#*  study.

[sommersong]

IN BATTLE [ … ] YOUR MUSE.

bold what applies, italicize sometimes. repost, don't reblog.

fights honourably / fights dirty

prefers close - quarters / prefers range

chats during / goes silent

low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance

attacks in bursts / attacks steadily

goes for the kill / aims to disarm / fights defensively / strikes first

is provoked easily / provokes their opponent / teases

gets visibly frustrated / shouts while attacking

uses strategy / focuses on the battle / experiences conflicting thoughts during battle

rushes in recklessly / tries to read their opponent before engaging

fights wildly / fights calmly / fights apathetically / fights with anger / fights with excitement

fights because they have to / fights because they want to

fights without regard to wounds / runs away when wounded / hides wounds / takes a blow to protect another

prefers a blade / prefers a gun / prefers hand to hand combat / prefers a bow / prefers a shield / prefers a personalized weapon / prefers magic or spells

their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional

transforms for battle / fights as they appear

relies on strength / doubts their strength / relies on speed

uses everything they have / proceeds with caution / hides their full potential

exhausts quickly / has high stamina

behaves arrogantly / brags after landing a hit / belittles their abilities

uses psychological tactics / uses brute strength

avoids civilians / strikes down civilians

damages surroundings / avoids damaging surroundings

signature fighting style / makes it up as they go

mastered skill - set / learning their skill - set

fancy footwork / sloppy footwork

messy fighter / elegant fighter

accepts defeat / refuses defeat / begs for mercy

compliments their opponent / insults their opponent

uses unnecessary movements / moves efficiently / barely moves

prefers to dodge / prefers to block

defends their blindside / has no blindside / leaves blindsides vulnerable

uses all available advantages / strictly uses one main method

plays around / holds back / fights ruthlessly / shows mercy

waits for an opponent to be ready / strikes when opponent isn’t ready

fears death / fears pain / fears killing

has ptsd / avoids fighting

has lost a fight / has won a fight

has killed / refuses to kill

wants to die standing / would succumb slowly

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[banalrasaaa]

i cannot explain this book properly without directly pasting quotes and pointing at them aggressively. the way she has of expressing these very specific emotions that come from growing up not in trauma but in generational trauma, in a whole country that carries an open wound and is not allowed to heal and it doesn't allow itself to heal. this... almost callousness that is not callousness but it is, that develops itself around love and tenderness as a way of survival and to keep yourself safe from the pain if caring about things you know are doomed for tragedy and suffering. only the dead have earned the right to be loved, but even the dead are carried in silence, out of shame and to keep them safe. the dead who are never forgotten and yet they are still erased. they are anonymous, they at best get a name or are "a grandfather" "a little girl". the only thing that remains is the specific words attached to the idea of them but not their life or their story, they are flashes and fragments of things. faceless statues that haunt the living forver. it is unclear who refuses to let who go. if its the dead latching on to the living, refusing to be completely erased or the living who are unable to let them go and so they keep them in shame and silence. their deaths are not grieved, their number is too many for it, and they just keep on coming. so no one gets to heal, the land becomes a long ghost island, stretching their arms to other continents where its own dead are lost.

[suntusita]

here's me desperately explaining to nobody that mer's frequent "falling in love" is her desperate need for security. growing up, she experienced constant abandonment which lead her to believe that reciprocating romantic love is essential to avoid being alone because in the past it has worked for her enough times to keep people around her. she has done things that she now shudders at the idea of and still scars her to this day. mer is even ashamed to even think about what she has done, which has deepened her insecurity as she considers herself worthless and invaluable (+given her faith on the topic).

which explains why she clings to relationships, even if they are purely platonic. she's working on it now, as in, trying to ensure that everyone is a friend and that's there is no strings attached. moreso, that she can't add strings, but it stresses her out. yet she's still smiley and bubbly even though she's worried that no one will be content with her.

[visceraldose]

noah ripley + 5s.os lyrics ... please do not reblog.

"bullshit i feed myself / me and my selfish appetite." - me, myself & i.

"i know your friends all lie / i know your friends don't like me." - high.

"and i am human once again / got me feeling alright when the feeling's long gone." - haze.

"no one could control me, left my lovers lonely / had to fuck it up before i really got to know me." - old me.

[crushsung]

i used to be a serious writing blog

[eurosleazarc]

what’s sadie’s favorite movie?  well, that depends-- who’s asking?

the perfect answer for that hot film major smoking hand rolled cigarettes at the cast party: seven samurai (1954, dir. akira kurosawa)

the safe answer you tell that co-worker you don’t know very well: singin’ in the rain (1952, dir. stanley donen)

seems like a safe answer until they start quizzing you like you’re applying to work at the worst books a million in the world: twin peaks: fire walk with me (1992, dir. david lynch)

the answer that gets you an ‘oh’ response like they didn’t think this was an option over the age of seven: my neighbor totoro (1988, dir. hayao miyazaki)

i’m testing to see if we have similar childhoods: who framed roger rabbit (1988, dir. robert zemeckis)

we definitely had similar childhoods: phantom of the paradise (1974, dir. brian de palma)

if you know this, i want you to know me: irma vep (1996, dir. ollivier assayas)

i’ve met your parents and it’s going well: before sunrise (1995, dir. richard linklater)

you ask me what i watch when i’m sad: the kid (1921, dir. charlie chaplin)

you ask me what i watch when i’m sad AND you’re my therapist: pride & prejudice (2005, dir. joe wright)

wait i changed my mind please don’t look i’m not ready to be vulnerable on the internet: when harry met sally...(1989, dir. rob reiner)

[niflim]

cloud is always the friend behind the camera in more modern aus and he doesn’t tend to take selfies or anything. if anything funny has happened, there’s probably some photo or recording of it on his phone.

he does like being in photos with his friends and family and you can very rarely find photos of just him on his phone. if he posts on his socials, it’s usually about his friends, too. if there is a photo of just him, it’s usually an action shot from fencing or dance. he likes those the best because they’re candid.

although, some pretty goofy photos of him can be found on his friends’ accounts / in their camera rolls. sleeping in weird places, “ breaking character ” and just being a little shit with his friends, being at the center of some unforeseen disaster and looking somewhere between pissing himself and actually crying. or him being a very grumpy cuddle bug. he just 🥺 really loves his friends, and he feels like he can loosen up around them ... while still being a grump hehe

his friends keep insisting he’d be a really good model, though.