#(<- also probably lying)

[bacchuschucklefuck]

while teen while goblin while aroace while injured while doing your best

[puppyeared]

in his silly era

[dodecatemoria]

feeling very normal about them (<- lying)

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Oh god, imagine after the war, Ron starts getting little packages from the men. And they're all cheap and silly things. A candy bar. A pencil. A little packet of tissues. A touristy shotglass. Stuff like that.

And all the notes are the same, "Pulled a Captain Spiers and lifted this just for you."

And it's so stupid and goofy. But also, it's so sweet. The boys don't really know how to check in on Speirs, and probably Luz goes, "We should just shoplift and send shit to him."

And so Ron gets a semi-regular delivery of shoplifted items. From his boys. Who need him to know they love him.

[r-aindr0p]

Rat and his overly detailed bell thing

Feeling like squeezing him like those fidget toys with googly eyes/pos

[shimmershy]

Chara Week Day 5: Ghost

Every time I see that machine in the True Lab, I wonder if it could possibly be Chara's soul in there? Probably unlikely, but not impossible... It's interesting to think about what the implications of that would be.

A version with no text and then a version with just the machine, because I think it looks pretty cool and ominous alone as well.....

[front-facing-pokemon]

[alicent-archive]

i personally...liked the Aemond + brothel woman scene. I didn’t find it out of character or strange for Aemond to find solace and comfort with her. she’s playing the role (as she’s paid to) of a motherly support system, a support system that Alicent (through no fault of her own) cannot be.

Alicent and Aemond have a strained relationship; they’re both angry at each other. of course this emotional instability from one of his core people is going to cause Aemond to reach out to someone that ACTS and LOOKS like a motherly figure.

The duo have been parenting each other for years. it’s deeply messed up and toxic. and Aemond’s probably been this parentified version of himself since at least Driftmark. he never really had space to grow as a boy, when his family needed a man.

Aemond has always been this strange little guy, and I think people who are shocked by the scene have forgotten just how really vulnerable he is.

[anqelbean]

Shen Qingqiu, after being taken as a captive in Binghe's palace: I can have anything I want? Fine! Then I don't want to see you! Ever!

Shen Qingqiu, after Binghe complies with his wish and doesn't bother him: WHY won't he come and see meeeeeeee?!?!? This protagonist is nothing like the gongs in Meimei's books!!!! WHY DIDN'T HE LOCK ME AWAY TO HAVE HIS WAY WITH ME??!? WHY IS HE RESPECTING MY BOUNDARIES!?!?!!

[anghraine]

Speaking of the social context of P&P and Austen in general, and also just literature of that era, I'm always interested in how things like precisely formulated hierarchies of precedence and tables of ranked social classes interact with the more complex and nuanced details of class-based status and consequence on a pragmatic day-to-day level. I remembered reading a social historian discussing the pragmatics of class wrt eighteenth-century English life many years ago and finally tracked down the source:

"In spite of the number of people who got their living from manufacture or trade, fundamentally it was a society in which the ownership of land alone conveyed social prestige and full political rights. ... The apex of this society was the nobility. In the eyes of the Law only members of the House of Lords, the peerage in the strictest use of the word, were a class apart, enjoying special privileges and composing one of the estates of the realm. Their families were commoners: even the eldest sons of peers could sit in the House of Commons. It was therefore in the social rather than in the legal sense of the word that English society was a class society. Before the law all English people except the peers were in theory equal. Legal concept and social practice were, however, very different. When men spoke of the nobility, they meant the sons and daughters, the brothers and sisters, the uncles and aunts and cousins of the peers. They were an extremely influential and wealthy group.

"The peers and their near relations almost monopolized high political office. From these great families came the wealthiest Church dignitaries, the higher ranks in the army and navy. Many of them found a career in law; some even did not disdain the money to be made in trade. What gave this class its particular importance in the political life of the day was the way in which it was organized on a basis of family and connection ... in eighteenth-century politics men rarely acted as isolated individuals. A man came into Parliament supported by his friends and relations who expected, in return for this support, that he would further their interests to the extent of his parliamentary influence.

"Next in both political and social importance came the gentry. Again it is not easy to define exactly who were covered by this term. The Law knew nothing of gentle birth but Society recognized it. Like the nobility this group too was as a class closely connected with land. Indeed, the border line between the two classes is at times almost impossible to define ... Often these men are described as the squirearchy, this term being used to cover the major landowning families in every county who were not connected by birth with the aristocracy. Between them and the local nobility there was often considerable jealousy. The country gentleman considered himself well qualified to manage the affairs of his county without aristocratic interference.

"...The next great layer in society is perhaps best described the contemporary term 'the Middling Sort'. As with all eighteenth-century groups it is difficult to draw a clear line of demarcation between them and their social superiors and inferiors. No economic line is possible, for a man with no pretensions to gentility might well be more prosperous than many a small squire. There was even on the fringe between the two classes some overlapping of activities ... The ambitious upstart who bought an estate and spent his income as a gentleman, might be either cold-shouldered by his better-born neighbours or treated by them with a certain contemptuous politeness. If however his daughters were presentable and well dowered, and if his sons received the education considered suitable for gentlemen, the next generation would see the obliteration of whatever distinction still remained. The solid mass of the middling sort had however no such aspirations, or considered them beyond their reach.

"...This term [the poor] was widely used to designate the great mass of the manual workers. Within their ranks differences of income and of outlook were as varied as those that characterized the middle class. Once again the line of demarcation is hard to draw..."

—Dorothy Marshall, Eighteenth Century England (29-34)

(There's plenty more interesting information in the full chapter, especially regarding "the poor," and the chapter itself is contracted from a lengthier version published earlier.)

[dizzybizz]

some doodles

[chirpsythismorning]

Thinking about the what if El was never interested in Mike romantically, she just assumed she was discourse on the tag today and how it's very possible what could make El fully realize this, is when in s5 she see's Will's love for Mike in real time, for the first time, and she's just like damn! That is not me!

[puppyeared]

aughg

[fisheito]

I started reading beastars so now HE's reading beastars .wait

THEY'RE reading beastars

[essektheylyss]

Okay the Bright Queen is probably not going to talk to the Hells (they don't have a beacon after all) but who else from the Dynasty is here. Is Abrianna in attendance. Who was that unnamed diplomat in the comics who was high enough up to tell Leylas off. That seems like a person who'd be with this delegation. Was it Deirta. Please give me Deirta Thelyss right now, Matthew. It would be so funny.

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas (1995)