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danikamariewrites · 5 months

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hi there, can you write something fluffy for fenrys??

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Fenrys x reader

A/n: I haven't written for Fen in so long and he's literally one of my favs from ToG. He deserves happiness after everything he's been through

Warnings: none

Fenrys watched from the balcony as Aelin walked you through the castle gates. He lets out a dreamy sigh as you throw your head back from laughing at something the queen said. Fenrys was so lost in his little fantasy land he missed Rowan come to stand next to him.

“You feeling ok?” Fenrys jumps, backing away from the railing and clutching at his heart. “Good gods! Don’t do that Rowan!” The king couldn’t help the shit eating grin that spread across his lips. Rowan looks out at your retreating figure as you leisurely walk back to town. “Aelin thinks you two would make a great match.”

Fenrys lets out an annoyed huff, taking his piercing gaze off of Rowan and watching you again. He was always so charming and smooth when it came to talking to females. For some reason when he tried speaking to you Fenrys always made a fool of himself. He either tripped over air or fumbled with his words before excusing himself. There was no other way to say it, Fenrys is in love with you.

How could he not be? You’re so kind and intelligent and beautiful. Fenrys can’t help but feel butterflies in his stomach when you’re around.

A week later - on the day you usually visit, Fenrys noted - Aelin called him into her office. Striding through the open door Fenrys stopped before her desk, sketching a bow before standing with his hands behind his back. “What can I do for you?” Aelin gave him a smile that told Fenrys she was scheming. Fenrys mentally rolled his eyes, waiting for Aelin to tell her plan.

“I need you to do me a favor.” She said sweetly. “Nothing crazy, just an errand that I can’t get to today.” Fenrys nodded. “What kind of errand?” The queen’s smile became toothy and far too happy looking for his liking. “Can you go to y/n’s store for me and pick up the book she set aside for me?”

Fenrys felt his heart stutter in his chest. He had never been to your store. He had avoided it at all costs after the second time he made a fool of himself in front of you. “Erm…” He had to answer quickly before Aelin turned this into a command and he no choice. Not like he had one anyway. If Aelin already thought you two were a match the whole court must know by now. And Fenrys would never hear the end of it from Lysandra if he never made a move.

“Yes.” He blurts out. “Excellent.” Aelin claps her hands in approval and stands to guide Fenrys from her office. “And no rush whatsoever. Take your time, enjoy a stroll through the city. Get some tea with someone. But don’t come back here without my book.” She said sternly before shutting the door on him.

Upon entering the bustling city Fenrys found himself taking the long way to your shop. Inevitably he found himself standing outside your shop, dreading how he would mess up this conversation with you. Inhaling deeply through his nose and out through his mouth, Fenrys pushed open the door to your shop.

The bell ringing above his head caught your attention immediately. You rushed to the front of the store, your arms full of books. Your eyes widen in surprise at the tall male in the middle of your small book store. “Hi,” you say cheerily, “Fenrys, right?” It took all of his training to keep calm. To keep the butterflies from swarming his insides.

“Y-yes. Yup, that’s me.” Dear gods he hoped Lorcan would show up and stab him.

Then you did something unexpected. You giggled at him. It wasn’t a pity laugh, you genuinely giggled. Fenrys smiled at you. Realizing you looked like you were about to drop the stack of books in your arms Fenrys cleared the space between you, reaching his hands out to help. “Can I take these for you?” “Oh, yes. That would be great, thank you.”

As you handed over half the stack Fenrys noticed your hands were shaking. If it was because of him he wouldn’t be able to live with himself. The last thing he wanted to do was scare you. You cleared your throat before speaking again. “Can you put them on the front counter?” “Of course.” You give him a small nod and lead him to the counter.

After putting the books down you nervously fiddled with your hair, glancing at Fenrys every other second. You felt like you always messed up when you spoke to him. That awkward laugh would always leave your lips and you always forgot where you were going when you bumped into him in the castle.

Clearing your throat you finally look make eye contact. Maybe that’s too much eye contact, you think to yourself. Fenrys isn’t shying away though. If anything he’s looking at you with the same shy, unsure intensity.

An awkward moment of silence passes between the two of you before Fenrys finally remembers why he’s here. “Aelin sent me to pick up her book. She said you had it set aside for her.”

The realization clicked in your eyes and your cheeks redden. It was silly to think he was there for you. Pulling the book from the shelf behind you and turning back to Fenrys you give him a small smile, hoping it didn’t look as sad as you felt. “Here you go.” His fingers brushed against yours. You felt a warmth rush through your body at the soft touch.

Your cheeks heat even more as you bite back your smile. Fenrys takes the book giving you a reassuring smile. “Thanks,” he says softly. “You’re welcome.” He nods and turns to leave. Fenrys cringes at himself, squeezing his eyes shut.

He stopped with his hand on the door, thinking screw it. Marching back up to the counter Fenrys takes a deep breath. You look up at him with bright curiosity in your eyes. “Would you like to go out to dinner with me?”

You nod your head excitedly. “I would love that. Is tomorrow night ok?” “Absolutely.” You give him a bright smile. Taking out a pen and paper you write down your address for him. He takes it happily and practically skips out of your store back to the castle.

#throne of glass imagine #throne of glass #throne of glass fic #throne of glass fanfiction #throne of glass fanfic #Fenrys moonbeam #Fenrys throne of glass #fenrys moonbeam x you #fenrys moonbeam x reader #fenrys x reader #fenrys x you #fenrys fluff #throne of glass fenrys

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weird-bookworm · 29 days

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LET'S SPREAD SOME LOVE!!!!!

talk about your favourite mutuals and why you like them

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oh god this is gonna be one hell of an answer

@fairyhaos because shes the sweetest comfiest most adorably chaotic lil ball of energy + she gives the best advice like hello??? what are you??? oh god my heart goes a little off track everytime we talk i just love you so much

@wheeboo okay shes part 2 of the they-make-me-feel-the-safest trio along w yena and axe like please i stumbled across the sweetest sassiest boo stan ever ALSO UR GORGEOUS???

@blue-jisungs axeaxeaxeaxeaxe so chaotically lovely and so boomer and so fun and yoid think shes savage but no shes just soft and as harmful as a pinecone (why do u remind me of tht one joon meme of him just. sitting there. peeling potatoes. in tiny.)

@slytherinshua we kinda talked less for a while bc life happened and then caught up (kinda lol) and im so glad to see shes still as crazy and lovable as ever (im waiting for tht ppt) like talk abt impressive. impressive is her whole personality. sometimes in, uh, less than conventional ways...hehe

@eternalgyu HANNIE WHERE TF R U I MISS UUUUUUUU 😭😭😭😭🫶🏻 like yk what i imagine when i think of hannie? causing mischief. LIKE IDEK WHY OKAY i just feel like we'd be running around giggling like idiots js pulling random pranks on people and js the thought makes me smile

@yllouhannie ylli is like love. ylli is gentle and kind and sweet. shes understanding and passionate and really quite cute. oh my love you make me wanna jump off a cliff because how can someone like you exist 😭 (no srsly what is this witchcraft ilysm mwah)

@woozvc nora is like home. which is saying a lot lmao i sound dramatic but like yk when u just talk to someone and it feels just right even tho ur not rly doing much? shes older but she lets go and i can just feel how absolutely beautiful this person is *melts off a cliff*

@welcometomyoasis shu oh shu i have no words so pardon if this is a little small but. ik i say this a lot but i rly do mean it. i love you. so much. yr msgs and reblogs and asks always make a smile and they make me giddy and suddenly nothing is wrong with the world 🥺

@haecien bro is my ultimate gay bestie like what else do you need in life other than cien. what. nothing is the answer. life is complete when u hv cien and his shenanigans lolol like i dare you try to Not like him. i m p o s s i b l e.

@glosskirt AYYYYY MY ARMY SOULMATE we connected over min yoongi. we still rant over min yoongi. we shall die talking about min yoongi. like there is nothing better than having someone to fangirl with over my favs gloss you filled a hole in my life <3

@mesanthropi weiwei!!!! my little bundle of sugar spice and everything nice!! (+ chaos and a passion about the randomest shit ever how do u live why am i not this exciting) how is it always fun to talk to you and why do ur msgs excite me so much

@aaniag chaos. thats it. chaos. this woman brought with her about half a dozen more desi moots for me like how do i hug you how do i appreciate you enough i ugghhhh 😩

@thepoopdokyeomtouched im still waiting for my flirting yk? lol on a serious note, u and ur crazy streak r probably the most entertaining thing on here, and i fucking love it. i love ur chaos and the fact tht u choose to share it w me, thank you 🫶🏻

@arafilez bro rly dropped outta thin air like a fucking ghost and made my life abt a 100x more exciting where were you my entire life ara. where. why didnt the atz rants and the writing and the random asks show up sooner. why.

@nonononranghaee HAFS MY LIL CUTIE PATOOTIE WHY DO I ALWAYS WANNA SQUISH U NOMNOM U CRUSH U KSKSJEHEH u give me so much cuteness aggression oh my god...

@kkooongie sarah sarah sarah sarah sarah i live for ur writing and im always looking forward to our little chats abt books and random stuff (...when r u updating btw 😅)

@maeleelee @mxnsxngie @imagine-a-life-like-this i don't tell you guys enough how much i love and appreciate each one of you. i dont tell u enough how grateful i am whenever i think abt u bc god ik how hard it is to take in a random person in ur circle, to adjust w a kid, to make said kid feel safe and included and loved. so thank you. for all that you do for me and for loving lil ol' me <3

@cadenonlinelive where u at damn i hvnt seen u in ages

@rubywonu @idubiluv GUYS STOP HIBERNATING ITS NOT WINTER ANYMORE I MISS U

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billiedeansbitch · 1 year

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Hiiii, this idea just popped into my head and since u’re one of my fav writes i’d love to see ur take on it.

It can be either larissa or miranda x reader (i imagined with larissa but it really doesn’t matter), so she’s cooking or baking something and like little things just go wrong in the process which frustrate her but she keeps going until the end when the whole thing just comes out wrong (she burns it or something like that) and reader starts laughing cause it’s just a big ol’ mess until she hears larissa crying cause it was her breaking point so r is like “oh shit sorry” and tells her it’s okay and smothers her with kisses until she sees a smile

Hope u’re doing good, byeeee :)

𝐛𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞

(𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫)

a/n: I'm a sucker for fluff and this prompt is just *chef's kiss* also I am doing good I hope you are too :>

warning/s: none.

The sound of the electric mixer buzzed in the kitchen (while she could have mixed the ingredients with her hand, Larissa believed it would be more time efficient this way) and she let it mix for approximately a minute or two as advised in the book until it became fluffy as desired. Nothing could possibly go wrong, so she read the directions once in her thoughts before repeating them loudly and clearly to ensure she didn't miss anything before moving on to the next step.

She cracked in the egg and added a teaspoon of vanilla, her hands trembling in the process. It was quite ridiculous and she was sure that if you were around, your laughter would have echoed in the room. After everything was blended, Larissa added two and a half cups of chocolate chips knowing your affinity for sweets.

And like she would know the difference between a good dough and a bad one, she scraped the side with her finger and let it dip into her mouth. It was sweet, flavourful and soft. She was a little bit impressed by this accomplishment.

“Into the baking sheet you go.” She started scooping them into balls, and transferred each into the cold metal surface with calculated distance. Sated with the outcome, Larissa smiled to herself and placed the sheet into the oven to bake for about twelve minutes.

For the whole duration of the baking process, the woman stayed planted in front of the oven, her lower back pressed on the island counter, her eyes fixated on the cookies like it would do anything to help the cookies bake. Twelve minutes later, as soon as the alarm went off, Larissa put on her floral patterned oven mitts ready to judge her creation.

When it came out, the smell was okay but not heavenly as she was expecting, then her smile dropped. This batch was unevenly baked, some were undercooked and some were burnt, she also had problems with over-spreading making all look like a big mess.

Her brows furrowed, staring at the mess in silence, thinking what she could have done wrong. That was when she took out her phone from her apron’s pocket and started searching. One potential cause was the butter, she could have overly softened the butter or overworked the dough and she blamed this to the electric mixer.

Larissa didn’t let this mishap discourage her, so she tried again, gathered a new batch of ingredients and scraped the mess off into the trash. This time she didn’t rely on the cooking book, she searched online for ways to perfectly bake cookies and looked for some tips. She preheated the oven, chilled the dough, and used the middle rack of the oven. However, something still went wrong with the cookies, it ended up tough and dense. Larissa frustratedly sighed, her shoulders sagging.

So she went over the internet again and found out stale baking powder could cause this problem so she checked the box and facepalmed when she found out that it was already expired. Thirty minutes later, Larissa came back with a fresh tray of eggs, baking soda, and some flour. She was determined to make this one work.

Sweat ran down her back, attempting again for the third time. She checked her phone. It was only two o'clock. She still had plenty of time before you came home. Although fifteen minutes later Larissa heard the front door opening and your familiar footsteps reverberating in the house.

“What are you doing?” you had a smile on your face as you inquired, shrugging off your coat while you sauntered toward the kitchen to see what your girlfriend had been up to while you were gone.

“Oh, nothing…just baking.” Larissa met your eyes in a fleeting glance, her cheeks already glowing red. She watched you from the corners of her eyes, going around the counter and planted yourself next to her, brushing her hair off her face.

“You have flour on your face, love.” you wiped it off gently with your thumb before you focused on what she was doing, and simply taunted her with your presence.

Larissa felt the growing pressure, felt how heavy your eyes were as you watched her, distracting her, “It says only a teaspoon, love.” your hand locked around her wrist stopping her from pouring more vanilla into the dough.

“Could you check my emails? See if anything’s out of the ordinary?” she requested.

You didn't think so much of it and agreed, “Yeah, of course. Right now?”

She nodded.

“Okay.”

In all honesty, she didn’t need her emails to be checked, she just didn’t want you there to witness her fail over a supposedly simple task. Baking should not be this hard and complicated, it shouldn’t be exhausting, it was designed to be relaxing and refreshing. She was supposed to be enjoying and not stressing over this. God, she just wanted to bake for you.

Somehow she still scored the next, making it three consecutive fails. This time she didn’t bother checking what went wrong, she was tired, it was her breaking point, and to make it worse, you walked in after smelling the burning sweet smell of sugar and broke into laughter.

It wasn't your intention to insult or upset her; you just laughed because it was a mess and you had been with her for so long to know Larissa wasn’t fond of messes, and this proved to you that even after being so perfect all the time, she still had her flaws.

But it was the last thing she needed from you.

Larissa undid her apron and tossed it unceremoniously on the floor, her face buried on her hands softly sobbing. She couldn’t take it anymore. She was upset and tired. She felt pathetic. She watched a fucking child baked cookies over the internet and it turned out decent so how the fuck a grown woman couldn’t achieve the same result when clearly she should be better, if not best, at doing it.

The smile on your face faltered, altered by a sad look once you saw how Larissa broke down on the floor. “Fuck.” you expressed out loud, dashing forward to where she sat.

“Hey,” you sat next to her, “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to upset you.”

She wasn’t responding. It broke you. You should have been more sensitive, should have seen the sign that it was something you shouldn’t have laughed about no matter how pure your intention was.

“Baby, I’m sorry. I only laughed because I thought it was funny because you finally messed up. It’s silly, I know, I just…you’ve always been perfect and seeing you get so frustrated over baking makes it so refreshing to the eyes and I laughed at the first chance I got when I shouldn’t have.”

Larissa stopped and turned to you, staring at you with a gentle expression, she wasn’t mad at you, she could never be. You leaned, fondling her cheek, “I should have been more careful and sensitive. I’m sorry.”

When all was said and still she hadn't moved, you began apologizing the alternative way by pressing kisses to her brow, her cheeks, her nose, her lips, everywhere.

You kept dropping another after another, more gentle, more soothing than the last, more sincere until a beam stretched her lips. Then you see the spark, one you had seen a hundred times, returned to her eyes, they looked so beautiful. She kissed back, accepting your apology. It was tender, very delicately pressed on your cheek.

You then pressed your forehead to her shoulder, catching a moment for yourself, “You almost gave me a heart attack. Seeing you like that I thought I had to go over every reason why you shouldn’t break up with me.” you let her know your thoughts, she chuckled lightly.

“Oh you did huh?” you felt her combed through your hair, planting a kiss on your head.

“Mhmm.”

“In retrospect I think it was a bit dramatic.”

“Hmm, no comment.” it was better safe than sorry. Larissa hummed as well and asked you to stand up. She did too and eyed the mess on the counter.

“We should clean this up. I need to cook dinner soon.”

When you faced her, you saw there was still a remnant of sadness in her eyes. She couldn’t hide those, not even with the smile on her lips.

“How about we try one more time?” you suggested, smiling at her, convincing her.

She was apprehensive, “Are you sure?”

“Positively sure. Don’t worry, okay? I’ll help you and if we fail we can try again tomorrow and then the day after that until we have perfectly edible chocolate chip cookies.”

Two days later, at twelve midnight, the mouth watering, warm scent of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies engulfed the kitchen and it was worth it as a priceless grin possessed Larissa’s lips and spun you around and kissed you.

Perhaps all that was missing was love. She had to bake with love.

#larissa weems imagine #larissa weems x reader #principal larissa weems #larissa x reader #larissa weems #gwendoline christie imagines #gwen christie #request #tooth rotting fluff

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imfromthemiddlekingdom · 27 days

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When I engage with the Silmarilion fandom it’s always very educational and enlightening no matter what side they’re on regarding Finwe and his sons. But whenever I interact with the HoTD fandom it’s always “you’re condoning XYZ and therefore you’re a horrible person!!!” Or doing mental gymnastics to try to justify whichever atrocities their side committed.

Thematically both stories are quite similar. We can find parallels with Rhaenyra and Feanor but even at his worst (Pulling a sword on Fingolfin, First kinslaying, burning of the ships etc.) Feanor had never put a bounty on a toddler (Rhaenyra stating that Maelor should be bought to her dead or alive causing him to be ripped apart. Like hello??!??? How is that ever a justifiable thing to do???). I can find parallels between Feanor and Rhaenyra, sure. But if I’m honest the parallels stop with them being the only child of a kings first wife who’s father then went on to face four more kids with another women. Finwe is ten times the father Viserys was. And literally none of the kids (Feanor included) would ever take their anger out on their siblings child like we see the so called Maegor come again do.

But I digress, I was talking of the fandom. I may get heated talking about whether Feanor was right in his anger at Indis or whether Fingolfin should’ve absolutely demanded more reparations from the sons of Feanor when he crossed the ice. But I’ve never seen anyone in the Silm fandom saying that someone should die because they had an opinion.

But I’ve seen many instances of HoTD fans threatening rape and death on people who think Alicent is not the monster they portray her as, or that Rhaenyra isn’t as ‘girl boss queen slay!!!’ As people say she is. Maybe it’s because HoTD is a TV show and many of the fans haven’t read the books and therefore don’t understand nuance since the TV show focuses so much on Rhaenyra’s manifest destiny arc that team green gets painted as the ‘ultimate’ villain for our girl boss queen Rhaenyra to ascend to the throne since it’s her ‘birth right’.

Not to mention how the whole made up show canon prophecy to justify colonialism means that team black stans are really showing their true colors on what they think is right. Because guess what? The Silm also has what could be said to be as a colonizing story line with the Noldor coming to Beleriand and settling but most fans agree that the cutting up of Beleriand was very much a colonizing behavior no matter what they think of Thingol.

Point is, most HoTD fans can’t hold and intellectually simulating debate over their characters without feeling like said debater is personally attacking them since their entire personality is so deeply entwined with their fav that a critique on them would automatically equate to a critique on themselves. Therefore making it entirely impossible to have a decent conversation on the thematically very important foils that Rhaenyra and Alicent pose to each other (since they still think a good story must have a black and white view of the protagonist and the antagonist lmao).

Media illiteracy in these fandoms truly is a cancer that spreads to even the most level headed and literate individuals. Pick up a book! Understand themes and how foils are supposed to be written without internalizing criticism of your fav as a criticism of yourself! I don’t get mad when people criticize Feanor, nor do I get mad when people say I’m wrong when it comes to my own interpretation of the statue of Finwe and Miriel. It’s called having a discussion and you can only do that when you’re not on the front lines dying for a fictional character who wouldn’t spit on you if you were on fire in front of them!!!

#media literacy #hotd #the silmarillion #feanor #pro alicent hightower #alicent hightower #anti team black stans #anti team black #pro team green #please I’m begging for people in this god forsaken fandom to stop defending a fictional character with your life #cw rape #anti rhaenyra targaryen #anti Rhaenyra Targaryen fans #rhaenyra targaryen #as you can see I despair at the lack of reading comprehension skills and media literacy skills most team black stans have #literally head empty only girl boss slay queen omg she’s such a boss bitch!!!!#if you can’t recognize the flaws in your fav character maybe don’t debate their actions online?#like #a character having irredeemable flaws is like half the reason you like them

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sovietpostcards · 9 months

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I love seeing everything you share, it's such a great glimpse into the past. But I see some things for sale too, and it's made me wonder, do you mostly collect for yourself, or to sell onwards to others to spread the joy? Or is your home like an amazing museum of the Russian/Soviet past? And what's your favourite thing that you've ever stumbled across?

(If those questions are too personal, no offense meant. Thanks for this blog though, it's one of my favs!)

Thank you for the question! :D Always nice to talk about one's obsessions. So, this blog intitially started many years ago as a way to show off my collection of Soviet New Year postcards. A few years later I tried to sell some of my excess postcards and to my surprise, people actually bought them! In 2014-2022 I did the Etsy shop full time. I realized something about myself along the way. While I adore vintage things and I enjoy touching them and looking at them and researching them, I do not need to own them indefinitely. So this shop thing is perfect for me because it gives me a chance to have so many different things and hold them and cherish them, and then I sell them and make money and room to have other things.

So, ever since the 2014, I was only buying things to sell them (and to hold and enjoy them in the process). I do of course sometimes keep things for myself, but probably fewer than you imagine. Some of the things I kept are a vintage Earth globe, a small table, a crystal vase, a bunch of kitchen stuff like cups and bowls and cutlery, a bunch of photography books, a few pins, some towels and linens, and many records and Christmas tree ornaments!

Some of the most memorable things I've come across are this huge wooden cutout of Lenin (sourced from a local school, donated to a local museum), a large and heavy folder of Andrei Sokolov space art prints (sold to the US during the pandemic and nearly gave me a heart attack with how long it travelled), this cartonage cosmonaut ornament (bought at a thrift store in St Petersburg, super expensive, but I've never seen another one), a Yuri Gagarin souvenir plate, a whole bunch of stationery (I love writing letters, I gave some of them to my penpals). The memorability, for me, is often about the process of finding it, not the item itself. Or having it - like the time I put a bunch of flags on the clothesline outside to take a picture. Neighbourhood grandmas sure were surprised. :)

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nopointic · 1 year

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i really do laugh seeing blue lives matter stickers on cars next to a harry potter symbol like it's peak white™️millennial in the south. snarky disney meme about baby yoda being in board? check! american flag with a blue stripe? check! deathly hallows symbol or a quote saying lumos! check! congrats you're just as racist and homophobic as your mee maw and paw paw! the bitch apples don't fall far from the tree after all!

"the younger generations will end racism/homophobia/etc!" you motherfuckers can't even let a fucking book series go when the author straight up hates transgender people in the open. but you're the vote everyone worries about every single election??? 😂😂😂😂😂 y'all swear UP and DOWN you're NOT LIKE THEM OTHER WHITE PEOPLE™️ but you are!

boo hoo that was my childhood! hello!!! it was a whole lot of our childhoods and yet here we are in 2023 with millions of people saying hey! continuing to support this woman hurts so many groups of minorities cut that shit out! and i swear y'all buy another legacy game or hardback book with a new cover saying it's not a big deal cos you're sad and it cheers you up etc etc etc

then have the nerve to reblog posts about police brutality and acts of violence against trans and asian and black people saying you're spreading the word to be better.

but you're not. it's empty reblogs empty gestures and i'm fucking tired.

fuck you if you still support harry potter or anything with it in 2023

fuck you. "oh it's my childhood" tired asses.

trans kids don't make it outta teen hood most of the time due to suicide.

black and asian kids are beat the fuck up and killed by police for just being none white. hate crimes are up so bad. and then i go out and i see tons of harry potter shit like it's the fucking 90s. harry potter and friends. and y'all saying everyone is hurting entertainment now with "forced diversity"

y'all are not slick. you're fucking racist through and through. so many of y'all think because you don't actively say slurs or hang nooses or burn rainbow flags that you're not like the other homophobic racist people. but you are like them.

you're fucking pathetic on several levels and basic at that.

you continue to choose a book series over actual lives. you're beyond fucking disgusting.

and shout out to the fuckers who "love" kpop but tell their fav korean artist to speak english. i really do wish the devil would call all you sorry ass bitches back to hell where you belong. fuck you.

oh and the anti semitism that jumps out all the fucking time??? you think i don't continue to see this??!!!! Y'ALL ARE SO FUCKING TRASHY LIKE I FUCKING HATE YOU!!!!!

Y'ALL REALLY ARE FUCKING NAZIS IN THE OPEN AND IT'S THE WILDEST FUCKING SHIT LIKE IT IS 2023 AND YOU'RE BUYING THAT TERF SHIT IN A FUCKING ECONOMICAL CRISIS????? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE YOU ABSOLUTE CUNTS!!!!

FUCK! HARRY! POTTER!!

🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

#black lives matter #stop asian hate #trans lives matter #anti semitism #fuck harry potter #jk rowling

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cafalla · 3 months

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Starlog Magazine (December 1995, Issue #221) Scans

It's been a while since I posted about a scanning project. The most recent magazine I scanned was this Starlog Magazine from December 1995!

Starlog originally started out as a Star Trek magazine, but evolved to include all things sci-fi, fantasy, and nichely nerdy. I don't think nichely is a word, but hey, this is my blog and I say and do what I want lol.

Here are some scans I like from the magazine! There is also a link to the full magazine at the end of the post if you're interested in seeing the whole thing!

Let's start off with this subscription form for the magazine.

This takes me back. The thought of filling out a form and mailing it in to purchase a magazine subscription feels so alien now (haha).

I also wanted to point out Robocop, one of my boyfriend's (and my dad's) favs! I actually only recently saw the movie for the first time with my boyfriend, and it was so fun and surprisingly gorey! I wasn't expecting it at all. For some reason I thought the movie was silly and campy? And I mean it was, but the blatant gore and body horror that would come out of nowhere was so shocking to me!

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Speaking of filling out mail-in forms to make purchases, this magazine is full of them! Mainly they're for merch and memorabilia. Here are a few of my favorites.

This selection doesn't even include all of the things available to buy from the magazine. I think my favorite are the audio cassettes/CDs and the Star Trek face t-shirts. The pin collector in me also admires the page of Star Trek pins.

The signed movie and tv photos page is SO interesting, too. I wonder how they decided the prices for each celebrity? Part of me can't imagine these are real, but if I was a celeb...I certainly would take 1 second to sign a photo if it was being sold for $40 and I got some kickback lol.

If you could have one of the singed photos from a celebrity on that list, who would it be?

I'd have to pick Gary Sinise!

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There are actually quite a few story articles in this magazine. Each have around a 3-6 page spread full of pictures - they're quite fun to look at! Here are some of my favorite pages from the various articles.

I really enjoy how they all have drastically different color backgrounds.

The cover article about how Toy Story was created/animated is cool! I picked this page because I love watching how animators work, especially when they use themselves as reference (like in the above pic).

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Lastly, just a couple of random parts from the magazine that interested me.

One was this article about a fantasy fiction author.

The article included many different covers of her books. I wish these could've been in color! I've never read older fantasy adventure novels, but these all looked super appealing to me. I'll have to keep an eye out for some of her books while thrifting.

During the scanning process, I spend a lot of time looking at the front and back covers of the books/magazines I'm scanning. I found myself absolutely enthralled with the back cover of this magazine.

Something about the colors, art, and design just piqued my interest while scanning. I've never heard of this game, much less played it, but I do want to know more about it! I'll probably see if there's a let's play online.

Gosh this is such a cool looking ad for this game. I'm sure the game itself is probably nothing great, but this ad sure is great to look at.

As always, you can view the full magazine for yourself over on my Internet Archive account.

Thanks for stopping by!

#txt #scans #my scans #nostalgia #vintage #magazine #magazines #1995 #starlog #starlog magazine #star trek #x files #the dig #toy story #robocop #the tomorrow people #cybertech pd #90s

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random tmi of the day ?

fav food / drink ?

fav subject / topic ?

fav aesthetic ?

any celeb or irl crushes ?

fav book / quote / literature ?

fav song u listened to today ?

fav time of day ?

intro/extro/ambivert ?

ever dreamt of idols ?

10 QUESTIONS FOR U <3

here to spread some joy in the mundane !!!!

send to ur fave blogs to show luv + some fun Qs

oki this seem fun

i used coupons today and paid for nothing

in my 21 years of existence, i have yet to decide

abnormal psychology, i think

night, 80s, vintage

lol too many to list,, irl ofc the bf

book: the whole series of narnia, i kid u not,,,, quote: 'she doesnt look nice, she looks like art. and art isnt supposed to make to look nice, its supposed to make u feel something.'

lea - toto

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Omg I've been rewatching supernatural too (I'm like halfway through season 5) and tbh Gabriel has always been one of my favs!

Fic idea: Gabriel x Winchester!Reader where she gets injured on a hunt. He comes and saves her on the brink of death and watches over her as she recovers, much to the confusion of Sam and Dean. Maybe Gabriel and reader have feelings for each other but never admitted (until after she recovers ofc)?

This might have been done before but I'd like to see your take on it! If you don't want to that's totally cool too. Lmk if you want anymore Gabriel ideas bc I def have more! Hope you have a great day :)

Ooh yes, please do send them in! Gabriel is my favourite character. I just wish he had been in the series for longer.

Title: Revealed Secrets

Everything tag list: @greenrevolutionary, @byebyebreezywrites, @spngingerbread21, @layazul, @lov3vivian, @simonsbluee

“Is it me or are those two acting weird?”

Sam looked up from his book as Dean put down a beer bottle in front of him. Dean sat down opposite him and took a swig from his own bottle and said,

“Weirder than usual that is.”

“What do you mean?” asked Sam

“I dunno,” Dean took another sip, “Just a feeling around them. Like, whenever I go into a room and they’re in there already I feel like I’m interrupting something. Just the looks they give me, especially Gabriel.”

“He did save her life.”

“And how many times have we done that?” said Dean angrily, “We’ve know her, her whole life. He swoops in a saves her one time-“

“More than once.” Interrupted Sam, giving Dean a pointed look

“Whatever. You noticed how he didn’t leave her side? Hardly let us spend any time with her.”

Sam shook his head, a small smile on his face, much to the annoyance of Dean.

“What?” Dean asked

“It’s obvious.” Sam said

“What is?”

“Seriously,” Sam gave him a disbelieving look, “You really don’t know?”

“Know what?”

“Gabriel is in love with y/n.”

Sam had to force himself to keep a straight face as Dean choked on his beer and almost fell out of his chair. Laughing at his brother wouldn’t do anything to improve the sudden tension in the room. Dean glared at Sam and shook his head.

“No,” he said firmly, “No. He can’t be. She can’t be. Y/n has more sense than that to go falling in love with Gabriel of all people.”

“Struck me a bit strange at first,” said Sam, “But it’s obvious when you think about it.”

“No it isn’t.”

Dean’s reply came out too quickly and Dean looked away at Sam’s pointed stare.

“You saw the way he looked at her,” Sam said quietly, “He hardly left her side.”

“No, that’s just creepy. Doesn’t mean he’s in love with her.”

Dean looked away as he took a deep drag from his beer. He put his bottle down, a little harder than he intended, and said,

“You think she knows?”

Sam opened his mouth but closed it with a snap as you and Gabriel walked passed. The archangel had his arm slung over your shoulder. The look you were giving him was half way between amused and annoyed. Gabriel must’ve told you once of his stupid jokes. You were probably the only person who actually found them even faintly funny. He really should’ve seen it earlier.

Dean’s jaw clenched when he saw the two of you together. He gripped the bottle tightly, violence at the forefront of his mind. Sam doubted that glassing Gabriel wouldn’t do much good and would only piss you off.

“Yeah,” said Sam, “Yeah I think she knows.”

Dean turned his attention back to Sam but before he could say anything the familiar sound of fluttering wings filled the room. The two brother looked over (well, in Dean’s case glared) as Gabriel appeared at the end of the table. A smirk spread across his face as Dean stood up.

“Oi, Gabe, where the fuck have you gone?” you called

“Be there is a second, sugar.” Gabriel called back, looking between Dean and Sam

He winked at the two brothers before once again disappearing. Dean slammed his fist down on the table and marched out of the room followed very closely by Sam. Someone needed to try and be damage control.

“Y/n,” he shouted, “We need to talk.”

“Ahh, fuck,” you said, “Gabe, what have you done now?”

“Why is it always my fault?”

#fanfiction #supernatural #reader insert #request #gabriel #gabriel x reader

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Thank ye for the tag @seiya-starsniper!

current time: 7:16pm

current mood: neutral

current activity: Sewing a channel for a dowel at the bottom of my neighbor's flag to keep the wind from flipping it around on his flagpole

currently thinking about: How long it's taking to rip out these stitches I need to redo cuz the stitch setting I started with turned out to not be what I wanted

current favorite song: don't have a single fav atm, but the whole of this playlist is a mood lately

currently reading: mostly just alllllllllll the fic (these are my current open to read ones in my mobile browser) In Waking Dreams and Integration by @cuubism, More often than not. (ch17) by TrainWreckBeck, The Chandrasekhar Limit by @beauty-of-nyx, and Discover Check, and Incidentally, Mate by @arialerendeair

OH YEAH! Almost forgot my book club book: Ace by Angela Chen

currently watching: nothing atm cuz Netflix did a ridiculous split release on Witcher S3 so I'm waiting for the whole thing to drop for binging purposes 🤙🏻

current favorite character: like the song Q, no single fav atm, but my current spread of favs remains unchanged: Dream (Daniel & Morpheus)*, Hob Gadling*, The Corinthian, Fiddler's Green, Destruction, Geralt of Rivia, and Jaskier

*especially keen on Shaman!Dream/Nightmare!Hob from Soteria by @phinofthestorm, Dream!Randall in the collab WIP we're writing together, and the mer!Dream @beauty-of-nyx is stewing on writing and @aquabluejay has been drawing

current WIPs: Σ(´∀｀；) ummm... there're quite a few... (；´ ³`)ゞ the pile keeps growing, but now that I finished my Hobrinthian, exchange fic Dues Owed (Debts Collected), I'm gonna be circling back to my John Dee Wins bingo fic and see about FINALLY getting that one wrapped up. Others at the top of the pile are the previously mentioned collab fic with @phinofthestorm and then writing more of the story following the angst prompt fic Don't Ask Me To Say Goodbye ft. siren/mer!Dream

Tagging (but legit no pressure): @thranduilland, @mentallyinvernation, @blueberrymffn, @arialerendeair, @landwriter, @phinofthestorm, @spockandthings, and @beauty-of-nyx

#sleepsonfutons gets tagged #sleepsonfutons answers #tag game

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acos prologue-chapter 19: i read the whole first half of the book during a trip this weekend so i’m sure i’ve forgotten a bunch of stuff i wanted to note, but i did go back and skim through to jog my memory and i think i have all the most important things

giant ass wheel of time prologues my detested. i want to see RAND! pedron niall’s assassination was pretty wild tho, did not see that coming! might be starting to see why the show gave valda such a prominent intro? up to now i’d been wondering about that since he hasn’t seemed too important. overall the book whitecloaks feel like more of a nuisance and waste of page-time than an actual threat, so i think the show did a much better job making them feel like real antagonists.

it’s also interesting bc coming to the books as a show-first person, what with the way whitecloaks were presented to me initially, so far galad becoming a whitecloak feels WAY worse than anything gawyn (who we also see in the prologue) has done yet. i’m committed to keeping gawyn as my problematic fav now, hope he doesn’t do something truly heinous that’ll make me have to admit i was wrong jkdfg i can forgive his choices at the tower coup and dumai’s wells and his hatred of rand bc he’s doing the best he can with the extremely limited and mostly incorrect information that’s available to him (the difficulties and unreliability of info-spreading in a pre-modern-technology (or technically post-) society is becoming a growing issue which is fascinating at times and infuriating at others, but always an incredibly realistic worldbuilding detail that i don’t recall seeing many other similarly low-tech fantasy books including) anyway, i’m weeping over gawyn’s looking glass having an inscription from his mom. also over him reflecting on how quickly real war ripped away the ideals he was always taught about fighting honorably.

“[perrin] would have expected the other aes sedai to comfort [the ones who were stilled in the battle], care for them somehow, but most ignored the three entirely” agreed perrin! i remember being really struck by how cold all the aes sedai were to siuan and leane when they were stilled and then how warm again suddenly after nynaeve healed them. not a surprising attitude for aes sedai, but shitty nonetheless.

“rand could [channel], of course, but he was rand, and the dragon reborn besides. [the asha’man] made perrin’s hackles rise” aww perrin lowkey admitted he’s not afraid of rand :’) what a sad state of things that i’m touched by that lmao

and perrin counting “they had kidnapped rand, mistreated him” as a reason why he doesn’t like aes sedai :’)

“the dragon reborn, who made the world tremble, sitting on the ground, alone in the dark, his arms wrapped around himself, rocking back and forth” almost started crying on the bus there, thanks for that

“[rand] had on a coat rooted out of the wagons...it was the only garment in the camp to fit him. truth, you would have thought he insisted on silk and fine embroidery, the way he had had those wagons searched top to bottom, yesterday and this morning” gee perrin i wonder why rand was so desperate to change out of the clothes he was kidnapped and tortured in for weeks? rand is literally so traumatized and literally no one even THINKS to think that he might be!

more problems await rand in cairhien. is it too much to ask that he be given enough time for a bath and a nap after everything he’s been through? goddamn

again perrin smells jealousy and hurt from faile when berelain comes up, and again understands the jealousy but not the hurt. he really just keeps going “why does the thought of me being interested in someone else make my wife feel hurt? what does it mean?” perrin has to take the crown of Worst With Women out of the 3 boys, which is ironic since he’s the only one in a long-term relationship with one. dumbassery by perrin, but more dumbassery by faile to not see how obviously uninterested and flat-out UNCOMFORTABLE perrin is with berelain and to not believe perrin when he keeps telling her he loves no one but her. jealousy is probably my #1 most hated romantic conflict in fiction (and probably also my #1 biggest turnoff in a hypothetical real-life partner) so i can tell i’m not going to have a good time with this plotline.

rand includes mat in the very short list of people he can trust. thinking about “friend” (in the context of lews therin being his only friend in the box) triggers some hallucinatory (?) flickers of color and motion that make him think of mat (and perrin). cauthor crumbs!

“no. he was not in the chest anymore. his fingers ached, clenched around scepter and hilt. only memories remained, and memories had no force. he was not-” rand!!! is so!!! traumatized!!!! and no one notices!!!!!!!

“when sulin stepped around in front of rand, she took one look at his face, and her breath caught. ‘they did this to you,’ she said softly, and reached for her heavy-bladed belt knife.” when rand gets panicky just from the darkness when he pulls his hood up, “sulin’s hand moved. it took him a moment to realize she was stroking his arm.” okay SULIN notices, thank god!! if nobody’s got rand i know sulin’s got him

“‘what woman could i hate enough to marry her to the dragon reborn?’ rand said coldly. that caused a silence solid enough to touch.” first of all, heartbreaking, second of all, i did laugh a little at bael and bashere and their wives all joking around about marriage and rand just drops the biggest debbie downer line in the world on them and kills, nay, MURDERS the mood

rand thinks, in quick succession, that he needs elayne, that he “doesn’t” (does) need aviendha, and that he needs mat. #PutMatInThePolycule

fat little man angreal my beloved is missing! no!! rand better get that little guy back or else! i don’t even care about him needing it for channeling, i just think it’s neat. fat little man angreal is my friend.

rand thinking of all his problems as juggling. “thom merrilin had taught him to juggle a little, but he had never been very good.” sounds like rand needs the pro juggler, mat cauthon, by his side to help him deal with everything.

“it was not of sammael or illian that he thought. bring elayne quickly, mat. it ran wild in his head.” matrandlayne crumbs!

“one hour, and [egwene] could straighten everything out. underneath, he was still rand.” aww egwene ❤️ it’s nice to see that all the emond’s fielders do still, to some extent, see rand and not just the dragon reborn. now if only they would make that clear to him to help him feel less isolated.............

“‘he doesn’t think he needs anyone.’ rand would go on thinking he could handle anything by himself right up until one of those anythings crushed him.” 1) pot and kettle, egwene 2) it hurts so much to see rand in his pov constantly thinking “i have to do this by myself because i’m the only one who can/because i don’t want other people to get hurt by having to do it/because i’m too traumatized to trust anyone but myself” but then from exterior povs it comes off as him refusing to ask for help because he’s overconfident and too proud and stubborn. aaaaaahhhh!!!

loving the parallels with rand and egwene in this book. both finding themselves with a million problems to juggle that (they think) no one but they can solve, both overwhelmed and lonely and scared and not sure who they can trust, but pushing through to try and do it all on their own because they must. “there was no rest in it, but it must be done. she would do what must be done.” like that could’ve come straight from a rand pov chapter!

theodrin is DEFINITELY mesaana. same tic of tapping her lips while thinking.

“mat had a reputation as a soldier?...[egwene] had believed he commanded only because of rand” jdkfjg EVERYONE thinks mat is just rand’s trophy husband. this + “of course you’re dragonsworn, you do whatever rand tells you” in the last book, egwene 100% thinks they’re fucking

egwene knows in her head that bonding a warder without his consent is bad, but thinks she and nynaeve might do the same to gawyn and lan if they were to turn them down?? girl???? what the fuck???????

awwww moiraine wanted myrelle to pass lan’s bond on to nynaeve ❤️❤️

halima is definitely giving egwene these headaches on purpose and then offering the cure as a way to worm her way into egwene’s trust. sometimes i wish there was a bit less of “revealing to the audience that a character is evil, but not to the other characters” i love a bit of dramatic irony but at this point it’s starting to become stressful and frustrating how many people i KNOW are evil that none of the other characters have unmasked yet (and i honestly can’t even keep track of which whitecloak was it who’s the darkfriend, which aes sedai, etc. lmao it would be easier on me in all respects if i was kept in the dark as long as the characters were)

our first aviendha pov (aside from like 4 paragraphs in the last book) yes!!!! i am so excited!!!! i’ve been hoping to unlock aviendha pov for ages! i love seeing how her aiel mind thinks about things in such different ways than the wetlander povs, like water and boats and propriety and clothing and relationships and honor and shame. aviendha vs. boats is so CUTE

“in a way, however important their search, that was like putting something before clan or society, yet aviendha felt pride. elayne’s view of honor was peculiar at times...but she followed it admirably” proud girlfriend! ❤️❤️

ooh interesting to finally see why aiel always call everyone by first and last name - aviendha thinks that only calling someone by half their name feels too intimate, “like using a honey-name.” if we don’t get a version of the godtier “character a who never calls character b by their first name does so for the first time in an emotional moment after character b almost dies” trope for aviendha and rand, i will fucking riot

“aviendha did not approve [of elayne’s dress]. the upper half of the dress, the bodice, fitted as snugly as that necklace, and a missing narrow oval of cloth revealed the inner slopes of her breasts” aviendha is shook by The Titties

no but while i like the clothing descriptions, i’m tired of how EVERY SINGLE woman’s outfit is ALWAYS described in terms of how revealing it is or isn’t. either describe women’s clothes without that aspect or, better yet, describe men’s clothes WITH it. if you’re gonna tell me how elayne’s boobs look in tight dresses, i also want to know how mat’s ass looks in tight pants. THAT is true equality!

“she and elayne had not reached the point of adopting each other as first-sisters yet, but she was sure they would, now. already they brushed each other’s hair, and every night in the dark shared another secret never told to anyone else.” LADIES................ 1) i specifically remember that earlier a maiden suggested that rand offer to brush aviendha’s hair as a way of getting her interest romantically, so the fact that aviendha and elayne are brushing each other’s hair 👀 2) what secrets never told to anyone else are they sharing every night, in the dark, alone, when it is dark, at night? 👀👀 3) much as i love this, when last we left aviendha she was saying she and elayne weren’t ready to become first-sisters yet, but now suddenly she thinks they’re almost there. “relationship development happening offscreen between books” is one of rj’s favorite tricks and i don’t like it one bit. 4) imagine a Put Mat In The Polycule version of this where mat is hanging out with aviendha and elayne brushing each other’s hair and fucking sharing secrets and talking about rand (as elayne mentions later) 🥺🥰

aviendha thinking about how ready she is to be elayne’s first-sister (and by extent sister-wife) and then thinking “this min woman, though............” (and min’s similar thought later about sharing rand with elayne and “this aviendha woman she had yet to meet”) just drives home how much min does not fit naturally into the polycule. min was close with elayne in book 2 (and most of that was relationship development that happened offscreen before the book) but they’ve only had a couple scenes since then, and she’s never met aviendha at all. meanwhile elayne/aviendha are as connected with each other as they are with rand, and while we’re at it, mat is connected with all 3 of them more strongly than min is. he’s a better and more natural fourth goddammit!!!!

aviendha is the first to advocate for asking mat to help them find the bowl rather than avoiding him 🥰 and when nynaeve insults him elayne says “oh do be quiet nynaeve” 🥰

“‘maybe,’ birgitte murmured, ‘you had mat the scoundrel set so hard in your mind, you couldn’t see he had any use.’ elayne gave her a cool stare, chin raised, then abruptly grimaced, and nodded reluctantly. she did not accept criticism easily.” awww elayne acknowledging she’s judged mat unfairly 🥰 also i really feel like nynaeve and egwene have influenced elayne’s opinion of mat HARD, like they’re her bffs and they spend so much time talking about what an irresponsible scoundrel he is that of course elayne comes to believe the same thing. it often feels like she’s mostly just parroting what they say about mat, esp since i feel like mat hasn’t done anything THAT scoundrel-y in front of elayne so far.

“he needs to be made fit for decent company” is elayne planning to My Fair Lady mat? ........that would be a hilarious fic actually, someone please write that

awwww elayne is being so sweet about aviendha’s fear of boats and water, giving her advice for dealing with it while phrasing it like she’s talking about herself so as not to embarrass aviendha 🥺🥰

“[aviendha] complained to amys and bair that she must be ill because she felt as though rand al’thor was carrying some part of her around with him” BABY 🥺🥺😭😭

“most would have thought [elayne] quite calm, but aviendha knew the signs” aviendha knows her girlfriend!

proud dad mat betting all his money on olver in the horse race! anxious dad mat being worried about olver getting hurt in the race!

“not that [the women] had spoken twenty words to [mat] since arriving in the bloody city!” mat is so desperate for his besties’ attention bless him

“as far as [mat] was concerned, [aviendha] could knife whoever she wanted so long as it was not elayne” supportive brother-husband of aviendha and protective husband of elayne 😌

mat having a flashback to the cauthor roadtrip 😭😭😭😭 and not just any part of it, but the part when rand was sick and mat took care of him (tho the flashback is only focused on the darkfriend lady), which might just be my #1 favorite part!

dagger-influenced mat in the flashback “he wondered why he had ever trusted. it never paid. never.” and lews-therin-influenced rand earlier in the book “to trust was to be betrayed; trust was pain” they need each other so bad!! goddammit!!

mat going “nynaeve needs to be taken down a peg but i’m not gonna let anyone else talk shit about her!” they’re besties your honor!!!

i feel like mat is suddenly being 20x hornier and more women-objectifying-y than he ever was in previous books, and i feel like this is being done so that The Thing That Happens To Him Later In This Book can be framed as comeuppance, which is absolute bs!!!!

speaking of That Thing, this chapter has mat’s first meeting with tylin and it’s horrible! he spends the whole time uncomfortable and stressed out and feeling trapped and having his personal space invaded. “the writing table behind his back rattled against the wall as he tried to back away. the only way out was to push her aside or climb over her skirts...she smiled, a faint curl of her lips that did not lessen the predatory glint in her eyes. the hair on his head tried to stand up.” i hate it!!!!! elayne please make a gateway and send mat back to caemlyn stat!!!

mat feels like a rabbit being chased by an eagle. i feel as though we’re supposed to think “ha, how the turn tables from when mat was the eagle chasing all those women” except it was clearly established MULTIPLE times in previous books that mat only chases women who enjoy it as much as he does. and actually, his only previous significant relationship (melindhra) was also him as the rabbit to her eagle, not just bc she was a darkfriend and tried to kill him, but even before that he was often uncomfortable around her and wishing he could figure out a way to end the relationship without her forcing him to stay or getting mad at him or hurting him. mat deserves better yet from spoilers i know he’s only going to receive worse 😤

the dice have been rolling for a couple chapters now and i am so scared to see when they’ll stop

random thought but i LOVE taraboner syntax and speech patterns

rand is also suddenly being hornier and more women-objectifying-y than usual (“he enjoyed looking at [berelain] too much” literally since when????) but at least it seems like this might be a symptom of lews therin being horny in his head and not actually rand’s own thoughts

if cadsuane is so important and legendary among aes sedai, why have we never heard one mention of her in a previous book? at least that i can recall. she’s funny so far but it just feels like she came out of absolutely nowhere, usually a character who’s allegedly THIS important would’ve at least been hinted at before being abruptly dropped into the story

rand is starting to question whether lews therin is real or just madness, interesting. i would also like the answer to that!

“mad or not, alone or not, there was no one else to do what had to be done. not even this small duty. heavier than a mountain.” 😭😭😭😭

our first few sentences of min pov this book are her thinking about how she hates high-heeled boots but is wearing them because she thinks rand likes them 🙄 day 89475 of waiting for min to find the dignity and self-respect she had at the beginning of the series

“she had long since reconciled herself to being hopelessly in love [with rand]. nothing else mattered, not that he was an unsophisticated countryman, younger than she, not who or what he was, not that he was doomed to go mad and die if he was not killed first.” min spends so much time thinking about all the reasons why she shouldn’t love rand and none about the reasons why she does. day 9348958 of waiting for min to give one (1) reason why she loves rand, besides that he’s handsome and that fate said she had to. and on rand’s part, the only reason he’s really given so far is that he feels safe with min, which is sweet, but not really enough to convince me of strong romantic love. it feels more like a sense of platonic comfort and friendship than of attraction or romantic feelings. plus, it almost feels like he’s just latching onto min bc he’s so desperately lonely and affection-starved and she is literally the only friend he has nearby atm, aside from perrin who we’ve seen is kinda wary of him now

min is unhappy with sharing rand with elayne and aviendha but has accepted she has no choice. i’ve said it before but have to repeat, i just hate so much the way this whole thing was done! it feels like poor min and elayne are both miserable with the arrangement, while aviendha is ok with sharing with elayne but not with min. i would love to see avilayne date in the show (and we’re all thinking they probably will) and possibly one or both date min as well, but honestly i would be completely fine with them keeping “rand has 3 gfs and they each only have him” if they just made it so that all 4 of them are actually HAPPY with the arrangement and do it because they want to, not because min said fate said they had to. like, the aiel are already there to introduce the concept of polyamory to rand/elayne/min, they don’t also need Fate Said So motivating them to do this. i feel like the books made it so that the concept of polyamory is so completely alien and distasteful to min and elayne that Fate Said So was the only way to force them into it, which sucks and is yet another symptom of the main characters’ extreme sexual repression (which the show has thankfully done away with, and nynaeve in s1 was surprised by polyamory but had no problem with it, so i’m hoping the randwich formation will benefit from this change in attitude)

min and rand have now officially fucked, but my opinion of the ship still hasn’t changed. also, what is WITH the non-consensual undertones of rand’s 2 sex scenes? with aviendha i remember him thinking something like “he couldn’t have stopped her even if he’d wanted to” and now min’s is so much worse: “[while rand is protesting that he can’t do this with her] seizing two handfuls of his hair, she pulled his mouth back down, and after a little while, he stopped fighting...if he even tried to stop now, she was going to fetch one of riallin’s spears, all of them, and stab him.” is that supposed to feel sexy? is that supposed to feel romantic? bc it doesn’t!! especially given that this is happening while rand is in a really emotionally vulnerable state after cadsuane’s visit and the news of fel’s and colavaere’s deaths which he views as his fault. A Crown of Swords more like A Crown of Consent Issues

i haven’t yet returned to rand’s pov, will be interested to see his thoughts on this development

#wot #wot book spoilers

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An estimate of how many physical books I own: By my guess, 150. I have some fiction but most of them are either field guides, poultry books or just old American Poultry Association and old American Bantam Association Yearbooks. And I have a few bibles and devotionals and stuff.

Favourite author: Tolkien! My favorite standalone book is The Hobbit and my favorite trilogy is LOTR (yes I am counting it as a trilogy because then I don't have to pick between them.) I never enjoyed the Silmarillon I'm afraid, there are no hobbits. I only read half of it. And equally, Cressida Cowell which is why I have a second HTTYD blog called common-or-garden-blog. The How To Train Your Dragon books are definitely my favorite series. I never got into the Wizards of Once. I'm sure the characters were great but I was already invested in the HTTYD trio so it was weird when I saw two characters that looked just like Hiccup and Camicazi but with their personalities swapped and the cognitive dissonance was just too much for me to get invested. I think I just struggle to not compare new media with the old.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: Twilight. *shrugs*

A popular book I thought was just meh: "Eragon." I read the whole 1st book of the series and more of the second and I still don't know why my uncle recommended it to me. I just thought it was bad writing.

Longest book I own: The Holy Bible. I am a proud Christian. It did take me a year but I have read all of it (okay I will be honest I did skim a lot of Leviticus though.)

Longest series I own all the books to: How To Train Your Dragon. Actually, that's the only series I own all the books to.

Prettiest book I own: I had a beautiful light blue leatherbound Bible with a flower on it but it got so worn out it can hardly be called the prettiest. Okay maybe it still can. The prettiest book I don't own is the anniversary edition The Hobbit that I got for my brother just so I could gaze at Tolkien's drawings.

A book or series I wish more people knew about: Apart from HTTYD which is something totally different from the movies and very underappreciated, I wish more people knew about The Great Turkey Walk by Kathlene Karr. It is an antebellum era historical fiction story with some characters you will love and root for disguised as a brisk, rollicking cattle turkey drive. I actually made fan art for it once and was super disappointed that there was literally no content for it on Tumblr at all like not even a mention. I'd say I'm biased because turkeys are my fav animal but 1. when I found out it existed I checked it out because it had turkeys only to discover it was a book that I had enjoyed in elementary school, I just totally forgot the turkeys were in it (even though they drove the plot.) I only remembered the other parts of the plot! 2. I gave it to my history teacher while we studied the antebellum in APUSH and she loved it.

For non-fiction, some recs are:

The Holy Bible seriously it's nonfiction fite me

Character Sketches Volume 1

Why Did The Chicken Cross the World sadly this is not a book that I own but I have read it twice. It's a fascinating examination of the history of chickens and how they spread all over the planet. (There are more chickens than humans, did you know that?

everything else is very specific to my little chicken and genetics obsession or a field guide, lol

Book I'm reading now: I've been trying to read Wheel of Time because a friend gave it to me. But it is chapter 11 or 12. At that point in The Fellowship we would be past Rivendale. In book 1 of this series (I don't even remember what it is called) we are traveling and have had 1 (one) event of interest happen so far. Also, I only tolerate the characters. Also this book is one of the biggest I've ever read and there are 12 more in the series. If I am ever to leave the stagnation and start reading again I need to give up.

Book that's been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven't got around to it: *looks at goodreads* ew those are the books I was interested in reading? No wonder I haven't read any they all look like they suck (except Catcher in the Rye, I actually read it and it was a real banger.) I guess Dealing With Dragons is a book on there that actually still looks appealing.

Do you have any books in a language other than English: I.. I've written a book short story in English and then translated and illustrated it into Spanish in a tiny sketchbook (and left the rest of the pages blank) does that count? (I would share the video but I don't want people to mock my Spanish I'm trying okay?)

Paperback, hardcover, or ebook? Hardback and softcover. I prefer hardcover since the ones that are softcover are looking a little worse for the wear. BUT to combat my worn out LOTR I bought a single edition hardcover because it was cheaper than 3 separate books but it turns out it is really hard and intimidating to read because it is so big and heavy so that was a fail.

#i really need to start reading again #it's just whenever I start a new book and its not HTTYD or LOTR it's like #why bother #the most recent book I've actually enjoyed was #character sketches

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