Beneath Our Feet

[dangerandbeauty]

The Society: Darrow is an abomination, a demon, don’t fight him alone. A god of war, killer of men

Darrow: I like strawberries and singing and dancing, and I really want a baby. Also I cry a lot, sorry

[insignificant457]

Sevro “major depressive episode” Barca and Cassius “functioning alcoholic” bellona: *two seconds away from tearing each others throats out*

Darrow, on a journey of healing and self-actualization:

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 54 minutes

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[rocinanterising]

It’s been a while, please accept my offering. <3

[cosmerelists]

How Cosmere Characters Would Come Out

As requested by @im-bad-at-names-okay :)

Happy Pride Month! If Cosmere characters wanted to "come out," here is how they would do so.

1. Renarin: A series of unsigned letters

Lore drop: I came out via a letter to my parents when I was in high school.

Dalinar: The first note said, "Someone is gay." Dalinar: The second note said, "Someone you know." Dalinar: The third note said, "Someone in your family." Dalinar: The fourth note said, "One of your sons." Dalinar: ... Dalinar: I think I can predict what the fifth note will say.

2. Adolin: Tells people face-to-face

He just figures that telling people in person is the right thing to do.

Adolin: ...So anyway, I like men as well as women. May: Yes. I am aware. Adolin: Y-You are?? Did someone tell you?? May: You stare at a lot of butts. Adolin: ... Adolin: Yeah, okay, that makes sense.

3. Kaladin: The most dramatic moment possible

Think about every time Kaladin let someone know he was Radiant. Now apply that logic to Kaladin coming out.

Kaladin: [Glowing with stormlight, descending slowly from the sky] Kaladin: Romance. Sex. Gender. None of it--none of it--is compulsory, and none of it is for me! Lirin: You literally could have told us this normally at dinner last night. Hesina (elbowing him): Shhhh!

4. Wayne: Casually, conversationally

Wayne drops the lore as if it's no big deal, although he is admittedly a bit anxious the first time (when he tells Wax).

Wax: Listen, Wayne, if you want to be a good man... Wayne: Actually, I'm a girl today. Wax: [processing very quickly] Just today? Wayne: Well, we'll see, I guess. Sometimes it's just for a day. Sometimes it's a girl week. Wax: Noted. Wax: Listen, Wayne, if you want to be a good woman...

5. Rlain: Matter-of-factly

Rlain knows he has to make humans accept him as a person. Sometimes he tells them that he plays cards. Sometimes he tells them that he is gay.

Rlain: I'm Rlain. And this is my boyfriend, Renarin. The Alethi guy who was just talking shit about Singers: Uh... Rlain: Now you know something else about me. Rlain: Namely, I can pull.

6. Shallan: Eventually and with difficulty

Look, Shallan does not like to reveal lore about herself. Sometimes it takes being trapped in a cave in a high storm. Sometimes she makes her alters do it. It's a process.

Shallan (currently huddled with Kaladin in the little nook while the high storm rages outside) Shallan: ....A-And also, I think I have a crush on Jasnah! Shallan: Does that mean I like women??? Kaladin: Even worse, you might have bad taste in women! Shallan: What Kaladin: I shouldn't say my first thought.

7. Sazed: Makes Wax do it

This is always the Sazed-Harmony strategy.

Sazed: [communicating with Wax via his earring] Please tell everyone that my pronouns are now "they/them" so if they could stop using "he" for me, I'd appreciate it. Sazed: I know that there are other things going on, but it has been annoying me for hundreds of years now. Wax: ...You sent a kandra to command me to put in my earring for this...? Couldn't the kandra just do it...? Sazed: You try explaining pronouns to a kandra!

8. Vivenna: Just kinda assumed people knew

The short hair and the sword aren't enough??

Beard: Captain, we've been talking... Beard: And we've come up with a list of just three guys in all of Kholinar who we think MIGHT be worthy of going on a date with you! Vivenna: ...Try again, but with women. Beard: .... Beard: Oh! Vivenna (to herself): How much more obvious could I make it?

9. Jasnah: Writes a truly groundbreaking treatise

Jasnah is not going to bother coming out if it's not also scholarship.

Ethid: Your treatise on asexuality will truly have a lasting effect on scholarship. Jochi: I predict that the undertext referring to your own experiences will promote much speculation in future generations. Jasnah: Thank you, both. Jasnah: ...Glad that relationship was worth something.

10. Nikaro: Tells no one until they all figure it out for themselves

Nikaro can't shake the fear that everyone will leave if they know the truth, groundless as that fear may be.

Akane: Last week you had a boyfriend. Yumi: Correct. Akane: Today you have a girlfriend. Yumi: I do. Akane: Your girlfriend looks quite a bit like my old friend, Nikaro. Yumi: Fancy that. Akane: ... Akane: Congrats on the gender, Painter! Painter: ...It's that easy?

11. Dalinar: Unintentional lore drop

Dalinar is one of Those dads.

Dalinar: [comforting an adolescent Adolin] Dalinar: Adolin, do not be troubled by your crush on Jakamav. Dalinar: Every man has crushes on his male friends. Dalinar: It is very normal. .... Adolin (eight years later): WAIT A STORMING MINUTE

[kiminsocks]

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Cedric Diggory/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley Characters: Harry Potter, Cedric Diggory, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, Severus Snape, Katie Bell, Neville Longbottom, Charlie Weasley, Ginny Weasley Additional Tags: AU, AU from Book 4, Cedric Diggory Lives, Wartime, Past Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Summary:

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Cedric finally turns around, eyebrows raised. 

“Do you want me to yell at you?” He asks.

“Yes!” Harry bursts out, throwing his hands in the air. “Yes! I want you to yell at me! I want you to tell me that I’m a terrible person, that I’m no better than the sodding Death Eater I cursed. That you can’t believe I’m the one everyone is dying for, some bloke who casts Unforgivables as easily as a cheering charm.” 

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Cedric Diggory survives Little Hangleton and supports Harry when the Ministry calls him a liar. Albus Dumbledore succumbs to the Gaunt ring's curse early in Harry's sixth year, before he and Harry have the opportunity to study and begin the hunt for Voldemort's horcruxes. Harry, the DA, and what remains of the Order go on the run after Hogwarts is overrun by Death Eaters.

Years later, Harry and company still hunt horcruxes, and what's left of the resistance fights a desperate war for survival as the Dark Lord rules over Wizarding Britain with an iron fist.

[depsidase]

[kiminsocks]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kaladin & Adolin Kholin Characters: Kaladin (Stormlight Archive), Adolin Kholin, Teft (Stormlight Archive), Sylphrena (Stormlight Archive) Additional Tags: Lighteyes-darkeyes caste system, Panic Attacks Summary:

A conversation over drinks leads to Kaladin and Adolin learning of a mutual acquaintance. It is not a cheerful revelation, and Kaladin spirals.

[kiminsocks]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown, Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Cassius au Bellona/Darrow O'Lykos | Darrow au Andromedus Characters: Darrow O'Lykos | Darrow au Andromedus, Cassius au Bellona, Alexandar au Arcos, Eo (Red Rising), Ragnar Volarus, Roque au Fabii Additional Tags: The Vale, Canonical Character Death, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Afterlife, A lot of people from Darrow's past make an appearance, Angst, Canon-Typical Guilt, Background Darrow/Mustang Series: Part 3 of The Path Summary:

Darrow goes to the Vale.

[kiminsocks]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kaladin/Adolin Kholin, Kaladin/Helaran Davar, Adolin Kholin/Helaran Davar, Kaladin/Adolin Kholin/Helaran Davar Characters: Kaladin (Stormlight Archive), Adolin Kholin, Helaran Davar Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Threesome - M/M/M, Radiant Helaran, I just needed an excuse to write these three beautiful men together, so there we go, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Blow Jobs, Possessiveness, Curse of Helaran Summary:

Kaladin and Adolin have been dancing around each other for a long time. Helaran meddles. Feelings are finally acknowledged (in grand style), and good times are had by all.

[typebeanie]

Happy Pride Month from Dalinar Kholin

[glittter-vamp]

I could honestly cry. They got grey together 😭

[sports-sideblog]

NHL pride mood board 🌈🌈🌈

[rocinanterising]

Alexandar au Arcos.

[tinasshelf]

“Thunder and lightning, brother.”

Cassius and Darrow at The Institute

I miss this era of Darrow so much, like he was just a guy™️. (Also i’ve been kinda head empty just Darrow and Cassius lately, they’re so Gold Rush by Taylor Swift)

[masterofmingyuehall]

Something something Darrow's capacity to love is his biggest strength and biggest weakness. Every time he kills a friend despite all they have done.

Like I thought Roque was a pompous little bitch at the end. I felt more for Ragnar, Lorn, Tactus. But Darrow can't help it.

I am alone. Not just at the table in my suite, but in my grief. My friends came to Roque’s funeral for me, not him. Only Sefi was kind about his passing, because over the course of our journey to Jupiter she learned of Roque’s prowess in battle and so respected him in a pure way the others can’t. Still, of my friends, only I loved Roque as much as he deserved in the end.

And whatever the hell this entire scene with Cassius was while they reminisced about the academy.

“How long do you think this goes on?” He asks pensively. “This war.”

“Between us or everyone?”

“Us.”

“Till one heart beats no more. Isn’t that what you said?”

“You remembered.” He grunts. “And everyone?”

“Until there are no Colors.”

He laughs. “Well, good. You’ve aimed low.”

I watch him tilt the liquor around in his glass. “If Augustus did not put me with Julian, what do you think would have happened?”

"Doesn’t matter.”

Like my shipper brain is like oh my god these bitches are gay but also that's not it. There is a level of closeness we don't see with others. Cassius understands him still despite not interacting for a good portion of the narrative.

“No. Too risky. Kind of a conversation killer. Hello, I’m a Red spy.”

He doesn’t laugh. “You still can’t. And that’s what kills you. You’re among your own people and you feel a stranger.”

The fact that he's talking to Cassius here instead of Virginia okay narrative choices. Especially when Darrow reveals his insecurities about how Viriginia views him.

And Mustang—” I stop awkwardly.

“Go on. What about her? Come on, man. You killed my brothers. I killed Fitchner. It’s already awkward.”

I grimace at the weirdness of this little moment.

“She’s always watching me,” I say. “Judging. Like she’s keeping a tally of my worth. Whether I’m fit.”

“For what?”

“For her? For this? I don’t know. I felt like I proved myself on the ice, but it hasn’t gone away.” I shrug. “It’s the same for you, isn’t it? Serving at the Sovereign’s pleasure when Aja killed Quinn. Your mother’s…expectations. Sitting here with the man who took two brothers from you.”

I'm just quoting this entire chapter at this point but anyways fascinating.

“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to break everything and not be able to put it back together?” he asks sincerely.

“Yes,” I say, understanding myself better than I have for a long time. “That’s why I have Mustang.”

He stares at me for a long, odd moment before shaking his head and chuckling at himself or me. “I wish it was easier to hate you.”

I hope we get a similar talk with Mustang at some point. We got a lot of Sevro in the beginning, Roque moment, and now Cassius. But I feel strangly distant from Mustang still.

[the-dejah-thoris]

Dancer at some point during Morning Star (probably): Darrow i may be gay but the way you're talking about Cassius right now I might actually have to start being homophobic