SAKURA Regret by FLOWER — Kanji + Romaji Lyrics and English Translation

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

one of a kind living in a world gone plastic

baby you're so classic

@most-tragic-character-tournament

(all my thoughts in the tags)

Hi GT, I hope you are doing well! who is your favorite Weasley?

Thank you! Absolute treat of a question. Oh, man. It's Ron, right? It was always going to be Ron.

So here's the thing: the Weasleys are a really well-characterized family in that you can kind of see a lot of character emerge through limited sketches and contextual information. Bill is Number One Boy, the best at everything, oldest child who was always confident and at peace with his indisputable place in the family; so he's a chill, cool, incredibly competent guy who naturally takes-charge. Charlie is a patented never-grew-out-of-your-middle-school-dragons-phase Weird Kid, but like, mindfully and enthusiastically so, because his parents probably still had plenty of time to support and nurture his interests; plus he's also different to Bill and excels in different ways, so they aren't too competitive (as we see). Percy is the first one to suffer from the pressure of mounting expectations, and he's very quickly followed by the twins, who do the classic "if I can't be the best I'll be the worst" late-sibling trick of acting up for attention, so he gets lost in the shuffle. (The fight between Ron and Percy in Chapter 58 is, hence, in substantially about the relationship between the two most-ignored members of the Weasley family, and that's why Ron is so much angrier at him than the rest of them. Like I've said before, Ron always thinks he's got it the worst, but he takes pride in being able to kinda "tough it out," and nothing pisses him off like other people's self-pity.) Ginny is obviously the baby of the family, a girl with everyone wrapped around her finger, and I love her, but I feel like we didn't get enough grit in her portrait— she's just really successful in everything she does, in a way that can read as flat to some people, and certainly read as flat to me my first time through the books. In fact, Ginny reminds me a lot of Bill: first daughter/first son, described often as "cool" and clever and good at basically everything, charming and generally liked by all. Which is lovely. A delight to read, just like the twins are. But my taste in characters ranges way more fucked-up and mean.

Ron is the last boy, "sixth son of a woman who wanted a daughter" (fascinating line that complicates everything we know about Molly's relationship with her kids — and BTW, how the hell does Ron know that, and how old was he when he learned it? And this also comes into play with Molly's cry of "not my daughter" to Bellatrix which like, as a moment obviously fucking rules, but also — there's a reason she says daughter, not "child," right? Do you see what I'm digging at? Anyway). Ron meets Harry and recognizes himself in how Harry defaults to thinking people don't care about him, or won't help him if he asks, because — although they come from very different circumstances, Ron's home was completely loving, just not as nurturing as he always needed it to be — Ron usually goes in assuming people don't care about him, too. So his first instinct is to go: "Alright. Well, I'll care about you, then, weird stranger. Do you want to share my horrible sandwich, and also my life, perhaps?" Goddamn! Sixth of seven in a house with never enough to go around, and he's immediately like: "fuck it, room for one more." Because he could have been Percy — and you can see it in the way that Ron is mean, sometimes, he's not careful with his words and he struggles with empathy and he's got a vengeful streak that comes out when he's pissed — but he isn't selfish enough, he loves too much and too easily, and it takes shockingly little to earn his loyalty. You just have to pay a little attention to him.

“Is this how you we are supposed to be living?”

(insp.)

HI I’m celebrating my 18th birthday today and can choose a movie to subject my entire family to. what is a really good movie I should watch :3

Gael García Bernal in El Ardor (2014, dir. Pablo Fendrik)

(these gifs also feature Alice Braga)

just curious, what are the chinese characters for your ocs names? since the romanizations dont convey tone and meaning haha

Here they are!

Their approximate meanings are heaven-bestowed or sent by the heavens for tianci and bountiful growth of thankfulness or gratefulness over time for xieran

Let me know if these don’t seem quite right, I did make up xieran’s name and I do not have much experience choosing Chinese names lmao

The two of them share a last name but I don’t know about the last name yet

It feels like an inescapable part of online political discourse that everyone implicitly assumes that they're part of the majority on the issue(s) they support. Their cause is the cause of "the people," and everyone who doesn't support their cause is an enemy who's working to thwart the "will of the people."

I just think it would do people some good to recognize that sometimes you are in the minority on a particular issue, and that this doesn't mean you're wrong.

4.6 yes 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

"Flowers are flowers. Even if the sky should fall, it blooms as they desire."

— Flower's "Kurenai no Dress" music video monologue

Does anyone have any thoughts about why durge wasn't raised in the Bhaal temple?

One thing that I appreciate about TPN is that it never revels in the horror of the act of systemic medical rape that occurs within the farm system, which easily could stray into being very gross and fetishy given how IVF isn't even around for a century by the times canon kicks off, but given the target demographic for the series we're originally confronted by the horror that is the demons commodifying children's bodies for consumption that provides dual upfront‚ visceral terror at the prospect of being impaled in the heart and then eaten, and a haunting‚ lingering despair at the dehumanization they've been subjected to.

(Chapter 181.1)

Dehumanization that turns out to be completely unnecessary with the discovery of the evil blood, but that the ruling class actively works to maintain out of selfish decadence and entitlement. It's something that I appreciate the series being so upfront about, to the point where that commentary overrides my mixed feelings about the anthropocentrism of the demons striving to maintain human levels of intellect as the pinnacle of their existence.

FAMILY VACATION DISASTER: my dad is being a colossal cunt but not in a funny way I can blog about

I lose my faith in humanity each time I see something like this

Communism was SO MUCH worse, it was literally the worst that any russian neighbor had experienced. Communism did unite people - but only against itself. Isn't it ironic, how people call nazi literally any country next to russia, but not russia itself?

Not writing smut about minors is basic knowledge??!!