#and later disillusioned

[yuenity]

Big fan of whatever they got going on

[accessoryclouds]

can anyone hear me

[solo-walker]

Me as of late

[sheila--e]

THE GANG IS ALL HERE!! finally made some very plain reference images for these idiots... They're all in a punk band called 3 De Trébol that Ace founded :3 i'm so excited to finally get to introduce them!!!!jejej I've been thinking about them for a really long time... I'll probably talk more about them in the future jejj :3

[falderaletcetera]

it took me so long to get over my annoyance with that well-intentioned "letting things go" bit in the star beast that I'm still processing that the donna of before could never have just relinquished the metacrisis - even assuming there was some trick to it that she and rose only figured out much later - but now, now that she's got a good husband, a better relationship with her mother, a daughter of her own who she loves fiercely, a life of her own that doesn't leave her as disillusioned with the world as she used to be, now she can let go of that part of the doctor that he never meant for her to have. now she can happily admit that she'd rather live as donna noble than risk complete self-annihilation as the doctordonna. and that's… that's a lot, actually.

[forzafinally]

I think that if you were a part of the 1D fandom from 2010-15 you come out of the experience either as a cynical war veteran or a cult leader. There's no in between

[the-fiddlesticks-affair]

i'll say this though the 15 years later affair (and to a lesser extent the say UNCLE affair) did make me realize that i fucking loooove thinking about napoleon and illya Old. to be clear i dont think early 50s is That old but it shows such a promising start. if thats the way theyre acting right at the start of middle age it can only get better from here. also yes to say nothing of the fact that im a huge sap and i love when a) two characters Find each other again later in life and b) have History (for better and worse) together. i love when two guys sit around and reminisce about the good old days AND old wounds AND fret over how much time they feel theyve wasted AND get excited when they realize they have more time together than they thought they were ever going to get. im only human

[raionmimi]

Follow up to this pic: X

I think Dr. Santos would've hated putting pressure on a literal child to look after an even younger child, but with him quitting, he didn't really have a choice

Lifeweaver's promise made leaving Satya behind even harder for him, but at his current stage in life, he's certain he made the right call. Even if the person he loves is still stuck in her gilded cage, no matter how he tries to justify it to himself in the back of his head

[carrie-tate]

...

[weirdsht]

I desperately need Cale's heart of vitality rn. It's been 2 weeks since I last slept properly and 1 week since I've been constantly pulling all-nighters. My body is literally crashing down rn LMAOOO

[fispy]

I don't have any money but I really want to own all the Complete YARF! collections. This is the first time I've thought about collecting something that wasn't trash in years. MAN

[quiveringdeer]

how do yall get through the moments where you're hit by the reality that - this is what life is. this is the next however long of your life till you kick the bucket?

[fideidefenswhore]

Kinda interesting to think Mary secretly thought she didn't have any stepmoms at all. People always act like Anne's the problem, if she'd "known her place" pure Mary would've liked her. They try to make her out to be a person of totally rigid, unshakable morality, someone so above average human weakness we should see her as an example of unparalleled goodness we could never equal. And all that makes the burnings ok. Because a virtuous woman did it it's fine. But in social terms it sounds like she'd "go with the flow" like everyone else, say whatever to keep the peace, something Elizabeth is critcized for doing. And really interesting about declaring Edward illegitimate and Jane's marriage void. People always paint their relationship in this cutesy gloss, that Jane was devoted to her and reached out to her, that Mary felt it back, this is how she responded to a "real" stepmom, but now I'm wondering if she even liked Jane at all.

I mean, considering most of these accounts use quotes from Jane Dormer as their literal only source on Mary I's personality and reign...probably?

Mary was as much of a dissembler as Elizabeth for sure, I would say her dissembling just manifested differently. She also eventually came to be (mid 1536-1547, that is) nearly as much of a pragmatist as Elizabeth had to become during her sister's reign, just during her father's: leaving rooms Chapuys entered and refusing to speak with him, never voicing any opinion contrary to HVIII's policies, apologizing profusely and abjectly when servants and diplomats visited her household without express royal permission, etc. She became more resolute and less pragmatic during Edward VI's reign, imo, but there were reasons for this which make logical sense...the reign of children were always weaker and less stable, Edward Seymour's protectorship, by the terms of Henry VIII's will, was technically illegitimate (he hadn't been granted that position by him), arguably John Dudley's was as well, although it was much stronger, etc.

The evidence cited to argue Mary's affection for the Seymours in general and Jane is particular is...shaky, at best. For one, her propagandists certainly didn't seem to think denigrating Edward Seymour was anything that would be ill-received by her, since that was included in their tracts a lot. For another, it's generally like 1) Mary sent her a gift of cucumbers! (...ok? she sent her subsequent stepmothers lots of gifts as well), 2) Mary was her chief mourner in her funeral services, a position that was obviously assigned by HVIII and a position that, had she still remained Princess, would never have even been suggested (royals in the succession could not be chief mourners because that included funeral services in which their death might be thought of, which was treason), so likely stung on some level...

And this letter, which to me, says it all:

“Promises to continue in obedience according to her promises, both spoken and written, made to the King. I beseech our Lord to preserve your Grace in health with my very natural mother the Queen, and to send you shortly issue; which I shall as gladly and willingly serve with my hands under their feet as ever did poor subject their most gracious sovereign.”

'My very natural mother the Queen' is in the same sentence as a promise to 'willingly serve' Jane's issue 'with [her] hands under their feet'. Given the events of Edward VI's reign, that was obviously a promise she made because she knew it was what they expected her to say, rather than one she actually kept. There's also the context that there's no announcement of Jane being with child at the time of this letter, so it's a promise made for a future that's quite uncertain at this point, not necessarily seen as likely.

Unfortunately, there remains about only one succint, sentiment-absent conjecture about Mary's probable feelings regarding her second stepmother, particularly in the spring/summer of 1536:

"Was Mary perhaps also deflated that Jane had not tried to prevent her ordeal? Jane and her supporters had promised a turnaround, but nothing had eventuated; instead she had had to concede more than she anticipated. In this matter, Chapuys had been her sole supporter." Inside the Tudor Court, Lauren Mackay

[herd-reject-arts]

So I gave myself the challenge of hiking 100 miles this month, since I don't have a job. And I completed it today! Don't know if I'll stop yet, but I'm definitely taking tomorrow off...

I visited a place I've wanted to go for years called Virgin Falls, roughly 2 hours outside Nashville. I managed to convince my kid brother to tag along, since he likes to sneak out of the house and go on walks around town, and I think he had a good time. He definitely had a look of wonder on his face that I haven't seen since he was a little-little. I went to school near the park, but everyone always warned me not to go because it's super dangerous. It wasn't, though. Maybe to someone without much experience, but I do this kind of thing all the time. Trail map said 8 miles. Ended up being 9.3 (which matters a lot when you're that far in). Pretty much anywhere there was water, there was a cave. All the falls exit into caves. It was beautiful! Most of my photos have my brother's face in them, so I don't have a lot to post, but it was just such a cool time. Highly recommend it to anyone in the area. It's a major task (took 5 hours and all my energy), but it's so worth getting to see the most unique waterfalls I've ever seen.

But yeah. Got my hundred miles in, saw some cool shit, and got to spend time with my troubled teen brother. Overall great day.

[youngerfrankenstein]

Would you still love me if I became a full-on Transformers blog?

[incomprehensi-bull]

strokes chin. i had a lot of ideas about spamton back when spamtonEX was the big trend everyone was doing.... maybe i can see what i remember about that and finally do something about it