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I can't stop thinking about just how emblematic everything in those conversations of Ashton being "a child" are of how, even at her most beaten down, triggered and traumatized, Laudna is not and will not be what Delilah wants her to be.

For Delilah, "they're still a child" is dismissive, a bit derisive, but doesn't even merit being truly hateful. She doesn't find Ashton worth the attention Laudna is giving them, not when there are such more interesting, important things to pull the attention of an adult. Children are only important when they are useful. She will indulge Laudna on the subject, because Laudna is useful, is her vehicle for action in the world, but she only cares about it in the context of getting Laudna to do what she wants. Calling someone a child is calling them unimportant. (Laudna is a child to her)

But for Laudna, who loves children and who understands intimately what it's like to have the helplessness of child, to be trapped under the authority of someone who will never treat you as a full person, even when they are being ostensibly kind, to be so confused and lost and powerless...a child deserves attention more than anyone else. Of course children lash out. Being a child IS in many ways quite awful because the world is so big around you and you don't know yet how to react to any of it, how to soothe yourself - and if you aren't given the attention, you never learn how. Ashton never learned how. Her instincts - instincts trained into her by manipulation and abuse from inside and the world around her - may say kill him, but she fights them the whole way because her heart is stronger and her heart says that the angriest, most volatile child needs care as much as any other. More, even.

Laudna hears Delilah call Ashton a child and agrees on the word, but they have diametrically opposed understandings of what that means, and diametrically opposed instincts on how to treat a child. Laudna doesn't want to hurt anyone, especially children. She loves children. She loves so much and so selflessly. And Delilah is so very very good at manipulating her but she has tried for 30 years to change the bedrock of Laudna's psyche, the truer thing that drives her beyond the base animal instincts of survival, and it hasn't worked.

pratik telling akarsha about the snail race he won at school 🐌

reddit:

literally every other WOT viewer in the world:

In honor of Nemona's "birthday" (her reveal day was June 1st last year), I want to remind everyone of a part of her characterization that people seem to miss again.

The thing about her story is that so much of it is in the details. Things like how she's worried about "coming off too strong", how other students like Arven and the Team Star grunts from the tutorial treat her, how Geeta and Clavell seem to worry about her, how she intentionally avoids talking about her parents and specifically points out how "nice" your mother is, the way she completely curls up and visibly worries when you say no to her questions about becoming Champion.

The main thing about these details is that they reveal that Nemona's interest in battling isn't the *whole* reason why people are turned away by her and she is so lonely. For others to accept her, she has to not just hold back in battle, she has to hold *herself* back, to hide her "true self" and her energy and to be somebody she is definitely not just to get people to not immediately leave. This is a painful thing for her to do, and it results in her having nobody she can truly confide in, nobody she can share her interests with or just open up to without being rejected. She's stuck in a vicious cycle where when she inevitably slips up by opening up a little or putting her social difficulties on display she's alone again, and her only choice is to put the mask back on again until she slips up and is left alone again, and she couldn't do much to change that until the player came around. It's also why she seems to have such intense abandonment issues and kind of latches onto the player, you are pretty much her only shot at finally being able to connect with somebody.

And, because battling is such a big part of Nemona's life, talking about battling is how she expresses those feelings. So for her, battling in an "all-out" way is how she communicates this to you, how she tells you that she can trust that you won't leave her when she puts her fears and flaws and odd little quirks on display, an expression of her true, authentic self that she doesn't have to hide anymore because for once, someone didn't leave.

I think this has already been said already, but I've seen too many people claim battling was her only motivation and personality trait, and it's just...blegh. Pokémon players shouldn't be so afraid of reading into stories of the games.

IZZYGIRLS (GN) WAKE THE FUCK UP ONE OF THE OFMD CREW JUST CASUALLY DROPPED THE FUCKING RING BACKSTORY IN AN INTERVIEW LIKE IT WAS NOTHING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!! 🚨🚨 🚨🚨‼️‼️‼️‼️

WATCH IT HERE

OH ALSO IT JUST HAPPENS TO EXACTLY CONFIRM THE SAME FUCKING HEADCANON I’VE LITERALLY HAD SINCE DAY ONE. I’VE BEEN FUCKING RIGHT THIS WHOLE TIME BECAUSE I’M LITERALLY SO HUGE BRAINED AND HOT AND SMART AND SEXY AND MY BRAIN IS SO WRINKLY. IT WAS HIS MOMS THIS WHOLE TIME AND I FUCKING CALLEDDDD ITTTTTT

Aurory ran her first puppy stakes field trial! All in all it was a lot less pressure than I expected (the running field was far from the staging area so there were only the judges watching). I ran in the second brace so only one group ran before me which was really nice to get it done early.

My bracemate was a gigantic weim, right at the upper cut off for puppy stakes (17 months, ages out next week). The handler was extremely kind and welcoming to me, very patient with my inexperienced dog.

Basically an ATV shuttled us out to the running field (Rory's first ATV experience!). There were no birds planted in the puppy field and no gunshots for puppies. There were two judges on ATV following us at a reasonable distance.

We released the dogs at the startline. The weim immediately ran wide so Rory followed her for a while. Eventually the weim stepped on her so Rory lost interest and got her head in the game. I basically let Rory do what she wanted (sniffing) and only recalled her when she looked like she was eating poop. I didn't have to recall her at the end because she circled back when she saw me pull out her leash.

Rory took about 5 mins to start searching properly but figured it out and sniffed really well and ran really hard. I was worried about her stamina even though it's only a 15-20 min run but she was totally fine. She didn't find any birds obviously but did a thorough job looking for them. She checked in very well and ranged super appropriately even though the weim ran really wide.

All in all she was phenomenal, I couldn't have asked for a better run. She did not care about the ATV ride or the ATV following us at all. She worked hard even though she wasn't quite sure what the game was. It was really cool to see.

I'll probably enter the long weekend trial just for funsies and that'll be it for her until the fall!

I have decided to completely disregard the events depicted in Secret Invasion.

In much the same way that Marvel/Feige have disregarded the very real effects which Stephen Strange's grueling, excruciating painful emotionally & physically, 1,500+ year search for the path to victory over Thanos, have had upon him.

Moment of signing the security agreement with Germany

some kind of kaiju forms to crush the artblock

theyre pure magic forms that demons can use to gain a huge power boost, but also leaves them more suseptable to permanent injury. when maq died it would have been in this form, and when swk fought lbd.

ive been calling them dà shèng (大胜) forms bc that means ‘to defeat decisively’ or ‘triumph’ but it also sounds very close to the word for ‘loud’. it also has the same pinyin as ‘great sage/ king/ emporer’ although that has different characters (大圣)

hey babe are you okay? you haven't had your Trinyvale Two-Shot: Merry Metal Mayhem today :/

the fact that like half the hospital has bets on who gets fired is both fucking hilarious and the most in character thing i think this show has ever done

december in movies [29/31]: two lovers (2008) dir. james gray "I think I'll have a New Year's party this year. What do you think?"

All these people in the fandom who convinced themselves that Dickson never cared about Shulk (and some of the group tbh, specially Dunban) are just willingly missing out on some delicious internal conflict for all the characters involved, as well as ignoring things we outright see and are told in the actual game. This also goes to people who act like Shulk hates him after the fact.

They cared about each other, maybe never stopped caring to some degree, and that makes it all the more painful.

My prizes for the art contest at London FFXIV fanfest arrived this morning! My art book collecting heart is thrilled with a signed copy haha.

Went to the Louvre✅