#actually revolted by it

[crowshoots]

i think. jesper actually would fucking lose his mind if he knew how kerch businessmen operated in regards to what they do whenever there's a mishap like flooding or bad weather in novyi zem fields and how they tend to buy out crops just so they have a monopoly on them when prices shoot up. like jesper'd actually be disgusted

[skibasyndrome]

I'm completely obsessed with and emo over the way Wilhelm carries himself now that he knows Simon loves him, too.

(just a sidenote, but the duality of love and devotion towards Simon on one side and revolt and confident deviance towards everyone watching him, including us on the other.... these frames make me unwell...)

Like, that's absolutely the stance and face (and smile) of someone who's done with putting his own and his boyfriend's (!!!) needs behind those of the people who never cared about what he actually wanted.

Knowing him and Simon are on the same page now, finally, really is all he needs to face off against the consequences of living authentically and openly. He knows that together, they'll be fine.

I'd like to think his resistance is starting here already, facing off Jan-Olof with this stare and not pulling away as fast as Simon - who after all just offered to be Wilhelm's secret - is.

It's so beautiful to see how much this has done for him in the S3 snippet. I feel like it's the first time he's moving like he's not a stranger on his own home anymore, like he's now commanding the place, like he's finally calling the shots. Sure, there are and there will be adversities (“I just wish it wasn't because of this”), but Wilhelm won't let them get in the way of him and Simon loving and supporting each other.

“They won't start without us” He knows it's true and really isn't giving a fuck anymore who might get mad at them, he knows that they won't be able to play this down, make him deny everything again, they can't take back his confession in front of every single phone in all of Hillerska, and he won't let them try to, either. He's ready to fight, that revolution they started back in season 1 is now really picking up, and they're in it together.

And god, it looks like it's healing him so much, he's so confident now, Simon by his side really gave him the strength he needed.

Like, the journey from the way he's desperately holding on to him at the confession, seemingly drinking it all in, those words he probably hasn't even dared dreaming of hearing from Simon and do taken aback by his emotions to the way he exudes confidence, strength, and conviction even in the face of adversity... the development is so beautiful.

The combination of love and confidence is one hell of a drug, and Wilhelm gets both from and through Simon... I'm convinced they are going to be one hell of a power couple this next season.

[llovier]

Excuse me, WHAT

[two-hands-toward-the-sun]

BEING SOMEONE THEY CAN CONFIDE IN???? HAS THIS ARTICLE AUTHOR FORGOTTEN THAT HOB WOULD HAVE SOLD HALF OF THESE PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY EARLIER IN HIS LIFE

[fishmirrors]

candy darling and augustus

[rewritingcanon]

i was today years old when i learnt there was an ANTI SCORBUS TAGGHH 😨😨 there are scorbus antis???? i promise im not trying to be stuck up but im so shocked bro. i didnt think scorbus was popular enough to have antis 😭

[djgingerbias23]

(NON BLOG POST HI!!!!! HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY INQUISITION YOU CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER AND EVER)

[swordmaid]

think cannibalism should be a thing in menzoberranzan actually, or maybe it is and I haven’t known about it, but it should be a thing amongst the nobles where they eat rival lolth priestesses since they’re lolth’s fave sacrifices anyway. like if we’re all constantly vying for lolth’s approval, and you have these people who actually has her blessing (which is rare) why not….eat them….😳. like eating the priestess of a rival house would be a ritual after you’ve succeeded in bringing their house down as a way to consume lolth’s blessing, and its def an intimidation tactic and def one of the plenty weird shit nobles have done for the sake of playing their power games. maybe they eat males who are in power too if they’ve overstepped their position to remind them of their place in the hierarchy, or maybe matriarchs/nobles eat their favourite bed mate/partner so no one else can have them, kind of like actual spiders. anyway. if menzoberranzan is this immoral lethal and ruthless place cannibalism should def be a thing lol

[sketchy-toasters]

Finished the Skiddad infection au status page finally!! Might actually start posting about the au. Start from the beginning and work till the part it's currently on rn.

[daintyca1s]

I'm fr so tired of being fat and average you're always prettier when u skinny!!

[youllalwaysfindyourwaybackhome]

I'm late to the party with this but I've been thinking about I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) as an alternative coda to But Daddy I Love Him. In the final chorus of BDILH, we have a vision of the future where the singer and her 'wild boy' lover have come back to town and won everyone over - or at least everyone whose opinion matters to them. But I think ICFHNRIC shows the future that would actually happen, where the singer's infatuation with her lover is shattered by his increasingly poor behaviour and she comes to the realisation that she can't fix him.

Both songs include a public censure/concern over the relationship with Christian undertones - "Sarahs and Hannahs in their Sunday best / clutchin' their pearls, sighing 'What a mess' and "Lord knows the words / We never heard" in BDILH and "They shake their heads sayin' 'God help her' / When I tell 'em he's my man' in ICFHNRIC (the song then goes further and rejects their belief system completely - their 'good lord doesn't need to lift a finger' because 'only [she] can' fix him, and it is her, not their god, who can 'show [him] heaven'.

In BDILH, the singer is encouraging and enabling her lover's behaviour; she is "tellin' him to floor it through the fences' and refusing to come 'to her senses', but in ICFHNRIC she's come to the realisation that his jokes 'were revolting and far too loud' and that his actions are destructive. There is no 'wild joy' here, and while she lingers for a while in this moment, temporarily confident that she 'can handle a dangerous man' and that underneath it all he has a 'halo of the highest grade', the moment crumbles very quickly; there is the despairing, echoing 'I told 'em he's my man', the begging 'no really I can', and the final 'Woah, maybe I can't' in the space of the final lines of the song. 'Scandal does funny things to pride', the singer acknowledges in BDILH, and I think ICFHNRIC ends on this sudden, shocked realisation that she was out of her depth the whole time, she never had the power over him that she had thought, and perhaps that 'They' (who maybe well also be the Sarahs and Hannahs of BDILH) were right the whole time.

[wizardsix]

people who are still unironically calling astarion a whore i desperately need you to either play through his story properly or search for it online bc there's no fucking way you are this dense.

[knightofleo]

[strawberryplayz]

If I see one more person ship tanjiro with an adult I am going to go violent and feral.

he is a child stop shipping him with literal ADULTS.

Doesn’t matter if you “aged” him up ( which is disgusting just to then ship him with an adult ) , he is still A FUCKING CHILD TF.

[novella-november]

Well, I now know what original story I'll be writing for Freedom February ...

👀🤖⛓️‍💥

Can't wait for people who use l33tspeak or are greek mythology nerds to immediately realize what is happening with the lore and are excited to see how it plays out.

[fluentisonus]

part of the problem is that a lot of hugo's politics are really well thought out & considered & good but then some of them are like. entirely vibes-based to the point of feeling muddled & inconsistent & even straight up Bad sometimes. which is annoying