#musing aloud

[shadamypositivity]

I know the trope is cliche but I'll be open and honest with yall, sonic x Amy x shadow is the only love triangle that I think could be really fun and interesting if SEGA did ever want to play around with ships and romance. which is kinda a shame bc I think there's a lot to explore there but yk at the end of the day it's super hedgehogs running around so I know what we're about here

[blue-grama]

A good death in Spare Me Your Mercy Ep 3

End-of-life decisions are really interesting to me; I used to volunteer for a hospice organization, and it's something I hope to get back to in the future, too. So I'm preordained to be into Spare Me Your Mercy, but I really want to recommend it just as a (so far) thoughtful look at death and palliative care. We saw the series' view of a 'good' death in episode 3 - surrounded by family and tradition, rich in meaning, happening at a time and place of the person's choosing. (I almost wrote 'patient,' but the point here is that the person isn't in the patient role. They're dying how so many of us wish to and how so few of us will be allowed to, at home and in control and having reached the inevitable end of a full life.) If you're a sucker for northern Thailand, this series is a winner. Based on the clothing, I believe this is supposed to be the Lahu Hill Tribe, and the glimpse into their funeral rites and view of death is so interesting, especially contrasted with Thiu's Buddhist upbringing (he mentions the possibility of being reborn into hell as opposed to the more gentle moving-between-worlds vision of the afterlife of the Lahu). I hope we get enough time in this series to really work through Thiu's feelings about his mom's passing - right now, I'm wondering why she didn't wait, if Kan will be able to convey her reasons to Thiu, and if they're reasons he can live with. You never know with mysteries, but right now this one has me in suspense*. Kan is sus as hell, but we've been given no reason to think he'd kill one of this patients as brutally as the lung cancer patient died. I like the ambiguity around Kan and Thiu's relationship right now, too. Kan absolutely started flirting to try to play Thiu, but I think Thiu's vulnerability around his mom's death is getting to Kan. Thiu's a little harder to read - his view of Kan clearly shifted over the course of watching Kan work in the villages, but I can't tell how much he's going along with dating Kan in order to keep him close versus out of genuine interest. I imagine the pickings are slim out in the country, so might as well date the sketchy doctor who might have killed your mom?? HE'S GASLIGHTING YOU ABOUT THE POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, THIU!!! Still, Thiu's mom died like 3 weeks ago, so I'm willing to write a lot of his life choices off as "hot mess." 🤣 They feel very early Tan/Bunn to me, and Sammon loves her a gray-character romance, so it'll be very interesting to see where this is going. *Haven't read the book, don't want to know

[ishgard]

Sometimes fic titles come easy but boy not this time (name for The fic for V1). 🤔

[anormaladn]

would

would Yugo officiate the otomirga wedding

that'd be hilarious

[crystal-grace]

One thing I never (or at least I don’t think) I ever mention is Yaviel’s affinity for spirits that she passes onto Isendil are very much Me and Myself type experiences. Keth’s shit talking, hot mouth and devil may care but very much fragile past that is also very much me when I’m dealing with anxiety and have to blow past fear but magic and spiritually? Yavi & Issy are the ones I poured myself into. Seeing spirits from a young age and not flinching from the scary ones? Check. Hoping into the fade or in my case the Astral Realm because it’s comfortable? Check. Not knowing or particularly caring that no, shapeshifting even in that realm and staying that way for hours/the ha whole trip is frowned up? Check. (I’ve spent more time as a wolf in my dreams than I have a human or close to human anyway).

Yaviel and Isendil both go through it, with Yaviel it saves her life when she bonds with Perservance for another chance at life because she’s either too stubborn or stupid to die. It’s how Yavi goes through Jaws of Hakkon and just weeps, weeps and weeps and weeps for Telana and Ameridian not just because of what happened with Solas but also because she can feel Telana so close, she understands intimately what it is to call someone in your dreams and not find them. It’s why meeting Flemeth/Mythal weighed so heavily on her, even without vallaslin, even with seemingly betraying her people, her chosen goddess still looked at her and smiled ‘You do the people proud.’. I could paint the scene where I got swept in fully by Loki and it felt like home, much the same way meeting Flemeth after all that heartache felt like home for Yavi. That’s where I hit this year too. Meeting the other gods and associated folks that I’d known for lifetimes was a homecoming to salve the pain of losing blood family.

For Isendil? It was growing up knowing there was a well of power inside and all she had to do was reach for it and she could make magic happen. Even while everyone else stepped away from the weird child, until her only friends were the clan halla when they visited or the wolf pup that mysteriously started following her, a gift from Solas since he can’t be there though she never finds that out. It was looking at all this raw power and knowing that it’s okay to want to use it for growing things and helping people. Even when you can see and smell death on someone before they know it.

[fat-rolls-frictions]

Companion!Enabel gets real buddy-buddy with the dracolisks the Inquisitor bought

like within 2 weeks she successfully trains three of them to:

spit fire on command

spit ice on command

roll over like dogs out of sheer spite because Cullen told her they weren’t pets

her favorite is a mountain variant because it reminds her of home and also it bites anyone she wants it to

she names it Adwen

(thank you for giving me the idea @away-with-eastern-wind <3)

[camillethebrave]

I kind of want to do a verse where Freya placed Camille in another body since hers was dying.  

Only I am trying to figure out a good faceclaim for it.

[crystal-grace]

Keth’s arm in this piece? A Dagna production and it ‘bleeds’ lyrium if damaged and its through that lyrium blood that it’s bonded to Keth. So functionally with magic she can control it like flesh and feels the sensations etc through it but it’s taxing enough to use that she doesn’t wear it full time. Making appearances? She doesn’t. On the rare rare occasions she’s in battle now? She does.