#control era

[janetjacksonarchive]

[alaynestone]

you're an angel, i'm a dog or you're a dog and i'm your man you believe me like a god i destroy you like i am

[pleaseeeimjustagirl]

Weekly Affirmations

♡ I am the creator of my own happiness. I’m ready to take responsibility and do what it takes to start living my dream life.

♡ I’m going to only focus on things I can control and let go of worry about the rest.

♡ 2024 is a year of wonderful surprises, good decisions, and creative solutions.

♡ I am creating financial abundance, a healthy body, and positive relationships in 2024.

♡ This year is going to be a great and wonderful year for me.

♡ This year, my dreams are coming true.

♡ I am dedicated to becoming my higher self this year.

[goodobservationshirley]

Renegade Nell - s01e08 "Not Some Cheap Trick"

[paintpanic]

Malevolent gods

Are better than none

[artbyace]

remus is my favorite bookworm and gryffindor cassanova

also i love the idea that he’s just accidentally hot without even trying (mary knows what’s up)! might reblog with some personal headcanons later :V

[redladydeath]

You know that theory where Niffty is a former overlord who Alastor chose to brainfuck instead of killing for whatever reason?

Someone make an AU/fic where he does that to Vox

[prettieinpink]

How do I stop doing something that kinda turned into an addiction ? I try and stay off of it for about two days and then I feel like I have to go back and every time I tell myself it’s the last time

Sorry if my English is not good it’s not my first language 🤎🤎

your english is good.

HEALING FROM AN ADDICTION

MAKE IT INCONVENIENT. Place any barriers that you can that make you struggle to access your addiction. 

JOIN A SUPPORT GROUP. Either meeting in real life or online can put things in perspective for you that motivate you to quit.

HAVE A GOAL. Do you want to be more faithful to your religion? Do you want to be there for your loved ones, instead of the other way around? Do you want to advance in your career? Tie the decision of quitting to a goal you are motivated to achieve.

ASK YOURSELF WHY? What does this addiction provide with me in life that I am so inclined to go back to despite it not aligning with what I want? Is there anything else that can replicate the same feeling but not as self-destructive?

REMOVE TEMPTATIONS. Anything in your environment that gives you easy access to that addiction, or motivates you to be inclined to it, you need to extract it without looking back. 

SLOWLY CEASE IT. Do not just randomly go cold turkey on an addiction, because you are going to go back to it every time. I know this sounds weird, but just slowly decrease the use of it or set certain dates when you allow yourself to, and just keep decreasing it until you’ve built up the discipline. 

DISTRACT YOURSELF. Fill up your timetable and schedules to the absolute brim. This doesn’t have to be going out activities, but rather tasks that you need or want to do at home.

COPING STRATEGIES FOR CRAVINGS. This can be similar to the feeling that addiction gives you, a reminder as to why you want to quit or take preventative measures so you do not want to give in. 

[emotional-emotion]

PENN BADGLEY at Thom Browne Fashion Show in New York, February 14 2023

[anghraine]

Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

[jjamestan81]

its funny how different the black brothers are when it comes to being told what to do

sirius hates being told what to do by other people, like his family so he'll whatever he can to go against it. but when it comes to remus, hes sat.

regulus however, also dislikes being told what to do but he'll just bite his tongue and keep his had down. and then later he'll have full control and command over james

[janetjacksonarchive]

[stealingpotatoes]

Does Ben eventually join the school? Would Merrin be able to stop snoke from messing with his mind with like a space excorism or something?

yeah when he's like. nearer age 10!! and it's ok Leia got to him before Snoke could

[pleaseeeimjustagirl]

Weekly Affirmations

♡ My life is just beginning.

♡ I give myself the care and attention that I deserve.

♡ I put my energy into things that matter to me.

♡ I am going to make myself proud.

♡ I have courage and confidence.

♡ I choose to smile and enjoy life to the fullest.

♡ I am becoming closer to my true self every day.

♡ I abandon my old habits and take up new, more positive ones.

♡ I am not afraid to keep going, and I believe in myself.

♡ My confidence grows when I step outside of my comfort zone.

[i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky]

Nico and the Niners | Overcompensate

[dipplinduo]

I remember someone requesting Pecharunt giving up and being Kieran's wingman only to fail miserably, which like i have 2 ideas as to what type of advice Pecharunt could have been giving Kieran and it stems from two things

1) Pecharunt's a pokemon

2) Pecharunt's old

So they'll be giving him advice from the way pokemon mate that it wit essed over the years, or tell him the most outdated swooning methods ever, like Pecharunt's older than Kieran's ancestor, dudes giving a 14 year old Jesus era dating advice

LMAO

Kieran, barging down Juliana's door: My fine lady. O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

Juliana: WHA-KIERAN?

Kieran, grabbing the back of Juliana's hand and kissing it: One half of me is yours, the other half yours-

Juliana: Wait what-

Kieran: Mine own, I would say. But if mine, then yours,

Juliana, becoming unsteady and confused: What are you talking about?

Kieran: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?

Juliana, starting to panic because she doesn't know what's happening and she's half convinced Kieran is having a stroke: Kieran did I give you my fever? Are you okay?

Kieran, getting visibly frustrated that Juliana isn't swooning: Goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!

Juliana: Should I call the nurse?!

Kieran: I WILL LIVE IN THY HEART, DIE IN THY LAP, AND BE BURIED IN THY BEADY EYES, MY DEAR RIBOMBEE

Juliana, internally: OH ARCEUS, HE THINKS IM A POKEMON!?