My Brain: Addled

Book fandom, reading content, tbr

[elldritch-horror]

I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.

What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.

I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.

Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.

[novenarius]

re-reading harrow the ninth and understanding what is actually happening is so funny cuz harrow will be fighting for her life and gideon is just like "yeah so that part of the sword is called the pommel by the way. in case you were curious. you keep getting that wrong"

[vee-dmsr]

alectopause so bad it's got dumbasses making callout posts on the subreddit about pyrrha LMAOO????

[vee-dmsr]

we gotta kill this guy

[echo-has-queries]

via @chaos-has-theories

I wish I could incorporate "bestie he ate her" into my every day vocabulary. Fr, accusing tasmuir of not having thought through the implications is WILD. Like "What do you mean there are violations of consent in the Violations of Consent book?!?" Smack my gobs, good sir, it's almost like it's a THEME or something. There are definitely fascinating discussions to be had here, I suppose on that we can agree.

[cindfourth]

I see you suggesting Harrow should be the saint of devotion but consider:

Right before Gideon dives onto the fence Harrow says to her "Have you really forgiven me?"

Harrowhark the First, Saint of Forgiveness

Delicious because she will never ever forgive herself

[vividciggy]

First read of HtN : devestating tragedy

Second read of HtN : probably the funniest fucking book I've ever read

[milkteamoon]

I think one of Gideon's funniest moments is when she learns that Pal and Dulcie have a Thing and she's so distraught about it because she feels like a complete homewrecker. Like she just made one of her first ever friends, this weird little man whom she diagnosed as Bitchless upon first sight, and then she learns he actually does have A Single Bitch but it's the woman she's been flirting with nonstop since she got there. So naturally her reaction is to start mourning for him because literally, how was her new bestie The Most Bitchless Man Alive ever supposed to compete with her

[kej-art]

one flesh, one end

[bilbowy]

i don't blame cytherea for losing the plot when it came to her tbh

[fitzlover]

fitz and beloved about each other:

[maddyisenough]

Fool's Fate spoilers:

One detail that always kills me is that during the scene of My dream was dead in my arms, Fitz is carrying his dream, his soulmate, his other half while dead Fool is clenching tightly into the rooster crown mended with his blood, a symbol of his love for Fitz that will be the only thing to unforge him, thus bring him back to life. Imagine loving someone so much that when you die, your first thought is that you need to make them whole again.

The rooster crown saves Fool's soul because of his love for Fitz, Fitz manages to bring him back thanks to it.

And then when the Fool exchanges it for Fitz's memories, Fitz is unforged through Fool's kiss ANOTHER SIGN OF LOVE!

[georgestpaul]

when shrewd said “son of my son, blood of my blood. in my own way, i have loved you” and then verity said “i did love you, you know. despite all i’ve done to you, i loved you”

[swordsonnet]

zhu and ouyang truly have the dynamic of all time. their fates are inextricably entwined. they're the same and yet they're opposites in many ways. they're the only ones who can truly understand each other and yet they're usually at odds with each other. they're extremely powerful together and yet they spend much of the story on opposite sides. she kills 10,000 of his men. he cuts off her hand. he lets her see him at his most vulnerable. she cares for him even after he betrays her. they have weird bdsm scenes that are technically nonsexual but still manage to be intensely erotic. they pretend to be married once. they're besties they're worsties they're queer solidarity and queer hostility they're enemies with benefits they're fucked-up soulmates. they're not romantic or platonic or a secret third thing but an even more secret fourth thing. who's doing it like them

[linecoveredinjellyfish]

she who became the sun is like. what if you were nothing. what if you were nothing and were doomed to be nothing, a fate so comprehensively ordinary and insignificant it isn't even an untimely death, it's just a blank void where a life should be. and what if you said fuck that and snatched your future out of the jaws of the universe itself and held it close to you and protected it like a candle in strong wind. what if the only way to be yourself was to pretend to be someone else hard enough and long enough that even you started to believe it. what if you hated the body you were born into for how it shook that belief and betrayed that secret. what if wanting was the root of all suffering but you wanted wanted wanted and were okay with that because you would rather live a hundred years and suffer than lay down and die quietly. what if the world would remember you, your person and your deeds, for generations upon generations, but your name was already so thoroughly forgotten to history that even you could not bear to speak it anymore. what if one of your arms was cut off and it gave you the confidence you needed to finally fist your wife. what then.

[swordsonnet]

zhu and ouyang moodboard

[miseria-fortes-viros]

ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[sosrantings]

mind ya own business, buddy, will ya

[reimanticism]

tower prince sandwich