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Green tree snail, Leptopoma perlucidum, Cyclophoridae

Found from South Asia to Australia

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I’m that mutual that is literally always online and every time you check ya dash you’re like damn does that girl not have a life and the answer is no

funnytwittertweets

theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin

what's so great about Marcus' gift? like, what makes it so beneficial to Aro? if Aro can already read every thought a person has had, why would he ever need Marcus to tell him (checks notes) ah yes, "these two are dating"? I can't work out what's so powerful about Marcus and I just wondered if you'd break it down for me

Ah, but here's the question, what are thoughts and what is the truth?

Aro reads every thought a person has ever had, he knows you better than you know yourself, certainly better than anyone else ever will. But he sees the world the way that you see it. What if you're wrong? What if you're biased?

Marcus, presumably, sees relationships as they are. He sees the network of relationships to a person: all the people connected to you in ways that you might not have ever recognized or acknowledged even to yourself. If someone is in love with you, and you're clueless, Marcus sees that in an instant; Aro may not pick up on it.

Marcus also sees all of this very quickly and at a distance. In early days, when the Volturi were actively at war with the Egyptians and the Romanians, this provided vital intelligence when Aro couldn't physically touch someone.

Marcus was probably the one to inform Aro that Amun was the weak link in the Egyptian coven: he would sell out his coven in return for his own survival.

Still, even in the modern age when you can't say "no" to touching Aro's hand, Marcus' gift is still very useful for the first reason. It provides very fast intelligence from a different angle than Aro's. Marcus can support or refute conclusions Aro draws from his own gift.

Case in point, Edward Cullen.

We don't know exactly what Aro sees in Edward's head, but presumably it's 100 years of Midnight Sun. Aro likely walks out of that brain thinking that something's not right, and he can guess what really happened, but it's hard to tell what's true and what's not. Especially where Bella Swan is concerned. Does this girl truly love Edward, as Edward believes? Is Bella Swan even a person at all or just this empty shell of a being Edward has projected upon? And what about the coven in general? What are their actual relationships? Surely, it's not whatever Edward thinks it is.

Aro actively touches Marcus' hand in meeting Bella in order to gain that vital second opinion. What the hell is up with these two? And the answer, well, whatever he saw made him say, "Wow, can't believe you haven't eaten her yet, Edward. Wow." And Bella thinks, "Ah, yes, our love is amazing."

TL;DR Aro sees us as we see the world and ourselves, Marcus has the ability to see what we ourselves do not see or do not acknowledge

loyalmuse-deactivated20230424

Carlisle had been taught that simplicity was always preferable. To be content with one's appearence, not to try and alter it, for it was perfect as it was. To Carlisle, jewels and ornaments, accessories and expensive fabrics were meaningless if not downright immoral.

And yet, he could hardly look away from Aro's glistening rings, colourful necklaces, silky scarves, patterned clothes... He was paying a lot of attention and he certainly noticed when Aro started wearing more and more gold accessories.

He couldn't understand the reasoning, though. Aro certainly looked good in his gold wrist cuffs, that he had bought in Istanbul nearly five centuries ago, he certainly looked good in his set of six golden rings, he certainly looked good in his tight fitted silk, black shirt with the gold buttons. But he looked equally good in all other things as well.

Aro had joined him in the library one day. One very sunny day where the sun kept catching on something Aro was wearing and Carlisle kept getting distracted, so he simply couldn't not ask.

"Why do you only wear gold?" he asked and it came off more aggressive than intended. Aro smiled softly, not reacting to his agitated tone. "I simply love gold."

Carlisle stared at him for a moment longer, not quite understanding and mistaking Aro for vain.

valtsv

if i was a popular content creator i would actually be okay with people on the internet doing whatever they liked with me and/or my characters. however you would have to do so with the knowledge that if i see it and it sucks i WILL laugh at it and send it to my friends in my group chat so they can laugh at it too.

dhauwjwncjsiwnxn

finding out the heights of your internet friends is always the weirdest thing

crutchie-morris

reblog this with your height in the tags then we’ll all know

thesoftdumbass

“I can’t talk right now, I’m doin hot girl shit”

*reads fanfiction for 3 hours*

*daydreams about my favorite characters and actors*

*takes a nap*

folk1or3-deactivated20210712

being a woman is thinking ur the ugliest person ever and then coming across a photo of u as a kid when u had already started to hate ur appearance and realizing u were so cute and then u do this every so often for the rest of ur life and u never learn

snoppy

every time i say hi to a mutual in the tags of their post i feel like an awkward nerdy girl in a highschool movie saying hi giggling to the cute rugged but also sensitive jock who'd just like to be loved