#and burn down the court

[maximura]

[the-gay-cousin-666]

The Sunshine Court is proof that if Neil and Jean were friends they'd be fucking insufferable to themselves and everyone around them.

[fantastic-nonsense]

I will always take any chance I have to remind people that Wesper knew each other for 5 months and had only been dating for a week when they decided to move in together while Kanej were best friends for two years before they so much as admitted they liked each other

[yaralulu]

It’s so funny to me how every time one of the bat boys does something shitty it’s always “this is giving tamlin” like babe tamlin never told feyre he felt shackled to her or said he doesn’t understand why her sisters love her or took her on a miserable hike when she was suicidal —that was allll cassian.So no it’s actually not giving tamlin ??Like for how much this fandom hates tamlin they can never stop bringing up his name in situations he literally has nothing to do with.Tamlin becoming the standard for shitty men in acotar when cassian and rhys exist is just so 😍.

[caelysiiium]

most of my aftg editions!

haven't yet gotten a set for thefoxholefund's dust jackets by danka (dankainart) and jane's (ouijacine) covers are at my dorms, as is fish's (salmonellafish) tsc cover

[acourtofquestions]

"She would have destroyed an entire city for one man," Hasar snapped.

"The most powerful pure-blooded Fae male in the world," Chaol said simply. "A worthy asset for any court. Especially when they had fallen in love with each other."

Though his eyes danced as he spoke, a tremor of tension ran beneath the last words.

But Arghun seized on the words. "If it is a love match, then they risk knowing their enemies will go after him to punish her." Arghun smiled as if to say he was already thinking of doing so.

Chaol snorted, and the prince straightened. "Good luck to anyone who tries to go after Rowan Whitethorn."

"Because Aelin will burn them to ash?" Hasar asked with poisoned sweetness.

But it was Kashin who answered softly, "Because Rowan Whitethorn will always be the person who walks away from that encounter. Not the assailant."

[codename-adler]

FAM I MANIFESTED THAT SHIT SO HARD

DO YOU PEEP THE SHIRT??? DO YOU BEHOLD MY DIVINE POWERS???

[klanced]

Keith walking into the holding cell greeting all the regulars by name while Lance is sobbing lamenting that his life is over and his future is ruined (they were like. Trespassing or some shit he’s going to be fine)

lance: (actively dry heaving in the corner, on the verge of a panic attack as he imagines having a permanent record)(actually what does a permanent record even look like?)(omg is he going to have to go to COURT? like in JUDGE JUDY?)

keith: remy, this is lance. lance, this is remy, she’s my favorite alcoholic :)

[thatexygurl]

doing a play by play on Nora’s tweets like it’s a fucking football game. extra extra content muthafuckas.

side note: if anyone has the time to write a whole three part mafia series on allison x ichirou (since nora ships em) that would be much appreciated 🫡

[andrew-03-minyard]

my brain has been short-circuiting recently wanting to edit kevin and jean to burning down by alex warren but I do not have the creativity nor the time to search for and record clips

i have so many ideas, guys, just no time. so if anyone does make an edit please tag me id love to see it!! or if anyone is bored enough to find scenes from movies/shows that would look good please send them my way <3

[riorsonxaden]

For us Cassian girlies,

[ramblingandpie]

Sometimes I really hate that my job requires me to keep up with news about government stuff like man I would actually like to bury my head in the sand for a few days but what's that? More lawsuits about regulations? Siiiiiiiigh.

[omniscientstoryreader]

In my opinion, if Neil and Kevin cook, then everything happens exactly like this

[lunarharp]

lil thing i made for “sun & moon”, a ferdibert zine :-)

[mistninja]

Actually the simple answer to what makes luffy different is that hes set up from the get go as an outlaw and therefore he's always in opposition to the system. The first arc after his backstory was about beating up a cop

[a-world-in-grey]

Life Debts and why Nyx's is a Big Deal

@secret-engima because I've been thinking on this and have Feelings.

Y'all can find SE's original post on Debt Braids here, but a short recap:

Debt is taken very seriously in Galahd. If you owe a debt, it's expected that you pay it off as soon as you can - via goods, services, etc. Very large debts between families can be settled through marriage, but as it requires both potential newly weds to be completely willing (Galahdians don't do divorce, you're married until one of you die), that sort of arrangement is rare.

A Life Debt is declared when a Galahdian believes they owe a debt they cannot repay, usually because the debt is so large, so personal, that a value of the debt cannot be given. In such a scenario, the Galahdian will declare a Life Debt and weave a Debt braid into their hair. A Life Debt is declared on that Galahdian's life. Only they can pay it, and once they die, the debt is fulfilled.

Now, this is where we get to just how serious declaring a Life Debt is. A Galahdian who declares a Debt is declaring that they owe this one person so much, that said person essentially now holds their loyalty over even the Galahdian's own clan and Chief. That loyalty stays until the Galahdian dies. If the person holding the debt dies, the debt passes on to their heir. When the heir dies, the debt does not pass on to anyone else, but even then, the Galahdian is not free from the Debt. Instead, they are free to choose how they will fulfill the debt until they die.

Because Life Debts are such a serious thing, no one can demand a Life Debt as payment. It is only ever voluntary.

So now we get to Nyx's Debt to Regis.

(I won't go into why Nyx declared a Debt - canonically we know Regis once saved Nyx's life, but exact details are for everyone's personal headcanons.)

On the surface, it's not that big of a deal. Oh, it's significant. It's a major commitment Nyx can never take back, but it's not really a problem.

Three things make Nyx's declared Debt significant, even by Galahdian standards. 1) The holder of his Debt is the Mainlander King. 2) Nyx is a Clan Chief. 3) Nyx is the absolute Last of his clan. Any single one of these wouldn't be remarkable, but together they turn what would be a significant but standard Debt into a nightmare.

Regis being an Outsider would normally not be an issue. Oh, there are Galahdians that sneer in private over Nyx declaring a Debt to an Outsider, because they believe Galahdians don't owe Outsiders jack shit. (Is it xenophobic? Yes, but Galahdians have a strong insider-outsider mindset and there will always be extremists in any culture.) But they keep their opinions to themselves because commenting on someone's declared Debt is just asking for a broken nose. Even Regis being a king wouldn't be anything other than an unusual detail (because just what happened that caused Nyx to owe a king a Debt?). The biggest thing about Regis being an Outsider is that to fulfill the debt, Nyx pretty much has to leave Galahd for Insomnia until the king and his heir die or one of them gives Nyx explicit permission/orders to return to Galahd. Which sucks, but that's what Debts mean. Regis - and later Noctis - will hold Nyx's first loyalty until Nyx dies.

Nyx being a Clan Chief is where things start getting sticky. A Chief's first duty must be to their clan. Chiefs, as a rule, do not declare Life Debts. They can't, not when they're first loyalty has to be to the clan, instead of a single person outside the Clan. In the very rare cases a Chief feels they must declare a Debt, they step down from their position as Chief. At least, they should. There's no clan law stating someone with a Life Debt cannot be Clan Chief, but a Chief in such a position will either neglect their clan or their Debt. Neither is something Galahdians regard favorably. There's never been a case where a Chief has refused to step down after declaring a Debt, so none of the Clans have ever had to decide what to do, but it's likely it would not end well.

Nyx being the very Last of his clan means that there aren't any other Ulrics he has a duty of care to as Chief. He is the only one affected by his declaration of Debt, so him remaining Chief Ulric isn't actually a problem. Where him being the Last becomes the final nail in the coffin is if anyone ever joins Clan Ulric. Because unless the Clans somehow find an Ulric that escaped the Burning, Nyx can't step down as Chief.

Nyx's first commitment must be to Regis. Then to Noctis. Not to his people. Not to his friends or any personal relationships. Not to rebuilding Clan Ulric. Any spouse/children/clansmen would always come second unless Regis/Noctis allowed it.

(Do I think Regis and Noctis would allow it, if Nyx asked? Yes. In a heartbeat. But Nyx would have to ask. Might even have to explain, and as a whole, Galahdians tend to be... reluctant, to explain their culture to Outsiders.)

I don't think Nyx really thought about the long term consequences of his Debt, when he made it. He might have, and could have decided that the situation was such that he was honor-bound to declare a Debt regardless. But Nyx has a reputation for not really thinking before he leaps into action, and depending on when Nyx declared his Debt? If it was after the Burning, after Nyx lost literally everyone, he probably wouldn't have been thinking clearly even if he had taken the time to think the decision over. And that's assuming he would have realized the implications in the first place - if Nyx wasn't raised to be Chief, it's very probable he wouldn't have.

Every other Clan Chief would have caught the implications. They would have known, from the moment they saw Nyx's braid, that the Last Ulric would never return to Galahd (not when the likelihood of Nyx outliving a boy 12 years his junior was slim to none). That the Last Ulric would likely remain the Last, condemning the Ulric Clan to die with him.