#i mean barrow

[shiveagit]

[It’s man devouring man my dear.  And who are we to deny it in here]

Donnie April and Mikey dress as Sweeney Todd

[queenmelancholy]

You walk downstairs, and find him with your eyes. You halt and walk on. But he's waiting for you.

Tell her she looks beautiful.  You’re delighted to hear it, but you cannot admit it. 

Bill Benson is about to throw away his life on the tables. Alone, hollow and without hope. 

Then suddenly he lifts his face and sees Anne standing there, tall, serene, graceful, her eyes shining with unshed tears. On an impulse, he snatches back his money. Rien ne va plus. 

The wheel spins. And every last thing he owns would have gone. But no. Her love, her beauty have saved him.

She takes his hand, and they walk away. Together. The end.

“It seems you are my saviour.”

“And I intend to remain your saviour for a very long time to come.”

[drewtanakagf]

actually obsessed with how mare and kilorn weren't really supposed to be together. Like they care for each other but instead of mare having to choose between her childhood friend and the prince she has to choose between the the more insane and teeth-gnashing option of two prince brothers. idk I liked that little subversion from the ya dystopian genre.

[thedevilscarnival]

like i can't even call johannes a villain protagonist or even an antihero really because he's just fucking miserable but doesn't realize that he's miserable. yes i understand, by definition he is an antihero, especially in book 1, but. hear me out here. he's just doing his own thing and is so focused on doing that thing he has ignored every single emotional need he's had in like 10 years.

the cabal books are watching someone at the tail end of their Karmic Tragedy being dragged kicking and screaming into realizing "damn that kinda sucked, actually. unfortunately friends can be nice" and then sitting and fuming about it. yes he is a borderline eugenics advocate but he's also someone who got stuck in the denial stage of grief for so long he's been cauterized.

[acewithobsessions]

[barrowdearest]

now that we’ve established how similar Mary and Thomas are, I need you guys to imagine them talking about their respective boyfriends. Like Mary complaining about how Matthew always uses too much perfume, and then Thomas tells her how Jimmy never uses the expensive aftershave he bought him and insists on using the cheap one he already has. like,,, I need Mary and Thomas just bitching about their partners!!!!

[imjulia-andilikecats]

I know Red Queen is YA fantasy, emphasis on fantasy

But I still can't wrap my head around at how Cal Calore was so down bad for Mare. He was eager to smooch her when she was fresh out of her 4 day coma due to Maven using the sounder on her.

[impressions-of-downton]

[planetmaven]

PLEASE GUYS TELL ME I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT MARE AND EVANGELINE HAD SOME DEEP INTENSE YURI MOMENTS .

there were so many moments in which one of them needed someone and would think of the other.

i remember mainly evangeline often thinking of mare and wishing she were around to spar with her.

war storm was literally just evangeline and mare heart eye moments idc

this always gets me ngl cos why.....like.....YK WHAT I MEAN?? like mare is looking at evangeline and she's like "what is this feeling..." girl. 🏳️‍🌈.

SHE CARREESSSS.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

I love u lesbians..

if evangeline x mare has zero shippers i died

[its-been-rose]

God I get in a terribly sad mood at night

Thinking about if it was a normal occurrence for Henry to be woken up in the middle of the night by his mom wailing/crying (either in the same room or in the next room over depending on if they have a 2 bedroom house) and he has to get up and console her enough for her to go back to sleep, and like, he learned to do it from young or else neither of them were going to get any sleep

Just cuddling up to his mom petting her hair like “it’s okay now ma, it happened to you a long time ago, you’re not in danger anymore. Yes I know my father died. I know he was scared and alone when he died, but he isn’t scared and alone anymore because he can’t feel anything anymore because he’s dead. Yes ma, I know you loved him very much. He loved you too. Yes ma I know you miss him and it hurts really bad even after all this time. You’ll feel better someday, ma. Yes ma I know we’re going to kill Teddy and the rest of those bastards who were in on it and get our sweet bloody revenge but just please try and think of literally anything else right now, it’s three in the morning and I want to go back to bed.”

[ball-of-butter]

normal red queen fans who were genuinely heartbroken when maven betrayed mare: why did you have to give me trust issues like this bruh

me, who liked him 100x more after: YESSSS SLAY UR ENEMIES YESSSSS HEHEHEHE BE BITTER

[michelada12]

He’s just sitting there contemplating his life choices.

[queenmelancholy]

The Other Houses in S6

"I can't see the future. But then I suppose none of us can."

“I have always enjoyed country houses. There is something about their completeness, with their different rooms and offices catering to almost every need, making up a microcosm of a complete world, that is very satisfactory to me. “But, as a child, wandering around the homes of my parents' friends and relations, I was aware that I was looking at the remains of a way of life that, with rare exceptions, was no longer being lived in by them. Those empty attic rooms, often still boasting an iron bedsted or a dusty cupboard with vacant nameplate holders on the doors, spoke of a once-crowded place, peopled then only by ghosts. Those echoing stables, full of abandoned toys and rusting gardening equipment, those vast kitchens, jammed with discarded luggage and broken bicycles and signs for use in the village fete, were haunted to my childish eyes by shadows of what used to be.” - Julian Fellowes, "Foreword" in The World of Downton Abbey

[wreckedhoney]

curls into a ball bc the vibe of the slasher genre can get so much when done well. the point is the spectacle, the point is it's tacky, the charm is it's Stupid, massively dumb, the audience and the people involved in the project are all ideally vibing having fun. you know what would be fucked up? if we dunk pig blood on this blooming witch. what if there was just this guy with a typical halloween mask inside out who really hates babysitters. hey you know what would fuck up this camping trip? a murderer. pick up the phone babe i just wanna have a normal conversation. look outside your window. it's all so dumb ridiculous and there's range, silly to stark and visceral to This Is Obviously A Mannequin. and it's usually so simple. there's someonesomething too close and it will hurt you, so run, hide. and that's it. like a roller coaster. such a ride

[seis-mic]

they r going to america in da3 i am foreseeing it……

[acewithobsessions]

I am SO mad about the suicide storyline in Downton Abbey due to the absolute lack of attention it gets from the narrative itself.

Tw for discussion of it below

Like, he's lost a LOT of blood, and it probably happened fairly quickly. All you have to do is glance at that scene to know just how serious that looks. Obviously, I can't get exact numbers on the amount of blood lost, but it's gotta be at least a litre, which is - what, 25% of your blood? At least. It's possible that he could be weak for a month, and fragile for who knows how long after that. But apparently he's a) up and fine after a week and b) didn't even go to the hospital?? No. Don't lie to me.

As far as we know, all the medical attention he got was the tourniquet from Baxter. They stopped the bleeding and then . . . ? Yes, Clarkson checked up on him, but he never went to the hospital, and anyway, it's the 1920s. There is no way he could have recovered that quickly.

Edit: okay, guys, I'm very stupid and have been reminded that suicide was a crime back then. No way he could have gotten official treatment. The point still stands, though, because he's still badly hurt, and the lack of help & need to keep it quiet probably would make it take longer for him to recover.

The thing that most likely sped up his recovery the most was Baxter's quick thinking combined with Clarkson's advice (although I have no idea what their understanding of this would be like at the time, I can imagine they'd have just learned a lot about blood loss from the war).

Also, I am by no means an expert on anything medical. Most of what I know is picked up from research while writing. So if anything is glaringly wrong, don't hesitate to tell me.