They Should Invent A New Type Of "staying In Bed For 2-3 Hours After You Wake Up Repeatedly Opening And

constant and cold, how do we live with this

this is super long, but!!! anyways!! I made a few adjustments to the world for the sake of the fic but! still super fun to write in a world like this!!! I haven’t read the book since I was like 12 or 13 so I had to rely on wiki a bit, but I hope you enjoy anon!!!! sorry for such a long wait!

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Pairing: Steve Harrington x fem!reader

Summary: The reader enters a competition for the prince’s hand in marriage (aka a the selection au)

Word Count: 5.3k i kn o w

Warnings: cursing and classism

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For the fourth time in history - written history, at least - the country of Dianna announces the holding of the Selection: a competition between girls of the provinces for the prince’s hand in marriage. Held in the castle, the girls spend days or weeks or months or, on one occasion, years whittling down their numbers until the prince chooses a bride.

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someone tell me why i was singing jolene but instead of jolene my brain replaced it with georgie

Having your main anxiety response be Avoidance is crazy cause you'll think you're chillin and then one day you're like waitttt I've been paralyzed with fear this whole time. Damn

thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

I actually think there’s something incredibly apt about ursa having had a passion for theatre. performance & performativity are at the crux of these fire nation ideals—of the inherent glory of monarchy and its subsequent ostentation, of imperialism and the need to spread the fire nation agenda and aesthetic, of having power for the sake of power. ozai is also a performer. he revels in having an audience. think of the arena in which the agni kai is held, think of the intimidation of the throneroom, think of his entire plan to raze the earth kingdom to the ground. it’s the aesthetics of fascism and the performance of power that make him so intimidating, so infallible and unquestioned. and his children emulate that too. zuko and azula are always performing, trying to project an image of power, when deep down, they are terrified. azula uses acting, costume, makeup to finally take ba sing se, a previously-considered insurmountable achievement. (and it is worth noting that kyoshi herself used facepaint as a way of projecting power & confidence—which she learned from her family of opera performers.) zuko tries his hardest in book 1 to seem intimidating, and does his best impersonation of ozai to do so. no doubt ozai got it from his father, and azulon got it from his. imperialism relies on symbols and a projection of power (“fire nation first” / “spread the glory of the fire nation”) but of course, the fire nation is not inherently superior to any other nation—that notion is propaganda, an artifice; it’s all theater.