#a theme for august

[wuntrum]

honestly love when artists draw copious amounts of fanart for a character and then start adding more and more personal touches or headcanons to how they depict them and then just change their name and adopt them as an original character. its like watching nature heal in real time

[araekniarchive]

eve, after the fall (auguste rodin; bronze, 1883)

Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve // Hozier, From Eden // Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // Eagles, The Last Resort // Anne Sexton, Words for Dr. Y

[gncrezan]

@infamous-if august pierce you have bewitched me mind body and soul.......

[petricorah]

sukka week day 6: boyfriend sweater [id in alt] for @sukka-week

[candyskiez]

It is so fascinating to me how both of ND Stevenson’s defining classic works (SPOP and “Nimona”) have main antagonists who are completely and utterly…nameless. They have no identity or names of their own. They are just…the Director of the Institute and the Prime of the Horde.

Holy shit I never realized that. Honestly considering both of these works feel very much like religious allegories it kinda reminds me of like. How do many times you'll hear religious figures just be called. The Pope. The priest. Like they have names but your first impulse is to just go Priest. Pope. And also god just being God. Also the Director always acting like "I exist to serve gloreths will." But her own bigotry is wrapped up in it. She uses Gloreths will as a justification to others and herself, where have I heard that before. And Horde Prime is just. Do I even have to say anything. All beings must suffer to become pure. The deadset on suffering as redemption. The fucking BAPTISM. The light. The fact he sounds like he's speaking in damn Bible verses in his last lines. It all feels very purposeful ngl. So yeah it all feels very That to me.

[sprimps]

a sweet love, a toothache kind of love

[thatluckystrudel]

landstrom dump

[kyodelika]

todays robbie

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔄𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔢 𝔦𝔫 ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔰 - 𝔐𝔞𝔫 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔬𝔵

[ninicaise]

laurent, who has only met one good person (auguste) meeting damen, his second good person: hmmm. getting a lot of “auguste” vibes from this

[rebornrosess]

“will you come with me, sporus?”

prints + ig

[queenlucythevaliant]

Once, Always

(Edmund has an abundance of birthdays)

 .

“I say,” murmured Edmund sleepily as the fire burned low. “When do you suppose it is here? I mean—what time of year? Do you think it’s the beginning of September, the same as it was in England?”

“Summer,” said Lucy. “Certainly summer.”

Peter agreed. “I think it must be Highgrass, if I had to guess. Perhaps later. Greenroof?”

“If it’s Greenroof, then Edmund gets another birthday,” Lucy sighed. “Eleven or twelve, Ed?”

“Neither,” put in Susan. “A thousand, if you’re going to rationalize it that way. Now everyone hush, please, and get some sleep.”

.

Edmund’s birthday was the fifteenth day of Greenroof by the Narnian reckoning. Greenroof, late summer, when all the leaves were dark and broad. Narnian summers were long, but Greenroof was the last and best of the summer months. Greenroof was hunts through the dense foliage, blackberries heavy with juice, lazy afternoons, bonfires, wild romps, and the pleasant kind of sweat. Edmund’s birthday celebrations were always held on Dancing Lawn in the old days: the sort of long, laughter-bright nights that summer was made for.

. 

The second time Edmund celebrated his eleventh birthday, it was just past three months since he and his siblings had returned home from the country. Their house was glass-strewn and battered, but still standing when they arrived home. By August it was beginning to feel really safe again, but sometimes Edmund still woke in the night to find his mother standing silent in the doorway, drinking in the sight of her two sons returned to her.

The professor sent one of Ivy’s famous spice cakes for Edmund’s birthday. It arrived tied in red string, which made Lucy reminisce fondly about dear Mr. Tumnus. Edmund’s siblings pooled their allowances to buy him the new Nero Wolfe detective novel, and his mother gave him a new cap and an electric torch.

“How do you feel?” his mother asked over dinner.

“I don’t feel any older, if that’s what you mean,” he said. “Eleven feels just the same as ten did yesterday.”

. 

All four of them missed their birthdays the first year in Narnia. Too much else was going on at the time, and none of them was quite sure when their birthdays were supposed to be besides. The measurement of time was a thoroughly tangled issue.

The Narnian year had four hundred days even, divided into fourteen months of inconsistent lengths. Furthermore, the kingdom had only known winter for the last hundred years. The Narnians themselves were still remembering how the calendar worked in a world where the seasons changed. They didn’t have the words yet to explain it to their sovereigns.

. 

“Eustace,” said Edmund, “your journal is wrong.”

“Give me that,” Eustace scowled at once. “I know it’s wrong, but there’s no need to rub my face in it. Aren’t I trying to make up for how I was?”

“No, no, that’s not what I meant. The month is wrong. You’ve got September written here, but time works differently in Narnia than it does in the Other Place. Haven’t you noticed that it’s summer, not autumn?”

“Oh.” Eustace shrugged. “I followed Occam’s Razor and assumed that the climate here was different rather than time itself.”

“Occam’s what?” This was Lucy.

“Occam’s Razor: the simplest solution to a problem is the most likely—never mind. Well, go on, what month is it?”

“Highgrass,” said Lucy.

“July,” said Edmund at the same moment. “More or less.”

 .

They worked it all out one afternoon as the second spring of their reign was ending. Peter and Susan wrote out the English calendar on one stack of parchment while Edmund and Lucy sat down with the Narnian calendar and penciled in seasonal markers as best they could manage.

“The first crocuses came up right at the end of Cleardome, yes?”

“Yes, I think so. And the snowdrops were in their full glory that month too.”

“How do you want to deal with leap year?”

“Just forget about it. Narnia doesn’t have anything similar, so I think twenty-eight days for February is fine for our purposes.”

“Magnolia in Laceveil, yes?”

“Laceveil is a good marker in general. We ought to set that as May and go from there.”

Birthdays were guesses, no matter how much counting they did. Yet as memories of England receded and Narnia’s world blossomed into everything they knew, those guesses solidified into fact. Edmund turned eleven for the first time on the fifteenth day of Greenroof. He was the first of his siblings to celebrate a proper birthday in Narnia.

. 

The fourth time Edmund turned twelve, he received another electric torch to replace the one he’d lost. He laughed for half a minute, holding that gift in his hand.

“Really, you should have expected it,” said Susan primly.

"I did."

Their mother tsked and added something about keeping track of one’s belongings, but that was alright. His siblings understood.

Edmund flicked on the light and watched the beam land on the far wall across the living room. Bright at the edges and dark towards the center where the bulb was. He moved his wrist sideways and watched the spot of light follow.  

. 

Edmund might have forgotten about his birthday aboard the Dawn Treader if Lucy hadn’t remembered. She conspired with the cook to have a spread of Edmund’s favorite foods at supper (such as could be managed at sea) and coerced Rynelf into playing jigs on his fiddle afterwards. While they were dancing, Caspian called for a cask of his best wine, and soon the ship’s whole company was making merry like only Narnians could.

“Didn’t you have a twelfth birthday the last time you were in Narnia?” Caspian asked curiously as the party was dying down.

“Yes,” Edmund replied, “and the time before that too. Confused yet?”

“Ed has all the luck,” Lucy pouted playfully. “We always seem to return to Narnia in the summer, so he gets all the extra birthdays.”

Caspian's face lit up. “How extraordinary! When’s yours then?”

“Cleardome. There’s a year and a half between Ed and me, and he never lets me forget it.”

“It’s really not as exciting as all that,” Edmund added. “We’re not living our lives backwards, or unstuck in time, or any such nonsense. It’s more like—our lives are folded in on themselves, you see? But never the same way twice.”

“I think it’s more like music than anything else,” Lucy said, a kind of fond wistfulness in her voice.

“Yes,” said Edmund. “I know what you mean.”

. 

On the thirteenth of Greenroof, the Telmarines laid down their arms and surrendered to Old Narnia. The next day, messengers were sent forth across the land with news of the surrender and with terms for the Telmarines. Caspian’s coronation followed, and then Edmund woke and it was his birthday again.

Breakfast that morning was long and languid, for Peter and Susan knew that they must say farewell to Narnia, even if the younger ones did not. They lingered round the table with Caspian and Trumpkin and the rest, and presently Peter offered a toast.

“To my brother King Edmund, who is eleven and twelve and sixty-three and thirteen hundred years old today.”

Everyone raised their cups and repeated, “King Edmund.” Caspian nodded and added, “Long live the king,” with an almost ironic tilt to his head.

Naturally, Edmund nodded back. “And to you, King Caspian. Long may you reign.”

Another round of assent followed, and then Lucy cleared her throat. “But also,” she said, “To late summer and the rebirth of Our Narnia. And to the land, the sea, the hills, the trees, the sky, Cair Paravel-by-the-sea and Dancing Lawn and all the flowers that are still in bloom. And to the color green. To all of us here today, and to those who are gone. And to Aslan.”

“Here, here.”

There were tears in Susan’s eyes now. “Happy birthday,” she whispered, and squeezed Edmund’s hand tight. Edmund looked down at his plate, fiercely overcome with love for this place and these people. In a strict, chronological sense, it had been less than a month since his last birthday, but how did the saying go? Time was just a tangled string, or falling snow, or whatever else Aslan told it to be.

. 

“Bother,” said Edmund, “I’ve left my new torch in Narnia.”

Everyone chuckled at this, but Susan said, “Wait a year. We’ll get you a new one for your next birthday.”

[amyriadfthings]

Love that the first time we meet August he immediately grabs Wille´s face and establishes himself as a disrespectful force of intrusion who ignores whatever boundaries Wille might have. As a viewer you wonder, hey, can he just do that? Who is he? Like, he´s totally on par with the queen on that one since we just saw her slap Wille´s finger out of his mouth at the palace. (Not to mention she also checked Wille´s face/make-up before that, which is the first time we see her touch her son in the show and it´s about appearances, which is then mirrored by August´s comment here, how you can barely notice the bruises.)

We learn right away, yes, August can and will mess with Wille and Wille will be forced to deal with that whether he wants to or not and then we learn why: August IS the royal familiy at Hillerska. And it´s just what they do.

One gesture.

[wizarddemigodhunterhero]

WILMON AND SAGUST CAN"T BE TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME

Wilmon and Sara x August are FOILS. This might be something that the people have figured out already, but I DID NOT until after watching s3 and I haven't see anyone say it yet so like I'm gonna do it.

I'm sorry this is gonna be a LONG post.

****SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT****

After Sara and August kissed in s3 ep5, I had such a weird feeling. Cuz like Wilmon had just broken up (maybe?) and I had such a "One cannot live while the other survives" moment (I'm sorry for the HP reference). I thought back to s2 and s1 and I had a whole moment cuz they are FOILS, but not even in the way I at first expected!!

Wilhelm and Sara are foils and Simon and August are foils!!!

Evidence:

Season 1:

Wilhelm and Simon meet and are immediately drawn to each other

August start the season, probably not even knowing Sara's name, he has no interest in her

Wilhelm and Simon kiss for the first time after very clear, but hesitant tension, in a very pure, sweet moment

August kisses Sara for the first time because he is jealous of Wilhelm's friendship with Felice

After Erik dies, Wilhelm gets very hot and cold with Simon, he is unsure if he can handle/wants this relationship because of his station, even though it has been good for him. He wants Simon even though he feel like he SHOULDN'T because of his station/duties.

Around this same time, Sara plays with August feelings a bit (she doesn't mean to, this is not her intention, but she does!) She wants him even though she SHOULDN'T because that is her best friend's ex!

Simon rescues Wille from the football field and they get together.

August takes the video. He and Sara are not together

After August posts the video, Wille and Simon's relationship is rocky. They don't know how to handle the pressure Wille ends up making the choice to deny Simon. This leads to them breaking up.

Sara catches August posting the video and confronts him to confirm her knowledge. He asks what she wants in return for her silence, and he makes the choice to help her get into Mummer's house (this is one of the seeds for their relationship in season 2)

Season 2

In the beginning of s2, Wilmon are broken up, with no end to that in sight.

Sara and August on the other hand are not together, but starting to show interest in each other

Felice encourages Wille to continue to pursue Simon!

Sara CANNOT tell Felice about anything happening with August.

Simon starts seeing Marcus to try to rebound from Wille, which makes Wille very insecure.

Sara makes August more sure of himself and their relationship through honset communication of expectations. Especially while they are intimate and vulnerable.

Wille loses hope for his and Simon's relationship right before the Valentine's ball.

August invites Sara to the Valentine's ball, giving him hope that they can be seen together.

Simon kisses Wille at the Valentine's ball, which rekindles Wille's hope for their relaitonship.

Sara stands August up for the Valentine's ball and chooses to go with her friends instead.

While Felice is confirming the sale of Rousseaux, Wille and Simon are in a fight about whether or not Simon should go to the police and what this means for them.

Sara goes to August for comfort when Felice tells her about Rousseaux. (This yields probably their cutest scene)

After their book report, Simon and Wille have sex and commit to getting back together. They also have an important discussion about why Simon wants to go to the police in the first place.

At the same time, Sara tells August that Simon is planning to go to the police and that he needs to go first so he can own up for his mistakes. August has no intention of doing this and, consequently, betrays Sara.

Simon breaks up with Marcus.

August puts his plan to Not Go To Jail into action (which is betraying Sara's trust.)

During The Altercation, both couples try to protect each other, BUT this scene is a catalyst for Simon realizing he is okay with taking what Wille can give him and realizing that he loves Wille.

Conversely, Sara realizes during The Altercation, that August is not the person she thought he was and that she cannot be with him.

Before the jubilee, Simon tells Wille that he loves him, which gives Wille the courage to give his speech and come out to the world/ tell the world he loves Simon.

Before the jubilee, August tries to prove his love for Sara through giving her Rousseaux, which she denies. She leaves and calls the cops from the bus.

Season 3 (eps 1-5)

Simon and Wille are together for most of the season, but they are especially happy in the beginning before the pressure builds.

Sara and August don't even talk or see each other until Ep3.

Simon and Wille communicate honestly, however, they do still have some fights and miscommunication

Sara and August don't communicate for most of the season, but when they do, it is August trying to support Sara and explain his actions

At the end of the season, all of the pressure and grief Wille has experienced comes to a head and Ep5 ends with Simon maybe breaking up with Wille.

Concurrently, August tries to justify his actions to Sara and she kisses him.

I think that, in the last episode, Sara and August are going to break up and Wilmon are going to get back together. This might be the Wilmon endgame truther in me, but I don't think their story is going to finish that way. I also don't think August has had enough character growth to satisfy Sara! I think he has spent so much time asking to be forgiven, that he hasn't really changed. He has proved that he loves her, but I don't know if she loves him enough to sacrifice her family and friends for him.

[tinyfirecrackershaw]

I am drawing my favourite Seonghwa outfits for Outfit August! Aka ⭐ OutfitHwagust ⭐ First 10 days/outfits ^^ Find the individual outfits posted on my Instagram

[heartbreakprincewille]

Edvin having the Succession title theme in his playlist is making me so EXCITED