#thats all i can manage

[sinners-go-to-drink-the-wine]

sam, you sleepy-eyed SLUT-

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[nebulaleaf]

hi everyone. here's the P5T LINE stickers for free. enjoy ♥

[corsairspade]

there are many reasons I like the "Erestor son of Caranthir" headcanon but secretly the main one is that I'm imagining all of the remaining noldo auditors sighing of relief when Caranthir dies and they don't have to try play 4d chess with multiverse time travel trying to catch this guy doing tax evasion. life is good for exilic auditors now.

and then suddenly Elrond and Elros turn up again! even better! oh who's this, Elrond? your good friend Erestor? he's helping you with your taxes? oh how swe- what is this Elrond. What is this. your paperwork for your taxes you say. not a declaration of war? because it looks like a declaration of war on the exilic auditors, Elrond.

and then all the auditors are so busy doing "extreme tax auditing™" for the first time since the second Kinslaying that they don't tell anyone they're pretty sure there's another scion of the house of Fëanor running around.

[heartorbit]

a fool and a sinner

[drabbles-of-writing]

I just know Raine’s palisman has such a nerdy, dumb name. If Raine is naming their first rebellion the BATs, and their second one the CATs, both of which are heavily themed, you bet your ass this silly little fox has the stupidest pun for a name.

I bet they named it Trot. Short for Foxtrot. I’m melting this into my canon and it can be pried out of my cold, dead hands.

[delicatepointofview]

gonna have to deal with people missing the point of louis singing 1d songs in festivals... don't get me started on the other covers

[anxsity]

will we make it out of the first round? probably not. will we have a weirdly horny time anyway? YOU KNOW IT BABEY!

im also probably missing like- just a ton of info but this was what i could think of at the time <3 we are fueled by love and questionable choices

ALLCAPS BABEYYYYY 🦅🦅🦅

(tagging @stereax ✨)

[im-fucking-baalin]

pov you heard your cat chewing something, asked them "what are you eating" and they started chewing faster

[3-aem]

im bored of animal crossing will be drawing gj again will be mental illness-ing once more.

[sparklecarehospital]

Sometimes I wonder how I'm ever gonna be able to work on the other Spinch stories I have, I have so many ideas for things but only so much fixation power

[st4rstudent]

Various other one-sided swap doodles inspired by oomfs comments

[supermaks]

A lot of talk on Twitter about Max taking that Mercedes seat more seriously especially with 2026. With his loyalty to Helmut plus he’s said several times he’s already achieved everything he wanted to in f1, personally I think redbull would have to have a major slip into a bottom tier team for him to even consider moving but curious on your thoughts on him moving before 2028?

Max been very clear on this, he'll stay as long as he can fight for wins. The moment he doesnt he'll either turn fully into endurance or, if merc are competitive and the seat is still available, sure, he'll go to merc. If that happens before 2028 or not, I really cant tell u. Rb20 is already 'bottom tier' in low temperatures. Max was in Silverstone asking for 4 clicks in the wing even considering the track thats a massive amount of understeer like its frankly no surprise Checo is driving the way he is because once u get to those inshallah type of setups Max goes into generational survival mode and Checo just doesnt have the facilities to do to the same. This is not like 2023 when u have two drivers being given dominant packages and one of them does his best and the other is Max Verstappen. Checo an experienced, solid driver, but these are not the conditions he was promised signing that extension. I think rbr is using Checos 'expected' deficit to Max to hide how lackluster development has been this season and thats concerning to me because its only a matter of time until Max runs out of ways to extend that championship lead. 😐😐 So lmfao all this bs to tell u I do think Max values the people he has around him rn and like u said a huge drop in performance wud be needed for him to give up on the project and 'leave them behind'. But like wid Lewis ur starting to c a disconnect between management and driver that will either be mended thru performance or unravel completely.

[ourfag]

i think part of the resistance i’ve seen in response to the view of ed as an abuse victim—not just the view of izzy as someone who abused ed, but of ed as someone who was abused by him, as opposed to interpretations that pursue an image of Nuance and Complexity (unnecessarily, because their dynamic has heaps of both, but there seems to be a popular impulse to conflate complexity with shared culpability) by characterizing their relationship as being toxic/unhealthy in equal reciprocity, or as “mutually abusive” (oxymoron)—i definitely see the influence of racism there, but i think the racism is also working to amplify an adjacent issue where we tend to receive very specific cultural messaging about What An Abuse Victim Looks Like, and ed is excluded from a lot of that criteria.

he’s outspoken. he’s boisterous. he’s Very Cool and he Wears Leather. he’s physically bigger and browner than the person mistreating him. he spends the first season with a big grey beard, he’s covered in tattoos, he projects the image of A Man’s Man, to say nothing of his being a man in the first place. we see him get aggressive and we see him get angry (and sometimes we even see both at the same time). we see moments where he’s surly, prickly, insensitive, arrogant. his survival techniques and trauma responses incur collateral damage to other people, and in the second season this extends into affecting people we actually sympathize with. he’s extremely private about expressing fear. without examination, his professional relationship to izzy seems to position him as the one with the power slanted in his favor.

most damningly, we see him react multiple times to izzy’s abuse with physical violence. this is behavior that gets referenced all the time in the construction of narratives condemning subjects of physical abuse, let alone emotional abuse. which is why writing that intends for its audience to interpret a character as being unambiguously A Victim Of Abuse will often, for simplicity’s sake, avoid showing the character regularly engaging in anything of the kind.

and again, all of these departures from the image of The Model Victim are compounded by his being a man of color.

without any of the shorthand designed to point a big flashing arrow at his mistreatment, all we have left to work with are the words and actions we see from ed and izzy onscreen. who instigates conflict, and how does the other respond? how are they able or allowed to respond? how do we see them speak about each other to outside parties? does one go out of their way to control or isolate the other? what consequences does either party stand to face in saying “no” to the other? in acting against the other’s wishes? in trying to leave the relationship? when either of them attempts these things, how do we see the other respond?

i realize and appreciate what people are driving at when they garnish their analysis with disclaimers that they’re not saying ed’s just a poor innocent abuse victim, they’re not saying he’s a perfect angel who’s never done anything wrong, and that’s true, but these are points already contained implicitly in statements like “this show’s protagonists act like human people” and “ed’s emotional struggles are portrayed in a realistic and believable way.” my assumption is that these disclaimers are anticipatory responses to worst-faith interpretations of any discussion that attributes any victim status to ed whatsoever, so i definitely sympathize with their inclusion, but a (very small) part of me still worries about them potentially reflecting or reinforcing a belief that there is any way for someone to behave towards their abuser that imparts a responsibility for them to make right whatever damage the abuser receives, or for that matter any degree of ambiguity over their status as an abuse victim in the first place.

part of what i find so gratifying about ed as a character is that i don’t feel like the show’s writing is pressuring me to consider that ambiguity at all. which was a really nice thing for me to discover!

and tbh—did using ed to deconstruct The Model Victim even factor into the writers’ agenda?? ive got no clue. im guessing no? ??maybe?? probably not?? but if you create a main character whose central premise is that he feels trapped in a performance of exaggerated masculinity that he’s desperate to escape, and then you set him up with a character premised on embodying a tangible obstacle against that escape, then i guess that’s the natural shape your story’s gonna be inclined to take

[icewindandboringhorror]

sneepy cozy time....

[karizipan]

get me out of here oh mt god