songbird

still here

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Multiple Attolian barons: hiring the best assassins money can buy to try to murder Costis

Costis, tipsy and throwing people through windows: damn so weird how intense bar fights are getting these days

[comicaurora]

Im sure everyone is asking you your opinion of Nolan's Odyessy, so rather than throw another in there i'll ask

How funny is it that the Hadestown Proshot was in theatres at the same time?

squandered the crossover potential smh

[ambersephone]

ten years apart 😭

[iamthemaestro]

found this at an antique shop the other day and was immediately like oh this belongs on tumblr. sniles sneetly. fwowns fwangry.

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[incomingalbatross]

Pet: And those are my psychos. #MyPsychos

[inevitablestars]

can't believe that the turning around story ended with him turning around again i'm so upset

[cupidsquilll]

[magpie-trove]

Blessed be God who binds up the brokenhearted and patches up their wounds

[creekfiend]

there is this really specific thing that very Online women of a certain age (mostly older millennials and younger gen x in my experience) who are married to a man will do where they will refer to their husbands as "Mr. (Part of My Username)"

so like if the username is something like "dancingwithbears" they'll refer to their husband as "Mr. Bears"

i think it is extremely charming

[thebirdandhersong]

no hate to Celehar but why is there not 39439283758704987297493 books about Maia I want to see more of Maia!!!!

[rheineorshine]

wow this sucks so bad we ought [remembers that thou mustn't abidicate, as thy cousin Idra would be dead within the year] bridge the Istandaärtha

[muppetebbtide]

Maia and Csethiro Goblinemperor are kinda the funniest pairing in the world... pious non-confrontational man who accidentally became emperor and would LOVE to just go and be a monk or something, put in an arranged marriage with an academic-jock swordswoman whose life dream is to get to say really loudly WHAT SIR, DO YOU QUARRELL?? I DEMAND SATISFACTION and then fight a duel about it. Initially she was pissed about the arranged marriage but now she keeps offering to kill people for him. Like when cats bring you things they hunted. It's like. Maia, thinking tentatively it would be nice to have a wife who doesn't hate him, while Csethiro is in the background overflowing a teacup because she got distracted by the third narrative arc of her maladaptive daydream where she's Lancelot and Maia's Guinevere. Maia probably gets jumpscared awake in the middle of the night w her face like an inch from his and before he can panic she's like 'on a scale of one to ten how impressed wouldst thou be if I crossed a bridge made out of swords to rescue thee and there were also lions at the end' and Maia is like '????? ten?? is that a thing that happens????'

[lordofnowhere-art]

please read the Goblin Emperor

[lordofnowhere-art]

the firsts <3

[muppetebbtide]

even outside of just being a REALLY fun sandbox to play in, the elaborate worldbuilding in the goblin emperor is such a clever way of ensuring character-reader bonding. even though maia is lovely and you'd probably love him anyway, between all the michen'muras and dach'osminnoi and the untheileians and thees and thous and all the c names you can't remember, you feel just as lost and bewildered as he does, and you really get a sense of the immense scale of this burden he's been handed. so you empathise extra hard with every panicked and inept moment maia has, because god damn it you're confused and feeling a bit stupid too. you both start as outsiders to the world, but as you get through the book you slowly learn with him, and get more confident with him, and you're proud of yourself! and you're proud of him! and because you're in his isolated third-person pov the whole time, it's like you've done it together! and you root for him so damn hard because you've put the work in, and so has he, and you want to see it pay off. it's so preposterously effective

[bathroom-spiders]

My very comprehensive review of The Goblin Emperor