#dripping with sarcasm

[danandphilese]

Realtor Dan just spoke to me okay

[squarebracket-trickster]

Migraine night: three for three! Ayyy babyyy we've got a streak!!!

[alfea]

i love when a random part of my body just suddenly starts feeling like it got crushed by a hydraulic press. it’s so fun

[mengjue]

It’s crazy how much fashion has changed over the last 200 years. Like people started out wearing quite traditional clothing unless you were wealthy or nobility, and then suddenly you get this explosion of new styles like the modern qipao within coastal elite circles. Then things get very drab and homogenised as a direct refutation of this excess, before finally in the late 70s and 80s new fashions are allowed and people make their own bellbottoms and…

Huh? What’s that?

Was I talking about the historical experience of one particular cultural area as if it is universal?

Using general terms that make it seem like this is the default?

My bad, I’ll make sure to mention this is Chinese fashion, specifically.

I certainly wouldn’t want that to become common…

[jewishevelinebaker]

why is murder even bad if someones immortal soul just goes to christian forgotten realms heaven?

[gloriousvermin]

I don't belong anywhere :D

Except

The disappointing your shity parents and yourself dump :)

I am definitely sure happy about this

[good-in-space]

Misread my work schedule for this week and came in 30 minutes early, so now I’m taking a 90-minute lunch break to make up for it. Oh no. It’s terrible.

[wavewavethoughtsonly]

Shockwave: I would cut off my right arm to have Soundwave. Knock Out: Is that the story behind your left arm? Shockwave:

[cainternn]

Wait you used to draw dream smp fanart? Sick, that's cool...

look everyone has their dark and evil past ok…

[stromuprisahat]

Sorry, I thought I sent it to you . I accidentally sent it to another page instead. 😅

so Just before you read these texts, know that I'm not anti-Darklina. I was just randomly scrolling through Tumblr and saw these, and they had reacted to your messages. So I thought I’d send them to you :)

the darkling had a lot of repetitive phrases he used when he was manipulating people. this has been said before, but he says “you and i are going to change the world.” a LOT. like bro please get a new line we’re all tired of your bullshit he also uses the argument of grisha aging against people. he points out to alina that she’ll outlive mal, and points out to nikolai that zoya will outlive him. in both of these situations, he wanted the couples separated. he kept scaring them by making them think of losing each other. and idk i think that’s interesting. But seriously, the two interacted a tiny bit in the first book (and that ended with him stealing her power and taking ownership of her), barely at all in the second, (and even that was just a whole lot of the Darkling being a creep and stalking on her, giving her mental trauma) and a tiny bit more in the third. (In which the Darkling killed several of her loved ones, destroyed her childhood home, and in turn, Alina killed him)

So if u saw it in another channel just say your opinion, but if u don't ill be happy if you read it :)))

First of all- I've already mentioned it, probably more than once- the "You and I..." is clearly a retcon. The fact it's "revealed" in KoS2 makes it painfully obvious. At that point LB was in her "renouncing the Darkling" stage, her readership got younger and more radically set against TRULY morally grey characters, so Darkles' non-hater could detect clear whiff of anti-him sentiments. The duology earned the title of spitebook by how clearly it's supposed to vilify the Darkling (and Darklina).

In-universe explanation is rather simple (credit to late yototo for pointing it out somewhere, but I couldn't find the thread)- Zoya LOVES to believe she's daddy's super ✨special✨ girl, but why would the Darkling bother focusing on her, of all people, when she was nothing more than an ordinary- albeit promising- Squaller? Even Alina- his alleged victim no. 1- openly admits he's hardly in Little Palace, he's constantly on the move, so when would he do more that a few words here and there?

Which leads us to the gigantic plot hole of viability of such "manipulation". The Darkling did nothing to isolate his "victims". They were free to talk, and don't tell me someone as competitive as Zoya wouldn't boast about her grand future. The same person, who's lying about her importance, when she's just crossing the Fold.

Alina probably mentioned what the Darkling told her and Zoya chose to believe he did the same with her. She's the person, who's still choosing to believe her intervention saved the tiger cubs instead of dooming them to violent death. The same person, who's "forbidding" her subordinate to die as she's about to swoop in as their savior, while abandoning army waiting for her help. The person, who basically calls her stupid aunt a hero for running towards a natural catastrophe with no means to protect even herself, instead of grabbing her kid and fleeing.

The third case of use of that "pick-up line" is when the Darkling's revived, empty-handed, totally done with the situation his people and country are in after his death. His only option, the only possible resource, is a bunch of stupid, xenophobic zealots, and he needs their chief's support. Flattering him might be a strategy, but use of THIS specific sentence reeks of irony, even sarcasm. The last time the Darkling did that, he believed he's a step away from bright future. He finally found the Sun Summoner, the situation was critical, but the key to everything was right here, and what more- his equal, his eternal companion, his Sun... Can you see the contrast?

I wouldn't call pointing out powerful Grisha's immortality a manipulation, it's experience talking. Sure, he didn't ship it, but there's no lie, and neither of the couples took this simple fact into consideration. Alina's hellbent on building her life around Malyen, and Zoya draws her political power from Nikolai. The same mortal Alina was somehow engaged to as THE Sun Summoner, same imprudence.

Generally the notion the Darkling was manipulating Alina is beyond laughable. If he did, Alina wouldn't run off after a single conversation with his mother, who btw is THE true manipulator in Morozova family. Either Aleksander's truly dull, and haven't learnt a thing at his mother's knee, or he simply didn't have the time and/or intention to try. I mean... his pathetic mortal pseudocousin is the master of getting Alina to do whatever he pleases. She marries Malyen after all.

I'm not sure what's the simplification of the trilogy supposed to show. Oh no, he did deeeeeds of eeeeevil!

When Alina was gathering an army and climbing up his chief enemy's ass, merrily planning to shoot him to pieces with all his followers and any bystanders (But who gives a shit about commoners in these books anyway.)?! Yeah, he should've totally treated her better...

[backpackingspace]

Hi yes how did I not notice that ozpin looked for qrows approvals about prryah before asking her to be the fall maiden

[liminus--star]

That'd be Arthur hissing, not Kalymos

what, really? *him?* our fearless leader? surely not… i never would have expected him to do such a thing…

[cowbandits]

Anyone know of some good comic piracy sites so I know how to avoid them since obviously pirating is bad

I've seen some before but obviously I'm always looking for new, better ones to avoid

[northernember]

The Eye of The Storm

Click for better quality (as good as tumblr will allow,,) Detail close ups beneath the read more

[terabyteunion]

rb to share that you're also really tired of discourse

[landfilloftrash]

He has one mode and it's "tormenting Dresden" (due to a grief and anger unaddressed for 30ish years) almost as always with me; @anotherramblingfangirl for the incorrect quote drawn