#aust.txt

[diosapate]

the lyctors are generally a lesson in irony but specifically the "saint of patience" being consistently fucked over by being too late feels especially potent. he's convinced he could have saved his brother, given five minutes to change his mind. he finally tells John to give up his imperialist revenge fantasy ten thousand years after it began. he doesn't go to bat for Mercy against John until she's already dead. patience was Alfred's virtue and inaction is Augustine's downfall!

[swiftiebuck]

it's all fun and games until i think about buck actually thinking he's losing christopher and eddie for one second and i get so incredibly sad i want to sob

[fruiitycas]

castiel can, is, and will continue to slip the birthday boy some tongue

[davidsfincher]

brklyntozier --> davidsfincher

[swiftiestiles]

isaacllahey —> swiftiestiles

[cuntryhuman]

of you're so mature now, then i think its time he'd grow up

ADMIT YOU DID IT WE ALL KNOW YOU DID IT AND YET YOU (try) TO GASLIGHT US UP

[diosapate]

mercy killed john cleanly. he did not die in pain, she did not disrespect his body; she killed him quickly and efficiently and that was it. john killed her brutally!! he mutilated her and covered someone else with her gore and only then killed her with a tap to the back of the head. he ripped a dead woman’s cloak from her body and touched her corpse with his bare foot to prove a point!!

all this to say: necromancy is disrespect for the dead under the guise of reverence, and john isn’t even bullshitting respect for the dead anymore in Thee most obvious way. god’s mercy is finite and he has none left; i suspect that his “i’m just a little guy :)” act is at its end and we are about to see more of the man who claims that guys like him don’t make mistakes.

[diosapate]

happy ides of march to emperor john gaius, who on this historic day was exploded to death on the mithraeum floor

[diosapate]

anyway i think it's easy for people to call Augustine a misogynist because he is very loud about it and is 99.8% talk but the second people have to do a little bit of reading between the lines and dismantle John's 'little guy' facade regarding misogyny they reject it outright. someone had to create the foundation on which Augustine's misogyny even sits. it's covert vs. overt abuse; John is always touching Mercy and Harrow, trying to undermine them, crossing boundaries, all while acting like a caring father/husband—but Augustine is annoying about it! he's a dickhead so it's funny to clown on it! don't worry about the planet John locked in a woman suit and put in a literal fridge and don't worry about the other woman he made sure felt her heart explode and don't worry about the other woman that—[i am dragged off-stage by a large hook]

[diosapate]

john gaius preferred footwear?

absolutely nothing. he walks around the mithraeum with his grippers out. he props them up on the table during cohort admiralty meetings. mercy has taken to scattering legos on the floor throughout his personal quarters

[diosapate]

yeah mercy was always gonna be the lynchpin

[diosapate]

htn ch. 6 / htn ch. 51

naming as ownership, control, violence, etc. etc.

[diosapate]

htn ch. 16 / htn ch. 31 / ntn ch. 24

[diosapate]

no one is doing codependency like augustine and mercymorn. like i’m going to kill you but if you die i’m going to kill everyone and myself

[diosapate]

what if no one killed mercymorn and her heart just did that

[diosapate]

i think generally the mercymorn living in my head has been subconsciously informed by juri arisugawa because i will be maybe the first or second or third to tell you that i don’t think she had a fulfilled romantic relationship with cristabel i just think they had a crazy situationship that left mercy incredibly wounded without ever feeling that woman’s touch in the way she wanted. also she ate the locket.