#this became longer than it needed to be

[ifindus]

Do you think Norway could’ve studied any subjects in an uni at some point? Considering how they are literally immortal, I just feel like he would probably do something like that.

Oh wow, I do have a lot to say about this. First some backstory:

While Denmark established its first university in Copenhagen in 1479, Norway was not allowed his own. This was only worsened during the 1600s, when it was decided that to work in any posistion of power in the state of Denmark-Norway, you needed a university degree. This put Norwegians at a great disadvantage and essentially only made influencal posistions available for Danes. Norway was fighting for the right to his own university from 1661 and until his liberation. Still, during the 1770s, Norwegian students at the University of Copenhagen formed their own "society", a social club where they would meet, drink, exchange academic talk, and reject Danish culture while emphasising the Norwegian one - at most they had 100 memebers. This was the beginning of the national romanticism that would sweep through Norway during the 1800s.

Then, in 1811, a Norwegian society was fed up with not being allowed a university by the Danish King, so they started a campaign where people could donate to the cause - because the reason for no university sited by the Kings was often "no money". This was a huge success, raising more than 150 million Euros in today's money, only sponsored by the Norwegian people. Employers by the Danish King in Norway were instructed to work against this funding campaign, the reason being the King was afraid a Norwegian university would be a risk for the union between the two countries. Eventually he had to give in to not risk even more uproar amongst the people.

Norway got its next university in 1910, then NTH (now NTNU) in Trondheim and this was a huge win for the region, who until then had felt estranged from the decisions in Oslo and treated as lesser. Today Trondheim and NTNU is regarded as the student city in Norway, focusing mostly on techology and sciences.

So, with that in mind, here is my headcanon as to what Norway would have studied at which point in history:

Københavns Universitet, 1770s: Literature

Universitetet i Oslo, 1810s: Law

NTH/NTNU, 1910s, Electrotechnology

NTH/NTNU, 1970s: Economy

I don't neccesarily think Norway would enjoy university so much as to get a bunch of degrees, but I think he would appreciate it for what it is and get degrees that would benefit his people and be relevant for changes in the society and world around him. These courses and dates are not picked at random.

#hetalia #aph norway #hws norway #historical hetalia #damn this became longer than expected #thanks a lot for the ask!! 💖💖 felt great doing something more historical again - I needed that #I'm also very passionate about this particular topic - can you tell?? 😭😭 #hope you got something useful out of that ✨ #this is also Bergen Tromsø and Stavanger slander btw

[acaciapines]

and so the nimona daemon au begins :)

#chatter #i write #btw if i post this and its longer than 15k words #i need you all to point and laugh at me and my inability to keep things brief #THIS IS GOING TO BE A ONESHOT. IM MANIFESTING IT. IT WILL NOT BE A NOVEL #the last time i told myself this it became the madoka daemon au but THIS TIME-- #cmon nimona is one movie. surely i can make that under 15k words right. #fucking. right. #nimona

[sing-me-under]

I vibe with late Robin/early Nightwing-era Dick Grayson so much. As the eldest sibling and a once angsty teenager with anger issues turned adult with a reputation for being optimistic and smiley, he’s so fun to think about.

Dick had anger issues and he funneled it into vigilantism. I had anger issues and I turned it into dissociation. We are not the same, but I get it. If I had the option to beat the shit out of other people and makes jokes at their expense as a teenager, I would absolutely have taken it. But alas.

#personal #batfam #I also moved to the next city over when I became an adult #because I couldn’t fucking stand my parents #and they couldn’t stand me either #now at my current age we all get along to a respectable degree #I probably wouldn’t stick around longer than I needed to #but there’s no antagonism anymore #I also greatly adore my younger sister #I absolutely would kill for her #but I won’t because I am a legally responsible member of society #and I don’t think it’s a healthy thing to do for my own sanity #being a happy go lucky adult #because violence isn’t an option anyway #and the hormones aren’t as chaotic #gotta be a good influence

[chocomars]

Did a doodle of my WIP fic! Here’s an excerpt:

The flag of her people would snap with her command, and that would be the signal her soldiers needed when she pointed the tip of her sword across the familiar field she had called home.

She would point her second sword to the army that stood at the end of it, who swore death upon her men, onto her own head, as if she wouldn’t do the same when they threatened to climb over the high walls of her childhood.

When she roared, the prince who wore his father’s name would answer.

#yeah it’s the same excerpt as the one i posted on my main before this but it’s the one that’ll give the least spoilers!! #i still need two chapters before i’m done with this fic #i planned it to be 7k words in total but now it just became x4 longer rip #OH WELL i’m kinda pumped to get this posted anyway because i’m a sucker for this trope #royalty au #rexsoka #captain rex #ahsoka tano #the clone wars #star wars #star wars the clone wars #swtcw #marsdraws #marsrb #EDIT i just realised that I accidentally used the CMYK canvas instead of my usual sRGB??? #now this rex looks lighter than all my usual rexes…….

[userlaylivia]

you know s2 of the 100 will always be my favorite season, it was brilliant and the writing was absolutely incredible and I don't think any season will ever top it but saying that, S4 does come close!!! it was exciting and the writing was good and the storyline of trying to save everyone was so good and bellarke actually interacted most of the episodes maybe that's partly why I loved it lol also loved s6 though mostly for bellarke but also the storyline was decent! i understand why some didn't like s5 it wasn't my favorite but I never would've wanted the 100 to be cancelled before s6 because some of those bellarke moments in S5&6 were incredible and 6x10 is one of my favorite episodes and if we hadn't had that episode I would've been so sad!! jroth is a petty pos they wrote a scene where bellarke got together in 6x11 then he changed his mind because he sucks and they did a total 180 and rewrote it ugh anyone that watched the show and didn't think bellarke was leading to endgame was in denial truly!! all the foreshadowing, all the parallels and quotes about love and etc they were supposed to be endgame end of the story! whether you hate them or not it was supposed to be them together!! I got off topic I always do because I'm so upset and angry they weren't endgame but yeah!! I'm actually on the S4 finale in my rewatch and I genuinely did love that season for more than just bellarke but yeah!

also s7 doesn't exist bye lol

#this was longer than I intended lol #it goes s2>S4>s6>s1>s3>s5>s7 which doesn't exist lol #this is my opinion though lol #and by s3 I mostly mean 3x11 and on lol #the first half wasn't good imo lol #the 100 #bellamy x clarke #bellarke #also bob and eliza said they were in love and supposed to be endgame!! #they say it even now!! #i know I've made these posts before or ones similar #but rewatching I needed to say these opinions and thoughts or I'd go insane lol #also I think s4 proves she loved him like we all knew he loved her but s4 proves she loved him too! #and she was unable to shoot him in 4x11 her shooting him in s7 was ooc and made no sense!! #It was jroth being a petty pos end of the story!! #also my favorite season has been s2 since it aired but the other seasons used to be ranked differently lol #when s6 aired it was my second favorite but the last few rewatches S4 became my second fave lol #also.i REALLY love s1 I just love s2/4/6 more lol #I always rant in the tags ugh I'm sorry lol

[goldicthehedgefox]

deleted my twitter account today, my pokemon was so happy about it he evolved on the spot

#goldic's drawings #sona #dragonite #my all-digital doodles tend to be more jank than my normal stuff but i didn't feel like taking pictures today #sometimes you just need a hug from your digital companion #never touching twitter ever again btw I never felt comfortable using that damn site anyway #the purpose my twitter account had in the first place became irrelevant the second twitter started getting rebranded #that purpose being: mobile game cloud data #couldn't have that cloud data anymore so i just decided to nuke the damn thing #feels nice not having that stupid thing to worry about anymore #I've had tumblr longer anyway i ain't going anywhere #you can pry this blog from my cold dead hands

[blueberry-macaron]

Ever since the Alya insta saga ( where fans including myself said Alya was mean on posts forcing creators to post as Alya and Marinette saying they’re besties) I always felt she was the epitome of peer pressure and the force kiss proved it. What’s worse is fans can’t say it’s ooc it’s one of the only constant things in canon. Nino and the girl squad too but Alya as the bff is the main culprit. Hell didn’t she also lock Marinette in with a villain or am I misremembering?

Yeah I remember something like that about how people had issues with their dynamic but Marinette can handle the teasing or smth weird like that. And the "locking Marinette in with a villain" happened in the NY special I believe? I'm actually not sure, I've never watched that special.

I have to agree though, Alya is the one who pressures Marinette the most into doing things she really doesn't want to do and it's extremely annoying.

A problem with Alya's behavior towards Marinette (that I feel isn't talked about enough) is that Alya falls under the category of "the black best friend trope", a racist trope where the black best friend only exists for the white main character (or in this case half white/ white passing). TV tropes describes it as follows:

Your black best friend is sassy. She's never too busy to lend an ear, or come along on your wacky schemes. She is flawless to the point of being unreal. (Until it's time to save the day of course. That's what white heroes are for.) Is it because she has no love life, no apartment, and no family? It's hard to say, but there's one thing for sure. She has a cell phone, and never ignores your calls.

With the expection of Alya having a love life and a family which has been shown on screen, the rest fits pretty well. Alya's role is to somehow shove- I mean guide Marinette to her endgame aka Adrien. Other than that, Alya doesn't have her own arc, her (few) struggles are either brushed off or solved within 2 minutes and when she spends time with Marinette it's never about her, it's about Marinette (or Ladybug in season 4), and by extension, the love square.

Now mix the "Alya being nothing but a tool for bringing the love square closer together" thing with the "It's so funny when Marinette humiliates herself" and voila, you get the canon Alyanette dynamic with Alya getting Marinette into awkard situations and overstepping boundaries constantly (because god forbid Adrienette bonds without there having to be outside meddling). And since the series appears to have this weird philosophy of "the end justifies the means", Alya doesn't face negative consequences like Marinette talking back to her or getting into a fight etc. because ultimately, in the eyes of the writers, she does a good thing. She brings Marinette closer to Adrien in a "fun" way that "entertains" the audience.

And it sucks because I actually liked Alya at first. She was a fun character. Now, I look at her with a weird mix of "you are more often a bad friend than a good one" and "the writers did you so dirty", u know? Alya had potential to be a great character, especially in season 4 after becoming Marinette's confidant, and the writers did nothing with it as always.

Alya exist for the love square and not herself and honestly, I find that to be sad.

#ml #ask #anon #ml salt #alya salt #love square salt #ml writing salt #ml writers salt #this became way longer than I thought it would #it's just I have thoughts about Alya #and idk I actually don't really want to salt on her that much #because as I said the writing around her feels racist to me #either way she should be still called out for things she does #in the show I mean #k I'm done rambling I really need to go to sleep

[drunk-poets-society]

The thought of going to college is filling me with immense despair and I’m half thinking of dropping out

#I cant do this anymore godammit #i want to SCREAM #I know shipping characters won’t pay the bills but I wish it did #I just wish things weren’t hard anymore I want to play on easy mode. a tutorial mode even. I just. don’t want to do this anymore #I don’t want to! I cant! i cannot!!!! I am sick of disappointing people! I’m sick SICK SICK OF IT! #just another month I’ll be through with this I say #gosh I just need to hold out for just that much longer #I hate when people keep expectations from me! I hate it! Stop it!! stop telling me that I have the ‘capacity to do well’ I don’t! I am #exhausted and average at best! there is nothing I am outstanding in! I am just average! stop stop stop stop expecting that I’ll do something #remarkable in life when I’m just looking forward to dying as soon as possible! stop it! stop it!! #it drives me insane I want to punch a wall it’s driving me INSANE #I am average at everything ok? I’ve made my peace with it. I’m not destined for greater things. I’m studying for a pretty worthless degree. #I don’t even want this degree. I didn’t even choose it. I don’t want to do it. I don’t! I really don’t. #it drives me insane whenever people tell me that I don’t give my 100% in my academics. yes I don’t. I don’t because if I do I will self #destruct. last time I gave it my all I became so severely depressed that I quit everything I quit doing everything I loved. it was horrible #I gave it my all in the way people want you to and the whole time I was suffering and then I failed #it really does affect you when you for once try your absolute best and the result you get is worse than if you didn’t try at all #I was better off slacking. so ever since I’ve done the bare minimum and come to terms with the fact that I am average at best and I’m much #better off being average at best instead of being an absolute failure after doing my absolute best #they say that school doesn’t matter in the long run I hope it’s true because those scars haven’t faded still #the brain damage was irreparable #eugh I hate it here #delete later

[problemcore]

very very scared

#turning 20 in less than 2 hours #im also very sleepy i dont actually know if i can stay awake until midnight #mmm too sleepy to gather my thoughts properly #man i havent journaled in a WHILE. i dont think i made a proper journal entry since.... june? #yikes. #this past year was. something. for sure. #very eventful. i dont even remember all of it. for better or for worse. #it was a very stressful and busy year. proud of myself for keeping it together for as long as i have #idk im not good at words. thats why i make playlists every year. #in fact this year was so. blahhhh. that i have two playlists . #anyway ive made an age playlist every year since i was seventeen. just became a very nice tradition. #i think i no longer miss who i was at age seventeen. #i think im ready to let that child go #and. become a young adult officially. or smth. #god i need a vegetable. im gonna go make me a salad. and then go shower or smth. i feel so icky. #chris out thank you for reading ✌️ #chris noises #misc

[vogelmeister]

me after one listen of do this thing from mean girls

#I actually wanted to listen to world burn but I got distracted #‘welcome to the icmt state mathematics championships sponsored by no one’ #i love that lmao #but its a song about a maths competition??? And it BAMGS??? #mean girls has its faults as a musical but o think they did this plot point well #like it only needed a song #the part where they say the answer and the buzzer is like part of the music #the double meaning of all you can solves the problem in front of you #cady finding herself again beyond the plastic she became #UGHH #ok maybe thats giving it too much credit #but it does go off and it does the maths competition in a fun way in which it doesn’t linger for longer than needs be #mean girls the musical #do this thing #mean girls

[satanfemme]

genuine critiques aside, it's really interesting to me how many criticisms of AI technology being used for art sound nearly identical to the kinds of criticisms photography, or even digital art, received(/still receive). "what do u mean photography can be art? all ur doing is pressing a button for an instant image? what about all the hard working painters who devote their lives and many hours worth of labor to the craft?" ; "it's cheating, it's too fast/easy, it takes work away from Real Artists, it's soulless" etc. it's a tool. it's literally just a tool. cameras and wacom tablets and, yes, even oil paints do not have souls either. the people using those tools have the "soul", same as how the people programming AI, figuring out what text prompts receive the results they want, and then manually curating the results, have souls. I mean no legitimate beef with the people partaking in the current wave of AI hate, like I said (/have been saying) there are genuine critiques to be had especially in the way AI is being used now under capitalism. but if u think this tool inherently industrializes art (more than it's already been heavily industrialized), would u say the same about the advent of photography?

I just think a lot of people wouldn't have survived the Dadaism trend, as an easy example, considering how much of that movement was either collage (ie. stealing pieces from other people's art to create a new image) or just straight up found object sculpture (ie. stealing a full piece of art and relabeling it as ur own, giving it a new meaning lol). that's a gross simplification ofc, but u know. time is circular, and art is inherently derivative. if AI art is immoral, so is a good number of other recognized art movements imo.

#as an aside cause I'm a nerd who did art school for too long: did u know the growth of photography as art pretty much directly caused the - #- spread of non-realism styles (at least in the west)? non-realism already existed ofc but once photography became a thing #- a lot of artists no longer felt the need to create painting/drawings as realistic as possible. #because if they wanted a photorealistic image they could just take a literal photo #& ofc there were the aforementioned fears that photography would replace realism painting/drawings since it was faster/''easier'' #a lot of realism artists couldn't confidentially support themselves with realism alone anymore. photography had ''replaced'' them #so artists began to think of what other ways they could paint/draw things -- that a camera COULDN'T replicate or replace #like trying to find what new niche needed to be filled now that realism was clearly more than filled #and so more and more artists began to experiment with their styles; u know? #(ftr that's also all a simplification; and just from memory trying to remember high school first period classes) #(sorry if any details are a lil off there lol)

[genderfluid-druid]

Hmm.

#hmm #hmmmm #just had a conversation that i have not fully processed yet #which i am currently not feeling any emotions about which canNOT be right #there have gotta be emotions there but i WOULD believe that they are very very very very firmly suppressed #i do think my brain is kind of doing a meta world tilt shift thing right now that may not be perceptible to the mind's eye #kind of like how if the earth itself started slowing down in its rotation it might be hard to tell what the fuck was happening #you see. in the year of our lord 2016 i went through the worst shittiest most devastating breakup of my life #which left me in what we'll just call a Poor Mental State through much of 2017 #and which i only finally clawed out of when i realized i had to stop exposing myself to contact with the ex by unfriending/blocking #which. very healthy choice. should've done that much sooner and i recommend it to anyone in a similar situation #anyway #the crisis dragged on for longer than it should have because ex and i were still trying to be friends when we really really should've. not #we kept driving each other crazy and i was still in love with the guy even though. HAHAHAHAHAHA SHITTY BREAKUP. #so basically my brain was in a constant state of 'i need him to care about me' butting up against 'i am terrified that he doesn't' and #of course that second one became self-fulfilling because i was annoying the shit out of him #crisis finally hit an inflection point when i got it through my head that i just had to accept that i might never be friends with him #that i was gonna have to stop talking to him and let it go #and for the rest of my life assume friendship was not a viable option #and that is how i lived for six years #and he moved to Colorado and got married #and i tried to date some people and hooked up with some others #and that brings us to today #when someone walked up to me at a wedding and said 'oh are you drake? i'm M's friend! didn't you two like date or something?' #🙃 #okay TO BE CONTINUED bc apparently there's a tag limit did you know that? I've never hit 30 tags before. ok one sec

[onewomancitadel]

Character sacrifice in RWBY

Because I was writing about the direction of Cinder's story, the redemption-by-death question came up in my head and I knew I needed to address that again. I have written about Hazel's parental sacrifice - which I think I still mostly agree with and said everything I needed to say - and I think the point of that parental sacrifice is that it rights the relationship of parent-child - and is essentially a 'good example' to both Salem and Ozma, one who murdered her four daughters and the other responsible for, you know, the Huntsman academies which so wounded Hazel and his sister. You can see this played out with Raven-Yang most prominently, but it still comes up with other parent-child relationships or parent-child relationship analogues.

So it doesn't make sense to me to read Cinder as a parent who would sacrifice herself for the world. There's no relationship coded that way, except the stretch that Emerald perhaps wants to see her that way - but then that's truly Hazel (and once Hazel frees Emerald, she grows beyond that symbolic childhood).

'But Pyrrha didn't sacrifice herself that way': I'm discussing sacrifices which are not condemned by the narrative. I'm not sure why we would get a reprisal of a Pyrrha-style death, because that's the conflict of the early story. This is true for Penny too, and I really don't think the climax of the story is going to end that way - or if it does it's one of those sacrifices that because you chose to do it, you get what you wanted anyway. (This might happen with Oscar). If the story does just affirm the same thing they've been telling and not reprise anything in a new/positive way that they seem to keep implying will happen (as things do sort of progressively improve), I obviously can't help that and I think some of their narrative decisions will be more unjustified in retrospect (see my previous post yesterday about it).

I also think this is even more thematic evidence Summer made a very serious sacrifice, or a serious bargain, which given the fact our other Grimm-cursed character (Cinder) esssentially has a bargain with Salem as well, seems more and more likely the case. I can't say what the ultimate resolution of that is going to be, but we don't have all the answers yet.

Also, for me, the fact that Cinder's enslavement in Atlas is like that of the scapegoat child in The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - one suffering child who is sacrificed for the prosperity of the utopian city

makes me seriously question people who think that an eventual redemption for her would be her sacrificing herself and killing herself. Certainly, remixing and reusing stories is necessary... but I don't know why they would take something already heartwrenching and then make it worse, as that doesn't really feel like R/WBY.

I made a post a while ago about The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas and Cinder, but I still get a hoot out of the fact Omelas is Salem, O. backwards, seen through a rearview mirror by the author (Ursula K. Le Guin) hence its name. The Ones Who Walk Away From Salem. As I mentioned in the reblog of that post, it's interesting that the volume which makes Cinder's background explicit (when it was previously implicit, what with the Cinderella business) is also the one where we directly get the ones who walk away from Salem - Emerald and Hazel.

It is interesting that Atlas has that literary inspiration of Omelas and then you've also got The Glass Unicorn's art nouveau art direction might be inspired by Atlas Shrugged, and overall Atlas Shrugged seems relevant in the context of the moral struggles in Atlas.

Of course, I imagine the refutation might be that because Pyrrha sacrificed herself, the only way Cinder could possibly redeem herself would be to experience the same fate. I think this is both a narrow perspective of redemption - whilst I agree a symbolic gesture which answers the evil committed by a character in a story is interesting and makes sense, I equally don't think you can reduce moral acts to tit-for-tat - and I think really misunderstands the preventable tragedy of Pyrrha's death. It shouldn't happen again. I don't think Cinder's worldview should be validated. If it's either kill or be killed, be sacrificed as a child by Atlas and Rhodes or be sacrificed as an adult for the 'greater good', there's no reason to redeem herself. It's the same pain.

If anything, I think Cinder's grand symbolic gesture, if she helps the heroes, should be greater than anything she's done for the side of evil, and should continue to be greater. I suppose this is my taste, but I like the idea that whatever it's possible for her to do as a villain (and so many call her a useless villain), she can do even more heroically.

I swear I'm not on copium, I just think RWBY isn't wholly approving of heedless sacrifice, though there is some intentional parental sacrifice which revisits the true point of something like Vader's death for Luke (peaceful true death/seeing his son with his own eyes), not because he was too evil to live which is the poor takeaway from that redemption. The character I genuinely do fear for is Raven, given that she is a mother, but given that she's a Mother of the Mother-Maiden-Crone variety, I'm not as concerned as I otherwise would be. (We ideally want her to complete the full life cycle lol). Especially so given Summer. Add in the fact resolution with Qrow is necessary in addition to Yang (even Tai), her whole character story is not only about motherhood.

As Adam has come up before, he's not a villain redeeming himself and I believe his death is framed as regrettable and tragic - Blake doesn't want to kill him. He is a symbolic bull sacrifice though and there's some greater mythic stuff going on with his character (especially as he's the wilting rose curse). However with him there is that thing which is that he's a secondary antagonist for Blake's story, and given the fact - as I discuss in that Hazel post - that he's meant there as contrast to a villain that redeems himself like Hazel, I really think his character served a purpose. Here is my post about Cinder and Adam for further reading.

In the case of a character like Penny, her sacrifice is arguably in a more 'positive' context than Pyrrha. She gets to make her death meaningful in a way she couldn't before, and it's a choice she gets to make when her life had otherwise been controlled by everybody else - including her very resurrection. Penny's not Ozma's first death revisited, it's his final death, and something to me indicates the direction of his and Salem's arcs. There's also the fact that as the Winter Maiden and an ostensible robot girl, she affirms her life by death, she helps Winter on her redemption and makes her a Real Girl (Winter Maiden)... her character arc is complete. What's really troubling by the notion of death-by-redemption is that the character arc is incomplete, and otherwise it has troubling statements about how you grapple with bad things you've done.

I also think there's the uncomfortable truth that Penny's death, whilst moving to a lot of us, is a death of someone who's not a main character. So whilst there is character loss, they're trying to be really nice about it. Lol. I also like that neat touch of the Snow Maiden with Penny, who melts the first time she loves someone.

Anyway, I don't think RWBY has an overly simplistic opinion on sacrifice. It's not 'sacrifice bad' but it's also not 'sacrifice good', and that's interesting to me. The middleground is rather refreshing. It's much easier to do if you've got an ensemble cast as they do, as well.

#cindemption #kind of generally about most of the characters lol #character sacrifice in RWBY #in case I need to find this post again #became much longer than I intended and I'm not sure I said everything I need to say

[thefreelanceangel]

2. What is their grooming routine? (how do they treat themselves in private)

As one would expect from someone so unquestionably self-centered, Anna's grooming habits are Extensive and Meticulous. After all, what better to spend time on than herself?

Cold water in the face is all that happens before coffee on an average day; she does not enjoy waking early (she never has) and does so really out of spite towards herself. (It's… so ridiculous.) Anna can't even let herself disobey… herself and so she drags her ass out of bed after dawn, throws cold water in her face and Otaki (still employed by the d'Latus, even though the manor is currently undergoing massive renovations and they've relocated to Ishgard) promptly puts her coffee in front of her.

After her coffee, if Anna's set her schedule for a luxuriant day, it's straight to the hot springs (she loves living in Ishgard) for yoga and then a long sit in the sauna. She's… hostile (to say the least) towards being touched by strangers, so she doesn't avail herself of the massage opportunities, but heads back home to take a long shower with… so much exfoliation and conditioning.

So. Much.

Seifer gets recruited into a massage-and-lotion-application, which… usually leads to another shower and then another massage-and-lotion application. On some days, that becomes an endless cycle. On others, one and done is followed by meticulous facial care followed by hair (and ear) care. And, of course, the eyeliner and lipstick she never leaves the house without. 

Anna does have ONE manicurist that she visits (C’allie had to spend about half a year convincing her to go to a professional rather than threaten the house staff) and that woman’s appointment time is sacrosanct. It does help that Anna pays very well, even if she is a perfectionist who will complain about the slightest uneven filing of her nails. 

Vain and thoroughly self-centered, Anna is absolutely the sort to stop in the middle of a battlefield to check her eyeliner or smooth her hair into place. Conversely, she also loves being covered in blood, soot and sweat from combat. Anna’ll hunt for weeks to find just the right lotions and bath oils, but she doesn’t bat an eyelash at handling her embalming tasks without gloves. 

Because it’s her prerogative to be a bitch about everything, after all. Including whether or not she’s going to pitch a fit over having blood on her nails or combat sweat smudging her eyeliner.

#Annalei d'Latu #Prompts #Thanks sug! #This... became longer than it needed to be #because gdi you bitchbunny

[allpromarlo]

dejounte murray is being so petty about this paolo situation like just admit he stood you up and leave us alone

#talkin bout 'he's a lil boy' and 'this is a mans league' #my brother in christ this is a pro-am game #he left pop's crafted system in san antonio and became insufferable. shame #in atlanta too like sir please sit down and rethink what you just said #26 years old getting mad because it'll probably take paolo not longer than a season or two to get better than him #1st pick vs 29th pick but whatever #also on the topic of 2022 draft picks (and dejounte being weird)...paolo clears chet so much it's insane #i'll never forget how they told us chet was a lock for the 1st pick but watching the summer league and pro-am games...yeah no #paolo is 100% the better player and its not particularly close either #chet is doing all this talking only to get curb stomped by giannis in week 2 #and i'll be there to watch it! #i need to see him get humbled i'm sorry you can't be built like a twig and call yourself the best player in the league #YOU GON BE LAID OUT BY EMBIID! STOP TALKING!! #n e ways moving on #nba #atlanta hawks #dejounte murray #orlando magic #paolo banchero #here's to petty nba beef #we been missed it

[seirosu]

@sanpatron​

⋇⋆✦⋆⋇       a wedding party. rhea had attended soirees celebration the union of twos for centuries, and she smiles at the blending memories of hundreds of vows of protection and kisses of love. it appears, however, she was too late to enjoy the most romantic parts, instead arriving once the deeds were done and the celebrations were partway had. the odious flashing lights burned her retinas, the fog filling her lungs with a cough... the party was quite something, and not one she could ever claim to imagine. but alas, it is not her concern how others enjoy themselves.

                                      congratulations, you who found eternal love.

with a wine glass between her fingers, pearly liquid sway as she tapped a finger once, twice against an unassuming table. with a quick scan of the room before her, she makes move to flip the table cloth, peering beneath for something unspoken of. what she had forgotten, however, was to secure her backside.

“wh--” ah, he looks tall, sturdy, and yet there is a familiar look in his eyes that tell a story of a night well had. ring on his finger, it’s bold of her to assume, but where lay the sin in assumption? “well, you caught me well.”

resetting the table cloth to its proper position draped across the table, the archbishop brings wine glass to lips, “and by the groom of all, may i presume?? i apologize for raising attention towards myself and stealing it from your lovely wife, i simply search for something i’ve lost. being one in the dawn of marriage, it is not important enough to worry yourself with.”

wine stains the lips with a sour flavor.

“what is important... is that i congratulate you. may the goddess bless your union.”

#sanpatron #i imagine medb just going wild on the dance floor #i think this could end up being quite funny actually im sorry shes so stuffy dflgksdhf #this became way longer than i expected no need to match ladsgjsdlhgf #˖ ✧ ic » ( from nowhere came the age of the cathedrals )