#maybe it's just wishful thinking

[randomnameless]

As for more roman shittiness we can safely say that imperial ambitions really did point to roman rulers wanting to dominate the (known) world by force, and it included heavy state-sponsored xenophobia, as any non-roman was considered little better than a barbarian who they could freely enslave or whatever else they wished (sound familiar? Lol) reading on the gaulish, gothic and britannian campaigns is really eye opening. And to dig even further, their literature on the conquest of israel and how they treated the jews during and after, whew. The coliseum in rome was built with jewish slave labour for example.

The comparisons are obv a stretch considering intsys is very lazy with their writing, but well, seiros built enbarr’s canal with her bare hands and the ungrateful adrestians still don’t care because non-adrestians are all inferior anyways

Yep,

That's what often happens with imperialism - some people bring civilisation others, and those others, in turn, are considered 25th rate people/citizens, free to be exploited, foddered, slaughtered, etc etc. That's why I mentioned the edict of Caracalla in the crossed comments, everyone (men) became citizens like Romans from Rome! Everyone is finally equal... or not?

That being said, about Fodlan, given how Northerners became fodder, I don't think this thing happened or maybe it happened but a bit too late and Loog was already rebelling !

However I disagree with Seiros, I don't know when she built the canal, but she was already around Enbarr performing miracles when people thought she was super cool and formed her Church in -46. Maybe she became an honorary Enbarrian after building the canal lol.

Granted, Supreme Leader is a bit of a special case, and Hubert is Hubert, but I don't remember anyone else in Adrestia who knows Rhea is Seiros who thinks Seiros BaD.

For whatever it's worth, Supreme Leader had to pull out the propaganda machine, I mean, the "information campaigns" to convince people the CoS is BaD and even during the war we know there are some Adrestians - religious ones - who are persecuted because, I suppose, they keep on being religious and faithful to "the Church of Seiros" even if Supreme Leader wants to MAGA and said to that effect Church of Seiros BaD.

And that's what pisses me with Adrestia, we never meet an Adrestian commoner, we don't know if the commoners think they're superior to the rest of the world, by virtue of being Adrestians, or if it's only a nobility thing. At least we can surmise that given how some Adrestians attend to the Officer's Academy in GM, some of them realise that maybe something that isn't Adrestia isn't horseshit, and maybe spending time with people from Faerghus and Leicester isn't a chore and they're not so inferiors that even being in the same place makes them sick, iirc Papa Gautier's first wife was Adrestian !

Even back then during the WoH, were the people of Enbarr thinking the northerners were doodoo because they weren't Enbarrians, or they thought they sucked because they were followers and allies of Nemesis?

The Feast of Decadence portrays Northerners being fed to beasts - even if it's a novel - so was it a common passtime for the nobility during Lycaon III's days, or it has always been like this since the WoH ended, or even earlier, when Wilhelm was in charge (and Seiros around)?

TBF, I'd love to learn more about Adrestia in Fodlan, how it was and when and why did it turn to horseshit, but also, see more of the current Adrestia that isn't Supreme Leader's court.

[kindacreepy-kindaugly]

I really wish someone would tell me what to do

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

[egophiliac]

crossing my fingers and wishing upon every star that chapter 10 finally brings us the tweel cards 🤞🤞

[puppyeared]

learned something about myself lately

[xxplastic-cubexx]

obligatory beach divorce doodling

bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut

[rika-mortis]

Headcanon: Deep down they both want to be their fairy godparent/godkid again after losing them, but don't believe they deserve each other and feel like they aren't worthy to be their companion anymore

They both need counseling and therapy as a whole package

[hinamie]

domain expansion

[biblically-accurate-dca]

substitute

[buggachat]

(random s5 finale musings) tbh I don't think Marinette chose to keep The Secrets™ from Adrien because Gabriel asked her to. I feel like Marinette keeping secrets like that is so consistent with her character; she hates giving people bad news, she hates rocking the boat, she hates upsetting people, she always chooses to keep any 'controversial' information to herself for as long as she can get away with (examples: bubbler scarf, telling Queen Bee she was benched, confessing to Adrien, warning Chat Noir about Scarabella or Rena Furtive, never told Chat Noir about Chat Blanc, etc) that I just totally believe she would've done it either way. She was even already having nightmares about Adrien hating her for finding out she defeated his father, so I feel like Gabriel's request was moreso giving her a go-ahead than it was a primary deciding factor, yknow?

[skywerse]

brothers

[vero-niche]

can i just say how much i adore how Nao-chan's gender is treated so casually in skip to loafer

like, as a white cis woman who is also quite tall and havent read the manga i didnt even realize she was trans until this scene in ep2:

and i didnt even have the time to get nervous how they would handle this as they already moved on, ignoring the comments (just like queer people learn to do so) except for Mitsumi's comforting touch (implying she also heard the comments):

and there were no sad words or anything about this either, it was just handled so.... normally. which should not be something worth highlighting, but, well, you know. also on that note, special shoutout to P.A. Works for casting a woman as her voice actor as well.

she's shown being the supportive and lively aunt and like seconds later in this scene she's back to being her usual self again:

in conclusion

[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[marinsdoodles]

doodles

[egophiliac]

:) hello! :D hope you have a nice day and absolutely do not think of the possibility of one of the last story cards being of silver! and that his groovy will very probably be crying!!! THERE'S SO MANY CRYING PEOPLE IN STORY CARDS LATELY!!! SPECIALLY LIGHT USERS!! I AM!!! SCARED!!!! bc so far we got Lilia and Sebek in the beginning book 7.... so at the end.... so we're missing story Silver... and Malleus is the one with less cards, so they might add one for him... but... the tears... ego.... THE TEARS!!!! EGOOOO!! (LOVE YOUR ART BTW EVERYTIME I GET A NOTIF FROM YOUR BLOG I RUN HERE TO SEE!)

(thank you! 💚💜💚)

YES I am ALSO like...90-95% convinced that we're going to be getting a story card for Silver once we wrap around back to diasomnia. 👀 especially because the way things are going, Silver will be the only character whose dream we haven't seen -- yet???? -- and that just. y'know. makes me wonder!

although I do think it would be VERY funny if he got a story card and the groovy was just "regular Silver except with one beautiful single crystal tear". this is actually a lot coming from him.

(he used up all his emotion yelling at a baby that one time, there's none left for a proper groovy-level cry.)

[whumpsoda]

I. I love vampire hunters turned thralls. Brainwashed into adoring little pets to creatures of which they once chased down with the goal of killing… UGH just someone who used to hate the thing they now address as master… bonus points if they get their memories erased and have no memory of their hunter past :3