:)

[korakos]

[korakos]

[korakos]

"please be kind to jeremy!!!" lol nah

[korakos]

jk I probably won't remember to come back tomorrow (today? it's 330 am) so you get the unpolished version

ok so I was gone a lil bit longer than intended ..got sick Again in Jan for 3 weeks, getting a little tired of this ..practiced sobriety for 2 months. wish I could say I felt better / slept better / felt renewed & refreshed, etc etc but the truth is I did not particularly enjoy it. was an interesting experiment though ..QUINNESOTAAAAAAAAAAA ..have bought a truly horrifying amount of books in the last couple months. I am excited about so many of them. hopefully I will eventually read them. at the rate I've been reading it'll only take me like………. 75 years. going to create a 2026 reading list with assigned weekly books, see if having a rigid list solves anything. ..I wish I could talk more about TBC, there are so many parts I want to share. .."how long is wretchedly long???" well last time I checked we were at 135K and there's probably 50k left to go unless I trim it down any. (unlikely. joy of being self-published is no one can tell me to stfu.) so far we've been pretty even-stevens on POV breakdowns. picking POVs is sometimes the hardest part of writing this set. example a: the chapter I've spent the last four weeks on has changed POVs 6 times. I've rewritten it so many times it has its own "cuts" file separate from the main one. ..the news is horrific! evil people keep winning! keeping faith in humanity is getting a bit difficult these days, but if we give up on ourselves & each other then what else do we have to carry us through

[stabbyfoxandrew]

Sometimes I think about Andrew and how he could actually be a great hitter for the mob. Like if he were under Neil (ayooooo) working as his right hand. His lover, his shield, his sword...

See below evidence: ~ He never forgets a face. ~ He's good at reading people. ~ He's as much of a bitch as Neil but less loud about it. ~ He has zero problem getting in a fucker's business. ~ He beat the shit out of four grown men single-handedly and now he's got actual weapons. ~ He's nosy and he listens, if someone were about to flip on Neil Andrew would be the first to know. And he'd take care of it immediately.

N: Andrew, I think we're gonna have to kill this guy A: Say no more.

[millportisntreal]

For those interested, can I offer you Armies by Nekojita on ao3?

[achillean-heartbeat]

AS SOON AS I READ THE FIRST LINE I WAS LIKE ARMIES BY NEKOJITA((T_T))

[akuchi-nya]

the fact Nora had a matching tattoo for all my boys and she chickened out at the last minute … I'm actually never moving on from this. 💔

P.S: Once I post the color versions, I’ll explain why I chose these specific pieces. In the meantime, I’d love to know what your perfect tattoos would be

[doesephs]

kevin day will always be my little homunculus

[zombiecowboy65]

I think if someone told Jean Moreau that he wasn’t allowed love after he was raped and beaten over wanting love because “he needs to heal first” he’d blow up the entire tri state area

[korakos]

this building used to be a parking garage

[korakos]

>>> the perfect court the foxhole court the raven king the king's men the sunshine court the golden raven the broken cage >>> the queen's game

[korakos]

talking to tashie about bk3 and she sent me this image

happy thursday lovies

[korakos]

Meant to put this up over a week ago but it's been chaos here & I have no concept of time. As I'm sure everyone has guessed, December is not working out. Had a long talk w one of my betas that resulted in me tearing out an entire subplot for later, and I have not had the time or energy to patch up the rough ends since. Too much going on IRL & too sick (honestly think I've spent more time asleep than awake these last two and a half weeks). I think in the long run the story will be better off this way, but I'm sorry I couldn't stick to the original timeline. I know yall were lovely enough to say you could wait, but I didn't want to make you.

If I'm not dead by Christmas I'll try & have an update for us then. 😔

[somewhat-obsessed]

I can't stop thinking about Dark Heir and how Will was essentially rejected by everyone he cared about and even then when they were all accusing him of being the dark king he was still fighting, wracking his brain trying to figure out a plan to save everybody.

[ninicaise]

just a string of thoughts but james being raised as a steward to be Good and to be a Protector and to Defend and Remember and then the world throws him for a loop and for years he finds himself on the "bad side" and he's not even entirely on their side he's lying to everyone he knows in order to find the collar and prevent it from being put around his neck, fully on his own side and no one else's because no one else is on his side. in a way he's more of a betrayer than he was in his past life. betraying the light then betraying the dark then betraying the light then betraying the dark again. and then will comes and he gives him a choice, and james chooses to be good because that's all he wanted to be. but is he good? what good is he? it's too late to be a good steward. he can be a good mage? he can be a good weapon. a valuable asset. a useful Thing. he can never be a good person not good not a person. but then will says you're a protector. it's who you are. you're good and a person. and james even believes it for a few moments. and he's collared and he's an object again. and he might be bad morally but he's so loyal. so efficient. a good thing. and he betrays the light again. he makes me crazy

[joonkorre]

so interesting that will can't help himself from deceiving and using people like puppets even when he has good intentions. violet's escape has nothing to do with her own survival instincts and smarts and everything to do with him practically leading her out the front door. james can only preserve his autonomy bc will keeps him from knowing the truth, and even his free will is dubious at best. like that's such good characterization wtf

[leopardwitheadache]

i really admire c.s. pacat's ability to write sexual tension and to create an erotic atmosphere, cause tell me WHY THE FUCK was i giggling and kicking my feet while will stabbed james with a unicorn horn and had his hand around his neck?????

[hypnostouched]

One thing I love about CS Pacat's writing is that I can predict it in large swathes but less so in the details. Oftentimes its because she uses unreliable narrators so perfectly

It baffles me that I didn't click that Visander's mount was Devon until it said so - despite Visander's mentions of Indeviel making it seem like Indeviel was sentient and Devon being the only sentient equine we know of; plus his name is clearly taken from his original name.

But Sandy. Sandy is what got me; it made me audibly laugh. Because I'd trusted that Sarcean was the type who wouldnt bother with names; Sandy for his hair, because its sandier than Anharion's - a comparison, perhaps an insult, everything returns to Sarceans obsessions.

But Sandy truly because his name is Visander really caught me so off guard