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[cuubism]

Ask game: voidlight / anti-light

Feels like something that might come up once or twice in your work. 😈

not wrong at all 😂

here's voidlight from the truly insane second chapter of Enjoy Your Stay, where Kaladin's having quite an interesting evening at the Fused war camp

El snaps the thin metal collar shut around Kaladin’s neck. Kaladin very nearly bites his hand. Instead, he swallows the impulse, feeling the device scrape against his skin. It’s not tight enough to be truly painful, but almost. It’s certainly uncomfortable, though more in idea than reality. Storms, he’s really gotten himself into it this time, hasn’t he? El steps back, looking satisfied. “I am curious,” he says. “Let us see what voidlight does to the constitution of a Knight Radiant, shall we?” He activates the fabrial with a tiny control device in his hand— —and voidlight explodes through Kaladin’s system like a wave of flames. It feels so extraordinarily wrong, it feels like he’s being ripped apart into his tiniest component pieces, his soul set on fire and then pulled from his body. He collapses instantly to the ground, clawing mindlessly at his neck, and it takes him a full minute of dissociative mind-splitting pain to realize that he’s screaming, and begging, saying no, no, no, no, stop, please stop please stop please stop over and over. “Stop this at once, El,” Leshwi says, not sharp, but firm. El does, and says, over Kaladin’s panting breaths and sobs, “Well, that was certainly effective.”

[marzipanandminutiae]

What on earth is a 'corset apologist'? Like, because you acknowledge corsets were perfectly functional supportive undergarments, you're an agent of the patriarchy??

Yep, that's it exactly.

As with all the other red flags in the post, it's not a guaranteed t*rf signal. I've known plenty of non-t*rfs who expressed similar views (including the person who claimed Abby Cox was "looking down her perfectly powdered nose" at Mary Wollstonecraft for daring to [checks notes] point out that Wollstonecraft was rather judgmental about her fellow women's interest in dress). But...it's definitely a "check blog for t*rf leanings" tip-off for me.

And yes, to clarify: some people (t*rfs or otherwise) think female dress history researchers/historical costumers/vintage fashion enthusiasts who don't believe that corsets were The Root of All Evil when commonly worn are just brainwashed patriarchal shills and we can't possibly know what we're talking about.

Because that's way easier than thinking critically about the history you've been taught, and not vaguely misogynistic at all! </s>

[highgaarden]

A long list of all of Hannah’s favourite fanfiction;

THE JOURNAL by @akorah

➥[scribbled in the margin of Theodore Nott’s notes, April 18] Tuesday was priceless. ‘Sorry, Professor, what?’

[scribbled in the margin of Hermione Granger’s notes, April 18] I wouldn’t have been distracted if you would have just answered the question!

[scribbled in the margin of Theodore Nott’s notes] Professor Babbling is going to split us up again if you trip on another question. Looks like you need to pay more attention, Granger.

[scribbled in the margin of Hermione Granger’s notes] You don’t want her to split us up either.

[scribbled in the margin of Theodore Nott’s notes] Of course I don’t. Then all of my scheming to get this seat would have gone to waste.

[scribbled in the margin of Hermione Granger’s notes] Scheming?

[scribbled in the margin of Theodore Nott’s notes] Scheming, plotting, hexing the chair so everyone else would be deterred from it.

[scribbled in the margin of Theodore Nott’s notes] You’re magenta again.

[cocoartistwrites]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

FIC REC TIME! 

Professor Bathsheda Babbling did not allow her Ancient Runes students to pass notes, until the war began brewing and she saw a Muggle-born and a Death Eater’s son falling in love in the front row.

Content warnings inside. M for language and violence. TN/HG

almost finished & very regularly updated amazing amazing amazing Theo/Hermione with much badassery and epic magic. 

[secret-history-of-reganatlas]

May I ask about the word 'cariad?' In my WIPs, Theo's mam uses 'darling' when affectionately addressing people. Does cariad work as a blanket replacement for darling, or should I find something else/stick with darling?

I hope you're having a lovely December 💙

In my experience cariad and bach are additions to the list of endearments. I think it depends on how Welsh the person is, as to whether or not it’s a full replacement. The further north / north west the person is from, the more the person will speak Welsh than English; so they’d be less likely to say darling, and more likely to say cariad. But if they’re from the south, south - east, then it’s whatever suits at the time (I’m from the south).

But yes, cariad works for darling, sweetheart, loved one… basically anyone you like and are warm to.

I hope you have a wonderful holidays, cariad 💕

[colubrina]

Good morning! (It's always 5am somewhere.) For the fanfic asks: 14 & 15 for Lady of the Lake. 💙

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?I mean, that sounds super pretentious and I’m not sure I wanted people to learn anything, exactly.  I wanted to lure them into just accepting a fascist leader as sympathetic and logical and reasonable and then pull the curtain back and reveal how willing they’d been to accept her.  Based on most reviews, I failed utterly.

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?I think I learned that people with sympathize with the protagonist even if she’s basically Hitler.  Or that I lack the chops to write an unsympathetic but compelling protagonist. One or the other.  Or both.

from fanfic asks

[marzipanandminutiae]

I'm so glad you were ALSO baffled by someone pronouncing Georg like George.

it's. he's. Spiders Georg! lives in the Alps! eats spiders in his charming lederhosen!

[marzipanandminutiae]

Just a quick comment about Joseph's braids in Chevalier -- I think they make sense narratively, as his mother was an enslaved African woman, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that cornrows were historically the most comfortable way for a person of African descent to accommodate a wig. I love that they're showing cornrows are historically accurate (they've been around for thousands of years), though I can't specifically speak to the black experience in France at the time.

That's fair, and I do get what they're going for with the symbolism. As I understand it, most white men who wore full-on wigs back then kept their hair very short or shaved underneath, and I would have expected something similar for Black men in the same country/culture. But as you say, I don't know much about how Black Frenchmen's cultural background might have affected such things for them.

I think what I worry about- and this could be total White Person Bullshit, mind -is movies enforcing the idea that the fashionable clothing of a given era was only for white people, and Black people in the same setting only wore it if they were Trying To Look Whiter. As opposed to, you know...being born and raised in broadly the same cultural millieu as the white people around them, seeing the same high fashion of the day, and aspiring to the same clothing styles.

I just think about the Black people I've talked to at museums who mentioned being astonished and enchanted to see photos and paintings of people who looked like them wearing elegant Victorian gowns or 18th-century court suits, and how monstrously unfair it seemed that that history of their ancestors had been kept from them all this time.

I don't know. I'd just hate to see that idea of "this is Not For You" reinforced by the media, even for something as small as a wig. When I've seen how excited people get upon learning that, yes, it was For Them, too.