#lanterns lit

[pikkington]

Son Lux — "Lanterns Lit" (Official Audio)

Happy 10 year anniversary to the song that has etched itself onto my soul.

[riddleturner]

he's an apostate. he's a grey warden. he's on the run from the law. he's bonded body mind and soul to a spirit of the fade. he practices one of the rarest and most taxing magical diciplines known to mages. he's a cat dad. he was put in solitary confinement for a full year. he saves lives daily and asks for no payment. he's a massive bitch. he's personal friends with the hero of ferelden. he hates the church. he's hopelessly in love with you. he writes and distributes his own manifesto. he was forced to kill his own ex boyfriend. he doesn't see a way out. he's fucking blonde.

[silverorchideon]

"What Do You See, Red Dwarf,

Sailing In the Night Sky?"

Got inspired by Doc's newest episode.

(The original plan was to recreate the "Do You Love the Color of the Sky?" Post, but the size made Tumblr absolutely eviscerate the quality, so you get this instead)

[lumpofbird]

Majestic power outage birb

They were a bit afraid of the dark, but Nithhogg loved the fake candles

[starspoodlemonkey]

Rewatched The Tales of Ba Sing Se and I’ve gotta give Jin credit- she had the patience of a saint and practically carried most of that date on her back lol. If I was her and Zuko was being that anhedonic I would’ve cut out early. At least he came through and lit up the lanterns at the end tho.

[krisichiki]

Hello, hope this message finds you well! Not an ask, I just wanted to say as someone fairly new to Genshin, I quickly fell in love with Xiao and later, Xiaolumi became a pairing that completely stole my heart. When I started seeking out fanworks for the pair, I came across your Xiaolumi hangout event and then your blog here. I just wanted to say your work is truly such a joy to see! I had so much fun with the Xiaolumi hangout, I can’t imagine how much work it must have taken but it was a delight to experience, and I want to replay it later so as to leave proper commentary on everything I enjoyed! 

Your art is also lovely, “A Glimpse of Bliss” and “His heart will be safe now” are two of my favorite pieces from you! I really have no idea how you aren’t completely flooded with likes and reblogs.

Anyway, I just wanted to send a general thank you, to give you a heads up about the incoming influx of comments I want to leave on your works, and to say I hope we’ll keep seeing more from you in the future!

Ahh thank you so much!! 😭💖 Receiving such a sweet and lovely message brightened my day instantly 🥹🥰 Welcome to the Xiaolumi nation!!! I hope you'll have a good time here. Xiao and Lumine just melt my heart with how much they care about each other 🥹 And Xiao is so cute! He's so romantic without even trying. He's just being honest and earnest and genuine. I can't possibly imagine Lumine not falling in love after all that. Giving her an oath and constantly worrying about her wellbeing and never asking anything in return. But on the other hand also Lumi is constantly going out of her way to reach out to him! And thank you for playing Xiaolumi Hangout! You know how the saying goes "if you can't find it, make it yourself" haha. Plus I wanted to learn how to make visual novels anyway (for future original projects) so that was a great opportunity for learning while indulging in something I love ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Oh, and don't worry if you go digging around my blog, leaving comments etc. That's totally okay (actually I appreciate it very much!!!)

[inspiredbyabook]

lit meme: series or books [4/10] ↝ forest of a thousand lanterns by julie c. dao

she knew her own worth. she would seize her destiny with all the strength and spirit within her, and bend them all to her will: every man kneeling and every woman overshadowed.

[oopsallnoise]

[leslie-redirects-here]

[sicklymuttz]

i cant browse other things and have cookie run going in the bg. WHY DO THESE COOKIES KEEP FUCKING MOANING

[trans-yllz]

you ever go do an activity thats sole purpose is just to be enjoyable after weeks of only sleeping, working, or doing a project and you're like ooooh so there is peace and love on this beautiful earth

[ghwosty]

being the person making putting out gifsets no one but me cares about is hard work but someone's gotta do it

[mayhemsmonsters]

💿 - Do you make playlists for your muse(s) and/or ships?

<< Funny that you ask- I do! Though @lilmissrodeoclown is a separate blog, I have an entire playlist for her and I have another playlist for her ship with @necrolightguitar :) No muses on this blog have a playlist yet, though! >>

[yuelun]

𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐓 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐄𝐑.

𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄: Manon, but I go by Sae! 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍: She/her. 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌: Discord. I'll deal with Tumblr IMs if people prefer it as I understand not everyone is comfortable sharing their Discord right away. I just find Tumblr IMs to be infinitely impractical, I miss the ability to directly reply/quote previous messages and such, and I often type way too much, so you can surely imagine! Any way, I'm easy enough with Discord, if you ask, the chance is high that you'll get it. So don't hesitate to ask! 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒: My ever dearest Guizhong, and Yelan is over here. 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄: Throughout Tumblr? Joining the Genshin RPC, actually. I've said this about a previous fandom of mine, but it's been about a year since I first entered this one with Guizhong (originally on my multi for about a month), and it's been nothing short of my best and genuinely most peaceful experience in many years. Usually I see fandom problems arise well before the one-year mark, but here it's been quite calm and also, the closest to feeling that old 'community' concept again. We're all here to have a good time, we engage across the board pretty well, and it's just, it's been really nice. I struggled immensely to be on Tumblr for a good two years prior to coming here, despite the best efforts of friends, and I think it's simply because no fandom has quite felt like this one. None of them ever really succeeded in giving me what this one has. You guys are magnificent, never change.

𝐑𝐏 𝐏𝐄𝐓 𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐒: You've called salt into your life with this one, be ready: this trend of privately or publicly guilt-tripping people into interacting with them ('I guess no one's interested...' or 'guess I'll go then...') or even for interacting with duplicates of their muse instead. This should never be a thing I'll cut people like that out of my life and off my dashboard as quickly as I breathe for guilting, and I’ll always motivate people to do the same. There is nothing healthy, remotely positive or forgivable about that kind of behavior, but I see it happening very often still. Are people not interacting with you? Go after them with all the fire of motivation that you possess, and if you don’t have that? Then the muse you have before you may not the one for you. Honestly, I think it's just that if you have passion for your muse, then you won’t let yourself get demotivated, you won’t let things hold you back, because you’ll have a spirit that can’t really be quelled in any capacity. Are duplicates intimidating? Then either find your way to shy away from them or let that insecurity drive you; let it make you better, let it drive you to improve (mentally). I’m not saying anyone who experiences insecurity is a lesser writer, not by any means— but let it make you even better than you already are.

𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒: I find myself drawn to specific elements or concepts within humanity (or in Guizhong's case, the exact opposite) that are either unusual among the status quo or intriguing.to me personally. I do know that I've always rather fiercely tried to avoid characters that are very reminiscent of me as an individual. Though on some level, there is usually a trait that I understand on a fundamental level in some way or another, the nature in which it's presented is usually simply is different, however. So for example with Yelan, I can talk about this inherent concept of loneliness that is incredibly different from what we consider to be the norm, I've understood the concept incredibly well throughout various parts of my life, but never in the way that it was presented with her whatsoever. And in terms of Guizhong, it's her curiosity to figure everything out, but as a god who by default, does not function in a similar capacity to mortals whatsoever, it's incredibly interesting (and different) for me to see. 𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒: The former, but the latter usually will also either be based on a mentioned plot, or I'll turn it into a plot! 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒: I always inevitably end up getting wordy, but I can start shorter as to establish a sort of writing comfort and/or flow with the other person, especially if you're a new RP partner of mine. I kind of release the reigns to you. 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄: This used to be in the dead of night, and I'm still trying to establish when I write best now. 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄: Generally, nope!

𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘: @basbousah 🩶 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆: I'm unsure who's done this and hasn't yet, so if I forgive you and you've done it already, just ignore this! @spiderwarden @immobiliter @avaere @yanwangye @arlquin (please tell Scooby she's also tagged 🤭) @apocryphis @narvvhal @lunaetis @sagnaevi @sortilegii @starwardsword @reginrokkr @astrxl-finale @petrokhelidon @luzofstars @galvanic-duelist and whoever else would like to do it, just say I tagged you! I'm always happy to read these.

[girlbossblackbeard]

god everyone looks so good in candlelight no wonder people in the 1700s were falling in love with each other and getting married so quickly like I would fold fast too

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 029

The Lantern’s Dance by Laurie R. King

“Resentments, unsettled scores, and long-standing acrimony were one thing. What I had not anticipated was being met by the sound of a break-action shotgun snapping into place behind me.”