#if you haven't read it um

[thekhaninglass]

The truth - as we have painstakingly established across the previous chapters - is this. There is no idea so grand that it may not be murdered one day in the slumber of its own complacence.

There is no tool which may not be repurposed, no meaning which will not turn to nonsense - given time.

Time is the cruellest and the kindest deity, for it mocks those who seek to triumph from it; for it suffers no power, humours no tyrant; it topples every great justice, dismembers reason, rots progress, forgets the stories we laid down at its feet.

@thesiltverses - Chapter 41

[septimusmoonlight]

You doing ok?

hi

[sciderman]

sci i have a vintage donald duck anthology <3 i appreciate that you have some odd hyperfixations bc i have a TON

🤝

we love duck

[vendacti]

A comfortable silence settles between them. Venti’s gaze drifts back to the statue – his statue. Heizou has so many questions, he feels like he’s fit to burst— but he waits. Venti should incite, if he so wishes. He should have that freedom to choose, Archon or not. “… Did you know,” Venti starts, voice edging on a whisper, “that the kids around here climb my statue once they’re around sixteen, seventeen? It’s like a rite of passage. Almost everyone has done it.” He chuckles. “Even when a nun chases them off, they always come back later in the night to finish the job.” “That sounds…” Heizou laughs, “… dangerous?” “Oh, it would be. But I’m always around to catch them.” He inclines his head toward the statue. “Come on.”

the penultimate chapter before this story comes to a close, in which heizou and venti finally talk about everything.

[19calicos]

i fear i am gonna have to take a break from tumblr

[girderednerve]

can i be mean for a second. it's great that people care & are thinking seriously about literacy education but i think it's sort of embarrassing that everyone's main source is a podcast. also a podcast cannot possibly make you an expert in the complicated social, developmental, & pedagogical questions of reading education. i really think a lot of what's happened is that it's compelling to imagine that we can resolve a profound social problem with a skill that many of us learned as young children (phonics!). in my experience, this narrative has specifically conservative appeal. none of this to say that i think we should toss out every neuropsych paper about literacy acquisition or whatever, but i do insist that there's a difference between the 'science of reading' as an evolving body of knowledge & practice and the (contentious & also evolving, lol) popular idea of what literacy education at any level ought to look like. also, um, did they ever fix that replication crisis, or

[averlym]

Im sorry but can you do 45 angst for parrlyn? U don't have to tho!

45- "leave" (very quick doodle for you!)

[princekirijo]

Finally graduated haha let's go 🥹

[hirazuki]

I feel like I'm living in an alternate reality on my AO3, because while I see everyone here (legitimately!) lamenting how rare reader engagement/comments are these days, the Sasosaku nation is doing it like it's still the summer of 2001 and we're on single-fandom forum sites XDD

[bisexualalistairtheirin]

@THEE pic Ryoko Kui drew of various rpg elves, I know some people in the notes and on twitter seemed miffed that Merrill was the only DA elf companion she didn't draw (Velanna too for that matter, but main game-wise) but I have my own lil' conspiracy theory about it, which is that, sorry to anime-only fans of Dungeon Meshi for the coming spoiler, I'm reasonably sure Merrill inspired Marcille, at least in part, so if I'm right she is represented in a roundabout manner :)

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

say what you like about having your vocabulary ruined by bertie wooster but at least whenever I'm indecisive from now on I'll always be able to say that I'm letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would' and make everyone think I'm cultured

[hana-the-ghostieee]

hey! so um apparently bots keep following me???? assuming it's the same for everyone else

so if you're a person that's following me (why. what prompted you to make a stupid decision) and you have default... everything um maybe try changing your banner, write something in the desc (like pronouns and sexuality and stuff) and reblog a couple of stuff??? unless you'd like to get blocked. which is fine i guess (i question your motives but you do you)

[jewishcissiekj]

social anxiety back at full power (never left), depression at its almost worst, Pesach vacation fucking everything up, shabbat and a holiday only 1 and a half days apart, probably not gonna eat well either because do I ever but also now there's no bread for like a week, I'm constantly exhausted, Leil HaSeder tomorrow night, still have some school stuff to do, brain is not functioning, depression meds just fucking ran out, yeah, um, there's star wars books,

[yyyyyyayy]

why is there no yaoi angst like madoka magica. boring. all the bl is the same "buff guy and weak ass smooch smooch" I want them to be in pain. I want one of them to become an eldritch being and have the other desperately try to stop them to the point of becoming one themselves. Where is my horror existential crisis yaoi.

[obeymeow]

being neurodivergent is all fun and games until you remember those hourly quote bots on twitter and think well maybe I can't make a bot anymore but I could schedule a few quotes a day, that shouldn't be hard. it sounds fun to have a bunch of quotes of my favorite character Thirteen from hit mobile game Obey Me! and its sequel Obey Me! Nightbringer. and then you think about how arduous collecting the quotes is going to be but she's only been in the games for maybe a year and a half with little screentime and you love collecting things so you start but then you remember that you love collecting things so naturally you have ALL of her screentime in the game and suddenly you have 45k characters of quotes and are several lessons into season 4 (which is truly a trial in and of itself) but not nearly close enough to the end but you refuse to just stop collecting the quotes and make the account with the EXCESS of what you have already because you literally only have season 4 to get through and if you don't do it just seeing the bot (because now you've been informed you can make tumblr bots instead) will haunt you with that knowledge even if nobody else would ever know. this is a general anecdote of a situation that could easily happen to anyone though and not in any way related to my life

[troublewithvampires-a]

//[watches one analysis of 'blood meridian' and proceeds to go insane thinking about the similarities between salvatore and the kid]