#taken on a whim

[shutterandpencil]

“Catharsis”

No, she would not allow me to change the channel and, yes, Satsuki was fully aware of what this show entails. Her reasons for watching are "catharsis" and, no, I'm not sure how she'd find watching this show to be cathartic, then again, the episode's storyline was quite intriguing, however, she might've been watching for more than just the storyline. Regardless, Satsuki said her reasons for watching for "catharsis" but and she won't explain why.

[shmaroace]

it always makes me so happy when people who are discovering they're aro and/or ace and find this whole new group of people who are exactly like them. yes!! welcome to the community!!

[tiredcowboyy]

Merlin connecting to arthur through his dreams: arthur morgana has a secret plan to attack you, heres how to stop her!!

Arthur who wakes up and doesnt even question how merlin told him or weather he should even follow what he says since it was a dream: leon!!!! Ive got a new plan!!!!

Also merlin a few hours later: arthur I have magic

Arthur, who followed what dream merlin said and it turned out to be right: WHAT??????

——

I genuinely cant get over it like??? I mean I guess he could have forgot bc he was in shock of being stabbed and merlin actually saying it but still cmon arthur bffr. Like does he just listen to everything dream merlin says in hopes that its true?? Or does he think he managed to figure it out himself and that his brain simply chose to project the information through merlin? And the implications there speak for themselves really.

[shadow0-1]

Along for the ride

[2sidesofthesamesoul]

Hello tomarrymort nation

in the spirit of writing i made a 30 day prompt challenge (for myself) and thought I'd share if anyone likes any of the prompts!

you can do as little or as many as you want and if you publish them on ao3 it would be super swell to add to the collection so we could see everyone's takes love you *MWAH*

[orchid-n-petals]

So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.

[toddtakefive]

thinking about todd and his resolve toward… not quite isolation, but being alone in a room full of people again. he goes along to the study room to sit on his own and do his homework, he sits at the poets table and follows along with what’s being said while keeping quiet, he goes to the meetings at all but doesn’t necessarily contribute (in fact, if you watch him when cameron is telling the story ‘from camp in sixth grade’, you can see that he recognizes it before any of the other poets but doesn’t voice it until they all have). he’s not alone, necessarily, if you want to get technical about it, he’s just lonely, and he’s generally okay with that. he doesn’t have friends and that’s fine, he doesn’t participate in class and that’s fine, he doesn’t have a relationship with his family and that’s fine—he could live without any real connection and he’d have been, more or less, fine.

the thing about when he says “i can take care of myself just fine!” is that he isn’t really wrong, you can infer that he’s been doing it his entire life anyway, it’s that ‘taking care of yourself’ isn’t the same thing as really living or being happy. todd’s an introvert, certainly, and even as he gets closer to the group he defaults to sitting quietly in the background, but he’s also denying himself community out of fear not introversion. todd isn’t friendless because he’s an introvert, although that definitely plays a part, he’s friendless because he pushes anyone that might want his company away. if anyone has every wanted for his attention in the first place. (neil’s unwavering interest in him is unique (even when it comes to the rest of the poets, who are fine with todd coming along and joining the group, but aren’t really hellbent on him being there in the beginning) and his refusal to accept it is a direct result of being so lonely growing up.)

there’s obviously something to be said about the implications of his parents neglect, and the more than likely fact that he grew up friendless, and how those both play a part in in him being so skilled at dodging social interaction/being so avoidant of it, but by the time we see him in the movie he’s all but accepted his fate as being alone his entire life. he’s already accepted being the family disappointment, and he’s already accepted he’ll never amount to anything, and he obviously doesn’t like it, but he’d have managed living with that knowledge without the confirmation that it was all wrong. would he have been miserable? almost certainly. but he’d have managed. he’d done it for that long already, anyhow.

[cathalbravecog]

MISTER BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[three-dee-ess]

my n3dsxl!! ive had it for 6 years :)

(i also have pokemon white 2 and pokemon moon, but theyre cartridges)

------ New Galaxy Style n3DSXL

[femmesandhoney]

i had long chats w my favorite poli sci prof about how ridiculously uneducated many high schoolers and into college age people are about politics and what constitutes political science. they teach barely a drop of real poli sci in k-12, and if they manage to have electives in ur school they're often overtaken by the most obnoxious boys in your grade (how my school was...) so no girls and many guys didn't even want to take the classes. then u reach college and most universities do not have reqs to take poli sci and its heart breaking bc real poli sci is fascinating and important and yet theres so many americans going around with the most basic concepts completely wrong in their heads that should not be this wrong.

[whimsims]

@loreleisims, this set is too pretty 🦋

[masteraqua]

i'm home OTL

so long story short, i went to the post office

and it turned out to be the wrong post office lol

so i ran a bunch of errands and then found the RIGHT post office

which means

i got my package!!!!!!

it's the aqua backpack from the 20th anniversary supergroupies collection :D

PHOTOSHOOT

it also came with an art card :)

[waroferas]

oh my god i am honestly still in shock that we are finally posting lfrt

[sevenines]

kevin party is THE MOST underrated su episode. it’s comedically so. so good and gets put at the bottom of so many tier lists by people who don’t get it. kevin’s whole schtick is hilarious as hell like thinking steven is 7 and can 7 year olds even break up? and yes this normal pink dog this kid has look at how she’s living it up. the fact that everyone else in the party is clearly chill and having an okay time. kevin’s obsession with old people. just. the gags really do it for me for some reason

[junemonths]

writing scribblehub transfic is so fun. every so often i get a wave of comments from someone binging all the marbles and reacting as they read and it's always so nice to see people enjoying it

[marsivian]

I don't understand the appeal and the need that people, usually rich people, gays, or sometimes straight people due to sterility or whatever the reason is (for the vast majority that I see) have to have a surrogate. What's wrong with adopting a child? There are many children in the world who need a family and deserve to be loved and cared for. It's a long process, it is, obviously, but it's worth it If you want a child so badly, and what's wrong with waiting? Besides, surrogacy isn't quick either. And it's extremely inhumane for women who will carry the baby and it's a disgusting practice that shouldn't even be considered a possibility and shouldn't exist at all. The whole argument of 'but we want a child of our own' or whatever is ridiculous. A child, your hypothetically adopted son or daughter, for example, isn't and wouldn't be your child in the same way that a biological one would be? It makes it sound like families with adopted children aren't a real family or something because they don't have the same blood, when blood doesn't define a family. Blood doesn't make a family and never did or will