(Also known as Backwards_Chic) Name: Catharine
Age: 34 Location: New York What I blog about: Anything that amuses me, really. I would list fandoms but they shift like the wind.
no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for
are you actually more empathetic & considerate than all of your friends or did you grow up forced to cater to and mediate the emotions of adults & everyone else around you and now you’re hypervigilant & prone to fawning and holding people in your life to the standard of your trauma coping mechanisms—a standard you yourself shouldn’t be held to
my old man dog isn't great at hopping up on the couch anymore but he CAN do it and he will NOT accept help. it's almost adorable except when he just stands in front of me and barks at me to get out of "his" spot so that i'll stop what i'm doing, get up off the couch, and watch as he spends 5 minutes hyping himself up to jump into my newly vacant seat
At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.
You must unlearn this.
You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.
If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.
[Video description: Four videos that have been stitched together; the first three are captioned. One: A lawyer in a suit says smugly, "I sued a 9-year-old kid and won!" Two: A bearded person sits outside and says ironically, "I challenged a nine year old kid to a basketball game and won." Three: A person wearing a yellow bandanna as a sweatband says dramatically, "I challenged a nine year old kid to a bench press competition, and won." Four: A (presumably) nine year old kid walks across a lawn, shaking their head slightly and sounding out of breath as they say, "I had the worst day of my life." End description.]
I would be the worst spy of all time because on one hand I overshare like hell, but on the other hand I also have THE shittiest memory so it’s really a lose/lose scenario for everyone involved.
Bringing romanced Spawn!Astarion to the House of Hope has gotta be such a nightmare mindfuck from his perspective, if you think about it.
At this point, he's beaten Cazador. After hundreds of years of exploitation, he's won. He never has to be sexually exploited again. He never has to be coerced into anything he doesn't want to do again. He won. He's free!
And then SURPRISE, GUESS WHAT HAPPENS. Not to Astarion, but to Tav, with the alternative being a blown cover and a battle in hell. So it's the exact situation Astarion explicitly wants to avoid, but this time it's happening to the person he's closest to, and he has to watch it play out.
It's especially rough if it's a good!Tav who's been throwing themselves into danger for others with Astarion disapproving all along the way, with all those good self-sacrificing instincts getting flipped into an absolute nightmare scenario.