#'ESSAY AS IF I WERE TO DIE'

[hogans-heroes]

In case anyone tried to whitewash your Battle of Britain lately. I present receipts of the countless Jamaican, Haitian, Indian, and Māori fighter and bomber crews in the RAF. Fully integrated.

[chronologically-challenged]

I think that the party's communication issues can be summed up as "man, is it awkward to tell someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with them if you've only know them for a few months? Probably."

[how-doth-the-little-crocodile]

do you guys ever think about how they don't let sotheby grieve. bc i do. i think about it a lot. do you guys ever think about how sotheby lost everything. do you ever think about how nobody told her. do you ever think about how she had no idea that that conversation with mr. karson was going to be her last. about how she called his name expecting him to be there. about how she was excited to see the rain! about how she was fascinated with how it reversed directions! she quite literally had no idea! she's a sheltered girl and no one told her! when the gastrointestinal disease spreads mr. karson says it's affecting the entire staff of the manor. do you guys ever think about how they must've been people sotheby had seen and interacted with every day before the storm. likely the ONLY people she interacted with. and none of them are alive anymore. she lost her entire life to the storm save for her parents and we don't even know where they are! do you ever think about how she's in an entirely new place with new people and of course it could've been worse, of course she's made friends but do you think about what she's lost! and do you think about how she smiles through it! no time is spent on how she feels about all of this. she could've been angry that everyone knew, and that no one thought her mature enough to handle it. i think she would've had every right to be upset with vertin after that but instead she devoted herself to helping her. do you guys ever think about this. where is everyone it's so dark in here

[shannonsketches]

[matryoshkalex]

i forgot i started this in like april and never finished bc i got super busy with tmaynt but i suddenly remembered and finished it this week!!

i watched 2003 when i was in like? middle school and same as it never was stayed with me and was one of my favorite episodes because ive always been a fan of the darker and more angsty stuff. so i thought about 2012 in the sainw timeline and couldnt get it out of my head so. here they are. two versions because i couldnt decide which background i liked more

[kevinsdsy]

I'm genuinely so in love with Kevin like.... conceptually??? as in, I find myself thinking about him so often and so constantly but it isn't in a "i wish he was real so we can date" it's more like "i wish you were real because you're great." if that makes sense?

I'm aware he's lowkey not ideal as a friend (he IS getting better, I'm his lawyer trust.) but I just notice these things that make me love him like how he takes what's given with gratitude, his subtle shows of worry, the trust he has in Jeremy and Jean both, the reliance on Andrew. I love the way that he gained confidence in himself and now is much more comfortable with his life, the way he embraces the title of "Queen" because he knows he's better than R*ko and AUGH I love he's a history nerd, it makes sense for him to enjoy looking at the past and learning from it... even the other day i went shopping for clothes and thought about what he'd look like in them 🧍 I sound crazy as fuck uhm.

oh PLEASE anon if you’re crazy we can be crazy together because i genuinely think about kevin ALL THE TIME!! i surprisingly dont talk as much about him on this blog as i expected i would if i ever became active but TRUST i’m always thinking about him.

like that man has gone through SO MUCH and i feel like people just forget to talk about it— but after all he’s gone through he remains soft (although it’s more hidden in his actions, because his words do not showcase it)

just in general i think he’s so very lovely and i’m quite literally SO obsessed with him it’s insane. like yk how we joke about the everlasting impact kevin has on the people around him?? YEAH I FEEL THAT TOO!!

[averlym]

" just...come here. just sit here with me" (...that one scene from princess momonoke, click for better resolution)

[myymi]

ive gotten into the essay portion of class so i apologize if my fics suddenly seem very proper

[djsangos]

//who are THESE fresh squids?? (made here)

okay these guys might not get a mention on this blog for a while- if ever- so i'm gonna talk about them now bc i've been rotating them in my mind for a while

these are captain's siblings! the ones they left behind when they were 14 to run away to inkopolis. captain certainly isn't proud of leaving them behind at ALL, in fact the one thing they wish they'd done differently is taking them with them, even if it would've been damn near impossible to take care of 2 younger siblings all on their own away from home when they were already struggling to take care of themself. they have no idea how their siblings fared with their neglectful ass father after they left, but pierce (right) was only a year or 2 younger than them, so they hoped he'd be able to leave soon too- taking harper (left) with him

so yeah harper (left) i think is probably around 16 or 17 now, having been 7 or 8 when captain left. since she was pretty young she didn't really know exactly why they left, and they didn't tell her either, so i'd say she probably resents them for it. she's a hotheaded edgy teen, classic rebel, you know the deal.

and then there's pierce (right), who's around 21 or 22 now, so he would've been 12 or 13 when they left. even if they didn't say a word to him before packing their bags and hopping a train at the asscrack of dawn, he knows exactly why they did. because being a kid and not only growing up, but having to parent your 2 younger siblings in your father's place, is hard. he basically had to take on their role as caretaker of harper when they left, being the second oldest, and that's how he realized. he doesn't resent them exactly, but he does wish they'd at least said goodbye. he's an outwardly chipper guy, and puts on a brave face even at the worst of times.

and they both did eventually get out of that house- pierce didn't leave as soon as he turned 14 like captain did (though cod, he wanted to) but when harper was old enough to be left home alone he got a job and saved up what he could to get himself and his younger sister out of there. and then when harper was 12 and he was 17, he got them both out of there. they might have gone somewhere else first, but i wanna say they probably ended up in splatsville, living in an apartment together with pierce doing what he can to support harper through school, and she does some turfing herself to help with rent and save up her own money so she can get her own place eventually.

i feel like the reason they probably haven't run into captain is that captain lives in inkopolis and only really goes to splatsville to visit rookie, and the last time they saw their siblings, neither of them were fully transformed yet, and they aren't so easy to recognize anymore themself. so if they've happened to pass each other on the street, it'd take more than just a cursory glance to realize just who they're passing. so it could definitely, and likely will, happen eventually. who's to say.

[prismbearer]

Okay. But the nasty little embellishments line... Louis "acting out" to lure Lestat to him, like he himself was lured with the Come to Me recording where Lestat added Antoinette's voice... Louis dreaming of Lestat crossing time and death and bloody history to find him--if even angry and wanting revenge. Louis............

[bonetrousledbones]

fellas i think i'm winning college (wrote 900+ words of a 1359 word essay while eating lunch with like 4 different status effects in barely over an hour before class where it would be peer-assessed and the person who read it said it was very well written and Powerful)

[skunkes]

[daincrediblegg]

oh yeah shoutout to one of the students in my class today who pointed out it was edgar allan poe's birthday which started an impromptu 52 man happy birthday chorus for him. legendary behavior.

[apopcornkernel]

one day later and now i wonder if i even like him That much or if it only hurt me bc he's the only safe choice i can ever have and if i can never have him i can never have the life i want

[triplecreature]

Specific beloathed behaviors: people misinterpreting something in the most uncharitable way and responding by immediately getting vitriolic over something you weren't actually saying, then doubling down when it's revealed that they threw a tantrum over nothing. "Well it really SOUNDED LIKE you were saying something horrible! It's your fault for being unclear! I'm really tired/depressed/sick/etc. today! How was I supposed to know that you weren't actually taking a jab at me??"

Guess what! It's actually totally fine that you misunderstood the intended message the first time—maybe it really was a bit misleading—because we can use these game-changing conversational strategies called "giving the benefit of the doubt" "asking for clarification" and my personal favorite "simply not jumping to nasty personal insults or violent threats even if someone really did say something unpleasant" !!! This isn't a criticism of your reading/listening comprehension, this is a criticism of the fact that in your heart you believe that people can deserve to be berated and dehumanized over minor conflicts, and are quick to do so!!!

[thehallstara]

i just like. wish ppl would realize how bad things are for most diaspora jews atm and like. take that into account wrt how they talk abt stuff