you've got mail! 🩵
this is honestly the silliest thing i have ever done but i wanted to close this one out with a bang, alright? here we go.
i thought to celebrate the final part of sweet child o' mine going up in a couple days (nudge nudge wink wink), we could have a lil baby shower bash for our favorite little meddler.
if you'd like to swing by, below the cut are some emoji asks that you're very welcome to submit. or, as usual - grab a chair, cold drinks in the fridge, let's just hang and catch up.
the party starts tomorrow (feel free to submit before then if you want!), and will end with part iv being posted on thursday, april 18th.
i have seriously loved sharing this crazy story with you guys. y'all have made it so much fucking fun. i love you all millions and billions and can't wait to share this final part with you. 🩵
↓ emoji asks below! ↓
🩵 for a short drabble from a day not shown in sweet child o' mine. could be an unseen day from her pregnancy, could be sometime during the Awkward Three Weeks, could even be from before the series is set.
🪿 to ask me anything about the series (no spoilers!) and i'll tell ya. a behind-the-scenes gem, joel's favorite song to play on guitar, what i really think of vanessa. whatever you feel like!
🍼 for a three-pic spoilers-without-context for part iv! sure to be misleading and weird as hell.
🍅 if you wanna send me one word and i'll answer with a line it appears in from part iv. zero context, plenty mystery. (be tactical)
cool. love you! x
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https://www.reddit.com/r/tarayummysnark/s/GNCNcC6cTc
i don’t even really dislike tara it’s just so hard watching this bc i can relate to alyssa sm and it completely turned me off from her completely
also watching stuff about jake johnny and tara wasting food is also very ignorant when with inflation many people can’t even get enough food on their tables
i do wanna point out this was apparently a drunk episode, alcohol definitely alters ur brain to do compulsive things, just want to get this out of the way.
as someone who deals w depression and anxiety i think the way alyssa handled it was pretty mature. and if you take taras personality accountable, you should understand that she's a loud person who most of the time speaks her mind. now im looking at this from an adults pov, idk about yall. i definitely do think what she did was really insensitive and a dick move, but we cant act like, under the influence or not, had a thought in mind and hadn't done that before.
everyone has their flaws and something shitty about them, just because tara is more chronically online than others, doesn't mean you should feel entitled to immediately hate her for slipping up. just because you see them online doesn't mean youve got them all figured out lmao, alyssa seems to know tara in a way people through the internet don't. if alyssa has problem with it, than it's completely valid, but it wouldn't really make sense if someone on the internet felt the need to constantly point it out
as for the jake and johnnie and tara wasting food thing, i dont have much to say since i literally dont watch a single one of them, but ive always agreed that wasting it is wrong, but i think instead of getting angry about it, we should educate them about it lol
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It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.
People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.
And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.
If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.
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I often wonder about the quote-unquote logistics of Corvo the Black/Emily the Butcher endings. Emily makes more sense to me, in a way, carving her way through the empire only to come back with blood caked under her fingernails and realising that she did everything her father refused to do 15 years ago. but why did Corvo have a similar choice?
what happens to the statues later? does Emily keep her father trapped in stone? does Corvo look at his daughter, frozen in the moment and considers freeing her? is he at his deathbed when he finally reaches out and cups Emily's cheek, freeing her into a carcass of an empire that he gutted for her, in her name, in the name of her mother?
when I first heard of the endings I thought that if you reach very high chaos, you are locked into this choice - Corvo or Emily tries to free the other and the stone just doesn't budge. they are trapped. the quest is over but the world knows that the bloodshed was extreme and this is the punishment they have to face
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I spent like a half hour arguing with a coworker that Azula deserved a redemption like Zuko and that she's just as much a victim of abuse as her brother AND that Ursa wasn't that great of a mom to either but ESPECIALLY to Azula AND that Azula wasn't given the same opportunities or teaching Zuko was while they were growing up!!!! She literally couldn't have turned out any other way!!!
The convo half went:
"she's evil and crazy"
"she's 14"
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"she made her own mother scared of her and want nothing to do with her, what's that say about her"
"she's a shitty mom"
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"she's crazy!!! she's just as bad as their father!"
"the literal only positive attention she was ever given was from ozai, while ursa ignored her or yelled at her for doing bad but never explaining why or teaching compassion like she did with zuko."
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Hey, if I figured out how to sell them online, would you guys be interested in little crocheted Joltik guys like this one?
I haven't really entertained the idea of selling my creatures as I like to call them for various reasons, but one of them is that I don't really like the idea of sending them off to people don't know, but I'd be okay with, like, submas fans getting them. I trust you'd take care of them.
I still gotta like work everything out, like touching up/actually writing down my pattern and figuring out how to mail them, but I'm thinking they would be roughly $10 (CAD, so that's, what, like $8USD?).
Let me know if you're interested! Or if you have any experience selling things online that you wanna share. I'm currently thinking about setting up a Kofi.
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