#don’t fuck with chess

[camarilla-arts]

Thinking about Sandra Lynne and Sklonda friendship. Sandra had to catch the Kalina-plague from somewhere. 👀

[visenyaism]

genuinely so awesome and interesting how alicent’s politics are motivated by the rigidity of her worldview and the amount she really really truly believes in the rightness of the oppressive social order she is trapped in + the faith of the seven. and then her dad Otto, the de facto leader of the whole team green political faction, just does not believe in any of that shit at all except that it’s good optics. literally no real principles except acquiring and consolidating power.

[pjharvey-moved]

if tumblr existed in 1984 (the year not the universe of the novel by the same name) you guys would genuinely be telling people not to vote bc walter mondale would be Just As Bad as ronald reagan. you guys would be saying that being anti ronald reagan instead of anti the whole system is liberal nonsense

[magicandmundane]

Tarkin, over holo: Emperor Palpatine, Mount Tantiss has been destroyed in an attack orchestrated by a rogue squad of defective clones. Dr. Hemlock perished in the fighting.

Palpatine, signing off on another shitty law: Sucks. *shotguns his glass of wine*

[bitethedevil]

feeling an increasing urge to write a Raph’zel fic

[why-the-heck-not]

somebody tell my social anxiety that playing chess against real life ppl online is not a social interaction

[adnrewminyard]

hi team does anyone have any aftg inspired tattoo ideas that are not a quote or a fox paw ?? pls let me know <3 kind regards, adnrewminyard

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

@hilda-appreciation-week Day 7 - Favourite AU(s)

The Goldenverse

This one isn’t officially “launched” yet, I suppose even the name is subject to changing, but it has been slowly but surely brewing in dark and mysterious corners (mine and @blaithnne ‘s discord chat). Wish I could have done something more serious and elaborate bc the girls deserve it, but honestly this idea struck me and I just had to see it to the end 😅

Uncoloured version under the cut!

[spiderin-space]

I have a lot of ideas about the Relic Gods

(feel free to ask me about them, something to doodle on my flights)

[loveoaths]

i can’t believe i’m saying this, but if i were to start another Star Wars fanfic, it would probably be maul/padme/thrawn and i just don’t know how to cope with that???

[dykeogenes]

that post got me mad about irene adler again. baby the thesis of a scandal in bohemia was “underestimating women will make a fool out of you.” we simply cannot keep doing this. cmon now!! cmon!

[mazojo]

Jared won HOH

[callixton]

god fucking SLAY nobody’s side

[padfootastic]

The only way I can even accept the betrayal of the Potters being universally regarded as so horrible in the Wizarding World is because it almost let Voldemort win. I’m guessing that somehow people knew the attack on the Potters was instrumental in the war, in terms of Voldemort’s plans, because otherwise it makes no real sense about why this particular attack is seen as so awful (everyone knows the story and regards it as one of the worst events of the First War, but like, entire families got wiped out in the war but we only really hear of it by Moody showing Harry the Order photo and telling him their tragic fates and possibly Molly talking about her brothers. Neville’s parents were tortured to death, we’re told this caused an uproar, yet we hear jack about it for years?). I can buy the public thinking Sirius was a spy after the Potters attack (people who knew Sirius should have asked questions though, since they knew how much Sirius loved James and guess what else? There’s nobody who could 100% say Sirius was the Secret Keeper; while everyone believed he was, there was no actual confirmation anyone could provide since he very much was not the SK), but the whole “right hand” thing makes no sense. Where’d they get “he was second in command” from “he betrayed two people and worked for Voldemort, killing 12 muggles and an old friend with one spell”? Who even makes a spy second in command? Why did nobody interrogate Voldemort’s supposed right hand for information on the Death Eaters, since it took a while to find the remaining members and they still missed some, and Voldemort’s alleged second would surely have that information?

tbh even that assumption is just—so far fetched? because i’m sure secrecy was at an all time high, everyone was paranoid and afraid, i’m sure no one knew anything. like, i feel like the potter’s attack was given the significance that it was purely because of its ultimate consequences ykno? like if harry wasn’t the boy who lived, no one would care so much. there’s also this element of extremely poor plot planning too imo, similar to the whole mother’s love protection thing because,,,there must’ve been countless mothers/parents who sacrificed themselves and yet it was just the potters that reaped some mystical benefits of it? bull. same with the betrayal of the potters being considered as terrible as it was in the middle of war. jkr just,,,wanted some shit done and didn’t care how much she had to manoeuver other things around to shove it in and so u have stuff like this.

and god, it’s just a constant problem for me that sirius was never interrogated? honestly, i know it was needed for plot purposes, but sirius is really one of the biggest reasons why i think dumbledore is much darker/manipulative than most people think of him. while i wouldn’t say he got sirius thrown in azkaban, i will say he probably turned a blind eye on purpose bc it just served his needs so well. otherwise, if that’s not the case and he really just neglected to perform his duties as a war leader by not interrogating a suspected spy—then he just comes off even worse ykno?

[fizzytoo]

im convinced this is patchy's fault

[swiftcola]

i have this image in mind of leo presiding over a chessboard, the pieces all people in his game. vito, the pawn, his low status makes him easily movable, used as a first line of defence, he’s the most disposable. pepe, the tower, his protection. falcone, the bishop, not as important as the king or queen but powerful and influential in his own right. frank, the queen, he moves about the ranks with great power, but his loss will not result in total defeat. and finally the king, leo himself, locked behind his towers and knights and pawns—only when he falls is the game truly over