Successive Obsessions

My hyperfixation switches every few weeks

[masasinsanity]

I was searching for a line and i came across this instead LMFAO

[starrynightsxo]

the fandom after cardan didn't back jude up on her being his wife in front of everyone:

[jubb-b]

Cardan when he tricked Jude by enforcing in front of everyone that she was not the High Queen : 🙂

Cardon when Jude didn’t come back because she thought she would be imprisoned or killed as nobody would believe she is the High Queen (because only Cardan knows it and he didn’t say anything) : ☹️

[carne-muerta]

[thejudeduarte]

It's been 3 years since I read tfota for the first time and the high I felt while reading has never been replicated ANYWHERE else

Nothing will ever compare I fear

[ivycrestfell]

a ton of ppl crap on Jude for not coming back from exile even out of sheer suspicion that Cardan may have been using a play on words, but i fear we underestimate Jude’s realness, bc if i were humiliated in front of buttfuck EVERYONE in the kingdom, including former bullies who happen to be royalty and whatnot- i too, would NOT return

[xcruelprincessx]

I love how jude starts the series by saying Cardan is the most cruel of them all, just to be reveled later on that he's in fact the least cruel faerie that has ever faeried

[jubb-b]

It is so funny how Cardan really is living in a bully romance novel while Jude is fully in a Dark/High Fantasy one.

[tlirsgender]

As a principled feminist I'm often tempted to say shit like "are men capable of higher thought" but then I have to remember not to perpetuate gender essentialism and change it to "why do men choose not to think about anything"

[wellsysgarrett]

The Knight and the Moth is for people who love gothic architecture and the movie Tangled. If you like those two things, you should read The Knight and the Moth.

[no-resolution]

Something that I've noticed about Spike over my many, many rewatches is that he extremely reactionary and his attitude in a given scene is 100% dependent on the attitude of the other characters towards him. If someone is being a dick to him, he's a dick back but if someone is treating him with respect, he's quite respectful in return, even while soulless.

For example, at the end of season 5, when the Scoobies let him be a part of the gang, he's nice to Tara, follows Willow's commands without complaint, and even works with Xander (who he mostly hates) with only mild snark. This continues into the beginning of season 6, when he is helping the Scoobies fight demons in Buffy's absence. There's a strange comradery between Spike, Tara, and Giles in that scene that is notable in that it never happens again but also in that it doesn't really feel out of place. He's a part of the team now. But when Spike learns that the Scoobies left him out of their plans all summer and Xander starts antagonizing him about Buffy again, Spike throws Xander against a tree. Similarly, in Once More With Feeling when Spike brings Sweet's minion to the Magic Box, he comes in expecting to be greeted with cheerful gratitude because he did something helpful for them, so Spike immediately offers to continue to help Buffy, even when the others say they won't. When he is instead met with ridicule from Giles and Xander and coldness from Buffy, Spike turns on a dime and is mean to her, too. The way he treats others is directly linked to how they are treating him.

It's pretty important to note that the intensity of the overall vibe of the interaction is higher on Spike's end than the others', in both a positive and a negative sense. His "being a dick" is often much more harsh than what is said/done to him and often results in violence and his "being respectful" often manifests in him risking his life for someone who is being just civil with him (likely a manifestation of both the moral limitations of lacking a soul and Spike's suicidal level of devotion to the woman of his affections). If I had to guess, this trait may have arisen from the whiplash of existing within the Whirlwind, where he was adored by Drusilla, endlessly ridiculed by Angel, and likely met with apathy from Darla. Effectively "growing up" (in the vampiric sense) in this environment likely made him very good at adapting to any environment and protecting himself emotionally, but the love he shared with Dru (and likely fostered by his role as her caretaker and knight within their relationship) preserved enough of his drive for love and affection to maintain a tie to his humanity, which comes out when he is treated like a person. One could say that this is sloppy writing, but it's so rampant within the show that it's actually a fascinating character trait (to me).

[jubb-b]

I need to thank Rachel Gillig for singlehandedly motivating me to draw.

I never really took the time and here I am, 10 days after reading The Knight and the Moth, studying drawing diligently for the first time in my life.

But enough ramblings, here Sybil and Rory from Chapter Seven : The Moth.

[jubb-b]

Did I forget 1- the charcoal around the eyes, 2-that the earrings were on his right ear ?

Yes, I did.

Here we go (again)

[jubb-b]

I need to thank Rachel Gillig for singlehandedly motivating me to draw.

I never really took the time and here I am, 10 days after reading The Knight and the Moth, studying drawing diligently for the first time in my life.

But enough ramblings, here Sybil and Rory from Chapter Seven : The Moth.

[szynkaaa]

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

[jubb-b]

Reading about the Birke in the Chiming Wood.

(might be a bit of a spoiler : it's just me imagining it)

"The tree’s bark was laden with gooseflesh. Only it wasn’t bark. It was skin. And the knots in its trunk — gashes in all that pale, sloughing flesh — Were eyes."

And I could only picture this :

Eyes Watch from the Trees from the boardgame "Spirit Island"

Hope they won't gather too many dahans in the land.

[wellsysgarrett]

The Knight and the Moth is for people who love gothic architecture and the movie Tangled. If you like those two things, you should read The Knight and the Moth.

[blessedbenightwingsass]

Big fan of whatever the fuck Is happening in The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

[entnoot]

Been thinking a lot about The Hunger Games again recently so here’s a Katniss 🏹