#what can i say i have a type

[radiostatik]

My comfort ships are both dudes who hate eachother and have complicated histories

Thank you to CocoKoalaTea for these!

[ayedion]

aedion 🤝 ruhn

order brother figures turned fathers because their mates have kids

[ex0rin]

Do it. Please. The Ones Who Live S01E01 | Years

before/ after

[meenawashere]

I have a special place in my heart for old men

I love my bbg

[unpretty]

Binging .... Phantomarine...

enjoy being normal about cheth!!

[therealvinelle]

I'm writing a little something about the early/middle history of the Volturi. I understand from their foundation their goal was secrecy but how gradual do you think the process was? Do you think secrecy would look very different a couple of millenia ago, as in secrecy is more about disinformation rather than killing every human who has a concept of The Other?

First of, that's very interesting!

Second, I think by necessity it had to be gradual. If everyone knows vampires are real, and you implement a law saying all humans who know vampires are real must die or be turned, then you have to kill or turn everybody.

We see in canon there are cultures who still believe in vampires. The Latin American maid recognizes Edward as other, and the elders of La Push know what's out there. For the Volturi to outlaw every human aware of vampires, they'd have to enact several genocides. And where would the line go? Would a culture where people believed in gods that sparkled in the daylight, but they didn't know the gods drank blood, be crossing the line for the Volturi?

It's unfeasible for the Volturi to keep all the humans in the world in the dark, and the law and the implementation of the law will have to reflect that.

The actual letter of the law is, as I understand it, directed at vampires and the consequences of their actions. It's not "Thou shalt not suffer a human who knows to live", it's "Thou shalt not reveal yourself".

Live in the shadows, don't live among humans as a vampire (as in, don't play god), don't create vampires who will endanger the secret (too many newborns, a newborn you abandon, immortal children), and, relevant to your question: if you reveal the secret to a human you now have to turn or kill them.

The logic, I believe, being that if vampires are contained, then as the centuries roll past (and as Aro does his thing) human memory of vampires will erode and distort itself until they effectively don't know about vampires anymore.

And even if a few obstinately remember (think the oral history of the Aborigine people - incredible accuracy, carried from generation to generation over thousands of years) or, like the La Push community, have contemporary members aware of vampires and informing the others, it's no skin of the Volturi's back because the wider point isn't actually to make humans forget, but to force vampires to be discrete.

So, I think the process looked insane and the Volturi like megalomaniacs in the beginning, as they would say "Yes, I know everyone knows we're real. Yes, we will kill you if you step out in public." and then wipe out entire covens for doing what they'd always been doing.

I can see why the Volturi have detractors who resent them for this, as they essentially said "We've come up with a law forcing everyone to radically change their lives for the worse, and we will annihilate anyone who stands against us." and then spent the next 1000+ years murdering a shitton of people for something they decided was a crime.

Going by what we see the Volturi represent to vampires by the time canon rolls around, it seems that they chose to be feared, rather than loved. Oh, they don't want to be hated, but... they had to make people submit, and that meant being unforgiving and indomitable.

You're going to have a lot of resentment against the Volturi in the early days, and the Volturi being utterly terrifying.

[luckyspike]

For some people the bathroom is a place of privacy. For Mick it is a place of impending doom that requires soulful gazes

[shinelikegoldbuzzlikeabee]

Hunter is a great character because he’s like Zuko but more of a my wife guy.

[spinecutter]

look at this dood

[lion-sensei]

GOD imogen is SO sexy

[miks-fantrolls]

every time i see zegrao on my dash im just *fans self and twirls hair and goes teeheehee*

[n3cr0p0l1s]

think the dabi brainrot might be terminal

[rattusn0rvegicus]

Man I feel like a lot of leftist activists would do a lot better to just use common fucking language to talk about things rather than dense academic shit that's only understandable to people with PhDs and people who spend 95% of their waking life on Leftist Twitter lmao

Like, you're talking with other academics? Great, use academic language. You're a social media account trying to interact with the general public? Don't say "decarcerate", say "find alternatives to imprisonment". Don't say "collective liberation", say "freedom for all". By GOD don't say "bodymind autonomy", say "the ability to have control over our own minds and bodies".

Yes it takes a little more effort to explain shit in common language but I promise you people will stop looking at you like you have two heads and dismissing everything you say as Woke Bullshit if you like, actually get on their level, goddamn it. Not everyone has the privilege to have a graduate-school level understanding of this type of language or spend so much time reading leftist theory that they can perfectly understand this stuff.

[areyousanta]

Happy Valentines Day from my 4 favorite blondes 🥰💖

[lorddetaur]

Oops

[treasureplcnet]

assorted bodies doodles (transcript of that messy relationship square under the cut due to my handwriting/incoherency)

TAKE THESE W A GRAIN OF SALT i am like 90% joking:

hillinghead -> hasan, and vice versa: immediate mutual respect

hillinghead -> whiteman: he's incredibly smart, deceptively cunning but very kind. but he is also so annoying oh my god--

hillinghead -> maplewood: "please someone explain science fiction to me"

whiteman -> iris, and vice versa: two friends secretly think of the other as the sidekick

whiteman -> hillinghead: annoying him is quickly becoming a favorite pasttime

whiteman -> hasan: will not admit it but he wants parenting tips from her

hasan -> whiteman: has slipped a parenting book to him

hasan -> maplewood: deja vu about their future weirds her out a little, but she trusts her

iris -> hillinghead: fond of him from the time they spoke in the prison. enjoys fucking with him

iris -> hasan: SHE'S THE GOAT