#i just want my boy back!

[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

[meidui]

aragorn and legolas at each other's sides at helm's deep ♡

[ciearcab]

colours for an old sketch

[inkskinned]

one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

[ryllen]

x

[noxious-fennec]

Snapshots of simpler times..

[p12lysanderdelanne]

i watched the doctor who tv movie (1996) to avoid watching eurovision and why did so many of yall say it was bad that was the most fun ive had watching a film in i dont know when

highlights for me:

• the goo snake

• the master lying about things in insane fashion

• motorcycle right into the tardis void

• the tardis interior like wow what we lost

• truly unethical levels of camp

[tianhai03]

didnt have the time to do a full finished drawing, but i tried to keep up with my tradition for redrawing the same good bro day drawing ive done for 3 years already :')

(last year's, which also has links to prev years as well)

[lovecolibri]

SaL anon here friend after my long and grueling week of moving and renewing the vow i make every move, don't accumulate more than two suitcases worth of stuff. Anyway the timing was good, I didn't miss anything on the RNM front except 2 synopsis that fail to mention either Alex or Michael, only mention Kybel once, and hint at what's sure to be positively scintillating Echo drama *deep yawn*. Can't wait. Oh and M*ria's doing something I'm sure is utterly pointless and self-serving but we'll be

told is super important even as future events show it isn't. And Bonnie will apparently be allowed to interact with other members of the group in a way Alex never has been allowed to. Oh joy. As usual the promo dept is working hard to show viewers the things they actually care about. Anyway, loved your salty thoughts this week, particularly on how every couple in this so-called soulmates show is so badly written. Unlike say 911 you cannot tell me these writers plan out things seasons in advance (not to say 911 plans everything, but they certainly execute storylines with past events in mind *ignores parts of S5 while typing this*). The way the Kybel has played out is a harsh reminder, but it also shows in the way they keep recycling Echo's "conflict" from season to season. Kybel should have been set up ages ago if they planned it all along (which they didn't, S2 clearly is trying to set-up some sort of Greg/Isobel story but then they needed to *Tumblr stop eating my asks challenge* SaL anon here bestie and oh boy, me trying to remember where I was in my salty rambling will be a challenge. I think by part 4 I was going off on how the show was clearly setting up the Greg/Isobel storyline (Isobel meets soft teacher Greg in the same episode she talks about wanting kids someday, it would even work with the soulmates setup but the opposite of Echo since Greg had clearly thought about her despite it being a decade ago) but the writers chose to take a sharp turn from that in S3 so they could use one of the only things people liked about S2 to prop up an unlikable character, even though it made no sense. RNM does have this ongoing habit of using things that people like to try and make their mistakes more palatable (Greg and now Dallas to prop up M*ria, Max's softness towards Liz to excuse him being shitty to Michael). Anyway, let's place bets on if Rosa or Alex gets mentioned tonight ONLY because the people that love them miss them, i say a 10% chance

Bestie hiiii! I missed you! Moving is The Worst but I hope you’re settling in well! And yeah, good timing because you didn’t miss anything important!

I can’t say I’m surprised that Echo is going to have exactly the same argument they’ve been having every time something comes up they need to deal with but like, really? Can’t shake it up at all? Then again, I made this post with a list of like, 23 kidnapping plots over 3.5 seasons so 🤷🏻‍♀️ I can’t wait for m*ria to start throwing things because she can’t connect with her mom now that she’s dead. Maybe she should have spent less time trying to get in the pants of Alex, Michael, and everyone connected to them she possibly could, and spent more time trying to get info from her mom while she was alive. 🙄 You would think after learning what she did in s2, and her little mind journey as Patricia, she’d have wanted to know everything and tried to use her powers for that, but nope!

Also, the way Bonnie, Anatsa, and Dallas are already integrated into the group more than Alex even though Anatsa wasn’t sticking around and Bonnie has been here for 4 episodes is ridiculous. And I love Dallas! I didn’t hate Anatsa when she wasn’t getting people drunk and convincing them to jeopardize their careers, and I think Bonnie has a fun energy. But it just makes it even more glaring that people like Rosa and Kyle and especially, especially Alex are missing from the group dynamics.  

I sooo agree that Kyble should have been set up ages ago if that was the plan all along. You never know how many seasons you’re going to get, and oh look! Here we are. I agree that it looked like they might be setting up something with Greg and Isobel which I would have loved too! They had ONE scene and it was just crackling electric chemistry! Plus, that indicated a history there that caught and kept his attention for all these years which would have worked with the “alien soulmate” set up. Her ending up with someone who loved kids and took care of them all day would have been great and it was one of the things people liked so much about him. So of course it had to be erased in order for him to be with m*ria “why are kids always sticky” d*luca 🙄 Them re-writing his character and then never letting him have scenes with Alex again except for the one where they talk about m*ria was a crime actually. 

Clearly the show has never once learned from it’s mistakes because the pacing issues, the “telling” instead of “showing” issues, the plot holes, the passage of time making zero sense, sacrificing other characters, plots, and time to prop up m*ria for....some reason, who knows, taking fan fave characters and shoving them with m*ria to try and make her likable, and the inability to handle the missing episodes for characters in a way that makes sense (mentioning them when they aren’t there, but also making sure an episode they are missing doesn’t have a scene it makes no sense for that character NOT to be involved in, unless they also give us a good reason why. And no, yet another kidnapping or coma for that character is NOT a “good reason”), NONE of it has ever worked and have been continually brought up as issues that the show refuses to address.

You’re optimistic with your 10% there! 🤣 I’m hoping for at least a mention though I’m sure it will be because he didn’t call m*ria back or something but also hoping we get to at least SEE him and where he’s currently being held! But also not holding my breath for that either. They did mention Rosa coming back for one of the later episodes in the synopsis so it would make sense for her to pop up before then to remind the audience who haven’t seen her since last year who she is and why we should care about her, but again, not holding my breath. When is m*ria missing an episode again? Because I don’t know how much more of this nonsense with her and Dallas I can take.

I’ll be trying to watch tomorrow so cheers everyone and good luck! Lets manifest Alex at least being in a prison of some kind and working on his escape instead of just still breathing dirt in that hole. It’s been a MONTH since we’ve seen him on our screens. Get it together RNM. 

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Been thinking about the X-Files recently. A show I have a hazy, but fond memory of.

[egophiliac]

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY, THE NEXT BOOK 7 UPDATE FOR THE JP SERVER IS SET FOR MARCH 1ST.

HOW WE FEELIN LADS!?!?!

AHHHHHHHH NOOO I'M NOT READY, I thought we'd be getting the fourth anniversary first and then Sebek's birthday and then maybe some more episode 7, I didn't -- I didn't think it'd be Friday --

oh god and they're rerunning the story cards, they didn't say this was the final part but it feels like...maybe the penultimate chapter? could the end of episode 7 finally be looming in the distance?! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO

[stuckinapril]

Just a girl who wants to be her mother’s daughter in the ways that matter

[deimcs]

Mystra has dictated the terms of my potential for long enough. The Crown would grant me control of my own destiny at last.

[rainymoodlet]

永遠の夏 — eternal summer.

[myheartisworstkindofweapon]

Damn, hit song "From Now On We Are Enemies" by Fall Out Boy was right. I really do only want what I can't have.