ianthe-ing | ianthe-thing

you can call me jamie or ianthe. dyke in her 30s in nyc.

[faildyke]

Thinking really hard about Ianthe. She convinced her one-sided lesbian situationship to give her a new arm after she got dismembered by a saint. She and her twin sister love to dip their toes into incest sometimes but not in ways you’d expect. She also uses her magic to make herself look sickly so her sister can breast boobily. She and Jesus might be fucking but neither of them probably enjoys it. She voluntarily wore a maid dress in a game show inside her own mind. I hate her. She’s awesome. What is wrong with her.

[plumslices]

Dawn and Twilight bed by Emile Galle

[pmamtraveller]

Antique Art Nouveau Victorian cast iron radiators.

[elldritch-horror]

I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.

What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.

I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.

Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.

[griddles-bone-soup]

If I could directly implant this understanding into the brain of every TLT fan, by jod I would

[pmamtraveller]

René Magritte

The Dream of the Androgyne (1945)

[pmamtraveller]

Elihu Vedder - Psyche and Cupid

[favouritefi]

Finally bought some good china

[ianthiing]

six visited me this weekend and we had a really lovely time. they have been very patient in hearing a lot about gideon while i recovered from that breakup, and (especially after overhearing a very circular argument i had with her on facetime), have not been a huge fan. it did not help that one of my neighbors called six “gideon” when they saw us coming in one day (they do not look alike!!! they just both wear hats and are masc!!!)

but i was having a picnic for my birthday yesterday and i invited them both, which was the first time they’ve spent time in each other’s presence since gideon crashed the fuck out about me kissing six at a party months ago.

me: just so you know, six will be at the picnic until 3:30

gideon: …

…

…

gideon: i thought they moved away

they were both admirably chill about it, though. gideon read my tarot cards and six looked on with interest, and even though they later disagreed with her interpretation in a text, they also told me that it was interesting and informative to see me interact with gideon in person, and that she clearly cares for me a lot. “i love you and when you love other people i think that means i love them a little bit too,” they said.

i told gideon this later and i think it soothed some of her worries about six. she wanted to know if the fact that i dated them so quickly after her meant that i never loved her, and i told her no, not at all.

then she told me she’s been dating the very pretty goth femme i saw her with at a party this weekend. surprisingly, i wanted to hear all about it. this girl is drop-dead gorgeous, very chill energy, feels strongly about femmes being protectors. she’s very into video games, something gideon loves that i could never connect with her on. they like the same tv shows and music. this girl is trying to be a professional musician; she has a manager and an agent and a spotify profile. she works in perfume for her day job. they have similar upbringings and trauma. and she’s very very into gideon; when gideon mentioned she might have to move states, this girl was like, “i’ll get on a plane.”

so far, the only thing they don’t have in common is that this girl is not especially experienced in kink. she’s interested in gideon’s knives and understands that she’s a switch, but she’s never dommed anyone. gideon told me “i’m scared i’ll never find the type of dynamic you and i had. i’m scared i’ll never feel safe with her like i felt with you.”

and i mean i don’t know if this girl can do it but i feel certain she will at least try. the sex is apparently great aside from that, and she was very down, hypothetically, for the Gideon Experience(tm). gideon said “i’m scared to let her try. i belonged to you for real, and it was really hard to lose that. i don’t know how many more belongings i have in me.”

and i told her that’s the whole point of life. to risk it all, over and over. you should risk it a little with this girl, i said. even if it doesn’t work out—i mean, you will find it again. it took you only a few months to get with a girl who looks like the hex girls and is hotter and more goth than me. gideon laughed and said you guys are equally hot, and i said don’t lie. and we hugged and she cried.

i’m really proud of her. and of six, and of me. i’m so lucky to be so loved.

[ghost-in-the-library]

rest in peace forum thread deleted before its time

[ianthiing]

both of the tough butch dom tops i’ve made my subs are now like “i will Never find any other femme who will dom me 😞 i will be alone Forever 🥺” and i am just like. you are both very hot and tall. you have got to chill

[xphaiea]

Ivan Bilibin, sketch for set design of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera 'The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya', 1934

[jennifersbodiesbodiesbodies]

[jamesusilljournal]

Renato Órdenes

[segamascott]

got my first ever official customer complaint because when i was going over the terms of their life insurance they were like "well i don't plan to die" and i was like "well you're going to"

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[ianthiing]

i said goodbye to six last night. it felt like counting down the minutes to some awful predetermined twist of fate. we both wished we could stop time. i made them a playlist. they wrote me a letter. we kissed and kissed and kissed goodbye outside their apartment, trying to memorize what it felt like.

(they have the most incredible mouth. their upper lip curls up a little, and their lips are always pink. the first time we hooked up they made me say “please, please, please,” and when they said “please what?” i said “please kiss me again,” and i still remember the look on their face, as if i had startled them into tenderness by my wholesome request. and that was before i knew they almost never kiss anyone at all.)

i made them watch moonstruck early in our time together, and they loved the part where cher says to nic cage, “i’m telling you your life.” they told me my life: you’re too good, you’re too generous, you have a big ball of light in your chest and you give it away to whoever asks. stop managing your lovers’ emotions for them. find somebody who can do that for themselves. be meaner. be more selfish. believe that you deserve to have good things and to keep them for yourself.

and i told them theirs: your family uses you as their whipping boy. you ignore your own pain because you think it’s your job to take it and it’s slowly killing you. move away from them, stop taking all their calls. stop expecting that if you make just one more concession they will recognize your humanity in exchange. they won’t. they don’t see you. you are so good and so beautiful and yet you live your life as if you are a burden on others when you are actually a gift. any femme should be so lucky to be with you. you have your pick; act like it.

i miss them already even though i know it is right for both of us for them to move away and live this exciting new life they’ve built for themselves. i need to be single and they need to start fresh. i’m so happy for them. i hope all their dreams come true.

i keep getting so lucky to be loved by such good people.

[free-my-mindd]