the salt and the sea

talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it

[striders]

fandom playlists used to be full of songs from florence and the machine’s 2009 album “lungs.” we used to be a society

[hylora]

Theon and Robb

[branwinged]

"What a jape the gods have made of us two," she said. "By all rights, you ought to be in skirts and me in mail." Cersei to Robert in A Game of Thrones

RHAENYRA & AEGON HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-)

[perimodern]

YEAR OF GLAD

[cloudabserk]

only way to survive hating yourself is to hate your boss even more

[cloudabserk]

only way to survive hating yourself is to hate your boss even more

[cloudabserk]

only way to survive hating yourself is to hate your boss even more

[octopode-a-la-mode]

wei wuxian is an incredibly complex and interesting character, and i love exploring his psyche in writing and in fics. and as a fellow adhd-er, control freak, and smarter than average person i identify with him in a lot of ways.

wei wuxian also:

was an arrogant ass by his own admission

had a martyr and a hero complex

held no respect for jiang cheng's agency

harassed wen qing into performing an untested, theoretical medical procedure that could have killed both him AND jiang cheng, and did not so much as consult or talk to jiang cheng about it at all

refused, at every opportunity, to tell even a modified version of the truth about why he was using demonic cultivation

committed war crimes on a massive scale

reanimated the 17/18 year old wen ning, trapping him as an undead being who CANNOT EVEN CRY

refused help at every single turn, so convinced of his own righteousness when he could have used his many connections to find asylum for the elderly people he was looking over

his refusal to tell the truth or ask for help (because of his own arrogance, again by his own admission), and his loss of control over his poisonous form of 'cultivation' lead to the death of jin zixuan

murdered thousands of people at nightless city

indirectly caused the death of jiang yanli

The 'second flutist' is a drama only addition. In all other forms of the story, Qiongqi Path and Nightless City are Wei Wuxian's own complete lack of control and it's consequences. Whether Jin Guangyao was directly manipulating sentiment about Wei Wuxian or not, he quite literally did not have the pull or the power to cause everything that happened. He was the barely recognized bastard son of Jin Guangshan.

Su She cast the curse on Jin Zixun of his own volition. Even if Jin Guangyao sent Zixuan to Qiongqi with the hopes of something bad happening, it was still Wei Wuxian that caused Zixuan's death.

It was still a renegade corpse under Wei Wuxian's summons that first injured Jiang Yanli.

Wei Wuxian is not innocent. That's a huge, major point in the entire story. He fucked up, and he knows it, and now he has to live with that for the rest of his life.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The ends do not justify the means.

Maybe it's because I've had to learn to back the fuck off and not assume my way is always the best/right way, but god I get so irritated when people just give him a pass. He was a fucking idiot at so many points in the story when just trusting someone else could have saved everyone so much heartbreak.

[nyanakin]

happy 21st anniversary to revenge of the sith!

you should celebrate today by reading (or rereading) an obikin fic & leaving a comment! there’s so many to chose from! 🥰🥰🥰

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the other thing about Internet dogpiling is that it is just not possible to think clearly during the acute stages. it’s so easy to criticize people for responding defensively or tactlessly to mass criticism but I cannot overstate the degree to which your brain becomes a rat in a trap. I think we do have to temporarily recalibrate our expectations in these circumstances and accept that they do not necessarily represent how that person responds to criticism. the skills for self-regulating and reacting to normal interpersonal criticism are not the same skills needed to respond to viral callouts.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

as other people have pointed out:

for most of human history, if a bunch of people are really mad at you specifically all at once, it means you’re about to die badly. obviously that’s not the case with internet controversy (…usually) but our nervous systems don’t know that. I just think that’s a variable we have to consider inherent to the circumstances rather than an aberration.

[lesvegas]

environmental storytelling

[omtai]

coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

[winepresswrath]

When I see JC and it takes me a second.

[drwcn]

[orpheuslament]

this recent trend of teenagers using genAI chatbots to talk to fictional characters is fucking grim. what you should be doing is roleplaying on private messages with your friends until the lines between you & the characters begin to blur & you develop some very complex & confusing feelings for each other that culminate in a massive fallout you dont have the tools to process nor understand

[oceaniads]

taking my pain meds like i'm a dog deprived of food for days. yes yes yes no pain time! thank you person who discovered ketorolac hope you're in heaven

[samirasystole]

robby through two seasons: we need more staffing, if only upstairs granted us more nurses and doctors, maybe people would stop dying in our waiting rooms. the system is so broken

al hashimi: i think it might be good to have two attendings

robby: wrong, disabled woman. you're being ridiculous. that will never work

[oceaniads]

one day, a few years from now, i'll be sitting on the sofa with a dream of spring on my lap, and i'll turn the page and face a theon (or asha) chapter. in it asha will bring theon to harlaw so he can meet alannys again, and she'll warn him how their mother has changed and how losing three sons made her all but mad and how she barely remembers anything. and theon will be mentally preparing himself to watch his mother's face turn in aversion at the sight of old thin battered half dead him. but when theon steps into that room, alannys will rise up from the bed and say asha, you brought my baby boy home and they will all hug and maybe cry a little. even asha. and obviously me. i'll be crying a lot, for a long time.

and then i'll close the book because grrm wouldn't be able to write something that would please me more. it'll be my little happy ending.

[oceaniads]

damn i know we'll likely never get to see a dream of spring so everytime someone likes this it feels like a punch to the gut. let my man theon have his happy ending.