#based on would-be-true events

[doreenchloepoetry]

we would’ve hated what we became

[egophiliac]

did this as a quick scribble at like 1 AM last night and...immediately lost all motivation to ever clean it up. ( ᐛ ) but I had to draw my son being the fanciest little flower boy who ever threw petals down an aisle. oh my god.

[2hoothoots]

bad influence

[thistlerock]

In a weird character growth invert of shitty teenager Fabian being embarrassed of his friendship with Riz, I want mildly drunk (but not drunk ENOUGH for this to be happening, really.) adult Fabian trying to get someone to stick n poke "I love my friend The Ball" on his ass at a college party and Riz SCRAMBLING to interfere and BEGGING him not to because what the FUCK

[lumpywhump]

thinking of a bad caretaker and a mentally disabled whumpee

"what the hell do you mean? Just do it!"

"I can't! It's not that simple!"

"why not!? I can do it just fine!"

"could you do it for me then...?"

"No. You need to learn how to do this kind of stuff on your own,"

"but caretaker! I'm having a really bad flare up! It's /debilitating/ right now!"

"...shit I forgot about that..."

Extra fun if at the end whumpee feels like a useless piece of crap.

[fartshitpiss]

whatever you do don't think about Wade dancing to You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate in his boxers in the kitchen. and definitely don't think about a sleepy Logan coming in rubbing his eyes and grumbling about the music being too loud and waking him up. and for your sake don't even consider how Wade would slide over the hardwood in his socks, spatula microphone in hand, and force Logan into his choreography

[sirithesilly]

”I’m gonna join a cult, get a partner, and then stab them to death with my dagger.”

-my friend today

[i-kiss-clowns]

having a crush is so disgusting and embarrassing. why is my heart trying to fall for someone who is NOT fictional OR completely out of reach and outside of all reasonable expectations. super insulting to all I’ve worked towards up until this point tbh. do better

[qpjianghu]

Feng Biyu's character introduction in Under the Microscope (2023)

(step on me step on me STEP ON ME STEP ON ME!!)

[tired-american]

Tim, cleaning: *finds a chocolate rasin on his desk*

Tim: Dare me to eat this?

Dick: I mean, if you want to. That's probably not a good idea

Jason: ..yes

Steph, the chaos gremlin: yes

Damian: -tt- this imbecilic behaviour is going to be the death of you, drake

Tim: .... I'm gonna eat it.

Tim: *pops it in his mouth*

Tim:

Dick:

Jason:

Steph:

Damian:

Tim:

Tim:

Tim: *spits it out*

Damian: see, I told you-

Tim: it wAS A BEAN

Everyone: what

[plusultraetc]

Fourteen Days of MHA | 4/14: The Ladies

Momo returns to the kitchen with the glass jar of matches from her room, only to find the candle already lit.

“Oh,” she says. The three wicks of the pink scented candle flicker merrily. “You found the lighter, then?”

“Nope!�� Mina says from where she’s standing by the counter. Tooru is kneeling on it, passing down mugs for tea.

“Oh.” Momo says again, still staring at the candle. Then she looks around for Todoroki. He is not there. In fact, there’s no one in sight.

“Do you wanna know how we lit it?” Mina asks. From the way she’s smiling, Momo is pretty sure the answer is no.

But she’s the class VP. Since moving into the 1-A dorms, the realm of her responsibilities has expanded. She must, intrepidly, proceed.

“… How?”

“Well,” Mina says, reaching for a roll of paper towels.

“No.”

“No, Yaomomo, listen—”

“No.” The stove looms ominously behind her.

“It worked really well! We threw it in the sink right after!”

Momo slams the jar of matches onto the kitchen counter with a little more force than is probably necessary. Mina pouts. “These are the kitchen matches now. They’re staying here. Forever. Just don’t—no.”

[gotmyyass2marz]

ever hear a suggestive song that somewhat reminds you of The Character and feel like this

[wonder-worker]

"Among their complaints [in 1460, the Yorkists] specifically blamed the earls of Wiltshire and Shrewsbury and Viscount Beaumont for ‘stirring’ the king [Henry VI] to hold a parliament at Coventry that would attaint them and for keeping them from the king’s presence and likely mercy, asserting that this was done against [the king's] will. To this they added the charge that these evil counselors were also tyrannizing other true men* without the king’s knowledge. Such claims of malfeasance obliquely raised the question of Henry’s fitness as a king, for how could he be deemed competent if such things happened without his knowledge and against his wishes? They also tied in rumors circulating somewhat earlier in the southern counties and likely to have originated in Calais that Henry was really ‘good and gracious Lord to the [Yorkists] since, it was alleged, he had not known of or assented to their attainders. On 11 June the king was compelled to issue a proclamation stating that they were indeed traitors and that assertions to the contrary were to be ignored." — Helen Maurer, Margaret of Anjou: "Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England

Three things that we can surmise from this:

We know where the "Henry was an innocent helpless king being controlled and manipulated by his Evil™ advisors" rhetoric came from**.

The Yorkists were deliberately trying to downplay Henry VI's actual role and involvement in politics and the Wars of the Roses. They cast him as a "statue of a king", blamed all royal policies and decisions on others*** (claiming that Henry wasn't even aware of them), and framed themselves as righteous and misunderstood counselors who remained loyal to the crown. We should keep this in mind when we look at chronicles' comments of Henry's alleged passivity and the so-called "role reversal" between him and Margaret.

Henry VI's actual agency and involvement is nevertheless proven by his own actions. We know what he thought of the Yorkists, and we know he took the effort to publicly counter their claims through a proclamation of his own. That speaks louder than the politically motivated narrative of his enemies, don't you think?

*There was some truth to these criticisms. For example, Wiltshire (ie: one of the men named in the pamphlet) was reportedly involved in a horrible situation in June which included hangings and imprisonments for tax resistance in Newbury. The best propagandists always contain a degree of truth, etc. **I've seen some theories on why Margaret of Anjou wasn't mentioned in these pamphlets alongside the others even though she was clearly being vilified during that time as well, and honestly, I think those speculations are mostly unnecessary. Margaret was absent because it was regarded as very unseemly to target queens in such an officially public manner. We see a similar situation a decade later: Elizabeth Woodville was vilified and her whole family - popularly and administratively known as "the queen's kin" - was disparaged in Warwick and Clarence's pamphlets. This would have inevitably associated her with their official complaints far more than Margaret had been, but she was also not directly mentioned. It was simply not considered appropriate. ***This narrative was begun by the Duke of York & Warwick and was - demonstrably - already widespread by the end of 1460. When Edward IV came to power, there seems to have been a slight shift in how he spoke of Henry (he referred to Henry as their "great enemy and adversary"; his envoys were clearly willing to acknowledge Henry's role in Lancastrian resistance to Yorkist rule; etc), but he nevertheless continued the former narrative for the most part. I think this was because 1) it was already well-established and widespread by his father, and 2) downplaying Henry's authority would have served to emphasize Edward's own kingship, which was probably advantageous for a usurper whose deposed rival was still alive and out of reach. In some sense, the Lancastrians did the same thing with their own propaganda across the 1460s, which was clearly not as effective in terms of garnering support and is too long to get into right now, but was still very relevant when it came to emphasizing their own right to the throne while disparaging the Yorkists' claim.

[cherry-bomb-ships]

I have a bit of time b4 this next flight takes off (just sitting in my seat right now hehe) so here's a thought that's been stewing for a bit; honestly in addition to being partnered and totally in love with Mojo, my s/i would also be his biggest fan 🥺💖💖 They'd think that everything about him is just so cool and that all his evil plots are so impressive and they'd always hype him up and want to remind him just how awesome they think he is 🥺💖🥺💖 I bet he'd practice his evil speeches in front of them too or let them "proofread" any schemes he comes up with because their opinion matters to him and he also knows that they're probably gonna be giving him lots of compliments and feeding his ego hehehee 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[eggy-tea]

I don’t know who said it first, but three episodes in and I am on team “I am basically enjoying the Murderbot show, but it works best if you think of it as the Based On A True Story version of the books.” Like, this is the version of the story made two or three generations afterwards by folks who had access to a lot of primary sources and do care about getting a bunch of the details right, but who are ultimately more interested in making a TV show than in little things like ‘historical accuracy’ and ‘staying true to character’ when there’s drama to be had.

[attapullman]

My main takeaways from Skincare:

Elizabeth Banks’ 2013 outfits were a joy and invoked a trauma response

biiiiiiig ol’ blue eyes

I really need to book my monthly facial