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On a disasterous company retreat, Stede spots a beautiful man in a wedding dress sitting alone on the curb along the Las Vegas Strip...

Rated T, 4.4k! Super fun and silly and sweet :)

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So I hear we're doing asexual Sunday this week and I'm gonna contribute by extending the theme a bit into romantic orientations and floating the idea of demi-romantic Ed by you guys. There's been several posts on demi-sexual Stede (and I really like this headcanon for him), and a few demi-sexual Ed takes, but I feel like some brand of allosexual but demi-romantic Ed has merit. It's fairly clear canon that Ed has had casual sex and liked it even if not all of it was particularly satisfying apparently, the poor guy feels like he has to specify he wants orgasms with his intercourse, thank you.

But Ed is falling in love the first time with Stede. He's in his fourties, and yet this experience of falling in love blows him over like you would expect for a much younger and less experienced person. I know a lot of people like to read Ed's falling for Stede as love at first sight, instant crush, but it's as easy to read what we see on screen as friendship at first sight and then a slower falling in love with your best friend as is more common for demi-romantic people. Ed never seems confused by being attracted to Stede sexually, he can easily go for flirty swordplay and run me throughs, but what renders him wide-eyed and stunned is the moments when he realises that oh fuck is this romance happening to him? You wear fine things well 1.0 is all about Ed finding himself being romanced and he's utterly bedazzled by it. He did not see this coming at all. Romance has never happened to Ed before. Maybe he thought about it, maybe he dreamed (did he dare dream, or did it seem too made up, too unrealistic to be a possibility?). But the actual experience of falling in love? Of finding someone who just gets him, of finally finding a real friend, and then realising oh shit oh fuck he's in love with his best friend? He has no idea how to handle that.

Of course you can read everything as just being circumstances rather than any orientation stuff going on, but I think I just like the additional bit of character drama added by having gone all his life not really believing romance is a thing (or that it isn't a thing that happens to him), because it really never did happen, and then suddenly boom, on top of finally making a real friend he can be vulnerable with and finally starting to embrace his desire for retirement/a softer life/etc now there's also this entire romance thing happening and how is he supposed to deal with this.

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Have some angsty Kazzle Dazzle.

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Does anyone else just sit and think about the fact that Six of Crows is literally the perfect book?

Like, we have a morally grey character who's actually morally grey and has a real reason to push people away other than "once I killed someone in self defense, so I'm a terrible person and we can't be together." And every other character has a super fleshed out backstory as well, including real world problems that don't usually get talked about in fantasy books.

There's just as heavy an emphasis on platonic love as romantic love, instead of "I can fix him", it's "he can fix himself", there's a gay couple that's actually happy and not suffering every five pages, and all of the gay characters have personality traits outside of the fact that they're gay.

And speaking of the romance, it's so not rushed or sexualized. No one even kisses in the first book, but it's still so obvious how much they love each other. Each couple has such a different dynamic, and the way their pasts mirror each other? Perfection. (I also firmly believe that Kanej is the best couple in all of YA prove me wrong)

And then the diversity??? 3/7 of the lead characters are POCs, 4/7 are queer, 3 have disabilities, 2 have addictions, 2 have PTSD, 2 are religious, one was raised in a cult, and it's not one of those books that has diverse characters just for the sake of being diverse!

The plot is so unique, especially among fantasy books, and despite the fact that there's so many moving parts, there is not a single plot hole. And the CK auction scene will forever be one of the best end of series climaxes I have ever read.

So basically I don't get why other authors even try anymore cause I'm sorry but no matter how great their books are, it's not going to be Six of Crows.

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Anyone else just remember Kaz selling all his assets to pay off Inej's contract, bandaging her wounds without his gloves, buying her a ship, holding her hand, reuniting her with her parents and making her laugh and feel like you want to find a quiet corner and sob in it?

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hmm no wikipedia i didn't know that. i mean that's pretty high praise tho how impressive could it beOH GODDAMNIT IT'S THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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Peeta being a hard ass while training Katniss and Haymitch for the Quell may be one of the funniest things in the books because of how much Katniss is pining and how strict Peeta is, but when you think about it it’s actually really sad from Peeta’s perspective.

Peeta is assuming that these are going to be the last few months of his life and he chooses to spend it being stern with the love of his life to give her a fighting chance instead of cherishing every minute he can by her side. So of course he’s pining just as much as Katniss at night to have the last few nights of his life sleeping peacefully with her in his arms, of course he wants to follow his first instinct to kiss and hug her, of course he wants to work on the plant book with her, of course he wants to make her laugh with his dumb jokes. But she is more valuable in every sense to him so he’ll give up any small joys during the last months of his life just so she can have a hope to live hers.

But to put a positive spin on this, from the moment they got on the train after the quell’s reaping to the end of the books, whenever Peeta is in his right mind he takes every opportunity to be with Katniss.

“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you” indeed.

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my favorite interpretation is peeta is a very likable and kind dude in the mind of almost everyone who gets to know him. but he’s not the epitome of hope or goodness or all things wonderful to anyone else besides katniss. and she’s completely oblivious to this fact.

like she spends half of catching fire wondering which of his good qualities was motivating the other tributes to sacrifice themselves for him. even knowing she was the face and inspiration for all the uprisings, the fact that everyone — rightfully — thought she would literally die if she lost her fiancé doesn’t cross her mind at all. the fact that they may be keeping peeta alive for her is like nowhere in her head. her whole thought process at one point in the arena is literally “everyone must see how good peeta truly is, the way he’s so charming and charismatic and powerful with crowds-”

like girl, shut up. you’re completely head over heels in love with him. to everyone else, he’s just some guy.

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QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY | 1.05 'Gardens in Bloom'

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Soooo... are we going to address the fact that Queen Charlotte is a very well constructed story with interesting storylines, likable and well rounded characters, a beatiful narrative and that it also has something of value to say about love, and loneliness, and friendship and duty? And that this is most likely because it is not based on any Julia Quinn's books but solely on the characters?

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The transition of Brimsley and Reynolds dancing together to Brimsley dancing alone broke something in me

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I cried. I threw up. I shook. I climbed the walls. I cried some more. I tore my hair out. I saw the light. I was on the brink of death. And I cried even more. Charlotte and George were everything and then some. Like my brain chemistry has been permanently altered. I will never be the same. Every time I think about them I’m launched into a brand new mental breakdown. I don’t know how I will recover from this.

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Brimsley & Reynolds QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY (2023-)

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I am a madman. I am a danger. In my mind, there are different worlds creeping in. The heavens and the Earth collide. I do not know where I am. You do not wish a life with me for yourself. No one wishes that.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY Episode 6: Crown Jewels

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violet rn:

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I CARE NOT FOR HIS SANITY. I CARE FOR HIS HAPPINESS. I CARE FOR HIS SOUL. LET HIM BE MAD IF MAD IS WHAT HE NEEDS.