to me this is the aquarium

Kerensa | 26 | bisexual | she/her. tired of being nice might go apeshit. icon by marmarbaxter!

[inevitablyuncertain]

do you think ART knows how Murderbot talks about food

[all-all0s-eyes]

I hope they fight about it.

[tadpole-art]

It has social anxiety okay ;-;

[nonplusagon]

we are the daughters of the hamburgers you couldn't help

[thegayraven]

i've heard rumors of a goblin emperor discord server and i am simply wondering...how does one get an invite

[taylorsterryart]

Csevet giving bombastic side eye to whoever is holding up the emperor and ruining his schedule

[aethersea]

A neat thing about The Goblin Emperor is that while it's a classic trope of the lost heir plunged into a morass of courtly intrigue where he has no idea whom he can trust, the very first thing it does is emphasize how much he has to choose to trust anyway. Maia has to trust the head of his household to appoint his body servants, and he has to trust those servants. He has to trust the adremaza to appoint his nohecharei, and he has to trust his nohecharei. Any one of these people could kill him. Any one of them could carry gossip to his enemies, or make him look bad in public and thus weaken him in the eyes of the court. But if he so much as implies a discomfort with these choices, he'll offend powerful people without cause – and anyway, how could he possibly pick better? He has no idea what he's doing. He's forced to rely on people. He's forced to trust. The only person he actually personally chooses is Csevet, and what he chooses to do is essentially hand Csevet the keys to the empire. He got so fucking lucky there, that could have gone so incredibly badly.

But it didn't. Because, as the book emphasizes, trust is the right choice. Even when it does go badly, even when he is betrayed, that doesn't mean the trust was wrong. Because when one person betrays him, every single other person around him shows how truly loyal they are, not only by rushing to his aid, but by caring so deeply and obviously about him.

That's why this book feels so odd for its genre: there's a bunch of complex courtly intrigue going on, but Maia never plays the game. He never schemes, he's never playing 5D chess with his enemies. He has to navigate the factions of the court and try to win them to his side, but he does so by being kind and forthright. He's completely blindsided by the coup attempts, and frankly so are we, because he's just been focusing on other stuff! And he survives them, not through his own cunning, but through the love of those he placed his trust in.

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Reading Goblin Emperor fanfic is like. Aw I love Maia. That should be "wert" not "wast." These characters have the sweetest relationships! "St" is actually the second person verb ending, you can't use it for first or third. Yay Csethiro! "Thank you" is actually a shortening of the phrase "I thank you" and you need to use the full version when you switch "you" with "thee" or it sounds terribly awkward. Hahaha Beshelar

[tuiskuh]

Edrehasivar VII, also known as Maia Drazhar or my Beloved Blorbo

[sunatsubu]

Blending in

[mothecho]

They should invent a way to sit hunched over doing crafts that is Good for your body

[unfriendlymollusk]

I forgot I could make fan art

So because I'm having a grand time watching the show and bc I will perish if I'm not doing 3 things at once here is my take on SecUnit

[not100bees]

They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

[god-monsterr]

this reply deserves to be here.

[titsay]

[hannahelatham]

There you are

prints available here!

[circusheart]

cant stop thinking about this this was sooo crazyyyyy

[wuggen]

Recently discovered, fully by accident, that the trick to feeling like you have more time in the day is to actually do shit with the time that's there, which seems fake and wrong and it's frankly infuriating that it works >:|

[wuggen]

This is picking up a bit so I thought I'd mention that, while this trick does work, it is regrettably the hardest fucking thing in the world to do :T

[trans-yllz]

cursed with a brother like you

wuthering heights - emily brontë / the year of magical thinking - joan didion / the sea - john banville / one last poem for richard - sandra cisneros / vikings, 2x01 / teenage talk - st. vincent / my brother my wound - natalie diaz / iscariot - walk the moon / don't you want to share the guilt? - kate nash / he ain't heavy, he's my brother - the hollies / bless your tombstone heart - the low anthem / antoine de saint-exupéry / the numbers game - emily berry / the last days of judas iscariot - stephen adly guirgis / allies or enemies - the crane wives / famous blue raincoat - leonard cohen / it is once again the summer of my discontent & this is how we do it - hanif abdurraqib / a brother named gethsemane - natalie diaz / untitled - margaret schnabel / boot theory (crush) - richard siken / call them brothers - regina spektor / hello my old heart - the oh hellos / I wanted to ask - katie maria / motion sickness - phoebe bridgers / luke, 15:32 / never love an anchor - the crane wives / please leave a light on when you go - fun.

do NOT tag as ch*ngxian!!