#you will be satified

[tonguerail]

Ever just want the ground to swallow you up on a bad day but mother nature has a better idea

[erregiulydraws]

Rainy

[mipmoth]

What if I sent them to the trenches

[possessedbydevils]

Let's talk about the Raising of Lazarus in Crime and Punishment

I think the Raising of Lazarus is a very clever way of showing Rodion being "raised from the dead". He is still connected to the murders he committed, but here, as Sonya reads the passage, he is alive again, he is not dead with the old woman and her sister. Now, this is actually something l would like to touch on because l really do believe that Rodion considers himself dead after the murders. He was unable to fulfill his desire, to prove his theory, just when he "helped" other people by murdering the old woman, he is forced to kill her little sister too, who did not deserve to be killed (this is something l said many times, but it's important). That is why Rodion is so surprised when the corpses are removed when he goes back to the apartment, his theory is that he is dead along with them but he is still there when they are not. Now, when he goes to Sonya, despite telling her she is not helping anyone but destroying herself for the sake of her family, he still wants her to not give up, he wants her to keep going and living, despite all the suffering. That is because he sees himself in Sonya, he, too, is destroying himself and betraying himself for nothing but, unlike Sonya, his reason for it is his pride, to be impactful in the world and to be praised for all the people who were the old woman's victims, while Sonya's reasoning is self negligence, she dismisses herself for her family, though her mother was going to die anyway and her siblings would be homeless no matter what. The main reason for Rodion wanting Sonya to not give up is to comfort himself, though he does not have a purpose anymore, though no matter what he does, he cannot be good anymore, he still wants hope and a purpose to keep living. That is what he does through Sonya, if Sonya can do it, why can't he? Their suffering is the same, their reason for suffering is the same, it is for no reason at all. When Sonya reads the passage, she gets more serious, and into the moment, her belief makes Rodion believe as well, that is why The Raising of Lazarus is not only Rodion's "raising", it is also Sonya's as well.

[biscuit-munchies]

are you satisfied?

[maingh0st]

First i wanna say that your writing is beautiful and thank you for your effort for taking time to actually write Taryn as the complex character that she is, while i think not liking taryn it not complete misogynistic since we all have the right to not like a fictional character even if it well written AS LONG AS WE ADMIT THE CHARACTER COMPLEXITY.I always loved taryn and jude dynamic and how you said every character did shitty things,i always was captivated by characters like Taryn in a way, characters who know how to make people like them shortly said characters who had this "wolf in a ship clothing" vibe,and one thing that i never saw people talk was the similarities between Cardan acting like a fool and Taryn way of acting all innocent and sweet.(and i could talk hours how the fandom perception of cardan is as wrong as is with taryn).Now this is something that has been on my mind for a while,What if there was no coup?Well it hard to tell but i always though that jude path will have been way more different than just not being queen.Withoud a coup jude would have continued to be the king spy but being a spy require hiding her abilities so how dain was going to make her part of the court ?well i cant say.Overall between jude and taryn,taryn plan would have been the first to succeed(now if locke would still be himself and get himself killed that another story).Both taryn and jude tried to fit in a world that normally didn't belong to them but guess what living in faerie requires some sacrifices.

thank you so much!! I've had so much fun filling in the gaps for both her & the Ghost. I think I've said it before, but I honestly had fully neutral feelings about Taryn until I started engaging with the tfota fandom and was just kind of... shocked by how people talk about her.

and I absolutely agree! I was responding to an ask saying that a lot of the overblown Taryn-hate seems like misogyny at this point, and I do agree—there's just this weird misogynistic undertone to a lot of the most vitriolic anti-Taryn content in the fandom. but I would never say that every person who dislikes Taryn is a misogynist; that would be wild lol. everyone has character preferences, and some people just don't vibe with the kind of character she is even while they understand her role in the narrative. like you said, though, a lot of people seem unwilling to engage with her as a complex, layered character, and that's where we get into weird double-standard territory.

it's a fun thought exercise to consider what might've happened if there'd been no coup. I'll borrow the Ghost's words when Jude asks if things will be better with Dain as King: "Things will be as they always are. Only more so."

I think Madoc would still be angling for power—after all, he wanted a King who would go to war (and a King he could manipulate). assuming that the existing animosity between Dain and Madoc persisted, I imagine Jude would've eventually found herself in an awkward position between her loyalties to both of them. perhaps she'd be able to hide her spying from Madoc (maybe she'd even become a knight as a cover for her time away), but I'm sure Dain would use her to spy on Madoc, or ask her to go to extremes to prove her loyalty. his geas would've remained a double-edged sword, too (girl really got out of that one too easily—consider an entire lifetime under his thumb?). I'd like to think her good heart would eventually make her unable to continue serving him (Jude's not really an idealist, but she is unwilling to bear with corruption), but it's possible she could just go on a slow downward slide. consider the Ghost, who certainly wasn't proud of poisoning Liriope, yet did it regardless for his service to Dain.

that's not even really to get into the side characters—like I imagine that Cardan, never being put in a position to grow and prove himself, would've spiraled worse (especially if Balekin survived). etc etc. honestly, the books strike me as the best-case scenario. it seems like things would've gotten a lot uglier if the coup (and Cardan's ensuing kingship) hadn't panned out!

[strigops]

ngl this was a religious experience. i ate three of them just standing in the woods and every one was a little different depending on ripeness, can’t wait for the ones that weren’t quite ready yet to (hopefully) ripen on my counter and take the seeds to a good habitat to make more.

[bullshitcharacterssay]

Thanks for answering my ask I would like to see the funny quote

Hvitserk: Ubbe is definitely my favorite brother.

Ivar, remebering all of the time Hvitserk stayed with him even though he was being a bitch: Are you sure about that?

Ubbe, remebering all of the time Hvitserk followed Ivar even though Ivar was being a bitch: Are you sure about that?

Bjorn, Sigurd, Ragnar, and everyone that has ever met Hvitserk and Ivar: Are you sure about that?

Hvitserk: UBBE IS MY FAVORITE BROTHER!!!!

[artxofartemis]

please tell me i'm not the only one has for headcanon that everytime kevin has a "egoistic" reaction about riko's probably reactions (for example his reaction on neil tattoo burned) he's not thinking about riko anger in general, but he's thinking about riko's fury because he know that riko will vent on jean, so in these moment he's afraid for jean

[averagemrfox]

The series of events that is Shadowheart’s backstory if she turns away from Shar tho

Kidnapped at a young age by Viconia while doing her Selunite right of passage by order of Shar herself -> groomed and abused by Sharrans for the next 25-30 (assuming she was between 10-15 when kidnapped and is 40 now?) years -> even in the cloister they were never able to completely take away the parts of of her that were antithetical to Sharran beliefs -> sent on what seems like a suicide mission considering everyone she was sent with died to retrieve the Mysterious Artifact™️ -> Mysterious Artifact™️ turns out to be the one thing that can prevent people from going full mindflayer thrall -> basically the moment she’s away from other Sharrans she begins questioning everything she’s been taught and acting in ways that she was taught not to -> the Nightsong is the one thing keeping Ketheric immortal, and has to complete the trials to become a dark justiciar and… oops I’ve saved the daughter of Selûne

[layzeal]

god wen qing u got done so dirty by the narrative, i can't think abt u too often or i'll cry

[callisteios]

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[undermine-the-instinct]

After I finish Finals and all my assignments I'll be able to focus and finally update my stories, particularly Bard!Reader and The Sesshoumaru fic

[lubtubby]

Watching people snort drugs is so satisfying

[toteslegittaustralian]

[thousandheadeddolphin]

I promised to post more art so I guessIll finally make good on that

Her name is tallahassee (She/her)