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really everyone you love has something miserably wrong with them or an obvious flaw that won't ever be fixed but like it's up to you what kind of person you can and cannot deal with. someone in my family has anger issues which I can handle and diffuse with no problem, but a person who can't tolerate yelling could not be close to him. another person I know is very anxious & needs constant reassurance and she gets along famously with gentler and more straightforward people than myself, but I can't handle being second guessed all the time. someone who is loosey goosey with their morals wouldn't bother me, but a person with a profound sense of justice makes me feel afraid of getting on their bad side. none of these traits actually make someone a bad person & just because there are personalities I can't handle doesnt mean I'M a bad person either. litany against callout posts for stupid shit and simple incompatibilities we all have to live on this earth together & need to learn how to deal with each other

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you're the only one who understands me mr strobbery

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Tumblr is super big on the "I didn't say it was good, I said I liked it" but really need to discover the value in its opposite of "I didn't say it was bad, I said I hated it".

You can acknowledge that something is good, great, a masterpiece even, and just straight-up not enjoy it.

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Souvenir shop

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big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

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paladin oaths :)!

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embarrassment has good bones

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Keep scrolling, there's nothing fishy going on here

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when will i receive a text like this...

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pirate who's worried mermaids are gonna fuck his girlfriends: me fear fish want me women

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john william waterhouse wanted to get fucked by a witch sooo bad

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"save me, substance abuse!" i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named "substance abuse". you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back

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People refusing to enjoy the tension between Suvi’s different worlds is always baffling to me. You can like the moment where Sworn’s complete honesty about why exactly he chooses one cause and marches towards it, appreciate that someone’s making both a rational, but more importantly, emotional argument to the Witch of the Worlds Heart that stuns her. “My mentor died before I got my namecloak” is such a rocking statement.

But we can also appreciate the pure devotion and respect Silver has for Sky when he pulls Ame aside, even if you personally find it off-putting! Feeling the distaste in Ame when she doesn’t remark on the fact that Silver references her true friend as the person she “serves” versus Ame’s retort to Sworn that loves the reason they would follow Suvi, not “the respect she commands”. Also Silver being able to help Suvi relax and SLEEP? King behavior, keep our icon well rested!

This story is too interesting to be mean about it!

Truly crazy to watch people pop off on Silver and Sworn for having Suvi’s back and letting Ame know that despite her intentions, her actions were out of place and unhelpful.

Silver and Sworn, the ones that were *actually* by her side when she was on her way to the horses to make sure no one starved, because Eursulon outright refused to help (and spoke of not wanting to be there at all) and Ame was bopping from fraught conversation to fraught conversation.

Silver, the one who understood that what Suvi actually needed when they were finally alone was to put down the devastating burden of trying to keep three dozen people alive behind enemy lines for a night and rest.

Sworn, the one that volunteered to handle the horse problem since he saw how much it gutted her to resort to it.

Feel however you want to feel about their phrasing or tone, but neither was wrong for taking Ame to the side and speaking with her on points Suvi’s also made to her in the past. It is neither empathetic nor community-serving to repeatedly refuse to adapt to a different culture’s way of doing things.

Truth is, Sworn and Silver are the ones being a good friend to Suvi right now, and if you can’t see that it’s because your Citadel-blinders make you instantly dismissive of anything Suvi wants or needs that diverges from Ame and Eursulon’s preferences. And that sucks to see. Again.

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I find myself thinking "god, I need a cigarette" way too often for someone who doesn't actually smoke. but what can I say. I've been needing a cigarette

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Genuinely. Genuinely died of laughter.

himbo this, bimbo that. in my day there was mambo, and there were five of them.

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You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad