#major book spoilers!!!

[black-ajah-hq]

The Wheel of Time Season 3 / The Gathering Storm Chapter 47, The One He Lost

[18is]

"unnamed chimera" my ass, Grim you have 5 minutes to run.

[twptwp]

A major change to the past

[turtlespancake]

i love seeing out of context posts about long-running stories with deep lore because it's always shit like "MAJOR SPOILER WARNING!! i can't believe that the metallic athenaeum's envoy actually used never-ending dance of the 57th universe on rionne as if she's not LITERALLY the incarnate of august?!?!" it's like buddy boy thank you for the spoiler tag but all of those words are incomprehensible without at least 5 years of foreshadowed knowledge, 7 different fan theories, and 21 wiki entries

[wikiipediabf]

something something how haymitch lost two sisters because they came a little early to their own lives and then he went on to find two sisters in louella (and lou lou!) and maysilee, but they came into his life just a little late, only a few moments before he lost them again. something about the importance of sisters in haymitch's life, how he has always been surrounded by their absence instead of their love and laughter, and how 24 years after this he would see an older sibling just like himself put her life on the line for her sister, something that he never really got the chance to do. something about the fact that somehow, in just a tiny little way, both of these revolutions started and ended with sisters. something like that.

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

hill house cover redesign <3

[okjii]

best part of tgr to me was the entire trojan line up going “i stand by my cancelled wife!!” absolutely standing ten toes DOWN for Jean the whole book

[hanafubukki]

Imagining YN’s role in the war.

They might not have knight training nor magic but they have dealt with Overblots, and with that came certain skills and expertise.

Such as learning how to bandage and treat wounds, learning advantage of terrains, hiding when needed, helping with supplies, cooking, and at times even tactical input.

Of course, at first, they wouldn’t be trusted just like Silver and Sebek.

Grim’s voracious appetite and attitude another factor, but everyone helped in their own ways.

You included.

What surprised the fae army, to an extent, even your dream companions was the way you handled General Vanrouge.

His surly attitude was different from the Lilia you knew and loved, but his subtle actions gave way to the fae he will become.

Besides, you knew how to handle stubborn men. You spent enough time at NRC to get some handle on it.

The fae army and co watched as you pulled their surly General to the main campfire.

You two bantering at each other all the while. A few of them choked on their meals as you stuffed a spoon laden with a healing potion into his mouth before taking his arm and slowly unclasping the bands of his armor.

You told Silver to get you the needed supplies, who then scrambled to quickly retrieve them.

The soldiers under General Lilia Vanrouge knew him well, knew he was more than capable of breaking free of your hold and running off if he wished to.

You? A measly human? Had no power to one of the strongest in their land.

And yet.

He didn’t.

In fact, it seemed like a part of him enjoyed it.

No one would tell it to his face for fear of repercussion.

But they knew their General, he could be…oblivious at times, especially when it comes to the matters of the heart.

So they watched this game that played out in front of them, it was rather entertaining.

Some even started a betting pool for when he would realize his feelings, even Sir Baul Zigvolt joined.

You might not have magic nor were you a knight, but you were able to handle their General Vanrouge when only a few could before.

That was enough to earn their respect.

[kindaorangey]

i really like the bit in TVL where lestat and armand briefly form a "fumbled louis du lac" social club

[moghedien]

i'm so confused about all the book readers surprised that Gaebril is Rahvin or even saying that its a change because like....this is literally also what happens in the books? Lord Gaebril was very obviously Rahvin in the books as well??? this was never subtle???

[ckret2]

Bill having freaky sex with his girlfriend the howling void A.K.A Yvonne

Joke's on you I've already written Bill having freaky sex with the howling void!! Through sheer improbable luck I wrote Bill having freaky sex with the howling void before TBOB even came out!!!

In fact, the freaky sex is so freaky that it's not even nsfw. It has zero overlap with human carnal acts. ... except that it involves screaming.

So, here: Bill Cipher having "sex(?)" with Yvonne Torizon. Warning that this is atypically tender & earnest because it is 💕 Bill's First Girlfriend 💕 and he's still young, naive, not completely jaded, and thinks this sudden rush of giddy infatuation will last forever and possibly fix him. He's wrong.

"Okay," Yvonne whispered. She tugged him closer and he wrapped an arm around her wispy, ghostly back; and she pulled his embrace infinitely inward.

He had a voice that could be heard from every part of Dimension Zero; but he confessed what had truly happened to his home in a whisper pressed up to her event horizon. Where the words would fall into her dimensionless heart and never escape.

####

To anyone close enough to them to see what was happening, what they did looked like an infinitely-regenerating fractal solar panel sliding an eyeball across its surfaces as it infinitely folded up into an infinitely small origami singularity around an infinitely black core.

Nobody could possibly be close enough to see what was happening. The view was sucked into Yvonne's horizon, never to be witnessed by anyone but her. 

When a black hole consumes a star, it pulls it in a little bit at a time, in a string of light, like a hand unravelling a ball of yarn by winding the yarn around its fingers. Because of the way light bends in the vicinity of a black hole, no matter what angle you're looking from, the light seems to surround the black hole in a ring, like a halo.

From every point in Dimension Zero, it was possible to see a halo of golden-white light at the center of reality.

For six hours, the howl of the void echoed through the Nightmare Realm.

####

She was shivering; the optical illusion of distorted light surrounding her rippled like a heat mirage.

"Everything okay?"

"M'fine." Her voice was thick. "It's just— It's been a long time since anyone's been able to physically touch me."

"It's been a long time since anyone's been able to physically hurt me." He hadn't realized how badly he'd needed to hurt.

She terrified him. Nothing had ever shaken him to his core the way her voice did. When he gazed too long into her abyss, he could feel it gazing into him. It pulled him in. He wanted to fall into her and never come out. He wanted to be crushed into her core and...

He tried not to think about what he wanted to happen to him.

He loved her. He was going to spend the rest of eternity with her.

And cue the laughter from anybody who knows anything at all about Bill.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call the honeymoon period.

[inolienkiki]

Unbelievable how long I’ve been on a slow drip of random Lost Metal spoilers, and yet the one that remained completely unknown to me until I read the book is the kids… they have kids?…

[raspberry-arev]

I've finished Nona the Ninth. Cried like a little bitch thank you. The people in this book just loved each other, strangely, deeply, truly, and I liked the first two books but this one made my heart flutter <3

[I can't stop thinking about how this was the first time that Harrow's body knew... genuine parental/friendly affection? Holding hands and hugs and braiding hair and dancing and forehead kisses. The body smiled and giggled freely. It pains me that Harrow was not in the body at all to feel it, but... You can't take loved away]

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

“HE’S COMING BACK!!! MY GLORIOUS KING, THE GREAT NAVIGATOR AND TAKER OF WILLS, WILL RETURN BACK TO ME!!!! I CAN FEEL HIM!!” I scream as I am strapped down to be tasered for the 8th time this hour.

[toastandjamie]

Ohhh it’s sad post canon WoT thoughts:

Nynaeve is going to be the last of the EF5 alive.

At best Perrin and Mat have until their seventies, so fifty or so years, Perrin might live that long- Mat however is contending with Seanchen assassination culture, and like, he’s lucky, and alert, but all it takes is one slip up so realistically Mat will likely be the next of them die and likely not of natural causes.

Perrin would likely live and die naturally, the Two Rivers is a safe place to live so unless there’s another drastic world threatening event he gets to live out the rest of his days in peace with Faile.

We don’t know about Rand, if his lifespan was shortened by the loss of his channeling or of that strange new power gives him a similar slowed aging effect. We also don’t know if the others ever learn that Rand is still alive.

And well, we all know what happened to Egwene.

That’s leaves Nynaeve. The oldest of the five. The one who helped raise those kids. She left Emmonds Field to protect them and she outlived them all. She’ll outlive Lan too. She’ll at least have Elayne but that won’t change the fact that those kids she cared so much about are gone. That potentially three of them died violently, that she couldn’t protect them. The long lifespan of an Aes Sedai is a cruel thing, especially for someone like Nynaeve who cares so deeply about the people around her.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Elaida is one of those people who didn't grow up poor, but didn't exactly grow up wealthy either (family's estate is described as being not much more than a farm) yet still looks down on everyone like she was raised in a palace.