#It has obvious implications

[arctic-bookclub]

something about how phil has missa’s volume turned up because of the time missa was playing on a laptop at a hotel with a low volume mic, something about how despite his mic being normal now phil hasn’t turned his volume down not even one bit despite always changing everyone else’s volumes when needed, something about how regardless of how many people are in the room missa is always the loudest in phil’s pov, always the easiest to hear, something about how you can always hear missa over everyone else from phil’s pov, something about how that doesn’t bother phil in the slightest, something about this never being aknowledged by phil and something about it not needing to be, for it’s how it’s supposed to be

[vigilskeep]

ranking da love interests on a scale of how unhinged theyd be if their beloved was made tranquil (they would all be maximum unhinged its just a matter of deciding what flavour)

[greenerteacups]

thoughts on Ginny and Harry as a couple?

There are a lot of people who find their romance in HBP forced. I don't think it's forced so much as underwritten, and the books don't get the chemistry quite right (though the movies certainly don't, either). There's potential, but they just don't get enough actual scenes of substance (besides Harry thinking she's pretty or feeling jealous of Dean) for a lot of readers to buy that they're not only in love, but deeply enough in love to break up, get back together, and wind up married.

That's not to say I don't see the appeal. There's a very cool scene in Book 5 where Harry's doing a woe-is-me-Chosen-One act, and Ginny effortlessly puts him in his place about it by reminding him that she was possessed by Voldemort at eleven, which is a rare glimpse into her character and also a great synecdoche for their relationship — Ginny is a grounding presence who, like Ron and Hermione, isn't going to be awed by his past adventures because she knew him before they happened. In that respect, Ginny's probably one of the few women Harry could feasibly wind up with, because he only ever seems comfortable around people (let alone girls) who can see past the Chosen-One schtick and treat him like a normo (see: Ron, Hermione, the Weasleys, Luna, Hagrid). True to type, he doesn't get interested in Ginny at all until she's ditched her celebrity crush and ceased to view him as an idol, because in his heart of hearts, Harry wants to be a normal boy, and it's stressed over and over that part of what he likes about his relationship with Ginny is how normal it feels. He kind of has a horribly supercharged version the celebrity dating problem: after the Battle of Hogwarts, anyone he meets is going to know him first as Harry Potter, Chosen One, Boy Who Lived, and Actually Fucking Resurrected Messiah of the Wizarding World, which is... I mean, it's possible that there are witches out there who could get over that, but Harry's not an extroverted guy, and I'm not sure how he'd go about finding them. Ginny's the one who's been there since the beginning, doesn't need anything about him or his past explained to her, and actually likes him for who he is.

When you look at it that way, it's not surprising he married his high school girlfriend. She's one of the few people still alive who doesn't see him as a demigod.

[ssaalexblake]

You know. Yaz got way more confrontational with 13 after the jail hiatus thing, which, okay, she was angry. But she also got way more confrontational after she saw Jack and 13 squabble and argue about plans and get In each others space and in general be a bit antagonistic, and then almost immediately revert to being easygoing friends again. Something that may have been very important to see for her.

Jack may have been Yaz's angel in disguise, lbr. He let her in on a lot, and not just by filling her in, just by interacting with the doctor as he normally would.

[maegalkarven]

In light of Alicole reveal, let me just say that I will absolutely LOSE my mind (in the best possible way) if the reason Daeron was sent to Oldtown is because he has brown hair.

[new-york-no-shoes]

BUT DADDY I LOVE HIM !!!!

[revolutionary-demosthenes]

In spite of Schuylers black eyes, I have still a part for the public and another for you; so your impatience to have me married is misplaced; a strange cure by the way, as if after matrimony I was to be less devoted than I am now.

Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, September 16, 1780

I was just re-reading this quote for the first time in a while, and realized it’s got some unique qualities that point to its integrity as a piece of evidence.

With the Laurens-Hamilton relationship, how many possible meanings a letter has is almost more important than what is said in the first place. This isn’t a quote that can be excused as humor or teasing or “how people wrote back then.” It’s a serious quote from Hamilton that talks about his relationship with Laurens, which we don’t have to many of. It’s not like the beginning of the April 1779 letter, which can be brushed off as “how people wrote.” It’s not innuendo that can be excused as “bawdy humor.” It’s a serious and non-flowery or sentimental sentence which contains many elements that point to a romance between Hamilton and Laurens. There is no other strong explanation for Laurens to be directly compared to Schuyler. (And especially the “black eyes” part-- in spite of something Hamilton is attracted to about his wife, he still has a “part” for Laurens...) The rest of the quote is even more implicating-- why would Laurens want Hamilton to be married so that Hamilton’s affection would wane? Why would their relationship need a cure if it was a socially acceptable friendship? 

tl, dr: Because Hamilton’s writing is so direct and clear, with so few opposing interpretations, (but many implications!) or the ability to be construed as a joke, this letter is a pretty unique piece of evidence, and one of the strongest to suggest a Laurens-Hamilton relationship. (And good for refuting criticism.)

[razzmothazz]

wanting to let people assume whatever sexuality they want for my pjsk ocs just like in game canon characters but also definetly having a canon in mind and definitely heavily implying a lot of things in the story [once i get to it] but still just letting people think whatever is. actually quite scary. like what if people totally dont get what im implying . does that mean theyre bad at reading into it or am i bad at showing the implications right. horrifying, actually.

[communistkenobi]

I rewatched Dan Olson’s video about contrapeneurs recently and parts of it rubbed me the wrong way, because he seems to base some of his argument on claiming that the grift of “subcontracting a ghostwriter to write a script for an audiobook you will publish and profit from using trending subjects as the topic for 1 cent a word” is bad primarily because it encourages intellectual laziness and allows people to not work, and not the fact that like, setting up a system where you are allowed to become someone’s boss and force them to write misinformation about, like, hypnotherapy as a cure for epilepsy is an abusive one. The problem isn’t that it encourages laziness, it’s not even that it produces dangerous misinformation (although that’s obviously bad), it’s that it provides people with the opportunity to enter into a set of labour conditions that require them to exploit and abuse workers who get paid next to nothing

[koheletgirl]

this is what i mean when i say that account is dangerous

[single-malt-scotch]

death games are fun and totally not homoerotic

for my lil AU

[sysig]

Someone’s looking out for you ♥ (Patreon)

[popsicle-stick]

controversial dracula post: I don't think that catholicism is inherently more effective against vampires than other sects of christianity - it's just that they have more religious imagery to scare off vampires than, say, a baptist. what's a baptist gonna do? dunk 'em in the big baptism bath à la the lost boys??

[player-1]

Uh oh…

[soubiapologist]

thinking back to the bloodless fight and "why are they working with him when nisei killed maiko" and it seems that yurio was always working with beloved to some degree, since he arrived with nisei, and since hideo is a sacrifice, he may not have all that much power to fight back against their demands on his own, especially if yurio is partial to them. though this raises the question of why yurio is partial to them and what authority does beloved or more likely seimei specifically have to be doling out blanks and for what reason did they need hideo on retainer with yurio as his partner

[somelazyassartist]

Ough I need to avoid my TAZ shelf when I'm tired, because reminding myself that The Adventure Zine and the graphic novels are right next to each other and how painful some of the differences between them are legitimately gives me a migraine. That and my eyes are weird so looking at comics for too long just does that anyways but I digress