Better Than A King

Sally | 25

[clientsfromhell]

I have a client who communicates exclusively via Microsoft Word.

If she has something to tell me, I’ll receive an email with nothing in the body, but a Word doc attached. That’s where she writes her message.

Whenever she wants to email me a photo, she does so via an empty Word doc with said photo set as its background.

But my favorite thing was the first time I witnessed her visiting a website. She had me spell the URL (“W… W… W… dot…”) and with my own two eyes I watched her type it into Word, made it a hyperlink, and Ctrl click it to go there.

I was so fascinated I didn’t even say anything.

[captoring]

a different microsoft world

[louisa605]

（This R is way too handsome, so handsome that it's out of character.）

（I still haven't had time to draw, so this is just a draft used for practicing colors

[luriuan]

I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.

[sailing-ever-west-deactivated20]

One time they just stuck him in a hole in the ground for a whole episode.

[ectojester]

This is how writers should deal with characters who are too smart for the arc instead of making them suddenly dumber for no apparent reason.

If you frequently find yourself in random situations while your friends happen to be experiencing problems maybe you, too, are too smart for the narrative.

[not-deadsummer]

My favorite is that Sokka absolutely would've just navigated them out of the desert, so they had to put him on acid the entire time.

[mothermara]

what if orpheus was butch and she unclipped her carabiner and held it out behind her and then eurydice clipped it onto her belt loop and then orpheus didnt have to look back because she could hear eurydice jingle jangling behind her. follow me for more dyke solutions to famous tragic literature

[hollowboobtheory]

doomerism is just bootlicking btw

[hollowboobtheory]

I need yall to remember. "There's no point in resisting" is not a rational thought and if you really believe that you need to pay more attention. they just ran ice out of Charlotte. people have begun invoking the second amendment more and more. we have communities fighting back the gestapo and winning. trump is hemorrhaging support. his top sycophant just resigned after tearing into him. idc if her motivations are less than pure-hearted, the fact that she's seeing the writing on the wall and jumping ship is a good sign. articles of impeachment have been reintroduced and this time the sponsor wants to force a vote. the epstein files have got them scrambling. and if I might repeat my point from earlier, cities and communities are successfully fighting off ice. they are literally retreating. he doesn't have the courts, he doesn't have the police, that's why he needs ice in the first place. and he's losing the congress and senate.

you guys see that video of rednecks chasing ice into the woods during hunting season? you are the ones falling into line. you are the ones kissing the ring.

[hollowboobtheory]

as chappell roan said: it's not over til it's over. and it's never over.

[harpieisthecarpie]

[nortism]

Les Misérables tragedy alignment chart

Self fulfilling prophecy: Enjolras, Jean Valjean (honestly JVJ fits into all of these quadrants at different points in the story but his ultimate fate is very self fulfilled)

It’s all your fault: Marius, Javert

The horror of inevitability: Cosette

They let you down: Éponine, Fantine

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

More reasons why Zuko being the Firelord is objectively the funniest thing on earth:

HES SEVENTEEN

He hasn’t been civilised in 4 years, his entire teenage experience consists of living on a boat and sleeping rough. The most stable bed he has was probably in Ba Sing Se he probably will just nap anywhere.

He has customer service experience which means he probably uses his customer service voice on his minsters.

Additionally he probably just wanders into to kitchen to get his own snacks and tea because he forgets what servants do.

He probably has no idea why he can’t just chase after an assassin he used to hunt the avatar for Agnis sake why is the captain of the guard demanding he stay in his room he’ll find the guy first (he’s probably right)

Katara probably has a free pass on Eco terrorism because what’s he going to do challenge her, she’ll beat his ass.

If he saw a minster doing something shady he will either invite lady Beifong to detect their BS or commit B&E and look for evidence himself.

He somehow found a baby dragon and raises it.

He will be far to willing to give Kyoshi island anything they want cause he feels bad and Suki scares him.

He randomly insisted on giving some earth kingdom village 100 ostrich horses.

The Avatar will just show up call him Hotman and demand the go on adventures and the Firelord will just dip because he’s been confined to long and has the Zoomies.

He takes far to much advice from Sokka and will genuinely believe if someone doesn’t get Sokkas plans they must be an idiot because Sokka is 16.

Sokka and Zuko also get into a lot of teenage rebellion phases by accident.

Toph just walks in breaks a wall of his palace and demands a field trip that always involves the Firelord having to explain himself to the cops.

He somehow knows every dangerous teen in the world and they all come for tea uninvited.

He has broken into both the NWT and Ba Sing Se.

He has a really well documented facial scar and official portraits but still disappears to be Lee the tea guy like no one knows.

HES SEVENTEEN.

[arthoesunshine]

i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

[makomoriz]

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal

[ididntknowwhatyouwereexpecting]

appreciating the mundane like Princess Kaguya

[thedoubteriswise]

so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things

[the-reynolds-pamphlet]

wait i think it's interesting that hugo particularly compares grantaire to pylades and enjolras to orestes when pylades was famously a companion and assistant to orestes, which grantaire notably is not to enjolras. similarly the other mythological comparisons like achilles & patroclus and castor & pollux are of characters who are known as one in cause or role in the story. holy SHIT this is such a les mis 101 adjacent realization but oh god i'm never going to escape the "cynicism and revolution always come together, but the revolution will prevail & cynicism gives its life for it in the end" thing am i.

also oh god oh fuck i regret never having properly looked at these names because i am just finding the foreshadowing. another pair they're compared to is nisus and euryalus, who famously die together in the aeneid. credit to this post for the next one; pechmeja was a doctor in the late 18th century who famously died after refusing to leave his sick friend's bedside. that one is particularly hitting me rn because even though it's the most obscure from the list, the comparison is to grantaire refusing to leave enjolras' side when faced with death.... the fact that through most of the brick they do not actually have a close relationship at all but moments before death grantaire is finally united in cause with enjolras.... THE FACT THAT I NEVER PICKED UP ON THIS UNTIL NOW

[boccher]

doctor will fix me they'll do a scan and find a terrible darkness seated in my stomach and be like "oh my god we're so sorry we were supposed to remove this at birth like everyone else, i don't know how this was missed, we're so sorry you've been living like this your whole life" and it'll fix my brain too and all clouds will part

[gengario]

i bring an “excluded since childhood” vibe to the function

[illumiiiz]

guy who is burnt out beyond recognition and can barely get through the workday just to collapse into bed when he gets home voice: I have got to make art again. it will heal me

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

most insane making scene of all time perhaps that bit in Agamemnon where Cassandra tells the chorus that no one has ever believed her and they say no! we'll believe you! we know about your curse and we promie! and she says ok well Agamemnon and I both are about to be murdered and the chorus says surely you're lying.

[hungwy]

theo van gogh was the one who suggested that his older brother vincent start seriously painting. as soon as theo was gainfully employed he gave vincent around 15% of his own yearly salary for art supplies, lodging, and food. about 2/3rds of vincent's surviving letters were to theo (including vincent's earliest and last letters), all of which were found stored in theo's desk. theo's child, vincent willem, was born on january 31st, 1890, and vincent was so delighted by his nephew that he painted almond blossoms for him. vincent shot himself half a year later on july 29th, 1890. theo's distress at his brother's death worsened his syphilis symptoms and he died half a year after his brother on january 25th, 1891 (four days before vincent willem's first birthday). theo was reburied next to vincent in auvers-sur-oise at the request of theo's wife johanna.

[nutropes]

Almond Blossoms, 1890, Vincent van Gogh

[emilyofjane]

[cannucks-addiction]

And that love lived on Theo's wife, Johanna, who was the one who pushed for the preservation of Vincent's paintings. Johanna who made sure that her husband's beloved brother would not be forgotten. Johanna who fought tooth and nail so that Theo and Vincent would never be forgotten. Johanna who carried the family legacy, who made sure that the works of Vincent would be kept in her possession. And then Vincent Willem, named for a uncle so loved, carried this legacy and founded the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

The van Gogh family history is deeply interwoven with love. It was the love of a brother that gave a young man the courage to paint and the resources to do so. It was the love of a woman for her husband and her husband's beloved brother that made that story known. And it was the love of a nephew, who was so deeply loved even if for such a short time, that made it possible for the world to know Vincent van Gogh.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to get too deep on main but did anyone else have such deeply rooted issues with their self worth for so long that they thought as a kid/teen that their only redeeming feature was being “low maintenance” and now as an adult you give yourself guilt pangs asking for any more than the barest minimum in virtually any relationship because asking for things might negate your only good quality which is just “doesn’t ask for things”

[splickedylit]

#you don’t believe you can be liked so you settle for being useful