Girls don’t want a Watcher subscription.

Girls want The Hot Daga to come back.

I do not have wings, love, I never will

Soarin' over a world you are carryin'

If these heights should bring my fall

Let me be your own

Icarian carrion

Painting inspired by Icarus and Hozier’s album Unreal Unearth. The lyrics included come from the songs Sunlight, I Carrion (Icarian), and First Light.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about living in the light of loss, and loving despite the danger it brings. About how maybe it’s worth flying to the sun, just to fall.

"adam and ronan are a sun and moon pairing" yes and ronan is the sun. but specifically like this:

hennessy. hennessy. hennessy i am thinking of you. i am thinking about the significance of first vs last names in trc/tdt. how the difference between when ronan says “parrish” vs when he says “adam” MATTERS. there is softness, there is feeling in both but they are so very different. and i am thinking about how hennessy only has her last name, how she gave jordan — her first dreamt copy, her first real companion as a child — her first name. hennessy has Half a name, she is half a person. and the half she chose was the last name, the name that is arguably less yours. a last name is your Family name, it is something that signifies your place in a group, but without a first name, it does not differentiate you from the group — hennessy gave up her individuality by giving up her first name to jordan, becoming less real, less her in the process. but hennessy would always choose to do this because jordan is hennessy’s other half and she views her as her better half. and so she gave jordan the first name, because to hennessy, jordan is the orginal, better, jordan hennessy.

if Blue Sargent is half tree-person and Ronan Lynch is a sentient forest does that make them kin? Tree cousins? Forest family?

honestly ronan calling himself a dad in cdth is just him overcompensating for the fact that in pynch relationship he is clearly a mom. taking demonic children out of his dreamwomb. ovulating 24/7. manic giant nightmare girling in every single book. don’t worry sweetie, declan being a malewife does not cancel out you being one as well. it’s in your dna, go thank niall.

I am normal about Evil's fault

being lost in your own teeny tiny world with all of your soft fuzzy fwens, being able to run around, eat all the yummy treats + play all the games you want to without any worries because you’re safe & protected by all of your fwens <3

Starting to headcanon that wearing the cloak all the way from the mask down like Dreamers do is not a common way to wear it but that it's more like "prepping the dead for a burial" kind of deal, like a ceremonial thing

Masks will never be covered since they seem to hold importance but a good chunk of the body bellow is a must

Makes me think if the statues of the dead were suppose to represent that, cloaks usually used to wrap bodies like cocooning them for eternal rest but leaving the mask on the face for individual recognition

Dreamers weren't wrapped since they aren't traditionally buried

Edit: Added images with explanations in couple of different reblogs you can see in the notes

heyyy gentlest reminder, my friends, that you do not have to disclose your trauma and mental illnesses to justify your age regression. it's perfectly fine to regress/dream "just because" and strangers are not entitled to your sensitive information/past just because they want to validate it FOR you. don't let anyone make you feel like you have to explain yourself just for coping/soothing/self-parenting in a way that feels good + healing for YOU. there is no criteria to meet to be yourself!

but also, it IS sensitive information and there are some people around the community especially predators who will use that information to get closer to you and/or hurt you. so please practice internet safety, be careful who you share your details with, and block ANYONE who doesn't seem right or play nice.

protect your space and be safe everyone! 🙏

i’m prolly never drawing him again god bless

what is your favorite line from trc if you have one. or a collection of them if you need

oh no you have opened the floodgates be prepared for so many quotes

“'Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don’t want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don’t want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?'”

"'Tell me,' Artemus whispered, 'when you dream, do you dream of the stars?'"

“‘While I’m gone,’ Gansey said, pausing, ‘dream me the world. Something new for every night.’”

“Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.”

“The choice was death or hurting Adam, which wasn't much of a choice at all.”

"His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain."

"Glendower was dead. He'd always been dead. And Gansey kind of wanted to live."

“'Here is what I have learned,' Henry said. 'If you cannot be unafraid--' There was a place where terror stopped and became nothingness. But today, in this hole, with an insect on his skin, with a promise that he was to die soon, the nothingness never came. Henry finished, '--be afraid and happy.'"

"Gansey was aware on a certain level that the description was melodramatic, heightened, illogical. But on a deeper level, it felt, true, familiar, and like it explained much of Gansey's life. It was how he felt about Ronan and Adam and Noah and Blue. With each of them, it had felt instantly right: relieving. Finally, he'd thought, he'd found them. We instead of you and me.”

okay I'll stop lol

can you tell Gansey and The Raven King are my favorites lol

You only feel it when it's lost

Getting through still has its cost

Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love

Falling from you drop by drop

Painting inspired by Orpheus and Hozier’s album Unreal Unearth. The lyrics included come from the songs Talk, Abstract (Psychopomp), and Who We Are.

The story of Orpheus is one I find myself relating a lot to recently. Loving so much, too much, loving until you lose exactly what you’re trying to hold onto.

Psst...hey, you...rb this post with a f/o and I'll assign them a tamagotchi character based on their vibes!

No ok I've had this rattling in my brain for fucking years now and I think it's high time I say something. I find it soooo absolutely delectable that dreams and sleeping are, accidentally, such prominent parts of hlvrai. Like, yeah, we all know "There's a world in your dreams Dr. Freeman, and I need you to take me there," but that's just the tip of the iceberg for me. Coomer realizes that everything around him is fake and that Gordon, the player, is the only actually real thing. When Gordon sleeps in the game, in actuality, he's taking off the headset and going about his day in the real world with real people. From Coomer's perspective, Gordon's reality is a dream, but from Gordon's pov, the modded game Half Life vr is a type of dream.

The way I see it is like if Alice in Wonderland took place where Alice knows she's dreaming and that everything is fake, but to the citizens of wonderland, it's all real, because that is the only thing they have ever known since they first began living (aka when Alice closed her eyes and began dreaming). Once Alice wakes up, the dream world ceases to be, but Alice continues on like nothing happened because that's what it was to her. Nothing.

What got me thinking about this is the it's all a dream trope, more specifically, Overly Sarcastic Production's video on it. Tldr, there are multiple avenues through which an author can do an it's all a dream plot, ranging from inconsequential one-off to the dream world may exist in its own way, but doesn't exist within reality. To Gordon, his adventures with the Science Team are the equivalent of a normal dream that turns sour once you and the people in your dream realize what's going on.

First version of my Helaena painting. I put so much love into it and I hope you guys like it!

It's still a WIP but I felt like sharing it!

Also yeah, I gave Helaena a crown cause she absolutely deserves one 😌

And here's the finished result, hope y'all like it!