#divinity as a burden

[ninja-go-to-therapy]

When the ship got they were best friends and maybe more but then one of them had an evil arc after dying and being brought back, being puppeted by a darker being and trying to kill their old friend/lover

When the ship dynamic is mischievous bottom bitch and the immortal that they’d die a thousand times over for. When they’d kneel at their feet and worship them like a deity and just be grateful to bask in their light. Until things change and it’s not so much a love story as a cautionary tale.

But then they heal. And they start to reconnect. And before you know it they’re in love again.

Anyways,

[uncanny-tranny]

You lose the plot when discussing and fighting for minorities when you buy into the specific brand of (specifically christianity) "suffering is Divine, and the more you Suffer, the More Divine you are."

Suffering is suffering is suffering - when you choose to ignore a marginalized group's suffering because they are not suffering enough or are not "good victims," you have lost the plot.

[widowshill]

DARK SHADOWS AND THE TELEVISION CODE, part two.

[myobsession]

"Franca gazed at the lobotomized Psychiatrist for a few seconds before sighing.

“Sometimes, we’re still too naive. We might even think of ourselves as the protagonist.”

Lumian knew that “we” referred to the members of the Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society."

I feel like this is the main reason I really love the fact that Lumian is our protagonist in the second series. Every epoch was almost completely dominated by a trasmigrator and our last series revolved entirely around the thoughts and feelings of a lonely transmigrator. But in the second series, our main protagonist is a true native of the era.

He is someone who finds themselves deeply entrenched in the midst of secrets, gods, and transmigrators without having the background that any of these people have. He did change after meeting his transmigrated sister, but he grew up with the same morals and viewpoints as his fellow natives. He believes in the gods and is in awe of their powers and might. He is someone who can hold back his curiosity in matters because he grew up in an environment where knowing too much will literally kill/corrupt you. He thinks transmigrators are a bit silly and naive but also powerful and full of unheard knowledge. He's a normal guy of his era that got caught in a shitty situation but grits his teeth to keep moving forward. He is a boy who has been stomped down by fate numerous times but still retains the light of hope in his heart. And I think that was something really needed in this series.

Excerpt From

Lord of the Mysteries: Circle of Inevitability, Volume 3: Conspirer, Chapter 409

Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼)

[herines-harasaeon]

do not go north

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@tbos-main

[blue-boulder]

country sex playlist called “songs to save a horse to”

[aengelren]

Singlehandedly the best Eren frame in s4

[astarion-ravengard]

ifan/fane ship name could be ifane and that's why they should be a thing.

[poligraf]

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with the most invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

— Seneca the Younger

[abigailspinach]

Penric's Fox

“She looked him over. “My, my, my.”

Three mys tonight, goodness. He usually rated only two. He wondered what he’d have to do to win four.

“My apologies, Archdivine, for waking you at this hour. It’s been a long day.”

“At my age, I’m never asleep at this hour.”

She made a dismissive gesture, charitably fending his apology.

Her secretary settled her in a cushioned chair, and her wave directed Pen to another. Fine blue-and-white silk stripes. He stared at it in dismay, considered his reek, and then settled himself cross-legged on the floor at her feet, instead. Her gray brows rose ironically as she looked down at him. “So, how was your day in the country this time?”

He was grateful for the practice he’d had recounting it already. He didn’t have to think as much. She pressed her fingers to her lips a few times, but did not interrupt him apart from a few shrewd, uncomfortably clarifying questions.

“I thought… I thought I might receive some spiritual guidance from Learned Hamo, as we both share the burden and gift of a demon, but it turned out to be more the other way around,” sighed Pen. “Though I don’t think he’s going to bolt off in the night to try to commit murder on Learned Magal’s behalf.”

“Was that a risk?” “Mm… not now.”

Her lips twitched. “Then your counsel must have been good enough.” He turned his hands out, smiling ruefully. He really wanted to lie across her silk-slippered feet like a tired dog.

“But who will counsel me?” “Your own Temple superior, of course. That’s her job.” “Ah.”

His head tipped over, and he found himself resting it upon her knee. Her beringed hand petted his hair. Dog indeed. “Anyone who wishes to question my court sorcerer on his actions today must go through me,” she stated. And good luck to them stood implied, he thought. Heartening, but… “So much for the realm, and the law. But what about my god? And my demon. My soul stands more naked in that court. Violence, it appears, grows easier with practice. Or so Halber demonstrates. I’ve seen it in the ruined mercenary soldiers come back to the cantons, too, sometimes. The pitfall of their trade. I don’t want it to become the pitfall of mine. And… and I see how it could. So very, very easily. Hamo was almost ready to slip tonight, and he’s had decades more experience than me.”

“And thus you seek my counsel?”

“Aye. Archdivine.”

Her slow strokes turned into more perfunctory pats, as she sat up and took thought, and then breath. “So. My counsel to you tonight—as your Temple superior, my oh-so-learned divine and demon-burdened boy—is to go downstairs to the guesthouse bathing chamber, wake the attendant, get a bath—wash your hair”—her fingers paused to rub together in mild revulsion—“ get something to eat, and go to bed.”

She added after a moment, “Desdemona shall like that, too.” Pen glowered at her slippers.

“That’s not my Temple superior, that’s my mother.” “And if she were here, I have no doubt she would tell you the same thing,” she said briskly, pushing him upright off her knee despite himself.

“Shoo.”

“That’s all?”

“Clean your teeth, I suppose. Though you usually do that without being told. Your soul will keep for one night, I promise you, and your body and mind will be better tomorrow.”

He and Des snorted in unison, this time: he at Llewen, Des at him. “Agh.”

He stretched, and clambered up; he had to balance on his hands and knees before he could rise to his feet. Des had made no interrupting comment throughout this interview.

There weren’t many people his demon much respected, but Princess-Archdivine Llewen kin Stagthorne was high on that short list. It seemed the feeling was growing mutual. He commanded over his shoulder as he made for the door, “You go to sleep, too, Your Grace.” She smiled wryly at him. “Oh, I shall be able to now.”

[widowshill]

jesus christ stop staring at pics of your dead girlfriend and pay attention to her

[inundatae]

i do think it is exceedingly frustrating that we don't have a lot of information on the governance of fontaine. and in particular how much of an active role neuvillette has in it. especially in regards to the missed opportunity of what this leadership means to neuvillette.

we have this man who, while human shaped, is so far removed and isolated from humanity, placed in a position of having to rule them. especially when neuvillette at the start of his tenuredisdained humanity and likely would have been glad to see them removed from the equation or at least have nothing to do with them.

how lost in the weeds can he be focusing on merely the administrative aspects of ruling fontaine? he doesn't leave his office as we've had several instances of his own people being excited and shocked to see him and furina herself trying to push him to go out and interact with people more. then we have navia who straight up says that neuvillette has such a black and white view of the world, that he cares more about following the letter of the law than anything else. it's no wonder his lens of fontaine is through whatever crosses his desk. that he overlooks so much since this man just does not read between the lines.

but with the conclusion of his sq and fontaine aq, i have a small hope that moving forward he takes this opportunity to make fontaine better. he has people at his side who have experienced the ugly parts of fontaine and i truly hope that he sets up a system in which said people are given more power and influence to set up the change that fontaine needs, basically for neuvillete to stop being the one man gonverment that he's become and for that power to be spread a little more and for him to step away from tasks that shouldn't require his personal attention and allow him to focus on actively ruling.

quite frankly i really don't think he should remain as the chief justice as that's such a time consuming role for someone who is supposed to be ruling a nation. or at least he shouldn't be presiding over too many trials unless they're very super critical and necessary for his attention.

[meraki-yao]

...well july is off to a great start.

My whole fucking family needs therapy.

[rotisseries]

no because gethsemane is so rin coded. pleading to his god just to know if his death is worth it. he has tried these three years feels like thirty and it’s gotten so out of hand and he can’t go back he desperately wants to. nail me to your cross and break me bleed me beat me kill me take me now before I change my mind. bonus points if it’s at lugalia cause like. why then am I scared to finish what I started, what you started I didn’t start it!!!!

LITERALLYYYYYYYYY take this cup away from me!!! for I don't want to taste it's poison!!!! I'm not as sure as when we started!!! then I was inspired!!!! now I'm sad and tired!!!! listen, surely I've exceeded expectations??? could you ask as much from any other man??? but if I die!!!! see the saga through and do the things you ask of me!!! let them hate me, hit me, hurt me!!! nail me to their tree!!!!! I'd want to know!! want to see!!! why I should die!!! would I be more noticed than I ever was before??? would the things I've said and done matter anymore????? and like. the way he's doing all this bc it's what lugalia would ask of him, and he reveres her (BITCH) but he also does it for the love of his family. sacrificial lamb at the altar isaac with a knife held to his throat HE SUFFERS SO THAT THEY'LL LIVE. HE DIES SO THEY'LL ALL LIVE. HE'S THEIR SALVATION IN THE FORM OF SACRIFICE

[thedragonagelesbian]

@the-eldritch-it-gay replied to your post “@mypeggableromance replied to your post “local...”:

durge!cyrus…. Ohohohoh 👀👀👀👀👀

​inspiration seized me yesterday paoisjdfasfd i was like 'oh cyrus would make a great [read: tragic] harbinger aasimar' and then i was like 'you know who would fuck with a godling whose whole deal is blood sacrifice??? bhaal' and now. well. we're here.

and we all know cyrus' devotion to the wrong person/entity has gotten him in trouble before.

that line from the evil durge epilogue that's like 'father i love you. i'm a good boy. a good good boy' is. definitely what he was like pre-tadpole-ing/amnesia. post-tadpole-ing, he's closer to baseline paladin!cyrus: bleeding heart on his sleeve, just praying that he can spill enough of his own blood to compensate for everything else...

[sovonight]

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