#her name is spoon

[cracklewink]

gif of my friend's cat

[thestalkerbunny]

This week has been dedicated to exploring the designs of Goblins, and their cultural fashion which I described as 'I live my dream of using every pattern at the Joann's fabrics in my outfit'.

This one was rooted in my brain going 'I wanna draw a Goblin with a hearing aid' and now I have a goblin who is named Spoon.

[emcapi-gaming]

Roevember: Name

Baderon: "So what do they call y─ Nay, don't tell me. 'Tis on the tip o' me tongue... 'Tis...'tis...'tis bloody gone is what it is. Bollocks."

???: "...You know what's real funny? I... just realized I don't remember either."

Baderon: "They say this forgetfulness is some lingerin' effect o' the Calamity. I say it's a Leviathan-sized pain in the arse. Mind, yours seems especially bad. I've seen plenty o' folks what can't remember other names, but not rememberin' yer own? Hmm. What's the last thing ye can remember?"

???: "I... had a strange dream. Then I woke up on the ship, just as we were pulling into port. But before that, it's... fuck, there's nothing."

Baderon: "Well! That's mighty strange. No good frettin' about it too much, though, I reckon. Either it'll come back to ye in time, or it won't. Could be the Calamity. Could be as simple as ye took a bad knock to the noggin - ye look like a fightin' sort to me. Trouble is, though, I can't get ye properly registered with the guild without some sort o' name."

???: "I swear, it's right there, I just can't quite... I think... Ar... Ar-something?"

Baderon: "Take yer time, lass."

Ar???: "Think there's a D in there somewhere. ...Snrk. Ahem. Ard...? I think maybe... Ard...win? Yeah. Yeah, I think that sounds right."

Baderon: "A-r-d-w-y-n?"

Ardwyn?: "No, with an I, like wind. Or winner. I'm pretty sure. My first name."

Baderon: "Good a name as any, I reckon. Fits ye pretty well. Care to venture a guess at a family name?"

Ardwin: "Oh, gods, no, I've got a splitting headache already from trying to dredge up that much."

Baderon: "Hah, fair enough. Just Ardwin it is, then."

[echoes-in-echoclan]

Please show us Lola. You can't just mention Lola and not Lola post!

Your wish Is my command <3

[crescentmp3]

kill your feelings, eleanor

[image desc: digital art of op's original character, eleanor lloyd. she has a grim look of hesitation on her face, a dagger in her hand as she holds in her hand a heart—her own heart, light growing inside it to paint it red and pink with love as the darkness in it melts off. she grips the dagger tightly, peering intently at her heart. the drawing has dramatic lighting for effect, and she seems to be in her own room. there is a barely visible corkboard at the back that has the face of the earl crossed out. // end id]

[patheticbatman]

Welcome to my 55th* Win A Commission Contest! Guess the Norwegian fairy tale this story is based upon, win a drawing, ficlet or recording! Hint: in the original story, In the original story, the MC fights a bunch of troll witches to get her sister’s head back. In my version, she helps her cousin escape an ice cavern, courageously spelunking in a Antarctican glacier

Day 1 • Day 2

*And second to last!

[aithusarosekiller]

Nina: Well, here we are at last.

Maggie: Yes, haha, first proper date! I can't even tell you how excited I am. I mean, this place is lov-

Nina: Do you feel like we're being watched?

Maggie: No...I think you're just being paranoid...look, let's order some drinks and settle down!

Nina: Yeah, you're probably right, sorry.

Crowley, chaperoning from outside the restaurant:

[stevethehairington]

eddie 100% buys those like logs of raw cookie dough and then walks around the house eating it like a burrito

[binah-beloved]

Binah calling you pet names. her favorites are the classic "my dear" and "my love", and when she's feeling particularly affectionate, "my star"

[ultramarine-spirit]

Why Athy's coronation is a bigger deal than it seems

Or me overthinking WMMAP's worldbuilding

The narrative of Athy's coronation is so interesting to me. Perhaps it wasn't completely intended by Spoon, but its implications for the world of WMMAP are more than impressive.

What got me thinking about this is that, in real life, the heir to the throne is not "crowned" as crown prince, they are the person expected to succeed since birth. That would be Athy as Claude's only child, so why would she need a coronation? Apart from securing the position that people have been trying to steal from her since she was born. Well, if we look at how royal succession works in real life, until the 20th century crown princesses weren't considered heirs. Being the rulers of their nation by their own right was just not allowed.

They were more often than not the spouse of a crown prince, but even crown princesses by birth wouldn't inherit the throne in a male dominated succession. Which seems to be exactly Obelia's case, despite how its first ruler was a queen, Queen Ambrose, as stated in the novel by Athy. Some interesting events must have happened between Obelia's foundation and the present day for that to change.

We see some subtle signs of this in the manhwa. All the royal portraits only depict male rulers, and Athy mentions how immortal names were only granted by the emperor to his heir, the empress' son, that's why Claude received such a name (meaning "limping"). We aren't told that giving immortal names to the emperor's daughter was outright forbidden, but it's certainly unusual, as -apart from Ambrose- Athy is the only member of Obelia's royal family that we know has a name evocative of immortality. The named emperors, Anastasius, Aevum, Aeternitas, Caelum, were all males.

This makes Diana naming her daughter "Athanasia" incredibly daring. She wasn't the emperor, who has the right to choose an heir, she wasn't even Claude's wife, and yet Diana was the one who gave Athy her name.

So, following Obelia's succession and history, it looks like Athy was never expected to actually rule the empire or exert authority. Sure, she would be the empress, but she wouldn't be looked as an equal to her male predecessors. In the novel, both local and foreign nobles were very invested in who Athy was going to marry, saying that she needed to have a strong and capable husband, like Arlanta's prince Dice, since as a princess she was delicate and weak. Others (Roger) argued that she must marry an obelian nobleman, to maintain the power within the country. This was followed by a hilarious scene of Athy breaking the cutlery and shutting their mouths.

This kind of worldbuilding also explains why Roger was so focused on Ijekiel marrying Jennette, he wanted him or their future son to be emperor. As we see in the novel's LP side story, they never wanted Jennette to seize the throne, and she never got a coronation or the title of heir. The same could be said for the manhwa, Anastasius and Aeternitas wanted to use her as a puppet, not make her an empress, and in that way legitimize their accession to the throne.

Athy actually being considered the heir to the throne by her own merits and later crowned as such is pretty extraordinary for a world like Obelia's. Other series have coronation ceremonies for princes and princesses, so maybe Spoon thought it was a real thing, but both analyzed from a real life point of view and from within the narrative, it's an amazing achievement. Claude is obviously not someone that cares for Obelia's traditions, the nobles rescenting him for his origins, so it's even possible that the ceremony was the first of its kind.

Since Athy is Claude's only child, the reader would expect her to be the next ruler by default, but Obelia doesn't seem like a particularly equal society when it comes to both class and gender. This is even more apparent with the misogynistic treatment she received in the novel, or how a noble tried to belittle her in the manhwa. Even more polite nobles mentioned they thought of Athy as little more than "a cute little princess" before she became the emperor's proxy. So it was natural that, with Anastasius suddenly coming back to life, a good portion of the traditional noble faction would back him, despite being an overthrown tyrant.

In summary, Athy being crowned as heir is an extraordinary accomplishment in itself, breaking Obelia's tradition of perhaps centuries. I would dare to say, maybe an unprecedented event since Queen Ambrose's rule. And as the final chapter states, she would become an empress adored by the people and who would live on in history.

[laurensinclairsfleabagera]

post the games au where franmaya are married and have three cats together.

the first cat they get, named spork by maya, is a ginger tabby cat that they found in behind the backalley of their house. He is an absolute menace, has nearly died at least 3 times, has ate shopping receipts while franziska is distracted by putting away the shopping and they don’t know his age.

secondly, also named by maya, is fork. she is a white persian cat she bought to give franny on their 2nd wedding anniversary despite franziska trying (and failing miserably at it) to pretend she hates cats, especially when she gives a genuine little smile at spork sitting on her lap.

How did they obtain spoon, youre asking? let me tell you! it’s nearing mayas birthday she’s “subtly” hinting at wanting another cat, a maine coon cat more specifically, but nobody can lie to franziska especially when she’s saw maya’s texts to phoenix about wanting to get a maine coon kitten despite them being longer than long furbies. so she obliges to her wife’s foolish wishes, obtains the black main coon kitty while maya is in kurain for business and maya genuinely gives the most sappy hug one can give their wife it’s adorable!!

[dovesick]

zoom zoom

some ocs i’ve had since i was 14

[ask-diamondtiara]

What are your thoughts on your mother

She's amazing!

At being the WORST mother in Ponyville! A mythic bitch as well, don't tell nopony but me and Silver Spoon love to shit talk her at our private sleepovers! We hope she falls into a hole and never gets out! Haha

Totally gonna have to delete later cause she might see this 🙄

[nadiajustbe]

In some 80's AU where there is no magic and no spells, instead of curing rheumatism and giving fields just because the woman he likes wanted to, Howell would remember the smallest details, like Sophie's favorite color on exceptionally dark rainy days, which she mentioned once in the middle of an argument, throwing them out completely randomly as if they were the most common information in the world

Michael: How do you know that?

Howl, shrugging his shoulders: She mentioned it.

[red-moon-at-night]

I keep thinking about yonah meaning dove in hebrew and the idea of kotoko viewing herself as a symbol of peace and salvation....... I'm so *crosses one leg over the other and leans on the table with my elbows, cupping my chin with my hands and batting my eyelashes* it's just so intriguing y’know

[radicalhighway]

the face of an itty bitty baby kitty who likes whipped cream