#what am i doing without her

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

me: here's a playlist of music i like :3

spotify: k cool so like you only want to hear around 20% of it on the regular, right?

me: 🫤

[marciaillust]

trapped in amber

[thepandalion]

ok no I need to talk about this

the reason ralsei is changing is because of susie

the way he said it, darkners that are based on memories of loved ones can "only appear in specific darkness". meaning, originally, ralsei was kris' memory

and, similarly, gerson was presumably Alvin's?

except. gerson came back. it's the third sanctuary. a different dark world. but he's still here. and why?

because SUSIE remembers him. she wrote alvin the letter from him. she fought him and won and came back to look for him. because now he's in her memories, too.

following that logic, of course ralsei is in her memories too. more prominently, too, each time she returns to an adventure. he strays further from the blurry memories kris has, into something that's both theirs and hers

and, while we're at it, maybe ours, too. we shape him with our choices because we're part of this team too

[deathricedrawn]

i'm ready to try

[meamiki]

silly comic based on a time i struggled to read live on stream :thumbsup:

context clip compilation below ASDASDFASA

(cw for brief mention of hospitals/strokes)

[neverbelessthan]

SEVERANCE 2x10 | "They give us half a life and think we won't fight for it."

[darkcolorphantom]

Emily with her hair tied.

That's it. That's the post.

[thewhalelord]

I consider one of Laudna’s darkest moments to be something she said during the rooftop conversation she had with Imogen after she sucked in the dagger. In which she explicitly says that it would be better to let herself die for the end of the mission, because at least she would’ve served her purpose. That “maybe it should” kill her—that she was always a dead end for Imogen.

And in the epilogue of this story — where her mission is done — she expressly chooses and wants life, simply and happily. She makes the choice to age and grow “old and pruny” with the woman she loves and who she knows loves her. She chose a future.

A character that openly struggled so deeply with mental illness and addiction, a character who thought her only way out was to die, chose life and got to live it in happily and that is so more important to me than I have the words to express.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Quest Continues...

(part 1- part 2)

[jinxnvi]

JINX in ARCANE

Season 2, Act 2

[achiepy]

[sergle]

When I talk about something bad I've experienced, Baked In to my experience as A Woman, I am not "making my little cousins feel like shit for being women", because I am talking in a space with, allegedly, adults. I am not bringing my problems to children in the first place. That said, I don't HAVE to make my baby cousin feel bad, because she's already experienced sexual harassment in her life, and she's only 8, and doesn't even understand what any of it means yet. And everyone in her family can try to instill confidence in her, and never talk about our bodies in a negative way. But she can still feel like she's too chubby, because she still goes to school, and talks to other kids and their parents, and still sees ads, and still watches tv. We can be positive, but we can't fix the root of the problem. And I don't HAVE to tell trans women that "pain is a rite of passage", because that's not a Rule being enforced (by me), because I've already sat and listened to my friend complain about constantly shaving as a Baseline necessity and how it hurts her skin and she has to put makeup onto fresh cuts on her face because going out without a full face of properly feminine makeup would make her life worse, and being anything less than thin and lithe makes her "less feminine", and ALL the things that can make her "more feminine" are behind a paywall. And I can try to make her feel better, and I can hear her experiencing the tenfold version of problems I relate to, but I can't fix the root cause of her problems by just telling her not to complain. Forcing happiness as a core personality trait for women is not the Girlboss Feminist move that you think it is, and no amount of gender euphoria in the world will make you immune to systemic oppression.

[54lty]

Honestly, I really really like this chapter and Uruha's revival. Maybe I read way too many theories as the story progressed from his death but him coming back always felt like a given, with Chihiro being brought back from the dead and Suzaku's reveal.

I've seen some people say it reduces the impact of Samura's betrayal (which is understandable), but it actually strengthens his character in my opinion. Him killing the sword bearers isn't done with the intention of punishing them; he takes it upon himself to rectify their sins. He makes his burden to bear alone, as we can see with Chihiro.

If that's the case, why did he kill Uruha? Why didn't Samura at least tell Uruha his plan?

He killed Uruha to break the Eternal Contract, and he probably used Suzaku to revive him.

He doesn't want anyone else to walk this path. Beneath the noble conviction is a man who loathes himself. When Iori briefly enters Samura's life and disrupts the quiet discomfort he's lived with since the war, he chooses to wipe her memories. He believes that a world in which he never existed is a world that is better for her, and it tells a lot about his character — he cut ties with Uruha the same way he cut ties with Iori, leaving without even an explanation or goodbye. In Samura's mind, it's better this way: it's better for Uruha to wake up to the aftermath than to fight again. Better for him to wonder why Samura did what he did, to even hate him for it. It's better than the alternative of leading Uruha down a path of violence again and sharing the pain of righting the sword bearers' wrongs. It's better for Samura to suffer alone.

[dyl-z]

Told my mother about the spider bite piercing miss maam was NOT happy

[sonknuxadow]

it's really weird to me the way people have been talking about maria lately.... like i know maria wasnt the most developed character in her earlier appearances and she also didnt get to have a normal childhood experience but seeing people say she has no personality and has no joy or whimsy or never got to be a kid at all makes me wonder if im the only person whos actually been paying attention to maria this whole time...???? like do people think she was a sad miserable kid who never got to have fun because of her disability or something ? because that is quite literally the opposite of who she was

and people are being weirdly ableist about it too like talking like her illness is the reason for all those traits she supposedly lacks. implying disabled people cant be happy or have fun or whatever. like come on man

[msmoiraine]

thinking about how outie mark has very real cause now to believe that when milchick told him his innie found love he was talking about his gemma. probably its part of the reason he believes that she's alive even. at least subconsciously he has connected the dots this way because if innie mark is thriving and in love who else could it be other than the person outie mark is so depressed and broken without? im going to go insane i think