I'm just gonna leave this here

just a plain old reblog blog

[makebeliever]

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself … swore to myself … that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies … now I can’t even tell one from the other. [x]

[panlight]

Something I caught in my New Moon re-read—I noticed this particular line in Chapter 15 with Jacob:

"And then, the way it comes so easily to me, the way I'm better at it than the rest of them—does that make me even less human than Embry or Sam? Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm losing myself."

I made an annotation about this, but it feels like a parallel of sorts: Jacob having a much easier time with adapting to being a werewolf, because in a literal sense, he is genetically "born" to be a werewolf; then there's Bella later in Breaking Dawn where everything is so easy for her and she ~conveniently~ skips the newborn phase she dreaded since Eclipse because all this time she was "born to be a vampire".

The difference here is that Jacob is horrified about it his "born to be a werewolf"-ness whereas Bella revels in it to the point she wants to laugh/sing(?) It's such a stark contrast with Jacob feeling "less" human and fearing the loss of his self (and possible humanity) because he's far more natural at being a werewolf. Then you get Bella, who is far more natural at being a vampire, is dismissive of her humanity (I distinctly remember her constantly talking down about her human self, e.g. limiting weakness, hideous human, etc.) yet she...adjusts around humans just fine? Wouldn't embracing her vampirism mean she has a harder time passing for human? Would've loved to see her struggle with accidentally breaking things because she underestimated her strength, "walked" a little too fast in one of her visits to Charlie that he freaks out, but we don't get that.

Maybe it's because I've read stories with vampires who struggle with humans/human sensibilities because they've been vampires for so long or bask in their nature that they're so far removed from humans so I kind of expected (wanted it) with Bella to some degree. Instead she's so far removed from all the downsides inherently with vampirism that she's hardly a vampire.

Yeah this is an interesting parallel! Jacob's a natural and it disturbs him; Bella's a natural and she revels in it.

And the thing is, for me personally, Jacob's take is much more interesting and what I find compelling about 'monster' stories. I don't want to read about werewolves and vampires who are 100% happy with their fate that's not why I read books about them! I want the angst, the who am I? the what have I become?

"Wow, being a vampire is easy and fun, what was everyone so worried about? Why did you describe it as a fate you had to raise above? A destiny none of you wanted?" could maybe be nice in an 'awkward teen finds herself' sort of way but as a vampire story? Especially when from Edward's POV I was getting all the 'woe, vampirism' stuff I wanted, it was personally a let down.

Like, sure, Emmett and Alice are happy vampires. But Emmett still had to leave his big, loving human family behind. Alice had her memory erased and was alone for years. Bella just wakes up two days (not even the full three!) later and continues her life with her husband and in-laws and dad and best friend and new baby. Her adjustment to vampirism is so easy and boring that we have to tack on a whole new plot with Irina seeing Renesmee and tattling to the Volturi.

Jacob worrying about it, the whole thing with watching his friends join this 'gang' and not understanding it until he was pulled into it, too. That's good stuff! That's the monster content I want! (Even though the shifters just like, objectively aren't monsters IMHO. They turn into big wolves, not Creatures, and they do it to protect people. Not monstrous).

Newborn vampire Bella having amazing married sex and having her genius baby tell her, "Momma, you're special!" is just . . . blah. Not interesting from the monster perspective.

[fragranticareviewers]

[i-give-you-a-fish]

Please sir can you spare a fish?🐟

You get a Yellow Jack

Carangoides bartholomaei

[degenezijde]

I'm....

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Dozens of roses for you, through the ages.

[randomitemdrop]

Item: a very angry rose. DM decides if it communicates in some way or just radiates angry vibes

[twilight-af-deactivated20220701]

Bella and Edward + Eclipse Book Quotes: Part 2

[coulsons-fullmetal-cellist]

In the credits, Guillermo thanks the following:

Mary Shelley, who wrote the book (obviously)

Bernie Wrightson, whose illustrations in the 1983 graphic novel were the inspiration for the Creature

Boris Karloff, who played the Creature in the 1931 film

James Whale, who directed the 1931 film

[hawthornewhore]

regulus hates being touched. he smacks his friend’s hands away when they try to bother him. he tenses at hugs. james noticed this, of course he did. james noticed everything about regulus. so, when they started dating, james was shocked to find that regulus black was so insanely clingy. i mean, always holding hands, always cuddling, always touching.

james asked him about it one night when they were in bed. regulus simply answered, “i love you, more than i have loved anyone else.”

james never recovered from that revelation.

[lupine-trees]

just sweep me up

[ boys & broomsticks. ⋆˙⟡ for the @drarrymicrofic november prompt: bolt | title from the hand by annabelle dinda (which i’ve been listening to on repeat) ]

drarry | word count: 338 | rating: t

_ _ _

Harry knocks on the door of the conference room, thoughts collected, file a subtle shield, grounding.

“Alright, good news,” he says, stepping inside. “You’ve passed Tier I testing. It meets all of the baseline regulations.”

“Of course.”

Draco’s voice (in spite of its lilting self-assurance) has taken on a professional slant, an attempt at objectivity that belies itself.

Harry taps his biro against the clipboard, gaze trailing over the documentation— the careful typeset and photocopied marginal notes, scrawled in neat, familiar script.

“Surprisingly swift.”

“Surprisingly?” Draco echoes, brow arch.

Teasing, Harry realizes.

He can’t help the laugh that slips at that.

“Actually, assuming full approval, it’ll be the fastest daily use model on market.”

Draco’s answering smile isn’t one Harry’s seen before: Small. Proud. (Together— small & proud.)

“Yes, I’m aware.”

Harry flips through the spec sheet, reviewing the notes again. His brows draw down at a single line, slid into a list of bullet points without fanfare.

“Flame repellent?”

Draco shuffles, slight.

“Yes.” The air shifts as he takes in Harry’s expression, the careful concentration. “Something wrong? If you view Appendix F—”

Harry waves a hand, dismissive, half-apologetic.

“No, nothing wrong. It’s just not a standard feature.”

Draco hums. “It’s warranted.”

“Sure,” Harry murmurs, absent, trying to recall off-hand any existing models with similar charms, anything within the standing regulations that might run counter. He leafs through the pages of the manual, the appendices bowing open.

“You’ve done testing for it?”

He spares an upward glance, eyes flicking over the frames of his glasses. Then falters.

Draco’s throat has gone pink, his lower lip dropping around a loose breath.

Suddenly, the feel of heat— roar and cacophony, sweltering, sweat-slick down spines, knees bracketing thighs and fingers wrenching into robes— ash, and smoke as heavy as storm clouds, air dry as bone, burning.

A blink. There— & gone.

Draco’s gaze cools, effortful, the flush at his collar forced into easing, ebbing.

“Extensive.”

_ _ _

Approval: Firebolt Fiend (D. Malfoy)

MoM Broom Regulatory Control Board - hjp. 18/10/2006

[withdevovotion]

im the biggest fan of single-dad mary macdonald on earth but out of interest,,,have we considered adopted by two lesbian mums mary macdonald?? im seeing a vision,,,is anyone else seeing the vision,,, she's been really confident about being queer and one day marlene asks how she's so okay with it and she says "oh that would be my mums" and she takes all her friends to meet them,,,,unsure teenaged queers getting their first glance at what their own futures could look like after meeting mary's mums,,,a james potter for the valkyries. dorcas's dad is shit and she shows up at mary's house in the holidays,,,pandora showing up with evan under her wing like two wet dormice like "hello could we stay the night",,,,

mary macdonald with lesbian mums!!! does anybody else see the vision

[boykavalier]

Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier ALIEN: EARTH Season 1

[hopeless-eccentric]

if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills with my first two wishes, my third wish would be that sabrina carpenter would get gradually taller. she'd be in on it and think it was hilarious. we'd have a strong cap at 7 feet here, maybe an inch a week so people have time to theorize--let's not be ridiculous. but she'd still keep up the "ooh! im so little and small!" schtick. but shed be gradually getting taller. she'd be like 6'1" and still jumping for the microphone. and she'd never say anything about it. and if anyone asked shed act like she had no idea what they were talking about. and shed cheekily play into it a little bit but mostly still keep up the "ooh im so little and small" schtick. do you see my vision. do you get it

[hopeless-eccentric]

ok and so if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills in one wish i would do the sabrina carpenter thing second and third i would wish for all evidence of one random taylor swift song to disappear from the world once every month or so. taylor would have no memory of it. her fans would remember it and there would be an outcry over where it went (it's not even in concert videos anymore!) but taylor would have no memory of it

instead, all her brainspace spent on that song would be replaced with the vivid memories of roman gladiator, taylaurius velox. she's able to hide this at first, but her music begins to take on a gradually romaner and romaner tint. at first, people are like "damn, she's getting REALLY conservative, huh" and other people are like "wow, she's so deep, she knows what a rubicon is" but eventually travis kelce leaves her out of nowhere (he wasn't sure if dating someone possessed by a roman gladiator made him gay or not and anyway he was getting sick of being like "we're going to play the lions" and taylor being like "LIONS? WHERE?") and taylor publishes an entire brutus themed album about this betrayal and it's beginning to weird people out

and so eventually travis kelce is getting like, bomb threats sent to his family for leaving taylor and eventually he's like "okay, okay, i left her because she kept having all these vivid nightmares of gladatorial combat and she kept saying that football was giving her the ick because we never actually killed anybody for the glory of rome" and then he just gets more bomb threats because he left a struggling woman during a mental health crisis

and eventually taylor is writing music about her forbidden roman senator lover and her fanbase is either whittled WAY down or WAY up because people want to watch this trainwreck happen (or maybe she influences culture so hard that we're just all really into rome now) but she's being super cagey about the name of this roman senator. until. and now here's the twist:

weird al has been getting all of the same vivid memories of taylaurius velox. and he still has all his memories of her old songs. so he's writing all these detailed song parodies of taylor swift songs that don't exist anymore including specific details about their shared gladiatorial reality that taylor has never shared with anybody else. including that her lover's name was publius, and she's been calling him Poob for short

at this point a lot of original swifties are leaving. they could do the brutus stuff, but they really can't survive poob. taylor makes a clapping back at the haters song including the lyric "these bitches don't know publius" and it ends up all over all sorts of merch. there's a renewed archaeological interest in roman gladatorial combat

most importantly, the internet discourse is the best it's ever been. does this make taylor swift transmasc? is travis kelce problematic for leaving his fiancee while she gradually morphs into a roman gladiator? is this good queer representation? if taylaurius velox was a gay man, does that mean the gaylors were technically correct? is weird al morally wrong for capitalizing off of her music if she cant remember it anymore? was weird al sent by god to torment taylor swift?

anyway thats what id do if i met a genie

[rubyredwisp]

Our way is the old way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

[dailystellanskarsgard]

Stellan Skarsgård & Lesley Manville

in BBC River 1x06 (2025)

[callizinc]

Oh my god i need to change my life NOW i need to be something else i CAN'T keep living like this (Does nothing) (Does nothing) (Sits there) (Does nothing) (Doesn't move) (Does nothing) (Does nothing) (Does nothing) (Does nothing)

[isuggestjerkingoff]

I have a suggestion

[phantom-threaded]

"And then I learned it. The horror of the truth. I understood that I was nothing. A wretch. A blot. Not even of the same nature as man. This hurt clung to my mind. It never let go." — Frankenstein 2025, dir. Guillermo del Toro