#truly extraordinary

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

Hozier, baby! ✨️🫶🏼🌈

[corrosivesaints]

ao3 word count currently sits at 85,927 words which is an INSANE and WONDERFUL output in uhhhh six months

[sunshinemage]

It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

well that's a lot!

[microchive]

just pussy cunt bossed ate left no crumbs slay mama boots the house down houston deceased my paper 2 english lit final 😎 wrote a solid 3 pages of long and girthy paragraphs for a comparative analysis on the worlds clunkiest dell computer that would eat and delete sentences if i tried to add text in the middle of a paragraph. most adrenaline inducing 2 hours of my life

[hecateisalesbian]

THESE ARE BOTH SO GOOD WHAT???????

Just a scene that's been in my head for the better part of a year. 🥰

[corviiids]

my incredible friends got tim downie aka gale baldursgate of waterdeep to read me part of the iliad (tl. stanley lombardo), book 3, the roast of paris

(my eternal gratitude and love and awe and soul to @magusculpa and @argetcross)

[mysecretwindowuniverse]

1x15 | The Scarecrow

Oswald and Ed 🐧🧩 (officially) meet for the very first time, and right off the bat it was obvious how incredible their dynamic was. Gotham made a lot of missteps throughout its run, but it absolutely stuck the landing when it came to this scene

I'm firmly in the camp that for Ed, it was obsession at first sight back in episode 6

Probably went on the hunt for each and every scrap of information he could find about Oswald and his villainous escapades, and subsequently always kept an ear out for any mention of Oswald's name around the precinct

Hence why (in my view), when the opportunity to finally interact with Oswald presented itself, Ed was utterly incapable of playing it even remotely cool.

Ed - my guy - Oswald is a Gangster. You can't just openly stalk him around the precinct and share 'neat' facts about methods that help bring more baby penguins into the world 😭 😭 FFS that's about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the skull

As for Oswald, he is just - so done throughout this entire interaction. In the span of two minutes he manages to speedrun through more emotions than some people experience in a week; truly, a work of art.

[leclercskiesahead]

Came across a whole lengthy discussion about whether helmets destroy a driver’s hairline and whether Alonso, Vettel, ham, and Pierre are getting/have gotten transplants, how long ago their hairlines started receding etc.

So funny. Carlos exists as an antithesis to this whole conversation.

[one-pissed-off-child]

Yooooo wtf??

More Nevermore

[call-him-akihiro]

Hellverine (2024) #1

Writer: Benjamin Percy

Artist: Raffaele Ienco

[etirabys]

me: goddamn, I reviewed some fiction I wrote merely 4 months ago and it feels like it was written by a completely different person with way more life in them. the past months have been rough. I need to stop waiting around taking it easy, waiting for my energy to come back. I should just do the hard things I'm putting off

brain: like rereading and reviewing Nick Lane's dense book on the origin of unicellular life in hydrothermal vents

me: noooo anything but that

[turnipoddity]

hiii just wanted to say… i love ur art sooo much… quite shocked at the follow i got from you, you are one of THE saw artists

DUDE PLEASE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU’RE LITERALLY DA VINCI INCARNATE

[mxnordberg]

Self-soothing

[Image ID: A digital illustration of Ayda Aguefort - a young black half-phoenix woman - looking over pages in her spell book. She's sitting with a weighted blanket spread across her legs and the open book in her lap; with her right hand she's stimming with the short hairs on the nape of her neck, and her left hand hovers, postured and curled, over the book's pages. She has golden-orange runic tattoos on her arms, her hair is a fiery bright poof of coiled undercut, and she wears an oversized 'Fig and the Cig Figs' tshirt. Her flaming wings are arched and curled around her shoulders, sheltering her off from the rest of the room. The edges of the frame are decorated with thin golden lines and stars.]

[captainsavre]

shon8177: Yes #itstime #station19 #savestation19 dsavre is amazing!! 🤩

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Oh hey I'm legitimately about to start crying over a middle-grade book. Ok.

[jaskefer]

Obsessed with the idea of Extraordinary Things being a back and forth between Jaskier and Radovid, with Jaskier trying to draw him out in the first verse, and Radovid finally answering him in the second.

Cause like, with Radovid, Jaskier meets someone who he can't fully read properly. He knows there's something under the front of a drunken, bumbling prince, but he doesn't know him well enough yet to be certain as to what.

So, he tests the waters a bit. throws out a line to see if Radovid will take it—and he does. A little bit. But it's so interesting to me, because it doesn't just feel like Jaskier is trying to nail down Radovid's truth in this verse; it feels like he's injecting elements of his own mask into it, as well.

"Keep your words on ice, your gaze lights the fire. They say 'keep on playing nice,' but I have no desire. Why waste our words when lips were made for extraordinary things? It's not a want, it's a need, it is paying no heed to what others say to sing."

This is Jaskier's read of Radovid as he knows him so far: a man hiding more complex wants beneath the veneer of a drunken party boy. But it's also Jaskier admitting that he knows this about Radovid because he wears the exact same mask himself.

Much like how Jaskier and Ciri speak through Geralt and Yennefer in order to process their own feelings about them later in the season, Jaskier sings through himself in order to comprehend who Radovid is. Jaskier is using the performative persona he's crafted for himself in an attempt to coax Radovid out of his.

All of it leads into the main intention of this song: "The greatest songs are made up of unspoken words of love. Of them, I've had enough. with you, I am enough." I am tired of having to put up a front. I want to be understood. I think you understand me. Prove me right.

And Radovid sees what Jaskier is doing. He comments on Jaskier's ability to see people for who they are and not who they pretend to be. But there's still more he wants to understand. This still feels like a game, in a way.

It's only after Radovid sees the brutality of Dijkstra and Philippa up close, watches them orchestrate the assassination of the queen and threaten to incriminate him if he doesn't fall in line, that he then grasps the vulnerability in Jaskier's lyrics. Jaskier is also caught between multiple conflicting desires, that of his loyalty to Geralt/Yen/Ciri, and that of his work as the Sandpiper & how said work is backed by his continued commitment to Redanian Intelligence. That internal conflict and the desire to escape it is also highlighted in the song's first verse ("they say keep on playing nice, but i have no desire"). Only after all of this, when true fear begins to take over and the game stops being fun, does Radovid truly begin to truly understand Jaskier.

And so, he seeks him out. And he responds.

“Drop the sweet disguise, your heart’s beating too loud. The fairytales and little lies can’t drown out all the sound.” You were right. I do understand you. I know what you really want, because we're the same. You can’t hide it behind a façade of a song and a story and a persona.

“Take this heart and break this heart for extraordinary things.” I don't know what will become of this, or us. I still don't fully know if we can trust each other. But no one has ever seen me in the way that you have.

It's not a want, it's a need. With you, I am enough.