#fintan-pyren

[everliving-everblaze]

Keepblr can we roleplay elvin trick-or-treating for Halloween this year. Please. Like, this is what I sent to Fin last year:

and I just need to know whose inboxes i'm allowed to show up to and be unhinged in THIS year. and to be clear, please roleplay in my inbox on Halloween also. I'll pick a character and act my heart out can we please be a little cringe this Halloween pleasepleaseplease

[bookwyrminspiration]

wait, does Shannon refer to them as males and females? I hadn't noticed.

She didn't used to, but around book 5-6 that changed. Here's the first examples that come to mind, though this, of course, isn't exhaustive

page 35 of Nightfall, when we first meet Livvy:

Page 689 of Nightfall when we meet Vespera:

Page 31 of Flashback, when we meet Fallon:

Page 34 of Flashback, when we meet Luzia:

Page 130 of Flashback, in reference to Grizel, and my personal most-hated:

Compare all this to how Shannon wrote character introductions in book one.

Here's page 50 of book 1, when we meet Alden:

Here's page 57, where we meet Bronte, Kenric, and Oralie:

Here's 79, Quinlin's introduction:

Page 90, Tiergan's intro:

And page 96, Della's first appearance:

I know most of the male/female examples are female, and most of the book 1 intros are men, but that's just unfortunate data collection on my part. Shannon's not introducing men and women differently, as you can see with Fallon and Della's examples.

I think it's gotten a little better recently? In Unraveled people are referred to as women and men/guys. Though that could be because they're human, so I guess we'll have to see how it goes in book 10.

But anyway. This shift from men/women to male/female as the series progress has always personally bothered me. It's so blatantly just following the trend of popular fantasy books and does not work at all in the world Shannon's established--the only time it's ever relevant is when in Legacy in Keefe's memory Gisela tells her to take the letter and Fitz points out she said to a "man" instead of "elf"--which is something we had no precedent for. There's never been a distinction in language until that moment.

It's just all around really bad and icky and dehumanizing and I hate it. I'd like to return to the og "figure" and "elf" descriptions Shannon used to use. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[bronte-deserves-better]

I've been rereading some of your old fics, and they're amazing. I know I'm the Fintante guy, but your writing is insanely good. And I had forgotten how good of a ship Brony is.

Thanks so much! This is a very high compliment, especially coming from you. And I'm always eager to start converting people to my brony agenda >:]

[fix-me-sixteen]

you're watching Severance???

yeah!!!! i finished season one and i've started episode one of season two and so far i really like it . . . i've heard season two isn't as good as season one though so i'm a little bit scared but. fuck it we ball

[faggot-friday]

what even is wilson's role in this show is he just there to be hot and have gay banter with house or what

Pretty much tbh

i literally cannot see any other point of him being there except to prove that house can in fact make friends. hes not on the team hes just the cancer guy whos next door

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

Update: turns out I actually have four aromantic friends who I made by being their polyamorous friend's partner. We got a new one :D

I'm turning all your friend aromantic one by one

[synonymroll648]

if we're sharing our alden stories: I used he/him pronouns online for over a year (I think two years at least?) before realizing that I wasn't a girl.

AWSEFDERHDRGHFJGJ you were having a very butch moment

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: acac t a a a t t "ct t ga at :)" a t ctat

Closest match: Alburnus alburnus genome assembly, chromosome: 16 Common name: Common Bleak

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academic who writes a paper and just puts "credit to original author :)" for all their citations

[crescentpaws]

sophie was lowkey so funny in the healing scene in everblaze. “i need to inflict shame and regret to access fintan’s everblaze memories because obviously the incident where he accidentally killed his friends still haunts him to this day… what scenario of my own would match that emotion… oh yeah— the time i cheated on my test 😔”

[everliving-everblaze]

shout out to op fighting for their life for us not even knowing that this, in fact, has only the slightest, satirical relation to kotlc. someone out there right now is planning to read kotlc to find out what he/him neopronouns is a reference to, and they are going to be so completely lost

[bookwyrminspiration]

Predictable

like it's MY fault you all are so biteable

[everliving-everblaze]

(via fintan-pyren)

once Fintan got burned at the stake in the 1600s

[the-way-astray]

does that mean that I don't have to send you this art I made as revenge for you calling max your favorite fintanposter instead of me?

i hate everything about this . . . the perpetually angry, rage-filled alden . . . the weird optimistic smiling manic pixie dream girl della . . . the sweet perfect aldella . . . the terrible relationship with fitz to the point of threatening him physically . . . the fact that biana is so neglected she's not even in the picture . . . the fact that della is letting him threaten fitz, and while smiling no less . . . the teal eyes . . . it's all so fucking awful. i'm throwing up. fin why would you do this to me. even if i hadn't un-demoted you, this would not have improved my opinion of you. thinking about re-demoting you now actually. max may have twisted a stupid thoughtless personal shitpost i made in the dead of night into a keefe post but he's never gone quite this far. and he's certainly never shipped strieefe . . . this is so awful. this is so so so so bad

[illumonated]

so. who expected that twist huh

[glyffline]

if elves had an Instagram, Fintan would put "🔥" reaction on ALL of Bronte's stories and think he is very funny because of it

[faggot-friday]

You joined Tumblr in 2021?? I thought you were here before me

i never remember if it’s 2020 or 2021 it might have been 2020 then