Rebellions are built on hope

What are you doing? Is thinking. It looks like you're just staring. Is doing both.

yknow when you wake up in the middle of the night & anxiously check on the person next to you to make sure they didn't randomly die in their sleep

𝚆 𝚘 𝚛 𝚖   𝚘 𝚏 𝚏   𝚝 𝚑 𝚎    𝚜 𝚝 𝚛 𝚒 𝚗 𝚐 

What month is it? Don't you mean "quarter"?

finally finished a painting i've been cooking in my mind for a few years! shadowgast as The Devil, one of my favorite tarot cards and one of the three cards i associate with their relationship

i'm not much for divination but i love the story-telling aspect of tarot, and one of my favorite visual metaphors of The Devil is how loose the chains around the two figures' necks are. they're not kept bound. it's that possibility to choose that i find so significant, and so fitting for the story of these two wizards. to say you're not defined by your past is to say you're born with all the choices you make; but to say you are forever defined by it is to deny yourself the right to change. the chains around your neck might be very heavy, but the choice to shrug them off is always yours to take.

like

the real world answers to those questions were

yes

fine or imprisonment

there were multiple movements fighting against fornication laws

having sex with other people while separated was criminalized and could result in civil and criminal punishments

yes

yes to enforce the nuclear family and no, if anything it was intended to *increase* the birth rate since married women were not considering legally capable of saying no to sex with their husbands

so what would a light hearted rom com set in a scenario like this? almost any romcom made in the US before 1960 would qualify