#another draft post

[krejcikovas]

Elena Rybakina for the Madrid Open's Igaules podcast, 2025.

[cloud-somersault]

how do i explain to people that constellations is about the slow dismantling of a truth that was wholeheartedly believed in? And how now, the consequences of past actions and words said backed by anger have to be put into perspective and cast into a new light?

how do I explain that it's about unlearning behaviors, assumptions, and convinced beliefs and rebuilding oneself to be a properly enlightened individual rooted in truth instead of one honed in on a hurtful limited perspective?

HOW do I explain that it's about untangling lies and seeing how deep they go? That it's about communicating with another individual who is going through the exact same thing in real time and is also making mistakes and learning to apologize and hold themselves accountable, too?

HOW do I explain that these two individuals are on paths that don't exactly mirror each other and that their paces are different? Just like everyone's journey is differently paced with different road bumps and diversions?

How. Do I explain that unlearning these things and recovering in this way isn't a linear thing? There's backsteps and stumbles and sometimes, no progress is made at all. But it's about the choice to do it anyway. It's about the choice to not run from the truth or return to the comfort of what one is accustomed to and choosing instead to embrace the absolute with open arms and take the pain and hurt and sadness that truth brings and continuing onward in spite of that?

Please. How do I explain that realizations are not instant and that they happen over time? That immediate catharsis isn't what is going to be achieved here. It's about the ugly, tiring, and uncomfortable journey to reach that catharsis. It is not bogged down with impatience; it is slow and meaningful and has intent.

It's about...stepping into the head of a character and knowing that their morals and beliefs aren't going to mirror mine as an individual. The actions they take aren't going to be what I would do; they are their own person tackling this journey in their own way, and I am here to watch that journey and see the way ahead and dream of the future and hope for the best.

Because what happens isn't up to me, it's up to the characters to emerge from this in a better place. And I won't agree with every word spoken or every outcome, but the road to get there was fun.

[starshine-lover]

My biggest head canon for my Durge and Gortash is that Gortash was the one that decorated her horns. Yurena wears chains and rings and stuff on her horns and I fully believe Gortash started that with the rings, he probably was given some silver rings but he likes gold so he just.. put them on Yurena's horns. Something like this;

Gortash: I have no need for these, and silver would look good on you. Would you like them?

Yurena: Your fingers are much larger than mine

Gortash: Ah, right. Hm. Here, I have an idea *puts a ring on each of her horns* see? They look lovely like that

Yurena:

Yurena: Do you have more

Picture of Yurena below to show off her horn jewelry

[alienfru1t]

punz: did you see any animals?

george: yeah, you

[ventingblacklist]

Kirk’s attempts to retrieve Liz end in her death and the deaths of nameless FBI agents. The post office people are willing to let Red kill him. Cooper’s super pissed that Red lets him walk.

Tom’s work for Berlin ends in Meera’s death and... let’s make jokes about how we try to kill each other. Won’t that be fun?

[krejcikovas]

Petra Kvitová during her runner's up speech at the Australian Open Women's Singles Final trophy ceremony, 2019. Naomi Osaka defeated Petra in the final 7-6 5-7 6-4.

[ventingblacklist]

Tom Keen vs. Jacob Phelps

There’s a huge disconnect between what the writers have tried to sell me when it comes to Tom and what I actually believe. And I don’t just mean in terms of what Tom did; I mean in terms of who “Tom” is. 

First of all, Jacob is his name. I’m not too crazy about it, I wish they’d chosen something else, but that’s the name he’s gone by his entire remembered life. His real name. The name that labels the man who’s not pretending. 

Secondly, he’s a trained killer with sociopathic tendencies and I in no way buy that he is the fluffy domestic bunny. That’s Tom Keen. That’s his cover. That is not who Jacob is and it’s not who he would ever be, at least not overnight. He’s a survivor. (And even he doesn’t believe it, because he’s completely walked back all the stuff about being normal dude he tried to sell Liz in 3b.)

Pardon me if I buy the villain version of Tom more than the 2b onward version where he’s supposedly all better now. Because he just woke up one morning and decided he was. And love for Liz is the reason he did everything ever. And him putting Liz into danger was Red’s fault for hiring him to protect her. 

I know. Figure that one out.

They can bring babies into it and put frilly curtains on bright windows and doilies on end tables all they want. To me Keen2 will always be best symbolized by lies, an inability to let go of what’s unhealthy, a struggle for control, and the murder of an innocent in the filthy hull of a rusty ship. 

[halfemptyjournal]

how do i kill the boogyman in the fantasy add-on 😅 me and this other mob would like to know