#and wrestle with it in the dirt

[anewbrainjughead]

i would make much better first impressions if every social gathering of more than 3 people had to have a dog involved

[julia-bonkers]

girls when America’s sweetheart starved straight to death, and some say they’re still peeling her out of that bed (bless her heart)

[waanderlussttt]

drawing of the house i grew up in

[unpun1shable]

“You’re going to hurt me one way or another. Might as well be with your mouth.”

[deerest-deer]

i know i've been more sensitive than usual when listening to an ethel cain song i've listened to many times before makes me cry out of nowhere!!

[kingcunny]

ooh @backjustforberena ‘s post about rhaenys entrance into kls and now im thinking. did rhaenys even go to see viserys when she got to the red keep. did she hear he was invalid and just wrote him off. hes sick and probably wouldnt recognize her and rhaenys is angry with him anyways. was viserys entrance in the throne room the first time rhaenys had seen the.. state he was in. How sick he was exactly.

and then was that their last interaction? viserys allowing the murder of one of her family members?

[twitchtips]

when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions

"Someday will come a time when Solovet does not hold such power over us." The mere mention of her name makes Mareth go cold. The day after Hamnet was confined, Judith made Mareth promise not to confront Solovet again. She said she wouldn't be able to bear it if he got locked up too. Mareth doesn't reply, but Judith goes on anyway. "She reigns at present because the war demands it of her, demands it of us." Judith puts a finger in Luxa's hand, and the baby squeezes it. "But lately I have been trying to imagine an Underland without need of her. An Underland in which my daughter may reign without relying on figures such as Solovet." Mareth isn't sure such a thing is even possible. It's hard to imagine—even harder to believe in. "We must have hope," Judith tells him. "We must allow ourselves to dream of a happy future." When Mareth finally speaks, he does so with a wry grin. "It is almost as if Vikus himself is in the room with us."

Rating: Mature

Relationship: Hamnet/Mareth

Characters: Mareth, Hamnet, Andromeda, Perdita, Solovet, Vikus, Hamnet's Bond, Perdita's Bond, Judith, Luxa's Father, Nerissa, Hazard, Background & Cameo Characters, Original Characters

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Pre-Canon, Mareth POV, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, The Jungle, The Dungeon, The Garden of the Hesperides, Abusive Parents, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon Character Death, Angst, Secret Relationship

Summary: Thirteen years before Gregor arrives in the Underland, Mareth joins the Regalian army.

Read on AO3: Part 2 / The Dungeon / Chapter 6 (Words: 5,575)

[sciderman]

I'm a lesbian and I'm pretty sure you'd beat me. I present more masc but ain't no way do I have the strength

i am made of toothpicks and tissue paper

[whegan]

i want to make out in dirt pits

[milkcarton4ngel]

[kopw]

wrestle kingdom 17 press conference / relay by fiona apple / wayward son or punishing parent?: kenny omega interviewed / a child is something else again, yehuda amichai (trans. chana bloch) / anne sexton, the death of the fathers / ospreay vs omega at forbidden door 2 / bloodsport by sneaker pimps / oh, canada: will ospreay's forbidden rematch / ospreay vs omega at wrestle kingdom 17 and forbidden door 2 / thrall, natasha trethewey / great expectations, charles dickens / ospreay vs omega at forbidden door 2 / ábrahám és izsák [abraham and isaac] by csaknekedkislány (trans. in id) / kenny omega on twitter

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Tagged by @rewritetheending @devirnis and @forthewolves for tidbit tuesday!

I’ve been frantically finishing a quilt all week so again I don’t really have actual new writing to share but I’ve been vaguely thinking about a Daniel lives au that I’m not sure I’ll actually write? The idea is he’d grow up and implode under the pressure of being the perfect son his parents did so much to save, unable to live up to their idea of him, and then feeling guilty for ‘wasting his life’ because Buck literally exists because of him so he owes it to his baby brother to not be a fuck up, right? Then Buck grows up the hero baby who can never quite accomplish anything better than saving Daniel, who then gets the double pressure of “Daniel didn’t become who we wanted him to be, now we will shape Evan into the perfect son”. And then Maddie gets sort of forgotten and looked over in all of this :( So yeah another sad idea from yours truly I’m sure you’re all shocked. Here’s the vague outline of events I have in my head (substance abuse cw):

-Daniel gets sick and Evan is born, and he loves his baby brother more than anything.

-Daniel is sixteen and gets very very drunk at a party and crashes dad’s nice new car on the way home. Screaming fight with his parents in the ER that Maddie tries to diffuse. Buck is only eight and was left home alone and comes into Daniels room late at night because he’s scared and worried and Daniel comforts him.

-Maddie is married and none of them were at the wedding, Daniel is 23 and left rehab before he was finished with the program, Buck is 15 and so fucking lonely, suffocating in their parents house. Daniel sees how miserable he is and tries to convince their parents to let Buck live with him, but he has no job or place to live and isn’t sober, and they turn him away.

-Two years later Maddie has got him more successfully through rehab (paying for it herself, their parents have cut him off entirely) and he goes back for Buck who has tested out of high school and left town as soon as he turned 18.

-By complete random chance, Daniel and Buck end up in the same town while Buck is working as a ranch hand. It’s a joyful reunion but then Buck accidentally comes out and Daniel reacts badly and it devolves into a big fight about their childhood.

-Daniel helps Maddie escape Doug and get to California. Weird bad feelings that he shoves down about her wanting to be near Buck instead of him (he has some job that makes him travel a lot, he understands it’s stability she wants but it still makes him feel like a fuck up who can’t be trusted to help.) Tense dinner with the three of them. Buck is still so young but he’s just gone through Abby and he’s just met Eddie and he has a job he loves and wow this kid is growing up. Daniel wishes he could have been a part of it.

-Maybe a series of phone calls after all of Buck’s near death experiences? Daniel doesn’t actually visit but they get closer despite the distance.

-He finally visits again a bit after the lightning strike. Buck is mostly recovered, and he’s with Eddie and is so so happy, and Maddie is doing really well and is getting married again soon, and Daniel has been sober for a long time and has a job he likes and maybe a girlfriend, and, like, they all survived. They all made it. They love each other. There’s regret, there’s a lot of wishing things happened differently, but they’re finally all here together and things are good.

Tagging @shitouttabuck @buckactuallys @butchdiaz @wildlife4life @bigfootsmom @lover-of-mine @daffi-990

[keep-her-wild]

[crunkybrewstr]

Old Man's take on Drake vs Kendrick

I don't have any dimes in this beef. I'm old enough to remember Biggie and Tupac's beef. And I see a lot of people comparing this to that. Except one thing: They lost their lives at the hands of outsiders that took nearly 30+ years just to find one of the killers!

This ain't Biggie & Pac. It's big. It's entertaining. But it ain't Biggie & Pac.

With that said, I'll say that I am an old Hip Hop head first. I don't care much for Drake's music. I find his approach to be nothing short of Stripper Club Music for Rich girls in the Valley. He is not Hip Hop to me and I will never take him as such. He is what we use to call back in the day a "Poser". Kendrick is an interesting dude. I'm not a fan of his music either. But he is good lyrically. Some of the words he said in those songs I didn't even think you could associate together. He is clever as fuck. I will give the man that!

So if i had to choose a side in this fight, I'm going with Kendrick. He doesn't offend me. The guy is a witty wordsmith upfront and I dig his style.

Whether I believe in any of the shit they're slinging at each other, I don't know. You'd have to tell me if any of it is at all true or not. I really don't know.

To me this shit is Wrestling Dirt Sheets level of Suspiciousness. I don't know who's real and who isn't in this.

But again it is fucking very entertaining to say the least. And I do enjoy a good Beef.

[malewifehenrycooldown]

be warned my self ship blog is also a Trojan horse made to also peddle game design criticisms and talking about pro-wrestling.

[dire-kumori]

"Yeah, Astarion. Why?"