"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?
thy mother
Art thou for fucking real
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"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?
thy mother
Art thou for fucking real
''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.
Printers despise you. Even docile ones will attack you. You aren't welcome in their holy places.
teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek
fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"
twitter is almost 19 years old and i will still read the quote-tweet before the quoted tweet.
If only there were a social media that had become the next pdf
warmth
reminds me of
the shellfish allergy NO NO FUCKING S HRIMP OR HE D IE post
reminded me of this
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT
All the little kisses Ilya gave Shane — a full compilation.
(smugly) actually all narration is unreliable because language can only ever communicate through approximation
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i see a lot of fanart etc of gideon where she is drawn as a very big and tall person and like yeah, valid and cool interpretation but like. consider. perhaps gideon is mostly perceived as so big because harrow is really tiny. like these ppl have been living in basically caves for thousands of years. maybe gideon is like 5’7 but harrow is only like 4’10. maybe gideon is 5’4 and harrow is 5’2 and gideon only rlly appears huge because she swings swords and harrow is a twig. yk?
ah, but see, Gideon is an inch taller than Babs, who is "not a short young man". If Babs is of average height for a man (and all we know is he isn't shorter than average, he could very well be a bit taller), Gideon would have to be significantly taller than the average woman. #babsforscale
(we can assume that Gideon is under 6' though, through doing some math around the Tridentarii)
I would be so fucking happy if we started using Babs as a scale for everything else in the TLT universe. The size of the cavaliers? Use #babsforscale. The size of the Erebos? #babsforscale. The depth of Drearburgh? #babsforscale. How big is Varun? Well, here's #babsforscale.
#BABSFORSCALE
xD But genuinely, yeah a few things I use in addition to that bit about Babs vs Gideon and Babs vs the Tridentarii:
Colum has a whole fucking head on Ianthe (possibly give or take, this is said while they're mid combat so it could be a rough thing)
Pro is the tallest at Canaan House by a noticeable margin
Harrow struggles to touch the bottom of the pool, slipping fully under at first. Joli struggles to believe Nona is more than 14 at most, Hot Sauce (who is 14) has an easier time passing for an adult than Nona, and Harrow's compared to Jeannemary multiple times. When they dress Nona as Harrow they have to borrow clothes from "the smallest Blood of Eden member they could find" and then cinch those tight to keep them from falling off.
Muir in the tumblr post describes the twins as taller than even Palamedes, who Gideon describes as tall, though Corona has half a head on Babs "and a full head if you counted her hair" while having half a head counting her hair on Palamedes, which to me implies "half" is rough and she's only a tiny bit taller.
Ianthe has well over a head on Harrow.
Among some other bits. So absolutely these are all loose ideas for scale and you could scale them up or down, make some closer or farther apart, etc; this isn't definitive by any means. But some personal headcanons based on that info and on "hehe numbers are fun" for the fine-tuning are:
Babs - 5'8" (roughly average amab height)
Gideon - 5'9" (inch taller than Babs; hehe 9)
Harrow - 4'9" (TINY but not quite SO tiny you'd expect it to be way more emphasized; hehe 9)
Twins - 6'1" (plus ~3-4 inches of volume for Corona's hair)
Palamedes - 6'0" (so 4-5 inches "shorter" than Corona counting her hair; hehe 6)
Colum - 6'8" (7 inches taller than Ianthe; an average 'head' is 8-9 inches so still very close; hehe 8)
Pro - 7'0" (hehe 7; I also think 7'7" and built like that would be hilarious but probably pushing believability atp. xD Also Gideon describes him as "6 feet of sinew" at one point so I choose to believe that's roughly his height to the shoulder, not counting neck and head)
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The other #forscale character we have is Augustine, who's canonically 6'0" even and the only character we've directly met with a specific canon height. The fact that he's very tall is the second thing Harrow notices about him so that gives us an idea that averages haven't changed much if any over time in this universe. So just to rapidfire some more thoughts, John is noticeably shorter than Augustine even while kneeling; G1deon is described as very imposing but only via his bulk, never described as super tall; Mercy is short enough to press her face into John's chest at the end seemingly easy enough. So for the rest of the Mithraem, I like to imagine:
John - 5'8½" (still within Average; 5/8/1/2 for him and his three closest people hehe; also half an inch shorter than Gideon as a treat)
G1deon - 5'10" (barely above/upper end of average, shorter than Augustine
Mercy - 5'3" (which is dead average for afabs yet frequently perceived as "short" and I feel like it'd be fitting for her to be so eternally fucking exhausted by this)
Bonus points: Ianthe being the tallest person on the Mithraem, if only barely. Mercy having dealt with people "looking down on her" (literally) for so long and then Harrow's tiny ass comes along and rather than defend her she's like finally lmao.
"Magnus was also laid out on his own slab, a little too tall for comfort" (ch 33)
Depending on what we assume standard dimensions for mortuary slabs are in the Houses, Magnus would also seem to be tall.
He and the Sleeper are apparently also of a similar height, though the Sleeper is apparently not of "any great height or breadth" (though that might just be that she's human sized and not some kind of monster, given the context). But we can maybe say Wake was taller than John, contributing to Gideon's height.
today i died at sea
i'm a romantic you see
Aega psora
Modern AU Abigail Pent who is everyone's favourite cookie-baking teacher/librarian/foster mom/therapist or whatnot is a little perplexing to me.
No, that woman is using her generational wealth to fund an academic career where she writes dense tomes on late antique heresies. She and Magnus are only validly married in the eyes of the church because they have a very, very good canon lawyer. They acquired the teens through a dubious international adoption and have maybe not kept them quite as in touch with their culture as they ought. Is she just really into her field of research, or is she dabbling in the occult in a way that requires knowledge of at least two dead languages and at least one archaeological artefact of questionable provenance?
Still a fantastic parental figure to the rest of the cast, willing to go to bat for them in slightly terrifying ways, etc etc but I'm begging you to let her be the "unwholesome" (ch 35) and "problematic" (CIF) person she is in the text.
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thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)
like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it