#pocket minimal

[rakuceal]

Pocket sized princesses

[may-beforejune-afterapril]

cressida cowper s1 and s2: 😒🙄😬😷😡

cressida cowper s3 pt 1: 🥺🥹🤔🫡😙

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 99

i have NEARLY finished the skirt for my ren faire fit i just gotta get a few finishing details added and also get the undershirt bleached (bc i got a bunch of makeup on it at last years fair and shit Stained) but THEN i can show yall the final fit!!

[incelq]

i love the minimes.. i like to think they R like littlest pet shops of the qsmp residents 🐱🪿💗🫧

[madamescarlette]

Actually one thing that fascinates me about the shift between the book and the movie for TBoSaS is the actual intent put behind two of Snow's biggest game-changing (ha) actions, dropping the handkerchief in the snake's tank to save Lucy and recording Sejanus' confession and subsequently betraying him.

Obviously with the shift of medium they have to make things more obvious, but it's just opened more depth of thought to me because in-book how he recounts these actions are as reflexive, things done in the moment without really thinking about it (when using the remote he literally says his hands "acted on their own [...] before he had been aware of deciding to do it") vs. how in the movie he seems to actively think through and enact them knowingly. You can still make an argument that the Sejanus situation is pretty much the same, especially given that he more goads Sejanus into talking, but with Lucy's situation he literally RACES out, tears his stitches and finds the tank and doesn't just drop the kerchief, he literally has to stuff the stupid thing in a side vent, a far cry from the book's version, where he drops it and wonders if he hallucinated the entire thing.

I actually really, really am intrigued by it as a narrative change though because a) him actually consciously doing these things puts more weight behind them, they're not just things that HAPPENED to him (a common stance he takes internally), they're things he cared about making happen so he did them, but also b) it places Lucy Gray as continually the one being who makes him most human, so it makes sense that his most kind-hearted action is a decision to try to save her.

One thing that made me saddest about his character from the book was that he has this seeming inability to view anybody as a fully-fledged human besides himself (even his Capitol classmates are differing levels of crass or try-hards until he needs a reason to be emotional about them, and THEN what he cares about with them is their shared childhood memories, almost never anything about them in the present day) but when he's a mentor is the time that he becomes most fully-fledged, he has sympathy (however fleeting and easily retracted) for Clemensia and Jessup besides wanting Lucy to survive. And perhaps he only does it because he feels that he owes Lucy a debt for saving his life, but it still happens, and he still ends up seeing them.

To me, this disproves his and Dr. Gaul's thesis; I don't really think the most base human instinct is for us to hurt each other, I think it's closer to not wanting to leave each other behind. When he has the least to gain from these people, what he cares about is their survival, the least amount of their pain. What we want from each other is for you to get home safe. That's what gives it such beauty that he would risk so much to get Lucy home safe, and so much more damning that he would throw Sejanus to the wolves. That there is equal impetus behind the choice to save somebody at risk to yourself, just as there is behind condemning somebody who placed their absolute trust in you; these are the choices that make a man. Sometimes, even a flicker of humanity can save your soul within you. The tragedy is he simply didn't want it to be saved, so the flicker burnt out before it could even take shape.

[martyrmarked]

it isn't until she seals the breach that sidri thinks the inquisition has any chance of surviving. prior to that, she makes any and all choices with the understanding that the inquisition is going to be short-lived and, when it inevitably disbands or fails for one of a thousand reasons, try to ensure that the blowback won't be targeted towards the people, groups and places she most cares about. absolutely none of this is ever voiced, but it guides all of her actions.

sidri thinks the inquisition, while needed and undeniable well-intentioned, is absurd (and it is lets be honest) so she acts as if she has a very limited time on an important stage.

when she manages to seal the breach, for the first time sidri suddenly understands that not only does the inquisition have some true power, it's going to continue to grow in power, and she very quickly has to completely reframe her goals and mindset.

[karokawwo]

ok now what if i told you i wanted to redesign hellebore, sash-*falls dead*

[starstuffandalotofcoffee]

it is, actually, you idiots

[engagemythrusters]

my General Akiyi Tonn and Commander Hilt, heads of the 116th Battalion. She is prim and poised and all things proper, and he is stoic and silent and would rather take on twelve B1s weaponless than talk to anyone. And they are fucking and don't even bother trying to hide it. At least they command well together...

[therighthandofvengeance]

Ivanova: I did not spend my childhood carrying more chairs than I should have— out of spite— from my schoolteachers asking for help from some “big, strong boys” to rearrange the chairs in the room just to be confined by the stupidity of the patriarchy and its subsequent heteronormativity.

[ligbi]

is anyone else in a field that feels like climbing up a falling ladder?

went to school for MIS (computer science but less programming more business) graduated 14. First job 15-18, another 19-20, and then 21-23. every time I job hunt I see positions that I had seen before but the amount they offer seems so much lower than they had offered? sysadmin seems like a position I could have sword was averaging 120k/year in 18, and now I'm seeing a listing for not even 60k.

I know every job is working their employees to the bone for as little as they can get away with while the world burns down but god you do everything right- go to school, go local to keep loans low, get a degree in something that can pay you instead of something you like- and you still get screwed

we need universal healthcare, ubi, and a fix to the housing crisis, as well as making all jobs 30hours 1.5x for any hours post that, and capping maximum pay (15x the lowest paid employee's salary is extremely generous. 30k for employees? You still get almost half a mil a year you greedy fucks)

[forever-teaparty]

[riseninsaturn]

okay so for clarity’s sake here is every single Pokemon one-shot i have planned and their writing states presently (organized in the order i would put them in the series): 

- Phoenix and Maya ride a Lapras around for six hours because Maya wants burgers. they talk about growing up and all that stuff too but this is mostly a comedy one-shot. Not written but I have at least the beginning mapped out in my brain

- the story behind Klavier’s Lampent, which is a lot less about Pokemon and a lot more about codependency, grief, and the symbolism behind Kristoph Gavin’s dusk stone. Written out but not edited

- Apollo Justice on becoming a Pokemon trainer (featuring his perpetually pissed off yet affectionate to Only Him fire cat Mikeko), coming out as aromantic, and having the most CONFUSING found family possible (so basically a character study) Not written as I came up with it two minutes ago

- Nahyuta on his scientifically rich yet politically tense career, featuring a lot of Pokemon research, a lot of meeting said Pokemon researchers, at least one emotional breakdown, and whoever that one trainer is with sixteen Honchcrows. I don’t have any plans for this fic to be honest but I love Nahyuta’s character in the au and I like Blackmahdi so. 

- Klavier and Daryan go on a day trip to Paldea, in which Klavier learns how to be a person again, Daryan goes on a self-acceptance journey, and the two of them figure out what happiness looks like for the damned. Not written not planned but I want Klavdar for this AU i want Klavdar so bad.

the plan is to write the first fic soon ish so that I can start posting these, but knowing me I’ll crack and start working on the Apollo or Klavdar one because um heart emoji <3 

[ghostlychief]

Me writing part three to pockets of peace: how much hurt/comfort and angst can I fit into one chapter 🤨

[misskamelie]

Every interaction I have with my peers is always somehow permeated by a halo of "they can tell there's something off about me"

[destinationtoast]

My grandmother is Japanese and really likes to give gifts. Often those gifts are Japanese desserts or other food, but sometimes she just slips me cash, folded up inside a tiny, beautiful envelope. But she likes to pretend she's not giving me money, so when possible, she'll hide it somewhere that I will find later.

Today I spent the afternoon with her doing chores and tech support, and she clearly felt this warranted a significant gift in return (no matter that I enjoyed myself). But she forgot to slip something into my pocket or bag before I left, so instead she rushed outside as I was starting my car, making the old-school "roll down the window" gesture. Once I complied, she was forced to acknowledge she was handing me money, but she also tried to minimize the gesture.

The result was that she said, "Thank you, dear! I just wanted you to be able to... to buy yourself a hamburger," and then handed me a darling little envelope that turned out to contain $100. And all I could think was: