#Types of Abundance

[omegaphilosophia]

The Different Types of Abundance

Abundance can be understood in various contexts and forms, ranging from material wealth to emotional and spiritual fulfillment. Here, we explore the different types of abundance that people can experience in their lives.

1. Material Abundance

Definition: Material abundance refers to the possession of physical goods and financial wealth.

Examples:

Financial Wealth: Having substantial monetary resources, investments, and assets.

Possessions: Owning homes, cars, clothing, and other tangible goods.

Resources: Access to food, water, and other essential supplies.

Impact:

Provides a sense of security and comfort.

Enables access to services and experiences.

Can be used to help others and improve communities.

2. Emotional Abundance

Definition: Emotional abundance involves having a rich and fulfilling emotional life.

Examples:

Love: Experiencing deep connections with family, friends, and partners.

Happiness: Consistently feeling joy and contentment.

Gratitude: Regularly acknowledging and appreciating the positive aspects of life.

Impact:

Enhances mental health and well-being.

Improves relationships and social interactions.

Contributes to a positive outlook on life.

3. Intellectual Abundance

Definition: Intellectual abundance is characterized by a wealth of knowledge, ideas, and creativity.

Examples:

Education: Access to quality education and learning opportunities.

Creativity: Engaging in artistic, scientific, or innovative pursuits.

Wisdom: Accumulating life experiences and insights.

Impact:

Fuels personal and professional growth.

Encourages problem-solving and critical thinking.

Leads to continuous learning and curiosity.

4. Spiritual Abundance

Definition: Spiritual abundance involves a deep sense of purpose, connection, and fulfillment beyond the material world.

Examples:

Inner Peace: Feeling a sense of calm and tranquility.

Purpose: Having a clear sense of direction and meaning in life.

Connection: Feeling connected to a higher power, nature, or the universe.

Impact:

Provides a sense of grounding and stability.

Encourages compassion and empathy.

Enhances overall well-being and fulfillment.

5. Social Abundance

Definition: Social abundance refers to having a rich network of relationships and social connections.

Examples:

Friendships: Building and maintaining close friendships.

Community: Being part of a supportive and engaging community.

Networking: Developing professional and social networks.

Impact:

Provides support and companionship.

Facilitates opportunities for collaboration and growth.

Enhances a sense of belonging and social cohesion.

6. Health Abundance

Definition: Health abundance involves physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Examples:

Physical Health: Having a strong and healthy body.

Mental Health: Maintaining mental stability and resilience.

Emotional Health: Managing and expressing emotions in a healthy way.

Impact:

Enables a high quality of life and longevity.

Supports productivity and energy.

Promotes overall happiness and satisfaction.

Abundance is a multifaceted concept that encompasses various dimensions of human experience. While material wealth is one form of abundance, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and health-related abundances are equally important for a fulfilling and balanced life. Understanding and cultivating these different types of abundance can lead to a more enriched and meaningful existence.

[easterndelights]

ふたりソロキャンプ Futari Solo Camp (2025) | Food Compilation

[swanoel-art]

halovian kuras awooga !!!

[anistarrae]

shadow bandee design i made awhile ago :D (jan 17th, 24)

i feel like mirror bandee would be very skilled without putting the effort in, getting where they are by power, instead of earning it through putting the work in. this would lead to them becoming over-confident and become the cause their biggest weakness. a friend pointed out this would mirror dedede in the beginning of the series too!

[queen-scribbles]

Sweet Spore Tart || Deepwater Dac Pie Bestine Threeberry Pie || Pitted Ka-Olive Pie

I got close-ups of all the Abundance Festival desserts(?), just for reference's sake.🥧

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2025: DARLING by K. Ancrum.

I didn't mean to binge this in a sitting and a half on a Sunday afternoon, but that's heat advisories for you, I guess. Hello, Contemporary Peter Pan Retelling, and WHAT a gorgeous cover you have.

I read somewhere that this is a super faithful adaptation (like. Beat by Beat fidelity with the source material), which seemed like a neat trick given how utterly Contemporary this was versus the magic of the original. Admittedly, I haven't revisited that source material in many years, but I was pleasantly surprised by how many specifics came back to me as I read through Ancrum's adaptation--Peter's shadow became a jacket, the Mermaid's Lagoon became a drag bar (staffed, yeah, by mermaid-themed queens), flying was scaling Chicago trellises, pirates were cops, etc. Tink (beloved) was there, Nana was there, the Crocodile was there, Detective Hook (begrudgingly beloved) was there, and also there was an ace Russian boy and I love ace Russian boys (iykyk).

I thought Ancrum did a good job keeping the classic children's story tone intact despite the (brutal, brilliant, Holy Shit!!) twist. Although it didn't initially send me, the straightforward, clean prose anchored me to the source story, and by the end I was firmly sold on "good stylistic choice." Overall I had fun!! Planning to revisit it with the source text in the other hand sometime, just to see.

[kismetconstellations]

What is Keith's problem with Allura?

Consensus among certain flavors of Keith fans seems to be that Allura never outgrew her "racist" opinions of the Galra, and remained cold, rude, and stand-offish to Keith, never apologizing for the handful of glares she shot his way, and the icy inflection she used when addressing him.

This is, of course, patently, provably untrue. In Season Two, Episode Twelve, Best Laid Plans, as Keith is preparing to head for Zarkon's base in what Kolivan had declared a "suicide mission", Allura approaches Keith in the hangar to tell him:

"I... just wanted to say... The Galra... They've done terrible things. Destroyed entire civilizations. They took my family. But, in time, I've grown to consider you and the Paladins my family. So when I learned you were Galra, I... I didn't know what to think. I wanted to hate you!

"But, it's not you. It's me. My anger has blinded me for too long. I'm so sorry I misjudged you. You've proven it's not what's in your blood. It's who you are that counts.

Please come back to us."

I couldn't come up with a more sincere, heartfelt apology if I tried.

Allura took it upon herself to, unprompted, own up to her less than stellar behavior toward Keith, admit that she was wrong, and express that Keith is important to her and she wants him to return to her, Coran, and the other Paladins alive and in one piece, because he is her family.

You would think this would be more than enough to bury the hatchet and resolve all tension between them. Or, at the very least, that any issue Keith may have with Allura in future episodes could be traced back to her (and Coran) withholding the fact that Zarkon was the original Black Paladin from the rest of the team, and to the handful of glares that Allura directed at Keith after finding out that he's half-Galra.

But, this is not the case. As early as Season One, Episode Twelve, Collection and Extraction, well before either of these potentially inciting incidents, Keith's attitude with Allura was showing signs of being less than friendly.

Keith is the first to object, rather snidely, to the prospect of Allura accompanying the Paladins on an infiltration mission to gather intelligence from a Galra transportation hub.

"I'm sorry, Princess, did you say 'we'?"

Despite Allura being instrumental in restoring the Balmera and helping the Paladins liberate the Balmeran people from Galra control.

And, it only worsens from here.

The very next episode, after Allura had allowed herself to be captured by the Galra, sacrificing herself to save Shiro, the man who Keith claims to love, Keith puts forth the idea of leaving Allura in the hands of the monster who betrayed and murdered her father and mercilessly annihilated her entire home world and all of the people living on it.

"Or, maybe we shouldn't go on this mission [to rescue Allura] at all. Think about it. We'll be delivering the universe's only hope to the universe's biggest enemy."

Which prompts an understandably galled Hunk to respond, "Keith, that's cold even for you."

Keith snaps back, "I'm not saying I like the idea. I'm just thinking like a Paladin."

Arguably, being willing to allow even one life to slip through the cracks is the exact opposite of the mindset of a Paladin. And, Keith is aware of that, come the top of Season Four, when his saving Regris lands him in hot water with Kolivan.

Kolivan: "Every member of the Blade of Marmora understands that the mission is more important than the individual. This isn't Voltron."

Keith: "I understand that. In Voltron, we would have gone back in to save Regris. I went back to save the mission. Regris had the intel. Getting him and it back on the ship was worth the risk."

He never apologizes, however, for even attempting to argue that saving Allura wasn't worth the risk.

In the third episode of Season Three, The Hunted, he actually scolds Hunk for going back to assist Allura after she took a hit on a hopeless folly of a mission to pursue and attack Lotor that Keith, acting as their new leader, pushed the team into long before they were ready. When rightfully chastised by Lance for acting so rashly and showing no regard for the input and welfare of his team, Keith justifies his actions by arguing, "It's not about the team. We have a mission that's more important than any one of us."

Even after Lance confronts him, again, once the team has been split up and all of their lives needlessly endangered, and Keith at last acknowledges how badly he messed up, he doesn't offer a single apology to Allura, or anyone else.

In the following episode, Hole in the Sky, Keith approaches a disconsolate Allura, presumably with the intention to offer her some form of comfort and encouragement after the emotional turmoil she endured in the alternate reality.

Instead of making the effort to put himself on a level field with her, and look her in the eye, as one would typically do when attempting to extend emotional support, Keith speaks at Allura's back and remains standing on a platform above her, forcing her to have to look back and up at him.

Perhaps this scene was blocked this way because, like so many other creative decisions in this series, it "looked cool". Unfortunately, this staging with all of its visual subtext establishes a precedent for Keith and Allura's dynamic going forward.

In contrast to being Allura's equal, as Shiro was, and sharing the position of leadership with her, the two of them valuing one another's insight and trusting each other implicitly, Keith is Allura's superior. As she now ranks under him in both age and position on the team, he's become her commander; shutting down any input he didn't authorize as a "lecture", even when that input is coming from a place of earnestness and compassion. See their conversation in Season Four, Episode One, where Allura is there to meet Keith as he arrives back at the Castle from another mission with the Blades that resulted in the death of Regris, and delayed Keith getting to the team he's meant to be leading when they needed him.

Keith: "Allura, I know you're mad at me, but I'm not in the mood for a lecture."

Allura: "I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I heard what happened on your mission."

Keith: (after a long, tense pause) "...Thanks."

Allura: (after another drawn-out silence) "I know how important the work you've been doing with the Blades is. They are incredible allies, and have been instrumental in our victories over the Galra. And, while the news of a new quintessence supply-line is deeply troubling, I cannot help but feel that--

Keith: (cutting her off) "I said I didn't want a lecture."

Rather than rise to Keith's bait, Allura continues on, "Keith... Since our battle with Zarkon, we've been able to bolster our forces by uniting those previously ruled by the Galra under a common symbol-- Voltron. It's so much more than a weapon. It's become a symbol of freedom, and, hope for the oppressed to rally around.

"I suppose what I'm trying to say is, the Marmora can go on without you. They have for thousands of years. Voltron cannot. We cannot."

Allura's candid and entreating speech appears to fall on deaf ears. Keith continues to go on missions with the Blades, running from his position as the new Black Paladin and "decisive head" of Voltron.

It can be argued in his defense that he only ever saw himself as a temporary Black Paladin, holding the position in Shiro's stead until Shiro's return. And, with the cloned version of Shiro in proper form, acting as a key strategist and, to some extent, undermining Keith's calls in the field, Keith's concerns that he's unfit for the role have once more reared their head, and he feels that he is no longer needed. This is, of course, despite the obvious inconsistencies in "Kuron"'s temperament, behavior, appearance, and even wardrobe choices when compared to the original Shiro's. Inconsistencies that, as Shiro's closest friend, Keith should have been aware of and more than a bit perturbed by. And, despite the fact that, at this current point in the show, the Black Lion is not responding to "Kuron".

Keith has knowingly left the Paladins down a Lion and without a means of forming Voltron, several times repeatedly. Allura, "Kuron", and everyone else on the team would be well within their rights to be absolutely furious with him. Yet, the next time Keith happens upon Allura, while she and the other Paladins are handing out supplies to rebels and refugees on Olkarion, he's the one glaring at her.

By the end of this episode, "Kuron" has managed to connect with the Black Lion, further enforcing in Keith's mind that he is no longer needed as a Paladin, and Keith announces to the group that he's officially abandoning his post and leaving to work with the Blades full-time.

Allura is right there with the others, enveloping Keith in a group hug and expressing, like everyone else, that she will miss him as he embarks on a new journey down a path divergent from the rest of their family.

That new journey brings Keith face-to-face with his long-lost mother, and the two of them find themselves stranded on a space whale inside of a "quantum abyss" that has a convenient time distortion that only affects them and the space wolf they adopt.

This highly selective time-skip was done, presumably, to accelerate Keith's character development and make him a better fit for his "destined" role as the ultimate leader of Voltron. And, while his two years in the Quantum Abyss with his mother made Keith older, and ostensibly more mature, they did nothing to abate his underlying resentment for? Grudge against? Bitterness toward? Allura. Upon his return in Season Six, Episode Four, The Colony, Keith is ready to launch an attack on Lotor, while Allura is a passenger in Lotor's ship.

Keith: "I promise I'll explain everything once we get to Lotor."

Pidge: "We can't get to him. He just entered the quintessence field with Allura."

Keith: (unfazed) "We traveled through realities, before. Can't we fly in there and attack?"

Lance: (apparently the only one with any sense) "She said Allura is with him.

We can't risk hurting her."

Note the change in Keith's expression when Lance interjects.

"Kuron" attempts to diffuse the situation, instructing everyone to calm down, and assuring that, when Allura and Lotor return, "we'll get this all sorted out".

Judging by his reaction, this is not what Keith wanted to hear.

I'll concede that Keith has been made aware that Lotor is, indeed, dangerous, having manipulated and deceived them all. And, in spite of the Real Shiro's teachings about the virtue of patience, it's Keith's nature to want to eliminate a threat as soon as possible, attacking first and asking questions later. If at all.

Yet, his willingness to rally the troops and open fire or swing fists and/or a sword at Lotor without any regard for Allura's safety is deeply concerning.

Three episodes later, Allura uses her newfound powers and knowledge of quintessence alchemy to extract the Real Shiro's essence from the Black Lion, as the Black Lion had preserved what she could of him when his body was destroyed in the team's final fight with Zarkon back in the finale of Season Two, and transfer it into "Kuron"'s dying body. Which is its own can of worms.

You would think that Keith, having professed his love for Shiro (albeit to "Kuron"), would be forever indebted to Allura; singing her praises and all-but worshipping the ground that she walks on after she brought Shiro back to him.

But, in the sixth episode of Season Seven, The Journey Within, when Keith, Allura, and the other Paladins find themselves cast adrift and floating aimlessly through space for an untold length of time, older and supposedly wiser Keith is the first to snap under the stress of the situation. He reverts to his abrasive, anti-social behavior from the first season, times ten, and decides to use his position of power over the still teenaged Paladins to lash out and make petty, intentionally hurtful digs, with Allura and Hunk as his targets.

Allura: "My father... Had something he always said in dire situations."

Keith: "'Give up'?"

Allura: (diplomatically giving him a chance to retract the deeply offensive words that just came out of his mouth) "Sorry?"

Keith: (doubling-down) "It just doesn't seem like he was a real fighter when the chips were down."

I've had many a conversation with a friend (hi, @sockdooe!) about Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos rather transparently being Altean-hating Galra-supremacists who used Keith as their mouthpiece to spout off Pro-Galra propaganda. This is especially obvious in the series finale, when Keith effectively runs postmortem defense for Zarkon and Honerva-- something I will cover in-depth, a bit later.

"MonSantos", as the fandom has dubbed them, took issue with characters who are innately altruistic, self-sacrificing, upstanding, unwavering in their moral values, and willing to make peace with words, rather than immediately going on the offensive against any perceived threat. This is overwhelmingly obvious in the way that they killed Shiro and mocked him for being "boring", in interviews, only bringing him back to life when their hands were forced, killed Allura to force her to atone for Honerva's sins (one Altean for another, kind of like how Shiro and "Kuron", two disabled gay men with their own distinct traumas, struggles, and personalities, were treated like they were completely interchangeable), and planned to kill Hunk.

They liked "complicated", able-bodied, "morally gray" characters, and characters who needed to grow into their roles, instead of being perfect fits for them right off the bat.

Whether those characters actually achieved any growth under "MonSantos"'s direction is its own topic of discussion.

Shiro's stability and dependability warranted him being belittled and killed, as not only was he "boring", but his mere presence in the narrative somehow, "prevented the other characters", namely, Keith, "MonSantos"'s pet character and Chosen One, "from growing". To Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery, people who boast this sort of twisted mentality, a gentle, soft-spoken, space-faring diplomatic king, like Alfor, was, of course, "cowardly" and "weak". While Zarkon, a fierce combatant and military strategist who became a child-abusing, murderous, power-hungry monster, has all of the hallmarks of a "great leader". And, the uncorrupted version of him that Keith and the other Paladins encounter inside of Honerva's mindscape is thus qualified to conclude that Keith has these hallmarks, too. Because they're both Galra.

I guess the contents of your blood are only irrelevant to your character when you're a Galra who perpetrates negative behaviors. Like pitting terrified, inexperienced, and malnourished prisoners against each other in a fight to the death for the entertainment of yourself and your fellow loyal servants of the Empire.

On a micro, character level, Keith's comments are even more repulsive. Alfor sacrificed himself to ensure Allura's safety. Keith's own father, a fireman, put his life on the line for others daily, which is what lead to his dying a hero, and being tragically ripped away from his young son. Of all characters, Keith should have the most empathy and implicit understanding that Allura's father is an emotionally fraught subject for her.

(Or, perhaps not, since he was unable to even look at Allura after she had to shut down Alfor's compromised A.I., losing him for a second time, in Season One's Crystal Venom.

)

This is emblematic of the power imbalance between Keith and the younger Paladins. Keith has his own trauma that he hasn't even begun to work out. Not only has his character regressed, in many ways, his time with the Blades and lengthy exposure to the blasé attitude about death that is standard fare for the majority of Galra seem to have had an adverse effect on his already tenuous mental health. As many without healthy or any coping mechanisms are wont to do when caught in spirals of stress, fear, anger, and despair, Keith is attempting to self-destruct. He's deliberately stomping on proverbial landmines to provoke his teammates into telling him to drift off by himself, as Lance eventually does, so that Keith's (incorrect, based on a cognitive distortion from past trauma) feeling that he is an unwelcome, unneeded outsider will be validated.

This is toxic behavior.

Keith is no longer a surly juvenile delinquent, or anti-social just-turned-legal-adult who is learning to cooperate and cohabitate with others after spending a year in the desert by himself. He's a twenty, perhaps even twenty-one year-old man in a position of power over teenagers who has had two years to do intensive soul-searching with the mother he never would have found had it not been for King Alfor and the Voltron Lions that Alfor built.

And, once again, Keith never would have got Shiro back without the existence of Alfor's Lions, because Ulaz helped Shiro escape his imprisonment on Zarkon's command ship and sent him back to Earth to prevent the Blue Lion being seized by the Empire.

"MonSantos"'s preferred Black Paladin should be beyond grateful for everything that Allura and her father have both directly and indirectly done for him. Instead, the character who is told that he is "the future" (because he's half-Galra), and magically gained the ability to summon the Black Paladin Bayard (which Shiro, the "boring", "broken", former Black Paladin who isn't at all worthy of recognition, given that he's only a measly little human, reclaimed from Zarkon and got to use just once before he died) to him at will, chooses to insult Alfor and hurl verbal abuse at Alfor's daughter.

Who, need I remind you, informed Keith that she considers him to be part of her new family.

Hunk tries to tell Keith to lay off.

Rightfully hurt by Keith baselessly accusing her beloved father of being spineless, Allura verbally retaliates while maintaining a truly impressive level of composure: 'You... have a lot of nerve questioning someone's leadership. Think how you left us."

Hunk, still trying to maintain a semblance of peace, pleads to Allura, this time.

And, Keith, firmly in his self-destructive spiral, decides to accelerate the explosive fall-out of this bone-dry tinderbox of a situation by pouring a bag of salt on Allura's wounds from Lotor, who preyed on her desperation to connect with her lost people and culture.

A desperation that the narrative repeatedly punishes her for simply having at all.

"As I recall, you were the one who got us all cozied up to Lotor."

This leads Lance to again interject, "Keith, you ran away. Maybe you should have just stayed away", and poor sweet Hunk to do his best to put an end to the in-fighting.

"Lance, Keith, everyone, stop. Look, guys, I understand what's happening here-- you're all brave heroes who don't know how to react to being scared, and it's causing you to attack one another. That, or you're all going space-mad. Hopefully you're just scared. I'm-I'm scared all the time. I can talk you through it."

Keith's response to this remarkable wisdom and insight?

"Sorry, Hunk. I guess I just don't know how to be a coward."

Though Hunk is unbothered by Keith's puerile name-calling, Lance, again, interjects on his friend's behalf, telling Keith to drift off by himself; as stated, earlier, and just as Keith wanted. Hunk takes it upon himself to shoulder the responsibility of keeping the team together, grabbing Keith's leg to prevent him leaving them for a second time, and his efforts net him a positively scathing response from his "new and improved" team leader:

"Why, Hunk? Are we really even friends? Is there anything holding us together besides some messed up series of coincidences? I mean, what are we? Some 'chosen saviors'? Do you really believe that? What are we even doing out here?!"

It takes Hunk almost sacrificing himself to ward off a giant monster, and Lance, Pidge, and Allura reminding Hunk that they are, indeed, a team, and would never leave him to die, for Keith to offer an, in my opinion, vague, flimsy apology for "those hurtful things" he said. Of course, because this is a TV Y7 cartoon made to sell toys to children, Keith gives a little speech about how that "series of coincidences" mattered because it brought them all together as Paladins and, "more importantly", "friends", and that brings the Lions to their rescue, allowing them to form Voltron and travel through space at hyperspeed to end up just outside of the Milky Way.

Once on Earth, Keith dons his Diet Shiro persona and gives Hunk a more in-depth and sincere apology, informing Hunk that he is most definitely not a coward. Allura, however, gets nothing, despite her, once again, coming through for Shiro (her platonic soulmate) in a major way.

After Keith was the one who left Shiro to inhabit a body with only one arm.

At long last, we reach the deservedly widely reviled finale, where the executive producers made their most morally bankrupt, inexcusable, and unforgivable creative decision. Which is saying a lot. Allura commits suicide to undo the damage that Honerva, an utterly irredeemable monster, had done to multiple realities, just so Honerva can get exactly what she wanted.

Before she willingly steps into the void with a brave smile on her face, Allura says a personal farewell to every member of the team. Except Coran, because this show was helmed by people who wanted you to feel miserable and angry at the world and yourself for watching it. Unless you have the privilege of being a Keith and/or Pidge fan. The fourth trauma survivor to be cruelly killed off, and the third member of a marginalized community to meet their end for the sole purpose of elevating "MonSantos"'s pet, Allura's final words for that pet are, "There is greatness in your heart, and your actions."

And, in response, said pet stands there, silent and stiff as a board in Allura's embrace, and showing less emotion than Shiro, who had, at this point in the series, been reduced to a distant military figure and side-character who has no meaningful relationships with anyone.

A year later, Keith stands on Daibazaal, the Galra home world that Allura's sacrifice revived and renewed. And, with all eyes on him, and while being broadcasted on multiple screens, he delivers a big, "epic" speech.

"With the return of Planet Daibazaal, the Galra Empire is at a crossroads. For too long, the people of this extraordinary civilization have been manipulated by a dictatorship that placed a misguided sense of self-preservation above all else. "It was a tragic, unfortunate series of events that lead us down this dark, never-ending path of power and greed. But, now... we... the citizens of the Galra Empire... have an opportunity to make right all of the injustices set into motion by our forefathers. Because of the sacrifice made by Princess Aurora (yes, that's seriously what he calls her), we have been given a second chance-- to come together in rebuilding the Galra Empire."

That's right. "Rebuilding" the Empire responsible for the destruction of Altea and the genocide of its people-- Allura and Coran's people. For the abduction and imprisonment of Shiro, Matt, and Sam Holt. For Shiro's extensive trauma and further torture via his body being subjected to nonconsensual experimentation, his innately altruistic and self-sacrificing nature challenged over and over again by forcing him to kill or be killed, and implied sexual violation at the hands of Sendak.

The Empire that enslaved the Balmerans, making them prisoners on their own home planet forced so far underground that entire generations had never seen the sky and had no concept of freedom. And, the Empire that mercilessly ravaged and nearly killed that planet, which is a living creature.

The Empire that enslaved the Olkari, left the Taujeerians to die, and inflicted untold acts of unmitigated barbarism all across the universe for ten thousand years.

That Galra Empire.

Now, I'll extend Keith, and "MonSantos", the benefit of the doubt that maybe he (and they) didn't mean the "Empire" as it was under Zarkon's command. Though the usage of that word, considering its unignorable connotations, is profoundly dubious. Maybe, he really means to upheave the entire concept of a Galra Empire, and rework it from the ground up, perhaps with the implementation of a parliament and a democratic voting system. Though, that hardly makes an "empire", as "empires" are by definition:

"A major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority, especially : one having an emperor as chief of state".

Keith (and "MonSantos") could have phrased his rousing speech as, "rebuild this planet and its great civilization, foster peaceful relations with the planets around us, and work together to undo the evil that was done by a tyrant, whose insatiable lust for power has left an indelible stain on the Galra name". Rather than attempting to humanize and absolve Zarkon and his one-dimensional, cartoonishly evil men, many of whom are still very much alive and attempting to make their own grabs for power in the vacuum left by their Emperor and his heir's demise, of culpability, and pledging to help the "citizens of the empire" resume conquering and colonizing surrounding planets, as that is how an empire is formed and maintained.

There's a later throwaway exchange between Shiro, Keith, and Lance inserted in what I can only assume was an effort to present Keith as humble, and offer a "humorous" commentary on his penchant for dodging any and all unwanted responsibility.

Shiro: "Speaking of which, how are things going on Daibazaal?"

Keith: "We're calling for an election to select a Galran representative for the Galactic Coalition. So that's a step in the right direction."

Lance: "Let me guess-- they asked you to be their leader and you said no?"

Keith: (with total nonchalance) "Yeah. Pretty much."

Lance: (like an actor in a sitcom reciting his exasperated straight man character's catchphrase) "Classic Keith."

(Cue laughter from the other guests around the table, like this actually is a sitcom.)

I made that assumption because Coran, the man who was a second father to Allura and loved her deeply, and also would have been absolutely devastated had he heard what Keith had to say about his beloved friend, King Alfor, tells Keith, "Allura would be proud of your decision, Keith. I think she knew that you would always be the key to the Galras' future."

And, yet, Keith was perfectly okay expressing callous and blatant disregard for Allura's life, safety, and emotions on multiple occasions over an extended period of time, and had the audacity to look down on her father for prioritizing making certain that his daughter would live over fighting a futile battle that he knew he had already lost.

Allura came to value Keith and other heroic Galra, regardless of their blood, and made that crystal clear many times. But, outside of the ship tease in Season Two's The Ark of Taujeer, before the franchise staple Keith/Allura romance was dropped in favor of Allura/Lance, when and where did Keith show that he valued Allura? And, that he had any respect at all for her people and their culture?

He scowls at her back over her wanting to personally investigate a trapped ship that is issuing an Altean distress signal in Season Three's Hole in the Sky.

The same episode where he is literally placed above her after the Paladins wind up in an alternate reality that is predicated on a half-baked, "What if the Alteans and the Galra switched roles?" concept, and where Allura is shamed and treated like a foolish, naive little girl for being nearly taken in by pretty painted pictures of a reality where her people thrived, eliminated the "Galra scourge", and set about spreading their "peace" across the entire universe.

I opened this essay by asking, "What is Keith's problem with Allura?" And, I think, all evidence considered, the answer to this question is fairly cut and dry.

Facets of the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom love to characterize Allura as an unapologetic racist. But, perhaps the real racist was the skinny, edgy, half-alien colonizer twink who was appointed the savior of the universe by hateful executive producers who wanted everyone both fictional and otherwise to grovel at their pet Chosen One's feet, all along.

[cellarspider]

26/30 PIE to the face

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We return to a movie that is going to linguistically hurt me again, Prometheus. You get to read a ramble about PIE. You’re welcome.

Content warning for MORE OF ME. I cannot be stopped.

So. Imagine you have found a sleeping alien. You believe that they were on a mission to destroy humanity as a disappointment. What do you do? Not waking them up is certainly an option. But what if you do? You’re going to want to not disappoint them.

One could, for example, study the records still maintained within the alien ship. Learn about their culture. Get more than one guy to learn their language, particularly since this translator you’ve got seems to be a little gung-ho on things like “seeing [his] parents dead.” That’s a bit of a warning sign.

And hey, something horrible happened on this ship, probably right before or right after this alien was put into hibernation. There’s a lot of dead bodies on the ship. Having a trauma counselor or three there would be a good call. People trained in de-escalation, definitely. Give you a chance to talk the alien down, and help them process stuff in what’s hopefully a culturally appropriate manner, given your xenological research before waking them up.

You’ll probably want to make sure to take the “kill humanity” button away from them too, that would be a good idea. And, preferably, not have exploded the head of one of their colleagues.

Am I describing a process that would take years? Yes. It should. This is the most important thing humanity’s ever done.

It’s been two days since the Prometheus landed.

As stated before, my faith in fictional humanity was not high in this scene.

David wakes the Engineer up. Rather than any of the measures I described above, the Engineer is met with David, Weyland, some security guys, Doctor Franenstein the head-exploder, and Shaw.

It took most of the humans a good hour or so to stop looking like death after waking up after a two year nap, and this Engineer’s been under for a thousand times longer. The poor bugger is visibly hung over and feeling sick, almost falling over on Weyland.

Shaw starts demanding David ask where they’re from, what’s in the ship’s cargo, why was it made for humans, all in English as Weyland tries to talk over her. They are speaking a language that only took its modern form 1600 years after the last events on this ship took place. The Engineer has zero clue what anyone’s saying.

The Engineer remains silent, and visibly disturbed by how Wayland orders his security guy to hit Shaw, which just makes the still unintelligible questions louder and less coherent.

And then David starts speaking to them.

There was a short dialog between them filmed, but in the final cut, the Engineer doesn’t speak at all.

The final cut also removes Weyland’s pitch for why he should have immortality–he created life in David. David is something more perfect than human. Therefore Weyland is a god, and gods never die.

This is, as you can imagine, not convincing. It would’ve made Weyland slightly more explicable as a character, but the movie hasn’t even done that for its lead, so of course it doesn’t for Old Man Capitalism.

In the full release, David only says a few sentences. To quote Anil Biltoo, who wrote the translation:

The line that David speaks to the Engineer (which is from a longer sequence that didn’t make the final edit) is as follows: /ida hmanəm aɪ kja namṛtuh zdɛ:taha/…/ghʷɪvah-pjorn-ɪttham sas da:tṛ kredah/ A serviceable translation into English is: ‘This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life’.

This is–okay. In the theater, I did not know precisely what this language was. But I was making a fair imitation of the Engineer's expression in response to this, because I was pretty sure it was PIE.

Proto-Indo-European, that is. A massive swath of world languages are all traceable back to one source, though we have no records of it. Linguistic reconstruction of how they evolved from earlier roots allows us to infer a language that must have existed, and we call that the Proto-Indo-European language. PIE for short. And this is a big ol’ slice of PIE right here. 

And I had a whole thing in early drafts of this post. I’d convinced myself over the years that my inexperience with PIE had led me astray in the theater. I’d convinced myself this was a PIE conlang. Meaning, I thought this was a language created for this movie that sounds like a cousin to PIE. That’s still howlingly weird, for reasons I’ll get into. But then I saw this featurette:

[Video description: A behind the scenes featurette for Prometheus entitled “Language Of The Gods”. It interviews Anil Biltoo on his work for the movie, in which he explains the concept of a proto-language, of PIE in specific, and what he did for the movie.]

It’s PIE. It’s a different reconstruction of PIE than the current standard, but it’s PIE.

And I feel vindicated, because that’s what I heard in the theater. David opened his mouth and out came PIE. 

I can actually read a few words in the excerpt. I could hear them in the theater. The word /hmanəm/ is clearly meant to be a root word of “man”, which standard reconstructions indicate is the descendent of PIE *ǵʰmṓ. /Namṛtuh/ is very clearly from PIE *ne-mért, “not-die”, because anything that looks like “mort” in an indo-european language probably has something to do with death. And “/kredah/” is close to PIE *ḱréddʰh₁eti, hence Latin “crēdit”, hence modern italian “créde”, “he believes”. 

PIE is just like that, sometimes. Some roots are unrecognizable, others are instantly identifiable. I’ll include my attempt at a gloss (a brief technical explanation of the meaning and grammar) at the end of the post.

The implication is that the Engineers taught their language to humans. That was Proto-Indo-European, which then spread from there. I almost started laughing in the theater at this. 

In the real world, we know a few things about where PIE came from. PIE was probably spoken by people north of the Black Sea, at least five thousand years ago. This guy who’s just woken up with a hibernation hangover went to sleep three thousand years after that. 

But, y’know what? Fine. Let’s say it’s a liturgical language. David’s done the equivalent of walking up to somebody and speaking to them in church Latin. Weird, but not impossible that it could be understood. Or maybe they’re just so damn long-lived and linguistically conservative that it’s more like talking to somebody in an old-timey news broadcaster voice. Still weird! But comprehensible.

But you know what we can’t possibly link back to PIE? Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hawaiian, or the Mayan languages, most of the other ancient cultures the movie says the Engineers definitely contacted. Did all those come from the same ur-language? We don’t know. We can’t know, because our reconstruction methods are ineffective past a certain point. But if they did, then their root language had to have existed before the Bering Strait closed off the Americas from Asia, making any common ancestor at least twice as old as PIE. The movie’s implication is that it was PIE. The language of the gods is PIE. PIEngineer.

Apparently everybody who the Engineers talked to just forgot the language of the gods, save for the linguistic descendants of some nomads on the Black Sea Steppe.

And that’s before we get into the worse implications. We can’t tie East Asian languages back to PIE. Austronesian languages. American languages. African languages. Were these people just not contacted by the Engineers? Did they forget? Did they refuse to listen?

None of these are good answers! None! They’re all bad!

In Anil Biltoo’s defense, he’s an academic linguist, and, to my knowledge, not one who’s a conlanger. Ridley Scott specifically wanted to work in the oldest possible human language, and Biltoo delivered on that, based on modern scholarship. He did not make an alien language that evolved into a human language. If Scott had wanted that, David and Jesse Peterson would probably go feral for the project, but they weren’t asked. What would be the most naturalistic thing to do, if you wanted to get across the idea that humans inherited language from the Engineers?

You make a Proto-Human language. People have tried before, and others have argued their attempts are bullshit. This is one of those times that Wikipedia has a “the neutrality of this article is disputed” flag at the top of the page, because there are nerd fights everywhere on this. We don’t even know if a Proto-Human language ever existed–there could have been multiple independent origins of language–but if you’re writing fiction, sure, Proto-Human exists.

Come up with a vocabulary and grammar that could work for Proto-Human, have David speak it to the Engineer, it sounds alien to everybody, nobody gets to be the special children of the gods, and no linguistics dork in the audience will laugh at you.

They will definitely laugh at what happens next, though.

But the post is not done! Bonus linguistic nerdery below, including a sample of my constructed language and its script.

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Citations for alt-text rambles:

https://moomin.fandom.com/wiki/Stinky 

https://www.deviantart.com/pretty--kittie/art/Prometheus-Engineer-407327934 

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/new-indo-european-language-discovered/

Edit: additional citations!

Movies in 15 Minutes review of Prometheus by @cleolinda, as retrieved from the Internet Archive. Hat tip to @kantama for identifying it!: https://web.archive.org/web/20120726203957/http://m15m.livejournal.com/23209.html

PIEngineer gloss

Alright, for the language nerds in the audience, I’ve put together a potential gloss, entirely based off of PIE roots available on Wiktionary and a shaky understanding of PIE verb construction:

/ida hmanəm aɪ kja namṛtuh zdɛ:taha/…/ghʷɪvah-pjorn-ɪttham sas da:tṛ kredah/ this.[singular neuter??] man.NOM [anaphoric demonstrative].1.NOM.MASC here not-die EMPHATIC/towards.3MASC.PRES(?)…life-many-[resultative or inchoative verb suffix? adjective of possession, accusative singular?] [genitive singular reflexive?] give.[middle 3S] believe.[stative(?) 3S] A more literal translation would therefore be “This man here does not (want to) approach death…he believes he (can be) given more life-having to himself.”

I am not good at figuring out suffix affixation for PIE verbs, so I probably missed or misinterpreted a few in there. I’m not sure how to break down /zdɛ:taha/ in particular, and /sas/ is a bit mysterious to me. Biltoo definitely created his own PIE reconstruction for this. Vowels are all shifted (ex *éy -> /aɪ/), there’s more palatal consonants (*ḱi-Ø -> /kja/, *polh₁-r̥-m -> pjorn), and other sound shifts I’m too scatterbrained to categorize right now.

PIEngineer to Tade Taadži translation

Alright. I previously mentioned that I have a conlang. I have yet to mention that it is distantly related to Prometheus, powered by the spiteful creative energy this movie engendered in me.

So it’s only fair I translate this passage into my language, write it in my script, and give a thorough gloss.

Jàà odormàà, hu sàà id aannãgu … midadjã kii jur kaas ʻus mogeso. /jɐː odoɾmɐː hu sɐː id aːnːãgu/ / … /midadjã kiː juɾ̥ kaːs ʔus mogeso/ This.VOC not-native-person.VOC, death.ALL not go.ATTR want.PRES. Forever.NOM give this.ALL 2S.VOC ACC 3S.NEAR.ponder.PRES.3P.FAR.ACC

Translation notes:

I am assuming David is speaking formally, clearly, and respectfully in this translation, even if one of the people he’s being respectful about is Weyland. Both Weyland and the Engineer are thus addressed using the Vocative case when first directly mentioned.

Due to the formality of the speech, formal style glyphs are also used: these require significant planning ahead of time, to identify ligatures, aesthetic considerations, and, ideally, to select a total number of words that works out to a multiple of six, as this is culturally the ideal number for a line of text.

Formal ligatures can cross glyph boundaries, and are read every time you encounter part of them in the left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order. The most common ligatures are between grammatical markers, as in this text, but can extend to whole glyphs or even individual components of them. If one is feeling particularly artistic, aesthetic ligatures may also be joined between thematically similar glyphs.

Gendered pronouns are not used in this context. Politeness dictates that any third person pronouns be replaced with the equivalent of “this” or “that”, unless given express permission to use more informal terms of address. This is especially true when referring to non-native speakers, as they do not have an equivalent social role to the five (yes, five) genders of Taadži culture.

The word for “non-native person” used to indicate Weyland literally means “thing that has a spirit”.

Following my shaky PIEngineer gloss, I tweaked the verb in the first sentence: “to die” would normally be “hur hybà” (lit. “to stand at death”), but this has been changed to “hu iddà”, “go to death”, indicating that Weyland fears even getting near the idea.

The word for “forever”, “midadjã”, is derived from the word for 6^6, or 46,656. Tade Taadži uses a base six number system, because I felt like taking Jan Misali up on his heximal advocacy.

The normal word order for the language is SVO, but in dependent clauses it becomes OVS, just to make things harder for everyone, including me, who muttered “ah fuck” when I had to check my notes to remember where to put an allative and vocative in there. It’s after the verb, apparently.

The language has verbal person marking in some contexts, and I deliberately bent the second sentence into a more poetic mode so that I could show it off while retaining formal speech, referring to Weyland’s belief as if it’s a person. The glyphs ligate the person marker to the tense marker, Both to save space and for aesthetic purposes.

I had no word for “believe” when I started writing this sentence, so I grabbed a verb already associated with thinking during unmoving meditation to stand in for it, to get across the idea that “this is something he has thought about a lot”.

It’s a shame David’s being polite, because while I didn’t have a word for “believe”, I do have a word for “to believe despite evidence to the contrary”.

Bonus citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)

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[brettdoesdiscourse]

It's so wild to me to see antis on Tiktok saying people who like a certain type of fiction need therapy. Because there was a video on my FYP of a woman talking about how she felt no remorse after torturing a disabled man to death.

And when I tell you that comment section is FILLED with people saying "I like her" and "people are just scared by her honesty" and "slay" and "I feel like I'd be friends with her."

I promise you there are actual people in this world who need help.

[joyisresistance]

Unfathomable abundance of life

As far as we know, ours is the only planet with life on it.

But once life got a start here, however that happened, life went big. What likely started as some molecules that by some unknown process began to replicate themselves quickly (by astronomical standards) took over every nook and cranny of our little planet. Life comes in all sizes, from microscopic single-celled organisms to massive megafauna.

When you look at a forest, so much of the life is obvious: trees, ferns, squirrels, birds, mosses, shrubs, frogs, insects, deer, flowers, slime molds, berries, lichen.... but that's just what is obvious to the naked human eye. We can't see the life that is teeming underground: earthworms, moles, ants, snakes, lizards. And then there's the microscopic life: the mycorrhizal networks and bacteria that thrive in the soil are constantly turning dead leaves, branches, and decomposing bodies into even more life. Death begets more life as all of the nutrients are recycled into new bodies.

It's obvious that forests and oceans are full of life, but life has found a way to thrive in every place on Earth. Deep in the darkest depths of the oceans, high atop the most arid mountain peaks, there are organisms thriving where others would quickly die. In the most extreme heat and extreme cold, in slurries of caustic chemicals, in deep darkness, in radioactivity, there are creatures large and small living lives tailored to their environments. There is no where on Earth where there is not something alive, even if it's just microscopic bacteria.

Everywhere you look, there is an unfathomable abundance of life: creatures of all sizes living out their personal dramas. We don't know what consciousness is, or how many creatures have it, but just imagine if all animals, plants, bacteria, all living creatures were conscious. Just think how many life stories are contained in one handful of soil, one cup of pond water.

We may be the only planet in the universe with life, but the amount of life we have here is astounding.

[yazthebookish]

I'm thankful everyday for the incredible support system I have both in this fandom and the bookish community ❤️🥹

[llondonfog]

i've been working on color-themed icon sets for @/vargascamp and i thought you might enjoy these two from the red set uncropped

this was literally my reaction upon finding these in my inbox, i've not stopped staring at them for like five minutes ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! the quality is so CRISP and the coloring is absolutely GORGEOUS, they look so ethereal, lethal in their battle-ready prime, and absolutely resplendent in the brilliant shades of crimson piercing through the grayscale i'm genuinely obsessed

[kiaslana]

VISITED: kiana & acheron visit Izumo, what is left of it, during the ascended aeon verse.

You can't remember , can you ? It's all so familiar , your heart ACHES as she knew it would , but ... you do not understand why . What guilt this brings you — she watches expectantly , no doubt hoping everything will flood back ...

You wish it would . Impatience only serves to anger , hindering any chance there may be .

A hand extends , brushes 'gainst Acheron's finger . Kiana turns gaze towards the sky , eyes stinging the moment she gains the strength to shake her head .

' ... I should know this , shouldn't I ? '

[magneticmanifesto]

[blueopinions49]

Healthy/ Unhealthy Type 3

Healthy Social 3

Johnny Cage MK1 (3w4 so/sx)- While obnoxious at first Johnny is a great example of a 3 who's integrated to his 9 perfectly. He doesn't shy away from others and stops indulging in his sense of vanity. Usually tryin to keep the group together

Cordelia Chase (3w2 so/sp)- Outgrew her mean girl status and became a force to be wrecked with. Her development in angel is probably my favorite thing about her. Great example of a E3 moving to E6.

Elektra Abundance (3w4 so/sp)-Yes she's mean, BUT she has always retain a strong voice in helping others out in the later seasons. Her sense of competition has always been about self improvement and becoming a better version of herself.

Unhealthy Social 3

Pearl (3w2 so/sx)- Desire to be accepted and love by the masses paired with her circumstances makes her ideal self a frustration for her eventually lashing out at everyone that reminds her of her failure. In X we see a fully disintegrated 9 Pearl.

Sally Reed (3w4 so/sp)- Oddly similar to Pearl in the sense to have a desire to enter a career in acting HOWEVER Sally sadly gets met with the reality of Hollywood; eventually seeking emotional refuge in Barry. However in the end of the show we see a fully realized Sally.

Draco Malfoy (3w2 so/sp)- Brought up in a life of privilege and bigoted opinions made him on of the most obnoxious charcaters In the series. While we see some remorse In the later books in the majority of the series we see a Draco who would use cruelty in look for validation from his superiors.

Healthy Self Preservation 3

Gary Prince (3w4 sp/so)- I was a bit confused with this typing at first however ive settled for this . Gary's desire to be at a master at his own craft and have his own personal bakery? come into question when he is met with the reality of business. Eventually choosing to stick to his own values.

Nancy Wheeler (3w2 sp/so)- Idk why I ever typed her as an SP1. very clear example of an SP3 who grows in each season wanting to use her profession as a reporter to do good. Rewatching the show I can see how she might look like a SP1 however her core desire was never perfection.

Dick Grayson (3w2 sp/sx)- Ive finally settled...His core desire to separate from being on Batman's shadow gives us one of the most honest arcs about the E3s shame+image conflict. Eventually settling for a new identity as Nightwing. Idk why people type him as an SO2, SO7 or SO6.

Unhealthy Self preservation 3

Molly Carter (3w2 sp/sx)- Love her but sometimes her own personal desires seemed mixed with her view of others specially with Issa. Sometimes being unnecessarily cruel to her because she doesn't have her life together as if she herself has hers together.

Miranda Priestly (3w4 sp/so)-The believe that no one can do her job better than her makes her a menace to whoever crosses her. Yes, Andy wasn't the best at her job however Miranda wasn't a good person either and allot of people seem to ignore that. Even cutting her friends off when it comes between her and her profession.

Mima Kirigoe (3w2 sp/so)- Her struggle to fit into what is expected of her as an idol makes her struggle with her personal image and who she is at her core. In the end of the movie we see a Mima who proclaims she is the real Mima. Asserting her own identity without the outside perspective.

Healthy Sexual 3

Emma Frost (3w4 sx/so)-She does all for her student and finds success through knowing she did something to help them in life. She sometimes dances between villain and hero however when written by someone who understands her character we can see why she is the way she is. Cold but caring.

Hercules (3w2 sx/so)- His desire to find success in relation to others makes him struggle a bit at first however we see him grow out of it as the movie goes on.

Sansa Stark (3w2 sx/so)-When young her desire to find the perfect prince and move away from her culture. I hate what they did to her the series and how she got to her end BUT I do think seeing Sansa as queen and embracing her culture made sense for the most part.

Unhealthy Sexual 3

Lady Dimitrescu (3w2 sx/so)- Her desire to be Mother Miranda's selected favorite makes her own personal goals be ignored. Her view of success is through mother miranda's eyes and no one else's.

Dennis Reynolds (3w2 sx/so)- Identifying through what others deem successful and attractive makes him have an identity crisis every episode.

Azula (3w4 sx/so)- Her desire to fulfill all of her father's wishes and see all of his ambitions met drives her to her own self destruction. Even in the comics we see an Azula who is trying to push Zuko into Becoming a worst version of her father.

Honorable Mentions-

Kung Lao 3w2 so/sx (you aren't anyones #1 but still)

Shiv Roy 3w4 sp/so (Girlfauilres pray to her everyday)

Lestat Di Lioncourt 3w4 sx/so (You are hot but toxic)

[gimblegamble]

Gim gimgingim my broski my buddy my boo I literally love the nickname plannonthayssisido that’s so cute oml WOOOOO :DDD

Yes ur walls r great btw I got like snacks n here n shit im lirking in ur shadows I’m sending u invisible appreciation im appreciating u so hard u don’t even no it literally /pos

Oh il ur x desfgin by the way he has such cool hair like if sm1 had fisgety hands imaging if they give it a lil brush u no or a lil tug or put sm cute flowers in it n stuff thatd be cute !!!! he’s a pretty boyi u nko kno u kko yhyhyhyhyh

Also I forgor if I respondede to this yet but ur so correct acc about the new hermits getting thei own crushes on Mumbo too HC stands for Hermits CrushingOnMumboJumbo acctuallye u r so correct n try 💀<<<<333333

…………. Def not m havin thoughts aboy the diff between ppl resctong to gem vs Skizz if they were to find out they gained a hot crush on Mumbo too….. like…. Bro imagine……..

Ppl going to gen like awwww that’s cute bestie we lov that frfr gem welcome to the club bestie n shes so sweet w mumbo n it’s all good n she might be deadly enough to casully take out a sword n death glare any competitors sometime if they’re tryna crash in any dedidcated Mumbo time (COYGHCOUGCVOUGH Grian COUGHCOIYHCIIHJ) but it’s all good ukno all cute :))))))

But like Skizz. And here’s the thing Skizz is such a huge teddy bear o a guy. Fav angel dude fr. But like. I’m lookin at how ZIT already had like a whol competition bet thing going on w seducing Mumbo Outta his sexy pristine normal asssuit pants. I’m looking at the hints of possessivendsc that like Z n I n T all had at times b4 w dear ol mumby boy. I’m lookinh at thr bond ZITS hav going on n how Skizz could b having a gay ol time w mumbo n maybe flirting just a tad (a lot lol) n maybe he throws Mumbo over his arm cus he cute like that n S catches one of the others eye just for a second n motherfucker would SMIRK. LMAO ‘look bitches I got ur man now he’s my man what u gonna do bout it <3’ like iys probs not on the level of Doc n Grian (n X n Scar n probs Keralis lol) petty aaaa possessiveness rivalry becaus ZITS r still a lol goofy w it y’know ykno but like

Sometimesz

Sometimes.

Hffhhffhhffygufhghvvhvjjvjvjvvjjbbj ty gim happy pride btw rip I’m a fruity little plannon today <3

- 🌱 Anon

Plannon it is then! ^^ lmao always a pleasure to receive a message from you. Feels like I have a penpal in the world somewhere. Apparently in my walls though so I hope you're still comfortable in there with how cold its getting again??? (last week we were at the >20C?? Now we're back at single digits???? What happened?????).

As for my Xisuma, maybe no tugging since he has some very sensitive hair roots but flowers are always welcome! (I still think he needs a haircut though)

I agree on your interpretation of the true meaning of HC and shall immediately add it to my dictionary lmao.

Actually I haven't really thought about Skizz all that much so I'm pretty interested in some headcanons about them. I don't really see much of Skizz in general I suppose.

I say that but for some reason I had no trouble hearing this sentence (‘look bitches I got ur man now he’s my man what u gonna do bout it <3’) in his voice so.. lol.

Happy pride as well plannon! go and be your fruity little self and have fun.