#alas an attempt was made

[moondancer71]

Daylight

There is a tiny snippet below the cut 🫣

Jane blinked, her eyes adjusting to the rays of sunlight streaming in through the wooden shutters of their cottage. Guildford had brought her here last night, explaining that it was one of the safe houses his father had made for him in case he was ever in danger—such as running from a blood thirsty monarch intent on killing them both. 

Jane knew that as long as Mary remained on the throne, her and Guildford would never be safe. Yet, with her husband’s arm protectively wrapped around her waist from where he slept behind her, she felt safe. 

She turned to face him and when her eyes met his she found that he was already awake, his head propped on one arm, his eyes intently trained on her. 

“You’re staring.”

“Yes.” He removed his hand from where it rested on her waist to gently brush the back of his fingers against her cheek. “This is the first time I’m seeing you in the daylight. Can you blame me?" He laughed, with a lightness she never thought she'd see in him.

Jane playfully rolled her eyes. “You saw me in the daylight yesterday, when we stopped to rest.” 

His eyes narrowed, slightly. “It wasn’t like this.” 

This was the first time they were waking up together, intertwined, as husband and wife. 

“No,” she agreed. “It wasn’t like this.”

[caeslxys]

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but it feels relevant again in light of the most recent episode. Something that’s really fascinating to me about Orym’s grief in comparison to the rest of the hells’ grief is that his is the youngest/most fresh and because of that tends to be the most volatile when it is triggered (aside from FCG, who was two and obviously The Most volatile when triggered.)

As in: prior to the attack on Zephrah, Orym was leading a normal, happy, casual life! with family who loved him and still do! Grief was something that was inflicted upon him via Ludinus’ machinations, whereas with characters like Imogen or Ashton, grief has been the background tapestry of their entire lives. And I think that shows in how the rest of them are largely able to, if not see past completely (Imogen/Laudna/Chetney) then at least temper/direct their vitriol or grief (Ashton/Fearne/Chetney again) to where it is most effective. (There is a glaring reason, for example, that Imogen scolded Orym for the way he reacted to Liliana and not Ashton. Because Ashton’s anger was directed in a way that was ultimately protective of Imogen—most effective—and Orym’s was founded solely in his personal grief.)

He wants Imogen to have her mom and he wants Lilliana to be salvageable for Imogen because he loves Imogen. But his love for the people in his present actively and consistently tend to conflict with the love he has for the people in his past. They are in a constant battle and Orym—he cannot fathom losing either of them.

(Or, to that point, recognize that allowing empathy to take root in him for the enemy isn't losing one of them.)

It is deeply poignant, then, that Orym’s grief is symbolized by both a sword and shield. It is something he wields as a blade when he feels his philosophy being threatened by certain conversational threads (as he believes it is one of the only things he has left of Will and Derrig, and is therefore desperately clinging onto with both bloody hands even if it makes him, occasionally, a hypocrite), but also something he can use in defense of the people he presently loves—if that provocative, blade-grief side of him does not push them—or himself—away first.

(it won’t—he is as loved by the hells as he loves them. he just needs to—as laudna so beautifully said—say and hear it more often.)

[averlym]

ghost story premiere day! check @melliotwrites for more info

[theanonymousninja247]

✨ Star Friends ✨

When I found out that @chessman-protocol boy Crit liked Astronomy, let’s just say I was beyond estatic and immediately planned this little comic. Here’s to my boy Vincent doing his best to make friends with folks who share similar interests 😅💙

Funny enough, I didn’t realize I put this in Vincent character’s until I looked at the whole thing, but Vincent very much shares the lack of stranger danger the way I did/ I do to this day. To quote one of my past managers I’m “abnormally friendly” or whatever

I can’t tell you how many times even as a small child (drove my parents nuts) that I saw a cool person with whatever connecting factor and I just straight up walked to them and was like “Ok cool. We’re friends now.” And nobody’s really stopped me? So apparently I have friends now. 😆

Vincent however is just a wholesome baby boy who doesn’t realize he’s actually an intimidating hunk of a turtle and randomly walking up to strangers and not saying anything can be taken the wrong way.

Like I said, he’s trying his best. He wasn’t exactly the most socialized if you can’t tell, but he does love dearly and is certainly a boone of a friend to have once you get past the inevitable social awkwardness. He’s loyal to put because he really doesn’t know better, and I adore him for that. Anyway, dunno if Crit knows any ASL or not, but either way Vincent is just excited to meet somebody else who likes space ✨🌌 💙

[bearotonin-international]

Timber's been struck by the thinky thoughts

[nostalgia-tblr]

I feel like anyone who's about to embark on attempting to type out a character's accent phoentically (at least as well as one can with English) should probably stop for a moment before they get going and ask themselves, "How would I, myself, feel about a fic where the one character who sounds like me had their speech written out like this and every other character just got their dialogue left in standard spelling?" I feel like a lot of people would tone it down a bit, at least, if they'd done that thought experiment first.

(Anyone who answered "but I don't have an accent!" isn't allowed to write out anyone else's accent, ever. This rule may seem harsh but you need it. Really, you do. Because you've never had anyone treat your accent as abnormal or comical or wrong, so you really don't know what you're inflicting on others here.)

[yiikingpatriarch]

crappy sqq doodle done in Magma

[fridayyy-13th]

happy phanniversary/No But Seriously Imagine It day everyone, i come bearing a slight pfp edit for the occasion :]

ID in alt, as always; i'll be keeping this pfp until the end of the month. (when i switch back, i'm gonna start posting DAPTIT spoilers!! appropriately tagged for filtering, of course.)

[your-local-granny]

i love when it hits 1am and i realize its the Perfect time for researching how to construct a full set of plate armour

[dreamedfyre-a]

OH, WHAT IS IT WORTH? ALL THAT'S LEFT IS HURT. // independent & selective helaena targaryen from the a song of ice and fire universe. as adored by mel.

[patchworkcowboy-archive]

MUTUALS ONLY FOR REBLOGS!

Shoutout to the time I played Patchwork Jack in a oneshot and everyone kept joking that his name was actually Pajamas Jack so I scribbled this in tribute.

[cursedthing]

Happy (landing day) birthday Sojourner and Pathfinder!! :D

[mamawasatesttube]

anyways someone remind me tomorrow evening to actually make that post about the mermay fic im probably not gonna write!!! i will be back at home by then and hopefully less sick and miserable and pathetic so i can actually type it up fhjdgk

[skunkes]

[nostalgia-tblr]

IF U KNOW U KNOW

[vagueiish]

what exactly is one supposed to do about accepting things you can't control when the thing you can't control is a person who is actively fucking over many people, including children?