#diversifies

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You keep telling yourself that Namari.

[castielsprostate]

breaking the sign in two by how hard im tapping it

[ricky-mortis]

They’re the only thing keeping me sane right now

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

being nonbinary in a world that refuses to acknowledge more than 2 genders is weird bc like. i've literally found myself thinking "what if i go on hormones so my parents misgender me but in a different way"

[starcurtain]

The existence of Ratio's vertical pupils indicate that his species evolved as potentially apex ambush predators, while Aventurine's more diamond-shaped pupils suggest Avgins occupied a middle rung of the Sigonian food chain, with divided need to both track prey and maintain wide-angle vision to identify predatory threats. In this essay, I will--

[foxylovey]

Various jrwi sketches in my fun alternative style to warm up

[smokinghorse]

To another coming year of Jean in 2025! I hope next year is good to all of us.

[lady-a-stuff]

Me: trying to read more and different books and authors

My brain suddenly: what if we reread six of crows?

[brightlotusmoon]

https://mobile.twitter.com/lynnepeskoeyang/status/1616446182104137731?s=46&t=TIUFvp8ALbcwmcK7hJV0Yg

[pa-rou]

tripped

[vvickydisc]

do you have more human ribbun? 👉👈

not on hand but ill make something! + you reminded me of a old vine

[bookaddict24-7]

AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Helen Oyeyemi﹒

Eight Books Written By this Author:

Boy, Snow, Bird

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Gingerbread

White is for Witching

Mr. Fox

The Icarus Girl

Peaces

The Opposite House

___

Happy reading!

[getosugurusbangs]

guys it’s 3am and i decided to spend my time impulsively making these instead of getting anything meaningful done or going to bed. here you go.

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[idontmindifuforgetme]

Finally signing up for piano lessons after a solid two years of talking ab doing it one day really is SO surreal . Neurosurgeon by day pianist by night this is the plan for me

[thebrainrotsreal]

The mf who will never own the packers! I love his messy ponytail sm, he deserves it in ghost form too. I think in human form, it still moves a bit more animatedly than normal, and in ghostly form it straight up moves like it's underwater or a slow-mo fire crackling.

[essektheylyss]

Because I'm going to be thinking about this forever, I do want to talk about how Caleb speaks, because I think there's something to be said for how his protectiveness (in general) actually presents itself.

Caleb uses epithets and allusions a lot. He refers to Nott as "my goblin friend," to Jester as "my blue friend," to Yasha as "my barbarian friend." Yussa is at one point "our wizard friend," and Essek is "my Kryn friend," in the two-shot.

He is also, notably, paranoid about being surveiled. He wears the amulet of nondetection for most of the campaign, and it's not unwarranted, given that Trent locates him and nearly burns down the Blooming Grove the moment he's able to get a lock on them. Trent in fact has been shown to use any and all information he can get ahold of about or from Caleb against him, to a truly extreme level. His seemingly single-minded goal is expressed to be to ensure that not a single aspect of Caleb's life and loved ones is safe at any moment, to perpetuate the threat of harm from any direction in order to essentially control and monopolize Caleb's every thought.

In Echoes of the Solstice, Caleb does suggest that he is not concerned with Trent being able to surveil him any longer, but Trent is not the only threat, and, timey-wimey plot nonsense aside, the Hells' inability to scry on him since then suggests that he is likely wearing an amulet at least by that point in the timeline.

The extent of Trent's focus on him and his ensuing paranoia is extreme, and even beyond when he may no longer feel that Trent is a threat to him, he seems unwilling to allow him to pose a threat to others, and people he cares about in particular.

Within that context, it's not difficult to read his use of epithets, particularly in referring to people who are not currently present (rather than using their name aloud), as a form of protection. Some of his manner of speaking implicitly or explicitly presumes that he is being surveiled, even outside of the context of protectiveness; after Vess Derogna's death, he frequently refers to Lucian only by epithets, most often, "our old friend," and at one point establishes "Lady D," (to Jester's glee) as a code name for Vess Derogna for the specific purposes of countersurveilance.

This method of protection, I would imagine, goes double for Essek; not only does Caleb have the habit of worrying over those who would use his loved ones against him, which is of course borne out in Echoes of the Solstice, but he also must consider that Essek has his own enemies, and a stray mention of his name in the wrong company or setting could get his partner killed. It seems even in that gifset, when Caleb says, "I am worried for Essek," after the encounter with Trent at Vergessen, that he first considers obfuscating, stumbling over allusory phrasing before acknowledging that Trent already has the information he needs, and at that point Trent is their only real concern about who might care, given Lucien is far too focused on reaching the Astral Sea to worry about hostages.

When Caleb answers Jester's, "And he's going to hurt Essek," with a silence and an oblique reply, it feels most to me like a further measure of protection, knowing that knowledge is power that can be used against him and his loved ones, and silence is the weapon he has against it.