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daughter of darkness

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You might not want to hear this but people with anger issues and/or violent impulses need social accommodations. And no by accommodation I don't mean walking on eggshells around them, actual accommodations for people with these issues comes down to giving them a space away from what's triggering them to process their emotions and calm themselves down same as what kind of accommodations people who get sensory overload or just any kind of overwhelmed. There is no moral value to having anger issues or violent impulses, people with them are deserving of accommodation the same as everyone else.

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Horn Over Heels For You! | Letters from Arataki Itto/Reader

Synopsis: Arataki Itto did not let you leave for Sumeru Akademiya without declaring his love for you. Still, you left for your studies, leaving him wondering if you would still have a space for him in your life after growing so much and meeting new, interesting people - people who are less rough around the edges.

After all, what does he bring to a relationship besides a big heart and a loud mouth?

Pairing: Arataki Itto/Reader

Tags: Long-Distance Relationship, Love Letters, Developing Relationship, Character Study,Tooth-Rotting Fluff

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50891455

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Synopsis: Miraak has survived and is now living with the Dragonborn at Lakeview Manor. During their first time apart since they started sharing a home, Miraak falls into a unique and unfamiliar form of isolation—one filled with confusion, hatred, and yearning.

Perhaps the most difficult prison he has yet encountered is the one made by your ribs.

Pairing: Miraak/Reader

Tags: Denial of Feelings, Love Confessions, Love Letters, Epistolary, Miraak Lives (Elder Scrolls), Character Study, Falling In Love, Cohabitation, Lakeview Manor (Elder Scrolls), Twisted and Fluffy Feelings, Loneliness, Isolation.

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53460112

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The Night Owl Who Ate The Songbird | Letters from Solomon/Reader

Synopsis: Solomon fears one of you will violate the rule that governs magic and, for him, relationships: the pact of equivalence, the balance of exchanges.

But how can one put a value on what you trade in?

The unspoken rule looms large: one day, the scales may tip, and someone might give what they should not, irrevocably altering the rhythm of your dance.

One day, someone will want too much, and the other will oblige.

Pairing: Solomon (Shall We Date?: Obey Me!)/Reader

Tags: Love Letters, Epistolary, Character Study, Tooth-Rotting Fluff

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52133266

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The Best Part of You | Letters from Xiao/Reader

Synopsis: Xiao has noticed your struggles with self-worth. He will not let you suffer alone, but the words that fall from his mouth don't always convey what he has in his heart. Amidst the chilling embrace of the Snowglade Holidays, he resolves to pen a letter to you, hoping to lend you strength and to dispel his own loneliness.

Pairing: Xiao | Alatus (Genshin Impact)/Reader

Tags: Love Confessions, Love Letters, Epistolary, Fluff, Character Study, Comfort No Hurt, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Doubt

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53457037

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All The Fake and Made-up Stuff, Babe! | Letters From Billy Hargrove/Reader

Synopsis: It is your first Christmas with Billy, but you haven't shown up just yet. He tries to convince you to come, telling all of his plans for the evening. You have been gone for so long that he has begun to think you aren't real, and the dream of being with you might be nothing more than a fantasy.

Pairing: Billy Hargrove/Reader

Tags: Love Confessions, Idiots in Love, Love Letters, Epistolary, Long-Distance Relationship, Christmas Fluff, Christmas Eve, Romantic!Billy, Fluff and Humor

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53457961

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C.S. Lewis: “In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you—the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name.”

Me *crying*: how dare you call me out like that staples-man

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Why you should write healthy marriages:

1. They aren’t done enough.

2. They help other people understand what a healthy relationship looks like.

3. Fights can last for weeks and still be part of a healthy marriage.

4. Stereotypes. Break all the marriage stereotypes.

5. Soft cute couple moments DON’T stop after marriage.

6. Marriage is completely independent of character arcs. Those two individuals with trauma will still be two individuals with trauma but with gold rings.

7. A healthy marriage is one where people understand that their partners have baggage/trauma/flaws, but love them even in rough patches. 

8. It isn’t that healthy marriages aren’t compelling, it’s that people don’t know how to write marriages correctly. 

9. Marriages being an end goal often perpetuates that women are trophies to be won.

10. Marriages being an end goal often perpetuates that someone’s “freedom” ends there. Bury this trope, please, I beg of you.

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I have a very strange link to share that a friend sent me. No, not a "'friend', eh? *wink wink nudge nudge*". A friend who's very into artbooks and archiving sent me this.

There is an unbelievable wealth of art books and educational material that is inexplicably hosted on e-hentai.

A cursory look on my part shows that almost all of this is either translated into english or has been localized. There are animation books by Tezuka. There are just artbooks you can't get anymore. This one, I am told, inspired bloodborne.

Lots of knowledge for you archived before archive.org. I hope you find it useful.

It's still a hentai site. Browse at your own risk. You might see illustrated nudity! How terrible!!!

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“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

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one of the more valuable things I’ve learned in life as a survivor of a mentally unstable parent is that it is likely that no one has thought through it as much as you have. 

no, your friend probably has not noticed they cut you off four times in this conversation. 

no, your brother didn’t realize his music was that loud while you were studying. 

no, your bff or S.O. doesn’t remember that you’re on a tight deadline right now.

no, no one else is paying attention to the four power dynamics at play in your friend group right now.  

a habit of abused kids, especially kids with unstable parents, is the tendency to notice every little detail. We magnify small nuances into major things, largely because small nuances quickly became breaking points for parents. Managing moods, reading the room, perceiving danger in the order of words, the shift of body weight….it’s all a natural outgrowth of trying to manage unstable parents from a young age. 

Here’s the thing: most people don’t do that. I’m not saying everyone else is oblivious, I’m saying the over analysis of minor nuances is a habit of abuse. 

I have a rule: I do not respond to subtext. This includes guilt tripping, silent treatments, passive aggressive behavior, etc. I see it. I notice it. I even sometimes have to analyze it and take a deep breath and CHOOSE not to respond. Because whether it’s really there or just me over-reading things that actually don’t mean anything, the habit of lending credence to the part of me that sees danger in the wrong shift of body weight…that’s toxic for me. And dangerous to my relationships. 

The best thing I ever did for myself and my relationships was insist upon frank communication and a categorical denial of subtext. For some people this is a moral stance. For survivors of mentally unstable parents this is a requirement of recovery. 

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It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point. 

And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again. 

And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil. 

“I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.”

So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.

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College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access

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When stressed, overwhelmed or in the pits of helplesness, I listen to the podcast between Patrick Weekes and VGS about Solas 🤡 it always makes things better. The loving way Patrick talks about Solas. The funny dialogue. The assurance that there are good things ahead.

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vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.