#underlies

[aeide-thea]

on principle opposed to describing art i dislike as 'masturbatory' because even though it's an alluringly contemptuous word to sneer it's impossible to reconcile with my pro-masturbation stance

[tojisun]

thinkin about simon smokin while you’re sitting on his lap, all pretty and docile, playing with the loose threads of his sweater. he taps your thigh and you turn to him because you know what he wants – he made sure you know it well, after all.

you part your pouty lips open, batting your long lashes as simon leans in before blowing the smoke into your mouth. you inhale it slowly, having been taught by him how to properly shotgun, and simon groans at how good you are being. then, he finally leans in to kiss you because you deserve to be rewarded <333

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Begging swifties to understand that Taylor didn’t write reputation and Lover with the knowledge of how the relationship was going to end and that trying to “excavate” those albums for evidence to prove a specific theory as to why it ended is not how they should be viewed. Taylor wrote those songs feeling a very specific way because that’s what she was experiencing and she is now reflecting on them with hindsight and relates to them differently than when she first created them. These conflicting emotions can exist; how she views it now doesn’t diminish how she felt about it when she first released it.

[anteomnia]

just endlessly thinking about blue eye samurai.

thinking about how akemi, taigen, and mizu are if a coin had three sides or maybe just the two and mizu is the bridge of metal between them.

akemi being the ideal image for women, for the life they endure. she was simultaneously a princess, a prostitute, and a prisoner. her entire life was men making decisions for her, even the ones that had good intentions, and she believed her deepest desire was freedom. it still is, but she has been revealed to this heinous predicament of her gender, and she’s realized that to reach true freedom as a woman is to be the bird in the cage, to play nice and to earn the love of a man until he buys her a bigger cage and a bigger cage until he trusts her not to fly away. and it'll never be true freedom, but it will come with power. it'll come with the freedom of only one master rather than many.

taigen being the ideal image of a man. not all powerful, but not weak. he had a taste of what it'd be to succeed, and when it was taken from him, that easy success, he mistook it for his honor. he hunted mizu down to kill him, and instead he saved him. he saved him and saved him and he came closer to killing mizu when they were on the cliff's edge, and just when he gets to the point where he may actually fight mizu, he's tortured for information on him. he is tortured. Literally tortured within an inch of his life, enduring such a heinous violence, and he refuses to break. this man was a fight, was the torturer, and the victim of his torturing could've been his salvation from pain but he refused. mizu gave back taigen's honor but not by fighting him.

akemi wanted freedom and learned she would need power to have it.

taigen wanted power and learned that the violence that came with it was infinite and dishonorable.

and then there's mizu. mizu who wants revenge, wants acceptance. arguably the same things as them both. mizu wants acceptance, the freedom of living and the freedom to love and be loved. mizu wants revenge, which follows after violence and power, to get said acceptance. she thinks she must do both, have both, to live peacefully, and she's blatant about how she will not live without either.

she's given acceptance with the blacksmith, her "mother," her husband, but she sees the flecks of avoidance in it.

the blacksmith will not hear of her true gender. her "mother" will not acknowledge the crime of her birth. her husband can't find tolerance for the violence within her, the man of her.

and so she has to balance the woman and man of her, the ronin and the bride. taigen and akemi. and it's meeting mizu that they start to unravel their own identities.

mizu, who is both, and akemi and taigen who thought themselves one but turned out to be neither.

god.

[bigfatbreak]

been a long week. we'll see if i overstepped at work and am gonna get myself shitmixed/scolded but in the very least, my girls at work should have a better foothold on things

[triviallytrue]

There's something I genuinely love about a certain type of idiot tech worker. The type of guy to read bullshit conservative propaganda about welfare queens and instead of figuring out it isn't true or getting really outraged, just asking "wait, what's the best way for me to get in on this"

[pangur-and-grim]

my dark secret is that I don’t care about breeds being kept to a strict standard. so long as they’re healthy and well-suited for their purpose (which in cats and most dogs is just companionship), I’m not opposed. when breeders chase exaggerated traits, the problem for me isn’t that it’s off standard, it’s more that a) closely breeding for an extreme trait can result in a loss of genetic diversity, with all the health problems that entails, b) extremely exaggerated traits can be inherently harmful to the animal, c) exaggerated traits can get in the way of the animal being an animal and doing animal things

[bearotonin-international]

Jesus fucking christ this reddit shit lmao

Uuuhhhh.. Friend, you might not have noticed, but we’re a bear blog

[ordicalder]

Hoje visitei a Inn Gallery e tive o prazer de ver minha Obra exposta ao lado de Obras de grandes artistas. Em breve novidades sobre meu livro e, um grande projeto para 2019! #art #photography #contemporaryart #abstract #inngallery #inngallerybr #visualart #artist #fineartphotography #underlies #subjaz #grafiasdeluzfatosgraficos #spellingslightgraphicsfacts (em Inn Gallery Arte e Design) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bape8E1lOjN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.

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[assiraphales]

just thinking about how luffy really had no choice but to let zoro fight mihawk. if zoro died, then luffy would lose him. but he’d also lose him if he tried to advise him not to / stepped in. if luffy had showed any hint of uncertainty, zoro would never be able to believe luffy had faith or trust in him again (or trust that luffy wouldn’t stand in the way of his dream). he was badly injured, and his ego was bruised, but instead of leading him down a path of insecurity it turned into a motivator. to be better. to never lose another duel. for kuina, but also for his captain — who believed in him and he will not disappoint

[saltpepperbeard]

What he says: It's everything about that! It's EVERYTHING about fishing.

What he means: I want simplicity. I want sweet nothings. I want you to love me for who I am, for who I want to be. I have been trying to shed my skin, trying to shed who everyone wants me to be. I want to be Ed, not Blackbeard. Just Ed.

And it's scaring me. Seeing you around all of this fame is scaring me. Seeing you not be stoked about my simplicities is scaring me.

Because, deep down, I feel like people only liked me for Blackbeard. People only respected that name, not my real one. And now? I'm folding stuff. And that's okay.

But you weren't okay. I shaved my beard and you ran. I caught a fish and you complimented me only to "make me feel good."

I'm so scared you only like me a certain way. I'm so scared I'm not enough.

I'm so scared you'll leave me because I can't be who you want.

[shibesky]

kabrus pov on a daily basis

[eerizon]

they went out for milkshakes! Claire offered to take the pic :)

[crabsnpersimmons]

Y'all liked raincoat chibi!DCA, well it's been snowing a lot in my neighbourhood recently, which means it's time for...

Winter coat chibi!DCA

Expectation:

Reality:

[anyataylorjoys]

LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (2021) dir. Edgar Wright