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When Callum passes, one of the birds from his funeral rites flies to Rayla and nestles onto her shoulder. It stays with her in the months (or years) that follow, greeting her every morning, singing to her, comforting her in times of sadness.
It’s his way of watching over her, even when he’s gone.
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Eowyn's blue golden mourning dress in 4k
#lotr#eowyn#lord of the rings#lotredit#perioddramaedit#costume design#miranda otto#ngila dickson#4k#this dress is so beautiful#for years i didnt notice the pattern on it#and i always thought its black#and her jewelry is so beautiful too#sadly there is no full body shoot of this#like so many other costumes in lotr#because pj loves headshoots
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spooky reminder that i made a VR map of the Magnus Institute you can go explore on vrchat. Its interactable. Its unhinged. its buggy. its full off references. dont take it too seriously.
#i forgot i deleted my old account and this post got yeeted#i wanna make the tunnels beneath it eventually#also finish elias' office and fill artefact storage with more stuff#you can go in the coffin btw. you do get stuck if you do#tma#the magnus archives#jonathan sims#i am so proud of jons office in this it is.. beautiful#martin blackwood#tim stoker#michael distortion#trying to remember other characters i have reffed in this map#sasha james#the michael door is on the michael avatar and not part of the map sadly#im not good at vr photography/video recording. can you tell
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Advanced Interrogation Technique: Dog
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#jiang cheng#JC is like a disney princess in the sense he always has some cute creature trotting nearby and available to assist him#he is *not* like a disney princess in the sense he tries to do murder and torture.#Even though some of those girlies really deserve to do a little killing and tormenting as a treat#Mulan may not count because she's not a princess but she canonically does kill. So she's winning#Anyhow. JC. He gives off 'melodious voice vibes and I'll die on that hill. Sadly he's not beautiful on the inside.#Animals love him! Women fear him.#BTW while you've been reading these tags...wwx has been suffocating under a pile of wiggly fluff#Oh no he's not moving. Oh Jin Ling picked up the dog? Jin Ling returns the favour of saving his- ?#oh no Jin Ling is giving his uncle instructions on how to better perform puppy interrogation. They are bonding.#wwx is passed out and they're *bonding*
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Say something true!
#critical role#ygifs#imogearne#imogen x fearne#when you’re taking a picture of the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen and the camera falls back and fucking decks you in the face#fearne going it’s ok you don’t need to confess I know~~ while imogen interrupts to say ‘’you’re a loser’’ they drive me NUTSkljsgdlkjs#also my brain is a little beehive cos these two Started with Fearne being the enabler to darker things while imogen was cautious#to fearne Seeing imogen about to be lost to ruidus and hardveering into panic that the power would never be worth losing her#to imogen hearing fearne hesitate and deny the shard and then telling fearne she should do it anyway#the way these two handle the other's Sways in darkness in such a Knowing way - ‘’Are you sure it wasn’t intentional?’’#there’s like this ping and before it was encouraging and now fearne is scared and imogen is enabling the risk#and it’s like either imogen is silently ensuring laudna’s safety by fearne taking the shard despite any risk#or imogen honestly believes that fearne is stronger even than the power she would embrace. There is no risk. Fearne will conquer this.#so it’s like is it ulterior motives or is it faith or is it hypocrisy or is it all three at once it's so good#imogen spending her entire life running from her power so isn’t it so much easier to tell fearne she can just do it while imogen couldn’t#or is it just her genuinely encouraging fearne from Knowing the aftermath of pursuing the power#but it's like imogen ...... why would fearne choose you over the possibility for power when she's never done that before#and is this insistence/encouragement going to actually reassure fearne or is it going to be another crack#and when they do the ritual fearne asks imogen to be the one to take her out and imogen tries to comfort her by agreeing#and fearne looks on sadly and nods#remembering when she was asked to be the one to take imogen out and all fearne knew was that she couldn’t#anyway imogen's face when fearne said you're in love with me imogen said NOT NOWDSHKJF
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"I’m sorry that you had to suffer in silence. I’m sorry you never had someone to confide in. I’m sorry that nobody picked up on the hints you gave. I’m sorry that you still carry the same pain."
- unknown
#foryou#tumblrpost#source: tumblr#quotes#literature#quoteoftheday#poems and poetry#poetry#life quotes#beautiful quote#sadcore#sadly true#sad but true#sad thoughts#sad quotes#writers and poets#im sorry#im so tired#tired
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Pics of Doc Ock from The Clone Conspiracy Event
#marvel#doc ock#doctor octopus#otto octavius#marvel comics#dare I say this is most beautiful and sexy Otto has ever looked#his bowl cut hair is perfect#his glasses are perfect#his body size is undeniably large and perfect#his suit is perfect#his mechanical arms are too thin for my liking but that doesn’t bother me at all#and dan slott is the master of giving Otto his unique voice#say what you will about this event but I’ll never take for granted how fine Otto looked here#side note: I love that Miles Warren clones are sometimes in the background because he too is hot#sadly they’re all the equivalent of power ranger grunts so they don’t really do anything#still#having an almost stereotypical old silver fox right next to Otto just shows the range of old men i love
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Marie will give Jordan the biggest lovesick beautiful doe eyes to ever grace this earth and they will still think "but does Marie really love me???"
#gen v#marie moreau#jordan li#ohhh theyre gonna grow old together and itll be so beautiful i reject anything that says otherwise sorryyy#also dont spoil the latest episode i sadly do have a job and i am unable to watch
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Love this interview...
I have been semi-checking in on Zawe's journey since before certain stans were feeling some kinda way about her recent familial additions. I do for certain Black actors/creators especially, who seem to be moving in interesting ways in entertainment/film media...
-A remnant from a period when I used to go to screenings and blog about films (and was published a few times in a major national newspaper)...
So, I knew of Zawe through the grapevine of her mentorship, i.e. she is the reason why Rege Jean Page of Bridgerton fame got to work in U.S. markets, as she sponsored him. And she is known, as one of those "good eggs" who will be accessible and help/advise especially young actors of color.
...But, I have some other stuff to say. This isn't about proving that she's an amazing human being.
It's about a certain brand of misogynoir that some of these people far beneath her in self-knowledge, self-love, and just plain grown-ass-woman-personhood...keep letting fly in what they *think* are compliments, but actually are just trite microaggressions.
Saying things like "as long she makes [T-blank H-blank] happy then she's alright" as if he's the centered human and her attachment renders her worthy somehow. Babies, as long as SHE'S happy.
Yall.
He's marrying up.
WAY UP and the fact that he knows this? Actually elevates him.
She's been there.
She tells a story in the above interview that reminds me of Uzo Aduba's anecdote about her name , - of an incident when she was called to an early job (at 6!) and someone there said she wasn't pretty because of her gap and her Ugandan mother took her on past this person and into the room, ANYWAY.
... She learned a specific self-knowledge and self-love, that is necessary in very white western spaces that constantly pressures a narrow sense of worthiness and beauty, especially from Black women, something a lot of these small-minded stans don't even have a notion of seeing beyond.
Zawe is biracial, and her features, aside from her skin tone are very African. So while she benefits from colorism, featurism is something I've seen those bigoted stans, pick on as well.
She knows those features are what makes her beautiful and knew that, w/o and before her partner saw that too. And people who aren't blind narrow-minded ignoramuses can *also* see that.
This is why I assert the fact of featurism needing to be in the conversation of light/dark privilege conversations. Lips, nose, gap, and even the set of her eyes are ethnic beauty markers within quite a few spaces in the Black African diaspora... My mom was an absolute stunner because of her gap.
Even the old school white model Lauren Hutton got there because of her gap.
Uzo Aduba, who I have already mentioned has a deeper skintone and has similarly large round striking eyes, gap, and a non-pinched-nose *rightly* played Glinda in NBC's production of The Wiz a few years back, with Dorothy saying she's so beautiful *because* of those features, not despite them as a very narrow white-washed gaze would wrongly assert.
And while we're here that includes sizes and shapes too. I'm saying your boy is enjoying all that plush.
A lot of yall need to read or reread Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman, for comprehension.
Anyway... All this to say I know Zawe is and will be fine regardless.
P.S. Maya Angelou *also* had height, and gap and was very much known for her beauty/magnetism as a woman when she was alive. :
#she's as steady in herself as ms. whoopi goldberg is and was back when ALL the comedians even some Black men were picking on her#for her African features meanwhile she pulled whoever she wanted and kept working and has her EGOT#I could also get into the notion that particularly worldly white folk with redhair are more inclined to understand#being picked apart or fetishized for a feature... and can have a leg up on empathy#especially I think when also in the spotlight#she also mentions sinead o'connor who also subverted standards and being an irish woman with her oppressive history pushed back with her ar#zawe ashton#interesting watch#meta#blah#getting ish off my chest#some of yall were comforted by the lie of a certain standard beauty being the only milkshake bringing them to yard#even beyond the misogynoir#grown ups in partnerships and marriages etc value other things and see beauty much differently when they mature.#I'm talking about grown ups some folks never grow to that point sadly#Youtube#I'm so glad she didn't quit acting#and I see TH giving his old theatre school buddies and Black women a word or boost or whatever he did.#...if he had a hand in that#love yourselves because of & not in spite of what you have going on
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Most beautiful figurine ever 💜
#kumo desu ga nani ka#kumo desu ga nani ka?#so i'm a spider so what#so i'm a spider so what?#white#kumoko#one of the best gifts i've ever gotten#holy shiiiiiiit#it's beautiful#so so pretty#but also so big i can't put her anywhere#it is as big as my wacom holy shit#i had to sadly leave her on human form to display her at least
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it's so funny i spent sooooo much time being embarrassed about Mav's normal dog behaviours (e.g. worming in the grass, pulling on leash, soliciting pets) and then he would do something objectively hilarious and embarrassing in front of a crowd of people (e.g. heeling away with the judge during an obedience trial) and it was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#dogblr#about mav#that dog gave me so much perspective#i am so so so lucky i had him as my first sports dog#i am so sad i spent so long embarrassed about him#i have a lot of guilt for not loving him from the beginning#but it will benefit every dog that comes after him and thats something i think#some objectively hilarious and embarrassing things he did:#run across the ring in an agility trial to sit in a polesetters lap#run across the ring in an agility trial to try to kiss his favourite judge#be too busy making heart eyes ata crowd that he missed my heel cue and did a stand-stay while i walked the offleash heeling pattern alone#heel away with the obedience judge after a beautiful stand for exam#soooo many others#just little bloopers that were soooo embarrassing in the moment but what could i do about them ebsides laugh?#im so glad i had mav#he fixed something in me for sure#(he broke my heart too but sadly all good dogs do that at some point)
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i truly can never get over how much i love the expressions in this show. i love how wacky they get with em and how much they exaggerate the characters, or how even with simpler expressions theyre able to convey so much emotion. like look at these
i adore these and how amazingly the rage, confusion, despair, fear, and laughter gets across
#m#osomatsu san#sure whatevs ill tag it#i rly genuinely love the art direction so much#truly one of my biggest art inspirations#right there next to ppg and psg#love it love it love it#also i just noticed how beautiful the colors are?? christ i love how this dumb show looks#also surprise homura#i wish i had some iyami ones i could post but sadly i dont have any#cause his expressions are SOOO GOOOOD#i have a whole album dedicated to screenshots of expressions i absolutely adore from this show btw#i highly recommend making a folder dedicated to shots from shows you love cause its so helpful
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They really dropped the trailer while I was so sleepy that I had convinced myself it was a dream, only to wake up the next morning and choke on my spit when I saw my YouTube recommended
#kingdom hearts#stormy weather#it looks interesting!#im sadly not sold on the graphics or playability at all#those are some VERY early development graphics and im now worried the devs werent getting to work on this game at all#and ive never been a fan of mobile games so thats just personal opinion#either way hope the story is at least good#blaine being there gives me some hopes#and the tower did look very beautiful at night#kh ml spoilers#kh missing link spoilers
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Okay, I'll be serious, promise. I've been saying (and seeing other people say) forever that the sheer level of alpha hate has a lot of anti-black undertones. But I've also seen some of it rooted in being anti-sexualization of children, pageantry, etc. I think a lot of people go way too far with that, not realizing what they're implying, while others gladly use it as an excuse to be anti-black. It depends on context, and as a whole I think well-meaning people should be wiser with their words and try to move away from using terms like "yassify" to describe what they're actually trying to refer to. Because that encourages not only the black alpha simmer hate in general, but also pushes that negative actions towards child sims all onto them, whether that was intentional or not. Really think about the terms you use before you use them, and what you're really trying to say before you post something. Because regardless of intention, words have consequences. Not only for yourself, but for the community that we all are a part of.
#ceci speaks#text#nonsims#negative#tldr: think before you speak#hajsjdkd#something ive been having to learn#i want to say more here but i cant get my brain to work#theres a lot of levels to this issue that ive spoken about for a while#it goes pretty deep#but i dont think all of it is malicious#and sadly some ppl still associate black ppl mainly with adultification of children#which is just wrong#thats usually pushed onto us by society tbh#and im p sure we didnt invent beauty pageants#😂#but u know#its way too late for me to be writing this#thats why its so short
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hi! this is “better aspects” anon!! i’ve given your reply a lot of thought, because i think i just really appreciated how academic efnisien was and how he continued to cultivate his knowledge in constellations and thought that him going out of his way to do that was an admirable aspect that i thought even a person like crielle could respect, and wanted to know if that was a factor in her continuing to raise him because that would have been a relatively “better” factor than the other reasons she continued to raise him for (like seeing a murderer in him i guess), though i guess she could’ve seen that and thought of ways he could use it to be a murderer. (and i won’t even defend mentioning “beauty” there because there is no defense i might have just been running my mouth/hands?)
anyway, your reply was food for thought for days for me. and it really challenged how i thought about things, and i found out how much i’ve been ‘tiering’ the world in unfair ways unconsciously, and i hope awareness will be the first step in changing that. so thank you!! and since this is an ask box i might as well ask: have you ever leaned toward an educational role? i think not only your reply has explained an alternative way of thinking clearly but in your fics too. and i wonder if you’d ever write a non-fic about kink one day? i really respect and appreciate all your work even more so now!
Hi hi anon!
A big thing here is just that Crielle doesn't really recognise Efnisien as a fully three-dimensional human being and she doesn't really want him to be one anyway, and she gets annoyed when he shows a capacity for that.
If he's not existing for her, doing things for her, slaving away for her, worshipping her, anticipating her needs, and sublimating his entire existence for her, suffering for her, begging for her mercy and love, and crying for her, she's not interested.
When Efnisien cultivated his knowledge outside of Crielle and not for Crielle, he was punished for it. When he showed an interest in things that had nothing to do with her, he was punished for it. If he showed any sign of independent thought that she couldn't use, find useful, find entertaining (like him tormenting Gwyn, or learning to play piano), then he was punished for it.
In fact Crielle is the one who canonically tells Efnisien to only do accounting at university, so that he flies under the radar so he could more successfully be a criminal and/or serial killer. She literally squashes his academic talent and curiosity, to a point where he has to get straight A's but not dream of doing anything that's not directly connected to her. As a result, he doesn't know what his dreams are by the time he sees Dr Gary, because he's not allowed to have any to belong to him and he's still literally learning how to be a person, because Crielle didn't want him to be a person.
It's often hard for people to understand Crielle if you've never (knowingly) met anyone like her. But people who see other people as objects, dolls, and empty spaces to fill with their own desires exist, and they do not admire independence, free will, or a person making choices beyond their control.
Crielle loved Efnisien most when he was trying to perfectly do everything she wanted automatically, and she loved him least when he was trying to be a person with his own personality.
You and me, anon, we get to appreciate the things about him that Crielle tried to destroy, or found tedious or annoying, or found a good reason to punish or torture him over. We get to cheer him on in therapy when he realises he likes working for an anthropologist, and when he researches different subjects on his own, and when he finally realises he can leave a job he doesn't like.
Efnisien's profound learned helplessness comes from someone with no capacity to appreciate Efnisien when he wasn't being a two-dimensional sycophant, and so we get to cheer on every moment he finds things out for himself, or asks questions, or learns more about the world. In a way, we get to go on that journey with him, and be proud of him at the same time that Dr Gary is, or smile at him at the same time that Arden does, or feel vindicated when Gwyn finally notices that Efnisien isn't just what Crielle turned him into.
Crielle never respected Efnisien in general. She only respected him in moments, and only when he was most like her, and most reflecting her desires for him. But an adult who sexually molests a child does not respect that child. She never believed in his rights or his right to personhood.
There's nothing Efnisien could have done to win that, even if he did do everything perfectly, unless he like spectacularly killed 50 people or something, and then she'd never speak to him again to protect herself, and probably admire him from afar, an imprisoned statue that she'd probably try and send little coded love letters too, which was probably part of her twisted fantasy in the first place.
Abandonment was high on the cards for Efnisien whether he got everything right, or tried to be a person and therefore got everything wrong. This is something Dr Gary knows. And it's something Efnisien will take a long time to realise for himself, because it will hurt him so much when he does. There was never an outcome where they could have been happy together, because she didn't want it.
Anyway the tl;dr is that sadly Crielle had some major issues seeing people as people and felt so entitled to Efnisien that any qualities or traits he possessed that weren't directly in service to her (with her approval) all went in the 'nope do not approve' list.
have you ever leaned toward an educational role?
This is so sweet of you anon. I sadly think I wouldn't be a great teacher because I get impatient and because I can really struggle to articulate my thoughts sometimes outside of stories. I think that's why I have to write these very long and rambling responses, and I don't think most teachers need this many words to say 'Crielle's a psychopath' sdlkfjas :D
In all seriousness, I really like sharing things through my writing. It frees me from having to get everything 'right' because it's fiction, and it allows people to engage with it on any level they want to. I'm really lucky that I can share some of my research and thoughts, and also some of a character's thoughts (I don't agree with the way all my characters think and in all the things they believe), and that a reader can sort of...I guess pick up what they need at the time?
As for kink, there are far fare better people suited to that! I'm not saying that to be modest, but like, a rope friend of mine has literally put thousands of hours just into studying and learning about kinbaku and semenawa (shibari/rope) and even she doesn't feel qualified to teach it. There's so much around physical safety and also communicating compassionately and with openness that I think would be really difficult. It's hard to capture a lot of that in books (and maybe secretly I think it's more fun to not have to be focused on safety in my writing in the same way lol)
Plus it gets to be entertaining and fun and sometimes relaxing or painful or cathartic and I guess that's something I really...feel strongly about? That's important to me in a different kind of way I think?
Honestly you're awesome for just giving a different perspective a try, I really struggle to do that, it's hard to sometimes be like 'oh this thing I used to think / currently think is maybe not how I always want to keep thinking about it.' Just the other day I realised something I thought about owning cats was actually incorrect and it was like 'oh whoops' lol. But it's the only way we keep growing. And it's cool that you're doing it!
#asks and answers#personal#falling falling stars#crielle ferch fnwy#efnisien ap wledig#pia on characterisation#the beauty + intelligence thing = good is something so entrenched in us anon#a lot of people think this way#and most people never get opportunities to challenge it because sadly like#the beauty industry is invested in making you constantly believe beauty is good#so you keep paying money to look beautiful#(i mean obviously most of us want to look beautiful or handsome or attractive or pretty)#(it's just that)#(it doesn't say anything about us and there are people who will like us regardless)#i had another thought to add here but i forgot it#hope you have a good weekend anon
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List of companions from least to most likley to have abs
(Also want to clarify and disclaimer this that most people do in fact have abs, as in the muscles, which is very normal, but it's highly unrealistic that the majority have rippling, vacuum sealed ones, like Larian likes to pretend they make us believe)
1. Halsin. Bear. That man is a bear. He can become one and should be one, in both the literal sense and the queer sense. You can drag bear Halsin from my cold, dead fingers
2. Gale. This man does not have visible abs. He is in fact the last person on this earth who would have model abs. Whether you see him as some lean, frail, stick of a man, or if you see him as fat (correct opinion imo, because it makes him hotter /hj (head canons are to have fun with, nothing's 'correct')), that guy's only workout routine has been not skipping leg day in his little wizard tower. That's it. Maybe running after Tara if she causes some Cat Sheanigans. Point is: that man does not actively work out, because he simply doesn't need it, and I can't imagine him having the interest to do so. He's lived a repulsive autism king life idk what to tell you here
3. Jaheira. She looks like the average mom in her 60s, whatever you imagine that to be. She's also a druid, so wouldn't think doing sit-ups would be her first priority. She is strong tho, just not in a conventional way. More in a mama bear type of way. You get what I mean, in your heart
4. Astarion. Look, why would he have? I don't think it was on Cazador's criteria list that every one of his spawns should have chissled abs, I'd figure he doesn't care about that. Besides, it makes a lot of sense he'd just look how he did when he died in the first place?? So whatever that is, I refuse to believe it's how Larian wants him to look
5. Shadowheart. Look, being trained and brought up as she got, I would figure she'd get a fair deal of combat training. But he heart is also prone to Short And Stocky Shadowheart, so hence placing her here. She is wide and compressed (endearingly)
6. Karlach. She has abs, but in the way beefy wrestler women do. She is tall and built like a truck, beautiful tank of a lady. After recruiting her, she mostly works out to stay in good shape for battle, but most importantly to give her friends the bestest of hugs once she get the opportunity
7. Wyll. He's fit in like a pro fencer kinda way, in a prince charming kinda way. Kinda like his in-gsme build but less...that sculpted y'kno. He' a gym bro, but without the evil macho man vibes
8. Lae'zel. Githyanki anatomy is for most part being gangly and kinda bony?? but I know that gal takes sit-ups every day at dawn. Anime training montage music ensues, she's really in it for the kill #girlpower
9. Minthara. Built like Rhea Ripley, need I say more🕴🏳️🌈
10. Withers YEEEEEAH GO PEEPAW💪💥💪💯💪
#sorry for not including Minsc I just haven't encountered him in game so sadly have no opinions on him#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 headcanons#bg3 companions#I got lost looking at beautiful women so this took a while to write down
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