"You hit like a milk-fed catamite"

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[theorathanatos]

*taps mic* is this thing on

[hairstylesbeauty]

[woundliqour]

Bow down or something

[thevampireforthesetimes]

[thesnappsblog]

I’m not dead yet guys here’s an old commission from @faecrate an instragram book crate. I haven’t read the book but it was definetly exciteing to draw them in my own style especially since their designs and color schemes are like polar-opposites (my WEAKNESS)

[whitelaws]

Tread carefully, Master Polo. Or you will find yourself a more permanent sleep.

[buckypupbarnes]

Charlie Cox in Downton Abbey.

[hypermenestras]

🍊🍊🍊🍷

[sasheenka]

You have betrayed your king…and me.

[youhitlikeamilkfedcatamite]

“This provoked a wave of soldierly camaraderie. Laurent did not typically engage in soldierly camaraderie, and did not know what to do.”

— I’m weeping (via hypermenestras)

[thecaptiveroyals]

what is everyone’s fave scene??? (from each book if u want) :~)

[holoprisms]

The one where damen is waiting for Laurent to come back from the hunting games and someone comes in like “ok watch out here he comes” and damen is like “ok it can’t be that bad.” and lau comes STOMPING IN and it is NASTY and damen is like “Oh.”

[thecaptiveroyals]

LMAO OK YEAH

it’s funny bc damen sees the men come back and they’re all weary and he’s concerned someone has died or smth sweet damen

aaaaand then he’s basically just told “Laurent’s in a shitty mood” and damen’s like “oh! okay well, count me in as ‘who cares’”

[desastrista]

an under-appreciated moment from prince’s gambit

“And which of the border castles does his father hold?” 

“Fortaine,” said Laurent, in the same voice. 

“You’re using a boy to gain influence with his father?” 

“Aimeric’s not a child lured in with a honeyed treat. He’s Guion’s fourth son. He knows that his being here splits his father’s loyalties. It’s half the reason he joined me. He wants his father’s attention,” said Laurent. 

reasons why this is a great exchange: 

people give jord shit for not figuring out that aimeric is a traitor, but he manages to convince laurent too 

laurent says later in the book he figured his uncle would include a traitor among one of the men and aimeric’s family loyalty should be suspicious 

aimeric’s entire cover story to deflect suspicion off his conflicting loyalties is 

“i’m just doing this to be obnoxious” 

and laurent, presumably being laurent, heard that story and was like [nodding deeply] yes that sounds like a good reason to do something

[onlymywishfulthinking]

Versailles + Monsieur Philippe d'Orléans [ep1]

[anarfea]

People keep asking “How can anyone have a problem with AO3 doing fundraising!”

And I’m just like…. Have people not noticed all the virulent anti-AO3 hate on tumblr propagated by the anti shipping community? Antis have a problem with AO3 raising money because they hate the fact that AO3 won’t allow them to censor content they don’t like and doesn’t tolerate bullying. That’s who is putting out these posts like, “how can this nasty site raise so much money?” Read between the lines.

And for all the people who are just like, “If they don’t want AO3 to to raise money why don’t they just not donate?”

Because antis are incapable of saying “this isn’t for me so I won’t support it but I don’t care if other people support it. They have to actively discourage other people from supporting the thing. At the same time, they also won’t stop using AO3 because 1) they’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites who want readership and that’s where the readers are and 2) they’re too lazy to put together their own archive using AO3′s open source code because that would require doing coding and buying servers and doing all the moderating they want, which is hard, and they just want to engage in empty virtue signalling, which is easy

Anyway, my point is, people need to be aware that these people are out there and they hate AO3 and they want it to go away even though they’re actively using the platform. They’ve even said they want AO3 to fail so something “better” (re, something they control) can take its place. Some of them are blatant about it, calling AO3 a cesspit of pedophilia, and some of them are subtle about it, saying more innocuous things like ‘Does AO3 really need 130K a year?” “Shouldn’t you give your money to individual needy people doing gofundmes for stuff that’s more more important?”

But all of these people have the same end goal, which is the destruction of the archive, and the way they’re going about it right now is to try to discourage people from donating.

So instead of asking, “Why do people object to AO3 raising money?” start telling people “Hey there are people out there who hate AO3 and want to destroy it and we have to protect the archive from them.” And donate, if you can, and signal boost, if you can’t.

[alwaysunnyonmtv]

Looking at this makes me so tired.

[synclaires-deactivated20181208]

Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol

[nutheadgee-deactivated20190314]

Yep

[bihet-dragonize]

That’s what’s so wild to me. They’ve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the ‘Exclude’ tags and that def doesn’t take 130k.

[nonegenderwithleftbees]

You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link it’ll take you to their budget update and break down exactly what the spend the money on, over 70% of which is spent on server expenses, monitoring tools and system licences.

They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs. 

AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild. 

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/11192

[ohdeargodwhy]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream [x]

[zforzelma]

What with the Mercutio/Romeo kiss from the other day I feel like I should have a tag specifically for “men kissing in Shakespeare plays even though it’s not in the text, but after 400 years of unresolved sexual tension it’s time.”

[theclockworkaesthete-deactivate]

Asdfghjkl;:

[ej-otter]

Whaaat this is the most over the top dip-and-kiss I’ve ever seen and I love it

[linecrosser]

someone please save him