Going Away Dress of wool & silk worn by Elizabeth Holms-Kerr after her 1899 wedding to John Deans Hope.⠀Made by Madame Hayward, 64 New Bond Street, London⠀Glasgow Museums, E.1988.104.2
Hal in the Batman series throws me off a bit because he’s so mature and gives a vibe of being much older than Bruce but otherwise top notch. Solid 12/10 stepdad material.
Bonus smiling Batman because Hal Jordan just has that effect:
So I started reading The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter/Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai (BL isekai story)
And literally Aresh is the most pathetic poor man in this entire story. Like the stress levels Kondou gives him. They're literally unstoppable force meets immovable object
But humor aside I love how the story portrays the horrible mindset and work culture in japan and all around the world honestly. To think you have to work yourself to death to feel like you have a purpose to live is horrible and Aresh feeling straight up disturbed and disgusted with Kondou's thoughts influenced by his experiences of being a working adult in a capitalistic world was exactly how one should react.
And also it shows deep roted classism in a monarchy government with how higher ups have much more freedom and due to it most times ignore or pass on work and problems to subordinates and become unaware of the state of things due to their privileges.
Literally this manga is so great and if possible I would love to read the novel too!
maaaaaybe it’s not really counter culture or nonconformist at all to create a plethora of entirely new identities based on every minute aspect of your personality which can be easily marketed and pandered to, furthering this egotistical american obsession with hyperindividuality but hey man, that’s just me.
A new book headcanon I have adopted thanks to the show is that Galldrian and Barthanes must have had a intense homoerotic aspect to their rivalry and that all the instability and civil war would have been avoided if they had just banged it out. We just don't see this it since Galldrian never turns up directly in the books.
In conjunction with my "show is the next turning of the wheel" headcanon this renders Barthanes and Galldrian's subplot in the series a comedy, where despite having no practical barriers to being together the two still manage to blow it up. (And by it I mean the nation and their relationship).
I’ll never forget the time I was sitting with this guy, nice kid, didn’t know him well, I think we must have had a bottle of wine or some questionable hashish or something, and in response to an awkward silence I just started talking and ended up going on a long meandering rant about how ugly American robins are. I’m talking a full monologue. I had an intro and conclusion. It was pointlessly vehement. I have never been so mean or loquacious about anything in my life.
Consider my horror when this perfectly nice guy wordlessly lifted his shirt to reveal a full-torso prismacolor tattoo of his spiritual soul animal, the American robin.