#cottons thoughts

[cottonspotten]

hold on i wanna note down my HtN theories before i finish this book. im on chapter 20

“ortus” the firsts name is surely actually “gideon” - the one cytherea mentioned at the end of GtN and presumably from the letter as well. this explains harrows ear-bleeding & subsequent reaction to hearing his name the first time + is basically confirmed to me by mercy going “who?” when harrow called him ‘ortus’ . i imagine gideon nav will make her return eventually, tho gideon the first is defo a different person, but i suspect there will be a more significant connection beyond name drawn btwn them at some point. i mean we already know nav has some weird shit going on with her anyways based on her Not Dying when she was a child

i originally thought harrow had just sliced gideon out of her memories perhaps thru spirit or flesh necromancy (hence her owing ianthe) but it seems more complicated than that, given that she cant hear the name of a DIFFERENT gideon at present either (this does fit in with the books’ theme of names/their significance. id be curious to know her reaction to “griddle”). the removal of meeting camilla from her memory is also curious, havent gotten to the bottom of that yet, and also the apparent change in the order of deaths/events at canaan house. i havent actually seen the seventh house yet in harrows memories, so its possible their presence is fundamentally different & and the second house took their place as the first cavalier death (<- my memory is failing me but im PRETTY sure pro was first and not magnus/abigail in GtN?) . perhaps the removal/change of the seventh house (especially dulcinea) as well as camilla is due to how they are intertwined with harrows memories of gideon

i dont really know what to make of the body yet

ok thats all i think. really good book im having a great time. big fan of all the cracks and holes in harrows memories due to cutting out someone so significant to her life & person. ortus saying hes glad he wasnt actually her cavalier. harrow remembering that her parents just “”found out”” about her entering the locked tomb. i love you harrowhark

[myrkulitescourge]

the way that one line from the new epilogue in an astarion romance is going to HAUNT me

just. what a profoundly intense thing to confess to someone.

like, just these six months of newfound happiness with you exerts a force on his heart equal and in direct opposition to two centuries of endless torment, the gnawing hunger and exploitation. this flashbulb-bright fraction of his long life holds the same gravity to him as years upon years of darkness and suffering.

in all likelihood, he hasn’t even known his lover for as long as his worst memory lasted, that year sealed away to go mad from starvation and sensory deprivation, yet he still tells them this brief time has been so fundamentally and powerfully important that the weight of even that unimaginable hell is vanishingly small compared to this present he has now and the future ahead of them both.

how am i supposed to act normal about this.

[tehcherrya]

Somebody give me the rights to the LOTR cinematic productions so I can create a coming of age dramedy taking place during the seventeen years between Bilbo's 111th birthday party and Frodo leaving the Shire. I'd call it "The Shire Seventeen". It would not only include the Conspiracy as a backdrop but also a bunch of the development and growing up that was probably done within those seventeen years, that is entirely unrelated to the Ring.

It's a whole seventeen years worth of low-stakes hobbit Shire drama and shenanigans, guys-- I need that cozy comedy content.

[cupid-tune]

Late night stroll!

[nemurenaivoron]

Eiland doodle that I ended up spending too much time on

[candz13z]

I bring to thee : aliens and ice cream

Imagine: an alien walking in on their human coworker watching another Human Show™, holding a tub of ice cream and a comically large spoon. Ofcourse they have to ask what the substance was, eventhough they already know the answer is almost definitely not worth it. Any answer a human gives either invokes a feeling of horror, awe or, more mercifully but frustrating, confusion. Maybe even some fear, but maybe its the way all aliens know to brace themselves that takes the edge off.

They call it 'ice cream' and this one is 'neopolitan' flavored apparently. They have different flavors? They offer them some of the pink part of it, and before they even put it in their version of a mouth, the coldness of the spoon alone makes them drop it. The human seems a little annoyed at the dropped spoon but to the aliens horror, they pull out another- larger spoon and they continue eating

Alien : Why is it so cold? It's food isn't it? It's meant to be eaten. How are you eating it??

Human, shoveling some of the brown part down their throat : Well. it's basically crushed flavored milky ice. Its a desert we like to eat. And well. I. Eat it with. A spoon?"

Alien :

Alien : BUT ITS ICE. HOW ARE YOU EATING ICE? YOUR BODY TEMPERATURE IS MUCH HIGHER, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO- WHY WOULD... Why

Human : uhh well its not all ice technically. But yea I guess we eat straight up ice sometimes too. Its not all good though. Sometimes if we eat too much, we get this thing called brain freeze

Brain freeze. It can freeze their brain. And they still eat it. It's a desert. This is normal for them. They can eat ice too. Because of fucking course they can.

Human : Anywho. Want to try some of the chocolate part? its my favorite

Chocolate. Poisonous chocolate. Their favorite.

The alien gets up, walks out and shuts the door behind them before they could do something reasonable like their equivalent of a scream.

[nadinescholtes]

I had a thought: What if there is a virus that causes animatronics period pain? There are no organs that cause it, there is just the pain.

[heavenpureheart]

[homunculuslover]

A timed exclusive, now released. Tickles between two silly goobers~

T loves the tease as well as tickle~ He loves playing games.~

[cottonspotten]

*person has consented to being eaten; they’ve donated their body. they died without suffering. you can cook the meat. you will not get sick from the meat.

bonus: explain why!

[fluentisonus]

working in a factory has you thinking so much about the insane chain of labor & transport that goes into making literally anything

[scissorbby]

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

Sapphic Disco Week, Day 6: "But What If It Was Yuri?"

Lena and Mireille, lesbians in their 70s exploring the vanishingly rare marvels of the world together, excuse me im cri

[front-facing-pokemon]

[starrymothwings]

heheh. draggin my ball--*falls 28 stories to my death*

(never watched past the android arc so i'm going through all of dbz now and it reignited the massive crush ive had on raditz since i was a kid. also ft. my dbz and xenoverse ocs calico cotton (human in the overalls) and sela)

[doverstar]

was today years old when discovering that the eleventh doctor wears leather trousers. his trousers are made of black leather. Black leather with the ends rolled up and I. have no idea what to think-