#absolute heartbreak all around

[avasillva]

you died screaming, yet the monster who took your place was silent. you are a weapon, and weapons do not weep. | insp

[demaparbat-hp]

Hey, @geothewriter, was it necessary to break my heart?

A little thing for Vermillion Seas, Cardinal Skies, a truly magnificent fic that has left yours truly rolling on the ground more than once. I'll post the entire artwork once it's finished! For now, you get a little sneak peek.

Start reading the fic here. You can find Chapter 19 (from which this scene comes from) here!

[mauvemischief]

thinking about Cat and Laila potentially taking the time to learn to make healthy-ingredient versions of sweets and baked goods to justify Jean learning to allow himself to enjoy the little things in life!!!!!!!!!!!! not everything has to benefit something else, ya know??????

[whoopseydaisy]

Details of this episode like the golden thread (just like in mismag). Grimoire’s presence, as in the place you must not run from her, extending a MILE. Eursulon being established at good at painting. TOPH the diamond wrapped in coal who warmed Grandma Wren her first night here and knew Taro and sat beneath the keep of the Witch of the Watching Fire. Suvi invoking Grimoire as a Monster while using a magical secret so intimately tied with how she became herself. Suvi humming the rain road because she has a subconscious ear worm. The episode was one hour for us and one hour for the characters and was meaty as hell.

[fusionsprunt]

Hunter what the FUCK-

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[androgynouspenguinexpert]

"I know I hold your heart, pet. Soft, plaintive, beating; held between hands better made to crush, and tear, and choke, and break."

jingle jangle art post

[padfootastic]

(The idea that Remus wasn't the only werewolf at Hogwarts but they're just all keeping it a secret and Dumbledore doesn't tell them they're not alone is SUCH a concept! Kind of obsessed actually if Remus gets a shack protected by a murder tree what do the others get? It makes sense that they would want to separate them all when turning as they can't guarantee safety if they're together. Are there like? more shacks somewhere in the forest? A mini village of shacks that have so many protection spells on them not even an earthquake could do any damage to them?)

It being a personal favour to a friend make sooo much sense though. The way that people talk about werewolves in the books really doesn't lend itself to people thinking of kids as werewolves. They're gruesome hardened killers who want to tear the wizarding world apart! 11 year olds just... don't fit into that narrative at all. Dumbledore probably never thought 'oh let me see if I can do something for the other werewolf children' because how many would there even be? two others in the whole country? Those are outliers nothing needs to structurally change just for maybe a handful of kids.

Also re: his parents/Dumbledore telling Remus that going to Hogwarts is an amazing opportunity. Based on Remus' later personality I'd almost say that they(he?) also made it a point to specify that Dumbledore believed Remus specifically to be worthy of this chance. Just insane pressure on this scared eleven year old that he had to keep proving to Dumbledore that he was still worthy of the risk while he was at school. He could have gotten kicked out the moment he wasn't! (Would also be a way to explain why Remus was much more careful than James and Sirius) And later in life he would want to still show Dumbledore that it wasn't a mistake to think him worthy. His inability to keep a job (even if it isn't his fault but prejudice) would make him feel even worse about the whole situation!

THE SNIPPET!!!!! I'm obsessed it sounds fantastic! Sirius needs a good hug and some hot chocolate :( Poor guy :( (you should also get yourself some hot choco!!) Almost being haunted by love he doesn't think he deserves and can never get back :(((

The fact that order members being present would derail Harry and Sirius having a conversation is just so sad but so real.

Also to your tags on the new Sirius and Harry snippet (which was ALSO brilliant!!!). Harry would definitely respond to "acromantulas are predators!?" with some version of "yea. we did noticed that actually." Sarcastic little shit that he is. It's always so fun to see Sirius' response to all the things that happened to Harry (and the trio as a whole) but also how Harry then reacts when he encounters the first adult who puts him and not the result of those situations first.

gosh i KNOW right!!! literally a revolutionary concept, so so layered. sadly, the fic it was in didn’t delve into it too deeply, it only came out because of the aforesaid tragedies but truly, it makes you think no? if we didn’t have the shrieking shack plot, it would’ve honestly been a very plausible theory. (but god does a warded mini village of snacks sound ridiculously cool. even though it opens up avenues for dumbledore to be accused of forming his own light-indoctrinated werewolf pack ;)

oh, absolutely! kids being seen as the outliers to what is essentially a structural issue is so on brand. they’re such OBVIOUS victims that it just makes sense to help out. only in small, incremental, ways though bc they’re still monsters at heart but just enough to bring them into the very fringes of society instead of entirely outside of it ykno?

yesss and even the fact that, iirc remus doesn’t tell dumbles about padfoot in PoA because he’s ashamed? that he broke the headmasters trust in school? like, we consistently see remus just being. one overburdened mf.

oh man sirius is definitely getting hugs but i am running to the doc right now to put a note in for a scene on sirius getting hot chocolate. perhaps he wakes up from a nightmare and harry is already there and he makes his godfather sit down and practically inhale two cups of hot choc bc what is better than chocolate for driving away the terror?

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Everyone’s mad because His Man 3 popped the BL bubble

[sysig]

One better (Patreon)

[kyrup]

hoping it doesn't come to this but i'm mentally preparing myself for the ending where the stoats have to choose between allowing the Blue to keep existing or getting rid of it so that the First Stoats situation can never happen again. but. getting rid of the Blue gets rid of the only thing keeping Tula and Ava alive(?). BUT. keeping it around threatens the balance of the entire forest. possibly the world??

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

It was disheartening, to think that, much like the de Clairs, the Gracey parents were very hands-off when it came to their one and only son, but the guests at least took solace in the notion that Beau had been there for the boy, to lend a firm and loving hand as he grew-there was denying there was a very familial relationship between the young master and his majordomo, something that went beyond class boundaries, beyond the staid rules of employer and employee, student and teacher.

"Dorian would tell you himself that Beau was more parental than his own parents," Randall remarked with a wry smile. "They were often just...so busy that they really wouldn't give him the time of day, so most of the time, he was with Beau and, for a time, with Ma and me. He's said before how she was more motherly than Mrs. Gracey."

"He was like a second son, when Randall was a boy," June recalled fondly. "They were thick as thieves from the minute they met; when they weren't both helping me in the garden or learning from Beau, they were running all over the Mansion, playing to their hearts' content." It was easily the happiest few months of her son's childhood-and she was sure Dorian would say the same.

"And they're still close as can be today!" Wilhelm added brightly. "Randall and Emily and Dorian and Elizabeth, they're all family as far as we're concerned; the Gracey's are Lon and Erika's godparents, and honorary aunt and uncle to boot!"

"Oh yeah? You two lads ever get up to any mischief when you were younger?" Callahan asked with a smirk, to which Randall admitted bashfully, "We may have raised a little hell when we got together..."

[ranger-kellyn]

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[wellthatsclever]

God is Father. And He will meet you where ever you are, and do whatever is necessary. Nothing is too small, too big, too much of a hassle, too insignificant.

[theythemmer]

for years my friends have tried to get me back into minecraft and idk how to explain to them that after tosoth the game will never be the same . it’s been A DECADE and this fic still rules over my brain

[anti-transphobia]

Twitter users have learned the term "weaponized incompetence" and of course are using it wrong and it's pissing me off. The latest example of "weaponized incompetence" is a husband who decided to make crescent rolls but didn't realize he needed to roll them up so he made large crescent chips instead. Literally just a mistake. Y'know. Those things people make?

Another recent example is someone's fiance being asked to clean up hot sauce. Now this could certainly more likely actually be weaponized incompetence! The very slow movements very much says "look at me do this and fail. You should just do it next time, it's easier." But you know what it also very much says, something that is just as likely? The movements are slow because it's more than he expected and he's trying to figure it out. I struggle with this, and have gotten better with practice, but what else are you supposed to do? Sometimes there's a puddle of something and you put a paper towel on it and it absorbs but is not nearly enough. He specifically examines how full of hot sauce it is after the first soak and how much more there is. And when he starts smearing it around...how else are you supposed to avoid that? It's still cleaning it so long as the smears aren't left behind

As I said, weaponized incompetence or someone genuinely trying are both likely there. The thing is, I'm not making assumptions about it. And neither should other people. Those types of slow, unsteady movements as I figure things out are extremely common for me. I am autistic and have struggled to process physical tasks (how to accomplish things that require my body to move in a certain way, including running and jump roping etc. didn't learn how to jump rope until I was 18) my entire life. This is how I figure shit out. If someone assumed me literally doing my best to complete a task was weaponized incompetence, I'd be pissed. In fact, that happens all the time!

My mother, while I was growing up, pretty much weaponized weaponized incompetence, without using those words. She would ask me to do something. I, being an autistic child, would try my best. I'd fail or do a poor job because I'm a child. She might try a few more times with me but because I didn't get it instantly or it struggled to click she'd visibly get mad at me and tell me not to bother and that she'd just do it instead. As I got into my teens she accused me of doing things badly on purpose so I wouldn't have to do it, when the reality is she just gave up on me and asked me to do things less and less frequently with age. Then at around 16, and ESPECIALLY 18+, she started expecting me to do ALL kinds of things. Saying "you're an adult, you should know this". How? Adults know the things they do because they have experience. I don't. I've had to play such hard catch up for everything I've missed because people (not just my mom) find it easier to not bother with the disabled child.

I'm not saying the man in that video is autistic, or anything else! But what I said brings another point into play: he's an adult and simply doesn't know how to do it. That's a problem! Now why would he be an adult incapable of doing what should be a simple task he should have already learned? He wasn't taught. It reminds me of the guy who got a ton of shit online because his mom did his laundry for him all his life so when he first lived out of the house (I think with a roommate) he had to learn how to do his laundry. He wasn't refusing to do his laundry, he wasn't whining and complaining about it, he was just texting a friend about it. It would be a problem if he didn't bother to learn. If someone is LITERALLY TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO DO SOMETHING it's not weaponized incompetence! I don't care how old they are!

And honestly it does play into the whole "the patriarchy is bad for men too" situation. If a man doesn't know how to do something, such as laundry or cleaning up spills, as an adult because those jobs were always deferred to women, he is now incapable of caring for himself when alone. And then when with someone else, accused of weaponized incompetence when trying to learn by people learning new words to run into the ground. Or once again, maybe it's not a situation where he didn't learn because the women specifically always did the cleaning, he just generally might not have been taught. I don't know!

The very point I'm trying to make is that you can't make those kind of assumptions based off of a short clip, or a picture, of someone doing something poorly. Even if there's a CHANCE it could be weaponized incompetence, it is so BEYOND horrible to go on and on about how it HAS to be weaponized incompetence because no one could be that stupid. It feels awful to be a disabled person seeing people being mocked and called abusers for making the same kind of mistakes you've made. It feels awful to see something, think "oh I've messed that up too", and then see 50 different comments about how it has to be weaponized incompetence because no one could be THAT stupid

Can we please stop forgetting the existence of disabled people and people with generally different life experiences than you, thanks. There's a huge difference between weaponized incompetence and learning (or someone doing the best they can and being physically unable to do things more efficiently because of being disabled)

[kalpasio]

not really a request, im just insanely bored so i just wanna share hahagakdjadjakdn,, anyways thinking abt how kalpas died on the moon so he can see the stars and stuff he just starts thinking abt herrscher of the stars!reader before he dies 🥹

go do whatever with that idea idk i too like making myself suffer bcs angst is my favorite genre HAJSKAHSKA

- from, ofc, herrscher anon, bcs ofc im the one talking abt HotS!reader HAJSJAJDKA 🥹🥹🥹

I kinda planned on using this for a different request, are you reading my mind????

everyone thinking kalpas has absolutely lost it because suddenly he's interested in astronomy but no. he's just. staring at the stars because that's all he has left of someone so dear to him 😭😭

I understand he's angy man but he deserves happiness just ONCE I say this, fully realizing that I am the one killing of the reader and making him suffer...