La raison d'être

«Levons nos verres sans raison» - Amir,  «La Fête»

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'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[asexualbert]

Oh, they DO have those!

The like button should be at the bottom, looks like this:

The dislike button differs depending on your device but it should look something like one of these:

Hope that helps :)

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Miraculous Character’s Favourite Musicians

Marinette: Louane

Adrien: Bigflo & Oli

Nino: Slimane

Alya: Soprano

Luka: Aussitot Mort

Chloe: Amir

Sabrina: Zaz

**I’m not entirely sure how up to date all of these artists are in mainstream French culture but they are favourites of mine. And yes, they are all actual artists with music on Spotify**

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So I listened to ‘Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy’ today for the first time

and I had a Profound ThoughtTM. So I see people on this website talking about Crowley getting drunk at bars and then explaining all his Aziraphale-related emotions to singer-songwriters, like Hozier and Freddie Mercury. BUT. I have yet to see someone bring up the point that Crowley, probably too drunk to remember what he’s said, might end up istening to the song later and going, “This is brilliant. I absolutely agree!” Now having brought up that Crowley doesn’t remember influencing these songs and just thinks that everyone gets that kind of struggle, imagine, if you will, Crowley listening to ‘Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy’ and thinking “I’m gonna go to the Ritz with my angel and I’ll drive him home in my car” (like the lyrics go). Then he finally gets the opportunity to do so and jumps at the chance to do what the song says (and coincidentally what he’s always wanted to do).

TL;DR: Crowley, being the chaotic demon he is, forgets he (while very drunk) has influenced Freddie Mercury in a bar to write GOFLB (specifically the part about wanting to go to the ritz) and thinks he’s honouring Freddie Mercury by doing so on a date with Zira but is really honouring Mr. Mercury honouring him.

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Picture the scene...

I’m sitting in my room doing online school, my copy of “The Song of Achilles” on the table next to me. I’m drinking water and looking above my computer at “The Goldfinch” (novel) on my shelf. My brain makes the realization that I’m listening to a playlist about love that was never meant to be while looking at the the book. I almost spit my drink out on my computer because what book (when discussing the topic of love, especially in the book) can better fit this playlist. No one has a perfect love of any kind in the book.

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First post of 2021 and it’s a bad pun

I feel like Oscar Wilde’s last name was very accurate because he’s Wild with a little extra.

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Since y’all really liked my Kit Herondale headcanons

Give me a character to headcanon!

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I don’t know if this is really a thing people still watch but here goes...

Me eating grapes by the handful: For Jim Howick’s Emperor Nero in Horrible Histories.

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My AP European History class is talking about absolute monarchs

And I looked up Louis XIV because he was the best example we have in the book. So I’m going through his Wikipedia article because I watched the movie ‘A Little Chaos’ (2015, dir. Alan Rickman) and was talking to my mom about him and had said it had to be XIV because he designed Versailles. And apparently, Alan Rickman, George Blagden, and Robert Sheehan have all played versions of him. This caused a six minute rethinking of my entire life because it’s always so weird when celebrities play a famous historical character, especially when its more than one celebrity that you know of.

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Idk if this has been done before but

People: The MHA fandom only cares about ships

The MHA fandom: *screaming ‘Dabi is Todoroki Touya’ at the top of their lungs* sorry what was that? 

lmk if i spelled something wrong, i’m way too sleep deprived to be writing this...

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About Kit Herondale

He totally has the Herondale blue eyes, which are just a shade lighter than Alec’s but definitely match his.

In relation, Izzy absolutely adores him and whenever they come to visit she gets so excited because he’s a combination of her three favorite people. He’s got Alec’s eyes (see above) and likes boys just like Alec does. He has the same Herondale smile and blond hair that Jace does. And he’s a year younger than Max would have been.

Whenever  he and Jace greet each other, they do it so formally that everyone around them can’t help but laugh. What they do is shake hands and do a slight nod of acknowledgment. They also refer to each other as Herondale.

Kit spoils Mina way more than he should. he constantly gives her treats, even if he isn’t supposed to. Tessa thinks its cute (she tells Kit this all the time) and Jem secretly does too even if he won’t say so out loud.

Magnus calls him Christopher or little Herondale

He actually knows a couple of Shadowhunters who go to the Scholomance who are from the London Institute but he pleaded with them to not tell Ty anything. They do anyways, but they never mention Kit by name (Ty knows who they’re talking about, he just never lets on that he does).

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Back at it again with the all for the game content

Alright this is some random things about all for the game so bear with me.

NO SHIPPING HATE OR BASHING ALLOWED

Is Katelyn and Aaron’s ship name Karon? And if not can we make it so because that would be really funny.

This one is a crack ship that I think would be really funny. Kevin and Allison, purely because they would give such a priceless first impression. it’s like here come these two normal looking (aside from the face tattoo) college kids. A very average looking couple who are nicely dressed, possibly wealthy. Like the head cheerleader and the quarterback kind of ship. very blase and unnoticeable right? Then the rest of the Foxes show up and it’s just like wait a minute, what happened to average couple. We’ve now got two very short twins with matching death glares, another short boy (who’s very smiley especially towards short boy with armbands), tall guy who looks like a big puppy and his buff gf, girl with a cross necklace that looks like she knows all your secrets, and Nicky (who is apparently related to short twins, clearly someone hogged the height gene).

the foxes have a tiktok account. the most watched video is a montage of neil staring at andrew like he hung the stars during practice and subsequently, the last part of the video is Kevin hitting the ball towards Neil’s helmet to startle him. Neil isn’t even fazed when it hits him.

I know people talk about this one all the time but one day Neil just wakes up and is talking to people. They keep looking at him funny until he talks to Andrew (for the second time that day). He {Andrew} just like angrily yells “can you please not”. Neil literally has no idea what he means until Andrew says “you sound like David Tennant for Christ’s sake”. Neil is surprised because normally Andrew doesn’t yell that much or really show emotions. Then he realizes he’s been talking in a British accent for the whole day. (Sappy warning here). He just smiles really big because he trusts the Foxes so much that he doesn’t need to hide how he sounds. Andrew doesn’t stop glaring.

Ok, this one is a little biased*. Wesninski isn’t a real last name I know but I headcanon that it’s a Polish last name. The ‘ski’ at the end of a last name typically denotes a Polish name (as far as I know, it’s how the non-anglicized version of my last name is spelled). So Neil is Polish on his father’s side in my mind. Maybe he has some very repressed memories of the few good times in his childhood of like making pierogi or babką (Polish Easter cake). 

*the reason I say I’m biased is because I’m Polish American so this could just be me projecting the lack of Polish (or really Slavic in general) characters in literature. Also if you know of any good books or series with Slavic characters in them feel free to tell me.

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On the line “how your world may be changed in just one burst of light”.

Not sure if anyone has ever said this before. So, if you’ve ever seen a post about this or made a post similar to this, please inform me.

Also, if you don’t like reading about guns and gun related violence and deaths keep scrolling.

On to my actual point, ’Red & Black’ is one of my favorite songs in the musical and the movie. I can always be counted on to sing the words to all of it, either version. And as I’m somehow stuck in exR hell, I always wind up thinking about the line “how your world may be changed in just one burst of light” because every time that I hear it I think about how that was true for both Enjolras and Grantaire, especially in the context of love, which Marius is using it in. 

For Grantaire, he didn’t believe in anything other than Enjolras but in his last moment declares himself a revolutionary. His death is literally described as un coup de foudre, which as i’m sure most people know, is a French idiom for falling in love at first sight, but it is literally a clap of thunder (which is normally accompanied by lightning). Guns (especially those of the era) have a bright flash of light. Ergo “one burst of light”.

For Enjolras, it is predominately to do with the flash from the guns. He realizes in the moment the national guard opens fire that Grantaire is dying with him and for him not for his revolution.

Thanks for coming to my tedtalk.

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🌻🌻Will Solace Headcanons🌻🌻

These are pretty much solidly relating to Will being a Texan because being from Georgia myself I happen to know a fair amount about southerners.

1: Will Solace can sing country music really well, but no one other than Clarisse knows that he can because she overheard him once and he made her vow never to speak of it again. The song he was playing was Miranda Lambert’s ‘Mama’s Broken Heart’.

2: He says y’all a lot and has a very cute accent, which makes Nico weak-kneed. Once he refers to Nico as darlin’ before they start dating and Nico flushes bright red and refuses to explain why to anyone (even though they all know the reason).

3: Even though he’s a healer and should advocate for healthy eating, he has a weakness for southern food, especially fried shrimp. He won’t acknowledge his sibling’s complaints that if he lecture’s them about healthy eating then he should at least practice what he preaches.

4: His bow skills aren’t great compared to some of his siblings but he can manage a gun well enough being from the South. He has a fancy celestial bronze six-shooter made by Hephaestus cabin that he uses.

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I don’t know if anyone’s ever mentioned this before

But what if the hurricane in “The Lightening Thief” was caused by Percy since he was having a bad dream, kind of like when Nico opens the ground up in “The Titan’s Curse”? Like he’s really emotional at the moment and his subconscious starts to do the work for him. We already know that he didn’t know he could make them until “The Last Olympian”.

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In honor of my favorite books ever

I see a lot of posts about Nico Di Angelo being friends with various people but I don’t see a lot of him being friends with Annabeth. Since both are my favorite characters I decided to write a couple of headcanons for them. Feel free to reblog with your own.

1) Annabeth and Nico both have dumbass boyfriends so they spend a lot of time bonding over the latest idiotic move their SOs have pulled.

2) The first time Nico is at Camp on the anniversary of Bianca’s death, he goes to the woods to get away from everyone’s sympathy. Annabeth finds him (because everyone split up looking for him) and tells him about losing Luke and how she understands what losing an older sibling figure is like. She tells him about her life on the way to Camp after meeting Luke and Thalia. So when the anniversary of Luke’s death rolls around he takes her to the same spot in the woods and they spend an hour worrying everyone while talking about the good times.

3) Annabeth helps him redesign his cabin since he can’t stand the way it looks. When it gets finished he actually cries a little but neither of them mention it.

TL;DR: Annabeth and Nico would make pretty good friends. Thanks for reading y’all!

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Boys and Their Toys

Neil and Dan walk into the common area in the Foxes Tower to see that Matt, Andrew, and Aaron are playing video games. Dan says something along the lines of boys and their toys which Neil, not knowing popular slang terms, asks about. She explains what it means and nothing more is said.

A few days later, Andrew’s crew are all going to Eden’s Twilight and there is a smudge on the Maserati. Andrew wipes it off with a rare show of emotion on his face which prompts Neil to say, “Boys and their toys.”

Nicky laughs so hard he stats crying and even Aaron is fighting back a smile.

Andrew just says, “300%”