#which is devastating

[jodegg]

Thinking about how this is probably the first time Stede has ever felt comfortable and happy at a party 🥹

[furiousgoldfish]

i have spoken to you for a long while in dms but i would also like to extend gratitude and appreciation. Your content and reasources helped me through the hardest part of my life. And although its not over yet, i have a better understanding of what abuse is. Physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and neglect. I never would have accepted what ive been through without you. Youve brought so much good into the world. In fact youve inspired me to create a non-profit organization/program in the furture. Focused on helping young adults flee abusive homes. A form of adult protective services which doesnt require legal investigation or proof. Once someone is no longer considered a minor they are free to leave home, and i want to make that a viable option with housing, food, jobs, etc.

Omg, who is this? The non profit organization is desperately needed in the world, I feel there's millions of young adults without access to any social service that would help them deal with abusive homes, if there's any way I can help you start this let me know! It's a wonderful idea and I think so many people would feel better even just to know there's someone who knows they're still in dire need of help, even if they're no longer underage, and if child protective services no longer count them as someone in need of rescue from their family.

I'm very curious to who this is but I'll let you keep your anonimity. Thank you for the wonderful message, I'll be so happy if the non profit starts up. I'll boost it on this blog for sure.

[ratthumbsup]

still thinking about that moment where victor says he and eloise were playing hide and seek, and she was always so good at hiding he could never find her. hannah and i immediately looked at each other and went "oh so she's still alive." victor only ever found pieces of what COULD have been her. we don't know where she went that night. victor survived this long.

[hirachat]

i was recently reminded of the kwagatama and its just a cool and interesting concept. like do evil holders get kwagatamas? does the morality of the current holder limit who they can summon? i know adrien will get his this season most likely, since his birthday is close to the beginning of the school year, so who will he summon first? and isnt it crazy that both of adrien’s parents are accessible through the kwagatama??

i hope this is more explored next season because its so so cool!!

[evienyx]

Fractures: Sundered Spirits, Book Two, Chapter Three: Golden Child

Fractures, Sundered Spirits, Chapter Three

Fractures, Sundered Spirits, from the Beginning

Fractures, from the Beginning

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Parents and their children, in more ways than one.

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Here it is, Chapter Three of Book 2, right when the world needed it most! Kinda.

Whatever, I'm mostly impressed with myself for getting this out in just over a month. Give thanks to my friend who I sat with for about four hours yesterday. We were meant to study. I finished this chapter instead. Never would've happened if not for him, what an icon.

Anyway, we've also got the poll for the Chapter 5 Interlude in Book 2. The options are the top four from the previous poll. Link can be found in the notes of Chapter Three, so make sure to check it out.

Okay. That's all. Enjoy!

[vengeful4ever]

GUESS WHAT GUYS. IN A MONTH MY BELLY PIERCING WILL BE FULLY HEALED. MEANING I CAN GET MORE PIERCINGS. BASED ON VIBES ALONE WHAT SHOULD I GET

[piniatafullofblood]

HE FOLLOWED HIM TO THE ELEVATOR. HE WATCHED HIM LEAVE. HE WASN’T GOING TO LEAVE HIM UNTIL HE WAS ABSOLUTELY FORCED TO. UGHHH

[jamtamart]

Eligo in Summum Pontificem

details under cut

[twinklingwatermellon]

why does my 1989 vinyl sound so scratchy 😭

[comas-are-for-sleeping]

ANYWAY i hope you are doing well apologies for the 3am knocking and entering :) sending good vibes!!! 💚

thank uu and no need to apologize *heart hands*

[sailor-moon-moon]

Happy Amok Time Day, friendly reminder that Theodore Sturgeon, the writer of the episode, is credited with the first positive portrayal of homosexuality in science fiction with his short story The World Well Lost (1953), 14 years before Amok Time aired. Which could mean nothing.

[softestaries]

wanted to know the meaning of the name mccoy for hunger games reasons and this is what came up. honestly fuck off.

[theartintrying]

the other day my friend said "jayce in a double breasted suit" and my mind immediately went to a kingsman au

so here's some fun quick sketches for that

[katakaluptastrophy]

I think what's so interesting about Gideon as a narrator at the anniversary dinner is the fact that there's clearly tensions that she's just not picking up on because she's only there to eat a dessert.

But these people are all the immensely powerful leaders of the Houses and consider themselves to be in competition for literal godlike powers and the favour of the emperor.

There's so many little snippets that are potentially intriguing: why is Teacher trying to prime the Ninth to consider the Fifth a threat? Why are the Third and the Sixth "sizing each other up like prizefighters"? The Fifth absolutely knew what they were doing when they sat the teen heads of the opposing cults near each other.

Through Gideon's lens, Magnus' speech is a little awkward jokey thing. But...the seneschal of the House that is known to be actively trying to absorb another House is saying it's such a shame they're all so remote from each other and what do they all have in common (and it's so quiet you "could have heard a hair flutter to the floor") - that had to feel a bit different to people who aren't Gideon.

Palamedes' is dissecting the meaning of "Master Warden" and at one point compares it to a prison warden. 'Dulcinea' asking about whether Magnus and Abigail have children is perhaps less small talk and rather more pointedly political. Harrow's apparently stilted conversation with Protesilaus is clearly her actually probing his limitations like he's a bad Chat GPT-run chatbot.

And then 'Dulcinea' tells Gideon she liked the dinner because it was "useful". In her typical "I never lied to you" way, Cyth wasn't lying when she said Abigail had to die because of her hobby - Abigail Pent let loose on the Facility would have risked blowing Cyth's cover sky high. But what does a Canaan House look like where after the dinner party, the Fifth go down to the facility, get a key, and survive to continue their 'the Houses are going to get along or else' agenda? We've seen Fifth House soft power on a smaller scale in HTN: and it looks like inviting a teenager round for coffee, lulling her into a false sense of security with small talk, and then physically preventing her from leaving the room until she does what you want, while smiling the entire time. A series of little coffee chats could probably have led to a lot of cooperation in Canaan House, one way or another.

Gideon jokes about Silas marrying Ianthe because of their similar colour pallete, but it does raise the fact that there seems to be some tension around the Third, its succession, and the *point* of Ianthe. Why is Silas openly saying Ianthe should have died at birth? Combined with Judith's comments in the Cohort Intelligence Files about succession on the Third, it feels like there's something else being said here that Gideon isn't picking up on.

And of course, Harrow wasn't the only one desperate to become a Lyctor because her con was unsustainable. Presumably at some point Corona and Ianthe would be expected to marry, or at least take on more separate roles as Corona prepared to take over the throne and Ianthe was funneled off elsewhere. At some point, their package deal would have become unsustainable and Corona's cover would have been blown. But much as Harrow wants to become a Lyctor so she can reveal the state of the Ninth without repercussions, Ianthe is probably in part motivated to become a Lyctor for the same reason. Because otherwise, what would Ianthe's expected role have been? Amidst the suggestion of anxiety about the Idan succession, the dinner party also presents the fact that the reason Abigail and Magnus' infertility isn't a succession crisis for the ruling family of the Fifth is that Abigail's younger brother dutifully married in his early 20s and had kids. We know there are branch families in Ida - Babs is from one. He may be a prince, but he's not treated well, and you do get the sense that the stakes to stay in power in Ida are high.

We don't learn anything about the political situation in the Houses themselves during HTN or NTN, but in the wake of Canaan House, you have to suspect there are a number of tensions and concerns.

[valtsv]

i'm a disgusting little centrist when it comes to the was shrue's family real or fake question because to me that matters much less than the way it illustrates the experience of paranoid stress psychosis. like i never want a definitive answer because it just doesn't really matter. do you understand me. like. either way, they experienced that loss and heartbreak. they were confronted with an unflattering portrait of themself as a destructive absence in other people's lives, sacrificing human connection for sociopolitical status. they were exploited and had their mind fucked with and were made vulnerable to manipulation. answering that question makes no difference to the fact that what they experienced was real and horrifying to them. they were vulnerable and someone noticed and took advantage. there is no absolution nor satisfaction to be found in certainty, only further pain and regret. the end outcome is the same.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Jaing Yanli's bad luck with sauce continues.