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There is something very satisfying about getting a new follower on here and having them immediately become a regular in your notifications. Like ah yes I am getting a good grade in tumblr blogging something that is normal to want and possible to achieve. Hello new friend.

hersurvival

lmbibitor

“can mutuals dm you?” my mutuals can fire me from a cannon through a brick wall, looney tunes style. as long as we’re all having fun

homunculus-argument

Those who think that wisdom and whimsy are mutually exclusive have neither. It's vitally important to do the right thing when the consequences are dire, and to do a whole bunch of utterly frivolous silly dumb shit when it doesn't matter what you do.

unholyblissafterdark

kentodreaming

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

Dain kissing Sloane's fingers/knuckles/palms/wrists every time she panics a little (or a lot) about her powers. Or because it's Monday. Or because she looked gorgeous.Or because it was morning. Or....

#fourth wing #dain aetos #iron flame #onyx storm #the empyrean #dain x sloane #sloane mairi

ariesrin

Alternatives to 'said'

When character is angry:

Snapped

Spat

Snarled

Hissed

Barked

...or sad:

Choked

Mumbled

Managed

Croaked

Murmured

...or if they're feeling nervous:

Stammered

Babbled

Rambled

Muttered

Squeaked

...and even when flirting:

Coaxed

Purred

Teased

Hummed

Crooned

calto19

This is the kind of thesaurus stuff I've needed.

jellyfishfromthevoid

The god send

sadiegirl2021

So excited for Elucien's healing journey 🧡💛

sunsetrose7

Which Empyrean boyfriend is giving the most girl dad energy?

Xaden Riorson

Bodhi Durran

Dain Aetos

Ridoc Gamlyn

Sawyer Henrick

Aaric Greycastle

Drake Cordella

Brennan Sorrengail

Kai

Lynx

Baylor Norris

Garrick Tavis

Voting ended onApr 27

sunsetrose7

Thank you to everyone who voted and essentially validated my headcanon of non identical twin girls as the Riorgail heirs.❤️

#random polls #fourth wing #iron flame #onyx storm #riorgail

date-a-jew-suggestions

If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you

prismatic-bell

A note:

I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:

Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.

Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.

And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.

date-a-jew-suggestions

Very good very important addition

appropriately-inappropriate

Essentially, this is the civil society version of a work-to-rule strike.

Don’t do more than is expressly asked of you, and do what you are asked with such an intense attention to protocol that not asking you at all becomes more effective than even bothering.

In this case:

“Have you seen an illegal immigrant?”

“Could you describe an illegal immigrant, officer?”

*officer describes a person who is in the country without appropriate paperwork, or who has crossed the border illegally*

“No, sir, I haven’t seen any illegal immigrant.”

And this is correct. You have NOT seen an illegal immigrant, because you have no way of knowing if Jose Fulano is here legally or not. And since you can’t see his paperwork (or lack thereof), and did not personally see him cross the border illegally, you are only answering precisely the question asked.

dancingwiththelostboys

I’m not American, and I have like, three followers, but this is important.

thelawfulchaotic

So, I’m a lawyer, who deals with immigration though does not specialize in it. But here’s the thing(s):

1) Even someone who’s working could be here on a migrant (or other sort of) visa (hey, there are a few thousand per year, and *someone*’s got to get them, right?) or could be waiting for their case to resolve in immigration court, after having come to America to join a born or naturalized American family member.

2) Even people who are working improperly could have come into the country legally – and just overstayed their visa or be violating the conditions of their visa, and you have no idea what the niggly little regulations that govern that might be.

3) If a law enforcement officer asks you about a neighbor/friend/etc., take this moment to remind them that, unlike them, you cannot ask a random person off the street for their ID and be entitled to a response.

4) Even if someone has told you that they are undocumented, you still don’t know, do you? Humans lie all the time. How could you know for sure? You can’t, because they can’t prove that they have a lack of papers. Just because you haven’t seen papers doesn’t mean they don’t exist!

5) Don’t ever talk to cops in general. Why are you talking to a cop? Stop that, as soon as it is safe and feasible.

Love,

a very tired public defender

inthesensethat

hexthelex-deactivated20250420

This is true btw

letmeliedown

the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really

cherishedproperty

I want to clarify something kind of important because this kinda used to be my field. The concept that people express and feel love in different ways, and that this might lead to misunderstandings, IS something with scientific merit. The idea that there are just five and we know what they are is NOT. The idea that people have a primary love language is NOT.

In science, we have a saying. All models are wrong, but some are useful. That’s how I see the love languages framework. It is inherently flawed, but some of its concepts are useful. Communicate with your partner what makes you feel loved and understand what makes them feel loved. Understand how your partner shows love. There is immense value in that. But don’t over-index on which one of the five you are. That part doesn’t matter.

thesunflowersqueen

#love languages#really reblogging for that last comment though#“all models are wrong but some are useful”#the concept is sound but the specifics are uhhhh not (via @mad-madam-m)

kronicfairie-deactivated2026040

i love a dim lit room!! turn off all big lights!!!

insanitytrg1

Fourth Wing Rant

Reading fourth wing and I completely understand where Violet is coming from when her crush on Dain ended.

Even if we didn't have some underlying romantic tension and we were just best friends, you're such a stickler for the rules that you'd let me die before you broke or even bent a rule???

You say how much you care about me and want to protect me, and how much it hurts you to see me hurt but given the opportunity to SAVE MY LIFE you would stand by and do nothing if you had to break a rule to do it.

If it was a world where breaking a rule would lead to execution it'd be more understandable, you're still a coward but fair. But that's not even the case!

I'm the kind of friend that would break every rule to save my best friend, not that I have one anymore, but my point stands.

The person that's supposed to be her greatest enemy and her biggest threat jumped in to save her before you did Dain!

And when he confronted you and asked in plain words if you would've tried to save her, put in his same position, if you had to break a rule to do it, you said no! But it would tear you apart inside.

I would've lost respect for you too. She wasn't looking for a savior, she was prepared to die right then and there. But as her "best friend" and someone who cares deeply for her, you don't seem too willing to actually sacrifice anything for her.

Me personally? Ask me what kind of best friend I am. In my book, if you've managed to make it to the position of my best friend, then I will do anything I can to help you and be by your side. And if someone managed to end your life? Look up Fullmetal Alchemist Mustang Revenge scene.

I'm that kind of friend. So for Dain to in the same night say that he wouldn't save her, and for him to kiss her as if she could just walk past that? Disgusting.

How could anyone truly love someone who wouldn't sacrifice something so insignificant to save their life?

And even when you found out that people tried to kill your "best friend" you didn't try to go after them, you didn't interrogate them, you didn't even give them an angry look. You just said "the game is the game" and continued on making sure Violet was ok.

Xaden was willing to jump in and risk whatever punishment he might face for saving Violet, and he's her enemy! And he's higher rank than you! What does that make the man who claims to be her best friend but wouldn't even consider jumping in?

AND THEN TO TOP IT ALL OFF! The next day you tell her the kiss was a mistake, not because it was impulsive. But because you're her superior officer, and developing that kind of relationship was inappropriate....

Every pair of thighs that were still open for you just closed. Wtf is this man talking about?! You're literally training on dragons, and the training alone gets people killed everyday! But you said that if she gets transferred to no longer be under you, or after graduation then you two can try being together.....

She might not survive to see next week and you're talking about graduation?! And it wasn't that the kiss wasn't as magical as you expected, and that's why you said you two couldn't be together. You said it would be bad conduct, so you shouldn't do it.

That's not even a real rule! Yes, as the superior officer you're expected not to have a romantic relationship with someone in your chain of command. But people literally die so regularly that that rule isn't upheld. They prefer that you don't, but you won't get in trouble for dating someone in your squad. You're just such a damn stickler that you won't even risk it. Dain Aetos you are a coward of a man, and I have little to no respect for you.

sunsetrose7

So while every perspective in here is absolutely valid I would like to clarify a few things.

1. Breaking the rules can absolutely lead to being executed. We see that with Amber. We do not know what the punishment is for interfering with threshing.

2. Dain, as practically an inntinsic, would absolutely be more at risk for being executed if he breaks a rule than some of the other characters. They wouldn't even have to justify it much cause his signet is classified. They'd just kill him and say he was a secret traitor and that's it. No one would give a damn either. Just another day at Basgiath.

3. While Dain claims he would not break a rule to save Violet, I believe that in the moment he absolutely would, as he's technically already committed insubordination in order to try to get Violet out of the quadrant (skipped his entire chain of command to make a deal with the head of another chain of command, plotting against the General's wishes. Absolute best case scenario he'd get demoted and Violet fears worse when she realises Xaden knows).

4. Dain has dealt with his trauma from his first year (of which we know little to nothing about because Violet never asked) by going even more rigid in his rule following tendencies. This is a survival mechanism, not cowardice.

5. Speaking of asking. I don't know about you but if my best friend was acting out of character or more intensely obnoxious than usual, I would try to get to the bottom of it and help them through it. Dain might have fucked up but Violet isn't getting BFF of the year awards either as far as I'm concerned. They both failed each other. If they hadn't explicitly said they'd been friends for 15 years, I wouldn't have believed it based on her actions.

insanitytrg1

1. Yes breaking rules can lead to execution, but the law of the dragons supersedes the laws of humans. So if Dain jumped in to stop cadets from attacking a dragon (and coincidentally Violet wink wink), I doubt the dragons would allow him to face execution.

2. If Dain is an inntinsic thanks for the spoiler 🫠. He's been allowed to live this long and as a squad leader, so I can't imagine his leash is that tight. Though I am only about halfway through the book so I could be wrong and he could be in this higher position so he's easier to keep an eye on.

3. I'd like to believe he actually would, but seeing from Violet's perspective? I just don't see it. The way he struggled to admit that he wouldn't break a rule to save her really felt like he felt guilt because it was the truth. Yes, he did conspire to get Violet moved to the scribes quadrant. But considering it was secretly done, and Violet didn't actually go, he would only break a rule in theory. Actually her mom said that if Violet tried to run away to become a scribe, she'd drag her back to the riders quadrant herself. If it was breaking a rule for a first year riders cadet to sneak away to be a scribe, the place she was meant to be prior to six months ahead of the story beginning, would that even count as a rule being broken? Or is it, like being intimidate with a superior officer, just a gray area? If there was no real rule against it, then that could explain why Dain was so willing to help. And if there is a rule against it, wouldn't Violet have been dragged back by the time her mother even heard about it?

4. His survival mechanism trumps his care for others, in that case. That doesn't make him the worst person ever, but looking at it from Violet's perspective that would make his attempts to appear as someone who would risk anything for her seem empty.

5. She did say he was more rigid, and almost like a different person since she last saw him. But to be fair he's been here longer than she has, and he's had more time to train for this than she has. She is almost universally viewed as the weakest link, and is being targeted constantly. I don't think I'd have the time or energy to force someone older than me into a therapy session either. While I personally would try to be there for my best friend as much as possible, this place changes everything and your best friend could die today. So if Dain is secretly being watched and his life is in danger, and he has so much that changed him and it's the reason he is who he is then he needs to say something. The rate of death is so high that you're allowed to sleep with whoever you want and face no repercussions. He himself didn't know if she'd survive to threashing. There is no luxury of planning for tomorrow, so if he has things going on behind the scenes that he needs to talk about, what sense does it make holding it in until she asks?

sunsetrose7

Dain is a memory reader which makes him technically within the inntinsic umbrella but because his signet is limited by touch, he's considered less of a threat than a full inntinsic, although only if they're 100% sure he remains loyal to Navarre. My bad for any possible spoilers, I thought you had already finished the first book. 😅

Looking forward to hearing (reading?) your perspective once you're 100% done with the series (so far).