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[cyanidesouffle]

And also, Adam Kent without tattoos strikes again.

Okay but the f*ck did they put Winston on the cover for Imagine me??? 😂😂🥴😭

Don't try to argue that that's Warner. Warner doesn't wear glasses. It's literally the exact same picture as the wiki uses for Winston anyway. Glasses, book, blue shirt.

#If I'm going to gatekeep anything in this fandom it's going to be the canonical tattoos #adam kent #shatter me series

[cyanidesouffle]

Okay but why the f*ck did they put Winston on the cover for Imagine me??? 😂😂🥴😭

Don't try to argue that that's Warner. Warner doesn't wear glasses. It's literally the exact same picture as the wiki uses for Winston anyway. Glasses, book, blue shirt.

#It's like they looked over the pictures on the wiki and just guessed who was an important character #And let me tell you #Winston is not one of them #I'm sorry Winston #But you are not #You basically died in Restore me anyway #And nobody cared #Fairyloot #shatter me memes #shatter me series #aaron warner #juliette ferrars #shatter me #winston shatter me series #kenji kishimoto #nazeera ibrahim #Hi I'm not dead btw #Imagine if they had put Anderson on there 👀

[cyanidesouffle]

It's sad that the original tweet doesn't exist anymore. You can see it in the wayback-machine though.

Original that's been deleted: https://twitter.com/rickriordan/status/1023204727381786627

Wayback:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200608120048/https://twitter.com/rickriordan/status/1023204727381786627

rick riordan off the shits

[cyanidesouffle]

@sclivgnt

Okay, so TIL apparently it was the rug, not the sheets, that were sunset colored, haha

The bedsheet are gold and dark red; which idk, not really what I thought Warner would choose. I feel like he'd be such a clean freak that he'd preferred whites so that he can tell when they get dirty.

So I'm rereading Destroy me for the eighty-eleventh time (what else is new?) and I'm realizing for the first time that Warner sleeps in his own room when he's injured. I always thought it was, like, a room in the medical wing. That's what I've always written in my fanfics...

So Anderson just shows up in Warner's room twice. I'm the only one who thinks this is an important fact, but yeah. I wonder what he thinks about Warner's sunset bedspreads...

#aaron warner #shatter me series #shatter me #juliette ferrars

[cyanidesouffle]

I posted the thing!

Rating:

General Audiences

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Category:

Gen

Fandom:

Babel - R. F. Kuang

Relationship:

Griffin Harley & Robin Swift

Characters:

Griffin Harley

Robin Swift

Richard Lovell (Babel) (mentioned)

Additional Tags:

Brothers

Family

Drabble

Protective Griffin Harley

Racism

Half-Siblings

Big Brothers

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Robin and Griffin growing up together

Language: English

I'm reading Babel and there are some delicious daddy issues and half-brother times, and I might write a one-shot of an AU where they grow up together and Robin is slightly clingier. But also I want to read more because if it turns out Mr Racist is batshit crazy I probably won't be in the mood anymore. (Or maybe I'll be even more in the mood. Things would just be even more whumpy hshshs)

I want my boys to sit together by the banister, listening to the adults talking in the sitting room 😤

#ao3 link #drabble #babel #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #griffin lovell #robin swift #richard lovell

[cyanidesouffle]

just thought I’d remind you guys that Aaron Warner used to go into his fathers room at night and say that he was going to kill him, even though he never went through with it.

#I dare say that until now I was one of the few that did talk about it #And I did write a small fic about it

[cyanidesouffle]

I can't help but wonder if those are their actual names or if Griffin gave them code names, like he does for people in the rest of his letters. He already knew he and Robin shared a bird theme, so naming the rest of the siblings bird names would be code for [these are our siblings] just in case someone else found the letter.

Just a thought.

Can we talk about how Robin and Griffin might have other siblings?

“She has the letter from Griffin that Robin never opened. Meanwhile she’s read it so many times she’s memorized it. She knows three names – Martlet, Oriel, and Rook. She can see in her mind’s eye the final sentence, scrawled before the signatures like an afterthought: We’re not the only ones.

“She doesn’t know who these three are. She doesn’t know what this sentence means. She’ll find out, one day, and the truth will dazzle and horrify her.”

They have other siblings who Griffin loved, who Griffin wrote to, who Robin never knew about because he never opened Griffin’s final letter 

#babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #griffin lovell #robin swift

[cyanidesouffle]

Since @jitteryhands asked

I have a drabble sitting in Word. It's 1.7k words so far. It doesn't have a proper ending yet, and I'm not completely sure what I want Griffin to be like as a teenager.

Also it's way fluffier than I was expecting. And of course I've managed to put humor in there too.

Here's the first 150 words:

Griffin had never asked for a brother; or a second charge as Lovell had put it when he came home from Canton with a small, pale eight-year-old in tow. But Griffin wasn’t stupid, but more importantly he wasn’t blind.

He was pretty sure Robin also knew, because once during dinner when Professor Lovell had reminded Mrs Piper not to serve Robin any sauce; because apparently, Robin couldn’t handle dairy;

“You see, unlike the Europeans, almost the entire Oriental are naturally disinclined to dairy products. Their stomachs cannot handle it”, the professor had explained to them.

Mrs Piper had said, “It’s a good thing Griffin can eat it. Otherwise, it would hardly be worth getting the ingredients for only two portions.”

And from his seat Robin had perked up, “Well the Professor can drink milk, so it makes sense”, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, and Professor Lovell’s fork had stopped halfway to his mouth. - His face as close to stunned disbelief as Griffin had ever seen it, and Griffin had had to pretend he had gotten something stuck in his throat to cover his laughter.

I'm reading Babel and there are some delicious daddy issues and half-brother times, and I might write a one-shot of an AU where they grow up together and Robin is slightly clingier. But also I want to read more because if it turns out Mr Racist is batshit crazy I probably won't be in the mood anymore. (Or maybe I'll be even more in the mood. Things would just be even more whumpy hshshs)

I want my boys to sit together by the banister, listening to the adults talking in the sitting room 😤

#babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel #griffin lovell #robin swift #richard lovell #mrs piper babel #fic snippet #wip excerpt #while this is unpolished i do want to write another bigger more coherent story where Robin visits Griffin at oxford

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Griffin: Actually he's talking about me.

Robin: Oh

Lovell: You know I had a son once.

Robin: I'm right here.

Lovell: Sometimes I can hear his voice...

Robin: I'm RIGHT HERE!

Lovell: If only there was some way to find him... but alas.

#I'm sorry #incorrect quotes #robin swift #richard lovell #babel #incorrect babel quotes #griffin lovell #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #how in the hell did Griffin manage to continue living in Oxford without running into Lovell a single time? #Maybe Lovell used the cabs most of the time #but it feels like a huge risk

[cyanidesouffle]

Wouldn't it have been so cool if, instead of going to the tailor, Professor Lovell would have kept Griffin's old clothes up in the attic or something, and Robin would have been wearing his hand-me-downs?

And Robin would have been like, where are all these clothes coming from? Who was the boy who was here before me?? omg what if he died and now there's a ghost?! 😨 (Lovell: Boy, ghosts aren't real, go back to bed.)

But then also I wouldn't be surprised if Griffin was such a rambunctious child that there were no clothes to spare. Like, that boy definitely climbed trees based on how he was able to scale the tower wall with a rope. (And he probably got into fights with London street kids when the professor was off to Oxford.)

#Yes Babel is my new hyper fixation if you haven't noticed already #I haven't even finished the book yet #But I am thinking about all the AU prequel fics #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #robin swift #griffin lovell #richard lovell #headcanon

[cyanidesouffle]

Me: Griffin would totally read the communist manifesto and keep it underneath his pillow like a bible, and also try to learn German just to read it in its original language.

History: The communist manifesto wasn't published until 1848, and the book takes place before the opium war between the British and the Chinese, which started in 1839.

Me: Fuck.

#babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #rf kuang #griffin lovell #fanfic problems #history #headcanon #robin swift

[cyanidesouffle]

Me: Let's keep it simple. Write a montage of Griffin first being jealous of Robin because Professor Lovell is more chill with him, but then Griffin becomes protective and is a good big brother ❤

Also me: What if I write Griffin at uni with his own cohort and one night Robin just shows up at the doorstep of Magpie lane because he ran away from home after Lovell's friends said something racist to him at home??? And Griffin is all, Wow I wish I could beat that guy up; but bro, you do realize Dad is going to kill you (and probably me) when he gets here; Which is why my friends and I are going to spoil you rotten until then.

How much older is Griffin than Robin anyway? 6 years? Anthony was in his fifth year at the beginning of the book right? Or had he graduated?

I'm reading Babel and there are some delicious daddy issues and half-brother times, and I might write a one-shot of an AU where they grow up together and Robin is slightly clingier. But also I want to read more because if it turns out Mr Racist is batshit crazy I probably won't be in the mood anymore. (Or maybe I'll be even more in the mood. Things would just be even more whumpy hshshs)

I want my boys to sit together by the banister, listening to the adults talking in the sitting room 😤

#babel an arcane history #robin swift #fanfic ideas #griffin lovell

[cyanidesouffle]

I'm reading Babel and there are some delicious daddy issues and half-brother times, and I might write a one-shot of an AU where they grow up together and Robin is slightly clingier. But also I want to read more because if it turns out Mr Racist is batshit crazy I probably won't be in the mood anymore. (Or maybe I'll be even more in the mood. Things would just be even more whumpy hshshs)

I want my boys to sit together by the banister, listening to the adults talking in the sitting room 😤

#babel an arcane history #robin swift #fanfic ideas #griffin lovell #richard lovell

[cyanidesouffle]

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

[cyanidesouffle]

Warner: So that's why everyone kept calling my father a dilf...

Juliette: Is the plural of milf/dilf milfs/dilfs or milves/dilves? Nazeera: Milfs. Nazeera: Milf/dilf is an acronym, you can't change the spelling to milves/dilves. Juliette: Wait, they're acronyms? What do they stand for??? Kenji: Mom in late forties, dad in late fourties. Kenji: I learned that from the movie called M.I.L.F that I saw the trailer of in theaters probably 5 to 7 years ago. Nazeera: Mom/dad I'd Love to Fuck. Juliette: WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK— Juliette: I NEVER REALIZED IT WAS ACTUALLY HORNY! Kenji: Oh, is it not mom in late fouries? Nazeera: What? No! It isn't! Kenji: THE MOVIE TRAILER LIED TO ME! Nazeera: Kenji… Kenji: THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T THINK CALLING PEOPLE MILFS WAS ALL THAT BAD BECAUSE IT STOOD FOR SOMETHING HARMLESS IT JUST HAD A SLIGHTLY SEXUAL CONNOTATION! Warner: I am entirely unsurprised that this is coming from you. Kenji: Juliette, DOES IT MAKE SENSE WHY I CALLED THE DIARY OF A WIMPY KID MOM A MILF NOW BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS LITERALLY JUST A DESCRIPTOR WITH FUNNY CONNOTATION! Juliette: The word milf has been ruined for me. Nazeera: THAT'S ITS DEFINITION, IT CAN'T BE RUINED THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS! Warner: * looking at all of them questioning his entire existence*

#paris anderson #shatter me incorrect quotes #aaron warner

[cyanidesouffle]

OMG look at themmmm 😍

And James is holding onto Warner's armmmm

squad goals

#shatter me #kenji kishimoto #nazeera ibrahim #aaron warner #juliette ferrars #james kent #adam kent #shatter me series #fanart

[cyanidesouffle]

#shatter me series #aaron warner #kenji kishimoto #juliette ferrars #that is her tag #you know that it is #who else thought renaming your MC in the middle of a book series was a good idea?? #no one that's who #can you tell i'm salty today? lol