#Associate Jobs

[elodieunderglass]

And one amang, an Iyrysch man,

Uppone his hoby swyftly ran…

WAIT HANG ON - slamming the brakes on drawing this stupid picture - do you nerds even KNOW the etymology of the word “hobby”? The thing you do for pleasure? The thing you have too many of? The thing you spend too much money on and share with your friends? The thing tumblr probably is to you? Those hobbies?

It comes from a now-kind-of-extinct breed of Irish pony-horse. It was called the Irish Hobby. Supposedly the hobby got its name from the Gaelic word obann, or swift. They definitely were. They’d obann your pants clean off.

Fast tough little bastards, built for rough terrain and renowned for their speed and stamina, hobby horses belonged to the Celts, and their highly annoying style of mounted warfare. but their conquerors liked hobby horses a lot, kept them, used them for themselves, and found them useful enough, despite the fact that they also had famously useful things like mounted knights or horse archers. A lightweight Irish warrior, mounted on a hobby horse, was called a hobelar.

Reportedly and in depictions, hobelars rode without stirrups. Or saddles. Or bridles. Or - well - this is all sounding very improbable, because the hobelars COULDNT have just been charging around basically bare-assed on naked ponies, screaming, and somehow in the process undoing the composure of actual mounted armoured knights. Knights who, I remind you, had stirrups. Stirrups are useful! It’s quite likely the hobelars had some gear. And clothes. and weapons. And the ponies probably had some tack - I am picturing a bellyband that you could at least hang a saddlebag on, and a neck rope for catching the bloody thing, even if not a saddle. But the overall impression, somehow created by people on darling little ponies, was apparently quite striking and fearful.

I mean. God Forbid People Have Hobbies.

Anyway after a while, whatever people became the British had eventually conquered all of the rough terrain that hobbies were best at, and horse archers just got sexier, and mounted knights became aristos, and all the bog and forest people had been subdued, so it was time to sunset the hobelars. but WAIT! Hobby horses are still tremendously fun and appealing! They’re so fast! and you can ride them without a saddle! Sure, they’re not up to the weight of a mounted knight, or indeed a lot of guys… but surely we can still find a use for a hobby or two? In the back garden? Somewhere?

At which point an English king decided to keep hobby horses just for fun. No military application. No further development of the technology. Not for fun. Just as expensive, pleasurable, pets. Just for the joy of the thing.

And that is how hobby (activity done purely for pleasure) comes from hobby horse (small horse) possibly from obann (swift.) they’re very interesting and you should look all this up for yourself! because it sure sounds like Elodie doing a bit, doesn’t it?

Today, Irish Hobbies are functionally nonexistent. References for drawing include the Kerry Bog Pony, the Connemara, and (I personally think) Dartmoors and Exmoors. They’re said to have lent their speed to the Irish Hunter/Sport Horse and from there to the Thoroughbred, but every damn horse in the world claims relation to the Thoroughbred, and they can’t be THAT thoroughly bred.

At any rate - you can never have enough hobbies. Just be glad that yours aren’t expensive beasts with minds of their own, eating their heads off in the pasture! …Unless they are. In which case, you’re part of a proud tradition.

[gayeddieagenda]

eddie diaz is such a special kind of tragedy for real... picture this. you're fourteen. if you were gay, it would ruin your life. but you're not gay. you meet a girl you like. you make it thru high school. you're seventeen and the girl you like goes to prom with you. things are going great. you're 19 (20? older?) and she's pregnant. okay, that's fine. you can figure it out. you're getting married. you're leaving the country in a uniform. it's fine. if you'd been gay when you were fourteen, it would've ruined your life. that's still true. if your life isn't going so hot right now either, well, that's fine. it's no big deal. so you go to war. you have a kid. you call your wife, sometimes. you come up with plans to deal with it all. you go back to the army. you get shot; you go home. your wife leaves. the plans are not going how you expected. that's okay too; you can make new plans. your life isn't ruined, not yet. you go to los angeles; you find a family bigger than just you and your kid. you start over, not once but again and again. the old traumas play again: shannon leaves. you get shot. your son is here; your son is gone. when you were fourteen, it would've ruined your life. you like your life. it's come close to being ruined a few times now, but you've made it through. you're happy. right? you have everything you need.

picture this: you're fourteen. your life would be ruined if you were gay. you've never been so sure of anything in your life. how much of your life has been built because of the things you were sure of when you were fourteen? you're not fourteen anymore. the things you were scared of back then, you keep looking for them and you aren't finding them. what are you still scared of? you're not fourteen, eddie. what are you scared of?

[blorger]

-Draco Malfoy, Sept 1, 1991-

Here's my newest hot take: it makes no sense for the Weasleys to be poor.

Like, I get why, narratively, the Weasleys are poor : poor=virtuous in jkr's mind and the Weasleys represent the perfect family so they need the be the bestest most virtuous of them all, especially since they are set up to be in direct contrast to the rich, morally bankrupt Malfoys.

That is all well and good, I understand the use of poverty as a narrative choice, but at the same time I also have a problem with how jkr chose to depict said poverty in her worldbuilding; even as a single income household with too many kids (as per D Malfoy), it makes no sense for the Weasleys to have no money.

Arthur, the sole earner in the family, is portrayed as a government insider: he heads his own department, seems essential to the working of the ministry and is overall well connected.

(from GoF, this is a bureucratic brag if i've ever seen one)

Arthur appears to be on a first name basis with a huge variety of ministry employees

Some of which are his fellow department heads

which definitely puts him on the same level as a Diggory or a Crouch, and none of these people are implied to be poor or even remotely struggling, so why is he?

Arthur is not only well connected but also far more powerful than one might expect from his job title alone:

He is somehow able to write and/or enact laws (something he shouldn't be able to do since he's neither an elected official nor part of a legislative body)

and

(from CoS)

Arthur has the power to restrict trade (again, something way above his paygrade)

(from GoF, Arthur's power is apparently equal to that of Crouch, the wizard equivalent of a foreign minister)

Arthur can easily get huge favors form fellow ministry personnel

(from Gof, those world cup seats are Malfoy and Fudge level and it doesn't seem like Arthur did anything special to get them)

We can also see how incongruously important Arthur Weasley is to the inner workings of the ministry by his responsibilities:

when things go tits up at the world cup, Arthur behaves very much like someone much higher up the chain of command.

(from GoF)

All of this is over a newspaper article that didn't even quote him by name. What can the biting teacup guy do during a pr crisis, exactly?

Arthur's (civilian) presence is for some reason necessary during night raids, even though he is not a law enforcement agent

(from CoS)

Arthur (a civilian) is somehow the only person who can calm Alastor Moody (an accomplished auror) down

(from GoF)

I find myself to be very confused by the picture painted by these excerpts. jkr clearly wanted to have it both ways: she needed Arthur to be a ministry insider so that he'd be able to funnel all sorts of information to Harry (and into the story) but she also wanted the Weasleys to be underdogs or, as Harry calls them,

but the two things just don't mix because Arthur, as described in the books, does not read like an underdog, he reads like a vital part of the system.

tl;dr: Arthur is a Big Deal and his family shouldn't be poor, even if they do have too many children

[catadromously]

the sheer creaturely satisfaction of holding a tool in your mouth while you work. nothing else like it

[aardvaark]

the last three times tara has appeared on leverage, someone has gotten held at the throat with an implied threat of death. now i’m not saying this is her fault per se, but three in a row? that’s becoming a pattern. she’s like a very very specific omen.

[legayllyblonde]

gang, do we think other types of lawyers in the ace attorney universe have fun unique badge designs? do the environmental law attorneys have a cute globe or tree on their lapel? do the family law attorneys feel weird about the golden house they have to wear into divorce hearings? do the estate lawyers refuse to wear theirs because it's just a cartoon R.I.P headstone?

[fire-on-fuel]

actually on the topic of battle stims I know theyre a minor detail but there's no way that whole deal doesn't add an extra tortuous tick to the horrors of war tally chart. Coming down with only canteen water and those fuck ass rations as landing gear is already rough and then you add in not being able to risk sleeping/rest, post-combat stress crash, ignoring health risks to redose cause carrying on is non negotiable, etc. and if you make it through the reward is tweaking it out of your system in a freezing laat/i. even if they're the smoothest long acting designer pills there's something uniquely nightmarish about the fact it's in your body playing with the basic functions- there's no way to real-time compartmentalize how it feels to breathe and how your blood moves. Idk. Me personally I'd be deepthroating my DC in about 5 seconds

[letmyrighthandbeforgotten]

Butterfly symbolism & JayVik

I think we've all seen people talk about the butterfly motif that shows up several times around Jayce and Viktor, but I haven't seen anyone talk about what exactly they mean. Probably someone has and I just haven't found it, but I think it's a very intentional and well-chosen symbol for their relationship and them as individuals, especially Viktor. And I just want to talk about it.

Butterflies, like many animals that humans take a liking to, can mean many things depending on the culture and context. To list the ones I find relevant: love/companionship, consequences (the butterfly effect), departed souls/death, transformation and rebirth. I believe that different meanings apply to different instances where the butterfly shows up in Jayce and Viktor's story, so I'm going to look at what I think each one means.

Jayce is saved by the mage as a child: love/companionship, the butterfly effect

It's so important that the butterfly shows up in not only Jayce's first scene, but the one where he's a child. Their lives are intertwined at an early age. As a first-time viewer, you don't know who Viktor is and you definitely don't know he's the one who saved Jayce. But they were always there in each other's lives, even if they didn't know it yet.

The butterfly effect for those who never watched Until Dawn playthroughs is the idea that small events early on can lead to huge consequences — the flap of a butterfly's wings resulting in a tornado weeks later. Mage!Viktor saving Jayce as child leads to everything else that happens in the entire series. Jayce lives, so he meets Viktor and creates Hextech. Jayce develops a fascination with magic, so he has the hex crystals which blow up his apartment, leading to the death of Vander, Mylo, and Claggor and the "birth" of Jinx. Jayce lives, therefore everything else. This is the beginning of not just Jayce and Viktor's story, but everyone's.

Viktor's childhood and meeting Singed: companionship, the butterfly effect

Naturally, the butterfly also shows up when we first see a young Viktor playing with his toy boat. At this point in a first viewing, eagle-eyed viewers might already be connecting this to the butterfly in Jayce's childhood. Looking at it now, it's another sign of how significant they are to each other — it is their symbol, so naturally it shows up when Viktor is as young as we ever see him.

It's interesting to me that in this scene, Viktor does not see or interact with the butterfly before it flies. This might not be important at all, but I wonder if it shows how Jayce is absent from this scene whereas Viktor was already present in the above scene. It could also be related to Singed, showing how the companionship Viktor finds with him is ultimately fleeting, spoiled. Alternatively, it might also show that Viktor is near-sighted, focused entirely on his mechanical ship over love and companionship.

And as for the butterfly effect, you could write THIS ACTION WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!! over Viktor's entire interaction with Singed. If Viktor did not know Singed, he would not have access to shimmer, so he would not be able to merge with the Hexcore, so all of season 2 couldn't have happened. Jayce and Viktor's paths were determined, or at least influenced, by the events of their childhood.

Viktor speaking to Heimerdinger after his diagnosis: souls of the departed, death

Butterflies have another, sadder meaning — they can represent the souls of the dead. The next time we see the butterfly is when Viktor is speaking with Heimerdinger, just after waking up in the hospital and learning that he is soon to die. Viktor is not long for the world and he knows it. He watches the insect fly away and feels his own death press closer.

Viktor and the Hexcore: transformation/rebirth

Note that this time, there is only one "wing", perhaps symbolizing how Jayce and Viktor have drifted apart. No longer a whole organism, but two pieces ripped apart by circumstance as well as their own choices. Could the Viktor of even a year earlier have imagined working on something as important as the Hexcore without his partner? Where is Jayce when Viktor is fighting to save his own life? (We the audience know how important Viktor is to Jayce, but a lot of the scenes where we see his grief and desperation to save Viktor happen while Viktor himself is absent.) But other than than that...

Oooooooh boy. I didn't even notice this one until I saw it on @ellie-r2's post. But it makes sense that it shows up here because this is the beginning of a different arc for Viktor: his transformation.

The Glorious Evolution could equally be called the Glorious Metamorphosis if it wasn't such a mouthful. Twice, Viktor is encased in an arcanic "cocoon" and emerges transformed. Twice, he seemingly dies and comes back. I don't think it's a coincidence that these two are associated specifically with butterflies rather than another animal. Butterflies, who as caterpillars dissolve into goo within their cocoons and emerge in their adult forms, are also associated with rebirth. With the very concept of change. Though the butterfly symbol shows up several more time alongside Jayce, Viktor becomes the butterfly. Becomes the living embodiment of love and consequence and death and change — evolution.

Jayce disappearing into the Anomaly: love/companionship, transformation/rebirth

This one is more amorphous to me. It shows up for a split-second when Jayce smashes the anomaly with his hammer, transporting him to the bad future where he eats raw lizards in a hole and meets Mage!Viktor. But it's pretty clear to me that it is their butterfly (look, it's got the wings and the antennae and everything). So why is it here?

I think it's appearance here suggests that Viktor's power is at play in transporting Jayce. He doesn't go to just any future, he specifically goes to the one where he needs to be, while Ekko and Heimerdinger go to a different (happier) future. It's not just the anomaly taking Jayce — it's Mage!Viktor. And when Jayce returns, he will be changed as Viktor has also changed. Not into a god or monster, but into a man who can sacrifice his partner for the world ... and sacrifice himself for his partner.

Jayce's transformed hammer: love/companionship, transformation/rebirth, death

The fact that Jayce's hammer from the bad future takes the shape of a butterfly is so important to me. In the moment, you might think the new appearance is just to look cool and maybe call back to the previous instances of the butterfly. I think looking back that it shows how even when Jayce tries to kill Viktor, Viktor is still a part of him. He carries the symbol of their relationship. It's not a heartless act, it's one of love.

But this doesn't kill Viktor. Or at least not permanently. Rather, Singed is able to revive him. To survive, Viktor has to evolve into his final form. Jayce's hammer heralds his transformation.

As for the association with death ... *looks at the giant hole in Viktor's chest* yeah. (And it's a weapon. For killing. Ergo, death.)

Jayce and Viktor's fight: love/companionship

This one is more ambiguous to me. It might not be meant to be a butterfly at all. But I can see it, so it's here. I think its appearance here shows that even though our couple is in their divorce era, there is still love there, embodied in the light pouring from their conflict. It is changed and transformed, and the two sides no longer match perfectly ... but they come together. There is still love there once you look for it.

Jayce and Viktor in the arcane: love and death

(This one is the most ambiguous at all, and really more clear in movement rather than a still image. I wish they'd had an explosion of light like when Jayce was transported, but no one asked me beforehand.) The way that Jayce and Viktor curve into each other in the arcane ... coming together to form the symbol of their love as they choose to die together ... it's so beautiful. It's so tragic. It's so full of love. They started together, and now they choose to end together.

[privateolives]

This is probably because I grew up watching 24/7 animal planet, but what finally made the allo/aplatonic thing click for me were the nature's of big cats.

Lions are powerful, regal creatures who are uniquely adapted to pack life. They need these connections to live a healthy life; A lonely lion is a miserable creature indeed.

Jaguars are solitary, beautiful creatures who live happily solitary. They prowl their lush world with self-sufficient majesty. A jaguar is not lonely without a pack. In fact, forcing jaguars to share space with others they do not enjoy is just as damaging as forcing a lion to live alone.

A lion may choose to head out on it's own for the most part, but in the end must return to the pack to thrive. A jaguar can choose to trust and enjoy the company of others, but they never feel the need to form a pack.

Is a jaguar selfish for this? A psychopath, a narcissist or any other such horrid assumptions? Is it a less moral creature than a lion, who seeks others like it to thrive?

Is a lion pathetic, or needy, or selfish for wanting community? For requiring contact with others like they require water? For their inherent need to string complicated webs of relationships that may seem silly or dramatic to others?

Of course not. These are ridiculous questions to even ask.

They are simply lions and jaguars.

In fact, is a jaguar that chooses to spend time with you not as magical as a lion's love? For a creature that needs no bond to thrive to still enjoy your presence enough to share it a time? Is a lion who can prowl the night alone not impressive in its strength and resilience? Is it not awe-inspiring in its ability to conquer a life it was never wired for and reign still?

Are they not both beautiful and awe-inspiring in their own ways, without being wrong?

Alloplatonics. Aplatonics. Are we not both special and beautiful in both our bonds and self-confident happiness equal, in each our ways? Is there not unique beauty in lifelong bonded packs and magical encounters that need no perpetuity to carry life forward?

Are we not but lions and jaguars? Neither wrong, neither selfish, but just different and beautiful creatures in each our ways?

That's how I've come to see it, anyway.

[strawbubbysugar]

I love .. the daycare attendants.. sm…

[lavender-milky-tea]

Another icon dump for the S.E.E.S. group chat, I guess.

[rendoa-blog]

SO!

Forsaken 007n7 headcanons ig because i asked if i should share these and Ikadu said yes dhaudbqhdk

Anyway i love sad 40yo man n7 but this is not about him, give this man a kid when he's barely out of his teens lmao theres art for one of these too

007n7 started his criminal activity (exploits) when he was a teenager, quite young at that, and kept them up until he got c00lkidd.

His parents disowned him at 15 and he's been living with terrible company up until he got tax fraud and drug money (/j) and got himself a small house at the outskirts at late 18 when he could actually own one.

c00lkidd was dropped off at 007n7's doorstep when n7 was 19/20 years old and did not know how to take care of children.

He tried to cut off as much as he could from his life before the kid, but consequences always followed him, so he had issues getting a job when he ran out of crime money about a year or 2 later.

Elliot took pity on him lmfao idk how else to say this, basically Elliot knew 007n7 from school before the crime life and everyone knows 007 wasnt the best guy during those, but he heard how n7 was struggling and had a child to take care of now, so he put in a good word about how hes a "changed person now", even if he wasnt entirely sure it was the case.

007n7 tried his hardest to keep the job when he got it. He worked for about two years and then failed miserably one day. He was mostly either the cashier or pizza boxer since he didnt have a driving license and Elliot usually covered cooking shifts since those were his favorite.

007n7 and Elliot dated at some point and it ended at the same time n7's employment did sicwdbcjhcg it wouldnt have worked out anyway because well... Elliots fond of children, sure, but more as a brotherly figure. He wasn't ready to take on the role of a second father for c00lkid so.... Yeah! Also Elliots like a year or 2 younger than n7 (Elliots 28 and n7's 29/30 at the time of Forsaken)

Smth ive been thinking about as well issss what if c00lkidd was like, actually biologically n7s kid as well?? Like, a result of a fling that the mother dumped on his doorstep when the kid was born type of thing idk I like it but yk

ALSO SILLY DRAWING FOR THIS UDBX

I forgot his glasses... Oh well!

[bantersnatch]

toga party

(bianca jocasta thinks she's so fucking funny)

[twilight-deviant]

[Echo 1x05 / Daredevil: Born Again 1x01]

[royalarchivist]

Fit: Pac. I have a gift for you.

Pac: A gift for me? It's a good gift? 'Cuz like, you sound like, excited, you know?

QSMP Fit and Pac are taking baby steps, but Stardew Fit and Pac are running a marathon. 💍🏃

[random-autie-fangirl]

Chara: I'm wanting everything to end instantly

Asriel: And I'm wanting to go on unchanging forever

🔥🔥🔥THE BEEF WITH LINEAR TIME SIBLINGS🔥🔥🔥