#Very odd situation
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c.1865
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Number: 50.3988a-c)
#day dress#fashion history#historical fashion#1860s#crinoline era#united states#19th century#reconstruction era#gold#brown#silk#taffeta#mfa boston#i am intrigued by this odd peplum situation#very proto bustle look
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Probably the stupidest, most reckless but undeniably bravest thing Mu Qing did in the entire novel was coming forward to Xie Lian with the truth about the missing golden foil.
#tgcf#yes yes i know i shit on the man all the time#and it is 100% deserved#i stand by that#but he wasn’t always a shitty 800-year-old manbaby#once he was a child with principles#THAT is his potential as a person#like imagine you are the child of a man who your government had to EXECUTE#and you have been put in a position where coming forward about something#would have you dubbed a thief TO THE VERY GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ALSO EXECUTED YOUR FATHER#who would have the courage to still come forward and just be *honest*?#mu qing who struggles with honesty on a GOOD day made that call#he didn’t know xie lian at that time for shit#and EVERYONE knew of qi rong as an absolute menace#he had NO reason to believe he’d come out of that situation unscathed#yet still!#against all the odds#and all common sense#HE WAS REWARDED!
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really obsessed with soulmate au’s recently and it got me thinking… what if john’s soulmate was part of the boys? a girl trying to kill him with an entire group of people also trying to kill him… and he’s fated to her? could picture him finding out and just putting his hands on his hips while turning his back to her and doing that click chuckle thing. just in utter disbelief but it is definitely on track for fate’s little play with him and his life lolol
Oohhh, you know, I've never played much with the soulmate au concept, but this struck me just right because I can so clearly see the slow, building meltdown that strikes him when that reveal drops.
The mirthless laugh, shaking his head, the hapless gesture to the ceiling before his hands drop.
"Of course. Of course it's you. Why wouldn't it be? I mean—Christ, it makes sense, doesn't it? Every single person who was supposed to love me has-has fucked it, so why—" he keeps cutting into this escalating, unsettling laughter.
There's nothing funny about it: you're sure that you're watching someone lose the last shred of their sanity in real time.
"Why would my 'soulmate'-", he says, miming big, dramatic quotation marks. "-be any different?" That manic grin has shifted into tight baring of his teeth, a vicious sneer.
He closes in on you, stands so near you can feel the heat of his breath when he hisses, "I should put you in the fucking dirt with the rest of them."
It should be terrifying, but it's hard to focus on anything other than the glassiness of his eyes. The sheer devastating heartbreak of it all, telegraphed clear as day in the way he carries himself. His eyes flare red, sizzling up the tears before they can fall.
"And then you really will be all alone," you say. Maybe it's the hopelessness of the moment, maybe it's the shock of learning for yourself that he's supposed to be your one and only, but you feel numb. Frayed in a way you didn't know you could be.
The crimson light of his eyes disappears in an instant, revealing surprise, followed by a wounded kind of look, before that familiar seething rage returns.
"We'll see about that."
#oh man i could get carried away with this real easy#i did here lbr#i guess it's up to the author just how connected soulmates are and how that kind of reveal happens#idk i'm a baby to the genre#but it would be very fun to write a situation where HL wants to strangle them just as much as he wants to snuggle up in their lap#they're at odds in every conceivable way but there is this soul deep pull to one another#coming to terms with the fact passion is the root of BOTH hatred and love#also the idea that HL was sincerely holding out hope all this time that his One Perfect Person was out there waiting for him wounds ME#only to be struck down by the realization that oh they ALSO want him dead#aaaaaaAAAAAAA#i'm sorry i'm so rambly today lmao thank you for the ask!!! i'm gonna have brain worms all day#darling anon#ask and you shall receive#homelander x reader#homelander x you#soulmate au#my writing
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Orym's insistence on protecting Fearne (and increasingly, all of the Hells) under any circumstance, no matter the risk to himself is so beautifully painful because it isn't just protectiveness. It's also his own guilt at walking away with his life from the fight that killed Will. It's him saying "you will kill me before you touch anyone I love. I will die before you lay a hand on my family." It's more than vigilance, it's a willingness to self-sacrifice that edges on reckless. Those moments are also the ones where his pain is the most visible, where he raises his sword as if to say "here we are again, and this time I won't fail." He's let people in again, let them get close, and now he has to do all he can, give everything necessary to keep them safe.
#my shield is on my back bc i am double wielding which drops my ac' - i will make myself vulnerable to raise my odds of keeping you safe#i have an enormous amount of feelings about orym#he's just so. quietly layered with both pain and life experience and there's a maturity there that is only challenged by his recklessness#and liam plays that 'informed by grief but not controlled by it (except in very certain situations)' so fucking well#orym of the air ashari#orym#fearne calloway#bell's hells#critical role#cr spoilers#cr meta#cr3
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You can’t say the phrase ‘little FBI house pet’ and not expand upon it!! Say more, say more :0
now that i think about it, you could also say that the domestic Running Away Together AU is also two serial killers and their pet FBI agent, but what i meant was mostly just vague thoughts where Hoffman had a bit too much fun flirting through crime scenes with Strahm and now Strahm's hot on their trail and they need to do something about him quickly.
so after Lawrence thoroughly scolds Hoffman for fucking up so much, they end up kidnapping Strahm (because they can't just kill him, it wouldn't be very jigsaw of them y'know? no obsessive feelings there), framing him for the murders (more successfully this time since he's not dead and Lawrence is helping) and they take him to some safe house of theirs in the middle of nowhere. probably put some sort of shock collar on him to keep him from misbehaving too much. Strahm starts roasting them as soon as he wakes up because i think he should be the biggest bitch in the room when in potentially life threatening situations.
it's very much that dynamic like. Hoffman and Lawrence come back home after a job to a delicious dinner made by their beautiful pet husband and, smiling, they ask: "Poison again?" and Strahm smiles back :)
#it's all very vague bc i don't know how much it would actually work. it's just something i briefly thought up for funsies#bc i like putting strahm in situations and making him be mean towards the guys that currently have his life in their hands#a lot of it is just Strahm trying to find a way out with all the odds stacked against him#because the other two are scary good at planning ahead for any escape plans he comes up with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#hoffstrahmdon#askbox#anon
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1,3, 4, 24 and 25 for Kyrahlise and Blade for the OCxLI OTP asks!
When I saw your ask I had to do a double-take, because I figured that you’d ask about Kyrah and Chase! But Kyrahlise and Blade are fun too! And so frustrating before they get together, lol! Now, without further adieu, here are the answers to the Romance Asks *dramatically gestures towards the answers*
1. What drew your character to their LI and vice versa?
Blade was drawn to Kyrahlise because she’s kind, hardworking, always trying to do what’s right, and keeps improving her combat abilities and magic. She also acts like she feels at ease around him and teases him. (Which gets to my headcanon that he likes it when people aren’t afraid of him and act normal around him.)
Kyrahlise was drawn to Blade because despite all he’s done and seen, he’s still very kind and considerate. Also he’s incredibly fun to tease! He respects her abilities and knowledge, and she feels safe speaking her mind to him because he gives what she has to say due thought. What seals the deal is in Chapter 4 when he’s so angry about what happened to her. It’s been a long time since anyone has given a shit if she were safe, or wanted to protect her.
3. When they are having a fight, what is it about and how do they deal with it?
The number one thing these two would fight about is Kyrahlise feeling like Blade is overprotective of her, and Blade feeling like she is too independent and reckless. Once Kyrah understands just how scared he is of losing her, and that he needs to know she’s safe, she’s going to take a long hard look at how she acts. She’ll agree to work on making her safety a higher priority, and communicating better before she runs off. When Blade realizes that she feels a little stifled and like he doesn’t fully trust her, I’m sure he’ll agree to reign in his protectiveness to some degree. Of course it’s something they both have to work on to find a balance, but they will eventually.
The silly thing about this argument is that she likes that he’s protective, and he likes that she’s independent and wants to tackle problems! They just both think the other takes it too far.
4. Their favorite physical feature on each other?
According to Lena, romanced!Blade loves MC’s eyes, hair, and lips (or just face in general), and we know he’s into a nice butt! I change my mind regularly as to which is his favorite, but right now I'm going to say her eyes!
Kyrahlise loves Blade’s smile! It fills her with joy to see him happy and relaxed enough to genuinely smile. She has an internal ‘got the stoic, ex-assassin to smile’ counter! Overall she thinks he’s a very beautiful and handsome man, but his smile is her favorite.
24. Is there any moment that happens between them that you know happens and just makes you melt?
One time Kyrahlise sat on Blade’s lap briefly as he’s working to tell him something and give him a little kiss before getting up to read. (He’s a head taller than her, so she uses whatever she can to make it easier to kiss him!) But Blade doesn’t want her to go, so she’s like “fine, I’ll just read here” thinking that he’ll eventually get tired of her sitting on his lap. She severely underestimates how much he likes having her close. But he’s warm, and she feels very safe and cozy, so she falls asleep. Since he doesn’t want to wake her up, he stops working. And he’s probably having a hard time not staring at her because he thinks she’s very cute!
25. Share any headcanons about their relationship.
As soon as Blade lets her, Kyrahlise starts cutting his hair. She secretly thinks his haircut is atrocious. Though once she gives him a better haircut she realizes she played herself because now he looks even more handsome! (Kyrah’s been cutting her own hair since her mother died. Most people can’t be trusted to cut curly hair right, and she’s a touch vain about her hair.)
They trade books of poetry with each other and then talk about which ones they like and why. It’s like a little book club with just the two of them!
Blade’s office stops looking quite so bare, because Kyrahlise makes him some art to put up. If anyone dares to criticize it or make any disparaging remarks about it in his presence they get his death glare!
#I really like Kyrahlise and Blade together because they are sweet in private but publicly they are a power couple#funny thing is Kyrah never sought out power but now that she has some she's going to use it to make positive changes!#but before that they are dumb! under normal circumstances she's dense and thinks “there is a platonic explanation for this”#so Blade's odd behavior removes any chance of her understanding how he feels about her!#it's very much an “unrequited requited love” kind of situation that makes me want to yell at them both lol#romance asks#blade bronwyn#oc: kyrahlise niriviel#shepherds of haven#shoh#sorry it took a while! the PTSD has been acting up more the past few days which made it hard to concentrate enough to answer#if this is a bit of a garbled mess that's why
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#This is about the last thing I could have imagined happening to me but.#A girl just slid what pretty realistically is a love letter under my door and. I really don't know what to do about it#God. I like her a lot but I also really just love her as a friend??#I don't. I have no idea what to reply because on one hand if I said something like#“yeah every second we spend together is precious to me too I love you <3 ” I would probably. Definitely come across wrong#But at the same time I can't just reply coldly I don't want to be rude. I do enjoy the time we spend together.#I just feel that if I don't reply with the same love and dedication I will come off as rude and make her sad and I really don't want to#But also I'm like. 100% sure I'm not into her romantically#It's just. The way she talks to me in the letter makes me feel... Odd in the bad way.#She spent words of admiration on me I really feel like I can't own you know.#She seems to look up to me a lot and I don't think I should be looked up to at all.#“You're a wonderful‚ very strong‚ and intelligent person” HOW DO YOU EVEN REPLY TO THAT.#“Uh I disagree but you're entitled to your opinion”... ?#Thank you?#This is. Ugh. I'm really not fit for this kind of stuff.#I LOVE exploring characters being in love and putting them in awkward ridiculous situations that make them miserable.#I HATE to be in such situations#As if exams weren't enough. How do I deal with that#Posting this just in case anyone has genuine advice btw. How do you reject a girl you actually like a lot#And how should I even write her back. Because she said to and I'm the WORST at writing back#Sis this is stressing me off so much. I want to dig a hole and disappear in it. I'm not getting out of my room for the next six months.#(For context we live in the same students dorm)#random rambles#I'm so distressed right now this is the absolute worst.#Like I was pretty fine with where we were at but now I feel like I really don't want to spend time with her again for a long time.#Deleting this soon hopefully
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Today.............. has genuinely. Been. A Day.
Have some OC doodles I started yesterday before tragedy struck and are like the bare minimum effort for today to finish. Since the two princes were originally not /in canon/ for another plot but rather made for a mafia AU as cousins to one of the main characters for the base plot. I was like. Huh let's give them a happier life. So here they're just princes and instead of the police department/detectives that most of the main cast is in base plot, those are the royal guards around the twins' castle.
#my characters#the funny thing is that the princes are like......... made for an au of another plot#and here they are in another au of the plot#so like yeehaw everyone i love my ocs and i love putting them in situations#also idk what its worth but hey happy pride atticus is trans im proud of him#it has zero relevance to the plot but its important to me that hes trans#he also is like.... an absolute bundle of friendliness which is a huge contrast to the twins cousin#who is extremely stoic for the most part and finds it hard to feel emotions and thinks#everyone feels the same way all the time like him - WHICH IS DEPRESSED BY THE WAY#but he learns that ah nope thats just him and oh hes better by the power of love#and he doesnt actually get it ?? like in canon or mafia or as a prince hes just like#huh i like this guy and he makes me want to smile which is really odd im gonna stay by him if i can#and doesnt even realize right away hes fallen in love#atticus and caspian however are very aware of their emotions and are v happy to see their cousin feel things#and are constantly there to tease him but support him and help him and theyre all good boys#ill shut up in the tags now bc the tags are taking me as long to type as the art took to doodle
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alhaitham is such a lying liar who lies dude. acting like he and the sumeru boys gang have always been besties since forever. "that's how it's always been with the four of us" - man who has barely spoken to most of these people before he decided to team up with them to overthrow the government and regularly skips social gatherings with them. yeah right buddy ok
#explicitly said that he's barely spoken to cyno before when they clash in the archon quest#will literally just skip or show up late when they do meet up#very notably had a huge falling out with kaveh that ended with them not speaking for years#does he even talk to tighnari?? like one on one???? do they hang out????#i stg kaveh and tighnari are the glue holding the whole situation together#the other 2 are just off to the side being autistic#well cyno actually tries to be social alhaitham doesnt give a fuck lmao#alhaitham after speaking to people that do not annoy him about once a month: 'hmm. i love my best friends'#he adopted a status quo and now simply pretends there has never been a different one#hes so fucking funny#genshin fans who try to make him some kind of big dick sexyman you are so wrong hes a silly goofy clown to me#on a more serious note i do actually much prefer the interpretation of this being a friendship they formed as adults#and everyone involved has different levels of closeness with each other#rather than making them all mutual best friends with each other (even since school sometimes). i think thats a lot more interesting#and canon is weirdly ambiguous about it so shrug#like the current friend groups as it is seems to be a relatively recent formation based on canon bits but then the writers lean into it#so hard as their Thing its a bit odd. but also fun to play with. they dont need to have always been friends to be close
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It continues to give me the warm fuzzies that basically every person at work has said they'll miss me. And it's not really utility, even if I'm useful; I am not in a critical position. There are many people who can do the things I do, even if the majority are less experienced. I'm not management, or a lynchpin, just a long-time worker bee.
But people like me, and I just handled a Crisis Situation well enough that the AD took the time to personally thank me, and my manager was like 'not only am I willing to be a reference you can use my personal phone number if that's easier' and even some of the newest additions said they're going to miss me on desk, and I just.
I love my job and my coworkers and it's really nice that the people there know it and love me back.
#I told mom about Crisis Situation#and tonight when dad got home she was like COME IN AND TELL YOUR DAD#and then both of them were like WHEN COMPANY COMES NEXT WEEK TELL THEM TOO#haha#I mean dad did follow it up with 'no you may not drive across the country alone we will figure something out'#I'm gonna work on him about it we tried the thing where all of us are in one vehicle#Tuesday screamed the whole time and mom wanted to kill her and also me#I shall remind him of that#I think he will probably come around#if I could convince someone to come with I would probably make it an actual road trip#'come to TX for the eclipse!'#'we will drive through the deep south and hit some Neat Shit and then go up the coast!'#like you could make that a fun drive#I'm not gonna do the long version if I'm solo tho bc my parents are convinced I will be murdered#which is silly; I have not infrequently been in Situations and strangers have been kind#also the odds of getting strangermurdered for no damn reason are SO low#and the incentives to murder Me Specifically are also very low#and if a white cishet-passing woman dies 90% of the time it's a romantic partner and I'm aroace so like#I really wonder what they're imagining is gonna happen#babble tea (blacklist this for less chatter)#tea writes tag novels
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Yeah im also surprisingly chill about this tbh. Im in general confused about everything she said in her stream because there was a lot of backtracking, even more inconsistencies and questionable stuff said so whatever 🤷 just gonna wait on George because he stated that he didn't assault anyone and also said that in his book whatever he did was 'tame' and i dont think groping a boob (under a sports bra??) fits into that statement so?
honestly, i feel like george's best course of action is just. not responding. caiti doesn't want his apology, and she didn't exactly set out a clear path forward for him, so i'm not sure what mroe he can do besides acknowledge his mistakes and do his best to move forward
#cq.asks#george situation#the vague wording around the nature of the under the shirt touch is very odd to me#i think honestly#that it wouldnt change my mind much if he had touched further up her chest#bc at the end of the day the problem was the lack of communication between them#and with a he said she said situation liek this#it just feels disingenuous to assume the worst or best case scenario#because again i'm just not sure how much it would change my view of everything
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feel free to add ur specific identity in the tags if you want/think that that's important to ur answer
#inspired by me watching lady bird and being very underwhelmed#the scenes with her mom were great but the rest of it resonated with me pretty much zero#bc i wasn't interested in boys and didn't realize i could be interested in girls#and while i grew up poorer and definitely fantasized about living in bigger houses or better situations it was always because i didn't want#my mom to worry about money not bc i was embarrassed by all of that#also there was literally nothing i wanted less than to act out or to be the center of attention#literally the only coming of age story where i really had a character i resonated with that i can think of#is brian in the breakfast club#idk it just seems with a lot of these that the experiences are universal#and i'm just the odd one out#polls#coming of age movies
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catching up on tsams and boy howdy sun is never gonna resolve his trauma if moon keeps poorly coping with his own issues by distancing himself from his pre-amnesia self
#fnaf#tsams#the sun and moon show#sams spoilers#sams#mine#aside of course from when it's convenient for him to bring up their brotherly bond#i actually am really interested in the discussion about memory identity and accountability and all that#but moon's so insistent for not taking responsibility for his past self's actions#its like buddy this isn't just about your personhood or wtv#like in the foxy is missing episode he's like 'i'm disgusted by the me that killed people'#yeah so was og moon lol#anyway this is a very fantastical situation bc fictional amnesia always is#so i find the choice to mix the very real 'how to deal with trauma from a loved one who has changed and whom you genuinely care about'#with robot magic memory wipe shenanigans#kinda odd#to say the least
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when people talk about that honkai character that has ball joints like a doll and say that they wish scaramouches design had those too and mfs in the comments are like "YOU DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO SCARAS STORY! >:(" they're kinda missing the point. this is less about scaramouches fucking ball joints and more about how bland and repetitive genshin is allowed to be because it will bring profit either way
#i mean i wouldn't exactly call honkai a game with unique character models but. for the sake of comparing two games from the same company#its also funny when the comments are all like oh you didn't read scaramouches story did you *smug face*#and then their explanations and defenses are just misinformation and lies about the character#anyways. this is the inconsequential discourse of the day#complaining tag#frankly. i do not care about scaramouches story. i wish he had cool puppet design#idk i just think it's neat and more interesting#i understand why the ball joints wouldnt work with bits of his story blah blah do i look like i care??#''hes becoming more human'' i dont think that depends on what his limbs are connected by.#''like albedo! he looks perfectly human too'' 1) different situation 2) its a bold assumption that i also dont wish albedo looked a bit odd#anyways visibly non human scara 4 the win#or at the very least scara who might Look human but his body is so deeply weird when you inspect it closer
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weirdly specific dating related rant below the cut
One thing I need to let go of in 2024 is the instinct to go to the scarcity mindset. I have a solid group of friends, people like having me around, I'm not worried about that. But every time I fail a talking stage, I can fall into the temptation of feeling like I've wasted my one (1) chance to find someone, which,, no! I am simply a little weird around guys I may be considering in a romantic sense and that's it! Nothing you can't grow and learn from! Or maybe they weren't meant to be and that's also okay!
Like, this year, I really wanna condition my brain to not fall into the trap of this kind of thinking. And yeah, there are worse things than this, but like, it's something I need to work on in regards to my personal life. And it feels nice to say it somewhere
To anyone who's stayed and read this you're a champ
#nero's random thoughts#weird around guys as in: i get spooked every time someone shows interest in me#it happens infrequently enough for me to do that#i was never the girl guys approached growing up (even in my teens) and now its hard for me to fully accept that im not as unattractive#as i previously thought. not that i thought of myself as *ugly* but i was never desirable#so cue my surprise when someone on tinder matched with me for a hookup. when people turned to look at me when im wearing a miniskirt and#a croptop. when people actual pay me romantic attention.#idk what it is but it feels very odd sometimes#and then i accept it but then i fail a talking stage bc i dont know how to behave in romantic situations and i just... am back at square 1#again nothing self-work can't solve but goddamn nero get it together
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update on the sksw replay i have yet to break that fucking chandelier
#Also i kicked ghirahims ass in skyview. he reallgy is just like that huh#the controls are ..... odd? but not bad. im gettin used 2 em#pressing r just to look around is very janky but i understand the reasons why#but theres a lot of situations where i go to look at someone and pull out my sword which is very threatening ithink
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