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muckyschmuck · 5 months

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To Sugar:

Please wash your hair :(

mangy!!!!!!!

#howd u make him do that!!!!!#he never does that!!!!#“helps it grow” they were born w that ear/hair length #making excuses #theyt tried to justify it ...#my art #furry art #anthro art #furry #anthro #digital art #oc art #oc #doodlings

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rox-reads · 1 year

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taylor, listen, youre so talented at rationalization (truly a gift!), but i feel like you mightve failed to realize that leaving a teen girl at the mercy of her bullies and leaving a civilian at the mercy of a huge fuck off water monster are, while both objectively bad, events of slightly differing orders of magnitude

#worm #parahumans #worm lb #worm25 #ch 8.5 #just barely #also another thing youve failed to realize #which i feel is more fascinating #is that gladly couldve helped you #but in this situation theres not much *you* can do for him #you cant take a hit from leviathan in his stead #you cant hit him hard enough to buy him time #you could make a bug clone to use as bait but thats not gonna be very useful #theres no guarantee leviathan would go for that instead of him #so interesting to see her take the blame for leaving him to die #rationalizing it #making excuses #while failing to see she shouldnt take the blame to begin with #<- has 'put most of your thoughts in the tags instead of the main fuckin post' disorder

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lore-pls · 7 months

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Also I'm still doing inktober, I'm just behind due to it being a very busy season at work! I plan to catch up over the three day weekend lmao. <3

#making EXCUSES

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howifeltabouthim · 9 months

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'Jeremy just needed to figure his shit out.' 'The shit he needed to figure out . . . was how to treat you like an actual person. You know, the same species and of equal intelligence, et cetera.'

Katherine Lin, from You Can't Stay Here Forever

#misogyny #toxic relationship #making excuses #fuckboi #dialogue #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #heteronormativity #katherine lin #you can't stay here forever

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mydarlingdearestdead · 11 months

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I haven't posted anything recently but I swear part 2 of Casanova is in the works (but it's actually going to be really long lmao) and I've started planning for Eros and Psyche retelling.

My pjo au and veritaserum dorlene are on the back burner rn but hopefully I'll get around to them at some point

#making excuses #fuck jk rowling #fuck jkr #marauders #marauders era #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic writing #writing #fanfiction writing

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winchestershiresauce · 2 years

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Thanks to this super fun thing called a tilt table test (I jest, it's not fun), I just found out this week that the reason I've been feeling like absolute garbage is this thing called POTS. I'm not asking for sympathy or anything, I just wanna let folks know that I am still working on fics and I'm still very open to chatting, but there is apparently a medical reason I've been so incredibly low energy, especially since I started working full time again.

Thanks to everyone who's been so awesome and supportive (including literally everyone who's read, liked, reblogged, and/or commented on my stuff). 💖 Y'all mean the world to me!

Now, all this rambling to say that I have a follow up on the 18th to talk treatment options and man, I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much but I am optimistic that things will get better now that I finally have my migraine meds again and know what else is going on. Hopefully I'll get some real writing done soon?!

Much love!

#personal #no one asked #prob will delete #making excuses

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yourangle-yuordevil · 4 months

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That time in ancient Greece when Aziraphale needed a speedy horse and accidentally invented the pegasus

VS.

Whatever Crowley had going on in medieval times

#Crowley just really misses the unicorns ok???#Also Crowley didn't start from a horse to make a new unicorn #he looked at a horse and was like.... nah #then looked at a goat and was like YEAAAAH LET'S GOO LET'S MAKE YOU BIG AF AND YOU CAN ALSO SPIT FIRE WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!#While Aziraphale is fretting over the fact that he accidentally gave WINGS to a HORSE and every time that the angels asks about it he's lik #whaaat?? PegaSUS naaaah never heard about it. Must be a made up thing. humans...right?? silly little things ahahah *sweat nervously*#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #pegasus #unicorn #Do I wanna draw the precious good omens beans? yes.#is this an excuse to draw more horses? also yes.#medieval crowley #ancient greek aziraphale #CAVALLIIIIIII 🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴#good omens comic #historical husbands

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shandsformation · 2 months

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hmmmm

#animation class assignment was to make examples of anticipation with 3 characters #grabbed these losers KJHSDGS #also finally an excuse to animate them!!! dies #transformers #tf #maccadam #my art #elite trine #starscream #skywarp #thundercracker #animation

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logorrhea5mip · 10 months

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Sorry for the bad photo quality, Tumblr doesn't like posts this long.

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pokeberry5 · 3 months

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boy hostage (spiritual successor to this)

big brother to the rescue:

#back at it again at krispy kreme #sart #tim drake #dick grayson #dc #dick & tim #some of my favorite things about canon are a) dick being (ferally) protective of tim #and b) that gotham villains refer to robin and nightwing as brothers #idk i love drawing tim a little bloody #he's ok!!! dick got to him on time im realizing he kinda looks dead #oh OTHER favorite thing is those panels of vigilantes where all u can make out of their features are their glowing eyes #(my excuse for not drawing tim's belt is that if he had it he'd've escaped so they must have gotten it off him)

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liorlen · 6 months

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gale origin playthru from astarion’s pov or smth like that

#bloodweave #astarion #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #ihhhhhhhhhuuhhhhh bad idea to make a comic that’s not required for work #but finally fucking finished it. excuse the horrible lettering I cannot be fucked #tbh when Tara came in with that fucking ring of agility like #first rest I was like. girl why are you giving me something useful #and I rushed to find the most useless object I could #thank you Komira you’re a real one #also I’m so sorry to astarion for simplifying the swaggy gold decor on your outfit but I was not drawing that twenty times #also yeah this is like early act 1 no one knows about the netherese orb or astarion’s vampirism (supposedly) yet

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biblebloodhound · 6 months

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All Work Is Spiritual (Exodus 31:1-11)

God is concerned about everything, great and small alike - including our work.

Bezalel and Oholiab build the ark of the covenant, a woodcut from the Cologne Bible, 1479 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I have specifically chosen Bezalel son of Uri, grandson of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. I have filled him with the Spirit of God, giving him great wisdom, ability, and expertise in all kinds of crafts. He is a master craftsman, expert in working with gold, silver, and…

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#bezalel and oholiab #exodus #exodus 31 #god #god&039;s commands #god&039;s will #making excuses #spiritual gifts #spiritual life #vocation #work #worship

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deadpanchaos · 7 months

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Sorry, I can’t do the one thing I do not want to do. I have a lunch date with the Devil. I can’t keep rescheduling that :(((((

#Making excuses #At this point idk #🤷

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howifeltabouthim · 2 years

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You know, people use that world like an excuse. 'But we're family!' I don't care if we share blood. I care how you treat me. Do you think you've treated me like family these past few years?

Celia Laskey, from So Happy for You

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stromblessed · 5 months

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Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:

"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.

Kind of like another bird in this show:

#blue eye samurai #mizu #akemi #kinuyo #bes #women are birds okay they are BIRDS #the let me die line is so SCARY AND SAD like a part of Mizu wants death but she cant? she doesnt know how?? excuse you show???#when all these other delicate birds are dying all around her #akemis character gets more and more gutwrenching upon subsequent rewatches because whenever she says her life is in danger #NO ONE BELIEVES HER - certainly not other women #because shes rich and pampered and that means shes safe and is worrying about nothing right? right?????#and it turns out that all of akemis instincts were right and she was in danger the ENTIRE TIME #also I need to make a post just for kinuyo because I am sad

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muppetfreak · 4 months

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Mr. Riordan, it is truly a pleasure getting to experience your second draft.

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