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David and Ruth spent so much of their early relationship having ethics debates and I've just realised that their dynamic is

David:

Ruth:

#this is not an x men quote #suggestive cw #david haller #ruth aldine #x-men #x-men legacy #legion #blindfold #text post

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astute observations with Gale of Waterdeep

#this is not a baldur's gate quote #gale #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #baldurs gate #baldur's gate #text post #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii

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Speaking as someone who was in a few British 'gifted kid' programmes, I'd say that it wouldn't determine much about his parents' disposable income. Getting into those things, or being offered a place on them, is often just a measure of grades at school, or just if you happen to be vouched for as intelligent by a teacher or other authority figure. Sam being tested and determined 'gifted' would potentially have been enough for this. The ones I was on, at least, were free, and the only costs incurred would be travel to wherever the programme was held. So Sam's parents would have needed enough disposable income to maintain a car, pay for a taxi, or pay for train tickets, and that's about it.

placing my hands out placatingly, asking everyone to please be cool and not reignite og!elias burnt out gifted kid discourse. okay? okay. I think this is setting up some more sam and gwen parallels. from mag 193, we know that elias bouchard (original flavor) was told from a young age that he was smart but lazy, he was squandering his advantages, and he was wrong to envy other children because they were meaningless and he was better. he seemed to internalize this to some extent, because by the time he was in his early twenties he had no friends and no family and no real life, just the certainty that he was destined to deserve better.

I think it is reasonable to assume that gwen received similar messaging during her childhood, as she seems to be treating the OIAR the same way elias treated artefact storage (as a stepping stone job to a bigger career waiting for her up the ladder), and she takes a lot of offence when she feels disrespected. from magp 03, we know she's reticent to tell her friends that she's still working this same job, especially because the friend's party she was going to was to celebrate making partner at a law firm.

from this episode, we know that sam was declared "gifted" as a child and his parents rigorously enrolled him in every program they could find, and it started going down hill when the magnus institute rejected him (did they reject him outright or was he there for a bit and then kicked out? what he said to celia doesn't quite fit his earlier statements, but moving on). he has a lot of pent up and fixated feelings about not being chosen by them, he didn't get into oxford, he just missed the highest grades, and he's reticent to tell his parents that he's working this job, especially because he used to be at a law firm.

we know the bouchards are a wealthy and influential family, and as sam speaks with a south asian accent I think it's safe to assume that his family immigrated. of course, there's a massive amount of variation in the socioeconomic statuses of south asian immigrant families in the UK, and I don't know enough about how british gifted kids programs work to know if sam having been in a bunch of them would imply anything about his parents' disposable income, but nonetheless I still think their different backgrounds potentially say a lot about how they handle these feelings of not meeting the high standards that were expected of / promised to them. gwen is fighting to be on the same level of social status and power as her peers, and sam probably felt like he was he had opportunities for upward mobility in this brand new place but kept failing them. it's causing both of them to be very active characters, they are the two people pushing the story forward the most by far, but the ways in which they are active diverge greatly.

gwen, until recently, had felt like she was unfairly stagnating, like she was "not most people" and was cut out for better, and being constantly barred from climbing the ladder made her both resentful of lena and extremely paranoid / insecure about her own worth. now that she's starting to crack it into the "real work," it's obviously taking a great toll on her, but she doesn't want to back out, she wants to prove herself and take what's rightfully hers and not show herself to be unfit for real power. her actions appear to be guided by an ethos that her life hasn't been wasted yet, she still has time to make good, she just needs to ignore that weakness masquerading as a conscience, please god don't let her fail.

sam feels like he's made mistake after mistake after mistake and led himself to his own desperate state where he only just managed to avoid destitution because his ex was kind enough to hook him up with an emergency job that is actively destroying his physical and emotional health, and he has pinned all this frustration on trying to figure out what the magnus institute was all about and why it didn't choose him. like gwen, great things were expected of him, but unlike her he doesn't seem to still be striving for them, that dried up when he had a breakdown at his last job. now he just wants to figure it out and make sense of it, as if solving the mystery will let him fix it and undo all that time and un-waste his promised potential. his actions seem to be guided by an ethos that, even though he's already screwed everything right up, solving the ghosts that haunt his life will some how lessen their burden and maybe, just maybe, give him closure on the Flaw That Doomed Him and allow him to move past it without dragging it still forward.

#tmagp #sam khalid #gwen bouchard #this is not a magnus protocol quote

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Old art. Yippee! I forgor to post this. This is how I found out how to draw Erik’s face, which some of you like I guess haha. I was worried it would be too scary(silly, for fanart of a horror novel lol)

#art #phantom of the opera #erik #christine daae

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Stop equipping every character with therapy speak and instead consider placing them somewhere on this chart

#phantomo of the opera

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#shakespeare #romeo and juliet

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People who honestly think there shouldn’t be a proshot release of theater shows because then people wouldn’t go to the theater anymore are so fucking dumb holy shit how dumb do you have to be did people stop watching footbal games because it also airs on tv? did people stop going to concers because you could get the dvd? holy shit just let poor people have a taste of the thing too god damn it

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A Condensed Timeline of Early Anti-Ace Blogging infographic by Coyote

[Transcript under the cut]

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#cat

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#drawing lovehearts around a picture of her as we speak

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Donna Lee Parsons isn’t particularly well-known in hardcore/punk circles, but she should be. She played a pivotal role in rock history. Before she transitioned, she founded Rat Cage Records, a record label that released the Beastie Boys’ first two EPs; she signed them at their very first show. Twenty years later, after Parsons came out as trans and the band’s meteoric rise to fame, the artists quietly paid for Parson’s gender affirmation surgery. According to member Adam Horovitz, since the men knew she wouldn’t accept the money if she saw it as a charitable act, they claimed they owed her royalties from their EP Polly Wog Stew.

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So if you’ve ever worn a ‘lightning bolt’ t-shirt or listened to Victim in Pain or found yourself fondly recalling a Beastie Boys show you went to, you have a transgender woman to thank for that. And we should know her story. If you call yourself a hardcore kid, Donna Lee Parsons touched your life.

Source: LGBTQ Nation | True Trans Soul Rebel by Norman Brannon | April 2024

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What if...

April Fools!

*DO NOT REPOST MY ART*

#godzilla

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Being deeply into the X-Men skews what you consider a minor character. Like normal people will ask me who my favorite character is and I’ll have the minimum amount of self-awareness to be like “I can’t say Tarot, the student from Emma Frost’s evil team in the 80s who died” but then I look for a better answer and I say “Blink”

#x-men

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"came back wrong" you could not come back wrong even if you tried. you've changed, beyond recognition, but while my eyes may not know you, my heart still does. i love you.

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I just think it would be funny to switch things up and lead with "popular far-right online blogger, Joan Rowling" once in awhile.

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you hate it when wyll calls himself "the blade" because you think it's cringe to talk about yourself in third person. i hate it when wyll calls himself "the blade" because i want him to stop thinking of himself as a hero-object and start seeing the value in wyll ravengard. we are not the same

#baldurs gate #wyll