#there's a metaphor in there somewhere

[lilcetis]

tbh i never bought the whole "there's something special in callum's lineage and that's why he can do magic" when lujane makes it clear that magic isn't about heritage, but wisdom. its just that magical being are born with the wisdom, but knowledge can be learned by anyone. like, maybe, just maybe, callum was the first human primal mage... because he was the first one to ever try?

[sargentcat]

and yet someone will eventually change the psychologically more challenging version in to a much faster one by some technique that let's them jump under all the platforms and straight to the other side

[fairsweetlonging]

imagine if after the transmigration shen qingqiu became a combination of shen yuan and shen jiu, not in a "second person living in my head" kind of way, but a "this house is haunted and carries the echoes of the dead" kind of way; imagine shen yuan having nightmares about a house, a fire, a faceless boy behind a door he can't remember; imagine him having flashes of emotions he doesn't understand, rage at a name he doesn't recognize, helplessness when yue qingyuan apologizes for something he won't mention, nausea when ning yingying says the name "a-luo"; imagine parts of his own self have changed too, how he now likes bows in his hair, pretty flowers and flowing robes, but can no longer stand a stranger's touch, a man's touch, yet he longs for the brothels, but never sexually, only fondly, like there's something there he misses. there are many empty spaces in his heart where he feels something is missing

[adhdandcomics]

whoever needs to hear this: if you got a disability, if you don’t know if you have something, if you ever think “it’s not that bad” if you have a thing about guilt, if you’re ill, Anything: listen. it is okay to throw things away.

you can throw it away. if it sucks and it stresses you the fuck out, if you just “need the right time to fix it” for the past 3 months. or years. if you loved it once upon a time but it makes you feel kinda weird and guilty now. if it’s a jacket youve reaaaally been meaning to mend and then donate. a jar of sauce that “all you have to do” is clean out to recycle but it’s been a week and now there’s a small colony growing in it. slowly shredding to bits fabric scraps you plan to use to fix something. busted picture frame. cracked mug. old shoes. extra box. an entire pack of granola bars that you hate so much but don’t want to waste.

life is already so goddamn difficult for us. i know you still care about recycling and the environment and sustainability. but it’s okay, i promise. sometimes you have to take care of your space. sometimes you have to cut your losses so you can actually have energy to recycle the next thing. get rid of the old shirt before it turns into a tornado pile of guilt under the bed. you’re not a bad person. you can throw this one away.

[pokeberry5]

something like tim convinces himself that robin has to be a Boy™ and then steph becomes robin and shatters that conviction and all his repressed gender feelings come spilling out, but actually letting go of that conviction isn’t all that easy

if there's no homoerotic tension between you and the manifestation of your alter-ego that you’ve constructed in your mind, do you really have identity issues?

closeups + refs (leyendecker) + bonus:

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Oh you have a first edition! Yes, Viserys II was originally Aegon III's son rather than his brother. However, this was corrected very early on (in 1998) when a fan pointed out the math didn't make any sense. See the interactions here and here - the fan's email is not included, but I'm sure it would have to do with the ages of Aegon IV and Daeron II.

This, by the way, is why in the rewritten family tree, the 13-year-old Aegon III married a 6-year-old (and didn't have children with her until she was 16 and he was 23), whereas the 10-year-old Viserys II married a 17-year-old and had his first child at the age of 13. Because even with the corrected arrangement of birth dates, the ages of their respective children and the kingship of their sons still didn't make any sense otherwise. Sometimes the fact that GRRM can't math has big effects on the plot.

FTR, the current version of that page in the AGOT appendix looks like this:

and it's been the standard in everything related to ASOIAF since GRRM made that change back in 1998.

Ok just saw this when rereading A Game of Thrones:

Like wtf???

This baby was originally meant to be Aegon III’s son, not Rhaenyra’s??? 😱

[tsukinoshinjiu]

The Goddess Hylia Reborn

[snipdoodle]

Aaaaaah I love drawing my fursona!!! I love them!!! She's like me!!! But not really but in spirit I suppose!! I wish I was a vaguely feminine but overall ambiguously gendered feline creature!!!

[formulanni]

Bite me!

Tag list: @st-leclerc @rubywingsracing @saviour-of-lord @three-days-time @the-wall-is-my-goal @albonoooo @ch3rubd0lls

[notcruvusmemes]

Naturally, even though I worked hard to fix all the ways my phone autocorrected "boop," I still missed the first one

Me opting out of hoops but reblogging all the memes about booping: "I'm not a booper, but I believe in their beliefs."

[thankstothe]

The real plot of season 7

[beneathsilverstars]

been thinking about the differences between SASASAP and ISAT lately. because looking just at ISAT and the two hats ending, you'd think loop went through the exact same house as our siffrin, but looking at SASASAP, it's different. it's mixed up. it's obviously a condensed prototype.

but. that doesn't have to mean it's a different universe entirely.

maybe that's just what happens after a thousand loops.

the house warped in act 5. siffrin lost their shit and the house got changed and corrupted, far past its baseline king uncanniness. so it wouldn't be too out-of-the-question for it to be able to warp in more subtle ways as well, due to a more subtle breakdown.

like a jpeg uploaded and downloaded a thousand times, siffrin changed, and the loops changed. over a thousand loops of efficiency, the house got more efficient. rooms combining. items moving. data compressing. and of course, run in a changed house, the script changed as well. it did so slowly, one bit at a time, over a thousand loops of zoned-out half-listening – and by the time siffrin would have noticed each difference, they were already used to it. (and in the moments that they did look at a room that was less familiar than it should be and realize that they had no idea where to find the key, well. that's just classic siffrin, isn't it.)

through sheer repetition, siffrin was corrupted, and the loops and the house along with them. all purpose lost, all signals distorted, until finally they couldn't recognize the meaning in any of it. it was all noise and despair.

so they made a wish. and the loop restarted. not just a reboot, but something more complete.

the data was backed up onto a star – a guide, a warning, a reference – and the loops were factory reset. and for the first time in a thousand loops, siffrin woke up to a clear mind and the crisp sound of birdsong.

[brainrotcharacters]

Sorry it's giving Lord and Lady Death

[camarilla-arts]

Thinking about Sandra Lynne and Sklonda friendship. Sandra had to catch the Kalina-plague from somewhere. 👀

[queermasculine]

Big dyke killer is grabbing onto protagonist's hair and protagonist cuts it to be able to escape... Then later cuts the rest of it to even it out

that or some other convoluted reason is what i thought too, but now i'm kinda feeling like going full forcemasc with it. the hair gets fucked up obviously but maybe it's the big dyke who cleans it up, as some kind of twisted act of kindness maybe. leaves the latent butch protag wondering why he's still alive. cat and mouse games

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about us being shown Eddie developing his cooking skills before buck - that were shown Eddie being able to cook a full meal (and bake) before were shown Buck doing the same thing. And something something about that foreshadowing Eddie having his full feelings realisation before buck.

Eddie’s cooking skills are on display in 5x11 outside looking in when he cooks dinner for buck Chris and Taylor - and he’s baked cupcakes for desert as well.

But we don’t actually get shown buck cooking a full meal until the 6x01 lasagne. He’s only got as far as breakfast foods when he makes Maddie an omelet in 2x04 stuck but we don’t get shown him actively cooking again until he makes the lasagne.

After that its hit and miss on the cooking and baking front for buck - burnt lasagne in a 7 and I’m assuming his baking isnt that great in 8x07 by the way Chim has one bite and then pushes the loaf away before he masters the ziti, garlic bread etc in 807 and then later the scones in 8x08.