#Belief in vision

[littleliterarylesbian]

[gonkaccino]

Season 4 hope/prediction: Deb's show is solid, zero issues, runs flawlessly with great ratings, but her personal life is completely eroding. We start with her discovering Marcus is leaving, and it culminates in DJ going into labor right before a taping. Deb chooses the show. When it's over, and she finally flies to Vegas, it's too late -- Aiden's not letting her in because he loves his wife too much to let DJ get into a shouting match with her mom right after giving birth, and instead takes the brunt of Deb's wrath, with her making excuses and talking about how they used her money for IVF, and anyway, DJ's fine, so who cares if she wasn't there? Kathy's in the room with DJ and the baby (DJ's the closest she has to a daughter, after all) and Deb leaves too furious to think about how badly she's hurt her family.

She heads back to her Vegas mansion -- empty, obviously, Josefina and the dogs would be in LA -- and pops open a bottle of wine. Alone. Completely alone. Can't call Marty, she has no friends, the closest she's got would be Kiki and wouldn't that be embarrassing, calling your poker dealer to talk about your feelings --

and then Ava's there. She got the news about DJ's labor, she got the story from Aiden (who was distraught, by the way, man's too much of a sweetheart for Vance drama), a spare key from Damian (happy to pawn that off on her, though if it isn't returned promptly he's taking legal action) and has arrived just in time to see the Deborah Vance having a breakdown the likes of which no one thought physically possible. Crying gives you wrinkles, you know. But Ava has to be here. She's the physical embodiment of a lesson Deb never truly learned: you don't have to like someone to love them.

In my imaginary fantasy land that I am concocting this would then subsequently lead into them fucking nasty but I understand that this may be a step too far for the surprisingly large number of very normal people who watch this show and would forgive JPL for not taking it that far. However I do believe they should fuck about it and let Ava take the reigns in their relationship while they see how many of Deb's bridges they can un-burn.

[astralleywright]

i will say, the switch around from people claiming that the backlash against ashton was bc he failed to represent the anti-authoritarian, politically leftist ideology of many punks to those same people turning on ashton for expressing the anti-authoritarian, politically leftist ideology of many punks is so funny

[thepersonalquotes]

Reach out to the fullness of God’s grace strength for any accomplishment.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

[848ellie]

You'll enjoy the journey more if you're excited about where you're going. 😎

[mmyashas]

BTW. i hope qroier is actually just. a guy. a guy thats been through a lot (mce 1&2 and squidcraft) but literally also just a guy

[palatinewolfsblog]

“To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.” Rosa Parks.

[pickingupmymercedes]

I am a huge Christian Dior fan, his early collections are some of my absolute favorites. The sister dresses are works of art from the 1950's and I'll stand by that. That being said, it's important we know Christian Dior Couture is a brand within Christian Dior SE that was sold to LVMH (Bernard Arnault) in the 1980's.

The history of the Maison, and everyone who has been a part of it, is well known and documented. There's no way you work with or on the industry and doesn't know about it.

And that also includes knowing who profits the most out of the money that comes from the industry, how it has been changing since the 1990's and since it became one of the most profitable industries.

It's no wonder the richest person in the world so happens to have funded the biggest luxury goods company in the world. The very same Dior Couture is part of.

I'm glad Lewis can experience with fashion, truly. That's what it’s meant to be. Experiments on how to express yourselves, how our style and how we view ourselves change, how we tell stories (even unknowingly) when we chose a fabric/color/texture.

But fashion is different from the fashion industry, and the latter is, today, first and foremost a business.

Lewis is a grown ass business man. And I feel that sometimes people tend to overlook that.

When he chose to become a brand embasador to a Maison on the fashion industry he knew what he was doing. And what it implied.

This is, by no means, meant as attack on Lewis. I just believe we, as fans, need to understand and consider he knew what it meant and he weighted the pros and cons. For his personal brand, for Dior, for LVMH and for what each of those represent and stand for.

We can, and should, debate over the fashion part. And we also can, and should, debate over the capitalism part of the fashion industry.

But know when you’re talking about each of them, and how to separate the criticism from those ends if needed. Because one is brought by creative work and the other from world, societal and personal belief views.

[mrs-trophy-wife]

All you have to do is simply work up imagination to the state of vision, and it’s done.

—William Blake

[spicyvampire]

I love that when KP needed the main family to notice that Pete was missing they just went "btw Tankhun has visions, yeah he has been plagued by them since birth" type of shit and that's just part of Tankhun's lore now, yeah I believe u wtv it take to find Pete frankly

[comicdez]

Do you think an ambition can have regrets?

+ a quick colored Mark. Bition i just finished today!

[stergeon]

at some point i will figure out how to write the post-canon, post-empire edelgard autonomy fic of my dreams. it just feels like a very big task and maybe like with playing the dane, i’m simply not old and traumatized enough to manage it yet.

but my vision is thus: it’s set years (realistically, decades) after the end of crimson flower, when everything has gone as right as it can possibly go. fódlan is thriving. the social reforms have taken effect. the nobility system is nearly eliminated, if not entirely so, with titles made merely symbolic. social mobility, welfare, and prosperity are high. there’s an explosion in arts and culture and technology. brigid and duscur have gained independence; relations with sreng and almyra are much improved; heck, maybe they've even figured it out with dagda. in my most idealistic version, leicester and faerghus would eventually be ceded back to become autonomous regions, essentially disbanding the adrestian empire. rule is no longer hereditary, but merit-based. there's a roadmap for the future, and everything is on track—and more than that, people at all points on the power spectrum have already seen it bear fruit. with or without edelgard, it will be pursued. there's buy-in. they believe.

of course, it's not perfect—nothing can be—but edelgard's vision has been fulfilled. the people are empowered. humanity is free. fódlan has healed.

and somehow, she's had enough time to resolve her goals outside of politics, too. those who slither in the dark have been eradicated. edelgard and lysithea's second crests have been successfully removed, allowing them to live if not full lives, then substantially longer ones than they would have with their twin crests intact. who knows—maybe she finally gets around to having that wedding.

point for point, every item listed in edelgard's manifesto has been checked off. the ghosts of her past have been laid to rest. she can finally take off her crown. she can finally pursue the quiet, humble life she's wanted for so long. she can finally breathe.

... but can she?

edelgard is nothing if not driven. her intelligence, vision, and sheer willpower allowed her to plan and execute a revolution against two countries and the most powerful institution on the continent, all while she was still a teenager. as royalty, her life was never truly hers even before she became heir to the adrestian throne, with all the additional baggage of survivor's guilt and the desire for vengeance and her need to ensure nothing that happened to her can ever happen to anyone else, ever again.

so what happens when that drive has no outlet? what happens when someone who has been constantly in motion, constantly working and planning and preparing every spare second of every day since she was fourteen years old, suddenly has to stand still? what happens when someone whose hands have been bound for so long—first literally in the dungeons of enbarr, then by the weight and responsibilities of her crown—is set free?

being edelgard, she would step away from the throne, no matter how hard it was for her to give up control. she's always been focused on the endgame, and she knows that if she doesn't let go, she'll be setting the wrong tone for fódlan's future. she's too devoted to that endgame to cling to power much longer than she needs to, though i could see her making some excuses and trying to iron out just a few more things to buy herself some more time to mentally prepare before she's done for good.

but who would she be then? who is the woman without the crown? what becomes of a machine once it is no longer needed, when it has made itself obsolete? what about when that machine is a person with legs and arms and an innate unwillingness to gather dust on a shelf?

what happens when you get everything you want? what happens when all your wanting has been for others to thrive, and now you have to want only for yourself? how do you discover who you are when you've spent decades being everything for everyone else? how do you find meaning again? how do you find purpose?

after a lifetime of devotion and passion and movement, how do you learn to sit with yourself, and be quiet, and be still?

gosh, i would love to meet her. i would love to pick her brain. but boy, i do not envy the work that girl has to do.

[indeedgoodman]

[soliusss]

I have a 24 hour window where I don't have homework and I don't have classes the full day. It is now closed but more oc stuff

[outeremissary]

You either die a hero (staying out of the Milgram comment section) or live long enough to see yourself become a villain (Kotoko theoryposting)

[848ellie]

Inspiration comes from above 👆 It brightens our minds and drives us to pursue our dreams. It helps us push past our limits and follow our passions.