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"Now," my grandmother said, as she set two Mason jars on the counter in front of us, "I am not a scientist. I may get parts of this wrong. We'll just hope it isn't the important parts. But I don't think it will be, because--well, but I said that the last time, didn't I?"
Nothing could tempt me to answer that.
Wendalyn said, "I'm sure you've been extra specially careful this time, Mom," and if she sounded a little mechanical saying it, well, I think that was understandable.
"I have," my grandmother said happily. "And while I am not a scientist, I am a cook and a baker. The problem was explained to me in those terms and in those terms, I think, I can explain it to each of you."
My grandmother deftly scooped sugar into both the jars, filling them each about two-thirds full. Then, she added cinnamon in a layer on top of the sugar. She left about an inch at the top of each jar before placing the lids on them.
She handed me one of the jars.
"Will you please shake that up for me, Velma? I'd like it well-mixed, so it may take you a minute or two."
I started shaking the jar. It was, in fact, going to take me at least a minute to get the mixture blended well. I could see that right away. When it looked right to me (and my arm was getting tired), finally, I set it down on the counter, looking a question at my grandmother.
She sighed.
"Well, we aren't actually going to bake with it right now, so I guess that's close enough. What would you call this substance now, Velma? Is it cinnamon? Or is it sugar?"
Oh, for fuck's sake.
"It's both," I said.
My grandmother held up the other jar of cinnamon and sugar, the one that hadn't been mixed yet, and turned to my Aunt Wendalyn.
"What would you call this substance, Wendalyn? Cinnamon or sugar?"
If the look on my aunt's face didn't read, "oh, for fuck's sake," then I'm a fairy myself. But, dutifully, she said, "It's both."
My grandmother frowned.
"Velma says hers is both, and you say yours is both, but they don't look the same to me at all."
"Mom."
I laughed. I couldn't help it. "Now you know," I said to my aunt, "what it was like for us when my mom became a teacher."
My grandmother giggled.
"I'm not going to say what I think of that decision. But all right! It's been a long day. I'll get to the point."
She picked up my jar.
"Imagine this is a chunk of time. Don't laugh! I am doing my best as a non-scientist.
"So. The cinnamon molecules and the sugar molecules are all traveling together in time, and no one cinnamon molecule is ever very far from any one sugar molecule, or vice versa.
"They aren't the same substance, but they form one cohesive mixture; so in a sense, the time sense, they may as well be. If we poured some of this out into a dish, both the cinnamon and the sugar would appear to reach the dish at about the same time. They would travel together.
"Now imagine I had a magnet that attracted only cinnamon, and another that attracted only sugar--"
"Mommmmm!"
"Don't whine, Wendalyn, it makes me lose my train of thought. I don't think you want that?--No, I didn't think so.
"Now imagine I have these silly magnets, and that by putting one at each end of the jar, I can make Velma's mixed-up jar look just like your jar, Wendalyn. Where the cinnamon and the sugar are in the same jar, but still separate. If I poured some of this re-separated cinnamon and sugar into a dish, then, for the most part, the cinnamon would reach the dish before the sugar."
"And why would you want to do that?" said my aunt tiredly. "Why are they in the damn jars to--no. You know what, never mind. Go on."
But something felt like it was about to click for me.
"Grandma," I said, "are you saying that--okay. Is the cinnamon supposed to represent wherever we are now? Aurora Skies? And the sugar is supposed to be Elmira City?"
My grandmother raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Go on, Velma."
But I couldn't go on. That was as far as I had got. I frowned, trying to coax a little more out of my poor tired brain.
"So... you said that in the mixed jar... in the mixed jar, the cinnamon and the sugar were traveling together--oh! Oh, shit."
"What's 'oh, shit', Velma?" asked my aunt worriedly.
"'Oh, shit' is a perfectly natural (if somewhat vulgar) response," my grandmother said, "to the sudden realization that you have become separated from your home not only by place, but by time."
"Oh," said my aunt. "Oh, dear."
My grandmother was still smiling.
"I haven't told you the good news. The good news is that--if you'll pardon the pun--things should all shake out on their own in a week or two. Naturally! I've only caused a temporary, and really relatively teensy-tiny, misalignment of things."
My aunt and I were silent.
"Get it?" my grandmother said brightly. "Shake?"
She picked up Wendalyn's jar and began shaking it up, giggling.
My aunt turned to me.
"I hope you like French toast, Velma," she said. "From the looks of this? We're going to be having it kind of a lot."
"It's good in cookies, too," called my grandmother after us, as we trudged dejectedly out of the kitchen and up the stairs.
#ts3#ts3 legacy#sims 3#sims 3 legacy#the sims 3 legacy#planetary legacy#generation mercury#velma jeffrey#enya padrino#wendalyn padrino#reminder: enya is not a scientist#and i am only the fake kind
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At the end of the day, they're still just little kids making noise outside his office.
#I am unwell#the sibling moments here were so strong and like. its because they've never really grown up. it's a game. king of the hill. kendall loses#and like a little boy he shouts and begs and bullies. but it's time for the grownups to talk now. and he just isn't one. they're all#bullshit. they're not serious people#and romans the only one to even kind of realize that. he's literally dressed like a kid for half the episode. he knows its all fake and tha#means he's the closest to actually moving on#kendall roy#shiv roy#siobhan roy#roman roy#logan roy#succession finale#succession season 4#succession
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mid-canon design for Camembert btw. inspired by both the german Landsknecht of the renaissance era and the crusaders of the medieval era bc i liked the ribbon sleeves and also the marked tarp folded over and tied as a sort of tunic. idk if the tall leather boots are historic at all but theyre cool
#null havoc damage#cult of the lamb#i like fashion even though i dont know much about it and am actively choosing to mash different historical eras together#mid-game era camembert is a fake bitch. and i love that about them.#they dont want to be there but they dont have a choice (they develop a complex about this)#also committing to the characters having human hands Because it is kind of fucked up and weird to look at <3#camembert in particular is also going to have a weirdly human face. i love committing to source style only in ways that make things bad#planes of projection au
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wait you're an uzumaki fan. omg. omg i've been waiting for this moment my whole life
YES 🤩🤩🤩 i am so unhealthy about it i cant stop reading it
#i am a fake fan because i skip the body horror#im only there for those two cats shuichi and kirie#but i do like the horror!!#the idea of spirals being some kind of scary thing is awesome#body horror is just scary
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My DID-having ass is experiencing so much world-envy for the fictional country of Vaugarde I'm going to throw up
#Didn't realize how much I needed a society built around the concepts if change and reinvention but holy shit I do. I need it so bad.#The legally normal concept of being given multiple names to transition between or change to...#the societally accepted and easy ways to craft a new body...#the traditions built around reinvention and throwing away aspects of your old life that you wish to discard#that also acknowledge that reinvention involves the destruction of something else. & the grief from yourself or others that comes with that#literally have never resonated with anything to this level and I am YEARNING#like. my life would literally be so much easier in that society#the fact Vaugarde also highly values queerness of all kinds only helps#going insane over this world-building tbh konda wanna overthrow my government & rebuild my country in its image tbh#I am Decidedly Not Normal about this fake country#no spoilers if you respond to this btw. Not done with the game#In Stars And Time#hi dev I know you have a tumblr so if you see this: I love you#thank you for creating this world and letting me have a peek into it#they say we can't build a better world if we can't imagine what that world would look like and#now i can. I know what my ideal world looks like.#textpost
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Hey as vegan leftists we need to be louder about what we stand for. A non-vegan mutual on my main posted about veganism being a pipeline to ecofash and. I did not want to reblog the post itself but honestly there were so many assumptions there.
Like I want a systems change! I want justice for every human and non-human animal that was hurt by this, from slaughterhouse workers to animals killed for meat to the loss of biodiversity from the monocrops grown for the animal’s food.
And contrary to popular belief I do NOT want to start by saying “oh anyone should go vegan!” and “forcing my diet on people”. I want to start by making people look the animal ag industry in the fucking face and seeing what they’re supporting with ANY meat except what they killed and processed themselves, YES even “family farms” and “organic meat”. I do not even feel like touching sustenance hunting until we have reformed the animal ag industry.
My concern is for the animals bc they cannot tell you what they’re facing. My concern for the people is lifting up the voices of those harmed worse by the animal ag industry which is people of color, poor communities, indigenous communities, immigrant workers, disabled people, and apparently child workers.
If you think vegans are a step to eco fash that says more about who you hang around, not what vegans stand for
#.txt#I kinda flipped my position from the first paragraph to the last don't @ me#but I cannot stand this kind of rhetoric#tell me you just hang out with fashy vegans only pls#vegan#veganism#animal rights#also I hate when carnists try to be fake woke like eating mcdonalds is stopping fash or something#it is so clearly an image thing and a guilt thing and I am sick of it
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me when i do the bare minimum: productivity 😌☕️📒✔️💛
#im sooo behind on everything i need to do but i have done enough to fake not behind behind i think#so the pressure is off and the pressure of an immediate deadline is my only motivation so now i will accomplish nothing <3#anyway. why am i like this#i am NOT thw kind of person who should be considering going for a second degree and yet i am#even tho i barely managed the first one#this has been a shitpost
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idc what ppl say i think donnie darko is a good movie and i like it and i don’t think it’s fake deep and just for edgy teens. like i didn’t think it met the hype when i first saw it as a teen i thought it was just ok and instead it grew on me more as an adult
#I was a fight club teen tho so…..#so those kinds of ‘we live in a society’ movies were more my flavor of edgy fake deep#like i practically worshipped palahniuk I read everything he wrote when I was 13-15#so u can only imagine how much more annoying I was then than I am now#interestingly I can’t stand palahniuk as an adult and fight club the movie is only ok because of David Fincher#and by ‘ok’ I mean I never wanna be forced to watch it again it’s insufferable but fincher is a fantastic director
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everything you see ab being the oldest daughter is true btw why am i the family therapist AND punching bag smh
long ass depressing rant in the tags srry i got a wee bit emotional
#my dad has something going on where there's a ringing in his ear my mom has tendonitis and neck pain now#and i feel for both of them i'm goin to cvs to get the meds giving my mom massages every night talking to my dad to distract him#they're both going to the correct doctors#but just throwing it out there i have had tendonitis and chronic upper back pain for 5-6 years and no one gave a shit most i've gotten is#jokes that i'm faking it#i'm in physical therapy for my back NOW but that's bc i finally crawled out of the depression long enough to do it myself#which is fine whatever i'm 22 i should be the one making my own appointments and it'd be weird if i wasn't#but when i was 16 or 17???#being hospitalized for STRESS HEADACHES at 14 too???#who gets hospitalized for that shit and how were my parents not concerned that i at the age of 14 was#so stressed out that my head was pounding all the time#and bc i'm the third parent who has to be the only emotional safe space#i don't say anything if my sisters are rude to me bc at least they feel safe enough around me to be rude to me#i have to listen to everyone and their momma's problems#i'm in law school!!! i do not need this i'm anxious all the time!!!#and if i'm not anxious i'm depressed!!!#my therapist point blank tells me shit like 'you're incredibly lonely' or 'you have way too much on your shoulders' and it makes me CRY#the most basic fucking observations that i KNOW but hearing someone else acknowledge it and not berate me fucking sends me into TEARS#i get messages from online friends here like 'hey i saw your post you don't deserve that' i physically cannot keep my eyes dry!!#every time i have any interaction ever i am at least a little uncomfortable bc i am always trying so hard to make sure i come off as kind#and not awkward or mean#i feel like everyone around me was given some kind of how to manual on life that i wasn't#and i KNOW this is not unique tons and tons of people feel like this#i know this is the depression and the anxiety and the possible autism i'm well aware#but then every couple of days my mom gets the brilliant idea to tell me i'm rude or lazy or whatever and i lose my shit#i just wanna sleep and write fanfics in the nicest way possible i hate everyone#i will try my best to not be mean to anyone bc no one deserves it but i am angry and i am constantly feeling the hurt of my inner child#my MOTHER threw a hardcover book at my HEAD when i was ten bc i had been reading and hid the book under the pillow#what the actual fuck????#my dad's response to any and everything is to deal with it
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The lil corner of the Good Omens fandom that I generally see is getting more and more into publicly declaring that That Theory I Dislike Is Bad And People Who Ascribe To It Should Feel Bad, and I don't know if it's really new, or if I was just lucky enough to generally be missed with that shit the last four years.
Different people's brains work differently, which means they will notice things, form interpretations, maybe come to extremely firm conclusions, all different from each others'. Different from mine, different from yours.
I get that some people think that they have the brain which produces the Objectively Superior theories (and/or which can easily determine which other people's theories are the Objectively Inferior ones). I just really missed the memo where Your Interpretation Is Not My Interpretation (And That's Okay) was dragged out back and fucking shot.
Anyway this blog is an "I may not agree with your theory but you may trust that I won't publicly heap scorn upon the very idea of having it" zone if anyone was wondering.
#negativity#discourse type stuff#apparently i can't turn off replies to a specific post? but i am Not Interested in discussing why that kind of behavior is okay actually#also Not Interested in hearing about how i'm overreacting#unless you are prepared to prove that you have personally catalogued everything that I have read/seen/etc on this topic#this is not about any one specific post just about the bizarrely judgemental zeitgeist#also not about any of the posts where someone is like 'huh i know people like this theory but i'm not sure here let me tell you why'#i've always seen posts like those and those are great because YTINMTATO remains intact#JUST. yeah. Not Interested in discussing this at all really#but i've seen some posts that made me feel bad for being so unthinking as to ever find merit in this or that theory#and i'm probably not the only one feeling bad?#so you can think x character is fake or y character is secretly running everything from behind the curtain or z object was drugged#(or none of these things at all!!)#and i 100% promise i am not scoffing at the foolishness of falling for such a completely unsupported idea#i PROMISE i am not going to be mean#because if i wanted to *reduce* the amount of kindness in the world then i wouldn't have created the fucking Soft Zone now would I
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Post with content that scares the duck has breached containment
#so my gut is telling me to turn off further interactions on that post#but there's some genuinely helpful discussion going on there so I'll leave it for now#let me tell yall though#i saw my activity flood with comments and reblogs with text#and my stomach dropped#i am quite literally shaking in nerves lol#thankfully everyone is being kind but i am not intellectually equipped to talk about evolution#as i said in the post i quite literally never learned about it#up until recently i genuinely thought it was fake#and even now i am having trouble wrapping my head around that fact that most people think its real#like#people actually believe in evolution as much as they do idk pangea or some shit like that#look I know its real but ive got 20 years of brainwashing to undo#the post was meant to stay among mutuals but I completely forgot reblogs existed so thats on me#I'll reply to people there eventually but i am in no headspace to do that right now haha#this is technically vent art so#vent art#(btw this is by no means me being upset at the replies! i just got flashbanged with more attention than i had anticipated)#(it was truthfully only intended for mutuals to see because i can handle talking to people with usernames I'm already familiar with)#(not several that i have never seen)#its 12:45 now not 12:01 why did it take me so long to type all of this
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Why do so many psychiatrists love to gaslight. Okay, Hannibal Lecture.
If I had a nickel for every time a psychiatrist straight up told me lies I would have too fucking many and that's a problem.
#like first a psychiatrist tells me my seizures r psychological BECAUSE of my history of Forbidden Disorder and anxiety#and then they get worse and its clearly epilepsy and im on meds now and my condition was neglected bc a misdiagnosis based on stigma#and then now im like hey so i am still struggling with Forbiden Dissociative Disorder can i get some resources or a mf therapist rec#and this psych straight up tells me DID isn't a diagnosis anymore (I FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF THIS CLAIM BTW)#AND tells me my amnesia is bc of seizures.... LIKE I LIVE IN MY BODY AND U HAVE LITERALLY ONLY SPOKEN TO ME VIA PHONE#IDK I THINK I KNOW MYSELF A LITTLE MORE THAN YOU DO FUCKING JEFF#and i know the mf difference between switching and and HAVING A SEIZURE like???#those r very different things. like ik theres different kinds of seizures but for ME theres just no comparing theyre 2 different things😭#there is a clear difference between me collapsing and becoming unresponsive on the floor like a fish outta water#and me telling people to call me a different name and having completely separate identities that others notice. and i cant remember#and like ive dealt with it all long enough that I'm aware and can communicate w my alters n stuff and i have to to function#and for YEARS since highschool its been like. i talk to professionals and theyre like hm yea u basically would meet all requirements#however u might as well not get diagnosed bc no one wants to deal w that.#LIKE IVE LITERALLY BEEN TOLD THAT MULTIPLE TIMES ALMOST EXACT WORDS#and i hate how i know fake claiming being a public thing has rlly fucked w peoples perception of did n stuff#idk im so fuckin pissed man. reverting to my will graham era i fucking guess
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Various images of things
#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that --#1. PIBBINS.... cheering clapping hooting hollering glorious applause everytime I see a pigeon in public#2. Birthday card that I drew for someone. .. kittys...#3. 2023's annual haul of tiny white pumpkins.. i get at least one white pumpkin every year around fall when they have pumpkins in stores#because I just love the color and texture ... bright white and smooth and cold and round.. kind of like a volleyball or something#4. A brief adventure into watching big brother (only earlier seasons of course as I hate all reality shows post like 2013 or something when#they became overly focused on social media and overproduced memeable phrases more.. like even though ALL reality shows have always#been extremely fake and annoying and mindless it's like..... newer stuff seems A Different Kind Of Fake or something) since whenever#I'm sick sometimes I find weird mindless things like that to watch (that one time I had bronchitis I watched all of Flavor of Love in my#half awake illness stupor and now everytime I heat up canned minestrone soup (mostly all I ate that week) I think of flavor flav since#thats just a weird brain connection I have now lol) ANYWAY.. I was sick and watched like 2 seasons of this and then thought it was too#uninteresting and obnoxious to continue (more like 1 and a half since I skipped the rest of one once only boring people were left) BUT this#one guy had a very mischevious looking face and he also said a few things (like the above captioned speech) that sounded like dialogue#some fantasy character would say.. so I took a screencap of him and edited him into a mischevious wizard i guess.?? idk I was sick lol#~your little friend has a poisoned tongue~ is just a very unexpectedly serious sounding wording for some random normal#frat dude looking guy to say while casually chatting on a reality tv show in like 2008 or whenever that was filmed lol#5. FLUFFY CLOVERS!! I'd never seen them be furry and soft before?? inchresting..#6. Noodle sitting in bed with the cat figurines looming above him... the council of kittys...#7. McDonald's full breakfast platter + asparagus + strawberries & cream (also of course this is old and I am now boycotting mcdonalds etc)#i try to group the images somewhat consistently like.. winter stuff with winter stuff or summer stuff with summer stuff#but I have so many random pictrues floating around on my computer that I never post that sometimes some are not organized or just#thrown into a set because there's nowhere else for them. Like the pigeon picture is from like 3 years ago for example lol#8 & 9 - I think I've posted these before but I just find them very interesting looking flowers. whenever they happen to be blooming#I'll pick up a few when I'm out on walks or etc. ... poof ball looking things#photo diary
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Scheming…
#chattin#taking time to draw and write out a relationship/dynamics chart for the thieves and assorted friends#bc theres. alot. and it would be nice to write it out. it would help establish my thoughts about them#its not poly/thieves but its. kind of adjacent to it. but its less shippy and more focused on how they interact-#-and behave with one another. like theyre kinda bonded together over everything. lines get a little blurred but its what works for them#and i think lumping them all together as poly/thieves is a shortcut for breaking down their character#like obv akira has diff relationships for everyone; but how do THOSE people react to others ??#like pego/ryu is real and true but also ann is absolutely there. u cannot separate them.#theyre the shujin delinquents to me LOL. they are too tightly bound together to let any external relationship split them at this point#akiras not w goro; its akira AND ryuji w goro. like akira and goro would just not work; but ryuji make its work well yknow?#goro doesnt get third wheeled w ann and vice versa bc ann and goro are good friends; they just hang :)#its like. if u could SEE the fucking string of connections making a mess of my white board in my minds eye…😭#so im trying to write it down into something that works for me#i dunno. i think its fun :) i did this for ffxv too#only that was way easier bc its just the four of them. but like. how do their internal relationships affect the overall polycule ?#anyway. inspired by that love post; that theres diff kinds of love. and kiss ryuji week LOL#bc i wanted to write a small thing with different thieves for each prompt#and im like how would their relationships differ from one another ?#ryuji and akira but also ryuji with makoto. ryuji w haru. ryuji w yusuke. its like.#u cant use the same thing from most pego/ryu fics bc they DIDNT meet the same way#waugh.#rambling#just know that im insane. i have all these wips and nothing FINISHED. waaa.#this is what that post meant about being obsessed over bad media LMAO. this is just what happens#u stay up thinking about fake polycules from a game that came out seven years ago#i think….#WHAT. 2016???#EIGHT years ???#funny bc i was thinking about how ffxv was eight yesrs old and i am still a mess over it#well. could u imagine if i played p5 when it LAUNCHED instead of in 2020???
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the moment i am introduced to any name(s), trope(s), habit(s), characteristic(s), etc., I am immediately making an oc (or ocs) about that specific thing(s) or just adding it to one of my already existing ocs for funsies and i think it's starting to go overboard with the concerning amount of ocs i am unnecessarily creating but i don't care
#I HAVE 78 OCS AND 18 OTHER SIDE OCS AND IDK WHAT TO DO WITH THEM OTHER THAN USE THEM IN MY SILLY LITTLE DAYDREAM FAKE SCENARIOSSSSS 😭😭😭😭#tho I cherish all of them differently depending how they really act or just are-#why? cuz like half of them are kind of/just completely off the hinges n i am either concerned abt them or myself for making them Like That#i hate the fact that i /cant/ draw them how I exactly imagine them to look like so relying on a silly gacha dress up game is my only choice#to create how they would look as i imagined them to be#thedemises; random thoughts#thedemises; ocs#ocs#my ocs#oc stuff#my characters#original characters#own characters#also im listening to all-american bitch by Olivia Rodrigo on repeat while imagining every single female oc i have to#to any lyric that kind of matches(?) them cuz yeah (its such a banger especially on the pop punk thrashing parts)#side ocs#too many ocs#rant??#random#many ocs#original character#own character
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Tfw you make a whole new love interest for Athy because you dislike both of the canon ones
#both of them have similar flaws at different levels#no hobbies#no interests#no meaningful relationships nor the desire for any outside of her#they care but only at surface level and don’t care at a deeper empathetic level#like hey I like you but I actually don’t think I know what I like about you#and my care for you is explicitly more like I care for your attention#and I don’t really care about what you love#I only care about what you love if it affects you because if something happens to you your attention is also gone#I also don’t actually know that much about you#even though they’ve both spent different amounts of time with her#they don’t actually know nor understand Athy emotionally nor has Athy actually opened up about a lot of things#like the closest she’s opened up in her whole third life was to Jennette and that’s depressing#Ijekiel has seen a lot of her lonely and sad side but doesn’t know her internally or at a deeper level#Lucas has spent the most time with her but doesn’t understand her feelings completely at all nor does he understand her reasons and drive#nor does he really care about them as long as she’s alive#which applies to them both#also both would kinda suck politically and foreign affairs-wise speaking#Lucas would suck at foreign affairs because I physically cannot see him understanding or caring enough about others#he can fake kindness but he can’t fake understanding#and understanding is key for foreign affairs#Ijekiel would be better and his foreign Arlanta knowledge would help#but also#his social skills aren’t that much better than Lucas’#there are too many cons for both of them that could outweigh the pros#and plus the pros Athy can easily access as friends anyway#I am a strong advocate for single Empress Athy or marrying a completely different and qualified person she meets in adulthood#like what happened to the flowery boy and lone wolf or literally any other noble in Obelia that’s around her age#or even foreign nobles#syl tea
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