#callums rules

[dusty-pistol]

How queer

Ref under the cut

I saw it, and Callum immediately came to mind. Obviously not my sona though lol

[bird-freakk]

words can't describe how much I love these dorks, help.

It's probably an unhealthy obsession at this point. My family doesn't understand and I have a hard time talking to people who do, lol.

[raayllum]

like it's insane (affectionate) to me that Rayla starts in her tirade against dark magic because of good reasons that he should care about like 1) it's dangerous, 2) it hurts him, 3) it puts his life in terrible danger, and 4) makes him vulnerable to the thing she thinks he's most afraid of. And she can't conceptualize what would be worth risking all of that until he says "I did it for you," and well. That she can understand. Callum has risked his life for her over and over, and she him, and she knows he's not going to budge on that; that's part of why she's come back and stayed after coming back as their lives have gotten increasingly dangerous again.

So Rayla switches gears, because she kinda knows that asking Callum to not sacrifice himself for her is almost a moot point, of course it's worth it to him on that level, she'd do the same for him (and has in a heartbeat, that's why she left) and yeah she'll still probably be hypocritical about it going into S7, but of course he's going to want and try to protect her, that's what they do. So Rayla goes to the next area of concern and the one she's less easily able to justify or be okay about. After all, it's one thing to risk "his own stupid human life" (2x04) and another if she can't protect him ("I couldn't bear to put him in danger" / "Yes. I promise"), but it's another to risk the world ("but I am not going to let you risk the future king of the dragons" / "But right now, the world needs me" / "The world is in danger, and you can trust me to stay focused"). The greater good

And that's exactly why he will tbh

[wolfwarrior142]

My guy don't describe the random lost scientist guy that way to Rayla of all people. That literally just describes Callum.

[mikodrawnnarratives]

Dragon!Maggie/Princess Evie and Prince Max my beloved

the concept has my heart, has no backing in canon, and i don't care

He's her treasure hiss go away insert cat growling noises

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

the taste of your lips is my idea of luxury

On the night of Callum’s eighteenth birthday, the first one he's had with Rayla, she has some birthday kisses to make up for (sixty-six, to be exact).

Surprise! I didn't know this was gonna happen lol, it just did. Only a LITTLE bit late, like an hour past midnight, so... happy late birthday, Callum? It's fine, you get to make out with Rayla. Enjoy!

Rayla pressed her back against the door as she closed it, smiling at Callum now that they were finally alone. “Well. Happy eighteenth, Mister Mage. All grown up.”

“Yeah, now us being together isn't considered pedophilia,” Callum laughed, pulling her into him by the waist and kissing her sound. He was only partly joking about that; other human nobles still biased against Xadia raised a fuss about anything they could, and the fact that Rayla was eighteen and Callum only seventeen had been a prime weapon, going so far as to claim she was preying on him. (And if their pillows were always warm and socks always soggy, then, well, Callum and his Aunt Janai knew absolutely nothing about that)

Rayla gladly reciprocated, holding his upper arms as she melted into him. A beat later, just as Callum was about to dare to slip his tongue into her mouth, she whispered, “Hold on. Go to the bed.”

Flushing bright red at the words, at what was left unsaid, Callum brought a giggling Rayla with him by both her hips and lips, stumbling over his own feet in his excitement to plop them down on the bed.

Rayla grinned, gripping his forearm and leaning in close. “Calm down! I haven't even told you what your present is.”

She'd been elusive about it all night, tossing him overexaggerated winks, blowing kisses he always caught and returned, dipping her gaze into a wine glass as she smirked. “Tell me?” he whined.

Rayla settled herself between his legs, pushing his hair back as he looked down at her adoringly. She was his whole world, and now that she was sure of it, she could use it to get anything she wanted out of him.

She was merciful now, though, granting him a press of her lips to his forehead even as her eyes went half-lidded and sparkly. “Well, I have birthday kisses to make up for…”

Rayla ghosted her lips over his cheek, marking a trail from just below his ear to his jaw, nose tracing his jawline as Callum gasped and clutched at her waist. It wasn't like this was new; they'd had sex before, after all, but every moment with Rayla, intimate or not, sent him spiraling back to a fumbly fourteen-year-old, awestruck and enamored and caught up in wanting to do everything right by her because she was everything.

So of course Callum gulped even as the prospect admittedly thrilled him. Kisses were kisses, and kisses reigned supreme. Especially Rayla kisses.

He knew, of course, that she was teasing him about the “making up for” bit, but the way she said it wasn't exactly spectacular.

So Callum gripped her wrist as it drifted to cup his face, making eye contact with her startled, hazy ones. “Rayla, you don't owe me anything. Especially- especially not kisses, or anything like that. I- I just really love you, and you don't have to kiss me for me to know, and-”

Rayla sighed, pulling closer to his lap. Her eyes dropped to his lips, likely thinking of shutting him up that way, but restrained herself to tell him, “Callum, I love you, too. And I want to kiss you. Really bad. Okay? I wouldn't do something like that just because I thought I owed you.”

Callum let himself nod, knowing there were boundaries Rayla had set for herself that she'd never cross, no matter how frustrated with herself or how self-destructive she was. “Okay.”

“Do you believe me?” Rayla asked gently, cupping his face in her palm this time and finally, finally shifting onto his lap.

Despite the fog quickly swarming his consciousness, rational thought, Callum smiled through it and squeezed her thighs. “I believe you. And love you and trust you.”

Rayla's fingers splayed across his face, his ears between her index and middle finger, pushing him back against the headboard. “Good. Now, let’s see… Fifteen plus sixteen plus seventeen plus eighteen… What's that? Like, seventy?”

Callum ran the numbers through his head even as his mouth got dry. “Sixty-six.”

Sixty-six Rayla kisses. By the gods, he was going to explode.

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[anywaysstreamfancybytwice]

Bet you my bank account Nyx is gonna get those two back together. She’s here to cause chaos look hot and be a couples therapist  WERE WINNING  GUYS NYX IS BACK.

[oorangesoda]

Lazy sketches of Shane n Cal to get a better feel for their dynamic :)

These are def low effort just cause I wanna have fun with it yknow :3c

[kradogsrats]

Thoughts on Callum?

Still moving the plot forward pretty reliably in s4 and s5.

Also even though he's faster at drawing runes after two years of practice (as in it's noticeably harder to get screenshots of them in s4/s5 than s1-s3), he still can't out-draw Finnegrin with fulminis which I think is a pretty significant flaw for a "hit someone with lighting" spell. But that's really a thought about fulminis.

[the-acid-pear]

That post haunts me bc i had the hound himself correct me in a very crucial detail i somehow forgot (big shame for the cites source material like academic books guy i am) but now that im coming back to it i do wonder how much different Henry and Callum respectively would be if one DIDNT go to war and the other Did. After all war was pretty much the turning point for Henry but what would have he done if he didnt do That? And what about Callum, could war change HIM so drastically for the worse?

[rexxmako]

i'm gonna be fr, red one was pretty fun lol. there's a lot to say about it but i'll just put my additional thoughts in the tags. look it wasn't bad but not great either. a lot of the scenes felt dry and the jokes didn't land well, but i liked it, especially with the aesthetics.

altho thanks to gryla i now have "IS IT A CHARCOAL GRYLA OR A PROPANE GRYLA" in my head lmao. (yes and also i think there's gonna be a gorilla)

[jessread-s]

✩💌🥟Review:

There are not enough stars for how amazing this novella is!

“The Exception to the Rule” follows T and C, two strangers who, after an accidental email, make it a friendly annual tradition to wish each other a happy Valentine’s Day—with rules: no pics, no real names, nothing too personal. As the years pass, it becomes harder and harder to abide by the rules for their email “dates” and they begin to question what would happen if they actually met.

This story gave me all the warm, fuzzy feelings! The first half or so consists of email exchanges between T and C and the fun formatting only heightened my excitement as I watched their relationship develop. Though years pass before they decide to act on their feelings for each other, the passage of time felt so natural and the pacing was deliciously slow. With each chapter, T and C share more and more about each other and because it is dual pov, the reader gets to see how their feelings for each other grow from both of their perspectives. This is one of those novellas that I wish was a full-length novel because of how much I adored T and C’s chemistry, but all in all, the epilogue left me feeling satisfied! 

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[raayllum]

me being prepared to trade "the cube was given to help humans develop dark magic" theory in for CHET (aka that aaravos wants/needs the cube back) like

we'll always have 5x08 lil buddy

[tategaminu]

When Callum says "I would do anything for you" but after episode 8 there's also two seasons left

[wolfwarrior142]

Rayla going off against the literal queen of a whole society of elves and then having a stern glaring match with her afterward will never not be hilarious to me. The fact that Janai is very clearly having to use all her willpower to not fire back at Rayla and instead heave the biggest sigh known to Xadia before joining the glaring match makes it even funnier. The cherry on top is how shook everyone looks to see Rayla, just a Ghosted Moonshadow, go off on the Sunfire Queen like that. Hilarious. Even Callum is shook and he knows Rayla better than anyone.

Never change, Rayla and Janai. Yall are stubborn as shit and I love it so much.

[mastersoftheair]

Hello! I just watched a video on YouTube and heard some brief news about Masters of the Air. One of the two men watched one episode (as far as I know, some people can watch four episodes in advance on a separate site offered by Apple). According to that person, he said Callum Turner’s character definitely leads the show! If you’re interested in that video, check out this link: https://www.youtube.com/live/irW9drTiwxc?si=rbJG6zYgMFPx393Y

(relevant info starts at 54:46, for anyone interested)

thanks for the link! i did have to laugh at the guy Emphatically shaking his head "No", austin butler Isn't the lead, necessarily.

basically, in the video, the guy who watched the first episode says, "butler's, like, the number two but i would still…put callum turner as the lead", and earlier says "i think it's pretty clear watching the show, callum turner is the lead". which still makes sense imo, given egan and cleven were both leaders and were best friends. also, i did speculate that having someone like austin butler in the cast would be a boon for the MotA promos

this could end up being a winters and nixon situation, but with the winters spotlight on egan...maybe? whatever the case, the guy saying these things Did say he only watched one episode, so.