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I Saw the TV Glow (2024) insp.

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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thanatos

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BECOME A LEGEND

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(he would)

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yeah

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goat fight. non-negotiable.

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Katie McGrath as Elsa in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

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i haven't really been interested in dimilix since 2 years ago when I was obsessed with the ship but oh my god I just reread some of ladylapislazuli's fics and they just hit differently. Like music for a while, although cruel love, and days go by made me so insane when I first read them, and even without the same attachment to the pairing I once had I got really emotional.

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You refuse houses, you smell of catastrophe, I see you blind and one-handed, flashing in the dark

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sorry but areadbhar made from the foot of an aquatic dragon and aegis from the keel of an avian dragon is still one of my favourite little lore things!!!! I am always thinking about "if a fish and bird fell in love, where would they live?" as an old faerghus riddle and the answer is of course fraldarius and blaiddyd where the land meets the sea. the keel being both that which protects the bird and helps it fly and the thing which steers and holds the ship upright is also so possibly unintended but very poignant symbolism of intsys!!!!!!

anyway so wonderfully and horribly poetic for coastal fraldarius with its pegasus knight ancestor to have brought this particular dragon down from the skies.

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I feel like I haven't really seen the fe3h fandom talk too much about how clearly Azure Moon is an adaptation of Hamlet. Like not even subtly Hamlet (like, see, he's the lion king, get it, haha, because... It's Hamlet).

Dimitri is obvious; he's the prince whose uncle has become king, due to a conspiracy he's trying to uncover, spurred on by his murdered father's restless ghost. Pursuing this vengeance drives him mad, and he becomes increasingly erratic as vengeance continues to escape him.

Dedue is Horatio; Hamlet's best friend (but one he met more recently than his other friends), always at his side and loyal no matter how far Hamlet falls, but formal with him right up until Hamlet dies for his revenge. Crimson Flower Dedue practically delivers the "Goodnight, sweet prince" line in the game if you defeat him before he can transform himself.

The rest spends a lot of effort making subversions; Rufus is Claudius, and this is played straight in Three Hopes, where Dimitri gets justice before he loses his mind and so he never reaches the depths of despair he does in Azure Moon. But in Three Houses this gets subverted; Rufus is still actually the Claudius, but Dimitri has miscast Edelgard in the role. This also allows Patricia to serve as Gertrude, forcing Dimitri to grapple with whether his (step)mother was complicit in his father's murder and whether she has more loyalty to the murderer than to him. Rufus then shifts into the Polonius role, as it's after his death (allegedly at the hand of Dimitri himself) that everything starts going to shit.

Felix, meanwhile, I think is Laertes (with Glenn and Rodrigue serving as Ophelia and Polonius for him (side side note I personally think Glenn was one of Dimitri's first crushes but that's neither here nor there)). The death of one curdles Laertes's positive childhood friendship feelings towards Hamlet (and Felix towards Dimitri) and then the death of the second fully solidifies Laertes's feeling that Hamlet must be stopped.

In Azure Moon, this gets subverted, in that Dimitri reverses course here, where Hamlet doubles down. As a result, Laertes turns his sword against Hamlet, while Felix returns to a shaky companionship with Dimitri. But crucially, if Felix does get recruited to other routes and turns his sword against Dimitri, he basically cannot have a happy ending - the same way Laertes dies for turning against Hamlet.

I don't have a snappy conclusion or anything (are Ingrid and Sylvain Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Unclear) but I think it's fascinating.

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Azure Moon

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mother, make me make me a big tall tree

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We have always existed, and we always will.

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gonna post my entire stickman reaction pic collection