Love conquers all

My never ending love for Mr Darcy and everyone I have loved since

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 52 2026 - Week 31 - Simple

“Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

Carrot; named after his shape and not so much his bright orange hair. A lad with simple views of the world' everyone is a 'decent chap' deep down. Which would seem naive; but his method of copperin' worked well no matter where he went.

“Some people have inspired whole countries to great deeds because of the power of their vision. And so could he. Not because he dreams about marching hordes, or world domination, or an empire of a thousand years. Just because he thinks that everyone’s really decent underneath and would get along just fine if only they made the effort, and he believes that so strongly it burns like a flame which is bigger than he is. He’s got a dream, and we’re all part of it, so that it shapes the world around him. And the weird thing is that no one wants to disappoint him. It’d be like kicking the biggest puppy in the universe. It’s a kind of magic.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

And as the books went on; you felt Carrot was still simple... but like a razors edge is simple. There was definitely a sharpness to carrot that just swam below the surface in later books. Not an evil thing but a sense that if he had to draw his sword, he will, regardless of the circumstances. Personal wasn't the same as important after all.

“Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”

― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

[comingatthecottage]

"it's just a romance novel" "it's not that serious" i literally don't care. it's that serious to me.

[guiltfactory-moved]

this lamb keeps trying to sacrifice itself even though no one really needs or wants it to do that

[victusinveritas]

[foxglovedforest]

[dionysiaproductions]

[madgirlautumn]

This is so obviously correct I can’t even think what the other answer would be.

[thememedaddy]

[neenarchive]

really hilarious and unsexy when hetero romantasy authors refer to love interests as males and females. you sound like david attenborough narrating a special documentary on two turtles humping in the mud

[neenarchive]

i don't care if he's the king of the fae. if that man called me a desirable female i'd have him gelded

[ellynneversweet]

Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

[selfship-quotes]

I love soulmates but also this-

[qilingxiong]

[purplebehittindifferent]

LEGENDARY GRANDMA PULL TODAY AT WORK

[we-all-get-hats]

anthony is so stupid omg “not even our SAINTLY PERFECT MOTHER would support you!!”

meanwhile benedict uses the word ‘love’ one (☝️) time and violet is like “wait omg you didn’t tell me you were in LOVE that’s my FAVORITE THING okay here’s my grandmother’s ring and here’s my plan to lie to the queen’s face trust me it’ll be great let’s gooooo 😊”

[unashamedly-romantic]

If I am simply not getting Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron, then Sebastian Grey should at least be the new Lady Whistledown

[sluttypatrickstar]

HELP

[archouai]

Get peer-reviewed

[purplebehittindifferent]

LEGENDARY GRANDMA PULL TODAY AT WORK

[pandaren]

[fishthegenderwiz]

Check out this amazing artist! His name’s Simon Haiduk! His portfolio is blowing me away. These are from The Wildlife set.