#The beginnings

[potatounicoorn]

No wonder s2 is a hot mess when all the budget seemingly went to Avatar Wan's backstory. Those episodes slayed so hard that the rest of s2 is starving.

[plaguerenamon]

Kathy, the one that started it all.

The very first representation of myself.

[purrpickle]

I had a dream earlier while I was napping that Mon went to England to visit her father in GAP the Series canon and found out that she was actually part of the British royal family. The rest of the dream before it splintered me off to something new was Mon trying to find Sam as she kept having to hide from the paparazzi/news and Lady Grandmother (who now wanted to marry her to Kirk I think!?) so she could explain to Sam that this changed nothing between them.

What. A. Ride.

[htwilde]

Loxley Congregational Chapel, present day (my pictures)

This was the very place where Henry Wilde was baptised in October 1872, a month after his birth. His parents are from Loxley and buried in the chapel’s churchyard after their deaths (his father in 1872 and his mother in 1894). Sadly, the place has been abandoned and most of its interior has removed when I was there.

Here’s his parents’ headstone. You can see his eldest sister, Florence, is also buried here. The grave is at a convenient location at the site and around them are Wilde’s maternal relatives.

[dailybehbeh]

Behbeh

[emilytaylorkelso]

Listen/purchase: Beginnings: 2015-2019 by Emily Taylor Kelso

[chthonic-kids]

this person gets it

[official-lucifers-child]

still thinking about the brainrot that fast fashion has caused in people, like i made this pair of pants that are black and white with a cool flowery design, and an acquaintance saw them and said "wow i'd pay like 20 dollars for you to make me a pair" and i could barely think with how utterly horrified i was at that; i told them that 20 dollars wouldn't even cover the materials, let alone the hours of work that went into cutting, sewing, ironing, hemming, altering, etc. they just had this look on their face when i told them that, when i said i wouldn't make them a pair for even 100 dollars because that was still way too low of an amount, a look that said "you're crazy for thinking that those cost 100 dollars" and maybe i am crazy but holy shit, 20 dollars for a pair of handmade, durable, lined pants fitted specifically to your measurements? 20 dollars for upwards of 60 hours of work? 20 dollars for several yards of high-quality fabric, thread, and buttons? 20 dollars???

[whats-this-mustelid]

I just think that 'animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected' and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there's nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products' are concepts that very much can and should coexist

[heritageposts]

Translation: What a shitshow. This years Eurovision has gone to hell. And it's first and foremost the EBU's fault.

Also, excerpt from the same article:

Throughout the course of the Eurovision Song Contest, the EBU has acted as if they live in a parallel universe. Eurovision is one thing, the world outside something else. The EBU has stuck its head in the sand. Shoved the problem under the rug. Held their hands over their ears and shouted LALALALALA. They appear to have done everything they can to pretend it's possible to hold an apolitical event in a world that's on fire. We have come together to be "united by music", they say, but the sharpshooters on Malmö's rooftops have nothing to do with us! In its struggle to remain apolitical, the EBU has become like a small fascist state in itself, where the artists' space for expression and action has been reduced as much as the undergarments of the Spanish dancers. It is reprehensible.

Reminder again to BOYCOTT EUROVISION 🇵🇸

Don't watch, don't vote.

[froggymagician]

[ruegarding]

that scene in tlo where thalia tells percy he can't start feeling sorry for luke bc luke made his choices. and thalia reveals that the reason they couldn't make it to camp in time for all of them to make it to camp was bc luke kept picking fights. and annabeth never saw this as wrong bc luke was her hero. so thalia had to pick up the pieces. and percy thinking both that luke was put in a cruel position and that luke was putting others in a cruel position. and percy is the only character who understood both sides of luke bc annabeth sees only the best of him and thalia sees only the worst. and that's why percy is the prophecy kid and the one who gives luke the knife. bc annabeth had spent the entire series essentially giving luke the knife when he didn't deserve it. and thalia was never going to give luke the knife. but percy is the only one who can see exactly when luke deserves the knife.

[ashrayus]

absolutely lost it over this fic by @neuro-psyche so. have this comic o(- (

go read it rn if u also love some Good identity reveal fic!!!!

[adriles]

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

[selfhealingmoments]

[emilytaylorkelso]

The Beginnings: 2015-2019 (Bandcamp Exclusive)

This collection of re-recordings takes me through most of my undergraduate degree and then some. Turns out university is no less chaotic and formative than high school.

Not a Love Song was me trying to figure out my feelings for someone. They weren’t as clear as the “I’m so in love” feelings I had in high school. They were complicated. They stayed complicated.

Anything But You came from a party I went to in my first year of university. I remembered one particular guy pursuing me the whole night, and when he tried to kiss me at the end of the night, my brain essentially went “absolutely not. Do not want.” It gave me a little clarity about how I was feeling and about whom I was feeling it.

Fall is peak irony. I was not in love with this person, but everyone around us thought we should date. Every summer break, we’d work together and endure all these comments about how we should be dating. Eventually, I think the comments got to me and I thought, “okay maybe we should just date.” I really didn’t want to ruin our friendship, so it was terrifying. We never did end up dating—he came out a few years later!

The Girl He Thinks I Am, like “Fall,” was written when everyone around me was convinced I should date one of my best friends. Ironically, I thought I was the one with the secret that would make it impossible for us to work out. In reality, I was just dealing with unprocessed trauma, but he had a much more valid reason not to date me! (We’re still super close friends, FYI.)

Finally Over You was me realizing that it didn’t matter how much time I spent living away from home and everyone I knew in high school; those old feelings would come rushing back if I let my guard down, and I was determined not to let it happen.

Ask Me To, One More Song, and Wish You Were Here were all me catching feelings for someone who was still getting over their ex. The feelings were intense and came on quick, but they thankfully faded just as fast. My favourite thing about the songs I wrote about this situation is how the songs somehow sound like the two of us.

Lay Back Down is the product of a very bad mental health moment and a late night songwriting session. Not to be taken literally, but to be felt.

Go is one of those songs I only write when I’m looking forward to my future, “Born to Fly” by Sarah Evans style. I was definitely feeling excited about life that day.

Cryin’ Wolf (Goodbye), despite the mention of “four years,” was 100% not about the first high school heartbreak. It’s about a complicated friendship that just felt like too much.

Elaine (The Elantra) is literally a song about my mom’s car. I wrote it around the time she was finally buying a new car after having Elaine for over a decade, and I cannot believe it made me so emotional!