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Even of we look at it through era-appropriate lens- there's no GOOD memory. Sure, slap your kid a little- this is 19th-esque century- but screaming and punishments shouldn't be the ONLY thing they remember! How much more interesting could Alina's relationship with AK be, if she remembered switch AND warm hugs. It could be more complex, nuanced- loving "mother", still subjected to age-appropriate mentality and values! But no, we got Anne Cunt, Baghra 2.0...

Hello! I loved your post about Baghra and how she is a glorified egoist and super toxic!!!

I would like to know your opinion about Ana Kuya, the terrible woman who screwed and oppressed Alina when she was still a child!!!

⚠️TW!: Domestic violence and abuse!⚠️

Thanks, anon!

Apparently that's a similarity that they share, the Darkling and Alina. They both had shitty, abusive mothers. And in Ana Kuya's case it's pretty much the same. She was physically abusive and Alina and Mal remember her fondly. And that's the problem. Instead of having the characters admit that she was a horrible mother figure, we have them look back on her punishments as something...worth to be remembered fondly??

Let's dive in her most fucked-up moments.

Talking shit about the children she's assigned to look after. Alina and Mal both heard her but she's still an icon in their eyes! 😍

No 'cause imagine comparing your mother figure to some blood-thirsty creatures with sharp claws and teeth that live and thrive in darkness.

Uhh...

Excerpt No. 1, in which the protagonists talk about Ana Kuya's physically abusive behaviour.

A LETTER?!

Girl, if I were you I would say adiós and never look back. What letter are you talking about?? 😭

Ana Kuya being responsible of Alina's shame for wanting to get it on with a man. This woman and her morals are imprinted in her mind.

Imagine having to spend your last day with your love and choosing to talk about her. And the memory is again toxic 🥹

Other couples: "Let's talk about our happy memories"

Malina: "Let's talk about how our mother abused us"

They have literally zero good memories from her. Only shouting and beatings.

Now that's a woman to admire!!

Do you hear that Alina?? You must kiss their shoes otherwise you would be like that poor girl on the road! 😠

Excerpt No. 2, in which the protagonists talk about Ana Kuya's physically abusive behaviour.

Excerpt No. 3, in which the protagonists talk about Ana Kuya's physically abusive behaviour.

Excerpt No. 4, in which the protagonists talk about Ana Kuya's physically abusive behaviour.

If a child refuses to eat a food, beat it!

Aha! So she does acknowledge it, huh? But what does it matter? We forgive her in this house😍❤️

(also can we talk about how they wanted one of their friends to meet her? Like guys whyy??😭)

Thank the heavens actually.

In my opinion, children need mostly love and understanding. But they also need discipline, yes. But NOT through physical violence. NOT through constant screaming. This is wrong but it's very possible that in Ravka it's accepted and forgiven? Because I also remember reading somewhere that when Nikolai was a child and misbehaved, they were punishing his best friend physically (I haven't read the duology so please correct me if I'm wrong). So even the royal family found it normal.

But having the characters look back to it as something that was okay? And they adored her?

I'm sorry but I didn't shed one tear when she died. Botkin's death affected me more than hers ever did.

Alina when she died: "Oh my God!"

Me when she died: "Oh thank God!"

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Aw man, I'm sorry to hear you're depressed. I hope things become okay for you soon. I've sort of started relapsing into some of my depression symptoms too. I'm not experiencing the lack of excitement that you are experiencing right now, but I did experience something like that a few months ago when my depression was especially bad. It's a really hard thing to deal with, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Anyways I hope you're doing okay and I hope things become better for you soon.

Thanks.

That's sort of what might happen, when your employer lets you know you'll be forced to quit in two weeks, because he's cancelling transport from your area, where there's no way to get to the point he made on a map to collect affected workers from. And either you quit yourself, or you're getting fired, when you don't arrive three times at work, because simply firing you would mean he has to pay redundancy payment. Taking away your only means of transport apparently doesn't count, because "You'll figure it out somehow." (His words.).

Oh, and we weren't even informed personally, he wrote it on a slide during "All hands meeting"...

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You might know about this already, but have you seen the Hannibal reunion 2024 panel? Mads and Hugh are so fun in it, I need another Hannibal season I swear

I didn't try to look for it and I don't think I will.

I'm gonna look at reblogs of the people I folow, and I'm going through #Hannigram tag reguralry, so I'll see what's there, but I'm not getting excited about anything until season 4 is announced officially.

I'm a bit depressed at the moment too, so it's hard to get genuinely excited about anything.

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is it just me or do you ever love the original main character/books so much that’s impossible to enjoy the spin off series because its not about your first true love

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he heard "grooming will" and his vision went white

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I ship this ship because:

I have eyes

I can see

I am the smartest person in the room

I receive divine revelations about them in the dead of night, alone in my chambers

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Catch me on Ao3 promoting unsafe sex, huge age gaps, adultery, and blasphemy.

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rules: answer + tag 9 people you want to get to know better and/or catch up with!

favorite colour: Green.

last song: Alestorm- Magyarország

last movie: There's Deep Rising (1998) on TV atm.

currently reading: The Slavic Myths by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak and several more.

currently watching: Nothing, really.

currently craving: Almonds in salted caramel white chocolate, but they're very far away...

coffee or tea: Generally tea, although I've started drinking better coffee two years ago, esp. when tired.

Tagged by @t3acupz ta!

Since I hate tagging people, whoever wants to do this, just tag me to look.

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I love your salty comments about Malware,and how out of place he's for the supposed time period the story takes place in. However,his bullshit would still get him in hot water even in a modern/modern analogue setting. Mouthing off to an authority figure like he did with Nikolai wouldn't be a risk of execution/corporal punishment,but it might make a huge stain in his professional record. His deserting the army would get him in trouble even if it was missing workdays with no reason in the most lax modern job ever - aka,fired and with a bad reputation. You made the high school jock comparison,but even they have to have a modicum of responsibility - training, performance,all the works.

Therefore, Malcontent isn't only a modern teenager. He's a privileged modern teenager.

Absolutely.

I wouldn't dare to act in work the way he casually does, especially towards his "betters". You can think whatever you want, but as you wrote- unless you possess very, VERY unique and/or coveted skill (or deep pocket), you're disposable. Fired, fined, sued... depending on specifics of the situation and your contract.

Even when you're sick, you have to at least let your employer know. And there's no guarantee they will wait for you with their arms open.

Funnily enough- Mal's supposed to be the lowest low. No family, contacts, no coin in his pocket... He comes from nothing, his only marketable skill is his tracking mojo, and while he might be faring well in the army, there's no mention of some kind of official recognition. No rise through the ranks, no decorations, no special assignments (He volunteered for the Stag mission, he wasn't picked for it.)...

He's only "special" through his connection to Alina and her insistence to keep dragging him along.

In his case, I wouldn't even call the lack of suitable consequences of his actions plot ARMOUR anymore...

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"The mercenary captains are either capable men or they are not; if they are, you cannot trust them, because they always aspire to their own greatness, either by oppressing you, who are their master, or others contrary to your intentions; but if the captain is not skilful, you are ruined in the usual way."

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, translated by W.K. Marriott

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Futamono Flower Meaning

So you're telling me that the very night after Will whore Graham sent someone to murder Hannibal simp Lecter, the man created this?!

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Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldn’t be in this mess

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no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

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armory-rasa:

I can't speak on textiles broadly, but I know you can over-dye the wool from black sheep with blue dye (which, from woad, was a super common dye stuff in Europe all the way back to the Neolithic period) to get a richer black fabric. In viking-era Scandinavia this color was called "blar" -- a term that has caused academic fistfights among subsequent historians over whether it means blue or black -- and while it seems to have been a striking color for clothing (based on saga evidence), it doesn't seem to have been all that rare. Leather is even easier to dye black (despite the common misconception that black leather in a historical/fantasy setting would be impossible, or impossibly expensive). All you have to do is soak iron shavings in vinegar to get vinegaroon, which is not quite as intense as modern black dyes, but will look black once it's been waxed/oiled. In any case, there certainly are processes that can achieve a true black in leather and textiles even using pre-modern materials and technology, but whether people would have had local access to those materials (like the black merino sheep), or know how to do those processes (some of which are quite involved and counter-intuitive), is going to vary a lot by time/place.

icantbearsedtothinkofone:

I spin. I have never seen a naturally 'black' wool which is truly black. It's always more of a very deep brown and/or has some white hair in it. In sheep that are available in multiple colours, the darker wool is usually coarser than the lighter. Maybe you can sort and carefully select for only the darkest wool but that's a lot of effort and means you're using only a fraction of the wool. You can make it seem more black with iron (which also makes it feel harsher and if you use a lot of it, will make wool brittle - iron gall ink dries very black, but it's also corrosive) and overdyeing with dyes like woad (blue) and madder (red) can make it seem darker still, as if nothing else if you use a lot of them with iron they'll make the white bits go a very dark purple, BUT if you're going to bother doing all that, then why wouldn't you use those dyes and labour for nice brightly coloured things? And just like modern jeans, the colour would fade out with washing. Getting a really deep black and *keeping* it that way, on a *nice* wool fabric would be not just difficult and expensive in the first place but require constant maintenance. And if you're using plant fibres like linen? Hooboy black is hard.

kethsposy:

Also, as @motsimages said but didn't go into the implications of, black wool fades into shades of brown as it ages, especially if it's been in the sun a lot. So even if you're starting with black sheep, black clothing is either from newly made cloth and/or an indicator you don't work outside, just like with dyes. Although it would be easier to dye or redye naturally brown fiber black than to do so starting with lighter colors.

francesweyr:

I’ve read that sheep with colored fleece used to be more common, but large wool producers bred for white sheep because it was easier to dye. Kind of like breeding flavorless tomatoes that ship well. Thank goodness for small farms to keep the colors. I’ve got a big square shawl spun from a gray Shetland fleece. It’s very nice

relevant-catnik:

Exploring Historical Black Dyes Byt the 16th century, you see plenty of references to "Poor black" wool, which is a term for wool from black sheep vs dyed. Black is decently easy to achieve with leather, all you need is iron soaking in vinegar.

So I've seen conflicting stories about the colour black in history.

Some say it's very expensive and hard to maintain, so that's why rich merchants wore black. Evidence in portraits.

Some say that for dyes it's on the cheaper side actually.

Some say the expensive black doesn't come from dye but rather the colour of the animal, so black fabric comes from black fibre which comes from black sheep. How exactly would black sheep be more expensive than regular white sheep?

Which one is right? I know this is probably influenced by which century it's set in, like maybe some eras have an easier time getting black dye

I found a well-sourced blog post about this, luckily, because I'm a 19th-century focused researcher and I've heard conflicting things about black in earlier periods. It seems to be that high-quality black-dyed fabric was difficult to obtain in the west from the Middle Ages potentially through the 18th century because it required massive amounts of dye to get the color very deep ("true black"). Lesser black shades were quite common, though, so black, period, doesn't seem to be more expensive than any other color. Possibly the intensively dyed, deep blacks might have been? But not black in general.

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Rich merchants did wear black- but so did other people. They just usually didn't have portraits.

The black sheep thing I've never heard before. And anyway, that could only apply to wool- not cotton, linen, silk, leather, etc.