#words-without

[phthalology]

SAME ANGEL

@words-without

[discworldtour]

I started with the first Tiffany book, which was great but not quiiite enough to get me into the series. Then Carpe Jungulum a couple years later, which was so different from the Tiffany series I realized I was missing out on something complex & wow. Then I went & started from Color of Magic and read 'em all in order. Now I only have the last Tiffany book to go & don't know what I'll do with my life after. (But for a starter I advise Small Gods, because chronological first and also Best One.)

Starting with the first Tiffany book and ending with the last is kind of a nice bookend -- you discovered this world through the eyes of a witch and then expanded to see it through the eyes of three of them, and then you got to watch this whole world grow up right from the beginning, and then you get to finish through the eyes of the same witch who brought you into it. That’s poetic, or something close enough. "Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

If you don’t read it before I get to it in my reread, make sure to blacklist the tag “The Shepherd’s Crown” (I’ll give plenty of warning before I start posting those).

[quillflight]

words-without replied to your quote “And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: When Moses ascended on High to...”

I love Torah logic so much it hurts, also. "This was given to humans in x generation but there haven't been x generations of humans yet SO CLEARLY this refers to pre-human generations, not that God and/or the rabbis are slightly bad at math."

The rabbis are absolutely the best at math. That’s, in fact, the one thing I rely on the rabbis for, is math. My favorite part of the Sefer Yetzirah is the part about Gd’s four-dimensional sword. That’s some high quality math, rabbis

[formerborgs]

@words-without​ said:

great shape choices 10/10 would watch show where the xbs all wore tight leather uniforms paired with this logo and color scheme

okay but you have to see what my xB reference folder looks like whenever i describe ohniakan fashions

[phthalology]

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[phthalology]

AC: Blood Ties

Watching @beeawolf and @caried-away play Assassin’s Creed II lead to the phrase “the walls are his family now.” We laughed. I wrote fic?

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There is a man standing on the corner shouting about elixirs as if tomorrow is coming. Ezio backs into a corner. Pats the air behind himself, the unfamiliar clothing pulling around his shoulders, and feels the dusty hay that drew him into the corner in the first place. He takes a piece and peels the edge away, the dirt of the city.

Traitors, the men had cried.

It is quiet now and the clouds are raging. The wind follows, blowing his cape around his shoulder so that he feels like he is tangled in it.

How could they have thought his brother was part of anything?

He retreats sometimes, up to the roofs. Sometimes he thinks about the city curving around him, the smokestacks like the betrayal-burn on Paula’s arm, the ugly river, the enormous emptiness of his own grand and abandoned house. They embrace him and echo his name back and back, making it a record of him and of his dead, sinking like blood into the walls.

[quillflight]

Hello! I have managed to wean myself from (at least posting on) this website for the past few months (precisely half a year!), so you may have forgotten me. If you do remember me it might be as the one who made that Leviathan post, or who just really liked demons/angels/anything Trachtenberg ever wrote. (If this is in fact how you remember me I would be overjoyed.)

Recently I have been discovering a lot of beautiful, heartwarming, delightful, wholesome demon tales in the Talmud and it occurred to me that some of you might be interested in hearing them. But I don’t want to take the time to collect them here unless there is actual interest. (I’m planning to write a big paper on demons in Judaism this coming year, so I’ll be doing the research anyway; the only extra effort I’d be putting in would be copying and pasting.) If you would be excited to see these stories, please like this post or tell me so that I can get an idea.

If I do decide to do this, my posts will appear under #sitra achra.