#and i can rhyme

[localicecreambiter]

this is how I remember the four swords manga

[mumblesplash]

part 2!!!! [read part one here]

transcript below the cut arranged into stanzas to help show where the rhymes are:

“that’s why they brought gem in? as a failsafe?” as a pawn. we were told to point her at whoever we need gone

“gem won’t hurt her allies. …yet.” the curse she carries will it’s had its eye on her since she lost the other eye she was specially selected for her hunting skill it’s quite the high honor. “wow. how generous.” we try

think about it: why does almost no one fight the curse? “given how fast scott killed skizz last season, i can guess.” [“any pain you spare your friends, you’ll have to suffer worse”?] it’s designed to shut down higher reasoning with stress

[madspeed]

twewy in persona 4... think about it .. .............. (I'm run over by 15 semitrucks)

[ato-dato]

Angel Crowley angel Crowley angel Crowley angel Crow-

[speaking-riddlish]

Thinking about how Riddlish is handled in cannon and in fics. I've seen people just put random things that happen to ryhm anytime they want someone to be speaking Riddlish and it's like, a minor pet peeve of mine? But every time we see Riddlish spoken in cannon, it kind of makes sense in a way? Like, if you think about what is said, and try to piece together any symbolism based on context, you can kind of understand what they're saying. Like Maddie said, "Riddlish is not an exact language". Putting together the metaphor and symbolism gives you the general idea of what they're getting across. And whenever a fic does this well, it's like an instant favorite.

Let's look at and dicect some cannon examples (I've always kind of found these facinating):

"Feathers and Friends, together alone!"

"Feathers" could refer to Raven, since she's named after a bird. She also has feathers fairly prominent in her character design, so it'd make sense for Giles to say this even though he doesn't know her name yet.

"and Friends" probably refers to Maddie, since she's known him for a while and is presumably his friend. It could also refer to their friendship, and maybe even be a way of including Raven in.

"together, alone" They're here with him, joining him in his solitude.

Putting it all together we get "Raven and Maddie, you're here! You came to visit me!" Which lines up pretty well with Maddie's translation of "he says it's nice to have us here!"

"Can a musical chair change its tone, when the tablet of granite is inscribed with a bone?"

"Can a musical chair change it's tone" The music in musical chairs is integral to the game, yet the song played does not come from the chair, but from the people playing. The tone of a musical chair is something fundamental about itself, and also something imposed by something outside itself. Can it change? Can something change something about itself that someone else has decided is fundamental?

"When the tablet of granite is inscribed with a bone?" A tablet of granite inscribed with something is literally that thing being written in stone, another reference to destiny and inevitability. And what's written on that stone is a bone, is death. Death is what is written in stone. Death is supposedly inevitable here.

From Raven's tone and terrified body language when asking Maddie to translate for her, it's fairly clear that the thing that wants to change is referring to Raven.

Putting it all together we get "Can Raven change from what others have said she's supposed to be, or is death the inevitable consequence of that like we've been told it is?" Which lines up pretty well with what Maddie was asked to translate: "What'll happen to me if I don't sign the book, am I really gonna disapear?"

"The king that sings with pages of sky fears too much the dawn that rises with lies"

"pages of sky" is in reference to the book, and maybe the fairytales themselves. The sky is often used to symbolically reference heaven and the divine. The book, determining people's destinies, fits fairly well into that category. It's almost like he's referring to the book as being from above.

"The king that sings with pages of sky" would then be Headmaster Grim. He's in a position of authority over the students like a king is to his subjects. He "sings with" the book/the stories with his constant insistence that people must sign the book and follow their stories, speaking in unison with them.

"fears too much" this part is fairly clear, Milton's paranoid. The consequences he thinks are inevitable aren't as inevitable as he claims.

"the dawn that rises with" would mean something like "the consequences of" or "the fallout from". Then there's one of two ways the rest could be. "lies" could refer to that which is contrary to what the stories say will happen. If you take the stories as "truth" then changing the stories would be "lies". Or, "rises with lies" could mean the consequences coming from Milton's lies being brought to light. The dawn rises as Milton's lies rise.

Yet the whole thing sounds rather foreboding, giving the impression that something is seriously wrong.

Bringing it all together, we either get "Headmaster Grim told you to follow your destiny because he's paranoid about what'll happen if you don't. But those fears are unfounded. Also something is very wrong." or "Headmaster Grim told you to follow your destiny because he's afraid of what will happen when people find out why you don't need to (and its emplied that that reason is something very bad)" This lines up fairly well with Maddie's translation of "There's something wrong with the book, and if you don't sign, your story will continue... I think". I like the touch that Maddie wasn't as confident in this translation, since the last phrase is more ambiguous. It's not really clear how the foreboding tone integrates into the message without more context than Maddie has, so Maddie doesn't really know what it means.

"The baby bird flies. The snake, it slithers. But the cage holds both, to die and to wither."

"The baby bird flies. The snake, it slithers." The baby bird and the snake are two very different creatures, they move and interact with the world in two totally different ways. Most people also would look more favorably on the baby bird than on the snake.

"but the cage holds both, to die and to wither." the cage doesn't care what is inside of it, it will indiscriminately hold them both captive. The things that make the baby bird different from the snake, and the adorable charms of the baby bird will not free the baby bird from the cage, nor will they protect the baby bird from the grisly fate that awaits it in the cage.

The context is also relevant, since she's talking to Alastair and Bunny, two of her subjects who have just been arrested, but also two of her daughter's friends.

Putting this all together we get "Yes, you enjoy privileges that others do not have, but my affection for you will not compromise my judgement. You are not above the law. I am not above punishing you like I would anynother citizen." While we don't have a cannon translation to compare this to, it seems to make sense. Its immediately followed up with her letting them off with a warning, and despite this interaction, Bunny later tells Lizzie that her mom really is a good queen, but that the curse has stressed her out. I think the Queen of Hearts probably made exploring illegal to protect people from the curse. If she really is a good queen, then this type of objectivity ("I don't care if you're my daughter's friends, crime is crime") would make total sense.

[lyculuscaelus]

Diomedes being the first name ever spoken in Epic the Musical is enough for me.

[yagodnyizefir]

Robin and kids

[stealingpotatoes]

TL4J idea;

Bo-katan obviously knowing who Ahsoka and Ezra are, and not needing much introduction to Luke as she knew Obi-wan and Anakin and has heard plenty about him from his great feats that brought down The Emperor

So when she spots Cal she’s just like “who the hell are you?”

HE'S JUST CAL!

[suntails]

adrift

[rhyme-thinks-stuff]

on one hand it's really nice that more people are learning about Aplatonic people and are being inclusive of them in their aspec posts. i do feel happy knowing that more people are likely to know about it, and people are being accepting

on the other had i really wish that more posts at the top of the tag were SPECIFICALLY about Aplatonisism. rather than most of the top posts being about A-spec identities in general

[joffyworld]

Control (Over All)

The rip and tear of the flesh,

Ah yes!

I confess, it's the best;

The wet mess of the hess, and the tearing of the flesh!

I digress, I divest in thee my last breath,

Till at last I am dead, once again,

By your hand, nonetheless.

Hear the howls from the jowls,

Of those who rival me right now;

Their affections are but fickle things,

So of course oh how I love the sound,

When their sinew is made piano strings,

That bids these fools kowtow; to their so beloved masters,

The Lamb and their reaper of the holy crown.

But do you ever feel?

A chance at something real?

Behind the bones and mortal moans, there may yet be chance to heal?

Do you ever hold the knife so close,

That it whispers in your ear?

Perhaps there was once another way,

That you forgot to steal.

Were we always monsters? What parts of us do feel?

Does the murder and the gluttony,

Distract us from what's real?

When I tear their hearts apart, which of us does truly keel?

I wish I had the answer lover,

But your love does draw me near;

To insanity, the tragedy!

The ever painful spiral!

It's delight I greatly take from you,

Please keep me as your idol!

I beg of you! Please listen sharp! My heart can barely take it!

My life is yours, my future given freely,

I forsake it!

Hit me once and bite me twice,

Beat me black and blue all night,

Plunge the knife and twist it thrice, don't forget to gouge the eyes.

These pains are simply but the price,

Of godhood, paid in paradise.

My body, mind, my heart and soul,

I feel as though I've lost control.

So take the wheel and lead me slow,

One last question I pray not know:

Is this love?

Or are we scared to lose control?

(Entirely based on @teruuu's Compulsion of Flesh au, check it out if you haven't!)

((it's very gory be warned, like really gory lots of gore))

[maybeyoullfindthissomeday]

Squares

36 years    it shall be       at midnight,    and if you do       the simple math,          it'll be the sixth            of my rollercoaster life. and I reminisce   when you were 25,       the fifth of your years,    when our paths crossed,       when you inadvertently         helped to calm            all of my fears, offering me    a protein bar       during a hurricane          of self-doubt and dread;    your compassion       unraveled the webs          in my heavy head. A decade ago    I would’ve bet       every single dime    that there’s no way       I reach 49,          yet in this moment             I long to arrive. So bear with me    as I try       to jinx fate,    but the next 13,       if they’re spent          by your side,             I can boldly await, dancing them away    as seasons       slowly unwind,    while we learn       how to love once more          as our years             intertwine. Would you pardon me    as I reveal       my hand of hearts    and shoot the moon       to intrepidly wish          the next chapters             won’t tear us apart?

[anonymousdandelion]

The fundamental difference between Fiddler on the Roof and Fidler Afn Dakh:

English Tevye: Tradition!

Yiddish Tevye: Got iz a foter un heylik iz zayn toyre!

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Palindr(amatic)

this poem is backwards

here are our factors:

if my head is screwed on the wrong way —

if the stories all sound the same —

if I first adjusted my aim

would it matter

if this trouble I first circumvent

if nothing exists but what's dreamt —

if the start is the end —

you could never tell that I lack words

if this poem is backwards

~ xoxo, Love yoU (either way)

[toxintouch]

I am headcanoning Mhin's monster transformation as being related to their emotions (as in: transformation can be triggered by very strong emotions) SO HARD lately.

It would add an extra layer to Vere constantly trying to piss them off that just ⋆˗ˋˏ Makes Sense ˎˊ˗⋆ to me.

Vere is intrigued by the MC, describing them as "not quite human, not quite monster".

Is it safe to assume that Vere felt similarly intrigued by Mhin? That he picked up on that, smelled it on Mhin when they first met, only to have Mhin stab him on sight? And now Vere is constantly pushing at their raw nerves to try and get a Monstrous reaction out of Mhin... It would add an extra layer to their dynamic that I love to consider.

Alternate theory: The transformation is more werewolf-esque and it's related to something that can be astronomically observed. & that's how Mhin started up their stargazing hobby?? But it's kinda cuter if they just enjoy that for it's own sake, amiright?

P.S. if ur wondering how Vere knows about the emotions trigger he knows bc he can Do That Thing

[bisclavret]

cannot stop thinking about these lines and their respective expressions. merlin "cracking" what matters to gwaine the most and trying to tempt him with it. gwaine looking compelled but wary, almost betrayed? and later that same episode when gwaine retaliates by "cracking" merlin's deal he does so in a way that validates merlin instead of judging him (as this is more about gwaine seeing how much merlin loves arthur than anything else), leaving merlin speechless and cautiously elated. in both their reactions there's the vulnerability of "oh fuck i've been perceived" and being generally caught off-guard, but there's also an undercurrent of "why are you saying this? because you mean it? because you think it's what i want to hear? because you want to show me you've figured me out? all of the above?" a sort of mutual intrigue..... the mortifying ordeal of it all