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DEAR READER
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#extradirty
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@dracoaeternum
learning that addiction is a progressive narrowing of the range of things that make one happy was kinda life changing for me. i apply it to everything not even just addiction i am always checking to ask if i am narrowing my range of happiness or widening it
always good to check whether your coping strategy has become something that needs its own coping strategies
Hi my name is Lady Aranessa I smell like flower petals my familyās patron is the fey I kick my enemies with my cunty boots my ex husband was the hottest coolest rebel in Dol-Makyar. This is my lame ass knight Julien. Heās hungover right now. He smells like blood and probably vomit. He cried about his curl pattern this morning. We both have Amex black cards.
(continues to be insane) I canāt get over the fact that Spite asks for help.
Spite is often treated childishly by several charactersāTaash, for example, and even Lucanis depending on your dialogue choicesābut I actuallyā¦donāt think Spite is all that childish. Heās been put into a situation heās never experienced before, in a place where reality doesnāt work like it should, and been put through torture that he feels doubly through Lucanis on top of it all. Any person would through a ātantrumā under these circumstances. Spiteās behavior is reasonable.
He never tries to hurt Lucanisās companions, not once. He only ever tries to leave, as Lucanis promised him he would be able to. Even Lucanis, he only hurts once outside of the Ossuary, when he must have felt unbelievably confused. Calivan is dead and Lucanis has gone home, has allies, and yet to Spite, he simply refuses to leave the Ossuary. And still, he asks. He could wrestle control from Lucanis, but instead he asks (or demands) to talk to Rook. And all he wants to say is that he wants to be free.
All and all, Lucanis does not reach out to anyone to ask for help with his depression or PSTD. Spite is his problem, he says, and says often. His burden. He never intended to let anyone in, even though he admits that he doesnāt know how to start healing. He asks for Rookās help against Zara, against Illario, but no one is privy to his mental and emotional struggles.
Spite, on the other hand, asks immediately. Or he wants to ask. And finally, when Lucanis is in the middle of a spiral, it's Spite that says "Help us." Not demanding, just asking. Pleading. And still only to Rook. While I think at first, Spite wants Rook specifically because he knows Lucanis will listen, I think that has grown into something more by the time Inner Demons comes around.
"Help us," he says. Not just 'make him listen' or 'help Lucanis'. Us.
This is all to say I think that while Spite may not understand or feel romance (yet) he most certainly feels love. He loves Lucanis, whose image he takes ("They wouldn't dare, Lucanis is mine.") and he loves Rook ("Rook is my favorite." "Smells like...Rook." "Help us." The WINGS.) And that's all trust is, isn't it? A kind of love? Showing vulnerability to someone close to you?
When Spite is finally allowed to communicate, he shows plenty of maturity. He gives Lucanis space, he asks Emmrich to teach him fire, he's willing to try new things, and he loves.
Determination is a kind of love too, when you think about it.
heās gay
and heās still at it
I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.
Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.
It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.
@bianca-hooks123 replied:
Man, Protestant churches would be so much cooler if there was Wizard shit.
American Protestants going into wizard shit withdrawal is how we get snake handling:
(via @slop.guru on Bluesky)
Initiating a movement to make "Clownwank", "Dirtfuck", "Wanksucker", "Scumwit", and "Trumpnozzle" the hottest new epithets of 2025
Bumlord
im only a man when im a grown ass man and im only a woman when god forbid women do anything
any time other than that? im a fucking Echidna
ENIGMA. FUCK
reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton
Your body must be rested and fed if you wish to be a pervert.
Rent control is on the ballot for California voters this November.
I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.
It's a huge deal even for people who don't expect to be personally affected by it -- rent control is a protection against the poorest people living in a city being forced out, and that's just bad for everyone. When you have a city where only medium well off to rich people live, you get their service employees coming in from a suburb an hour and a half away (blech) or else you get people stacked three to a room. Or people holding down a job or three while trying to earn enough to get off the street or, well, out of their parents' place or away from the abusive partner they can't afford to break up with. Point is, a lack of housing that people can just keep living in at the same price, means a lot of bad things for society, and we probably aren't going to socialize housing within the next ten years but maybe we can get rent control back.
It is important to know that CA, being the fifth largest economy IN THE WORLD, has a huge effect on how things go in the rest of the US. If CA gets rent control, this is likely to exert pressure on other places to enact rent control. So, like. It would be super fucking rad if that happened.
I think I found my new favorite comic of all time
If existence is meaningless, create your own purpose and meaning.
this is everything I ever needed, and I had no idea until now.
my dad took me to see brokeback mountain in theaters because it was not even a little bit promoted as a queer love story, so we had no idea. he was just like "cowboy movie! yeehaw" and then my dad realized what was going on before I did, and we watched people scream and throw food and walk out throwing tantrums, and my very undiagnosed anxiety disorder skyrocketed because of the crowd reaction. my dad asked if we needed to leave, I said the crowd was stressing me out but I was liking the movie. so he said "cool. let them leave and enjoy it in peace" which is what we did, and then I kept watching and I understoodā¢ļø and my anxiety did not get better, but on the drive home the only thing dad said was "well! they told a hell of a love story" and he said the nervous dad cackle, and at 14 I didn't get him very much at all, but I think he knew years before I knew and he was trying to figure out how to tell me it was okay.
in case you were wondering why I called moo deng miss bitey.
āThis representation was groundbreaking for the time and a lot of people liked itā and āThis may have aged poorly and many modern audiences from the group donāt feel represented by it and are bothered by aspects of itā are not mutually exclusive
see also:Ā āitās okay to feel uncomfortable with these pieces of media due to their clumsyāif not harmfulādepictionsā andĀ āsome people still enjoy them, despite their flaws, especially older people who grew up without the same amount of representation we have today, and itās not your place to tell someone they canāt like itā
Tbh see also: āitās weird to try and tell anyone what they can and canāt like especially in their own representationā
The things you donāt like that make you uncomfortable will be the things that make someone else feel actually really seen, and vice versa
No piece of representation is gonna work for every member of a group, because no group is a monolith and that is good and must be embraced
this is amazing š ā„ļøā„ļø
im blowing up this is adorable
girls go to college to get more knowledge. men go to svalbard to die in the polar night.
wait fr
oh my god
men when they die in svalbard
and waste fresh meat???
I didn't think that it would be more wild, but it is. Terrifying.
Oh yes. The graveyard is quarantined.
Longyearbyen has some other nice laws, such as it being illegal to lock the doors of houses and cars (so that people can escape polar bears), or it being illegal to leave the town without firearms (so that people can defend themselves from polar bears.)
Is a pretty cool place.
So itās not illegal to die there they just firmly prefer you try not to
