#no one else matters tbh

[statementlou]

FITF LIVE the DIY bonus tracks (RIP covers and Lucky Again official live versions😪)

~will update with more, but these are the ones I'd already sorted out for me to have; requests for other missing tracks accepted and added on if people want~ 505 live from Cardiff 7 live from Rio de Janeiro Night Changes live from Cincinnati* Back To You live Lucky Again live from Chicago** Beautiful War from Live From London Megamix live from Austin (yes this one WILL be on the record but who wants to wait I love getting to listen to this whenever I want) *beginning is a little bit messy but best audio throughout I found... plus the way he says 'beautiful!' in the middle is 🥵 **I could not find as good a sound quality version of this as I would like at all :( if anyone has a better version please send it!!

[adwox]

the two most decorated soldiers of the offputting wars

[tchaikovskaya]

🤪🫠😛😅

[ralvezfanatic]

if he isnt mine whats the point of ANYTHING like fr 😕

[annihilatius]

The urge to make irrelevant/side characters be prevalent in my Minerva's Den rewrite even tho I wouldn't know what to do with them immediately just cuz they barely got shit to do in canon

[sketching-shark]

You know, I feel like one important thing that’s barely ever mentioned about Sun Wukong is how while he very much is a murder monkey who intimidates people into giving him free stuff he also only rarely ever starts the fights he gets into. His battle prowess means that he’s pretty capable of escalating until his opponents either give up or end up dead, but he hardly goes out of his way to throw down. Like just to give a few examples:

His first murder of the Monstrous King of Havoc was committed because this guy was “brutally abusing” SWK’s family, including through kidnapping their children;

While he did indeed steal a lot of immortality-granting treats from heaven, he refused to go to war with heaven until the gods “had broken down the door [to the Mt. Huaguoshan cave], and are about to fight their way in.”

The two times when he encounters a band of robbers, he only kills them after they had repeatedly tried to kill him.

He kills the Six Eared Macaque because he had “dare[d] change into my appearance, take my descendants captive, [and] occupy my immortal cave.”

So the Monkey King is is many ways a selfish and impulsive monkey, but its good to remember that at least in the og classic he’s not going out of his way to start fights, even though he WILL do everything he can to end them in his favor. 

[ablednt]

Granted I have the overall geographical and cultural knowledge of a 4th grader but from what I can tell the nuclear family model really does seem to be a white colonial invention

Different cultures have different approaches but I mainly hear about either large family units where multiple generations support each other and raise their children and grandchildren together or an "it takes a village" approach where children are raised somewhat communally

And I can't really speak on it much or claim that these families were free of abuse or that children aren't often an oppressed group basically everywhere I know of but the way ownership of your children is so engrained into white society is so bizarre

Like once you notice it you can't unnotice it even the most loving well meaning parents don't know what to do about it because everyone is so isolated from their own families and their own communities so you wind up with 1-2 parents who have full legal ownership of their child and are raised in a culture where you don't have personhood until you're 18 and all attempts at self actualization before them are seen as clueless rebellion. Like our culture is so divorced from the concept that a parent is someone who is helping mentor and care for their child so they can thrive as a fellow human being and it's actually so alarming

And ik this problem isn't unique to white and colonized people but it's honestly really soothing to hear about how other cultures approach and view parenting and community as a whole and to internalize it doesn't have to be this way

[wishesofeternity]

“Warwick launched his final bid at kingmaking, this time in alliance with Margaret of Anjou to restore Henry VI. He and Clarence landed in Devon while the King was in Yorkshire. Elizabeth (Woodville)’s initial reaction was to prepare for a siege in the Tower of London where she had already retired in expectation of the imminent birth of another child. But on 1 October news reached the capital that the King was preparing to set sail from Bishop’s Lynn, abandoning his kingdom. With no hope of imminent rescue, Elizabeth moved swiftly into the Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey with her mother and her daughters. She sent Abbot Thomas Millyng to advise the Mayor and Aldermen that she was surrendering the Tower, and consequently Henry VI, into their custody.

- J.L Laynesmith,  “Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight’s Widow” in “Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts” / “The Last Medieval Queens, English Queenship 1445-1503″

"Elizabeth (Woodville) at first fortified the Tower of London against the approaching Lancastrians, but then decided instead to hand over custody of the Tower to the mayor and aldermen of London while she went into sanctuary at Westminster Abbey. It was a move which not only protected her daughters, who were with her, but also saved London from attack, which perhaps explains some of the praise she later received. The author of 'The Historic of the Arrival of Edward IV, who claimed to have witnessed much of what he recorded, stressed

the right great trowble, sorow, and hevines, whiche [the queen] sustayned with all manar pacience that belonged to eny creature, and as constantly as hathe bene sene at any tyme any of so highe estate to endure; in the whiche season natheles she had browght into this worldc, to the Kyngs grcatystc joy, a fayrc son.

...When Edward (IV) arrived, there was a scene of family bliss, in which the queen's vulnerability and domesticity could be contrasted with his heroism.  The king was thus presented in an unusually human guise, which might appeal to readers familiar with such partings themselves throughout the civil wars:

The king comfortid the quene, and other ladyes ckc;  His swete babis ful tendurly he did kys;  The yonge prynce he behelde, and in his armys did bere. Thus his bale turnyd hym to blis.

[ploffskinpluffskin]

i feel like probably the castle staff get pretty skilled at reading natori's body language and expressions during any of the king's speeches or what have u, bc they can be fairly minute thanks to him trying desperately to keep his composure in all circumstances

but that it's also definitely led to various games and wagers between them all, where they try to correctly guess how long it'll be before the king goes off-script and whether natori's response will be to smile nervously like he wants to cry or to look like his soul is rapidly shriveling on the spot, etc etc

i don't think natori is totally aware of these games but he is probably aware they're looking at him to gauge just how much of what the king is saying is Legit, and if it's particularly bizarre he will do his best to send some nonverbal signals that he's got things taken care of

[meirimerens]

"If I could grow a little mustache" has the same energy as my schoolmates asking me how I got my hair to be this long (just. Don't cut it)

in her defense a mustache Is harder for a cis woman to grow if she doesn't have the predisposition to it than the rest, if you can't naturally grow the girlstache you can't grow it that's just how it is, whereas even the palest blondest most sickly woman will naturally grow like. pit hair unless she's got hormonal problems. but the juxtaposition of "If I could grow a little mustache, if I could grow a fucking happy trail and unbutton my pants, I would." and The Smoothest Skin On A Woman Alive is. chuckle-worthy a lil to me.

[otogariado]

i get why people would opt to say walter was a terrible person since the beginning, but i think that's like, the most boring takeaway you can get about his character. he was already insecure and prideful from the start, and it's what would hurt him and keep hurting him. but like, being insecure and prideful are regular traits any regular person can have. the actions that he makes because of these traits, which in turn keep fueling his ego more and more, are what makes him an interesting character. and he was already pretty capable of hurting other people, but he wasn't doing it out of malice, but more because of careless selfishness at first. what makes walter terrifying is that the more he does it, the more he becomes aware of what he's doing, and the more he keeps going and keeps being more and more meticulous and deliberate about what he does that hurts people and even to the point when it was specifically to hurt people.

i think the traits were there in walter from the beginning—the pilot did a pretty good job of establishing how powerless he's felt all his life and just how susceptible he is to letting this newfound perceived power get to his head so easily. he even says this explicitly in 5x06 "Buyout" when he tells jesse "i'm not in the money business, i'm in the empire business". but saying he was this monster from the start kind of implies he didn't undergo through a character arc throughout the show when it's quite literally what he did. he got worse. so much worse. through mostly the fault of his own fragility.

[theofficialpresidentoftheusa]

Ofmd makeup department leak the placement sheet for Ed’s tattoos challenge

[aeb-art]

i said i'd make myself benny the cab in the au and i meant it

the toon designs for sun and moon are @ren-054's, though this is definitely too messy to tell lmao sorry

[daisies-on-a-cup]

i like that fitzjames' role so far is just to be the captain's right-hand-arm-man/bf with occasional serious moments but best known for the campy party he threw where he got the entire crew in costumes and pretty dresses

[thegreatyin]

a collection of other nominee categories that i think are about to be a bloodbath this year

and, of course

the real battle of the fates

[cinnabeat]

the idea that teachers would make new transfer students stand up and like introduce themselves or whatever is soo fake bc i had a friend who transfered mid semester into my school and specifically one of my classes and not only did the teacher not force her to introduce herself but i didnt even know she transferred at all for like a good couple months of our friendship