#bad stuff

[morgana-ren]

Me wonders how similarly Astarion would treat Tav/ his consort compared to how Cazador treated him (you’ve talked about the scarification thing, but are we gonna be living in a crypt and eating bugs and rats though🤨)

No.

Hers will be a gilded cage will all the comforts afforded a queen. She will gorge on the finest blood, sleep upon the finest sheets, and wear the finest clothes. He will want her by his side-- albeit kneeling-- until the universe collapses. She'll share his bed and be his beloved, but how much of a good thing that is will be very questionable.

She is still under his thrall, though still mostly given free will-- mostly. After all, he fell in love with her as she was. He doesn't want to smother that.

Make no mistake, however. It very much is a cage.

She will be kept handsomely, but she will still be kept. He will make it known to both her and everyone else that she belongs to him, be it by the scars on her skin that bear his name or the tightness with which he keeps her near. If she does as he wishes, fawns over him, bends to him when he desires it, she will live well. Riches and adoration abound. A true trophy wife, showered in love by her husband.

Fight him, however, and things will become much more difficult.

He won't have her seduce and retrieve souls like Cazador did-- he has other spawns for that. She will be expected by his side, supporting his every decision, lavishing him in love, and being the perfect little wife.

Deviate from this role, and that is when things become... hard.

There's a part of him that likes it when she fight back. He likes punishing her because it's fun. Punishment doesn't consist of rats and bugs and dank kennels, but whips and chains and cages. His ascension made him a domineering tyrant, and his punishment is about reinforcing that role to her, having power over her and forcing her to recognize it.

Try and escape? Into the bedroom cage she goes. Tell him that only prisoners go into cages, and he'll say so do beloved pets that stray too far. He'll get her a collar, if she'd like-- a lovely golden one. Let it serve as a reminder where her place is. She wouldn't survive without him there to protect her. Her best interest lies here and she can stay here and allow him to look at her through golden bars-- until he wants her, that is-- for as long as she needs to get that through her pretty head. She's his, and its high time she learned to appreciate that.

Back-talk a bit too much? Argue with him in front of his men? Undermine his authority? Allow him to remind her just who is in charge. If she's a vampiress, obviously she doesn't need to breathe, but having her throat squeezed until it bruises still proves a point. He is bigger, faster, and stronger than she is and he will use it to his advantage. He won't thrust her into the sunlight like he does his spawn, but he will choke her until her voice cracks and wheezes when she begs for mercy.

She doesn't need to talk if she's going to question his authority. Her sassing isn't what he needs her mouth for, so if she's going to backtalk, she can simply not talk at all.

He'll cane and whip her, making a point to say how it hurts him so much more than it hurts her when he's clearly enjoying it-- very much enjoying it. Perhaps she needs a new little scar-- perhaps he wants to see her fear, so out comes the knife. Arousal and tyranny go hand in hand with this new version of her lover, and he seems to delight in her pain and supplication. Making her beg and plead. Making her bend and pushing her limits, forcing her to do things she would never otherwise do for him.

Make no mistake, he gets off on his power. He'll punish her how he sees fit. He'll never kill her, allow her to leave, or cast her aside, but he'll make her wish he would. Her body and mind are his to abuse, and he takes full advantage of that both in and out of their private chambers.

[foundagame]

Haven't checked email stuff happened

[waffliesinyoface]

i keep seeing posts that are like "don't worry. the government may be doing [insert fascism of the day], but they can't take away what really matters. they can't tell you who you are. we will always exist!!"

and like thats great and all but im not worried the government will disrespect me, im worried they will make the drugs that keep me from dying of osteoporosis illegal. im worried they will put me in a gas chamber bestie!!

i know that they cannot kill all trans people because its literally impossible. i still do not personally wish to die though!!

[aladaylessecondblog]

watching Smaug lines to get inspiration for Sithis in FHW

"they sent you in here to do their dirty work while they skulk about outside"

"Did you think I did not know this day would come?"

"the King under the mountain is dead. I took his throne. I ate his people like a wolf among sheep."

"I kill where I wish, WHEN I wish."

"No BLADE can pierce ME."

"You are being used, thief in the shadows. You were only ever a means to an end."

"I am almost tempted to let you take it, if only to see Oakenshield suffer, watch it destroy him, watch it corrupt his heart and drive him mad... But I think not. I think our little game ends here!"

"You care about them, do you? Then you can watch them DIE."

"I laid low your warriors of old. I instill terror in the hearts of men."

"Revenge? REVENGE? I WILL SHOW YOU REVENGE!"

"You are forsaken. No help will come."

[theinvisibledoodlewizard]

Welp…. Grandpa might uhhh… might die. Idk. Might be overreacting? But. Yeah.

He has a 103 fever, and refused to eat tonight… in a kinda gave up way.

Please pray for him, and my family, and the caregivers. We’re all worried…

[angelbluediary]

(gross)

I have upgraded from the tools of my youth (thumbtacks, razors broken out of pencil erasers, a mechanical pencil once) to silver hair trimming scissors with a lovely blue “jewel” in the center.

Giving myself flimsy power in the form of saying “One more hour. 20 more minutes. 15 more minutes and if he’s still ignoring me by 10 o’clock then I’ll do it and I’ll never tell him but it’ll be his fault.”

It is no one’s fault but mine but how dare you ignore me when you broke me out of the ice and have been pushing pushing pushing me to talk, to communicate, that we would work out anything together and when today I explain how you hurt my feelings but I know I’m just being sensitive and then you disappear for three hours when “working out” takes you maybe half the time any other day—

[toruandmidori]

[nathaniacolver]

arcane ships be like

i love a show that teaches equality (😭😭😭)

[wardensantoineandevka]

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

[tpdmus]

Out of Control?

Out of control? “They should be shot!” I’ve been known to say that when someone does something really stupid or makes no sense at all. I’m not big on firearms, but I’ve had the habit of imagining executions for incompetent people—like the one who wrote my gas grill assembly  instructions or the drivers who cut me off. Even computer engineers designing bad software aren’t safe. Cross my path, and you might face an imaginary firing squad, blindfold, and all.

Think about it. Is rage, fueled by verbal assaults on incompetents, satisfying in the moment but ultimately destructive, rotting us from within and backfiring if left uncontrolled?

God’s Word: "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires (James 1:19-20).” 

Rage turns verbal assaults on incompetents into a reflex, satisfying in the moment but ultimately destructive. We “dispatch” offenders for not meeting expectations, but unchecked anger rots us inside. This dangerous rage not only harms others but often backfires, leading to our own destruction. If we can't learn to control it, it’s like a gun that we turn our ourselves.

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matt 6:34) This Passing Day

[waffliesinyoface]

can someone please put the worm back in his brain. maybe like 10 worms.

[squirrel-gay]

Squirrel Life, 30 - 31

(hi, yes, I'm Squirrel and this is my comic, this one is kinda sad but there's silly ones here too)

[max1461]

Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

[chase-omega]

know what, im just gonna say it, idc what backlash i get. bad stuff fuckin sucks. good stuff is way better. everyone suddenly likes bad stuff but me personally? wouldnt be caught dead with it. there's at least 45 Bible verses talking about people who call good evil, and call evil good. and we've hit that point long, long ago.