#i can't believe i forgot this in my drafts

[madmonroe]

I love them both, really, but I don't know... I'm pretty feral about Taro 💚

Gyutaro is hands down the best villain/antagonist to parallel a hero/main character I've read in a long time. The longer you look at his backstory and life as a human, the more you see just how similar he is to Tanjiro . And damn. As much as I love the series, Gotouge isn't always great at fitting story details into the action; there's a lot of nuance to Gyutaro (and Ume) that isn't directly told... But, I digress! I love this skrunkly bastard.

12 Sept '24 ~ Mad

[echoes-of-courage]

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[goldenhallas]

making out in the Underdark themed room in Sharess' Caress

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas (1995)

[where-is-gtws]

Scar is getting ready to sacrifice people to the volcano :D

[shoshimakesstuff]

@basilone's Darlene + Benny — read here.

[bowtiepastabitch]

What’s your favourite thing that you’ve written

In terms of things I'm proudest of, It's a Love Story continues to be incredibly special to me, in part because it's made my moots cry and I thrive on having that kind of power. I'm working on another whumpy tragedy rn as we speak, in fact. Can I speak to the quality? eh. But I like hearing how it made people feel.

Honestly though that's ditto for everything I've written. The horny comments on Victorian Dressing have a similar effect. The only thing I want from my writing is for it to make people feel things. Perhaps I'm a bit of a sadist in that way.

[wonder-worker]

"The memory of [Emma of Normandy] was of a generous patron. At Ely an inventory made in 1134 listed her gifts of precious textiles to the church. They included an altar frontal worked in gold and silver with an image of Christ in majesty, seven cloths with gold worked fringes (orfrey) and one of rich purple fabric, perhaps shot silk taffeta (purpura), adorned all round with orfrey work and precious stones, a purpura pall for each saint and each altar, and four woollen dorsals. The twelfth-century Ely monks also recalled a blood red altar cloth with a gold border a foot wide, and the magnificent purpura one worked with orfrey and adorned in a chequer pattern with gold and gems which she made for them, as well as the gold and gem-worked silk cloths for each saint,’ and, richest of all, the cloth she gave to cover the tomb of St Æthelthryth. The twelfth-century Abingdon Chronicler told of the gold and silver shrine she and Cnut had given to the church. It bore an inscription recording the two hundred and ten mancuses of gold and twenty-two pounds of silver which had gone into its construction. At Winchester they remembered her striving with Bishop Ælfwine to adorn the church of St Swithun, a contest which she won.” Canterbury tradition recorded the cup of gold worth 13 marks, two altar cloths, two copes with gold tassels, and a golden ornamented text which Emma had given.

Canterbury was not the only church to which Emma gave books. She sent an English psalter to her brother Robert, Archbishop of Rouen. She and Cnut have been associated with a lively production of de luxe manuscripts in the third decade of the eleventh century, most of which were intended as gifts for English and foreign churches or individuals. Gifts of manuscripts linked Emma and Cnut with such English churches as York, Canterbury, London, New Minster and Bury, and with cross- Channel recipients in Germany, Scandinavia and France. Peterborough, with its strong ties to queens in general and Emma in particular, was a major centre of this production. Wulfstan of Worcester remembered how a skilled scribe and painter of manuscripts who had taught him there as a boy gave Emma and Cnut a psalter, which eventually ended up in Germany. Ervenius was the scribe who taught Wulfstan. He is the same Earnwig who followed Emma’s close associate Ælfsige as abbot of Peterborough.

Emma was an acquirer of relics, and her acquisitions were almost invariably followed by their distribution. When the bishop of Benevento visited England in Cnut’s reign, Emma bought from him the body of St Bartholomew, which he happened to have with him; she gave most of it to Christ Church Canterbury, though retaining the arm for herself. Whilst staying in Rouen after the death of Æthelred she bought the body of St Ouen, which she again split on her return to England, this time keeping the head for herself and giving the body to Canterbury. New Minster was thus particularly favoured by her gift of the head of St Valentinus. A queen’s gifts were much sought after, and sometimes the process of giving was shortcircuited. Emma kept the head of St Ouen; after her disgrace, her goldsmith purloined it from her reliquary and gave it to Malmesbury where his brother was a monk.

Sherborne attracted her largesse in a more standard way. According to Goscelin writing c. 1100, she and Cnut came to visit St Wulfsige’s shrine at Sherborne. There the king pointed out to her the poor state of the church; the poverty of the angelic citizen Wulfsige was an accusation of them, weighed down as they were by gold and jewelled ornament.” It was up to her to repair it. She gave twenty pounds’ worth of silver for the repair of the roof. Sherborne is a rare instance of Emma as a patron of buildings. She may have contributed more than general support and intercession to the development of Bury and St Benet Holme.’ But according to the surviving sources her most generous building patronage was far away in western France where the rebuilding of St Hilaire at Poitiers was in ‘large part paid for by the queen of the English'.

The patronage of both Emma and [her daughter-in-law Edith also included] land. Emma gave Newington to Christ Church, acquiring it from Cnut after Ælfric forfeited it; she bequeathed land at Kirby to Bury, and together with Harthacnut gave land to Ramsey for the soul of Cnut. Edith was remembered as a benefactor of Wells, granting Milverton and Mark to bishop Giso. Emma almost certainly made gifts of land to the Old Minster, Winchester, where she and Cnut were buried: her son Edward confirmed her grant of the urban property of Godebegot in Winchester to the Old Minster, and after 1066 the Old Minster claimed that she had left them land at Hayling Island in reversion, after the death of her servant Wulfweard the White."

-Pauline Stafford, Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England

[silver-stake-through-the-heart]

So… Since I saw once again "no one ever told Cas they loved him", I wondered if Sam and Dean heard the words "I love you" so often. I searched every "I love you" of Supernatural. Then noted who told it, to whom, and in which situations.

(Without much surprise, "I love you" mainly occurs for other people. Here will be only listed Sam's and Dean's, to make a Team Free Will post.)

Sam, hearing I love you

Jess: So come home soon, okay? I love you. (1x01)

Jess, on a note "Missed you! Love you!" (1x01)

Mary: I love you. (12x03)

Jack: I love you. I love all of you. (13x23)

Dean: I love you so much. My baby brother. (15x20)

Sam, saying I love you

Sam: I think, um …. I think Dad would have wanted you to have these. I love you, Mom. (1x09)

Sam: I love you, Jess. (5x03)

Sam, on the phone, to Mary: Yeah. Love you, too. (12x15)

I love you for both Winchester brothers

Bobby: I love you like my own. I do. But sometimes– (6x04)

Crazy!Cas: If someone was going to free the Word from the vault of the earth, it would end up being you two. Oh, I love you guys. (7x21)

Mary, to Sam: I love you. (Then looking at Dean) I love you both. (12x03)

Texts from Mary: Hey Dean. Phone died. Didn't have a charger. Things are good. I'll always be mom. Tell Sam I love you boys. (12x04)

Mary, before pulling the trigger: I love you. (12x09)

Mary: I just… I need to finish this. I miss you boys. I love you. (12x20)

Mary: I love you. (12x23)

John: I love you both so much. (14x13)

Kevin: I love you guys. (15x02)

Dean, saying I love you

Dean: It’s okay, Mom. Dad still loves you. I love you, too. I’ll never leave you.

Mary: You are my little angel. How 'bout some pie? Okay. (5x16)

Mary: Honey. Why are you up?

Dean: Look. I’m-I’m sorry. I love you but you’re not real and we don’t have time— (5x16)

Dean to Mary: I hate you. And I love you. (12x22)

John: I love you both so much.

Dean: I love you, too. (14x13)

Dean: I love you so much. My baby brother. (15x20)

Dean, hearing I love you

There are different categories.

False realities:

Mary: Get some rest. I love you.

Dean: Me too. (2x20)

Carmen We can have a future together. Have our own family. I love you, Dean. Please. (2x20)

Lisa: Dean. I love you. (3x10)

2. Doubtful sincerity under those circumstances:

Sam, stunned: It's okay…because you're my brother…and I still love ya. (5x11)

Mary, talking to the phone because Ketch told her to: Wow. I, uh… I'm actually still sort of resting up after that whole Ramiel thing. But if you need me… You sure? Okay, rain check. Hey, I love you. (12x13)

3. The little sister he never wanted *liar*

Charlie: I love you.

Dean: I know. (8x20)

4. CAS

Castiel: Thank you. Knowing you, it… it’s been the best part of my life. And the things that… the things we’ve shared together, they have changed me. You’re my family. I love you. I love all of you. (12x12)

Castiel: I love you. (15x18)

[tmae3114]

So I originally wrote this back in August when this release was fresh and then!!! APPARENTLY!!! just COMPLETELY forgot to post it!! so you get it now, three months late.

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Some of the dialogue from the Guardian Tower has been living rent free in my head and now I want to yell about it because it’s SO GOOD for background lore

Okay, so, on the first floor, Mindi tells us this:

I really like this because it helps illustrate one of the logistical problems of the Rose. Like, even if you took away everything else that makes them bad (which, admittedly, is most of the organisation and its purpose), the fact that they tend to, by default, present themselves as the only option and drive out competition is bad. On paper, a force of people trained in combat against magical threats, with reasonably easy access to that training, which has garrisons stationed across the land, is actually a pretty good solution to the whole Recurring Evil Magical Threats thing. We know this because the guardians and the paladins and the dragonslayers exist! They do this! The Rose seems to make membership easier to access but, frankly, I suspect that is in part because their training is less thorough.

And when the Rose show up and drive those other groups out (like they’ve done with the Guardians), they don’t actually improve anything. Best case scenario, everything is exactly the way it was before. More likely, things would get worse, because the people with active experience defending a particular area have been driven away and now the Rose members have to play catch-up

(A good example of how on paper a group like the Rose could help an area is Book 3 Amityvale. The local Guardians were long gone, so the Rose were able to help without doing that extra damage and made Amityvale a safer place to live....... but that’s specifically for the human inhabitants. Plus, we know they’re affecting the magic of the area - Amaris’s moon has started having phases - and that’s! probably not good! Also see: Raven having to flee for her own safety after getting bitten by a werewolf. Even where they are ostensibly doing the most good, the Rose are still an active danger to many, even their own in the wrong circumstances)

And, meanwhile, on the ground floor...

......further proof that the Rose actively try to drive competition out of the area. Falconreach has repeatedly made it clear that they want nothing to do with the Rose and they keep picking fights with the patrols.

[vicompte-de-latarteaucoing]

Some of my favourite villains from ''Les aventures de Blake et Mortimer'' ...but a handful of years younger 😅 because why not ?

[just-slightly-chaotic]

i need someone to poke me with a stick every 10 minutes and tell me to study

[lilyharvord]

Evangeline watching Cal interact with Mare at any point during war storm: 

[lord-shitbox]

Since you said late asks are ok...here you go :D ->

3, 5, 8, 17, 23 + any bonus questions you want to answer from the list!

(For the distracting asks game)

3. 5 songs you have been recently obsessed with?

my method of listening to music is to find a select few songs and loop those for days straight. hehe 😈

Explode by Mother Mother // In My Car by Coyote Wall // Quiet Room by Yoh Kamiyama // Yellowjacket by Spiritbox // Eat that Up, it's Good for You by Two Door Cinema Club

5. What was the last thing you watched?

Spirited Away again

8. Name something you are looking forward to?

I'm taking a calculus class this fall :)!! also my next paycheck. I quadrupled my work hours (4 days a week instead of 1) so it will be VERY special

12. Favorite comfort drink?

iced mocha

13. Favorite climate?

50-70 degrees fahrenheit and frequently rainy

14. Favorite game?

Currently balling hard at Hades 2. And by balling hard I mean I've beat the available game both ways without losing a single death defiance a few times over now

15. Favorite subject?

Math :)!!

17. Tell us about your favorite character?

I've been missing Gozumaru lately. Extreme Young Teen Disdain for Everything (i hate this and I hate you why am I doing this ughhh I'm better than you fuck off) he's rude and grumpy and prideful and only likes the people in his [branch of the yakuza syndicate / clan / group] and is mean to people to make himself feel better and Most Importantly. He's transgender and is never seen without his silly cheery and also transgender best friend

18. Dream job?

spreadsheets maker

21. What is something you have been meaning to try?

salvia. the fucked up psychoactive.

23. Talk about a WIP?

I'nm at work so no talk go read this

[snazzy-suit]

Resident Evil 4 (2023)

Chapter 14 & 15

Bonus Leon: