i just know you got up and CLAPPED when paula spoke her truth
"rayla's just gonna become a tradwife"-spewers fucking GAGGED
I DID.
Like‚ these kind of comments were even around before Sarai getting a confirmation. Listen I understand getting worried over that but there were weird assumptions and it was ANNOYING
I clapped at Paula. She was pretty clear and she was very pro baby. Why would this show which has never reduced mothers to tradwives do this with Rayla? Their main girl??
I also loved her bit of "why aren't people commenting this about Callum?"
Bless you Paula. After the bullshitty comments we went throught with Rayla in Arc 2 we don't need a mom version of that (even if I sure they will come *sigh*)
6, 17, 24 for the ask game <3 (tdp ship(s) of your choosing)
Thank you thank you thank you for this ask!!🫶🏻
Nobody will be surprised when I say I choose Sorvus💀
Under the cut because I can talk about them forever.
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6. Who is always, always running late?
Soren. It’s the ADHD in him. He tries so hard but he just can’t help it sometimes.
Corvus, on the other hand, gives me “chronically 15 minutes early” vibes.
You’d think they’d balance each other out, but no.
17. Who is more competitive?
This is such a good question for the “flirt via challenges” couple.
Soren is for sure more obvious about being competitive.
But I think Corvus has a secret competitive side as well. Per the Sorvus fan bible that is “Changing of the Guard,” Corvus is fine with losing. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t trying his darnedest to win, or that when he wins he isn’t thrilled about it.
I can also see Soren being a sore loser and Corvus letting him win certain challenges because he just doesn’t want to deal with Soren being pouty all day.
24. Sleeping/cuddling positions? (Big spoon, little spoon, etc.)?
Okay per my own fanfic, I feel like, when spooning, they are both gladly either spoon and take turns. The only times their designated nights are interrupted are if one of them has a particularly rough day.
I also believe that Soren will use any excuse to rest in the crook of Corvus’s neck that is usually hidden by his scarf, so any cuddling position that has him draped over Corvus’s chest is a favorite of his. Often this also leaves one of Corvus’s hands free (the other stroking through Soren’s hair) to read a book or even read aloud, if it’s something Soren would be interested in.
I also believe Soren moves a lot in his sleep, so while they may fall asleep cuddling they eventually break apart once in sleep.
Soren also has a tendency to starfish or sleep in whacky positions (see: Love, War, and Mushrooms) so Corvus either has to make himself as small as possible or bat Soren’s limbs away sometimes.
Corvus is a side sleeper but his leg/hip hates him for it so he tries to sleep on his back but always ends up waking up on his side (maybe I’m projecting here, who can say).
I've been wanting to do a bit of an update to this meta about Gift Giving in TDP (written pre-S6) as a few different things (mostly as a goodbye in arc 1 and about magic in arc 2 thus far) that I think S6 contributed to our understanding of. For example, I'd speculated in that meta that due to the language used by characters, Archdragons were contemporaries of the First Elves back in the day (post-S6 followup here), and that possibly all forms magic had been a gift from the First Elves to the 'Primal' elves, with dark magic being Aaravos' to Leola's primal magic to humans. (If you want more details on this I'd rec reading the meta in full itself.) It seems like Something of that sort is roughly what happened
However, my old meta about deceptive gift giving in Greek myth / TDP means that gift giving doesn't necessarily have a positive connotation, particularly because in giving a gift, you're deciding what someone needs (even when they don't or don't want it). Callum doesn't want the gifts Rayla gives him in leaving; dark magic has ruined a lot of human lives and caused immense suffering; Rex Igneous asks for worthy gifts of sacrifice in exchange for knowledge; the cube was given to Callum as a gift, but clearly has a more complicated past / connection to Aaravos.
I do think in TDP that the world is ultimately better off with Primal magic than without, which is why Callum Exists in the narrative to create an actually fair system where everyone can access primal magic.
However, at this point in time, primal magic but be another deceptive gift given to the elves from the First Elves, and was clearly a part I'm of their Cosmic Order (destiny and all that) with also interplays with thoughts Rayla has that Callum/humans can change their fate, but she (elves) can't. Four Gifts is a weird number — if it was 5 or 6 it could be all the primals or all the primals except stars — but there Are four members of the Cosmic Council, and those gifts were ancient, so...
I'm assuming that it's one Gift from each of them, tbh. Whether those gifts are good or bad or both, we'll have to wait and see
stargazing (call me cliche go ahead it never gets old,) the sweetness of the bookery scene where rayla tells callum abt her parents, or all the fluffy lil details from the entirety of e1
if u would
*Puts on special over analyzing cause of adhd glasses*
Say. Less. The Stargazing scene:
The South Star, a special star that navigators use to find their way in the darkness. The way it looks so bright and by the heavens, I hope they implement this again.
She's so intent on listening, so focused to here the wonders between Elves and Humans with their stars.
To find their way in the endless darkness, and he looks at her. His fear is to lose himself down this dark path, and there she is.
She looks at him so tenderly, listening as he keeps going.
Then her eyes soften ever so as she gazes at him with more intent.
Resting her head on his shoulder to which he could move or do anything else. He questions it reasonably so.
He looks at her with renewed view, not opposed or withdrawn as he might have been in season 4. This look is just one of content and maybe more.
He quickly adjusts to it. Pressing his head against her as she rests on him. A tender night under the stars.
