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[greatfairymia]

Ghirahim steps around him, orbiting Link as a dark star, unseen but felt; he's behind Link then and hands clawed and reaching slip snakelike across his ribs, encasing Link in a moment of easy bliss. He is held as sure as the demon had held his hilt, secured and known in a world that would take away his humanity. It can’t be right to want this so badly, but Ghirahim pulls him back against his chest and Link wants it anyway.

“Not a gasp of air or flesh fear-stiffened but instead a flutter of shy magic... Do you know how you feel to me? Like a thousand suns, like a forest bleeding, like the brightest light that ought to burn my hands in heinous purity.”

[quotes-for-the-soul]

A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one most show and never tell.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

[persuasivestrawberryafternoons]

The Spires that Hold 2/6/24

The spires

Iron 

Metal

Chain 

Caging

Pulling

Pulling away 

Ankle shackles 

Wrist restraints

A manacle stifling

A heart beat 

I know what it's like 

To be forcibly held away

The metallurgy seeped

Into my blood

Mixing with the 

Already present iron

And lead

Just to survive the poisoning

I let it harden me

And stopped

clanging at the gate

And became the metal

That made up

The bars and chains

But you took the file

You took the chisel

And the metal you tore away

Curled and flaked

But the bars that once held

Bars of land and sea and gravel and iron

Are forming once again around me

if I bare the pain

And I yell and I scream

Perhaps they won’t become me

[themovementquality]

Daily gifs 160/365

Esme Chou in Withheld

[tenth-sentence]

In October, the magistrates made him pay £36/7/0 plus costs for wages withheld.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

[kwoojii]

happy maid day💥

[miiilowo]

prepare for trouble and make it double

[teaboot]

you have some really evil, selfish and toxic ideas irt whos allowed to have friends, you know? i see pop psy people like you all the time making lists of things that are clear and obvious trauma induced behaviour, and then immediately flip to how if you have a friend who ever behaves like this they are evil and need to be cut off, theyre not allowed to have support systems to get better! you really hate bad victims, huh? if someone isn't demure and cowering and self effacing in their symptoms they don't deserve anyone? i got assaulted and when my friend group threw me out on my ass and called me too fucked up for acting erratic and strange in the aftermath and being unable to communicate why they used your posts to justify it. its sick that people like you will look at someone uncontrollably acting out their ptsd and go wow you aren't doing this nice enough to be tolerated! people like you talk so much about compassion but when it comes to people in actual crisis you don't give a shit. no, theyre acting too problematic. just cut them off! no one should help their friends!

original post

Please allow me to take this opportunity to make some things clear.

First, you do not know me. You do not know anything about me. You do not know where I've been, where I'm going, or where I am. All that you believe that you know is extrapolated from information I have volunteered to share. Information that is, by clear and honest choice, edited for both safety and personal security. Remember this.

Second, and I say this in the kindest of ways, because I have had to learn this lesson myself:

Nobody Owes You Shit.

Have you ever saved someone from drowning?

I have.

Do you know that a drowning person struggling to get air will instinctively drag you under them?

It's hard to save people in the water. It takes specific skills and knowledge that not everybody has. Not everyone can save a drowning person without drowning in the process.

The lifeguard needs energy, and strength, and expertise, and persistence.

The swimmer needs self-restraint, and composure, and the desire to be helped, and the ability to do what they can to facilitate their own rescue.

I believe in kindness, and generosity, and compassion. I believe in trying persistently, and in giving the benefit of the doubt wherever possible. I believe that people are good, and small, and trying. And I believe that I can give all the energy I have inside of me to help someone and still come up short.

So you're drowning? I'm sorry. That must be terrifying. That must be miserable. You must be experiencing the worst moments of your life. I hope someone nearby knows how to help you. I hope they have a raft you can climb into, or a rope for you to grab, or a float you can cling to. I hope things get better. I'll call for help, and give you what I can to get you to shore.

But don't you dare drag me under water and curse me for saving myself.

Now get out of my fucking inbox.

[button-drop]

The most dysfunctional marriage ever <3

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[maureen2musings]

ryandyar

[greatfairymia]

He found Ghirahim’s shoulder with his hand and traced a path up to his face, cupping his cheek. Standing on his toes, Link stretched up to reach -- but try as he might to meet a pair of lips he couldn't see, the demon pulled his head back, keeping space between them.

He leaned up further, not giving up, but Ghirahim only pulled back in time with his attempt.

Link frowned. “Stay still.”

“Oh but this is much more entertaining.”

[gideonisms]

my hot take that will get me screenshotted by 2-3 ianthe bloggers is that griddlehark is actually more toxic than harrianthe. when you think about it both parties can Leave harrianthe eventually even if they'd still have to see each other. The power imbalance just isn't that severe. and I don't even think ianthe wants it to be. I think SHE thinks she wants it to be a sexy power imbalance but when it comes down to it and the moment arrives when harrow would fuck her out of desperation to be safe, ianthe turns away. She doesn't want harrow that way. She wants harrow to forget Gideon so they can be lyctors together forever. She wants to mutually maim each other. I think it's even consensual maiming. harrow broke one of gideon's ribs when gideon tried to leave her!

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

i'm not an amputee so absolutely tell me to stay in my lane if applicable, but it seems to me that there's something really unique about the way that black sails handles silver's disability and the narrative role of his prosthetic. as in, it's one of the only shows i've seen (although i'm sure there are more out there) where 1) a character's mobility is more impaired when using a prosthetic, and 2) where using a prosthetic is explicitly portrayed as an effort to appear more able-bodied to others in a way that's harmful to the amputee character: silver insists on wearing the leg in front of the men to the point of giving himself an infection and limiting his mobility in a fight because he's worried about maintaining his authority. while he doesn't choose to stop wearing it, i think it's telling that he also doesn't try to have a replacement made after he loses it or otherwise seem bothered by being seen using his crutch after he establishes the myth of long john silver by crushing dufresne's skull with his metal leg for mocking him as "half a man," symbolically tying the myth to his disability

[haec-an]

mark & haechan tds2

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

People are like "what I'd TS supposed to do about Palestine, she has no obligation to say or do anything, she's a celebrity!" But imagine if she said "I'm postponing all tours and further albums until a permanent ceasefire" like!!! Swifties would actually be a force for good in the world.

if she said “ceasefire now” rn swifties would actually find a way to stop the genocide by the end of next week

[hollowtones]

The demo for "Great God Grove" is really cool BTW. Really strong establishment for this game's setting and tone and story. Character and environment design is killer but that's a given considering it's a LimboLane joint. I've already got some capital-t "Thoughts" about where I think the plot is gonna go that will either make me sound very silly or sound like history's wisest prophet. LOL