Tell Me No Again

way too old for anyone else's bullshit Problematic Fics Taste Spicier honestly I'm just here to see the gifs of the pretty boys

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[cinewhore-deactivated20211003]

[larkandkatydid]

I love to sit on my porch smoking a blunt and watching the hummingbird fly around the trumpet vine and decide which species of animal he’s wants to fight. Today, he pushed a bunch of bumblebees out of the flowers he wanted and bumblebees are one his favorite species to bully so it’s not that special. But yesterday he spent 10 minutes dive-bombing a baby sparrow. He is such a monstrous asshole and I adore him. This is my Love Island.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have to dress in this style for the rest of your life!

(you do not have to follow the beliefs associated with the style if that style has associated beliefs. The wheel curse does not affect anything like that.)

Do you like it?

yes!!

it's okay I guess

no

NO.

I dress like this already

results/other/unsure

Voting ended onAug 6

[tell-me-no-again]

[afcroyjamie]

[petals42]

people who comment on fics just to say that they are re-reading and still cried/felt emotions/loved it are the greatest people on earth and should be given a thousand dollars. 

[petals42]

addition: people who comment on fics to say that they are not even in this fandom and didn’t know the characters at all but read it anyway and loved it are also the greatest people on earth and should also be given a thousand dollars.  

[kuttithevangu]

Stuff the psychic horses have done:

- dosed Mags with antipsychotics for three months so he wouldn’t be Too Traumatized to assimilate into their culture even though his trauma is the key to the cosmic role they presumably chose him to fill: we want you traumatized but not Too traumatized

- stepped back out of Skif’s head that one time to give him the illusion of free choice in his actions, proving they are capable of doing this, yet highlighting the fact that doing so is voluntary for them

- did NOT step out of anyone else’s head so far in the five or six books I’ve read: even the illusion of free choice is not something the horses value

- chose more men than women, and more nobles than lower-class people, to be Heralds, for horse reasons

- chose multiple Heralds who are actively, on the page, deeply racist

- chose at least one Herald whose reaction to stress over politics is to immediately consider physically beating a child; did not stop that guy from getting 🤏 this close to beating that child even though literally all of the horses were witnesses to the event and presumably HIS horse can read his mind and know he’s thinking of beating a child

- did not Choose Amily, presumably because horses are ableist and in horse culture lameness is punishable by permanent exile (I’m guessing)

[kuttithevangu]

I really cannot overstate how xenophobic a world Valdemar is, even characters who are supposed to be Good will say stuff like oh all the crime in the lower city is because of the immigrants. It’s egregious. Because of the premise of the horses making this kingdom extra good, which is in constant conflict with the traumatic backgrounds of the protagonists, I keep waiting for the reveal that it’s all a lie and the horses are just mind-controlling everyone to be racist so they can maintain horse control. Remember in the Graceling books there was that kingdom where everyone thought they were happy and prosperous but actually their king was brainwashing all of them to forget every time they disappeared someone? I feel like that’s what’s happening in Valdemar but the psychic horses got to Mercedes too

[marjorierose]

I don't remember which book it's in but there's a passage that's like, if the Queen knew about these criminal neighborhoods she'd scour out all the crime and clean it all up, and then she'd leave and it would go back to being like it was before, so it's better to never let her find out about that whole aspect of the city. Really...specific...idea of a just ruler and a desirable kingdom.

[kuttithevangu]

I have the impression that the Queen/king just sort of don’t give a shit about actually ruling the kingdom which is fascinating to do in a Just Rule story! Like it’s not even “not addressed” like you said they’re actively preventing the ruler from knowing the problems the kingdom has. THE HORSES ARE BRAINWASHING EVERYONE!

[runraerun]

This but make it domestic Spirk:

[eldar-of-zemlya]

Maaan, this Ernest Chiriacka illustration has been in my K/S inspiration folder for over a year now!! Thank you for making this post—this was the push I needed to finally make it happen xD

✨ Full size on AO3 ✨

[telomeke]

[ID-

First image is artwork titled Sharing the Mirror by Ernest Chiriacka (captioned with text that reads Salon des Arts). The work depicts a man and a woman reflected in a vintage mirror, and is painted in a mid-20th century style. The man is in an old-fashioned white tank top and is shaving with a razor (his lower face is covered in foam). The woman is glamorously dressed (she has on matching earrings, wrist jewelry and evening wear), is fully made-up (with ruby lips and mascara-laden lashes) and is tidily coiffed (her blond hair falls neatly down to her shoulders and her fringe lays obediently brushed to one side). The man looks disheveled by comparison. The woman is drawing on her eyebrows with a make-up pencil. The man side-eyes her with a touch of irritation (probably because she's squeezing him to one side), while she remains fully focused on her task at hand.

Second image is artwork that shows Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock from the original Star Trek series, in almost exactly the same pose, reflected in a similar mirror. The style is more photo-realistic, and the painting is signed "eldaz of zemlya". Kirk is dressed in a black t-shirt, shaving with a razor (his lower face is covered in foam). Spock is in full Starfleet uniform, and looks as perfectly made-up as he did in the series, with a neat bowl cut fringe, shaded eyelids and dramatic Vulcan brows swooping upwards at the sides. Despite his fully made-up look, Spock is also wielding an eyebrow pencil and appears to be touching up his eyes. Each is side-eyeing the other – Kirk with a touch of irritation, Spock impassive.

End ID.]

[axi-the-tapeworm]

pro-ship and anti-ship is stupid everyone should be pro-block button and anti-harrasment so we can move on its really not that hard

[katiebootsquinn]

When shit starts going down in the boot room in a royjamie fic you know Will Kitman is about to make a cameo

[interviewwiththewerepire]

unexpected consequence of loustat working towards their second chance is being sad all over again that queliot never got theirs

[cyberdelph]

by @redcokk

[eden-writes-stuff]

[theotherwesley]

Me getting up in the morning like 

Hittin’ the keyboard like

Friends comin’ online like

DID YOu SEE tHE THINGg MY GOD

This is and always will be my favorite Tumblr post of all time.

[felifiran]

My slightly toxic married Hollanov take is that I think Shane would absolutely weaponize his own health in order to make Ilya take his own health seriously.

Like. Shane catches Ilya smoking in the garden one morning, so he's snatching the pack off Ilya and lighting one up for himself, and Ilya's telling him to stop. Shane asks "Oh what, is it bad for you?" and smokes the entire thing while complaining about how disgusting it tastes, and how unhealthy it makes him feel, and how his lung tissue is probably dying right now, but since they now both smoke, at least they can die of cancer together, hey?

And the whole time Ilya is just getting more and more upset, and trying to take the cigarette off Shane, and getting a bit teary, because he knows this is Shane's hell, and yet here he is, smoking a cigarette, in a last-ditch attempt to get Ilya to quit. Ilya begs Shane to stop, pleads with him, but none of it moves Shane at all.

Shane finishes the cigarette, and promptly throws up in the bushes - it turns out that Ilya's high nicotine cigarettes and an empty stomach are a bad combination. Ilya cries. He doesn't ever smoke another cigarette again, though, thank God.

(After, Shane panics and googles can one cigarette make you bad at hockey? The results are inconclusive, though his own data pool of Ilya Fucking Rozanov suggests it takes more than one cigarette to ruin a hockey career, so Shane's fairly sure he'll be alright)

[paranormal-taters]

MY DEAR TUMBLR USERS!!

WONDERFUL NEWS!!

NETHERFIELD PARK IS LET AT LAST!!!

[paranormal-taters]

[soychronicprocrastinator]

What a wonderful thing for our girls!!!

[lady-merian]

How so? How can it affect them? 🤨

[sunflowergardens-world]

My dear Merian! You must know I am thinking of his reblogging from one of them!

[green-great-dragon]

Is that his design in blogging here?

[estel-and-agape]

Design? nonsense, how can you write so! But it is very likely that he may reblog from one of them, and therefore you must follow him as soon as his blog is online.

[lady-merian]

I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may follow him, or they may follow him by themselves, which perhaps will be still better for them, for as you are as clever as any of them he might reblog most from you of the party.

[soychronicprocrastinator]

My dear, you flatter me. I certainly HAVE had my share of cleverness, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up mutuals, she ought to give over thinking of her own reblog counts.

[siena-sevenwits]

In such cases, a woman has not often much of a reblog count to think of.