#sorry im incapable of being normal

[cedric-k-rossignol]

stood on the cliffside screaming 'give me a reason' your faithless love's the only h o a x i believe in

[slavhew]

And I just have to tell you that I

Love you so much these days,

[npdkondraki]

sorry im going to be annoying actually. you mfers will literally say some shit about killing jimmy and then literally just not have his actual fucking victim do it. like. everyone BUT anya is allowed to commit violence towards him. i wonder why that is. its almost like the fandom refuses to see past jimmys surface level idea of her and refuses to fucking think for literally 2 god damn seconds about just WHY the actual story even happens in the fucking first place

[airlocksandaviaries]

i want him WHIMPERING CRYING SOBBING MOANING WRITHING PANTING GASPING CHOKING WHINING-

[blossoms-phan]

guys can someone reassure me that you want to read phan smut

[cygniavenue]

been stewing on this one for a while but i said i was gonna post more of my headcanons so here's a little bittersweet tidbit;

childhood was a really rough time for Diomedes and Sthenelus (and the other younger Epigoni as well) full of a lot of grief and sorrow and confusion, and the weight of your father's legacy crushing shoulders too young to uphold it or begin to understand it. Diomedes, for the most part, doesn't even remember Tydeus. All he really knows is the idealized version of him Athena and others hold him to. Sthenelus has fleeting memories of Capaneus but refuses to remember - he only resents. Their childhood was spent being trained up to be weapons.

But even so, I do think there were moments where they got to just be kids. They built their own little fort of escape somewhere they knew would remain hidden. It took weeks of stacking rocks with what little free time they had until it was perfect, and it was theirs, and it was somewhere where they didn't have to be wise beyond their years.

They eventually forgot about it as they got older. They sacked Thebes, Diomedes restored Oeneus to the throne, and then the Trojan War happened, and all the things in between being on the battlefield - getting married, becoming kings, Sthenelus even had children of his own. The fort lay forgotten and untouched, a reservoir of good memories they'd both buried a long time ago.

And then, when they're fleeing Argos, they find it again, reclaimed by the vines and the leaves. All their old stuff is in there still, little wooden swords and shields, animal and soldier figurines, drawings they etched into the rocks. It's the only place they ever had that wasn't overrun by sorrow, where they weren't forced to fill the shoes of men they don't (or refuse to) remember.

But there's just no time left. They have to leave it knowing they'll never see it again. All they can do is hope they can hold onto a fragment of the tranquility their younger selves buried there.

[zmywarkastopa]

Look at my boy improving his grades! Everyone clap for Tetora. Im so proud is this how my mother feels when I get an a lmao. ALSO HE IS SO :D I LOVE HIM SO MUCH HE IS SO CUTE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. PLEASE NEVER CHANGE YOU ARE SO DEAR TO ME.

[zaphodkilledthespeedforce]

Bad pick up line I should use:

The world is better with you in it

Our lives are better with you in it

My body would be better with you in it

[centipedeinmystudy]

how does it feel to have herbert west and crowley and Renfield and i guess also jedidiah crammed into 1 body in your dms being sweet to you

:]]]]]]] I dunnooooo :]]]]

[cactusfool]

something abt the way he comes out of the water in this ep,,,

[mxrphy]

[dieno-tsuki]

i'm yowling like a sad cat (lovingly)(???) i miss youuuu i hope you're doing okayy i hope you're eating and drinking your water if you felt like a weirdly wet sensation on your forehead just now that was me smooooching youuuuu - @teddybeartoji

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺. i love you. my precious kitty i am covering you in smooches i am clinging onto you so hard i missed you lots while i was gone !!!! crazy how in the middle of the week my forehead did feel oddly wet and warm now i know it was my guardian angel mickey <33333

[anthyies]

Hi! Can I ask for more info about the necessity of reading Baru books 2 and 3? Because ngl, I really disliked book 1. Not because of the ending. The ending was the only part I liked. I was like, "Something is FINALLY happening in this goddamn book, the promised treacherous behaviour is FINALLY here." I know some people are reluctant to read on because they found the ending of book 1 devastating, but that was not my experience. Sure, it's sad, but it's narratively necessary. So... WILL reading the sequels help, in my case? I see so many people talk about how amazing this series is, comparing it to other series I really like (like Locked Tomb). What is it that makes the sequels worth reading to someone who didn't enjoy the first one?

tl;dr: idk if you’d like them. if you’re invested in baru as a character and her emotional arc try them. Long post under the cut lmfao sorry

without knowing why you disliked the rest of the first book i can’t really tell you whether you’d like the second and third. negative reviews of monster and tyrant revolve around a) “Baru is too emotional and messy and i wanted her to be a calculating mastermind cryptarch plotting” b) on the other hand “Baru is too cold unemotional calm and it’s freaky” (she is just autistic, most people who think this drop out at traitor) c) not connecting with how the cryptarchs are portrayed as a messy group of people / not liking the expanded scope and introduction of the cancrioth (secret cancer cult) / not liking the story of ash sections that focus on a new character, tau indi bosoka. take that as you will i guess? you need to be invested in baru as a character for them to work, i think. and it depends on what you want/expect from the books. if you were bored by the first book well the second and third do have a lot of things happening like the aforementioned cancer cult. basically yeah traitor is just the start of baru, i think monster and tyrant are necessary if you’re going to talk about baru being “grimdark” (imo it’s not), or if you want to figure out what the series wants to say, but if you didn’t like the start of baru’s arc idk if you’ll like the rest of it you know? it really does depend on ur investment in baru + what you want from her; a lot of neg reviews of monster are from people who expected something completely different.

monster and tyrant are special to me because of how baru’s arc is carried out as she deals with the aftermath of traitor - her narration does get wildly more emotional which im obsessed with personally #griefcore #widowpilled, and the emotional catharsis of baru freeing her mind from the influence of empire is incredibly important and personal to me. and i rec that people who have finished traitor and can’t make themselves read the next two because of emotional devastation read them because baru dealing with the emotional devastation helps 👍 it gets worse it gets to the worst place she could possibly be and then it starts to get better. also monster and tyrant have tau in them ❤️‍��� and ISCEND. and ulyu xe becomes so important. and aminata gets to be so fucked up and closeted-to-herself-probably-bisexual. they have fucked up gay women in these books 👆

re; locked tomb comparisons I’m not into tlt like that but i don’t really understand them beyond the superficial level of “lesbians who commit atrocities and also there’s an empire and also lobotomies and also dead gf in your head”. the lobotomy and dead gf in head happen in monster and tyrant fwiw (although the context of the lobotomy is so different .. they don’t match up thematically at all lmao. the htn lobotomy is out of love the baru lobotomy is an existentially horrifying threat). baru has a very different prose style and also is a much more focused look at empire like it is about empire and colonization that is what the books are about. whereas at least gtn/htn were not that focusedly about empire. also crucially baru is about homophobia it is very much about homophobia and tlt is queernormative (i prefer baru because she feels truer to my own experiences like when i say she is just like me her journey is personal to me i mean it lmfao. stream this essay)

[ozymandiasdirge]

still deeply deeply funny to me that death note is written by someone who is so deeply homophobic he felt the need to have a character in a separate manga go on a complete non-sequitur rant about how awful gay people are and straight people are the real oppressed class, when he literally wrote thee yaoi-fication of heathcliff and cathy and made it the entire basis for his manga. insane. i need him to die in a gluetrap btw.

[waitineedaname]

thinking about. endless abyss incident.

[grmpgm]

also gonna be real bros teetering on the edge of being a fully-fleged Rush fan and idk if i can take that. Like girl we got parasocial relationship at home LMAO