#can't be undone

[ghostowlattic]

can’t be undone 

ghost owl attic

[alren-ki]

Trying to convince myself that everyone in that group I don't still talk to ain't gonna even notice because its been so long, still feeling weird and wiggly and like I'm about to get shouted at.

[winepresswrath]

tbh all jiang cheng ships are hypothetically good to me because jiang cheng is just so not in a good place for dating or marriage. no one should wife him up which is why anyone wifing him up has great comedy potential. it is a situation you're putting him in where he's forced to cope with intimacy and the possibility of betrayal or rejection. he's going be thinking about his parents' marriage except for the times he's going to be thinking about his sister and his redacted. and also there is the potential for someone to die horribly and leave him alone with a baby. again.

[turtleofdamascus]

I thought I'd never see

Inspired by the breathtaking fic save the undone years by Whitherward @whatanybodygets which is an AU about Kaz and Inej during WW1 where Kaz is a soldier and Inej is a nurse. This moment that stuck with me:

“All this waiting, and his brother appears at his bedside like a ghost in the night. [...] [Captain Reitveld] simply drops onto the edge of Kaz’s mattress and yanks him forward by the shoulders, wrapping him into a tight hug.

She sees Kaz go tense for a moment, and then relax, bury his face into his brother’s shoulder.

And then he begins to sob."

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Been working on this for a month. I can't put into words how beautiful of a writer she is. I am always in awe and must drop everything for it.

Bonus: process

[spellboundcities]

Me when

[tritoch]

wild to me to see posts like "wow everything in the tempest is named after shakespeare...emet you melodramatic bitch you sure loved theater". because the prospero-emet thing gets played up so hard in the english script and you can carry it so far!

like prospero is an asshole magician who, after being deposed by his brother as duke of milan, settles himself and his daughter on a remote island, enslaves the local spirits using his magic, and bitterly plots to reclaim his past glories. he rules through violence and deceit, and only survives and is reconciled when his plots reach their fruition and his brother is taken to his remote island and plots ensue and everyone decides he was totally right all along and they were huge dicks to him and they're sooooo sorry and he gets to go back and be duke again wow! and it's okay because he's like "i was only doing mean magic to get my rightful spot back and now i'm giving it up because magic is evil. :)"

the tempest is what emet wants his life to be. prospero is not a villain in the text of the tempest. he is barely treated as antagonistic by the text and framing of the play itself. all his abuses, his neglect and control of his daughter, his enslavement of caliban and ariel (local spirits/monsters/people of the island), his deception and plots against his brother, his abuse of magical powers (not awesome, from the pov of the contemporary audience), all that ultimately gets swept aside in the rightness of his return to milan and the warm feeling of the world being set to rights. prospero can't undo the years he spent on the island but they are ultimately a blip in his life before he returns to the rightful state of affairs. his abuse and enslavement of caliban, easily the worst thing he does in the play, is totally set aside when caliban goes "wow now i see how truly benevolent my master is. i love him and see the ways of christian good and i'm so, so appreciative he chose not to kill or beat me even though he totally could have and would have been in the right. he's so just and intelligent." everyone loves and forgives him and they all agree both his management of the island and his ultimate return are so good and so wise and so right.

emet comparing himself to the tempest (or being compared to it, depending on how you want to read the diegetic status of the place names) is absolute wishcasting. it is an attempt to manifest the happy ending he will never, ever get because his sins cannot and would not be forgiven in the way he wants. he wants to imagine himself as the righteous returned duke whose crimes, including the enslavement, abuse, and exploitation of those he saw as his rightful inferiors, were totally worth it, i promise. and if emet is prospero, the warrior of light is his caliban.

[birgittesilverbae]

Sister "I became skilled at so many things just so I would still have value" Beatrice not having hobbies makes me feral. Camila has her music, Shannon had her art, Mary had her cooking, Lilith has her being-a-massive-bitch, and Beatrice is over there like "I have encyclopedic knowledge of the fighting styles of every woman in this convent, and also I have spreadsheets"

girl, ava shouldn't have to yeet herself into another dimension for you to realize you need a better work-life balance

[icewindandboringhorror]

................ he 

[guardian-angle22]

911 lone star fashion -> every paul outfit

↳ 4.18

[twst-the-night-away]

[ TWST FAN EVENT ] Disorder Up!

SUMMARY:

The Old Sage is a diner on the Isle of Sages. It's a “neutral ground” where generations of students from both Night Raven College and Royal Sword Academy have been able to mingle without incident ...

... that is, until the day Yuu and Grim accompany a group of their schoolmates to the diner. An honest mistake causes tensions to spark, and an all-out food fight goes down between the two schools.

The owner of the Old Sage has a tough choice to make. If the students can’t behave themselves, they’ll have to ban anyone from either school from the diner. An announcement from Royal Sword soon follows: students involved in the food fight must spend two weeks working at the diner to make up for the mess and the wasted food.

Not wanting to be outdone in PR, and terrified that he will never taste the diner's addictively delicious chili ever again, NRC headmage Dire Crowley insists that students from his school do the same. Yuu and Grim are tasked with accompanying the students on their shifts to ensure that they do their jobs properly without picking any fights.

Will the students from rival schools be able to work together without causing even more trouble? Or will it be a case of trying to mix oil and water? Strap on your skates, fire up the jukebox, and let’s rock ‘n’ roll! It’s time to make things right at the Old Sage Diner!

This event will open up for participation on 8/24/2023. Until then, stay tuned for a chapter each day!

[negrowhat]

I'm glad Way is self aware enough to not ask Babe for forgiveness with his apologies because bestie knows that will never happen and he shouldn't be expecting forgiveness anyway.

[naffeclipse]

All these unbuttoned-shirt whore posts really puts rereading SJ in a new perspective, especially for scenes like this one wjfkdkkdjdn:

He smoothly does the bottom button of your shirt. You swear his grin grows fiendish as you stare down. You can't look away, watching his large hands act deceptively nimble as he does each button, metallic knuckles brushing against your stomach, then over your sternum, climbing to your throat where he tugs on the collar.

What Eclipse says to vigilante: You’re mine to spoil myself with. *cue seductive saxophone music*

What I now can’t help but hear him saying instead: Look, there’s only enough room for ONE of us to be whores, and sorry not sorry, but I’m not about to lose that title to anyone >:(

Babe, you know the vigilante is going to have a field day with that very idea if it wasn't for Eclipse pffft! The vigilante would love to taunt about looking better, but be a bit skittish about Eclipse actually wanting them to put their money where their mouth is.

Vigilante!Y/N: Scared of a little competition? Mafia Boss!Eclipse: If you insist on having your shirt undone, it will only be for my eyes. Vigilante!Y/N: On second thought, I better not stun you too much. Truly, it would overwhelm your wires and I am so gracious and merciful to spare you. Mafia Boss!Eclipse: *wicked grin* I will be the judge of that when we're alone, sweetheart.

[carefulfears]

thinking of ed jerse and eddie van blundht and philip padgett and the indignity of desire. phoebe greene and diana fowley, kristen kihlar, self-flagellation as addictive and reverent. the ouroboros of mulder not allowing himself any indulgence and therefore denying scully being chosen: punished for her sin of just adoring him. "[diana] protects everything but you." (and he needs it that way.)

[ambrose-d]

the summoning from nerdy prudes must die is SO Ashe and the trickster coded it isn't even funny

[just2bubbly]

cannot hate anymore on RCB rn than I already am 🤧

[deviant-goose]

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