#hmmm im EXCITED

[sorunort]

gonna throw Loop into a multifandom rp group later this week and thought a bit too hard about them glitching and looking like their old self again. hehehahahoh

[3142-redgrave-avenue]

Welp its over for ikemen 2007 anime dante. Goodbye. So long, your google image results. I will miss you and cherish every frame i have left before April 2025.

The time has come, my handsome devil.

[a-ramblinrose]

“A few years before, Anne Elliot had been a very pretty girl, but her bloom had vanished early; and as even in its height, her father had found little to admire in her, (so totally different were her delicate features and mild dark eyes from his own), there could be nothing in them, now that she was faded and thin, to excite his esteem. He had never indulged much hope, he had now none, of ever reading her name in any other page of his favourite work.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

[syrupyyyart]

A whole new chapter of Motley is up! Go read it right now!!!!!!!!!

[mabaris]

no youre completely right - im a gay (trans)man and i legit wanna see so much more about the women bc There Is So Little. I wanna make a lesbian oc who gets bent in half by taash. im very normal.

i’m just tired man!!!! it feels so obvious how disproportionate it is when you’ve got. a cast of characters that we know almost equally little about. and a few of them explode in popularity and it’s like spongebob sticking his hand out the curtain. literally all a character needs to do numbers is to be a light-skinned man

[mxnosferatu]

travel season is endlessly charming . many others have already said but i need to throw it out there: a genuinely fantastic show

[cutemeat]

i delusionally think deetress scraps cld happen under chernin brothers bcuz the scene got deleted but they also wrote her one canon lesbian sexual experience (trying to get off via female masseuse in franks back in business)

sorry i had to process this ask for like 12 hours before i could look at it again to post it

[neverlearnedtoread]

Spinning Silver

⭐⭐⭐⭐; the staryk king and mirnatius with the word 'wife' on the board: there's only one thing more horrible than a wife.... *rips off paper* MY wife

Oh?? 👌😉😏

women are fucking amazing and wonderful and terrifying and unequivocal badasses. especially to their husbands. it's about the fantasy of a marriage you have no control over being perfectly suited to you in ways you didn't even know it could

inhuman fae creatures that actually have a separate culture and set of rules they are governed by. they're much more powerful than humans, of course, but they are bound to their laws, and if you're smart you can work with that

fairytale-esque magic system that relies heavily on (1) trickery (2) Having Audacity and (3) the rule of threes 😉. we love a soft magic system that rewards big swings and BDE!

not one, but TWO separate arranged marriages engaged in HEATED pvp AKA two people bound in hostile matrimony trying to kill each other while having 'wait, are they hot? fuck!' moments

you can be cold and practical and still be a good person. you can be strong enough to protect yourself without sacrificing others. with a good enough grasp of contracts you can force a demon to leave your kingdom AND husband unharmed in a 2-for-1 deal

No.. ❌🤢🤮

multiple POVs with no names for chapter titles so you have to figure out who it is from context clues - if you're like me and love a little puzzle to go with your reading time, you'll really enjoy it (Novik does it VERY well) but if you get confused easily or don't wanna put in the brainpower its annoying and overly complicated

if you don't like enemies-to-lovers where they actually argue and are ideologically opposed, you're not gonna enjoy the romance subplots. this is not a 'forbidden-lovers' kinda enemies-to-lovers. this is firmly in the 'my husband misses me a lot - but his aim is getting better!' zone

really quick wrap up - it gets tied up a little too fast after the final confrontation with the Big Bad. i wouldve liked at least to have irina POV at the end because her side of things just. gets left hanging

Summary: Miryem is a daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, and though her father doesn't have the hardheartedness to be a good one, she'd rather be despised for what she's owed than starve. Her knack for the trade, coupled with her sharp tongue, draws the ire of her village, and even more alarmingly, the Staryk's attentions; faerie creatures who only covet gold, they take her offhanded boast that she can turn silver into gold quite literally, and show up at her door to hold her true to her careless words - which, honestly, kind of backfires on them when she rises to the challenge and upends their realm into complete disarray, so maybe there's a lesson there for the next group of nonhumans to learn: don't bet the house against a human girl whose Had Enough Of All This Bullshit. She might win.

Concept: 💭💭💭 I don't know Rumpelstiltskin's story very well, and Ice Kingdom aesthetics aren't my favourite (you can blame it on my residual dislike of Frozen), but I DID read Uprooted before this. I wasn't as into the book blurb as I was with Uprooted, but I'm an experienced (and opinionated) enough reader to know when to trust my gut - if I find an author's writing style easy to read, and I enjoy how they handle their themes, I'm not afraid of diving into deep waters. If it's that bad, I can always DNF

Execution: 💥💥💥💥 As I've come to expect with Novik's writing, a wonderfully easy read; the storytelling voice flows smoothly and makes me want to keep on reading. No slogging through difficult to understand passages and too slow pacing for me! I instantly wanted to collect every POV character like puppies in a basket, no matter how brief their sections were. I will say the ending does forget what it wants to say and simply ends on a happy note, instead of a complete thought. It doesn't tie in the POV characters together strongly enough - I would've loved to see an epilogue scenes with the 3 main female characters supporting each other, or at least being three distinct Bad Bitches!

Personal Enjoyment: ❤❤❤❤❤ Mostly because of Irina and Miryem (and Wanda)'s absolute BDE. They truly brought their stories to life and felt very dynamic, constantly driving the story forward through their actions, especially because their personalities and characteristics were so well-suited to the challenges they faced (Miryem rules-lawyering the Staryk, Irina taking to politics, Wanda keeping faith despite all the shit she's been through). Honorary shoutout to the complete hilarity of Mirnatius's POV (though ultimately it IS more indulgence than necessity, I respect Novik for it) - may he spend the rest of his life desperately drawing his wife in vain search of her bad angles!

Favourite Moment: the running gag of mirnatius losing his fucking mind trying to prove irina isn't hot. you know that post that's like 'find a blorbo to draw and your art skills will start improving so much faster'? irina is his blorbo. special mention of the scene he gets jealous realizing a random guard has a crush on his behated wife and immediately jumps to the conclusion that irina would want to fuck the guard for the sake of the kingdom. babygirl the hoops you are jumping........where is this gymnastics routine even going 😭 this man is not beating the meow meow allegations..

Favourite Character: It's really a tie between Miryem and Irina, who are both so similar yet different at the same time. Miryem's BDE was enjoyably explosive - she throws it in everyone's face, which is perfect to play off of the Staryk's otherworldly impassiveness. Irina's BDE was a lot more...steely. Quietly coming into her own as she realized how adept she was at politics, and how perfectly well-suited that made her to being tsarina - and when they finally met each other? it was so funny when were like 'hey...why dont we kill our husbands via pokemon battle??'

[moonlightsmasquerade]

I'm very curious about how Weslyn works and the different types of magic the citizens have. What kind of government do they have? What type of magic is legal for the citizens to use? Do they get imprisoned or get banished if they get caught using illegal magic? What is the town's backstory?

How did Ozwald and Xander's friendship develop throughout the story? Did they have some sort of rivalry when they first met, but they grew to like each other as time went on?

What's going on with Merlin? That guy looks very shady.

Weslyn's government consists of The Wizard King and The Council of Wizards. The council is made of academics, famous duelists, and important community members, they tend to be voted in. The king is usually the son of the king before him. They make and vote on the laws of the city.

Weslyn is the first and largest wizard city, home to the first Wizard King and a safe haven for magic users in its past. Now it's become a hub for wizards everywhere, with some of the best schools of magic there as well as the biggest arena for wizard duel competitions, to the point many fights are televised.

Since Weslyn is so popular the magic many use is extremely diverse, from element wielders to mind magicians, they've got a lot. Element magic is the most common, it's very easy and helpful when looking for work, Healing is also very common, specializing in different aspects of the body in order to help sick and hurt people. There are various specialites that also help in specific jobs and that could be a whole list. But it's one of the most diverse cities in terms of what magic people use.

So you have a range for what's allowed, and most magic is allowed, you're just going to need a permit if that magic is considered "forbidden" by most, you need to complete paperwork, get interviewed, take an ethics class etc. This tends to happen for certain spells or whole classes of magic (nercomancy, hypnosis, etc)

Now some spells are illegal, usually these ones are dangerous/hard to reverse like curses that come from ancient spells, creating life without a license, rising more than two of the dead, chaos magic, etc. And if you do that, depending on the severity, you will either be barred from magic completely for a set time or be sent to jail. There are magic-dulling cuffs that are put on all who break the law, as well as all of their magic items taken.

Ozwald and Xander's first meeting wasn't great because Xander was quite unimpressed when Ozwald showed he was an illusionist, as many consider it silly parlor tricks and not serious magic. However he was willing and enthusiatic to explain how things worked in Weslyn to Ozwald (the town he and Calliope were from originally was much quieter/had less of an emphasis on magic careers, so Weslyn is a culture shock to both). Over time, and especially after Ozwald found out about Xander's curse, they started to get along quite well, and their friendship really solidifies after Xander has a rematch with an old rival, and Ozwald's "parlor tricks" ended up helping him in the long run. Xander even buys a gala outfit for Ozwald (they're all gonna go to the Wizard King's gala later :>)

I talked about him a lot in this ask, but I'll just say this: Merlin has more skeletons in his closet than he'd like to admit, but he has a reputation, and he can't lose that.

[vonlipvig]

liam neeson. liam neeson's knees, son. liam neeson's knees on his niece on e's on a nissan (i'm going to a taken-themed escape room wish me luckkkkk)

[99probalos]

getting reports from our inside sources that in gorilla interrupted 2 dex will be wearing his shitty husbands band tees throughout the film

[computersex]

Boi-oi-oing!

[dailynakaharachuuya]

(just some thoughts about things, I think its rather long so you don't have to read ❤️❤️)

[artheresy]

Jingliu’s trailer… has utterly changed my life, it’s going up there with Blade’s and Kafka’s for my top favorite trailers OH MY GODDD

The music, like oh my god can we talk about the music? So sober yet cold and harsh, expressing such intense loneliness and strength in one. That is one of the character themes that is 100% going to stick with me, because UGH it just sounds so beautiful and it manages to set the mood for Jingliu and her trailer so well, but at the same time, it’s not too loud or too powerful as to overwhelm from Jingliu and her bits of dialogue

Also the visuals, perfection, deserves a chefs kiss, the dark landscape only illuminated by the silver moonlight again works perfectly for the mood they wish to set with Jingliu, and that darkness against the vibrancy of the ice she creates is just so so cool, I love it so much. Also I don’t know if I can’t see shit and if I’m mistaking it, but in the latter half of her trailer?? The? Ice figures?? Of the HCQ?? Am I seeing that right, because if I am I will burst into tears

It was so good, honestly it was so worth the wait !

[bluupxels]

if you see me reblogging stuff on my cc finds blog mind ur business

[hollypies]

Can. Can you tell I. Can you tell I like the clown pants.

Anyway I call this outfit angry clown! I. I dont know why. But it's pretty cute ^^

Also tumblr fixed the ! Dashboard ! My art looks normal now lmao