#my roman empire as the kids say

[destielwarmsthecocklesofmyheart]

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[lesbiansuga]

507 days until jimin is back ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ map of the soul 7 dance practice making film

cr. namuspromised

[exewing]

what if we hated eachotherrr *twirls hair*

[danrifics]

what do u mean dan called phil his 😭😭😭😭

dan said all this in 2020, it was the first documented occurrence of phan husbands

phil calling him husband is nothing compared to this

[ifishouldvanish]

Think about how deeply Alucard buries his anger and pain, how hard he is to provoke because it's not what his mother would have wanted and he doesn't want to become his father, how it all manifests as this pervasive, detached melancholy and a sense of duty at the expense of the Self...

Think about how quick to provoke Olrox is, how justified he feels in killing Julia (right in front of her child no less) how openly he displays contempt, how comfortable and righteous he feels in his anger, how he refuses to bow to anyone until it's under threat of force; an abject refusal to give up the Self...

Think about "i thought you were just a myth."

Think about "a goddess should know where all her dragons are."

And then think about that voyeuristic shot of Alucard weeping alone in the castle after Dracula is defeated, and think about Olrox turning his back to hide his tears from the viewer when Mizrak leaves...

Now imagine these two healing and finding balance together 🥲

[pumpkinrootbeer]

imo there is something to be said for how Lip is consistently placed in the position of protector/parent. Obviously we see him take care of all his younger siblings, especially Liam. But beyond that from very, very early on in the show we see him have a strong vested interest in protecting kids, like when Karen is going to give the baby up for adoption; "Now, uh, do you check the, uh, families for, you know, um, alcohol and drug abuse? Make sure they have enough income to feed it and stuff?", "But they're still good families right? You make sure they're going to decent parents?"(s2.8)

Or in s3.4 when he convinces Mandy to help him rescue her half-sister, Molly. "She sounded desperate. Let's see if we could get her, let's see if we could help." and "If she ran, it was probably for a good reason, no?"(s3.6). Of course there's the entirety of season 4, where he's not only willing to drop out of college to look after Liam but then is afraid to even let Liam out of his sight for almost the rest of the season. And then, obviously, there's Xan in season 8 & 9, a complete stranger but still a kid in need who he then helps without question. He also gives Xan and her mom ten thousand dollars.

Also in s4 (sorry just a really good Lip season in general), it's Lip who realizes something is wrong with Ian and goes looking for him (s4.5) and then it's Lip who takes care of Fiona after she breaks parole (s4.10). On top of which, the only reason Lip is even going to college, despite vocally saying he doesn't want to numerous times, is because it'll help his family if he gets a good job; "Except the little ones Debbie, and- and Carl, and- and Liam, and, my sister Fiona. I could be there for them but I'm not. You know, 'cause I'm here. 'cause I'm told that, that's something I could do for those kids, in a big way, in a real way.' (s5.8)

This perception that Lip both doesn't care about Fiona (or the rest of his family) and doesn't do anything for them is such a misconception. Obviously, there's everything he does to help in s4, from picking up Fiona in Wisconsin to stealing food and cooking dinner every night, but there's how he does try to help Ian, like in s7.3 when he convinces Ian to take his meds. Or in s9.6 when he does a gig as a sober coach to get Ian money for his commissary account in prison. And, then, of course there's how Lip is the reason Fiona goes to AA in s9, both by convincing V to not enable Fiona, "What kind of friend do you want to be? The kind that sees her drunk at the Alibi every morning?" and also by telling Fiona, "Get to a meeting."(s9.12).

I think it's also worth mentioning that Lip only kicks Fiona out once she starts being a danger to the kids in the house, "I'm not letting you stay here! Not with Franny, and not with Liam. No fucking way."(s9.12) Keep in mind, the previous episode he had to body block Fiona to keep her from yelling around and at Xan.

It's just such a wild misreading of the text that Lip is callous or selfish in regards to his family, and especially in the context of Fiona and their relationship. When people say that Fiona always took care of Lip and he never gave anything in return, or that he pushed her to take care of their whole family and never stepped up, I think they're just willingly choosing which parts of the show to engage with and which to ignore.

Obviously there's the age gap, she's 5 years older, (in s8 Lip says he's 23 and Fiona says she's 28) so I'm not sure how much you guys wanted a 4 year old to pitch in when you bring up what she was doing at 9. But beyond that, when Lip got old enough to help, he did. We see him helping throughout the show, we see him stepping up and caring for everyone including Fiona. And it's not just Fiona he was helping, he did Kev and V's taxes, he was the one who came up for the plan to keep Debbie out of jail in s1 when she stole the baby. He helps JimmySteve throughout season 1-3.

And at the exact same time, Lip ends up having to solve most of his problems on his own or he just never brings them to Fiona in the first place. When she does find out he has something going on, her advice usually boils down to telling him to fix it; "So what are you going to do?"(s2.5) "Make it right with Ian."(s2.6) "You want to piss away every single chance you get, including this job, that's your business but don't drag me into it."(s7.10) It's also interesting how in her big "I was nine" speech in s7.12, Lip is the only one she doesn't mention.

Honestly the only character we see actually looking after Lip during his struggles with alcoholism is Debbie throughout s6 and 7. ("I don't want you to end up like Frank" being the reason he goes to rehab, "Do you need us to hide the beer?", "He's trying to get sober Frank!", and of course her confronting him in s7.11 when she finds out he's been drinking and makes sure he's going to a meeting.)

I wanna make it really, really clear that I'm not blaming Fiona or anything other character. I honestly think it's actually really compelling story telling that Lip is the sibling Fiona has a completely different dynamic with and that he's the one she consistently leans on. Not to mention, Lip clearly struggles to accept help and is pretty closed off emotionally. (Almost every big scene we see regarding their family he shuts down and goes silent.) But! I do think there's just this wild misconception with Lip's character that he's ungrateful, selfish, and uncaring towards his family. Yes he's prickly and rude and arrogant, but he's also incredibly caring and that's been a consistent character trait since day 1.

[five-star-stay]

🦊: Everyone goes through difficult times, hearing the words “I love you” during those times became a really big strength for me and I heard these words “I love you” from Hannie hyung.

My heart, my jeongsung 😭💘💘

[fuckyouheresyourcoffee]

Do you ever stop and think, whether Eve choked on the first piece of meat that She tasted? With a tongue accustomed to fresh, sweet fruit from the Garden, it must have been hard to accept Her fate.

How could the strange texture of warm flesh and the metallic flavour of the blood be reminiscent to the sharp bite of apples, or to the soft ripeness of a fig?

Do you ever wonder if She beat at Her breast, wailing in despair and terror as bile claws up Her throat? Did Her hand curl around Her swollen belly in a furtile attempt to keep away the night?

And when inevitably Her hair turns grey, crows-feet at the corner of Her eyes, smile lines etched deep, does She reach Her hand out to the heavens, bemoaning Her loss, yet smiling, smiling all the same? When Her hand finally slumps down, did it touch Adam's?

[1386]

[atypicalacademic]

WIP Whenever

@dirty-bosmer and @memaidraws thank you so much for the tag (Also tagging right back at you). My longfic is giving me hell so I'm chipping away at that Babette fic I've been meaning to finish. Tagging @ollifree @dumpsterhipster @cumbiazevran @aria-i-adagio if you'd like to come along.

There was a garden patch tugging at the edge of her memory, brushing her bare calves, dirt clinging to the edge of her skirt. Time paused there, behind her eyelids, in the burning-bright flash of sunlight searing her skin, time paused there, throwing up the bright red of rosebuds. So many lives sent to Sithis that she could never tell one from another. But a springtime kill came with a jumble of confused memories, her own tepid innocence reflected in frightened eyes. Her penitence had lived for far, far too long, and she’d drained it since of it’s lifeblood too. But for what it’s worth, she’d tell Babette, young Babette with her blue eyes and her love for apple-pie and flowers, to follow home the lanterns. For your own sake, little fool, she’d tell her, don’t stay out there, alone in the dark.  No matter how sweet the voice that beckoned from beyond the roses.  No matter how dreary it was, the towering stone walls of Papa’s estate, the loneliness leaving her flapping her clipped, caged wings.  No matter how very much like love a vampire’s hunger looked.  Turn around, she’d tell that finite, fragile thing. Go home. Nothing kind-hearted comes calling this long after sunset.  “So,” Astrid asked her. “How did it go?” Babette put away her knife, tidied her skirt, and mimicked the last rodent she’d sunk her fangs into. “Mind your step, sweetheart, what a lovely smile you have. I’ll show you home, don’t you worry.” Easy as pie. “The same bluff for three hundred years. You’d think they’d stop falling for it.”  “You’re a treasure, my dear.”  She smiled. Prey, all of them. Drunk on daylight, stumbling heart-first into knives. Or don’t, Babette. She thought. Or don’t go home. Walk all the way to the voice, and don’t let anyone turn you back.  Only this garden, kindly bereft of roses, was honest in its poison.

[propalahramota]

Hello, mutuals, my kith and kin, time for a super specific historical beef!

I know, it's been a while.

I stumbled on the post below in the Ukraine tag and I was very surprised by it. Usually when I go to that tag, I'm annoyed by pro-russian bigots and tankies, but this time I was annoyed by a stupid Normanist take! Fun!

This blog, which gives me bad vibes so I used a screenshot instead of reblogging, claims that the Kingdom of Kyiv is a 100 percent Viking-made, and those dirty Slavs had no ability to govern themselves.

I say: Bullshit!

And let me make it very clear that I don't agree on anything with putin. He is a psycho and war criminal who uses his own pseudohistorical delusions to justify his imperialist conquest. Both him and the author of this post are wrong.

Let me tell you why:

Our main source on the early Kyivan Rus is The Primary Chronicle by Nestor, also known as The Tale of Bygone Years. It's not a contemporary source. Nestor wrote decades after the most recent of the events he's describing, using the stories he had heard himself as well as earlier Byzantine chronicles. Thus, as you can imagine, it's not super accurate in places, and sometimes the author leaves pretty big gaps in the narrative that historians have worked to fill in.

For example, King Igor (aka Ingvarr) came to rule Kyiv after the death of his predecessor Oleg the Clairvoyant (aka Helgi), who himself had come to rule Kyiv after two guys called Askold and Dir. Nestor calls Igor Rurik's son but timeline-wise the math isn't mathing, so it's much more likely that he was Oleg's son, or nephew, or something like that. Igor marries Olga (aka also Helgi).

And then something really weird happens.

Ingvarr and Helgi have a son with a super unusual for a Viking aristocrat name - Svyatoslav.

And then Svyatoslav has three sons named Oleg (one more Helgi), Yaropolk, and Vladymir.

Vladymir ends up taking the throne and, being a massive manwhore, has a bunch of kids - most of them have Slavic names and some have Greek names. Vladymir is succeeded by Yaroslav the Wise.

It may not seem like a big deal but the King of Kyiv and his wife, who were both Viking nobility, suddenly decided to name their heir and only child a Slavic name. And after him, the old traditional Northern names completely go out of use in the dynasty.

Which means that somewhere in the early Xth century, which is not at all long after the establishment of the Rurikid dynasty in Kyiv (mid IXth century), there was a monumental shift in the Kyivan court politics that urged the foreigners on the throne to make a public effort to assimilate with the local population. We don't know what happened. Nestor never told us because he either didn't know himself or didn't think it was worth mentioning, but this monumental shift is right there, between the lines.

And you are going to tell me that the local Kyiv elites had no say in the government? That Rus Statehood was completely imported and foreign? That the Kingdom of Kyiv was invented by the Scandinavian conquerors?

I say: read the fucking sources, twats!

[flurmitcraff]

Cub, Scar, & Joe on Cub's stream right now

Con....concorp??? 🥺

[5283]

lino day may be officially over but lino day always lasts for me. bc i think about this poem once a week at the very least.

[stormyoceans]

You won, Monica, Day called Mork Khun in the first ep!

IM INDEED PARTAKING IN SO MUCH UNPRECEDENTED UNPARALLELED UNMATCHED LEVELS OF WINNERY JUST FROM THIS FIRST EPISODE ALONE I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACT

im actually glad no one was here to witness my reaction when i heard both day AND mork use 'khun' while talking to each other because i was climbing the walls of my apartment like a rabid gecko sfjksgfj BUT IM JUST!!!!!!!! SO IN LOVE WITH THEIR DYNAMIC AND THE WAY IT GETS REFLECTED BY THE LANGUAGE THEY USE WITH EACH OTHER!!!!!!! because here's the thing.. day does NOT call night 'phi' but uses 'gu/meung' instead, which is very rude since he is the younger brother, and if in the past that might have hinted to them being particularly close, now it's pretty obvious that day uses it as another way to show that he does not respect night in any way. mork, on the other hand, easily calls night 'phi' and refers to day as 'nong' to the lady from the association. so it's interesting to me to hear them use 'pom/khun' with each other because yeah, those are the polite pronouns you would use with a stranger, but it also puts a lot of (emotional) distance between them

in a way it makes sense: day is not about to call anyone 'phi' that easily when he closed himself off to everyone (we'll see next ep if on [kun's character] is the only exception to this) and mork is in a weird position because not only day isn't talking very nicely to him, but now mork is technically working for day too. and it's just gonna be SO DELICIOUS to see them getting closer and closer and have their language slowly change with it!!!!! LIKE IMAGINE MORK STARTING TO CALL HIMSELF 'PHI' WHEN TALKING TO DAY!!!!!!! IT'S GONNA SOUND SO WARM BUT ALSO SO FLIRTY!!!!!!!! AND DAY IS EVENTUALLY GONNA GO ALL SWEET ON HIM AND CALL HIM 'P'MORK' TOO!!!!!!!!

AND IM GONNA GET DRAGGED INTO A PADDED ROOM BECAUSE THE INTIMACY THE FONDNESS THE AFFECTION THE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ellianasdeadpointeshoes]

It is only logical that dancers with long hair have hairography.

[stuckinakillingjar]

ok i finally finished this shit and honestly, they wasted some good acting on this fuckass writing.

i'm also still mad bc of that boring ass kiss between juha and doyoon. they could've put all of juha's sexual repression into it but nooooo they had to blur it and make it lame