#I need underline!

[bogkeep]

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

[kyouka-supremacy]

I've always thought my eye contact avoider Akutagawa was a baseless headcanon but I'm starting to think it's not that baseless anymore

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Something else I keep thinking about:

The barricade had been well-planned.

Hugo spends pretty much all of the tenth book of the fourth tome talking about the different ways that the Amis' barricade is straegically sound. After Enjolras returns in the fifth tome to announce that no one will be coming to help, much of the "downtime" in the first book is spent setting up "the perfect martyrdom," effectively. 4.1.5 indicates that the people weren't content and were in a state of agitation and prepared to rise. This was the third revolt like this in the past several months. Hugo even spends an entire chapter (5.1.20) explaining that sometimes, France works against progress, just like that.

A take I see a lot in fanon is that the Amis (and especially Enjolras) are out of touch with the people, that they were underprepared, that they didn't know what they were doing. However, Hugo really gives the impression that everything that could have been done to prepare for a successful revolt, had been done.

So why does this matter?

Because sometimes, as Hugo says in 5.1.20, the time isn't right. The world is still catching up. That doesn't mean that the people are wrong for wanting more, or for agitating for more. Indeed, says Vicky, there are many times that the only way forward is through a revolt. However, he also encourages us not to become discouraged by such setbacks.

It's all progress.

The living may not be wrong, but the dead are right.

[pyrepostings]

Conditioned whumpee, whose caretaker is trying to convince xem it's ok to take off the collar now that whumper's gone.

Whumpee decides, in xeir head, that xey could explain to whumper if xey are recaptured that xey downgraded xeir collar because whumper wasn't there to give orders. See, xey still wore a collar, it's just made out of leather instead of gold. See, xey didn't think for a moment xey could be free.

And this way, Caretaker can be satisfied about aer "progress" in the meantime.

[not-poignant]

Hi!

Just wanted to thank you for sharing your work with everyone. UTB is my favorite piece of literature, and I’ve read a lot. A LOT. I’m a 33 year old ex-English major.

Can we look forward to any more major arcs in UTB? If so, can we maybe get a hint?

Life is hard, but your work really helps me cope. So, thank you, again. Best wishes!

Hi anon!

Oh my goodness, thank you so much!! I'm so glad you're enjoying the writing so far.

There are definitely some big / major arcs coming. We've got the Henton arc and the Crielle arc coming, I just had to move Gary and Efnisien's character growth and relationship growth into a position for both to take place.

I'm actually just about to write the chapter on my end where Crielle officially comes back into the story.

And tbh, the hints have been there! Henton's foreshadowing about him not really having good motivations (anyone who has read Falling Falling Stars will know more about that, but I also like that some folks won't, but he's still very 'off' as a character), as well as Efnisien's certainty that Crielle will eventually kill him.

So yeah I would say actually the most action-packed arcs are still coming!

[squirrellypoo]

So I’m making myself a Wolfkiller coat/cloak right now and I swear I was only pushing the wolf button through to double-check it fit easily through the bound buttonhole I just made

But then his little fangs went over the edge and I had a little giggle! Like, yup, this is a Lestat coat already. 😂

[clrive]

“You know,” I muse out loud, “if it weren't for the fact that we hated each other's guts, we'd probably make an impressive power duo.”

I expect Henry to raise his eyebrows at me as usual or make a cutting remark, but his footsteps suddenly slow beside me.

“Wait. We hate each other?”

[hedonistbyheart]

Listen I'm fucking disappointed with Neil Gaiman too, but this whole dance of "actually Good Omens is mostly Terry's writing anyway" is so annoying. No it's not. It's 50/50 and Neil had the initial idea. They were friends.

It's not helping anyone to stuff your head in the sand about the things you like that were made by people who are horrible. I'm not saying you need to praise the man, you don't have to mention him in connection to GO if you don't want to, but pretending he had no impact- especially on the show which has been basically a solo project - is just silly.

I understand the discomfort of having to face up to liking things he's made; I like his writing more than I like Terry's, which is NOT a value judgement, Terry was an incredible writer, but his style doesn't grab me. I would not have loved Good Omens as much as I do if it hadn't been collaborative. Good things can be created by bad people. It's that simple.

[intriga-hounds]

ponzu in the yard ❤️

[chamaleonsoul]

Lestat and Armand being insufferable idiots in love in Memnoch The Devil

[amandayetagain]

girls will cry, and girls will lie, and girls will do it til they die for you they’ll cry, and girls will lie, and do it til the day they die for you girls will CRY and girls will LIE and girls will LOSE THEIR GODDAMN MINDS for you they’ll CRY and girls will LIE, and do it til the day they DIE for you

[sskk-manifesto]

!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[not-poignant]

i knoooow im getting ahead of myself with underline the red but i cannot wait for the moment faber gets to enjoy a good ole nest 🥹 earlier i comforted myself with imagining faber and efnisien sharing a platonic nest 🪺 thats a thing right? since theyre not always sexual. anyway i just had this scene in my head of efnisien seeing himself in faber as he explores nesting and just seeing some of his own journey mirrored and gaining a deeper understanding

#GiveFaberHisNestDangIt

Platonic nesting is absolutely a thing! We're actually going to see Efnisien and Flitmouse doing this together in some upcoming chapters. :D

We just need to get Faber to a place where he gives himself permission to do it.

The thing I find most heartbreaking about all of that, is that refusing to let yourself nest is the sign of a very traumatised omega, and...I feel like there's this internalised rejection of himself over the whole concept that he won't even consider this.

*pets Faber gently*

[shallowseeker]

ngl i love my girl anna but the reason cas was more compelling is that he was arcing into doubt

there is a better post somewhere but cas is confused about his loyalties, lending intense tension that fed the pre-existing themes

EDIT: all i'm saying is there is more natural tension in a person coiled/standing on the precipice than there is in the one already splayed on the ground

[mittenlady]

circe has some of the most beautiful prose i’ve read in a while

[juliette-cai-enthusiast]

…guess who got another copy of TGG yesterday