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okay so since gale's earring is obviously modded in my game, i'm gonna talk about my headcanons for what i've done with it and how him replacing the mystra earring plays out! i have actually posted about this before, but it's been a while and i started using a different combination of mods to get things closer to how i wanted them, and i also just wanna expand on my thoughts.

i don't want gale to immediately replace his earring or anything. what i do want—and what i imagine as part of my personal canon for him and elenion—is for him to choose to quietly remove it and place it at mystra's altar after their confrontation at stormshore tabernacle, as a symbol of him finally accepting that there's more to life than her and as a small form of catharsis after having defied her. he's still a wizard, he can't completely forget the goddess of magic, but he doesn't need her love anymore. and he certainly doesn't need to wear her sigil on his body.

and elenion absolutely notices. but they don't want to press gale about it or push him so they don't say anything right then. instead, when they leave the tabernacle, he gently reaches out and brushes a lock of gale's hair behind his ear. his fingertips graze the now-empty spot where mystra's sigil once was. they ask gale, gently, if it feels lighter now and gale says it does, but he's not sure if it's relief or loss. elenion tells him it's okay to feel both.

neither of them bring up the idea of replacing that earring, or mention it again for the rest of the journey. they both have so much else to worry about, they don't even know if they'll survive all this—and gale needs time and patience to process all these different emotions, and elenion doesn't really care what is or isn't on gale's ear, he just wants gale there, safe and happy and alive at the end of it all.

fast-forward to a few weeks post-game, and gale and elenion are living together in waterdeep. they're walking hand-in-hand through the marketplace on a peaceful afternoon. they weren't really going anywhere in particular, but gale ends up stopping at the window of a jewelry shop. elenion has noticed that gale often reaches up to dangle an earring that isn't there, and he sees the look in gale's eyes now, so he just casually goes "you thinking of getting something sparkly, love? you'd look great wearing something dramatic, like a silver lightning bolt earring. or a little dragon wrapped around a pearl. or a skull with sapphires for eyes". and then, more gently: "we can take a look, if you want." gale laughs and says yes, he'd like that.

elenion acts like a complete menace who might as well be no help at all. he insists that gale try on all the most random earrings in the store and comes up with half-joking, half-heartfelt symbolic reasons for each one ("this one is shaped like an open book! to represent how you're no longer hiding your true self, and also how you never stop talking!" "an ornate key! for unlocking your future, or maybe the key to your heart, which i believe someone very charming and handsome is actually already holding!" "a sunburst with a ruby in the center, because you're finally stepping into the light! and also because you'd look hotter than the sun wearing it."), partly just because it makes gale laugh but also because he doesn't want to be the one to choose gale's new earring. they don't want this to be just another thing he wears for someone else, so they want him to push back on all of their ridiculous suggestions and find something that's his.

and gale does. he smiles and affectionately rolls his eyes at all of elenion's nonsense. and while they're distracted, he picks up a gold moon with a purple jewel in it. a perfect match for the stars with blue jewels that elenion always wears. he holds it up to his ear, asks his partner what they think. and their breath catches a little before they smile and sincerely say that it's beautiful.

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boy i know you are not using chicken as an derogatory term in front of a literal chicken

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oh yeah i forgot to say that i finished the book this morning, and then took it back and picked up the second one since i was already out of the house! so obviously i liked it, enough to want to continue the series. the world is very interesting and i wanna see where the story goes. however.

there were, like, 3 women who did anything that mattered in this book and they were:

vin, who to be fair is the main protagonist and is great. i love broody and cynical characters who don't trust anyone and think they don't need anyone because they've been broken down by the horrors of the world and i love when those characters get to be women 💖

kelsier's dead wife who may or may not have betrayed him, who again to be fair is treated with a decent bit of nuance and sympathy but like. she's still a woman who did nothing other than die for kelsier's character development before the story even began.

elend's evil ex-fiancee who tries to have him assassinated and then gets killed by vin. she's not even cool she's just annoying and sucks.

oh yeah and i guess there was also the informant who tricked vin. i forgot about her and don't really have anything to say about her tbh but fine. that's 4 women.

and anyway i just really do think that kind of stinks!! there is no excuse for at least one other major character to not have been a woman!! this may seem a little hypocritical of me to complain about as a lord of the rings fan but at least LOTR was published in 1954 and not 2006.

also elend is actually not a bad character but i'm still annoyed about the age gap with vin 😭 kelsier and sazed are both extremely compelling and were my favorite characters in the book alongside vin, though. kelsier is a crazy fucking genius and his letter to vin killed me. it also killed me every time he looked at vin and said mare always wanted a daughter.

lately i've been reading mistborn: the final empire, after having considered getting into brandon sanderson's works for years, and i just got through part 1 of the book—167 pages out of 643. i'm definitely enjoying it so far and i think vin is awesome, but i do also think it's. very noticeable and kind of annoying that she's the only woman on kelsier's crew. there should be more than one female character in this book!!

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here it is, the funniest most absurd line spoken in all of kingdom hearts 

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itaru: unrequited love is actually the best in the end! if you're not dating you have more time for gaming!

me: oh my god he's so stupid he's the funniest person in the world i love him 💖💖

me after reading kniroun: ...oh no he prefers unrequited love because he doesn't trust anyone and doesn't think anyone could ever really love him anyway and the one time he let someone in they betrayed him :( this is evil. i'm so sad now. i hate him.

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itaru using his twitch streamer twitter account with 50,000 followers to tell people to come watch the tiny-ass theater company that he just joined when he's a) trying to hide his identity and b) not even into theater is still so fucking funny to me like what explanation is taruchi giving the chat for why he's randomly promoting them?? did he claim that he was being sponsored by the mankai company or what?? 😭

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A3! Act Addict Actors || one gifset per episode ↳ Episode 04 ❀ A New Challenge

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it fucking sucks being a disabled person who can't work and having to see these fuckass posts where someone's like "ahaha jobless people have no life and that's why everyone shitty online has No Job" and everyone and their mother reblogs it joyfully onto my dash for me to see. yes unemployed and unemployable people are truly without exception dogshit people with no hobbies and no redeeming qualities. you're so right. anyway if you'll excuse me i have to start my shift at the I'll Never Be Employed Because Of Permanent Disability And I Love Knowing How You Really See Me store

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Okay but Lae'zel and Gale.

Gale 'I like your musk' and Lae'zel 'I want to taste you'. Gale 'I read that the adrenaline from fighting makes you horny' and Lae'zel 'the battle rage is in my blood - and yes'.

Gale taking notes during the ceremorphosis lesson while everyone else is flinching. Lae'zel kicking Elminster out of camp and then pulling Gale up by his collar snarling for him to pull himself together and acknowledge his own power and strength, or so help her she'll throw him into the dirt.

Gale being smart enough to see the zaith'isk for what it is and talking Lae'zel through (or out of) the procedure. Lae'zel and Tara bonding over killing animals and bringing them to Gale to cook (Tara's not even going to be mad that Gale would prioritise a boar over a pigeon).

Gale apologising for being monogamous after all he's been through, and Lae'zel being 'no-one else can have what is mine, I will not share or be shared with anyone but you'. Battle buffs and fireballs.

Shining silver armour and soft purple velvet. 'Me and the baddest bitch I pulled by being autistic'. Big Buff Warrior GF and her nerd BF.

Is this anything.

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you know i hope it's clear enough that the sherlock holmes logo in the interests section of my pinned is for like. the original sherlock holmes. and not the BBC show. benedict cumberbatch is an ableist loser!

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Being in the Sherlock Holmes fandom is so wonderful because we didn't even have to create a fandom, the author did that for us. John Watson was the very first member of our fandom and he was writing fanfiction about Sherlock Holmes before it was cool

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Every single week I cycle through a different coffee shop in my town and ask the barista to make me their favorite drink in a medium. I have an entire spiel:

“All milk is fine, caffeinated and not caffinated i’m game, hot and iced both work, it can be coffee or tea or anything.”

It has yet to fail me. Every time I have tried a new drink I never would have thought to try and every one I’ve had has been amazing. The true delight I’ve seen in baristas faces pondering on what to make me and the joy they have when I like the drink always makes my day and I hope it makes theirs too. It’s the little things of kindness that can make someone’s day and I feel that it helps the world be kinder. Highly recommend doing this yourselves.

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iris by goo goo dolls really is insane though. I'd give up forever to touch you? you're the closest to heaven I'll ever be? all I can breathe is your life? and I don't want the world to see me cause I don't think they'd understand? when everything's meant to be broken I just want you to know who I am? does anyone hear me.

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The Hallowleaf family 🌙

More shadowzel feat baby xan!!

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just for this moment, as long as you're mine