#and which brings me to another ask..

[dreamings-free]

https://www.tumblr.com/dreamings-free/781645465392414720/actually-holivia-didnt-even-got-the-backlash-they

wow you're brave. larries do not like any criticism of harry. no matter how fucked up things get. you're always supposed to say its not his fault.

Louis on the other hand is responsible for everything about him, even the stunts that started in 1d.

lol well none of the people on here whose opinions I care about are gonna have any issue with that answer so.. and anyway I don’t think you can generalise about "larries" like that and say H is spared critism and L gets it all.. it’s certainly not what I see from the blogs I follow. (but then I don’t follow a lot.. and my blacklist is long af 😅) and I do remember seeing harry get A LOT of heat - from larries - during the pandemic years, h*livia and the whole indefinitely postponed uk tour. have some people forgiven and forgotten? maybe.. and that’s fine. but I know for a fact that a lot of people - like me - came away with.. a different view on his person, his priorities and his morals after all that. even so they'd still be considered and/or call themselves larries..

my advice? don't be so concerned about what certain people think :)

[son-of-avraham]

I've been doing a lot of reflection as of late, especially after this past class.

This past class was about the Torah and Tanakh in general, and the way the rabbi talked about the commandments (specifically the ten commandments) has made me really reflect on how I interpret them, specifically the fifth commandment, or honoring your mother and father.

This is a commandment I have wrestled with for a long time - in fact, it brought me away from g-d at multiple times. I was severely abused when I was incredibly young by my mother, and I used to feel insulted at the implication that I were to honor her while she got to live a better life. It was hypocritical, in my eyes.

But this rabbi surmised that this particular commandment was because parenthood is an act of creation, something that is like the g-d from which we come from. My realization is this: I don't think we're necessarily meant to take even these commandments literally.

I this particular commandment is more of a call to honor creation - creation is a gift, and like any gift, many people simply will not like it and will discard it. The person who abused me created me, but she did not honor creation. She didn't honor me, but I can still honor it.

I have started to honor creation much more. I'm too young, too unstable, not mature enough to be a father (though I fantasize about it), but I create all the time. I create relationships, I create with my hands through crochet. I create memories, I create my world. And I can honor who I am and where I came from that made me who I am. I've been learning one of the mother tongues of my family (Italian, since part of my family originates there) and it was judaism that inspired me to do this.

I don't think g-d wants me to honor my abuser. I think He wants me to remember the Holy action of creation. When I am a father, that act of creation will be Holy, and indeed, I am already joyful about the thought.

I have seen many people struggle with this particular commandment, but I think this perspective helps me personally. I don't think I ever have to forgive my abusers (plural), and I don't think I am commanded to simply because they happened to be family. I am commanded to recognize the holy, to elevate the mundane. In doing so, I will remember g-d. Through creation, I honor g-d and everything he has done for us, for me, and for our collective people.

[moliathh]

take responsibility

[bruhstation]

Did Lady manage to help exorcise and/or destroy Alfred for good or are the jumper cables whispering a little too loud in my ear

lady hasn't appeared publicly yet back in 1985 and was observing everything from the shining time world. she did turn alfred into a ghost, after all, and held some sort of attachment to the people she imbued with the gold dust. in the end though she believed that alfred being sent back to the shining time world is justice. it was the younger rws trio (more like edward since he's a gold dust patron like alfred) that exorcised him. since alfred masqueraded as a human but had no known relatives the railway held a small funeral for him. nobody knew what to say during the eulogy since he was so esoteric. but like the deeply condescending kind. gordon thought it was the worst funeral he's ever attended

[kacievvbbbb]

I feel like I need to know more about Todo and Yuki’s relationship as mentor and mentee. Like they seem the same flavor of person which is very different from what gojo and megumi have going on.

But also Yuki is very adoptive “dad” coded in the way geto’s relationship to the twins is very adoptive “mom” coded.

In that Geto seems to take on primarily a caretaker role than a mentor while Yuki is more a trainer and life coach than she is a caretaker. Which is something you don’t really see given to female characters in anime.

Like Todo lives by her words and fights by her example. Everything he knows about jujutsu she taught him and Todo’s a very skilled and violent fighter and that reflects back perfectly on Yuki’s own fighting style. It’s so very anime mentor it’s insane she is just introduced to us as Todo (this absolute menace’s) teacher before anything else. I’ve never actually seen a female anime character be introduced this way.

in contrast to Geto who serves as the caring parent who was tragically taken from the girls violently and too soon and the girls wish to honor him and live how he would have wanted them too despite the ungodly situation they find themselves in. Which is such a stereotypical anime mom trope it’s almost funny. He even fits in with the still very much in love with and still speaks highly of the father that abandoned the family in hopes that the kid will one day understand and forgive them. He is essentially the mom from Full Metal Alchemist.

Gege that fucking deranged cat actually flipped the script on us and it’s so interesting which is why it’s so frustrating how little we actually end up getting off yuki when all her little scenes point to such an interestnn in character.

She is introduced as one half of a crazy dynamic that we never actually get to see put to screen and that’s such a shame. Because Yuki is such a welcome addition to the tropes of female characters we need more female “dads”

[mewkwota]

Are you still awake?

I drew this at the small edge of my page knowing very well that it would lead to cutoffs and overlap with other sketches because I really do feel more comfortable doing certain positions like this. It just makes it hard to get a snap of them with a "complete" feel.

In a majority of my previous works focusing on Juno's eyes, they were slightly relaxed, as he had just woken up while also going along with his typical calmness. But I've also tried (and failed many times) to see how they would look when they're totally open-- this is excluding the shots where he is straight-up trying to kill someone. :)

In this context, Juno is activated but not totally working if that makes sense? As you may kinda make it out, he isn't upright, so his whole body isn't there either. I was going for something "still, blank, empty".

[surreal-duck]

Can I possibly ask who your most recent OC is, if you are still open to talking about your OCs?

of course!!! honestly i dont think ive made any new ones in particular since last year? with the amount i have atp i kinda go back and forth between new and old ones kjsdgkjsdhgs but i guess rafi and naomi would be the most recent that i actually do somewhat draw on occasion because otherwise a good chunk of them are just. kind of concepts i bounce around in my head jksdgjkhsdgsh

i do have this from some time ago though that never really went anywhere

[goozeghost]

Hands wip 🙏‼️

[nerdylibertarian928]

Hot take: You shouldn't get in trouble for having bad grades if you're doing your assignments and participating in class but are struggling in school even though you are trying your best. However, if your bad grades are caused by you being on your phone in class instead of paying attention in class and not doing your assignments, you 100% deserve to get in trouble for having bad grades.

[mothraranger]

I read one fic and now I ship the Animated versions of Ratchet and Ultra Magnus, I shit you not...

...aaannd I wanna give them a kid or two!

[optiwashere]

ok ok i know you answered the oc ask already so in light of that i have other questions:

- do you have songs that remind you of asheera, or songs (beyond the ones in your end notes) that you listen to while you write/develop her?

- if asheera were here today, what do you think she would listen to? who would be her favorite artists?

Ooh, thank you! 💜

So, Asheera's tones to me, musically speaking, are folksy and warm. Acoustic guitars and chill vibes with lots of layers, arpeggiation rather than strumming, and full-bodied counterpoints thrown around the place. Though she prefers late summer when it's more of a cool heat, I think of her in autumnal colors when it comes to music if I'm thinking aesthetically. Really, it's best described by this song:

That is, like, the Asheera song to me. Complete with the slow, calming fade into atmospheric uses of natural sounds.

A lot of the music I listen to while I'm writing is usually something like this or, like, goth rock and doom metal. But I often hear a song and think "it's the blorbo..." without really putting it into my writing playlists.

As for the other question, there's an answer in my modern/band AU, actually! She's a country girlie, through and through. However, she's more into 70s outlaw country and protest music than glitzy modern pop-country. Even something like Merle Travis or Robin & Linda Williams (mostly when they sang about working class struggles) is way preferred.

Basically, she measures all songs against "Which Side Are You On?" And to keep it all in tune with Nightsongs, she'd probably dig more of Shadowheart's music if it was like this instead of abrasive black metal, or in Panopticon's case also like this:

[ccaptain]

Imagine seeing your fellow Enigma getting blasted by something and instead of an explosion of gore there's just a clean hole and particles of gray materia trying to reform the loss of matter/limb. And all he does after the blow is stagger.

And it's more complicated than saying he got injured: it's more like whatever part of his got hit was disgregated, separated into parts (the floating gray matter) and needs time to reform.

But let's not split hair; now you never have to deal with the fact that he may die/get seriously injured on you. What a relief!

[kaidabakugou]

the new girl at one of my favorite bakeries called me pretty this morning and it literally melted all my stress away 🥺

[mayadoesfandomstuff]

I was just thinking of this, but I'm not really too upset that some Persona characters ended up as cops given that it makes sense for their story and they probably still have a positive view of the police force and any negativity is focused on individual bad actors and any bad group of cops is treated like an anomaly or just based on pure ignorance. Like okay, sure it makes sense for Tatsuya because he wants to be like his brother who's a good detective and it makes sense for Akihiko because the cop he had interacted with were somewhat positive in his life, and for Chie, the bad cop she's met is somewhat relegated as an anomaly in the system and even then was willing to just admit fault even without genuine remorse.

I don't have to agree with it personally to see why it makes sense for their character to head down that path (although I could headcanon they could leave the force after a while or something). I don't have to be happy with it because of my personal politics to understand why it would make sense.

I do, however, still think that how they handled Makoto wanting to be a cop was really really bad.

Compared to other characters, Makoto's motivation with being a cop seems to be with the reverse context of other characters wherein there are individual good cops and small good groups in a rotten system that is difficult to reform. Time and time again, this is proven within Persona 5 and its spin-offs. Her friends are constantly threatened by the government and by extension the police force with only one good cop that actually helps them and even then, Zenkichi, specifically tells her that she should reconsider joining the force because it's such a rotten system.

She knows what they're capable of, she knows how badly her friend was tortured by them, and she knows that so many of them are kiss asses who had constantly blamed minors for crimes they didn't commit because it's convenient for them and politicians and corporations told them to do so.

Her shrugging off these concerns is what makes it so uncomfortable. Her friends constantly say they don't trust the police, one of her friends had been beaten up by them, and she still touts about that she's not changing her mind about being a cop. I know everyone says that it's because her dad is a good cop and she wants to be like him but she only says this maybe in her social link and tangentially brings this up in a conversation with Zenkichi where she doesn't even imply that she understands the the police force is corrupt and just focuses on the specific good cop that she had in her life which is her father.

I'm not even saying that it's impossible to write Makoto as someone who wants to be a cop because her father was a good cop and there are still good cops within the force. Just simply make it that every time that she's asked about this and why she would do this, she tells them that she wants to be the one to "change the system" or "reform the police force" and her insistence in being a police officer wouldn't come off as off-putting as it is in the series. Like genuinely, her just stating it plainly is enough for me to think "Okay, I don't think she could do it and I don't really think this is something I'm happy with but I understand why the character would go that direction."

Instead, it's all possible inference and you really have to extrapolate to get to that conclusion because she never really says anything too directly about how corrupt the police force is or how the bad ones give the good ones a bad name so she just sounds like she's defending the very same police force that tortured her friend and blamed her and the rest of them for crimes they didn't commit despite all of them being minors. It's absurd.

[caterpillarinacave]

I'm going to DIE if we don't get any canon Fairchild twins content, so rn I'm purely relying on your hcs. Will you ever write a fic about the *potential* triplets? Their birth perhaps?

I actually do have a fic about their birth (though it's focused more broadly on TLH characters as a whole) which I really need to update: To Love, to Long, and to Fear

That being said, I love the triplets so much. Like, so much. I could write a full trilogy about them.

I actually do have several pieces of writing about them + their family! I've just never posted any of it because I didn't think anybody would care to read them.

However, I am more than happy to write/post/talk about them