#I trust her with my soul

[housebaylor]

I haven't read anything this year, but my first book is going to be the new Katherine Arden one.

[artharakka]

Beautiful, But Broken

[lethologicaee]

well this is quite out of character. but i felt compelled

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[mayasaura]

I think the best possible time travel fic would be to slingshot Harrow from the end of Harrow the Ninth back to the beginning of Gideon the Ninth. Highest hilarity potential, highest angst potential, highest pining potential

Things Harrow knows now that she didn't before:

Who Alecto was

The names of God and his lyctors

The secret of lyctorhood

That the lyctor trials are a death trap

Gideon could be easily persuaded to die for her

Gideon dying for her is the worst thing possible

She would do almost anything to prevent Gideon from dying

Gideon's sword is haunted by a very angry and oddly familiar-looking woman who bears a remarkable resemblance to Gideon

Things Harrow still doesn't know:

What Alecto is

Gideon's parentage

Jackshit about BOE

Mercy and Augustine are both traitors

Things Harrow knew then and still knows now:

Gideon—this Gideon here and now—hates her

She owes a debt of two hundred lives and a future to the Ninth

The survival of the Ninth depends on her becoming a lyctor

[virgothozul]

Ok. I have listened to the people. I have watched the thing. It is very wholesome.

Kazu comes home. He is hopeless and tipsy. And he swings between excited and wasted.

[thebroccolination]

As someone who has never been interested in vampires, I am extremely excited for BounPrem's vampire series.

It's partially because I love BounPrem, sure, but it's mostly because I respect the amount of very professional research and preparation Boun has committed to the role over the past several years.

I just think his artistry should be honored by my diligent attention.

Boun is a professional vampire fetishist, and that man will neck like no man has ever necked before.

[freogo]

thought of this song as soon as I saw episode 7

brings me back to those gravity falls animatics 😭😭

designs are based on @cholvoq 's designs !! wanted so bad to give Charlie the cool snake hair but after 50 frames I think I'd lose my sanity

[swftlore]

if rachel zegler has one million fans i am one of them if rachel zegler has one fan it is me if rachel zegler has no fans i am dead in the ground and even then i am a fan so actually she will always have one fan

[parttimesarah]

Not now, Good Omens Twitter, I do NOT need to be in tears right now!

[emmodii-mode]

Just finished my first playthrough of BG3. Romanced Lae'zel, but ending up turning into an Illithid because the idea of making Orpheus or Karlach do it didn't sit well with me (or my character).

I told Lae'zel to leave with Orpheus in the end (I heard she wouldn't stay with a ghaik anyway, which she's valid for, but also, it doesn't feel right to ask her to stay when I know how much her people mean to her). And like-

Her face before she flies off---

She looks so heartbroken and sad.

[ima-mezz]

Guys- I’m not saying I don’t trust fable (I absolutley don’t) but I do trust soul with my entire being and she worked with enderian to put fable into the sarcophagus and I just feel like that implies something

[starboundsingularities]

tbh it's really always bothered me a bit that they never actually get into the consequences of misusing the magatama. sure, sure, they say your soul shatters, and like, yeah that's ominous and all, but what does it mean? obviously we never get to see that in-game but i've been thinking about it a lot and i would like to present these thoughts because oh boy there are a lot of them. long post under cut but it's a fun little au as well

alright so before getting into it all, obviously there are some things we're aiming to explain, in some sense, with this.

for one: what is a soul, even? most depictions of souls portray them as the very essence of one's self, as the "culmination of your being" or as some similar nebulous expression of an entire person. but... well, if a soul was the entirety of a person, what would that soul shattering entail? it would just kill them. which is a valid reading i guess but not very fun to mess around with and is also a reading that comes with some... troubling implications.

most notably, the meter on how close you are to that breaking point while using the magatama is the same meter as your penalties in court. not just in the asset used, which wouldn't be worth bringing up, but in the sense that once the magatama is introduced, that same value that meter is held at is shared between court trials and the magatama. before the introduction of the magatama, that meter refilled automatically between trials, each trial starting with it completely full, but after the introduction of the magatama, it was only ever refilled by successfully breaking psyche-locks. this is concerning, because it implies a direct connection between phoenix's soul and his performance in court, which probably wasn't intended but is very fun to mess around with and i love the idea of your soul being tied to your passions. however i don't love the idea of him Straight Up Dying if he does too poorly in court so. uh, no insta-death for soul shattering. anyways this whole side tangent never comes up again. thumbs up emoji.

anyways, if a soul shattering doesn't entail simply death, and if a soul isn't just someone's essence or personality or whatever, well, what is it? well, one compelling answer is that it's merely a container. it holds someone's essence or being or personality, but it itself is not that.

thus i present:

Soul Shatter AU

a soul is just a container. one that holds everything in. someone's passions, ambitions, personality.

someone's secrets.

if it were to shatter... without a container, everything would come spilling out. whoever was involved would be unable to keep anything contained within themself. sure, their physical self might be enough to hold in some of the more ambiguous, nebulous aspects of their "self", but it would prove rather difficult to hide something with nothing there to keep it hidden inside.

a fitting punishment, really, for abusing the power to reveal what others have kept hidden.

the fun part, of course, is what comes next. who's used the magatama? who's had the chance to fall to such a fate?

off the top of my head i can think of two people. phoenix wright and miles edgeworth. (i think mia used one too? my friend says she did but i haven't gotten to that part yet i'm only on the third game)

and both of them, despite their focus on finding the truth, are very ironically prone to hiding things themselves. their feelings, their troubles, their emotions.

what if we opened them up a little?

[telestoapologist]

huuhghhghfdfgh she’s so fucking PRETTY and i am so HOPELESSLY GAY for her 

[redhead-reporter]

hi yes good morning do you have a minute to talk about the CASUAL INTIMACY DELICIOUSNESS that was coney island ??? because it's been almost two months and i'm still not over how WELL we ate

º ✧ 。peter parker was a man INCAPABLE of keeping his hands to himself, even with their mutual bestie tagging along. he is at his HAPPIEST we've seen him in the entire series that night and it translated to reaching for mj every chance he got and keeping her as close as possible - he never sat next to harry on a ride, it was always her. º ✧ 。pete and mj MATCHED THEIR OUTFITS, probably without even intending to. i mean literally - grey top, brown jacket, jeans. these lovesick babies were merging into a single consciousness and looking HOT doing it. good for them. º ✧ 。mj cheering for pete to win at the water gun game when he was competing with harry. pete defending mj's uhh... ENTHUSIASM for the whack-a-mole game while harry was worried about her sanity. they are pathologically SUPPORTIVE of one another, especially when they can sense the other is having fun when they badly need it. º ✧ 。pete genuinely beating himself up that he hadn't brought champagne to an amusement park to celebrate mj's SUCCESS. read that again. i mean first of all, is that even allowed pete who does that? but second of all he was POSITIVE she'd get the promotion to editor, regardless of the road blocks jj had put in her way. he might be the figure that new york looks up to, but his hero? is HER.

[crimeronan]

i had a line in one of the drafts of the fic chapter posted yesterday about luz having woken up once to amity watching HER sleep even though luz does her best not to look at amity at all whatsoever bc she's convinced that desire is poison or whatever. i ended up cutting it not so much because i thought it was too weird as bc i was like okay amity needs at least SOME way to escape edward cullen allegations. but i am still thinking about it.

the thing compelling me most is that amity wouldn't even watch luz sleep in a desiring or crush-like way she's just like. [with the laser focus of a scientist watching a bug] why do you make me feel things. if i apply enough scientific analysis to the way you breathe and look really soft and vulnerable rn then i'll hack my own physiology and fix it. this will not backfire in any way whatsoever