#I need mead

[fregget-frou]

Shhhfuccckckk kkk im living like my ancestors rn and It’s fuken GREAT

I am eating whole potatoes with goats cheesejej and oooooohohohhohohoog

[uncanny-tranny]

At this point, gender nonconformity is about what the person says their experience is.

If a woman with a beard or a man with lipstick and a mustache says they're gender nonconforming, then they are! If a woman with short hair or a man with long hair says they aren't, they aren't! And that's not even getting into the awesome nonbinary, abinary, genderqueer, intersex, and general genderfuckery that may both be and not be conforming.

So much of what is even considered gender conforming or gender nonconforming is based on a world of exclusion. When we start defining one's conformity with whether they fit into white cishetero perisex standards or not, we play into the idea that there's only a very narrow window of what is considered worthy of time and thought.

[chrlvctius]

exactly 😭

[rocksanddeadflowers]

Kvasir messes me up so so so fucking much you guys. Like I understand the vikings had a different approach to death and yada yada so forth whatever arguments you wanna make they're reasonable but still it. I just.

You mean this beloved man, known for his wisdom and poem and song, and who went around helping people with his wisdom and poem and song and was dearly beloved by the gods just. You guys he was straight up murdered and his blood stolen for magic fucking mead. There's no revenge for his murder or anything it's just that Odin saved his mead.

"Folk declares that every skald (poet) has a drop of Kvasir's blood in him. ... because a world without it's poets would be too dreadful a place to image."

Messed up or not, he lives on in poets, storytellers, and songwriters alike- all those with the understanding of the power of word, the wisdom to yield it.

In The Bifrost Incident it's still the same. His blood pumping and fueling the machine, running through arcane glyphs. He's always just been used for his blood, and even more irony drawn from it likely being Odin gaining the most use from his blood.

And yet, no matter how miniscule it may seem, Kvasir still lives on in his universe there too, in poets and songwriters and storytellers- somehow, The Mechanisms carry a piece of him in their travels ever since his death and Yddrasil's fall, just as you and I may have his blood in our veins.

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

I am a strange little creature who only experiences joy by combining all my interests into a weird soup, and basically what I'm trying to ask is if the aides were D&D characters what would their class/subclass be?

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

honestly. half the fun of fantasy aus for me is the Food Descriptions

[everfaire]

🍼?

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[retiredficwriter]

listen, the canon ships in va/bloodlines are cool and all that. but the fanon ships? the potential in each of them?? unmatched.

sydney x rose - a great "enemies to friends to lovers" story. first half of blood promise is sydney falling in love with rose while on a road trip (and starting to question her alchemist beliefs) and rose uses sydney as a rebound for lissa. many iconic lines from rose, how she couldn't stop worrying over sydney in last sacrifice, and sydney describing rose as beautiful.

rose x lissa - the true endgame of the series. you can't have rose describe lissa as an angel and compare feeding her blood as better than sex and not have them be together at the end. their break-up in shadow kiss and getting back together in blood promise carry so much emotion and angst, you can't help but root for them.

rose x lissa x christian - the secret true endgame and love triangle in the series. lissa gets to have the two people she love the most at her side. everyone is happy in the end and they balance each other off.

eddie x mason - you can't look me in the eye and say eddie didn't feel anything for mason, which is why mason's death hit him so hard.

eddie x adrian - eddie has the same responsible/straight-to-business attitude that adrian admires in sydney, and despite giving adrian a hard time because of his bad habits, eddie has a soft spot for him. plus you can have eddie have the same doubts as he had in bloodlines with jill (thinking adrian deserves someone of royal status instead of a dhampir)

adrian x christian - what's better than one edgy, sarcastic man? two edgy, sarcastic men. yet they have distinct personalities that could balance each other to make it work. bonus point of the irony of one's aunt killing the other's great-aunt but the two nephews still falling in love.

zoe x jill - this is basically a wlw of sydrian where sydney is more hung up on the alchemist rhetoric and adrian is more shy/socially awkward. what more can you ask?

jill x angeline - this is lissa x rose 2.0 except if rose was more unhinged and lived away from society until she was assigned to guard the most important royal in the moroi world. again, what more can you ask?

jill x mia - they can be water-user girlfriends. mia can train jill to use her magic for self-defense. again, what more can you ask?

trey x sydney - trey has the same flirty manner/womanizer fame and lazy but heart-of-gold personality of adrian (except he doesn't have spirit and is in a cult). this can create tension as both are on the "same side" but on different extremes (warriors and alchemists) and how they can each leave the groups that traps them.

trey x eddie - good "friends to enemies to back to friends to lovers" when we learn trey is with the warriors. they barely have scenes together but the scene (and tension) when eddie shoved trey against the wall to confront him in golden lily is enough to make up for it.

marcus x adrian - this is basically a mlm of sydrian where sydney is the leader of an underground alchemist resistance group but still somewhat unfriendly/unwilling to date moroi. what more can you ask?

[walshball]

Anyone body shaming Beth Mead has clearly never seen her on the pitch in person- I was lucky enough to get front row seats to a match, right next to the warmups, and she’s literally so obviously athletic and gorgeous. Virgins on twitter will see a woman with ass and start screaming about “””fitness”””

[resetmypatientviolence]

I FINALLY completed my first Baldur’s Gate 3 run and oh my heart.

Everybody made their happy choices: Lae’zel off to liberate the Githyanki people; Karlach and Wyll fighting off demons in Avernus with the hopes of fixing her engine; Shadowheart worshipping Selûne and wandering to her hearts content, free from darkness; Astarion a shadowy merc, killing the bad & embracing the shadows in his freedom; and Gale as Professor Gale— no orb, crown, or pissed off Mystra in sight.

And as for Halsin and Embyr, my two Druid elves?

Well, they’re currently living together and rebuilding the Shadowlands, making it a home for all who need it— while fostering 9 wagons full of children (and now an Owlbear), so suffice to say that Mr. Noncommittal is very much committed and they’re very much in love in this new, hectic yet slow life.

Amazing game, forever.

[honorarypines]

Ethan and Julia, based on a shot from movie Ghost (one of my all time favourites)

[mlady-magnolia]

Yeah so… I have ideas for the Mermaid AU

Anyway look!! It’s the IMF Crew!

[ghostlyerlkonig]

i am OFF WORK i am MOSTLY DRUNK and i am CRYING AT GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK DIALOGUE

[bluebellwrenart]

Tabloid x Avril height difference breathe if you agree

[icterid-rubus]

Got a $6 fruit wine making kit from my library resale shop and started making mead two days ago. I already messed up my staggered nutrient additions—skipped the first day—but here’s hoping I’ll have an edible product in 6-8 weeks!