in the fell clutch of circumstance

hello. i'm jay. aspec, she/they.

[tgirl-gaming-thoughts]

DIYHRT.market is back as valerie.vg

[charl0ttan]

[mizuthe-cat]

I don't think every character ever needs to be shipped with someone maybe they just need to be shipped in some sort of box alone to a location

[starrose17]

[everroth]

Not a lot of cooldown thoughts but the Circle of Seasons reveal for Amadah, and the Circle of Stones being a smaller regional Circle is interesting I need to think more on that, because from the episode I got the vibe that Amadah and Mozor are familiar with each other. I wonder if there's some overlapping use of holy sites for seasonal/calendar stone purposes. I also wonder what the relationship the Circle of Stones has with standing stones in general and whether they used to be larger before the Royce took over Telmora and Kalystra took over whatever land their quarries are in.

[celestialbuddy]

this isn't a how dare they not include this scene type of post but man i'm rereading the vampire lestat and there's a small moment where immediately after lestat is turned, when he finds this dandy little red suit magnus left for him. it's this flashy outfit (extravagant, velvet, covered in pearls and rubies) that perfectly matches his wolfkiller cloak, and he puts all of it on and you get the sense that in that moment suddenly the vampire lestat is truly born. like there he is the brat prince persona costumed up and fully coming to fruition. and i just pine for it because i think that would've been so strong on screen.

it's also really interesting and sick that magnus like... picked out this outfit for him. like dressed him like a doll not unlike loustat did with claudia.

[tlorie]

Quotes from the illustrious Coordinator on Twitter. He seems to have had a bad day, er… year.

[starport-rodeo]

joseph potter for co-president of the devils minion fan club

[queenoftheimps]

Favorite minor detail of the bowling alley rant: New Yorker Daniel Molloy being pissed off that his vampire turning happened in New Jersey

[grapnel]

An example of why one should use the Oxford comma.

[truestoriesaboutme]

I can't quite explain it, but Clue (1985), The Princess Bride (1987), Galaxy Quest (1999), and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) are all the same genre

[short-and-angry]

They aren't a spoof (roast) or a love letter (tribute), but a best man's speech; an expression of love with a gentle ribbing on ocassion.

[abuuga]

Movie was great idgaf

[mango-kitty-art]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[beardedmrbean]

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[enjoyerofstories]

Ok but the crows wouldn't have done shit in crooked kingdom without rotty and specht

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Some little details you might have missed in Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

(Maybe part one?)

When discussing the Ice Court Heist at the start of the book Wylan explains that he speaks Fjerdan and although Jesper teases that he probably isn’t very good at it, the fact that Wylan has been to the Ice Court at least once before would beg to differ; as a diplomatic meeting it would probably be considered impolite if he and his family didn’t speak at least some Fjerdan when being hosted by what I assume to have been the royal family or at least higher-ups in the Fjerdan government. However, when he’s drawing up plans of the Court on the boat, Kaz asks why nothing is labelled and Wylan says “I don’t know Fjerdan”. He does, in fact, know Fjerdan (and it’s confirmed later that he speaks it well), but he is hiding the fact that he cannot write

In the Bathroom Scene™️ Kaz says that Inej’s tell is the way she squares her shoulders before making a move, “as if you’re waiting for the audience’s attention”. When Kaz goes to the slat in the next chapter, after the fight he squares his shoulders before making his speech to launch a coup against Per Haskell. I think this is really interesting and it absolutely shows what Inej realises at the time, that “the fight was just the opening act” but this, the talking and the convincing and the persuasion, this is Kaz’s superpower. I think this is so interesting and says so much about him, but it’s also a great Kanej parallel. More than any character I can think of, Kaz absolutely embodies the quote “I discovered at a very young age that if I talked for long enough I could prove anything right or wrong, so either I’m god or truth is relative. And either way, boo-yah” (which by the way is a quote from the brilliant sitcom Community)

This is my favourite Wesper parallel: in soc when Wylan uses a bomb to save them from the parem-drugged fabricator, Jesper says “Wylan earned his keep”. Wylan replies “Did I?” and Jesper says “Well, you made a downpayment”. At the end of Crooked Kingdom when the pair are able to go back to Wylan’s house because Van Eck has been arrested, Wylan asks Jesper if he really meant it when he said that he would stay and help run the business by reading to him, and Jesper says of course, but “I charge a pretty steep fee”. Wylan blushes and replies “well I hope the medik is here to fix my ribs soon, because I’d like to make a downpayment”. THEY’RE SO GODDAMN ADORABLE

This one I think is something people just forget, but Nina and Matthias are heavily implied to have slept together on Black Veil when they got from Ravkan embassy. The pair go to get changed and reappear “rumpled and rosy several long minutes later”. Jesper laughs when he sees them- he says “Staying on task?” to which Nina replies “I’m teaching Matthias all about fun. He is an excellent student, diligent in his studies” as Matthias gets progressively more and more embarrassed. But yeah I’ve never seen anyone talk about it I think people just forget

[taropilled]

hi hello tonight i offer secunit hair thoughts… nebulous timeline for the bottom three pics is something like AC -> post-ES -> a couple of years post-SC

[animentality]