#musings

[lambofmoss]

being weird and full of love can save you

and it might save those around you, too

[scriptastra]

[inkpressedpetals]

[lcftcult]

@phisaya

I already know what’s meant to happen. Just let me spend a little more time with you

[shamebats]

If T makes you gain weight and E and antidepressants do it too, and so does enjoying good food and not being hungry all the time, then perhaps maybe sometimes joy & weight gain come hand in hand and that's good

[pennzance]

Mustrum Ridcully (the Brown, but never to his face), Archchacellor of Unseen University, is literature's best and most astoundingly successful wrong man for the job.

Some context is important. Before ascending to the highest level of leadership within the Disc's premiere magical establishment for learning, the position of the Archchancellor was filled by whomever had successfully assassinated the previous occupant. The quickest way to move up in the world, literally speaking, was to make sure someone else dropped by an average of six feet. Of course, this led to a lot of power-hungry madmen who were convinced they could control the Forces Man Was Not Meant To Know, many of whom died with remarkably similar facial expressions when they were inevitably proven wrong.

Then along comes Mustrum. Unlike many wizards, he is an outdoorsman. He is loud. He is physically strong. He is a mountain man in a pointy hat who believes in keeping rare species rare by hunting them (and everything else he meets along the way). He is a sportsman and, generally, considered to be exhausting by the rest of the faculty.

He is also, seemingly, impossible to dispose of by the usual methods. On top of everything else, Mustrum Ridcully is a very powerful wizard. By the age of 27, he was a Seventh Level Wizard (out of Eight), and that was quite some time ago. Still, in a building of magical Oppenheimers and Einsteins, he is Theodore Roosevelt; loud, boorish, and utterly unmovable.

He has a one-track mind, and on that track runs the Ridcully Freight Train. He can focus like the sun through a magnifying glass when he wants to. He is not Stupid, but he can be a bit Daft. He would fight to the front of the line to push the button labelled 'Do Not Press, Ends World' before the paint can dry. As such, he can occasionally end up in situations no self-respecting Dumbledore or Gandalf would, but no one with half a brain would mention such things aloud for fear of being brought along on his next hunting trip or fishing expedition.

He mostly concerns himself with University affairs, taking particular glee in any legal motions a given idiot might attempt to bring against it. They have a whole pond full of people who have tried to sue the University, you see. But he also understands that the wizards, in order to be left to their own devices, should leave the world to all of the other devices.

Rare are the times when Ridcully NEEDS to step in to save the day. In fact, he never actually DOES so in any of the books. Certainly, he helps out. Does a thing here or provides a bit of information there. Despite this, however, there is never any doubt that were it absolutely required, Ridcully COULD end basically any conflict in the books with a pocket full of fireballs (9 times out of 10, anyway). That he does not, and that no one ever asks him to, speaks to the wisdom of the man and the face he shows to the world.

All the previous Archchancellors would have demanded to shape history and show off their power, you see. And they did.

But compared to his peers and especially previous holders of his job, Mustrum Ridcully is an extreme outlier and total oddity, but he is also the only Archchancellor of the UU to hold to job for more than one book. Obviously, it was the other Archchancellors who were wrong.

And Mustrum Ridcully is certainly the wrong man for the job. Here's hoping he keeps it forever.

[msanonny]

Charlie Hunnam as Jax Teller on Sons of Anarchy

[aparticularbandit]

Granny and Bugs short about who can win at losing.

They call it a draw.

something fun about all those "could granny weatherwax defeat kira" "could the infinity train fix izzy hands" sort of tumblr polls is like. there's a smug answer that's just "it depends whose story they're in," like, bugs bunny always wins if the genre is a looney tunes short but if he's in some sort of grimdark action drama then he's just a rabbit and gets shot by a hunter. but the other way to look at those polls is that's the whole question: whose genre rules have priority? there are some characters whose genre rules take priority over whatever story they're in.

here's what i say, granny weatherwax would always defeat kira precisely because granny can't exist in the death note universe without her own genre rules taking over; there's no "if it's a light yagami story then light wins" here because if granny's there it isn't a light yagami story. bugs bunny always wins because whatever story he enters becomes a looney tunes short, he cannot by his nature exist in any other context. the answer to "which our flag means death character could survive black sails?" is stede bonnet and only stede bonnet, because if any other ofmd character enters black sails they become a black sails character and most black sails characters die. but stede is the one who carries the romcom aura and that's part of who he is, if stede enters the world of black sails then black sails is now a romcom, and he's absolutely fine

[johannestevans]

"This is an accessible venue"

Is it though? Or does it just have a ramp? Does it have a toilet? Is that toilet up steps? Is the venue at the top of a steep hill that's painful to get up? Is there no bus stop outside it? Once there's an event on inside, can I actually MOVE with a mobility aid?

me stumbling over the awkwardly arranged chairs in a too-small room, or the visible discomfort on the faces of wheelchair or rollator users moving through, is not accessibility

It's great that we can get in the door. Can we then... move around? Can we go take a piss or buy a drink?

[inkpressedpetals]

[herhurthoneyheart]

I don’t think there’s a need to thank me. I believe I’ll always make time for you. No matter how loud the silence echoes between us and we don’t talk, I’ll always answer when you reach out.

Don’t thank me. Because my time is yours.

Such is the reality of a heart longing for something it cannot reach.

[dreamysdelight]

I have so much to say and no one to say it to

[writerformanymuses]

"I'm trying very hard to be good, and you're still being horrid to me."

"And I really was trying this time."

DELIRUM, YOU ARE MY LIFE AND MY LOVE. I WILL KNEEL AT YOUR ALTAR.

[spectrenun]

Kerry Banazek

[echo-temporis]

March 28: Sleep offers no escape. The dreams are worse. You’re there, vivid and real, and we’re doing mundane things – arguing about the dishes, folding laundry, just being. And then I wake up, and the absence is a brick wall I keep running into. It’s not just you I miss, it’s the us.