And I'm a lionheart

...which I'm not, but hey, good song. I'm an aspiring author, sometimes I'll write short stories. Into manga, musicals, and a load of other stuff. Nice to meet you :) Writing blog brokencodawritings. Avatar: nguruvilu

[danganronpa-out-of-context]

[tenorgender]

sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. ppl have the idea that edible plants are "organic" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. that is love. that is faith. when you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you

[tenorgender]

this is how much our ancestors loved us. this is all their struggles and all their hopes. this is how much our ancestors loved being alive

[filmnoirsbian]

Obviously there are many things to dislike about adulthood but as someone who grew up in an abusive household for whom adulthood offered the only chance at an escape, it's incredibly important to me that i romanticize adulthood whenever possible because i know there are kids and teenagers like me out there who are seeing nothing but complaints about rent and taxes and the loneliness of living on your own and i know they're going to internalize all of that and assume it means that adulthood won't offer them the freedom and safety they've been dreaming of. So while i never want to minimize the difficulties of being an adult, i also want to highlight how incredibly nice it can be to finally have ownership of your life and your body and your time and money and food and everything else in a way that you never had before. You can choose when you wake up! You can choose what you have for breakfast! You can choose when to go to sleep or if you want to (inadvisably) stay up all night watching tv in the living room! In the living room! You can choose what to watch! These are little things, but they are worth taking pleasure in, and they are worth looking forward to.

[stitch-n-time]

Oh. Man. I'm in my 40s now, but can STILL remember the first apartment I lived in alone. The first week, I had nothing. NOTHING. I slept on the floor wrapped up in curtains, until a friend came to visit and was like "welp. This ain't keepin' on" and gave me a folding bed and a couple of blankets. There were part of it that were just... not fun. You know what I did, though? I made cookies. Because I wanted them, and nobody could keep me from using the kitchen. I got a cat, because nobody could tell me "no". I took long, hot bubble baths because the bathroom - and the bathtub - were MINE and nobody else's. I turned MY music up and danced around MY living room all day (but was aware of the family with children downstairs, so shut down the one person party before it got too late). I bought a cast-off couch for cheap and had friends help me bring it in, and sat on MY couch and sewed. And crocheted. And started to teach myself to knit. The only one there to tell me "no" was the kitten, and she loved playing with the yarn. There were things about it that were exceptionally hard. I was a pregnant single waitress truly struggling to pay bills and put food on the table. But that's not what stuck. What stayed with me, and what was important, was those little things that made being an adult worthwhile.

[cwicseolfor]

You will get out and you will get free and it still rains, sometimes, but you get to decide whether to stay in or put up your umbrella or just let it pour down your face while you stomp puddles. You get to choose. It's not paradise, but it is, in the end, yours, which is such a relief. And all the things they say about the best of life being free - that's true. You will have happiness of your own making.

[evelights]

our little new atomic age

[edgcworth]

when capcom does similiarities in aa sprites between mentors and students and family members its such a small detail but also very cute

[beevean]

Always liked the detail of Bratworth in 3-4 having von Karma’s signature finger wag, which he thankfully abandoned by the time of 1-2 - it shows how much he used to look up to that monster.

Similarly to this, Trucy used to pose like her father Zak when she was a kid…

… but she stopped doing this after Phoenix adopted her.

Another cool detail is that Simon and Aura Blackquill have the same laughter and tendencies to smack things, lol

And while Iris is for most of the time a palette swap of Dahlia, one of her few original poses is identical to one of her half-sister Pearl - while Dahlia is so detatched from the Fey family that she has nothing in common with them.

[candychocolate]

When Trucy’s older she actually starts posing like Phoenix!

We all know about how Franny grips her shoulder like her father.

But her curtsy is also obviously derived from her brother’s bow!

But where does Miles get it? His father of course!

And who else got it from Gregory?

[kiichu]

CANNOT believe this one wasn’t mentioned here

it’s easily one of the most bone-chilling moments if you recognize the pose

[i-tried-and-i-lost]

This is the worst one thanks

[journeythroughtherain]

I’d argue that there’s one Fey Dahlia has something in common with:

She got that death glare from her mother.

(Something I find really interesting though is that for all these familial likenessess in poses, two people who share absolutely no poses at ALL are Klavier and Kristoph Gavin.

Kristoph always keeps his arms crossed, either in front of himself or behind his back. Klavier, on the other hand, always keeps his posture open, never crosses his arms and rather keeps his hands in his pockets, something Kristoph would never do.

It’s fascinating to see that as much as they share a superficial likeness in looks, they hold themselves so different. It is definitely deliberate, probably both in an in-universe sense, and from a design perspective.)

[what-even-is-thiss]

If you don't wanna date a trans person then just don't date a trans person. The thing we're mad about is people treating us like we have cooties, people that are attracted to us feeling ashamed of their attraction, and people being terrible to us. Not whether or not you personally find us attractive. Jesus. We ask to be recognized as the gender we are and people are like "Oh yeah? Well I don't wanna have sex with you!"

Okay? Do you just walk up to everyone you don't wanna have sex with and tell them that? Just walk up to random people and let them know that you think they're unattractive? You must be real fun at parties.

[thecollectibles]

The Fellowship of the Ring - Present days by Tony Sart

[sk-lumen]

You’re most powerful when you honor your own rhythm. If your circadian rhythm is nocturnal, don’t follow those “waking up at 4 am changed my life” routines because they’re not for you. If you function best when you focus on a single task, single job, single goal, then working half a dozen sidehustles may not be for you. Honor your own rhythm, work with it instead of against it, and you will achieve so much more than if you blindly follow what’s considered “correct” by social conventions of the time.

[norloth]

Today is national Arbor Day in our country.

[the-truth-shall-make-ye-fret]

Was kind of expecting this to be irrelevant by now but

[thestuffedalligator]

The thing about Discworld people is that we’re kind of unbearable for three months in a row.

March comes around and oh you have to talk about Terry in March, can you believe that it’s been six years already since he passed? Then April comes around and oh hey, it’s April! It’s Terry’s birthday!

And then May hits, and oh boy, May. You have to pull out all the stops in May. Lilacs and Clacks towers and ripples in the world, when the last of the wine ferments and the clock winds down.

The rest of the year it’s posting as normal (except for maybe a few Hogfather jokes around December), but everything has to stop for three days in three months because an old British man wrote a story about a world on the backs of four elephants on the back of a giant turtle and decided to make it everyone else’s problem

[dead-inside-mcgee]

Manfred Von Karma has extremely Catholic vibes but at the same time I refuse to believe he's Catholic because a lot of that religion and remembering that you are below God and there's no way VK would admit he's below anyone

[absolxguardian]

MvK is a filthy monarchist and only likes Catholicism because of the Divine Right of Kings

[feriowind]

u just know coby would have a mini internal meltdown over this LOL

[shittymoviedetails]

In The Departed (2006), Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg play two different characters— a subtle nod to them being two different actors, despite my wife being unable to tell them apart on the first viewing of the movie.

[dunsalien]

op this is the funniest post you’ve made yet

[yessoupy]

GOD I just want to be CREATIVE but all my energy is being used to survive

[cries-havoc]

this is one of those "you put it into words" kind of posts. right on.

[godlessondheimite]

[fluffmugger]

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

[pennie-dreadful]

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

[mikkeneko]

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

[hownottolearnalanguage]

[absolxguardian]

I'm kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn't colonizer bullshit, it's what everyone does. It's just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

"Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A's word for thing. Say, what do you call it?"

"Oh it's [language B's word for thing]."

"Got it, it's [language B's word for thing] variety [language A's word for thing]"