#qt vibes

[spacecowboy95]

[m4movies]

Kill Bill Vol.2

[artino-c]

In Thick as Thieves, Costis draws a parallel between Kamet + himself and Immakuk + Ennikar, but I’ve always wondered how Kamet would have related to the poems when he was young and had dreams of running the Mede empire from behind the scenes.

Kamet's scholarly description of the Immukuk and Ennikar tablets invites an obvious comparison to the real-world epic of Gilgamesh:

“You said you were reciting from the first tablet,” said the Attolian. “There are more than a hundred in the temple of Anet alone,” I said. “No one knows how many there are altogether. Scholars argue about it. Some of the tablets are retellings of other tablets, only differing in style. Sometimes parts of the story change.”

Thick as Thieves, Chapter 2

This could easily be a description of our reception of the Gilgamesh story, too, with significant differences between various ancient traditions, and the role of Enkidu (loosely, a model for Ennikar in QT) changing drastically between the Sumerian vs. Akkadian versions of the myth:

In the Sumerian tales … Enkidu is Gilgamesh’s servant, not his friend. […] Indeed, it seems that converting Enkidu into Gilgamesh’s friend was the seminal change by which the Akkadian author lent unity to the materials which he used in the epic. […] To enable Enkidu’s death to turn Gilgamesh from the pursuit of lasting fame to a literal quest for immortality, the Akkadian author seized upon the sporadic hints of friendship in the Sumerian tales and applied them across the board, consistently terming Enkidu Gilgamesh’s friend, brother, and equal, whom he loves and is to caress.

Jeffrey H. Tigay, The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic

In QT, following MWT's tendency to make her myths a little more hopeful and YA-friendly, Immakuk and Ennikar escape the land of the dead, although we don't know how because that part of the tablet is broken. (Another neat callout to the Gilgamesh epic, which survives mostly intact but with significant portions missing!) But in the real version, Gilgamesh's love for Enkidu becomes a springboard for the poem to explore the inevitability of death: in fact, depending on what you understand the 12th tablet to be doing, Gilgamesh loses Enkidu not once but twice.

The parallel/earlier tradition of Enkidu as Gilgamesh's servant begs the question whether there are similar traditions about Ennikar in any of those alternate tablets Kamet mentions. If there are, it would point to another obvious parallel that a younger Kamet might have made—between Ennikar and himself as Nahuseresh's (or Naheelid's) right hand man, guarding him faithfully between adventures and somewhat subject to his dangerous whims. Compare these two passages:

Gilgamesh went up to the top of the mountain, and offered sacred flour to its peak: “Bring me a dream, mountain! Show me a good omen.” Enkidu built him a house for the Dream God, with a windbreak against the storm. He had Gilgamesh lie in a circle of sacred flour, while Enkidu slept like a snare in the doorway.

Gilgamesh, trans. Sophus Helle

Nahuseresh was a light sleeper, a matter of necessity for him, and when he’d opened his eyes in the darkness of his room and seen a moving flicker of white, he had been instantly alert, slipping his hand under his pillow for the long knife he kept there before he’d rolled quickly to one side. He’d found a woman standing calmly by his bed looking down at him. […] He had wanted to ask where she’d come from and what had become of Kamet, who should have been sleeping in the anteroom….

Queen of Attolia, Chapter 17

And of course the comparison to the original myth (all about death!) wouldn't be complete without Gen's apology:

"I'm sorry," said the king. "I know you wanted your chance at the emperor's side, even if it meant your death would come with his." "We all die," I snapped.

Thick as Thieves, Chapter 13

None of this is to negate the primary (and frequent) parallels between Kamet and Costis's journey/friendship and Immakuk and Ennikar's adventures in the QT poems! I just think the secondary, potentially darker parallels are interesting too.

[waytray]

【オタ活vlog】 otaku girls relaxing vlog 🎀 oshikatsu, maid cafe & more! ♡ オタ...

[papa-poutine]

Do you guys think cliff booth and rick dalton ever explored each other's bodies

[arytha]

im 7 chapters in guys 👍 i wish this wasnt so brainless but im not completely turned away from it yet

[kellylor]

A few weeks ago I was catching up on the vorkosigan saga tag and saw a fic request where the prompt was a sedoretu with Cordelia/Aral/Simon/Princess Kareen and I thought instantly, why have I not been constructing headcanon sedoretu for all my favorite fictional worlds this whole time?? I mean ok it's because I don't participate in fanfic and also I still don't want to, but I do love working out headcanon nonsense for myself, and also sedoretu.

And ever since then I have had an intrusive thought that will not go away until I write it down somewhere I guess, which is that the most obvious sedoretu in the history of fiction not written by Ursula K. Le Guin is, of course, the Queen's Thief royal couples. It's practically canon already. I mean we have Actual Canon that sleeping with each others' spouses is the primary winter entertainment in the Eddisian court (it also happens quite a bit in the Attolian court, but like 80% of it is just Relius sleeping with everyones' spouses at every opportunity). We have Gen's extremely chaotic bisexual energy. We have, well, everything going on in A Conspiracy of Kings, including Sophos and Gen acting toward each other nearly the same way Gen and Irene do during the marriage/treaty negotiations in the Queen of Attolia.

I also already love the evolution of Irene's relationship with Helen, and it's obvious by The Return of the Thief that they love and support each other. You know, because they are also married to each other.

Shit, out of curiousity I just searched AO3 and got zero results for Queen's Thief fic tagged sedoretu. This is bullshit. Is this going to be my fanfic writing origin story?

[softness-and-shattering]

Is this the same Chinese app that gets posted here sometimes that people have trqnslqted? Like the dress-up-as-regular-things, ans the woman with huge heels ...throwing q nilkshake at someone? And theres one of two guys in tge rain throwing shoes at eqch other? Seems like fun.

Tbh id kinda like to join but Idk that I can pick up a new language and alphabet rn, plus the tonal nature intimidates me a lot. If someone/s want to share more of whats going on there that would be great though.

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[spacecowboy95]

[channoticedmeuwu]

he told me I give gogo vibes

[vanillaboyfriend]

that edit is doing better than i expected :) yippee

[tetzoro]

eeeeep wanted to jump on board ෆ

no theme. I just wanna know ur aesthetic. here I’ll go first

[waytray]

2025 is not ready for me !! (a chill november vlog) ❄️🎀

[xxepherr]

hasan blurb/fic idea or request (idk if your taking requests?)

hasan blurb/fic based on the tree decorating stream but reader is very particular about how she thinks tree should be decorated and hasan just sits back and observes her lovingly decorating the tree while chat is saying he's down bad the whole time 😩

.ೃ࿐HEART EYES

summary — in which hasan can't help but sit back and watch with adoration while you decorate his christmas tree

pairings — hasan piker x reader

pronouns — she/her

word count — 736

note — they're not dating in this one but you can assume they're unofficially dating or not yet at the point of sharing their feelings. up to you! (also this is super late but i was away for the christmas period so!!)

YOU'D STAYED OFF YOUR phone ever since you last watched hasan and murat go to home depot with rae, marche and qt. you technically had other things to be doing — for one, finishing wrapping christmas presents — but you also wanted to be entirely blindsided by what hasan would be bringing home with him.

to be fair though, you hadn’t expected him to bring home multiple dog statues. when you knocked on the door to hasan’s house and his dad welcomed you inside, you were hoping that he’d come back with a tree and decorations, maybe some lights that you could string up across the trees in his yard.

the tree you were currently staring at was ugly. seriously ugly. apparently it was qt’s choice ( like the dogs ) to get it, and apparently it was the least ugly according to murat.

YOU stood there in the most disappointed fashion anyone had ever seen. once glance at chat and they all shared the exact same sympathy.

“hasan,” you interrupted his mindless chatter about how he was decorating the tree. you weren’t even sure who he was talking to anymore — it sounded more like he was trying to reason with himself that he was doing a good job. “can i just—“ you cut yourself off, now wanting to sound demanding when you were his guest. “nevermind.”

he had stopped the second he heard your voice directed at him instead of chat anyway, the baubles forgotten about in his large hands. “what’s up?” he asked, all his attention on you.

you blinked. “uh, tinsel and lights usually look better if you put them on first.”

without a word, he scooted the box of baubles away with his foot and pulled the tinsel off from where it was hanging around his neck like a scarf. “then it’s all yours,” he announced, placing the tinsel around your neck like a silver medal.

the atmosphere was different because qt and rae weren’t sticking around for the decorating. you kind of wished they had stayed because the vibes would've been easier to deal with. you hadn't been alone on stream with hasan since the recent . . . development in feelings that had started to bubble up into existence.

the second the ornaments were in your hand, you were in complete control of decorations. years and years of being the designated tree decorator as a kid were coming back full force. you started at the top, walking around the tree to sit the lights in an evenly spaced manner down the tree, and then did the same with the tinsel.

hasan was — uncharacteristically — at a loss for words. his eyes were on you the entire time, capturing every movement you made as if he would miss a thing if he blinked. he had very little commentary, fixated on every aspect of you like you would disappear, slipping away like you were never in his house in the first place.

the chat was not helping his case.

"shut up, chat," he tried to keep his voice low and serious, "i am not down bad. shut the fuck up."

you heard him of course, the space between you not large enough to whisper secrets. that, and you'd felt his eyes burning holes through you, a silent shadow across every one of your movements. every ornament

you heard him of course, the space between you not large enough to whisper secrets. that, and you'd felt his eyes burning holes through you, a silent shadow across every one of your movements. every ornament — all of it. you could only imagine what his twitch chat was saying as he cleared his throat uncomfortably at being caught.

he didn't have the pleasure of staying in the unknown, unable to tear his eyes away from every chat message, peripheral vision on you through the monitor. every down bad, whipped, are they dating? multiplied tenfold, then triple that. and triple it again. he was in for it now, and you were — supposedly — none the wiser to any of it.

you knew, you could tell. heat burnt across your cheeks as you kept your back turned, yapping on about decorations to chat to provide an out to hasan, a way for him to involve himself in the conversation to change the topic.

there was really no use in keeping it a secret now.

[someslothcheese]

Alright, bored now 😭 Might do some more PR1 streamers in the future

"Important" explanations beneath cut

Squeex - "Pookie Bear", Super Mario 64, I would have him on my island idk

Yarders - Gave the yard boys matching blue shirts, again. All species were just vibes-based.

Qt - "Teapot elephant", Mickey Mouse headband and shirt

Jerma - Jerma you're a rat. You'd be a rat. I think you'd be a rat. I think I'd be a wolf. I think so too.

Pointcrow - Gave him the Mogul Moves shirt because I'm biased

"Hide and Seeker's" - Cj and Fir as their icons, Failboat as a penguin :]

Stanz - Unpaid intern outfit, tried darker hair shades, did not work

Atrioc - originally had him with more bloon's monkey patterns, looked weird, and not like him without the "beard". Made him the goat, didn't want to be too much bloon monkey.

Doug - Just gives me horse vibes idk - Typical "Scientist Doug" outfit.

Ze & Chilled - Made Ze smoulder, idk if I like it though LOL, and short hampter Chilled is odd, but I like the "design".