@/veniennes on tiktok // Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," published c. January 2011// love drought - beyonce // Athena Farrokhzad, "My Mother Said" // Oleander, by Janet Finch// Hannah Green from "Night Terrors" // Sharon Olds, “Holding To A Wall, Treading Saltwater” // Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom // take care: mothers, daughters, and inheriting self-hatred by Ella Wilson // tumblr user honeytuesday // Marge Piercy from "our neverending entanglement", Made In Detroit // Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers// supernatural season 12 ep 22 // Silas Denver Melvin, from Grit: Poems; “Twenty” // Hayan Charara, from Mother and Daughter
One thing I absolutely adore about MHA is how they show the realistic body development of Izuku’s mother.
Like- it’s just not practical for her to keep her younger body while she’s single mothering Izuku, growing older, etc, etc. You can see her maturity through her body. Through her face. She looks so kind, yet so worn and wary. Whereas her younger self seemed more aloof, more spastic. More trusting.
So young.
It’s clear how much she’s grown as a person while raising Izuku, and it’s evident in her features. They did a wonderful job aging an already grown woman.
...Pillars of Eternity thought: the dynamic between Tekēhu and an Ondra-critical moon godlike Watcher (especially considering The White March) is. pretty interesting.
you know her as your second mother. I know her as a murderer. you are her favorite child. I am a walking memory of her crimes. she tried to wipe me from existence five years ago and now she has the gall to appear to me in a vision and ask me to take care of you, the one she likes, the one who doesn't remind her of killing her love, the one she actually wants to survive.
I'm loathe to moan and martyr myself, especially given how lucky I am in comparison to many people in this world right now, but over this year and a half, I've lost both my maternal grandparents (my darling nan died a week ago), dealt with my aforementioned maternal grandfather's domestic violence against my grandmother, lost my beloved dog of 17 years, ended my engagement, supported my mum through treatment for two separate cancers, dealt with my own rapidly declining reproductive health.....just wondering when something good is gonna happen to me, actually. Also wondering how I haven't offed myself yet because it feels that hopeless sometimes.
i have admitted a want and/or need. this is tantamount to admitting weakness. now i must go and fold my arms behind my back and contemplate the wall for the next six months
omfg people really need to calm the fuck down about people disliking some characters like it's not always a deep seated prejudice or an inability to empathise it's because we are human beings with our own experiences and normal biases and fictional characters are not real and it doesn't matter if you don't like them for pretty much any reason at all and doesn't make you suddenly x just because the character is y it just means you don't like them. obviously other indications of actual prejudice or a repeated pattern mean something else entirely but you can just dislike a character because get this they're a character and not a real person. you can dislike real people too even it's almost like we've got free will. please oh please can we get out of the torture chamber together.
going a little insane thinking about that one echo in moxxi's heist that's jack calling his mom on mother's day- a call she very much does not answer- and how much the sadness in his voice when saying goodbye says about him
what's up with boomers and buying temu garbage. well young people fall for it too but does anyone else have experience with aging relatives + rampant consumerism combined with buying temu/amazon/wish/shein stuff
I had a dream where I had a twink peg me senseless just because I was a little nice to them about their daddy issues. I accidentally gave them a forehead kiss while they were complaining about their problems and they fell in my bed 5 minutes later.
"i mess up things and then i don't have the energy to fix them up" yes brain true sentence but no brain the appropriate response is NOT "therefore i should kill myself (and here's how)"