#personal borrowing

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Seeing Protector of the Small fanart reminded me of something I wanted to say.

One of the things I love about the series is that Kel’s life gets better over the course of it. Oh, the enemies she’s facing get tougher - in the first book of the quartet she’s an 11-year-old fighting bullies at school, by the fourth one she’s an adult fighting in a war - but the number of people she’s got on her side and at her back expands immensely.

In the first book, she’s virtually on her own at the start and she has almost no control over her fate - whether she will be able to pursue her dream of being a knight depends solely on the arbitrary judgement of a raging sexist. By the second one, she still has enemies, but also a sizeable group of friends, and is a mentor to younger students. By the third, she has some of the most powerful people in the kingdom on her side, and is virtually never without either emotional support or people willing to go to bat for her. In the fourth, she has dozens of people – including the aforementioned raging sexist, who has some of the best character development in any Tamora Pierce novel – supporting her when she does something that is technically illegal.

She’s never more alone or less in control of her fate than the moment, as an eleven-year-old girl, when she says (paraphrased): “If I want to be a knight in order to help people, then I’m going to help people now even though it will probably ruin my chances of ever becoming a knight; because otherwise what was the point?” And the fact that she sticks to her principles doggedly and refuses to turn aside from anyone who needs help is why she has so much support by the end. With a lot of that support coming from people whom she helped and supported because they needed it, people whom the rest of society ignored and discarded and regarded as useless, and who turned out to be tough and talented and invaluble friends. It’s not an authorial gift, it’s the cumulative effect of the mountains of hard work she’s put in over the previous books, usually with no expectation of any return.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Flower Empowered.

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[pallanophblargh]

I have a disproportionately loud mess of a head for no discernible reason* so it’s kind of a miracle that I spent the last month and some change willing myself to wield watercolor again. Witness the struggle! A long overdue color sketch for a (super patient) client.

Just watercolor with a boop of gouache.

*they are a mush of small but immense problems??? Executive dysfunction being maximized by meds the main culprit…

[rainofthetwilight]

when you slow down this scene, there's a little detail that–while not really noticable–arin's reactions are a little later than the rest, and his facial expressions shift alot moreso than the others, showing how he's probably pretty unfocused

and with that detail, kai seems to be the one who's the most focused, as even nya and lloyd's expressions occasionally shift (lloyd being the most out of the three of them), while he stayed unchanged the entire time

[canisalbus]

in the modern au would they adopt?

There's been talk of this a couple of times before and I'm still on the fence about it myself. I think Vasco likes the idea of fatherhood and would have children if given the choice. Machete doesn't hate children but is strongly unnerved and doesn't know how to deal with them. So the odds of them agreeing to initiate the adoption process aren't promising, but if they, by some random chance, found themselves responsible for a child, it's entirely possible they would grow very attached to the kid and excel as parents.

[daincrediblegg]

I love all the little metaphors of colonialism that hickey latently displays through modes of dress. Every single thing about him is piecemeal. His coat, his boots, his very name, and even his mentality all stolen artifacts of a society that will never be his. They wanted nothing from him so he took from them piece by piece until he was able to construct a simulacrum of a man. Things that he takes and then disposes of when the next most powerful thing comes along until when he's naked again and wills to give his tongue to acquire something even higher than men only for his hubris to eat him and render him into pieces in turn... truly a magnificent metaphorical experience.

[echosong971]

“The Mechanical Puppet with the Borrowed Soul”

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No spoilers for the endings in the tags, please <3

[abirddogmoment]

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I don't think non-herding breeds should be allowed to take herding tests.

[nipuni]

A stroll through the royal gardens and a traditional lunch in the early 1800s 😊

[cobaltfluff]

so i started playing persona 4

where are the QoL features

[biggirldreaming]

The comfiest fit 🤌🏼

(Don’t add text, keep it in tags)

[wallspikes]

thought too long and hard about sewing as a gesture of love and making clothes for a borrower even if the materials are wrong and you’re no good.

[fure-dcmk]

This genre of volume cover where conan is wearing heiji's outfit; thanks gosho

[angoryt]

Sleepover turned therapygroup

Zahndrekh thought that it would be a great idea to throw a midnight tea party for some people who seem to need an opportunity to relax. Imotekh was not very much interested in the invitation, until he was befuddled by hearing that Orikan had been invited, and accepted? At which point he thought he might as well give it a shot.

And so the Sautekh emotional support club was formed.

[ahollowgrave]

-- crowned with flowers. Odette and Fornax enjoying the quiet of Odette's garden, surrounded by friends.

[feat. the fantastical and charming Fornax of @verysmallcyborg!]

A bonus shot, just for you:

After this they attend knitting club, btw. Which is a few OCs strong and the second I see knitting props!!!!!

[antisocialhatred]

y'all friendly reminder to check for hidden tags because i just walked out with a whole purse thinking it didn't have the metal tag, the alarms went off and i ended up paying €15 for this stupid purse (the bodyguard saw it on the floor after i threw it away sneakily so i just bought it to avoid getting searched), left and then realised the security sticker was actually inside the box of a €5 serum i had stuffed in my sleeve like 😭 i don't even know why the towers didn't ring when i left the second time but fuck off i could've gotten the purse for free and now i'll have to check inside every box every time smh