#the person who actually reads this nonsense is a saint

[tfc-does-arts]

OUTDATED DESIGNS!

My anthro Scugs!! + Enot/Inv/???

I'll leave design and personality notesnotes under the read more!! :D Hope ya'll like my takes on the scuggies hehe.

MONK - (He/They)

Monk is known for being kind and willing to jump after their loved ones, so I decided to sort of make it look like they're the last scug that would do that. He's very family-oriented.

His more closed-off appearance is purposeful, I view Monk as a scug that takes a bit to come out of his shell.

He's very cute and gets very flustered pretty easily when someone compliments him.

His clothes were made by Gourmand.

SURVIVOR - (They/Them)

The glaringly obvious prosthetic leg is also on purpose. Survivor's fall was very bad, and it resulted in their leg becoming infected to the point it needed to be amputated, from the ankle down.

They're actually dating a scavenger, and that scavenger is the one who was there for them through the procedure, and even had a hand in crafting the new leg. It's modeled after a scavenger leg.

Their folded ear is due to a bite from a lizard that tore off a good chunk, leaving it floppy.

HUNTER - (It/They/She)

The scar on their throat has left them a selective mute. It doesn't mind all that much.

Its clothes were made by No Significant Harassment, for ease of letting other Iterator Messengers, if they were to ever happen upon her, to know who she was created by.

It's very no-nonsense, and takes its job very seriously. When not assigned a task, they're often seen pacing back and forth, or hunting.

GOURMAND - (He/They/She)

I knew from the get go I wanted him to be BIG.

The pearls around his neck were gifts from scavengers. They wear them with pride and have in fact made pearl necklaces and bracelets for the scavengers as well.

She's the motherly matriarch of the scug population in the outer expanse, and teaches them all what she knows.

ARTIFICER - (She/It)

YEEEEEEEHAW

She's SO fucking pissed off it's not even funny.

She refuses to leave the metropolis, even after chasing out the scavengers. She was unlucky in her attempt to kill the scavenger chief, as he ran off as soon as she started trying to kill him.

It's been so long she doesn't even recognize her own species anymore, killing with no remorse.

SPEARMASTER - (They/It)

No bottom jaw, and only their upper canines developed.

Often seen exploring around, often with Hunter when it's time to hunt.

RIVULET - (Anything)

This scug wears nothing but a swimming suit and not even he knows why. It just likes it.

It's actually almost as tall as spearmaster, lanky legs are good for running after all.

They talk FAST, often needing to be reminded to slow down a bit so the others can hear her.

Somehow always wet regardless of the environment.

SAINT - (He/Him)

GRANDPA.

I knew I wanted him to look extremely fuzzy.

His coat was crafted using a raindeer's wool, and it's helped keep him warm in the event of a blizzard.

I also wanted to make it look like he has many old man secrets under that coat. Tell us your secrets old man.

The beard was a must. I needed to give him a beard.

ENOT/INV/??? - (He/Him)

Yeah this dude it just a being that the gods want dead.

No matter what way anyone faces, his snout will never be front-facing.

He speaks in 2000's scene, and can somehow say emojis as well.

LOVESICK. AS. FUCK.

Will often attempt to match the hobby of a scug of the day he's crushing on.

Kind of a dick to Monk tbh. Surv has kicked his ass about it.

#my art #rain world #rain world anthro #rain world art #rain world downpour #rain world slugcat #rain world monk #rain world fanart #rain world survivor #rain world hunter #rain world gourmand #rain world artificer #rain world spearmaster #rain world rivulet #rain world saint #rain world enot #rain world inv #rain world ??? #rw slugcat #rw monk #rw survivor #rw hunter #rw gourmand #rw artificer #rw spearmaster #rw spoilers #rain world spoilers #rw downpour #rw rivulet #rw saint

[lassieposting]

S&B Characters + Sleep Headcanons

Aleksander Kirigan doesn't get a lot of sleep. He claims it's because he's an incredibly busy man, and that's often true - long hours are basically part of his job description - but in truth it's just as likely to be any of a dozen other things keeping him from his bed; nightmares, occasional merzost headaches, intrusive thoughts, the ghosts of fuck-ups past, the relentless stress and worry of trying to keep Ravka's borders secure with dwindling funds and forces. Over the centuries he's learned to bury himself in his work to avoid his demons, and he's become one of those people who's perfectly functional on four hours of sleep, considers six a lie-in, and will sporadically go days at a time without sleeping when he's not doing well.

For most of his life, he's been immensely wary of falling asleep beside a lover - there are few worse ways to discover your bed partner was just out to kill you for bone jewelry than waking up mid-assassination attempt. If he's keen enough on them to not have them leave after a casual encounter - say, Zoya - he'll usually stay with them until they fall asleep, and then get up and go quietly do some work or read until morning. He's willing to adapt, though, for the right person - Nikolai and Alina can both settle him enough to stay with them all night. The trick, as it turns out, is playing on his touch starvation; on the rare occasion he finds someone he can actually trust, he likes to be held, and affectionate little gestures like playing with his hair or scritching his stubble or massaging his shoulders will melt him and flick his OFF button real fast. He's surprisingly cuddly, though he'll swear blind that he just gets cold easily and Alina and Nikolai both run hot.

Nikolai Lantsov is very tactile and affectionate in general, so when he's sharing someone's bed, he likes to cuddle. Like most soldiers - and kings who have survived more assassins than anyone should ever have to - he's a light sleeper, but he also drops off easily, the legacy of learning to get his head down wherever and whenever he can in an active warzone. He likes to sprawl out over or wrap himself around his lovers, and he does a lot of idly playing with hair or repetitive stroking up and down random stretches of skin, almost like he's self-soothing by comforting someone else.

He's been known to react to things happening around him while still asleep - pulling Alina in against his chest if he feels her shiver, or rolling over to throw an arm over Aleksander and mumble easy, Sasha if he's having a bad dream. He has nightmares of his own - he spent his military service on the front lines, not safe in an officer's tent like Vasily - and he tends to burrow into the closest warm body for comfort, burying his face in Alina's chest or Sasha's shoulder to ground himself. Aleksander will almost always wake up for this and react, reassuring and resettling Niko. Alina, not so much.

Alina Starkov sleeps like the dead. Once she is out, she is Out, and she'll sleep through pretty much anything short of a bomb being dropped on the palace. For quite a while this actually frightens her - she worries she won't wake up in time if she's attacked - but Niko is a light sleeper and Aleksander startles awake if a butterfly sneezes in Novyi Zem, so once they're all sharing a bed she's perfectly safe to conk out like a light. She's always had very vivid dreams, but she doesn't remember them for long after she wakes, so she keeps a sketchpad by the bed so she can draw any ideas or lingering impressions she wants to hang onto after she wakes - a concept for a machine Nikolai might want to build, a kefta design Aleksander would look devastatingly good in, old memories from the war she needs to exorcise, random nonsense that makes no sense outside of the context of her dream. She's usually the last to wake - Aleksander and Nikolai are both military and ridiculously busy besides, so they're often up with the Saints-forsaken sun, but Alina loves a lie-in, and would much rather stay up late than wake early.

Mal Oretsev is used to taking turns on watch with other soldiers, so he tends to sleep in short bursts of a few hours at a time. This poses a challenge once he takes over the Volkvolny - he has a lot of extra time to sleep now that he didn't have before. He spends a lot of it painstakingly working his way through the collection of books in Sturmhond's - his - stateroom. If he's to play the role, he should probably have the knowledge, and he'd rather be able to pull his weight without getting in the crew's way. He enjoys the engineering manuals and seafaring tomes, but mostly uses the ones on statecraft to make himself doze off when his brain doesn't want to shut down and be quiet.

Genya Safin is a paranoid sleeper. Her bed is positioned and angled so she can watch the thin strip of light visible beneath her closed door, waiting for the old king's loathsome shadow to block out the glow from the other side. Long after his death, she'll wake and go rigid at the sound of footsteps in the hall. It takes her a while to actually let David into her bed, but when she does, she realises she finds him comforting, actually - he's so logical and steady that he can talk her down from even the worst of her dreams. He doesn't mind getting up to prove to her that her door is locked, or reassuring her nightly that the old king really is dead.

David Kostyk is That Guy. He talks in his sleep - quadratic equations and theories of immutability and assorted Fabrikator shop-talk. He gets up and wanders around sometimes - usually to and from his desk, but occasionally down the hall. At least once he's gotten up, put on a housecoat, double-checked the lock on the door for Genya, comforted her after a nightmare, and gone back to bed himself, having never really woken up in the first place. This is a known habit at the Little Palace, and has caused plenty of entertainment and consternation - he's "caught" Nikolai sneaking out of the Black General's chambers back when he was still the spare tsarevich, he's wandered into the war room at four-thirty in the morning to explain a prototype to General Kirigan, he's been found ambling about the kitchens barefoot. Everyone who tends to stay up late - Kirigan included - has kindly escorted David back to his own rooms at least once. His saving grace is that he's really quite particular about his pyjamas - they're Durast-made to feel heavy, like a weighted blanket, and he finds it difficult to drop off without the grounding sensation - so at least he's never gone sleepwalking in his birthday suit. He wanders a little less once he starts spending his nights with Genya - if she's resting her head on his shoulder, or has an arm draped over his chest, he seems to be reluctant to move her.

Ivan Kaminsky has night terrors, the kind that wake him screaming and thrashing and completely disoriented, trapped in his own blankets - the legacy of the front lines at the Fjerdan border over a century ago. As a younger man, fresh off the front lines with nothing to his name but a medical discharge from active duty, he'd often find himself seeking out General Kirigan, stumbling into his tent or the Little Palace war room pale and shivering and still in his sleep clothes, all terribly undignified. Kirigan never seemed to mind, really. It was an understanding of sorts, between old soldiers familiar with the lingering spectre of war. He'd give Ivan a cursory once-over - "Evening, Kaminsky." - pour him a drink, and push a stack of papers across the table to give him something to do. He misses it, sometimes, the long nights spent working in companionable quiet. But now the General spends his nights with the sun summoner and the puppy king who's been making eyes at him since he was a skinny princeling, and Ivan spends his with his Fedyor, who has a truly remarkable amount of patience for being woken up at all hours by all the flailing and yelling. Ivan still hates talking about his night terrors - Fedyor is too young to have ever fought in the campaigns that got Ivan his discharge papers, and Ivan is reluctant to place extra horrors on his shoulders - but Fedya would listen, if Ivan needed him to, and in the meantime, he'll regulate Ivan's heart rate and breathing for him, deactivate the fear centre of his brain and flood him with signals telling his brain he's close to sleep, until he really is.

Inej Ghafa likes to sleep in Kaz's office. Back when he first bought out her indenture and took her from the Menagerie, that was where she felt safest. Only one door, locked firmly behind him whenever he ventured down to the rowdy Club below, where the raised voices of drunken men made her feel sick with terror. Two windows, left open at her fearful request - exits, if she needed them. A comfortable leather couch. The scratch-scratch-scratch of Kaz's quill on paper. Jesper used to try to reassure her - no harm will come to you at the Crow Club, you're Kaz's - and a small, wounded part of her took that to heart. If her connection to Kaz Brekker kept her safe, this man who showed more interest in her blades than her body, then she would rest where he could see her, where that protection would be a physical, tangible thing. And he let her. Never complained, though she knows now what he's like about his privacy. Just let her curl up on his Chesterfield. Draped a blanket over her when it was cold.

She's not that terrified girl anymore. She has her own lodgings, with her own possessions, though she still has a nighttime ritual for safety - one final sweep of the building, checking her escape routes, jamming a chair beneath her door handle. But she's quite capable of protecting herself now. All the same, when she is injured or sick or has been summoned back to the Menagerie on business, she'll still climb through his window, breathe out a sigh of relief at the inevitable, unsurprised, "Hello, Inej," and make herself comfortable on the couch for the night.

Wylan Hendriks sleeps curled into a ball. He's spent his share of time on the streets of Ketterdam and that's how he's learned to do it - hugging his meagre bagful of possessions, threadbare blanket wrapped around him and it. In Jesper's room at the Crow Club, he likes to burrow under the blankets; he'll rest his head on Jesper's belly to sleep rather than his shoulder, so even his hair is covered. It muffles the sound drifting up from the club floor or the street outside in the evenings - the shouting, the drunken arguments and bitter insults tossed around like knives, anything that might remind him of - anyway. He tends to turn in fairly early compared to the other Crows - while he loves the music of the city's bars and even enjoys the camaraderie of watching Jesper gamble, closing time in most of Ketterdam peaks at around midnight, and that's about when all the socialising starts to get a bit much for him. The Barrel stays open late, and Kaz doesn't kick out his patrons until the early hours of the morning, so most of the Crows have become night owls by necessity. Wylan uses the hours between making his exit and Jesper finally coming to bed to decompress - compose, play his flute, experiment with chemicals, look at the books Jesper got him, the ones with all the pictures to tell him the fairytales. After a few incidents where Jesper bursting in drunk and noisy left Wylan...a little out of sorts...he's learned to knock, the same pattern every time, before he lets himself in, and it's always easier to uncurl a little and relax with Jesper holding him.

#sab headcanons #darklina #nikolina #darkolai #darknikolina #kanej #wesper #idk what the genya/david ship tag is #aleksander kirigan #nikolai lantsov #alina starkov #mal oretsev #fivan #ivan kaminsky #fedyor kaminsky #genya safin #david kostyk #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #wylan hendriks #i have not read the books #but hoo boy do i have Feelings about the show #sab

[beartrice-inn-unnir]

Forgot to actually ask you the questions when I queued your ask game! 1 & 5?

1. Who was the most important fictional character for you growing up?

Argh this one is really hard. After thinking about it for a few days, I think probably Keladry of Mindelan, from Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small quartet. Kel was all about resilience and love and patience and those were all traits I wanted to be able to share in my own life. She was a ‘grit your teeth and do it’ protagonist. She cared about pretty things. She had great friends. She was bi-cultural. She liked things without having them be her whole identity. She found a really great mentor. She liked people (romantically) but didn’t really want to do anything about it. All of those were things I either wanted or really understood.

Keladry of Mindelan ❤️

5. What real person you’ve read about has had the biggest impact on you?

This feel like a bit of a cop-out, but objectively? Saint Þorlák of Iceland. He lived in the 1100s in South Iceland and was the second saint canonized in Iceland and the only one officially recognized by the Catholic Church. (Jón had a wife and not enough miracles and Guðmundur was… Guðmundur.)

I spent a lot of time reading and writing and translating texts about Þorlákr for my degree several years ago. He was an interesting person, both in his own life and after it, but the impact on me had more to do with learning about how hard I can work and think. He seems to have been a very no nonsense guy, so I hope he would have approved.

#book asks #keladry of mindelan #protector of the small #tamora pierce #Þorlákr of iceland

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm in liquified disoriented tatters since the finale, but something I was meaning to say before this episode: I think Carpenter is like. 35, maybe 40, with a dash of "you look like shit" making people assume she's a bit older. the hunter siblings are absolutely teenagers as well.

also, a thought from the middle of the episode, before I was fully liquified:

At a certain point, Mercer wasn't much of a hunter anymore. She was just rabid.

[con't] Faulkner do you want to explain that thing you said to Mason. could you please. I don't. think I follow. faulkner

Incorrect! Carpenter is 45 at the bare minimum. I agree that at first (or second, or fifth) glance she looks older, but honestly she feels even older than that based on the fact that she has been keeping company with twenty somethings for the last two years. (Faulkner being max 22 and Paige being 28 at the outside.) Hayward is the only person in the whole cast who we might consider 'of an age' with Carpenter, and mostly because he's in his late thirties/early forties and prematurely aged by a steady diet of stress-smoked cigarettes, lies, deserved guilt, and paranoia.

"Mercer is rabid" fuck you that's a good line.

I do actually have reasoning for this! There's a great post in the silt verses tag calling out how nonsense it seems for Faulkner to snap at his faith no longer being illegal. Surely that's a good thing! Religious persecution is the reason Nana Glass is dead and Em drowned; the reason for Carpenter's parents being absent and Mason running his a private cult. Real religions have fought tooth and nail to be recognized by the state as legitimate; most modern people understand a lack of religious tolerance as bad and wrong. There's no reason to believe that this wouldn't color our readings of a podcast about fictional religions. What I think perspective ignores, is that---when it comes to TSV a religion's choice is not between "criminalization/persecution" and "recognition by the state/freedom." Instead, the existential question before every faith of the Peninsula and the Linger Straits is "criminalization" or "co-option". Your choices are either to be an enemy of the state, and operate under your own wild rules, however corrupt---or to throw your lot in with the government, and become yet another arm of the state trying to kill you. After all, it's the legitimate government tying sacrifices to trains, courting gods via test audience, letting dispassionate scientists discover your saints by scientific method with a body count. Stripping faith and narrative from your religion for the sake of power---like copper wire from the walls---is what the government does. And that's what I think Faulkner objects to. For good or ill, he is the most sincere believer in the Trawler-man that we know---his investment isn't in the Parish and its earthly power, the way Mason's is; he doesn't particularly care about its people, as Carpenter does. He believes in the absolutism of its god and his role as that god's prophet. No more, no less. Is this unreasonable, unhinged? Yes. But it does mean that Mason willing to sell out that divine absolutism for a seat at the Peninsulan table is an existential threat to Faulkner and everything he is. Hence: Murder.

#tsv spoilers #the silt verses #the one benefit of being immersed in catholic european history for a while #is reinforcing that ''this person genuinely in their heart believed this about god and they moved mountains for it'' is a valid motivation #you can in part explain historical motivations by power and control! that was there too. #but if you ignore how deadly seriously people took theological questions for large swathes of history #you will not understand history. #(......this probably applies to modern day too I just haven't read enough books to confidently assert as much)

[princeheir]

˙    🐍  profile .

BIRTH NAME :  severus snape. 

ALIAS  /  NICKNAME :  sev.

TITLES :  the half-blood prince.

AGE :  21.

DATE  OF  BIRTH : 01/09/60.

PLACE OF BIRTH :  english midlands.

BLOOD STATUS : half-blood.

RESIDENCE :  london.

EDUCATION :  graduated from hogwarts (slytherin, slug club).

OCCUPATION :  potioneer, aka, a potion maker. his prices do change on a whim but he is the best in the business.

SIDED : death eaters.

˙    🐍  personal details .

GENDER :   cis man.

SEXUALITY :  sees himself as an equal opportunity bloke, isn’t exactly labelled nor cares about sex that much.

FACECLAIM :  louis garrel.

TATTOOS :  the mark on his arm.

CLOTHING :  big & dark coats, suit and tie whenever he can, long & dark robes, green details here and there, snake skin, silver jewellery (especially earrings and rings). doesn’t modern fashion all that much.

HAIR STYLE :  long-ish black hair. a little oily (which he doesn’t like, but doesn’t know how to change).

POSITIVE  TRAITS :  loyal, proactive, intelligent.

NEGATIVE TRAITS :  cunning, cruel, closed-minded.

HOBBIES :  beyond journaling, he enjoys reading muggle books but will go out of his way to hide that. he is also passionate about gardening and foraging (especially for poisonous mushrooms). 

INSPIRATIONS :  henry winter, canon&fanon snape, that one two hour video essay about snape wives., also beth from the queen's gambit for the family dynamics (his dad did leave but he'd spend the hols at hogwarts and would barely be home during the summer, so snape didn't actually notice until his sixth year).

---- CHILDHOOD , all i know is you said hello and your eyes look like comin' home .

His is the story of the scorpion and the frog.

There was no love in the Snape household, neither was there warmth. Often enough, there was barely sound, only soft inhales from Eileen Prince’s lonely bedroom, — she never quite got used to her husband’s last name, carrying with herself the prestige of the Prince bloodline —, long parted from the sheer moments of honeymoon glory. Sometimes, if Severus was lucky enough, he’d hear the sound of his father’s keys turning on the door, only for it to be taken away in a matter of seconds, a new business trip waiting for the muggle salesman. It was a cliche, really. A saddened housewife and an unhappy traveling salesman, a love-story straight from the all-British muggle books.

Happiness was fleeting. And then it was not. With red, oh so lovely red, consuming the afternoons the young boy spent alone in the meadow. Lily bloody Evans, his best friend, his first love, the personification of laughter. And goodness. And warmth. She was everything he wasn’t, and everything he longed to be. In their few, stolen moments, there was no blood purity. There was only a boy. And a girl. And so much magic between them.

---- SCHOOL YEARS , i get mean when i'm nervous like a bad dog .

The dungeons were almost home. They were just as cold, just as unlived in, but they were loud. They lacked the meadow, — and in consequence they lacked his best friend’s blooming smiles —, but they were filled with ideals. They boomed in the winter and were awfully quiet with the arrival of the last month of school. Severus was lonely, and he was misguided. And, well, he was the perfect recipient to whatever nonsense other snakes were willing to sing in his ears.

And, Saint Merlin, he was so incredibly envious. The others had it all, had they not? Barty had the wealth, Regulus had the name, but Severus? He had the anger. He had excellent penmanship. He had a brain that refused to stop. He even had the means to respond to those idiotic pranks without ever tarnishing his own name. Who’d think the prince of potions would ever turn every Gryffindor tie into a snake? They weren’t even poisonous.

What he did not have, however, was Lily. No, that was propriety of the Gryffindors. Of the people who had loving parents, wealth, a future in the wizard world. She wouldn’t, couldn't choose him, and he had no choice but to help her discover that. He was cruel, and sometimes he was be downright evil. Because if not him, who? Who’d show those foolish lions what waited for them the second they’d step outside from the bounds of Hogwarts?

He did what he felt needed to be done, no matter how terrible it could be. There was no regret, no moment of sudden realization of how the mark in his arm would change everything for everyone. He wanted the wealth, he wanted the name. Sometimes he even wanted the fame.

---- CURRENT DAYS , cause cruelty lives in the movies .

It was clear something had changed inside of him. From the little boy who longed for connection to a man who destroyed everything he got his hands on. Although loyal, it became known Snape was inconsequential, brutal, and always a little too eager to fulfill a plan in the Dark Lord’s name.

When it comes to his work, however, Snape is known to be a man of equal opportunity. No matter your affiliation, if you have enough money (and courage) to look for his help, he’ll provide you with a top-notch solution for your afflictions. Not even Severus himself understands why he does that, why he’s so willing to put poison in the hands of members of the Order. Maybe he’ll never know.

[pebblysand]

Hello Pebbly,

Firstly I wanted to say sorry for the the hate you’ve been receiving lately. I just don’t understand why people would go out of their way to send death threats because they have a different opinion. It would be a different story if they weren’t allowed the option to be anonymous.

Secondly I wanted to ask a question about the new chapter of Castles. It was said Ginny only started her nightmares after Amycus died. Why do you think that is?

Lastly I’d like to say I adore your writing. Fan fiction or not, you truly have a gift and I’m so honoured that I get to read your beautiful stories

aw thank you anon, you're very sweet ❤️. although to be honest, i do think the issue goes beyond having different opinions, here. because the strangest thing is: i agree with these people 🤣. i fundamentally do also believe that trans rights are human rights. but i don't think that a) sending hate to people on the internet who do disagree with that affirmation is the solution to bigotry, and b) completely disengaging from fandom because of JKR's opinions is the way forward.

firstly, i agree. the fact that these people go on anon is evidence itself of the fact that they know what they're doing is idiotic. i understand being angry (i'm a gryffindor and an enneagram type 8, trust me, i really do), but obviously, all this does is relieve these people's urges for violent speech. it doesn't actually help any of the issues. and, that's fine, i guess if they feel better after dropping me these anons, then i'm happy for them. but, i doubt they do. i think a big part of being a gryffindor is learning where to take your outrage, and how to use it in ways that can make the world a better place. or else, the frustration just ends up eating you from the inside. this is not it.

additionally, as @copper-dust pointed out, fanfiction (and fandom in general) is one of the main ways to get the representation of marginalised groups that may be lacking in the source material. telling people to disengage is nonsensical. and, on a personal level, i must admit i don't relate at all with this trend we're seeing online of disengaging with any form of media (be it tv, books, etc.) that we, as a society, deem "problematic." if i had to cut out everyone i disagree with from my entertainment regimen, there wouldn't be much left. i mean... wait until these people find out like eminem, 🤣. it's hard to do more controversial than that.

personally, i think life is much more interesting when you engage with media critically and are able to use your brain to question the things you might see or read. i love eminem when he talks about fame and his daughter. i hate him when he talks about kim. there's a duality there that i find essential to my experience as a human on this planet. it's about understanding people are complicated and mostly exist on a spectrum. to tell you the truth, i don't necessarily believe in the idea of separating the art from the artist, but i do believe in engaging with art while remaining aware of who the artist is. reading things in a more educated and nuanced way.

i also must admit that i find this way of telling people: 'you mustn't read/watch/etc. [x] because the author is problematic' bizarrely moralising, and it gives me the ick. i grew up catholic and i find this attitude of 'i'm better than everyone else because i don't engage with problematic content' strangely reminiscent of saints and sinners. like: i claim the moral high ground. i am the saint. you are the sinner. and, well, good for you, i guess. i find sinning more interesting. i don't strive to be a role model, and i don't strive to live a perfect life. i'm not really keen on curating my experience of the world to the point that i end up living in a sterile echo chamber. that wouldn't be very interesting to write about and also, if we acknowledge the best in people, we must also acknowledge the worst - or else the good loses its gravitas.

by that same token, this also ultimately makes me "kid of fine" with the fact that these anons exist, in a strange way. they're not nice to get, of course, but i suppose they're allowed to disagree with me. i wish they wouldn't send me death threats about it, and it does make me angry that, doing this, they ultimately harm the people they claim to defend, but it is what it is. i don't think it's for me, as a non-elected individual representing no one but myself, to tell people what they should or should not think, and do or should not do. i do believe in the right of governments, through elected democracies, to regulate speech as a collective (the way certain countries have made racist speech or holocaust denial illegal), but i guess that's a different matter altogether. i wish people would get fined for expressing racist, transphobic, homophobic, murderous, hateful, etc. "opinions," but that is sadly not for me to decide.

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anyway, apologies for this digression, now onto your question.

It was said Ginny only started her nightmares after Amycus died. Why do you think that is?

i recently re-read this letter from robert and michelle king, the showrunners of the good wife (do not click this link under any circumstance if you have not watched TGW and intend to watch it someday, major spoilers in that letter) where they said:

'We’ve always taken as a guiding principle of this show that drama isn’t in the event; it’s in the aftermath of the event.'

i find this quote incredibly interesting, and it really resonates with me. i suppose as someone who basically 'grew up' (as a writer) on the good wife, it's probably a vision of drama and creative endeavours that has influenced me more than i had realised. after all, i am currently writing about the aftermath of a dramatic event (the war), and to be, that's where the fascinating material is.

i think there's a lot of that in the way ginny's trauma manifests in castles. a reference i also always think of (for castles as a whole, not for this specifically) is series four of peaky blinders where tommy goes on this shootout situation with the italians, manages to come out of it alive and arthur joke-warns him about the fact that he'll get the shakes later, when the adrenaline comes down. i'm interested in that: what it feels like when the shakes come and the adrenaline comes down.

i think for ginny, there's a lot of that: during the war, when she was being assaulted, she was in survival mode. keep your head down, try to survive, do what you have to do, worry about it later. then, she comes out of it and it's like: all that stuff that she's trying to ignore is coming back to haunt her. i actually headcanon that with the chaos of the aftermath of the battle, the press, the way the weasleys were sort of ushered out of hogwarts, having to bury fred, etc. it took her maybe a couple weeks to find out for sure that amycus was dead. i can sort of picture her trying to ask around (people in the order, the DA, etc.) without raising any suspicions and not being able to get a definite answer until the list was confirmed in the press. i think that's when she realises it really is over, you know?

first of all, she realises he is dead, that he won't talk, and that no one will ever find out. she's very worried about her parents, about hurting them, about how other people might see her, about harry - so that's a big relief. and, secondly, she realises that she is free. that he won't come back. and, i think, that is of course a huge weight lifted off her shoulders, but paradoxically it also allows her to let her guard down a little (let the adrenaline come down), and that's when the nightmares come crashing. i think she only get them then because it's the end of war-mode and the start of healing-mode.

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anyway anon, thanks again for your kind words, i'm so glad you enjoy my writing, and my apologies for taking advantage of your message to rant about Stuff. i hope you have a wonderful day ❤️

#asked and answered #castles

[weebsinstash]

Hi there. I’ve noticed you have been posting a lot of recs lately and was wondering if you could post a list of your overall top 5. Been looking for more stuff to read.

I sure could! I've been having a lot of fun reading all these new stories ^^ these are not in order of importance or anything and anything in the plot summaries either have defails that are revealed extremely early on or are minor minor spoilers

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1. Actually, I Was The Real One

Status: still in progress

Plot summary: Keira Parvis is the eldest and only daughter of the Parvis family, prophecized to become a Saint who can commune with the spirits and bring peace to the land, a role exclusive to her bloodline. She works diligently and devotes her entire childhood to working and studying hard to earn the attention and approval of her extremely distant emotionally absent father Ludwig, to no avail, becoming known to everyone as a no-nonsense, stone-faced prodigy who most are too intimidated to approach. Before her powers can manifest though, a young girl named Cosette comes forward and says she is the real daughter and that Keira is illegitimate, and Cosette displays her spiritual powers in front of everyone to prove it. Keira is immediately branded as a fake and a heretic fated to bring disaster and is set to be executed for treason. Cosette then appears in front of the gagged, imprisoned Keira, and happily tells her "actually you WERE the real one :)". Keira can do nothing as she is executed right in front of the city and her father Ludwig, who does nothing to stop it. With her soul travelling back in time before her execution, Keira vows to not only get revenge on Cosette and avoid her death, but to also live a happier life where she is not constantly trying to please her father who has done nothing but break her heart (end summary)

Oh my god this story. I think this one might be my favorite, which is tragic because it's either on hiatus or between seasons right now since it hasn't updated since spring 2022 (update! as I am coming back to this draft, the story actually began updating again a few days ago and I am so so SO excited and happy to see it continuing). The villain Cosette is infuriating and Keira is a strong competent and highly relatable lead. Since she spent so long trying to study and be perfect, she can be extremely socially awkward so this story is not only one of revenge and redemption, but also a sort of rebirth into a happier life. Keira starts making changes to how she lives and her personal journey is honestly really touching. She has never had friends or a boyfriend and she starts trying to be less lonely and it is honestly the most heart warming and cute thing ever. In the very beginning of the story, she tries to step down as the captain of the knights because she thinks people hate her and feel she weaseled her way into her position (because technically her position as captain is tradition for children of her family although she is also genuinely fully qualified enough to hold the position anyways), but after she gives a speech to the knights, saying she's sorry for making them uncomfortable, that the last thing she wanted to do was be a cold dictator who pushed people around, that she just took her job seriously, when she literally turns to leave all the knights together just burst into NO OH MY GOD NO WE HAD NO IDEA WE WERE IN THE WRONG PLEASE STAY CAPTAIN 🥺.

She starts forming friendships with her maids and one of them introduces her to a romance novel which she has never even read these kinds of stories before AND SHE STAYS UP ALL NIGHT READING IT LIKE A DORK. She tries to start dating and the first guy is so unbelievably sketchy you are just reading it SCREAMING through the monitor "BABY NO" because it's her first crush and she is so innocent oh my god 🥺

There's just. There's this scene that isn't even very plot significant but. She's sitting down at a garden party or something with all these other girls who are around her age and they all begin to laugh and tease her as they talk about marriage and it's like. She has friends now 🥺 Keira's character arc is not just about trying to save herself, but also growing as a person and finding out who she really is. This story is like watching your little sister grow up and im so happy it's still being continued

2. Father I Don't Want This Marriage!

Status: ongoing

Plot summary: a time travel story in a world of magic! Juvelia is framed for the poisoning of the princess and jailed and abandoned by her father who has been cold to her for her entire life, no matter what she does. Her father locks her up and gives her a knife before leaving without saying much more, and in a moment of pure panic, when the notoriously violent and cruel crown prince and brother of the princess is angrily approaching her cell, in the depths of her despair and with fears of being tortured, she kills herself and winds up travelling back through time. Can she use her knowledge of the future to avoid the same fate she had before, and why is her father suddenly acting so much differently?

My gosh this story gets so sad in places, but overall it's actually often very cute, wholesome, and comedic! The ML is green flags all around and is very cute and dorky once he realizes he loves Juvelia. He literally goes from realizing he loves her to fantasizing about marrying her and having kids together (his inner thought bubbles literally say something like "would just a boy and a girl be ok?" like, he legitimately wants to have a family with her 🥺❤). They are often represented as a white mouse and a black cat and I often find the symbolism and little jokes between them or the artistic humor used to be charming.

Also. My god. This is also one of those "my fiance cheated so im leaving him and going my own way" stories and her fiance Mikhail is literally destroying himself trying to get her back. He's so self centered and pathetic that when Juvelia leaves him he later on shows up at a party with another woman just to make her jealous, and when she doesn't care, he discards the other woman immediately, who then becomes one of Juvelia's friends because fuck that loser douchebag. His descent into insanity is a lesson in karma for sure

3. Wendy The Florist

Status: this one is actually fully completed! A rarity amongst manhwa tbh

Plot Summary: Olivia Haslett is an illegitimate daughter whose mother has passed away. She lives in her family's home with her father and his wife and daughter, the women scorning and abusing Olivia even though uhhhh it was the father who cheated??? Her entire childhood is lonely and miserable since her stepmother encourages her step-sister and servants to constantly abuse her while her pussy loser dad does nothing to stop it or even defend her in any way whatsoever, and one day when her fiancé Dylan is coming to visit, she sees him the garden kissing her sister. She breaks up with him and leaves, eventually stumbling into the woods in tears and encountering a fairy who gives her the magic power to grow plants. She decides to leave her family's home, separate herself from them entirely, and create a new life for herself while opening a flower shop with the new identity of Wendy Waltz

Honestly being completed gives a lot more value to this story because when you're reading a manhwa that hasn't completed, it can really lose your interest while you're waiting between chapters. Wendy is also very headstrong and confident while also having a vast knowledge of plants and their uses. When she finds Dylan cheating she IMMEDIATELY tells him to get fucked and to never bother her again and she maintains this attitude basically the entire story which, good for her! The stakes in this story are relatively low but the emotional payoff is still nice. I also like the art and the coloring and there's a plot that exists outside of the romance between Wendy and the male lead. Even Wendy's abusive stepsister has her own reasons for what she does, and Dylan too! A nice story with an acceptable length and a happy ending :)

4. I Tamed a Tyrant and Ran Away

Status: ongoing

Plot summary: Time travel! Charlize Ronan is an extremely skilled knight from a noble family. She works hard her entire life to try and earn her father's approval to no avail, and in an attempt to impress him, becomes a servant of the Emperor where she is essentially tortured with magic and turned into a living sword, unable to move or speak or do anything except be a power source and vessel for killing, undying and trapped in hell for literally hundreds of years. She prays to God to either finally be free or just die to end her misery, and she is sent back in time to before she was transformed. She vows to take revenge on the entire Empire that turned her into a slave and begins her plan by recruiting Dylan, a mwmebr of the crown family and a man who in her future would become an extremely talented tyrant. Using her knowledge from the future, she makes him fall in love with her and pushes him towards becoming Emperor to overthrow the man who turned her into a sword and all of his accomplices, while also uncovering a hidden conspiracy of mages and legends about two people who may be carrying pieces of the good and evil gods inside of them

As much as I love Charlize as a talented swordwielding girlboss MY GOD did she dig her own grave with this one. She literally meets him in adolescence and changes his entire life for the better and then just VANISHES thinking he's just going to get over her. Dylan is absolutely a yandere for sure but in a way where he genuinely loves her and simply cannot live without her rather then some other people who view their darling as more of a possession. She leaves and he literally has dreams and fantasies and hallucinations of her, he aches for her so bad. This is also coupled with a subplot about an abusive and neglectful family and how she gets revenge on them by simply not giving a fuck and turning her back on them completely while becoming independent, if that's your cup of tea

5. Remarried Empress

Status: ongoing

Plot: Navier Troby comes from a family with a long history of women becoming the Empress and she is raised from birth to become one, becoming mature, eloquent, calm, and educated. She is given an arranged marriage in childhood to the Emperor's heir and future ruler Sovieshu and they grow up together and marry. One day, however, Sovieshu returns home with a runaway slave woman who quickly becomes his mistress, and Sovieshu expects Navier to not only tolerate her presence but welcome the homewrecker with open arms. The mistress deliberately schemes and causes conflicts on purpose to create friction between Sovieshu and Navier and he is so stupid and blind he takes the mistress' side every single time. He eventually divorces Navier for the other woman (for absolutely the dumbest fucking reasons, you will be rolling your eyes at the fucking clownery of this man) but Navier has a surprise: she tells the priest that literally just divorced her that she is officially asking him for immediate remarriage to a other man :)

This is the like, the gold standard OG for "my shit husband cheated on me and the mistress keeps trying to fuck with me so im outta here and doing what I want for myself" stories. If it doesn't make you angry seeing what happens to Navier after she has done nothing wrong I don't know what will. The characters in this story I find to be very emotionally complex and well written and I will DIE if it doesn't finish. The relationship between Navier and the ML Heinrey is very cute and sweet and there is a genuine mutual respect and they are just also very wholesome with each other. There are even subplots like the Duke of another country having sympathy for Navier because while her husband is openly flaunting his concubine, in the other man's country their ruler only has one wife and he finds Sovieshu's actions to be disgusting and disrespectful to Navier

Just. My god. The side bitch Rashta will really get your blood boiling. She is naive and clingy and childish and is just fucking ANNOYING. At some point she's trying to seem more like a noble lady instead of being the dense former slave cant-read-the-room bitch that she is and starts following Navier around to copy her. THIS IS A WOMAN WHO DOESNT EVEN KNOW HOW TO READ AND SHE APPROACHES THE WIFE OF THE MAN SHE IS SLEEPING WITH AND SAYS "Can I call you sister since we share the same husband?" LIKE MY GOD I CAN'T WAIT TILL YOU GET YOUR JUST DESSERTS

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It was hard to choose a top 5, so I have a few more suggestions although these will be much briefer

How To Get My Husband On My Side: i can't remember that much about the plot because its in hiatus but the poor FL is horribly abused by her family to the point her back is covered in scars from being WHIPPED and she literally develops bulimia so that there is something in her life she can have control over. My god her brother Cesare is violently physically abusive on top of treating her so openly borderline incestuously that there are rumors and even songs about how they're sexually involved as siblings, that's how fucking creepy he is, people are literally making rumors he fucks his sister, although it's hinted Cesare might be spreading some of these rumors himself to keep men away from his sister. She barely stood up to him ONE TIME and he took her pet bird, injured it, and fed it alive to his snapping turtle right in front of her which gave her such an intense fear of turtles she cannot even stand to see statues of them. This is a story of her finding love and acceptance after being pushed around and abused for the benefit of others, and when certain characters around her realize she has an eating disorder they are very supportive and respectful and I find that this sensitive topic was handled very well.

WOW I ACTUALLY FORGOT A STORY I MEANT TO INCLUDE IN THE TOP 5 LMAO

The Villainess is a Marionette is another "I read this novel and now I'm living it" stories. In the novel Kayena is the daughter of the Emperor, the Princess who will manipulated by her brother Regef before being married off to an abusive possessive man who eventually will kill her for trying to escape. (not gonna lie this probably sounds so bad but the way Regef becomes obsessed with her at least as far as I'm currently reading is about to turn my ass into an incest shipper 😩 although mentally that is someone entirely different from his actual sister but he doesn't know that) so the new transmigrated Kayenna vows to do things differently and set up her own future. The art in this manhwa is insanely pretty, even just the use of filters and sunlight is well done and eye catching like, there are so many manhwa with such blah art and this is not one of them. Some manhwa artists can't even draw distinct faces or intense expressions but the artist for this sure can and also gonna stress again IT IS SO PRETTY

No More Turning A Blind Eye: i mentioned it the other day but this is another transmigrated FL getting revenge on her cheating husband. She has money and influence and is in actually a higher social standing than her husband and uses that to start living happier after divorcing him which makes him go borderline insane. Something I feel worth mentioning is that this story isn't afraid to introduce side characters who are more unconventional in typical "everyone is pretty" fantasy land. There is Madam Kate who is an older stout dress designer and there is a plot about an opera singer who basically starved herself for beauty and then one day a fan left cake in her dressing roon and she ate the whole thing and found out how extremely unhappy she was and began to live how she wanted and gained weight, but she began to be bullied and lost her confidence, and you'd think, oh they're just going to boost her self esteem and make her thin again, but no, its handled very respectfully and I like that the singer essentially chose to gain weight because eating made her happy rather than it being more stereotypical, and that she wasn't upset at gaining weight more so how she was treated because of it.

Lastly I have a story I haven't even began reading yet but ive seen it in YouTube shorts and it seems very interesting! The Maid Wants To Quit Within The Reverse Harem Game is about an FL who got transported into the world of a game but! She is transported into the role of an extra, an npc, a maid! She gets stuck in a time loop of the plot of the game and experiences the same plot lines over and over and she's sick of it, but when she finally decides to try and go to the office to hand in her resignation letter and escape the mansion where the story takes place, her resignation letter gets torn up right in front of her as the three love interests say she's their favorite and they won't let her go! Did something happen in the game, or is her going off-script somehow making her the new protagonist of the game? Guess I'll have to read it and see!

#long post is long lol but at least i can access answered ask drafts kn mobile now

[2day4u-2morrow4me]

Your post about Chuuya falling for Rampo’s bait? I can totally relate. Chuuya is my favorite character, and I have been pretty sad with the way Asagiri keeps portraying Chuuya, there is an inconsistence in how he treats his character that annoys me to no end, Chuuya don’t deserve a half assed baked plot, he is smart, the most powerful character, and Asagiri keeps nerfing him in the most ridiculous ways possible, making him look like he is dumb and that the only times that he can or not shine is when he is with Dazai, and this makes me extremely angry, because Chuuya is one, if not the most, complex character in the series, hell, he has two novels to himself! But just because he is a “villain” and not the protagonist you have to keep ruining his image just because of the plot? Even when there were other ways? If you read the manga, you know that Asagiri again did this kind of think with Chuuya and oh boy, I’m at my limit, if you create a character as powerful as Chuuya, you must know how to deal with him without killing his history, personality and core. Sorry if there are any mistakes, english is not my first language and this topic makes me really frustrated, because I really, really love Chuuya.

****warning vague manga spoilers ahead. I tried to keep it fairly lowkey****

Finally I'm reaching my people. Knew I wasn't the only one who is fed up with this (pardon my language) bullshit (sorry if the swearing makes u uncomfortable I have no filter I try but it helps me get my point across)

You are absolutely right my man. Asagiri pulls that shit where he has Dazai walk all over him in the Lovecraft fight, have them share a touching trust moment, then Dazai ditches him. Then pulls a complete 180 and writes Stormbringer detailing this epic backstory about how powerful he is and all the people he meets and loses and the battles he overcomes and then fucking chapter 101 happens and Chuuya is apparently weak and just a tool in that Dazai bullshit.

I truly don't think Asagiri has a lot of villain/hero stuff because the "villains" are also compelling and loyal and the "heroes" have complicated pasts and aren't complete saints(and for that Asagiri will be a fantastic author) But if that is the case then why is Asagiri always putting Chuuya down. I have no idea what Asagiri is doing with Chuuya. I have in fact read the manga and I hate hate hate hate how it is going. fingers crossed that Asagiri/Dazai have an actual plan to fix that nonsense.

All in all Asagiri wrote a really compelling character with a fanastic backstory, incredible power, and a personality people can relate with(who me?). I have connected with Chuuya a lot(ask me about the ways I relate to him istg. if I tried to list them all right now this would definitely be rambling.) I just wish I could see the character more, especially in a more flattering light, instead of put next to people like Dazai and Fyodor(cough cough literal fucking geniuses cough) so that he looks stupid.

There aren't any mistakes I don't think. You probably speak English better than I can and it is the only language I speak lol. I will rant to you all day long about Chuuya and how my boi deserves better. thank u for the ask, I love an excuse to rant(with that being said sorry for all that ranting. I can be extra my bad.)

#Chuuya asks #Chuuya episode 35 #Chuuya deserves better #I love ranting about my boi #ty for the ask <3 #sorry for rambling

[sockich]

since you like ghostbat so much what do you think about ghostmaker/wight witch? since that's actual canon not made up like ghostmaker/batman

Oh, boy. On the one hand, you're clearly a troll and I usually just delete those. On the other hand, and very annoyingly, I do actually have thoughts and feelings about this, and now you've got me thinking about it, so what the hell, I'll play.

First of all, anon, my dude, it’s all made up. Which brings us to second of all, whether a ship is canon or not has literally never mattered to me. I ship what I ship because it's what I like, not because it's canon. Also, this is superhero comics. It's literally one of the most pick-and-choose canons around. And third of all, I am a firm proponent of ship and let ship. Anyone who sincerely ships Ghost-Maker/Wight Witch, more power to you. But also, anyone who sincerely ships Ghost-Maker/Wight Witch? Turn around now, because as far as I'm concerned, everything about it is some kind of nonsense.

Okay, so, for anyone who didn't obsessively read every one of Khoa's appearances, Wight Witch aka Rhea Sinha is a former soldier who met and, for a time, trained with Bruce and Khoa during their globe-trotting days. After she was killed, she was repeatedly cloned by Simon Saint, who used her as a mind-controlled living weapon, while she desperately tried to rebuild the person she was from the few fragments of memories remaining to her. Now, to be clear, everything about that? Exactly and completely my shit. I LOVE this.

I do not love this:

I'm sorry, but nothing will convince me that a total stranger showing up and Bruce immediately introducing not only himself but also Khoa with their real names is anything but completely absurd. I'd call it the most absurd thing ever, except we also have this:

The Khoa/Rhea canon romance.

Seriously, who is this guy capable of maintaining a long-term romantic relationship, and willing to do so? Emotionally stuttering her name when he sees her again? I have no idea who the hell Ram V was writing here, but it sure as hell wasn't the clinically diagnosed psychopath who refuses to so much as admit he might have had personal reasons for going after the woman whose family menaced his parents. It's not like Ghost-Maker's been around all that long and has a lot of different characterizations across different writers! If you're gonna ignore the few things we do know about him, why on earth even use him?

And speaking of… okay, this is strictly a personal preference and I'm sure plenty of people will disagree, but. While I'm all for bi characters in opposite sex relationships, the fact of the matter is that you can give a tragic het romance backstory to any one of the countless straight superhero comics characters. So to pick one of the few queer characters, and give him the cliche tragic het romance backstory? Yeah, sorry, but to me that is just a complete failure of imagination.

So, uh, yeah. Those are my thoughts and feelings on Ghost-Maker/Wight Witch. Like I said, ship and let ship, but I am fully committed to ignoring it if it ever shows up again, and even more fully committed to having as much fun as possible with my made up GhostBat ship. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(From Batman: Urban Legends #11-13.)

#rhea sinha #minhkhoa khan #bruce wayne #ghostbat #adjacent anyway #batfamily #dc #anonymous #my posts

[kenobster]

For the ask game: 1, 2, & 10!

Your Pal's Star Wars Ask Game

OOOOH these are good ones, thanks anon!

1. Qui-Gon Jinn: love or hate? Discuss.

I very passionately could not care less. He's boring! I don't love or hate, I'm boooored. But that's a terrible answer, so let's go through every single Qui-Gon subject I could possibly have feelings on and describe why I don't.

(Oh boy this list became extremely rude but shit fam, I'm being asked my personal opinion lol. What else am I supposed to do?)

Phantom Menace? Meh. He's the mystical wise type... but Yoda does it better. He's the seemingly disciplined and empathetic role model/teacher, both as Anakin's male!parental figure and as a Padawan's Jedi Master, but... Obi-Wan does that better. He's a rebel, a rule breaker; he doesn't follow the Jedi code perfectly (and, as a result of George Lucas's whiteness, is a little bit racist), but... Anakin does that better worse. Apparently ppl were mad at him for using his final words to ask Obi-Wan to train the Boy, instead of saying "I love you" or something... but I snored through that scene until Obi-Wan's Sith-slaughter woke me up... so unfortunately I didn't hear any of that shit. 🤷‍♀️

Jude Watson? I skip his POV lol. No seriously, he's pretty boring, his internal conflicts are kinda kid-like, not very Jedi-Master-like, not even really very complicated or compelling. And maybe that'd be enough to hate him, but fandom's response to the series neutralizes my opinion in his defense. Re, first two books as an example, Qui-Gon was going about minding his own business when Yoda came along and tried to shove a child onto him -- him, a man who not only didn't want and wasn't ready for a new kid (after the old one became a freak), but also explicitly stated so to Yoda numerous times. Yoda did not take no for an answer. In fact, Yoda pretty much egged Obi-Wan on to pull the same guilt-tripping nonsense, despite Qui-Gon repeatedly saying to both of them stop, no, don't. And neither Yoda nor child listened. Luckily Obi-Wan grew on Qui-Gon so everything worked out in the end, but Qui-Gon didnt do shit wrong lol. It's not his fault Obi-Wan was being sent to the agricorp. It's not his fault Obi-Wan repeatedly disobeyed everyone's instructions and put himself into danger... or that Xanatos was a sadistic freak. And it's certainly not his fault that Yoda (in these books) lacked an understanding of consent and riled up an angsty Padawan into hoping falsely. The book may be boring af, especially Qui-Gon's character arc, but give the man a break, ffs. (And stop letting Tumblr gaslight you.)

Obi-Wan Kenobi show? Yeah Qui-Gon being someone his Padawan cried to abt his nightmares made Obi-Wan look suitably pathetic and sad, and I liked that a lot. But the second Qui-Gon appeared? Ugh. You just had to ruin Depressed!Obi-Wan for me, didn't ya? 🙄 I liked you better when you were playing hard to get.

Fanfiction? Ppl can do what they want and I support them. But I am tired of how Qui-Gon is either the villain or the saint and extremely two-dimensional. That's okay to have 2d characters! It really is! They serve a purpose! But this two-dimensional Jedi ain't for me. And honestly him being angelified is just as much of a dealbreaker to me as him being demonized. I like Messy. I like Trying Hard and Failing. I like Loving and Hurting and Hating and Loving. I like whatever Obi-Wan and Anakin got going on. Qui-Gon is boring and even worse, his presence in fic tends to make Obi-Wan into a two-dimensional victim, which drags Obi-Wan into boringville too. :(

Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray? Hmm, actually, this was some good shit. Would read again. Take notes, kids. This be how you write a Qui-Gon.

Anyway this is how I feel, and I can't help how I feel. So go enjoy your mystical, potentially abusive wildcard in peace. I won't stop you! ^_^

2. Pick a Padme outfit to be your signature look.

This one all the fucking way (and the ROTS version of this hairstyle too):

If I were in Star Wars, I'd exclusively put my hair in a bow. Also, it looks really cute on Padme specifically.

10. If you could pull a George Lucas and sneak into Disney plus and edit any Star Wars scene, what changes would you make?

I answered this question on a whim earlier, but you know what? I absolutely stand by it. Make Palpatine caress Anakin's face as he injects our favorite nineteen-year-old boy with Unwanted Sexual Sithcraft. That is the only correct scene revision.

#Padme #Anakin #Anakin & Palpatine #ask game #anon #Qui-Gon #kenobster opinions

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

When I first heard about Mercury & Me, I made the mistake of going onto Quora for peoples opinions and very nearly didn’t buy it because they made it sound like it was a scandalous tell-all that was created entirely to slate Mary. I bought it anyway and by the time I finished, I was wondering what the hell people were so angry about. Yes, it was a very intimate memoir that included extremely personal moments, but I didn’t see it as any different to other biographies I’ve read about Freddie (in fact, I find it far more respectful than most.)

I mentioned this on Quora and almost got the head bitten off me by people saying I can’t call myself a Freddie fan for supporting Jim’s book. That’s when I realised the people on there are complete psychos. Like, actually mentally unhinged. They make all kinds of accusations against Jim and then get angry at you when you ask for solid proof of their claims. I was legitimately disturbed. I’m so glad I didn’t listen to their nonsense and bought the book anyway. Yes, it’s not for everyone, but it’s such a beautiful tribute to Freddie, and how anyone can call it “a betrayal” is beyond all reasoning. But I suppose that’s homophobia for you 🤷‍♀️

Oh, Quora is not only one of the worst places to go if you’re a Queen fan, but you could have very well encountered the account(s) of the crazy Jim hater, stalker Mary stan who is dedicated to being unhinged about Mary and Jim on several websites.

I read the book before listening to a single Queen album, so I went in as unbiased as could be, and only saw a man deeply in love with and mourning the loss of Freddie Mercury. Every single accusation of the book being exploitative and scandalous is torn down by the book itself, and those who repeat that bullshit have either never read the book, or they’re simply bigoted and think merely talking about the reality of Freddie having a loving relationship with a man is scandalous and disrespectful. What it comes down to is that people want Freddie to have been straighter than he really was and for Mary to have been a saint, because she’s a tool they use to tell themselves Freddie wasn’t actually gay, and they loathe Jim for telling the world that Freddie was gay, in love with him, and that Mary actually did awful, hurtful things.

Someone hating Jim and his book is always a red flag—I’ve been in this fandom for years and haven’t been proven wrong about that—and I’m glad you read it despite Quora’s batshit homophobia. I believe the book is essential reading for any Freddie Mercury fan and if I could force people to read it, I would lol

#mercury and me #Freddie Mercury #jim hutton #replies #Anonymous

[burgundybmw]

Oh I agree so much w ur rant. Like I do not understand fics that make the person a literally demon. Like I can’t w yandere fics bc they just make me so uncomfortable. I just wanna read abt Eddie my love not him being a literal manipulative asshole 😭

Like my definition of enemies to lovers is yea they might fight in the beginning, but there's always a mutual respect there. It's that thin line between love and hate, and then realizing they never actually hated each other at all, they just never really knew them.

There was one Eddie enemies to lovers fic I read where he was SUCH A DICK!!!! They literally made him into Billy 2.0, like on what planet???? He is canonically very respectful to women, and only dishes out to people who give it to him first. Like yea he's a bit fiery with DnD and a bit unreasonable at times with compromising campaigns, but overall he's the farthest thing from a douchebag. It was sooooooo out of character!!!

Same thing with Steve. I understand anything that takes place pre season 1, because he was kind of a tool before, but anything after that is nonsense. Even still, the worst thing Steve ever did was what he said to Jonathan about his family and shit during the fight. That I admit was out of pocket, but he apologized and has been an actual SAINT since then!!! (I'm not getting into the Nancy the Slut discourse, that was also extremely uncool but since he didn't actually spray paint it himself, cleaned it up very quickly, immediately dropped his asshole friends, and apologized I give him points. It was the 80s, toxic masculinity was HUGE!!!)

Overall, just very annoying. I don't like it at all. I will never bash someone's writing because it's not my cup of tea, but please, for the love of god, properly summarize and tag your shit I'm begging!!!

#ask #me #also agreed with yandere shit #it literally grosses me out so much #it's one thing where the yandere is obviously a villain and none of that shit is okay #and they make it clear that it's fucked up and they don't get a redemption arc/make excuses for the behavior #it's another to romanticize what is essentially abuse #don't fuck with that AT ALL

[felagund-fiollaigean]

Hi there!

Having read you awesome Whumptober fic about her, I was wondering if you had any headcanons about Valiana? I love her to pieces, and I'd love to read your thoughts on her.

Have a wonderful day!

Oh shit yeah! hold on let me see if I can put some of these thoughts to words

After Saint's Blood she makes a point to have Kest teach her the Grandanza. (or whatever that dance is called. you know what I mean, right? cool. moving on).

actually no I'm not moving on. you know what? Valiana was/is a professional noblewoman and Kest is Kest, they're both trained in formal ballroom dance and they do make a point to dance together at least once. I like to dance, and that's fun to think about. I've mentioned my thoughts about her and kest before but I think they're buds. good pals. they have offscreen bonding moments and they're all great.

oh no, bad thought. at one point, she does ask him to kill her if the adorasia takes over again and she can't fight it anymore.

her handwriting is immaculate

She has to unlearn so much toxic shit she picked up from Patriana (who, I think we can all surmise, was absolutely not a good parent). I think body image issues were definitely part of that, Patirana would constantly nitpick at her appearance and that shit sticks with you.

again, i project, but there are so many practical skills she never had to learn in Princess Mode that suddenly are necessary as a Greatcoat. How to repair horse tack. How to build a shelter when sleeping out in the open. How to tie a clove hitch. Other basic combat/survival/travel skills. One of the other main greatcoats will say something like, "your sword's getting dull, make sure you sharpen it" and she's faced with the realization that no one ever taught her to do this thing which she never needed to know but is now the most basic skill for her new line of work. She tries to figure it out on her own and usually doesn't get it right, and one of the others has to come along and help her fix it and teach her how to do it correctly. It's an utterly humiliating and exhausting learning curve to have to go through and she hates every minute but takes it like a champ.

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After Aline dies, she's afraid to let herself even think about it, because she worries that if she lets herself experience emotions too strongly it will weaken her defenses and let the Adorasia in the driver's seat again. This isn't so much a headcanon as much as "I will kidnap sdc and hold him hostage until he releases the Valiana POV chapter from when Aline is killed until the Trial cause my girl must have been Going Through It and I need to know someone was there for her please" there was a time she made Aline her entire reason for living she must have been fucking devastated when Aline died but unlike Falcio, she couldn't allow herself to go apeshit for so many reasons.

part of me says she's bi/aspec cause I'm bi/aspec and I say so. I do know she had a huge crush on dari. the nonsense with pastien (FUCK that guy) sets her back a ways in the whole "exploration of sexuality" department, as she intentionally distances herself from any kind of attraction or romantic feelings for fear of being betrayed again.

Adorasia means she's suffering from some level of mental fatigue constantly.

stimming helps. she stims cause i stim and i say so. but she can't let herself do it much in front of people cause everyone knows shes mad and is looking for the slightest excuse to declare her incompetent.

She gets lots of unflattering nicknames. Madwoman, Crazy Bitch, The Stark-Raving Duchess of Rijou.

But she's not the queen's iron for nothing and never gives them a goddamn inch.

also do you ever wonder if her title as The Queen's Iron was intentionally a contrast to the Iron Duke of DeMaris? cause I do.

I've never thought of her as a cat person before, but in knight's shadow her love language seems to be "you're in distress so i'm going to come over here and be quiet and just sit next to you" and that is very cat like.

her and darriana never stop being an absolute force of nature when they're together. They're similar enough to share a braincell in most matters but different enough in method of execution to balance each other out. sometimes they have "girls nights out" which sometimes involve getting wine drunk and complaining about everyone else and sometimes involve masked vigilante justice.

In a modern au her superpower is deciding to pick up a new hobby and proceeding to follow through actually excel at that hobby in the long term. my half-finished abandoned sewing projects hate her

so, yeah!

that's what i have darling and thank you so much for this ask, that was very fun to have an excuse to write this all out. I might think of more stuff later but honestly I have Things To Do Today and have to get going. cheers!

#the greatcoats #greatcoats series #valiana val mond #greatcoats spoilers #traitor's blade #tyrant's throne #saint's blood #knight's shadow

[speedygoateeconnoisseur]

The identity problem

The idea of "gender affirmation" is wrong. Sounds absurd, right?

Well, it's not. To be affirmed means you must confirm that they CONFORM to the traits seen in said gender.

To be affirmed that you're now "passing" as a woman in society. That is gender-affirmation.

You must be affirmed that you're now conforming to "women" traits.

Women and men are different beings. There's billions of us. If that's the case, then how do you come to the idea of what a "woman" or "man" is? Why haven't we made the idea of not thinking about what a "man or woman" is? He's wearing a dress? Cool. It's possible that he doesn't make it work and is ugly in it. It's fine, it's the same fashion issue some women have. That's the idea of fashion, it's a harsh world.

The very idea of "trans" has been warped. You don't need dysphoria? Yes, you do. That's the thing. It started with rights. Rights to medicines. Specific procedures that aren't about surgeries, top or bottom.

Medicines for youths, things like HRT. We understand it to a science, not a social science but an actual physical science. Those bodies have defects that we can remedy. But we drew the attention to how we need to look in today's society.

Arguments even got made for things like ED pills being "affirmation" treatment. No, old guys with broken dicks are still old guys with broken dicks, it affirms nothing. Those that try to fight old age may feel like less of a man, but that's a personal issue. If you're trying to be above them, why attack them for a personal issue? Hypocrisy is what makes us human, so I guess that's okay.

What even is an identity? How many words do you need on an internet profile? Bi non-binary pansexual? How do you even know you're a pansexual? Why do people assume they know what it's like to feel a certain gender? To accept genderfluid means to accept gender norms. In fact, all of this shit is to accept gender norms. The very things you bitch about are the things you empower and promote.

A guy can be a guy that's into "feminine" things. So what? We can easily just draw the line there. Tomboys used to exist, but now they're going to be forced with labels like trans.

This leaks into their "sexuality". Why does your sexuality need to be stated on every fucking website? Are you defined that easily? Are you that shallow, with no depth?

Sexuality is just a fetish. Humans shouldn't be shallow enough to say they'd never go beyond their fetish. You never know who you'd encounter. That's the idea of life. We don't know anything, we exist to learn and try to find out what we don't know.

Then suddenly, you're now a -phobe. Your harmful rhetoric does your ideology no good.

The idea of changing your identity is an after-thought, it's not a prescription or a cure. You've gotten your drugs, but since that isn't enough, you're now going for your "identity". It's basic human greed, we can't be happy with what we've got; we need MORE.

But somehow, that's hate speech. Somehow, that's "you don't know what it's like to be in my shoes" even though they put their whole lives on formerly Twitter where you can read their entire being.

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The same thing happened with BLM. Firstly, people actually are dumb enough to think George Floyd is a SAINT. They elevated him to sainthood. Secondly, the idea was for rights. The reason it did end up having the occasional violent protest isn't because of "bad actors", it's because those people are just inherently violent.

Conservatives are fucking horrible, yes, but do you think liberals aren't the same? How many of them have the same notion of violence? They operate off of a violent flashmob mentality. If someone is being a karen, guess what they'd say and do?

They're willing to attack themselves and create nonsensical discourse, for what? Internet points?

[ahopkins1965]

Leviticus 19:28 And What It Means To All People!!By: Anthony Joseph Hopkins/ March 3, 2020Praise The Lord Saints!! Praise The Lord!! How are all of you doing today? Fine, I hope. I have a very important question to ask all of you right now. What does Leviticus 19:28 Means to you? The answer to this question is we are not supposed to cut on our bodies, nor use any tattoos on our bodies whatsoever.Next, I want to say that I have noticed a lot of people getting tattoos as of late. I really think they should read the Bible about this verse. Only animals are supposed to be tattooed and marked just to make sure that they are a part of a flock.I understand that everyone is getting a tattoo for some apparent reason. I think this is a trend that has been going on for over 30 years now. I would like to pray for all of those who have piercings, cuttings, and tattoos on their body right now. Lord, please help this group of people, who really think that getting a tattoo is okay. This is not okay to receive on human flesh. I understand that this sounds nice, but God is already mad at all of us for the sins that we commit on a daily basis. Whoever thinks that this is nonsense, they need to be dealt with by God Himself.Further, I want to inform all of you that we need to have our bodies free from all problems. I know that there are some people who actually thinks that this is okay. It is not okay to do anything like this!!I know that I have battle scars on my body from getting stabbed on Sunday November 25, 1985 at 1:45PM by my stepfather over a dice game that he had with my brother. This took place on 28 Horace Street in Dayton, Ohio at my mother’s house. I remember when I was supposed to obtain my work boots from my mother’s house. All of a sudden, an argument ensued between my little brother and his father. All of a sudden, my stepfather drew a knife on his own namesake. He lunged at my brother with the knife.If I would not had put my arm in the way, my brother would not exist today. My brother does not remember all of this. I remember it because it left me with mental scars, and physical scars on my body for the rest of my life. My brother called the police on my stepfather. The police officer asked me whether or not I wanted to file charges. I told them No!! He is too old to go to jail. I have another physical scar that I have on my body on Friday July 6, 1984.I was playing basketball outside, and I will admit that I was intoxicated playing basketball. Suddenly, I got faked out by another person with the basketball, and I ended up breaking my left hand in three places. I also broke my left wrist at the same time.I had to stay inside of the hospital for 3 days at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. It had taken me almost 2 years for me to completely heal from my injuries. I also have scars on my back that I was involved in a street fight on May 8, 1981. The same person that hit me with a bicycle pole is my cousin right now. It is better to tell the truth than a lie. I protected my family members from this man. I actually find it hard to believe that we are related right now. I love this man in the same way I love Jesus Christ. I am not saying that I am avoiding the topic. It is that I am sharing all of my personal experiences with others. Please keep me in your prayers for the rest of your entire life. I do not want any tattoos on my body whatsoever.

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[chanelfunnell]

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A) anon, Kaner's son Max Domi and so Seth Jones are playful and keen to join any activity with Tazer or Blackhawks. Kaner is home body now. I was surprised that S Jones kicks by his left foot.

B) anon, a lot of dogs are cute and I like a lot of dogs of a lot of nhlers across the franchises. On the photos lol

C) anon,

Auston Matthews with a beard, looking weird with his p..rn stache.. Play offs facial hair is the worst look.

D) anon, there is just a pyckbunny history for Markle and an anon weirdo writing me about nonsense mixing flat caps, Harry, his warmonger friend Langdon and something about Hossa's whirlpool.., Marketa. Id steer away from any bs and dangerous people such as a arm smuggler Mann. Any bs outside ice hockey and unelected ruling class with lazy mean women such as Markle, Middleton or Camilla. Markle should pay for her all wedding costs, dresses and idiotic Mount battens should not allow her to have a big scale wedding in the church.. Old fartvking is smuggling more than 10.000 euros in the bags compared to self made Snoopy Dog with own cash and Marketa as a royal is denied and as self made biz girl bulkier and mocked by lazy gold diggas with it a buck such as Camilla or bulimic Kate. Read her mother's response in the suit how Kate hired as a simple idiot with just interest in clothes and media a media lawyer woman called Prince lol for a nominee trust.

These idiots have no clue that it is not in estate registrar but shluld f.. Ck offg ASAP from her estates like ugky Wisteria sister Pippa no own bucks pushes people for stepping on the lawn just for an inch. Stupid, vapid, no work, no dowry, no class. Not just a puppet Harry as Montecito laughs from him. Market's long term bf lawyer's family reside here, Markle is a stalker gold digga but she keeps quiet. So should drug junkie Harry Goldsmith who was sent to speak by his nasty abuser sister Carol to rant in the tabs. So like old bag Camilla's posing in tabs but none work done.

Check Princess Anne and her typical work as normal, Marketa waiting in the wings and app somd idiots mesee her surname Windsor and denied her election and mocked for self made status. What I know Kate wrote to Christian Ronaldo on Myspace after Marketa's presence at Red carpet of Pirates of Carribeans. All ugky, lazy, mean posing mean girls without money, class, typical with barking druggie uncle. Arm dealer loon like Mann as Harry Hewitt's company is dangerous so the Mountvaten and their gold digging mean chavs's toxicity, greed and unelected status or non royal origin and nothing on their own merit than shagging deluded royal farts.

OK athletes are trashy, posing and in chains but money made by them and with common sense than any common mugger like these women from Markle to Middleton women or Vamilka. Read the Middleton response in suit, to self accomplished workhorse who is a princess. Worse than climbing caste obsessed pushy mother with two Cinderella's ugky sisters camping illegally at the princess kand. We know Markle is a psycho but both of the d just mean, trashing other girls, heading rich men using the bed than own work, actually no dowry or manners, lazy, spiteful, stupid fir b assic PR. Not just Harry who is definitely a cavalry officer's son not a Prince. His father published similar book, all crybabies but trolled M or others keep quiet. These mean women just add them more like cross Che King a super player in NHL while they are a pond hickey hoikers. They ask a brother druggie like Hunter if friends or trashy star to pitch their appraisal to press how perfect and Saint they are. So Markle. Do you think Marketa's ex bf of 8 years lawyer from wealthy US family has no clue what these nasty women in law, a king and Harry are about? Markle present in Russian House yet borrowing other houses for her personality PR. So these crazy useless Mount battens and their penniless climbing gold diggas. Harry has attached dangerous people to his hip, the rest is atrache with their puckbubnued and own stupidity. Do you think they would make if in profi sport and into the bed a wag? Lol not apable or just plain or just ugly looking and too desperate chasers. King Charles was app kicked from Birkhall that is a part of Marketa's Balmoral estate. Well done, they are just greedy liars croks parasites joining forces with similar tuned charlatans and gold diggas. Their ancestor was stupid Alix Tsarina meddling into anything but lacking basic skill like never working media posers Camilla, Catherine.. Also her blind obsession with charlatan Rasputin reminds us old history. No surprise two bimbos Markle and Middleton are fighting about clothes, both looking either unkempt or frumpy after acts of flash, crotch shots or naked selfies luring their idiots into the bed, their only claim to anything such as money, house, standing in society, claim to fame lol. Spare me, so spare tyres... If not less paid, the land lady abused so kicked out. It is the same with no results, no t playing. If you are paid 5 mils bucks you need to deliver on the ice as well as juicy bits in the book and PR. That idiot has anything to sell and run buz bcs hardly able to run a ware tap and so their bimbos