Hypomanic Faerie Prophetic Nightmare

Fae. 34, Nonbinary, neurodivergent. Better enjoyed from a safe distance, like volcanic eruptions, forest fires and meteor showers.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Speaking as a childhood Harry Potter fan, the enduring persistence of its popularity including amongst adults is 100% because it is slop without substance.

It flirts with the idea of rebellion and emancipation from slavery but ultimately discredits those notions by having the rebel leader become a lead cop in the institution that was repressing him and by making emancipation seem silly.

It reflects the chauvinisms of a British aristocrat who offers an impossible narrative of an abused child escaping abuse through the purity of their Aryan magic blood. It’s a fantasy that doesn’t even pretend to offer catharsis or self-actualization, merely hundreds of pages of occasionally racist drivel about a special little boy who joins the SS after reforming them from the inside.

That’s why it has maintained such reverence - because it doesn’t actually offer a subversive story but the aesthetic of one while reflecting the conservative biases of the author. It speaks to a certain liberal perspective that is progressive only so far as the oppressed don’t hurt their feelings.

[singing-bowl]

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight

[pantwardowskimoved]

relatable for most i'd wager

[mmocc123]

[85-rend]

guy with dissociative amnesia voice: yeah i just don't think i have any sort of amnesia with the dissociation. i would remember if i was forgetting something

[7pleiades7]

Sunrise (also known as Siren by the Sea) (n/d) by Leopold Schmutzler (German, 1864 – 1940), signed ‘L. Schmutzler’ (bottom right), oil on canvas, approximately 96 x 128 cm (roughly 37.8 x 50.4 inches), Private Collection

[jen-iii]

Some doodles for my headcanon that Toph attracts animals because she's steady and strong like the Earth and they feel super comfortable and safe around her. Kinda like basking in the sun on a steady mountain top Also a sadder one on how she bonds with Appa over a shared experience :)

[sixofclovers]

they're only allowed to play chase when it rains

[cloudberrytroll]

"Are your biceps huge, or are they just enormous? Ninth, please tick the correct box."

[mjbarrosart]

I was a little bussy last week, but today I am back to draw things that make me happy. Today, my favorite character from my favorite books series: Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House, from the Locked Tomb Series, by Tamsyn Muir <3

I love this little gremlin so much. I am 100% a Gideon, so I 100% love Harrow (also she reminds me of my wife <3)

I am re reading the series while trying to survive the Alectopause. Just finished GtN, and starting HtN again and, jesus I love this characters and world.

[fibro-memes]

[byelacey]

class is in session 📣

[melancholygirls]

I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU

[stillalittlekid]

OMG I COULD TOTALLY IMAGINE THEM LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT

[christ-with-a-why]

[melancholygirls]

I cannot BELIEVE a post I made when I was 13 is circulating! And also apparently started this trope? I thought somebody had the idea separately and it blew up that way😭

[duckydoesstuff]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame for your collection

[midnightchapter]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT — 3.07 “The Failures”

[prokopetz]

Whatever else one can say about Tolkien, deciding to resolve accidentally using the same elf name twice by going "actually, it's the same guy; yeah, he just walked back to Middle-Earth from the afterlife – in fact, all elves can technically do that, but he's the only one who did" was kind of a move.

[depsidase]

[prokopetz]

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

[prokopetz]

#the best route is clearly to get really into a specific kink scenario and invent a world to justify it (via @salix03)

That's not even a joke. Developing a kink scenario so elaborate and so excruciatingly particular that it can only properly be contemplated in the frame of a world created specifically to contain it is genuinely closer to Tolkien's actual creative process than 99% of the stuff that plays at being heir to his legacy.