Odi et Amo

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy." thunder. 34. classicist, clarinetist, crier. fanfic librarian. sea otters! current life mottoes.

[thunderburning]

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Hello Arcane Fandom! I’m a member of the Jayvik Yuri Nation discord server (come join us, it’s a great time) and I futzed around tonight on my piano + Garage Band + shitty headphone microphone to make a cover of Fantastic for the server. :’) I hope you enjoy!

[sladucer]

-hi?

-hi

[tojisloft]

has this been done?

[emziess]

Grace Rocky Save Stars!

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[bweirdart]

happy neil day (20th anniversary edition?!?!!)

past years neils:

[skapediem]

if it's any consolation, you'll be hailed as a hero

[busket]

he's gonna die one day soon and it wont fix everything but it'll feel great and the whole world is gonna fucking party together

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

Happy anniversary of Éowyn stabbing the Witch-king in the face

It happened on March 15!

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

shit shit shit it's march i forgot to promote this print to yall:

read it carefully lol it's the callout of Caesar

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

i should emphasize, I did NOT write the original post, that was done by @heresmyfiddlestick and they get a cut of the sales from these prints.

I'm not sure how to format image IDs when they're this long so I hope this is right:

[image ID: A sheet of calligraphy print with gold and purple vinework and red daggerlike flowers. In the border there is a torn, purple lined bit of cloth meant to read as a toga and there it begins with a large drop capital F in red. the text reads as follows

Friends, mutuals, countrymen, do not scroll past;

I come to cancel Caesar, not to stan him.

The cringe posts that men make live after them;

The nuance oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was problematic:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–

For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men–

Come I to comment on Caesar’s call-out post.

He was my mutual, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was problematic;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many hot takes to my dash

Whose notifs did the general discourse fill:

Did this in Caesar seem problematic?

When that anons have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Toxicity should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was problematic;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Tumblr Blaze

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse: was this problematic?

Yet Brutus says he was problematic;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to start discourse with Brutus,

But just to provide some context on his call-out post.

You all did stan him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to follow him?

/.End ID]

[knightsickness]

the difference between lestat and armands interactions w pop culture is lestat was a guest judge on an ep of rupauls drag race and armand has been a close personal friend of rupauls for the past forty years and is involved in the fracking

[overnighttosunflowers]

cover art by the inimitable @astoriacolumnstaircase

~*~

She had already turned to walk towards the gondola home, assuming they’d both be spending the evening at the bar, when she realized that Laudna was hanging back a step. “If—well—I did say later,” Laudna said, sounding apprehensive, “and obviously we can’t talk about it here, so if you wanted to come, you know, with me, I mean? It’s not far!” she added hastily while Imogen was still struck dumb trying to process this. “I’m just a few stops up the Center line, or it’s also a nice walk, around half an hour, but the gondola is probably better. To avoid putting that ankle to the test, I mean, better safe and all that.” She let out the very end of her breath and then added, “I have tea?”

~*~

I Prefer Girls chapter 6 is up!

It's about 15k, and I think there's some stuff in this one y'all will like. Hyperlinked, because Tumblr's link post feature is broken as hell.

Also, it's been a hot minute, so here's the main fic description again:

Whenever it all got to be too much, whenever the fear and panic and denial and longing rose too high in her chest, Imogen would press her ear against the creaky floorboards of her bedroom, close her eyes to the dust under her bed, and listen to the life she was never going to have. Or: A 1950s AU. Imogen is closeted, Laudna writes fix-its for lesbian pulps, and the city’s clandestine gay bar is right underneath Imogen’s new apartment.

[ceramicfigs]

sketch for the judgement, charcoal on paper, john singer sargent, c. 1903-1916

[doomsayings]

He shakes his head. ‘You’ll live.’ He once thought it himself, that he might die of grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But the pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel

[losthavenmine]

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

[xochihuacoyotl]

so. not to doxx myself (i've talked about this here before though) but i live in Kansas. and my license was just revoked very suddenly and immediately because i'm trans and had changed my gender marker.

so now i cannot legally drive or vote until/unless i let them force me to carry around a card that misgenders me and outs me as trans, because i certainly don't look female anymore.

[xochihuacoyotl]

so hey if you have the means and want to help with any of this, please consider donating to the ACLU of Kansas because they are at least going to try to do something to push back against this, and i'm such a panicky wreck that the only thing i can do to get through my immediate gut reaction to having my license revoked tonight (i cannot stress enough that i received the letter today saying that my license is no longer valid tomorrow) is focus on the fact that there's at least one entity trying to protect me and my fellow trans kansans.

Support the ACLU of Kansas Foundation

[faggotfungus]

More info on what's been happening in Kansas:

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

[xochihuacoyotl]

once again VERY quickly glancing at the flood of notes as they rush by me, and this set of tags from @the-cassquatch caught my eye:

it was basically rushed through. there's a vague timeline on this that starts in 2023, when a law (i don't remember which one at this point) was passed trying to define gender as being only male or female in kansas and restricting what bathrooms we're allowed to use in government facilities and shit like that, and Kris Kobach tried to take that law and say "THIS MEANS YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR SEX/GENDER ON YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE OR DRIVER'S LICENSE" and in June of 2023 all such actions across the state were frozen by a county judge.

it was initially expected that this freeze would end in a matter of weeks because you can only put a hold on these things via judicial action for so long. they managed to keep this tied up in legal limbo for almost 2 and a half years, though. in October of 2025, that ruling was finally and decisively overturned, and we were able to start changing our gender markers again.

that's when i finally changed mine. (i had received my updated birth certificate on a saturday in june of 2023, and the judge put a hold on gender marker changes the following monday, bright and early. i woke up early all excited to go update my driver's license only to find out i couldn't.)

anyway, we knew in October of 2025 that Kansas Republicans (who hold a supermajority in our legislature, if that wasn't clear) were going to do something to fuck with all of that again. we've known this was coming. it just got pushed through way faster than expected, and in the most cruel and inhumane way possible. the lack of grace period on updating our IDs is likely due to manifold influence, but more on that in a moment.

SB 244, the bill that resulted in the ID of every kansan who has legally transitioned being revoked LITERALLY OVERNIGHT, was introduced in its current form on January 27th, 2026. It passed the house 87 to 36 on January 28th, and passed the senate 30 to 9 on the same day. Our governor, gods help her, was presented the bill on February 3rd, 2026. She vetoed it on February 16th, 2026.

On February 17th, the senate voted to override that veto, 31 to 9; and on February 18th, the house voted to override the veto, 87 to 37.

we knew this was coming, and we knew it was coming fast, but it has been less than a month since the bill was introduced, and the kansas legislature website is an archaic piece of shit. the news in kansas mostly leans pro-republican, so there's little reason for them to cover this in a way that's actually helpful and informative, and that's assuming you even trust mainstream news enough to watch it at all.

tl;dr: we have known about this bill in its current form for less than a month. we received no information about its implementation or when, exactly, it would go into effect until, as far as i can tell, very literally yesterday. and it is in effect today.

[xochihuacoyotl]

tags from @nik0ftime, it is extremely important to note that Laura Kelly did not send these letters herself. she vetoed the bill, and the republican supermajority in the state legislature overrode her veto. the letters came from the department of revenue. Laura Kelly is likely not a perfect governor (literally we have had so little experience with her not being more or less shackled by a republican supermajority legislature it's not even funny), but she has, at every turn, pushed back against anti-trans bills in every way she can within her power as the governor of Kansas.

[xochihuacoyotl]

tags from @dromaeo-sauridae

i forgot i was going to discuss the manifold influence on why they've done this! thank you for the reminder.

the reason they didn't give us a grace period on this is manifold.

they want as few of us to understand the specifics of what's happening to us, legally, as possible so that

we will drive without a valid license

we will use the "wrong" bathroom in public

we will try to vote without a valid ID (and, yes, presenting a valid ID to vote is required in Kansas, which is fucked up for many reasons)

and all of that is so that they can fine and/or jail us. the fines are prohibitive for many trans people (including myself) and jail time is already traumatic enough, but we would be jailed according to our assigned sex at birth, making it extra traumatic

and the added layer, the cherry on top, is that these are all attempts to force us to either leave the state and go be disgusting faggots somewhere else or, even better, just detransition and stop being disgusting faggots.

do i sound angry? it's probably because i'm angry.

[vatilu]

Little star

[grey-wardens-dont-have-dental]

Send me a Ship and a Number and I will Write a Kiss

…good morning.

…goodnight.

…goodbye.

…where it hurts.

…where it doesn’t hurt.

…on a falling tear.

…to shut them up.

…in secrecy.

…in public.

…desperately.

…in joy.

…in grief.

…discreetly.

…casually.

…passionately.

…lazily.

…to distract.

…as encouragement.

…for luck.

…on a scar.

…on a place of insecurity.

…in a rush of adrenaline.

…in relief.

…in danger.

…as a ‘yes’.

…as an apology.

…as a suggestion.

…as a lie.

…as a promise.

…as comfort.

…after a small rejection.

…to wake up.

…forcefully.

…to pretend.

…to gain something.

…to give up control.

…without a motive.

…because they’re running out of time.

…because time’s run out.

…because the world is ending.

…because the world is saved.

…out of pride.

…out of greed.

…out of lust.

…out of anger.

…out of envy or jealousy.

…out of spite.

…out of habit.

…out of necessity.

…out of love.