#a little long

[magicwithered]

Honestly, my favorite part about Suvi is how much she stands by the Citadel, and yet understands, on a fundamental level, the horrors they’ll do to her friends if she lets slip important information.

Like just think about it, Suvi is completely indoctrinated to their way of thinking, being and feeling. Except when it comes to Eursulon and Ame.

Except when she has to protect them.

She doesn’t give a shit about anything but her duty except.

Except she spent years keeping Eursulon’s status as Honored Friend a secret.

Except she was hesitant to tell Steel, someone she loves and respects both as a person and a parental figure, about Ame until she was sure it was okay. Until she literally had no fucking choice.

Suvi is pro citadel, until she isn’t. And I think that’s what makes her character journey and story arc so interesting. Because it would be easy to always go by the citadel rules, but she is constantly put between a rock and a hard place because protecting her friends often means going against the citadel but going against the citadel is exactly what she’s trained not to do. But she’ll almost always choose her Ame and Eursulon over the Citadel and in this essay I will—

#this is #a little long #anyways AABRIYA YOUVE DONE IT AGAIN #YOUVE MADE ME ANALYZE ANOTHER CHARACTER OF YOURS AND CRY AT WORK IN MY KEYBOARD #suvi kedberiket #suvirin kedberiket #suvi wbn #worlds beyond number #text #*

[surplus-of-sarcasm]

Pt.2

Le Number 17

TW: Issues with parents ig?

Villain lets out a breath they didn't know they were holding as they pull into their driveway. They get out and fumble with their keys, fitting them into the lock as fast as humanely possible.

All they want to do is collapse on the couch, but they're currently covered in a disgusting mixture of blood, most of which is not their own and sweat. But more importantly, they don't live alone, and they can't risk being seen in costume, even if everyone's asleep right now.

Or they were supposed to be asleep.

Villain's mother is sitting on the couch and at the sound of them coming inside, she snaps her book shut.

As she walks forward and looks them all-over, her face slowly hardens into a picture of pure and unbridled fury. Villain's train of thought consists of nothing but an infinite amount of rather filthy expletives that they would probably be disowned for ever using. How did she recognise them, even with the domino mask on?

"So this is what you've been doing? This is where you've been getting your money from?" She gestures to their costume. And her tone is disappointed, repulsed even. No sign of concern at all. Villain doesn't understand why they feel a sharp pain in their chest because of it.

"Well, I uh, I was actually at this party, lost track of time, and sorta broke curfew. Costume party, won second place for accuracy," they lie through their teeth, nervously rubbing the back of their neck.

"Cut the crap! I've had doubts when I saw the news, and I've tried to convince myself it wasn't true. But of course, you never fail to impress me," she spits coldly.

They feel their cheeks burn, and their heart skips a million beats. But they keep their expression level as they rip off their mask. Which was ultimately a terrible decision, considering how exposed they currently felt. "Mum, I'm really tired, can I just go clean up and turn in for the night, and maybe we can discuss my alter ego in the morning? Or preferably not at all." They mutter that last part under their breath.

"Oh, you think it's that simple? To know that I've been raising one of this city's worst criminals. I thought you had a legitimate job!"

"And is legitimacy really important when we almost got kicked out of this place? We were going to sell the car, God, we didn't even know how we were going to eat." They try their hardest to keep their cool, but they can't help the fact that some irritation sneaks into their tone.

"You've always been such a goddamn disappointment, but this? It's just extreme."

Villain's breathing becomes quicker and shallower, and it feels like an invisible hand has a vice-like grip around their throat, slowly choking them. They've always been the 'yes ma'am' child, the one who never talks back, studying late into the night to get perfect grades, pushing themselves through sports practice and babysitting practically raising their younger siblings. But it was never enough, and finally their mother had managed to push them to their limits.

"So you know my little secret," they hiss, their voice becoming dangerously low, using the same tone that terrified some of this city's strongest heroes.

"And what are you going to do about it? Kick me out of the house that I pay the rent for? If you're so concerned about legality, maybe you should've tried finding a job. You know full-well that no 'legitimate' job a college student can get would pay for anything." They walk forward slowly, eyes narrow as slits and expression stone-cold.

She backs away from them slowly. "You-you're a monster!" she screams, slapping them hard on the cheek and storming out of the room.

The sting of the hot shower water on their fresh wounds doesn't hurt at all compared to the sharp ache in their heart. They've never been struck before, and sure, they're used to being their mother's dumping ground, till they were knee-deep in her crap. But the words they'd just heard felt worse than being shot. And they've actually experienced the pain to be able to boast such a comparison.

Wiping away furiously at their teary eyes, they dry themselves off, bandage their wounds and get dressed in their pajamas. They. Should. Not. Care.

As they step into their room, they find a figure perched on their window sill, reading one of their favourite books. Hero.

"Get out of my house," they snap, not bothering to ask how their nemesis got in, their exhaustion overpowering their survival instincts.

"Well that was rude," Hero muses, closing their book and smiling slightly. "But after what I've just heard, I can't really blame ya." They get off the window sill.

"Just go to he-"

"I know a thing or two about parents that are never satisfied, even if you bend over backwards for them." They let out a long-suffering sigh, and they suddenly age years in a matter of seconds. They're only a year or two older than Villain themselves though.

They sit down on the surprisingly soft carpet, resting their back against the wall and they motion for Villain to come over.

"What do you want?"

They gesture to their lap, and even when they cock a confused eyebrow, they're still adamant about it.

So, that's how they find themselves lying on their enemy's lap, with Hero's fingers in their hair, nails gently scratching their scalp. They follow up with working away the knots in Villain's sore neck and shoulders, the criminal relaxing completely under their touch.

Not much later, they pick up their sleeping nemesis's form and tuck them into bed. They feel their heart flutter at the sight of how peaceful they look.

If only someone had been there to give them the same treatment when they'd needed it most.

#prompt #hero x villain #somewhat fluffy #but not w/o some angst of course #a little long #female writers #writers on tumblr

[whatsvert]

Hehehe I made a dumb lil comic, doesn’t really have a point but enjoy the wizard who is very annoyed by this random ass knight tryna force him to help his kingdom

#I wanna draw the knight more #I’m a more serious drawing cause I think that would be fun #wizard #frog wizard is just tired my guy #he wants to sleep and make his little potions #and knights keep coming to him to ask for help #the knights design was a little inspired by drawfees dogfreed #since I like the way Jacob drew armour #but yea this is like the first comic I’ve actually proper finished #so that’s awesome :))) #it’s kinda weird and jumpy but I don’t wanna draw more so this is it lol #comic #doodle #a little long #original work #knight #the gold knight #color #frog

[basic-bamboo]

God, season 8 episode 2 House's AND Wilson's hair is so sexy... Why did House go and cut it?

#house md #a little long #a bit of grey

[hailbaphocat]

Scrolling through the 50 movies on my “watch later list” as I’m watching a movie I’ve never heard of until about 10 minutes that I have no real interest in it and will forgot about tomorrow

#the movie was good tho btw #the boy #Brahms fine af #I also watched this movie called run #it was fine #a little boring #a little long #but overall good

[yournewcuckooo]

all my tcs disappeared today??? didn’t see a single one????

also there’s a really pretty teacher (idk her) and whenever we make eye contact she likes to look at the ground or in the opposite direction as me which I think is cute

B gave a creative writing assignment so I can FINALLY impress her

#a little long #female tc #tc community #tcc blog #tc #tcc #tcc feelings #tcc post #tc crush #tc update #tc meme #wlw #teacher crush community #female teacher crush #teacher crush #hallway crush #crush

[heart2beom]

💌 … eeeeEEEK im shy

I see you on my dash so often so this feels a little more easy for me to get a tiny bit more personal (than just writing). Sometimes, I see people getting impatient with you, send you weird comments, literally cross boundaries you've set in your guidelines. And naturally, I'd expect someone to respond back with the same type of disrespect (which, deserved???) but you're just so polite with everything. Clearly pointing back to your guideline saying "hey look, I said this in here, not comfortable with this request" and it sets such a good boundary between you and your readers.

I know it gets kinda sucky writing boundaries in fear of maybe angering your audience but you still go through with it in the most polite way ever and I truly think that's one of the best traits to have Mille ^^

! mutuals send 💌 and ill tell you one thing i love about you

#a little long #but yeah #i fear I don't interact with you that much but you're seriously so cool mille ly #heart2beom asks ？

[iceyrukia]

I understand the sentiment of this post and everything but I think that ultimately the responsibility lies in the users themselves around here in curating their own online experiences. Blacklisting tags and keywords should help and also maybe if some radfem stuff is too heavy in general then those users should make another account where they could just reblog lighthearted stuff. Personally I don’t like policing what people post on here since a lot of women are in different stages and have different ways in engaging with feminism.

And I’m only speaking for myself here, but as depressing as engaging with some of this stuff is, I think it was necessary for my “peaking” in many ways whether it be tra stuff or liberal feminism since I *personally* think that part of the the reason that mainstream feminism lost its bite is because a lot of women probably felt that we were living in some sorta of post-patriarchal world. It’s to the point where so many women stopped paying attention to the terrible, unforgivable ways that men *are* treating women. I think that not turning away and constantly reminded of what men were doing daily was integral in undoing a lot of patriarchal orientated ways of thinking. It was necessary because when you’re constantly being fed with the opposite, there’s this need to combat that with a sort of reality check I guess ( this being men’s misogyny).

In my process there were highs and lows, days where I was doomscrolling and honestly at that point I should off distracted myself with other things, which I eventually did!!! So I guess it was a learning lesson for me since I wasn’t used to being exposed to feminists who actually really paid attention to the awful things men were doing. But even with all this I still think that because I got to the point where I was finally very fixed and understood how men subtly act misogynistic and how that leads to very violent acts + that practically many men act this way, I could now comfortably step away and watch other lighthearted stuff without defanging my mentality and tolerance towards everyday misogyny. And I’m not suggesting this is a necessary right of passage for everyone but I guess I hit a sweet spot where I am more composed in the face of male depravity and at the very least find comfort that I saved myself - all because I was exposed to a lot of harsh realities.

So in the end I think that for women around these spaces there should be encouragement for newcomers to take breaks if they feel overwhelmed, but I can’t exactly say that stopping the focus,monitoring, awareness and documentation of mens’ misogyny is gonna put us in a “better” place as a collective. A lot of people are distracted with their own lives and aren’t activists and that’s okay, if individual women save themselves and spreads knowledge about feminism + examples of men’s misogyny, I think that’s fine for the time being since most people are online focused anyways and that’s not gonna go away anytime soon. So when it comes to being exposed to unpleasant things, I think it’s up to individuals to learn their limits.

anyways ……most posts here ( tumblr) are just screenshots of male depravity from other sites and there isn’t really an algorithm like on other sites or a manosphere on here. People can nearly curate what they see here at any point they want.

#ic.text #personal #a little long

[valcksys]

random things i want to get out of my system because I don’t feel like making separate posts

- man I hate when you know there’s new alters/alters you haven’t met before but like they are just out of your reach so you can’t find out who they are but they’re like right there. like so close but so far away. and i get that like alters shouldn’t have to reveal themselves if they don’t want to but also im nosy as fuck and want to know

- periods of blurriness. just hate when I have no sense of self. like rn. so fucking annoying why can’t my brain just be like “okay it’s this alter right now” and not “here’s a random soup of people have fun separating the ingredients that are already mixed together” it’s just. Annoying

- this is a non-system thing but I hate when I suddenly just have no social battery and just isolate myself from other people for like two weeks. i feel like I let people down in that way I don’t know. sometimes I (the system as a whole really) just physically don’t have the energy to really interact with other humans. just sucks ass.

that’s all I have atm goodbye

#made by ??? #a little long #did system #osddid #traumagenic system #kinda a vent #sorry lol

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

rantaro?!?!?!??

#this was a pretty fun quest #a little long #but fun #and the photo at the end was very funny #aethers gaming

[clairenatural]

there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

#someone brought it flowers today........... #this half dead little tree that nobody thought would survive this long means everything to me

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people "manage" getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.

For people who are unwilling or unable to do this...work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.

I know I post about this a lot but I'm so TIRED all the time and it's just so depressing that this is how we're expected to spend the one life we have.

#i have to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night to even barely function #with sleep #getting ready for work #commute #cooking #and errands #I typically have maybe 2-3 hours to actually do what i want in a day #and I'm usually too tired to actually do the things i want to do #and that's with a very short commute #if i actually had a long commute I'd basically do nothing but work #i see my friends like once every few weeks or months #because we're all so fucking busy with work and have such little time for socialising #and none of us even have kids or anything!!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

#also if it wasnt clear this isnt ‘its bad its lazy’ there is a level of like #completion consistancy i am thinking for with this #personally i really do not enjoy the like. vintage chic long red nails fur coats noir esque aesthetic HOWEVER 💥💥💥 #i can recognize that it is put together it is Intentional #i feel like a lot of people are going to say minimalism on this so LET ME SAY 🫰☝️ i recognize that minimalism is Considered an aesthetic #but i *PERSONALLY* do not consider it an aesthetic i consider it the void of one #it is a lapse in aesthetic or personality in the same way a silence in a song is still technically a ‘beat’ but no music is played #however the importance of Space or Breath in design is more akin to a purposeful silence in music #because that silence matters in the same way rhythm and breath in design do #so i guess minimalism is more comparable to like. white noise. the sound of a fan #very little effort and there is a comfort in it i suppose but its not. A Design. okay #TO ME 🤫 #if minimalism has one hater its me if minimalism has no haters im dead

[inkskinned]

you're in the habit of denying yourself things.

if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.

but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?

what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.

and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.

you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.

so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.

it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.

sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.

oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.

#warm up #this isn't good #writeblr #this is complicated by the fact i can't stand up too long or i fuckken pass out and <3 hit my damn head <3 #but i did take a deep breath and buy myself the stupid rice cooker #and!!! a very cheap sushi kit!!! i have been wanting to try making sushi for literally YEARS #the kit was only like 15 dollars!!!! and i haven't purchased it bc?!!??!?!?!?!!? #..... i didn't get the mixer tho that felt. like a lot. like too much. #on my list is a kitchenaid. one day when i get a check and i have paid off my student debt #and medical debt #i will put that first little bit of cash #into a kitchenaid 5qt stand mixer (with attachments) #i really do just go into their refurbished section and stare lustily at each option #but yeah i feel guilty about the rice cooker even tho i know for a fact this damn thing is gonna be a lifesaver #oh shit also fuck i forgot to mention . poached eggs

[fluentisonus]

He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

#is this anything? idk I've been looking at it too long to tell. anyways I just really liked this passage #^ the text here is a little abridged tbc bc i couldn't draw all the uses of nettles he lists etc #I think I might also color that last panel separately bc I'm really pleased with it tbh #thoughts #my art #les mis #jean valjean