#I'm not afraid to admit it

[totallynotabot2000]

Despite having played Skyrim like a million times I publicly admit that I actually like Delphine and I wish I could have her as a companion so I could marry her. It would even make me consider killing Paarthurnax. I love bossy women.

[minty-trash]

Your art is too beautiful, Loxn! I had to find your Tumblr after seeing it on the discord :3

Gricko Grimgrin the man you are,,,

[saltycryptid]

bro is NOT listening to Gale's dissertation on the mechanics of the underdark tunnel system

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

not enough discussion about the gavins' complicated relationship with feminine-coded/beauty products, i don't think.

[zylphiacrowley]

Love.

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[blackbearmagic]

a coworker who I very much admire and respect, and who I am very much a little bit very afraid of, watched me do a tour today

I did not do well.

I did my best! But there was so much room for improvement.

At the end of it, my coworker said she had some feedback for me, "but only if you want it, I know that some people feel a certain kind of way about getting feedback from people who aren't their managers, and you and I are equals here", and when I told her I would love to hear it, she led me off to a private part of the museum and spent a solid half-hour talking with me about how I could have improved

She had written notes. Like, her copy of the day's schedule was covered, front and back, in notes. Which she happily gave me when I asked if I could have it.

I forgot about this part of working in education. The part where we all want each other to succeed, because we have a mission together, and the more we build each other up, the more able we are to put that mission forward.

[dxxtruction]

Louis' "You're boring!" Could mean so many things, but I think what's most apparent about that line is that Armand takes no initiative just for himself. He's not really anybody, because he never goes out and finds himself or gets attached to anyone but Louis. Without Louis as his guide he's literally just sitting on a couch picking lint! That's the thing.

He orbits constantly around what would make Louis happy, and never really fully going what would make me happy? Ultimately that drive to please Louis is what drives him to torturing Daniel, not so much that he'd care to just do it. Ultimately, not giving proper care to Louis is just a way to make sure Louis knows he has to orbit around him as well, with shoving Lestat onto him just that other nail on the coffin. So, even if he fails to figure out how to make Louis happy with him, he still knows what Armand is good for, and better than.

That dependency is what drives Armand's abuse. It really just comes down to that. Armand doesn't even realize how suffocated he is by his own dependency. This is just how life is to him. (It shouldn't be lost either that dependency is a theme considering this episode also deals with addiction).

Daniel's fascinating because he's just so driven to be somebody. He's largely independent, he seeks things because he wants them. It's his drug to poke and prod at all the things that he shouldn't. Daniel's exciting because he lets Louis in to something different, lets him in to all this potential in another person that he can also do the same with for himself. It's a real connection. A two way street. It's easy to tell how Armand can be smothering then because he's never introducing him to anything really new, and most the ways both of them connect are all painful and traumatic. It's never just fun because there's always that layer of that pain. Fun died with Claudia.

50 years on they've gotten to a lot better place, both of them, but it's still that same shit. No seriously, "How is this any different from last time, Louis?"

Well... Because Armand's going to be, at the very least, making one [1] decision only for himself - and that's to hold power over Daniel's life. Fucking sick foreshadowing.

They aren't driving each other to the brink anymore but "The vampire is bored" STILL. Maybe it's even worse, despite being in better places, because Louis' sort of just been defeated by it. (I mean, can he even really leave this either?). He's accepting the dependancy cause he kind of has to. He'd literally ended up letting all the enjoyment be up where he can't reach [The book shelves]. Armand so desperately wants Louis happiness but what really ends up happening is that Louis ends up having to give Armand all his own. He's got no one or anything else to get it from. But like an iPad and an over the top eating ritual. Two extremes of what's just more lint picking.

This whole relationship is one I find just tragic inside and out. You have to just pity it, really. There's ways in which you can find yourself feeling bad for both of them. But you can only really be mad at Armand for any of it. Armand, who isn't even 'free' in any sense, having so little concept of his own independence, but is at the same time so controlling over other's. It's a tragic cycle. It's an infuriating one.

Louis at least has the mind to know when enough is enough. If just needing that extra push to get there. Armand's too scared of it being over to even try.

[swanoel-art]

halovian kuras awooga !!!

[inerciasss]

My brother was playing Echoes of Wisdom and some dialogue at the beggining made me go "Princess Peach and Zelda would be friends" and my brother went "they would", so I had an "I'm an artist, I can draw anything" moment and did this <#

I also really wanted to see sexy Tears of the Kingdom Ganondorf in EoW cutsie art style but they went for the original pig design 😔 which makes sense given the simple and cute art style they went with for the game, but still, i wanted to see it!! So I had another "... I'm an artist, I can draw anything" moment lmao

Both Zelda and Peach are some of my favourite videogame characters so I loved making this <### and for once I actually showed my process and art to my brother and he liked it so!!! That's a plus!!

[youdonothavetochoose]

i've been doing some queer book fanart to celebrate Pride month! both of these were on my tbr a hell of a long time but i'm actually really glad i read them both now, THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH was very cathartic at this moment and LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS was the energy i needed. happy pride, my friends! read trans books!

[whomstsnek]

godddddddd andy specifically calling out that Shepherd isn't fearless </3

he's so, so afraid but remains so, so brave through it all......

[helielune]

and stalling only goes so far when you've got a head start

[lochallthedoors]

Noel Interview With The Huffington Post, March 23, 2015

Lyrics for notable anti-nostalgia song "While the Song Remains the Same":

Hold that thought don't let me go. We can dance beneath the fireflies on an empty road. It's a shame how a memory fades to grey. We let love get lost in anger chasing yesterday. Find me a place where the sun shines through the rain. Find me the pleasure in the pain. While the song remains the same let it go on and on and on… Take me back to the town where I was born. 'Cause I'm tired of being a stranger and I'm miles from home. We can hide by a lonely windowpane. We can walk the streets of my life while they still remain. Hold that thought don't let me go. We can dance beneath the fireflies on an empty road…

[srtruth]

A drawing of Kenmayu for @missingmayuri It's your character design and I love it. I hope you like it.

[spotaus]

Ah, my English Professor just introduced the class to AU Fan Fiction. I'm unwell.