#using them to track her down

[seijorhi]

hi rhi!! oh my god violent delights was SOOO good 😭 the way reader quietly accepted her fate but also seemed to have some part of her almost WANTING that fate with hajime?!

at the end did hajime know that reader didn’t willingly stop writing him letters and that the psychiatrists and their parents had told her that he was dead? im assuming he had an inkling bc he mentioned not believing the psychiatrists saying that the reader was the one who had cut him off!!

and now how would it go with their parents? reader doesn’t really talk to their parents but im assuming from the horrific murders they would want to reach out more…?

ty my love!!

it's a cruel kind of wish fulfilment. all she ever wanted was to have hajime back and now she has exactly that. there's no take-backs just because he's a rabid, possessive psycho with a sister complex. hajime's not going anywhere (she wouldn't be able to bear losing him again).

as for whether he put it together, he suspects as much. once he's calmed down a bit, slaked a little of that fury and furore burying himself inside her, they'll talk about it. he still wants to hear the words coming out her mouth; she didn't stop, she didn't forget, she didn't know. it broke her too.

and then, naturally, he's gonna pay their dear old parents a visit, and he's not really in the talking mood.

also i think you're giving them too much credit. they're not completely unfeeling, but they're not good people. they were happy to lie to their daughter knowing it caused her so much pain because it suited their agenda. they didn't lift a finger to stop her bullying, and blamed her for her own inability to cut hajime out of her life and forget/move on like they had.

[i-didnt-do-1t]

Man I love Katherine So Much

[pieofdeath]

augh god that was so good. im gonna miss these kids so much.

[starfieldcanvas]

So if it's not Paladin of Souls, which is the Lois McMaster Bujold book you talked about in your notes? I'm curious 😊

The Sharing Knife! It's a four-book fantasy series in a setting based on the Great Lakes region. I was clueless enough the first time around (and so heavily used to vague-medieval-renaissance-Europe-expy fantasy settings) I didn't realize it the first time I read the series, but it's very obvious once you think about it at all, and sometime in the last two years my library updated the audiobook covers from the original "beautiful high-effort romance novel painting where they're both white" style to the "expressionless racially ambiguous cutouts that make the setting explicit" style:

(These are the same book.)

It's a story about fantasy Native Americans ("Lakewalkers") and fantasy white settlers ("farmers"). The actual cosmology and history of the fantasy world is very different from our own—everyone is native to the same continent, and have been living in roughly the same area for at least a few hundred years—so the politics of settler vs. native don't actually apply in the same way. However, the tension of "people who share the land" vs "people who parcel off the land to sell" is still very present, as is the tension of quasi-nomadic groups with seasonal camp rotations vs. people who stay in place and build large towns with industrial capacity.

And then, of course, there's the magic. The Lakewalkers have limited hereditary magic powers, plus magic monsters they're sworn to fight; the farmers have no magic and no defense against it either. Farmers tend to mistrust Lakewalkers and misunderstand Lakewalker magic; Lakewalkers keep the secrets of their powers under wraps and often look down on farmers as a kind of invasive pest species. As I mentioned in my tags, Lakewalkers' most important magical tools involve someone choosing the time of their death—though typically only when already dying of terminal illness, old age, or a mortal wound.

If you love the movie Ever After like I do, you may remember the part where Danielle says to Leonardo, "A bird may love a fish, Signore, but where would they live?" The Sharing Knife is a series about a bird (Lakewalker) and a fish (farmer) that get engaged halfway through the first book and then spend the next three and a half books figuring out where the hell they're going to live...and slowly realizing they may have to remake society in order to find their place in it.

Even the book where they first get together is not really what you'd call a romance novel, but every book in the series is a lot more focused on a central romantic relationship than most fantasy adventure books, so it's interesting from a genre perspective. "Established relationship" is normally my second-least favorite AO3 (my least favorite being major character death) but the political and magical worldbuilding, and the family dynamics on both sides, kept me very invested even with the amount of meandering domesticity on display throughout the books.

There are some potential triggers to ask about if you have common trauma triggers, and the main romance has a pretty big age gap, which I know is a turn-off for some. But if you ever found yourself asking "why is the Wizarding World's excuse for keeping muggles in the dark so fucking flimsy?" or "how the hell does Wei Wuxian stand living in the Cloud Recesses when most of Lan Wangji's sect hates him?" or "why aren't more fantasy authors as obsessed with craft skills as Tamora Pierce" or "why aren't there more permanently disabled fantasy protagonists who actually have to cope with the limitations created by their disability?" or "why aren't there more fantasy protagonists who genuinely lack magical powers?" then this may be the book series for you.

[velvet-games]

I genuinely need a hug after the completely unnecessary panic I just went through cause I thought I couldn't upload my art here anymore 😭

[quietwingsinthesky]

See, the thing about the Amy episode that makes Dean’s actions so reprehensible is not only the part where he doesn’t trust Sam and goes behind his back to kill Amy or even the hypocrisy of Dean ‘you can’t change what you are so you’re going to kill someone eventually’ Winchester sparing the kid right after stabbing his mom, it’s that Amy is very explicitly supposed to be a Sam parallel. There is no other way about it, from the they’re both freaks part of it to Dean dropping the line about ‘the other shoe’ right before he kills her, she is Sam, how Dean reacts to her is supposed to give us insight into how he feels about Sam. And Dean. kills her.

The not very subtle subtext being that Dean is ready to off Sam if he goes too far off the deep end? He’s aggressive and mistrustful of Sam at every turn in the episode, lays the feet of it all at Sam’s hallucinations maybe leading him astray, but end of the day, Sam’s crimes here are A) was tortured in Hell and B) is traumatized by that in a way that makes Dean’s life more difficult.

And it is hard to watch. To spend this whole episode with Sam being completely functional on his own, making a rational decision based on past experience and on all the information about Amy he has available, and for the episode to end with, ‘but yeah, if dean thinks sam goes too far, he’s probably gonna kill him. because sam can’t change or be fixed, so it’s for the good of everyone that he be put down.’

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

tiny seed of a fic idea: the ghoul and lucy make it to vegas after 2+ weeks of Team Bonding Through The Power Of Life Threatening Road Trips, by now lucy has basically solemnly vowed to help him find his family, and then in homage to the new vegas game, cooper IMMEDIATELY gets shot in the head and dies the minute they enter vegas. he's fine, he'll be fine, he's gonna get patched up by some random good samaritan doctor and come back swinging for incredibly violent revenge. but lucy does not know this. bonus points if it's her shithead dad that shot him

[renegadeknight]

Me, sitting down for each new episode of The Last of Us:

[coconut530]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FAVORITE GAME EVER :DDDDD

[puppygirlpencil]

It's 10 squared, custom character time! Meet Alyssa the Wisp Tracker!

[lisbonsteresa]

i'm going to SCREAM

[screamsofanoutlawbrain]

I can describe my gender as being the way it is because I was built a girl, and I had to learn slowly over time that the changes to myself I have made have nothing to do with my gender or sex, but I feel like I got something a bit funky going on inside and I feel a bit like I'm not fully girl but not anything else. I identify as demi girl, and I am a demi girl in the way that a cupcake is a muffin but a muffin is not a cupcake.

Aka if being a girl was like our solar system, then I'm pluto. Technically I'm not supposed to be in there, but nobody wants nor cares to push me outta the party.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[triangle-dog]

I finally (after 5 attempts in 6 months) have managed to register Nova with the AKC without being interrupted and having the form time out - and I can't even apply for her trick titles with the Canine Partners number they just gave me!?

To some extent, I would understand if she were purebred, but do you really think I'm going to fake a 100% "All American Dog"??? (I don't even like that name...)

Come on, they would let me apply for the trick titles if I applied for the CP number with them :( My motivation is limited and your website is aversive. Just let me do everything at once

Anyway, hopefully she'll officially have her CGC in the next however many business days

[knightofleo]

[superconductivebean]

#391

FOR THE RECORD:

now i have:

The Fic aka The Main Verse aka ULtItD where Wright has to deal with… a lot, but against Rookwood, she barely has any powerful allies to back up her case against him as a sole proprietor whom Rookwood tried to extort and blackmail and kill (her previous case, in which she was stated to be an endangered student, wouldn't be even properly registered by a certain local officer and Black wasn't really interested); the case will start going somewhere ONLY after the scale of his actions is revealed to the general public AND it was confirmed by foreign ministries for magic he repeatedly breached The Statute. Otherwise, Rookwood might've lost Harlow---TO AN UNFORGIVABLE CURSE but not really to other things---but remained a free man and an eminent danger to Wright; her only chance to get Rookwood rot in Azkaban would've been jeopardized, and just killing him off or anyhow else to deal with him permanently wouldn't be an option anymore because Ministry set up a watch on her either way AND because Rookwood's allies are a terrible lot of people who are neck deep in the blood, some are die-hard blood-purists (and Wright was assumed to be a mudblood but being a half-blood wouldn't help her either), they will not turn back at one another, and if anything, would love to have Wright locked in Azkaban instead EVEN IF they're sorry for her or wholeheartedly support her;

That same The Fic but where Aesop's partner survived and this happens:

rambles in tags again!