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In the single parent verse, Sharon is little Sarah’s godmother and Steve is the godfather.

Logan and Amelia have been mistaken for sisters out in the field before. Neither corrects them when they do.

Amelia has a red-and-blue Celtic Cross tattoo on her back shoulder; it has each of Sharon and Steve’s kids’ birthdates on it.

Among her “in case of death” documents she has saved for people, she has a file for Bobbi that does contain the recipe for the cookies she makes for Clint to bribe him to do his paperwork.

Women Sitting on the Terrace (September Evening), Maurice Denis, 1891

Been having so many self destructive thoughts lately, but not in a sad-girl-torpedoes-her-life way, but in the way that Elijah ran out into the desert. Oh, the urge to quit my non-profit job where I have to dress nice to go to an office and regurgitate buzzwords that don't matter. I want to purify my life, to strip away the superfluousness. Listen, I could drive through the countryside in my old pick up truck, giving soup to strangers and burials to road kill, and kind smiles to people who need them. I would say to God, "I have been zealous for you, but the world keeps looking away. If my work means nothing, end it all now." And then I will withstand feats of nature until I find God's still small voice again. Reader: how do you know if the itch is sabotage or a calling?

you call walking outside without a sweater in bone chilling weather listening to the most heart wrenching music there is until your fingers and toes go numb in the cold and you can't move them anymore much less walk self destructive i call it the last scene of my coming of age film that doesn't exist we are not the same

suptober day 7 - black cat 🐈‍⬛

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526/1527-1593) "Autumn" (1573) Oil on canvas Located in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

a guide to obsession

pray to your god that they may one day be yours

leave offerings of red wine and rotten cherries

rip their heart out and keep it safe in a bell jar

if they die, consume their decaying body so that they shall always be a part of you

alternately, you could taxidermy their corpse so that they can be born again.

Why do I feel like LOA and Nesta would have a great mother-daughter relationship if they got to know each other

My grandparents used to live in an 18th-century house right next to a forest. It had thick stone walls, high ceilings, and double-sided doors. We had to vacate it after my grandpa died 11 years ago. I still miss it terribly. I drove by last week and took these photos.

There was also a VERY wide staircase we used to slide down with my brother and the house had several entrances, one from each side. there was a large garden with fruit trees where my granddad tended to a beehive, a flower garden, a vegetable garden, a yard, and barns for animals. I miss that house. I remember its smells and sounds, every creak of wood and metal. There was no central heating, just three of the rooms had a little stove you had to tend to throughout the day and night. I remember falling asleep to the sound of the fire in the stove, comfortable in the knowledge nothing could harm me there, even if outside there were heaps of snow and dark, dark woods. And even those woods were magic.

I loved that house. If I ever found myself rich, I would do anything to buy it back. To renew it. To love it more.

i find it extremely funny that we (mxtx fandoms in general but mdzs especially) will get into huge shouting matches about timelines and research and accuracy and meanwhile she was like "the death of the nie bros' dad, an event extremely important to explaining the buildup to the war that affected literally every single member of the cast, could have happened anywhere in these five whole-ass years" and "yeah they totally had potatoes don't worry about it lol". truly airplane was an autobiographical character.

You know nonny, I DO find this intensely funny at times. My uh, main source of "shaking my head at this" happens when inevitably, meta goes around and we rush back and forth going "X WAS A GOOD PERSON" and "X WAS EVIL! EVIL!" etc, which happens every now and again and always makes me a bit like "ah, yes, it's difficult to convey nuance and also differing points of view that may in whole or in part also be legitimate and valuable to discuss on a place like tumblr/the internet in general because it is difficult to grapple with uncertainties and we often want to nail things down one way or another so we can figure out if we're right or not" <- but this often comes out as me writing a joke post. Or a saltier post than I intended. Sometimes because I'm tired and sometimes because I just happen to be a salty individual on main.

And I do think fandom is a place where like, multiple interpretations of an event or a statement or a character's "morality" and themes and choices are often equally valid. And fandom should be a place for that, that's what makes fandom fun. If there was a One True Interpretation of the text there'd be no need for interpreting text at all, and that's distinctly sad for me. That's no fun. Anyone who tries to use their knowledge to cudgel people into the One True Interpretation is wrong, btw.

Though I think, and here's where I feel that research and accuracy is a nuanced thing and should actually be of consideration for meta/fic/engaging with fandom in general, and why perhaps people strive for it -- the "lol, potatoes" and "poetry from whatever era I want" is fun! MXTX, however, is still writing about a fantasy version of her own culture, which offers along with it a foundational basis of knowledge that makes this...easier? And again, here's where the part of me that does enjoy these anachronisms and inaccuracies (because they're fun and since we have flying swords why not potatoes) wars with the part of me that's also like, "okay but there is a difference between 'not knowing enough to be respectful of the background surrounding the characters and why that might inform their actions' and 'I've decided that peppers, which did not exist in Eurasia prior to the Columbian Exchange are a big thing here now.'" The difference is respect. Different members of fandom will draw this line in different places and it hits different on different days.

And this is one of the struggles of engaging with foreign language media a lot of the time - we try to strike a balance between engaging with it based on our own experiences and backgrounds and not accidentally saying anything offensive or strange or 'that would totally never happen' or 'he would not fucking talk like that' and I've found, with my time in this fandom, most people who are concerned with accuracy and research are largely trying to be respectful and avoid such gaffes.

Over the two or so years I've been here, I've also reacted to people who've insisted their interpretation is the correct one when it was definitely a case of 'the version Chinese culture that I'm familiar with 200% does not work like that', and saltily wandered off to vent about how 'this is inaccurate and also rude' or try to explain why it wouldn't happen like that. Maybe this comes off as preachy at times, or overly concerned with "accuracy," but that is typically where that sort of reaction comes from for me. I expect this is probably true for other people as well!

And by no means like, do we only engage in fandom because we want to be educated or educate others, and by no means is that an obligation of any fic writer or meta writer or casual fandom goer. We engage with media because it engages us, and we engage with fandom because we love community, and sometimes its no more complex than that.

I enjoy research and art history so that's typically why this appears in my fic, and I started out on doing it to better connect with my own heritage, which I've found more important to me as I've gotten older, so that's where it comes from for me.

Apologies nonny, this was probably not the answer you were looking for and I do commiserate, I'm just chronically unable to be funny on main. 😔

TLDR: there's always nuance in everything unfortunately. Even if this is the no nuance webbed site.

— Charles Bukowski

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Autumn reminds me the grace in letting dead things fall. 🍂

People can see the difference between jokes and disrespect disguised as jokes. Is it that hard to understand and accept that people aren't as stupid as you think they are?

Sadia Hakim

the brave men didn't kill dragons. the brave men rode them.

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