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It's crazy how once you're finally out of abusive situations, being loved and appreciated feels like the BIGGEST deal. But other people are like: this is how you should have been treated the whole time.

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Apropos of (almost) nothing: I'm the kind of pedant who dislikes calling tentacle porn "tentacle porn" not because I think it's aberrant but because, 98% of the time, what's being depicted are octoform arms or tendrils, not tentacles. Tentacles are defined by the clubbed ends, which are the only part that have suckers. If it's tapered and has suckers all the way down, it's an octoform arm; if it has no suckers at all, it's a tendril.

You're welcome.

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Halbrand watches Galadriel sparring THE RINGS OF POWER — 1.05 "Partings"

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the fact that in trop canon, sauron is written with bearing in mind the fact that he LOVES galadriel??????? L O V E S HER???

imagine being galadriel knowing that the evil incarnate loves you? the abyss that she gazed into with hatred for so long gazed back into her with love!!!

and she is the only thing he is capable of loving? bc there is this cosmic connection between them that is just out of this world, metaphysical, entirely unique??? that they have their very beings bound to one another? that it's something much greater and of a higher essence than anything shallow and common? that they are the light and the dark fated to never unite but being eternally connected in a way that they are unable to with anyone else?

what are we even supposed to do with this information? how are we going to collectively ever be sane again???

THE love story of TV, i'm afraid.

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—Although her light was blinding, he could not tear his eyes away, nor did he wish to.

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This meme aged like fine wine.

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— It was just another of your illusions. — Not all of it.

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With her eyes closed, Lady Galadriel seemed peaceful, as if asleep—

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Eighty years ago, there was a band of depredators, led by an Albino, raiding Klingon colonies. Three Klingon warships were sent to stop him. One of the captains was a close friend of Curzon's. The mission was successful. Most of them were captured. But the Albino escaped. In his last message to the Klingons, he promised to take his revenge on the firstborn of each of the three captains. A few years later, he kept his word. Somehow, he infected three innocent children with a genetic virus that killed them. One of them was my godson.

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Ghost pumpkin

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Loki + tumblr [236/?]

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Congratulations. I wasted the last 13 years of my life.

I know that's what people are waiting to hear. Confirmation of how horrible I am, how I walked out on my family, how I "used" my husband, blah, blah, blah.

Scroll back through my blog.

I got him his first job. There's no way we got together so I could be "taken care of"... When we got married, I was making more than him.

HE assaulted ME. Idk how he became the victim in this story, but he's the one who physically assaulted me in a room full of my best friends

I didn't cheat. He was sitting RIGHT THERE. I asked him if it was okay.. repeatedly.. before I kissed her. I asked him if he was okay AFTER I kissed her.

**this is a big one** if he wants to say I was emotionally abusive or manipulative, I will never tell him he can't. As a victim of abuse and proponent of victims' rights, he's allowed to feel that way and express that. I am a naturally cold and calculating, non emotional person. If he perceived that as abusive or manipulative, I have no right to tell him otherwise.

However, he 100% gaslit me regularly. Made me believe that things were my fault that never were - like our previous separation, which happened bc he was a danger and had to be Baker Acted. He has only ever acted in his own self interest, leaving me to take care of our son for Micah's entire life - which many people will attest to, and ignoring any of my emotional needs to the point it was detrimental to my mental health at times.

So I may be the one who walked out, said I was not coming back. They can try and make me into the bad guy if they want, I'm not afraid of being a villain.

Just know that if it comes down to character witnesses, I win.

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Phoenix

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon soon 😊

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The next in my houseplant dragons series, and a personal favourite of mine! Monstera are such cool plants, so naturally I had to paint one!

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There’s this guy in town who owns this little house, and a while back he rescued a street dog that was going to get put down. Turned out she was pregnant.

Problem is, he has mental health & drug issues and couldn’t afford to get them all spayed & neutered, so now there are 6 grown bitches with 15 puppies total, and they’ve dug under his fence in multiple places but he can’t afford to fix it so they go roaming all around town. (When I say can’t afford it, I mean his house is currently running on a generator because he can’t afford his electric bill.) He’s also a day laborer so he cannot take multiple full days off work to take them to the vet an hour away. He’s in a really rough spot.

He’s not a bad person. He’s just overwhelmed.

And this little conservative town with 6 churches for 300 people, have they tried to help their neighbor? Have they adopted the puppies he’s been trying to give away? Have they offered resources?

NOPE! All they wanna do is talk shit about him and complain about the dogs but never lift a finger of their own. And they come to his house to yell at him and cuss him out about the dogs, which does not exactly engender in him a cooperative attitude, as you might imagine.

So after a while of this going on, my mom gets fed up with all the NIMBY bullshit and starts talking to the guy, because she’s done animal rescue for 20-odd years and has Connections. He’s resistant at first, but when he realizes she’s not being an asshole to him on account of his addiction or the dogs, he decides to let her help.

She gets to work organizing and networking. Finds a non-profit that will cover vaccinations, spay/neuter, and flea treatments for all the dogs. Talks the next-door neighbor into paying for materials to fix the fence, since this guy can do the work of it himself. Gets him in touch with another non-profit that will adopt out the adult dogs.

Less than 2 weeks after she decided to do something, all puppies have been to the vet, 10 puppies and 4 adult dogs have been adopted out, and the second non-profit is coming by next week to pick up the remaining 7 dogs to ship them out for adoption.

I’ve learned a lot of things from my mom—some good, some bad—but I think the most important positive message she lives as an example of is this: sometimes, when something needs done and no one else is willing, you gotta stand up and say “I’ll do it.”

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I think we should all fuck off. I think we should all go to the library and just fuck off.