Loves too many things

Holli || They/them

[whyenn-reader]

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to

[inappropriate-use-of-mage-hand]

Julien "i dont care about you at all" Davinos

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[philosophiums]

the bonding that julien and occtis went through on the mission to rescue mara is so sososo tasty to me

like i think on a broad level and probably how the relationship truly started was occtis reminding julien that he (occtis) is a noble, and julien having the realization that in the absence of aranessa, protecting occtis is the closest julien can get to his baseline of normal. julien only knows how to navigate the world as a vassal and a guard - he can be both of those things to occtis. AND occtis, by virtue of being someone destined for his family's noose (again), will invariably get julien within striking range of every tachonis

and im sure that's what julien keeps telling himself every time he puts himself in danger to keep occtis safe, every time he puts aside his vengeance to comfort occtis, every time he yells at someone else in the group for blaming occtis for something, every time he makes a point to meet occtis' eyes and share a moment of understanding

and occtis, for all his claiming that he doesn't like julien, relies on him and trusts him. he knew that julien was waiting to bring him to safety in that battle, he trusted julien to be his shadow when he went back into the manor even though julien explicitly stated he didn't want to be there, he trusted julien enough that, in the face of his father's rage, he leaned into julien for comfort and followed him away to safety

idk if matt and alex are angling for romance, and i don't even care if it ends up being one. whatever occtis and julien have going on is so compelling all i want is for them to follow it organically to whatever conclusion they feel makes the most sense

but i am enthralled and i hope they keep sitting next to each other at the table and i hope they never stop being in the same group. im so invested in them

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[z-nogyrop]

imagine we make contact with an alien species that’s like, vastly technologically superior, they could fucking kill us in a single shot if they really wanted to

and this species has never eaten salad before. and we show them salad and they eat it and they’re like holy living fuck this is tasty. and suddenly they’re offering us huge houses with all kind of advanced technological shit and incredible medical care and all the amenities and everything, with the only condition that we keep making salad for them.

and like, salad isn’t even hard to make. grab some plants, dump em in a bowl. it doesn’t have to be fancy salad, they’ll fall all over themselves for the most mediocre salad in the world. we can make so much salad that we’re practically drowning in it, even if we eat some of the salad ourselves. and in exchange we’re protected from danger, we have great living conditions, it’s basically paradise compared to life on earth

imagine

[z-nogyrop]

now realize that this is what bees have done to us

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[cookingwithroxy]

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

[star-h0pper]

i'm finally getting caught up on cr4 e31 and man. the clear influences of the player's real life culture in their characters (and in the worldbuilding in brennan's case) is amazing and adds such a richness. like thaisha is so clearly influenced by like. black american folk culture Especially with the orcish revolutionaries. idk if liam is irish but he's at least running with a lot of the irish american working class stuff brennan injected into the world in terms of the hal and the culture of the round. and azune's whole bit about not having anyone to speak his native language to and his disconnect to his own identity (diaspora narrative). i Love when real world cultures are reflected in fiction it's so good.

[star-h0pper]

#and what Robbie is doing with Katt seems to be very much exploring the unchecked violence against native women and children in the USA

oh fuck you're right. you're totally right that's exactly the allegory.

[quinn-of-aebradore]

@hemisphaericas hope it’s okay to save your tags, Rose, they’re very very good!!!

[creepygnocchi]

if Mumford & Sons existed in Aramán I think 17-year-old Azune would have listened to Little Lion Man on repeat every night in his tent and cried. And I think Teor would eventually go up to him and say "you are not little lion man" and it would just make Azune cry harder because now he thinks he accidentally offended Teor. And Teor would panic and say "no no I meant you are not metaphorical little lion man, I didn't think you thought you were an actual lion man." Which, of course, would just make Azune even more upset because he feels guilty that he thought Teor would not understand the metaphor. And eventually he'd just be lying on the ground ugly sobbing while Teor is patting his back and saying "I wish to kill Mumford and all of his Sons"

[james-spooky]

GOOD COWS!!!!!!!

[nat1vibe]

Aramán’s little soldier boy

[aroace-polyshow]

honestly i never thought the phrase “i want that twink obliterated” was like a sexual thing. like when i read the phrase i imagine “a meteor like the one that killed the dinosaurs is summoned from the heavens and hits the twink in question” type situation

[blanketfortarchitect]

I always pictured something like this

[est-infernae]

"... You're cursed."

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I couldn't draw an Occtis without APPARENTLY my hands (which I am frequently catching) also wanting to draw a Julien.

Love this guy, love to see him so frequently haunted. 10/10

(I am NEVER drawing that pauldron pattern again. Because I saved it. Heehee.)

Edit: Now including a pre-darkened version of the image, because not everyone has a super bright screen and I typically have my own screen very dark, so some details might've been lost in the sauce.

[snoopyoftheday]

reminder to be kind to one another

[anxietyproblem]

[rann-poisoncage]

Sir Julien 'I feel Occtis Tachonis's magic' Davinos

[yghiilra]

“You poor, sweet, innocent thing

Dry your eyes and testify”