reminder that 30 isn’t old, it’s very normal to not accomplish everything in your 20s, and that it is never too late to learn that thing you’ve always wanted to learn. you’re always growing. that’s a good thing.
what if we stopped giving characters strabismus as a funny joke. what if we stopped? what if we stopped. what if we stopped
why the fuck do i even need to say this. "it's googly eyes" no, real people look like that. and you know they do. i know you know they do
ID: a graphic titled "strabismus (misaligned eyes) by Cleveland Clinic. there are 4 types of strabismus, each represented by a drawing of a person with it.
i'm currently obsessed with ttpd and chronically obsessed with red queen, so here's a list of which songs i think fit which ship more and why i think they do marecal x mareven edition
obviously, spoilers
marecal:
fortnight feat. post malone (two people who are promised to another people but had a short affair and not touching each other now is ruining their lives exatcly exactly we heard that before)
down bad (you cant say mare wasn't in a "so fuck you if i can't have us" mood in war storm)
so long, london (change london for harbor bay and there you have it, king's cage epilogue)
but daddy i love him (but grandma i love her - cal's version)
fresh out the slammer (fresh out the slammer, i know who my first Cal will be to)
guilty as sin? (honestly, if you know the lyrics, you know i dont even have to explain)
loml (i wish i could unreCal how we almost had it all and "mr steal your girl then make her cry" too)
the alchemy (be serious, cal would play football irl)
the black dog (pubs usually remember me of marecal, and "old habits die screaming" says a lot about their on and off situationship in war storm)
the albatross (that's so Cal attracted to the danger she represented in red queen, then being destroyed for chasing her and then she was his lifeline in glass sword)
the prophecy (cal in the end of war storm like "i dont want the crown i just want my lightning girl 😞")
peter (not actually what happened, but the "wait for me" theme fits war storm's ending)
mareven:
my boy only breaks his favorite toys (bruh... are you really going to read this song title and tell me it’s not about mareven?)
who's afraid of little old me? (who's afraid of little old mare? MAVEN SHOULD BE)
i can fix him (no really i can) (she can't, no one can)
the smallest man who ever lived (he was sent by elara so yeah he was ACTUALLY sent by someone who wanted her dead)
chloe or sam or sophia or marcus (me and maven have a lot of things in common, one of them is sobbing to the sound of "If you want to break my cold, cold heart/Just say 'I love you the way that you were'")
how did it end? (i almost gave it to marecal bc of the dance mention, but i think mareven fits more bc 1- mare learned to dance with cal not with him and she preferred the lessons' song than the ball's song, so yeah mareven learned the right steps to different dances 2- while marecal have an on/off thing, mareven has a really slow but certain death)
I'm sick of all this "character development" and "worldbuilding" and "thematic cohesion" have some context free shipping
Newblood Queen excerpt (possibly next chapter idk yet)
I don’t like the way my skin prickles at her touch, a pleasant burn that almost makes me sigh. The way the light catches on her face, her hands, her eyes, earth made flesh and treacherous bone. The way my heart flutters as she tucks a strand of hair behind my ear.
I feel loved in a way I haven’t in a long, long, time.