before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

I see that you make Witcher fic prompts, and I have a suggestion.

We all know Jaskier wasn’t at fault like how Geralt accused him on top of the mountain.

But what if he was? What if Jaskier was a harbinger of fate? Weaving the tapestry of life.

He feels so guilty about it because Geralt seems so miserable. Then, after the mountain and a sulk, Geralt finds Jaskier to apologize. And Jaskier can’t take it and fesses up.

“It wasn’t your fault, Jaskier.”

“What if it was?!? What if it was? What then?”

Oh, that sounds like a great idea.

I swear I did read a fix once where Jaskier actually is the living embodiment of Destiny. I can’t remember what it was called unfortunately.

If anyone happens to know what fic I’m talking about, please mention it

hey thanks for always leverage posting because you successfully reminded me of it enough for long enough that I actually remembered to start watching! and watched the entirety of season one in like two days. so thanks for that!

You are so welcome! It's such a fabulous show, I'm glad I could help you to watch it!

season 4 of leverage is so. some of the most MOST episodes of all time. there is an office episode where the crew is literally filmed like an episode of the office. there’s an episode where a sociopathic white rich boy tortures homeless people for some college thesis project. hardison gets knocked out by sophie. “no one throws hardison off the roof except me.” archie comes back. chaos also comes back. chaos gets tasered (fuckign finally). parker makes everyone cry because she yells about wanting to do the right thing. nate and sophie think they’re being subtle about their funny friends with benefits relationship but the shenanigans happen. “YOU RECRUITED MY WIFE?” “EX-WIFE” parker reveals she has successfully kept a normal friend and everyone is so proud of her. hardison ate eliot’s fuckign sandwich. nate “i love foreplay” ford.

And then he unexpectedly finds love. What do you think attracts him to Radovid? I mean, for me - and I’m going to be mean now - they are very similar and it’s a bit like Jaskier falling in love with himself. JOEY: (laughter) What Jaskier sees in Radovid is – I think it is as you say and there is indeed some similarity. I think they are both hiding behind a facade, behind a painted face. Radovid is considered a court jester. Jaskier hides behind his own clownishness. And I think they immediately recognize that in themselves. It’s like a liar or an actor can tell when someone else is taking advantage of their tricks. And they are both intrigued by it. They want to see what’s under that facade and that mask. And that’s what they’re drawn to. There’s something very, very visceral and exciting when you meet someone like that. That tension that’s been there from the beginning - I think that’s what brings them closer together. Would you say they are both quite lonely people? JOEY: I can’t speak for Radovid. I don’t like commenting on other people’s characters. But what can I say… I wouldn’t say that Jaskier is lonely. I might say he’s lost. And he’s not lost. He is used to wandering around the Continent. I think he’s used to being a sort of wandering bard, to being alone, but also to being surrounded by company. I think he feels lonely deep down. Do you know what it’s like to feel lonely in a room full of people? Yes, I still feel that way. JOEY: I think that’s how Jaskier feels.

My Biggest and Most Annoying Fictional Horse Pet Peeve

Big Horses are a Very New Thing and they Likely Didn’t Exist in your Historical and/or Fantasy Settings.

You’ve all seen it in every historical piece of media ever produced. Contrary to popular belief, a big black horse with long legs and long flowing mane is not a widespread or even a particularly old type of horse.

THIS IS NOT A MEDIEVAL THING. THIS IS NOT EVEN A BAROQUE THING. THIS IS A NINETEENTH CENTURY CITY CARRIAGE HORSE.

All the love to fancy Friesian horses, but your Roman general or Medieval country heroine just really couldn’t, wouldn’t, and for the sake of my mental health shouldn’t have ridden one either.

Big warmblood horses are a Western European and British invention that started popping up somewhere around 1700s when agriculture and warfare changed, and when rich folks wanted Bigger Faster Stronger Thinner race horses. The modern warmblood and the big continental draught both had their first real rise to fame in the 1800s when people started driving Fancy Carriages everywhere, and having the Fanciest Carriage started to mean having the Tallest and Thinnest Horses in the town.

Before mechanised weaponry and heavy artillery all horses used to be small and hardy easy-feeders. Kinda like a donkey but easier to steer and with a back that’s not as nasty and straight to sit on.

SOME REAL MEDIEVAL, ROMAN, OTTOMAN, MONGOL, VIKING, GREEK and WHATEVER HISTORICALLY PLAUSIBLE HORSES FOR YOU:

“Primitive”, native breeds all over the globe tend to be only roughly 120-140 cm (12.0 - 13.3 hh) tall at the withers. They all also look a little something like this:

Mongolian native horse (Around 120-130 at the withers, and decendants of the first ever domesticated horses from central Asia. Still virtually unchanged from Chinggis Khan’s cavalry, ancestor to many Chinese, Japanese and Indian horses, and bred for speed racing and surviving outdoors without the help of humans.)

Carpathian native horse / Romanian and Polish Hucul Pony (Around 120-150 at the withers, first mentioned in writing during the 400s as wild mountain ponies, depicted before that in Trajanian Roman sculptures, used by the Austro-Hungarian cavalry in the 19th century)

Middle-Eastern native horse / Caspian Pony (Around 100-130 at the withers, ancestor of the Iranian Asil horse and its decendants, including the famous Arabian and Barb horses, likely been around since Darius I the Great, 5th century BC, and old Persian kings are often depicted riding these midgets)

Baltic Sea native horse / Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Gotland and Nordland horses (Around 120-150 at the withers, descendant of Mongolian horses, used by viking traders in 700-900 AD and taken to Iceland. Later used by the Swedish cavalry in the 30 years war and by the Finnish army in the Second World War, nowadays harness racing and draught horses)

Siberian native horse / Yakutian pony (Around 120-140 at the withers, related to Baltic and Mongolian horses and at least as old, as well-adapted to Siberian climate as woolly mammoths once were, the hairiest horse there is, used in draught work and herding)

Mediterranean native horse / Skyros pony, Sardinian Giara, Monterufolino (Around 100-140 at the Withers, used and bred by ancient Greeks for cavalry use, influenced by African and Eastern breeds, further had its own influence on Celtic breeds via Roman Empire, still used by park ranger officers in Italy)

British Isles’ native horse / various “Mountain & Moorland” pony breeds (Around 100-150 at the withers, brought over and mixed by Celts, Romans and Vikings, base for almost every modern sport pony and the deserving main pony of all your British Medieval settings. Some populations still live as feral herds in the British countryside, used as war mounts, draught horses, mine pit ponies, hunting help and race horses)

So hey, now you know!

This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

titothy stoker. i mean timothy

is that tiny baby jimmy in an EGG???? my heart oh.

Based on that one post I made a whole while ago about Jimmy's disc being important to him because it was like a lullaby Lizzie sang to him in oceanic or smth

Actual roman epitaph for a dog

i thought JVP couldn't beat the backwards hebrew from yesterday but now they've posted in support of a pro-encampment demonstrations in houthi-controlled yemen, which included signs showing the houthi slogan.

“God is the greatest; death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews; victory to Islam.

Yes "Jewish" Voice For Peace unironically and positively posted an image which contains the phrase "curse the Jews"

get fished idiot

What an amazing sound - Women from the Rugova region in Kosovo are singing to the rhythms of tepsia (copper pan for preparing traditional food). This disappearing minimalistic style was a popular form of singing among communities throughout the Dinara mountain range. Filmed by Japanese ethnographers from the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.

People across two-thirds of the political spectrum have been taking the piss out of "I'm not racist but" for decades, and now you guys - who are supposed to be progressive - are unironically doing that with antisemitism