#she had a lot of disguises

[gayangelcrimes]

Forgot to mention it but the other day I dreamed of an episode of supernatural where Dean and Sam and Bela(?) were like. Trying to escape a sieged house. And the cops got Sam I think but Dean and Bela escaped (she helped him disguise himself as a cop I think? And then they hid in another house and escaped from there) and afterwards they showed a little coded message exchange and there were like 4 or 5 messages but the only thing I remember from it is one of them said something like "coffee asexual" and I was like wow big win for the ace gang on tumblr. And then the dream changed to something else

[dootznbootz]

Penelope is also Athena's pet/blorbo/special little mortal/etc. and if you think otherwise you're straight up wrong.

You're also wrong if you think Athena only likes Penelope because of Odysseus and/or Telemachus. As if Athena didn't see a young Penelope pull some shit and immediately think "Oh! Another mind to mold! C'mere you! Let's do some riddles and weaving!". Athena was happy that two of her favorite pets have met and fell in love!

[non-un-topo]

Thinking about the sniper duo

[mabaris]

alright so now that we’ve gotten some actual crumbs, it feels like it’s a good time to lay out my prediction for what da4 is going to look like. writing this in a letter and mailing it to myself

we are part of an underground organization formed from the ruins of the inquisition to stop solas from ending the world

meanwhile the wardens have been researching the blight/the location of the archdemons and discover some secret about the location of the black city/what is actually contained in it

we’re supposed to be shocked at the reveal that the evanuris are trapped in the black city and the maker doesn’t exist

the ancient elves were in control of some crazy mutating technology (like in hormak) and that was the original source of the darkspawn. the whole thing about them being from the deep roads and a dwarf concern was actually just a red herring, they’re just underground because they’re powered by lyrium and this has ALSO been an elf thing the whole time :)

anyway, now we need to Double Make Sure the veil stays up because the evanuris have something even worse cooking up in the black city and we need to prevent them from unleashing a super blight and destroying all life, and our job is to convince solas to give up, not because we disagree with his plan but because his actions will have unintended consequences. even if he doesn’t care about everyone else and wants to rebuild the world, he won’t even be able to do THAT because the super blight will kill elves too. so although we WERE enemies we will have to band together to defeat the greater threat etc. it will be optional to recruit him as an ally/advisor, or you can just fight him directly and take control of his forces

we will have to cross into the fade AGAIN and storm the black city directly to put a stop to whatever’s going on in there

[britneyshakespeare]

I can't believe the Younger Brother (1689) by Aphra Behn has the only one bed trope

[barbatos-sama]

in accordance with the accidental M naming convention i created, i have decided minette and mikhail's daughter's name would be masha

[lazaruspiss]

After everything DC has done w babs and her disability ive developed a knee-jerk reaction whenever i see any art of her standing 😭 like no im sure random fan artist #1337 doesnt hate wheelchair users theyre probably just a modern reader its fine its fine and even when its not its DC's fault not random people who read their comics without knowing all the context

[silverselfshippingchaos]

I keep having to pause the game because. Wow. He is so pretty.

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

how it feels being a true anti-hero lover and analyzer when most regard it as an overplayed weird-lyric radio song

[mermaidsirennikita]

So I saw your tags about how the Ravenel series is a bit mid, and I don't disagree despite liking some of them a lot? Marrying Winterborne was my first intro to Kleypas, and it fucks real hard, I love it. I have a soft spot for Chasing Cassandra because I enjoyed Tom in previous showings, and I found their dynamic compelling.

But I didn't even finish Ethan's book because I couldn't be arsed, and I bought West's and wished I hadn't I was so incapable of getting into it. Anyway, this is all to say that you're not wrong, and are in fact generally right.

(In positive news tho, re: Marrying Winterborne, never gonna be over the scene where she agrees to fuck him and then after she's in the bath and he's like "I'm changing her agreement" before realizing "Oh shit, I've made this woman panic, fuck shit". Anyway, have a great day.)

"you are not wrong, and are in fact generally right" I sincerely love this lol, it sounds like something I would say to a friend of mine

Marrying Winterborne DOES fuck so hard, and I think that because of this, the series in general gets a strong rep than maybe it should...? Because in terms of popularity, I think Rhys is absolutely up there with some of Lisa's top heroes--people like me who prefer her older books love him, people who prefer the Ravenels adore him (generally). I don't think I've met a Kleypas fan who doesn't love that book, though I'm SURE some don't. And you do really need to read Cold-Hearted Rake for the background of MW (the first time I tried to read MW I did it without CHR and was like "this fuck is this"). I wonder if this is why CHR gets so much flack? Even though, and I will die on this hill, it's PROBABLY better than Devil in Spring and definitely better than Devil's Daughter and Hello Stranger? (I really need to give Chasing Cassandra another fair shot because I remember very little of it; I think the one-two punch of Hello Stranger and Devil's Daughter, two of my least favorite Kleypas books, made me very burned out when I read it.)

Ethan's book was very disappointing to me because I actually was very excited about Garrett as a heroine beforehand. And I do.... wonder if Kleypas changed plans, the way she famously did with Scandal in Spring. Because there's a scene in... MW I think? Where Garrett and Tom have like, an arm wrestling moment, that makes me wonder if the original plan was Garrett/Tom. Again, I need to reread Chasing Cassandra to really experience THAT pairing again--but I do think Garrett/Tom would've been more interesting than Garrett/Ethan.

I mean, HS was also fucked from the jump because it had that really racist "Ethan got his sexual education from an exotic Indian woman" thing, which shocked people into calling Kleypas out, and I think triggered the Great Kleypas Editing Hackjob. Which, by the way--it does speak to how much name and expectation matters, because while what Kleypas wrote into that book is absolutely awful and unacceptable, I feel like it's portrayed as this shameful anomaly when I can think of at least one smaller name (but still notable) author who wrote a historical with a MUCH worse depiction of India around the same time. Which doesn't excuse what Kleypas did, I just dislike the idea that Kleypas was the only one doing that in the 2010s, when that's faaar from true. Historicals still haven't figured that out, and sometimes I think the recaps of how the Hello Stranger issue was handled read very "look Patrick, we saved the city" because the biggest name got dogged into apologizing/editing. Either way, Hello Stranger is mid without that content and it's gross with it, so I usually put it at the bottom of my rankings. Either way, it ain't up to par and I can't judge it fairly in its edited form at this point.

Devil's Daughter is just Not Good. And I will take my lashings from everyone who loves that book, because everyone loves Kleypas soyboy West Ravenel, and I just have to say--do these people like THE BOOK? Do they like PHOEBE? Because everything I see is all about West West West and even if I was into West, which I Am Not, I feel like there has to be more to a book that's being upheld as one of her recent bests than "I love him". Sorry, the plot of DD is boring at best and lame at worst. Phoebe hates West because he was her dead husband's childhood bully, and I do mean childhood? And sorry to Phoebe's dead husband, but he's dead and fictional and I never met him and I don't care. And West is a less interesting Leo Hathaway. He stopped drinking and realized booze was giving him the dad bod, so he's hot now (my kingdom for a dad bod historical hero). And now he's boring because he's not a rake anymore and has responsibilities, but like? He just sounds like a fuckboy before his redemption lmao. Like a bit of a wastrel. Leo Hathaway was out there crying in a public sphere and giving great advice to Kev Merripen like "if you don't get with my sister, one day you're gonna wake up covered in tears and your own come and realize you have nothing but regrets" to which Kev goes ".... is that what.... you do...?" Leo Hathaway readily admitted to waking up on the regular covered in tears and semen. That's a true wreck.

And Leo is in itself the softer Kleypas hero type--other "redemption" heroes are like, Sebastian, who kidnapped his wife's best friend and threatened to rape her! Derek Craven, who was born in a drainpipe and fucked for money for years (not that this is anything to feel bad about, but he does) and owns a degenerate gambling hell lol. John McKenna, who comes to find his childhood sweetheart with the explicit intention of like, filling her belly with his fetid seed and siring a bastard on her so that she'll be humiliated forever I cannot. Why would I be impressed with West going "I was kind of a loser tbh" YOU ARE FINE. THIS IS BORING. GIVE ME ANOTHER THING TO CARE ABOUT.

But yes, I love that scene in MW so much. To me, a lot of MW's charm is that Rhys severely does not know how to talk to women, or romance them in a tender way (him fucking shit up with Helen with the flower situation is hilarious sorry). And he also does get legit douchey with Kathleen, lol. He very much gets a little threatening and is all "SO YOU WANTED A BIT O' ROUGH" and Devon has to do a mild Westcliff moment. Kleypas heroes: always mad when their best friends get sexually aggressive with their women, always ready to forgive after like a week.

[goldensunset]

FINALLY

[dootznbootz]

Odypen definitely and equivalently adore each other BUT I weirdly can't see them as the type to actually say "I Love you".

They still definitely vocalize their love for each other but it's more so in "My Joy", and "Extraordinary Woman", "Strange Woman/Man", etc. And very cheesy lines (both say some cheesy shit in the Odyssey, and he definitely does in the Iliad as well. "Joy like a drowning sailor seeing land" bit???)

I could see "I adore you" but even then, that's probably during very specific moments but the actual "I love you"??? I just typed it just now for fic shit and... It weirdly just didn't feel right and I don't know why. 😅

Idk maybe it's kind of because I see them as over the top in ways, they love wordplay and riddles and I think they'd almost think "...That's not good enough >:( " about it??? I don't know???😂

[lc20-official]

It was so weird that “Ruby Gillman” coincidentally has an instance of grooming from Chelsea/Nerissa and it was released just when Colleen Ballinger was cancelled for that same reason.

[zcrayas]

Which character archetype are you?

the Beast.

Misunderstood, perceived unfairly as monstrous. A person with kindness, with a penchant for indulging and caring for other monsters if no one else will.

tagged by: @hexenjagd (thank you kindly!) tagging: anyone who hasn't done this one yet!

[livingecho-arch]

since my poll has literally everyone telling me to post spoilers , here we gooooo -

this knowledge is very hidden . your muse does not know anything about this . vis goes to great lengths to see that this is kept secret . she has revealed this to a few select people that she trusts , because if this knowledge gets out , she can very well lose everything & risk death .

vis has a deformed arm , her right arm is half the size of her left . it only has three fingers ( the thumb , pointer & middle ) with no real palm form . it is strange for a vhae ninu ( trans : sea foam / a vyotous not of natural birth ) to be deformed since they are copies of elves & humans . what's stranger is that @necroecho , her Other , has both of his arms .

she has hidden this since the early days of her kingdom & has destroyed any evidence of her deformity many years ago . vis uses a prosthetic arm that looks like an over - sized doll arm . with the use of illusion magic & her gravity manipulation she has made it look & act like a real arm . she is unsure why her arm is deformed when her other is fine : her theory is that upon creation her shadow was cut off by a tree or something . another is that getseigeist , being a man of magic , attempted to stop his shadow from being taken but was only able to save a small piece , resulting in her malformed arm . she has no real answer .

no one is allowed to know , not even lovers . she will try to best to keep it secret , choosing to keep up the illusion magic even if its draining . eventually she will tell her lovers if they plan to bed her & she can't keep up her magic during that anymore . with someone having this knowledge , she views it as them having a loaded gun pointed to her head . she will pay you or even take you out if you cross her because of this weapon they hold ... even if the person reasures her they will not speak of it . she cannot risk everything she has on a simple promise .

her arm is her arcane focus as well . without it , she cannot cast magic as she has difficulties without a focus point to cast out of . it is not uncommon for non - mage vyotous to struggle with this . she will lie & say it is her rings on her middle fingers that are her focus when asked .

bonus : she paints the small nails on her little arm black like the rest of her nails :) they get to match .

in modern she has those really expensive prosthetic that got like robot bits in it so it moves to her brain waves & shit . she is never seen without it until for a bath , bed time , or she forgot to charge it .

tw , self harm :

she does claw & cut at her shoulder & what little of the arm there is out of self hate . small scars dot her right shoulder , some fresh & some old .

[mybrainproblems]

brain is just mii waiting room music as i consider where i've ended up in my supernatural fandom journey