Lady Iris Holmes

Ysayle and her moogle friends :)

by Werkbau

I replayed FF12 recently and I was struck by how sweet and attentive Penelo always is to Fran. I don’t know if I ship it, but I can absolutely see Penelo having a little crush on her.

[Image Description: A digital painting of Fran and Penelo. They are in front of some sort of machinery console, and Penelo holds a wrench in her left hand as she glances over her shoulder at Fran with a smile and a faint blush. Fran is leaning down from behind Penelo with her left hand on Penelo’s shoulder and her right adjusting something on the console. She is also smiling softly, though her attention is on her work. /end ID]

I have had it with this likescolding. “Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm so likes don’t actually do anything” motherfucker I am not clicking that heart to give some post better ~algorithmic visibility~ I am clicking that heart to help my internet friend microdose on serotonin as god fucking intended

I did the color wheel challenge! This was @_@;;; but I had loads of fun!

By the way isn't it funny how class is never ever mentioned with the whole "ownvoices" thing

Not that you can just neatly be like "look, a book that was written by a poor person!"

but it really feels like the people that are writing the popular/praised poems and books and stuff of our contemporary time are starting to be farther and farther away from like. average people.

There's less and less of the "spent a decade working as a pizza delivery guy, paint salesman, and window washer while writing scenes on napkins behind the pizza place" best-selling writers and more and more of the "graduated from an ivy league school, landed a $700,000 book deal at age 23 and is now a full time writer" best-selling writers

Like this is a big problem with literary magazines, they try to publish writers that are "diverse," but those writers are virtually all people that have the ability to pursue a MFA and/or a PhD in poetry

which, believe me, is a Category of person

The Password

by Linda Pastan

It is simply a question of syllables, a word

the smallest child may know.

But when I say it the sentry in you smiles,

and all the doors fly open on their winged hinges.

i dont know how else to put this but to approach books (or any media, really) solely for the sake of relatability is genuinely incredibly heartbreaking……to have such little (or such unwilling) imaginative scope that you cannot stretch yourself, even marginally, in a different direction to what you’ve known or are used to knowing when the very POINT of stories is to transport you somewhere else, into someone else, so you can do just that……..when fran lebowiz said a book “is supposed to be a door!” and george saunders said good prose “is like empathy training wheels” they were right!!! they were so so so SO absolutely entirely right!!!!!

Your task today, tumblerites, is to slip platypusary into casual conversation. Bonus points if nobody notices.

Post canon Toph who doesn’t want to go back to her shitty parents so she just decides to stay in the Fire Nation and bum off Zuko’s hospitality.

Zuko’s like no, yeah, I totally get it, and just makes her one of his advisors. At first it’s just so she has a good excuse to stay but after the first meeting Toph storms out shouting about how EVERYONE was lying why would you even need to lie about what kind of tea you want??

Zuko: I mean they’re politicians…..but also who, and when, and in what way

They make a subtle Morse code system so Toph can warn him when someone is lying to him without tipping anyone off that she can sense lies.

Zuko gets a reputation for somehow being both extremely socially inept and yet somehow disgustingly perceptive?? You can’t get ANYTHING by him???

#my lord what EXACTLY is ms Beifongs role in these meetings #a nervous nobleman asks after the third time she interrupts them with stupid commentary #zuko with perfect deadpan: she’s my scribe

You CAN’T leave that in the tags

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same.

I don’t know who you are, but your addition to my post is amazing. Thank you kind soul.

heavy is the head

March to Narshe: Final Fantasy VI

Artist By Bryan Heemskerk

klassje amandou how do you do

Arrrgh I already complained about it but man. Fucking hate how weird people are when it comes to sexuality in art. "Ohhh this only exists because the writer was horny it can't possibly have anything deep to say" fucking imagine if we applied it to other emotions. Sorry Antigones can't possibly be about anything meaningful the writer was clearly just sad. Hamlet isn't a good or interesting play actually it was just Shakespeare being angry.

Real life events are treated like fictional media automatically entering some meme cannon and fictional media is demanded of so much moralism and the events in fictional media are treated with so much seriousness as if whatever is being depicted..is being condoned. People talk about media literacy all of the time now but it’s actually crazy how nothing that happens in real life is sacred or free of exploitation but anything fictional has to be explicitly clear in a specific moral compass.