#the source of the fire

[amethystsoda]

Why Hawaii needs a break from tourism — perspective from local resident palanichang on tiktok

[maiapoetica]

[korbywo]

in a Q/A with Tui, she stated that blood moons affect a nightwing's powers, allowing seers to see terrible events/disasters clearly and allowing mind readers to project their thoughts onto any dragon (not just other mind readers)

i thought this was a really cool detail, and i'm hoping that it's used in the books somewhere

here are two sisters born under a blood moon, one a mind reader and the other a seer. i imagine the mind reader uses telepathy to comfort her sister as she foresees troubling futures

[mint-fixates]

There's this weird take I've seen floating around on TikTok that Bill doesn't actually care about his family/dimension or Stanford at all; that we're supposed to take everything in TBOB as non-canon basically because he's lying to garner sympathy from reader to make a deal with them. I'm all for having your own interpretations of media, but I just don't think this idea that Bill is a completely heartless unfeeling creature is supported by canon at all. In fact, it kind of feels like the opposite of the point of the book.

Like, yeah, most things Bill says should be taken with a grain of salt because he lies a lot, but he's not actually a very good liar? It's usually pretty easy to clock when he's full of it. But okay, even if we assume every word Bill says while trying to recruit the reader is a lie, there are three major things that this doesn't account for.

Bill is not the only source in the book. The lost Journal 3 pages were written by Stanford, we only know about the interdimensional Taco Bell incident because of an included police transcript, etc.

Even once he's lost any chance of making a deal with the reader to escape, Bill is having a complete breakdown and mentions all the people he so totally doesn't miss for real you guys. Why bother with reverse psychology double-lying for sympathy once his shot at getting the reader on his side is already gone?

Trying to garner the reader's sympathy makes sense to a certain extent, but why go out of his way to make himself look pathetic? Does revealing that he got drunk and cried over his ex in a fast-food drive-through really help his cause if that cause is to convince the reader he's still a powerful being capable of starting the apocalypse again so they can rule with him?

And that's all without even mentioning that, as previously stated, I think the entire point of the book is missed if we're interpreting Bill as having no genuine feelings or attachments. The book ends with Stanford healing from his past by being open about what he went through with his family and accepting their help, while Bill insists he doesn't need anyone and refuses to heal, actively making himself worse in the process. The clear theme imo is that accepting your past and accepting help from people who love you is essential to healing, while denying those things just makes everything worse. If Bill doesn't actually care about his family, his dimension, Stanford, or anything/anyone else, he has no trauma to heal from or regrets to learn from that he's refusing to accept and deal with, and the entire meaning of the book is made moot.

[coucou-art]

[forthill]

[azzyblog]

When you have to employ slave labor to fight the fires because you diverted the firefighting money towards the police so they could increase the number of slave laborers.

Then those police are overwhelmed because all the money you spent on them means there's nothing for social programs and capitalism being what it is creates this huge class of people living off of scraps.

[i-only-see-daylight]

Aelin: The real treasure was the memories we made along the way.

Lorcan: I almost died. 

Aelin: That... was my favorite memory.

[cryptidlark]

one of my favorite things about asoiaf is tyroshi hair dye

[asl-bros-incorrect-quotes]

Ace, trying to compliment Dadan: Dadan! Your jello is fire!

Dadan: *looking utterly confused and squinting at Ace through her old lady glasses*

Sabo: He's saying your jello is good

[justafewberries]

thinking about how easy it would be to give the districts the illusion of choice in the 25th games.

If the votes were private, the capitol could pick anyone they wanted, so long as it’s remotely believable.

Say d12 agrees on a seam kid, yet when the votes are tallied, the capitol announces they’ve voted in a merchant kid instead. Automatically, the merchants turn on the seam population, thinking they wronged them. The tensions would be high enough. Turn them against each other and watch them point fingers.

It’s an easy way the capitol can cause infighting without suspicion. It’s an easy way to keep the districts divided. To mask the real enemy.

[recny]

I'll be happy. For you, for her

[fore-seer]

[ch3micallyinsane]

What if light globe trees outside the Ice Kingdom change colors with the seasons. Since the tree and globes are supposed to act like real plants. Pink in spring, green in summer, orange in autumn, and white-blue in winter.

[vivietoria]

My body physically aches for him 🧎‍♀️

Tried out a new rendering style for this, I think it's pretty neat

[incorrect-cookierunxreader]

(Y/N): Remember what I told you.

Fire Spirit: Don't be a cunt.