#and the sweetest person

[marleneoftheopera]

Happy trails to Lucy St. Louis, London’s first black Christine! 

July 27, 2021 - January 21, 2023

[sunny-sainz]

“a proud Irishman” 😭😭😭

[yesterdayiwrote]

Sorry, but I'm SO fucking happy for Switzerland right now.

A non-binary artist has won Eurovision with an operatic pop rap song about discovering their non-binary identity.

Despite the absolute shit show the EBU have presided over this year and the disgusting way they've treated various contestants... THIS is what this contest should be about.

[ahhrenata]

[willowser]

i will say. i will talk and write about shy, no rizz katsuki until i am dead in the ground BUT. i do think once he gains a bit more confidence in himself as a partner—he really becomes the same gremlin little shit he is about everything else.

starts feeling like he's got this relationship on lock and that's when the ass smacking begins.

[grendelsmilf]

i still find it so interesting how jackie is (was?) largely defined by her niceness, her friendliness. she's not the strongest, or the smartest, but she can bring people together. so when she is mean to the other girls, you notice it. she's mean to taissa when she feels like her position as leader is undermined; she knows that taissa is just as much of their leader as she is and it scares her. she's mean to shauna when she finds out about jeff; understandable considering what a huge betrayal it is (at least on the surface). but the girl she is by far the meanest to is nat.

and there is no good reason why anyone should be mean to nat. she is kind of treated as a punching bag, and taissa especially resents her because she doesn't like the idea of nat threatening the team's performance with her day-drinking or whatever. but nat is by far the kindest, sweetest, most compassionate, genuine member of the team. even as an adult you can see that she might be jaded and grieving and ruthless, but she's still at her core a good person. young natalie especially though is someone with a very strong moral center and uses those guiding principles of kindness to define who she is.

she's more mature, capable, and sure of herself than the rest of the group, because before ever landing in that forest, she's had a much harder life than the rest of them. we see that van probably doesn't have the best home life, but the rest of them are living comfortably. even if they don't have great relationships with their parents, they still live in middle to upper class households. nat grew up in a trailer park with a father who horribly abused her and her mother (until the day she witnessed him accidentally shoot his own face off). these circumstances made nat more resilient, braver, and more empathetic than the other girls.

and i think jackie recognizes that, whether or not it's a conscious recognition. she knows that nat is everything she herself is not. nat is confident in herself whereas jackie is terribly insecure and relies on external validation to uphold her own identity. where nat comes from poverty, jackie grew up in a huge house. where nat is comfortable having sex with boys, jackie is too repressed to have sex with her longterm boyfriend because she's terrified of having to confront the fact that she won't actually like it. natalie expresses herself through alt/grunge fashion, music, and culture, whereas jackie is as preppy as it is physically possible to be. natalie is jackie's perfect opposite: a poor outcast who is nevertheless comfortable enough in her own (hetero)sexuality to present in a (gender) non-conforming way and not care what others think of her to jackie's rich popular prom queen soccer captain who is debilitatingly insecure and sexually repressed, conforming perfectly to society's expectations of her to the point that she'd rather die than explore the possibility that she might like girls.

jackie has negative interest in travis, but she breaks him and nat up and steals him from her anyway. and the thing is, nat doesn't even care. she forgives jackie. when lottie locks jackie in the closet (ha), nat is the one who comes to her rescue. when travis apologizes to nat for sleeping with jackie, she says it doesn't matter to her. jackie is horrible to nat, but nat is genuinely mature enough that it doesn't even bother her. jackie wears her insecurities on her sleeve, and nat sees right through her. she doesn't put up with jackie's bullshit, but she's also gracious enough to not gang up on jackie with the rest of the girls, even though she's the only one who actually has any right to be mad at her. nat is generally apart from the rest of the team, not only because she's an outcast, but because she's simply above their petty dramas.

jackie doesn't have a good reason to be mean to her. she's the kindest, sweetest girl on the team. but jackie is mean when she feels threatened, and nat's existence threatens her very identity.

[antiqua-lugar]

Wyll: Should this inner fiend seek battle again, I'll give it one. Let it taste the edge of the Blade. The Dark Urge: It's really all right? Wyll: It is. You are my greatest adventure- and what is an adventure without monsters to slay, and toasts to be made after? You don't have to shoulder this burden alone. And next time you're in a killing mood, let me know. I'll point you in the right direction.

[vegetadaily]

My wonderful and talented friend @petite-madame (+ Twitter) made this beautiful drawing for me and I just had to share ❤️

[huangrenjuns]

(000323) - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUANG RENJUN ♡

[beanghostprincess]

Do you ever think about how much Sanji likes flowers and how often he uses them as a love language because his usual way to show affection is through acts of service and for him the peak of romance is traditional flower gifting and language?

[yanderemommabean]

For those who know I rescued Sammy (Sambo, Sambone) about two years ago from a horrible neighbor and I thought I’d give a silly little picture or two for an update!

He’s just a little guy!

[thephoenixcave]

“Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Humanity” but make it ff6. The original is by Jean Leon Gerome and is part is part of a series he did relating to the expression “truth lies at the bottom of a well”

Terra seemed the right person for this piece because all her life she was abused and mistreated by the Empire, then she finally escapes and fights back! She comes to finally accept herself, all of her self, and becomes the stronger for it.

This was also originally printed in the FF6 2024 calendar; it was the pic for October I think.

[husband]

We've had a big problem in the area of a byb dumping dogs recently, my neighbor caught this puppy this morning

If yall could rb this around/send a couple dollars my way so I can take her in for a vet exam/deworming tomorrow morning <3 need $150

Also accepting name suggestions, though I'm heavily considering Lydia

[illustoryart]

So true, Gulliermo 🥲

[quakiebaka]

I love that no matter if you ship dragonfruit, spicynoodles or chimera, we can all agree

red son is the one to get overly flustered and fall the hardest for the other(s)

[goiwantamuffin]

Me: yeah I watch doctor who for the plot

The plot: