#don't forget to be yourself

[tk-sketches]

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[wolfsplosion]

happy sparkle on it's wednesday phobos

[kirboyo]

HAPPY WEDNESDAY Y'ALL

Art by: https://www.tumblr.com/spacy-catgirl Thanks again! <3

[radioactivebat]

WAS VERY IMPORTANT. JERMA MEME BUT BETTER.

[sparkleonitsmcr]

10/12/2022

Made it barely under the wire of still being Wednesday, but today features a gif and a flamethrower. 

[cheesydelphox]

happy laharbolt wednesday everybody! don't forget to be yourself

[jinxcast]

i feel almost obligated to post this doodle

[iced-bees]

[amynchan]

For people who get caught up in their own head and hold onto characters a bit too tightly like me:

Don't forget to point out how you're different from them. Even if it's just a little bit. Don't forget to do that. It's very important.

Sincerely, A person who sometimes forgets pieces of her own personality when she kins too damn hard

[annalyticall]

tumblr is bad site TO YOU. I know how to curate my experience tho

[bogos-bint3d]

Sparkle on its wednesnady

[aeide-thea]

on principle opposed to describing art i dislike as 'masturbatory' because even though it's an alluringly contemptuous word to sneer it's impossible to reconcile with my pro-masturbation stance

[wowitsverycool]

[iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife]

[dadrielle]

I can't stop thinking about just how emblematic everything in those conversations of Ashton being "a child" are of how, even at her most beaten down, triggered and traumatized, Laudna is not and will not be what Delilah wants her to be.

For Delilah, "they're still a child" is dismissive, a bit derisive, but doesn't even merit being truly hateful. She doesn't find Ashton worth the attention Laudna is giving them, not when there are such more interesting, important things to pull the attention of an adult. Children are only important when they are useful. She will indulge Laudna on the subject, because Laudna is useful, is her vehicle for action in the world, but she only cares about it in the context of getting Laudna to do what she wants. Calling someone a child is calling them unimportant. (Laudna is a child to her)

But for Laudna, who loves children and who understands intimately what it's like to have the helplessness of child, to be trapped under the authority of someone who will never treat you as a full person, even when they are being ostensibly kind, to be so confused and lost and powerless...a child deserves attention more than anyone else. Of course children lash out. Being a child IS in many ways quite awful because the world is so big around you and you don't know yet how to react to any of it, how to soothe yourself - and if you aren't given the attention, you never learn how. Ashton never learned how. Her instincts - instincts trained into her by manipulation and abuse from inside and the world around her - may say kill him, but she fights them the whole way because her heart is stronger and her heart says that the angriest, most volatile child needs care as much as any other. More, even.

Laudna hears Delilah call Ashton a child and agrees on the word, but they have diametrically opposed understandings of what that means, and diametrically opposed instincts on how to treat a child. Laudna doesn't want to hurt anyone, especially children. She loves children. She loves so much and so selflessly. And Delilah is so very very good at manipulating her but she has tried for 30 years to change the bedrock of Laudna's psyche, the truer thing that drives her beyond the base animal instincts of survival, and it hasn't worked.

[erabu-san]

Working hard !