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[pose4photoml]

My coworker left me a note ~ crazy chick leaving me alone…

[moonlightpirate]

💌 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome. 💌

I'll send some man candy back at you 😘

[vynnyal]

I've been having a delightful time stumbling over my emojis being used in random servers, so here's more

[ghurab-alzilal]

Raven, on the phone : Damian, I'm breaking up-

Damian: No! You can't! I have your child in my womb!

Raven, exhales loudly in annoyance : That wasn't necessary. I meant the call.

Damian: Yes, sure. Sorry, I panicked.

Raven: I noticed it.

Damian: It must be the hormonal changes of pregnancy...

Raven, panicked : Wait, what?!

[blitheringmcgonagall]

Canon James Potter on hearing his name is linked to two ships in ao3’s top 20 ships for 2023 (no 8 and no 18):

Canon James Potter on hearing the most popular of the two is him & Sirius’ Deater baby brother Reggie:

[weishenkun]

kun : give me that comeback live

[ndcgalitzine]

WHITE COLLAR | 5.02 "Out Of The Frying Pan"

#Neal Caffrey in a white tank top appreciation (10/?)

[hercarisntyours]

@munejewels YOU ABSOLUTELY GOD I AM FOR EVER INDEBTED TO YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH MENTIONING THIS I'M.ABOUT TO FUCKING I'M I'M I CAN'T EVEN SENTENCE

[acapelladitty]

For the ask game: what is your favourite thing you've ever written? 💛

Oh GOSH this is such a hard question to answer because different fics have different meanings for me 💀 so I'll pick a couple and explain my reasoning.

Puzzles and Phobias Series. You never forget your first lol. And this series was my first foray into writing a long fic and it also allowed me to set the groundwork for my wider Roguesverse and develop my voices for several of my favourite characters.

Whole Day Off. From a single oneshot into one of my favourite and most popular ongoing series, Whole Day Off is an utterly delight for me to both write and re-read. My take on Crane here has probably become my staple and my personal favourite.

Road Trip. A fun little fic in which Two Face, Riddler, and Scarecrow go on a small road trip to do some work for Penguin. Little slice-of-life works like this will always be my absolute favourites.

When The Lights Go Out. This oneshot is the first in a series which reimagines the Rogues as demons set to punish folks for their sins and this take on Crane targets people who abuse fear for their own gains. The follow-up chapter will be Riddler targeting people who use their influence to cheat others.

This was very hard to do, love! I take some amount of pride in all my works or I would not have chosen to share them with the world, but these were the first to really spring to mind! Thank you for the ask xx

[how-to-be-a-tree]

Have you gone crazy? Now we might have to buy a field, farm and build a house.

[starlightoru-gojo]

"Don't look at me, you small fry."

Who will win?

[m1zisua]

is smbody gonna match my freak😞😞🔥🔥🔥🔥

[aheathen-conceivably]

Ok so I read the post on your thoughts on Gio and the American Dream and I hate to say it … as an immigrant, I understand him.

I also come from a culture where women tend to their male partner's needs and I don't believe he wants to turn Jo into a subservient wife. He fell in love with a lively, free, and wild Jo and loves that aspect of her.

At the end of the day she loves him too so why would she leave? I understand she doesn't like to be dependent of him but where else would she go? There are no parties or glamour, which was her whole thing, anymore. At least the farm offers stability in the economic crisis.

Point is, I understand Gio as an immigrant, but don't understand Jo as a woman.

BABES! We’ve got another one…

(As in me being touched and having no other means to say how much I love y’all takes other than to give them a standing ovation in GIF form).

But you know…there’s a whole lot to break down here, friend, especially about Jo. I think you know what that means! Under the cut we go….

First and foremost, I very much appreciate you saying you understand that aspect of Gio. I did in part write him as a commentary on the immigrant experience in America (filtered through his own personality/character of course), and so to know that is relatable means a lot to me. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to tell y’all his journey is far from over, and you can already see the cracks in his outlook beginning to form. Whenever Jo is depressed he says this quite vividly:

Because you are very, very correct. This isn’t about molding Jo into some subservient housewife, or even eroding those exact qualities that he loves in her. This is about Gio attempting to square what he’s been taught/believes will bring his life happiness and meaning with his own experience and emotions. It’s about the myth of the American dream and the perfect housewife and the very real struggle of those things existing as actual, lived realities.

Because at the root of it, Gio is amalgamating an understanding of his own family unit and what he knows he doesn’t want in this country. He has seen another methods of “making it” in America, and so he thinks if only he can make the “right” choices, he can avoid that, and become the respected and happy man that he wants to be.

Now onto Jo, boy oh boy, Jo….

I think one of the core misunderstandings here is that Jo wants stability. This is kind of the crux built into her desire for control and her never-ending failure to achieve it. She wants to control her surroundings, to make sure nothing and no one can hurt her, but she also wants to feel in a way that is hard to find in a stable, heavily domesticated life. On the flip side, despite whatever imaginary dream Gio has, he’s the same way. They both want a life filled with excitement and new experiences, new people and rushes of emotions. This is one of the ways they differ heavily from Antoine and Zelda.

Now on one level, this is simply the way Josephine is. She’s high energy, fun loving, and insatiable. But on a deeper level, this is tied into her experiences not only as a woman, but as a daughter. She has a brief moment of clarity in that last post where she realizes:

Now I have chosen not to go too in-depth on Josephine’s trauma, but you can see her lay out the course of events here and also her deep hesitation to any of it here. Josephine is still only a teenager in that second post. Her mother not only told her things like that (“this is the weight that prejudice and expectation have placed upon us”) but also “what do you want to be then? Some glorified maid to a man?” (Which, frankly, I can write another Ted Talk about the juxtaposition here, but I think ya'll can pull some threads).

So when you see Josephine’s struggle with control, this is heavily rooted in bodily autonomy. Now all things considered, Josephine has managed to make great strides toward reclaiming this and reasserting not only her sexuality, but also her sense of self in her body. Gio knows this. We see him recognize and respect it quite clearly in that last post. He’s been part of that process for her, and that only adds another element of love, trust, and safety between them.

But on a fundamental level, neither Gio nor Josephine has made the connection between that trauma, her own personality, and why she hates her life now so much:

Here’s the issue right now: Josephine doesn’t feel like she’s living her own life. We have seen how she would like to live in the 20s not just in the parties and glamour, but when she was managing bands. She wants to be fulfilled professionally, through helping people/places she believes in and bettering her own life by bettering theirs. That’s how she gets her joy, and that’s what she would chose to do if given the chance.

And right now, she does not feel like she gets to chose. You’re correct in that part of that is coming from the current economic situation. Again, she sees that herself here. She knows what demons are waiting outside her window, and how easily poverty can make them rearise. That only makes it worse. It doesn’t make the smell of bread (domestic security) any better or more comforting. It makes it bitter, because she didn’t chose it. She was backed into a corner by circumstance (and, as she can sense, by the choices men made for her without telling her), and now she feels like she can’t say no. That’s her ultimate trigger.

Now whether or not that loss of control is simply perceived, or should be offset by how “lucky” she is to be in a stable position in such precarious economic times, we might all have different options on. Even more, I’m sure each of us would answer differently for ourselves in that situation. I know I would. But for Josephine? Not only is this a life she will never find joy in, because even without her trauma, she is an ambitious, restless, and outgoing person with different goals for herself; but that added memory and pain makes her reaction to it all the more volatile.

Perhaps most importantly, Jo feels as though her life is being controlled again, whether by Gio, the reality of the world outside her window, or by her own guilt/love that makes her feel beholden to the people around her (just like it did to her mother). Because you’re right, she does love him. She wouldn’t leave because she doesn’t. If she leaves now, it would leave because she panicked, because she feels like she’s lost all the autonomy she worked so hard to regain and she’ll never feel the fulfillment she felt when she was successfully independent ever again. That’s the element I hope we can understand, even if it’s not what we would do.

[catladychronicles]

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