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mentally i'm in your walls 19 | she/they tlt & arcane mostly <3

[josnowchovi]

ᎥᏁᏖᏒᎧᎴᏬፈᏖᎥᎧᏁ . . .

💫 CᏗᏝᏝᏗ • 19 • she/they

⚔️ knightgirl fem • aroace lesbian • 🇺🇸🇺🇦

📚 full-time medieval history, linguistics, and classics student

✍️ aspiring fantasy author and illustrator

🗣️ trilingual (English, Ukrainian, Russian)

ᏖᏂᎥᏕ ᏰᏝᎧᎶ ᎥᏁፈᏝᏬᎴᏋᏕ • reposts of anything that’s taken over my brain currently • personal analytical essays • ranting • occasional mediocre fanart

This blog is NOT a safe space for TERFS, ICE supporters, homophobes, racists, or people who perpetrate hate speech of any kind. Kindly fuck right off.

ᎷᏗᏠᎧᏒ ᎦᏗᏁᎴᎧᎷS (and areas of interests) • The Locked Tomb • Arcane • How to Train Your Dragon • DC • Baldur’s Gate 3 • anything to do with fantasy and/or medieval history (and cats)

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[werewolfbutches]

older piece

[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

[gabbiecasso]

"Just you and me, bud"

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[runasulienadanika]

ah yes, my favourite tlt characters:

200 dead children

literally Joan of Arc

First Flower of the Ninth House, the Best Cavalier They have Ever produced, Their Triumph, the Best of Them All,

guy with the worst surname ever

[kej-art]

happy pride to these idiots 🌈

(I'm thinking about drawing Ianthe and Camilla as well? we will see, we will see)

[corvophobia]

is it too much to ask?

[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.

[poupon]

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

[kej-art]

i gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it

[bodyintheriver]

“She died. She can’t come back, even if you keep her stuffed away in a drawer you can’t look at. You’re not waiting for her resurrection; you’ve made yourself her mausoleum.”

[teafromthemicrowave]

Look whom I found at pride today

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[aicodraws]

happy Pride!

[josnowchovi]

was yapping to the gf abt eva stratt as one does and she went ‘no wonder you like her so much she’s so much like mercymorn’ and

Oh my god.

Why did i never draw the connection.

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you