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[shadowphoenixdraws]

Come to the party! = ] Partygoers are such funky guys, love and hate them.

DO NOT REPOST MY ART.

#backrooms #partygoers #blood #unsettling #idk man i've never pposted fan art on this website #if there are any tags i need to add please let me know! #tw body horror #tw horror #tw blood #added a few more tags to this one

[beaulesbian]

Every once in a while I think again about the end of Thriller Bark and feel completely insane and ill about Zoro's sacrifice, FOR LUFFY, specifically (you know, the character Kuma's threat was directed at). It wasn't even that long into traveling together, a few months maybe, yet Zoro was ready to give up everything in that moment - in the chapter with Kuma appearing being titled The End of the Dream ! - to protect his crew and Luffy, so he could continue in his journey.

Since Luffy and Zoro met, they always understand how words and promises were imporant to them - with Luffy punching Helmeppo in ch. 3 for lying to Zoro. Zoro learnt how serious Luffy was about his dream, and soon he realized he backed up his words with actions as well - untiying Zoro and giving him his swords back - his biggest treasures. It meant that Zoro could be honest and honor-bound in the same way to Luffy, to gain this mutual respect and trust between them since day 1. To wield his swords to protect both Luffy and later their whole crew, and to step in a way between Luffy and danger.

He was being actually more upset that Sanji got up from the previous Kuma's attack and interrupted their fight - Zoro was trying to keep the whole crew safe by this exchange for Luffy's head - if Sanji was offering his life for Luffy half dead and without much strength left to fight for himself (he started the offering of his own life already believing he woudn't survive, with a "you should find a new cook"), then this very specific sacrifice would be meaningless to the crew (- if this arc was taking place post WCI, then it would turn out very differently, with the strength of Sanji believing in Luffy, but it wasn't his moment during this scene) - it would hurt them more than help them, because as much as Zoro was prepared to die as well, he was prepared to keep fighting until the last breath.

Zoro was thinking he might die - Kuma's words were pretty certain he WOULD die - but he still had the willingness and strength to take on the deal for Luffy, for his captain and his crew. ("if i die here, it just means I wasn't worth much to begin with" this line he says times and times again during the overall story, like in Rogue Town throwing Kitetsu and waiting if it would cut off his arm, up until standing against King in Wano "it's my power that was lacking", and all the other times he was questioning his worth - it's something he tempts the fates he doesn't believe in, to actually harm him, to take his strength away if he doesn't deserve to survive. and it's him saying he knows and accepts his own weaknesses - of not being strong enough (in comparison to Sanji in this example), and always fights through them.)

He threw away his swords, including Wado Ichimonji - literally throwing aside his and Kuina's dream, to compell Kuma into a duel (with the anime playing 'The Very Very Very Strongest' when Zoro bowed down and pleaded Kuma, offering him his head instead of Luffy's) so Kuma wouldn't go after the crew and specifically Luffy later - no matter the outcome if Zoro would surive or not.

And then, he was actually strong enough to survive taking his captain's fatigue, agony and pain! Possibly being the only one who could survive taking Luffy's pain.

Zoro could have back out when Kuma offered him the 'taste' of the pain, with the realization of the scale of the hurt with the very possibility of dying from it. But that wouldn't be Zoro now, would it? He accepted and took all of Luffy's pain so his captain wouldn't have to suffer or die, and when they found him afterwards, he still kept standing, tense with the fatigue but alive! (again, with anime adding the music of 'Luffy's Fierce Attack' to underline the importance between these two).

He was training for this since the beginning - to become stronger to shoulder the pain of his crew if necessary. (And not only that - he was preparing for that so another Kuina incident didn't have to happen). He was the first one to fight one of the Warlords before anything really began: his fight with Mihawk at Baratie really set the tone and his own goals to overcome - a glimpse to see on how much different levels the Warlords actually were in comparison to Zoro, Luffy and the others, and if they were supposed to beat them so Luffy could become the Pirate King, that always meant to be ready and to get even stronger than them.

(small spoiler for egghead, ch. 1102: seeing Kuma (a Warlord at that time) remembering this Thriller Bark event later, during Egghead arc, and thinking that even he might have passed out from the pain, makes it all the more meaningful that it was Zoro who took the pain and withstood it - establishing how high was the strength of his willpower, already before timeskip.)

There could be so many other nuances and details from these last few chapters of this arc, and even what this deal meant for the following arcs! Zoro was still in pain on Sabaody, and because of that the crew wasn't as strong as it could have been (not to say they would have a chance anyway, knowing what all was in the motion).

The next is the tragedy and beauty of LUFFY never finding out about this. Half of the crew knew: Sanji, Brook and Robin knew the details, but would never tell Luffy - and that shows their loyalty to both Luffy and Zoro (and Zoro's decision). Luffy woke up and first thing he did was to jump up and down, excited not to be weighted down by his injuries, and only seeing his swordsman being down with injuries so severe he was out more days afterwards, knowing that something else attacked them (him = Zoro), after he was passed out from the fight against Moria, brought down his mood (even if it's not much noticable, but the change into subtle worry is there in the few next chapters).

"I can't explain it either!" - meaning he was thinking about it too, possibly how weird it was for him to move normally after such long fight. We don't really ever hear/see Luffy thinking about something, except when it's mentioned how he came up with a solution or idea, telling us there's more to Luffy than just being straightforward in his goals and speech. With Luffy being sometimes very emotionally intelligent when he wants to be, he could have figured it out from all these other people in the room asking similar questions and deducing. Even Usopp was putting two and two togehter. We might never find out if Luffy actuallly knows or not. Luffy probably wouldn't ask Zoro directly, especially if Zoro wouldn't tell first and didn't want to talk about it

- because for Zoro, nothing happened! Nothing, that would compromise his and Luffy's first promise. For Zoro to become the Strongest he couldn't back down from the duel with Kuma (just like before with his duel with Mihawk at Baratie. When he's faced with something he swore to overcome, he can't back down or evade. Even back then Luffy understood that as he held back Johnny and Yosaku, but Sanji was perplexed how far Zoro (and Luffy) would go to reach their dreams). When Sanji was asking him in front of Kuma "What about your dream?" Zoro was still thinking about his dream- it was just that the context has changed, it changed into a journey. His dream is the most important thing, but it wouldn't mean much, if, when on his way to accomplish that, he would betray his other words and promises.

#I will never get over how this very important “nothing” happened! #the first draft of this was just a shitpost with one block of text. but it seems im incapable of not adding more and more on top of it #one piece #roronoa zoro #gif:op meta #monkey d luffy #monkey d. luffy #thriller bark #zolu #luzo #kuma #bartholomew kuma #mine #gif:op manga #one piece meta #gif:zolu #one piece analysis #everytime i go into the thiller bark tag and see posts blocked bc of the other ship. i take 10points of damage :// #can we talk about how this was zoro's deal for luffy? can we? i know theres posts about it. i made few too. but theres still not enough.... #for how this moment was big. for how kuma had a memory of it even in egghead. and zoro was the only present one there (after the ursa shock #insane and ill about it yeahh never gonna shut up about zolu thriller bark #luffy one piece #zoro one piece #long post

[wizardo-yo]

hey y'all! the time has come!! i just finished a very short Wizard101 (and slightly Pirate101) fan game called Passageways!

in it, you retrace the steps of a lost adventuring group through a mysterious world and try to uncover what happened there

the link is here if you'd like to download and check it out for yourself!

#wizard101 #w101 #wizzy fandom #pirate101 #p101 #i don't even know what to tag this one as #game development #gamedev #i guess #unity3d #blender3d #also the game is free but if u wanna donate something thatd be p poggers :3c #imma be honest i say game but its more like interactive fanfiction #also okay so the footage is a little old bc i added a few changes to the decorations after recording and i didn't wanna re-edit the trailer #you know how it is #also special thankies to savethespiral for being my editor truly could not have done this without u

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

In my demented little head Sir Pentious is getting so many bitches lmao

#the best part of being a multi shipper is pairing your favorite character up with everybody under the motherfuckin sun lmfao #to name a few examples... #I read a lot of Sir Dust fic + like adding Pentious to Huskerdust for funsies #I fuckin. I made up SeraPent. That one is pretty much all me- #Sir Pentious x Niffty has my attention like there's some potential there #CherriSnake? Thats Pentious & Cherri's shipname right? #that one's got my attention too #weirdly tho Im not a huge fan of him with Arackniss? #idk I just think their color pallets are too similar and therefore visually uninteresting #same goes for him and Zestial akfkfkdkfk #look I love VA jokes as much as the next guy but characters with majority black color pallets need to be paired with either; #characters with more vibrant color pallets than them #OR characters with majority white color pallets #Im sorry man its just the way it is /j #okay tag ranting over #hazbin hotel #sir pentious #sirdust #sir dust #sir huskerdust #I guess- #serapent #niftious #is that the ship name? #niffty x sir pentious #sir pentious x niffty #idk how to tag them... #cherrisnake #I am assuming thats the ship name #late night ramblings

[found--family]

#spn polls #destiel #pining dean #thoughts #i wish you could do more than 10 options and add more words to each. #i had to group a few and probably forgot a few lesser(?) ones bc of the limit #(i think post-demon!dean in 10x03 watching cas leave him again - for a woman?! - deserves a space #i almost added the 15x19 Bring Cas Back @god moment + suicidal ideation next ep but fuck those eps #yeh if you saw me post this earlier no you didnt. i had to tweak it and we can't edit polls yet (not even tags!) #polls

[megumi-fm]

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#okay random story time i don't know why im narrating this or how i even stumbled upon this memory rn #but i generally do sad vents in the tags and for a change this is a funny one #so back in highschool (i say highschool but i mean junior college) i used to visit this park near my house a lot #i was an sg kid back then and the thing about parks there is that they're kinda beach-parks and they have the best cycling/running tracks #they're also really massive parks so i used to go often. sometimes bicycling. other times walking. yeah. the park was like my sanctuary #anyway. there are quite a few bike rental areas in the park and there was a cute lil shop next to this one particular rental place #and they sold like biscuits and water and icecreams and stuff and i went there a lot #and on one particular day i went there and there was this guy around my age part timing at that shop #now again this might be culture specific bc i dont see it in india but part timing in uni/pre-uni is pretty common is sg #a lot of shops and restaurants employ teenagers to twenty something ppl for part time jobs... anyway im just adding context #point is that i had walked to the park with my mum that day and she told me to go buy a couple icecreams so i went to the shop #and i saw this guy around my age and like. not to be a simp but this dude was so pretty? #like he saw someone had come to the counter so he looked up and shot a smile and i thought i got slapped by sunlight #i could spend the next several lines going on about his pretty tan skin and his glowing raven eyes but this is pathetic enough so ill stop #anyway he saw me and smiled really wide (customer service smile- i thought to myself) and i smiled back and asked for icecreams or whatever #and then this guy started getting chatty right. so he was all 'you come here (to the park) often right? ive seen you with your bike a lot' #see now. the problem with me is that i always think im bothering people. this poor dude was attempting to make conversation #and i was replying with one word answers #and i wasn't even realizing that he didnt want that. bc he kept asking more questions and i. kept. shutting them down. #then when he gave me the icecream he was all 'are you here alone? icecream alone is no fun... i could keep you company if you want..?' #which. he was being really cute about right. but because im so fucking dense i was all 'oh no i came with my mom actually' #and he went 'aw man' in this really cute but faux sad way which i didnt understand at the time and i left and then #after three full fucking days. i realized this man was tryna hit on me? #and then i went to the park like a week later and he was gone. poof. i even thought of asking the uncle in charge of that place #then i got too embarrassed and chickened out #yeah so turns out my neurodivergence neutralizes any sort of rizz that comes my way #i could've been chilling with a cute boyf rn but no😩 this is my destiny #megumi in the tags

[longagoitwastuesday]

I was tagged by @wearileigh to make myself in these picrews: x x x

Thank you for tagging me!

I tag @onedivinemisfit, @theimpossiblescheme, @13eyond13, @faintingheroine, @eroshiyda, @blackwoodbanshee and @elegyofthemoon if they want to do it.

#My mother saw the first one and she said it was uncanny‚ even creepy‚ how much it actually looked like me #I did wear that very same outfit a few days ago‚ but she said it was more the way the hair falls and the eye colour‚ #and that I even had the plush #It's true that one was the picrew most fun to play with because it had a lot of options‚ #but it still has the peachlike anime face typical of picrews. Mine looks nothing like that #Anyway yes that picrew was fun. The last one I found the most boring #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #Tag game #? #I don't recall #I have to go back and check because I think I had some I forgot to delete #I've added people who I think to recall did these things #Of course you can not do it #But there are the links if you want #I found one where you could make knights. That was nice

[revelingrexan]

yeah i'm gonna be having fun with this new blog (specialized-rexan). as noted in its description for the full Lulu experience:

tags to use atm: #lulu, #lulu vibes, #meta or headcanon, #apples, #duckies, #pancakes

#hazbin hotel #lucifer morningstar #hazbin lucifer #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin lucifer morningstar #...i considered adding a 'CharChar' tag and i'm considering it even more now after i typed 'for the full lulu experience' #it's not an rp blog because i'm lazy lol #it'll be a blog that changes with my hyperfixations but this Hazbin Lucifer one's gonna stick around pretty strong for #at least a few more months probably. probably a year+ lol #i love this guy. haven't been so inspired to draw so much for so long. #(probably there's gonna be minimal of my art over there 'cause i'm still not wildly prolific) (but i'm just having a good time all around)

[not-poignant]

Baldur’s Gate 3 - 16/? - Palmarosa - Astarion/Raphael

Title: Palmarosa Rating: Explicit Pairing: Astarion/Raphael Tags: (Check AO3 for the full list) Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Deals with a devil, Contracted sexual slavery, Bad BDSM etiquette, PTSD, Communication issues, Flashbacks, Trauma recovery and Retraumatisation, Dark and disturbing themes, Blood consumption, Minor character death, Canon typical violence, Dominance/submission, Top Raphael, Bottom Astarion etc.

Summary: (Set post-game / end-game) The love of Astarion’s life has disappeared to go live in the daylight with the druids, and Astarion is stuck in the darkness once more, yearning for sunlight with every fibre of his being, while bitterly reflecting on all the things that were denied to him in the end - love, sunlight, the option to kill thousands of people and become a near-god…

Raphael knows Astarion’s desperate, and comes to him with not one, but two horrid contract offers that Astarion loathes and dreads in equal measure - but the prize at the end of both are too good to turn down, and he’s become too cynical to care about how much of a good idea it is to give his body to a devil for a month or two, because really, comparatively, how bad could it be?

Palmarosa (Baldur’s Gate 3) - Raphael/Astarion - 16 - Chemical Blood and Carrion Musk

In which Astarion meets Mephistopheles for the first time and goes from 'oh he's hot' to 'holy crap he's terrifying' to '...shit watching Raphael and Mephistopheles snark at each other is wonderful' to 'OH SHIT SHIT SHIT'

#chapter update #palmarosa #thespectaclesofthor #bg3 fic #bg3 astarion #bg3 raphael #astarion #hurt/comfort #angst #whump #bg3 mephistopheles #yo there are so many different versions of mephistopheles and i went with the hottest one i saw and then added a few extras lmao #as always i'm not canon compliant #just accept you all know more than me about dnd and i'm living my best life #i should probably add a domestic violence tag between father and son into this fic sdalkfjdas

[psychiclounge]

I don't see a whole lot of fanmission discussion on here, which is a bummer considering they're such a huge part of the classic Thief community and why it's endured so long. With some of the Black Parade hype recently, I think now is the perfect time for this- here's my personal list of TDP/TMA fanmission recs! Not in any particular order (aside from the first 3-5 or so for each game, which are my personal all-time favorites) these are just taken from my highest rated fanmissions in FMSel. Each one links to a Thief Guild page where you can find the mission briefing, screenshots, and downloads.

Thief Gold: Ascend the Dim Valley Endless Rain Rose Garden The Scarlet Cascabel The Black Parade Catacombs of Knoss Alcazar Chalice of Souls Making a Profit The Sound of a Burrick in a Room Whispers Below the Cobblestone Between These Dark Walls Dirty Money Falling, In Love Autumn in Lampfire Hills

Thief 2: Compulsory Egress Into the Odd Bad Debts, and its sequel Disorientation (part of the Talbot series by Melan, along with TG FM Rose Garden) The Violent End of Duncan Malveine Feast of Pilgrims Ominous Bequest, and its sequel Broken Triad Rose Cottage Behind Closed Doors The Turning of the Leaves King Abedzen's Tomb Legacy of Knoss (sequel to TG FM Catacombs of Knoss) The Ties That Bind (the first FM I recall ever playing and, imo, a cute introduction to FMs as a whole) Old Habits and Dead Wives Vanishing Point All For a Night's Sleep The Last Lighthouse Keeper Cracks in the Glass Bloodmist Tower Finals at the Academy Heist at Hilbert's Highrise Hotel The Sun Within and the Sun Without Malazar's Inscrutable Tower Ravensreach Coaxing the Spirit Keyhunt

Here's a TTLG thread on how to set up both games for playing FMs. I personally don't use any fancy loaders, FMSel will be what you get by default, it works perfect and is all you need. TTLG overall is just a great place to be, it's good for FM hints/walkthroughs/recs and general Thief/Looking Glass discussion.

Ideally you have T2Fix already installed, but for setting your game up for FMs, you should do a quick reinstall and make sure that two options are ticked: common script modules, and T2FMDML. T2FMDML is a collection of fixes for Thief 2 FMs that wouldn't otherwise play nice with NewDark, and the scripts as I understand are for FMs that need them but either come packaged with older versions or without the scripts at all- there's a lot of older FMs out there that will be broken for you if you don't have both installed. You can just rerun the T2Fix installer for this, you don't need to reinstall the game or anything.

Thief Guild is where all the links lead, and it's a great site for finding FMs. You can filter by genre (city, thieves' highway, cathedral, etc.) or look through the usermade collections- for a start, I'd recommend looking at the collections specifically to find classic/early FMs, a category that I know I'm not hitting on much in my list here but is definitely worth checking out if you're at all interested.

Bonus Dark Mod rec: The Dark Mod is a fanmade, free, Thief-inspired stealth game. I haven't played nearly as many missions for it as I have for Thief, but it's still absolutely worth checking out to see if it clicks for you. If you only play one TDM mission, though, my personal rec is Iris.

If you have any, add on with your own FM recs also! Feel free to send asks or dms about anything FM-related, as well ^^ I'm always looking for more to check out, and always open to talk about them if anyone wants.

#thief the dark project #thief the metal age #thief gold #hi if you saw the first list i just prettied it up and added individual links/a few more related links #hopefully posts with links aren't still being hidden in tags because wow is this one loaded with them #if any of them are incorrect lmk and ill fix it it was just. So many to do #enough people were interested in the original list that it makes me think this might be a Thing people want and not just like #me giving my unsolicited opinions in the main tags #if that's how it comes off then Oh well LMAO #ive played. many more fms than this list and i could have kept going but i wanted to keep it to ones i really loved or found memorable #or fun or a good introduction to fms in general #if you're playing fms for the first time hi have fun you've got So much more thief ahead of you. there's so much out there and it's a blast

[catgirlkirigiri]

Yaay new fursona design + finally a nice looking ref sheet for them :D Had a lot of fun reworking the colors and making their markings read a bit better for a clouded leopard :3

#definitely helped that i have found good refs for cloudies bellies since the last design lol. they have such pretty belly spots augh #the swoopy bit comes from one specific pic i saw with the cutest connected spots on its belly it was sooo good #very glad the star-shaped clouds on the shoulders still fit in nicely too i was worried id have to scrap those. i even got more star clouds #on the thighs yaaay i love the star motif for her <33 also i didnt put the example necklace/choker/kandi colors on there cause they were #kinda just thrown on to show like. what you can do w the space. theyre not really important lol #theres definitely a few things i shouldve noted on or added doodles for but ive been working on this for a full day i needed to just finish #zoracontent #zora arts #clovers characters #fursona #sfw furry #zora kaseko #<- last name never ever gets used cause its old and bad but im too lazy to change the character tag

[protectcosette]

there's something very special about hanging out with new friends

#certified protectcosette original #been hanging out more with this lesbian couple i'm lowkey obsessed with #met one of them a couple years ago and have been friendly acquaintances since. then they and their partner started coming to food not bombs #so we've been doing that together the past few months. and then we did trivia last week with another girl from fnb! which was very nice! #and then we carpooled to a ceasefire rally thing today and they invited me to have tea at their place after (and offered to feed me) #(i declined but its very nice) and its just like? oh they like my company they think i'm cool? they want to hang out with me? it's magical #like. all the excitement of the first few dates with a new romantic partner but steadier. more reliable #and i think it's really sad that we don't really celebrate platonic connections in art the way we do romantic connections #a couple weeks ago i was like. why is there not a wedding-like ceremony for celebrating friendships? #and now i'm like. i need songs to listen to that reflect being platonically smitten with people. but it doesn't exist in the mainstream #i'll write this shit myself if i have to but still this needs to be everywhere #aromantic #aspec #adding aro tags bc i think yall will understand

[daedalusdavinci]

lil more effort for day 13 bc im in a drawing mood (for now.)

#aradia august #my art #i need more ppl to like. understand how few pose refs there are for fat ppl #if you draw fat ppl you have to get SO GOOD at adding fat in after figuring out a pose and its so fucking hard ok #its hard and no one understands. bc no ones fucking drawing fat ppl #i see yall. i see you and your skinny skinny drawings. and im judging you #if you send me a link to some like. fat ref album or smthn im stealing smthn out of ur house thats ntot he point #i have the refs. i know where to look. it would just be NICE if it was EASIER #i should probs delete these tags but u kno what im not gonna

[quijotesca]

From James Somerton's Telos Pictures Indigogo

"The Creeping Normal: A horror feature film about a gay college student who becomes the accidental hostage of a serial killer. He keeps himself alive by becoming a sort of councillor, or even friend, to his captor. Eventually becoming something more?"

"councillor?" WTF?

He couldn't have possibly have gotten that idea from a certain manhwa he read and did a video on? Hm...

Too bad we'll probably never see this movie. I am so hyped for the scene where the couple looks dead into the camera and talks about how women aren't sophisticated enough to know a fucked up relationship when they see one.

While this proposal isn't identical to to the manhwa in question, I don't think Somerton would've been able to add anything to the concept other than misogyny.

ETA:

I finally got around to Hbomberguy's video. So Somerton had already cancelled a project called "The Final Girl." This was a bit sus because he had a book called The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix on one of his year-end best of lists. Sure, I don't think that Hendrix invented the concept of "final girls," but again, I don't think Somerton would've been able to add anything unique. Except misogyny, of course.

#Expanded post and incorporated a few of my tags from the original version #Video link leads to an archive #Added some more Telos pictures wankery in a reblog #I don't think I watched a lot of this guy's vids #But that was one of them #Who was supposed to write these movies anyway? #The YouTube Telos teaser said 'therapist' and not 'councillor' #I had to go really out of my way to find that version #James Somerton

[lady-harrowhark]

What do you imagine weddings in the nine houses are like? Do you think they still wear white or abide by any more traditional pre-resurrection customs? Since Jod drew so much inspiration from both Rome and Catholicism (Catholic wedding doctrine is based on the ideas of free will marriage that were tradition in ancient Rome) I think it's likely but there has to be some insane necromancy element too. Maybe a riff on the eucharist from wedding masses? Also, how do you think it varies from house to house? You always have really fun and creative ideas about the world, so I thought I'd ask your opinion about one of my favorite random headcanons to think about. (P.S. I hope the eras concert was fun!!)

Oh gosh, first of all, that is incredibly flattering lol. Second... I actually hadn't given this just a ton of thought before getting this, so it's been fun to thing about!

I think they probably resemble Christian/Catholic wedding ceremonies enough to be recognizable as such, but I would love it if they were like, the funhouse mirror version of that. I LOVE the idea of the Eucharist being involved prominently, but maybe even at a more symbolic level? Like we could obviously tie that to the whole "consume the flesh" thing, but I just feel like Tamsyn could come up with a really cool play on that concept that would never even occur to me lol.

I kind of doubt they wear white; I don't really have a good rationale for this other than vibes. Just thinking about how we see a decent range of aesthetics across the clothing of the Houses, especially in color, it would track that they have differing customs for wedding/ceremonial attire as well. Like, I can't really imagine that the Sixth whole gray librarian thing translates into formalwear the same way that say, the Third does (although using the Third as an example feels like cheating, because I suspect they go over the top for EVERYTHING so no one was gonna be doing it like them anyway lmao).

As an aside, I'm pausing for a moment to push one of my most indulgent AtN bingo card items, which is Harrow wearing white. I know the Lyctor robes are like, iridescent white, but I mean purely white. With Alecto getting so much imagery around light, and how Harrow describes her in the Tomb as wearing wearing "a white shift", it could be a cool parallel. Oh also, now that I think about it, the whole thing about Harrow being a nun, i.e., "betrothed to the Locked Tomb". Plus like, there's something there about the way it would be close to but not exactly like the iridescent white of the Lyctor robes, like, John was trying to emulate that and could only achieve a flashy approximation. And something something Harrow setting aside the black of the Ninth something mumble. But mostly, I'm heart eyes over more wedding/marriage imagery for her and Gideon 🥰 (Idk what to make of that in contrast to the white that the Tower Princes wear, but it's entirely hypothetical at this point, which means that I can ignore anything that doesn't fit my agenda.)

On my last reread, one of the little details that I was actually really taken by was that Magnus is noted to be wearing a wedding ring. So that tradition still stands, at least for the Fifth, and I absolutely melted over it.

I would kind of assume the vibe of a wedding ceremony varies from House to House, maybe along the lines of what we know about the cultures of each and what they tend to emphasize. If that's the case, I would LOVE to see a Seventh wedding; I bet it's gorgeous and deliciously fucked up. I'm really really curious about the wedding that Tamsyn has mentioned being in AtN, especially because she mentioned party dresses, and you know how I love putting blorbos in outfits. I suspect that her saying that is a bit of a red herring... Like if I'm giving my best guess, there WILL be a wedding (an actual one, not just a symbolic Lyctorhood whatever wedding) BUT I don't it will be the focus. I could see it being used really neatly as backdrop for some heisty business, more of a plot device to get people all in one place or as a distraction. I'm not getting my hopes up to see the actual ceremony, I guess is what I'm saying. The real action might be happening in the next room over.

(and P.S. THANK YOU! It was AMAZING and honestly, probably the best night of my life and also I cried for basically the entire thing, I still cannot believe I was lucky enough to be there. I got to go with my best friends, who live quite far away from me and I hadn't seen since January, which made it that much more fun. We went to the second night, and we mostly stayed off our phones/away from any social media so that we could go in and be completely surprised without having seen anything about it, and I'm so glad we did! I wouldn't have held out if we were going to a different date lol.)

#me writing about weddings in the love-and-grief series: 😐 #me adding a post script about the Eras tour: 😭 #no joke though i did tear up a bit. which isn't surprising because i also get teary when i rewatch the videos i took lol #live music in general makes me really emotional but i also get really emotional about Taylor's music in particular #having grown up right along with her (i actually was at one of her first headlining shows in 2008 when only her debut was out) #and how her album releases have magically lined up with a lot of the big transitions in my own life #but anyway now i'm derailing in the tags lol #thank you for sending this! it was super fun to think about and i want to hear everyone else's thoughts! #also sorry i took so long to get to this - my brain has been fried #i still have a few more and i promise i will get to them!!!!! #tlt #my tlt thoughts #ask #anonymous

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hey, i hate it too buddy

#Vent art #Blood #Meltdown #Self harm #My art #I'll be ok #It is what it is #Self h4rm #self h@rm #Added a few more versions of that tag #Cuz I'm not sure which one to use #character: skinny