Here and where you are

I'm gonna bet on us

Attack on titan Final Season Settei

watercolor comm 🖌 Ravenel 😚

That third panel

AUSTIN BUTLER · CALLUM TURNER · ANTHONY BOYLE ↳ · Behind The Scenes · 'Masters of the Air' set

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h. gaunt and s. ellwood, 1912, preparations for a ball

(save their poor hearts)

⚡️⚡️⚡️ This one is so cute! Ty @angelfruittree for the tag 🤍

Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

These two haven’t left my head in a year

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One of the things C.S. Pacat does so, so well in the Captive Prince trilogy is trusting the reader to read between the lines.

An example: in the first book, when the boar hunt happens, it is never explicitly stated (at least the time, maybe it's discussed later and I can't remember) that someone had fucked with Laurent's horse. All Damen sees is that the horse is sweaty and intractable, which he takes as a sign that Laurent either can't afford a good horse or sucks at picking one for a hunt. Later, after the horse is killed in the boar hunt, Damen notices that Laurent comes in in a vicious mood, but he never realizes that Laurent is reacting to a murder attempt and grieving the death of the horse.

The details are all there. Laurent speaks softly to the horse. A guard explains that the horse was good and well trained. Laurent yelled at a guard for not putting her down fast enough. And when Laurent tells Damen it's "just a horse", Damen marks his tone as "jagged" and "private" despite the flippant words. But he still doesn't connect the dots.

The trilogy is full of these little mysteries, threads left unexplained, that close reading and careful analysis of the characters will reveal to the reader. Considering most books make their POV character clever enough that they can lay out these threads blatantly for the reader to follow, it's a refreshing change.

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Ellwood smiled, and a sudden, dry bleakness spread over Gaunt’s heart as he thought of Hercules, and Hector, and all the heroes in myth who found happiness briefly, only for it not to be the end of the story.

Seven years after the break-up.

felix felicis.

"It's not your fault"

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