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[ingravinoveritas]

I just saw a video from David's time on assembly (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI1RiBWRSML/?igsh=Z2k1d2FzYzNtNnV2)

and while I was never sure about this tattoo, it feels especially coerced now. "banging on for years about me getting one to match. and it's never been something I've wanted to do, but because it's her 40th birthday..."

some will say this is super romantic but for some reason it squicks me out. she's begging him to get a tattoo of her initial, and him outright saying he was never wanting to makes it feel so forced.

Hello, Anons. I did see the clip in question, and I appreciate you both writing in to share your thoughts. I'll put the video up here, for folks who haven't seen it yet:

Anon #1: Like you, I also was not completely sure what to make of the tattoo, and had mixed feelings that have not gotten any less mixed over time. Something I had said when we first saw it was that I think there are a lot of different reasons why people get tattoos, but it's not always the reason that you think. Having watched this clip, that seems to be even more the case.

From my perspective, there are two possible ways of looking at this. One is that yes, David did overcome his fear of needles and decided to do something sweet for Georgia's 40th birthday. That's a big deal, to face a fear for the sake of someone you love, no question.

But to only look at it that way is to ignore the backdrop that David sets the story up against. In the first place, David saying Georgia got her tattoo a "few years ago" is wildly misleading, as she actually got it before they were married/when they were barely dating. So reframing it as "a few years ago" is a heck of a choice.

Secondly, though, is David's choice of words: "It's never been something I've wanted to do" (which speaks for itself). And then "banging on." That Georgia was "banging on" at him about getting a tattoo to match. This is a slang term that's used in the UK, so let's look at the exact definition of "banging on":

So from this, we can infer that Georgia pushed and pushed for David to get this tattoo--pressured him, as you said, Anon #2--to the point of annoying him. Because "banging on" is not playful. "Banging on" is not teasing someone or offhandedly mentioning something once or twice. And Georgia, despite knowing David's phobia of needles and that he (in his own words) never wanted to get the tattoo, kept at him over it. In essence, she would not leave him alone about it, and that was when he decided to get the tattoo.

The other piece that I feel like folks are missing is that near the end of the clip, David says "...and that for the past few days, I've managed to pretend it hasn't happened yet." This seems to suggest that it was not the tattoo itself that was a surprise, only when he was going to get it. Because if Georgia did not know about the tattoo at all, there would be no reason for him to pretend he hadn't gotten it yet. So this idea of him planning it in secret is contradicted by what he is actually saying, and it seems like the tattoo was not as much of a surprise as he is making it out to be.

(Also, he says he walked around with a bandage on his wrist for several days, and it's concerning that Georgia never even seemed to notice. Or if she did, and David made the excuse that it was an injury from Macbeth, why would she have not been concerned? I've heard from several folks who are married who've said that if their spouse showed up with a bandage on their arm, the first thing they would do is check the wound. So it seems very strange that this was not the case...)

Taking all of this into consideration, that brings me back to what I had said initially. People get tattoos for a lot of different reasons. But getting a tattoo because someone brought it up over and over to the point of irritation and you wanted them to stop doesn't seem like a good one. Simply put: The only reason that someone should ever get a tattoo is because they want one. If David wanted a tattoo and was excited about it, he could have gotten it years ago...but he didn't. And I can't help thinking that if he was the one begging and pleading and pushing Georgia into getting a tattoo of his name, we might be seeing this in a very different light.

Again, all of this is only my observations and thoughts...but we now can't move away from the fact that there is video of David saying what he said about getting a tattoo of Georgia's initial. So I hope folks will watch that video and decide for themselves what to make of it...

[goldenslumbersketchbook]

What if the big four met the trolls how do they react?

It would be a pretty pleasant experience.

[dontvap0rdawave]

wave is so beautiful I'm sorry I had to say it fr

no, you know what, you are absolutely correct

she really is that cute fr!!!

[blackbird-brewster]

Mom!Em Fic Recs

@bau-babygirl requested: Fics featuring Emily as a mom [X]

JJ/Emily + Kids

[Find all of these and more fluff in my Domestic Jemily collection on AO3]

Mother's Day by w00t4ewan (me) Rated: G || WC: 715 Summary: Henry helps Emily surprise JJ on Mother's Day

Dreams Do Come True by w00t4ewan Rated: G || WC: 2000 Summary: Emily and JJ take Henry to Disneyworld on their first family vacation.

Breakfast by w00t4ewan Rated: G || WC: 840 Summary: Emily tries to let JJ sleep in and winds up with her hands full of a certain toddler.

Love is an Open Door by w00t4ewan Rated: G || WC: 1010 Summary: Emily and Henry work together to plan an unforgettable evening for JJ.

Jemily Ficlet Archives by w00t4ewan Rated: M || WC: 31,000+ Summary: An unrelated collection of Jemily ficlets and headcanons which were originally posted on my tumblr and up until now hadn't been shared on AO3.

Sand by @otahkoapisiakii (Phoenix_Falls) Rated: G || WC: 2630 Summary: JJ and Emily incorporate Henry in their wedding ceremony

Steps by Phoenix_Falls Rated: G || WC: 4670 Summary: Modified prompt from tumblr: "you asked me to the store with you and your child, and now my distant relative we met thinks im married with a baby"

Darwin by Phoenix_Falls Rated: G || WC: 831 Summary: Henry has an odd nickname. Likely takes place in the same verse as Steps, but 11 years later Mittens and Hats by @velutluna Rated: G || WC: 1944 Summary: JJ and Emily take their sons for a walk in a winter wonderland.

Perfect by velutuna Rated: G || WC: 660 Summary: A perfect evening at the home of the Prentiss-Jareau family.

Happy Birthday! by @ellegreenawayslover Rated: G || WC: 2028 Summary: Emily’s feelings during her birthday, her feelings years ago, and how she finally is truly happy with her life and how it turned out.

Morning Cartoons and Middle Names by @vhsrights Rated: G || WC: 2634 Summary: A shift in the numbers on his digital clock indicated that the time had arrived. 7:15 am. No sound of an alarm echoed through the upper floor of the Prentiss-Jareau house. There was pin-drop silence, and then the quiet chaos began.

Bonus: My Master List of MomEm Headcanons & Fanworks

Other Fics: Emily + Kids

A Year in the Life by @gaelic-symphony (thelarkascending) Tara/Emily || Rated: T || WC: 8455 Summary: Twelve vignettes from the married life of Tara Lewis and Emily Prentiss, written for the Year of the OTP writing challenge.

handprints on my soul by @prrentiss (unitchiefprentiss) Tara/Emily || Rated: T || WC: 32,000+ Summary: tara and emily after the events of just a dream. Maternal Instinct by thelarkascending Alex/Emily || Rated: G || WC: 1207 Summary: Motherhood brings with it complicated feelings for new moms Emily and Alex. Written for the CM fandom gift exchange Halloween Interlude by w00t4ewan Tara/Emily || Rated: G || WC: 1573 Maternal Instinct by thelarkascending Alex/Emily || Rated: G || WC: 1207 Summary: Motherhood brings with it complicated feelings for new moms Emily and Alex. Written for the CM fandom gift exchange

Bluey Mom by @alexblakeisgay (ArwenLalaith) Alex/Emily || Rated: G || WC: 2713 Summary: The adventures of Emily Prentiss as she navigates running the BAU, being a wife and mother, and her relationship with gender.

Oh, My Darling Clementine by ArwenLalaith Alex/Emily || Rated: G || WC: 930 Summary: Emily Prentiss is not above bribing her toddler daughter to get her to call her Mama…

Book Ends by ArwenLalaith Alex/Emily || Rated: G || WC: 18,500 Summary: Emily's life revolves around Lux - her four year old autistic daughter. She hasn't had a relationship since she got pregnant and certainly isn't looking to start one when she meets Alex Blake: phenom children's author.

Alex's life since her husband left and her son passed has revolved around writing and little else. She's been a recluse for years when her agent finally convinces her to make an appearance at her latest book launch. Little does she know, she's about to meet a four year old girl that will change her life....

[serial-llover]

HELP; MARAUDERS FANDOM

I'm currently reading the HP series front to back but I'm really interested in all the marauders content I've been seeing online!

What are the most popular marauders fanfics? I'm unsure where to start so if anyone has any recs it would be greatly appreciated! I'm just trying to dip my toes into the fandom, I would love to read the different stories/canons.

Please if anyone has any recommendations on fanfics I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW!! (the most popular ones? the first one(s) i need to read?) whenever I search wattpad I become extremely overwhelmed by the amount of options lol. Thank you so much!

[minecraftrelatedrandomness]

hihi! i was wondering if i could rq a doodle of rats!Bek? :3

don't worry about the scarf from her wife, it's in the laundry rn!

thank you for voting for piracy in the @transmcytshowdown!

[krowfaced]

People I’d like to get to know!

Got tagged by @seaplusglass! Here goes

Last song: Venom by Smash Into Pieces Favourite color: Orange, Green close second Last movie: Don't even remember when I last saw a movie. Leon: the Professional maybe? Last TV Show: Probably watch shows less than movies. Arcane, is my best guess Sweet/ Savoury/ Spicy: Sweet and sour Relationship status: Taken by @sundiessoon Last thing I googled: Can you be naturally resistant to morphine 8) Current obsession: Audio dramas in general, I am in Eskew specifically Looking forward to: Moving into my pretty apartment!

Tagging @sundiessoon, @niladhevan, @tea-me-and-salt, @desperish, @pupuroon, @kwillow and @steel-10100 (Only if you want to ofc)

[pixelatedollhouse]

Hey! I just stopped by to let you know that I'm quite a fan of your gameplay and storytelling style (though I don't always interact, I'm a silent lurker and I'm always late so I don't want to spam you lol) Never been a big fan of ts4 either, but through your gameplay I always found myself really enjoying the game and it encourages me to try it again sometimes. I can safely say that you're in my top 10 blogs that I love ☺️ so please, always keep simming! xoxo 💚

Oh thank you, this was such a lovely message to receive! <3 I am often a silent lurker myself, so I totally get it.

Hearing that my gameplay is inspirational in some way is honestly the biggest compliment, I'm glad it gives you the itch to try playing again!

At the end of the day I like being able to look back at my own posts and see how far my sims have come since I started their save, so I will most definitely keep on simming and sharing. :)

[camein2nd]

CAN I PRETTY PLEASE REQUEST A PRIOR WALTER DISCORD LAYOUT, SPECIFICALLY CHRISTIAN BORLES VERSION IF YES I LOVE YOU SM THANK YOUUU

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[sisi-learns-languages]

Soft Sign (ь) vs Hard Sign (ъ): Russian

If you’re anything like me (a beginner grasping at straws trying to learn Russian) then the soft vs hard sign concept is very foreign to you. The signs are not sounds of their own��� they are clues telling you how to pronounce the consonant that precedes it. Here is a quick overview of soft vs hard signs:

Soft Sign (ь)

When ь is present after a consonant, this is your indication to palatalize the sound (aka soften). The middle of the tongue should rise toward the roof the the mouth.

Example: стиль - style, фильм - film

Hard Sign (ъ)

When ъ is present after a consonant, this indicates a slight break or pause in the word where the hard sign is located.

Example: объект - object

If anyone has any further resources for this, it would be greatly appreciated! I understand the concept of this, but not entirely grasping the pronunciation. Any YouTube videos or audio lessons would be very helpful! Also feel free to comment more tips for me on this topic!

-S

[ingravinoveritas]

Speaking choices. It shows who a person is to repost the Jesus on the cross scene from GO and the importance of kindness and then spend the entire weekend shitting on a person’s social media posts because you think they didn’t express their love for their spouse enough or reposted something with or without knowing the possible problematic content and a picture you dislike.

Why do you spend your time picking apart someone’s lives? Do you think David Tennant would thank you that you are the breeder of critical content about his wife? That you and the others pick at every little thing searching for secret meanings that their relationship is a sham or abusive. It’s all well and fine to not be a fan of someone, but you do realize you are a creating a bullying atmosphere and encouraging others to judge a person by their social media posts. This is not the kind behavior you claim to want.

There are actual real and immediate problems in this world. The government is kidnapping people and putting them into gulags. A new Joseph Goebbles wants to “cure” autism and speaks about the autistic population in dehumanizing and dangerous language. This woman is not your enemy. She has never hurt you. She has never wronged you. And the fact you cannot help but revel in a completely benign post by being a judgmental, self-important, self-righteous person says more about you than her. The fact you spend your time attacking her than people doing you actually harm is really telling. Even if her social media posts can be awkward at least she’s fighting for social injustices, too.

Again, David Tennant would not thank you for what you are doing. You don’t know him. You don’t know his wife. And the fact that you think you do is really unsettling.

A person is not only who they are from their social media posts. From your posts I would presume you have a erotomania fixation on two actors and attack their spouse and partner because you think they’re unworthy of your fixations. I would think you are an arrogant, self-important individual who craves attention from sycophants. But I know that social media is not who we only are and I know you probably try to do good in this world. I don’t doubt you are someone who capable of kindness, but from what I see on your blog is hypocritical to your post asking for a kinder world. Do better.

Hello, Anon.

I hope this helped you feel better. I can tell that you must have a lot on your mind, to make the choice to put this message in my inbox. To say all of this--well, I suppose not to my face, since we are online and you're anonymous--but directly to me, or at least to the person you think I am.

In point of correction, I did not "spend the entire weekend shitting on someone's social media posts." I barely had time to even be on Tumblr this past weekend because of what I was actually doing.

What I did this weekend was take care of my parents. Not sleep, because my mother, who has Parkinson's, needed my help to get from bed to the bathroom at 4:30 in the morning. Ran around to the point of exhaustion helping my dad, who is still not very mobile because of his fractured ankle, and cooking an entire Easter dinner for the first time ever. All of this while also processing and coping with the emotions of that same day being exactly 20 years to the day my grandmother passed away. My Grandma, who always made every Easter so special.

That is what I did this weekend. And in the tiny moments where I didn't want to either cry or collapse, I posted on Tumblr. And out of the 1,000+ asks in my inbox, I answered two that were right at the top, because they were the easiest to answer. I also received multiple DMs that came in from others who had seen Georgia's posts and had a similar reaction, and there were public posts and comments made by other people hours before I'd even seen what Georgia posted.

The point I'm making here, Anon, is that you know fully well that I am not the only person who saw something wrong in what Georgia posted (particularly the video of the African dancers, which is a hell of a thing to reduce to "possible problematic content"). But you decided to come for me because although I am not your enemy, and I have never wronged you, I am the easiest target. Other people have made it acceptable to hate me. And that somehow means it's okay. In that same vein, how do we describe a bullying atmosphere? Would that be an environment where someone shares their observations based on multiple sources of information and opinions formed gradually over time? Where someone tells people not to blindly agree with anything, to make up their own minds, and speaks out against sending threats or hateful comments directly? Or would it be an environment where someone creates a blog (multiple blogs, even) solely for the sake of attacking someone? Talking about how ugly they are, how worthless their life is? Calling them things like "stupid bitch" and flooding the tags with hateful rhetoric almost every day for the last ten months, while encouraging attacks to where that person had to turn off Anon for almost a year because they were getting so many threats and insults.

That certainly seems a lot like bullying to me.

What's also interesting is that you go on to talk about the bigger things happening in the world and how it's more important to focus on those, a statement that is then contradicted by your subsequent point. By your definition, there should not be a reason to get upset about what RFK Jr. has said because I do not know him. He has never wronged or hurt me. But according to you, I'm only allowed to care if it affects me personally.

What this ultimately means is that someone does not have to (and should not have to) be personally affected to care about how something affects other people. I don't need RFK's behavior or actions to affect me specifically to care about others being potentially hurt by them, and the same thing applies to Georgia and how she treats people. That is where I am coming from, and that is why I care. Because I'm not the most important part of this equation, nor have I ever claimed to be.

(Also, in talking about attacking RFK Jr., perhaps you might have missed that I did exactly that last week, when I gave an interview in Newsweek and spoke out against his abhorrent comments about autistic people. Every facet of my life is dedicated to fighting for autistic people, particularly in the area of sex education and sexual health. Which tells me that you've never actually looked at anything on my blog other than what you needed to create a narrative about me that suited your purposes.)

My final point of contention is this notion of "do better," which I notice is only applied to people you dislike. The fans who have viciously attacked me and others earn a free pass. As does Georgia, whom it seems you expect absolutely nothing from. I fail to comprehend how it's possible that she can set someone up to receive death threats (as happened on Twitter a few years ago), "jokingly" insult her husband over and over, block fans for absolutely no reason at all (including an account that only posts about David's fashion)...and you will not hold her to a single standard. Yet you will come here and tell me to "do better."

Also, I very periodically receive kind comments/Anons from followers of my blog--comments I'm always surprised to get, as I still tend to be more prepared to read something negative than positive. I enjoy reading those comments and they make me happy, and by your definition, that makes me "arrogant" and "self-important" and someone who "craves attention from sycophants"...yet just last week, Georgia reshared hundreds of Insta stories from fans who'd listened to the recent podcasts, almost all of which were telling her how amazing she is, calling her "queen," saying what a great interviewer she is, how she should have her own podcast, etc. How is that different? Do you suppose Georgia shared those because she doesn't crave attention from admirers? Because that doesn't seem to make much sense.

The truth is, Anon, that if you genuinely believed that it's wrong to attack someone you don't know and who has never wronged you, you wouldn't have sent me this message in the first place. Because you would believe that no one deserves to be talked to this way. I believe that no one deserves to be bullied or made to feel worthless, and I have actively spoken against behavior that I've seen from fans to that effect. Hell, I've even defended Georgia on more than one occasion, because I don't have to like someone to think they don't deserve to be treated a certain way.

And if that is how you feel, then it is certainly not apparent from this message, because it seems to me that you think nastiness is just fine as long as it's aimed at someone you don't like.

I'm sure you do good things in this world, Anon. I don't doubt you are capable of kindness. But I have to stop and wonder when the only part of you I'm seeing here is a message full of needless cruelty.

[goldenslumbersketchbook]

Are you going to make more stuff for dagur and hiccup and heather as a family band??????

Love your art. Its so cool

Hola!

Thank you so much! That is so sweet of you to say.

Right now I’m working on a couple ROTG projects so it will be a while before I jump back into anything HTTYD.

But I definitely will still be drawing stuff for this AU in the future! It is a lot of fun 💛

[dontvap0rdawave]

Prism can we get an Owa Owa? :D

[blackbird-brewster]

Is the first semi explicit sex scene in Criminal Minds going to actually be wlw?

[Re: Tebecca in the trailer]

WE CAN ONLY HOPE!! From the half second in the trailer it's really hard to tell context to be honest. It definitely reads like sex, but maybe Rebecca is in the bath and Tara's just kissing her from behind. 🧐

Either way, at least we have SOME kind of Tebecca content. God, I just want them to be happy but I also know that's impossible for this show to give female characters any long-term joy without inflicting harm upon them. 😭

[themoonglitch]

The Sims is love. List 5 facts about a favorite sim couple of yours, and why you love them so much. Then pass this on to 5 others, whose sim couple(s) you also love. 💘💕

This took me ages but, finally, here I am!

Caleb & Alexander

They met in a bar in a very long and tiring night. Caleb was there trying to control his blood thirst and Alex was with his coworkers even though he didn't want to hang out with them.

When Caleb told him the truth about his vampire nature, Alexander went mia for almost a month, Caleb was sure he wouldn't saw him again but, in the end, Alex texted him to meet again.

Alex has been always afraid to lose Caleb because of a woman since Caleb is bi and all Alexander's exes broke up with him for that reason.

Alexander offered his blood to Caleb many times in the past but he always refused telling him that he wasn't his lunch but his boyfriend.

When Cassiopeia blackmailed and forced him to broke up with Alex, Caleb felt his heart broke into pieces. Even though a lot time passed, he still loves Alexander and dream about him every day.