thinking about how 1989 does sound like a new york album in some ways but the marketing obviously hammered that home like nothing else vs taylor saying slut! is more of a california song and a lot of the og album was even recorded in LA

basically what i'm saying is imagine a version of the album where it ends with wtny instead of beginning with it; heralding a new beginning and leaving the back and forth relationships behind for a new city she can get lost in

Also props to Ed Teach for spending his time in purgatory relentlessly psychoanalyzing himself in the form of arguments with Monstrous Father 2.0, who at one point tells him that he has daddy issues.

Edward Teach inventing Freudianism as he hovers between life and death.

By implying that children are too stupid and rude to learn about the world and learn how the world works and how to interact with others, you are casting responsibility away from the people who are responsible for that child's upbringing and placing the blame on the children (who don't have the autonomy given to them to be allowed to decide what they want) who can't help what they do and do not learn, often.

If the children aren't okay, then investigate why before turning to thought-terminating clichés of, "Well, the kids are just stupid and dumb and aren't even worth the effort because they're lazy!"

This time around I thought I would make a comic relaying the events after the last time I posted, because my gosh is it easier to explain with pretty pictures than upsetting words >vO I prefer to make jokes about my situation than anything, ‘cause honestly it’s a solid way of dealing with it and I take so many medications as it is, why not add laughter to it I say! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

Despite my condition’s best efforts I still managed to organise and complete a commission with someone through emails! Thank you @waezi2 you were so patient as I arose from my grave every other day to get things done (❁´◡`❁) Fighting my body and winning to complete it was the victory I needed! The sheer satisfaction I get from a commission well received by someone is like pure nectar to me~ Sweet sustenance I just can’t get enough of! The money don’t hurt either, Disability Support Pensions do not go far in this economy 👀 This is as close as I can get to having a job and I wont let C.V.S (Cyclic vomiting Syndrome) or Chrohns take that from me! 

I’m raring to dive into more if anyone’s interested ♪(´▽｀) I’m just about to post a new “commissions sheet” to broadcast that very fact >vO I do love having something to draw between Ectober pages~

stede and his learned helplessness and his missed opportunities wounds me every time. it's the way he and mary could never have been a happy couple, but they could have been friends, and sooner, but stede was never, ever willing to reach out, not in a way that made him vulnerable. and that's not to say the failures of their marriage are his fault - the failure of their marriage is the fault of mary and stede not choosing each other and stede being a gay man with a lot of trauma and mary being a woman with no free choice in this time period.

but we see that mary tried to reach out, the night stede left. and we see that her anniversary gift is something to represent their marriage and their wedding, an event they were both a part of and hold memories of, combined with being the product of her own labors - it's literally something she made to represent their union, which she's miserable in but is trying to make work nonetheless.

stede's gift is the miniature ship, and the reveal that rather than talk to mary about his plans and aspirations, stede has gone ahead and set the whole thing up, spent the money, and plans to have them all leave their lives to join his new life of......????

it's an escapist fantasy rather than a real start over, a real life, a real try, because actually asking mary to go out to sea with him, would have actually involved telling her why he was miserable, because it wasn't just about the marriage but an entire lifetime of rejection, and stede couldn't do that. he couldn't bring himself to, didn't feel like he could. so he didn't and things shook out as they did and he ran off alone without a word to anyone and a note.

and when things got to their worst, he ran off alone again, back home, thoroughly convinced that he needed to stay in his place in the box that didn't fit and where nothing could change -

except things COULD have changed and that's why when he comes back things have changed. because all along things could have changed, if stede had opened up to mary and the two of them worked things out. it's part of why stede's so angry all throughout episode 10. because all along these could have been different, but he couldn't see that, because a lifetime of trauma had taught him not to reach out and try and change things, and those coping mechanisms that probably helped him as a child and in school - were wrong.

trick or treat!

The Terror Trio (Wild, Hyrule and Legend) are all the personifications of different stages of Life. Legend himself is Life, Wild is Death, and Hyrule is Rebirth. Their beastly forms reflect this, much to their collective embarrassment. The irony though that the timeline left to die but which was reborn time again is the one to have such heroes does not escape them (although that's mostly because Four pointed it out for them)

I would love to hear all the reasons you ship Rory/Logan and prefer them to Rory/Jess! Same, by the way :)

Hi anon! It's always fun to meet another Rogan shipper <3

Honestly I'm gonna stay away from comparing them because I am too old for ship wars. Also I actually do like Jess as a character a lot. I enjoy his friendship with Rory too, especially as they grow up. I think he becomes a better friend to her and I'm glad he showed up to knock some sense into her about Yale. I don't think anyone else would've gotten through to her in that moment. Logan quite literally couldn't because a) he hasn't known her for nearly as long so even if he understood that she was making the wrong choice - "you love school" is one of my favorite Logan lines, he takes her so seriously even when it's things he personally cares nothing about, like school - and b) Logan is used to doing what people want him to do. Rory playing the role of the DAR darling is the equivalent of him going on business trips out of state with his dad: what they were 'born' to do. But he doesn't really like it. We see how uncomfortable he is with it - he just doesn't know what to say. Jess knows Rory well enough to call her out on her shit when she really really needed it.

I liked Rory and Logan as a couple right away, I enjoy their chemistry and the fact that they have things in common and also different interests and personalities and upbringings. I like that Logan challenges Rory and that she surprises him. I like that he's willing to try new things with her and I like that he gets her to step outside of her comfort zone. Even when it goes badly, like their open relationship, it forces Rory to step up a bit. She's better at communicating with Logan than she has been in her relationships in the past because of it. I like that they're really, sincerely friends. They prank each other and he keeps up with her banter.

I also love the Rory is Luke and Logan is Lorelai comparison, it really rings true to me. Rory and Luke are the characters described as hermits and Logan and Lorelai have a lot in common, including things Lorelai criticizes Logan for. (After all, Lorelai gets the wedding planner fired in the same season that Logan gets the maid fired in.) I enjoy that dynamic of bright, cheerful characters and more shy, reserved characters together. Despite all of my quibbles with season 7, I do think they got it right that Lorelai is someone Logan would look up to and hope to emulate.

I'm gonna stop there, I really could go on for far too long. Thank you, anon! This was fun :)

the older i get and the more keenly aware i become of the fact that family is just having the same argument and conflict over and over and over for years, the more i appreciate gilmore girls

I know I said I would post chapter 3 of awtwb. And I WILL, I swear! However, I did also spend the past couple of days in a semi-fugue state writing and editing this insane horror-themed steddie one-shot that came to me quite literally out of nowhere. And it’s finished and clocking in at almost 20k words. So I’ll probably post that instead.

some more non hypmic content for the ages but the franchise that curated the type of fan i am today is getting an official mini dub after over 15 years to test the waters and i sure as hell am gassing it up so i can get more lmao

ok so is there actually a crazy sjw mra misandrist truther cult or have i just been seeing a lot of questionable strawman arguments on here lately abt feminism and how we need to remember Real Feminism because we're "reinventing the patriarchy" by like.. idk being nicer to people??

gender roles are like the oldest and most complex and nuanced topic in existence especially since the internet began and it feels to me like everyones opinions are wildly swinging from one extreme to another rn and while it's nice to discuss and exchange ideas and all that... at the end of the day it's still just about how u treat the people around u.

do u drive away anyone with any connection to masculinity? do u intentionally exclude them from public events and spaces? do u see trans women as a different species? do u see gnc and/or trans men as threats to the community? like, even subconsciously??

ive been trying to think on this for a few days and this still isnt exactly what im trying to say but every post i see isn't saying what im thinking so here we are

it's all "must a book have a plot? is it not enough to just write about vibes?" until nathaniel hawthorne writes a 300+ page novel based entirely on haunted house vibes. then it's suddenly "too long winded" and "nothing happens" and he "took 300 pages to say something that could have been said in 40"

I cringe at my old art like anyone else, but I do appreciate being able to look back at my old art and saying things like:

"Wow, I can draw so much better than I could before."

But also I enjoy being able to point at an old work and going:

"Oh, I can draw that so much better now. And I'm going to."

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