#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.

[vanillaboyfriend]

that edit is doing better than i expected :) yippee

[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

[angeloncewas]

I do miss the community so much like some of the most fun I had fr. I still see a lot of it on my dash/twitter feed and get so nostalgic

[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?

[leprosycock]

at this point i will have almost every single blog i come across on this site blocked except for my best friends because everyone is so fucking hard to be around and listen to godbless

[fangirlofyt]

idk what he’s talking about, he shines the brightest ☀️

[spacecowboy95]

[channoticedmeuwu]

he told me I give gogo vibes

[ashton-ryder]

Day 1 in New York has been.. rough to say the least, but at least it's been shared amongst friendly faces of meeting some of his floor neighbors. Ashton hugged his mother goodbye at the Minnesota airport before finding his way in New York to the apartment building he'd be staying in for the next five years at least. Four if he really crammed hard but... after leaving the force, there didn't feel like a need to rush, he wouldn't know what to do with his time either, caving into Ruth's suggestion on building a new life in the city. Take a PhD, she said, it'll be fun she said! Ash sighed loudly in the empty quiet studio apartment on the third floor as he dropped his keys on the kitchen countertop, having just met the Roses earlier today in 301 after a.. uh, an episode on the streets. Guess he should thank Jeremiah properly, and also Charlie and JP for their hospitality, once he was more settled in and got his bearings straight, and won't get hit by a car on the roads.

Ash was about to start unpacking his luggage when he finally heard that familiar voice he had hoped to find comfort in once he landed in the big bad city. "Well, it's good to see you too," he pulled open the door, glad to gave a sense of familiarity in an environment of uncertainty, but he still rolled his eyes at his friend, letting her in to take a quick look at the new home, "no worries, work is more important, I'll found my way here just fine, even had some time to explore the neighbourhood." Ignoring the embarrassing almost car accident but he wasn't going to lead with that for her to make fun of him this quickly. He rubbed his temples as Ruth continued, a light exhale, "I told her I didn't need much things here.." Guess mom had been shipping things to Ruth earlier behind his back. "Sorry if it took up your space, I'll come grab them right now."

@ashton-ryder / four years prior

she knocked hurriedly on her neighbor’s door, donning rumpled scrubs and her backpack still on her shoulders. every pinch of excitement that had been building was in the gesture, enthusiasm sounding out in the echo of her knuckles against the wood, she’d practically run from the subway back home. “open up!” she supposed she’d lost the ability for a polite greeting somewhere between falling asleep on the ryders�� couch her first time there and spending a year of phone calls trying to convince him to come visit. “i’m sorry i didn’t pick you up at the airport.” her lab had run long, the subway delayed, everything as busy as it could be. the city teemed with life, and it suited her. she just had to make sure that it suited the newly minted occupant of #306. there was plenty to do, unpacking and furniture to be moved to the unit next door. and she was ready, her energy was boundless, if only he would answer the door. “i have all the boxes your mom shipped!”

[waytray]

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

[mecachrome]

Hi k! If you feel like it, do you have any favourite Oscar facial quirks?

omgggg anon this is only my favorite topic ever!!! (kidding but also not really 🧡)

i'm a lot like oscar tbh in that i have something of a deadpan stare and usually speak in a monotone but when i DO properly react to something i am veryyy uncontrollably expressive lolol, which i feel like is the same with him and the one million things constantly going on in his face!!! 😭 he definitely has a lot of little quirks / "tics" i guess for lack of better word that i adore so much...

^ first off one of the best ones is the way he always moves his mouth to the side (see also), but i'd say my favorite overall is just his full nose + face scrunch ! as shown in MMMM DEBATABLE and the blind rankings one that i drew earlier t__t and also the 1st gif of this gifset!!! i'm guilty of constantly bunnycoding ojp and that expression is trewwlyyy on top... as well as another quirk that's quite bunnycoded which is whenever he sort of awkwardly grimaces and shows off his teeth idk if you know what i'm talking about 😭

of course another fav has to be his eyebrow raising and just overall eyebrow Mobility, it's so fun because they're very straight and slope downward when his face is resting but they ARCH perfectly when he raises them and he can also do the like 🤨 seth everman look which is iconic 2 me. tbh i like how much he enjoys Squinting at things in general LOL

i've also spoken about how the buzzfeed uk video has such a wealth of oscar facial expressions and imo part of this is the informal and relaxed setting on top of the fact that he was being forced to overthink and react to an inherently silly concept so we get the ultimate combo of CASUALLY EXPRESSIVE OSCAR!!! prema challenges have a similar vibe but imo this is still different because it's fairly removed from a motorsport setting so he's kind of just vibing... another v endearing quirk from this video is his eye twitching / blinking that you can see in a LOT of oscar content, i feel like it's a once you notice you never stop noticing it thing because he does it all the time and i find it really cute because it kind of makes him squinch his cheek too... miss cutieful....... SIMILARLY but also from the buzzfeed video this is one of my favorite examples of how much he (involuntarily imo) WIDENS his eyes (2) when talking or listening to something, here's another moment of him doing it back in f4 so you can see it's a long-ingrained habit.

sorry i'm literally giving you the most random ass deep cuts alkdfshaldsfh but i also remember watching ted's race notebook from miami and noticing oscar talking to a few mclaren employees during the team photo and something i find so endearing about him is when people call his name / try to get his attention and he does the >whips head around and widens his eyes with a polite little smile< thing like AGHHH... qt TT___TT ok i'm going off-topic now but the surprised smile he gave lando during the miami post-race debrief will haunt my memories forever because it was so Open !!!

anyway re: the grimacing he also kind of has a neck tic he does where he stretches his neck out... and i've noticed that he's also just kind of sensitive/particular with his neck in general and is always adjusting his collar where it sits on his skin, which again is off-topic but i find really cute because i can relate (sensitive to textures) hsdafhk.

let me stop talking but last but not least i'm obsessedddd with the way he pouts in the post-quali vid from canada this yr <3 and also his tendency to lick/bite his lips which always does great legwork in terms of the heart eyes piastri narrative and his apparent thirst for lando HKLFDSHLH which while i endorse wholeheartedly is definitely mostly just an unconscious habit of his... but i think rpf is fun so who cares!!! LOL i hope this makes sense idk if i described anything properly 😭🧡