blah blah blah aging tumblr population etc etc if you are ever visiting a family that just had a baby, and you know that they have other small children, bring a little something for each of the other kids. it doesn’t have to be anything fancy but, even the most charitable, well-behaved child starts feeling left out and lonely after the nth visitor brings gifts and attention for their parents and new sibling and, either isn’t there for them at all or the only engage with them about their baby sibling, especially since their parents have probably been completely consumed with the new baby. make their day and they will remember that bit of kindness and attention from you forever.
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Nat’s coronation scene breaks my heart so much because she’s finally getting the love and acceptance she has always secretly wanted and needed. She’s been outcasted her whole life, in her childhood as the neglected and unwanted daughter, in society as the “slut” and the “burnout,” and in the Wilderness as the huntress isolated from the rest by the nature of her role and the skeptic against Lottie’s influence. She has always been alone. And now, she’s being crowned leader, everyone is bowing to her and believing in her, and despite the trauma she has just experienced and the grim circumstances, you can see such a deep craving in her for adoration and warmth finally being fulfilled. It’s so so sad that this is what it took for her to finally receive that. No wonder she spirals so much after they’re rescued; the Wilderness was her only means of receiving love and appreciation.
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the scene towards the end where shiv is essentially trapped in a room with all the men in her life turning on her? panic attack inducing.
whoever directed this episode did an amazing job of imbuing that scene with misogynistic violence even though there was no actual physical violence.
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Arthur is a fashion icon no matter the time. Same with void. He would have bought her a suit too, fancy
(ALSO I GOT JRWI PATREON :]]]])
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They had a bit of a chance encounter on a day where Blueblood was dealing with something that was very difficult and was so caught up in his emotions he didn’t even care that he was in the garden getting grass stans on his coat and Ditzy, with her natural impulse to cheer ponies up, didn’t even notice or care that she was flying into the palace gardens when she saw someone sat in the rain.
At first he was definitely going to call the castle guards to come apprehend this strange filly with the odd eyes who was intruding when this was the last moment he’d want to entertain any desperate debutantes, however she surprised him by not fawning or anything, not even caring about his status, just putting one of her fluffy wings up and asking if he needed somepony to lend an ear.
“Don’t let my eyes fool you, my ears work just fine!”
She was incredibly disarming and while he didn’t reveal everything about why he was upset, he found himself talking about his feelings to her. And she made such cheerful remarks, and was very comforting. In the end, he felt better and she came to check on him the next day, even sharing a blueberry muffin with him. He remarked that he’d never seen her around before, and that he wouldn’t mind terribly seeing her more often.
The rest, as they say, is history.
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imagine amanda watching how mothers on vulcan share a telepathic bond with their children and not being able to do this for spock
imagine how it would break her heart, how she might worry they'll never connect when she sees a mother touching her daughter's face or holding her son's hand with purpose, without words
imagine spock melding with her as soon as he's able, showing her he loves her because he can't say it, he'll never be able to say it
imagine her being so proud of her little boy for researching and teaching himself to meld with a non-telepath just for her, all for her
holding him after when he's so exhausted he goes boneless in her arms and she strokes his hair and thanks him
and he mumbles something about it being illogical to thank him before falling asleep and she holds his little hand and feels the tiniest sparks of love still there, so small she might've imagined them before he's snoring softly
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Phantasmagoria Worldbuilding: The Ambarella Orphanage and Rich Cheese Cookie
The Ambarella Orphanage:
Founded by Sovereign Golden Cheese Cookie and Pure Vanilla Cookie (before he had gained his kingship), located in the Golden Empire. An orphanage created to house, care for and educate all children of the Golden City who do not have a parent. There was also a program in which families that struggled financially were able to be aided by the orphanage in matters regarding their children such as schooling, supervising, etc.
This was a program started by Pure Vanilla and sanctioned by the Ruler of the Empire. Pure Vanilla himself has spent a vast amount of time looking after and helping the matrons in charge of the orphanage and has often been trusted as the one in charge of picking and choosing the next cookie to look after the orphanage and the children it holds.
Even after Pure Vanilla Cookie became King of the Vanilla Kingdom, he would continue to visit the Kingdoms of his friends and alongside Golden Cheese Cookie, help out at the orphanage. Unfortunately, along with the rest of the Golden Empire, the orphanage and the residents had all been lost to the Dark Flour War. Dark Enchantress Cookie used Exchange Magic, also less commonly known as Sacrificial Magic (powered by Dark Moon Magic) to sacrifice the entirety of the Empire in order to fuel the Witch's Oven.
Rich Cheese Cookie (Also known as Fledgling among the AUs) was a child who lived in the orphanage and is now a wandering soul unable to rest due to the nature in which she had died. As of currently, she is not a vital part of Phantasmagoria's storyline.
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