i don't fall in love, baby i'm a jumper

String witch. Squishy polytheist. Fandom weirdo. (Fourth Wing, Heated Rivalry, All For the Game, Untamed, Xiaolin Showdown.) Old in fandom years. (40+) Mostly here for the art. I do my politics and news elsewhere.

[overjoyedisland]

4 & 5 😋

Thank you for the ask!

4. What are your most overrated headcanons?

5. What is your most underrated set of headcanons?

I don’t know how to classify these as overrated or underrated so I’m glad you asked me both. 🙃 I’ll just list them out randomly and let you decide their classification.

Languages

I adamantly believe that the only reason Violet would have learned to speak Tyrrish (and not just read it) is because Asher was Tyrrish. I will be very disappointed if we don’t get a good explanation by the end of the series for why she knows how to speak it.

I don’t have a specific headcanon here, but I’ve really enjoyed contemplating why everyone knows sign language. @copperfirebird started a great discussion about that here.

Xaden

I’m sure Loysam will play a role in saving Xaden, since they skipped visiting it in OS.

Also, I think Xaden may have been partially dedicated to Loial, causing the gold flecks in his eyes. (Maybe those fully dedicated have gold eyes?) There was an epigraph about Dunne and Loial being the only gods who required dedication for life. Plus I think they balance each other out: love and war and Xaden and Violet.

Violet

There will be dream sex in Book 4. But to achieve it, Violet will have to really hone her second signet.

Also, I’m not sure we’ll actually see this in the books, but Violet is going to burn out. No one can carry that much weight for that long (not only her own struggles, but promising Xaden she’ll hold his, and now taking on the whole province of Tyrrendor). She deserves to completely breakdown and do absolutely nothing for at least a year. (Like she did when Andarna left, but giving herself actual time to recover, not just 3 days.)

Venin

I think Naolin is alive and venin. Maybe Xaden’s grandfather too??

I think Bodhi is the new brother. (Although I did see a compelling argument on Reddit for it to be Sawyer…)

[copperfirebird]

There's definitely something going on with the Tyrrish knowledge there. Like. Lilith was full on about to explain the details of the scarification ritual to Violet in the middle of e v e r y t h i n g, you don't have that top of mind six years later unless it's something you have reason to know very well.

Man when we finally get the Tyrrish Lore Drop I really really hope it lives up to the build up, you know?

[thememedaddy]

[copperfirebird]

WIP Wednesday - chain

(remember the Archivist?)

When Xaden stormed into the Archives, he could feel something was wrong. It made his skin crawl before he'd even crossed the threshold, though he told himself that might just be anxiety about Liam. Before he saw anyone, he spotted Liam's rucksack next to one of the study tables. One of his brother's sketchbooks was on the table, still open.

"Archivist! Where are you?" He didn't like the note of panic in his voice and pushed his feelings back, telling himself he needed to think clearly.

Maybe that was why he didn't notice that something was different about the Archivist today, or maybe it was just because he was flipping through Liam's sketches and updated map of the Basgiath ruins.

"Xaden?" she asked, and flinched when his head snapped up.

"Where is my brother?" Xaden demanded, grabbing the edge of the table and almost knocking the sketchbook onto the floor of the Archives in a chain reaction.

The Archivist looked unsure for the first time, worrying at her lower lip. "I don't know. He went beyond where I can reach."

"What does that mean? I thought you're supposed to be part of all of this! You said you know every inch."

She sat down heavily on one of the study tables. "I know! I know. I thought I did. But he was looking in the vaults and... disappeared."

[gordon-freeman-official]

The most important change in the Backrooms movie from the original short films is the fact that you can now "easily" enter and leave the backrooms this time.

Originally, you had people accidentally falling and getting stuck there and that was the main fear the backrooms instilled on people; What if you were trapped in an infinite room and maybe theres creatures in there?

This time, the film gives the protagonist infinite chances to go back, to place a big dresser in front of the entrance and forget he ever saw it.

But he can't and he won't. And that's so much scarier.

[justvea18]

Ariadne, I think we're a little lost

[girlrust]

happy pride to my favorite gif in the world

[sophsun1]

#happy pride month 🌈

Queer as Folk – 2.03: Hypocrisy: Don't Do It

[reckless-glitch]

[ramblingandpie]

[Video description: Gritty is turning the crank on a flagpole to raise the Progress Pride Flag. He gesticulates angrily that the flag is not blowing in the wind, then gestures offscreen. The flag begins blowing. As Gritty begins raising the flag more, the camera pans out to show a man in a suit and sunglasses, looking like a stern Secret Service agent, is holding a leafblower that points at the flag. End description.]

[leobean130]

if rebecca yarros really wants to make money she should just make ridoc and bodhi go at it for like three chapters yaoi does way better than character death

[copperfirebird]

Maybe when they got together in New York, Rachel Reid was giving her this advice...

[cyberglittter]

hair by nikki nelms & photography by adrienne raquel

[western-woods]

[rattle-my-stars]

[loontattoo]

teddy, in celebration of huddy with the baby thursday, if Shane was pregnant, what's going on the birth plan? Is he going for the epidural? home birth? water birth? god I'm stressed just thinking about it

HELLO WOW THANK YOU FOR ASKING

so assuming he did not move ahead with the shanebortion (which I do think is the most likely outcome if he ever got pregnant pre-retirement), I think shane hollander would literally be soooooooo fucking shane hollander about giving birth and wants to be able to say that he is the best at giving birth. no one has ever birthed a baby as good as shane. if they gave trophies for giving birth he wants to win first place.

and he's not above going to the hospital either like he's not fucking with all that hippie dippie whatever but he IS denying the epidural because he thinks that somehow makes what he's doing more impressive but then like 12 hours into labour ilya is literally crying at this bedside like shane please you are in so much pain just take the epidural and shane is like NO I have to do this RIGHT and ilya is like you are insane there is a reason this exists you cannot birth a baby wrong please for the love of god and so finally shane relents and accepts the epidural and then as soon as their perfect little baby is born in excellent health and ilya's beautiful blue eyes, shane realizes ilya was right, there was never any wrong way to do this because look what they brought into the world :') he WILL still be accepting his trophy for best birth-giver of all time though because no one else has ever given birth to a more perfect baby than this :') ilya tells him this many times (yes moy lyubimyy you did it, best birth ever. I am engraving trophy for you right now) (and he will do it for real)

[sarcasticmothwrites]

Oh, yeah, Shane is reading all the parenting books and studying breathing exercises and making the most beautiful birth plan the world has ever seen.

And then.

Baby is due on Friday, it’s Tuesday, and Shane has spent the entire day working on paperwork and planning for the upcoming camps. It’s 11 pm. He just brushed his teeth and lay down in bed.

And he goes into labor.

Not the labor he’s read about, either. Not a singular contraction, lengthy pause, another contraction. Oh, no.

The second contraction comes five minutes after the first.

Five minutes later, another one.

And so on.

Instead of a long slow labor at home, Ilya is frantically throwing Shane’s go-bag (prepared weeks ago) into the car and driving them to the hospital at 1 am.

The contractions don’t stop. They don’t speed up, either.

Fourteen hours of back labor. Shane hasn’t been this exhausted since he won the Cup, and he still doesn’t have a baby to show for it.

Fourteen hours of back labor, and Ilya and the nurse (who Shane now adores) are reassuring him that the epidural is safe and reasonable and he deserves to rest.

And he gives in.

And it’s the best choice.

It means he has strength left when it’s time to push.

[copperfirebird]

You left out the part where "Shane" drives himself to the hospital because he doesn't trust Ilya's driving when he's panicked.

Which is possibly the most Shane part.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[cenedrariva]

fantastic feeling for me right now, realising that linkin park's Meteora released in the same year that Jack Spicer met Wuya, he'd just be rockinng out and listening to it on repeat especially with her flipping on him for mala mala jong XD

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[sidneywokeby]

nhl goalie problems: like 3 teams have a legit great goalie. league sv% below .900 for the first time in a william years. every goalie streaky and prone to suddenly throwing a series.

pwhl goalie problems: every team has three goalies who should be starters. worst GAA in the league would be middle of the pack in the nhl. nobody can score a fucking goal bc they're all brick walls.

[shutoutshutup]

yeah.

[copperfirebird]

Hockey romance needs to stop sleeping on the PWHL.

[laneofpennies]

I don’t know why but this picture is frying me so fucking bad. Hey girl. I mean they, statement.