#Roses thread

[whamss]

Rose would be a shitty girlfriend but people really miss the flavor with exploring that when they take it as Rose not liking Kanaya as much as vice versa as opposed to her being painfully into Kanaya but not knowing how to like. Empathize with other people properly and being too self-absorbed to attend to any of Kanaya's needs, or even really notice when her own behavior is hurting her.

I think it's pretty well-established that Rose is super into her. Girl who drank her ass off before their first date bc she was nervous and constantly turmoiled over whether or not Kanaya was going to break up w her and wanting to make things better between them even leading up to her death, only people to say that she doesn't like Kanaya. If Kanaya broke up with Rose she would perish. Lines like "I never even got to tell her I love her" tell us nothing if not that Rose was painfully in love with Kanaya, but could never find it in herself to tell her. Whether this is because she was trying to protect herself on the chance that Kanaya got sick of her shit and decided to break up or because Rose was so out of it constantly she just could never get it out is up to interpretation. But Rose being a shitty girlfriend and her relationship with Kanaya being extremely important to her aren't concepts that are mutually exclusive. If anything I think they play hand in hand.

I also just think people need to give Kanaya more autonomy than they do. Don't get me wrong the power dynamic IS inbalanced. Rose is insane and constantly making mistakes and impulsive decisions and Kanaya is always left picking up the pieces when she does something crazy. Rose hurts Kanaya to an incomparable degree. Kanaya has far more patience for Rose than she probably should, but she isn't a doormat. The entire interaction Kanaya and Rose had on the meteor, where Kanaya flipped out on Rose for drinking right before they were due for a big fight, tells us so much about what their dynamic was leading up to this imo. This is a conversation they've had countless times before, Kanaya's anger is always followed up with some fearful suggestion from Rose that Kanaya is going to break up with her. Kanaya is a girl dealing with a partner deep in the throes of alcoholism, she's painfully compliant, but their interactions both leading up to them getting together and once they do both on the meteor and off of it show that the relationship anxiety is very one-sided. Rose is the only one worried about them breaking up, because she sucks and she knows that. Kanaya cares deeply for Rose but if either of them are going to be cooly cutting things off between them it's her, not Rose.

I love giving rosemary divorce particles, I can never be convinced that two girls who got together That Young could make it work between them without a ton of bumps in the road. I love that Rose is fucked up and self-centered and I like when people acknowledge this, but she DOES love Kanaya. To her own detriment. Kanaya is the one constantly disillusioned by Rose's behavior, the one who's commitment is constantly tested, not the other way around. Wish more people could acknowledge this... Rose loves Kanaya! And Kanaya loves Rose too, I think. But people really wooby her when they try to frame even the likes of pre-retcon rosemary like Kanaya is a nothing but a victim of Rose's vices, and that Rose somehow doesn't actually want to be in a relationship with her.

Pre-retcon rosemary was definitely on track to an untimely break up though. Rose wasn't going to be the one to pull that trigger though

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace Fairytale books

retellings

Until The Last Petal Falls - beauty & the beast aro/aro m/m QPR (prev known as The Beast of Okeme)

The Language of Roses - beauty & the beast with an aro belle

More Than Enough - beauty & the beast ace/ace m/m

The Story of the Hundred Promises - fairytale inspired (+ a little beauty & best), aro major characters and aro themes, m/nb

Little Thieves - high fantasy goose girl retelling, demi/demi m/f

Dithered Hearts - cinderella retelling, fairy godfather is aro (and has some POV)

Create My Own Perfection - aroace medusa, short story

The Ice Princess' Fair Illusion - king thrushbeard, ace lesbian & aroace, in verse

Sea Foam & Silence - the little mermaid, demiromantic & aroace, in verse

original fairytales / fairytale vibes

Come Drink With Me (& other Tales of The Thread) - Chinese original fairytales with aro themes

The Dragon of Ynys - aroace MC

Royal Rescue - aroace MC

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

[mollysunder]

*looks at tinfoil hat*

...Seriously, look at Ambessa's concept art.

Now look at Rel.

Look at Mel and Jayce separately.

Now look at Rell!!!!

Could this all be a coincidence?????????????

[artbyfuji]

Rosebird Week Day 1: Red Thread of Fate

[acourtofquestions]

Night Court Edition Addition of This or That

[antaripirate]

another one from the drafts

[hishighnesstheprincess]

I feel like one of the things that gets missed a lot about Sonic and Amy's dynamic is that he isn't running because he's scared of Amy or hates her: Sonic runs because he loves running, and Amy chases because she loves Sonic and all he represents. She also clearly doesn't spend all her time chasing him: in Adventure 1 she's just lounging around in a city missing him and then he runs into her, in Heroes she's spending time with other friends of hers, etc.

Yes, she is more active in pursuing him than even other characters like Tails can be, and he can occasionally be overwhelmed by her pushy personality, but that doesn't equate to stalking or harassment. Sonic enjoys having her around- they're friends. To a certain extent, Sonic also clearly enjoys being chased by Amy.

Almost every moment that gets tossed around as her being abusive or terrible is some looney toons ass gag. Y'all can't seriously think she intended to kidnap and physically drag Sonic into a church to marry her just based off one awkward line in Heroes, can you? Regardless of whether you ship them or want them to be canon or not or find the jokes cringe or #problematic, their intended dynamic is not and has never been that of stalker and victim.

Also, another misconception about her is that people think her life revolves just around Sonic. Now, she was certainly created with him in mind (the creators wanted her to be a Minnie Mouse to Sonic's Mickey Mouse) but that's true of almost every character in the classic era. I'm not going to pretend CD presented a great dynamic between them, but starting as early as Adventure Amy had stories about standing up to Sonic, befriending other characters, actively redeeming multiple other characters/being one of the ones to help them, etc.

She's got multiple hobbies and friends outside of Sonic, she will stand up to him when she thinks he's doing something wrong: she has a life outside of Sonic.

Just because she wants her life to include him as well doesn't make her a one-note, lovesick fangirl stalker like she was so commonly seen as for so long!

Anyway. I just really love Amy Rose and also her dynamic with Sonic. It's been portrayed imperfectly at times, and there are definitely some moments where she was characterized horribly, but a) that's true of basically every major Sonic character and b) that doesn't wipe out all the good characterization and moments she's had over the years. She's always been a good character, and she's been growing and evolving over the years, just like a good character should. Her problem is mostly that she's been underutilized in games, and the solution to this is simply just to show more than one facet of her personality, not bashing that part of her or trying to take it away.

[purpleleafsyt]

Asteria, Ciro, Juno

[marejadilla]

Ingebjørg Frøydis Støyva, “Rød tråd (Red thread)”, 2023, acrylic on canvas. B. 1978, Bergen, Norway.

[hatter-and-dodo-in-wonderland]

Draw your character wearing...

9: Date night threads

This time I chose to wrap the roses in peach, her favourite colour...

[oeuvrinarydurian]

Following in the footsteps of the legendary “Banbury Station, 3 a.m.”, produced by @too-antigonish, and the acclaimed follow up produced by @astridcontramundum, I present to you, the spoken word stylings of our own Simple Country Pathologist, Max DeBryn.

Fellow Tumblrians, please join me at the album release party at The Eagle and Child, as we lift a glass and enjoy our favourite Declaimer of Death as he shares Deep Thoughts and Medical Bon Mots.

Track listing (with bonus track at the end featuring a surprise guest).

Love and Fishing: The Wit and Wisdom of Max DeBryn

Nothing Here to Frighten the Horses

Something of a Salmagundi

“I'm a Pathologist, Not a Road Sweeper”; a witty homage to DeForrest Kelley

The Last of the Red Hot Livers, or, I Never Met a Neil Simon Pun I Didn’t Like

Alimentary, My Dear Morse:  A Meditation on Saveloy and Chips 

This Was No Punting Accident (It Wasn't a Boat Propeller. And It Wasn't Lizzie Borden):  A Cautionary Tale About Water

 Love's Very Popular

Tripes in a Tub (featuring Baby Morse)

Numb To Life (A Ode to Seconal)

Septic Tank. What a Treat.

Been At the Keats Again, Sergeant? (featuring Jim Strange)

 Just a Hint of Sucrose (People Do Despair, Morse)

 An Elegant Sufficiency, a.k.a. Deficient to the Tune of One Head

A Man Loves What He Loves:  Steak and Kidney at the Eagle.

All That Flesh (To Be Read At a Stag Do)

"And one was fond of me: and all are slain."/“Ask me no more, for fear I should reply.”, A. E. Housman Was a Friend of Mine, a Lament with E. Morse

Bonus Track:  Signs and Wonders, Feat. Fred Thursday 

[roseabelle-spankoffski]

Um . . . Miss Rose? The Nantucket bridge is gone.

@littlestghosty

....

If people can come back, so can people

[casualbuttercupblog]

OKAY FINE ILL MAKE A POST ABOUT ERIS

Eris, as I've said, is... bland. Okay, not bland but about as spicy as wheat bread. BUT that is not his fault. He just hasn't gotten the attention a lot of my favorites have.

Eris is a foil of Rhysand. He's is what Rhys could have been without the rest of the inner circle. While we don't know much about his personal life, we can assume that with what we know about the Autumn court, he doesn't have many friends. And the ones he does have would probably report straight to his father. (His brothers as well)

Eris's creulness (?) isn't something that is an inate part of him. It's a learned behavior that he's adapted with having to survive Beron. And unlike Lucien, he is the oldest. He can not run away from his court.

I do truly believe that once Eris replaces Beron and this poor man gets some true friends, he'll become a very good man.

(And let's not forget that Eris has been tortured by Beron enough to know how to withstand torture.)

[dazedwriter1]

Dan Levy as Japanese Kit Kats, a thread

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

by  LUOLIN

[foursaints]

okay so we all know that barty is a little unsanitary, but how do we feel about phlebotomist!barty.... bc why do i feel like evan coming in to get his blood drawn and barty is thirsting over him while watching the blood leave his body (evans so dizzy after bc barty took out too much blood and barty has him sit down and eat something)

ok there was this ask from forever ago about evan regularly drawing barty’s blood for experiments & barty being zonked on blood loss 24/7 that is so canon to me…. but holy shit i never thought about REVERSING it you’re really onto something….

a dynamic where evan is formidable and ruthless as always but he’s still so pretty and frail, isn’t he? and if barty takes a few more vials of blood than medically necessary it’s for evan’s own good, because he needed someone to make him settle down anyway. and barty is there to sit him on a cot and feed him apple juice and crackers and keep the extra vials to himself. he tells himself he’s being caring but really he’s addicted to the sight of evan’s blood leaving his body and the dizzy helpless look evan gets…. how weak he goes for him… my GOD. is this insanely hot to anybody else or am i crazy. holy fuck.