#demonstrations of love and affection

[elitadream]

A Humble Offering 💝🪵

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I saw this post by @peaches2217 which was inspired by this earlier post of mine, and uh... I couldn't resist. 🥺🥰

#I never reached for my tablet this fast 😂 #I've always been so incredibly fond of this concept #Mario having big carpenter vibes and offering handmade presents to his loved ones #It's just- all so indescribably charming and endearing to me! #Reading that scenario gave me a burst of inspiration 🤭💕 #Hope you like! ^-^ #Mario #Princess Peach #Mareach #Mario x Peach #friendship and romance #fluff #demonstrations of love and affection #gifts #absolute sweethearts #I can't with these two ;_; #Super Mario bros #Fanart

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

christ sometimes I just wanna. steal a time machine & go back & sit down next to my 9-year-old self and just like. let them pull out their pokemon card binder & gush about their holographic gyarados or whatever. I'd just smile & ask questions about motherfukcing bulbasaur & tell my kid self that I thought they were a neat person, & someday they'd find other people who thought so too.

like i'm a grown adult who honestly finds most kids stuff boring, but. damn if i could go back & hang out with my baby self & listen to them ramble...just so they knew someone was listening. i would in a heartbeat. thinking about u kid

#wouldn't roll my eyes or check my phone or get bored or nothing #I'd just listen to that little dork & smile & encourage them & let them explain how their favorite gameboy games worked #i was the kind of kid my adult self would find annoying & uninteresting but like #most of the actual adults in my childhood felt that way too. including my dang parents. #and ya know sometimes they showed it. a lot of times without realizing it. and that messes a kid up #if you don't make an effort kids WILL recognize your disinterest and lack of attention. #kids deserve to have caregivers who show interest and engagement #even when it's over stuff that adults find boring. especially then maybe #your kid doesn't have to be fun or interesting or easy or well behaved to deserve positive attention #they deserve positive attention because they are YOUR KID #if love is unconditional then DISPLAYS of LOVE and AFFECTION must also be unconditional #not something that must be earned #telling your kid that you love them is not enough. that is step one out of like a thousand #if you just tell your kid you love them but you don't demonstrate affection and interest and patience and warmth and etcetera #your kid isn't gonna feel loved! I Love You will just become a trite phrase that they regard with mistrust! #bitch you gotta FOLLOW THROUGH

[aster-draws]

Piece for chapter 6 of Wanted: Dead and Alive, my dpxdc crossover fic that Consumes my every waking thought. Also I care very much about these stupid little birds. So.

#w:d+a #my art #tim drake #damian wayne #dp x dc #pls they are both so awkward and don’t know how to demonstrate affection and I Love them #danny phantom #the chapter is going up in the Morning but i need the link to post it? you know how it be #yeah ily guys

[es-quest]

“Save everyone?” You ask, from what?

(You, your mind helpfully fills in. There is no other reason why God would be this kind to you. He is just being merciful before he has to take you away. You appreciate his kindness but somehow that feels worse than him just doing it quickly...he doesn't need to do all of this for her...)

God nods. “Yep! You understand my rules much better than anyone else, you know? It would be sad if the people we care so much about miss their chance at salvation, and someone as kind as you would never let that happen. Unless I was wrong about you..."

The words escape your mouth before you can stop yourself. "Of course not!" you yell, before covering your mouth. You close your eyes, such insolent behavior in front of God will certainty not be tolerated.

God laughs though, in spite of your clear disrespect. "Ah...I'm glad I chose you, it be bad if I had a favorite who wasn't as strong-willed as you are." He says, but then he sighs. "Though I see you are still scared of me...I'm sorry for what they have done to you in my name."

Scared? "I could never be-" "Hm? What if I make it up to you then!" He says, cutting you off again. "Will you be happy then?" What? You never said you weren't happy! "I appreciate the offer, but I am already happy with what you have already provided me." That is true, you don't really want anything at all. His words are enough for you already. Even if you don't fully believe them, the idea that God thinks of you like that...it's a bit absurd.

But God shakes his head, displeased with your answer. "Do you really not understand what I'm trying to say? I already told you."

He holds a paw up to your hand. "Your special to me, Amane. So why don't you let me treat you a bit?"

#milgram #es quest #ask blog #amane momose #cw child abuse #ooc: 'Love bombing is an attempt to influence a person by demonstrations of attention and affection' #also this was hard to write for some reason #im still not too happy with it #but also I really want to write the next bit

[wasp-princess]

Oranges

You know those poems, of oranges and love?

I know you do, you adored them

In-taking the words like nectar

Like breathing in the intimacy and saying that you've shared it

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I hope that every orange you eat is the sweetest thing that touches your lips

That you think of us each bite you take

That every orange is too much for you to eat alone

That the bitter pith stays on your tongue.

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Much the same as I think of you

In the wasteland you left

Dropped peels scattered

The only part of the spirit fruit you shared with me

.

See my heart was already pulp

(which you don't seem to like much)

A bit too much effort to be patient, delicate

Can't peel it open the same way you score a citrus

.

I hope your orange tea tastes like truth

A medicine

The steam rising like the oracle at delphi inhaled

Telling you visions of what you could have had

.

In the meantime I'll go out

Till the soil

Orange peels as fertilizer

And see what grows in time.

#poetry #i dunno those poems about sharing oranges as the pinnacle of love tend to feel... #cheap? like its a nice thing to do but is the sacrifice of a little bit of a fruit constitute as the absolute pinnacle of love? #are you feeding your loved ones when they don't have the energy to say 'thank you?' #not everything has to be earthshattering when showing affection #but viewing sharing a fruit with people when you didn't have to as the highest demonstration of love #ignores the effort it takes to love day in and day out and the effort that has to go into relationships #sure you shared your orange when it was a good day for the both of us #but did you comfort someone when you both had a bad day? #communion is a sacrament #but communion also requires Community and is a demonstration of great sacrifice #giving yourself the bigger half hardly feels like much of a great sacrifice

[cementcornfield]

Poor Ja’Marr…Joe won’t look at him and Justin won’t return his calls 😂

he's really going through it 🥲 but they love him don't worry 💜

#what i think #(disclaimer that i obviously know none of these men or what they're really thinking) #but what i think #is that ja'marr a. tends to exaggerate #and b. is very demonstrative with his affection (especially verbally) #so like you have situations where he's like 'oh me and jj haven't talked in forever' #and then it turns out they had shot a commercial together like a month or two before #but to ja'marr that's forever! he wants to love on his friends as much as he can as often as he can #joe doesn't smile and interact with him every single time he sees him #(man has a lot going on! fair enough!) #but ja'marr notices things like that because that's contrary to his instincts as a friend #demonstrative! affectionate! #and i wonder if he gets insecure about his friendships with people who don't have the same love language as him #but if he watched joe's interviews like us #and saw how fondly joe smiles each time ja'marr is brought up!! #anyway this is so much projection good lord #but it's how i like to think about it :)

[randomnameless]

If you could rewrite the church family (Rhea, Seteth, Flayn, Billy, Cyril, Catherine, Alois, idgaf about Jerry, and Shamir’s fans generally like Edelgard too much for me to vibe with them), how would you do it? I love your headcanons.

thanks lol

No Manu ???

I don't know if rewritting them is the word, or just, "using them", but it can range from anything like "summer AU" (like what FEH tries to sell even if Cyril and Alois will never be added and the lizards are in limbo) where everyone relaxes, to monastery hijinks like

Cyril's first day of class and everyone popping up to check if he's alright, like Alois passing by to say hello during class and cracking jokes as an excuse to see if the giant cookie stash Rhea gave Cyril is empty or not (if it's empty it means he shared some with his new friends!), Shamir being "suddenly ordered" to give archery seminars or Catherine inviting everyone to the training tower.

Alois's family sometimes visiting Garreg Mach and Flayn sort of befriends his daughter and loves to hear the story of how he and his wife met - Seteth, after many "hmph" and "maybes" finally accepts to accompany Alois to visit his family with Flayn (who wanted to talk to his daughter about fashionable stuff young people do nowadays and how normal people live!), but it ultimately became a trip to convince Alois not to buy the rumour that "there is a Great Sage living in Lake Teutates who can teach you how to master your fears" because 1/he knows his brother started this rumour since he was bored and wanted some company and usually it ends in a disaster 2/Indech loves to make magic ghosts/soldiers for fun, and if dropping kid!Rhea in a pond was supposed to help her "master her fear of water" he knows Indech is going to throw a hundred ghost soldiers at Alois to help him "master his fear of ghosts".

Rhea still gives the worst pointers to Billy on how to "people" correctly, to the point where Billy is the one who gives her pointers, but it doesn't really work - until Manu gives the ultimate advice to Billy, no one has to try to socialise with her, because everyone falls for her charm! So Billy tries to understand what "charm" is, which prompts Rhea to dust off some "subversive books" to help them.

Which of course spirals in a catastrophe, when Cyril who's starting to recognise letters, wonders what's "charm" to Catherine who tells him it's something like exchanging knight vows, like swearing your life to someone "a bit like a partnership then?", but it's totally not like that, so Catherine directs him to Manuela. Of course Cyril doesn't go and asks Rhea instead, who is very happy to tell him everything she knows about Great Emperor Wilhelm which leaves him completely puzzled, but he's too polite to point it out, so he nods.

Ultimately he asks Seteth when he returns "It's like swearing knight vows but not like a partnership and doing it like the First Emperor did?" and Seteth gives the longest sigh every, asking him to come to his office later to get a lecture about "romance and appropriate conduct", but Cyril replied that he was not interested in romance anyways, but the professor is, since they have books about it.

Of course, Alois volunteers to help Billy with their heart issues, and Billy spills the beans, they tried to make friends so they asked Manuela how to do so, and Rhea gave them those books.

It is rumoured Seteth's sigh echoed for days in the halls of the monastery.

Billy, while accompanying Seteth who pulled out one of his "straight to the Abyss" cardboard boxes to "cleanse the Archbishop's quarters" asked Cyril if he managed to make friends during his first day of class, and Cyril dismissed them saying they don't need friends anyways (which then made Alois confess he had been spying on Shamir's orders "But I saw your bag of cookies, you didn't share them with your friends?") the life at the monastery is more than enough for him.

Billy then said to everyone - who's reunited in Rhea's quarters because they were following first Seteth (who's hunting the "subversive books"), then Billy, then felt bad for Cyril (who brought fresh water for the flowers!) so followed him - everyone here is their friend.

Alois cried hugging them, Catherine called them stupid for saying something so corny but ruffled their hair, Flayn was so happy to hear it, Manu didn't hear anything since she was arguing with Seteth about "artistic licence" and "books of art" and Cyril still didn't see what was to great about having friends. Rhea returned from helping kittens (Duchess Whiskers the VIIth got a new litter!) she placed in Seteth's office seeing everyone hugging Billy in her quarters, who told her they have friends now.

Flayn then pulls out the "deluxe tea-time set" from Rhea's cupboard - she kept just in case hoping she would be able to have tea with a lot of people - and the "preserved thanks to Nabatean magic" cookies and everyone shared a cup of tea.

#anon #replies #lizard family time? #fodlan nonsense #in those aus billy is sort of the estranged family member who connects with them and with the world altogether #seteth is always the one who tries to be rational #but when it's not rhea it's Indech who causes trouble #you don't ask what charm is to a nabatean they have an insane charm stat by just existing #catherine is weirded out by non fearghan demonstrations of affection #like you don't call people friends or lovers it's too weird #but exchanging knightly vows polishing armors or being partners that's a love language she knows and is comfortable with #Alois doesn't want to even start to think on Jerry's parenting but instead they'll help Billy with whatever they want #Manu is jealous of Rhea's collection but was surprised to see no collector version of the tome of comely saints #maybe it's too subversive about people important to the church? #FE16

[transingthoseformers]

for the rb SG au. Optimus is introducing the rescue bots to Chief and Heatwave starts crying because Blades basically picked on Heatwave in the private coms that were just opened and Chase was in on it and is just snickering.

Ah yes top tier immaturity

Charlie is having flashbacks to when Kade, Dani, and Graham were in middle school lmao

#i feel like Kade and sg Heatwave's dynamic would be drastically changed and in a v interesting way #because while kade can be a bit much and have his whole tough guy act he honestly cares about people #and he would definitely demonstrate this with sg heatwave #transformers rescue bots #rb chief #rb blades #rb heatwave #rb chase #they'll learn... eventually #I'd also love to dive into how the sg autobots dynamic affects them actually

[adelaidedrubman]

this is the most romantic she’s ever been he should honestly be swooning

#see wildfire!john would be like ‘‘love of my life implied she didn’t want me to starve today! wedding is back on!’’ #jestiny really is just cavewoman affection ‘‘me catch fish. make fire. give fish eat you think me good. show balls now’’ #any verse it’s always over once she starts intentionally Demonstrating Her Value

[lighthouseborn]

it is not his main love language but it is true that henry will bring you little shiny things like a crow

#like most people he uses a bunch of languages. his least used actually is words he's broadly very demonstrative instead #usually this is physical affection and acts of service but also it is gift giving and quality time #and i think that is a mix of. that he is just physical in general so it's in part a natural lean but i think also #that he noted how many people he knows who get overwhelmed by directly pointing at love and committing to an 'i love you' and hearing one #so it's like. a natural inclination reinforced by environment u know #so it's not that he won't ever use words or that *he's* afraid of them at all he's just used to people who Spook easily in that regard #so here's a thing he found was he was traveling! he likes that you're here and hopes you are well #why did i put all of this in the tags this is a fascinating little moment of being loud quietly #there's a light that never goes out ( hc. )

[forevercloudnine]

“Whatever he is now, we all know he was a criminal. And he knows Batman.”

Batman (2016) #52

#bruce wayne #mr. freeze #victor fries #love any comic that goes into how batman's villains 'know' him in a way no one else does #since they're familiar with him through years of interactions #but the side of him they interact with isn't the same one he shows to friends and family #not that he ISN'T capable of being cruel to friends and family #but y'know. he didn't dedicate his entire life to taking out his trauma on them #'cold days' is one of my all time favorite batman stories because it really gets into the consequences of bruce's anger #it's a very common thing in batman comics to demonstrate bruce's emotional state by how brutal he is #like his torturing of scarecrow in heart of hush #or his torturing of victor specifically in batman eternal #or his torture of the entire maximum security wing in arkham in mythology #it's interesting to think about how that would affect his villains in the long term #like yes on a logical level they know that batman is a 'good person' who would never kill them #and has repeatedly demonstrated that he does care about them to some extent #but if you've been framed for something and you hear that batman is furious and coming to get you #are you really going to expect him to be reasonable and help you? #or are you going to remember the dozens of times he's tortured you as punishment #this plus the cyclical nature of how often they purposefully provoke him to get his attention #tends to make the batman&villain relationship feel like a mutually toxic abusive relationship (to me anyway) #anyway this story always makes me think of victor telling bruce 'all i've ever really wanted is to be your friend' in urban legends #when he's drugged and describing how he & batman & nora could work great together #and year of the villain when nora hears that victor is helping batman #and she calls him a 'hopeless romantic always trying to find new ways to be loved' #anyway i've put enough tags in now right no one's reading down this far #so #freezebat

[bostonbakeddeans]

Hey! I wasn't sure who it might be good to send this to, but I did a video essay talking about Terry Pratchett and I actually got into the discworld series in part bc you kept reblogging stuff about it haha. If you wouldn't mind, I'd really appreciate getting some more visibility to my essay. Thank you!

My post about the video: https://whydidoth.tumblr.com/post/692527594093133824/so-i-promise-i-actually-am-working-on-that

The video: https://youtu.be/fVF89_AXW78

Hooooooly shit y'all, everyone who follows me who likes insightful commentary and deconstruction of media, Discworld, excellent voice acting, or dunking on Christianity and colonialism should go watch this video immediately if not sooner. Top tier jokes, excellent review and deconstruction of Small Gods (one of my personal favorites in the Discworld series), a picture of Michaelangelo's David colored as a Feegle, background kitty noises; *chef's kiss* this video has everything. I have never been prouder to have gotten someone into Discworld, hot damn.

This reminds me very much of Shaun's videos, particularly his video on Terry Pratchett and Hijacking the Dead (Shaun is referenced in the video; the video referenced is his refutation of The Bell Curve, which is also very good). Both have a very even tone, a dry sense of humor (delightful), and a thorough understanding of the works they deconstruct - both their flaws and their strengths. (Also dunks on Audible and encourages the support of libraries, which is based as hell.)

Seriously. This is incredible. Go watch this. It's 38 minutes and worth every second. It's about deserts and Christianity and how what we believe affects reality (and how it doesn't) and satire and colonialism and orientalism and damn. DAMN. Thank you for making this, thank you for sharing it with me, just thank you.

#Discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #small gods #holy shit y'all seriously this is so gooooooood #i am delighted and astounded #this is so so so good #also 👀👀👀 vetvimes fic hello?????? watching this space (op's blog) for that #the video demonstrates a deep understanding of and love for the material (the good and the bad!) which bodes well for fic #vetvimes is a particular love of mine #oh man its just *fist clench* so fucking good #its abt the devotion not to each other but to the city and the ''greater good'' #but also to each other #and the respect and affection and ''dear gods i could throttle you right now'' #its so GOOD and i am *chinhands* abt a potential fic #from the creator of this brilliant video #also ur voice is very soothing i should NOT have listened at 11pm i am so so sleepy now (in the best way) #definitely going to watch again and just absorb everything #(minor pedantic note about the pedantry of ''desert''... it's typically ''precipitation'' not ''rainfall'' #which is why places like Antarctica are still a desert; it's too cold to snow - let alone to rain! but places that get more snow #than they get rain still might not qualify as deserts bc theyre getting enough precipitation to disqualify them from being a desert) #(yes i was an annoying kid in class don't @ me; op pls forgive my pedantry ur video is no less brilliant for it)

[elucubrare]

i've been listening to L'Elisir d'Amore during long stretches on the elliptical & it is a dumb romcom opera that no one should care about but i do -- and while i've been making "the real love potion was money all along" jokes in my head, the libretto is fairly carefully constructed so that some of the peripheral characters, and therefore the audience, know that Nemorino is rich now, neither Nemorino himself nor Adina know, so the inheritance isn't guiding either of their actions

#also 1) nemorino is in love with adina because she reads and knows things #2) they both demonstrate their affection for each other in pretty big ways - #nemorino enlists as a soldier & adina buys out his contract #they probably have the healthiest relationship in opera #yes i know she almost went through with a marriage to make him jealous #even so. #operablogging #posts that are for no one

[hua-fei-hua]

when i was a kid i really resented the fact that my mom kept forcing us to check out nonfiction books alongside our fantasy novels in order to "broaden our minds" and basically ensure we were learning Real Factsies(tm), but now that i'm older, if i don't go off and learn some Real Factsies(tm) every so often, then i'll end up finding my fictions dull and uninspired

#i guess i just also hated how kids' nonfiction tended to present itself. unless they were like those slim encyclopedias #with all the sleek pictures n glossy pages of diagrams n shit #bc i remember reading a nonfiction book abt seahorses for adults called 'poseidon's steed' in like fifth grade and loving it #adult nonfiction books (in my limited experience) tends to read more like storytelling except everything is real and has citations #also now that i'm an Adult(tm) with More Life Experience(tm)(tm) (this is a cue for my older mutuals to laugh at my precociousness or w/e) #i find it easier to connect to the text-- in this case a book abt a guy called paul otlet n his contributions to information science #which is a thing i am Very Much interested in bc the internet has spoiled me with its indexing and yet i love analog information #also it was right next to two volumes from the 60s detailing various historical book burnings #and indeed the intro talked abt how this man's life's work was handily destroyed by the nazis who thought he was cataloguing garbage #learning abt all the lil guys in the 20th century who fuckin loved organizing information n bitched abt there being information overload #they are So Real they would have looked at the modern internet n gone 'this is too much make wikipedia the main page' #花話 #anyway i doubt i'd have appreciated reading so much had i not read fiction so avidly growing up #and i rebuke the idea that the fantasy novels taught me nothing at all bc stories teach us abt being people #and demonstrate experience better than a more academic n factual analysis/write-up or w/e #yes i do love to learn abt philosophy in its like. rigorous academic state or form or w/e. #but that's diff from seeing it in practice in the real world or in people's stories n how it Affects Things

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

'accepting the help of a friend doesn't make you a child. petulance, however...' I have no idea what part Arabella is going to play in all of this in the end, but HEY SHE'S RIGHT IN THIS AT LEAST, ELIZAAAAAA

#hi i'm back for another round of watching Miss Scarlet and snarking at all the characters X'D #she IS right tho. obviously I understand Eliza's desire to prove herself and her wariness not to lose her independence. #like it's actually fiercely relatable tbh :') #but it *would* be nice to see her not respond so sharply every time someone (especially William) tries to look out for her #or questions how she's doing #allowing yourself to be cared for a looked after and accepting it as a gesture of affection and love from your friends #and not a demonstration of their obligation to help you or a sign that they don't trust you/your abilities #is a really important life lesson actually #miss scarlet and the duke #gurt says stuff

[radmista]

jesus fuck i feel bad for your poor girlfriend. just tell her you're a radfem

My gf knows I hold radical feminist views. Even before we've dated, I've talked openly and loudly about female liberation and sex based oppression, abortion access, hookup culture making young teens think theyre abnormal for not craving sex at 15, my thoughts on shaving, etc. She's even told me that talking about these things has helped her not feel the compulsion to shave her arms anymore.

She knows I'm a feminist and that I have radical views. The only thing I've never explicitly stated is that I'm gender critical of the trans movement as well (bc in general, this is social suicide and I have a career I want to protect). I have spoken about my gender critical views, I just don't call them that in conversation. Like I've ranted about the usage of terms like "boy clothes" and "boymode" to describe comfortable lounge clothing and that clothing has no gender. We've even debated about single sex spaces and even talked about JKR's funding of Beira's place. Like shockingly, we can disagree on things and still be together.

Idk what the point of your message really was. Is it "your poor gf" bc I complain about her very gendie/tumblr-q***r viewpoints? Or do you feel bc I'm a radfem it makes me a bad partner and that my gf is suffering by being partnered with me? I love her and want the best for her, but it doesn't stop me from being frustrated when she supports a movement that infringes on womens rights. I feel like I'm allowed to complain on my personal feminist tumblr about that lol

#the thing I appreciate a lot about her is that she does debate and hold discussion about various topcs with me #but what bothers me the most and just demonstrates how cult like the tq rainbow+ community is is how anti debate she is on those topics #we can talk about sex segreated spaces and mostly agree but then she has to mention TiM's and holds a 'no debate they're women' stance #and her defense of them is always so robotic or comes off as her quoting a stanza every 'supporter' has to say. ev #*even during our talks about abortion in her automated caveat about tq+ people she mentions tims being affected by the abortion ban #like they're not. but including them in everything is the preprogrammed response. and that is at the core of my complaints abt her stances #they aren't actually hers. its just rhe most progressive thing to believe and regurgitate. it frustrates me bc she is v intelligent #but she in general holds many libfem-y beliefs. maybe in the long run our relationship won't be sustainable idk thats a bridge for later #ik eventually I'll have to lay out my thoughts i don't tell her now and see what happens #I've come to terms that she may breakup with me over my gc radfem views. #I've come to terms she may break up with me over my views on the trans movement as she's a big supporter of it. thats her decision #but again. its a bridge for the future. and i will be respectful of her decision. I'm not entitled to a relationship or her love #anyway just rambling at this point. time for my meds lol. #anon #like am i a bad person for not telling her how i feel the tq movement is regressive af. i dont get the angle of this message #sorry if I'm missing the point of what you're trying to say to me