Twitter: @exalted_majesty

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

“The Moon & The Stars” dress by Frieda Leopold

[wiltkingart]

i wonder if he dreams of surrender on a bed of white flowers

[ununquadius]

Learning a language that doesn’t use the same writing system as your native one is so fun because they change the font and you’re doomed

[samayla]

I had a penpal from Greece in high school. She had the neatest handwriting ever. She taught me a bunch of basic stuff, and it got to the point that we’d write our letters almost exclusively in Greek (a big deal, as this was before Google Translate was even a thing).

Cut to junior year of college. I took Classical Greek as part of my degree, and I was feeling like I had a leg up over my classmates, whose Greek handwriting looked like kindergarten chicken scratch, while mine was smooth and quick. I turned in my first assignment feeling pretty damn proud of myself.

About three assignments later, my professor pulled me aside with the goofiest look on his face…

“I appreciate the effort, but…”

You remember that phase I think all little girls go through in middle school/junior high? Where we have swirly tails on our G’s or our Y’s get all swoopy, or we dot all our I’s with little hearts?

Yeah…

Turns out, all the perfect little flourishes I’d been putting on my letters were not, in fact, part of the letters at all. My penpal had just still been in that phase when she taught me the alphabet!

[bending-sickle]

some examples of printed vs. handwritten, and handwritten variability

chinese:

korean:

russian:

greek:

[kephas-rolling]

[m-ushroomtale]

chinese calligraphy 

chinese doctor’s prescription

decoded

n ofc there’s the infamous russian cursive

[terribleteej]

My eyes, my EYES!!! * screams *

[otto-bot]

I write in Russian cursive when I’m trying to check if my pen has ink

[nihilinpeccato-deactivated20240]

To be fair ususally Russian cursive isn’t THAT bad - it can be pretty squiggly but it’s not impossible to read; writing it on the other hand is something I’ve completely, completely given up on since there’s just so many fucking rules

[exalted-majesty]

excuse me..what

[laurentspup]

i have a vision of damen being a father to a toddler whose mom is jokaste. but damen and jokaste are divorced now.

one day damen and toddler go to an amusement park, and the toddler sees a tall, blonde, shoulder length hair, fair skinned, blue eyed man that looks so much like his mom, so toddler goes up to him and says mama and wants to be picked up bcs it’s his mom and u can’t convince him otherwise!

spoiler alert: that man was laurent!!!!!!!!!!

and ofc laurent is so worried bcs this child is lost who is this child’s negligent parent! but damen’s just behind running after his baby super worried too. he just put his child down to tie his shoelaces and said “stay here okay??” but as he looked down to tie his shoes his toddler shouts “mama” and runs fast bcs he’s damen’s child lmao. damen, untied shoelaces and all, quickly runs after his child and sees laurent pick him up, but before he thinks it’s laurent taking his baby he sees how laurent is also frantically looking around for the baby’s parent.

so damen goes up to them, ((double taking bcs omg jokaste?? wait no it’s not her this is a man!! but the resemblance is so uncanny!!)) he apologizes to laurent who’s holding his child who’s very happy and trying to touch laurent’s face still saying mama!!!

and you know where it leads damen invites laurent to join them in case he’s alone (he’s not… he’s with auguste and fam but he didn’t want to ride the crazy rides which damen and his baby can’t ride anyway bcs his toddler is not allowed duh!!) so laurent agrees, sure bcs damen is a cute, buff, single father but also BECAUSE THE BABY DOESN’T WANT TO LET HIM GO AND HE CANNOT MAKE THIS BABY SAD SO HE’LL JUST GO WITH THEM BCS THIS BABY IS SO CUTE AND DESERVES ALL THE LOVE AND HAPPINESS

so now they roam around the park like a real family and well after the day and laurent has to go back to auguste, damen extends the invitation to a ~~date~~

the end?????

[maa-iingan]

HELP BRING RYAN HOME‼️MISSING NATIVE CHILD!, organized by Kailey Marlette

My little brother Ryan has been missing for a week.. He is now across stat… Kailey Marlette needs your support for HELP BRING RYAN HOME‼️MIS

‼️‼️PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY LITTLE BROTHER!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY‼️‼️

He’s a missing native child and at EXTREME RISK! The cops aren’t doing SHIT!

BOOST, DONATE, & SHARE

[your-mom-friend]

This was posted on 29th October 2021. Don't mistake it for something super old. This is happening now and the kid could be in danger so please please PLEASE signal boost

[singlepainfulbeat]

I’m just overwhelmed by Laurent’s insecurities - he’s mastered looking like he’s not affected by anything, he hides himself away so people don’t get too close… But with Damen… It’s all different. And so very normal. When Damen speaks of how he wishes things could’ve been different and he could’ve courted him in a world where there was peace between their kingdoms, Laurent’s first reaction is to say that no, Damen would’ve hung out with his cooler older brother. (and shares another intimacy “he would have liked you”… ) But Damen sees Laurent’s attempt to make himself small again and reacts in the best way “even after I started courting his little brother?”. Carefully. And taking Laurent by surprise. Laurent is so overwhelmed by the thought that Damen would always want him, him, inexperienced, closed off Laurent who in his own eyes doesn’t have much to offer. No, Damen wants him in any and all universes they can create. Laurent is wanted. Loved.

[paorimava]

'You spent the night in the Prince of Vere's rooms.'

'I spent ten minutes in his rooms. If you think I fucked him in that time you underrate me.'

LMAO DAMEN

[king-smaurent]

Hmmmmmmmm August!lives AU where Ancel tries to score a contract with the crown prince but Auguste always keeps getting pulled away from all his attempts to seduce and he keeps getting left there with the boring councilor from Varenne who always wears the same ugly brown jacket.

[mrs-amber]

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

The sex felt so good he could hardly breathe.

Literally.

“Damen,” Laurent gasped out, one hand spasming up to his neck, which felt thick like he’d swallowed a rubber ball. “Damen-”

“Oh my god,” Damen said, horrified, “Laurent, are you alright?”

“Hospital,” Laurent rasped, “Damen, hospital-”

Damen was already reaching for his phone. His eyes were wild with horror, and he cried, “Don’t worry, help is on the way, just hold on baby-”

And that was how Laurent learned he was allergic to latex.

Rated: E, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 2,220

This fic is here to show how wild this fandom can be and how eve wilder the discord server is. Also to prove how Derip is an amazing writer who wrote this in the most amazing way!

This fic is a must read, definitely.

[wimbledon2008]

top 5 canon damen moments

1. "You're better than I am." Damen couldn't help his amused breath of reaction to that, or the long, scrolling look from Laurent's head to his toes and back again, which was probably a little insulting. But really.

He's such a dickkkk alsjdjisjd I'm completely obsessed with him. He says and does so many drop dead funny things, especially in book one, it was nearly impossible to narrow this down to only five moments.

2. Damen, seeing Laurent in the horse's path, appraising the situation like a mathematical problem, took a handful of the fabric at the back of Laurent's jacket and pulled him hard out of the way.

The mental image of Damen effortlessly yanking Laurent around like a kitten by the scruff of its neck has provided me endless delight. And the offhand competence too.....chef kiss. Sexy.

3. More sound on the stairs, the clatter of several urgent footsteps. Jord turned. Guymar and another of the soldiers were coming to the section he had ordered cleared. Damen passed a hand over his face. Everyone in the fort was coming to the section he had ordered cleared.

Please he just wants to kiss his man some more but people keep coming to the section he had ordered cleared!!!!

4. Lazar, emerging from under the wagon with a smudge on his cheek, pronounced it a broken axel. Damen, who as a prince of the blood did not excel at wagon repairs, nodded knowledgeably, and ordered his men to fix it.

I would never ever suggest that Damen is dumb because he's not but him pretending to know more than he does just to preserve his dignity. DUMB!!!!!

5. The guard turned towards the Akielon voice, and Lamen smiled at him, an easy smile full of his good nature, his tousled curls, and the relaxed temperament of his southern Akielon birth. He had a dimple in his left cheek. Charls watched the guard unwinch a fraction.

I owe Pacat a lifetime of fruit baskets for choosing to include this, the most important passage in all the books, in The Adventures of Charls. An outsider POV on Damen was so necessary and validating. Like shit, maybe I'm in love with him too.

(I am.)

[captiveprinceanonymous]

[benevaletete]

Auguste of Vere

[leftsbehind]

captive prince headers

[heatherdrawings]

Some short haired Laurent for a change :^)

[saltroclus]

I love both long and short-haired Laurent so consider this: Laurent + tuck braid (for going riding or skewering someone with a sword)

…slight resemblance to the Trust No Bitch (Not Even Yourself) meme is unintentional.

[zoe-porphyrogenete]

Auguste : Two years ago, I married my best friend.

Auguste : Laurent and Nikandros are still mad at us but Damen and I were drunk and thought it was funny !

[koumiss]

under the sky with you