#Series 41

[obsob]

"Hurry," I bid him He embraced me almost convulsively, and shocked me when he kissed my mouth. He spun and ran towards Girl-On-A-Dragon. The girl part of her leaned down, to offer him a hand as she drew him up to sit behind her. The expression on her face never changed. Just another part of the dragon. "To me!" he cried to the dragons that were already gathering around us. The last look he gave me was a mocking smile.

Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb

[adeleine-everyday]

day 41

the color palette was called winter

[acourtofquestions]

Rowan, sitting there on his knees for hours, covered in burns, all to ring cold rags onto Celaena’s forehead:

… not because he has to or is the only one there to do so — no, there is an entire team of medics present for such purposes who could have done so & done it easier — he was also injured at the time…

… not because it would save her life; or even be all that necessary or even efficient… but because if it gave her even the slightest fleeting relief from pain he would do it — because it was worth it; whatever the price, whatever the time. —

It was worth it to him. Because it was her; it was for her.

[thirteens-pocket-watch]

Me when I remember that s15 means more Fifteenth Doctor outfits 🥰

[lunarblazes]

hermitcraft is a completely normal server

[thatonefandomjumper]

Good day to remember that the very last thing Calypso says to Leo in the entire book series is “I hate you.”

[bowtiesarecool11]

New episode titles for Series 14 released today!!

Space Babies (Russel T Davies)

The Devil's Chord (Russel T Davies)

Boom (Steven Moffat)

73 Yards (Russel T Davies)

Dot and Bubble (Russel T Davies)

Rogue (Kate Herron and Briony Redman)

The Legend of Ruby Sunday (Russel T Davies)

Empire of Death (Russel T Davies)

[dribs-and-drabbles]

The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #41

Bad Buddy ep 7:

Mama Gogo ep 3:

for @non-binarypal7 (x) & @sewichii 💙

[shirtlessanimeboy]

Light's shirt flies up, from episodes 39, 40 and 41 respectively of Shadowverse Flame.

[datsderbunnyblog]

Such a good reading plan! And why Guards! Guards! in particular after the Hobbit? I'm so curious about your thought process here!

As for me, hiiii, I'm good, just came back from a good vacation which I honestly deserved hehe

You absolutely do deserve a great vacation! I'm glad you had a good time!

As for Guards! Guards! I feel like reading The Hobbit is going back to Discworld's roots, because Middle Earth is where it all began for Terry Pratchett. And even though there are 7 books before it in the Discworld series, I (personally) feel like G!G! is where Terry really started to get the worldbuilding established in its own right so it's the one I feel naturally drawn to next, if that makes any kind of sense.

Also, you know. Big dragon.

[marsbotz]

i think they shld have at least let maxime keep his antennae. as a treat

[notmoreflippingelves]

I need to ramble more about Esteban Flores, because everything about this character and his arc seem as though it was tailor-made for me and specifically designed to make me absolutely feral.

This going below the cut, both because I do not want to spoil the entire show for my friend who is think of watching Elena of Avalor and because I go full-on apologist here and I feel like that will annoy some people.

Imagine making the absolute worst mistake than anyone could possibly make, because you are 18 and scared and stupid and tired of being ignored. And it results in you losing your family and your freedom and what little self-respect you had left because you know all of this is very much your own fault.

 And so you proceed to spend the next 41(!) years eking out a miserable existence in an oppressive state. Upon fear for your life, you are forced to be the reluctant right-hand of the evil witch-queen who conquered your country, killed your aunt and uncle and trapped your cousin in magical prison. In spite of this, you nevertheless do everything within your limited power trying to hold the kingdom together and make sure the people don't starve, because the queen certainly doesn't care about anything except greedily bleeding your country dry.

And no exaggeration, this is just what canon explicitly gives us outright in the pilot. Like that's not even getting into head canons/interpretations/common sense of what exactly this sort of life entailed for you. Because this is a children's show so there's only so much they will let us imply about living under that kind of system. Especially as a young, attractive, terrified person who is the last living member of the previous royal family who is likely being kept alive partly as a combination trophy/punching bag for the evil queen (even if the show never actually states this outright).

And then by some miracle, what's left of your family comes back after all this time. The evil queen is overthrown, partly because you yourself finally stood up to her at a critical moment. You and your country are finally free again, and what's more, you and your family are finally together again after over 4 decades. But you still feel like an outsider--partly because you always were an outsider in your family even in the better times and partly because  over the past 41(!) years, time stood still for all of them except you.

And as a result, no one ever cares to ask what those 41 years were like for you or even just if you’re doing okay. Not only because your family can’t even begin to comprehend what it must have been like, but also because they don’t care to even *try* to understand. Because the narrative has decided that everyone else’s respective traumas is worth way more than your own.  (Though tbf the narrative really doesn’t dwell much on anyone’s trauma in general but yours gets especially neglected , except to briefly play it for laughs or to remind you that your trauma is *your own fault and only your own*).

For a little while, life is pretty okay. It’s weird not having to watch your step every instant to make sure you’re not putting a toe out of line. And so you never really fully break out of your “survival mode” conditioning, making sure that you are still considered important and valuable enough to keep around.

But all the while, you know that your past—and especially your terrible little secret—is eventually going to come back to haunt you. And it does. First via blackmail and then via the return  of the evil witch-queen herself. Fortunately, she is defeated for good before she can take avenge your “betrayal of her” but you still have to deal with seeing the ghost from the past who terrorized you for 41(!) years.

And then, your secret finally comes out in the open and you are disowned by your family—the family you *just* got back a few years ago—for an admittedly super bad decision that you made over four decades ago and have regretted ever since.  Rather than face the rest of your life in isolation (as though you didn’t already have enough of that during the previous regime), you escape before you can be sent into exile. This puts you directly in the path of *another* terrifying, evil magical milf who you are forced to ally yourself with. Because you have 40+ years of conditioning that when a woman like that says “jump,” you say “how high?” if you are to have any hope of survival.  Especially given that the only people who could’ve protected you from her are the family and friends who have just definitively washed their hands of you.

Despite this, you are still trying to seek your cousin’s forgiveness and to protect her in the little ways that you can. But you are constantly getting rebuffed over and over again, and if anything, your attempts at reconciliation only seem to make your cousin angrier, and she now hates you just as much as—if not MORE than—the woman who actually murdered her parents.

Your cousin is so angry at you specifically that she actively ignores the greater threat of Witchy Milf 2.0, because she happens to see your face and is enraged. This ends up backfiring spectacularly for you both, though it does indirectly lead to the defeat of said Witchy Milf 2.0.

But guess what?  There’s no time to breathe or celebrate, because her defeat occurred during the successful summoning of a third power-mad, feminine-presenting magical humanoid and her allies. At least, this one treats you with some initial respect and actually gives you outright what you-think-you’ve-thought-you-always wanted. But she also turns your family and friends to stone in front of you as a warning of what’s to come if you dare to defy her.

But this time, you are finally done with this, have finally lost enough that you have paradoxically found your courage. You sacrifice yourself to save your cousin, and she is finally able to accept that you’ve sacrificed and changed enough that she can forgive you. And her forgiveness is so powerful and pure that it not only restores you to life but also undoes all the other evil magic. Together, you defeat this final enemy, paradoxically by banishing her to the same Underworld where your mistakes accidentally sent your aunt and uncle and her parents long ago.  Peace has been restored. You have returned for good and are finally secure in your family’s love.

And after all that, there are *still* people (both presumably in universe and in the fandom outside of it) who say it's too little, too late and that it would've been better for everyone if you'd simply stayed dead.

Like I'm just... are we really victim-blaming the character who has 45 years of unprocessed trauma and guilt (both survivor's guilt and guilt in general) because of a decision he made when his brain was still developing and he was being manipulated by an older, much more powerful person?

[klein-sodor-bahn]

Based on real events

Okay wtf I‘m back. I dunno what happened to this post being labeled.

Engine crews in East Germany had the liberty to add white lining to their engines. Was is not allowed probably did they care nope. The engines tho would care lol. They overdid it on this 01.5 Lmfao and she’s not happy. Also Charlie back in the day was a real gossip auntie. She always had the good tea.

[zeetbl33p]

...damnit. Why did I end up getting attached to Citrus? Lhclhfo

[bonebuckets]

they could NEVER make me hate you Hera