#jask rambles

[bolairelatthalia]

sometimes true love is a half dozen cats in a cottage, a library of deadly and crimes-against-gods magic books and the exandrian equivalent of a green card marriage to keep your wanted criminal of a life partner out of fantasy jail all while you flip off your own country's government and mi6 from a lecture hall in front of the impressionable young minds of said country teaching them how be gay and do crime on the empires paycheck

[bolairelatthalia]

i want ya'll to know i'm going to be absolutely insufferable about my two fave purples and their wizard when they start airing

[bolairelatthalia]

im doing a reread of wha (pretty much directly after finishing all the chapters cause i have zero chill and im head over heels for this series) and im at the part where they have their first visit to the starry sword and qifrey is discussing the tree and i just got hit with a few thoughts all at once

[spoilers up to ch 96]

we dont yet know just how many silverwoods were once people, at least one is probable given the myth/legend behind the tree but i reckon is probably a fair few more than that and probably the tree in the starry sword as well

we dont know how aware the people who become silverwoods would be after full transformation, if qifrey goes full tree will he still be present and will he feel his blood and branches being taken from him? given the history of body horror in this series thats not such a farfetched fear to have aaaaaaa

and probably the more realistic and concerning thought to have

3. given the series themes and current sus behaviour of the royals, should they or even witch society at large discover what the brimhats have regarding silverwood human hosts, how long before someone goes factory farm mode on innocents to mass produce wands and ink? we've already seen how disabled folk and poor folk are treated within the world, if qifrey and custas' secret is discovered i don't think it ends well for anybody. especially seen as we appear to be heading straight for a breakdown of peaceful relations between witches and average folk, if war breaks out between the two...well.

totally chill terrible thoughts to hit me in quick succession on a saturday evening lol

man i love this series so much!

[bolairelatthalia]

manga chap 90+ spoilers below as i continue my reread

the way he's just...do you ever get hit by the fact that at times, qifrey probably does things like this to feel what it will be like to be the tree. probably attempting to find some manner of peace in the idea of it beyond the terror of it. a place for the birds to rest and make their nests, something peaceful after the fact. i dunno, these panels just made me a little sad this time. he looks sad here, that kind of grieving sadness that makes you smile, where it hurts but theres some silver lining to it. i wonder how often he does something like this and thinks about the silverwood and the big what if that follows, i wonder how often he hopes

[bolairelatthalia]

im catching up with campaign 4 and everything revealed about the tachonis weird plans so far and the sundered houses as a whole is making me think these guys are making moves to become gods but not like big singular gods like they had before but a kinda corrupt bureaucracy multi level marketing kinda godly situation. essentially if you don't have organic divinity, store bought is fine. these fuckers just scream frankenstein-ing some fucked up eldritch horror god adjacent bullshit in a basement to me thats going to go rotten real quick. that's where im putting my money. i wanna see these sundered houses fuck themselves up like jeff goldblum in the fly because of their greed and hubris and everybody gonna have god killing 2: electric boogaloo now with more cosmic horror, thats gonna be so much fun!

[bolairelatthalia]

JOY i have caught up with campaign 4

PAIN i now have to wait for the next episode

[bolairelatthalia]

'i deserve a little treat' i say to myself as i decide to read past my strict one hour bedtime reading and begin to swerve into this will have dire consequences on the delicate and easily fucked sleep schedule im barely maintaining as is

[bolairelatthalia]

hey anybody else excited by the fact that it's been a year since they announced the mighty nein animated series and we could be getting news or trailer sometime soon (like maybe this month !!!)