#argue with the wall and the books

[famouscyclenerd]

FREE ELAIN!!

I will never shut up about this

"Elain in black was ridiculous. Yes, she was beautiful, but the color of her long-sleeved, modest gown leeched the brightness from her face. It wore her, rather than the other way around. And he knew the cruelty of the Hewn City troubled her. But she hadn't hesitated to come. When Feyre had offered to let her remain home, Elain had squared her shoulders and declared that she was a part of this court - and would do whatever was needed. So Elain let her golden-brown hair down tonight, and pinned it back with twin combs of pearl. He'd never once in the two years he'd known her found Elain to be plain, but wearing black, no matter how much she claimed to be part of this court ... it sucked the life from her."

"Elain would love this place. So many flowers, all in bloom, so much green - the light, vibrant green of new grass - so many birds singing and such warm, buttery sunshine. Nesta felt like a storm cloud standing amid it all. But Elain ... The Spring Court had been made for someone like her. Too bad her sister refused to see her. Nesta would have told Elain to visit this place."

Argue with canon, bitches 'cause Elain is off to Spring💐

[riceballannie]

Somehow I always end up with drawing them staring at each other (Aaron is the person sitting between them, suffering as always - bro needs to get paid for going through this daily)

[constantine-2005]

when i'm in a "what are we" competition and my opponents are these mfs

[snakeredbirdbatkatana]

It was another competion the entire family all shoving and pushing each other into the car to see more of Damian's art.

Tim is excited for Damian.

He knows what it's like, to stand there and have no one show up. To be there all by yourself for hours the only one to visit your booth being the art teacher.

Ms. Carrington who would ask questions and ignore the tears that pooled in his eyes before helping him pack everything up, sometimes even driving him home because of course neither his parents or Bruce could be bothered to pick him up.

He can't really help the envy that he can feel building in his chest mixing with a good chunk of repressed anger.

A elbow being jabbed into his ribs distracts him.

"Hey what's with the face? Perk up Boy-Loser it's Damian's night."

He turns to Steph the smile that he had been attempting to plaster on falling. It's such a stupid thing it's a nickname so what if it's demeaning, he gets called pretender or replacement by Jason what does it matter.

"Do you ever think it's kinda fucked up that not a single person in this family calls me anything that isn't an insult?" He snaps.

She looks shocked. How fucking dare he have an ounce of self esteem. Someone alert the Media Tim Drake isn't a dormat.

He turns away sliding into the crowd.

There's less then half an hour left before he can leave. Pratically throwing himself down in the empty hallway as far as he can get from this entire night.

"Baby bird and Timmy aren't insults? Or are they I can't seem to keep up with the kids these days."

He turns, of course. You might be able to run from Batman or lie to him, but you can never escape the grasp of Big Brother Nightwing.

"So your admitting that your old?" he joins the banter.

His muscles start to unclench another superpower only Dick Grayson seems to have.

"Never, something you want to talk about?"

Does he? No. Should he? Yah.

"Maybe I just don't want be insulted every day of my life. So weird who doesn't want to be reminded they suck?"

He can hear the whine, he can also hear that everything he just said isn't gonna matter. You don't take whiny little boys seriously. And that's what he is.

"Hmm you know I get called Dickhead or really a lot of just penis related jokes. Always hated them not that it really stops anyone."

He looks finally making eye contact with his big brother. Because he's right. How many times has he heard anyone in the family other than him and Damian call Dick anything nice. Never not once. Maybe Bruce but he can't really picture it.

"Also don't think I didn't notice how annoyed you are with Bruce about this entire night, which I don't blame you for. You know I love Damian kiddo, but yah Bruce is not winning a mug from me or you."

He doesn't really want to acknowledge any of that already exhausted and he will have to apologize to Steph and if he opens the box it will be a car ride from hell home.

"Luckily for you I have a car parked a block up we can escape get ice cream and have a nice sleepover in bludhaven."

He wants to so bad, he wants to throw himself at Dick who knows him so well, who followed him out here, who isn't blinking, the only adult who has ever not somehow fucked him over.

"What about Damian? He will be pissed at me for stealing you or something. He doesn't need another reason to stab me."

He turns to look back at the floor.

"Foolish Drake I will be coming with you Father is being insesently annoying and I much rather talk about art with someone who has a brain cell."

Both him and Dick whip around to see Damian standing there a slight blush on his face hesitation making the corner of mouth twitch. He sees Dick looking on unsure. He doesn't hesitate.

"Thank god I know a great place with that Vegan Cookie Dough you like. What you waiting for Big Bird? Let's go. "

Climbling to his feet he grabs Dick and Damian dragging them to the exit he hears Dick's confused muttering sharing a secret smile with Damian before ignoring it.

The night is finally looking up.

[fadedkat]

so am I right or am I right

[v0idwraith]

yk what I’m taking this as ace Ford confirmation

[bunneclair]

Oh to be an exhausted reader repeating to a broken god that you’re not a traitor but he can’t hear you.

[dansemacabre]

i feel like the revitalized fandom is like a week away from “mabel+stan son or dipper+ford daughter” and i want to preemptively correct that sorting the twins into opposite pairs is unenlightened and using dipper ford mabel stan like genes in a punnet square is the way of light and truth. fuck mbti im dipper main stan recessive

[shadowqueenjude]

Chaol Westfall. The way he struggled with killing Cain for so long even though Cain was a terrible person and was going to kill Celaena. The way he is forced to kill regularly but is never desensitized to it. The way he was destroying himself in Tower of Dawn, trying so hard to walk so he could fight and die beside his men again. The way he struggled and succeeded to overcome the prejudices he was taught in his youth about people because he's a strong and brave and kind person, and wound up with the most powerful magical woman in the series, signifying his overcoming of his magic phobia. The way he never gave up on Dorian, was utterly loyal to his king even when he was under valg possession and everyone thought he should be killed. The way he knows himself, his good qualities and his bad qualities, and loathes himself because he think he failed. But he never failed. He tried his hardest but he's just one man. Even though he thought he failed, he never stopped trying. Because ultimately, his loyalty was to Dorian, his country Adarlan, and to his wife Yrene. And he lived for them. He lived for the dream of a better Adarlan that he never gave up on even when his former love said it should be burned to the ground. And finally, his faith was rewarded. Finally, everything was as it was meant to be. All hail Chaol Westfall. Hand to the King of Adarlan, husband to Yrene Westfall, and the best written character in Throne of Glass.

[aclawthorne22]

I feel like I need to inject The Book of Bill into my V E I N S

My middle school gravity falls obsession defrosting as a college student WAS NOT ON MY 2024 BINGO CARD

[sunnysideaeggs]

Kinda wild to use female plight of being raped through history for your agenda against rhaenyra while keeping an actual serial rapist from the same show as your icon. that even in his book canon he’s caught with a little girl pleasuring him while he watches his bastards or whoever in the children fighting pits to compound his depravity. I don’t like rhaenyra either but be consistent

Kinda wild to use the testimony of a known liar, jester and unreliable witness such as Mushroom to attack Aegon, when Mushroom also claimed that Daemon had Rhaenyra pleasure him when she was 8, a little girl. He also claimed to have advances with Rhaenyra himself. So if you use Mushroom’s testimony, bring up his whole story, be consistent :)

[doll-elvis]

“At first, I was afraid, to open my eyes and look to see who it was. When I got my eyes open, Elvis was standing there looking at me. He stood in the doorway only a moment. Then he backed out and quietly shut the door. I told Vernon about it the next day while Elvis was at the base. ‘Elvis does that sometimes,’ Vernon said, ‘He’ll go around checking to make sure everybody is all right. He’ll wake up in the night and start to worry about everybody’”

this made me melt, he was the sweetest 😭

(excerpt from “Elvis: This one’s for you” by Arlene Cogan)

[pasdetrois]

Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (tr. Julia Meitov Hersey) • Mircea Suciu, Camouflage (2) • Agostino Arrivabene, Immutatio • Matthias Claudius, "Der Tod und Das Mädchen" • Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare • Dragan Bibin, Pull (edited) • Maria Kreyn, Angel's Back • Franz Wimmer, Death and the Maiden • Mel Chin, Bat and Dove • Ana Sanchez, Death and the Maiden

[your-mommy-ems]

Jude: Don’t worry, I have a permit. Cardan:…This just says “I can do what I want”.

[acertifiedwitch]

Oh Found Family Trope thou are the best of all tropes.

[aaronstveit]

deep end reading list

here is a list of all the books mentioned in deep end! i have read every book on this list except for Anna Karenina, so this this also doubles as a book rec list!

↬ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ↬ The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison ↬ The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo ↬ Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie ↬ The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ↬ Hamlet by William Shakespeare ↬ Persuasion by Jane Austen ↬ Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë ↬ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee ↬ Normal People by Sally Rooney ↬ The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ↬ The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White ↬ The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin ↬ I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman ↬ Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson ↬ Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente ↬ Cain's Jawbone by Torquemada ↬ The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei ↬ Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie ↬ Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin