The f-word

Part-time reader | Part-time villain

[acelessthan3]

Still collecting the full alphabet of the “live, laugh, love” variants if anyone has some good examples.

Bonus if they can fit the “We can’t ___, _____, ____ our way out of this.”

[dhegdheer]

compilation of the comments’ best hits + some of mine own.

[imboredbutnotreally]

Under the Queen's Umbrella

I mean, what can I say - it's a story about political intrigue, greed, and what someone will do to cling to and claim power. But it's above all else, a story about love and motherhood, and what a mother wouldn’t do for her children.

I absolutely cried at the end.

[cloudseeker7]

Aedion Lied. Rhysand Didn’t

aedion: mask: the “Wolf of the North,” brutal general who never loses a battle for Adarlan reality: the battles are staged, the deaths are faked, and the soldiers literally get up afterward and go home

rhysand: mask: feared ruler of the Court of Nightmares who routinely terrorizes, tortures, and sexually humiliates people to maintain control reality: …he does all of that. he just feels bad about it sometimes. and also he’s very nice to a small, hidden city of people who means he’s actually a good guy, promise.

the difference is not “morality,” it’s material harm.

aedion's mask is a lie. the violence he's known for does not actually happen.

rhysand’s “mask” is just… branding.

the narrative keeps insisting that his cruelty is an act, but then: – the torture still happens – the victims still exist – the trauma is still real – the power imbalance is still enforced

“he’s pretending to be awful” only works if the awfulness isn’t real.

you do not get moral credit for being secretly kind to Velaris while knowingly ruling a court built on terror and exploitation. that’s not a mask; that’s compartmentalization.

aedion takes on a reputation so others don’t have to suffer.

rhysand maintains a reputation by making sure people do suffer and then asks the reader to applaud him because he has an inner monologue about how hard it is.

that’s not depth. that’s just doing the bad thing and insisting it counts as character complexity.

[2peachy]

[loveridden1999]

[anxietyproblem]

[eurasianmagpies]

people love to find progressive ways to say we should all be arranged into separate groups and try our hardest to not relate to one another

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

drake?

[hazeleyedcat]

josh?

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

where’s the body of christ?

[wyrddog]

[shitpostinguniverse]

[yms1]

me, every day: i just dont have the energy for this today

[escapekit]

Polar bear Station Russian-based wildlife photographer Dmitry Kokh ventured to an abandoned meteorological station on Kolyuchin Island, where polar bears have taken over the station.

[huntress1013]

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

[imboredbutnotreally]

Me randomly at 11:30pm needing sleep so I can be functional to work tomorrow: Hey Google, how many liters of water does a fish consume on a daily basis??

[james-p-sullivan]

the older i get and the closer i am to reaching 30, the more the people around me try to deny me my age. it’s a constant ‘oh you’re just turning 29 again teehee 🤭’ or ‘dont tell your SO that, he’ll leave you for a younger model 😉’ and i just???? hate it?????????

i spent my entire teenaged years fighting for my life. i crawled through the deepest pits of my depression to cling to the promise of a life beyond that pain. i was so convinced that i was going to die young, that i would never see the grace of my age starting with a 2, let alone 3.

so im going to turn 30, and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do to stop me from loving it.

[james-p-sullivan]

this post was up for like five minutes and already im being told how wrong i am

fuck you, you can kiss my 30 year old ass

[feanor-the-dragon]

You know what? I needed to read this today

[tiefighter]

related: I went back to university again this year and I'm 38. People are actively surprised when they find out I'm 38. And I'm like bitch, I know I don't have my shit together but damn, I EARNED my old ass age, I thought I wouldn't live past sixteen! And here I am. Alive, somewhat stable and generally learning new things. Witness me.

[finnglas]

I'm 42, and I don't particularly look how people expect. (I credit the lack of children.) So I get a lot of people insisting I shouldn't tell ppl my real age since I can "pass" for younger. Bitch why should I. Get over your ageism for two seconds and admit you were attracted to a middle aged person. ;)

[killy-deactivated20241228]

[evilwizard]

[thememedaddy]

[donteverchxnge]

Thinking about that one tumblr post I saw years ago explaining how spn was created with these tough guys and their tough car for a target audience of midwestern men and instead got touch starved girls shipping Destiel and I think that’s beautiful

[thebibliosphere]

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reverses decision to put a time limit on anesthesia

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield says it won't tie payments to the length of time a patient went under anesthesia.

*stares directly into the camera*

Gee. I wonder what could have happened to provoke that change of heart.