#meaning behind words

[acourtofquestions]

Rowan always calls Aelin by her name.

I’ve been thinking on the significance of this (because every word in good writing is carefully chosen… hopefully…).

During Heir of Fire: Aelin starts off still calling herself Celaena, as does the book perspective (until the final chapter when both shift). However, Rowan (from the beginning) calls her Aelin never Celaena. At first it added to my hesitation with him (chosen names are important & should be respected) & even she brings it up at one point… The difference is it is not rooted in a refusal to accept her, but instead in her own refusal to accept herself. He is (as he says) calling her by her name, not because he does not accept her identity as “Celaena”, but because she does not accept her identity as Aelin. This is not because she is comfortable in her chosen name (in that case he would be in the wrong) side note; Celaena isn’t even her chosen name, Arobynn picked it & Adarlan’s Assassin (she never had a claim to… well… anything) but because she is horribly uncomfortable in any version of herself; she is running from Aelin, she loathes in dredged guilt over the terror of herself as Celaena, she misses Elentiya (she grieves herself with Nehemia) mini note; she was never fully/really Lillian… (hence the lack of mention). This is why he lets her pick a name & introduce herself (as she is comfortable with), but reminds her of who she is & can be (she doesn’t have to be afraid). And when she does pick he does listen… she begins to request the same of everyone else (Chaol, Dorian already had, etc.) when she comes back (Lysandra being my favorite because she literally doesn’t care or flinch & the acceptance & comfort in that is palpable).

Now we get to Queen of Shadows (& a lil HoF ending): he always calls her by her name (of course), or on occasion “the queen” (or my favorite his queen; almost to the point of being a pet name). But my favorite is how he always uses her full name in the most loving moments (this is what started this post to begin with). He calls her Aelin Galathynius “I choose you, Aelin Galathynius.” “You make me want to live, too, Aelin Galathynius.” (Etc.) Something I think is really endearing, because he makes sure she knows what she is — what she is to him — her, “no one else”.

[mykeyung]

Word Building by Myke Y.U.N.G.

I’ve been inspired by poems,

Novels, and stories before, amazed

At the visions of beauty and spectacle

It creates in my head that will make an

Architect desire to have wings so they

Can make a building that can’t be limited by

Height, but have you ever wondered what do  

The words we read build from and I mean deeper

Than verbs and sentence structure, but the emotion

The author had in bringing meaning to their words.

Was it from them feeling on top of the world from

Falling in love, from experiencing heartbreak for the

First time, from maintaining a shaky grip on reality  

Dealing with stressful situations, from looking back

On memories of past celebrations and happy events  

That carried them through when darkness tried to

Overtake their pure joy. While we rarely get to see

These works of literature before they’re complete

And ready for viewing, it would also be eye opening

To see when these words were nothing but a raw

Blueprint and see the journey it went through to

Becoming a major landmark in my heart that helped

Me start my own word building yet time will tell what

Its opening day will look like.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

To any Palestinian folks who have sent me requests for aid: I’m so sorry—there are active scammers going around posing as folks in Gaza, and I don’t know how to figure out which ones are real and which ones are scams.

En lieu of those. I’d like to direct you all towards NGOs which I know are not scams

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[somnimagus]

My page for @kairizine. It was such a huge honor to be part of this wonderful book with everyone, I had so much fun!

[id in alt!]

[alena-draws]

Can you tell I love this guy?

(I'll delete this little edit later, but: I'm still selling prints, among them Trigun stuff, so check out this list if this might be smth for you!)

[aithusarosekiller]

Media: here is a realistic sibling relationship that clearly displays the love they have for each other even if they haven't seen each other in ages and were separated by war

Half the fandom for some fucking reason: clearly they hate each other!

[kacchanot-fucking-deal-with-this]

Katsuki would never in his fucking LIFE call Deku pet names. Fuck no. FUCK NO. His one and only exclusive pet name and term of endearment is Deku. Nothing would come close to being even a fraction as meaningful as that two syllable name.

[frozen-seagrass]

The WALL-E au no one asked for

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Start of the Truth [End of season 1]

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[afurtivecake]

I will fully admit that Dan's (over)reaction to Kevin revealing that Wymack is his father puzzled me for the longest time. When Neil breaks the news and they're discussing it, they talk about how it isn't fair to Wymack that Kevin shouldn't have kept that information from him for so long. And I thought, "I mean, yeah must be shocking for Wymack...but like...how exactly is that anyone else's business?" Seems a bit...childish to hold it against Kevin?

I mean, ok, Dan clearly idolizes Wymack and thinks of him as a father figure. She's been taking care of everyone around her for so long, being the breadwinner in her family when she was in highschool, and now she's the captain of a NCAA Exy team. Dan might be tough and independent enough to handle anything, but for once, she doesn't have to. With Wymack watching out for them, Dan gets to lead without the crushing weight of the responsibility of taking care of everyone else's wellbeing. That's something she didn't have growing up and...That's when I realized that's the point.

The reason Dan was so angry with Kevin is something that we've seen multiple times from different characters. Neil says, "Why did Kevin always get more?" As Seth puts it: "All he has to do is ask for it, and someone will give it to him. Doesn't matter what. Doesn't matter who. The world is dying to give him anything he wants." Riko was so jealous of Kevin that he devoted the rest of his life to ruining him. Dan may be saying "It's not fair to Wymack," but what she actually means deep down is, "It's not fair to me."

That might have been the moment that Dan realized how much she had been hurting for a parental figure. She's been doing it on her own for so long that it's perhaps not occurred to her that there's part of her that is still just a child wanting someone to care for her and to shoulder her burdens. She frames her anger as something she feels on Wymack's behalf, but deep down, it's probably something really simple and childish-sounding: "Why does Kevin get to have Wymack as a father? If it should be anyone, it ought to be me." For the first time in the series, we see Dan acting sulky and immature. She storms off and rebuffs even Matt when Matt tries to talk to her. For the first time, we're shown a glimpse of the trauma and hurt that Dan is carrying around with her beneath her competence and strength.

[royalarchivist]

Jaiden: Cucurucho, you have a lot of power, right?

Cucurucho: ...I don't know. Maybe.

Roier: Ah... Yes, you know, don't act like a dumbass, you have it. You have it, man. Eh?

Jaiden: Is there a way for us to protect all the Eggs? Do you know? I don't want anything to happen to the Eggs that happened to Bobby.

Cucurucho: Ha ha ha

Roier: WHAT? [Smacks Cucurucho]

Jaiden: [Bops him] Headpats.

Cucurucho: Maybe.

Jaiden: [Continues to bop him] Headpats. C'mon, I can get it out of you! Headpats! Chin scratches! Belly rubs!

Roier: [Joins Jaiden in bopping Cucurucho, chuckling and laughs]

Jaiden: Yeah? He's comin' around!

[Jaiden and Roier both laugh]

[beneathsilverstars]

anyway related to my "gullible" post i do think bonnie didn't really have a lot of friends / any good friends. i'm taking a watsonian approach to "some of the things bonnie does seem more like age 5-8 than 10-12", and a doylist approach to "everyone in this party grew up kinda lonely and feels disconnected from their peer group"

[mochiiniko]

ANNIVERSARY BLAST

[fuumiku]

Chilcille huh... ngl I was a little suspicious. like why would you do that, huh... hope youre not mischaracterizing anyone in your weird and wacky ship. a little weird. but then you said they both had flat asses and you know what? I salute you and your perfect characterization

The fact you seem to think you managed to not make this ask insulting is baffling. What the hell. Fuck off.

If you actually care to be open minded about the ship, I talk about marchil on my sideblog 24/7. Funnily enough I’m currently 4k words deep into an analysis of their character arc together in canon, but that’ll take some more days to get done. Some notable posts:

Of course without counting the analyses of Chilchuck on his own I’ve made, like my masterpost on his family situation. Or better yet you could also read my fics for them, see how weird and wacky they are here.

Wanna talk about mischaracterisation? They’re literally a comedic duo who interacts 24/7. Marchil is crazy bc ppl are like "did those shipper read with their eyes CLOSED?? They have no chemistry!" Meanwhile canon is like: "She’s obsessed with knowing everything she can about him and she reads him like a book." In her eyes he’s like that extra rare and hard and shiny unlockable dating sim character, that brooding mysterious character trope that’s thrilling to crack open and typically is at the center of the plot. The wife roleplay???? "Hey, did you know his type is blondes. Hey did you know he likes his women pretty and blonde. Hey did you know he likes her hair. Hey did you know that he teases her 24/7 and it’s one of the few things that consistently gets him grinning because he finds her reactions cute." Like a schoolyard bully pulling on the pigtails of the girl he likes.

It’s not like they have any thematic narratives or relevance. It’s not like she’ll live to 1000 and has existential dread about it while he’s logically gonna be her next friend to die at 50 and wether it’s romantic or platonic it’ll terrify her to lose him. It’s not like it’s fear of death x fear of rejection so they’re both obsessed with the thought of loss looming, past and ongoing. It’s not like it’s half-elf x half-foot and there’s an inherent journey that was and still is to dispel prejudices and truly come to see each other. It’s not like he’s painfully real and raw and flawed but still a good man, that he’s not the figure of prince charming that she’s always dreamed of while still being virtuous and worth fighting for. Or you know, her hair being golden and it being the epitome of beauty to him, and his hair turning silver and it being Marcille’s worst nightmare.

Just a weird wacky ship who means nothing but shallow things to people who have weirdo reasons for liking it. Like can you not. If you’re not imaginative enough to think of reasons why this ship may have an appealing dynamic that’s not my issue. But yes, yes, they’re both flat asses to me, thanks.