this tumult in the clouds

He has that sadness in his eyes you only see in eastern European gay porn

I'll admit the problem started when we assigned too many morals to the world cup. It's the world cup. It's the thing that prevents us from going into another world war. The point is to beat each other over absolutely nothing but a worthless piece of gold and ego

I'm going to hold your hand when I say this... Nothing in the world is going to change because of the world cup. Palestinians dgaf that you don't like Argentina because some asshole showed up with an Israeli flag once. It doesn't change anything for them. It doesn't benefit them in the least. It's just useless fodder you're using to assign morality to 22 guys kicking a ball around to satisfy their ego and the ego of their country.

swinging at the bees nest here but a criticism of trans women i've never really understood is that they just "take the idea of womanhood and co opt it and run with it based on their own whims." like ummm yeah? that's kinda what i did too. i wasn't handed some objective universal definition of womanhood that i faithfully carried out at every turn with no objection. i built my own understanding of what being a woman meant based on the women around me and the women i admire and the things that felt authentic to me and the things i rejected or embraced. like we all inherit ideas about womanhood and then negotiate with them. otherwise we'd all genuinely think the only "real women" left were those fucking trad wives

csevet gets away with being crazy bc he's so sweetie but his story arc within tge is pure bedlam, he just does it so elegantly and politely it glosses over. courier agreed to be imperial secretary after one vague and polite insinuation from the emperor in that direction, despite possibly not having learned to read until he was a teenager (and the circumstances within which he was sent into maia's service are HIGHLY questionable, it's possible csevet wilfully interpreted chavar's wording to get the outcome he wanted). he got offended when maia insinuated, not that he would covertly read a letter of imperial business entrusted to him, but that he wouldn't immaculately reseal it if he had done such a thing. about fifty pages later he is hustled into admitting he did that exact thing with the first letter he ever gave to maia. and he immaculately resealed it. he is the only person to land a punch on anyone on-page, and he did it in front of like half the government. he insinuated the emperor was insane, to his face, then promptly prostrated himself on the floor outside. in like, the gravel. he loudly guilt tripped priests in a holy building and wasn't sorry about it even a bit. he personally influenced and drove several state matters that rightly should not have really been up to him, including the emperor's marriage and the investigation of the assassination of the previous one. he then proceeded to pick an empress and present the proposal to the corazhas as if that was the emperor's opinion, even though maia had no opinion in the slightest. one can make a textual argument suggesting he might have sliiiightly lied to the emperor about a few things, including his age, or at least obfuscated. his only apparent objection to becoming lord chancellor was said nebulous age. he still somehow has time to read ethuverazhin jane austen. he compared his commitment to his role to celehar's Actual For Real Religious Calling. katherine addison please let me look in his brain just once it HAS to be absolute scenes in there

true Going Home has never been tried

it could be so beautiful if i could Go Home and feel like i'm home, but we just don't know for certain. all we can know is the feeling of Wanting to Go Home still lingers

so she's legally basically its mother and she was game for that kind of dynamic at first but it was violently like Absolutely Not and now neither of them are into it but on paper that's still what they have to be to each other. thiago seemed to almost think it was her toxic/abusive gold digging sugar baby or something. amena calls it her third mom. it most commonly thinks of her as its client and itself as her security guard. she is the only one it will let touch it in any kind of unnecessary and emotionally intimate way. she bought it. it manipulated her into getting ptsd treatment. its situationship desperately wants her approval and to show her that it's an upstanding young research transport who can be entrusted with the safety of her dear [redacted]. they hold hands to avoid looking suspicious. what are they.

Bisclavret, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love This Weird Wolf My Bros and I Found in the Woods

If I ever talk about Dick Grayson’s tenure as Robin, know that I fully believe a 9 year old former acrobat was running around with a 21 year old man beating up criminals and solving puzzles as partners and the 9 year old was GOOD AT IT

Times like these I remember that Malcolm X quote about healing and how it requires acknowledging the knife is there. Things like "this isn't who we are" and "this is un-American" and "what are we? [insert another country]??" reveal a deep seated denial of American history and state-sponsored domestic terror that I'm just not gonna entertain anymore from leftists over the age of twenty.

Mr. Bennet: Sure, I haven't taken care of my daughters' financial security, but have I at least taken care of their education? No. But have I taken care of their emotional needs? Also no. But have I been a good protector and supervisor? I'm afraid not. However, have I been a good example for my children of being a kind and respectful spouse, parent, and all around human being? No again. But through it all, have I nailed being funny? Yes. And isn't that the most important role of a father after all?

ok actually the fact that in tlg hayden is convinced that ilya is straight and not sexually attracted to men and has been fucking shane for a DECADE and is now LIVING WITH and ENGAGED to him as part of ilya’s plot to corrupt and ruin his hockey competitor and leave shane heartbroken and ruined at the altar while twirling his dastardly mustache is actually iconic. like could you even blame ilya at that point. he leaves boston for ottawa and tanks his own career and becomes a political refugee exiled from his home country so he can fuck a guy he’s not even attracted to in order to ruin his life. that would be the hardest anyone has ever balled. they call it the long game for a reason.

final game before retirement ilya is like do not worry moy lyubovnik i have poisoned the gatorade. they shall pull our chariot in the underworld. and shane is like aww you think of everything.

whether or not you think hollanov would have kids is irrelevant to this universal truth that if hollanov did have kids, shane would 100% be the dad that texts in monosyllables. "Ok 👍🏻"