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Aada. 19

I post about random thoughts while I procrastinate my way through life

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[betterpatroclus]

Res Vis: I will dismantle the government and avenge my friend.

Obutium Vis: I will kill a god.

Lucium Vis: How can I fight with a spear? I have ONE ARM.

[ghostontape]

Daniel Molloy could be the Archivist and Jonathan Sims could interview those vampires but neither of them could manage to fuck it up as masterfully and efficiently as they each do in their respective original universes and I can’t fully explain how I know this but it’s true

My instincts tell me the difference (again, I cannot articulate my reasoning, this is a gut thing) is that one is a pathetic slut while the other is a weird pervert like they’re both freaks who want to find out but it’s a spectrum and they’re on opposing ends

[stories--and--stardust]

Just finished the Lotus Empire and i NEED another book about Rao and Seema's adventures. I so dearly wish to see both of them heal and learn to love and live for their own sakes again.

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Reading the Oleander Sword right now and Rao and Aditya are soo " 'I love you' 'it'll pass' " coded

[thelasttaleofthepari]

okay so I have more thoughts but firstly

NOT THE DOOMED YAOI 😭

also rao comparing him to the sun just gets me like that one conversation he has with sima and he literally compares his love for aditya to the sun, how really looking at it would’ve destroyed him and like TASHA YOU HAD NO RIGHT to make him say something that beautiful and devastating for it to go so tragically unresolved.

I legitimately am screaming like the way rao loved him so naturally, something that was so ingrained in him that even knowing that the love was right there, there was something so terrifying and dazzling about it, something too whole to put a name to. It was easy and light, but so heavy, so powerful, the way that subtle shift between intimate friendship and something more would’ve given way to something deliciously unpredictable and the way he couldn’t even put a name to it until it was far too late

also just how malini has it clocked ages ago lmaoo

AND THE STATUE KISS WAS SO FUCKING EVIL

I just feel so bad for rao actually, the way he lost everything that mattered to him the most, the people who he was the closest to

how evil is it that he lost both alori and aditya to fire

SPOILERS FOR THE BURNING KINGDOMS TRILOGY AND THE LOTUS EMPIRE

Tasha Suri loves making us suffer for the gay ships (I am scared for her next book)

The fact that Aditya's name literally means "the sun" and Rao compares him to the sun (also side tangent but Aditya's name also means "belonging to the (goddess) Aditi" and is one of the names of the god Surya in Hinduism and how Aditya was the first born and meant to rule the empire who then became a priest and his ultimate demise was to burn-- he was always meant for great paths that Rao would never be allowed to follow)

Honestly the ships in The Burning Kingdoms (Priya + Malini, Aditya + Rao, Bhumika + Jeevan) have such pure devotion in them-- and in Aditya and Rao's relationship we see that devotion even with ADitya gone and AHDIUSFHSIDUFHISDH THE FACT THAT IT TOOK SOOOO LONG FOR RAO TO REALIZE HOW HE FELT UNTIL ADITYA WAS GONE I WILL NEVER FORGIVE MS. TASHA SURI FOR THIS

Malini's gaydar was going off every time Rao was nearby she knew before he did (I still find that so fucking funny)

(I actually threw my laptop across the room when I read the statue kiss™)

OH OH and you bringing up him losing both Alori and Aditya to fire reminded me of how the turning point for Rao in The Lotus Empire was him going to the outskirts of the empire and into the cold snow (and how his ending was traveling to the outskirts of Parijatdvipa and into the cold, unknown, when all that he has lost was taken by the warmth of fire)

[jaleana]

Some more Robin and Ramy 🩶

[rinsrighthand]

taipei as in the capital of Taiwan as is the country that inspired speer island as in we might get tpw related novel?????

[stories--and--stardust]

Literally frothing at the mouth rn

[stories--and--stardust]

"The fire doesn't give, the fire takes, and takes, and takes. "

I finished the trilogy and was in sm pain that i had to paint my babies

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Just finished the dragon republic and what in the actual fucking tap dancing Christ was that Nezha

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If I had a penny for every time a podcast with a main character named John took over my life, I’d have two pennies

Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

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Why the fuck is it so humid

[stuckinapril]

i’d say the best thing i have learned this year is to just let people be who they naturally are. no psychoanalyzing them, no overthinking my actions, no asking what i could possibly do to keep their presence in my life. i just bring my best self to the table and always move from a place of love and respect. how that person responds is ultimately up to them. if that causes them to exit my life, i just let it happen. i will never be in the business of changing people. people are only ever ready to change when they’ve made the conscious decision to. all i can do is check myself and be kind always.

[stuckinapril]

this is SUCH a hard lesson to learn if you have anxious attachment problems. you’re constantly scheming to keep someone in your life, even at the expense of your mental health. i’ve been there so many times. it’s literally the most horrible feeling in the world, and it puts so much pressure on you to act the exact way you think the other person wants you to. all just so they grace you w the bare minimum. i feel so much lighter now that i literally just allow people to show who they are and let them fade out of my life organically. it’s brought me so much peace

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[probuccalfat]

“i can’t do this anymore” says a girl who is not only going to do it but do it well

[thenewgothictwice-deactivated20]

April 12, 2024. Source: Quds News Network. "Despite the loss of lives, the devastation and the displacement, the children of Gaza make sure to have little room for joy at Eid al-Fitr."

[stories--and--stardust]

This song makes me want to run away and swim in the rain under a waterfall