#FOUR THINGS

[topsyturvy-turtely]

💌

ugh i don't love anything about you, sadi 🙄

kidding! i love your smartass-ery - can be quite entertaining xD

and your "hard shell, soft core" energy ;)

i also like your photoshop creations, and writing prompts. even though sometimes i feel like my heart is turned into dust by them, who cares. bit of angst a day keeps the doctor away! :D i'm talking bs it's too late and i should sleep

send me a 💌?

[olivieblake]

Related to Youth and how Caleb’s name means faithful according to Google and Caleb’s loyalty to Darian, Caleb is the one to draw the explicit parallel between him and Darian, and Lucius and Narcissa, saying that Lucius and Narcissa can’t hold a candle to him and Darian; this is also in the context of them just finding out they need to go actually kill Grant Stebbins, so Caleb is not only linking him and Darian as romantic partners, but as partners in missions as well (ironic considering they both know their fathers and Voldemort would kill the two of them if they found out just what their relationship is, yet Caleb is essentially saying “I am staying with you, I’m yours, we’re in this together” to Darian, right after they’ve seen Lucius’s visceral disgust at Sirius and Remus being together. Caleb has just seen firsthand that they would not be accepted by the Death Eaters if it came out just what he and Darian do together in private, yet he’s still placing the two of them on the same level as Lucius and Narcissa). Caleb shows his loyalty, his faithfulness to Darian in this little scene, and it’s especially interesting that the comparison is to a high-ranking Death Eater, even more so when considering that Caleb does not display this same kind of loyalty to the Death Eaters and Voldemort. He compares him and Darian to an engaged couple, ranking the two of them above Lucius and Narcissa, and evidently retains this loyalty to Darian if Four Things is any indication, yet he denied his service to Voldemort (point is, it’s fascinating to consider Caleb’s loyalty in relation to Darian vs Voldemort, as well as the comparison to the Malfoys, which is in turn related both to Darian himself and to the Death Eaters).

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[wishfulsketching]

Some not so serious doodles about the idea where Silco survived and Warwrick!Vander found him. I did these as fanservice for ME! Especially the clothes thing

(have fun trying to figure out the reading order of the third sketch dump)

[bridgetownbites]

Burgers, farmers market, gelato, food hall. Have a great weekend, Portland!

[limonmaid]

Tealhua Bluehua Yellowhua Northern Deserthua

[wickedcriminal]

Oh that's where he went

[chiangyorange]

the chain but on a scale of who says hooray yippee and wahoo

is this anything.

[sixth-light]

I have had these thoughts bubbling away in my head for like...eighteen months or so now (it will become very obvious why shortly) but the discussion in this post has pushed me to write them down: I think societally we HUGELY underestimate how motherhood for primary caregivers, particularly first-time motherhood, can be a source of vulnerability to radicalisation.

There is obviously huge cultural variance here, but for a lot of cis women becoming primary caregiver to an infant in a capitalist Western society represents a time of immense vulnerability because in general you are:

Incredibly sleep-deprived (which has well-documented knock-on effects for your judgement, mental health, etc)

If you gave birth, recovering from a significant challenge to your physical health (even in the best-case scenario)

Isolated from your previous networks and communities of people in full-time work

Completely separated from the context of your prior career goals and achievements

Under huge amounts of stress to learn how to care for an infant (don't get me started on breastfeeding)

And on top of this, you are also be experiencing a huge amount of messaging about how all this is natural, wonderful, something you're meant to do, something you should love doing, and something that you must do for the welfare of their child. It's a huge amount of pressure and life change even when everything goes right and there's very little cultural space to express negative feelings about it.

Any group of people who offer community, support, and affirmation to cis women in this situation are going to have a really good shot at radicalising them into some very weird and dangerous headspaces and in fact we see this happen all the time - think antivaxxers and TERFs. It flies under the radar because of the hazy positive glow that associates with motherhood and babies and also because we don't take the radicalisation of women seriously I guess because they rarely shoot anybody, but...yeah. It is such a vulnerable time!

[nau-the-duke]

Portraits

I forgot to post this here whoops.

Did some sketch requests on Instagram and someone asked for "Aziracrow drawing portraits of each other". So I, naturally, slipped in a little reference there.

There are many other requests I drew, but I want to fully coloured them, so I'll post them when they are!

I like to think that Crowley has at least some art skills he's gathered throughout the millennia. Not at Aziraphale's level, of course, but it's something.

[friendsdontlieokay]

"Looks like a cinnamon roll"

"could kill you"

"Looks like they could kill you"

"is a cinnamon roll"

"Looks like a cinnamon roll"

"is a cinnamon roll"

"Looks like they could kill you"

"would kill you"

[olivieblake]

Okay, so I just read Youth and Four Things, and I kind of want to gush about your versions of Avery and Mulciber, unless you’re not accepting asks related to Harry Potter anymore. According to google, the name Darian means “he who possesses; he who holds firm the good; possessing goodness” and that’s just such a good name for how you wrote him. He occasionally talks about how it feels like Caleb is possessing him (his stuff about “how dare you destroy me,” calling Caleb his euphoric sin, the way he feels about Caleb getting engaged even though he knows it was inevitable, the way he feels about Caleb in Four Things, and referring to the “and you” in the four important things as a toxic promise, to name a few examples) and he in turn possesses Caleb, who still wants him even after Darian was in Azkaban for 15 years and who did not want to marry because he just wanted Darian. The stuff about goodness is also ironic, considering how horrible Darian (and Avery) is (are); he spends most of Youth manipulating people (aside from Caleb, really, who seems to be the only person Darian regards as someone he likes exactly the way Caleb is and who Darian knows will give what he wants the second he asks), and even kills Grant Stebbins in the fic (it’s especially ironic considering how aroused Caleb is by Darian killing someone, and the ambiguity surrounding if it’s killing itself that excites Caleb or if it’s Darian specifically killing that does it, along with what happens after Darian kills Stebbins and what happened after they first turned him into a bone). Google also says that the meaning of Caleb is faithful, which is also a fitting name; Caleb evidently still loves Darian in Four Things and he’s totally loyal to Darian throughout Youth, always working with him in the plans (Snape even refers to what they’re doing on the train as “their horrific double act of painfully transparent manipulation”) and having utter faith in Darian even when Darian doubts himself. For instance, even when Darian is technically the only one to receive the Stebbins mission, Caleb very much is a part of it from the beginning, even volunteering to do the actual killing because Darian was against killing him originally. We see Darian with other people, such as Dahlia, but the only time Caleb even mentions being with someone other than Darian, it’s to say his father is making him get married and then to say that his fiancée pales in comparison to Darian. I also like the ironic twists of their names, such as that Caleb is frequent referred to as the possessive one and he’s the one who initiates the “four things” when Darian brings up the three things that matter to him, and he is objectively the more terrible one of the two of them since murder arouses him and technically he’s not required to be involved in any of the schemes but is doing so anyway (for the bit about Darian meaning upholder of good), and that Darian is the one to stay faithful to his word and his actions by refusing to claim the Imperius while Avery does deny that he committed those crimes of his own free will. All in all, the names you chose for these characters are so interesting and it’s fun to consider how they apply and the irony of the names.

MY DUUUUUUUDE. WOW. VERY EXCITING TO GET THIS KIND OF ANALYSIS. truly I aspire to live in your brain with this kind of intensity, thank you for noticing all of this, it’s very very thoughtful and good (I didn’t actually know this about their names but all the details you called out were definitely significant while writing)

[krysmcscience]

Call this the Whoopsie AU (it's barely an AU)

I mean. Narinder never explicitly SAID the Lamb would stay dead... :3c He probably should have been more specific. >:3c

Part Two:

Well. The Lamb tried, but...sorry, Nari, the crown hates you now. Shouldn't have been so quick to lend it out, I guess. :D

Aaaand Part Three:

'Isn't he just adorable?' -The Lamb, probably, while their followers smile and nod and internally scream at the brand new hellcat they now have to share living space with...

Anyway, nothing says 'Dead To Me' like following a person around to loudly remind them of how dead they are to you. Right? Right. Narinder's got this all figured out. <:]

[tiredandoptimistic]

Ultimate gay ally Sherman T Potter

[mirensiart]

pain sharing curse au feat hyrule being a single mother of 2 (or 5) sons and migraines!

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THE BEGINNING

you know how lynels just stand there staring at you for like a minute, not attacking, if you don’t draw your weapon? Yeah that’s what this one was doing lol the boys didn’t notice it before because migraines suck guys, ok.

[rod00dles]

“Love doesn’t discriminate between the Sinners and the Saints. It takes and it takes and it takes.”

[selineabanto]

last one out of hawkins