#complicated---simplicity

[shisasan]

Reading Vladimir Nabokov’s letters to Vera made me understand that even the seemingly trivial expressions of love, frequently seen as predictable and trite, show how romantic language carries a depth of emotion that often defies external judgment - one that humbles the literary elitist in me. These expressions can be deeply meaningful, powerful, and transformative for the soul of those truly involved. If these words were meaningful to a literary giant like Nabokov, why dismiss them, when they reveal deeper aspects of the human condition that we so often overlook?

[foundfamily-connoisseur]

Ngl I kinda wanna write a fic for punch out that's basically just Lil Mac hanging out with the different boxers (either on their own or as a group) but my biggest problem is like. Not exactly language cuz obviously outside of Spanish and English google translate will be my best friend but more so having the English speaking folks. Like on one hand obviously Aran Ryan isn't going to talk the same as Bear Hugger (both personality wise and the use of slang in their country) but also i don't wanna feel like I just googled "[insert country/state] slang" and just shoe horn as many as i can... I'm getting so technical with this but also what if I just exploded

I just wanna write Lil Mac hanging out with his bros...and dads...and uncles😔

[crystallizsch]

stop getting more oc ideas omg im gonna

[reestallized]

God I love this website I can't get enough of it

[amelia-sun]

guess who's overthinking and making vague plans for chiluc again (that i have a 30% chance of pulling thru with because Life)

[pennamepersona]

grinding for jewels in your crown and at this point it feels like it'd be faster to just pay a BaL player to skin the vake for me

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

I have no problem projecting my own discomfort with negotiations and group projects onto Anakin. You know how when you're disagreeing over something, not getting your way feels bad, and getting your way feels maybe even worse, and compromises often make no one happy anyway? I think maybe Obi Wan can handle all that. I think maybe he feels smug when he gets his way. It's because of his time with Qui Gon, probably. Anakin though, I think he's more like me. I think he finds the whole thing a bit of an ordeal, just bad vibes all round. He's literally an apprentice diplomat and the whole process is causing Stress. This is why when he caught the dark side he just went ahead and started selecting option murder everytime. That also causes lots of bad feelings but like, he gets his power from them and his master tells him he's a good boy, so.

[evermorethecrow]

"DYING" IS DIFFERENT FROM HAVING KILLED HIM!!!!!!!

GUYS IT WAS A MISTAKE </333333

a vaugely implied one throught a FEW drawings

[tboystrider]

abt that post abt you can shave ur eyebrows etc it is not that deep and not everything is abt you. you are white. shhhhhh 🤫

i have no idea who sent this or when but I am mixed. I am not white. this is a weird and presumptuous thing to send to someone you don't even know

[karokawwo]

dunmeshi character design is such a blessing because it helps me remember that a good design doesn't need a bunch of useless charms or belts or symbols scattered around or elaborate patterns. sometimes a simple design does a better job representing your character

[lennon666]

One of the best songs ever actually

[inkoherentwriting]

WIP Wday

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Guilbert's leg was stretched out along the bedroll-- not that it mattered strongly. The muscles ached whether Guilbert left them stretched or if he pulled his leg back closer to the rest of his body. It was a matter of hurting or hurting slightly less.

"Agh... Thank you again for saving me." Guilbert was rubbing said injured leg lightly when he looked up. His savior, the leader of these bandits, had her back to him. He had to wonder if she was regretting her choice. Maybe wondering now whether to kill him or--

"Listen. Ya don't need to keep thankin' me." He almost didn't hear from how soft her voice was.

He sighed. "I feel as though I do?" This was the terrifying part. "Getting to know you as we did our.... work... I feel you do care about others and about doing what is right. You simply need someone to believe in the you that is deep down inside the tough and gruff bandit leader you want everyone to assume you are."

She did not answer him.

"That's just... it's something I observed." Guilbert felt his voice quickening slightly with panic. "I genuinely believe, deep down, that you're a kind person." He watched her fist clench and waited for the worst; he was going to get beaten and left for dead.

Guilbert winced, closing his eyes and bracing.

"You're kind. That's why ya see it in me." A sigh. "Look... relax your leg. Get some food an' rest tonight. And then get outta here tomorrow mornin' ya hear?"

"Huh?"

"You're not fit for bein' a bandit, Guilbert." It was the first time she'd called him by name. This and the realization he was being let go oddly left his throat as constricted as the bandit leader's now sounded. "You're too damn nice."

[farfaleeworld]

My childhood city, Prague, had its deadliest mass shooting in recent history.

Sending love to my people, and mourning those who have been lost.

[heireign]

meta question : how did her mother's death impact how she viewed her father ?

send me character development questions. ( @sinworn )

first, i don't think there's ever really any blame in regards to it when it comes to viserys purely because it's ? as a child the circumstances of it would have been so absurdly normalized that the only real red flags about it that would have impacted her views on him from it would have been the implications around the court that ' perhaps aemma had been bedded too young', and that being the reason for why she had the complications with her pregnancies that she did which, she may or may not have overheard at court - and if she did, i don't think at the time she would've entirely understood the implications of what that even meant. and there is also the likelihood she would not have even heard it at all unless she walked into a room unannounced or around a corridor to people discussing it, or it was being spoken about when she was believed to have been out of earshot -- i don't really believe that anyone would have purposefully said that infront of her, so it would have needed to have been something she accidentally overheard if she'd heard it at all.

i do believe she would have heard him call her his great joy, but that a brother was a brother, because he was said to have said often, which means she was more then likely in his presence to hear it at least once. the fact that he loves her was never a question, the fact that he valued and cherished her was never a question, but there's a precursor of feeling not quite enough that stems from the fact her parents doted on her as a child - how she was treated by them was not affected by the fact she wasn't a son, but the fact she wasn't quite the child they needed meant that her mother suffered, and above all she would have noticed how the pregnancies and subsequent losses continued to wear on her mother and how they affected her mother. she was effectively being treated as his heir, but she could never occupy that space, and that meant that viserys only had daemon as a successor, and no son to succeed him. and like the fact a girl could not succeed her father would have been wholly normal then, too. she would not have felt slighted for the throne as much as she would have felt wholly helpless that she could not help her parents who were struggling to fill this space and she was ? thinking that if only she had been born a son, maybe they would have been able to stop with trying with how badly her mother was being affected, with her as the heir and daemon as the spare. this is important because it's what largely impacts her feelings toward him when her mother dies and she's made his heir.

she's eight when aemma dies. he becomes infinitely more important in regards to her feelings of inner security and stability - because at that point he is the only parent that she has left. then she's made his heir and she's ? confused and a bit frustrated, and more then a little overwhelmed because it seems so completely pointless all of a sudden; because if she was worthy of being his heir now, she could have well been then, and then she would still have her mother. she doesn't even know how to want it at first because actually being content she had the position would feel too much as if she were celebrating a tragedy, that she was glad to have profited off of such a devastating loss and like, she wants to make him proud in turn. she doesn't want aemma to be remembered as someone who failed in her duties as a wife and queen. and if she's the heir, and if she actually somehow gets to sit her father's throne, then she won't have been. she would have given him a successor even if she wasn't male.

but like, it also incidentally changes the relatively close relationship she had with her father and makes it one that is two-fold. now she's not just his daughter, she's his heir. it makes things very stiff between the two of them for a while as she settles into the role. she's less inclined to display vulnerability around him due to fearing that he might find it too much for her, and take it. they can't quite talk as they used to due to the fact she's afraid that whatever she might say to him might make him upset and take it from her too - and after he remarries and begins to sire children with alicent her fear of being replaced personally manifests itself in a drive for her position - and this is because this is something she can actually tackle, and solidify her place in, and prove her worth in a way she has always struggled with personally because she has always been loved, but she's never been particularly useful in regarding to filling the place she now occupies. i think her proving that she is is her best attempts to both give her mother a legacy to be proud of ( one that speaks of not just success but actually something historic in her being the first queen regnant ) and solidify those anxieties with her father that she might be set aside in a personal sense, because for a while the notion of her being replaced in her position would have felt more then a little like an inevitability and less like something that may or may not happen. the security and comfort she would have derived from him as her only surviving parent rises and then it plummets again when she's made heir because she doesn't know how else to regain control of a very overwhelming situation that people are now looking at her in a whole different way because of. and there’s this whole new facet to their relationship that’s serious and scary and important and it’s nothing she wants and now it’s everything she wants because of what it could mean for her mother.

[synthetic-sonata]

OREON - The Prissy Pokémon

1; This Pokémon loves to stash valuable items inside of its fur. Due to this, Oreons are very territorial in the mineral-rich mines they tend to call their homes.

2; These Pokémon tend to be awfully fond of the gems they store in their chest fur to the point of becoming intensely overprotective of it. If they ever lose it, they will bemoan it for decades and swear revenge.

[gael-garcia]

is mubi still worth it?