Yeah I'm not keeping up with the blog title change

Fate Fanthing ⛧ extremely comprehensible and incredibly straightforward ⛧ Hit your friends for a magical girl transformation ⛧ praise tts ⛧ not emiya ⛧ read more classic literature

[kingsl3y7530]

i would rather have vampire fangs and a DICK than a wife and a job

[frizzycrls]

Michael from Sanguine Serpentine Bonds, an abo mafia AU. I am declaring him done! I truly started to hate myself with the snake tattoos, but I like the end result.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80667386/chapters/211872466 - The fic, for those interested. It has alpha Michael, alpha Lucifer, and omega Alastor with the twins figuring out their own issues with each other after a seriously messed up upbringing.

[spiribia]

when enkidu dies Gilgamesh covers his face, veiling it “like a bride”. Haha (sudden low voice through gritted teeth) the ancient Mesopotamians are running circles around us. I need you to get your ass on the field and give me your best yaoi or we can kiss these quarter finals goodbye

[gnars-house]

I have never seen a Lady Macbeth I wouldn’t kill for, and I don’t know if this means Shakespearean casting directors are the best in the business or if it just means I’m a huge sucker

[sodiumfreak]

when the time loop gets to the part where they start committing suicide in different ways every day

[prokopetz]

Setting up a wildlife cam in my back garden and installing a series of progressively larger decorative windmills to determine the optimal size for trapping feral questing knights.

[apricops]

So, the thing about Don Quixote.

The thing about Don Quixote is that he tilts at windmills - tilts in the archaic sense of ‘charge at with a lance,’ because it’s the story of a guy who read so much chivalric romance that he lost his mind and started larping as a knight-errant. He was, if you’ll pardon the phrasing, chivalrybrained.

The thing about Don Quixote is, sometimes people take it as this story of whimsical and bravely misguided individualism or ‘being yourself’ or whatever, and they’re wrong. If it took place in the modern day, Don Quixote would absolutely be the story of a trust fund kid who blew his inheritance being a gacha whale until his internet got cut off so now he wanders around insisting that people refer to him as ‘Gudako.’

But the real thing about Don Quixote is that it was published in the early 1600s, and the thing about the 1600s is that Europe was one big tire fire. This is because 1600s Europe was still organized around feudalism (or ‘vassalage and manorialism’ if ya nasty), which assumed that land (and the peasants attached to it) were the only source of wealth. And that had worked just fine (well, ‘just fine,’ it was still feudalism) for a long time, because Europe had been a relative backwater with little in the way of urbanization or large-scale trade.

That was no longer true for Europe in the 1600s. The combination of urban development, technological advances, and brutal Spanish colonialism meant that land was no longer the sole source of wealth. Sudden there was a new class of business-savvy, investment-minded upwardly-mobile commoners, and another new class of downwardly-mobile gentry who simply couldn’t compete in this new fast-paced economy. Cervantes saw this process with his own eyes.

One of the symbols of this new age was the windmill, a complicated piece of engineering that was expensive to build but would then produce profits indefinitely - in other words, a windmill was capital.

The thing about Don Quixote is, when he tilts at windmills, he has correctly identified his nemesis.

[astralpunkass]

Lonely but ducks a-plenty

[meranciaros]

Well, seems like I got a little carried away. You guys, you guys know me, right?

[nomifae]

Onesie trio 🦌🦈🐤

[kleinergeist]

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

[a-book-of-creatures]

“Could you please, please stop doing that?” said Beowulf, disarmingly.

[en-shichi8]

Thank you S2…..🌹📻

[calladraws101]

First encounter

[prokopetz]

Doylist analysis of Moby-Dick is fun because on one hand, Ishmael is intentionally written as full of shit about a great many things, and on the other hand, Melville himself is also full of shit about a great many things, so every time Ishmael is full of shit you get to play a game of on what level is he full of shit?

[randomartist7]

Summoned the wrong demon from a wrong timeline

[impuls1ve]

waiter! a bullet in the head for me please

[solcaeruleus]

Even the Radio Demon needs a hug sometimes...

...whether he knows it or not.

A doodle I did based on an upcoming fic (which I loosely talked about here—suffice to say, the missing inspiration has since struck) in which Alastor is having a really, really hard time and Angel Dust decides to try and get him to talk. And, miraculously, he succeeds.

This will be another Queerplatonic RadioRose fic (link to the series), but for once Rosie will be in the background while the boys get some unexpected bonding time.

EDIT:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Also, fic preview under the cut.

Anyone here could tell that what had happened to Rosie had shaken Alastor, but all of this suggested that it had hurt him so much more than likely anyone had imagined. Angel had approached him because he knew Alastor was hurting and some part of him couldn’t let that slide even if it was Alastor, but he hadn’t expected to find an open wound this big. More than that, for a private person like Alastor to talk so openly about his feelings, the actual feelings themselves must be many times larger and stronger than what he showed. If his pain was so apparent in his voice and in his words, what kind of agony must lie in his heart, then?