*Gaia takes a small bite of the Italian ice and a look of pure bliss fills her face. A couple pink flowers bloom over her hair.*

..... mmmmmmmm... wow...

I know heh

Being somewhat well versed in magic (I assume) you can tell that this was made using a bit of it.

SAILOR MOON S: Episode 18 - 「芸術は愛の爆発!ちびうさの初恋」

When I don’t remember you

Do you know? I could break beneath the weight?

Hello! This is my first time participating in an ask blog so I hope I'm doing it right!

To the lovely and wonderful author who has quickly become one of my favorite users on ao3: I’ve been following your series ever since Interlude & I wish I could give you a paycheck for how much thought and work goes into this series. But alas, I have no money and can only recommend your work to others.

showers Hershey and Mao with all the love and affection they want (I love these two so much and I will cry if anything happens to them-)

gives Baihe and Macaque a gift basket full of their favorite items and comfort foods

Ask Box is open again! As always, there are 4-6 slots before it closes again until next time :))).

Update: Guess what? You guessed it, the ask box is closed :DDD. Thanks to everyone who sent in an ask, they will be answered within the next few days before the box opens again!!!

alexander mcqueen rtw spring 1999

here's the thing about matthias: he isn't the honorable, reformed hero some of the fandom seems to see him as.

yes, he was raised by a tight-knit family of comrade soldiers and decides to betray them in the end. of course that took incredible strength. i don't deny that. but we also need to recognize that the drüskelle are not just some rogue cult. they are a core part of the fjerdan government, who is trying to wipe out the grisha because they are seen as dangerous. that's literally just genocide. however indoctrinated someone is, this is something that is evil from every angle, even if the character can't or won't see it.

and look, i love a good redemption arc, but matthias is such a passive actor in his. he falls in love with nina against his will. she changes his attitudes toward grisha because she's beautiful and kind so all grisha can't be bad, right? this a classic example of the trope of separating the "good ones" from the rest, where you cherry-pick specific individuals to point to as exceptions to a group's nature, which is still implied to be evil. you have to do a lot more than fall in love to truly unearth and address the roots of bigotry.

tbh, this is my biggest critique of the books as a whole. i loathe the "love conquers all" trope that pairs together a character from the oppressed group and one from the oppressors, letting the one show the other through the power of love that being bigoted is not nice. it puts all the responsibility on the former to prove their humanity, and gives all the credit to the latter's ability to be persuaded to recognize it. and then it inevitably leads to forgiveness, because the character has "earned" it by changing their views, once again making the victim seem like the villain if they don't absolve the oppressor of their past "mistakes". also, it's incredibly unrealistic for someone to fall in love with a person who actively hates them and considers them sub-human. in real life, people have to work on their bigotry before that happens, not use the relationship as a plot device for character development.

i think the idea of writing a character like matthias is neat. i think portraying someone's struggle to throw off the suffocating, hateful dogma they've been fed all their life is a story we need more of. i think personal growth of this variety should be celebrated, because otherwise people would never change. but i don't think the people, fictional or real, get to do this without facing profound consequences. it is not enough to feel sorry. it is not enough to apologize. it is definitely not enough to fall in love. and i think writing that lets people off the hook like this grossly oversimplifies power and oppression, and ends up being a feel-good way to romanticize people who cause a lot of harm.

a last note: my opinion is 100% influenced by my being bipoc. matthias is a classic aryan supremacist, even if being aryan isn't the thing he's being supremacist about. my gut reaction to that type of character is always going to be mistrust, both because people in real life have given me reason to be mistrustful and because characters like these are often written in a way that makes you sympathize with oppressors. i don't think matthias earns that trust, and i don't see why i owe him my affection as a reader.

Ralph and Jack (Jack And Ralph!) Are Free to talk to!

ALSO TO BE CLEAR: I don't actually think you're like cringe or a bad person or have bad taste if you romance Astarion with elves. I don't actually care, because it's a video game and I, like, have homework. It's all just hyperbole for the hahas. Yes I do genuinely find the dynamic less interesting, but that's because I don't generally play elves if there's more fucked up guys on offer, so I would just naturally have a harder time making it interesting. So if you can come up with an amazing story for your elf romancing Astarion, great! More power to you! I love you etc etc.

my favourite irony of the current shipping discussion is the folks who allege WolfWren enjoyers sent “threats” to people who enjoy cishet ships (I have asked for ANY examples or usernames of anyone doing this multiple times), have also been calling for Filoni to suffer & die if he doesn’t make their ship canon. but don’t forget, it’s definitely the sapphics and queers who like WolfWren that are the problem

Tagged by @thelordofgifs - thank you so much!

I decided to give these to my fics as little medals because it's cute! ^-^

Most hits, most comments, and most words:

As the Tides Flow 🏅🏅🏅 (Maglor's entire life from his childhood to the early Fourth Age) (this is my baby and my favourite fic I've written and it even has a new sequel!)

Most kudos:

Whispers 🏅 (healing but in a bit of an ouch way)

Most bookmarks:

One Last Chance 🏅 (Elladan and Elrohir cruelly trick their poor old grandpa into happiness)

Least words:

His All 🏅 (a drabble - Daeron meeting Maglor's own family in Aman)

Absolutely zero pressure tags for @hyperlexia-1 @meadowlarkx @skaelds @celebbun @melkors-defense-attorney @dreamingthroughthenoise

Blade compared the relief from pain death brought him to the moments spent with his friends drinking together.

His desire for death as both a release from pain and from the condition of existence in which he finds himself now, so similar to that which he most hated (hated so much as to dedicate his entire life and self to fight, up to the point of crossing unthinkable barriers for shortlife species); but death also almost like a returning to the time that was, the joy and pride it brought him, and the friends and self he lost

feel like grian would find the funniest way to mess with his client player

He totally would ! ...if it wasn't the end of the world.

*puts laptop on stomach as a makeshift heating pad*

lol he needed a pickmeup after becoming momentarily a bit scary