do u guys ever associate a trope w a person. like its not that they write it so much or anything its just so them

despite everything, it's still you

I honestly. Love the way that the phrase "friendship is magic" is approached in the mlp universe. Like it *literally is* just like conjuration or divination might be. It's the magic that controls the homeostasis of the universe at large, and is therefore arguably the most powerful and important whilst also being the most mundane. If the friendship and comraderia is at a high level, things that are a given constant stay. Well. Constant. If the animosity and hatred is too high those constants?? GO AWAY. magic isn't always as reliable, food stops growing, the weather is no longer controllable? Imagine if we had too many wars going on earth and suddenly things like that stopped happening. Friendship literally is what makes the ponies in mlp. Well. Magical. Without friendship they would be just like regular horses.

Up until I was ten years old, I shared a bed with my mom. Up until I was fourteen or so, I think, we shared a room and I would still occasionally crawl next to her under the covers.

Even as a kid I had horribly crushing anxiety, sometimes so much that I struggled to sleep. We called these "the bad thoughts." As I tried and failed to sleep next to my mom, I'd tell her, "I'm having the bad thoughts," and she'd describe walking down the shore of the beach with the shining sun, and going to play in the park, and other things to that effect until my mind calmed down.

I'm talking about this because I wonder if she thinks about how the amount I told her I was having the bad thoughts increased as I got older, until I simply started telling her less and less even though the times I was getting them wasn't decreasing. And I wonder if she would be thinking about the fact that I kept telling her I had the bad thoughts even after I realized her descriptions were no longer helping, if I had told her that at all.

im being extremely normal about this

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Embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed

your muse should let light take a nap on them

is that why varric stayed only one door away from solas im....

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

play in stars and time. NOW.

see 0 note flop posts aren't that bad when they're personal but 0 note fandom posts feel literally so bad. like if you don't wanna play toys with me anymore just say that. i'll pack up my super cool awesome things and go and i'll sit on the other side of the playground by myself and i won't even look at you. fuck

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

I am actually so serious I think it really messes with a childs creativity and joy to tell them to never make a mary sue OC. Like that unbridaled form of joy where you make a self insert OC who super cool and everyone loves them and they have every superpower in the world SHOULD be something a kid makes, it nourishes their ability to create things for fun and not be stifled by "oh but what if my character is too overpowered and cringey...". whatever

thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.

Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.

Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.

Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.

The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.

Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.

nothing can break the bond between a friend who loves spoilers and a friend who just watched an amazing show and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish