#i'd forgotten

[absentlyabbie]

sometimes you're just innocently scrolling along down your dash and you read a post and you're just nodding along like "yep, good post"

and then a singular sentence leaps out and catches your throat in its teeth and your breath draws like a knife

because for fuck's sake, that goddamn tumblr post's single goddamn sentence just slapped the realization out of you that, before you had reckoned with how you had been abused and gaslit through your childhood, you used to pre-apologize for what was done to you when you described it to others, so they didn't get the wrong idea and understood,

"i was a difficult child" and that means it was, of course, at foundation your fault

you just never could make it easy to like you, you see, you were such a handful, such a problem child, so hard to tolerate without caveat, so hard to love because of the conditions you failed to meet

and you used to believe that, for so long you believed that, that you, unlike better children, were like playing parenting on nightmare mode

if only you hadn't been so stubborn if only you had just obeyed and not questioned if only you never argued or talked back if only you weren't such a liar, always such a liar

you believed it all, and because the ones meant to shelter and guard and hold you repeated these things so many times for so many years and with such vehemence... it had to be true

and it might just be the most cruel thing that was done to you

[makiruz]

No mention of The Umbrella Academy? Come on

my chemical romance is the funniest and weirdest band ever. They’re all fucking losers who would genuinely rather play dnd than hook up with groupies. The singer used to work at Cartoon Network. The bassist is on the fbi watchlist for crimes against disney. One guitarist is a guitar god but he also used to keep a little action figure of spiderman in his pocket all the time, the other is like a little lap dog of a man, but he’s also on the fbi watchlist for death threats against a us president. They refused to be on the twilight soundtrack, one of the most popular franchises at the time but then they preformed on yo gabba gabba and re-recorded one of their songs in simlish.

[egophiliac]

bring back zooterkins, the best 17th-century swear word

I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.

(I'm sorry)

[fan-a-tink]

This is one of Edwin's most iconic lines, actually.

and I feel we need to acknowledge it more. his bitchiness is on point, but like *respectfully* - it's just so quintessentially Edwin.

[splinterclan]

Looked through all the seen Prairie and Moon interactions for extra heartache

Laying it all out like that is brutal augh ;____;

[onnahu]

Just realised how fucking cool would be a book centered around Liu Qingge in the 5 years of SQQ's death.

We start with no context, Liu Qingge attacking the Huan Hua palace, dueling Binghe. Throughout the next chapters we learn about Cang Qiong, Liu Mingyan, and the reason for Qingge's attacks. Shen Qingqiu is dead and haunts the narrative. Bc it's a completly original novel, we have no idea that sqq will come back, and bc it's through lqg's pov there's a big bias against lio binghe - lqg thinks the worst about him and is scared of what he does with sqq's corpse. God readers would hate Binghe so much.

And then, deep into the plot, sqq is back. And he is nothing like lqg presented him. Lqg is an unreliable narrator idealising sqq. When we meet SQQ first time alive on screen (or at least when lqg recognises him), sqq barely spares any attention to lqg. He goes with binghe with no fight, and we're left in confusion.

I just think SQQ is a great character to be haunting the narrative, and looking at everything from lqg's perspective, he would be characterised so differently and would propably be pretty hated by fandom.

[patetemult]

okay but jokes aside (they actually explained it v well thank you gang) this was such a sweet moment, get yourself friends you don't feel stupid asking what iambic pentameter is with

[sirenetica]

It's time for spring... ...We'll try again next fall

[thepoisonroom]

every time a customer tries to get me to take off my mask because they're allegedly hard of hearing and need to lip read i do dream of saying "is that true???" to them because that is MY disability that they're pretending to have to be a shithead and yet i don't want to say that because if i earnestly asked for accommodation and someone asked if i was lying i would want to sink into the floor!!! but if they are lying to me i think they should feel total devastating shame and go to hell probably.

[chameleonsallinvermillion]

I always forget just how good The Truth is until I reread it. Not just the central mystery but the themes of it! The way it marks such a sharp change from the old Ankh-Morpork to the new one we'd see in the later books, far more than any of the Watch books ever do.

And William! A character of all time. This awkward little man who believes passionately in truth because "don't tell lies" was quite literally beaten into him as a child, who then tells a lie to protect the one who did the beating. This man with very few social skills who earns the loyalty of his coworkers with his sheer passion. William who was raised to be a bigot and is fighting those instincts every step of the way.

When the dark light reveals the spectre of his father looming over his shoulder all the time! When his father threatens to kill him and he is relieved! When Otto compares William's internal struggle to overcome the lessons he was taught as a child, the racist, classist, cruel beliefs of his family, with his own struggle to not drink blood.

I adore this man. I adore how electrified he is when he's trying to solve a conspiracy, how brave, how dedicated - and it never shows up again. In all other books, from the perspective of other characters, he's a stuffy straitlaced stick-in-the-mud. Nobody else ever sees what his coworkers see of him, what his father finally sees of him.

William De Worde is important to me because the only other person who ever truly Gets It, the only character in the whole of Discworld canon who seems to understand him, is Otto. Sacharissa does a little but it's Otto who really knows him. Otto fighting not to be a bloodsucking monster, with the help of cocoa and a singsong, and William fighting not to be a metaphorical bloodsucking monster, with the help of his colleagues and their faith in him.

[7nsomnia]

241019 Dreamcatcher 'Justice'

[theartingace]

I'd forgotten I'd lost a page of sad contemplative priests looking for purpose (Oscar Malevolent my beloved)

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.01

I refuse to believe that a tragedy had to destroy everything. But it did.

[starlight-eclipsed]

It never hurt to be careful. The last time Demise caught wind of Dark’s sharp tongue, he’d spent ten years in isolation sealed in a crystal at the bottom of the temple.

Hello everyone! This line (from chapter two of A Dark Among the Lights by @luckylectio over on AO3) has been on my mind for the last year, so I finally sat down and drew it :D

[steamclouds]

Neverwinter Saga is the best

[tytoalbatross]

everyone pretend it's still valentine's day 🔥🔥🔥

HEEEERE'S MY INQUISITOR EDWIN CADASH!!! finally drew him in a quality that i was fine with posting 😭 and yes he's holding dorian one-handed

he never really stops wearing the carta uniform---just takes the hood off of one and recolors it. he can't stand wearing armor that's any heavier because he feels like it restricts his movement as a rogue! and (to a lesser extent but. still importantly) he likes making people double take when they see his style of armor

he struggles with the distance between himself and dorian post-trespasser, but luckily by this point they've arranged semi-frequent visits