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tofangirlornottofangirl · 1 year

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the horrifying realisation of discovering you have *a type* and that type is sagittarius men

#I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT #NO FUCKING WAY #whats with the sag rizz #im suffering #im unironically having a breakdown over this #i would like to have confidently said 2 seconds ago that atleast gojo isnt my type but im not even sure about that anymore #what catastrophe of a placement has doomed me to like noncommittal men???? and so specifically #realising my only real long term relationships have been sagittarius people #this guy i dated for years but it was basically platonic with some teenage angst thrown in #and my only bestie in life #and the rebound friend i made after the bestie breakup #WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME #is it the father challenges #or the mother challenges #or the being a functional person challenges #*dies*

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tinsil · 10 months

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status effect!

#ink challenge 2023 #earthbound #mother series #ness #paula polestar #jeff andonuts #prince poo

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novembermorgon · 7 months

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The queen wore a high-collared black silk gown, with a hundred dark red rubies sewn into her bodice, covering her from neck to bosom. They were cut in the shape of teardrops, as if the queen were weeping blood.

cersei lannister mourning dress youre always on my mind

#try not to say mother challenge #wanted to draw a rhaegar to match but didnt have the energy .......sorry... one day #cersei lannister #queen cersei #cersei fanart #house lannister #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #a song of ice and fire fanart #asoiaf art #asoiaf fanart #game of thrones #got #game of thrones fanart #rhaegar targaryen #moart #fanart

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bryanbozzi · 3 months

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father and son…

#charles leclerc #ollie bearman #f1 #try not to say mother challenge

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lousolversons · 2 months

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Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie À Deux

#dcedit #lady gaga #harley quinn #jokeredit #joker folie a deux #jokerharley #filmedit #film #gif #TRY NOT TO SAY MOTHER CHALLENGE LEVEL: IMPOSSIBLE

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amymbona · 1 month

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I fear this is the hottest thing Josh O'Connor has ever done..........

#josh o'connor #mothering sunday #paul sheringham #challengers #patrick zweig #god's own country #patrick zweig x reader

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miochies · 1 year

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what was meant to be Cytherea doodles got a bit out of hand..

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #cytherea the first #cytherea loveday #fan art #my art #try not to say mother challenge failed #dulcinea septimus #dulcinea #cytherea

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whetstonefires · 3 months

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The reason I keep banging the Jiang Fengmian drum so hard is not that he did nothing wrong--he's definitely in contention for best parenting in this book but that bar is in the ground--but because most of the takes I see about him are so extremely bad.

If you want to slag him off for trying to make choices that would hurt no one, and winding up properly protecting no one as a result, that's valid! That's an interesting and text-based critique, which opens into his parallels with Lan Xichen!

If you want to blame him for being weirdly over-invested in Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng being bffs, that's fair, that definitely contributed to the weirdness between them. If you want to say he was a poor communicator, that he fundamentally misunderstood his son, that he failed to be emotionally available in a way his kids could get much use out of, even that he should have figured out a way to stop Yu Ziyuan from creating such a hostile environment, all of that is fair game!

If you want to tackle how the worst thing he did to his kids was die I am so interested in how Wei Wuxian went on to abandon A-Yuan by going to his death, and how that might be tied to how his primary adult role model tied him to a boat and went off to a fight he knew he was going to lose.

After his parents had already left him like that once before, presumably less intentionally.

But no, instead I keep seeing that Jiang Fengmian didn't care. That he never expressed affection. That he actively participated in Yu Ziyuan's fucky game of forcing proxy conflict onto the boys instead of constantly trying (and failing) to shut it down, or that he ignored her bad behavior because it didn't affect him, or that he fought with her constantly, or that he was too much of an unmanly coward to stand up to her when she wanted something.

All of which are directly in contradiction to every scene he's in, and several of which manage to invert or erase the actual conflicts between him and his wife that were the source of all that tension.

And which are really interesting, because some of the most intractable elements are ideological--Yu Ziyuan is fundamentally a conservative and Jiang Fengmian seems to want to be an egalitarian, which ofc matched poorly with his hereditary authority as patriarch of a large sect.

The fact that the bit where we get to actually see him failing to parent Jiang Cheng consists of him gently and firmly trying to correct Jiang Cheng's ethics when what was actually needed in that moment was reassurance for the well-founded insecurities that were causing him to be a little bitch, only for Yu Ziyuan to charge in and make everything fifty times worse, is so much more interesting than literally any version of this family dynamic I have seen in fic. It's to the point I'm relieved when writers kill Jiang Fengmian off, because it means they probably won't feel the need to character-assassinate him too badly.

The number of people I've seen come right out and say some variation of 'men can't be abused' is killing me here. No, Yu Ziyuan wanting to hurt her husband does not constitute sufficient proof that he abused her first and deserved it! That's not how anything works!