Field of Heather

I am fire. I am death. I am Batman. And I'm your father, Luke.

[veramitar]

[cararata]

i knew i forgot to upload something

[ultraviolet-eucatastrophe]

Every time I get a "you've got kudos!" email from AO3 I'm still always just like

[jabkag]

I will not apologize.🥚🕷

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[socialpants]

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

[epiphainie]

slow burn where they're already having sex. such a beautiful combination i cannot put it into words

[me8t]

the first avatar is just various characters going "jake. you are soo sexy and soooooooo stupid. can you do this thing for me? thanks" and jake goes "okayyyyyyyyyy <3" every time. what if the least qualified guy at your job accidentally became important at work 3 times over

[peg-the-empire]

shoutout to everyone in small fandoms who takes a character with one minute of screentime and decides to build an entire universe around them. to the oc creators, the rarepair shippers, the canon-divergence enthusiasts and the people who can’t stop asking “but what if?” and then proceed to spend 50k words answering their own question.

i genuinely think your joy is contagious. fandoms grow because people see someone having fun and think, “wait, i want to play too.” <3

[whinywhumpeewriter]

[fieldofheathers-stuff]

Lyle Wainfleet really is The Character Of All Time(TM).

He has maybe 10 lines of dialogue through 9+ hours of movies.

He somehow has a higher Sully kill count than the main villain of the story.

He brings beers to his coworkers.

He single-handedly kickstarts the action in BOTH sequel movies.

He probably wants to unionize.

He’s a walking Full Metal Jacket quote.

He laughs at Quaritch’s corny boomer jokes and helps him turn on the audio on a tablet so he can watch a video recording of his own death.

He’s an expert sniper.

He wears Na’vi sized Oakleys.

He spawned one of the most obnoxious memes on the internet.

He’s a Literal Background Character (always in the background doing something).

He’s bald.

[fieldofheathers-stuff]

Quarlyle nationnnnnnn

It's been a while since I dropped some updates on my Quarlyle fic on here, but, if you're interested, chapter 13 is up now. 😇

What is the fic about, you ask? Nothing, just betrayals, a much-needed intervention, a music player, fathers, mothers, and sons, Quaritch being sent to jail, lots of Quarlyle pining, prophetic dreams, girl snipers, and Mo'at watching it all happen while snacking on teylu.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86836036/chapters/231487881

[goryhorroor]

130 favorite horror movies: (84/130)

"that is good. for believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift, these days. a martyr's death."

-the wicker man (1973) dir. robin hardy

[nsevens]

BALTO (1995) — dir. Simon Wells

[urgetocreate]

Andrea Calisi (Italian b.1968), The Bridge and the Blue Knight, 2026, Illustration

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

[papesatan-papesatanaleppe]