LinearA

Hasty in this as in everything. Some fanfic. Despite the user pic, an adult, and tragically without a dog. I try not to be on here more than 30 min a day.

[linearao3]

The Unmourned

Chapter 3: The Sickle-Sword

“Jump,” he says, hooking his cane on his arm, and when she gives a half-hearted hop, he closes his fists in a complicated pattern and pushes up, and her head stops only a foot shy of the ceiling. She can’t help the delighted laugh that bubbles out of her as she floats there in midair, and when she looks down, he’s very nearly smiling as he looks up at her.

[misanthropic-drown]

[corseque]

Iconic historical stage designs for The Queen of the Night sequence from Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - the first image by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1815, the second by Simon Quaglio in 1818 (x)

[tragicburnout]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

[heavensfargardens]

@linearao3

[linearao3]

Called out again

[artemissoftstepper]

need a bad sleep reset

this is a very delicate operation which involves not falling asleep until the late enough tomorrow that i can get a normal nights sleep

[voxelfoxkae]

[linearao3]

Oh! And if anyone was like “what does a khopesh look like anyway?” here is a sketch of selected examples:

I imagine Inej’s as having a slightly sharper point, like the third one down.

[kafkasapartment]

In the Silence of the Green Garden, 2024. Bat Ella. Acrylic, oil and pigments on canvas.

[boundwithpurple]

“Think of all the Djuna Barneses we could have had if not for slashfic.” new funniest sentence

[boundwithpurple]

for everyone in the tags saying “she’s right” do you want to look me in the eye and say that the writer of your average heated rivalry mpreg fic would be writing experimental modernist lesbian fiction instead if not for ao3 dot org. do you truly believe this.

[arte-artem-artibus]

Auguste Rodin - Reclining woman, 1890s, watercolor over pencil on paper, 30 × 22.7 cm

[sclappin]

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level

[kalichnikov]

Men in porn always so desperate for validation. "oh you like that cock? You like my cock?" go to therapy dude

[pmamtraveller]

The Great Mosque of Samarra during fog, Samarra, Iraq

[femminabalba]

Orphée et Eurydice  (David and Frédèrico Alagna)

[garmbreak1]

it's not great that every nation in the world seems to believe that if they kill enough civilians, the enemy will give up, even though the deaths of their own civilians would simply make them fight harder

[agaywolf]

We’re gonna have an orgasm denial party and no, you can’t come.

[hylian-prosecutor]

Tell me how I'm supposed to focus on "important things" when sumer is icumen in lhude sing cuccu groweþ sed and bloweþ med and springþ þe wde nu sing cuccu sing cuccu

[linearao3]

What if I did something batshit like update my fic less than two weeks after the last update.

[linearao3]

A short chapter! But tomorrow, probably.

[carolinawrenn]

It becomes a routine on Inej's late nights, coming down to the lobby at nine bells to talk with her. They're occasionally interrupted by guests arriving late—a delayed coach or a missed gondel—or by others coming back from the opera or theater instead of going for a fashionable late supper afterwards, but it's mostly just the two of them, with Willem an indifferent chaperone in his corner by door.

It's comfortable, these nights. Like throwing a ball with Jordie when they were kids, an easy back-and-forth. Inej asks Kaz about his travels across Kerch, and her eyes light up when he describes the rocky coastline of the north and the music floating over the Belendt conservatory's walls. She tells him about Ravka, its deep forests and Sirkuzoi mountains, which have snow at their peaks even in midsummer. She likes his Da's stories about selkies and goblins, and teaches Kaz about the Sulis' Clever Hare, who always outwits Fox and Wolf. Chapter 10 of Numberless Crowded Streets is up on AO3!