#HoT: Principle

[acornminiatureslog]

Guess who used the last of his thunder hawk blue to try and airbrush a tank, only to get fed up and start hand painting it

[zzuta8]

Good stuff 📺 ♥️

All the monitors are actual characters tee-hee

[carebeardean]

Charles has always left Edwin little notes slipped between the pages of his favorite books, in his science equipment, places he knows Edwin loves. Just silly things—post its that say “hi Edwin :)”. doodles of Edwin with his nose stuck in a book. reminders to stock up on wolfsbane. but.

Then, post canon, Edwin tentatively starts dating people. And it’s ridiculous, because Edwin’s right there, all the time, but Charles..misses him a bit. And his heads a mess, and he can’t sort out what the hell he’s feeling most of the time, and whenever he tries to say any of it out loud it comes out rubbish.

So. He writes down some of the shit he can’t say right, and because he’s a coward, hides them so he doesn’t have to see Edwin’s face when he reads them.

then Edwin starts writing back.

Neat lilac blue little envelopes appear in Charles coat pockets. In his bag. Once, in his shoe? Some nights, Edwin will clear his throat and mention something from a letter, offhand, like they’re just picking up conversation, and Charles can pretend they are. That they always have talked about the basement, the belt, the nameless fear that chokes him every time Edwin walks out the door with someone else on his arm.

Sometimes he can’t. The words get stuck in his throat. Edwin’s not mad, he’s maddeningly, stubbornly kind about it, which is worse.

Some nights they trade. A secret for a secret. Charles learns about the novels Edwin used to hide under his mattress, about all the lonely years before Charles got there. About Simon.

Meanwhile, Edwin is losing his mind, because Charles has accidentally stumbled onto what was a fucking courting ritual in his time. Love letters were something engaged couples treasured for years, kept and reread over and over. (Edwin does. keep them in a special box, will take one out and trace the words, tuck it in his breast pocket for courage).

Edwin would rather have to reattach a limb again than lose Charles trust, all the dark and beautiful things he shares with Edwin only. He knows—knows Charles doesn’t mean to make him fall more in love with him.

[hanzajesthanza]

witcher netflix: [drops]

henry cavill fans: honestly, i don’t really care about the story, i’m just here because hcav is hot asf

me: wtf? how shallow is this… only there because the titular witcher is hot? talk about missing the point…

witcher 4 trailer: [drops]

✨ciri✨: 😡

me: … i understanded.

[pinkishhologram]

snap your fingers and make me agree. debate me, snap your fingers, make me turn around my argument just to agree with you. make me know you're always right. no matter where, no matter when, no matter what, make my brain run itself in circles just to agree with you - snap, "wait, actually, come to think of it..."

[deeneedsaname]

“You’re supposed to ship x not y” “You’re supposed to root for character A” “If you’re watching the show like this then you’re wrong” what if i launched you into the sun

[iangallagherisadeadman]

the idea of svetlana and mickey being sooo good with numbers and yevgeny being absolute shit enlights me with such enthusiasm you guys have no idea

like listen just listen imagine little yevgeny being a disaster throughout all of his school life and struggling with math and physics and all that BUT he learns russian and ukrainian and other languages as easily as breathing and decides that for the future he wants to go to college for a language degree and specialize in translation

he likes things like literature translation which requires a lot of ability to properly convey an idea and sentiments when passing a text from one language to another, but he sees himself making a life with like legal translation, working with laws, regulations, codes, decrees and contracts etc and/or with personal texts specifically so he can help immigrants like his mother

[faunandfloraas]

Pretty much 7 out of 8 of these guys are some kind of muscley- stopping cursing my boy seungmin with the What if he got muscle shit

[pummelingbat]

ftm herbert: would get top surgery, would not get bottom surgery

mtf herbert: would not get top surgery, would get bottom surgery

[galwithalibrarycard]

I have the perfect fanfiction-ass event to bring a fake date to who will end up falling in love with me, but as far as I know all my friendships are completely platonic and fairly long-distance so I don’t even have anyone with falling in love potential to take. Life is so unfair.

[comehomet0myheart]

Amaya deciding not to take a trade that would save Janai because she recognized that Janai would not want to be saved in a way that would hurt the people and future she wanted to protect is sooo hot why lie.

[girltakovic]

2025 voted worst year for italian american job seekers in chicago. a hundred years ago i could've been set loose with a crowbar and a zoot suit and been able to live comfortably but today i have to apply to work at fucking target

[invinciblerodent]

anyway, I really, really love how, if you romance Davrin, there's that beautiful moment in the final goodbye when he refers back to (at least one of-) the lines that can be said in the main romance scene:

[Davrin: You said you wanted the road less-traveled. Seems like we've got it right here.

Davrin: All I care about is that I'm there with you.]

after a personal storyline that's in large part about him overcoming an aversion of uncertainty, and embracing the potential for change and choosing who one wants to be (like most of the others, but it's arguably even more pronounced in his, as it's reflected through the griffons' story), that's just a really beautiful sentiment.

after spending so long thinking of himself as a weapon, believing one's destiny to be set in stone, even believing himself -and by extension, the griffons- to be "meant" for one immutable thing by their very nature...

it feels very satisfying and touching to know that he's willing to head into an unknown future with nothing truly secure, except for the hand holding his.

[hedgiwithapen]

the thing they don't tell you about having lots of Books and Trinkets is that eventually you do run out of shelf space. and you think Oh. I can put trinkets on the stacks of books next to the shelf I'm sure this is fine. and then you have to MOVE all the trinkets to get at the books.

[lovevalley45]

rip spooner cruz you would have loved walking around with a carbiner and a large jangling keyring

[someprettyname]

"So you can't think for yourself, and you can't decide anything on your own, huh? Someone like that can't take me down."

Actually, sir 👁️🫦👁️