#midnight tides

[septemberkisses]

"I know girls who spill I'm sorry's from their mouths like they pump blood to their veins. Sometimes, I am one. I know girls who apologize for asking to go to the bathroom in class, who apologize for everything because they feel like they are taking up more than their fair share of space on this planet. Everything starts with an I'm sorry and ends with one too, constant bookends that we don't even notice anymore. We delete her apology the way we delete likes and ums from speech. I know girls with ten times more apologies than misdemeanours and I wonder how often they hear It's okay. You're more than okay."

— "I'm Sorry" by Claire Luisa ( @claireluisa )

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[fallowhearth]

Sometimes the genesis of Malazan as a shared roleplaying homebrew setting really makes itself apparent. Like, Iron Bars—a character that as far as I can recall, has not been mentioned in the series up to this point, but whose name is dropped as though we are expected to cheer and clap—shows up out of nowhere in Midnight Tides to be cool and awesome. And the worst part is that he is cool and awesome. And it's so fun to see some Crimson Guard. So it's good actually.

[smokingchagga]

I LOVE Tehol and Bugg!

[chloristoflora]

Tehol collected his cup and cautiously sniffed. Then he frowned at his manservant.

Who shrugged. "We don't have no herbs, master. I had to improvise."

"With what? Sheep hide?"

Bugg's brows rose. "Very close indeed. I had some leftover wool."

"The yellow or the grey?"

"The grey."

"Well, that's all right, then." He sipped. "Smooth."

"Yes, it would be."

"We're not poisoning ourselves, are we?"

"Only mildly, master."

"There are times," Shurq Elalle said, "when I regret being dead. This is not one of those times, however."

The two men eyed her speculatively, sipping at their tea.

"Ideally," she continued, "I would now clear my throat to cover this moment of awkwardness. But I am incapable of feeling any more awkward than is my normal state. Secondly, clearing my throat has unpleasant consequences."

Midnight Tides, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #5)

[malazanquotes]

Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

Midnight Tides, pg 463

[exponentiate]

There’s no way I’m overhyping myself

Text from image is a selection from the Dramatis Personae section of Midnight Tides. Text is as follows (line breaks replaced with semicolons):

“Huldo, an establishment proprietor; Bugg, Tehol’s servant; Ublala Pung, a criminal; Harlest, a household guard; Ormly, Champion Rat Catcher; Rucket, Chief Investigator, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Bubyrd, Rat Catchers’ Guild ;Glisten, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Ruby, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Onyx, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Scint, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Kettle, a child; Shurq Elalle, a thief; Selush, a Dresser of the Dead; Padderunt, assistant to Selush; Urul, chief server in Huldo’s; Inchers, a citizen; Hulbat, a citizen; Turble, a citizen”

[thethornofcamorr]

this book is gonna make me dnf the series

[pippenplayz]

So Rise TMNT Duo names I've heard:

🟪Don & Leo🟦

Disaster twins

Midnight Duo

Team Dusk

🟦Leo & Raph🟥

Magnetic Duo

Leader Duo

Switch Duo

Blue Raspberry

A-Team

🟧Mikey & Donnie🟪

PB&J Duo

Smarts and Crafts

B-Team

Sun & Science

🟦Leo & Mikey🟧

Baja Blast

Portal duo

Sun and eclipse

Sunrise Duo

Tidepods

Unicorn Bros

Dr Duo

🟥Raph & Mikey🟧

Sunset Duo

🟪Don & Raph🟥

Brains and Brawn

Jampackets Duo

🟨April & Don🟪

Bannana Pancakes

DNA Duo

🟦Leo & April🟨

The gay agenda

Ikea Duo

🟧Mikey & April🟨

Orange Lemonade

Citrus Duo

🟥Raph & April🟨

Eldest Siblings

Pink Lemonade

🟥Raph & Cassandra🏒

Shred Red

Cherry Duo

🟦Leo Future Boy🔑

Father and Son

Sensei and Student

Edit: This is constantly updated with every Duo name that gets commented that I don't have in here.

[bekaterrier]

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[fallowhearth]

It might be stockholm syndrome at this point because the book is so long, but. The recurring cutaway gags and punny references to Bugg being [redacted] are quite funny. I'm not too proud to admit it.

Also, I like Chief Inspector Rucket of the Rat Catcher’s Guild. Much more effective deployment of the sexually abnormal fun little freak than early-book Shurq.

[the-evil-duckling]

Part 5 (will I ever stop? Perhaps not):

"I am a caster of nets.

Tyrants and emperors rise and fall. Civilizations burgeon then die, but there are always casters of nets. And tillers of the soil, and herders in the pastures.

We are where civilization begins, and when it ends, we are there to begin it again."

The Kenyll'Rah demon Lilac, to Trull Sengar

A short series of malazan quotes, part 1:

"The flower defies."

Tiste Andii poem, in its entirety.

[chloristoflora]

"You asked, a moment ago, how I honour the memory of our parents. I can tell you this, Brys. When I see you. How you stand. The deadly grace – your skill, taught you by his hand – well, I have no need for memory. He stands before me, right now. More than with Hull. Far more. And, I'd hazard, I am much as you say – like her. Thus," he spread his hands helplessly, "you ask for help, but will not hear what I tell you. Need there be reminders of the fates of our parents? Need there be memory, Brys? We stand here, you and I, and play out once more the old familial tortures."

"You describe, then," he said hoarsely, "our doom."

"She could have saved him, Brys. If not for us. Her fear for us. The whole game of debt, so deftly contrived to snare Father – she would have torn it apart, except that, like me, she could see nothing of the world that would rise from the ashes. And, seeing nothing, she feared."

"Without us, then, she would have saved him – kept him from that moment of supreme cowardice?"

Brys was facing him now, his eyes glittering.

"I think so," Tehol answered. "And from them, we have drawn our lessons of life. You chose the protection of the King's Guard, and now the role of Champion. Where debt will never find you. As for Hull, he walked away – from gold, from its deadly traps – and sought honour in saving people. And even when that failed… do you honestly imagine Hull would ever consider killing himself? Our father's cowardice was betrayal, Brys. Of the worst sort."

"And what of you, Tehol? What lesson are you living out right now?"

"The difference between me and our mother is that I carry no burden. No children. So, brother, I think I will end up achieving the very thing she could not do, despite her love for Father."

"By dressing in rags and sleeping on your roof?"

"Perception enforces expectation, Brys." And thought he saw a wry smile from his brother.

Midnight Tides, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #5)

[jmmangkukulam]

One of my fav panels of Basilio 🐈

The Executioner’s Squad. Trese: High Tide at Midnight, written by Budjette Tan, illustrated by Kajo Baldisimo, book 6, case no. 25

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

Going buckwild at the way Hilda The Series portrays adulthood and loneliness. Kaisa has no one to go to to ask for help getting the due book back, even though all it would take was someone she could minimally ask to knock on an elderly lady’s door and ask for a favour; she’s in the library after hours, is shown to have no allies aside from the woman who raised her and who she lost contact with. Johanna is only ever seen working or caring for Hilda, and her lack of a life aside from those two activities is pointed out by her own daughter when she thinks that this is going so far as to affect their relationship. The bell keeper lives alone in a small cabin on the edge of town, barely within city limits and away from everyone, a house barely even inhabitable and clearly only a place to sleep and eat. He works a solitary job and he’s the only one in the town still working it, meaning he’s probably overworked and forced to pull inhumanly long shifts. Victoria hyperfocused so hard on her projects that whatever friends she had before - and she must have had some from college time at least - lost contact with her, and she never made any other connections in Trolberg, anything that would tie her to the city and it’s inhabitants and make it so it wasn’t worth it to live by herself at the top of a hill. Even when that was over, she still chose to isolate herself somewhere abandoned and keep what was essentially another machine she’d built as her source of company, something she could understand and control instead of an unpredictable human being. Gerda works a job she likes but is shown to be disregarded by the person she works the most around, her abilities and intellect thrown aside for the good of someone she has to bear because of a hierarchy she was forced to accept in order to keep working. She’s appreciated by the town, but other than the main characters, we don’t see anyone paying her any mind when they don’t need something from her.

Meanwhile no kid has ever been alone in Trolberg. The mean kids are a group, the good kids are a group, even the gloomy teenage girls are a group. One of nightmare inducing entities, but a group nonetheless. All children in that world seem to operate on a ‘no man left behind’ code, looking out for each other even if they aren’t exactly fans of one another, helping even grown ups without asking why and working together. And this logic seems to extend to the adults who work around children too; especially the Raven Leader, who we see that through the children works as a vital part of the community and a way through which it comes together.

This isn’t very articulate but do you see the point? Do you see how clever that is? That a show about growing up has these themes? You can be magical, kind, strong, intelligent, competent, but none of that will make you truly happy if you don’t keep the most important thing from childhood? If you don’t keep your friendships, your bonds, something to tie you down to your reality and your community? The adults in the show all made their choices, and it’s okay to want to be alone, we all need it and some more than others (this is coming from someone who needs it a lot), but isolating yourself completely is the one thing that will make growing pains truly painful. I’m just so emotional over it. It’s so subtle and so clever considering the whole Mountain King plot that Hilda is willing to change species because she feels detached from her main relationships and surroundings. I love this show so much.