Thunder and Lightning Appreciator

20s, Italian–USAmerican, TME; EN, IT. Marxist–Leninist, pretentious writer, amateur classicist, pervert, professional hater. Lover of taboo, toxicity, tragedy. Legal representative of the Family Bellona and worst documented case of terminal Cassirot. Mostly (untagged) commieposting and pervertposting, occasional (tagged) fandomposting. Pfp by @elissiya, header by @verginediferro.

[vesperpharsalius]

hey, i'm new to here so i dont know if someone asked you to same question so, sorry to bother. may i ask if you countinuing your fic ice and fire? as i say i'm kinda new and i dont know your update schedule or smth. have a good day!!😚

Well... welcome to my corner of the hellsite! Happy to have you. Please feel free to send me messages and asks; my inbox is always open (although it’s bursting at the moment and I tend to reply with about as much speed as you’d expect if we were communicating by pre–industrial transatlantic letter) and I don’t mind repeating myself in the slightest. An admirer could never bother me.

😘

So, there really is no underestimating or underselling how passionate I am about Ice and Fire and Alis Aquilae, generally, which is the collective name for my planned Bellonaverse. Words, quite simply, fail me whenever I try to convey the depth of my obsession.

Let me just say this. If, for whatever reason, this project is abandoned, it will be for one reason and one reason only: I am dead. Mourn me. Remember me fondly. Because nothing but death itself could keep me from finishing it—and, indeed, it may very kill me. I am committing acts of hubris in this endeavor from which I may never recover. But goddamn it, kitten, we are finding this Northwest Passage and exploring Darrow’s southwest passage, too.

The good news is that the bulk of I&F is already rough–drafted. When I first started posting, about fifteen months ago, I thought it was closer to being done and that I’d only need to do some final touches on each chapter before I published it, and… yeah. No.

🤡

Extensive rewriting and revising and polishing has delayed progress significantly; I never thought it’d take more than a few months to finish this, tbh, and it’ll be two years, come July. And, hell, I’m not even halfway through; fourteen—out of 150? To say nothing of the supplementary fics that I’ve planned for AA, written from the perspective of other characters that will complement the main trilogy; these will be about 100k–150k apiece. 

Which is not exactly… inspiring.

😬

I also completely underestimated how distracting feedback would be. It’s difficult—almost impossible, really—for me to focus on I&F itself when I have so many wonderful comments and messages and asks that I could be answering instead, because I enjoy discussing my fics far more than I enjoy writing them, if I’m honest.

It’s the instant gratification of it all. And, y’know… the praise kink. It’s kinking. 

(If you’ve sent me an ask or a message or left a comment on I&F that I’ve yet to answer, please know that I cherish each and every one and fully intend to respond. Don’t worry about being overlooked or forgotten. But you’ll have to be very patient with me, unfortunately, because I am swamped.)

That said, I’ve decided to change the paradigm a bit. What I’m going to be doing hereafter is batches of twenty–five; so, I’ll write twenty–five chapters, release one (or maybe two) a week, go on hiatus while I write the next twenty–five chapters, and so on. The first batch will be much smaller, only eleven, as I’ve already posted fourteen. 

Hopefully, this will increase my productivity to a more satisfactory rate and give y’all some consistency in your lives. Really, it’s cruel what I’ve done—all this suspense, these empty promises of updates and responses and sex so torrid that a single read will permanently alter your brain chemistry.

They should try me at the Hague.

At my current pace, I should be able to wrap up I&F by the end of 2026 and get started on the sequel, which is still in the conceptual phase right now. At the very least, though, this series will be ongoing for the next three years.

So. Here’s hoping that y’all don’t get too sick of me. 

You can expect Chs. 15–25 of I&F to start getting posted in late June. I’m gonna chain myself to it. I may or may not release Ch. 15 on its own, as it’s 95% done; right now, I’m inclined to save it for the group. 

But... you never know. I have been known to lie.

Thank you for the ask, for your patience, and for being such a good sport as I edge you. What can I say?

In typical Cassius fashion, he’s taking his damn time.

Stay tuned. 

Update, 3/9 : I lied. Ch. 15 is live.

Update, 6/27: Ch. 16 is live. Unfortunately, progression has not gone as swimmingly as I’d hoped and weekly updates are… not happening. Biweekly updates every Friday morning (EST) are what I’m currently aiming for. At the moment, I&F is likely to stretch deep into 2027.

Update, 7/11: Ch. 17 is live.

Update, 7/27: A few days late, but Ch. 18 is live.

Update, 8/9: Ch. 19 is live.

Update, 8/29: A week late and several thousand words too long, lol, but Ch. 20 is live.

Update, 9/21: Yet again, over a week late, but Ch. 21 is live.

Update, 10/27: After manyyyy setbacks, Chs. 22 and 23 are finally live.

Update, 3/14: 😩… Ch. 24 is live.

[andrinoaddiction]

You cannot transition from a forced position of womanhood into a position of womanhood. You cannot transition from a forced position of manhood into a position of manhood.

What is so hard about this to understand? Like, genuinely.

[heavyweightheart]

We always have to bear in mind when reading media and the scientific literature on body shape and health (e.g. abdominal fat and insulin resistance) that science is ideologically embedded, and in the global north that means embedded in imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Anti-fat biases are racialized, gendered, and classed. While it’s true that there are some risks associated with certain bodies—not only people who are larger in the abdomen (which is natural for many populations from the global south) but also shorter life span in tall people, skin cancer in redheads, osteoporosis in thin people, and so on—the risks and bodies that become stigmatized, that are used to fearmonger and to manipulate people’s behavior, are the bodies of the oppressed. We don’t want to dismiss research data out of hand but we do want to remember that prevailing biases shape Science and serve ruling class interests, and we perpetuate harm by collaborating in that

[utilitycaster]

no DNIs we just post content specifically catered to ourselves that will coincidentally alienate anyone with whom we would not want to interact

[herpsandbirds]

[notahorseindisguise]

everytime i wear an outfit like this i think about this tweet

[angel-in-your-basement]

Having a crush on someone when you have fucked up kinks is so embarrassing bc you’re just like “wow they’re so cute I want them to get off on the way I cry while they fuck me”

[angel-in-your-basement]

Also highly recommend looking thru the reblogs on this one cause so many people add their own versions, and the dom / sadist versions especially just fuckin tickle me. I love y’all bunch of perverts

[angel-in-your-basement]

You folks get me

[iloveuppers-deactivated20251030]

im balls deep in your blog right now and im not pulling out

[tboy-trash]

trans women fucking hate you for being a trans man. stop lighting yourself on fire to please them. they will never be satisfied

i love this anon because he is one of the few willing to be honest. he didn't say "*people* hate you for being a trans man" or "you're oppressed for being a trans man". his problem is, specifically, with trans women, and he has no qualms admitting that. yeah i'm not surprised to learn no woman has ever liked you.

[tboy-trash]

#what's so revealing to me with anon is the ''they will never be satisfied'' comment.#what constitutes ''satisfaction'' in his mind is clearly ''never complaining about or expecting better from men ever again''#in his mind women must give up all rights to complain about men or they are ''man-hating''#at the end of the day the misogyny that tMRAs engage in is some of the most regular hegemonic misogyny in the world#it's the kind of misogyny their great grandfathers engaged in

great tags by @closet-keys , and i'll add that, when i got this anon, to me it felt like yet another instance of assuming that whenever a man says something against misogyny it must be because he wants something in return from women (implied: usually sex, though not exclusively). these guys truly CANNOT comprehend i use this blog to post things i earnestly think -up to and including when i post about transfeminism- no matter how many times i say it (funnily, i've talked semi regularly with a grand total of ONE person i met on tumblr, it's simply not what i use this site for). either way, it is frankly a sad indictment on how their relationships with women must operate that they cannot conceive someone just. caring about this stuff.

[tboy-trash]

the point here is that even if every trans woman i met from now on hated me specifically due to being a trans man i would post exactly the same things because my thoughts on transfeminism are not based off how niceys women are to me. obviously???????????????

[heedra]

really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[willgrahamscock]

have a cannibalism phobia so can’t follow but I like your other posts happy pride

anon acts like i'm posting tips

[willgrahamscock]

fingertips

[innerchildabortionclinic]

mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

[spreadsopotism]

Mind People's Congress

[frostops]

"transvestigation" is a conspiracy theory wherein you take a celebrity or other public figure and claim they have already transition. tom cruise is a common one. to transvesitgators, tom cruise is secretly a "biological woman" who is hiding that fact. they will "analyze" his height or gait or the size of his hips or any other physical feature to "prove" he is actually female. as for why cruise or any other celebrity would do this, according to transvestigators, its either to destroy the meaning of male and female or its linked directly to antisemitic blood libel shit where they are hiding the fact that they are immortal from harvesting adrenochrome from children by changing their gender to pretend to be a different person.

egg jokes are based on the idea that someone might be happier if they transition based on their behaviors being similar to out trans people from before they transitioned. if you compare this to transvestigation, you either do not know what transvestigation is or you actively do not want people to transition.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I love you banana bread... you are everything to me...

[girlsuggestion]

protect bisexual boys

[targaryenwig]

why is this on a blog literally called girlsuggestion

[froglawnmower]

we are suggesting this to girls

[targaryenwig]

who is we? who are you

[froglawnmower]

italian shadow government