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[familial-fos]

hey ppl with paternal f/os (or masc s/is with kids)! imagine this with u and ur f/o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X7NJf4JiZw4 (u might wanna put the link in yhe reply so it embeds)

the link

this is actually so adorable oh my god 😭

[cinematicallypainted]

you won’t believe some of the things being said about the album and Taylor herself on Twitter. It’s so disgusting and misogynistic. Like they’re claiming “it’s constructive criticism” but the wording says otherwise and oh God the posts by men

*SCREAMS INTO PILLOW*

i'm all for *actual* criticism (and we should consume media critically) but like 99.9% of the the "criticism" posts i've seen are really just complaining that either

1) they just don't like it (which is fine, you don't have to like everything!) 2) people saying shit like "i miss folklore/evermore/ttpd" guess what???? THEY HAVEN'T GONE ANYWHERE GO LISTEN TO THEM! an artists previous albums don't disappear once a new one comes out. if you wanna listen to the lyricism of of those albums, go listen to them! 3) acting like her lyrics have gotten worse. they're not. you don't have to like all of them (again, valid) but there are some really fantastic lyrics on this album, and i feel like people don't understand (or don't want to understand) that lyricism changes based on the kind of story that you're telling in the song. super flowery and metaphorical lyrics wouldn't make sense in the storytelling of a song like cancelled! just like the lyricism of cancelled! wouldn't make sense for something like the smallest man who ever lived. people need to use some critical thinking oh my fucking god 4) people believe that "i don't like this" equals something being bad. those are not the same thing. you not liking something is fine, that doesn't automatically make it bad, it just means that it's not for you. 5) they just don't like her (you don't have to) and want something to complain about, which is actually the craziest thing to me because when i don't like an artist i don't interact with their work at all...

it's exactly the same thing that happened with ttpd, and midnights, and evermore, and folklore, and lover, and rep, and 1989, and red, and speak now, and fearless. it happens every album cycle and it's just exhausting.

again, i think actual criticism is valid, but all these so called "think pieces" are just most people wanting to complain (proving the stuff she talks about in the beginning of eldest daughter, actually romantic and cancelled), and using absolutely no critical thinking skills but speaking as if they actually comprehend what it is that taylor is saying on the album/song.

[threedotsfromstardom]

what are some of your favourite afterparty headcanons?

off the top of my head:

aniq and zoë's favorite colors being each others, after they got together

zoë made aniq a playlist akin to the one he made her in high school, after they started dating. maybe as a surprise gift for the following valentine's day

maggie exclaiming she has two dads now bc of zoë being with aniq

the jennifers are childhood friends/grew up together

s1 spoilers under read more

yasper managed to get a phone while in prison and has made burner accounts on apps, commenting on news posts about his trial defending himself/saying xavier deserved it 😭

[ethereumhq]

Can I get uhhhhh five

The fifth circle of Helloween will be...

RAGE. Click to read more, and check back tomorrow for the next circle reveal.

[katepeoart]

For the Inquisitor meme: 28. How people think they look like in the exaggerate rumors that go around Thedas

Inquisitor Drawing Meme | Accepting

Exaggerated (left) is much fairer in line with the Souths idea of beauty. Paler skin, black hair is now blonde thanks to a description of the Inquisitor being "crowned with gold". She's thinner, angrier and less approachable. Her circlet is replaced with actual horns which? Apparently elves have, or at least this one.

It's way over exaggerated and looks an entirely different person from Adhlea (right) who is just a soft lil elf who loves jewelry and pretty things.

[agathaharknes]

⭐️ :)

[Too frantic to use the keys the sorceress blasted the door open, almost pulling it out of the hinges with her brimming chaos. “Yennefer!” She cried, chest straining mercilessly against her corset. The girl turned to look at her and Tissaia bolted for her, made stupid with concern. She grabbed her by the wrists to try and stop the bleeding. She tried to drag her away from the lethal, broken things, much as the woman had made her. But Yennefer was faster with the adrenaline still coursing through her leaking veins and just as she tightened her hold on her wounded flesh the girl kicked her in the gut with her kneecap, the distraction allowing for Tissaia to be manhandled and pressed against the wall, where her olive fingers harshly tangled in chestnut hair, slamming her head against the stone.

Kept compliant as she bounced back by the forearm in her throat, which was mildly choking her and the knee between the two of hers. “Don’t hesitate.” I trusted you. With her free hand, Yennefer ghosted the shard through the delicate skin of her face. “Go for the eyes.” I listened. She let it rest next to her left one.]

“Do it.” Tissaia breathed, the blade inching even closer. “Do it!” She dared, drinking in violet orbs. “Cut me up. Show me who’s the piglet.” If it was manipulation or the madness she had accumulated throughout the years the woman couldn’t tell. “All because I took you out of that dump where hope goes to die.” Yennefer sneered at her. “That was our bargain, wasn’t it? For me to show you once and for all how much they don’t care and take you away… It was so easy, like taking sweets from children.” She could feel her uneven breath against her lips, the girl’s strength starting to fail her as the minutes passed. “How long until he sold you to be a cheap whore?” Not even a month, from the thoughts she’d scanned. “Do you fancy that a nobler fate than dining with kings?” It wasn’t, not since the Rectoress had taken power and vowed no girl would go through what she had. “Take your pleasure, take your pain, my dearest...” The brunette purred. “Do you even know the difference anymore?” I don’t. “Or you could let me help you. Let me show you that someone does care enough to pull you back. That I care enough for you to allow myself to let you retaliate.” Tissaia pressed her temple, where the blade now rested, further into the glass, making a deep gash above her eyebrow.

Excerpt from Till Human Voices Wake Us (And We Drown), chapter 2.

Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut - Readers come into my ask box and ask for the “director’s commentary” on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines. Or, send in a ⭐star⭐  to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about! // My ao3.

Okay, so let start with: “Do it.” Tissaia breathed, the blade inching even closer. “Do it!” She dared, drinking in violet orbs. “Cut me up. Show me who’s the piglet.” If it was manipulation or the madness she had accumulated throughout the years the woman couldn’t tell. // Tissaia is a master manipulator, that much we know. How couldn’t she be when she’s raised the woman that may destroy the Brotherhood? But this... this is not entirely it. Ever the scholar, this is also a taunt, an honest invitation that allows her to see what she’s working with. You can’t make gold out of mud. She can lie to keep Yennefer safe from the Chapter, from swimming with the eels, sure, but I don’t think she wants to. I think what she wants is to see if the saying “nurture vs nature” has any validity. She was happy, she was loved. Yennefer wasn’t. - This is the work of her life, this is the one riddle she couldn’t figure out. - Tissaia wants to see if those old wives’ tales about soulmates hold a candle to the truth because she’s never found any answers and Coral won’t give them to her. Tissaia is gauging out if they really two halves of the same person even when they’ve walked such different paths.

“All because I took you out of that dump where hope goes to die.” Yennefer sneered at her. // In chapter 1, I wrote that Tissaia is a greedy thing by nature and her their greed, her their ambition is a pillar of this story. Tissaia’s been filling that hole inside her which such devotion I don’t believe even being a child, being the heiress to Acaidal was enough. I believe she lived in storybooks, in hope of something more. And when it came... she was back at the start, being the most powerful, the most beautiful mage alive wasn’t enough to fill her up. (“It was obsession. No matter the cost nor the damage you needed it because without it you were empty and empty was scarier, worse than just broken. - Only Ashes Remain, chapter 17.”) Tissaia de Vries has lived her whole life in hope that one day she will be whole. An existence where that is just a silly dream is worse to her than death and thus, intolerable for Yennefer to endure. So you see, she does believe she’s saved her, however cruel she was about it.

“That was our bargain, wasn’t it? For me to show you once and for all how much they don’t care and take you away… It was so easy, like taking sweets from children.” She could feel her uneven breath against her lips, the girl’s strength starting to fail her as the minutes passed. // Tissaia loves her games, loves winning and when she particularly dislikes the other players she loves cheating. She knows nobody that has acquired anything worthy has kept it by playing fair. The world is her board, people her pieces to move and she’s mapped out all the strategies from the start. Tissaia will offer you salvation with a kind hand - already aware of what that means to you - only for her touch to maim you.

“How long until he sold you to be a cheap whore?” Not even a month, from the thoughts she’d scanned. “Do you fancy that a nobler fate than dining with kings?” It wasn’t, not since the Rectoress had taken power and vowed no girl would go through what she had. // They made Tissaia into a monster, that’s an irrefutable fact. Tissaia is willing to put her students through a lot of heartaches to make them into women that can survive, thrive, that is also a fact. But whilst Tissaia enjoys depravation, she is not depraved. Tissaia is a woman before she is a sorceress though she won’t admit to it, and she will always bear the transgression that that is. She will not demand from her girls what was so brutally ordered of her. Tissaia is keenly aware that the difference between a monster and a demon is bestiality. She finds comfort in the dark, she isn’t made of it.

“Take your pleasure, take your pain, my dearest...” The brunette purred. “Do you even know the difference anymore?” I don’t. // Everything they could have taken from her, they have. Everything they could have done to her, they have. Everything they could have told her, they have. And the worst part is that at some point she started believing it was right to expect a this for that. That love and pleasure can’t be pure without the pain. If it doesn’t come with a price then it isn’t real, because how could it last without it? If it doesn’t consume her how will she ever prove she’s alive? How could the scales be kept stable if she isn’t holding them between bloodied hands?

“Or you could let me help you. Let me show you that someone does care enough to pull you back. That I care enough for you to allow myself to let you retaliate.” Tissaia pressed her temple, where the blade now rested, further into the glass, making a deep gash above her eyebrow. // Our dear Rectoress is not a permissive person, much less when it concerns the things she will allow herself to endure at the hands of others, the vulnerability, the exchange of power such acts need. Control is paramount, after all. So I think it’s very telling that even though she’s the one in control (her magic is intact), despite Yennefer holding the blade and pressing her to the wall, Tissaia pushes so Yennefer cuts her (doing it herself by proxy). This is her saying, “I have already suffered my whole life for you and now that I have found you, that I can cage you, that I can mould you into whatever I want, I shall instead continue to bleed, if it allows you the freedom I was never afforded, because to me that is preferable than diluting your essence.” For Yennefer this is where she’s been at her most vulnerable and they both know it and for Tissaia, lovely, terrifying Tissaia, this is the first time she has any say over the bond that was imposed on them and despite all that she has suffered because of it, she’s choosing Yennefer. If that ain’t love then it turns out I don’t know the meaning of that word.

-- You have no idea how dearly I wanted to get that off my chest, so thank you for the interest, anon!!!!

Till Human Voices Wake Us (And We Drown).

[katgreeves]

i was such a fool w crt BUT he was on his ig story a few days/ weeks (idek anymore) talking abt how great his agency is bc he had two upcoming projects that conflicted but they worked it out soooo 👀👀

UR THINKING EXACTLY WHAT IM THINKING BUDDY 😎👀

look we are all clowns for this but also theres still months left to film s3 and dave is too important of a plot point to lose now without closure SO UNTILL S3 PROVES US WRONG KEEP THE HOPE ALIVE GUYS!