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[gros-chat-fait]

The Banners years.

[lostnlucky]

messy sketches because I am FINALLY caught back up on c4 (minus ep 31). hannan + vaelus + my poorest of meow meows

[kuuranen]

Thimble my beloved

[fcntasmas]

nothing unsettles me more than like a good fic on ao3 with no opening notes and no end notes. nothing but story. who are you? where are you writing from. are you ok. who hurt you

[fcntasmas]

#i click onto the author’s dashboard and open all their other fics looking for notes on them#they are all similarly blank#i go to the author profile. it tells me the author joined in 2014 and nothing else#they have no bookmarks. they have one gift and it’s a bts fic from orphan_account. none of their own fics are bts fics.#this fic has altered me. i leave an unhinged comment then bookmark it and go stare out the window // via @elegantlyloquacious

[utilitycaster]

Apologies if you've already talked about this!

What are your opinions on how Murray handled the Einfasen Carriage Talk? What could she have brought up when they were directly asking her for details? I find myself puzzled at how Marisha was playing that, and I don't know if it was Marisha feeling flustered or not. It felt like an opening to further secure the Einfasen but it feels like she nearly tanked that meeting if it wasn't for Azune's Nat 20.

I think that was fine? Marisha played it very true to the character, who was drunk and tends not to deal terribly well with the Sundered Houses off the cuff (see also her mouthing off to Primus Tachonis in the Overture). I don't think it hurt them with Einfasen - Otto got mad, but he has a pretty short temper and he did acknowledge that she was drunk and mid-celebration, and he appreciated her showing him the vision.

I think Azune's nat 20 was a great moment but Einfasen came to him with suspicions about House Tachonis already, probably having realized something was off during the Sundered Houses meeting, specifically seeking hard-to-prove evidence. Azune's nat 20 was specifically to convince House Einfasen to actively pursue war with House Tachonis vs. something more subtle or restrained. Murray being kind of drunk and rambling was not going to undo the entire arc of work that Azune had put in, and truth to be told unless she really crossed a line that went beyond "drunk and rambling and a little overfamiliar" I don't think she was in danger either given that she'd handled the testimony to House Einfasen that morning with aplomb.

[tess-talks-inc]

*Azune Nayar, barely holding it together* I... I Could Make a List Of What To Do

[snarkspawn]

the shadow

[hairbrushed]

love these freaks

[furthermuchmore]

"Disco wizard quality"

[reineydraws]

hallowed round halsha my beloved ✨️

[wilwheaton]

“Donald Trump staged a hostile takeover of the US’s 250th anniversary celebration to enrich political allies, harvest voter data and promote Christian nationalist ideology, according to a congressional investigation released on Thursday. The interim report, “From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday”, outlines a web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes orchestrated through a shadow corporation embedded within the National Park Foundation (NPF). The document was produced by Democratic staff of the House of Representatives’ natural resources committee’s oversight and investigations subcommittee. It has not been officially adopted by the committee. “Under President Donald Trump, this anniversary has been hijacked and perverted into a hotbed of corruption and self-enrichment,” it states, contending that the machinery built for a national commemoration was converted “into an apparatus for raising and spending money in service of the President’s ego, political ideology, and pet projects.””

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Trump hijacked US’s 250 anniversary to serve ‘political ideology and pet projects’, congressional report says

He will wriggle away from this, of course, but all the scumbags who did this for him can and should be held criminally accountable.

[dungeons-and-drawing]

My love of the tragic paladin trope grows. Eursulon, Kaladin, Absolute Wonder Woman, and now Azune ❤️

[prizefightr]

im at the hallowed round

im in the afterlife

im in the combination hallowed round and afterlife

[dlaserart]

Silver Fox

[lowercass]

Thimble, Thimble!!! My darling girl!!!

[utilitycaster]

re my lovely mutual's opsec post there are some great comments and tags and you should go read them but I think the most big, obvious takeaway is that Thjazi was not being a withholding asshole who kept everyone in the dark for the sake of being a withholding asshole who kept everyone in the dark. He was part of a clandestine organization that was using the work of the Sundered Houses and House Tachonis in particular to try to address massive cosmological issues that, crucially, House Tachonis does not want addressed. The letter is in coded language - and crucially, it's not in a cipher (like the one Murray easily cracks) but rather uses oblique references that are difficult to understand if you don't already have the context, which most people only have because they have direct connections to Thjazi or to the things he was working on.

That doesn't mean that, for example, Hal is wrong to be frustrated and angry about this. But the directly stated framing for his anger about the paint in the Hallowed Round is specifically that the grief is really hitting him hard that night, and the barely subtextual implication is that he is grappling with the choices he had made that meant he was kept clear of all of Thjazi's dealings and which meant the last decade of his brother's life was one he was not particularly privy to. That is an incredibly emotionally complex statement that is ultimately about Hal's feelings about himself and his relationship with Thjazi than who Thjazi was. The idea that Thjazi was leaving an elaborate mess behind for everyone else out of carelessness, recklessness, or stupidity is simply untrue, and Mara makes it clear that he was simply captured at a very unfortunate time. [and, to be blunt, on a meta level that is the entire premise of the campaign, that Thjazi was killed for many reasons but one was that Primus Tachonis hoped this would reveal a plan the Cloak had otherwise kept fairly well hidden.]

[slayerscake]

Wick ducking into an alley to have a panic attack after getting overwhelmed by his lies and deceptions to his family and the other Sundered Houses only to run into Azune who is also having a panic attack after getting overwhelmed with his immense lies and deceptions to the Sundered Houses and his other responsibilities.