap the fuck in #for a book that might as well be called: 'How The Black Family Pyschodrama Fucked Two Whole Generations of Wizarding Politics' #fellas did you ever parent so badly you started TWO WARS? #better question. did you ever participate in social systems of oppression in a way that poisoned you even as you benefited from them? #did you ever cut off your own right hand to teach the left it couldn't leave you? #did you ever kick something you loved and then stand at the doorway for the rest of your life waiting for it to come back? #have you or your loved one ever been involved in an extenuated orpheus/eurydice metaphor? #if your name is NARCISSA BLACK you may be entitled to financial compensatio—

[annabolinas]

May 18, 1536 - Anne's Last Confession and "A Little Neck"

"This morning, she [Anne] sent for me that I might be with her at such time as she received the good Lord [i.e. the Eucharist], to the intent I should hear her speak as touching her innocence … In the writing of this, she sent for me. And at my coming, she said, 'Master Kingston, I hear say I shall not die before noon, and I am very sorry therefore, for I thought then to be dead and past my pain.' I told her it should be no pain, it was so subtle. And then she said, 'I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck', and put her hand about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men and also women executed, and … they have been in great sorrow. And to my knowledge, this lady hath much joy and pleasure in death." - William Kingston, Constable of the Tower, to Thomas Cromwell, May 18, 1536

"She confessed and took the Sacrament yesterday. No one ever showed more courage or greater readiness to meet death than she did, having ... begged and solicited those under whose keeping she was to hasten the execution. When orders came from the King to have it delayed until today, she seemed sorry and begged and entreated the governor of the Tower ... for God's sake, to go to the King, and beg of him that, since she was well disposed and prepared for death, she should be dispatched immediately. The lady in whose keeping she has been sends me word, in great secrecy, that before and after her receiving the Holy Sacrament, she affirmed, on peril of her soul's damnation, that she had not misconducted herself so far as her husband the King was concerned." - Eustace Chapuys, May 19, 1536

#tudor era #tudorerasource #dailytudors #perioddramaedit #natalie dormer #the tudors #anne boleyn #thomas cranmer #william kingston #merle oberon #the private life of henry viii #genevieve bujold #anne of the thousand days #the six wives of henry viii #dorothy tutin #claire foy #wolf hall #An incredibly famous moment #like Jeopardy made an anniversary post about it a few yrs ago on their social media!! #but how heart-wrenching her last day on earth must have been #cut off from everything and everyone she loved #condemned to die an unjust death #and leaving behind her defenseless 2 1/2 yr old daughter #*sobs* #at least she found solace in prayer and got to proclaim her innocence #anneboleynedit

[theghostofashton]

rewatched 1x09 and one of the things that hit hardest for me was owen and tk's conversation, with the added context of 3x16. because we now know that owen was talking about not having left physically, the way his dad did, while tk was talking about owen leaving emotionally, choosing the family he rebuilt at the 252 over gwyn and tk. and i think what gets me about this is the 3x16 of it all, the way owen was determined not to repeat his dad's mistakes, but how he inadvertently did (for reasons mostly beyond his control). the way we can accidentally hurt our loved ones without meaning to, the way that hurt isn't intentional and isn't malicious but is painful, nonetheless. owen didn't set out to leave but tk felt like he grew up without a dad. owen did the best he could but tk still has to deal with the ramifications. it's so incredibly human and one of the things this show does really well, imo, how complicated and messy relationships often are. people not realizing, not knowing, causing pain nonetheless, but it never being out of a lack of love.

#what's also so interesting is s1 seems to have owen reference 9/11 a lot #like in this scene when tk starts to talk about what he felt growing up owen cuts him off and reminds him of the first responders that died #he gets super defensive #but as the seasons go on he starts admitting he made mistakes and hasn't been a perfect dad #like he's coming to terms with it with this distance with leaving nyc and settling in in texas #idk just kinda fascinating to track having watched s4 #also lol i remember being so mad at owen in this scene when i first watched it like let tk speak!! #but now with 3x16 context we have a clear understanding of where owen was coming from and his reaction makes total sense i love it #911 lone star #911 ls meta

[simgerale]

me after attempting to get back into sims and realizing i had a lot more to do than play the game

#hi everyone #I’m going around hugging you all #okay now that we are gathered here today #i will simply acknowledge that i have been gone for a very long time and then also acknowledge that maybe it was for the best #i relied on sims to be my only creative activity even if i tried to write a book at the same time #and also. i prioritized sims over real life responsibilities. that’s just a deadly combination lol #but I recently noticed I just replaced sims with Netflix. with YouTube. with anything that gave me quick dopamine #literally became addicted in a sense. still am but I’ve been cut cold turkey from most everything #I get off work and go. okay I’ve done the dishes and the laundry……..I could read or write or bake…. #I try to write and sometimes i get a good hour #then I read for a few hours and then get tired of it #and I made cookies Tuesday so I’m waiting for those to be gone before baking again #I’m just so pitiful that I feel BORED and don’t know what to do #so I said….. okay what if I do sims for an hour. #I downloaded some new cc Tuesday and tried to play yesterday #y’all ……………….. I can’t find the energy anymore to set up elaborate scenes and pose my sims and plan posts #I said wow… this is boring without my intervention and fake story #I said wow…….. all this for what? for tumblr? yes I created cool things and provided joy. but is that inherintly important compared to my #own joy? my own everyday activities I should be doing? #y’all I do not leave the house unless we got out to eat or shop or travel to our parents #.. I have little desire to. I’m trying to find that desire #but my husband is busy with grad school and work and I don’t want to do anything by myself #I’ve found myself in one heck of a slump #I didn’t want to be human for awhile. just had no desires no interests no ambitions #I was slacking off SO HARD at work. I just had no drive to do well #I’m still working on it. I’m still trying to get caught up. I’m still trying to force myself to move every day. #but I am struggling y’all. and I can tell you that sims… sims isn’t helping rn but I want it to so bad. I want to get back into it #I didn’t mean to disappear on everyone. I got married and then life got busy and then I fell into this hole of nothing #I didn’t even WANT to crawl my way out. but my husband has helped a lot. I feel like such a child!!!! #I reached max tags. 🙃 bye love you all. till next time

[sqlmn]

Lightning, water, and fire! Like forever before the plot starts. By the time the plot starts, the lightning and fire deities have been subjected to punishment by the two gods that picked them.

Oh (the fire deity) is first to be punished. They basically decide that since they're going to live for a long time, gotta set some long time goals! And they opt to be the wrath of the gods since most of the other deities are too 'soft' in their opinion. So Oh just. Smites humans. This isn't really a /good/ thing and in their defense mentally, they do it to help Ymber since he's the softest of them all. So their punishment by the gods is to be split in two, effectively halving the power of one into two. (Now they are in a male and a female body and use both male and female pronouns apart since they together make they but apart it feels weird to be they. But prior to the split they use they/them. Also the split bodies go by the names Ohiwe and Ohime.)

Fulj is the second to be punished. She falls in love with a mortal woman and that is a crime according to the gods. Mortals and immortals are not to be together and it will only bring suffering to both sides. So her punishment is her memories of the woman are stripped and her body basically broken to the point she can't remain physical all the time.

Ymber, unfortunately, is the one who blames himself for the discoveries and punishments. If he had only tried to restrain Oh more then maybe they would have chilled out and stopped before being punished. If he had only tried to persuade Fulj to not continue seeing the mortal woman so often perhaps she wouldn't have been punished. So he's just increasing the guilt on his shoulders every day that he remains unpunished since the elder gods have both laid down to rest. They can't enforce their laws anymore and none of the deities are keen on harming one another at this point. They just want to continue existing in peace.

#the daily life of a deity sucks #and then ymber falls in love with a human and is like welp this sucks and i understand fulj now #i also would have accepted the punishment for this #and fulj doesnt even remember the woman she was punished for and doesnt remember how she was before #so she is like hey ymber please just go and kiss the weird human i dont even like him but youre being mean by not kissing him #and ymber is just having the worst time of his life being encouraged by someone who used to be so happy #who he also encouraged to be happy once upon a time #also ohiwe and ohime pop up in the water city to bully ymber sometimes but its still in the way of #dude we like you please grow a spine its been a thousand years please grow a backbone and tell us to piss off #and he never tells them to piss off #also fulj has a long braid here but you cant really see it #and she loves to braid ymbers hair and he gets to braid hers when shes giggling and chatting about love #and a short while after the punishment fulj chops the braid off and ymber is like welp my friend is officially gone #and then he cuts his own hair and leaves to go develop his city alone in seclusion #and he sometimes just cuts it really short because hes still sad and soggy and thinks of fulj braiding his hair #and then she shows up one day when hes debating how long its getting and she smiles #and tells him he looks good with longer hair #so he kinda keeps it a messy short then it gets to be medium and he decides he can survive with medium but he couldnt do long again #but once again fulj is the reason for his life choices (and guilt) #also before anyone asks yes all the deities have a collar #its very important actually that they are collared its lore information thanks #and for what it matters - after oh is split both forms are just as tall #theres just two of them at half power but they are both tall

[mattodore]

very slowly getting somewhere with ria... also fangs <3

#river dipping #alessandria zeferino #lykos #ts4 #bc of this messed up body preset taking screenshots of them in cas is definitely gonna be relegated to just closeups #this was their old hair from when i first made them back in 2022... i kinda wanna bring it back i think #they had super long hair from how long they'd been shifted after they traumatically ascended to the alpha... #they probably don't get it all cut off until dionte joins the pack #and mmmmm... these are only temporary scars!! i will definitely be making my own scars for them like i'm doing with matthias #ocs gotta have this stuff customized to me #also the reflection of the moon in their eyes…. mmmyeah i had to do that. i kinda want to add it to delphi and dionte’s sims now too. #werewolf ocs…. grabs them. shakes them. #but anyway… this is where i’m leaving off on their sim tonight 👍 #i’m going to read and finally go through my activity from earlier #and maybe edit a bit on these mattodore pics from the other day #tomorrow i will be back in cas toiling away for their sim 🧎 #their jawline… i need to figure out how to get it looking like how i want #without them having a huge chin #and without the mxao making everything look weird

[lotus-pear]

game night at valt's house is always fun🤡👍

#the beyblade brainrot isn't leaving guys ig you're stuck with my childhood hyperfixiation for a while now #yes daigo isn't here because i can't draw him cry about it #i'll do you justice one day king😔 #shu is always out of the loop on what goes on because he shares the collective group brain cell and can't comprehend the unfathomable shit #that is constantly going down #shu has also been voted the banker in monopoly by majority because wakiya and rantaro always fight over it #when shu isn't busy trying not to lose his mental stability he's babysitting valt #wakiya also has no mercy in uno and will +8 you and color change to blue (which no one ever seems to have irl) #anyway yeah this is what they do on their days off in s1 which we never got to see bc it got canceled due to budgeting cuts #this is 100% totally canon you can ask hasbro if you want they actually animated this fr👌 #beyblade burst #lotus draws #shu kurenai #valt aoi #rantaro kiyama #wakiya murasaki

[wowa-bublord]

"Give me more women who are fucked up in media. Give me more morally gray women" yall couldn't even handle lapis lazuli from steven universe

#i don't know if this version has been done b4 but how lapis lazuli is misinterpreted makes me want to rip my hair out #“lapis lazuli was jaspers abuser” “Lapis lazuli could have just not fused with her” #THE FIRST THING SHE DID WHEN JASPER FOUND HER AFTER THE WRECKAGE WAS TRY TO FLY AWAY!!!! #Jasper physically grabbed her and pulled her back!! #Even jaspers words about fusing #the “just say yes.” line #Lapis is put in a situation where Jasper implies she can just leave #while Jasper physically holds her in place #and cuts her off from outside support #the gems #from reaching her!!!! #if you think lapis is an abuser and jasper is her victim you are dumb and i hate you one billion years #i am accepting 2 the idea that jasper is an equally complicated character but to claim Lapis is an inherently abusive and evil person is #a very meanspirited argument and also very victim blamey #and don't even get me STARTEDDD on how people interpret her dynamic with peridot 2 claim her as an abuser U KNOW NOTHINNGGGGG!!!!!! #Abuse mention in tags #abuse mention

[bunnihearted]

🌧️🫧💭

#i shouldnt have fav mutuals bc i get sooo sad when they soft block me #which *always* happens like im not joking the day will come when they're just like nahhh bye #🥲🥲 nd i cant help but get sad #nd i dont even agree w that anon who said that 'no wonder everyone blocks u' bc im never mean to anyone #i think it's just bc im fundamentally unlikable and unlovable and the time will come when smth abt me #ticks them off nd nothing abt me is ever tolerated i always have to be perfect for everyone so then i just get cut off like dead weight lmao #also it shows that i get attached so easily but in reality ... ppl are not at all as attached to me 💀💀 #like i care abt them but they dont care abt me nd it makes me feel so stupid #why do i so easily care for ppl?????? why do i have to care nd like ppl when it's always gonna end the same way #me being me is bad nd wrong and nobody could ever truly know me nd still like me #i have to live my life constantly hiding parts of myself and making sure im not too authentic or too open bc then i will make ppl dislike me #it rlly is that. im never mean. i never fight. ppl just see smth abt me nd go 'oh ewwwwww' nd then leave #nd if it hasnt already happened it will at some point nd im constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop #whenever i realize i say or did smth wrong im tense waiting for the moment where they'll leave me will arrive #ok this might sound silly bc i was like 'triggered' by smth small but like #all my life thats just how it's been. im not even mean or cruel. i just exist and ppl dont like me or who i am or what i think #i can never be truly myself anywhere. that is sure to result in being all alone 4ever. but i dont like hiding parts of myself #but i have to. but its hard when im trying to hide nd be lowkey but i still manage to make ppl dislike me T-T #idek what im supposed to do bc i just exist nd im not likable. i try to be that but im still not. idk what to do #anyway.. who cares.. j'appartiens seul #but yeah it is bc it's like this for me all the time nd ig that triggered me lmao #i mean just w my sisters.. their issue is just who i am. my personality. i havent been cruel to them. or bullied them. or put them down #they just get irritated from my personality nd who i am. thats what makes them mad. nd they kinda want me to just stop being me nd idk how #to do that and therefore we arent even talking. havent talked for a year #i wanna cry like????? what am i supposed to do??????? im so extremely fucking horrible that just by exisiting nd not being mean or cruel mak #es me unworthy of everything. idk idk like. omg i feel so stupid for being triggered by that #maybe if i had irl friends and a job and a life i wouldnt care but im a fucking loser failure worthless good for nothing idiot. ofc im this

[n0brainjustvibes]

"Mannequin's trial demands that a candidate changes themselves, and that it be hard."

here [throws a S9!Toga lore snippet at you and runs]

#plea.mse ignore the hand positioning it's late icant figyre out anatomy #my girl #yeh she cuts her face off #i ahve. thematic Reasons. fort his #mainly like #her whole desperation to be more like the ppl she loves hints at a dissatisfaction with/disconnection from her own identity #and why wouldn't she be dissatisfied with it? #it got her shunned and branded a villain before she even did anything yk #anyways this just amplifies/literalises that #(since jack would definitely prey on it) #and represents how the trials entrap you in the 9 by leaving you with nothing to go back to. #no identity outside 'the nine's changer/trump' #no self that hasn't been stripped away by trauma #and now LITERALLY she cannot have a civ ID without drinking other people's blood (i.e. the thing she/the 9 use to motivate her killings) #she is marked forever. which kind of happens yknow. the s9 trials are designed to force you to do unforgivable stuff #so heroes would arrest or kill you on sight and you CAN'T leave the 9 even if you want to #also her infatuation with being 'cute' leads me to think that losing her 'cute' face WOULD be hard for her! similar to cherie #so uhhhm. #toga himiko #(i'm sorry ;-;) #wormblr #vibes art

[fembutchboygirl]

I just learned something so incredibly fucked up

#i am trembling #i cannot let this enable my issues with paranoia further! haha! oh my fucking god #im not joking btw im literally physically trembling. how did this happen oh god oh GOD nononono dont let it get to you #i just need to know. was someone like. double dealing? was someone telling him about it #i wouldnt give a shit if they were stalking me online occasionally (well id care a little bit but honestly itd just be kinda fucked) #but if someone was telling him about me and my personal stuff? #stop. i dont want to think about it. i dont want to think it happened. i have to get this out of my head #but still. absolutely fucking deranged. #ESPECIALLY bc apparently he's been saying i “made him think he was abusive'' and that doing that was shitty of me bc he actually #just has bpd?????? #sol if you're reading this listen closely: one of my best friends has bpd. diagnosed and everything. so shut the fuck up #much like you've been saying i blamed my adhd for being neglectful (read: not meeting your sky-high standards for Truly Loving You 24/7) #you cannot blame your bpd for what a shit person you've been #repeatedly asking you to work on a flaw that's been hurting me is not telling you you're abusive you fucking prick #get a life‚ learn to care about other people away from what they can do for YOU‚ #and LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. #p.s. imagine being mad that people who were friends with both you and your partner didnt suddenly cut the other one off after you broke up #like actually angry at these people. what the actual fuck. you're like a divorced parent upset that their child still talks to their ex-wife #my posts

[angelmichelangelo]

do i. do i get a turtle tattoo 😳

#ive been wanting one for SO long now and im gonna cut my hair all off in a few weeks and i kinda wanna just have a big change #especially since im leaving my job #it’d be subtle. just a lil thing but also i wanna get over my fear of tattoos and just get it done #actually if anyone has any turtle tats i wanna see!!! please :3

[flufflecat]

pov you're any of the baldurs gate villains and you look outside your evil tower to see this standing at the gates waiting to slaughter your entire army

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate #look out everybody. a real heartthrob is comin through #I'm obsessed with my companions trying to do some romantic cutscene and profess their love #and then the camera cuts to my character standing there blankly in this outfit #and then I reject them. you just got rejected by a certified clown. how does it feel #I'm doing a no romance run bc my character is aroace and the companions just won't leave me be #my girl is just too gosh darn desirable #her name is Kyllü btw #she's a recreation of my first dnd character <333 #I've been wearing the blazer of benevolence since act 1 even though I'm not playing a bard and therefore its useless #I took off a much more useful helmet to put on the no-effect cap and bells instead #and then of course we've got the helldusk boots to pull the whole look together #I can't get over the fact that enemies keep inviting me into their evil towers and camps and fortresses though #I have a 100% invited-in/slaughtering-everyone ratio #I'm gonna start passing out flyers to the bad guys to give them a fair warning of the mistake they're about to make #gortash just invited me to his inauguration so guess who's next on my list #bg3 tav #kyllü Swifly #ocs #fluffle art

[cicadaknight]

bless all the fic writers running with the subtext that tekotteh was a blatantly manipulative shithead to kotallo long before he sent him to the kulrut

#exiling your (basically) adopted son because you feel threatened by his success doesn’t just come out of nowhere #how long was that piece of shit cutting away at kotallo’s autonomy and worth #while simultaneously making him feel special and powerful #ouch #the more i read the more i want to throw tekkoteh off his beloved boulder wall #hfw #goddd okay i’m not done #thinking about how difficult it must have been to trust any authority figure or peer ever again #but also needing to prove himself so badly #and so desperately wanting a leader (and father figure) he could give everything he gave tekkoteh #and hekarro/the marshals/escorts/chaplains slowly building him back up and setting him at ease #IM UNWELL #Okay but THEN #losing so many marshals and his arm #and facing that same feeling of exile and betrayl again #AHHHHHHHHHHH #and hekarro still loving him and believing in him #and loving him enough to let him leave with aloy to find himself again #GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH #i love these characters so fuckin much #h #goddammit i wish the mobile app let you edit tags #my fingers are so clumsy #lmao i’m back not a minute later with more rambling #going absolutely feral for hekarro and the marshals touching kotallo in a way that makes him feel safe and respected #and him slowly understanding that touch can be genuine and unmotivated by power or pressure #because as we’ve established tekkoteh is a piece of shit #and likely used or withheld his warmth and affection to manipulate kotallo #FUCK #my notes